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LAMMERT BROS.

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AUGTRINKERS, ÄPPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS

-Public Auctions-

HE Undersigned have received in etractious to sell by Public Auction

MONDAY, November 24, 1820.

INTIMATIONS

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.

JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestivs food for Infants which keeps good in quality during Bos weather (2) LAC

tha TOSE (Milk Sagar) for

(3)

foods of Infanta and Dyspeptics MILFORD MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Flesa, Mosquitoes, Bugs, Flien and all Lether Insect Poets in Summer days, and GOLDEN (4) JOHN CAHILLS FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA Exit Lengths and Overcoatings, SOAPS for keeping everything clean in

coramencing at ii m.;

* their Sale Rooms, Duddell Street, -Am áasartment of digh Grade

A Selection of Sparts Coat Materiala And

A Quantity of High Class Woollen Blankets.

comprising'

Sa Veldt Rags. 80 100 6 lbs.

Fawn Union Fleece Blankets,

· 60" x 90" x 4 iba.

(in lots to suit purchasers).

On view from Saturday, the thiest.

Catalogues will be inded.

Tarms-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS..

Auctioneers

Hongkong. November 11, 1920.

00

WEDNESDAY, November 24,1920, commencing at 11 am.

at Na 48 Golown, of the Hongkong & Koln Wharf

Godown Ca, Lith..

Kowloon.

(For account of the concerned)

47 cases No. 12 Cortos Hosiery Yarn

ja cones,

sad afterwards at 12 o'clock

(con)

at Nam Wah Knitting Co's. Golown, Mongkok.

cases No. 12 Cotton Hosiery Yara

i coeds,

(all more or less inraged by sea-water}

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.. Auctioneers.

Hongkong November 1, 1929,

FOR SALE

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply to

LAMMERT BROS.,

Duddell Street.

I say

KEATINGS LOZENGES

cure the worst Cough.

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" hight Frocks and Costumes so that they keep clean longer than when treated by ordinary methods.

TB-

Our processes are thorough and reliable. Our facilities and sources enable us to carry out all work quickly and our charges aro reelly reasonable.

Write for Price List and See!

The Diamond Dyeing and

Drycleaning Co.

Agent (

CASSUM AHMED.

-- General Draper:: zt & 34, Wellington Street anch 28, Nathan Boad, Kowloon.

Phone 1462.

Houses

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

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Sois Agents for Hongbing anť Sench China..

Nos. C & C Chanangis Rom! Central, Bongbong, Telephone No. 129.

理代泰

JUST RECEIVED

SWEET PEAS --

SEEDS.

GRACA & CO.

DEALLES IN FOSTANE 'Scars,

GARDEN ST, Toys, &c.

No. 10. Wyndham Stree

P. O. Box 520/

Bongkung

JAPANESE MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE

TO

ORDER

CHERRY & 00.,

PEDDER STREET, Oppos te Bogkong Hote Telephore No. 191

Hongkong. March 10, 1914

MASSAGE HALL

Gmuate from Nagunaki Marnage sicboot.

Mrs. HAN' INOKUCHI

Phone No. 1564

29. Manley Street,

THE REW FRENCH REGENT,

THERAPION Nɔ. 1 THERAPION NO.2 THERAPION NËS

A1 for Madder Oshares. No z for slood i Sith Diaries: No. 1 for sustain WizzW SOLD BY LEASING CHEMISTS, PASERIF ENGLAND SA WORD THERATION IS ON mit, MOTT.STAND APPLIED DU SERVIST FARMERS

V Cad BatererockRLA WAA.com

A8AHI BRER

FILSENER BEER

GRAND PRIZ fro

ASAHI

SPECIALLY

WERY

COME

AGER BEER

COMP

BOLE AGENTE, MITSUI BUKAAN KÄIBELE

THE CHINA MAIL.

D.J.Collis Browne's

Chlorodyne

THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY GENUINE.

DIARRHOEA,

sad is the only

Specific in CHOLERA mi

DYSENTERY.

FEVER, CROUP, AGUE.

The Best Remedy kusown for

COUGHS, COLDS,

ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS-

The' qnly Palliative in

NEURALGIA, GOUT, RHEUMATISM.

Calorodyne is a liquid taken to dreps, graduated according to the malady. It invariably relieves pain of whatever kind; creates a calm refreshing sleep; allays irritation

of the nervous system when all other remedies fail; leaves no bad effects and can be taken when no other medicina can be tolerated CONVINDING MEDICAL TESTIMONY WITH EACH BOTTLA. Neve Camelia pillant Eh, urds 'Dr. f. Colin Brand's Chevigne in the Stamp

Sold by all Chemists,

Prices in England, 3/14, 219, 4/8.

GB

BY APPOINTMENT

Sale Maretzbarer: LŤ. DAVERFORT, LAL.,

Loedas, SE

TABLE DELICACIES

SUPERANNUATED WORDS.

STRANGE TRANSFORMATIONS.

10

A MOST HORRIBLE WORD."

NOTHING FINER-BOTTLED OF CANNED.

