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AMMERT BROS. C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AD BORVBTORA

-Public Auctions-

191 Undersigned have received inetur

Mods to sell by Pobile anctine,

MONDAY, Sept. 10, 1923, commencing at ii .m.

at No. 0 Victoria View, Kowloren A Quantity of Vainablo, Bonaobold Furniture,

Comprising:

Drawing. Dining and Bod Room Suiter, Blackwood Wors, etc., etc.

And

One Fine Cottage Piano (in Excellent Condition) by John Broadroed & Pope.

Torma :-Cash on delivery.

Catalogues will be issued.

On View from Sawday the h September 1993.

LAMMERT BROS..

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, Gin September, 1923,

TUESDAY, September 11, 1923,

at 19.15 pm,

at the premise the Hongkong &

Whamp Pork Co. Ltd., (Hunghom? (fer account of the concerned)

4 Furr me. “ Nile "

Terms: As Customary

Inspretion oilers may be obtained from the Undersigned

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctionsere Hoogkong. th "eptember, 1923.

THE WATER SUPPLY.

Lovel sud Storage of water in reservoirs

on the 1st August 1993 -

BITT AND TILE DETRICT WATKA WOREE

0107 M

LETST.

11.

1

Tram 1911.75 Keten

staw Benesh teftia for ton. Below sterton

Sin. Below overfo

Sytacs Intermediate differed wikoverno

11 in, Below overfow

Tythm 1 14. 15.

balow overdo tp.n, læri? with overflow

Wong Nal Chase, 19)

in Halow Sidow) 18. Sío, Lernt with avazbaw

Faktalam, 1 ft. in. F

Below makes

Leul with ove

Am I WILLJONI AKU VINGINATE OF GALLINA.

Item Bresh

Islam Intermediat

Trim Tek.. MANA

Wasa Net Chung -

Faktalojam

Total

131.85

+053

ID: DO

16.02 IP. F

1,800 HT

Conecmption of water to the Dity and H Bletzlet in mukone and decimale

of gallons dering the month of July.

Co ve, kunta »

aled populalk

ure. 1975. 196.57

P.

$86 87 867

ha 17.2 Kallas

3822 Intermittent Supply in Weslera Rider Main Districts only from 1st to Eth

1022 Intermittent Fupply in all Rider Main 1 istries from th to 31st July,

Intermittent supply in all Hider Main Districts during July 19.3.

מצן

LOWLIGHT WORKS IVEL

IKB. Lete, całow K.kes Gratke 21 Fin.

* Enam...i kelow OWIEW

KUNDAKA IN MILUNER ATTESTKIVALS CY BALLOON.

14

123'14 Cepompties el water in Kowlero in lions and dectwals of gallons during tho weath of July.

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ANITARY ENGINEER

MONUMENTALISTE AC,

Other had tiedowns, atti, Wanchad Hood, Hongkong.

Tel. Central Na. 24

ALL KINDS OF DUILDERS REQUISITES

IN STOCK.

RAIN WATER TIPES-SOIL PIPES LOCKB-BOLTS-WINDOW

FASTENERS

THUMB LATCHES--WATER BEATERS BATHS BASINS-BIDETS--

COMMODES

STOVES GRATES RANGES.

SPECIALISTS IN MARBLE AND HONGKONG GRANITE WORK,

T0 OWN HESION ( ILO AELECTI

ARTIFICAL WREATHS.

FOR SALE

Postage Stamps HONGKONG-CHINA

10 cents blue INVERTED

Script Watermark

60 $3 rach.

GRACA & 00., Dealers in Paitatetic Gonds, View Post Cards, Garden *ceds, &c No. 10. Wyndham Street, P. Q. Box €20.

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese and Mindo)

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO.,

8. D'AQUILAR STREET.

Opposite Kayamally & Co. Telephone Central No 491

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

YEE SING

GENTLEMEN'S

TAILOR

Tel. 1882 19, Wellington Street.

WING FAT CHEUNG

SPARROW CARDS (KA JONG) FOR RALY CARDS MADE OF IVORY AND PIAN BONK. No. 276, Queen's Road Central BRANCH No. 3, Man Fame "troot FanE.

