1921-02-16 — Page 2

Page

LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, AFPRAISEKS AND SURVETORS

-Public Auctions-

Hons to sell by Public Auction.

Ko

...

INTIMATIONS"

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.

JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive food for Infants which keeps good in

the

quality during Hot weather LAC Tu Undersigned bavo recaired lustro TOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetening

foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (3) MILFORD MCGRATH FLUID INSEC 192TICIDE the Best Flaid for destroying Flesa, losquitoes, hugs, Flies and all ather Insect Pesta in Summer days, and JOHN CAHILL'S GULDEN (4) FLEECE MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Foases.

THURSDAY, February 17,

commoncing at Il am

at No. 10 Galown of the Hongkong

Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd. Kowloon.

है।

-DOX ACCOUNT. OF THE OSNCHERID) 150 Bales 43 x 23 Heavy Coos Green Stripe Canales. 2) lbs. ferma :--Cseh on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,.

Auctions

ob

SATURDAY, February 19, 1921. commencing at it m

at their Sales Rooms, Duddall Street,

10 esses Coloured Woollen Yarn-3

ply Rose Wheeling,

4 cases Worsted Border Veucsians,

I case Suiting",

I case Black Becades,

-6 Suit lengths.

2 cases Toilet Sonp...

"14 Steel Trucks,

188 Galvanized Oral Boha, sizes rang-

ing from 1 to 301

& Garden Forks.

Ter-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT EROS,

Auctioneers.

t

-Hongkong, February 15, 1921.

tu

TUESDAY, February 22, 1921, commencing at 245 p.m.

at No & Aimo Villas, Kimberly Pearl, Kowloon,

A Quantity of

Wainable Household Furniture,

(Particulars from Catalogue).

Trama-Cash on delivery

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneere,

Hongkong, February 14, 1921.

FOR SALE.

NE HORNSBY-ACKROYD OIL

ONE FORD of Horse Power, Fuel, Kerosene. Complete with cooling appara- tas in good condition. May be viewed by appointment at Gun Club Hill Barracks, Kowloon. Apply to the undersigned.

LAMMERT BROS.

FOR SALE

મ

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply to

LAMMERT BROS.,

Daddell Street.

Just arrived, Large

quantities of White

J

Glazed Tiles, also Cast

Iron Porcelain Lined

Baths and the last word

in bidets.

C.E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

Vos. 50 & 39 Des Voeux Road Central:

Established 1800

Telephone 370.

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- Borces enable us to carry out all work quickly and yur charges are

lly reasonable.

Write for Price List and feel;

The Diamond Dyeing and

Drycleaning Co.

Agent

CASSUM AHMED. General Dr-per. ; 1&24, Wellington Street Bach 23, Katha Read, Kowloợn.

Shane-1462,

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

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

For 2

Sole Agents for Honghang and Boutà'Chin

Connaught Boat Central, Hongkong

Telephone Joa, 1930,

代泰 肇

The demand is for

GOOD

STAMPS

in good condition.

We have the supply.

Our Steek of all Countries is strong, and. zot to see the selection of our Stamps is to miss a large pick' of the Stamp Market.

GRACA &·00.,

Dealers in Postage Stamps, Philatelic Goods, Religious Books, Garden Seeds, Toys, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street,

Hongkong. *. O. Box 620.

JAPANESE MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO.,

PEDDER STREET, Opposite Rongkong Hotel

Telephone No. 49%

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

TANG YCK, DENTIST..

the ES TING, 14. D'AGLAN STRETT.. TREAS VERY MUUKRATI Consultation free.

THE REW FRENCH ALMZOT.

THERAPION NO. 1 THERAPION NI2 THERAPION N13

MKG. 1 for RUSLANT UKALITA. An 2 far Mud & REPEK, Sfershranic WOLLENTE HOLD SPLEADING NEMISTS PRICE IN ENGLANC

> Ch. Naterniced 245 com SO TASK wine TED · INI,KA is

SANGAT MAINTAINANCING POCESTE

ASAHI BEER

ASAHE

GER

SPECT

COMP

SAHI

BEER

MITSUI BUMAN KAISHL

THE CHINA MAIL."

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16. 1931.

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel MansionUS.

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,

MEDIUM STRENGTH

CAPSTAN

Navy Cut Cigarettes.

LO.WILLS.

