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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, ÅFPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,

-Public Auctions-

FEVER Undersigned have received Instrto- blem to ml by Public Auction,

On

SATURDAY, April 23, 1931,

commencing at 11 am. Na. 28 Godown of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon."

.. 187 colla Steel Hoops Terms ---Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS..

Auctioneers.

flagkong April 20, 1921.

THE WLIER SUPPLY.

Laval and Storage of waine in reservoirs en the 1st Apr, 1921—

GISK AND KRAL DIETRIOT WATER WOLNI

་

LEVEL

Syft. i. Below,

Armu. Byewash 24 in.

5 in. Below overdew

taf. Din Below ovacions

1. Brow overtre

Bytom Issumediste 18 fu

In BOY DYSTRI 3 in Below Triaw

Fold ESITLow *** (1925, wis. Retow overdow social change 44

Gie Bolaw oven Below overtor

Balow oncfow

STERLOS E ELLING AND UNIMALA OF GALLOW

ASK

Tying. Byrek Tyson termočlate. ...

27.33

1.

536 25

11.0 90,00

Isk

LAT94

Consumption of water in the City

and Hill District la millicas and decimale

of gallons during the month of March.

popolazion 508,100

さ

The Ka

2:00

Commuption per bolj ma 20

per day

Constant supply to all districts during Alasch of both 1920 and 1921.

HOWLOON WATER WORKS LITM.

Liseloon Querita | 16 Nu 11.

San · Reserved... } Polow ceadow, telas overem,

·STORAGE UN MILLIONS AND DICCIALS OF MALLOYS.

Cowton Gratation

Mapeproče me

>

2674

SLEE

Commation of water in Kowloon in millions and decimals of guilons during the month of March.

Consumpties

timated popriations.

1527

TREBA 1,50

13.2

Lions

Consumption per d 145

The Government Analyst's reporte shew that the water is of excellent quality.

Public Works Department

T. E PEREYN8;

Weter Authority.

FARES FOR PUBLIC

VEHICLES.

CHAIRS.

i.-In Victoria, with two Bearers.

Quarter boar..............

One hour, wor

Three hours,

Six hours, **k and

Day. (5 am to 6 pm),

10 cents

90

50

70

11

$1.00

If the trip is extended beyond Victoria, half fare extra.

INTIMATIONS

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT ̃`THEM,

JUST received a large Consignment † of (1) LACTOGEN the post digestive food for Infants which keeps ad in quality during Hot weather. (2) LAC TOSE (Mill Sugar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyapertica (3) MILFORD MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Faid for destroying Fless, Mosquitoes, Bags, Flice and all other Insect Pests in Summer days, and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA: SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Fonse

Between the hours of 8.30 p.m. and 6 am the above fares shall be increased by 53 per centum.

Il-Beyond Victoria, with four Beaters.

Four,

Three boar,

Six boark, .........

0,60 cents.

$1.00

1.80

Day (8 am to

2.00

III-In the Hill District.

With 1 Bearers With 4 Bearers.

Quarter hour.......$0.15

$0.30

Hall bouts. ... 0.90

0.40

Que hour, açan 0.30

0.60

Two Hours, ääneen 0.50

0.80

Three hours, 0.70

.1.00

Six hours, 1.90

1.50

Day (6 am to 6p.m.)1.50

2.00

RICKSHAS.

4.- In the liland of Hongkong, if engaged

in Victoria.

Ten minutes,

Quarter hour,

Half bour, One hour,

Bvery Subsequent hour,...

PRICES are Very Hoderate. Los- pection and Eaquiries are cordially invited

SHIU FUNG TAI & 00.,

Boli Apan for Beagkomziani Senta Chian 701, 67 & 63, Cannaaght Road. Centesi, Hongkang Telephone No. Uk

POSTAGE STAMPS.

This space is too small to tell

all about our Stamp you That's why we solicit your Cor respondence for further infor mation. It might pry to tell us what Stamps you want to buy. or what Stamps you have for sale. Better still if you call at

GRACA & 00,

DEALERS IN PRILATELIC GOCES, RECKIOUS BOOKa, Tara, de, de,

No. 10, Wyndham Street,

P. O. Box 620.

Hongkong,

JAPANESE MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00.

