FRIDAY. DEUËMBER 2′′ 1921.
Hughes & Hough
AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT AND ADMIRALTY”
Coal Contractors General Brokers.
-PUBLIC AUCTIONS-
Dee, 3-Furniture 107 The Peak.
6.-Goncral Furniture &c.
++
M.---British & Foreign Stamp
HE Undersigned have to
love to sell by Pablla Auction, (For Account of the Concerned),
ON
SATURDAY,
December 3, 1921, at 10.30 a.m.
at 109, The Peak.
us
The Valuable Household Furniture, Carpets, Blackwood. Glass Pictures, &c., Comprising:
.screens,
INTIMATIONS.
HONGKONG HOTEL GRILL.
A NEW GRILL ROOM `in I
provided with a Dance Floor and Jazz Orchestra, and it is now possible for patrons to dance during dinner oach ovening.
TEA DANSANTS will be-beld in the Grill Room from 4.30 to 6.80 p.m. overy Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, An entranes charge of $2 per head will be made which will include afternoon tea.
REPULSE BAY HOTEL.
EA AND DINNER DANSANTS
will be hold on Wednesdays and Saturdays only, and Orchestral Concerts during tiffin and afternoon tea on Sundays. The Orchestra will not be in attendance on other days unless specially advertised.
Hongkong, December 1, 1921.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE
Blackwood Cabinets, side tables,
"HAREHOLDERS in THE STEAM round tables,
Tientsin LAUNDRY COMPANY, LTD., Carpets, and rugs, oil. and water
clocks, antitled to an allotment of abaren marble colour pictures, Japanese carved chairs, &c, complete in The Hongkong Hotel Company, dinig room suite, settec and armchairs, Limited are requesterl to forward-their Bedroom suites, white enamel bedroom claims to the undersigned de 40011 14 suites, table glassware, Dinner and tea possible. sets, French flessert eet, Household linen, Blankets, &c., Electric fans and quantity of wicker chairs and cushions,
On view December 2nd, Terms: Cash,
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, November 23, 1921.
INTIMATIONS.
HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER JF COMMERCE.
NOTICE:
NOTICE
1. N. BEAUREPAIRE,
Secretary.
Hangkong, December 1, 1921.
THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO., (1918), LTD.
TELIRO
the 10th
THENERAL
ORDINARY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Company, St. George's Buikling, Chater Road, Victoria, Hons kong, SATURDAY, December, 1921, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of receiving! a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year ended 30th September, 1921, and electing a Consulting Committee and Auditors.
ICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Committee of the Hongkong
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the General Chamber of Commerce, under powers conferred upon them by the Company will be closed from THURS Regulations thereof, have appointed DAY. the 1st December 1921 until David Keay Blair to be. Seeratury as SATURDAY, the 10th December 1921 from this date vice the undersigned, both days inclusive, resigned.
By Order.
E. A. M. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Hongkong, December 1, 1921.
NOTICE.
CHINESE HORTICULTURAL MASTERS & LABOURERS' GUILD.
E have, pleasure in notifying the WE
general public that the Opening CEREMONY of our GUILD will take place at the Tung Ting Restaurant, West Point, o1 December 8, 1921, which date will be hell as a HOLIDAY by the members of cur thuild. Members of the Community cordially invited.
Chests HowTICULTURAL MASTERS
& LABORERS' Guile,
Secând floor, 229, Holywood Road. Hongkong, November 27, 1921.
NOTICE.
THANKS TO DR. YEUNG ON SHU, SURGEON, S.SHWAH BING.",
HE PUBLIC IS HEREBY inform THE
ed that on 14th October, 1921, I
4 SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.
General Managers.
Hongkong, November 19, 1921.
WE
NOTICE.
E, the undersigned beg to notify the public that Mr. CHING PING SAU was granted a monopoly by the Hongkong Governmmt for the running of wesm launches (ferrics) between Hongkong, Kowloon-ahi, Shan.. kiwan, Hunghom and Raiwanho for a period of three years from the lat April, 1921, to the 31st March, 1924.
The undersigned together with Mr. CHING PING SHU therefore Jani ter to for n a Company called the TỪNG ON STEAM LAUNCH CO. LTD. with a capital of $12,00001. The shares being apportioned as follows:- Mr. Ching Ping Shu ... $1000.00 Mr. Wone Po Ki
... $LO01.00 Me. Kok Kwai Sang..." ... $2,000.00 Mr. Chik Las Shing ... $2000.00.
