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LAMMERT BROS.

AUDRONEERS AFPRAISERS

·AND · SURVEYORS,

Public Auctions-

FOR SALE.

INTIMATIONS

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO

BE WITHOUT THEM.

JUST received a large Consignment of T LACTOGEN the most digestive food for Infants which keeps good in quality daring Hot weather (2) LAC POSE (MTk Segar) for sweetening

the Loss of fafant and Dyspeptics (3) NE HORNSBY-ACKROYD OILMILFORD GRATH FLUID INSEC ENGINE 33 Horse Tower, Fuel:TICIDE the Best Fraid for destroying Kercsene. Complete with excling appar Flesa, Mosquitoes, Bugs. Ties and all tus in good conditica. Nar he viewed by other Insect Pesta in Summer days, and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GÜLDEN appointment at Gun Club Hill Barracks,

FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA Kowloon App's to the undersigned.

SOAPS for keeping everything clean in LAMMERT BROS.

Houses

ONE

FOR SALE

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply to

LAMMERT BROS..

Daddell Street.

INTIMATIONS.

Glover's

Dog Remedies

Leam the Cure and Prevention of the diseases of your dogs

Book of Dey Diseases and How to Feed"

Se free as regatat,

HL Clay Glover Ca, taa.

Inc 31 St.

New York, U.S. A Agents: KULIT & PHIPPS

CĂrn) Ls) bing th

MUMEY A.

Japanese Photographers. We have removed our Premises to No. 3, Queen's Road, C Sitting hours from 3.m. to 9 pm Passport photos finished

in ose Luis.

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

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Sole AgentMariñangtons and Sonia Citua

Non 17 8:43, Conusoghi Boa¶Central, Hongkong. Telephone No. 1952

理代泰电

The demand is for

GOOD STAMPS

in good condition.

We have the supply.

Our Stock of all Countries is strong, and not to see the selection of our Semps is to miss a large pick of the Stamp Barket.

GRACA & CO.,

in Dealers Postage Stamps, Philatelic Goods, Religious Bocks, Garden Sende, Toys, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street;

Bong Long

r. O. Box 620. #

JAPANESE HAŽERS,

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

THE CHINA MAIL.

MEDIUM STRENGTHE

"CAPSTAL

Navy Cut Ggarettes

HO WILLS.

10 CIGARETTES &MOUTHPIECES.

EVERY

VIRGINIA

CAPSTA

Cul Cigarettes WD.&HOW

üsed in the manufacture of

LEAF

CAPSTAN

SOLD

CIGARETTES

is selected and blended

by specialists, skilled

in

the art "of their

Profession

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1921.

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD. WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel MansioKLIK,

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,

TRASE

ZINC

“Cacheme is the meterski

a Zizie beau inzultatke dine hating up of ivilsettes than poligonce in the men we

Purity Percentages

99.99375**-

-50%

The high standard of purity maintained in the products of the Zine Producers of Australia always justifies the confidence users put in it. Australian Zinc acts and re-acts with certainty.

The Association is prepared to supply the following

Electrolytic Zing

Brand

Containing ahent 99.95 % Metalic Zine

(99.9 % STATEStred

Spelter HAS Brand

Containing about R75 % Metallic Zinc

High-Grade Zine Dust Conmining about 90 % Samak Tinc

Zinc Concentrates Varion Grade

The Sole Selling Organiston for die above Hestraðan prediebamr in

Zinc Producers' Association Proprietary Ltd. Colles Bouse, 260 Collins' Street, Melbourne, Australia

lendea Ledrea-Paners Belt

Awan Friars, Tandon, LC 2

Cadie Merces-gəciam ketikerne

Prysheak, edom

MASSAGE.

Mr. HONDA and Mrs. HONDA

14 years' experience.

No. 24. Wyndham Street. (Opposite to the Chins Mal)

› PALACE MOTOR Co., Ltd.

Phone Central

644

Western Branch 3749 Koloon Branch 397.

New Cars For Hire & For Sale. Private Cars garged.

Lepairing Cars a Speciality.

Just arrived,

quantities

of

large

White

Glazed Tiles, also Cast

Tron Porcelain Lined.

*

Baths and the last word

in bidets.

C.E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

No. 30 & 31 Des Yeux Road Central.

Established 1900

Telephone 370.

OKERRY & CO.,

PEDDER STREET, Opposite Hongkong Ecte! Telephone No. 49

Hongkong, March 20, 1914,

TANG YUK, DESTIST.