10 CIGARETTES &MOUTHPIECES.

EVERY VIRGINIA

MEDIUM

"CAPSTA

Navy Cut Cigarettes WD&H.O.WILES

used in the manufacture of

pl&

LEAF

CAPSTAN

SOLD

BY

CIGARETTES

is selected and blended

by specialists, skilled art of their Profession.

in the

ALL TOBACCONISTS.

This Advertisement is issued by Eritish-American Tobacco Co. (China) Ltd.

OCEAN MEADOWS.

MYSTERIOUS LIFE.

PUZZLES OF THE DEEP SEA.

In time the barnacle became too heavy for its float. When this hap- pens it builds itself a buoy by blow- ing a bubble of skin and filling it "This," he said, with gas sad jelly.

is perhaps the most extraordinary story of life in the open sea, and yet¦ ̈ the floating barnacle is a creature with the poorest of brains.

ON STILES ON THE BOTTOM

OF THE SEA,

"ROOF OUR HARBOURS."

SIR PERCY SCOTT'S JEST.

“:་ ་

WHAT USE IS A BATTLESHIP?

la a letter to The Times Vice Admiral Sir Percy Scott made a new point against the battleship.

He wrote:

NOTICE.

THE SINCERE CO., LTD., beg to

announce that beginning the -11th February, their Business hours will

be revised as follows:-

8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on WEEK DAYS

1 p.m. to 8 pm, on SUNDAYS

AH MEN AND HING CHEONG

TAILORS

DRAPERS AND OUTFITTERS

have REMOVED to

No. 54, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Rodad Kodak Filme, de 4.

DEVELOPING & FRINTING A SPECIALNY.

No. 17A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG.

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

OPERATING:---

Away to the west of Patagonia," said Professor J. Arthur Thompsda, at the Royal Institution, "there is a great sea desert where no birds come

The deep sea was the most my and no ashes are even caught.

terious as well as the most extensive

Will you help me in my ignor- When the bottom of the sea is examin of all the haunts of life. There was ed nothing is found excepting a few plenty of life in the 250 fathoms or ance? I cannot get an answer to sharks' teeth or the occasional so near the surface into which light my question, "What is the use of a earbone of a whale." But very could penetrate. Below this there little of the open sea is like this, were vast lonely wastes of water with battleship? She must be of some and the Professor described it to scarcely any life at all, and beyond use, or the United States and Japan

of young people

this again at depths varying from would not be building battleships." A his audience

of great two and a half to six miles was a lot of naval officers have written to as consisting chiefly sea meadows where young creatures other world swarming with living could live and teed in the easiest things, but entirely different from me, but they only tell me what she possible conditions. He gave as an instance a delicate little animal that any world of which we had any ex- is not useful for; they will not perience. No one had ever seen it, would have no chance of Living on but the long arm of the dredge could answer my question: Is her use a the seashore. It fed and moufted each it and tell us wonderful stories secret that only a few know and will not disclose? Will it be disclosed by and then became a Megalops (he showed a weird picture of the animal of what was going on down there.

He explained that it was very cold the Committee of Imperial Defence, on the screen). Then it-fed and

who are going to settle what the 1,500 moulted again, and this time it began and very dark, very still and very to look like a shorecrab, so it tucked silent, and the pressure of the water weapons of the new Navy are to be? its tail underneath it crab-fashion was at least two and a half tons to and began its long journey up the the square inch, yet all the animals shelf of the shore and left the peace had adapted themselves to life under

these grim conditions. fulness of the open sea for ever.

"Before we spend 109 millions on battleships and another 100 millions

in making safe harbours for them, we ought to know what use they are.

Professor Thomson showed either The sea meadows, he explained.

"1. had just finished this letter extended just about as deep as the pictures or specimens of animais so"

All of the ignorance. I got a letter from an light of the sun could penetrate. quaint that the children laughed more when I got a further show-up of my When there was plenty of light untold and more at each one. millions of infusoria and other drift animals had enormously, long, thin airman who wants to know why I ing microscopic creatures bred and legs, especially the spiders and the am talking about safe barbours for crabs, "The bottom of the "deep battleships! He says such a thing multiplied, and these in their turn

"ses," he said, "is covered everywhere is impossible: a door will not do; were eaten by myriads of Copepods, with slimy ocze, so that they have the harbour must have a roof on it. or water fleas. These tiny-insects were the chief food of the fishes. all to walk on stilts to prevent them

from being smothered.” sca When the light was bad. this soup" was thin, and the fishes had a bad time, as could always be noticed in the mackerel fishery.