Up to last October as Mr. Ching Ping Shu had not registered the afore auid Limited Liability Company at the Registrar's Office at Hongkong, wa, therefore, and all our shares to Mr. Cbing Ping Shu, who has properly paid us for our ebares this month.
We, the undersigned, therefore pivo notice that we will not be responsible for any of the Loans, Charters, Bills, Profit and Loss, ute, of the said Tung
Tembarked on the S.S. "HWAH PING " | On Stoam Launch Co., Ltd. and that
at Pera to return to China. A few Mr. Ching Ping Shu will be responsible
days after the vessel's doparture L¦ for same."
suddenly felt a very bad pain in the lower part of my right leg. When Dr. YEUNG, Surgeon of the vessel, and. native of the Mui District, has treated my leg the pain left me after a few days and, after being continmlly under his kind medical treatment for twenty odd days, my leg entirely recovered. In commemoration of and thankfulnces for bis kindness, I therefore put these lives in the paper to bring it to every body's notice.
IR WAH-LAM, NATIVE OF CREK Kal Hongkong, December 1, 1931.
NATIONAL LOANS..
DONDHOLDERS ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the FOURTH
DRAWING of the 3rd. Year Loan ($2,750,000) and the EIGHTH DRAWING of the 7th, Year Issue, of Short Term Bonds ($4,800,000)-will be hold, as announced by the Loan Bureau of the Ministry of Finance, in Peking on 1st and 10th December respectively had that payment of drawn bonds will be made on 31st., „Decambor.
Bonds of the 1st Year 0 per cent Loau (converted issue) which were drawn on 10th. November last, amounting to $2,719,611.40 will be redeemed on 1st, December next, and the interest couponi 81,631,766.84 will be paid on Ramo .date.'
The interest coupon on the 3rd Year "Loan, 7th Year Short Term Boad Isrue and the 7th Year Long Torth Bonde due on 31st December not will be pald on 31st Decofaber.
I. A. AGLEV mand, de Iumpeptor General of Customs. ¿Tuspoolorato Elenarul of Customa,
Peking 21st November 1921,
This is a notice for future proof.
WONG PO KI,
KOK KWAI SANG, CHIK LUN SHING,
Hongkong, November 28, 1921.
NOTICE,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
HONGKONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY has been acquired, az rom July 7th, 1921, by the undersign-
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
25 WORDS 3-INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID.
Every additional word 4 Conta
for 3 insertion.
WANTED.
December 15th.
Please keep this date for Madamo Lottie Gordon's AFTERNOON XMAS
CONCERT, City Hall, for Xmas Gift Fund for the Blind Homo, Pokfulum home, also the home for the aged, Kowloon.
WANTED AD AS ISTANT for a firm of AUCTIONEERS, one having previous experience preferred. Good opening for the right man. c/o A. B. C.
TO LET.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
1
MILLIONS ROMANCE.
WHEN LONDON WAS GREEN FIELDS.
"ANTIQUE FAKING
A GUIDE FOR THE UNWARY COLLECTOR.
The history of a few grass fields on
Old furniture may, for the practical which a good slice of fashionable purposes of the collector, be defined London now stands, and the almost as that which was made in the thres fabulous enrichment which accrued to centuries preceding 1800. In "The the Duke of Westminster's family in Present Stafo of Old English consequence, is narrated with much Furniture" (Duckworth & Co., £335,) picturesque detail in Mary Davies Mr. R. W. Symonds explains that and the Manor of Ebury," Mr. Charles examples of an earlier date than 1,500 T. Gatty's new book. (Cassell, 63%).
are not likely to be met with, and The Manor of Ebury is the formal that after 1,800 the standard of title of this ancient grange or farm, design had begun to decline. It is which we know better as embracing therefore for untouched specimens mainly Belgravia and Mayfair and from the intervening three centuries much of Pimlico. It stretches south that the instructed collector will from Oxford street to the Thames, look.
