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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, AFFRAISERS AND SURTETORS 7 -Public Auctions-

FOR SALE

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply to

LAMMERT BROS., Duddell Street.

MUMËY A.

Japanese Photographers.

We have remised our Premises 10 No. 364, Queen's Road, C.

Sitting hours from 9x.m. to 9 p.m.

Passport photos finished

in ons boar.

MASSAGE.

Mr. HONDA and Mrs. XONDA.

Trained male Massenr.

13 years experience

Formerly of Tokyo Silitary Hospital WILL VISIT PATIENTS' RESIDENCES IF PREFEREED Ja 24 Wyndham Street. (Opposite to the China Mall)

INTIMATIONS

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO

BE WITHOUT THEM,

H

JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive food for Infants which keeps good in quahty during Blot weather (2) LAC TOSE(Milk Sugar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (3) MILFORD GRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Flaid for destroying Flesa, Mosquitoes, Bugs, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days, and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean iz Houses

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

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Sola Agate for Rangkong and sortağChina,

You & 13 Comanght Boad Central, Hongkong."} Telephone No. 1239.

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FOR SALE

New Postage Stamps to commemorate the taking of

FIRST CENSUS

. irt

JAPAN

ased only on October first, the day of

the Census.

*: 25 cents per set of 2 Stamps.

GRACA & 00, 'DEALERS IN POSTARE STAMER. GARDEN SID, Toys, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Bax 620.

THE CHINA MAIL.

DrJ.Collis Browne's

Chlorodyne

THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY GENUINE.

DIARRHOEA, mas is the only

Specific in

CHOLERA

DYSENTERY.

FEVER, GROUP, AGUE.

The Shes +ETECT RADAR for

COUGHS, COLDS,

ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS.

The only Palisme

KEDJALOIA, QOUT, RHEUMATISE.

Caloradyno a liqiid takea ta drops, graduated according to the caalady. It invariably relieves pain of whatever kind; creates a culm refishing sicep; aliayn irritation of the cervous system, when all other remedies 'l leaves no bad efects; and can be taken when as other medicine can be tolerated.

CONVINCING MEDICAL TESTIMONY WITH EACH BOTTLE Nana Garesím, nežlasė Liu Jets The J. Crise Bregne's Chlormijne on the Stomp

Sold 3 al Chemists,

Prices in England. 1/2, 2/3, 4/6

GB

Sala KiznaizċinPEPS: J.T. DAVENPORT, LIL.

LONDON SE

TABLE DELICACIES

NOTHING FINER-BOTTLED or CANNED.

The first requisites with CROSSE & BLACKWELL Delicacies are Quality. Purity and freshness..

30 Varieties of SOUPS.

15 Varieties of POTTED MEATS, OXFORD SAUSAGES, OATMEAL, OKĖS, VINEGAR & TINNED FISH.

CROSSE & BLACKWELL; (c)

rigerits Fir Las Permits vorcestershire Sauce

Hongkong,

BY APPOINTMENT

A LONDON BOOK.

THE "TERRIERS."

STRANGE IDEAS.

SATISFACTORY GROWTH.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1220

"NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

"WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansions

Agents for: ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

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

ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery,

BATH TUBS.

Sanitary Goods,

Bathroom Fittings'

ANDY ALL KISTS OF

Glass and Mirrors.

LYSON COMPANY,

Tel. No. 3559.

39, Queen's Road Central Hongkong.

FURNITURE.

CONTRACTE SOLICITED FOR HOUSES, OFFICES, HOTELS & SHIPS.

BRASS

UPHOLSTERY,

AND IRON BEDSTEADS, ELECTRO-PLATED WARE GLASSWARE, CROCKERY, HIGH-CLASS TEAKWOOD & BLACK WOOD FURNITURE. CHEONG LEE & 00.

T. No 801. CAXXX ADDRESS

CHEONGLEE“

HEAD OFFICE, 68. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. A.B.C. Copx 5TH EDITION.

INSTANTANEOUS WATER

HEATERS

For Gas and Oil Unlimited Hot Water.

C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD. Nos. 20+32 Des Voeux Road Central. Established 1900

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 able. Our facilities and re- urces enstle is to carry out all Fork quickly and our charges are really reasonable

Write for Price List and See!

The Diamond Dyeing and Drycleaning Co.

Agent

CASSUM AHMED.

General Draper.

32 & 34, Wellington Street.

branch 28. Nathan Boad, How}con." 'Phone 1462,

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE

TO

ORDER

CHERRY & 00.,

PEDDER STREET, Opposite Bongkong- Hotel Telephone No 191.

Hongkong, March 30, 1914.

