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LAMMERT BROS.

AVGATIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS

-Public Auctions-

HE Undersigned have received, ine broo

To all by Public Auction,

cn

WEDNESDAY, November 14, 1920, commencing si 11 à.m

at No. 4 Galows, of the Hongkeng & Kowloon Wharf

Gotown Co, Ltd,”

Kowloon.

(For account of the concerned} 57 cases No. 12 Cottoa Rusiery Taro

wad afterwards at 19 o'clock (ncon).

Xam Wah Kaitung Co's. Golowe,

Mongkok.

20 cases No 12 Cotton Bowlery Yara

in cones,

fall more or less dannged by ses-water)

Term Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS. Auctioneers. Hongkong. November 1^, 1529,

ott

FRIDAY, 'ovember 28, 1920, commencing at 233 p.m..

their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street,

A Quantity of Valeṣble Household Farniture, Comprising:-

Cherrywood overtuantel with herelled mirror, texk plain and roll top desks, apestry covered couch, vases or xente, double tank and izan bristeals, men's double wanirate, dressing table, maphorwood chest of drawers, leather

vered armchairs, etc., etc.

Also

A Few Piecas of Very Finely Sarved Ganton Blackwood WarC.

Comprising

11

Curio cabinet, overmantel, chairs and stools. And

"Foar Large Starl Combination

Safer.

On view from Tharaday, the 25th inst.

Term-Cash on delivery.

Catalogue will be issued..

LAMMERT BROS.,

AISHVILIB.”

Hongkong. November 20, 1920.

FOR SALE

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply to

LAMMERT BROS.,

Duddell Street

MUMEYA. Japanese Photographers. We have removed our Premises to No. 31, Queen's Road, G.

Sitting hours from 9 am to 9 pm.

J'assport photos finished in one bour.

INSTANTANEOUS WATER

HEATERS

For Gas and Oil Unlimited Hot Water.

C.E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

Nos. 30 32 Des Your Rosd 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 celiable. Our facilities and re sources enable us to carry out all work quickly and our charges are goally reasonable.

Write for Price List and Bee!

The Diamond Dyeing and Drycleaning Co.

Agent

CASSUM AHMED.

·General Daver

23 47, Velington Street. Branch 28, Nathan Road, Kowloon,

'Phone 1463.

INTIMATIONS

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM. :"

JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestiva food for Infants which keeps good in quality during Hot wasthar (9) LAC- TOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (8) MILFORD MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Flena, Mosquitoes, Bags, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days,” and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S · GÖLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC CINDERELLA: SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Houses,

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

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,Į

Sole Agents for Hongkong and Barth. China.

47-48 CORnight Road Contra", Hongkong,

Telephone Nos. 153%

# *

JUST RECEIVED

SWEET PEAS

SEEDS.

GRADA & 00.

DESLER IN Postage Stakers,

GARDEN SEIDS. Tors, &

No. 10, Windham Street,

P. O. Box-630.

Hongkong,

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE

TO

ORDER

CHERRY & 00..

PEDDER STREET, Oppos te Hongkong Hote?' Telephone &o. #91.

Hongkong, March 30, 1914.

MASSAGE HALL

Glante tro Nagaki Manage school

Mrs. HAN ISOKUCHI -

Phone No. 1984,

98 Maniry Street, 1st Floor.

THE NEW FRÊNCH REMEDY,

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PILSENER BEER

AND PRIZES

ASAH!

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THE CHINA MAIL.

MONDAY. NOVEMBER 22. 1920.

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NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD. 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 Jewellery,

THE WING ON CO., LTD.

Cut

Phone 196

UNIVERSAL PROVIDERS

MEDIUM STRENGTH CAPSTAN

Navy Cut

·Cigarettes. -HO.WILL

10 CIGARETTES & MOUTHPIECES.

WILLS'

"CAPSTA

Navy

Cigarettes WD. & H.O.WILLS

plo Lend

CAPSTAN

Navy Cut

Cigarettes.

~Uniformity of quality has made "CAPSTAN" one of the mos

popular Cigarettes in the world TO-DAY..

COX'S.