On the west and east it is bounded by He will find this sumptuous book two of London's buried rivers, the an invaluable guide. The illustra Westbourne and the Tybourne.
tione, which are to be found on Part of the site of Buckingham almost every other page, are of them- Palace and nearly all its grounds were selves an education in good taste. also included in the "fow fields of
The collector is here taught not pasture" which Mary Davies brought only how to distinguish the altogether to Sir Thomas Grosvenor. They were spurious from the genuine but all the married when she was "about 13"
various wiles employed to restore” at St. Clement Danes, in the Strand, some ancient pieces of which the in 1677. At that time the bride-dealer has secured only a part. Tako, groom, with the family's great estate for instance, the matter of joint at Eaton and elsewhere, was reputed stools, genuine specimens of which -twice as wealthy as Mary with her from the reign of Elizabeth or James I "Manor of Ebury." But Loudon as are niuch sought after. Many have we know it had yet to grow.
been fitted with new tops. To ascertain whether a top is new, writes
Mr. Symonds, "carefully examine the edges. For a restoration of this kind, the new top would be parle ont of an old piece of oak, such
MILKMAID LEGEND.
Tho
59
Mr. Gatty demolishes the agreeable legend that Mary was a milkmaid, the daughter of an alderman-drykeeper, and tended the paternal cows in the peaceful pastures we call Grosvenor as the top of an old gate table, having square. The truth is not so pictures the genuine patina; but the wood que. Her father, as Pepys describes would have to be cut, and it is by the PARTICULARS and Conditions of
the fetting by Public Auction Sale, bim, was "Davies, the little fellow, my staining and rubbing of the ont edges be held on MONDAY, the oth day schoolfellow, the bookseller.". of Decumber, 1921, at 3 p.m., at the estate came into the market when Ollices of the Public Works Department, Henry VIII. seized it from the Abbot by Order of His Excellency the Governor of Westminster at the Dissolution
LAND of CROWN at Shuaiwan, in the Colour of And it came down to the Davies Hons kang. For a term of 10 years, family from their forbear, "old with the option of renowal at a rown Ront t be Ex-d by the Surveyor of His wdley," a notorious usurer and hard Majesty the King, for one farther tere dealer in spendthrifts' estates, who of TO years.
bought the freebohl for €9,400 in
ut
00
Lot
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT,
G.
Rear of Sharkiwan
Locality.
PARTIC
hankiwan Ho
Boundary Kasurements.
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10. 1. th
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
R.
* Annual Benl
DARTICULARS and Conditions of the! letting by Pablic Auction Salu, tri be held on MONDAY, the 4th day of December, 1921, 53 p.m., at the Offices!
1626.
Often, and very agreeably, Mr. Gatty allows his narrative to ramble into fascinating bypaths of Jacobean: England, and his exploration of old family records suggests comparisons between the social life of London in the seventeenth century and this which are spiced with entertainment and interest.
that it may be detected."
MILKMAID
IT POURS OUT.
STERILISED
NATURAL
MILK
I$
PURE FRESH MILK
STERILISED
NOT CONDENSED.
PACKED BY NESTLE'S"
IN TWO SIZES
pint and pist.
OBTAINABLE AT ALL STORES.
MARKET PRODUCE IN HONGKONG.
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
This is only one of many examples Seat Striala, Mel Lang Pa of the author's shrewdness aud knowledge.
Prime Cas... Oorned,-Ham Ngao Yak...
PRESS VINDICATED.
PUBLIC'S BEST SAFEGUARD AGAINST OFFICIALDOM.
A noteworthy, victory involving the principle of the freedom of the Press has been won by the Chicago Tribune against the Mayor and Corporation of the City through the dismissal of the latter's libel action against the paper.
Mary herself, apart from her unique dowry, does not appear to have been a particularly attractive percon. But The subject of the action consisted she survived Sir Thomas and con of several leading articles in the tracted a second marriage, which she Tribune attacking the local ad- subsequently denicil had taken place. ministration, alleging that the city As the foundress of the Grosvenor had been bankrupted. The damages millions, the book eller's daughter is claimed were £2,250,000. The mayor commemorated in the street called and the officials brought a suit for Davies, which runs from Oxford-street personal libel, and alleged in addition to Berkeley square.
