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AMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, ÄFFRAINERS

AND SUBFETORS Public Auctions-

*EK” Undersigned have received In- stractions to sell by Public Auction,

OID

SATURDAY, October 23, 1920. commencing at 11 a.. their Sales Rooms, Drddell Street, (@zafce Selection of High Grada

Tweed Suit Lengths.

O view from Friday, the 2nd inat. Tema: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong. October 18, 1920.

FOR SALE.

Very Visitable Chinese Porcelain

and Curios,

comprising:-

Yery fine Celadon Vases, Song.

3-coloured Jars, Sung.

Pair Very fine Porcelain Vases Sang-

"

fine Wood Carvings, Ming.! Yory fue stone Statues, Hair.

*.

Blue and white vas, Ming-

coloured far, Sung. Celadon Jar. Sung.

Parelsis Ormeat, Sang. 2-coloured far, Ming.

Blue and white Vase with bitte

peach bloom decorations, Yasgebing-

Porcelain jar, Sung.

Celadon jar. Sung.

Celadon bowl, Sang.

Pottery ornament, Sung.

Powder Blue Vase with

5 colored Kangbi.

décorations,

KB-The above may be viewed be

been 9 am to 5 pm at

Mess LAMVERT BROS.

Na 3, Daddell Street.

FOR SALE

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply re

LAMMERT BROS., Daddell Street

HONGKONG WOMENS GUILD

ANT

MINISTERING

CHILDREN'S

LEAGUE

INTIMATIONS

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.

JUST` received a large Coonigament

· of (1) LAGTOGEN the most digestiva Good for Infants which loops good in quality during Hot weather (2) LAG- TOSE (Milk Sagar) for westening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics MILFORD MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Beat Fluid for destroying Flena, Mosquitoes, Bags, Flies and other Insect Pesta in Summer days, and

JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Houses

PRICES are Very Moderate. Ins pection and Enquiries are cordially invited.

SHTU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Sale Agenta fe Kangkung sad,' Boxin”China.

Xas, àa à 15, ConnnaghtƑRand"Centesi, Hongkong- Telephone Now. JINÉ.

理代泰翚联

FOR BALE

ONE & ALL

FERTILISER

for

General Garden Purposes,

At 75 cents per Tio.

GRACA & 00,

DEALERS IS GARDEN SEI, Torx, POSTAGE STips. Postraros, dc,

MG là Winton Bo

P. O. Box 620.

Hongkong.

JAPANESE "MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear,

MADE

TO

ORDER

CHERRY & 00,,

PEDDER STREET, Opposits Hongkong Hotel

Hongkong, thân cả 10, 1974.

THE ANNUAL FETE Telephone Na 491.

AND

SALE OF

WORK

will be held i GOVERNMENT HOUSE GROUNDS

ON

SATURDAY, Nov. 6th,

FROM 2 TO 7 PM.

Adults

Children

30 Cos-

INSTANTANEOUS WATERİ

HEATERS

For Gas and Oi

Unlimited Hot Water.

C.E. WARREN & CO., LTD. Nos. 32 Des Vaux Road Central. Established 1900

MASSAGE HALL

Graduate Irom Nagasaki Mamage School Ms. HAN INOKUCHI

Phone X. 1364.

16, Stanley Street,

Di Pur

_THE_REW FRENCH REMEDY,

THERAPION No. 1 THERAPION NĚ.2 THERAPION NË3

B.1 for Bladder Ontarch., Yo. 2 for Eadd i The Diaetate; Ne. I for carente Wasknarave.

MEX TRADE HALLEN WORD "INERATION = DE BKIT, WOTY. BLAKI AFTZERŃ 2, KRITINE DARSTE

ASAHI BEER

PILSENER BEER GRAND PRINDE

MERITIEN

BUREKA 22

PÅSENTER BEEL

BE

BEER

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 processer key thorough and. rehabla... Our facilities and re sources camble na to carry ons allɛ work quickly and day charges ADE. really, ressonable" -

Write for Price List and See!

The Diamond Dyeing and Drycleaning Co.

Agent

CASSUM AHMED.

ASAHE

LAGER

SPECIALLY

COMP

EWERY

ER-BEER

COMPA

SOLE AGENTS

MITHUN BISKAN LAUREL

THE CHINA MAIL.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20. 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.

"CAPSTAN"

For Flavour. NAVY CUT- For Quality-

IN MILD, MEDIUM AND FULL STRENGTHS.

