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INTIMATIONS

LAW PARTNERSHIP REQUIRED.

ECAL

INTIMATIONS

ST. GEORGES BALL 1990.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER UTE, 1918.

Barrister, 40, Crimmeria Mira PRACTICE DANCES for the shore Ball

azperience, seeks opening, view Partnership The East Prepared to work 6 months" on mlary. · No-agoata. Write LEX BOX 52* Willings, 115, Strand, W.O London, England.

[1691

BY

WANTED.

English Mercantile Firm a competent STENOGRAPHER. Apply stating qualifications to-

Box No. 1811. Care of "Daily Prom" Offen.

WANTED

will take place at the Crry Eazz on the 33rd and 30th-tomber frout & to 773 Hongkong, December 6th, 191s.” (1637

NORTH CHINA INSURANCE COMPANY

LIMITED....

NOTICE OF REMOVAL

THE OFFICES of the a vive Compray No 3, QUEEN's Buildings, (Coster Road).

have this day bean REMOVED 10

Bongsong, December 8th, 119.

WE

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NOTICE OF REMOVAL. TE HAVE. This Day REMOVED or Offoes to Second Floor, No. 54

SOUTH CHINA PRODUCE CO. Hongkong, December 8th, 1912

SMART JUNIOR EUROPEAN ASSIST. QUE'S BAD CENTRAL

Apply

WANTED.

P.O. Box 3...

+1600

HONGKONG POLICE.

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HE HONGKONG POLICE VICTORY

BY Batchelor in Kowloon, COMFORT: BALL be held at the CIZE BLAKE

ABLE ROOM and Board. Apply tome

Box No. 1001, Cars. af "Daily Prom " Office. [1801

AT THE "FEAK.

To be Sold-A-HOUSE in Stewart

Terrace. Apply

DENISON, RAM & GIBBS. 1802

TO LET.

SUITABLE FOR COAL STORAGE.

at

VACANT. PLOT of Land Yaumati Apply to- THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMA,

TION CO., LTD.

TO LET,

(1417

A VACANT PLOT of Land, Praya East.

Apply to

THE LONGKONG LAND INVEST- HENT & AGENCY CO, LTD.

"TO LET.

11286

on WEDNESDAY; DER 17TH, 1919. Dancing to commencing at FX.

W. HENDERSON, BIT. Hon. Secretary Hongrong Police Station,

Hongkong.

(1578

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

CERTIFICATENGING VAN

Hongkong November 8th. 1918, for five shares numbered 25684 to 95465 and 66991 to 68273 inclusive all registered in the name of HO 381U PO has been LOST or STOLEN, and should this Certificate not be produced to the Bark before the 28th, day of Decamera, 1818, a new Certificate for the shares will be issued and the aforesaid Certificate No. 5/NS 338 will be thereafter treated by this Corporation as NULU and VOID

By Order of the Court of Director,

N. J. STABB.

Chief Manager. Hongkong, November 26th, 1919. (1579

THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY (1918), LIMITED,

AUCTIONS

Ꭱ.

PUBLIO AUCTIONS.

BY APPOINTMENT. HUGHES AND HOUGH,

APOTERSEKER TO THE GOVERNMENT" AND ADRINARIT.

General Auctioneers,

tions

Share. Coal and General. Produce Brokers

G.

R

PUBLIC AUCTION.

" p

The Indersigned have received instruc

From H.M. VICTUALLING STORE UFFICEE 10 well by Pu’lie Anction.

TO-DAY (TUESDAY), December 9th, 1918, at 103, at their Bales

Boom, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of t

Ice House Street

4,997 lbs Choolate

2,837 lbs. Sulit pels

300 ha. Bice

· 100 lbs. Haricot Beans.

Terms: Cash,

HUGHES & HOUGH. Auctioneers to the Admiralty

Hongkong, December 5th, 1919..

The Undersigues have received instruc tions to well by Pablic Auction,

(For Account of the Concerned), TO-DAY (TUESDAY) December 8th, 1919, No. 8. Des Yeux

commencing a 230 PJ. at their Sal

Road, Corner of Ice House Street, A few Lots of

Double hemstitched Sheets. Linen Damack Table Cloths, Turkish Face Towels, Bath Towels, Embroidered Bedspreads and Table Covers,

Ateo

One Wardrobe Trunk, Bellow Valists

Suit Cases, AND

"25

Two Prismatic Binoculars.

