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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONENES, APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYØRS.

-Public Auctions-

4187 Vadarsigned havo recolzed instrno- tions to sell by Public Abotion,

00

WEDNESD Y, Jan. 11, 1992, commencing at 11 a.m.

at their Salma Rooms, Daddell Street,

A Quantity Proprietary

Medicine,

Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Allen and

Hanbury Stearns and others)

gut ndition"

à iso

A Line of Toilet Soaps,

of vangs well known nakes.

Terme --Cash on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers. Hongkong, January 6, 1922.

IN THE X PREME COURT

HONGKONG ORIGINAL

JURISDICTION..

Acting No 224 1 1921,

Bet weel

H. J. Murray

OF

Plaintiff

Walte Ford Back Company Walter Lron Ford and fung Yan Sun partners therein,

Defenlants

BY ORFER OF THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG

UNDER THE DIRECTIONS OF THE REGISTRAR, SUPREME COURT.

MESSES LAMMENT BROTBRS, kayu served motructions. to hell by Public Auction on

THURSDAY, the 12th bay of January, 1932,

dark pu

WITHOUT RESERVE

ali the right turde anal interest of the slove named detcoolant Fung Yan Sam

of aseed in the following propertion mittante

in the Coland 14 ngkong

No. 4 WAND BAM STREET, Valor.

being the Berang, Putrum of Sertion

Bof blond Log No. 970, No. 38 SANGHAI STREET, Ma kakts, baing Set Hof Nowiosn Iniani Lot

No. 113.

No. 99 PORTLAND STREET,

Mongkokto

being Section 1 Kowloon. Inlund Lot

No. 7

Thu alene propratim ate polil subjret atl existing motopres and charges. Pate data and Conditions of Sale can be chann! Escu,

Shausts, LUVA 10 Alevatalna bus anys, Bangkong,

SuchMole

og drops

MESARS LAMMELT BROTHERS,

1e Austroberts. Hongkong, December 28, 1921.

SALE a't SINCERE

KERMATH

Smooth and Stendy

Here your boat nor your engine wel shuke so pleem if your engine Earthath. The Kezinath kas pratically no vibrations it ea with catzen.æ smooshpen.

See the Necret of the great Ceperability of the Kermaths mad et sacsual economy of fuel.

1 to 40 TL, P. 4 cylinder, 4 cycle Come only.

*Price: $210-81,650, Detroit

Jardine, Mathes A Co.

HMANGHAL. ORIKA.

Karmalli Matrafacturing Co. Detroit, Michigan Calle Address KERMATH,

INTIMATIONS

WE

HAVE

Groat Varieties of used and unused POSTAGE STAMPS

Single, Sets, Pockets, Bags,

and

On approval Books, FOR COLLECTORS.

GRADA & 00, Doslere in Postage Stamps, Post Cards, Seeds, &c., &a. No. 10, Wyndham Stress,

P. O. Box 620.

Honghung

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

OHERRY & 00..

PEDDER STREET, Opposite Hongkong Hotel

Telephone No. 491.

Boogkong. March 1914

PALACE MOTOR Co., Ltd.

Phone Central

644

Western Branch 3148 Kowloon Branch K307

New Cars For Hire & For Sale. Private Cars garaged. Repairing Cars a Speciality.

MASSAGE.

M. HONDA and Mrs. KISAKL 14 years' experience. No. 24, Wyndon Street (opposite to the "China Mail"}

TANG YUK, Dærir. Hacemos 30

the late BIEN TING,

14, D'Aguilar Street.

VISIB VERY MODEB AYE

Commation Yama

EHR BEW KHENGH REMEDY.

THERAPION NË THERAPION No.: THERAPION N03

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RAHI BRER

PILSENER BEER

GRAND PRIZES

MAC EXIST

ASAHI BE

AGER

·EXIC

THE CHINA MAIL.

"CAPSTAN"

NAVY CUT CIGARETTES are the Acme of Perfection

They are made from the finest quality Virginia Tobacco, and are sold in two strengths,

Mild and Medium.

MEDIUM STRENGIN

CAPSTAN Navy Cut | Cigarettes

THE CIGARETTE FOR THE CONNOISSEUR

SOLD BY ALL LEADING

TOBACCONISTS

TL Advertiment is issued by British-American Tobacco Co. (China), Ltd.

HOW TRAD IS LOST.

BUSINESS METHODS WHICH

HANDICAP

pains to satisfy the requirements of their clients and to seek, by advertise- ment and otherwise, to obtain new ones they cas not expect to achieve much suce 8.

THE LANGUAGE UNSTAPLE,

Discussing the same subject in Is the reports of British Trade Commissiearts and Consular repre. relation to the Iberian Peninsula and Isentatives abroad frequent reference the Latin-American countriva a writer is made to the obstinate adherence of in the Board of Trade Journal

remarks that the Consular aud Com- many British firms

business to methods which impose on themri

mercial Diplomatic services incessant- heavy and often fatal handicap ly point out that in the majority of competing against more cuter ising cases, corr spondence and circulars rivals. Striking examples are quoted in English will only serve to enrich by Mr. JK. V. Dible, Acting British the waste paper buskers of the r Consul General at Algiers.

cipients, and that, more especially in the case of the Spaniard, 4 Sense of irritation and person. ja resentiment often aroused

nl

LASTED A DAY,

A MISTAKEN MARRIAGE,

After living with his wife only one day before going abroad, a man named Richard Hudson Walker, who was an officer in the Essex Regiment, cime to the conclusion that his marriage was a mistake.

"I dd not realise this mistake

it

un it had been in Egypt for a short time, and Beving life 83 really is, it has grown upon cas until I have lived in agony," he wrote.