FROM ALL TOBACCONISTS.

This Advertisement in imed by British-American Tolaro Oz., (Chies) Kad

HOMEWARD BOUND.

violent currents of al following a consistent direction for hundreds

of miles 2 fresh breeze "im-

IN THE MONSOON.

SOME PERSONAL EXPERIENCES.

PRINCIPAL PORTS.

MONTREAL SEVANTE.

mediately makes itself felt. IMPORT AND EXPORT BASIS. Let it start blowing bard and you will soon know all that a really rough sea means. The sky lowers and seems to close in all round; driving mists come racing across from the horizon, the harbingers of rain squalls; the wind whistles in the rigging and bowls through the pillars and stanchions of the upper

The point is made in the annual: report, now issued, of the Harbour Commissioners of Montreal that few

A correspondent writes to the Fioneer. It is not a matter of choice, but of compnision with many of us. But like much which we are compell ed to do out of a sense of duty, and which we should never have attempt decks. With a continual succession Canadians appreciate the fact that. ed for choice, it possesses attractions of base cadences, and the general

on the basis of value of imports and

·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 Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellary,

*Tel. No. 2558.

THTUBS

Sanitary Goods, Bathroom Fittings

AND ALL FEES'OF

Glass and Mirrors.

LYSON COMPANY,

31. Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.

FURNITURE.

CONTRACTS SOLICITED FOR HOUSES, OFFICES, HOTELS & JETPA.

BRASS

AND IRON BEDSTEADS, UPHOLSTERY,~ ELECTRO-PLATED" WARE, GLASSWARE, CROCKERY, HIGH-CLASS TEAKWOOD & BLACK WOOD FIRNI (IRË.

CHRONG L33 & 00.

Head Office, 63, Quxis's Road CENTRAL

ABC. CODE BIH EDENGE.

TEE No. $61.

CABLE ALDRESA ** CHEONGLEE"

HOTELS AND CAFES.

L

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

F

OPERATING:—

THE HONGKONG HOTEL,

HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

AND THR

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

J. EL TAGGART,

THE PEAK HOTEL.

we did not anticipate, and it improves effect is that of the wild tuning of i on acquaintance, does travelling in the scores of stringed instruments exports, the port of Montreal holds 1,500 Feet above Sea Level the monsoon In the monsoon there in an orchestra gone mad. The the seventh place among the princi

are two classes of passengers between majestic

rollers of

the heavy pal ports of the world. Probably com- whose capacity for persistent reitera- and peaceful swell abandon their tion and reputation as bores it would rhythmic swing and rise higher paratively few in this country, do so. be difficult to award the palm; those and higher in massive towering walls The comparison is made between who knew all about the weather and of water, rushing along in agitated figures extracted from the official re- what is going to happen, and those fury. The wind lashes their curling ports of the respective countries, and who know nothing and want to be crest into foam and spray; they break informed. The officers on board aand tumble in seething masses, smil are the latest for which data are big liner, and particularly the skipper, ing against the ship with incredible į available. The names of the ports, most needs be born diplomatists of force, finging her_from_ber_course the last years for' which the figures the first order, and, indeed, generally trembling from stern to stern. Every are available, and the total value of moment seems to increase their the imports and exports may be set

are.

As a matter of fact there is always height and fury until they tower out as follows:-

a heavy swell or the part bow for above the ship's rails and dash them-

Total Commerce

1918 3,864.435,000

1917 2,905,231,000 1917. 2,461,479,000 1913 1,901,600,000 1912 1211,345,000.

823,045,000

at least the first four days out from selves upon the battened decks Port Year. in Dollars. Bombay, and it is idle to expect sweeping everything before them New York anything else. A bad sailor might This sort of thing does not, as a rule, Liverpool as well hope to jump over the moon last long, though it may continue London as to cross without a long period of with greater or less persistence Hamburg deadly sea sickness. Slabs of cold throughout the run. The beat and Antwerp **** meat on deck with a few mouthfuls discomfort of life Indoors under such Marseilles ... 1915 of biscuit washed down by cooling conditions is, of course, epoxiderable Montreal.......... 1918 729,183,000* drinks and a weary drag to your and to some extent it makes life seem The value of the comparison is of berth at night is the best you can unendurable and the prospect of death course, depreciated by the variation hope for, if you are a poor sailor. A a welcome relief. Yet use becomes in the years to which the figures visit to the saloon should be avoided, second nature, and comfortably relate. In 1918 New York was play- at all costs, and the worst is best stretched upon a soft bunk under a ing a splendid part in exporting the left to the imagination. Under the cooling fan secure in the strength commodities which the Allied nations most favourable conditions of wind and solidity of a big mail vessel, one sorely needed and the value of her is foolish to expect real can find solace in the companionship export at $2,613,049,000 was more comfort. Games on deck are rare; of a library of literature long neglect than double that of her imports bridge and chess in the smoked.