(All are De Goods); TREX --Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

The Undersigned have received instruc- tions to sell by Fable Auction,

(For Aconant of the Concerned) TO-DAY (TUESDAY), December 9th, 1919, at 30 2.5, at their Sales Rooms, No. & Des Vaux Bond, Corner of lee House Street USEFUL HOUT EROLD FITENITURE CARPETS, GLASS, PLATED WARE,

As follows:- Large Tapestry-covered Chesterbeli Botas Occasional Tables, Upholstered Suite, Teak

large and small Wardrobes Washstands

URNISHED, No. 87; THE PRAK (No. 1, OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that and Armchairs new Folding Card_and

the FIRST ORDINARY GENERAL

INTIMATION

WATSON'S make ends meet.. Here, again, a com

THE

“E”

PREMIER

SCOTCH

E WATSONS SERICA WAISHT

Distinctive in Flavour.

Well Matured.

Mellow.

:

next generation the newspapers had risenly drunk, and, was, not by any means the to importance, and journalism bad be- pare poet of their dreams but a very come an appendage to literature. Yet Rabelaisian sort of person, who spent his the same failings seem to follow the time in Bohemia and only passed out of devotees of journalism as followed the it a permanent. invalid. The Nineteenth devotees of literature. Lazos Ecr'a life century saw one high. literary reputation seems to have been one long struggle to end in the musty odour of the police

cours and the prison cell. It also saw the plete ignorance of the value of money strange sight of a post building up a and a certain unscrupulous use of Eisfortune from his poetry and dying in friends wealth were observable In the sanctity of the peerage. Literature DICKENS carienture. of his friend in opens it portals to all and accepts all- "Bleak House," LEIGH HUNT's attitude the hard-headed SHAKESPEARE and TENNY- to money was treated as piece of sox no less than the degenerate OSCAR hypocrisy. There is no reason to believe | WILDs and the helpless dreamer JESTERIES, chat HUNT was not perfectly sincere, He regarded it as natural that thes successful should help the unsuccessful, and he paid his debts when he could. Hovr's five-pound note was a joke in the CARETLE family for years, so many times The staff of the Hongkong and Wham- was it lent and returned. THOMAS HOOD's poa Dock Co, are giving a dance, oa life, also, was a long avoidance of bis December 20th. creditors, chiefly by fights to the Coa tinent, where they could not harass him. He, again, seems to have regarded the people who supplied him with the neces saries of life as venturing in a lottery, uncertain whether they would get their

Tokio papers state that pari-mutuel at money back or not. There was no idea horse-racing may be restored conditional-. of preying on society for a living. Putly, though it is not yet certain whether a a man of refined habits and cultured special law will be submitted to the Dist

There were no cases of communicable disenses reported in the Colony on Sntar. day.

The demand for beer in Japan has in- creased a mach that the combined out. Put of all the breweries in the country does not suffice to meet requirements,

tastes in a position where be cannot next session.

Mr. G. C. Dew, now with Samuel,.

maintain them independently and he must either live or others or go under.. We can never be too thankful that Hoon Samuel & Co., Ltd, Yokohama and did not take the latter course. A view formerly Secretary of the Tientsin-Pukow of the literary world of the time is given Railway, served with the 2nd and isth in THACKIRAY'S Pendennis," where we Coys CLC. and then commanded the see Captain SHANDON writing the pro 185th Co. for two years. He was slightly spectus of the Pall Mall Gasette in the gassed and on one occasion was blown upo Fleet Prison, as gay and reckless a by a shell, but caine out untouched. journalist as ever lived in real life. At

A court. martial at Vizdivostock has the Cave we meet with other journalistä of a less Bohemian type, who are yet, cons

acquitted Colonel Sharapoff who was tent with humble surroundings, and at charged with killing an American soldier. The defendant stated that American. the publisher's dinner-cable the para- sites of literature who claim all the soldiers were at times very provoking, credit and do aone of the work. At the and in this particular instance the insult Temple we find PENDENNIS and WARRING- was so serious to his military honour TON doing better work, and PENDENNIS'S that he could not let it go unpunished, own eurocas was an acknowledgment by and he was forced to act at once. THACKERAY that literature did bring a At the Magistracy, yesterday, M., J. ed it. The from were accused of being in unlawful posses- time of EICHARDSON, have always bad alion the plums," even when they were not, in the first-class, and we do not have to look far to find the same conditions obtaining now,

stangs fermes) containing mager bed a Ora of the Comp wi, die wood, pedroom. Farios que o A. S. WATSON & CO., novelists, brever, tries the %. Wood, discharget the three men who

room Bathrooms, cold water, held at the Offices of the Company, St.

