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LAMMERT BROS.

À POTIONELES, AFPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS

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atoms to well by Pabus Auction,

ON

THURSDAY, Detaber. 19, 1921, commencing s 3 p.m.

Moto,

e premises of the United Motor

Co. Ltt, Kowloon,

Das Hood Tractor,

*: 2300 lbs.

H. P. delivering 40 H.P. to fear wheels, Speed: 10 Miles per hour,

Body: Platform body. Standardi 4 x 6 |

feet,

Carrying Capacity: One and a half]

taps.

Time: Cash on delivery.

INTIMATIONS

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BE WITHOUT THEM.

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PRICES are Very Moderate. Las paction and Enquiries are cordially invited.

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

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Talephen on

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers.

理代

Bogkong, October 7, 1921.

On

FOR

SALE

SATURDAY, Octobor 15, 1921,

at 19 o'block (nosa),

their Sales Rooma, Dzddel Street.

2 Pairs Black Ducks.

Occar,

? Turkeys,

1 White Hrabma Cuck.

5 White Brahma Hess,

Brown Beshes Hena,

White Leghorn Corkerel,

6 White Lesbom Pollets,

White Leghorn Cocks,

White Leghorn Hens,

* Brown Leghorn Puliers,

1 Brown Leghorn Cockerel,

1 Pan Chinese Chickens,

White Rabhite,

2 Chicken cups and wire max.

(all the Laghorns are pedigree binis į

On view on day of sale.

Tos:-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, October 11, 1921.

FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.

CHAIRS,

1.-la fictoria, with two Bearers.

marter hour.. ------

10 cents

lf hour.i.0oo.

Je bour.

Three hours...............................

50

Str hours,

Day (8 am to 6 p.)

1.00

If the trip is a

is extended beyond Victoria,

mali fare extra.

Between the hours of 8.30 p.m. and Ģ 1. the above fares shall bé increased by 30 per centum.

-Beyond Victoria, with four Ben ers. Hour,

Three hours.

Sixbours...

*

Day (6 am to 6p.

III-In the Hill District.

0.60 cents

$1.00

1.50 1.00

Quarter bour.......80.15

Alf hour,..

With Bearers. With & Bearers.

++.0.90

$0.30

0.40

One hour, 0.30

0.80

Two hours. ....................... 0.50 Three hours.

0.80

050

1.00

Mix hours......... 1.00

1.50

Day (8 am to 6p.m.)1,50

1.00

The minutes,

Half hour,

GARDEN SEEDS

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· HONGKONG'S ROADS.

A MOTORING · DELIGHT.

THE CHINA MATI.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1921.

NOTICES.

to go joy-riding, for in addition to the has written several books on that fine high way around the island there bject. He is a member of the In- is now a splendid road, pearly sixty stitute of Municipal and County miles long. road extends from Kowloon to Castle interested, at present, in the proposed Peak, Fanling and Taipo, and joins road from Hongkong to Canton the four places so closely together project which he hopes to that all may be visited in an after-see consummated, before he leaves noor's driving.

China.

on the mainland. This engineers. Mr. Goldsmith is gready G. FALCONER & CO.,

The

There are many residents in Hong song to-day who can remember the time when there were no more than half-a-dozen metor-cars in the colony, This mad is wonderful for two main ' The road from Kowloon to Castle each one being an object of super reasons. First, it is the longest road Pesk skirts the sea shore, thas giving stitious awe and childlike cariosity to in South China, and second. it abounds evidence of that love of the ses that

in beautiful scenic effects. It is is inborn in all Englishmen. John Chinaman. The old fable of doubtful whether there is another scenery is very beautiful on both $da the attempt to poison the first steam- road in China as long as this one-that of the road, on one side are the never Soller is too well known to bear reis, a wad that is worthy of compai-ending hills with their carpeting of petition, but the glimpse of the native

son with it. In fact, is is altogether miad therein fairly well epitomises there is not another road that com

probable that in the whole Far East their attitude towards motor-traffic

pares with this one. generally on its first introduction. One of the greatest surprises

to -the This was only about 15 years ago, but

visitet who out to South China is to what a change! To-day 95 per cent. of the ears on the road have Chinese drivers, and the sight of warla families of Chinese-joy-riding "is too common to attract the slightest at. tention. Nowhere is one entirely free from the buzz of the "Claxton' the toot of the horn: public garages abound, new motor companies se) continually being formed. and the number of private cars is legion says. The Oriental Motor.

