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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS, -Public Auctions—

THE Undersigned will sell by Public

Auction on,

MONDAY, TUISDAY and WEDNESDAY, the 14th, 15th, and 18th, November, 1821. commencing each day at 11 am (with a tiflid interval from

12.30 to 230 p.m.) at the 'Alexandra Buildings, Des Voeux Road Central,

the premises of

MESSES, KOMOR & KOMOR

Des Voeux Road Central,

(the oldest curio store in Hongkong) THEIR ENTIRE SPOOK OF APANESE AND CHINESE ART OODS-ANCIENT AND MODERN,

Consisting of

Woryware, Silverware, Bronze;, Lacquerware, Cloisonnes, Porcelains, Woodcarvings Embroideries and Furoiture,

eto., etc.

A unique opportunity for collectors.

Intending purchasers will please note that, all the lots will be an view on Thursday, Friday and Saturday the 10th, 11th, and 12th, November, 1921, after which latter date many of the Large pieces will be removed until such time as they are actually put up for sale. This is to enable the anetioneer do reserve the entire for w

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the seating accommodation of

intending purchasare.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

Catalogues will be issued.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

Hongkong, November 7, 1921.

on

THURSDAY, November 17, 1921,

commencing at 11 a.m.

at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street,

3 cases Black Call,

4 bales Brown Calf,

2 bales Sola Leather,

3 cases Cotton Thread 160s,

100 dozen Caps,

50 dozen Felt Hats,

2 cases Needles,

1 case Envelopes,

115 dozen Gothic Handles and Roses,

70 dozen Lifting Handles,

50 dozen Escutcheons,

5 dozen Shovels.

Ten-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, November 12, 1921.

FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.

CHAIRS.

1.--In Victoria, with two Bearers.

Quarter hour...........................

Half bour.

One hour, nos credere)

Three hours, .................

Six hours, ........

10 cents

20

31

2:5

............... 70 1.00

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

If the trip is extended beyond Victoria,

tall fare extra.

Between the hours of 8.30 p.m. and 6 ta. the above fares shall be increased by 50 per centum.

II.-Beyond Victoria, with four Bean ere.

Bour.

Three hours..................... Six hours.

Day (6 s.m. to 6 p.m.),

.... 0.80 cents. .....$t.co

1.50 200

III-In the Hill District.

One hour,

With Bearers With 4 Bearers.

Quarter hour.......$0.15

$0.30

Half hour,

0.20

0.40

0.30

0,61)

Two hours,...............

0.80

Three hours.

0,70

1.00

Hix tours, man 1.00

1.50

Day (s.m to 8p.m.)1.60)

2.00

RICKBELLS.

In the Island of Hongkong, it engrund

in Fictoria.

Five minutes.".

fen minutes,

Quater hour, compriman

Galf hour,

One hour,

5 cents

10

Every Sabeoquent bour...3)

Now the ricken be eninger within the City of Victoria, and be in- charged outside the Western part of the Sity of Victoria after 3pm. or be dis charged to the East of Fay View Folie station on the Eastern side of the City of Victoria after 9 pm, an extra half

fare shall be chargeable.

I-Is Koricon

incter hour, covaroknieszczamen. 5 texts,

half bourris

Hour, parades

Boryanbeoquent bour,

15.

10

III-Tairo Road

Twenty conte shall be added for each extra hour or part

of an hour if the hirer causes the journey to take longer

than

To 4th milo,

75 cents 1 hour Minglo return $1.0)...ure# hours, Beyond 4th to 9th miles

burg 1 yard 9th to 9th milew

single

return 200°

Beyond 9th to 11th milo-

single $2.00 ..........................

return in 150 in 199

Fares for Journeys beyond the 19th

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INTIMATIONS

ELECTRIC MOTORS.

ELECTRIC VACUUM

CLEANERS

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COMPLETE ELECTRIC

GENERATING. PLANTS

with STORAGE Batteries delivery from Stock. Danish Chinese Commercial Company, Ltd.

1a, Chater Road,

WE HAVE

Great Varieties of used and unused

POSTAGE STAMPS.

Single, Sets, Packets, Bags, and

On Approval Books FOR COLLECTIONS,

GRACA & 00,

Dealers in Postage Stamps, Port Cards, Seeds, Toys, &c., &c. No. 10, Wyndham' Street,

P. O. Box 620,

Hongkong

MASSAGE.