Drying Room. Dining Room, Drawing Georges Building, Coster Road, Tords, Dinner Wa

Boom, Bitting Room and usual Offices, also Elongkong, on SATURDAY, the 20TH Largs Garden.

Apply to~~

1919, 11.30 d'clock in the ing Tables and for the purpose of reiving a

Waggons, Exte micro

Ware, Cooking Stoves

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANOR Statement of Accounts and Lo Ropert of the Crockery, and Ginh đa, Dinner Servibes,"

LO... LTD.

Alexandra. Bildings

81

FOR SALE.

$6 TAOUNT GOUGH" No. 131, TH

PEAK. 6-Boomed Hease with

Large Garden.

"Apply--

LOKIT & CO

York Buildings

1155

MINING

OR SALE or Supply under contract:

BISMUTH & WOLFRAM ORE Price very moderate. For particulars spply to-

PO SING CHONG.CO.

124, Des Voeux Road West

1614

PUBLIC AUCTION. PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of Pthe letting by Public Auction Sale,

be held on MONDAY, the 15th day of Darker, 1919, at 3 PM, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of BAS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of Ogs Lab of CROWN LAND at Conduit. Baad; in the Colony of Hongkong, for a berm of 75 years, with the option of renewal Crown Eent to be fixed by the Burveyor of HIS MAJESTY THE KING, for one further terza of 75 years.

%

FARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Boundary

2

food shout

131

1,100

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VISITORS TO CANTON

Bhould Furchase.

BY THE FRAKL RIVER,

CAPTAIN 0. 7. LLOYD,

With Illustrations," Mape" and Flags.

PRIOT LINES

Ou Balp 15:-

Daily Pares " Office.

HPE KELLY & Witan: La BESTIA & Co.

General Managers for 30th September, 1319, the 14 months ending interc., Bath Room Utensils, Klastre-

and electing a Consult

ing Committee and Anditoes..

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company. will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 16

Bonding Lampa

mon Teakwood Bandry Blackwood Furniture, Chairs, Cabinets, Pictures &c., Carpela new

kwood Fire Screens, de, Side Tables:

DECE EKR, 1919, until SATURDAY, the 201d second-hand. Cart-ins, ko DECEMBER, 1918, both days inclusive.

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

General Managers, Hongkong, December 8th, 1918

NOTICE

REPULSĘ BAY

HOTEL

·(1620-

Order to enable the Contractors to

Two Pianos, Two Victrolan, Ons Gas Cooker,

One Hickaba, Tennis Balls, do, don

("ull Particulars from Catalogue). TERMS:Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

• W DNESDAY, December 10th, 19:9, at 13 za” në No. Lị Cant · lisa, Kimberly Road, Kowloop,

Тих

I complete work in Cat VALUABLE HOUS HILD FURNITURE

the above Hotel at the earliest possible date without interruption, and in order to avoid all possibility of damage to the Flooring, Tiles, Paint Work etc, the public sre requested to kindly shatain from visiting 23 son and from this date until its completion and Enroal opening of which due Notice will be given by Advertisement in the Local Newspapers

The Management of the Hotel feel sure that they may rely upon the ready on-operation of the public in the foregoing regsed.

...

Dated this Sixth day of November, 1919. For Thi HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD. Proprietors of the KPULSE BAY HOTEL,

J. H. TAGGART,

Mangor.

ISSUE OF ... FRENCH

PREMIUM -- BONDS

1393

k

o

therein contained,

As follows Teakwood Halistand,

and, Upholstered Arti chairs and Bolae, Blackwoo ( Furniture Carpets about 18 x 15 and 12x A respectively. Cartains, do, Mirror back hideboard, Exten sion Dinin Table and Chistrs, Ice Cast (White Tile) New, Large. Dinner Service, Glass and Crockery ware ko, Szaminster Stair Carpet and beavy Brass Rodaj wood Twin Beds (Powell make) large and smail Wardrobes, Toilet Tables, de, 13 hite

Enamelled Baths, and Lavatory Basinn, Kitchen Utensils,

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Alco

Upright Piano by John Broadwood £ Fons, good tone, in excellent condition Oliver Typewriter, Electric Fittings and teiling Fans, Singer's Sewing Machine, Pot Plante, dice. Baublisde.

