1921-04-11 — Page 2

LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, AFFRAINERS

AND SURVEYORS

-Public Auctions-

IHI Undersigned have received instrue

tions to sell by Public Austloo,

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-MONDAW, April 11, 1921, commencing at 11am,

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at Holt's Wharf, Kowloon

1000GT or PER CONCERNED),

1978 bundles C. A. Black Sheets

6 x 3' x threes

'6" x 3' x faurs

6 x 3' x fires

6' x 3' x sixes

On view now.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, April 7, 1931.

FOR SALE

INTIMATIONS

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.

JUST received a large Consignment | of (1) LACTOGEN the nous digestire food for Infants which keepe good in quality during Hot weather (2) LAC TOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (3) MILFORD-YCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying | Fless, Mosquitoes. Bugs, Flies and all other Insect Peste in Sommertiays, and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Houses.

PRICES are Very Moderate, Ins- pection and Enquiries are cordially invited,

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Sale Agents for Hongkong"and Beata China.

Kas 47 à 13. Connetght Band Central, Boogtong- Telephone Nou, 15132

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理代泰肇

NE HORNSBY ACKROYD OIL POSTAGE STAMPS.

ONE

ENGINE-3] Earse Power, Fael,

Kareena. Complete with cooling appara- tus in good condition. May be viewed by sppointment at Gap Club Bill Barracks,

· Köwlaw. Apply to the undersigned.

IAMMERT BROS.

FOR SALETM

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply to

LAMMERT BROS., Daddell Street.

GLOVER'S

DOG REMEDIES

Famous the World Over

Book on "Dog Diseases, their Care and How to Feed."

Mailed free to any addrem -H Clay Glover-Co,Inc.- 113 W. 31st Stre

New York

U.S. A

A MULLEX & FRIFTS (ha) L., Hong Kong

MUMEYA.

Japanese Photographers.

We have removed our Premises to No. 36, Cosen's Road-C

Sitting hours from 9 am to 9 prill Passport photos finished in one hour.

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FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.

CHLINS.

I-In Victoria, with two Bearers. Quarter hoursan.vaiq......

4.

10 cents 20

Salf bour... One hour, de passerstraw 25 Thres hours,

50

Six boars, yo 70 Day (6 am to 6 p.m.). «.....................$1.00

1

If the trip is extended beyond Victoria, half Exro ext

Between the hours of 8.30 pai, and § 4. the above fares shall be increased by 50 per centum.

II-Beyond Victoria, with four Bexseri. -HOCT.

Three bonra.............

Six hours.

0.80 cents.

#1:00

* 1.50

Day (6 am to 6 pm),.................... 2.00

III.—in the Hill District.

With Bearers With 4 BearerS.

Quarter hour,..............$115

Half hour,

0.20

One hour,

0.30

Two hours,...di 0,50

Three hours.

0.70

20.30 0.40 0.80 0.80 .1.00 7.50 2.00

RICTSHIS.

Sir boar... 1.00

Day (6am to 6pm.)1.60

1.-In the Idand of Hongkong, if engaged

In Pictoria

Ten minutes,

Quarter tour,

Half boure

This space is too small to tell you all about our Stamps. That's why we solicit your Cor. respondence for further infor- "wation. It might pay to tell us what Stamps you want to boy or what Stamps you have for sale. Better still if you call at GRACA & CO.

DEALERS IN PHILATELIC GOODS, RELIGIOUS BOOKS, Tors, &c, de),

No. 10, Wyndham Street,

P.0. Bax $20.

Hongkong,

JAPANESE MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY &:00,,

-PEDDER-STREET, Opposite Hongkong Hota) Telephone No. 491

Hongkong, March 30, 1914.

TANG YUK, Dasrier.

Sabor to

the late SIEN TING, '14, D'Aguilar Street.

TERMS VERY MODERATE

CONSULATION FAIZ

THE_REW FRENCH RIMEDY,

THERAPION NG1 THERAPION NĚ.2 THERAPION N13

* Me. For adder UBILETA. ME, Z LAT SIDOS - BEN DERMIN FG 1 202 5 ha. WALKINCANG SOLE STRADraczzattal. PRIČA LÝ THOLAJUSA DELICZKACIONE CACHINEtickKAIN WELAN BAN TALDE KARIER VOLD "SHZRAFION is con

ASAHI BRAR

PILSENER BEEK

GRAND PRYKS

5 cents

One hours Every Subsequent hour. .........20

Note-If the ricksha be ensaged within the City of Victoria, and be dis charged outside the Western part of the City of Victoria after 9p.m., or be die- charged to the Fast of Ray View Police Station on the Eastern side of the City of Victoris after 8pm. an extra half fare shall be chargeable.

