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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS

Public Auctions-

HR Undersigned have received in #tractions to sell by Public Anction?

ON

TUESDAY, Gctober 19, 1950,

commencing at 11 am. #No. 5 Godown, of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown "Co, Ltd, Kowloon. (For account of the concerned) 502 coils Plain Galvanized Wire.

Gauge 14.

,

$109. coils Plain Galvanized Wire,

Gange lä

(all more or less damaged by san-water)

Terma-Caad on delivery.

LAMMERT EROS.

Auctioneers,

INTIMATIONS

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM,

JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive Jood for Infants which keeps good in quality during Hot preather LAC-

( TOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (3) MILFORD MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fleas, Mosquitoes, Bugs, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days, and

JOHN DAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAP for keeping everything clean in Horses

PRICES are Very Yoderate. Los- pection and Enquiries are cordially iarited.

SHID FUNG TAI & CO.,

Sola Arenta før Hongrong shi South"Chikm

Jm6&£3, Connaught Bend"Crateni, Hongkong Telephone Not, 'TE.

二理代泰

THE CHINA MAIL.

MONDAY: OCTOBER. 18. 1920.

NOTICES.

ARE YOU TAKING UP YOUR PIPE AGAIN? G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

To thoroughly enjoy it you should fill it with Capstan Tobacco.

The Standard Tobacco.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS

Hotel Mansions.

Agents for:—ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Mantis

High Class English Jewellery,:

TH TUBS.

Sailtary Goods,

Bathroom Fittings

AND ALL KINDS OF

Glass and Mirrors:

Hongkong, October 13, 1990. -

on

WEDNESDAY, October 20, 1890,

commencing at 11 am

at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street,

5 Cases Satiron

Terms: Cash on delivery.

›

LAMMERT BROS. Auctioneers.

Hongkong. October 1, 132,

PRELIMINARY. NOTICE.

THE

THE Undersigned will sell by Public Auction at an early date (to be advertised later)

A SELECTION OF FINE CUT

GLASS-WARS.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

FOR SALE.

Wery Valuable Chinese Porcelain

and Carios,

comprising:

Very fine Celadon Vases, Sang

3-coloured Jars, Sung

1 Pair Very fine Porcelain Vases Sung Eae, Wood Carvings," Ming

2 Yey fiue stove Statues, Har.

*

5

12

Blue and white race, Ning.

2-coloured Jar, Sung. Celadon Jar, Sung. Porcelain Ornament, Sung 2-coloured Jar, Ming. Bine and white Vase with peach bloom decorations,

ungching.

Porcelain jar, Sang. Celadon jar, Saag. Celadon bowl; Sang.

Pottery orgament, Sung., Fowder Blog Vase with 5-coloured decorations, Kanghi

N.B.-The above may be viewed be

wap. to 5 pm, at

MESSES. LAMMERT BROS.

No. 3, Daddell Street.

FOR SALE

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply to

LAMMERT BROS.,

Daddell Street.

MASSAGE.

Mr. HONDA and Mrs. HONDA.

Trained nala Masseur.

13 years' experience:

Formerly of Tokyo Military Hospital. WILL VISIT PATIENTS RESIDENCES IF PREFERRED No. 24, Wendhani Street. (Opposite to the Chim Ma

MUMEY A.

Japanese Photographers. All kinds of Photographic Work done inflatest style also Passport Photos. Developing and Printing for Amstears & Specialty..

No SA, Queens Pond Central. Tel, $54,

THE CLEANING OF SUMMER FROCKS is an important matter and we make a speciality of "refinishing" light Frocks and Costumes so that they keep clean longer than when treated by ordinary methods.

Our processes are thorough and celiable. Our facilities, and sourcen enable us to carry ost work quickly and par charges are really ressonating

Write for Price, List and Bee 1,

The Diamond Dyeing and Drycleaning Co.

Agent

CARSUM AHMED:

Gapers Draper, 22&Wellington Street. Branch 28. Nathan Bond, Kowloon

Phone:1483,

FOR SALE

ONE & ALL

FERTILISER

..for

General Garden Purposes,

at 75 cents per Tia.

GRAÇA & 00.

DEALERS GARDEN SEEDS. Tors," POSTALE STAMER, Postcards, &c."

No. 10, Wyndham Street,

P. D. Bax 620.

JAPANESE

Hongkong

MAKERS

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE

то

ORDER

CHERRY & 00..

FEDDER STREET,

Oppon to Hongkong Hote!

Telephone No. 481.

Hongkong, bach #0:1914.

