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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONKERS, AFFRAKKES AND SURVEYORES.

-Public Auctions-

FOR SALE

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply to

LAMMERT BROS.." Daddell Street.

BATTERIES!

A complete stipraent

of the famous

“KWIKLITE”

BATTERIES-

for pocket Torches has just been received.

-“KWIKLITE”

TORCHES

in many styles and variousprices.

ALEX-ROSS &@,

25-BES VOEUX-ROAD-C

TEL: 27

GARAGE

KOYLDN

TEL:1417

MUMEY A

Japanese Photographaza. .We have removed our Premises to

No 361, Queen's Boad, C..

Satting boars from 9 a.m. to 9 p..

Passport photos finished

' in 'öne hour.

MASSAGE.

Mr. HONDA and Mrs. HONDA.

Trained male Masseur.

13 years' experience.

Formerly of Tokyo Military Hospital WILL VISIT. PATIENTS” BESIDENCES IF PREFERRED Xo. 24. Wyndhani Street, (Opposite to the Chias Mall)

INSTANTANEOUS WATER HEATERS

For Gas and Oil Unlimited Hot Water.

C.E. WARREN & CO., LTD. No. 3o 32 Des Vaux Road Central. Established 1900

INTIMATIONS"

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.

JUST received a large Consignmen z of (1) LACTOGEN the mon digestive food for Infants which keeps good in quality during Hot weather (2) LAC TOSE (Mill Sugar) for gorestening the foods of Infan's and Dyspeptics (3) VILFORD-MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best aid for destroying Flees, Mosquitoes, Bags, Flies and aff other Insect Pests in Summer days, and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Ecuse

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

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Sole Årvats för Hongkong and South Chỉm.

Jon, 47 & th. Connaught Road Central, Hongkong. |

Telephone No. 199

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FOR SALE

New Postage Stamps to commemorate

the taking of

FIRST CENSUS

ased only

ia

JAPAN

on October first, the day of

the Census.

at 25 cents per set of 2 Stamps.

GRACA & 00, DEALERS IN POSTAGE STAMPS,

GARDEN SEIN, TOTS, & No. 10. Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620.

Hongkong

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE

TO

ORDER

CHERRY & CO.,

PEDDER STREET, Opposite Hongkong Hotel

Telephone No. 491.

Hongkong. March 30, 1714.

MASSAGE HALL

Graduate from Nactsaki Massage Schnel Mas, HAN INOKUCHI

Phose No. 1954.

3. Staley Street,

The Phot

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| 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 Lethods.

Our processes are thorough and reliable. Our facilities and re- sources enable us to carry out al work quickly and our charges are really reasonable.

Write for Price List and Beel

The Diamond Dyeing and Drycleaning Co.

Agent

CASSUM AHMED,

General Draper.

23-& 34, Wellington Street.

19, Nathan Boad, Kowloon

'Phone 1482.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1990

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THE PASSPORT NUISANCE..stinct, the Tudor inhabitants of our

Channel ports used to pursue the dis- embarking alien with hoots and menaces to his hotel. But for at least a century Europe had been gradually relaxing the old severities.

Not lightly should anyone welcome the rise of a brand-new commitee, No doubt there are good things to do, which without a committee cannot be We may not have been quite so done.

whom cometh.

9

committee

FOUR MILES FALL.

FAULTY PARACHUTE.

LIEUTENANT'S MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

Extraordinary coolness and pre-

Florida,

the

his hor-

But the arduous idleness of advanced, ever in 1913, as the liberal sence of mind in a pescitne drop of sitting round tables and moving that old Homeric doctrine that "all for 20.900ft. saved the life of Lieut. A. this or that unimportant affair be re-eigners and beggars come from God:"G. Hamikon when within a few yards ferred to a sub-committee devours the for a dead-set, of almost the old Tudor of the ground.