RADIUM DIET.
of the Public Works Department, by Order REPORTED CURE FOR OLD AGE.
of His Excellency the Governo
(Ine Lot af CROWN
LAND at
rear of Inland No. 167, Shaukiwan Road Lot in the Colony of Hongkong,
Wonderful possibilities in longtben for * torm of 75 years, with the ing human life lie in the eating of option of renewal at a Crown Rent radium, according to Dr. Stillman to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty Bailey a Chicng physician, who is the King, for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Sale.
Leglatry No.
At rear
Inland
** 101 Nu. 1617,
Shatiktwan Head
Locality.
K
fi.
Boundary KiwamitonentR,
$
An
per
101 plait
1,450
Upset Price.
to the
re-
that the Tribune's attacks seriously impaired the city's credit. The paper demurrer. The interposed A
the Circuit Court Judge of
sustained the Tribune's plea and dis- missed the ac ion as being "not in harmony with the genius, spirit, and objects of our institutions."
Stripped of all elaborate argu- ments," the judge declared, "the fact remains that if this action is maintain- one of the greatest authorities on able public officials have in their power one of the most effective in-. radiology in the world.
His attention, he told the Thera- êtruments with which to intimidate peutista Conventiou at Chicago, the Preas and silence their enemies. had been drawn
The Press has become the eyea 'and markable bealth enjoyed by the the ears of the world. It is the workes in the radiuzi ore mines in spokesman of the weak and the suffer Colorado. After much research being. It holds up for review the acts came to the conclusion that this was of officials and men in high places. It due to their drinking water being is the force which unifies public senti- charged with radium.
mant. But for it the acts of public "Radium rays caught in sugar or benefactors would pass unnoticed and milk and made up into tablets and impostors would continue undismay- taken internally scem to work ed. Public office would be the rich miracles," he said. "I have dispensed reward of the demagogue.” a thousand radium tables in Chicago. The results, especially among old people, are nothing short of mar-
J. A. YOUNG vellous.
& CO.
ad with all rights and titles, and will GENUINE
hereafter be published by them. No claims against the Hongkong Dollar Directory incurred prior to this, dats. will be admitted by the undersigned,
THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE
LTD
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at any time in
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KEATING'S
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Take advantage of this
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TOYS,
+
PERFUMERIES,
NOVELS,
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Beaconsfield Arcade.
A GERM DESTROYER: TERE is no danger whatever from "A veritable fairyland of science log jaw or blooi peizon resulting stands revealed. Acute pains dis Balm is promptly applied, which from a wond when Chamberlain's, Pain appear as if by magic: invalidism, a antiseptic and destroys the germs which characteristic, of old, ago, vanishes, canso these di-easy. It also causes Jaded appetites become keen again, wounds to heal with at matur tion and in one third the time required by and red blood corpuscles have increas- the usual treatmont Fr sale by all ed by 250,000 in a few hours."
Chemiala and Ntorekeopars.
DANIEL CRAWFORD'S
FINEST VERY OLD
STAR
SCOTCH WHISKY
DISTILLED IN SCOTLAND AND ONLY 'QININE WIEW SIGNED
Daniel Crawford & Son Ld.
Glasgow.
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November 29th, 1921.
Butcher Meat.
Uts
lb. 20
Poultry.
Chicken,--Kai T....
... fb.
20
Capons, Small,- -Sin Ksi
IM
22
Roast,-Shlu
17
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++
19
Clapozs, Large,—Sin KრDuck,-Ap
Fww 11
Breast, Ngin Nam 1300477
16
Soap,-Tong Yuk
*** 152 "
16
Steak,-Ngan Yok Pa
15
$6
"
Doves-Pay Kae
PM
444
Fage, Hen,--Kai Tan (conking) par dow: 29
Egge, Hen-Kai Tan (fresh),par dos Fowle, Canton,-Kal......
1.29
28
... lb. 89 Fowls, Hatoso.-Hot Nam Rai 25*
Geena-Ngo Pigeons, Canton-Pak Kafeach 40
Hothow,-Hq! Bar Pak Kap
Steak Sirtola, Ngao Lau Sausages - Ngan Cheung Butlook's Bralos,-Ngan No par set 10
Tongue, fresh,Ngau Lionch 60 Tongue, corned-Hato Ngan Li each 65 cence, Hord-Nenu Tu... sch 80 Roset-Ngan Bam... lb. 13 Hump, Bat-Nga Kim, 18 Feet-Ngsu Keuk...oh 10 Kidneys-Ngao Yin,
10
18
-Ngau Mela Liver,-Nesa Ken... ib. 13 Trips (undressed), Ngan To h. 8 calves' Head and Foot-Ngan-tza!-
tau-keak
set $1.00
***
Matton Chop-Young Pel Kwab lb. 34
Leg,-Yonng Pal...