Ped population .....

4

masper bend

19t 31.4)

*4

1112

1,00 14-0 Jai

Tu.K

ASAH!

sve kay mamar a un de vost

Restriction in all districts from 8. to

1st July 1929

Restriction in all riets during July

1993.

1h Borerneut dualyat's reporta ber

ta: the quality of the water is satisfac

rs.

192 THE Tani Rainful to 31 July 350 in. 4759 İn.

H.T. JACKMAN.

Water Authority

Public Works Department.

HONGKONG HEIGHTS.

For the information of visitors 1 following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainten pablished

PILSENER BEE

GRAND PRIZES

ASAHI

ISLAMI

Fent

Signal Station

1774

Ho Parker

1734

Mountain Lodge

1720

The Eyria:

3725

Fesk Hotel

1905

Taikoo Sanatorium

1000

Mt. Davir

8771

Bowen Ed. (filterbelo

503

MAINLAND.

Tsimokan

8124

Kowloon Fesk

1971

Lion Book

1841

Shatin Fan

1000

Costom. Fas

780

Thril's Posk

124

LAGER

SPECIALLY

Chamberíala's Cough Remedy.

This remedy has no superior av a" de for colds, croup and whooping cough.

It has been a favourite wish posbers of young childrm for almost forty yours.

Chamber inn's Cough Remedy can Always be depended upon and is pleasant

to take.

It not only cores colds and grip, but provente their resulting in poumonia. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy con tains no opimus or other narcotic and:1 vɔay boy from as confidently to a child as au adult. For use by all Chem'sia and

Byrekooper

ASA

RWAR

MSENER

SAHI BEER

SOLE AGENTS: MITSUI BUSSÄN KAISHA

THE CHINA MAIL.

Three Castles

Guaranteed manufactured in England...

Made in-Regular Magnum and Super- Magnum Sizes... *

Virginia Cigarettes

Smoked 'round the World

Tree Castles

Cigarettes

WDEHO

Prisil & London

Registered Trade Marks..

This odvodiaument is issued by the British-Autorican Tobacco Co. (China), Ltd.

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

2

Ac-

There is a splendour in even Fower American Million ares.

irren sacrifice. The lover who Although America seenis just now dies for love is capable of spiritual to be on the flood-tide of prosperity ardours beyond nur ken, and as we the number of its super-millionaires "That's Why I Am In Politics.", wonder we are saddened by the jis reported to be decreasing.

waste of that central cording to a bulletin issued by the 1 Care--that's why I am in silen

Internal Revenue Burcsa the num- politics," said Lady Astor M.P.mystery and miracle of life, the ber of persons who paid taxes for This is a phrase worth thinking unfathomable innocence and the last fiscal year on an income of over." says the British Weekly. decipherable holiness of a boy's love

I wonder whether croakers like or a girl's."

Sir Henry Craik, who recentlyTwo Kinds of Criticism, issued RI antediluvian protest

Ja Thillion dollars (more then £200,000) or over was twenty-one, as against thirty-three in the pre- vious year.

In 1916 the number

against women M.P.s, have any There are two kinds of criticism, idea of the deep ethical reasons one in constructive and kind, the Was as high as 206, and since then it has been dropping year by year. which have driven wonen into the other is destructive and unjust one The Treasury officials offer no ex- political arena?"

bus its basis and motive in a sincere

They desire to be helpful, the other Planation of the decline. becomes merely a pelty, pecking. Bagging disposition to find fault; One gently shows you where you are wrong, and tries to put you right, the other snarls and snaps at your best efforts, but offers no remedy,

More Teachers Than Posts.

Parents who are thinking of send ing their children into the teaching procession are waned by Sir James Vusall, Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, that a large number of quidified teachers are now anenyplayed as a result of economies in the education service, and that as a consequence there may be little opportunity for their r children to be euploved unless con- ditions materially alter for the better.

Holiday Luggage.