(Fail Particulars from Catalogne). On view Tuesday, 8th inst. from $ P. Terms: Osah. "5%

HUGHES & HOUGH

Auctioneers:

TO HELP IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF WAR DEVASTATED REGIONS

GUARANTEED

BY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT.

FOUR THOUSAND MILLION FRANCS divided into Eight billions 600 francs 5% Premium Bonda

Fine or ALL TAXES

redeemable in 75 year at frx, '600 and also, by yearly Premiam Drawings amounting to Frs 10,000,000,-with a quarterly first priza of

ONE MILLION "FRANCS

PRION OF LASUN FE4 495.—

PUBLIC AUCTION, The Undersigned have received instrac tions to all by Public Auction,

"On TRÚRSDAY AND FRIDAY. December 11th and 13th, 1912, at H H. NAVAL YARD, Hongkong, and at K wzd0N NATAZ" DELOT, respectively, commencing each day at 1.30 AM, with an Interval from

12 Noɑ to 120 VI

Old and Surplus

Comprisi

SAVAL STORES

LIMITED.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

TEL. 615

HONGKONG

11

BIRTH. EZRIEL-At the Victoria, Nursing Home, Shanghai, on December End, to Mr. and Mrs. 8. Exxix, a daughter..

MARRIAGES,

of 44 bags of rice. The evidence. given by witnesses was insufficient to connect the three men with having re- moved the rice from any particular shop. The rice is being kept at the Central Hhe Grub Street; then, gone for ever i Police Station awaiting a claimant. Apparently not. GISSING wrote a novel. Accompanying the development of to show that it has merely changed its Japan's industries, the number locality that of the few who succeed increase. The number employed at vari- labourers shows an equally remarkable there are hundreds who struggle on much ons factories throughout the country is in the old Grub Street way. GissInG's now over a million, in addition to ap TIMAGE-At the Church of the life itself was but a drab existence, part-proximately 200,000 workers in various Sacred Heart, Shanghai, on Novem- ly because of his own peculiar tempera and 35,000 seamen employed by Japanese government factories and public offices ber 29th, by the Rev. Father J. Vas ment and partly because he was forced shipping concerns. Dosselaere, S.J., and afterwards at the* British Consulate General, into a path which he would never have GEORGE DANIEL TYE to MINERED taken if he had not been cut off from KRACH

other roads. He spent his life in doing HWADDBLE--WHITE-At Holy Trinity

Cathedral Shanghai, on

literary work which added nothing to end, by the Very Rev. A. J. Walker, literature, and doing it for a remunera How to Win Newcastle tion which kept him living in mean Hi gow, to NORMAN WHITE, of Newcastle streets for the greater part of his life. gallons. In the Kowloon reservoir, they

on-Tyne.

December

November shows than 1,7X1.80 millica The water return for the month of gallons were stored in the city and bill district reservoirs during the month, compared with 1,943.06 million gallons in November, 1918. The consumption per bead was 23.7 gallons against 22.0 storage and consumption were 329-11 Gear-At Portsmouth, England, haunt the cities, so few followers of tively, compared with 340.69 million One wonders why, with no special call to million gallons and 19.7 gallons, respec November 16th, Haway GooD, aged

gallons and 12.5' gallons.

DEATHS.

GKING OPRION: 101, Das Vars Roup, O. Lennon Orion: 131, Fra Smark, 1.0.

The Daily Press.

**

General and Mrs. Gaida, accompanied

78 years, late Chief Engineer of the literature seek the cheaper and freer Indo-China Stam Navigation Co., country life. It would seem that the Ltd. Scor At the Victoria Nursing Home, cities bring inspiration. WoazswORTH by eight Czech officers, arrived at Sbang- bai on December and from Vladivostock Shanghai, on December 2nd, AUGUST alone was content with his mountain by the R. V.8. Penza. General Gaids is the Mazy, the beloved wife of A. R. solitudes From Cuce down through officer whose previous brilliant and heroic Scott, aged 34 years.