PADDER STREET. Opposite Hongkong Hotel

Telephone No. 491,

Hongkong. Much 30, 1914.

TANG YUK, DESTIE."

Sacrament

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

TERMS VERY MODERATE. CONSULATION Far

AUTHOR NEW FRENCH REMEDY.

THERAPION Nď 1 THERAPION NĚ. 2 THERAPION N0.3

„Mai 1 die kudder Dutieră. “We. 3 Der Named &

SOLD BY LAAJSNA CHEMISTS, PELČE IR ENGLAND.20 DE LECZEREMOS Coultzwestock LE„M WILKOWden HEYRADE MAFER, WOKU "THARAPKAN VE DE KATE H079-TEAMS INFIRES JA SEADISE PVCZÉTÉ

ASAHI BREK

PUSENER BEEK

GRAND PRIZE.

É cents

11

Note-If the rieksha be engaged within the City of Victoris, and be dis charged outside the Western part of the City of Victoris after 8 pm or be dis charged to the East of Bay View Police Station on the Eastern side of the City of Victoris after 9 p.m., an extra kaff fare shall be chargeeble.

II-Is Kowloon.

Quarter hours... 3 Cebu,

Hour, mine 20, 11 Every subséquent hour, et 10`in

III Tap Bar

Twenty cents shall be added

for each embes, bone, or pat of so how if the hirer causes

the journey to take longer. than -

single. 75 cm. 1 hour. "return..... BL002 hours.

Beyond 4th to 8th mile

single: $120..

Ferond 6th to 9th mile si single SANT

retarz $8.00

Beyond Stir to 11th mile

ingle 200

Farm for journeys beyond the 11th

aula to be a matter of previous seIRDĒS, ment in each camy z

The fares bernast out to apply to one rickaha with three coöljer frosn Tsim Sha

WIPPON

NEWERY.COM

SAHE

BEER

COMP

BUSSEN · KAISHI.

THE CHINA MAIL.

SHIPPING SLUMP.

REASONS EXPLAINED.

past few months dur cont industry has undergone a complete transformation. The big fall in ouipos, the consequent increase in price, and the reduced mount' available for export, has com pelled our usual customers to look MÁNY CAUSES AND THEK KEMEDIES. elsewhere, where they would get more coal, and get it cheaper. Nearly ali

CLIFF MYSTERY.

THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1921

NOTICES.

THO MOTHERS DISPUTE. G. FALCONER & CO., LTD,

REMARKABLE FRENCH CASE.

Sir James German, K.B.E., Prir-last year America, was sending large

A remarkable case in the annals cipal of the well-known Cardif firm also to some of our colonies Natur- of French crime investigation is oc- quantities to European countries and

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansions.

of Messrs. James German and Coally it was not going in British ships cupying the attention of the Brest agents for :—ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

police rathorities. The problem con-| fronting them is to find proof that a widow named Niqnet," who has been under arrest since August, was re-

chartering agents, coal factors, ship-Then came the September coal strike. owners, ship and insurance brokers. That lost us a great deal more trade writes in the Journal of Commerce The increased output the miners gave Most men engaged in the shipping us in December we ought to have had industry remember straps, more or lɛ year ago, and then very much of less serious, in the course of their the trouble we are now experiencing sponsible for the death of her six- commercial career, but probably not would, without doubt, have been for halls century have conditions been avoided.

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., Rodal and Kodak Flag, B. Hot

year-old son, and, if the necessary! Levidence is forthcoming to secure 2, hamain

conviction, to determine the move which led her to commit the crime. It is a strange story, nor without com- plications, for it is a case of two mothers clanning the body of a boy| washed up by the sea, the exhumation of the body after three years, and the confrontation of the two mothers inį the cemetery.