* 1000MAJAP

108 jave zlzN TING,

İs, D'AGER STRIPS

TERMS VERY MUDERATE

Dokzalts mon tree

THE. KÊW FRENCH KEVEQY.

THERAPION NI THERAPIONNI.2 THERAPION N3

Fo. 1 fur Malone Coturv

DELEGATE Ĝe, inavuk CDR BARANG NOASTRERAT C

ABAEI BAAR

PLSENER BE

ERAND PRI

ASAHE

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.

Uur processes are thorough and eliable. Our facilities and re sources enable us to carry out all. work quickly and nor charges ars nally reasonable.

Write for Price List sad See!

The Diamond Dyeing and

Drycleaning Co.

Agrat

UASSUM AHMED.

General Dr-periketaren

* & 14, Wellington Street. Branch 28, Nathan Boad, Kowloon,

*Phone 1482.

AGER

SPECIALE

ASAHI

COM

BEER

MITQUI - BUSSIN KAIBEL..

BY

ALL TOBACCONISTS.

This Advertisement is jammed' by Eritish American Tobacco Co. (China) Ltd.

MINISTRY OF SHIPPING,

THE CHARGES OF WASTE.

COL. LESLIE WILSON'S REPLY.

A NOVEL CAMERA.

nation on their national shipbuilding programme. We built ships as a nation-merchant ships were neces- SUBMARINE PHOTOGRAPHY. sary at any price during the war. We paid high prices per ton abroad and at home; we built in practically every shipyard in the United King dom, and in stany yards in the United

DESIGNED IN ENGLAND.

In the course, of a letter to his States, Japan, China and Canada. unique photographic apparatus, hav Engineers will be interested in a constituents, Col. Leslie Wilson MP. When the armistice came we ing been designed primarily for uses (Parliamentary Secretary to the Min-mediately started to sell, with the in the flooded French coal mines at istry of Shipping), spiritedly replies consequence that we got out of our Lens in order to detect damage to to allegations of

waste. In the liabilities in respect of about 840 walls, etc. The apparatus weighs course of his letter Col. Leslie Wilson ships on order or owned by the about 154 cwt, and consists of three says I will give some facts and Government at a clear profit of three main gun metal castings, bolted figures as regards this so-called un-

million pounds. necessary and wasteful Ministry, facts and figures which are little known, but which I trust will remove some of the misapprehension now existing.

"From the date of its formation

PROFITS ON PRIZE SHIPS.

I could go on to write about other profits made by the Ministry for instance, ou running commercially the prizes and detained ships-a 23 millon profit on 12 months' running in November of 1916 to the present I could also, and would not be asham day (the Ministry will he wounded, to talk about the losses, incurred. up before March 31. 1921), the That was inevitable when undertak administration has not cost, the ings were put in band for war pur The buge poses only, and had to be liquidated taxpayer one penny. responsibilities. some of which are

when peace came, but the profits, as shown in a White Paper recently I have shown, far outweigh any losses. isued under my signature (Cod.

Why, I am asked, is the Ministry 1055), a copy of which I attach, still is existence? I can only answer have involved a gross expenditure in a word that if anyone knows any

of

of about £75,000,000, and thing about shipowning and ship- this sum £650,000,000

together.

The upper and lower castings are each formed with four watertight chambers each of which contains a mercury vapour lamp giving 3,000 altogether. The middle casting i candle-power-24,000 candle-power formed with four chambers, which contain the lamp resistances, and with four smaller chambers which contains the cameras. A cable june- on box is fitted on top of the upper chamber also for lifting eyes,

The lamps are of the quartz or

AH MEN AND HING CHEONG

TAILORS

DRAPERS AND OUTFITTERS

..have REMOVED to

No. 54, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

PHOTO SUFFLATS,

LONG HING & CO., dad Kodak Films, di. de

DEVELOFING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 17, QUIY's Raid CxIAL HONGKONG.

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO.,

OPERATING ——

THE HONGKONG HOTEL,

HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

AND THE

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

LTD.