This Advertisement in imed by Erizaish-American Tobacco Co (China) Ind.

ARMY BANKING.

INTERESTING ROMANCE OF ARMY BANKING.

the front or going back to it. At the height of the war, when all the nation) was "in it," something like 50,000 cheques a day were cleared by the bank. Whatever a British officer west, to a 5ghing front or even as a prisoner of war is Germany, he could Cox's is not the heaviest bank offdraw upon his sccount at Cox's with- the world, in weight of money, but out troubling to prove his identity or probably it has the most widespread his signature. His uniform was his reputation, says the Morning Post. warrant.

MAGNETIC STEERING.

WONDERFUL DEMON-

STRATION.

HOW SHIP CAN DEPY FOG.

The sun shone brilliantly, so that a thick canvas around the bridge of the United States destroyer "Semmies" was employed to biot out all chances of the steersian catching

shore marks.

The

Phone 198

Quality Shop

with

Quality Goods

for

Quality Buyers

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Kodak and Kodak Flims, do, de

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY,

No. 171, Quæn't Bold Gretzil, HONORING..

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

OPERATING :-

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

AND THE

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

IH TAGGART,

MAZANTE,

THE PEAK HOTEL.

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of

Mra. BLAIR.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOCATION

LL ELECTRIC TRAMS Fas Entrance, Electris Lifts, Fans and Lighting A European Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water Syste throughout Best of Food and Service.

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

J. WITCHELL, Monage..

Only recently, New York Was Within the last six years its cheques! The amount of work caused by so have penetrated to hundreds of re- extensive a conection can be indic hearing of the great loss entailed by more parts of Europe which never ated by the fact that Cox's had to send Hiners unable to make the port be saw a cheque before-and some of a motor-van day, and right to collect cause of fog, so that there was added them were drawn by galant young the mails from the District Sorting enthusiasm among those people who 1,500 Feet above Sea Level subalterns who had never drawn one Office to save time in delivery and before.

the number so collected generally saw wooderich demonstrations in the For several years, the pride of our reached 20,000 per day. The cost Lower Harbour of how ships may be youb-the fathers of the next genera-of the postage for replies was nearly safely guided from Sandy Hook to rion-backed with Cox. Many at £30,000 for the year 1918.

the docks despite the densest fog. them bank there still: The great ex- Three houses act as Army Agents, pansion of the bank's business during and Cox's are definitely at the top sea-going men of all classes consider

It was a Navy experiment, and the war necessitated the acquisiton of la 1760 they became paymasters ed that a remarkable success had been adjacent premises in every direction, the Royal Regiment of Artillery, Mr. achieved. The idea is the simple one and this resulted in the office as a Richard Cox being appointed to the of piloting a ship by a magnetised whole becoming too spread-out and office by Lord Ligonier, as Master cable laid in the channel. inconvenient for the proper working of General of Ordinance. Excepting for the business. It has, therefore, been one brief interval of 14 years, and found necessary to remove as soon as that was well over 100 years ago, they possible from Charing Cross to have held the agency ever since. larger and more.condensed home next} In 1805 Cox's became agents door to the Carlton Hotel, with one the Royal Engineers, and the sub-even a glimpse of the familiar river entrance, in Waterco" Place and one sequent connection between then car round the corner.

ries on in an unbroken line. In 1807 Away down the stream Comman. Every officer of the Army knows Cox's had 118 regiments on their list, der Norton picked up" the cable, Cox's. Some were swept into it by consisting of 166 battalions of infan- and by "listening in" and steering starboard "according to the the swirl of the Great War. Others (including the three regiments of port. had known it from the day they felt Foot-Guards) 19 regiments of cavalry, volume of sound indicating his posi school. The concern was founded by the Royal Artillery, the Royal Engi. tion, he brought his ship to the Mr. Richard Cox in 1758, and it is neers, the Waggon Train, and 21 desired haven.