quite so bad as they are to-day. There But shipping prosperity does not de- is hardly any demand for tonnage:pend entirely upon the miners. Next freights offered are so small that own- to them, and to the men who actually. ers are laying up vessels rather than go to sea, the dockers." So much has run them at a loss; and many theo-been written of late concerning delays sands of men engaged in the sealar-at ports and on quaysides that there ing life, or at docks and quaysides, or seems hardly, anything more to be in other branches of the shipping in said, but the matter is extremely in dustry, are now idle. The crisis is, portant just now. When made union very real one, and a very great one, officials admit that there is room for The story opens on April 29, 1918. There are many causes, chiel of improvement in the bandling of car-On that date a woman entered the which, undoubtedly, is the world-wide goes and boats, surely nobody will Mairie of Cocquet in tears. She was economic dislocation that has resulted deny that conditions are by no means the widow Niquet. She made the from the war. After the first flush of what they should be. Since the-war statement that on the previous day her! activity that followed upon the armis-ended these delays have become a litle boy was playing with a goat on tice we are now realising the impos- very serious matter, indeed, because the cliff, when the animal forced him' sibility of carrying on trade success the holding up of boats and cargoes fully with more than half the poprite necessarily increases the cost of the tion of Europe in a state of economic goods the vessels carry. To everyone collapse, unable to carry on business in the business it is obvious that this as they did with us in the past. That increase is the cost of British car part of the problem is the concern of riage has gravely interfered with the the Governments of the various coun-sale of British goods, with their com tries. All restrictions on trade should) veyance in British ships, and has made be removed, and I ale suggest that a considerable addition to the cost of the League of Nations ould take the the people's food and clothing- necessary steps to establish credits in These, I think, briefly stated, are order that the vanquished countries some of the cases of our present may purchase materials from the pro-shipping crisis. ducing countries, so that they may again set their industries going. For Lit is clear to everybody who thinks that the shipping industry can prosper only when the trade of the world the par- chase and sale of goods which ships carry) also prospers.

But there are certain aspects of this trade depression and the slump in shipping which call for special con- sideration. For more than a year after the end of hostilities we appeared to be on the highway to prosperity. Is there not, some reason for its cot lapec, other than the economic poverty of our late enemies?

WHY MR. MAXWELL- SHUNNED HIS FRIENDS

*My persine were so shattered" relates Mr. B 3. Harwell of No. 17 West 4th Street, Oklahoma City, 17.8.A.."that I breame very sensitive of my affliction and withdrew entirely from acquaia tances. I felt ill at ease incomossy for I had shaky spells and sometimes be ene so dizzy that I had to sit down until the attack passed away. I didn't have any ambition and could not sleep. My appeite was variable and food didn't seem to build me up.

*I read of Dr. Williams' pink pills 1 think there is. Take coal. Now and began the treatment. In a few coal is the vital and essential sister | weeks I could see that my nerves were industry of shipping. Coat not only becoming stronger. With this encour

agement i køpt up the trestment nutil supplies the power to run ships, but I regained my strength. I sleep nor tous, a great coal-exporting nation.mally now, feel refreshed in the morning ir also supplies a very great propor- and have a good appetite. I no longer tion of our cargoes. But during the have nervous or dizzy spells and can mingia with my friends without ember, Tants of can't speak too highly of Dr. Willistos' pink pills as a tonic for they certainly helped me THE FRUIT SEASON.

Dr. Williams pink pills for pale OWEL complaint is sure to be prera-people are sold by your own druggist or lent during the fruit season Bo will be sent direct by mail, post-paid sure to keep a bottle of Chamberlain's on receipt of price, $150 per bottle, & Colic and Diarrhea Remedy at hind; bottles for 18 Write to the Dr. It may save a lie. For sale by all Williams' Medicine Co., 16 Grechnen Chemists and Storekeepers.

Bond, Shanghai, for free nerve book.

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over the top into the sex, About three weeks later the widow learned that the body of a boy had been found on the strand at Pospoder and was buried. She buited an"order for the exhumation of the body, which she identified as her bay by his cloth-!! ing. The incident was forgonen, but in August last it was revived by a curious happening. Another son of the widow, a boy of 12, was boarded with Madame Stephan, of Brest

On putting the boy to bed one, evening she observed that his body was cover-j ed with bruises. He wept on being! questioned, and narrated bow, that, morning, his mother had taken him to Conques, made hun drink a con- siderable quantity of white wine, and, leading him to the cliff, pushed him over. He rolled from rock to rock, and was finally caught in a bush of broom, but was able to ascend the cH 1,500 Feet above Sea Level

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returned 10 Brest without seeing

his mother sgain.