J. H. TAGGART,

THE PEAK HOTEL.

silica type of mercury vapour, having 1,500 Feet above Sea Level a burner consisting of a quartz

vessel with an overall length of about

9 inches, and operating in parallel

has been building and expects a huge organisa on a direct current supply of 200

or will be recovered from Allied tion such as was built up during the volts at a current consumption of 34

or Colonial Governments, ship war, with its immense responsibilities

VOLUNTARY SERVICE. -

owners, private individuals &c. There extending all over the world, an amperes. The candle power of each Lamps3,000 and the efficiency is, there remains a balance of £100,000,000, organisation which has controlled

fore, in the neighbourhood of watt per against which can be set the expen and managed about three-quarters of diture incurred in transporting all the world's shipping afloat, to be candle power. The light from these lamps is extremely actinic, and photo the troops, ammunition and stores liquidated in a few months, they

graphing effect is equal to that of to all the theatres of war and back know that is impossible. There are other lamps using a very much again between the 1st April, 1917. only two alternatives. If you dismiss.

higher current.. and the 31st March, 1919, before everyone at the Ministry-one to re-

The lamps have been made as. and after which dates the, cost of the pudiate your liabilities, the other to simple as possible so as to avoid all services was recovered from the pay all claims made against the departments concerned. It is im- British Government, claims which being effected by means of special unnecessary complications, the titling possible to state the exact monetary are coming in to-day at the rate of levers, "actrated-by-rods on the out value of these services, but 3,000 a week. The first is diahon side of the box, the rods passing there is no doubt whatever that ourable, the second financial madness, through suitable stuffing boxes which the cost of these services "It must be remembered that fully accounts for this difference. repudiation of liabilities would also are also being provided to take

the lamp leads. Consequently the cost of the Mipis involve the impossibility of collecting The cameras are of special box try of Shipping to the country has sums due to the Ministry. The Min- been mil. Is this wasteful? If any istry is collecting this year twice the type, fitted with behind lens shutter, which is electrically controlled; a one will read this with an une amount of the war habilities it is very wide angle lens is employed. judiced eye and will remember we meeting.

This interesting apparatus, has been are an island nation and that every

designed and manufactured by man leaving these shares to fight,

"I have only one, more sentence. every ton of shell for use in battle, Personally, I do not mind what Messrs. Siebe, Gorman and Com pany, Limited, of Westminster every pound of food for our men attacks are made on me. Bridge road, London, a firm of wide active service, wherever that active public men, and there to be attacked service was, had to go by sea, I do mind, however, for those with experience in all types of submarine cannot but believe he will answer whom I am associated. Since the with an emphatic negative,

formation of the Ministry in Novem ber, 1916, with the exception of the Controller, heads" of ship manage "In addition to this it must be permanent civil servants, whose work ment, commercial, ship sales, home remembered that the freight on all I cannot praise too highly, there is trade, ship-repair, and other branches, food brought to this country was no head of a department in the Min have voluntarily given their services, arranged on a cost basis, and until istry who has been willing to receive and, with many others under them freight rates approximated, to .com. mercial rates this Ministry carried all any remuneration for his invaluable in their departments, are still doing It is a poor reward for public essential commodities on this cost services. The services of all, Shipping

spirited men who act thus, and with- hesis, and was responsible for pro-

out whose life-long experience the results I have mentioned could never ed for use by the people of this THE pleasant purgative effect, expert have been attained that, instead of enced after taking Chamberlain's the gratitude which they have so country..

Tablets and the healthy condition of More than that. Other countries body and mind to which they court deservedly earned at the hands of the buit ships; in some cases the base makes one feel that living is community, they should be accused countries still own them, and in worth while. For sale by all Chemists of carrying on a "wasteful and un-

necessary Ministry." some there is an appalling loss to the and Storekeepers,

FOOD FREIGHTS.

viding the ships for the transport of THEY MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD, all the food which had to be import.

work.

16 Minutes from Landing Stage, Under the Management of—

Mrs. BLAIR.

(Two minutes from

Star Ferry). PALACE HOTEL SOLOON

Recently renovated and refurnliked, electris light and fame throughout and entirely under new management. Ouisina under the personal angstrix.on of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Rooms Tarms moderate. Special tema so familiar on application to

Telephons K. 3. Telegraphie Add: "PALADE"

HOTEL

J. H. OIKERRY; Propulsbuz.

ASIA"

WEST BUND, CANTON.

Booms

with Suite & en *Garden, Roof

Hairdressing

Excellent Cuisine.

private

Saloon,

Baths etc.

Moderate Rates.

Leading Hotel in South China.

..to" Tourists.

given - attention Special Under the Foreign Supervision of,

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOCATION- *LZ.PLAGOTRIO TRAME Pass Yakranes, Kino- Irie Idite Faza and Ligging. Karamat Actor and Manitary Fischgs, Het nad Orli Water Mystere throughout. “Ben M /Tad int Hurrice. Telephone sia. Telegraphie Address VICTORA 3. VITORLAR,, Manager.

THOS, G. HUTCHINGS.

FRENCH LESSONS

G. NOUSSION.

15, Merrisam” MIA Zana"