Mr. HONDA, Mrs. HONDA and

Mrs. KISAKL

14 years' experience. No. 34, Wyndiskma Street. (Opwoalie to the China Mail )

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00.,

FEDDER STREET, Opposite Hongkong Hotel

Telephone No. 491,

Hongkong, March 20, 1014.

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CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE. necessary

THE SHANGHAI CONFERENCE

REVIEWED.

MANCHESTER WEEKLY

MARKET REPORT.

Messrs. Jarden, F. Hutton and Co., Lt., Manchester, reported as follows on Wednesday, Oct. 5:

The issue of the final Bureau

to be considered. Peking is a walled city in more sences than one, and circumstances may arise when it is the duty of the British Chambers to break down that wali and, if that prove impossible, to The satisfaction expressed by Mr. go beyond it to higher courts. Such a case might well arise in connection Kennett and Mr. Mackay in review with the present chaotic state of ing the work of the British Chambers China. Crises have so often occurred, estimate of the growing American of Commerce Conference is no more when an explosion of some kind seem crop has been the chief feature of than everybody concerned is entitled ed inevitable, that the present crisis interest in the cotton makets. The to feel. Important work was done,' way blow over as others have done. condition of the crop on September weighty resolutions were passed and But that would not lessen the anomaly 25th is given av 42.2 pgsinst 49.3 a the debating throughout was ex. of two hostile Governments, at Feking month ago, thus shewing the further tremely keep indeed the only and Canton, which strikes at the

possible objection would be that in root of all orderly dealings and pro-heavy deterioration of 7.1. It is the their anxiety for exactitute some sperity in China. That is a situation lowest figure on record, being 12.2 on which must be ended before it can be under the previous lowest of 54.4, apeakers spent too much time

what were really details says the mended and it is possible that in and compares with 59.1 last year and N. C. D. News. Among the resolu- respect of it business men see more a ten year average of 62.4. The total tions special attention may be given to clearly than Legation Quarter. If a yield is estimated at 6,537,000 that dealing with the so-called stock | crash is to come, the sooner it comes

and produce exchanges, in reality the better, and any attempt to avert balos, against 7,037,000 a month and 12,123,000 · last year. gambling hells. The Chinese Govern-it-as, for instance by enabling Pek- ago ment comes in for so much criticism ing to borrow $50,000,000 at the It will thus bo seen that recent that when it tries to do something expense of imports-is sure to react valuable, in registering and thus on the heads of foreigners and to it- crop scores have not benn without substanira foundation. The small restricting these exchanges it is crease the anti-foreign feeling in China regrettable that its efforts should be which is one of the most serious crop is tributed in the first place to the reduction of acreage planted" and nullified by the immunity given to phenomena of the day. them by foreign settlements. It should A very human note was sounded secondly to the unfavourable condi

his farewell tions. Of these, the smaller use of not be beyond the wit of the Diplom- by Mr. Mackay in atic and Consular Body. to remedy address: this defect. For the gambling evil in One would have imagined (he said) fertilisers has led to a shorter staple Shanghai is very great, it reacts most that, by now, a return to normal and consequently lessened yield and injuriously upon commerce and it conditions would have been secured bad weather and the prevalence of needs grappling with seriously, if by the sensible people we conceive damage by boll weevil have done the business interest, both Chinese and ourselves to be. Instead, we have all

part

MONDAY NOVEMBER 14, 1921

NOTICES

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS

& JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansions.

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,

BE DRESSY THIS WINTER. Order your sults from us. Iatest American and English styles. Best material-moderate prices. FELT HATS from such manufacturers as STETSON and BATTERSBY

stocked by us. OVERCOATS MADE TO ORDER

SEE US NOW & SEE YOURSELF AFTER.

Co.,

LTD.

THE CHEN KWONG

Universal Providers.

237-241, Des Voeux Road, 120 Connaught Road, (Branch).

THE HON SHING COMPANY. 34 Queen's Road, Central.

GENERAL MERCHANTS,

IMPORTS.-Picco Goods, Metals, Sandales, Ohemicals, Meuniery, Provision. EXPORTS-Mineral Ores, Rattan Goods, all kinds of Oil, Feather, Hido and Skid,

Porcelain Wares, Silk and Embroideries, Tes and Tobaco Lekt

KOON

YICK DEALER IN

Chilli Sauce, Tomato Sauce, Chilli Powder, Pepper, Sour Fruit, Curry Powder, and any Powder, Sauce, Etc. HEAD OFFICE IN.