He declined to return to his wife,

It must, be writes, he admitted that many British firms which profess themselves to be anxious to increase by the indifference of our exporters with the consequence that there was their export trade continue to pay to a rich and widely spoken language.as quel in the Divorce Court, when little or 14 attentiou to the requirements of the local market. In But, in face of all warnings incessant- Mr. Beatrice Walker was granted a

ly repeated, lettera and catalogues in decree. the first place. Algerian firms still English continue, day by day, to leave remember that before the war German the United Kingdom in shoals, ad- exporting houses used to quote prices dressed to prospective purchases in local currency and local language whose knowledge of English may be, and to include in their quotations the and in many cases probably is, no delivery of the goods at the door of greater then the senders' knowledge the buyer. These methode were

of Spanish. And greatly appreciated,

were It is rare that the German exporter successful, and they form a vivid will be found to commit the com- contrast to the following five examples, mercial batise of expecting bis corrY- which have been brought to notice by spondent to be familiar with German,

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Mr. Walker, who now lives. at Chelsen, stated that her husband, who was formerly a bank clerk, lived together for a single day, before he returned to camp. Then he went to Egypt, on the way epending a couple

af hours with her to say good-bye.

FATAL NISTAKE.

In June, 1918, he wrote:-- Latin America and the Iberian Well, first of all, after long and Peninsula are full of German traders thoughtful deliberation, I have come. who were prevented by the activities to the conclusion that I, or rather of the British Reet from rejoining we, made a very irrational and fatal their country at the outbreak of war. mistake in finally "binding ourselves British commercial houses may be together as we did so quickly. I assured that these traders will let slip did not realise this mistake until no opportunity of emphasising to I had been in Egypt for a short their business friends the difference time, and, secing life as it really is between the British and the German day by day, it has grown upon me methods. Britain has also a lack of until I have lived in agony thinking commercial travellers trained in the of it all.

a local merchant:

Manufacturers of beer offer their product in sterling, in pints and fo.b. at a British port. To establish market for this commodity would in any case be very difficult but it be comes impossible when the buyer is completely mystified by terms which he docs not understand sad when he can obtain no quotation for freight.

Manufacturare of stationers' sun drien and toys send a catalogue printed in Enzlish, with English weights and languages of the countries which they measures, and prices, quito un atci-ars to visit. Not so the Germans. It ligible to French buyers.

is quite common to encounter.in Coffes merchants offer their produce Latin America German travellers and jn sterling and English weights, and retail deslo:s opoaking fluently at therefore are unable to compete with least three or four languages, one of Tronch firma quoting in French which is invariably the language of weights and purrency.

the country in which they are trading. Furniture manufacturers: send a The German shopkeeper, large or catalogue printed in English, with small, is to be found in many a Latin English sizes, weights, and measures, American town and village, living and with priore "free on rail at an in-with the people as one of the people, Rostan Drinnen spoke of the hus land town in Great Britain and sub- and frequently united to them, by band and a lady she now knew was ject to variation," This is a waste of marriage. Each of these traders is not his wife living together at Richi time and moder

not only a centre for German disfti- | mond. The couple had since gone to Pottery manufacturers quote fob, balou, but also for Gorman pro Egypt, add withese had sincs cot- and refuse to provide samples in pigande. Great Britain, looking there responded with Mrs. Walker."); view of the bstacles in an al-advantages (save in the deas of

ready dificuls maykes nɔ frisinesa imited number vi Jarge ofpurting

idétant "citin)); must at

Houser with branches in certain of the not suggested (ndđe Mr. Dilin) mork

foregoing inatourre are al Britik

the war be lost, and

Later came another letter contain. ing the passage-

Forget me, for I shall never return to you..

Since then, said the wife, there bad brei no further, communication, and bir husband had not maintained bor. Inquiries showed that he had been demobilieed, and lived at some tea rooms at Richmond, Surrey, with another lady.

MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1932.

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 Manufacturera, High Class English Jewellery,

Latest Novelty in Pen Nibs.

PREMIER

BENSLA

Fort Parmaker Pens Prieto Broad

Most superior quality Nibs of INCORRODIBLE metal.

For swift and elegant handwriting it is unrivalled.

NEVER SCRATCH.

NEVER SPURT,

Sole Agents for East.

DANIELS & CO., 17, Wyndliım (Flower) Street.

"ENSIGN BRAND" TEAS.

BROKEN-PEKOE (IT'S WORTH DRINKING).

THE FINEST OF ITS KIND

SOLD IN THE COLONY.

One-pound Packets from Stora-keopera,

The Blue Bird and

The Graeco Egyptian Tobacco Store.

Or from

The Glodale & Terramia Tea Agency.

DANIELS & CO., 17, Wyndham (Flower) Street,

LONG HING & CO., Kodaks and Kodak Films, &c. .

PHOTO SUPPLIES, “ DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

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

HOTELS AND CAFES.

HONGKONG HOTEL,

PEAK HOTEL,

REPULSE BAY HOTEL.

HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

(Two minutes from Star Ferry).

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON

Recently renovated and refurnished, electrio light and fans throughoni and entirely under new management. Calsina under the personal inpervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Rooms Torma, moderate. Special termir vo familier on application to

Telephone K. 3. Telegraphic Add.: "PALACK" /

HOTEL

J. H. OXKERRY, Proprietor.

“ASIA”

WEST BUND, CANTON,

Leading Hotel in South China.

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

of City and Pearl River.

Moderate

Excellent Cuisine.

Under the Management of the BUN 00., LTD., CANTON.

THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE,

124 Dan, Vaaaz, Robd, Central, BREAKFAST

and DINNERS (Menu and

FRENCH LESSON

M