$1,251,386,000. Hamburg "now appears but the ghost of her

it

ing, room and saloon are only

Ji

THE ADVANTAGES.

for the feve and the majority of After all, these are the occasional, active self in 1913, and Antwerp ladies whom one saw on deck at and the usually intermittent draw. is recovering finely after the Bombay looking the picture of health hacks of a monsoon voyage. Their vicissitudes of war. The report of and cheerfulness as they waved terrors are greatly exaggerated; their the Harbour Commissionets "good-bye" to "their friends on the inconveniences can be easily lived | Montreal shows that (in respect, of quay, one by one gradually disap-down, and are soon forgotten. The exports alone Montreal ranks sixth "pest, and for all practical purpose advantages, on the other hand, are among the ports of the world.

cease to exist.

numerous. The ship is never over After referring to the various THE CHILDREN.

crowded, and except, in storm, is figures, it states that "Sach evidence With children it is different. They peaceful The attendance is excel-is the justification of the Harbour are really remarkable. They possess lent, and the stewards not over work Commissioners of Montreal in urging no nerves, and know nothing ed and therefore good tempered and the continued development of the of the

of the inter-easy to manage. The food is of the | port of Montreal, since on a capital mittent and cataclysmal disturbear and there is no rush-You can expenditure of some $29,500,000 bances in their interior. They just get your bath regularly at a reason about £7,375,000) the principal ear, vomit, and return to society able bour without waiting in a fetid Canadian national port, has reached on deck, as though nothing had and crowded alleyway, till you are such a place in the commercial happened. This ceaseless swell on ready to drop. The decks are never statistics of the principal ports of the sea and monotonous rolling and over-crowded; and the laundry the world" Fore pitching of the ship are normal and does your work with reasonable natural under the most favourable expedition. A writing-table is conditions. Let the sun shine never generally available; there is no great

cause

so brightly, let the air be still and run on the library; and the amateur visited with sea sickness on the way warm and the sky a glorious blue,musician, burdened with a surfeit of you and your liver probably feel all but the motion is always with us leisure, remains below. You may the better for the change. You find Whether it gets worse, and bad reach your port a little late, but you you are eating and drinking and weather is really a store for us, have the feeling of having passed sleeping better than you have done | lence and for months, and you are ready to Zepends solely upon the wind. On a through an exciting

rerervating heat of the have been Lew days in the Ret Sex

sea already worked up into a heary of having earned an hour of IND on swell by continuous and occasionally shore. If you happen

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of-

Mrs. BLAIR.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

A

CENTRAL LOCATION

LL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pam Entrance, Electric Liftz, Fans and Lighting

A European Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water Syskaz throughout Best of Food and Service

Telephone $73. Telegraphie Address :---2 VIITORIA'

J. WITCHELL, Manager.

CARLTON HOTEL

· {THE 'GELY AMERICAN BOWEL EN ZEE COLOFT.) 10 HOUSE STREKE.

Under American Management. Nice and quiet yes only a few minnier walk from the Banks and Central District 4 Bedrooms, Excellent Cuffins, wwupulously clean. Moderate Terms Monthly and "Family" Batm application to the Proprietress. Lamebes most Famsenger Boats.

M. F. E. CAMERON, Talégraphie Addrom "CARITON.

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON.

(Two mkumbes from Star Ferry).

Recently renovated and refurnished, slsetrie Hght mad fans throughout and entirely under new management. Guisine under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Ecoma. Tamr modsest. Special terma lo families on application to

Telephons K. %. Talographic Add. :

Tal. Ed. 3023

Boda

#PALAGIN

J. EL OXBKERY, Promiske.

BOSTON CANDY STORE OPPOSITE THE ROTAL THEATER,

CALL BETWEEN AUTE. ITELEPHONE ORDERS FILLED.

TANG YUK, Dame,

the late BIEN ZING,

14, D'AQUILAH: Szersz

VYEMA YERI MODERATI

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Cigars ́und". Olgarettes

FRENCH LESSONS

MOTURION.