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LAMMERT BROS.

AUONIONEERS, ATPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS

-Public Auctions-

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#13 Undersigned have received Instrne tions to sell by Pubile Anction,

сп

MONDAY, May 23, 1921.

conumenzing at 10.30`n.m.

at the Fremises of the China Mining & Smelting Co. Ltd, LOWU,

The Plant of the above mentioned Company, Comprising all the Machiasry,

Tools, Spares, etc.

To bapat up in one Lot. Should the propens be not disposed of in this ananuer, the plant will be sold piecemeal!

Terms: Csab on delivery.

NB Interding purchasers can

travel by the train leaving Kowloon, at

0.15 am, and can return by the train Loving Sam Chuen s: 1140 am

Inspection orders may be bad on Application to the undersigned.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers:

Hongkong, April 27, 1921.

1אט

MONDAY, May 23, 1921.

Commencing at 3 p.m..

at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street.

cases Cocton Plush,

cases Limhrella Cloth,

40 pieces Striped Shirting.!

4 dozen Felt hats.

14 coils Dry Coir Rope,

45 cases Window Glass, ·

200 cases Soap,

100 dozen Chest Locks,

ALSO

A Quantity of Glass-ware.

And

One case Chocolate.

(in lots suitable to purchasers).. Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers.

Hongkong. May 19, 1921.

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES

MESSIS LAMMERT BROS., are

instructed to sell

the S. S. "KAM MA,”

Was she now lies in the Typhoon Refuge,

at TAUMATI

by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

on

THURSDAY,

the 26th day of May, 1921, at 3 pm IN ONE LOT

at their Auction Rooms in Ducklel

Street.

The Ship is a Wooden ship of ap proximately 1800 toma capacity with accommodativa for about 800 Chinese --Passengers toow- Pessing complexion. For particulary torriew apply to Mestra. LAMMERT BROS,„, the Auctioneers.

For fotber particulars

Apply to:

Messrs. JOHNSON STOKES

& MASTER,

Or to

Solicitors, &c. Hongkong,

THE AUCTIONEERS.

Hongkong, May 6, 1921.

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FILLED

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DISCIPLINE IN THE HOME-

Many months ago we wrote in A good masy men upon return these columns on the subject.of the from military service have found most unsatisfactory conditions. then prevailing regarding the mail service some difficulty in adjusting them- from Europe and Canada to the Far selves to the conditions of civil-life, East, conditions which did much to The hero whose matrimonial affairs aggravate and binder, if not actually have just been occupying the Par-

to harm, the business of European isian Divorce Court is not to be con- communities in China, says Shipping" ord Engineering.. Up til inte less

than

service maintained

by

the

sidered unique. His military experi

What

a Fear 320, the fast and ece had convinced him of the excellent trans-Pacife steamship advantages of discipline. So far be has many to agree with him. He preferred to apply discipline to others rather than to himself, and in that be does not stand alone. distinguishes him is the earnest zeal with which he acted upon his Principles. He wrote cat ten new commandments, and issued them to his wife as a manual of conjugal regulations and domestic law. We cannot commend them as a model of legislation. They appear to us partiy superfluous ard partly tautologous.

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LBY COURTEST "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]

GERMANY AND CHINA.

NEW AGREEMENT- SIGNED.

C. P. "O. S was always to be relied on for the receipt of Eur opean mails, but when happered the regrettable and miserable dispate between the Canadian rostal authori- tics and the C. P. O. 5 regarding rates, the arrival of mail matter from Home tecame annoyingly inter mittent. The result of the dispute which ought never to have occurred was that the C. P. O. S. vessels ceased to carry outward European and Canadian-mails, both mail or example, the first commandment cluded between China and Germany, tela matter from the US, ore of Britain's lays down. "Your work moust betions of amity and commerce between the chiefert commercial competitors in checked every week." whereas the two countries have been reestablished. these parts, was and is contitued to very nature of life ensures that all Germany, also, gives Chins a declara- be carried on the boats of the famous domestic work should be continually tion in which she consents to the abroga

checked. In the middle of the tion of consular jurisdiction in China, British line.

and expresses her inability, through force numbered It is more than regrettable--it is decalogue,

the as

majeure, to restitute to China all her highly condemnable, that a miserable sixth commandment, appears rights and privileges in Shantung. and

instruction, dispute between postal authorities the

Do

your undertakes the fulfilment of the obliga-

East.

make use of the Far East

2

ás

PEXING, May 20th. By the signature of the agreement con

PLAGUE IN VLADIVOSTOCK.

and a shipping company has resulted duly as a wife in the home," which tions arising from the Articles in the for many months in delay to import either includes all the rest or means China section of the Versailles Treaty ant mails from Europe to the Far nothing in particular. Nor as a glacis and the reimbursement of the ex- the restoration to China of the German From the viewpoint of working code was the decalogue penses of interament of German military business, the late and intermittent well designed. Having been bidden men in China. arrival of letters from Home has a to do all manner of things, the wife sericus aspect, while no whit less was told (fourth commandment), annoying is the delay to private cor- "Do nothing yourself without my respondence. Few, if any, Britishers. orders." The soldier should surely

bave recognised in this confusion bad' Eealth

GESEVA, May 20th After specific instruc- resort--they are bere staff work.