SHAKESPEARE TO BROWNING we find London services in Siberia have culminated in his deportation on account of the useless and the great inspirer... One of Geo's co-dianstrous ineurrection which, it is alleg temporanes lived the old Grub Streeted, he attempted to instigate in Vladivo life such as Gissing depicted, though, stock. He walked with a slight limp, curiously enough, GIBBING never seem to due, doubtless, to the wound which he as reported to have received during the. have inet bim. BORARD JETTERIES WAS fighting in the station at Vladivostock. true genius, imbued with the spirit of the English countryside and possessing ceipt of a telegram from Italy to the effect The Rt. Her Bishop Poszoni is in re fare gift of depicting vividly those scenes and those characters that he loved. He was more akin to HARDY Enother Tax sufferings of those engaged in the lonely spirit-than any of his contempor pursuit of literature in the Eighteenth aries, and, if he had not been stricken century have often been described with the disease of genius, it is possible MAÇAULAY's picturesque account of Grub that be would have educated his public Street in the time of JOHNSON has made as Hardy has educated bis Mach of all familiar with the lives of the less J128' work fails because he tried to successful literary men of the period-write not what was la him but what heed in both arms and lega. A requiem how they lived among dirt and squalor, thought the public wanted. Yet even sing at the Cathedral on Friday at 7.30 masa for the repose of his soul will be

HONGKONG, DEDIMEER 9TH, 1919.

GRUB STREET.

that the Rev. Father Pedro Gabardi died on the 5th, instant, in the hospital of late Father Gabardi was Rector of the Bubiasco, in the province of Como." The Catholic Cathedral in Hongkong for more than twenty years, and was very especially by the Portuguess community, math liked and esteemed by the Catholics, whose interests he had always at heart and whose language he studied as soon as fering for several months, being parplys- be arrived. The deceased had been suf

Life Boats (wood and teel) -Dinama: top, often had to go hungry for weeks After London stars out .ni, Bishop. Pozzoni exhorts all Catho

Whalers, Choo.es, Rice Boiler Het

together, and when they were in funds Belers Cooking Stoves Ship Fittings Me to repletion and spent on the bottle To that which should have been put by for the stande, Tabi », baire, Ride toga, Rib

Steel Tanks Propeller Vertical hex; lean term. This was the life of even

Iron Bed Mattresses and i

Applications will be received by: the

BANQUE DE L'INDO CHINE

(THE FRENCH BANK):

up to December 11th, 1918,

LBERINDOAGUE, Manager.

1005

A. G. DA ROCHA.

18 THE AUCTIONEER.

•

Pumps, Life Balta, Vieetrio

Rasselled Tron, Faith omen of literary eminence such as Gozu

Latrines, F

Porcelain

Water Closets, Bodby auria, who was compelled to sacrifice bir Hatches, Wood Ladders, Steel Wire Rope and genius to hack work in order to earn Kewsers Carpets, Bugs, Blankets, Counter-

now.bi

A

among the romance dealing with the lics, especially the members of the Porta future that have sprang up in such proue community, to attend the services, fusion since,

If Grub Street still exists it must be UNION CHURCH THREE QUARTER confessed that its inmates have retained

CENTURY FUNDA of Dowson, a poet of no mean ability, many of their old had habits. The story

panes Electric Cable, Canvar Hopes, Coir, living. No doubt it was not altogether is e unhappy so that of the author of He was Cordane, Paperston, Cary Res, the Isalt of the times; literary men of the City of Dreadful Night, or the Brasz, Gun Metal and Steel, Coal, Sacks, all perio

Sacks all periods have too often shown a lamen- author of The Hound of Heaven," " Firewood, &c.

Ce table ignorance of the value of money, Joan DAVIDSON, who, however, does not detailed on Cali BUGBEN RODGE

And spent it freely when they had it in seem to have bad any bad habits, The By Appointment Auctioneers to the videturan

MyAdmiralty, ngkong December 4th, 1935.

ring others rather than in provide world was startled to hear that BWI

their own future needs. . In the suzas sy toe gime of his life was general

The Hongkong and Whampoa AM. £20, equivalent to

Dock Co., Ltd. $ 5,000.00 Mr. P. I. Farrall

Mr. D. Go Hr, R. Around

leiged

77,73 60:00

12.764 19

13,021.

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