Lieut. Hamilton belongs to fime and strength of too many men acerbity, had been recently made

and women who, if each were shut against the destitute alien, so that, Army Air Service, and his thrilling all, which is said to break'all records if a new Victor Hugo or Kosciuszko up alone with a job, might make quite had landed at Dover with suspicious of the kind, was made at Arcadia, į

good job of it Committees must come, but wor unto him through holes in his trousers and a capital

His descent of nearly four miles superfluous

of less than £5, he would, have been headed back at the gangway. But it was made in 12 minutes: He had This general malediction is four-you booked first-class, and were not dropped 2,000 ft. before his giant ished mainly in order to waive it the coming to England to do honest work parachute opened and then more pointedly in the particular case with your hands, you might come; it be discovered that the springs) of a new committee of which Sir Mar- was even a matter of modest pride which were supposed to close the air tin Conway, the hero of this summer's among us that we had let in Louis at the p had. failed to work. cheapered and quickened admission Philippe and Louis Napoleon; Maz-As he approached the earth and sur- to Switzerland writes in another Zibi and Pannizzi; Kossuth, Marx, and Veyed me situation, he saw that he would land in a wood. There was one column. It is the Passport and Postal Kropotkin: Dom Sanuel, Louis Blanc, chance in a hundred of breaking his Reform Committee. Single-handed, and Tchaikousky, all without any sort fall, and he took it. Sir Martin Conway brought about the of ado. without even charging them removal of all but a few insignificant an occasional seven and sixpence for ed out, pulled an edge of the parachute Climbing up the rigging, he reach- | strands of the barbed wire entangle a new visa if they should stray from downward, and waited for death. ment of passport rules and charges county to county. The rest of Europe

Through the tilting of the parachute, with which the improvidence of the as gadually working towards the con- a rope caught on the branches of a Swiss Government had encircled that clusion that in this matter we had some tree. land of attractive botes. He blew sense and that we had come off. ii Inampet twice or thrice round the Alps anything, rather better than they-less his lucky stars, slid to the earth in

safety. and the defences feil. Now he has bombed by Anarchists as well as less

Then Lieut. Hamilton, thank

a tougher task in hand: From deal-Overrun by such chartered vermin, as ing-comparatively speaking-with the "old Russian and German secret lambs he is now going on, like the police. It was no small conquest to The aggregate sum that all the coun- fearless person in Horace or was it make over the habits of mind of States tries, between them, must lose through an animalto deal with reluctare in which even a native had to have the hours, or days spent by their sev dragons. At the head of the new some. piece of paper about him to era commercial travellers in inter- committee, a fine body of men, he is prove his civil status, some legible viewing Consuls, mastering regula pressing the more ferocious remainder proof that he was a licensed being, of the nations not to entrench them with due leave to continue, hike an selves against their friends more than English dog they really riced.

tions, or explating their infringement, would probably have seemed consider- able in any age not accustomed to reckoning its itens of avoidable waste in figures formerly confined to astro-

The war has changed all that. I In the days before two million West- has inflamed each people's proprietary nomical space and geological time. ern Europeans had been killed in the sense of its soil as a lawn on which To assist in this general movement for vain hope of keeping the rest tree. to prevent the outsider from walking the construction of Chinese Walls few English travellers to France, the It has also made all peoples at least

Low Countries, Switzerland, or the all the combetare peoples-poor, and round European countries it is now Alps ever thought of gening a pass when you are poor you begin to think Proposed to double the international Fort at all. Many Englishmen who of anything which anyone else wants Englishmen the present equivalent of postage rates, so that it will cost an had gone to the Alps or Italy every from you as a thing which you can year for twenty or thirty years did not sell. The Italian and French charges Dover to Calais.

2 French franc to send a letter from know what a passport looked like. [of 10s, and 8s. for a visa ere ob- Passports, în that Saturnian age, wereviously more than cost price.

