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TAMMERT BROS.

`ÁVOTIONEERS, "APPRAISERS

ARD SURVEYORS,

INTIMATIONS

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.

JUST received a large Consigument Public Auctions (1) LAGTUKIEN the most digestive food for Infacts which keeps good, in daring Hot weather (2) LAG-

Sat) for

the foods of Infants and MILFORD-MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fleas, Mosquitoes, Hugs, Flies and alt other Insect Pests in Summer days, and

PUBLIC AUCTION-

of the

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD"

PROPERTY

Situated at Hollywood Road, Hongkong, and egistered in the Land Office as Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No. 102 and the Building thereas-known No. 233 Hollywood Road to be old by order of the Mortgagee by Public Auction,

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TUESDAY,

-the 9th November, 1920, at 3 pm, bỹ

MESSRS. LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers,

at their Auction Rooms

in Duddell Street.

The property consists of

All that equal undivided half share

of and in all that piece or parcel of

zround registered in the Land Office s the RP. of Inland Lot No. 702 bogether with the building thereon known as 233, Hollywood Road held for the term of 999 years from the 29th June, 1851 under a Crown Lease dated the 25th January, 1863 and made between Queen Victoria of the one part and Chan A Kum of the other part.

Area: 1402 sq. feet or thereabouts. Crown Rent--$15.50.

Particulars and conditions of sale

way be had from:

Or from

The Mortgagee's Solicitors,

Messrs. LO & LO,

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

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

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Bole Agents for Hangtong and South China.

Nou, à dà, Cottunaught Road Cantrai, Ilongking. Telephone Nou, 1998.

理代泰联

FOR SALE

ONE & ALL

FERTILISER

for

General Garden Purposes,

at 75 cents per Tia.

GRAJA & 00.,

DELLERS IN GARDEN SIET Tors POSTAGE STAMPS, POTCARD, &c.

No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box $20.

Hongkong.

Alexandra Buildings,|JAPANEJE. MAKERS.

Des Voeux Road,

MESSRS, LAMMERT BROS...

The Auctioneers.

FOR SALE

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply to

LAMMERT BROS.,

Duddell Street.

JUST ARRIVED A Choice Assortment of AMERICAN CHOCOLATES. THE BRITISH AMERICAN CANDY' STORE.

:15, Pottinger Street.

MUMEYA.

Japanese Photographers. We have removed par Premises to No 364, Queen's End, C. -Sitting hours from 9.m. to 9p.m.

Passport photos finished in one hour.

INSTANTANEOUS WATER

HEATERS

For Gas, and Of

Unlimited Hot Water.

C.E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

Nos 33 Des Voeux Road Central

Established 180"

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE

TO

ORDER

CHERRY & CO.;

PEDDER STREKT, Opposite Hongkong Hote! Telephone No. 191.

Hongkong, Yach 30, 1914.

MASSAGE HALL

Graduate from:Nagasaki Massage Srbool Mrs. HAN KOSUCHI

Phone No.164.

35, Stanley Street,

1st. Fe

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ABAEJ BEER

PILSENER BEEK

RAKO PRIZSS

PLENER BES

ASAH

THE CLEANING OF SUMMER FROCKS is an important matter and we make a speciality of

refinishing" light Frocks Kand Costumes so that they keep clean longer than when treated by ordinary methods.

Our procomes we thorough sad reliable. Our facilities and re (sources" enable us to carry out all, work quickly and our charger are, orer lly reasonable, so y

Write for Price List and See 1

The Diamond Dyeing and Drycleaning Co.

Web Apent CASSUM-ARMED.

General Draper

34 Wellington Street.

Nathan Road, Kowloon. Thons 1488.

ASAHI BE

LAGER

LAGER E

HIJUI KUBIX:KKISHE

THE CHINA MAIL.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER

NOTICES.

1920.

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

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

The Standard

Tobacco.

"CAPSTAN"

For Flavour. NAVY CUT For Quality.

IN MILD, MEDIUM AND FULL STRENGTHS.