MASSAGE HALL -

Gradate frost Nagınıki Hamage Motoal Mas. HAN INOKUCHI

Paste No. 1x04,

Stanley Storm,

1 x

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY.

THERAPION NĚ. 1 THERAPION NO.2 THERAPION NO.3

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Communications relating to news should be addressed to TEX EDITOR

... Correspondentet formed their names and addresses with any ocümanica- Hon addressed to the Editor, at necessarily evidence of good for publication bat Bith...

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Letters relating to business should be sddressed to TE MANAGER

Rate of subscription to China Häll ís

16 per annum ; per quarter and per gen-

en pro rata'.

Urders for extra copies of the CHA Mar' should be sent as soon as possible sa the supply is limited. Cash 10 cta, Credit

20 ct. per

copy, The China Mell is delivered free at subscribers in Hongkong and Kowloon

Postage in Charged at the rate of fifth euts per month.

Rate of saberriation to theverland China Mall is 219 per acnom postage 41. per savum exa. Bingle copy twenty

Eve cents each.

Alterations and additions to Advertise- on Pages 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 and should

be sent to the ice, No. 5, Wyndham Btreet, not later than 11 30 a.m.

Alterations and additions to Advertise ments on pages 1, 4, 5 and 19 should be

"bent ur not later than 1 p.m.

New Advertisements should be sent in before 2pm.

Advertisements and Schactitions which are not ordered fo fxed person w LO continued until counterwanded.

Telegraphle Address MAIL Hongkong.

Code "... 543 Edition.

Telephone No. 223 15.

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"STREETS AND FEOPLE."

the

SERVICE MORE ATTRACTIVE.

DEAD MULE COMEDY.

REFUSED AS A GIFT.

LUCKLESS NEGRO'S ADVENTURES.

...

Evening Thus KK. in

The comedy of a dead mule has Standard:-

The Territorial' Army is growing at set New Orleans laughing, says a Here is a book about London that

Fitty-eight thou-Central News message to a home sworth all the gossiping guides put a satisfactory rate: 1ogether. It is not a book for the sand men have already been attested journal.

The mule died in a plot at the foreign tourist or the country cousin. or registered for antestation," and the

D. Duvigneand, city inspector of The former, seeking exact informa officering of the respective units is back of the residence of Gaston J. Some of the units, Grand Route St. John. Four days tion about the monuments of the progressing. metropolis, will be better advised by particularly in the North, have relater the stench arising from the. Baedeker; the latter, also planning a cruited up to their peace, establish carcase was such that he chartered a ment. These units include two bat negro to remove the muisance. The week of sight-seeing, might find Mr.

the Highland Mounted next scene of the comedy was at Charles Vince, the auther of The Street of Faces (Philip Allan and Co. Brigade. Dunham Field Artillery Fortin street, where Ed. Marmouget, 15s.) rather unsatisfying on matters Brigade, and the 4th Shropshire Light who had foregone his intention of of fact. I do not suppose Mr. Vince Infantry (Army troops). The Arol going to his local club, was prepar knows when Waterloo Bridge was

of teries

built or the exact height of the Clockery is the most popular unit for re-ing for bed. Just then his cars Tower; but he knows far bettering, both in the Regular and the caught the weird and mysterious Territorial Annies. The Territorial clanking of chains. Slipping out- things about London which are never revealed in the guide book. He knows Technical and Departmental Corps as side, he saw a negro driving a horse The mule had been dragged into the great truth that would fure the well as the Infantry battalions, have which was hitched to a dead mule. true Lordoner out of paradise for a found recruiting rather slow, espec look at the motley Strand": that ally in London and the South of Eng- an empty lot next to Mr. Marmou- there is always some new and beauti-land generally. but the War Office. get's house. There the negro was ful picture to be seen in the kalcides through the medium of reasonable caught in the ect of stealthily out- cope; that magic tube through which concessions, are doing much to make spanning the horse and preparing to "Oh, no! Mr. Marmonger ex- London's lovers look at the ever-service in the Territorial Army more depart under the cover of darkness shifting patterns made by shops and attractive to the Territorial who has claimed. "Not around here-you don't seen service, as well to those who are work that stunt. Take that mule approaching military age.

away, boy; before I harm you Where'd you get the mule, anyhow, and who told you to bring him here?"

houses and people.

The real sights of London are never seen by the sightseer. They come unsought: a gift vouchsafed orly to those who have eyes to see

tone.

AUSTRALIA" EOUSE.

"The negro said Dr. Duvigneand had told him to drag the animal away from his house and deposit it

Marmouget.