She

`After inquiring into this story, the Bress police had the woman arrested, and charged her with the murder of her younger son and with the attempt- ed murder of the elder boy. showed no emotion, but talmly denied the charges. Beyond a confrontation of mother and son on the cliff where the crimes are supposed to have been committed, the inquiry had not ad- vanced-Now a woman of Stint Brieuc has come forward with the claim that the dead body washed up at Porspoder three years ago is that of her son, who was a cabin bay on board an English vessel which had been wrecked. The police authorities have decided that the two mothers shall attend at the Porspoder cemetery, where the body will be disinterred for the second time.

A Life of Agony

Backache Positively Cured

After 10 Years.

;

Rheumatism and backache are two of Now, if you purgi the kidneys ufff could only bend with great dificulty." the most common and troublesome you would the bowels, they will we hardly (over frost fròm - the complaints in this country, to-day. Thousands of people find work. & torgan their healthy, active condition, wearing, dragging pain. I tried all tere, action of any kind A. wegrimest, kad so rid the system of uric acid scrie of advertised remedise, without [xpoñem, unt) 19 months ago I was and bad weather continous dread. There is only one kidney, remedy given a sample bar of De Witt's because of the rheumatic pains they which does Unis and prove it-De Kidney, and Bladder Pilla, and was are subject to, or the tiring backache

pain they are never wholly free from

It is foolish to think that you can- not remove rhagmatism from your system. It in

dangerous to neglect backache pains ve the other symptoms that mean disordered kidneys, head. Aches, nervous debility, bad breath, gooly or dropsien) swellings, constipa- tion, bladder woskness; or discomfort, If your kidoays are out of order they are not properly performing their work, of keeping the blood free fres poisociima uric acid, which is made every day by the "waste impurities of the system. This mean that the poison is retained in your blood. Utic acid, tulces: the form of tŵny: sharp. crystals; and, is quite my to imagine how these cause terrible pain if allowed to accumulate..

astonished at the relief they gave ma

I bought some mora and conlítzued the treatment, and after a short time I found. I was" abapiately fres of my complaint.

J

This statement was made in 1914. [In. 1919, fira yakis later, Mr. Goodal

Am now, wrer 60 years of age, and in very good haslif-thanks to De Witt's Kidney and Bladder Filia! [Uálways kuty. Nem in hand, and si- junya recommend them" is being the best thing I know of for kidner troubles

De Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pilla en by going straight to the kidneys and hander, Wi 34 hears bey. sra gmranteed to reheve the pain, and blus tings in the true QERA, DE you, that the healing ingredients have ped right through the kidneys and bladder. This blue colour is their dis tinguishing mark. A perfectly. mfa and natural remedy, they never fail to give relief and hardly ever fail^ to enre permanently,

“In a recent test, out of a hundred [bad cases of kidney and bladder trouble, ninety-savani-cz, them werk positively cured by DeWitt's Kidory an Bladder Pill. Of the other three Although ruch bad cases, two got so.

Of eff (stabborn disanasi, Kidney trouble. In any form is ope of the most dimcult to overomme. In many respects it a like Consumption.

Consumption is corable, if you can gut at the germa,tha vatise of diseaME, but the germs of Conrumpidonare so placed in the funga, se 10-praywat medicines touching them. That li why it is almost-impossible to cure Consumption with medicine. 190 21 Kidney trouble is like Consumption- it is so diffcnit to the germs "in the WERE or diseased spot. When you witt's Kidney, and Bladder Pilla. The remaining-ons was a faizra take ordinary Kidney or-Backache Read what others any. about them the disease bad gone too far. Fills or Mixtores, the drugs that G. T. Gondal, of Hampton Lane, De Witt's Kidsay & Bladder Fills they contain are very often is Berne Bay, says for kidney trouble, because they

[have cored many well-nigh hopeless. never go near the kidneys, they "For over ten yaks I offered curely proves to you that every part cases. Thaib te- oloured urina pos- simply go into the stomach, shakinuously with kidney trumble, the of De Witt's Pals has gone straight ta into the bowels and sway, pain in my back being so severe that the kidsert, as no wiber pillada,

Mr. G. 1, GOODALL, Üram Phot>much benefit that they't ought they

were estad, but were not positive,

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