Whether the influx of cars led the

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greenery, and on the other side, the

lovely islands rising prettily from the ever changing sea, th scores of

blue and green surface of the water, From Castle Peak to Fanling the road comes takes sa inland course, but there is find always a sea breeze or à suggestion of that Hongkong and the surround-one, although a breeze is one of the ing territory comprises one of the last things the motorist has to worry most beautiful places in the world, about, since his iron mount is a breeze and that good roads make the end-maker par excellence. Along this road less scenic beauties of the place easily are many spots of historic significance and quickly available. These sur- which most inctarists find pleasure in prises are always particularly appre-visiting, among them DULTOES ciated, because they reveal the coun-villages inhabited by the Tungs, try to be so different from what the who once ruled the district now travailler is led to expect.

known as the New Territory, and Back home. in England and Ameri-whose ancestors, as one writer des- ca. China has a rather bad name cribes them, were as ready to strangle when it comes to considerations of the visitor to their domain as are their such manifestations of modern pro-descendants to stare at him. gress as motor cars and roads upon When this road was first opened vice-versa is a moot point, but the which to operate them. Mention the the natives were slow to make use of roads are there, and that they are name of a Chinese city and you con-it, being superstitious of all things appreciated is obvious from the traffic jure a picture of narrow, squalid new. They preferred, instead, thereon. "The" motor-road from streets populated by narrow, squalid to stick to the old narrow paths the point of view of visitors of Hong-people with most of them clinging that had been worn smooth by kong is of course the recently com- tenaciously to ideas and ideals as old pleted road round the island. This: as history itself. road completely encircles Hongkong proper. opening up some magnificent scenery and allowing the tourist to gain a general idea of the island in a couple of hours.

SWEET PEAS, making of the fine motor roads or

Early large Howering Mixed Colours,

leading sorta mised by a well-known local Grower.

at 50 cents per packet.

GRACA & 00, No. 19, Wyndham Strest, P. O. Box $20.

Hongkong.

JAPANESE MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear, MADE TO ORDER

UKERRY & 00.,

PEDDER STREET, Opposite Hongkong Hotel

Telephone Ko. 49%.

Hongkong, March 30, 1914.

TANG YUK, Devia

Eaccemort to she Isto SIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street.

TERMS VERY MODERADL

COSTELARICE FIL

WHEN BEW FRENCH REMEDY.

THERAPION NË 1 THERAPION NO.2 THERAPION N13

Ma. Eder MasPNE CHÁ VET. Ne 1 for Blaod é:

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AS TRAIN MARKED WORD 'THEZAFON D 02

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3 cente

RICK HAS.

In the Island of Elongkong, it engaged

in Fictoria

Quarter boar,

One hour................ Every Subsequent bour

Note-

the ricksha be entit within the City of Victoria, and be dis- enfagad nutside the Western part of the

y of Victoris after 9 m. or be dis donged to the East of Pay View l'alice ation on the Eastern side of the Gity. Victoria after 9 pm, an extra half face shall be chargeable.

I.-In Kowloon Quarter hour,

Bold bour.

Book,

---- ◊ cesta. 15

very subsequent hoer, ..........................

III.-Taipa Road.

. stb mile

Twenty cents shall be added

for each extra hot or part of an hour if the hirer causes the journey to take longer than :-

ringle... 75 cents....1 hour. return $100............ hout. Beyond 4th to 8th mile-

single $1.90 hours.

ebuted.....$1.50.4

Beyond 8th to 9th mile-

single ......$1.75.... rotor......$2:00

Beyond 9th to 11th m

single......$2.00

retara......$2.60-----

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Fares for journeys beyond the 11th

le to be a matter of previous acTADAT

mount in ese caso.

The lares here set out to apply to one rickaha with three coolies from Tsim Sha

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DIPHTHERIA-HOW IT MAY BE

AVOIDED.