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

30 Varieties of SOUPS.

15 Varieties of POTTED MEATS,

OXFORD SAUSAGES. CATMEAL, OILS, VINEGAR & TINNED FISH.

CROSSE & BLACKWELL

Agents for Las & Permis Worcestershire Sauce

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1920."

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel MansionRS,'

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 Jewellery,

BATH TUBS.

Tal Na. 2559.

Bazitary Goods, Bathroom Fittings

AND ALL ITES OF

Glass and Microre.

LYSON COMPANY,

391, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong-

FURNITURE.

CONTRACTS SOLICITED FOR HOUSES, OFFICES, HOTELS & SHOPS.

BRASS AND IRON BEDSTEADS, UPHOLSTERY, ELECTRO-PLATED WARE, GLASSWARE, CROCKERY, HIGH-CLASS TEŁKWOOD & BLACK WOOD FURNITURE

CHEONG LEE & 00.

CHEONGLEE”

TIL. No. 801. CABLE ADDRESE

JUTLAND RIDDLE.

MONEY PEOPLE SHUN,

A GILLANT ADMIRAL.

SIR R. ARBUTHNOT'S SACRIFICE.

་་

OLD COINS.

HANDED IN AT BANKS.

as few people realise their value and usually doubt their genuineness, These surplus coins are therefore paid into the bank, whence they are sent to the Mint, presumably to be melted down.

Messra Baldwin state that the word "realising" used in connection with the transaction has suggested to clients that they are going out of business. This is far from the case. The hobby of collecting old coins is decidedly on the increase.

In process of time words become One of the many reasons why the superannuated. and. ceasing to have official account or accounts (if Earl

In a recent paragraph in The Daily any value of their own, ought to be Beatty and Lord Jellicoe continue to M27-it was stated that a firm of got rid of Such is the view obviously differ) of the Battle of Jutland should dealers in old coins paid into a bank taken by the Bishop of St. Albans, be promptly published, with all exist at Charing Cross a number of coins who thinks that Terms like ing information as to the orders, of the reigns of George IL, George patronage." "living," and "prefer-movements of ships, and signals, is IV., and William IV. Suver coins ment Finger unduly in the ecclesias-that justice should be done to the and legal tender back to 1816, gold tical vocabulary and ought to be memory of Rear-Admiral Sir Robert coins to 1838, and copper coins to

scrapped." It is no good, be Arbuthnot, who died gallantly in 1860.

The reason was explained by evidently supposes, for us to talk action. abeut a living" when, as a matter The official despatches, issued Messrs. A. H. Baldwin and Sons, öf fact. a living at the present time shortly after the battle, which have Limited, of "4a, Duncannon-street, is precisely that which the incumbent been so often and so severely criti-Charing Cross, W.C. the firm in When Large collec often cannot secure. He gele a vast cised deal thus with this tremendous question.

tions are bought a number of house and garden, it may be, which episode in the great drama: have to be kept up, and be It is probable that Sir Robert [shese early coins of no great value receives some £80 or £100 per an-Arbuthnot, dering his engagement to the dealer are usually included. num, intended to cover his expenses with the enemy's light cruisers While they are legal tender, they as a rector or vicar, quite apart from and in his desire to complete lead only to confusion and trouble the amount he will probably have to their destruction, was not aware in the ordinary, way of business,; pay for the education of his children of the approach of the enemy's heavy and the proper adornment of his wife ships owing to the mist, until he and home. The word "prefermenr found himself.in close proximity to is equally misleading, because it is the (German) main feet, and before based on a wrong view of the rela- he could withdraw his ships they tion in which the clergy stand to the were caught under a heavy fire and Church. The assumption suggested disabled." by the word is that the Church is an There is another possibility. He institution which provides for the may have made this supremely daring needs of the parson. As a matter move with a deliberate double of fact the clergy exist for the purpose, to cover the deployment of Church, not the Church for the the British battle-feet, which was clergy, and the suggestion that a man then coming up to the north of him, takes Holy Orders in order to make and to use his torpedoes against the due provision for his material needs German Battleships. is an outrage on our religious feel-

He probably expected the Britisă ings. But the Bishop of St. Albans battleship to deploy towards the reserves his chief condemnation for enemy and was anxious to prevent the words "patron" and "patronage." any German destroyer attack on "Patronage be says, "is a most them while they were deploying. In horrible word. No decent man that case bis marœuvre, was a great wants to be patronised by anyone, one and worthy of an officer famous while the idea that the souls of men in the Fleet as a "thruster." This should be patronised is revolting." plan of using torpedoes on the No doubt there is a good dealin what Germans he had often discussed. the Bishop says, but, after all, we If such was his intention, his great want words to express certain rela- sacrifice was in vain. Lord Jellicoe tions, and though the particular terms deployed the British battle-feet away may have grown out of date, they from the Germans into one enormous still represent historical facts, We inelastic line, and many minutes pass- talk of the "patron" of a living as a ed before its fire could take effect. convenient term to indicate that a Meanwhile Sir Robert Arbuthnot's particular preferment or benefice is flagship, the "Defence," steamed in in the hands of some one or some to about 6,600 yards of the German body, whether the Lord of the Manor, battle-cruisers and received a terrific or the Bishop, or the Fellows of an fire. In the wards of the Derfflinger's Oxford or Cambridge college, who gunnery commander, "She broke acknowledge their due responsibility asunder. with a fearful explosion; in the man they select.." Patronage" black smoke and portions of the is, perhaps, an ugly word because of vessel flew in the air; a fame rose its associations and the implication from the whole ship; and then she of a certain superiority in the man vanished before our eyes in the who gives compared with the man depths