Ah doan know," said the negro. Ab, jes "Well, you just move along back", said Mr. Marionget,

"Where ahm going to take him?" asked the negro, troubled.

for themselves; who do not require than Australia House, but to every the pointing finger of guide or anti-body he brings some new point of quary to appreciate pictures framed view that makes London fresh to by London streets. It is the old story the most jaded Londoner. One in the lot. "So he thought I'd be of eyes and no eyes. Even Mr. Vince sigares him walking about London at the meeting, did he?" asked Mr. cannot teach the blind to see; but with a whimsical mind that twists these blessed with vision will rejoice the most commonplace things into with him over the beauty of plain delightful fancies; that refeets, amid buildings, and lighted windows, and

what a strange thing pay day at over the little comedies of the kerb-all the scientific marvels of the Mint,

the Mint must be.”

"Are the men really paid in Because Mr. Vince is not one of those who see beauty only in the money? I must believe that they antique, and weep when another ask for something more substantial sium is swept away. The new can Can you expect a man who spends have as much meaning, as much his time filling bags with coins, beauty and symbolism, as the old. who sees them made by the thou Even so new a building as Australia sands, who handles in a day moré House, which rears its great bulk j than any of us will bandie in a life. where Aldwych leads to Temple Bar time can you expect him to be has unsuspected beauties. It is seen content with a few of them for a best when night begins to merge in week of werk? If there is any place to dawn. Then, when it is just a in the world where men insist on mass of stone silhouetted against the payment in food and drink, it must sky, separated from meaner buildings be at the Mint." with no surge of traffic about its base

And the gloomy lower corridors of

to distract one's eye, one begins to the War Office, with their stacks of perceive how fine a conception it papers, give him material for a grim- was in the mind of its architect. mer fancy. By the day it is only a building;

is

"Perhaps the yellow piles that line

at night, and in the early quiet them are not papers at all, but the morning, it ae eloquent of coffins of forgotten generals, those power as one of the pyramids of whom St. Paul's has not received; Egypt. Then you may very well and if one opened them one would find share the fancy of Mr. Vince about each general lying there with his this, "the most massive and the hands folded across a jacket of papers, most aggressive of all the buildings a jacket containing all his papers, arranged in their order, from bis in London."

record at Sandhurst to the last secret report made against him; and on the outside of the jacket the names

"It is shaped like a wedge, and the head of the wedge points straight at St. Clement Danes As you look

and at

at it you wonder if you should not of all those through whose hands walk round and find the whole Aus the papers had passed.. tralian Army Corps pushing it on the bottom of them all, and still from behind. Here in stone is the waiting to be crossed out and dated very spirit of the Dominions, im with the Day of Judgment, the name patient, of England, and its slow of the Recording Angel."

These one or two extracts may ways, Its tolerance, and its old affec tion for things that are old. Here it give a hint of the quality of this is, driven like a great spearhead of wholly delightful book, which, with stone into the very heart of "London, its happy illustrations by J. D. M. but it has stopped suddenly before that grey church and the dark street beyond."

AT THE MINT MAA Most of Mr. Vince's pages are red with less aggressive things

"Right back where you gut him

"Take him right in Duvigneand's from," said Mr. Martzouget armly. front yard for all I care, and take him quick.”

The negro attached his horse's traces and turned round, but he didn't like the idea of hauling the dead male back to its original place and balf a square from the Mar mouget, house decided to make an other resident appeared on the scene. other attempt to unload." But an Ah, ha!" ejaculated this resident "Caught you in the act. Pull your freight, son,"

Once again the negro, driven from pillar to post, tried to deposit his unsavoury burden in a vacant block, but once again he was caught, by an climb the negro's frame" if he did irritable resident, who threatened to not move on instantly.

He did, and i desperation hauled the dead, mule back to the block be hind Devigneand's home. There the body lay for the better part of a week:

The luckless negro.was told by the a permit to leave the male anywhere. police that they could not give him Once again the mule was removed from its original resting place, and for a few hours its resting-place was a mystery.

Then the telephone in a newspaper office rang wildly. The mule had turned up once more, now in the cus tody of four negroes, dragged by the Harvey, is beautiful print on wide- same hoof-weary, breath-spent, nearly margined pages, is a joy to the book strangled, but still faithful horse. lover. It is very well subtitled Like the Old Man of the Sea, his "Glimpses of Town. They are burden was still close behind.

That closes the history of the malé when the last mall left New Orleans; limpses through a kindly quizzing- glass.

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OPERATING:-

THE HONGKONG HOTEL, HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

AND THE

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

J. H. TAGGARY,

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THE PEAK HOTEL.

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Managercent of-

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1,500 Feet above Sea Level

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