Express no opinion as to whether it country is controlled by fewer men is because most of the money in the or whether it is because it is more equally divided. It night be jeither.

the

J

war. agricultural pressure, motor-buses, country town cinemas, wireless enthusiasts, and a surpris- ing influx of early edition of the daily papers bearing disturbing

The Village Of To Morrow, I got an earful of the second In the new rural England which brund of criticism coming on the This critic began by rinning the Administration up the back: next is paid profane condiments in the Klovated; after that he polished off old H.C.L., then condemned the news and cheap life assurance are Weather Clerk because he had pre- fast fashioning, there is to be un- 1 Observation at some of our prin-dicted nin, whereas a reach of a doubtedly a democratisation of the cipal stations indicates that folk day had dawned. I thought he was village (writes Mr. J. W. Robertson travel with less luggage now than out of ideas, but not so; looking Scott in the World's Work). There was deemed necessary even a few across the aisle et Another man's can be no democratisation without For organisation years ago, says the Morning Post. feet he whispered. "I have no nati organisation.

And the What travelling in the good old ence with a man who hasn't enough there must be a contre, days was like in this respect one-panect to keep his shoea new village must have a new centre. Some of the twentieth-century gathers from the memoirs of the shined"

opening Nineteenth Century, when A sidowise glance revealed that born any live to see the church that it was customary for holiday-makers this critic's enllar looked as if it new contro.

The Indian Salt Duty.

FRIDAY BEMEMBER 7, 1929

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD, WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansio

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,

THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO.

Head Office: 79 Wyndham Strook 2nd Floor. (Opposite Central Police Station.) Tel, Central 4166.

Dealers in all kinds of High-class Silk Shirts, Collars, Necktios and Pyjamas for Gentlemen

AL80

AND

Chemises, Skirts, Wrappers, Scarfs, Vells, and Night-gowns for Ladies ALSO MADE TO ORDER

MODERATE PRICE

PROMPT DELIVERY Manager: EMILIO LAO.

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Kudasand Kodak Films, a, .

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 17, Queen's Road Cgitnah, HoNGROAD.

HONGKONG:

SHANGHAI:

PEKING:

Hongkong Hotel

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

Peak Hotel

Repulse Bay Hotel

Astor House Hotel

Palace Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalce Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits

The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.

In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

and

The Grand Hotel dos Wagons Lits, Kod.

Tel. Centl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel Add : " Carlton.

The Only American Hotel in the Colony, Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banks, mad Central Districta 43 Bedrooms. Excellent Onisico. Sorapalously dem Under American Management A new Dining Room has been opened at No. 2, Queen's Road (let Boor), Entrance Ice Hours St. Tifins a speciality,

For terms apply to Mm. F. E. CAMERON, Proprietress.

(Two minutos from Star Ferry).

'PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON

Recently renovated and refurnished, sizotric light and fans throughout and ensurely under new management. Calaine under the persons, supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Booms Terma moderate. Fposial terma de families on application to

Telephone Kowloon 3. Telegraphis Add.: "PALACE”

HOTEL

J. H. OXERKY, Prog ta

"ASIA”

WEST BUND, CANTON.

Leading Hotel in South China

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans 25 Elevators. Roof Garden. Hairdressing Salcob,

and of City

Pearl River.

Moderate Rates.

Splendid Views

Excellent Cuisine.

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

KING EDWARD HOTEL

As things are now, to take with them not only clothes, hadn't seen a laundry in two weeks, the church school or parish room books, etc., but the family plato and

-G. N. · cun seldom be more than a depress- ing atopgap. School and parish a large consignment of furniture.

room are unally inconvenient and Beckford of Fonthill used to declare that it was impossible for him to go The salt duty has this against it poly, and memories of patronage on holiday without two or three (writes Sir Thomas Bennett, in the and dullness hang about them first-class pictures, especially a Asiatic Review) that it stands which do not gonnart with the favourite Raphael,

out against an uninviting historical notions now developing in village The "Buxom" Wife.

background. The tradition of the heads. There is a moral advantage Salt Line stretching across in a new building in which to The suggestion that the word | t "obey" should be omitted from the India as a barrier against free moze develon new ideas. Befter a war

protector of high hut with independence and self. A marriage service bus led Lord Sel-stment, and a borne to discover that before the prices, has left ita mark upon the government than a gorgeous hall reformation wives vowed to be popular view of the duty, and it with obligations. The village club buxoni,' but onfortunately will not soon pass from the people's fideal is a building to which all have But is any duty liked? contributed in money, labour, or "buxom" originally meant "obed-mory. ent. The word occurs is the vow The Government of India may material on a basis of equality, a of profession of the Westminster fairly contend that of all forms of building which is dedicated to the monks, in Piers Plowman," and taxation that were open to them, use of men and women equally.