Shoulder. Yeang Bhan Saddle. Young Op Yak 11 Pla's Chicllage, -Chu Chong
+
14
Head-Chu Tan Fleirt-Che Bam
12
IH
each 25 Turkeys, Cook,-Fo Kai Kung lb. 75 Turkeys, Hen-Fo Kai N Salpe,-Sha Tsui... Phosaint-Shan Kal...... Quatl,--Om Char Partridges,-Che Ko
Fruite
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17
1.10 18
Almonds.-Hang Yan .. .. th. 46 Apples, (Californis),-Kam Shan
Plot Bo ...24
34
30
Bananas, (brida's), Macro,-Suo
Heung Chlo Carambola-Teang To...
་
Coconuta,-Ye Tee...
mol 10
Lemons, China,-Ling Mung... Ib.. S
Braine-Chu No ................ per. 186 Feet-Chu Keak
1.
Ib. 16
Fry, Cha Chap
18
吧
15
4-
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Ling Mung... ench
... each to
Lichens, Dried, (small stone-
* Bach 10
Lai Chi Eon lb. 93.
ib. 30
Oranges, (Canton), Sweet-
B
24
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12
32
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20
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Tha-Keuk...**
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Buangon Ngon Tại Chen 50 No, I... lb. 26
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Oblish,-Chik Ya Codfish-Mun Yu Orabe,-Hal...
212
A
Pamelo, Slam,Tala Lo Fac...ach 19 Walnube,-Hop To
Grapes,-Po Tai Tez...
b. 17
in
tm
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24
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Artichokes,Ah Chi Cheat...eact Beans, Sproat-Nga Tou..
**
Long-Tae Kok!
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Red-Hang Ko...
TH
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26
End Trot
(Shangbel) Te Tool ...
Hot Blu Ya
21
Ons Shoota, bunch,-Kc Shan
20
EIH
93
Tattle Fish Mak Tu Deb,-Sha Mang Yu Dice-Wong Mel Lap Dog Fleb,TIS To Shi
14
8
JS
... Th. €
IN
11
30
Oliflower (Large), --Ye Tool Fa sach. 30
(Medium)
(Small),
Jarro'z,Kam Shun...
Oslory Chinese, Tong dan Twoi
Chillies, Dried,-Kon at Chis
Red,-Hang Es Chin is Green-Chlag Lab Ohio - 32
Curry Bluff, English,Ke 14 Chu Ta
Cucumbere,-Ching K--- ... esch 2 Garlic,--Sun Tau
1b. 10
32
-***
20
40
10
8
"
Kela, Conger,Hot Man!
14
Fresh water,Tim Shal Yu Yellow-Wong Bin
18
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Froggia Ention.
lb.
Kroupa,-Shek Pai
AL
Judgeon-Pak Kap
Ya
34
Aerrings, Too Pak...
Gluger young-Sun Tee Hout Ginger, old,-Lo Heang
Ralibet-Obeng Kwan Kay Labene,-Wong Fa Ta
Chob-Wa Ya.
Lobsters-Long Es ... Kickerel,--Ohi Ya *** Honk Bish, Mong Ya Mallat, That Ya. Cybers,Shang Ho Parent, Blih-Ha! Kung Peroh,Tan Lo
Pipice,
Pomfret, Black, Hak
TH
38
Hornersdlah, Stangbalik Han, 15 Indian Corn,-Shuk Match: 6 Lettuce,-Young Shing Tool Ib. 6 Water Chestnuts, --Ms Tal
Mondarta --HW
Lam Me Tali..! Mashrooms. Fresh, Shang Too Hu 2b. Okreel o
11
Ontous, Bombay,Teung Chung Tau Ib. Ouinte, Green-hang: Chung Jb. Onton, Shanghal-Sheung-hai
Chody Tab 14 Panity,--Kun Trol Poleto Bwest-Yan Shu 15
Pen Sbo Tad It & Hi Shu Talib.,
ong Chon, The
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