The Swiss State Department trans- on business, business which results, tions as to the way in which

dress. directly and indirectly, in bereft to she was

the hapless mitted to the International Red Cross The Empire, and the least that can wife · received the all-inclusive Committee the appeal of the consular corps at Vladivostock for a loan of 200,000 be expected from the powers that orderNever buy any clothes with yen to combat the outbreak of plague: are supposed to control such matters out consulting me If, as we are The committee immediately informed the is that the fastest possible postal assured, the husband bad taken the health section of the League of Nations, service be maintained. To take the military code as his model, it is plain and publicly drew attention to the facts, present time as an instance: By that he failed to study it, but also he hoping that an international effort will the time that these lines appear in rashly tried to bester its instruction. be made to eliminate the new danger prize, it will have been more than To demand that orders should be from the Far East. two weeks since the arrival in Shang- executed without discussion is in the bai of the last mail from England, sound tradition, but we do not know ret in the meantime an "Empress of any army or navy which enforces

to

or attempts to enforce an order "No slang." Miltary and conjugal affairs.

by

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MASTER SHIPWRIGHTS.

EARLY TITLES.

SOME INTERESTING HISTORY,

G. MOUSSION.

15, Morrison Hui Kend

The first appointment in connec- tion with naval administration was- that of William of Wrotham, Arch descon of Taunton, who in 1214 was made "Keeper and Governor of the King's Ships." The title was changed from time to time, but William of boat has arrived, which, admittedly,

Wrotham's successors can be traced was stared in the daily papers to be

LowDos, May 20th. The newspaper Financier, commenting

"Master Shipwright" was the continuously down to the' present: bringing US and European mails, no doubt, are, or ought to be, on a but which, actually, brought no mail different footing, but to admit that on the Chinese Bailway Loan, a copy of official title formerly held by the prin day Samuel Pepys was by far the from Europe...

destroys the whole new decalogue. the contract of which has been received cipal shipbuilding officers of the Roya! greatest of these, his title at first It is high time that this dilly. In any case it does not seem to have the Department of Overseas Trade Dockyards, but which was changed being Clerk of the Acts and after- dallying with one of the most vitalen really operative. Perhaps it was Chinese funds for financing the purchases The first master shipwright was ap office, Secretary to the Admiralty, a from Peking, says that the provision of in 1875 to that of Chief Constructor, wards, on his second occupancy of asses of a nation's business, an because the wife had not had the

of railing stock should assist British” efficient overseas mail service. came advantage of a military training; but, manufacturers desirous of supplying the pointed in 1572 and thus he and his title which his present-day successor to an end. If the Canadian officials at any rate, she refused to obey material, bus they have neither the successors held office for just over also bears,

The holders of the post generally can not, or will not (they orders, and the-husband has resign- organisation for, entering nor the desire 300 years, covering a period during apparently do not) take effective steps ed his command through the medium to become entangled in Chinese finance. which the sailing warship was in had no qualifications to deal with the in the matter, is it too much to expect of the divorce court, though it is not The journal is, of the opinion that the process of evolution. Later holders technical questions which were bound that some of the bighly paid and not clear to the alien how French law contract is a healthy progressive measure of the post saw sails, give way to to arise in connection with their very much overworked Fgh postal found a way of granting the divorce. directed towards the real derelopment of steam and wooden hulls gradually charge. It is often stated that Robert

the country:

replaced by those of iron, 100% Brigandin, Clerk of the Ships from officials in Londen might devote a

Although 1572 is the date of the 1495 to 1523, designed the "- Henry little of the time for which the public.

appointment of the first master ship-Grace a Dien," the "great" ship of pays them, to a matter which is little satisfactory and regular as the pre

wright there must have been before Henry Vill, but it is in the highest less than a scandal?

and sent apology for a service is irregular

this officials carrying out similar degree unlikely that this was the case. Much has been said and, written and unsatisfactory. A rumour bas

duties, for there were Royal Dock The design of a ship of such un- recently regarding the re-opening of filtered through to the effect that

yards at Portsmouth, Woolwich, and common dimensions must have res the trans-Siberian route for the conthe Canadian postal authorities have

Deptford long before 1572 and tech- quired the experience of a very able; "veyance of mails from Western definitely come to an arrangement

nical officers must have been in naval architect, and it is therefore Europe; but it will be many, many with the CP.OS for the resumption

charge for the purpose of designing, probable that Brigandin secured the months before mails can be sent by of the carriage of Canadian mall

building, rebuilding, refitting and services of s prominent shipbuilder of that route with safety and certainty, matter. There have been previous

repairing the ships of the Navy. The the time who was either in the king's With the advent of the s.s. “Empress rumours of a similar nature, and of Canada" and "Empress of China while we hope for the best, not trail has been chosen as follows me records at the yards are facomplete, service or in that of a private ship- to these parin, the CP.GS. vessels letters actually arise by the CPUS Tomkinsar Majors Barrett, Lockett, Henry Huttost, who was termed is not mentioned, and the records of but, those of Portsmouth mention building firm, - His name, "however, will be capable, as no distant dare, of bra's wil we be convinced that the Lord and Wodehouse (back), «E maintaining between Vancouver and quickest possible service 24 GHEE More that recovered the cup from America in others, Isaac Hatch and Bootes no reference to the recha

Thres of the members art of the kide master shipwright In 15370 these earlier times generally contai 1Be Far East" "a": mail service as an actuality.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mall.}

POL) CUP.

LoDos, May 19th. Zagland's Polo team against America

1814) Wodehouse is a new comer,

succeeded bima,

Engineering.