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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, ÁƑPRAÏSS 2

AND SURVEYORE.

-Public Auctions-

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** Undnesigned have rocotrod inatras. tlone to acil by Pabllo Auction,

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MONDY, November 21, 1921. commancing at 245 p.m. at No. 1, Brasilwood Terrace.

A Quantity of

Valuable Household Furniture, (Full Particulars from Catalogue). Ou viex from Saturday the 10th. November, 1921.

---Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, November 16, 1921.

CHESTER THE CHEF.

FAILURE TO REVOLUTIONISE BREAKFAST TABLE.

Chester, the ruddy-bearded chef whom Sir William Orpen made famous in this year's Acadomy, is going back to his beloved Paris in despair.

You English," he says, "have no soul above eggs and bacon, My efforts at lunch and dinner you up- preciate, yes.

But my finest artistic triumphs at breakfast, no. They are wasted, I give you up, and go back to my Paris.

Chester has not given up trying to convert the stolid Brison to the French idea of a breakfast-coffee, rolls, and a dainty omlette with mushroom or hapu---without a struggle. For four months he has been at the Raynı Palace Hotel, Kensington, wooing the Briton, and whale tis Chester sauce, and other dishes have been much appreciated, the Eng- lishman is still cold to his art in the early morning.

The plain truth is that the inhabit- ants of an island swept by the cold mists of the Atlantic and the rain- laden clouds from Ireland want a good inside lining before they start their day's work. The bigger thợ lining the more the breakfast ap- probes the ideal After all, the nation which not so very long ago in its rough island story considered beer a suitable breakfast beverage is not going to accept easily the light telje petit déjeuner. So Chester, who is big enough to acknowledge defeat, is returning to the Hotel Chuíbam.

The English climate was too much for him," the principal cbol at the Royal l'ature Hotel fold

Stat

reporter. He is a Frenchman and an artist, but he has hera in England for

many years.

The interviewer detected a with. fulness in his voice as he talked of his colleague's ideals, but being old in the Englishman's ways he has bowed to the inevitable.

"The finest examples of my art." he confessel, 1 must reserve for lunch and dinner.”

“Still ”—and he nodded his hear sagely-"ibere are many ways vi rocking such a simple dish as bacon

and eggs,"

He would not reveal his particular, secret, but hinted that a frying pan was much more important then » grill to the preparation of such a dish by a man with a son!.

The true artist, in short, an ewen idealise what in other spheres of life

is just an egg on a back."

SPEEDY LINERS.

EMPIRE STATE" BŪLAKS

RECORD.

Breaking all previous reconls for speed between the Orient and San Francisco, the shipping board liner "Empire Stat." flying the Pasitic Mail house tng, passed in through the "Golden Gate" on her last voyage to San Francisco after twelve duye, nine- teen, bours and forty minutes of actual straming time from Yokohamul

The best previous cord for this ra was made not long ago by the "Golden Gate," sister chip of the "En- pics State," and also under the opera- tion of the Pacific Mail. Her steam- ing time from Yokohama to San Fran- cisco was thirteen days, even hours and forty eight minutes. The "Empire State" ha therefore bettered the per- formance of her sister skip by twelvo hours and eight minutes.

Captain Henry Nelson, commander of the "Empire State" and one of the best-known skippers in the American morchant marine, received the con gratulations of Pacific Mail officials. and other friends on the fine per- formance of his ships.

"Everything was in our favor," said Captain Nela.

We had ideal weather throughout the voyage aurl the officers and mumbers of the crow outdid themselves in efficiency,"

INTIMATIONS

ELECTRIC MOTORS

ELECTRIC VACUUM

CLEANERS

"NILFISK

21

COMPLETE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANTS

with STORAGE Batterion

delivery from Stock. Danish Chinese Commercial Company, Ltd. 1A, Chater Road.

RARE STAMP

of

Cape of Good Hope Triangle

WOODBLOCK

One ponny Vermilion, used.

fine colour.

Catalogue Price £18. Our price $100 net.

GRACA & CO., Dealers in Postage Stamps, Garden Seeds, Toys, &c.

No, 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620,"

Hongkong

MASSAGE.

Mr. HONDA, Mrs. HONDA and Mrs. KISAKI..

14 years' experience. No. 24, Wyndham Street. (Opposite to the China Mail)

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00.,

PEDDER STREET, Opposite. Hongkong Hotel

Telephone No. 491.

Hongkong, March 30, 1914,

TANG YUK, DINTINZ. Baccessor to

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

TERMS VERY MODERATI. COFIFLATION Pa.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

HUNTER HUNTED.

WONDERTUL ESCAPE IN.

AFRICAN JUNGLE.

A thrilling encounter with an in- furiated ball elephant, which nearly cost hin: his life, was one of the ad- ventures which befell Mr. J. Morewood Dowsett, of Porchester-square, W., while big game hunting.