DIPHTHERIA is usually contracted

when the child has cold. The cold pepares the child's system for the ception and development of the diph therin germs When there are cases of dichteria in the neighbourhood children that have caldutionld be sept at home ad of the street is atil recovered, Give them Chamberlain' Cough Remedy and they will not have to remain at boine Hong it so cleans, out the culture beds, which form in a child's throat

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Panning right through the city of Victoria the road follows the sea front past the Soo Kun-Poo Polo ground and the large Taikoo Decks to Shau- kiwan, whence it runs on an easy gradient through wooded hills to Issi-wan Gap.

Here a new road (incomplete as yet) branches of to Shek-O standing at the junction of the two roads one can look down into Tai Tam Reservoir ba to Cape D'Aguilar and the adjacent islands. The road runs on, across the reservoir and past Stanley, fresh scenery being revealed at every bend, until approximately half way round the island Repulse Bay with its splendidly equipped modern hotel comes in sight. This hotel, opened on New Year's Day, 1920, makes a welcome "half-way house" where tes or cooling drinks may be obtained; it has already established itself as the hotel par excellence of the colony, and it's dinner dances, necessitating motor ride out and back. are the most popular way of passing an evening.

of LOWS

generations of use. Gradually, how- ever, they took to the new road, with It is refreshing, for this reason. to the result that to-day the traffic met discover, upon arriving in Hongkong, by the motorists comprises everything that here is a city that is as modern from plodding cattle to waddling and progressive as cities of similar ducks. The motorists, considering size in the Western countries, and this, rather wish that the natives had pleasanter still to learn that this retained their aversion to modera progress is becoming more and more roads, and continued to stick to their pronounced.

old cow paths.

To day, in addition to the road around the island itself there is of modern roads, a new village has As aboving the civilizing influence much longer road around the Newsprung up along the road not far from territory. These roads, all of them the old village of the Tungs, and there planned by British engineers, have been built within the last ten years. The cause it is on the new road, will soon

are indications that this village, be labour, of course, was Chinese, under become the centre of commerce in the the immediate supervision of Chinese New Territory. In a short time, if contractere. Men, women and chil-its present mate of growth continues, dren laboured on them, with all of it will outrank in size sad importance them doubtless wondering what pur- the cld walled city of the Tungs. pose the white man could have in

Passing along the road near Fan- wasting good money on such wide exling the motorist may panses of paved surfaces when the narrow dirt paths had served them and their ancestors for thousands of years....

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moder

Féé some

Especially notable are the Ladies' European-style buildings. Club House, at the Golf course, and the roomy bungalow of the taipan of the Princely Houre, forerunners of what, in the near future, will be tasny other similar villas near the Fanling golf course.

But if the Chinese who hailt the roads wondered what they were for there is no question as to their value in the minds of the hundreds of Chinese who now make daily and nightly use of them, for it is true that collection of European style houses Then comes Taipo, with its little

the Chizese are as enthusiastic about and its beautiful panorama of sea and motering as foreigners. Moreover, land. Two or three small sailing ninety-five per cent of the motor yachts will be riding at anchor, giving traffic over the roads is in cars driven a picture of quiet life of those who by Chinese chauffeurs.

have elected to live oat in the conn- Anong the men who have a part in try. They have gardens and the the design and construction of the accessible sea. Hongkong highway system. no name From Taipoo to Shatin the road stand out more prominently than again skirts the sea. Finally, ascend- that of Mr. H. E. Goldsmith, Execuing a sort of a hill the traveller catches tive Engineer in charge of Roads at something more than glimpses of the Hongkong. Mr. Goldsmith is re-sex-he gazes out on to the islanda, cognized as one of the world's great including Hongkong, Stonecatter and authorities on road building, and he Lantan.