HELIUM.

FROM ALL TOBACCONISTS.

This Advertisement is issued by Eritiah-American Tobacco Co., (China) Lad

RECENT PROGRESS.

ASTONISHING POSSIBILITIES.

WAGES AND COSTS.

During the last five years, move | ments in regard to wages and costs have been extremely rapid. Some

WATCHMAKERS

&

JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansions.

| Agests for ---ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,

#GLISH SILVERWARE," direct from" Manufacturers,

D.VORCE COURT PERJURY.

WOMEN'S RULE.

have taken place on a basis which CRUELTY STORIES TO GET DECRES. was regarded as just and equitable under pre-war conditions, but which Recent progress in knowledge of now gives extreme remit. So lank the element belim has opened up as industry is in a thriving condition, astonishing possibilities. In the year little movement towards a rationalis 1868 the French astronomer Janssen ing of the basis can be expected, directed attention to lines in the solar although to wait until conditions, if spectrum which had hitherto been un-ever, return to a suficiently near observed, and in the same year the approximation to the pre-war state in Clement's Inn, W. The staff

Because of increased work the department of the King's Proctor, Sir John Paget Mellor, which has to investigate, among other things, suspected perjury on the part of Divorce Court witnesses, has just been moved into larger premises

B

Tel No. 2458.

High Class English Jewellery,

TH TUBS.

Sanitary Goods, Bathroom Fittings

AND ALL KINDS OF

class and Micrors.

จ

LYSON COMPANY,

331. Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.

FURNITURE.

CONTRACTS SOLICITED FOR HOUSES, OFFICES,

ECTELS & SHIPB

BRASS

AND IRON BEDSTEADS, UPHOLSTERY. ELECTRO-FLATED WARE, GLASSWARE, CROCKERY, HIGH-CLASS TEAKWOOD & BLACK WOOD FURNITURE.

CHEONG LEE & CO.

HEAD OFFICE, €8, Qure's Road CENTRAL- ABC. Come in EniwasL

TEL. No. 801.

CAXLR Adders: ** CHEONGLEE?

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

OPERATING :—

THE HONGKONG HOTEL, HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

AND THE

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

J. H. TAGGAKT,

MAMAURE.

THE PEAK HOTEL

Englishmen Frankland and Lockyer will be impossible. Such cases has also been increased, a Daily 1,500 Feet above Sea Level

where

wages Mail reporter was told at the Depart-}

ment of the King's Proctor yesterday, as the work was seven times as heavy as formerly.

inferred from these lines the exist for instance as ence in the sun of an element hitherto rose and fell with the selling price unknown on the earth. They called of the commodity being manufac the element helium. A hunt for ittured, worked well within the limits began Palmeri found traces of its of variation of sech prices and valors presence in lava from Vesuvius: Hille experienced in the period between brand in the United States extracted the inauguration of the system and a small quantity of the actual gas from 1914. At the present time, however, a rare mineral, although he did not at due to the extroardinary high costs the time recognize the nature or hisof coal and other raw materials, the discovery; in 1895 the Late Sir Wil-selling price has increased out of all liam Ramsay extracted it from the proportion to the increases in cost of living, so that the wages earned by mineral clevertė. Subsequently, it these men have been proportionately was found to exist in many natural augmented. This has created dis gases in varying quantities, and to be content on the part of those who present in our own atmosphere is the received increases of wages only in amount of about four parts by volume | accordance with the cost of living. in a million. Until 1918 probably not Furthermore, within recent months, more than three or four cubic yards large increases of wages have been of helium had been collected. But granted to certain sections of labou this was enough to place the element due to the extreme shortage of the

It is the duty of the King's Proctor to examine all divorce suits in which a decree visi is granted to find if there is any reason why the decree should be upset on such grounds as collusions or perjury. In the case of collusion, a lawyer stated yesterday, perjury is nearly always resorted to. The King's Proctor. The Daily Mail||| reporter of told, had intervened in more cases in three months this year than in a full year in former times.