II-In Koutoon.

Quarter hour, somas.

Half boar, cezaevasseurinares

Hour, control

5 centa, 16

Every subsequent hour, 10

III-Taipo Road.

Twenty cents shall be added for each extra hose or part of an hour if the hirer nasce the journey to take longer

than t

single... 75 cents....I hour. return.... $1,00...2 hours.

Beyond 4th to 6th unle

zingle ........$1.20

return ... $1.50 Beyond 8th to 9th mile

single

return 21.75 23

Beyond Sth to 11th mile-

single $100.

hours.

return .....$2.50 IN U7 Fares for Journeys beyond the 11th mile to be a matter of previous arranga-

The fares bere set out to apply to one riekaba with three cookies from Teím Sha

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SOLE AGENTS: MITSUI BUSSAN, KAISHA:

THE CHINA MAIL.

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Are

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scientifically blended meeting all requirements of the most critical smoker."

Manufactured by

W. D. & H. 0. WILLS in Bristol, England.

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

ECONOMIC RESOURCES.

SUB-COMMITTEE'S REPORT.

FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GROWING.

·

this department can render invalu Table services in assisting vegetable growers, and thus to make them a valuable asset to the Colony. I believe some years ago Govern- i ment introduced 'crashing machines for sugar-care in the New ¡Territory. This did not find favour with the Chinese farmers whose objection, paradoxical as it may appear, was that the machines crushed too well and so reduced the value of the pulp from

NEW DIVORCE BILL

REMOVING AN ANOMALY.

EQUALITY FOR WOMEN AND MEN.

troduce a Divorce Law Reform Bill,

Lord Gorell will very shortly in- in place of Lard Buckmaster's Bill, which was passed by the Lords eady last year but rejected by the Com fuel point

MODS.

The Bill aims at giving women equality with men in regard to grounds for divorce. It would re- move the anomaly which permits a of adultery alone on the part of his man to obtain divorce on the ground wife, while a woman cannot obtain s divorce unless adultery by her hus band is coupled with cruelty.

age may be annulled on any one of The measure provides that marri-

the following grounds

If it is not consuminated owing to incapacity or wilful refusal

Sir Robert Ho Tung, Chairman of the Economic Resources Sub-Com- mittee on fruit and vegetable growing, presented the following report=-

Quite a number of residents own ing farm lots in the New Territory of view. In view of the high world have been indulging in vegetable prices for cane sugar and especially gardening and fruit growing, some in the districts bordering on the as a hobby and others for recreation. British frontier in the New Territory, 1 offer the suggestion that an adver- sugar cane growing has been greatly tisement might be inserted in the stimulated. Travelling over the rail newspapers and a letter addressed to way line it might be seen that large the Hongkong Horticultural Society tracts of land in Chinese territory inviting all persons who have ex- were recently covered with cane la a periences to relate to write to the healthy stage of growth. There can Committee and report on what has be no doubt that were the farmers been done by way of experiments; in the New Territory to be urged to or, if they prefer, to appear before grow the more remunerative crop in the Committee and state all they addition to sweet potatoes and pea know about the subject. With the nuts, they will eventually reap the larger Chinese farmers, they might benefit of their labour and enterprise, be asked to present themselves before Their enterprise must, however, be the Committee for oral examination, stimulated by Government action and I speak subject to correction, but I that action might take the form of believe English vegetables have been material assistance which would grown successfully in fairly large increase the potential value of land quantities on a large farm in Castle in the New Territories. Peak and marketed in Hongkong. In the opinion of the Chinese it is The products of the farm invariably believed that material assistance. command higher prices than those might be given to the fruit and veget- 300-YEARS-OLD PARDON. Krown in Chinese fashion. Canli-able gardeners if the railway and ferry Hower, cabbage, lettuce, beet, celery, charges for transporting fruit and tomatoes and leek have been known vegetables to the Hongkong market to find a ready sale almost as soon should be reduced. I am not in a as they appear on the stalls. These position to define the incidence of the vegetables are distinguishable from railway tariff and the ferry charges those imported from Canton in that on perishable provisions in relation to they are actually sold in the fruit their marketing cost, but it has been stalls instead of in the vegetable sec-brought to my notice that any

