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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1930.

SHOPPING GUIDE

PERMANENT WAVING

The Most Up-to-date Beauty Shop in Town.

Man. BETEN. · TEL. 58089. PENINSULA HOTEL Ex. 84.

ON SALE.

BOUND

DOUND VOLUMES of the HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS July to December, 1020. WITH INDEX, Patcr-87.50% HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.

THE DAIRY FARM

10 Hove STREET

FOR PURE MILK

FARM AND IMPORTED FROZEN

MEATS.

Hour FD POULTRY

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Just Arrived:

ORMOND

LOUDSPEAKERS with

Large or Small Chassis..

BOLE AGENTS I

RUDOLY, WOLF & KEW, too.

54, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

1st Floor.

Tel. 22173.

Maison Marnac

(Dress Designer)

Has the Latest Models On View at

4, Pedder Street (opposite Hongkong Hotel).

THE JADE TREE, Inc.,

PENIUSULA HOTEL ARCADE,

KOWLOON.

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Gentleman's Tailors, Outfittorg and Dealers in all kinds of Fancy Goods

50, Queen's Road Central

PHONE: 21817

GRAY'S YELLOW LANTERN SHOP,

ALEXANDRA BUILDING,

CORNER OF DES VŒUX C. AND CHATER ROADS.

Linens, Lingerie, Pyjamas, Gifts,

Novelty, Jewellery, etc.

HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, MANILA.

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OF EVERY DESCRIPMON MADE TO ORDER

AT MODERATE 'PRICES

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No. 1, D'AGUILAR STREET,

Hone Kora. Telephone 28287.

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CONTAINING ALL THE WEEK'S| LOCAL NEWS.

The Paper to send Home

Brown

Gentlemen's Tailor.

2nd Floor, BUTTON ¡BUILDING, 7. DUDDELL STREET. (Opposite GoreL HALL.) ́' Orders executed in 24 Hours TELEPHONE 23056.

"IN THE CHINESE CUSTOMS SERVICE."

1. A'RECORD OF 47 YEARS.

NEW WORK BY PAUL KING.

The Chinese Maritime Customs is the most extraordinary service in the world.

Mr. Founded by Horatio Lay, but really created by Sir Robert Hart, to meet the needs born of China's increasing trade with the West, and her own inex perience in Westoru usage, it is the backbone of China's credit. It gave birth to her splendid postal service; it has secured her hugd coastline, with innumerable light- houses and. beacons; and the duties

HONGKONG HOTEL of its officers, men of all nations,

GARAGE

FOR CAR HIRE

24768

Fox Hoxo Kore: Fox Kowtoon: 67974

THE

range from appraising cargoes to Sir matters of high diplomacy, Robert Hart never ceased to im press on his subordinates that they were first and foremost servants of the Chinese Government; and their mindfulness of this is largely re sponsible for the respect the Service

has won in its very delicate posi

tion between foreigner and Orient

How Rashes

Do Itch! Barng them freely, with Cutleura Soap and hot water, dry gently, and apply. Cuticura Ointment. It is surprising how quickly the irritation and itching stop and after a few treat ments the rash disappears. There is nothing better for all forms of skin troubles.

Hemplazar Soep, Olatment and Taleuns frog past Ergun, from Dayton, Price & Company Ltd.,, O. Box 650, Shanghai. 15 Bold Throughout the World.

Cuticura

WHITTA'S

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MOTOR

WANTED

al. Mr. King entered the Customs WANTED AED CARS & TRUCKS WANTED

int Swatow in 1874. His best chop- ters naturally deal with the days

CHINA BIOCHEMICAL CO.|| after he had become a Commission-

Specialists in Biological and Serological Supplies.

.Sole Agents for

er. The records, 'until he had rison high enough to see the inner side of things, are chiefly amusing gossip, though there is plenty to en

"the old tertain others beside China hands." some of whom, by the way, will quarrel violently with views he expresses. He was a keen 180, DES VOX ROAD WEST. TEL. 12872 thiete; once when stationed at

The National Epidemie Prevention Bureau, Peiping.

IT'S A SEASONABLE TIME

Ichaug he helped to lay out a golf course in the Yangtate's bod, an illustration of the amazing differ ence between sammer and winter

People Who Advertise TO GET & WILTER SUIT OR OVERCOAT. water levels; a vigorous personality

Invite Inspection

of their Stocks:

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(CANADA2

AMERICAI AUSTRALIA:

AFRICA:

EUROPE

JAPAN:

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THE Philips Research Laboratories, foremost in every phase of radio development, are again first to cope with changing standards of broadcast reception.

