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LAMMERT BROS.

Mortosboks, Affräiners

AND SURVEYORS,

-Public Auctions-

FOR SALE.

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply to

LAMMERT BROS.,

Daddell Street.

To arrive, shortly, large

quantities of Whits

Glared Tiles, also Cast

Iron Porcelain Lined

Baths and the last word

in bidets.

C.E. WARREN & CO., LTD

· Nos. 30. &.37 Des Your Road Central

Established 1900

Telephone 370.

3

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

Write for Price List and See!

The Diamond Dyeing and Drycleaning Co.

Agent

CASSUM AHMED.

Seneral. Draper. 12&34, Wellington Street. Branch 38, Nathan Road, Kowloon. 'Phone-1482.

MASSAGE.

Mr. HONDA and Mrs. KONDA. Trained male Masseur. 13 years' experience. Formerly of Tokyo Military Ecepital WILL VISIT PATIENTS' RESIDEN JES IF PREFERRED No. 24, Wyndham Street. (Opposite to the China Ma)

MUMEY A.

Japanese Photographers. We bare removed mar Premises to No. 36, Queen's Road, C.

-Bitting hours from 9 am to 9 pm

-

Passport photos finished

in one hour.

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China Mall' is delivered free at abscribers in Hongkong and Kowloon

Postage is Charged at the rate of fifty emia per month.

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INTIMATIONS

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO

BE WITHOUT THEM,

JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive food for Infasts which keeps good quality during flot weather (2) LAC TOSE (Wilk Sugar) for foods of Infanta

sweetening the and Dyspeptics (3) MILFORD MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fleas, Mosquitoes, Bags, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days, and

JOEN CAHILL'S "GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Houses

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

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Hole Lonza fer. Hongkong and Bouth Chian Jan 17 & 8 Conatyft Road Central, Hongkong,

Tilephone Fox, J

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Postage Stamp

Catalogues

of

Latest Issue

frum

Sholey Gibbons, 1st & 2nd Parts, Scott Stamp & Coin Co Frert et Tellier, Champion.

GRAÇA & CO.,

DELLEES IT POSTAGE STAKES, GARDES Seros, Toys, FOST CARDS, &C. No. 10, Wyndham Street, M. U. Box 620.

Hongkong

JAPANESE YAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE

то

ORDER

CHERRY & CO.

PEDDER STREET," Opposite Hongkong Hotel

Telephone No. 19

Hongkong. March 20, 1914

MASSAGE HALL Graduate from Nag-aki Hasegu School Mrs. HAN INOKUCHI

Phota No. 196

24, Stary Street, Jet Flour.

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY,

THERAPION NË THERAPION N0.2 THERAPION NO.3

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Telegraphie AddresMan' Hergkong. Dode A.B.U. 5th Edition

Talathina No. 22,

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MITSUI - BUSLY KAISHA.

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE CHINA -MAIL.

GARRICK

Selected

Virginia

Cigarettes

CIGARETTE

VIRGINI BLEND

LAMBERT & BUTLER

ENGLAND

ARE MADE FROM THE

MOST DELICATELY, FLAVOURED

TOBACCO

GROWN IN VIRGINIA.

Sold in Airtight tins of 50 Cigarettes and Obtainable at all Tobacconists.

This Adrechiennent in immed by Bittish-American Tobacco Co (China) Ltd.

OUR MERCANTILE MARINE.

WHAT IT MEANS TO THE NATION.

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STR FREDERICK W, LEWIS'S VIEWS.

"SCRAPS OF PAPER.”

--GERMÂN FOND.

NOMINAL VALUE £5,000,000,000.

MUNICIPAL FINANCE.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

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, -

BNGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers High Class English Jewellery,

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO.LTD,

DINGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILKE MAKERS, BRASS and IRON M-FOUNDERS, Af work done in this establishment is guarantood. Wa záva orst thirty years' experfatios. We śwn two Kilpways and esu socommodate koy_dais.

300 Ems Icing.

Town Office: 84, CORRICONE RAID ComL, Hongkong." Telephone No. 45. Bhipyard: Sham-Sul-Po, Kowloon, Hangkang, Butimator fumlahed on applizacion.

Hongkong. áprŬ 1, 1915.

LONG HING & CO.,

Talaphose No. 9.

PHOTO SUPPLIES, Kodals and Kodak Films, &c. DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 17A, T'S ROAD CEREAL, HONGKONG.

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,

MALLIES.

THE PEAK HOTEL,

"

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of

The proposal has been made that 1,500 Feet above Sea Level the cost of road widenings should be met partly out of the net profits on municipal tramway undertakings, partly out of the local authority. In these days of reconstruction and The dearest "scrap of paper" in At first sight the distinction between readjustment, the importance of the the world is the bond which has the two former may not appear very British Mercantile Marine for the recently been handed by the German real, as if the tramways are municipal nation cannot be overemphasised. Treasury to the Reparatiers Com. Shipping freights are, of immense mission, Its nominal value is enterprises, it may be asked what value in helping to adjust the balance £2,000,000,000. It is a small piece is to be gained by charging high between imports and exports, Decli of paper about 15 inches long and 8fares to make a profit for use in ning freights will lessen this contribu- inches wide with a black border. It this way, in lien of raising the tion, but on the other hand the adverse is printed in bold black type.” balance in the import and export

figures is getting smaller every French, and German, enumerates has to come out of the towns pec The boud, which is in English, same amount by rates? The money month by reason of our increasing the classes and conditions of the ples pockets either way. There are, export trade, and if only our coal Treaty of Versailles under which it however, good reasons for charging production could be increased to pre. is issued by the Germans. It is

war proportions the balance of trade would, with the assistance of our invisible exports, very soon be on the other side, with resultart benefits to the exchanges and with advantage to the community at large.