Mr. Dowsett has just returned from a visit to Africa, during which be spent six months travelling may thousands of miles between Italian Somaliland, Abyssinia, the Soudun, and the Cape. He told to a Daily Chronicle representative, recently the story of his escape from death..

It happened in a Uganda-forest, where Mr. Dowsett, with a companion and two natives, had tracked down a herd of elephants; They tramped a mile through grass 12 feet high, and a further three miles into the bush,

Hidden behind a bush, Mr. Dowsett was preparing to take photographs of the herd, when the beasts cented the party, and made straight for them.

+

SURPRISE ENCOUNTER.

Mr. Dowsett shot the leader dead, and fled for cover, but, mistaking the directions of the native chief, he took the wrong direction, and ran into a big bull elephant belonging to a berd that bad come up behind the bunting party,

With a sweep of his trunk, the elephant knocked him down and turned round to trample him to death. With great agility Mr. Dowsett escaped by taking a flying leap under the animal, but he was not yet out of danger.

Again the elephant turned, and rushed straight at him, and this time Mr. Dowsett was knocked off his legs. Lying that on the ground, he could see the elephant's long tueks just over his head. and his trupk sweeping the ground, endeav- ouring to pick him up.

Just in time, he was able to wriggle behind the animal, and then he jump ed up to rush for cover.

ELEPHANT SCARED.

Instead of pursuing him the eleph- ant turned round and dashed wildly off in the other direction, as if he had had a terrife shock.

THE P. & O. COMPANY,

APPROACH OF ITS EIGHTY-

Charter..

THIRD BIRTHDAY.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 21

NOTICES.

capital, Bom G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

years ago were immediately successful and in a comparatively short time doubled. As yot the principal avenue to India's commercial capital, Bom-- bay, was closed to the young com-. pany; and it was not until two years after that the Australian service had been inaugurated with the "Chausen," a vessel of 689 tons and 80 horse power, and the service between Suez and Bombay, to which the East India Company has resolutely clung for the purpose of keeping alive their navy, fell into the hands of the P. and 0. Company.

On December 31- the P. & O.. Com- pay will celebrate the 83rd anniver- of its incorporation by Royal Curiously enough, Ireland and Scot- land may be said to have produced the P. & O. In 1829, a small paddle steamer, the "William Fawcett," with a gross tonnage of 206 tons, was Packet Co., for the conveyance of mails Company was sufficiently accom- launted for the City of Dublin Steam In 1875 the reorganization of the to and from Ireland to Engind. In plished as to permit o a transfer of 1839, a Scotchman, Mr. Brodin the Eastern and Australian services M'Gregor Willcox, assisted by a Mr. to the Suez Canal route. As the Anderson, commissioned the "William Imperiál Post Office had obstructed Fawcett and the "Iberin," given by progress by objecting to the adoption Falmouth to Lisbon rnt. Thus it of nails on the ground of its inade the latter gentleman, for service on the of the canal route for the conveyance came about that the Peninsular Con-quacy in comparison with the Egyp- pay was formed. From these two fain railway, the P. and O. were faced new crafts, the P. and 0.. Company with enormous difficulties. After rang, the original capital and some time, however, an agreement was reached and this permitted the directors being largely formed by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Com-carriage of the heavy mails, which pany, which claims to be the father came from the UK. by sea, of the P. and O. Company.

via the canal. In 1888 the company reduced the charges for the carriage of the accelerated mails which were sent via Brindisi for Australia by £100,000. The Indian and the Far Eastern services, too, were transferred to the canal route.

It was not until 1839 that the mail service to Egypt was inaugurated and it was then that the word "Oriental" was added.

SERVICE TO INDIA AND CEYLON.

PUBLIC SERVICES.

The first steamer sent to India by the Company was the "Hindostan "a vessel of 1,800 tons and 500 horse

In times of war, notably the power. The route was via the Cape- and the departure of the ships was Crimean, Indiau Mutiny, Egyptian, then regarded in the light of a national Boer, and the recent war periods, the event. Other steamers speedily fol- vessels of the line were of the greatest lowed, and towards the end of 1844 use in the conveying of troops, am. the Company found itself in a posi-munition, and stores. In the piping tion to undertake a mail service ex- times of peace, when Imperial celebra- tending from England to Alexandria tions required representatives of the and from Suez to Ceylon, Madras and British prowers from overseas to Calcutta together with a further ex-assemble in the Empire's capital, the teusion from Ceylon to Penang, Sing'. and O. again provided much of the apore, Hongkong, and Shanghai trasport inachinery. In What all this meant few present day branch of British oversca development readers will understand,

east of Gibraltar the company has

the

every

race.

1ta 6 years of existence is remark- ably free from disaster and its 83rd birthday of incorporation finds it possessed of a vitality which exhibits indications of a fuller recognition of the changing conditions of the times.