Leaving Repulse Bay the road runs on again through Aberdeen, with its large fishing fleet, to Pokfulam. From this part of the road some of the finest sunsets in the world, worthy of Turner's genius, can be seen, the deep blue of the water and vivid green of the islands making them still more magnificent. Here also is the large Chinese cemetery, hundreds of graves dot the billsides, and

earthenware jars containing the bones of departed Chinese are ranged on one of the higher slopes. Just past this the road branches off, the lower rond leads down into Kennedy Town and so on to Shek-Tong-Tauí, brilliant at night- time with thousands of electric lights and gay with Chinese in festive mood. The upper and more popular coad runs on through tree-lined avenues to the Hongkong University and so on

There is only can way to do this, and that is hardly drag myself about for the stabbing, tear to the upper levels of Victoria. to get remedy that will go right the root of ing pains in the back. I tried all sorts of This drive of course is more in the the trouble the Kidzera and Bladder. Those piis, pizsters and doctors prescripcoes, bai rone

awin! paics in the backre nature of a joy-ride than serious caused by thousands of kay

seemed to do me the least good. On a friend's motoring, hut the enthusiastic rootoring-edged crystals of

advice I tried De Witt's ist can get all he requires on the which folge in

Kulner and Bladder Pills. mainland. Here, though the scenery lacerating them until they

and the fellet they gave me is not so fine as in Hongkong itself, I work of a knife.

was almost immediate. I continued, and after taking the rads are flatter and a long Kidneys should her these

two bottles I falta diferen; Wiz Since that I bare straight run at good speed is obtain thay crystals from the blood

had no return of the gains. able. A trip to Castle Peak, with its instead of a Towing them to

leel very gateful to you circulate round and round Buddhist temple and berthing facil- the body lodging and acte-

for a complete and wonder. fa: care." Over five year ilies, or through Tai-Po to the Golf-relating in every conven-

later, on Tecemler 29th., links at Fan Ling, is the favourite notably the muscles and int crevice they can ad-

-1919, Mrs. Arme rong rays, Iaz only too plotsed to Sunday amusement for the residents. Preghez your

tell you that have not had motorist: a special ferry-boat trans Kidneys and Ley will re

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Those residents

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The furious beast trumpeted, and sent Mr. Dowsett fiying to the ground with its trunk, and then turning

to death.

Square, London, who is visiting sharply round tried to trample him practically every part of British East, Mr. Dowsett managed to 'roll away. Central, and South Africa from the

East Coast boundary, to, the Cape, had from under the beast, and attempted a remarkable escape from an elephant to rise, but it turned round rapidly recently in Uganda (the East African and again tried to trample upon him. Standard says.)

Seeing the two long tasks above his Mr. Dowsett took two photos, and head and the trunk sweeping the was in the act of taking a third when ground in front in its endeavour to scented the party and were coming for thought his end was near, andi them. Mr. Dowsett was able to shoot shouted He has got me.

terrible backache pains and from acute inflamabish colours festers which distinguishes De Mr. Remane said the elephants had pick him up, the hunter naturally the of the Bladder for over seven years. To With's Pills from all others- you know that they atacept to do any bousework was an absolute have put their healing touch on the right not fortunate orareas I could barely stoop. At times I could spot --The kidneys and the bladder.

enough to possess cars can enjoy the beauties of the colony from sized car at reasonable rates, with the add- ed. satisfaction of knowing that should anything happen to the car it is the drivers "pidgin and not the passengers." New ppblic garages are continually appearing, and signs are not wanting that ere long still more roads will be built which will przmit of still longer and if possible more pleasant juy-rides" than are avail able at present

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the leader of the herd with a ,450, He again, succeeded in escaping Bome of the other elephants sur- from between the beast's legs, and rounded their dying leader while regaining his feet, rushed for cover, others stampeded, and a hasty retreat looking round as he ran to see in was made by Mr. Dowsett and his which direction the beast was charg

ing To bis great relief he saw the In doing so the party man straight hindquarters and tail of the beast as towards a charging elephant, which it disappeared through the trees in Mr. Dowsett, the last of the party, its wild rush forward to join the herd. did not see until the beast rushed out Mr. Dowsett having called to the of the trees, trunk extended, and only party, Mr. Remane raplied from his

friends.

Bold by chemist; and store thepers throughout the world. De Win's pils are packed in Tad' | six yards from him. Being on the cover, "He has got someone; who is hadgad baten printed to blue, and every gma na botta has a red wat to the oak wind side of the basst, he could not it I to which the former replied. “It They are sold by the leading dispensarios and stoeck epees in Chins, bas if you are mostle' şa The Hongkong motorist is not re-watkin um locally send your money in the Colmial Dispensary, 14, Queen's Boyd Chalmal,

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