That ideal is being realised in a in the "Faerie Queene." In the this bears least heavily upon the

few places. In a few years it will: contributor...

old Merringe Service the wife vower

to be obedient and buxom in bed In a recently published handbook (be realised in mare. and at board." An ingenious ex- on the domestic budgets of the planation of the modern use of the working classes of Bombay, by Mr. word is that "rather alout, comfort- Shirns, the Director of Labour, it IS YOUR BABY HEALTHY? able, easy-going women are more is shown that the mill labourer.

The more

won

Hore Tea Test”-

apt to be compliant than their thin-mends 66 per cent. of his earnings Happino's a sign of health in on food, and that his expenditure haie:If they are fretful and ratlong it ¡ner, more energètic sisterą."..

on salt represants only two-fifths of sum indication that noun thing in That Central Mystery.

i per cent. of this. "Tragedy is often wrought by general computation is that the crying, irritablity, stomach er Ueally the causes of a baby's sloop- extreme excess of noble qualitice,'

average cost of salt is a farthing a bevel to h or fee hing valta: Faby's writes James Douglas in the Sunday month for each person. Certainly Own Tablets quickly rostore rostful sleep | **Express. "A fine nature may be the forecast that by doubling the and the joylainess of health to babies too exalted to bear the annihilation duty on salt the Government had by dispelling stomach toubics, feverish- of its loftiest dreams. It can accept doubled the cost to the consumerness, constipation, colic, or diarrhos. They make teething cay, broak up no second best. It rushes on ita has not been realised. The average old and oxpol worms, fata rather than let the mercy of increase in the price of salt in all

Baby's. Uwn Tablets, the Onadian time wear its glory of grief away. India up to the middle of Max was children's remedy, are obtainable from It is not tempted by the lesser 34 per cent.; in same providoes, is dream, et prat fico at 60 mts the bribes of life. It will love or in the Central Provinces, it was com-bei William Medicine Co. Fit will die.

6 Klang o Bold, Shanghai, Let us not judge. only 20 per cont.

GENTRAL LOCATION

LL ELECTRIC TRANS Pan Entranos, Elas- tric fafia, Tana and Lighing, Kuropean Bathe and Sanitary Fittings, Klót and Dela

Water Bystems throughra. Best of Food wal

441וסד

TEL. Conti, 172. Tolographie AdÄrem :—" VICTORIA

3. WITOBKLG, Manager.

THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE THE HOUSE FOR GOOD EATS Tisins and· Dlaners (Men and ▲ la Carto) at all hours, Bakers and Confectioners. Çakan made for parties etv. Tel Central 2667. 24. Des Voeux, Road Central

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL Quest's Road. Central.

NEW DIVING ROOM opened for Moals a la Carto, Excellent Cuisine. Monthly Tiarets for Tifins & Dinnora. For further particulars apply to

THE MANAGER, Hongkong, May 1, 1925,

JAPANESE MASSAGE N. AKAJI, Graduate of Tukio Massage School, Nos. 9-10, Praza East, Wanshed."

401. Contral 2630.

MASSAGE

K. SAKAI, T. KANAMORI

18, Prays East,

2nd Floor.

MASSAGE.

Mrs. HONDA, MYU. NINÁMI mad R. FHIMIDEU.

No. The Wyndham Street (opposite to the Unisa Mall”)

TANG YUK, Darrier.

Buccom

The Ladu_HIER WING, 16, D'Aguilar Bicate.

TEUMS VERY MODERATE Consoliation, STOE.