COAL TO NEWCASTLY.”

dated Berlin, October 8, 1920. It is signed by nine Ministers and Trea. suryofficiala.

"

Two other bonds were presented

portion of the cost directly on those

by whom the tramways are used. It is the fashion new-a-days to juggle with local finance, as in the housing schemes where the investor first lends

by Germany at the same time. One his money, and then has to pay heavy isa German Treasury zote for rates to pay himself interest. Even £1,000,000,000 without interest, pay.

Or

The year through which we haveable, at the latest, by next May. contribution from a Central An- passed has been remarkable for the The other is a promise to issue furthority has fast to be collected in effect which the coal situation has ther Treasury bonds to the value of taxes, but there is sometimes excuse had upon shipping. Until quite re- £2,000,000,000 as soon as the Re-for asking for these grants since an cently the price of bunker coal in parations Commission is satisfied improvement is often required for London, for instance, had risen to that German Grance can tear the the benefit of a neighbouring area, the height of £7 per ton. Even now strain.

in which case the latter should a much higher price for coal is

certainly contribute directly charged to that section of the com-

otherwise." munity which has invested its money ciate how much the well-being of the the large view in these matters and Although we would like to take in shipping instead of other national nation-generally rests with them, I plan for posterity we have to re industries, such as steel making feel sure that they would do every cognise that at present the country and the manufacture of cotton and thing in their power to secure a is already loaded with heavy finan woollen goods, but the real difficulty

greater output. has been the inability to secure

cial shackles. With the reduced pro- adequate and suitable coals at any of

duction per head, and prospects of a the principal ports of the Volted Our exports to-day do show a very still greater decrease if one school of Kingdom as was the custom before large increase in value as compared thought makes headway, it will not the war, due to the greatly reduced with pre-war figures, but satisfactory be at all surprising in the next de output. I know of instances of ships as is this increase: we must not cade ur so to see # marked increase having to wait several weeks for assume that it means increased pro-in emigration, with a decrease of coal, and at the present moment there duction. While the value of our population here. It is certain that are hundreds of vessels lying idle in exports has increased enormously, we cannot continue indefinitely to our ports, waiting, either for bunkers the weight of goods exported has not import food and do less and less increased to the same extent, and is work to pay for it by exports. It still very far short of pre-war figures. a serious diminution of the popula For example, for the first six months on here occurs for these reasons of 1920 our exports of manufactured where then will some biz schemes be fron and steel were 850,000 fons less with their crushing costs?

or coal cargoes.

:

THE BASIS OF PROSPERITY:-

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The effect of this reduced output of coal is so far reaching that it in impossible to say what may not be attributed to it. As a result of so many ships lying idle, working costs than for the corresponding period of It is, of course, natural that the are enormously increased; further 1913, although the 1920 figues municipal engineers and others con- more, the very small amount of coal represented an increase in value of cersed in the development of im that is available for export means £29,000,000.

portant cities should be anxious to : that a great many vessels have to From the shipping point of view carry out improvement schemes of sail in ballast, the effect of which is the quantity of goods to be exported somewhat far-reaching character, that the homeward cargo has to bear is the most important feature in but if their minds were turned to the double expenses of the outward fact, our future prosperity as a nation decentralisation some of the costly and homeward voyages, all of which is largely bound up with the question improvements might be saved. It tends to keep prices higher than they of production: and the establishment has been proposed that in anch need be,

As a result of the reduced output relationships between employer and continued under the expert guidance of sound and mutually considerate schemes the smaller bodies should be of coal in the United Kingdom amplored is essential N see the phenomenon of coal being

of leading engineer so that the carried from Australia to Scandinavia, be tolerated any more than would municipal engineers would still find Trade union syranny should not undoubted skill of our principal and could give many other intra capitalistic tyranny Production is ample employment, and if their tions at things we would have re the keynote of the situation. The energy were directed in this manner karded as absurd a few years ago. more we produce the greater the the greater good might result. We If the coal experts were normal prosperity of the nation, and the should still want arterial roads, but our expert trade would at present greater our prosperity the more work only to reduced degree would it be prices be increased by £200,000,000 there will be for all Journal of Mary to provide for the concen per annum. If the miners could appre Commerce)

tration of traffic

Mrs. BLAIR.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOCATIONTM

LL. ELKUTRIC TRAIN Faas Entrance, Efectele Lifts, Faze and Lighting A Baropean Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water Byred

throughout. Best of Food and Service

Telephone 373. Talegraphio Address'>===! VIOTORLs."

J. WITCHNAL, Hamagu.

CARLTON HOTEL

(PEL OEST AREIGAY BONKS EN TEN COLONT.). 10% HOUSE. STRKET.

Under: American. Management. Mics and quiet yet only a few mincien walk from the Banks and Central District 43 Bedrooms, Eraslank Culelse, scrupulously clean. Moderate Terms Monthly and Faully Baics on sypfication to the Proprieta Lachen woest Fraenger Bosta.

'Talegraphia Address *CARLTON"

Mrs. F. E. CAMHBOR,

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON.

(Two minutes from Star Ferry).

Recently renovated and rafurnished, siecizie Hight and fans throughous and entirely under new management. Cuisine under the personal zaparrizios of the proprietor, Bar and Biliard Booms. Tais moderate. Special Bazma Se families or application to

- Talaphona K. 3. Telegraphio Add. : “PALLOK"

J. HL OXBEREY, Propulitor.

HOTEL “ASIA”

WEST BUND, CANTON.

Suite & with private Baths.

•Hairdressing Saloon, etc. Moderate Rates.

Rooms Roof Garden,

Excellent Cuisine.

Leading Hotel in South China.

Special attention given Under the Foreign Supervision

Tourists,

THOS. G. HUTCHINGS.

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