tion of the market

I have known friends within the past two years to grow with con- siderable success, both in Kowloon and Kowloon-tong, excellent varieties of cabbage, celery, silver beet and endive. Silver beet and endive have not yet been grown by the Chinese as commercial products. That they have been successfully grown from imported seeds by amateurs goes to show the possibilities there are of successfully cultivating English vege-

tables in the Colony.

A suggestion I would like to offer is that there be, attached to the Botanical and Forestry Department

duction in the tariff of an appreciable nature would be appreciated by the farmers in the New Territory,

the time of the marriage.

If one of the parties was insane at

Venereal disease in a contagious form at the time of marriage.

MONDAY, APRIL 11, 199

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLÉRS.

Hotel Mangions.

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,

LONG HING & CO., PHOTO SUPFLIES,

Kodaly and Kodak Ping, &i.. DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

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Leading Hotel in South China. Special attention given to Tourists, Under the Foreign Supervision of,

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Under the Bil the death of a hus- band or wife would be presumed after an absence of seven years with Water System throughout Best at Ford and out communication.

GRANTED BY JAMES L

DISCOVERY IN ANCIENT CHEST.

I

I, to a young man named Richard A free pardon, granted by James, Humfrey who killed his father-in 1609, and bearing the second Great Seat of that monarch, has been dis

covered in the bottom of an ancient On the mainland during recent chest. It has now been placed in a years much has been done by making glass case and fixed to the tomb of new roads, etc., to render land ac- the Humfrey family in Rettendon cessible and enable the farmer and Church, Essex. The vellom was market-gardener to market their pro- taken to the British Museum for duce As to the groups of islande translation from the original Latin. lying round Hongkong however, little. The translator told, a Daily Mail if any, attention has been given, with reporter recently that the story. it the consequence that they are sparsely revealed was that the young man populated and practically useless, was preparing to shoot some wild though one of them--Lantao is even fowl when the weapon was acciden larger than Hongkong Itself, and tally discharged and wounded his collectively they represent a con- father who died from the effects siderable ares. To encourage people some months afterwards.

grant leases to suitable applicants at

a special European officer with the to settle on these islands and engage The Humfreys owned, most of the necessary technical knowledge." as in agriculture use the word parish of Rettendon up to well into sisted by two or more Chinese, who agriculture in its widest sense the the eighteenth-century. might be available for the purpose Government should be prepared to of tendering advice free of charge to anyone requiring technical assistance a peppercorn rental, for a period of to the industrious settler anxious to and in the matter of fruit and vege (say) seven years in the first instance develop his holding. To facilitate table growing. To my mind one of in order that opportunity may be the marketing of produce agrical the most economical departments of given to the allotment-holder or tural roads should be cut and piers Government is the Botanical and farmer to recoup-himself, for his should be constructed in the bays Forestry Department. With the initial effort in bringing the land for the use of junks and/or feccies. small-gummal - expenditure allocated under cultivation. In certain special This is merely the rough outthe to this department the various cases where it may be thought ad of a scheme which I offer for dis superintendents, from the time of visable, something in the nature of cussion, leaging it to the other merg my friend Mr. Charles Ford, have financial assistance if the working bers of the Committee to fill in the mide our Island bome "a thing of of an Agricultural Bank is found to details as their experiences may beauty and a joy for ever." Similarly, be too complex might be rendered | angigest.

Berrica Telephoses. Telegraphic AdĀJame :—” VICTORIA'

J. WITCHELL, Mazmeer.

KERMATH

Rough Weather Mirina

Engines

The Kermath is not merely à fair weather engine. It is thoroughly dependable in the serment wasdber. The Zermath has always bout standardized in every part. This szaken Átting spare pucha way t belags son, matausally - acumom.exi and reliable servÍCH.

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dainty lace or heavy clothes they always come back looking,

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CASSUM AHMED.

General Draper. && Wellington Street. Branch 28, Nathan Road, Kow

Phone 1462.

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