No. 180, Des Voeux Road, Central, Houghong,

Master TAM KIT SANG.

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Kodaks and Kodak Films, de. as

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

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

HOTELS AND CAFES.

HONGKONG HOTEL (Hongkong).

REPULSE BAY HOTEL (Repulse Bay)

PENINSULA HOTEL- (Kowloon)

(projected)

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

TOWN GARAGE & RUSSELL STREET GAHAGE.

SHOW ROOMS (Pedder Street)

REPULSE BAY GARAGE)

THE PEAK HOTEL

1,500 Feet above Sea Level,

* 15 Minutes from Landing: Stage. Under the Management of

Mrs: BLAIR.

Two minutes from PALACE HOTEL

Star, Ferry).

KOWLOON

Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans thronghon and entirely under new management, Cuisins under the personal supervidos of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Booms Terma mudarata. Special forma ko families on application to

foreign, are to be spared these period- classes holding tenaciously to war rest. The effect of the record ex• ical set-backs which everyone laments conditions, not only in England, but tremes of heat and dryness in forcing but which seem to teach us Lothing. in almost every English community the unprecedented early maturing of

in' Though unadorned, unlike the two- every

of the globe. the crop is well illustrated by the

and the youth

what previous coulerences, by the Minister's Both

the serious middle second Bureau ginning report which presence, the meeting did not lack should be ministerial congratulation and en- 83e of Shanghai, as elsewhere, are states that 2,907,000 bale were ginned couragement. A new departure was equally guilty of careless extrava- up to Sept. 28 against 2,249,000 bales slso made in having the conference gance in living, and I think it is sime last year. The first effect of the con ditions and crop figures was to cause presided over not by an official but that a halt was called. by a member of the business com Actually, we believe, the disorgani-heavy selling and a sharp fall in prices munity. This, we think, with no zation and high prices resulting from as the condition was generally ex disrespect to the chairmen of past the Napoleonic Wars lasted consider-pected to be about 40 or lower, Trade conferences was a distinct gain, givably longer t. an the bare three years buying and fairly heavy covering ow- ing greater freedom to the discussions that have elapsed since the armistice; ing to the extreme lowness of the and greater reality to resolutions as and it is difficult to think that, any figures have however arrested this the untrammelled opinion of the reduction of costs in Britain could movement but feeling is unsettled. British business community, In compaunte for the enormous Spot males have again been fairly his inaugural address Mr. Mackay advantage which low exchanges heavy. The condition of the Egyp spoke of the association of com- gives to Germany is fordign tan crup is also the lowest recorded merce and diplomacy, deprecating markets. Nor can the world, be by the Department of Agriculture the idea that the former wished to healthy while ao vast a part as sicce its formation in 1910 and trad infringe upon the preserves of the Russia remains mad and untouchable. ing in this section has been active with latter. In China the two must. But in the main Mr, Mackay's is a sharply advancing rates. There has necessarily be brought into closer true bil. The root evil to day in that again been a fair enquiry for both touch with each other than clsewhere, people will not work as they used to yarn and cloth bab the betaal turno and it is matter for congratulation do, and the expansion of Shanghai is, ver continues to be disappointingly that their dealings ever are so perhape, in nothing more conspicuous small in comparison. The tendency harmonious. Yot if the Association than in the number, and profitableness of prices has again been upwards of British Chamber of Commerce of its places of entertainment. We are specially in Eyptian qualities. India to be efficaclove, it must act as a probably no worse than other great and China have done little although critic and correctivo of diplomacy centres. But that a poor excuse, there has been a better enquiry for While the latter, as Mr. Mackay Shanghai le to be judged, not by coin staple lines. The smaller Far Eastern A said, often knows more than it is 16. parison with Western cities, but by outlets have been quieter and the berty to say, it also appears to the example that 16, tote to China of Home trade remains dull, but Egypt

are highly Western Industry and momin and the Levant have again bought,

Telephone K. 3. Telegraphio Add.: "FALAON,"

J. H. OXBEREY, Proprister.

HOTEL. "ASIA"

WEST BUND, CANTON,

Leading Hotel in South China.

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans and Elevators." Roof Garden, Hairdressing Saloon,

Splendid Views of City and Excellent Cuisine.

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