There is created about the cable even older than the Marring Post, regiments of militia. In 1822, after though not much. Mr. Cox was the reduction of the Army following an electro-magnetic field in which the

vessel sailed. secretary to Lord Ligonier, then upon the Napoleonic Wars, the num

Aboard the "Semmes" the only Gommander-in-Chief of the Forces. ber of regiments fell. It rose soon visible evidence of a piloting device In those days the pay of both officers afterwards. It had a big spurt during are amplifiers on a small table near and men was in the hands of an the South African War, and during the the man at the wheel connecting "agent," and the appointment of the Great War it extended amazingly, for with two cols hanging at the side agent was in the hands of the Colonel in the height of the combat it rose 10 of the destroyer just above the water- of the Regiment Lord Ligonier, as 1.122 battalions in addition to the line. Colonel of the First Foot Guards (the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, and present Grenadier Guards), conferred so on

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the agency of the regiment, upon his secretary."

250,000 OFFICER CLIENTS.

CHECKMATING'A' PRINCE. From the beginning Cox has suc

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Many ex-officers preserve their con- seeded Cox, and there are now three nection with the bank, as some 15 It was a big beginning for Mr. Cox, of the name in the firm. The present years ago it began to develop a com- He improved upon it, and his descen-head of the bank, Mr. Reginald H.mercial and foreign side to its busi-}· dants have carried on the activities Cox, is the great great great grand-ness and has now attained a promin- of the house to an extent of which, son of the founder. At various times!ent position among the banks doing on his-møst ambitious nights, he could partners have entered, with the im-† those classes of business. It has never have dreamed. During the portation of secondary names. One of branches in India and Egyp; and con- Great War they had far more officers the most famous of these was Mr. uections in all parts of the world. It on their books, from beginning to end, Charles Greenwood, a cousin of the formed a subsidiary Cox and Co. than the full strength of Wellington's House. A friend of the burly rollick-(France) to deal with officers serving Army in the Napoleonic Wars. The ing Duke of York, he was introduced in that country during the war. It number was in the neighbourhood of by the Duke to his father, King has now become necessary to acquire a quarter of a million.

George III. as "Mr. Greenwood, larger preffuses in the City of London, When the crash of 1914 came the who keeps my money." "No, your which will be ready for use towards staff of Cox's numbered 180—and 60 | Majesty," said Mr. Greenwood, "it the end of next year; post of those went out to the war. Four is his Royal Highness who keeps my... A history of the House is now being years later the staff had risen to 4,000 money 1" That was one enough, and compiled by one of its officers-Mr. of whom about 1,500 were women. the debt was not wiped of until 60 W. H. Berran who is snxious to They worked double tidès. When the years after the Duke's death. It was receive, from military officers of long day staff knocked off their desks were Mr. Greenwood who, in 1903, [connection with the Erm, any informa- taken by a night staff, and cheques brought his ueparar Me Hammersltion which will assist in the prepare- were cashed every hour of the, 24, sley, into the Arm, and there have tion of the book. His hereditary con- Sundays and high holidays as well as boen members of the Hammersley nection with Cox's is four generations weck-days, for officers returning from family in it ever since,

deep; and his case is not exceptional.

CARLTON

HOTEL.

(SEE ONLY AMERICAN HOTEL IN DR COLONE.)

ICE HODAY STREET.

Under American Management Nles and quiet yet only a few minutes walk from the Banks and Central District 43 Bedrooms, Kxcellent Cuisine, arupalously clean. Moderate Terms Monthly and Family Bater application to the Proprietress. Launches meet Fassenger Boats.

Ma. F. E. GAMEBON, Telegraphie Address "CARLTON."

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON: -"

T (Two wilmates from Stär Parry)

Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughors and entirely under new management. Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billard Rooma Tarma moderate. Special farms in families on application to

Talephone K. & Telegraphie Add.; "ParaCH.”

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

18, Pottinger Street,

TAN-FUK, Day,

the late SIES LING,

25.

Aguiar BTEXT.

TERMS VERY MODERATE

200Tomankallon-trai-

J. H. OXBEKRY, Proprietor. -

YN AGATA,

FURBLER.

Furs made up Artistically, -Furs "cleaned, and Remodelled.

· Can callat Private Esvidésens by Appobrtment.

· Addrem 5-6rd Fisor, d♬ Prays East.

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