Here are the comparative figures of his intervention:

1917 →→→1918

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1919

........... 29 cases.

31 cases.

41 cases.

1920 (4 months) 70 cases.

in its true position in the chemical products with which they deal The London Evening News learns

series, and to lead to the discovery of its peculiar properties. Two of these properties, the fact that after hydro gen, of which it has 92 per cent. of

Their organisations have taken full advantage of the necessities of the

that a very large number of the cases in which decrees nisi were times and of the world shortage granted last term are receiving resulting from the war, which must scrutiny. When the Law Counts the lilting power, it is the lightest be made good. So inconsistent and resume their sittings on October 12 known gas, and that it is non-inflam- disproportionatzaretherates of wages there is likely to be a crop of further mable and non-explosive; made it an paid to different and varied classes of revelations of the extent to which ideal substance for airships. On the labour, that considerable time must persons are trying to deceive the proposal of Sir Richard Threlfall, the elapse before even the greatest Divorce Court.

of the anomalies. are eradicated. Admiralty Board of Invention and Certain it is, however, that if it were divorce court practice is London, A lawyer, with probably the largest Research sent Professor McLennan, in conceded that the higher wages at stated:

1915, to Canada to determine the present being paid should be regard." One of the reasons for the fre helium contents of the natural gases red as the standard to which the quent cases of prejury in divorce at Alberta and New Brunswick, and lower should be raised, then the suits is the growing revolt of women to devise methods for extracting and whole present economic system must against the legal interpretation of purifying them. The professor suc fail. It is a levelling-down rather the word cruelty. Iceeded in his mission, and, last June than a levelling-up which must take gave the Chemical Society of London place, and especially is this becoming a full account of his work

imminent where shipbuilding, marine From Alberts alone, over engineering and several other indus 10,000,000 cubic feet of helium could tries are concerned —Engineering

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be obtained annually, and the utiliza-i

tion of other sources in the Empire

While it is practically necemary for a woman to prove that her hus band has struck her before she can win her case, I am afraid women will still be driven to tell lies in the divorce court

Many women are suffering under

would bring the annual supply to over tainable can be reached. In 1908 such a sense of injustice in this 12,000,000 ft Even although this Omnes, of Leiden, working with a lar respect that they consider perjury is quantity would keep only a very lew ger quantity, succeeded in reaching justified

large airships in commission, it is im-temperature of approximately 271deg.I am convinced that if the mean This Ising of the word cruelty could be portant that the supply should be below zero Centigrade. secured, and the bulk of it preserved close approach to minus 273, deg the interpreted more widely than it is at for emergencies, especially as there absolute zero, the point at which present there would be considerably is good reason to believe that the theoretically, all bear movements lens perjury, supply of natural gas is far from In-would-céese, and exhaustible. – But there is a curjous - would have contract

matterBora inband to throw a plate

to the at his wife is cruelty. For a busband

use to which helium might be pin at vanishing point. Already it is, known ence Sir James Dewar in 1898, that many elements change njeir elec succeeded, in @liquelymg, a minute. Etnicos: properties 3//1233 key prezen quantity of helium that he

[down-towards- this point, - and ther

taired fromtural gas Badu

When it is liquefied, and possibly even solidified, the lowest temperature

portunity of reaching.

of mastwć, k any labe

Widest prospe

ernistently to afford his wife mental by his general conduct by

Chers that say cases the physic

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of-

Mrs. BLAIR.

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7. WETORIZEL, Monger,

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(ZEK GHLY AMERIDAN HOTEL IN WIN COLONT.)"'-

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M. F. E. CAMERON Telegraphio Aldrem "CARLTON."

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON

(Two mianken from Bhár Ferry)

Recently renovated and refurnished, electro light and fans throughout and entirely under new management, Cuisine under the personal anperridon of the prondetor, Bar and Billard Booms, Terms zsodersta. Spesial went” ko fanlies on application to

Telephone K. 3. Telegraphin Add · "PALACH.”

J, H. OXBERRY, Proprietor,

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