MASSAGE HALL Graduate from Namabi Massage School, MR. HAN INGKUCHI

Phone Na 24.”

Stanley Street,

THE NEW FRENCH RIMEDY,

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"CAPSTAN"

For Flavour. NAVY CUT For Quality.

į IN MILD, MEDIUM AND FULL STRENGTHS.

FROM ALL TOBACCONISTS.

Thû Advertisement i aned by Bitch-American Tobasso Ca, (China) Lad

SHIPPING OUTLOOK:

"RATHER GLOOMY."

FIERCE COMPETITION ABROAD.

and crippling the shipping industry, that our shipping should be main- Fortunately, the leaders of industry tained in a condition of healthy pro- are strong in experience and know-sperity, and that, depends, more than ledge, and, with faith in their star, pon any other factor, upon the atti- are exhibiting a fine courage in face made of the workers ashore engaged of difficulties at home and increasing-in shipbuilding aid marine engine ly fierce, and in some cases unfair, making, and upon the good sense of the seamen. It is neither to their competition abrand.

We referred the other day to the interests nor to the interests of the Everyone is more or less directly cumulative effects of high wages on community that British ships should! be laid up, and ther is a prospecti concerned with the future of the shipbuilding and ship operating says which cannot be dismissed if they Sir Fred: British Mercantile Marine We are the Daily Telegraph. It is stated that

"forward orders" for a hundred ves press inequitable claims. dependent upon the sea as no nation sels have in consequence been can- erick Levis has calculated there the institution of a forty-eight hours' before was dependent, and it is con-celled recently.. Sir Frederick sequently a matter of concern to Lewis. in the speech- which he de-week on board, or instance, an

Tel. No. 2858.

BRASS AND

LYSON COMPANY,

991, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.

FURNITURE...

CONTRACTE SOLICHED FOR EQUSES, OFFICES,

HOTELS & SHIPS.

TRON

BEDSTEADS, UPHOLSTERY. ELECTRO-PLATED WARE GLASSWARE, 'CROCKERY, HIGH-CLASS TEAKWOOD & BLACK WOOD FURNITURE CHEONG LEH & CO.

HEAD OFFICE, 68, QUIES'S ROAD CENTRAL A.B.C. CoDI 5TH EDITION.

CABLE ADDRES ** CHEONGLEE"

TEL. No. 801.

HOTELS AND . CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

OPERATING:-

THE HONGKONG HOTEL,

HOTEL MANSIONS.

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

AND THE

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE."

7. E. TAG

THE PEAK HOTEL.

everyone that we should possess a livered cowards the close of last week,8,000-ton cargo liner would mean a 1,500 Feet above Sea Level

increase in the crew from fity-four

farge and marize.

illustrated the mariner in which w reasonable hour demands are act-

contracts were placed, and, in fact.

the vicious circle: If we are to gab

We

to sixty-eight hands, and an addi- mercantile prosperous. The outlook in this respecting in restraint of development. tional charge for wages and victual- is rather gloomy, for while the cost "One of our associated companies ling of over £5,000 per annum, apart from a capital expenditure of £3,500 of operating ships has advanced by some time agó contracted," he ex-

accommodation. It is a misfortune) 350 per cent., freights generally dur-plained, "for two specialised vessels for the additional living and lifeboat for a particular trade. to reply to that seamen and others camot appre- ing the past three or four months recent inquiries as to the probable ciate the association of cause and have fallen by about one-third, and cast, it became apparent that this effect. High wages inevitably result still show a downward tendency. The was going to be fully double the in high cost of living, and high cost meming of this movement is not faramount that was estimated when the of living reacts on the cost of pro:} to seek. It was assumed that, with three times as great as the value duction, and so we continue to tread the coming of peace, the workers of received from the Government (under the full advantage from the indus- this and other countries would devote the State Insurance scheme) for the trial supremacy, which we enjoyed in themselves to making good the de-steamers lost during the war which the past, and are to benefit from our struction wrought by the war, realisthese vessels were intended to re-unique geographical situation,

place. At such a figure the venture must conform to economic laws. ing that it offered them an opportu was rendered commercially impos They are as old as the hills. They nity of benefiting themselves as welisible, and, as the keels were not lard, were not created by the capitalist "be as humanity generally. Production, there was no practical alternative but the employer. They operate in this however, has proceeded only slowly, to abandon the building of the boats." country more mercilessly than in any It is estimated that the output of each That decision is injurious to the inother country in the world, because individual worker in this country is terest of employees in shipyards and economically we are not a self-depen only about 70 per cent. of what it marine engine shops as well as 20 dent ratios. Our prosperity depends