who receives. Still, of course, that

was not the original idea. The word

CUTICURA HEALS BABY NELAN

Of Spots On Face and Neck. Disfigured Horribly. Spread to Body,

"Spots appeared on baby's face and {neck," and "these in the merged 10 {eruptions which disfigured him hor-j ribly. He had-vay little sleep for {zavazni picks on account of the isch- ing Blisters then broke out on his head and spread to his body-

After trying seveal remedies, Alendrecommended Cutiesta Sexpand Matment After the first application I could ses baby was greatly eased land in three weeks he was benšed.” (Signed) Mrs. C. Ken, 91, St. Ann's | Rd, Bow, London, E3, Eng...

Cuticam Soap and Ointment are all | you need for mi tolletuses. Soap to {cleanse and purify, Ointment to soothe

and heal"

Sep 11. Ofatient 15. 34. and 2. 6d. Sold throughout the Empire. For estime sech tree di temps: 7, Barbery & MRI, LAG. 37, COGENYARDS Kakaoka, Alid Eproved qufert with prior. Pia Cellessa Joko stores without tang:

The

MIRACLE MAN

benefice" no doubt is equallyses and their transformation is, in- objectionable, because of modern deed, a very interesting study. The conditions, although, as a matter of word knight" no longer refers to fact, it has had a long history, and military services; and some have been bold enough to was first applied to the gifts which even

the the Roman Emperors made to their suggest that so far, as soldiers, consisting of portions of word "gentleman" no longer corre land, *4 2 reward for past sponds with living examples it might services. Words undergo strange be superseded. But in this last case transformations, as we are our good neighbours the French have awate. Music originally meant the intervened. They have copied many sphere -presided over by all the of our terms for instance, snob." Muses: now it is confined to the though they give it a meaning of their science and art of tuneful sounds own and as they bave recently History, which meant general know taken over the word gentleman". ledge, becomes specialised as a par they have perhaps Insured its con "ticular kind of knowledge. Some finuance as a title of distinction. tities expressions are used belonging The Bishop of St. Albans must not to conceptions entirely out of date. be too severely logical, especially in For instance, we still say that the suún such a matter as ecclesiastical no TT may be impossible to parent-in rises, as though the sun circled sound menclature, words the advowson,

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Coming!

ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN.

woodent but it is not i

the earth, and not vice versa, and fü glebe incumbent, vicar be perpared for Cham

common parlance we refer to the dew falling, although as a scientific fact dew rises. The history of phra

benefice "hare a real and useful meaning, although they may be often employed in a wrong fashion.

Balm is not berond anyone's purse, and With a bottle of this: Haiment you are proparel for most saything For Le by all Chemists and Storekeeper.

HEAD OFFICE, 68, QUAE's ROAD SENTRAL.

ABC 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. EL TAGGARI,

MAXLEKE

THE PEAK HOTEL

1,500 Feet above Sea Level-

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of-

Mrs. BLAIE,

KING EDWARD HOTEL

OENTRAL LOCATION

LL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pass Entrance, Electris Lifts, Fant and Idgating -Karopean Eaths and Sanitary Fittings Bot sod Cold Water System throughout. Best of Food and Service:

Telephone 373 Telegraphie Address :----' VICTORIA.”

J. WEICHELL, Manager.

CARLTON HOTEL,

(THE ONET LEERIJAY HOPEL IN TELL CULONT.) ICE HOUSE STREET.

-Under American Management. Nico and quiet yet only a few minuses walk from the Banks and Central District, <z Bedrooms, Ercellons Cuisine,

Baton Arupulously clean. Moderate Terms. Monthly and Family application to the Proprietress. Launches meet Piacenger Bowls.

Telegraphic Address “CARLTON"

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Maa, F. E. GAMEBON.

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON.

(Two minutes tromi Star Ferry)

Recently renovated and refurnished, electrie fight and fans throughous and entirely under new management. Caleine under the personal expervision

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of the prop fetor, Eer and Billiard Rooms. Tarma moderata. Special Warmia 10 families on application to

J. E. OXEREKY, Proprieter.

Telephone K. 3. Telegraphia Add: "PALÃOR.*

JUST ARRIVED

Choice Assortment of AMERICAN CHOCOLATES. THE BRITISH AMERICAN

CANDY STORE. •

15 Pokinger Breat

The Lata MD5N TING.

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FUREIER

"Turs made up Artistically, Furs cleared and Bemodelled.

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