Against these dragons of interna- A shill becoming rather a joke. They were ing would cover that. In the Ameri-tional stand-offisiness Sir Martin Con things that the foreign characters jalk-can charge of two guineas the beam-way and his committee propose to ride ed about in autumn plays at Drurying countenance of hospitality is hard forth, and the blessing of every British Lane. They promised, if all went only visible at all. Even the present them on the enterprise. I they do traveller and merchant will attend well, to become like the appendix or Swiss 5s., although a mitigation of some other demoded gland that has worse things, seems somewhat tail for pot succeed we cannot very well see outlived its professional occupation in country in which the entertainment where, the process of making Emope the body and only survives as an occa-of the alien is one of the two chief impassable to the body and the mind sional nuisance. One began to feel national industries. If we had all, had to stop. For, if passports are fair that they belonged to the age before distinguished success since the war in pound on every visa instead of ten objects of taxation, why not make a disinfectants or scientific quarantine.our advertised business of making our when the sagacious mediaval adminis- countries fit for heroes to live in, there shillings? If making the foreigner trator knew that every approaching might have been a colourable pretext pay is the true fiscal wisdom, why foreigner might quite easily be sicken- for making other countries heroes and Dot make him pay a good let If ing with the Black Death, and con- their relations pay spich high charges People must needs have foreign cor- sidered that the only adequate pre- at the doors. As it is, we pay good fectly patriotic, lurary as heavily as

respondents, why not tax this imper caution, besides prayer and promises deal where we used to pay nothing,. to build s church was to make it ex- and all that we get by travelling now our true English beer? One seems

already to hear these arguments ¡tremely difficult for him to land, ĝis a transfer from, one regal seat of

Sharing, no doubt, this sanitary in discord and disappointment 12 another, to-morrow hurtling through the

Tel. No. 2559.

Sanitary Goods, Bathroom Fittings

ASD ALL KINDS OF

Glass and Mirrors.

LYSON COMPANY,

39, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.

FURNITURE.

CONTRACTS SOLOITED FOR HOUSES, "OFFICES, HOTELS & SHIPS.

BRASS AND IRON BEDSTEADS, UPHOLSTERY, ELECTRO-PLATED WARE, GLASSWARE, CROCKERY, HIGH-CLASS TEAKWOOD & BLACK WOOD FURNITURE. CHEONG LEE & CO.

TEL. No. 80L. CARLE ADDRESS

HEAD OFFICE, 68, QUERY'S ROAD CENTRAL CHEONGLEE *

A.BG CODE 5TH EDITION.

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. TAGGART, MAYAGER

THE PEAK HOTEL. HOTEL.

1,500 Feet above Sea Level

15 Minutes from Landing Btage. Under the Management of-

Mrs. BLAIR.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOCATION

LL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pam Entrance, Electals Lifts. Fant and Lightin, A European Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water System throughout. Best of Food and Sarrics.

Telephone 373. Telegraphío Addrem ¡→→1 VICTORIA."

J. WITCHELL, Manaye.

CARLTON HOTEL.

(TEK ONLY AMERICAN HOTEL, DË TE COLONY,

ICE HOUSE FERREL

Under American Management. Mios and quiet yet only a low minutes walk from the Bazka and Central District. 43 Bedrooms, Excellent Culetas, serrylously also. Moderate Terms Monthly and Fandy Baten on application to the Proprietress. Launches meet Fasenger Boats.

Telegraphic Address * CARLTON."

Max. T. E. CAMERON.

PALACE HOTEL

- KOWLOON. (Two minutes from Biar Ferry),

and entirely under new management. Cuisine under the paramal ampervision Recently renovated and refurnished, electria light and fant_throughous of the proprietor, Bar and Bard Booma. Tarms moderate. Special terms to families on application to

J. EL OXERREX, Proprietor.

Telephone K. 3. Telegraphic Add : "PALACE”

JUST ARRIVED.

Choice Assortment of

AMERICAN CHOCOLATES. THE BRITISH AMERICAN CANDY STORE 15, Pontiger Street.

„TANG YUK, DETER

Commentator bu-

the Inho BIEN TING, 34, D'ÁGUILAN ÖZKIEL.

“REM VRHY MODERATE

Y. NAGATA. FUERIER.

Fars made up Artistically, Fars cleaned and Remodelled?

Cha caigut Private findidences, by Appointment,

Added Flose, Prays Kast.

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