That incident was seven years ago, and, these has those of the seamen.

upon our exports and the extent to been a falling off practically every is merely one of many which show which we harness the seas in our ser where else except Belgium. The Bel that labour charges are now ice, upon the steady inward and out- gians have learnt, after their terrible pering the expansion not only of in-ward flow of ships, and our ability to ordeal, the folly of ca cany methods dustry generate but of shipping hold cur own in the great markets of The result of this widespread move which is the most important of all our the world. The conception of this ment towards a lower standard of industries. As Sir Frederick Lewis country as an independent unit, its working efficiency is that there is a has remarked. The abnormal uses members living upon each other's. ready a surplus of shipping, because of shipping--that is, its uses connect-industry, is as faise as it is danger there are not the goods to carry, ed directly or indirectly with the war aus. We have grown from an insigni- Eight million five hundred thousand or its aftermath-have now practicficant island with a few million pi more tons of shipping are about now ally 'ceased; and consequently the inhabitants to a great nation by rea than on the eve of the war, and within natural law of supply and demand is son of our superior industry and the twelve months another 7,000,000 once again coming into play." It is free use which we have made of the tons will be completed. In these essential to widespread employment sens, and if our industry declines and circumstances it needs no expert in this country that we should cease four 8,000, keels no longer cut their knowledge to understand that the out-to endeavour to evade the inevitable furrows through the world's oceans, look for shipping is overcast. Ano The "idea fostered by some Labour

ther aspect of the shipping problems leaders that there is sa inexhaustible our fate, will be irremediably seated. was touched upon a few days ago.by coffer from which uneconomic wages

Mr. Robert Mason, M.P., in a speech can be paid, must imperil our every DIPHTHERIA-HOW IT MAY BE at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He pointed interest. The working man lives from

out that in some instances as much day to day, or at best from week to 781 per cent of the freights earn-week, but the employer, responsible

'AVOIDED. IPHTHERIA is usually contracted when the child has a cold. The ed were absorbed in the charges for for keeping his works going, or his cold propares the child's system for the -discharging. On one day recently ships in service, as the case may be, re plan and development of the diph fifty-four men were employed in disas to look months ahead Under theris germs. When there are cases of diphtheria in the neighbourhood children charging, at Newcastic quy, and president conditions of labour, unrest that base code should be kept at home thirty-four of them earned 64 15s. [be^2

because he is uns, and off the street until recovered. - Giys 128; éach for 12‡, boins, work, 01 able to

m what them. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy constid they will not have to remain at which, two hours was byertime; the ever direction

home long, It so cleans out the culture other twenty men worked 171⁄2 hours, fronted by

beds, which form in a child's - throat also including: two, bolus, overtime,

more when it, bas dan minimizes the risk of contracting, infchous dinosaur the For me by all Chemists saf Store

and received? £6

Those facts illustr

(driving trade away from "country" interests

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Managercent of-

Mrs. BLAIR.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

7

CENTRAL LOCATION

LL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pam Entrance, Electric Lifta, Baza and Lighting

A Baropean Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Wataz Syysan throughout. Best of Food and Servies.

Taephone 373 Telegraphic Addrème :---" VICTORIA."

3. WITCHKIA, - Monoqër

CARLTON HOTEL.

(THE ONLY AMERICAN BOCAL 335 CER COLLI

ICE HOUSE STREET

Under American Management: Nice and quiet yet only a few min walk from the Banks and Central District. 43 Bedrooms, Excellent Calzine. scrupulously clean. Moderate Terms Monthly and Family Bato spplication to the Proprietress. Launcher meet Passenger Boats.

· Max. F. E.-CAMERON. Taingraphic Addioes “GAHLTON?”

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON. (Two tofnates from Star Ferry).

Recently renovated and refurnished, electris Hight and fans througbone- and antirely under new management. Cuisina under the personal autervidor. of the proprietor, Bar and Bard Booms, "Terma phoderate Special terms" ic families on application to

Telephons K. 3. Telegraphie Add.; "PALACE”

J. H. OZEKERY Propriet

Tel. Ho. 3028

Candies Loos

Boda

BOSTON CANDY'STORE OPPONITE THE ROYAL THEATRE.

·CALL BETWREN ¡ACTS=" ITELEPHONE ORDERS FILLED.

12 Queen's Bá. Q.

Cigars and

arettes

TANG TUE, DIFTINI,

abe late 813437NG, 14 Asus STRIKT, TERMS VERY MODERATE

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