་

Have I forgotten the attack made in 1919 by eight aeroplanes carrying torpedoes that flew from Gosport and torpedoed the firet at anchor in Portland Harbour?" He asks.

Three types of life, he said, were absent from these great depths. There were no plants, because plants

"This darker can, of course, be could not form without sunlight; 17 "MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKEN."

there were no microbes, so that got over by roofing in our harbours; Another creature haunting the sea nothing ever decayed or want rotten, it will only cost a few thousand meadows was the stormy petrel, a and there were no real insects. As "millions and will be provided for in creature with a poetic name, the there were no plants it was difficult the new Naval Estimates." Bird St. Peter, or, to give it its other to see how the animals could feed.

pame

Mother Carey's Chicken. On land or on the shore plants could

Carey is a corruption of Cara, so it feed on water and air and salts.

-Another puzzle was "phosphore

should really be the Chicken of the Animals could not do this, and were of stalks. Others had eyes smaller Beloved Mother.It seldom comes dependent for food either on other than pin points. No one knows what near the land," he said, "but prefers animals or on plants. In the deep sea they are used for or why, they are so the tranquility of the open sea, they knew that fishes ate molluses, different. where it pitter-patters across the and molloss ate worms, and worms waves like St. Peter of old. Its ate smaller worms, that sort of scence." Many deep-sea fishes had young are hatched on land, but the thing could not go on for ever. lanterns. It was very unlikely that mother only comes to feed them Something must come from the out they used them to find their way once a day, bringing them at each side. It was now known that this about in the depths, because they meal such a great store of fatty outside supply of food was a con very often wore them in their tails. material from the sermeadows that tinual rain of atomies" infusoria and Ferhaps they used them as a lure the baby petrel is satisfied for 24 broken particles from the sea But then, why had some of them red hours.

meadows far above, all clean, and and green lights? It was all very He described many creatures of unrotting, and, above all, never-fall unsatisfactory. Perhaps it was best

to say We do not know." the open sea and the means they hading.

used for adapting thems ves to their peculiar environment, but said that

FISHES WITH REAR LIGHTS.

There were three great, puzzles

be thought the floating barnacle was which he hoped might be solved

!

The third puzzle was the brilliant colour of many of these creatures that lived in the dark crimson and

the most interesting of Unlike when we had more money-to épare bine and gold. Of what use was it? the barnacles that attach themselves and could send out another Challenger

Are we not apt to be too anzidla,

Thomson ~

cobcluded, to ship and were thus ept within Expedition. The name of the. Gret to find usefulness in everything?" the level of the water meadows, the puzzle was "big eyes." Many of the Professor floating variety attach itself to fishes had enormous eyes-some so "Perhaps their very beauty is suff Hosting particles of feat or wood. large that they wore them at the end cient use.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL,

HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL, AND THE

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

1. H. TAGGART,

MAKAZEK.

THE PEAK HOTEL.

Feet above Sea Level

15 Minutes from Landing Stage, Under the Management of-

Mrs. BLAIR.

(Two minutes from Star Ferry).

PALACE HOTEL ROWLOON

Recently renovated and refurnished, slectric light and fare throughout and antiraly under now management. Cuisine ander the persona" "spartidos of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Boomt Terms moderata Special torma de families on application to

Telephone K. J. Telegraphic Add.: "Palatım”-

J. H. OXBERRY, Fropriater.

HOTEL "ASIA"

WEST BUND, CANTON.

Rooms en Saite & with private Baths. Hairdressing Boof Garden,

Excellent Cuisine.

Special

Saloon, etc.

Moderate Bater

Leading Hotel in South China.

attention

given Under the Foreign Supervision t

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOCATION ALL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pass Extranos, Xiao- Babe Banitary Fittings, Hot and Water Bystem thruoghut Bort of Feed and Bhorerine. Telephone 372 Telegrappie Address :—"YJCTORUL"

5. WIICHELL, Manager.

Tourists.

THOS, G. HUTCHINGS.

FRENCH LESSONS

MOUSSION,

15, Morrison 3th Kosa