The difficulties connected with the played its part. Conservative the P. establishment of what was then, and and O. Company is, as a writer once for many years after, known as the said. This very conservatism many overland route, had been rapidly regard as typical of overcome. The necessary capital for an.vel and arduous undertaking bad, after considerable trouble, been found For many years antecedent to the construction of the Railway from Alexandria to Suez. the important and valuable traffic developed by the "It is most remarkable for an Company, was carried through Egypt elephant to dash away after once hay in a primitive manner, As Sir ing been scented his prey, and the Thomas Sutherland has point- native chief who witnessed the in-ed cut, the Mahmondich· canal cident could hardly believe his eyes. He thought that nothing could save

That elephant must have seen a vision," said Mr. Dowsett.

me.

In fact. y. escap was En miraculous to the natives that several

chiefs immediately catue fruar long distances to offer me their congratula- tions."

According to the Chemical Trades Journal a substance harder than the enabled the company to transport. It is tungsten carbide, produced in diamond can now be manufactured. their goods and passengers from the "Nile," whence they proceeded by the aid of powdered aluminium-aud the alumipothermic furnace with stainer to Cairo and the land portion is rated at 9.8 on the scale of hard- of the journey was from Cairo to Suez,

through the desert, a distance of about ness. With the addition of carbon 100 miles. The journey, it may be and forging, it is expected to exceed the figure of 10 at which the diamond added, made up in picturesqueness what it lacked in comfort.

stands on the scale.

In spite of his narrow escape, Mr. Dowsett still retained his nerve forchandise, the difficulties were great, As regards the transport of mer- big game shooting, and not very long indeed. A single steamer's lond be- afterwards I shot two big hip-tween Cairo and Sdez had to be tran- pope tami.

He has been told by other big game hunters of long experience that his is the most remarkable escape from an elephant on record.

NEW YOKOHAMA HOTEL,

STRUCTURE TO BE ERECTED AT COST OF Y1,000,000.

Yokohama is to have a new foreigu style hotel by February, 1923, accord- ing to a company composed of prominent Japanese in that city who have recently perfected plans and approved the drawings of the build- ing. The hotel is to be erected on the site directly across. from the Yokohama Central Station by the side of the Yokohama Tokyo railway line. The cost will be ¥1,000,000, all stock in the company being fully paid up now.

The building is to bo four and five stories high with 300 rooms. The first floor will be devoted en- tirely to an office, lobby, diving root and recreation rooms. It will be built of re inforced concreto.

The names of the principal stock holders are still being withheld, bat it is said that they include several Jap- ancas millionaires, most of whom live in Yokohama. A Japanese, who at one time was consul in New York, is to be manager, and an American assistant manager will be secured.

One of the features of the hotel, according to present plaus, will be a limited number of rooms with board for Y150 a month.

The architectural drawing have bees approved, and work will be started as soon as possible. It is. expected that the hotel will be opened Fin February, 1925.

TONIGHT IF

W.SOME Matunas's fivTEST COMMY

THE CIRCLE”

THEATRE ROYAL.

about 3,000 camels. sported by caravans, numbering

MAUL ROUTES TO CALCUTTA AND

CHINA.

The mail routes to Calcutta and China established by the Company 77

A FAVOURITE RUB DOWN.

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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 Manufacturera, High Class English Jewellery,

EAST POINT

EWO STREET.

GARAGE.

(ON TRAMWAY ROUTE TO CAUSEWAY BAY.)

The management beg to inform the public that the above new, and copamodious Garage is now open for their inspection.

Cars may be garaged in separate lock-up stalls at $15.00 per month. Repairs of all kinds executed at reasonable rates with satisfaction guaranteed.

TELEPHONE No. 3122.

ROYAL

SILK · STORE.

Just Received New Consignment of Benares Real Gold and Silver BROCADE for Trimming Dresses, Shoes and Scarfs, We are the Only Dealers for the above Articles & Invite Your Inspection.

D. CHELLARAM, 304, Queen's Road Central-

KOON

YICK DRATER 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, Hongkong.

Master TAM KIT SANG.

LONG HING & CO., PHOTO SUPPLIES,

Kodaks and Kodak Films, &a. 80. DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

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

HOTELS AND CAFES.

HONGKONG HOTEL (Hongkong)

REPULSE BAY HOTEL (Repulse Bay)

PENINSULA HOTËL (Kowloon)

(projected)

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

TOWN GARAGE & RUSSELL STREET GARAGE

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

Star Ferry PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON

Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughout and entirely under now management. Culatao under the personal supervision of the proprietor. Bar and Billiard Rooms Termu moderato. Spuolul termo do familian on application to

Telephone K. 3. Tolographio Add.; "Palaob."

J. H. OKBERRY, Proprietor.

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."

Pearl

River.

Moderate Rates.

.

Tel.

2007.

Under the Management of the BUN CO., LTD., OANTON.

THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE,

24 Des Voeux Road, Central, ` BREAKFAST --". from 7.30 am."

Tel.

2007.

TIFFINS and DINNERS (Menu and a la Carie) at all hours. TRY OUR PIES & PASTRIES. Cakes made by arrangement. Bakers and Confectioners.

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