Present day demand is for round the world radio.

PHILIPS ULTRA SHORTWAVE RECEIVER, MODEL 2802, built by the same engineers who concolved PCJ, the famous shortwave broadcasting station, meste this demand in every respect.

felag equipped with a FENTHODE - Philips invention this veritablo globe-trotter not only gives a wonderfully pure and strong reception of national · stations bat of transmitters thousands of miles away, at loudspeaker strength.

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HONG KONG AND CANTON.

ANDERSON MUSIC CO., LTD.

and LEADING CHINESE STORES.

iziued by Philipi Uhina Co.),

We have Just Received a Wide- Variety of Woollons for Your Belection.

PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED,

PRICES REASONABLE,

might one say irrepressiblet-and he writes vividly on every topic.

Rough Justice.

The 'seventies and 'eighties were. "spacious days"; the Chinese peo- ple as always, friendly; the officials,

WING HING CO. amenable. It is consoling to re-

TAILORS.

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WANTED USED CARS & TRUCKE WANTED WANTED PAID CARS & TRUCKS WANTED WANTED

To Sell on

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AUCTION -WANTED We sedeph TWServes on care for mile

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WASTED WHITTA'S MOTOR AUUTIONS A WANTED Cameran Road, Ferioon

WANTED

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'(Next Penlumis Oarage) Phone 0710

WASTED

1.K. Office, Tod Floor,

WASTED

Exchange Building. WANTED H.K, USED CARS. LTD., WANTED

Fhone 204ai,

UNABLE TO GET HARVESTERS.

NORTHANTS FARMER'S

EXPERIENCE;

flect how closely the troubles_now which cause so much despondency aro paralleled by those of the past. Methods, too, are the same. Any band of Communists caught to-day is summarily shot. In 1874, a gen "If it was not for the dole-sub eral sent to suppress pirates at the andised laziness. I call it all the always turbulent Swatow

started from the nearest village scores of acres of grain blackening surrounded it at night, and and rotting in Northamptonshire slaughtered all the inhabitants, fields would have been in by the and so on to the next, until the people. Бете "pacified." The first week of September," was the lesson was Bevere, but served. remark made to a reporter hy Mr. King met Garden and gives lending Northamptonshire farmer),

rather, a pathetic picture of him, as He complained that, despite all

her old China residents do, As Commissioner at Canton in 1900, he talk of unemployment and hard- was in close touch with the great ship, he was unable to get labour Viceroy Li Hung Chang, and gives

an intimate account of the anguish during the recent warm weather which the Boxer madness caused the when the crop could have been secur- wise old man. Mr. King believes. ed in good condition. "I approach. that if Li had been allowed to reed a number of unemployed men main in Chibli, near to his Im

LAMMERTS AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Tinstructions

HE Undersigned hard rebelved

TO SELL BY

PUBLIC AUCTION

OF

TUESDAY,NOVEMBER 18, COMMENCING at 11 AM.-

AT THEIR SALES ROOM, DUDDELL STREET,

A QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS GOODS

Comprising

Silk Shawls, Artificial Silk Socke Fancy Lady's Hand-Lage, Cloisonn, Ware, etc., etc.

!

TERMS:-CABI ON DELIVERT,

LAMMERT BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

HE Undersigned have received

structions

TO BELL BY

PUBLIC AUCTION,

ON

THURSDAY, NOV. 20, COMMENCING AT 2.30 PM.

AT No. 110, THE PEAK (4, MOUNTAIN VIEW).

A QUANTITY, OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE

Comprising:

Hatatanda, Chesterfield Couch and Obairs, Teak Dining Table, Side- board, Chairs, Glass Cabinet, Ics Chest, Silver Ware, New Cutlery, Ornament Picturos, Brass Ware, Curtains, Carpets, etc., etc.

Teak Hedstond, Teak Dressing Case, Teak Chest of Drawers, Table, Table Lamps, Table Fans, etc., etc.

Also

A QUANTITY OF BLACKWOOD WARE.

19th NOVEMBER, 1930.

perial Mistress after the Japanese (not agricultural labourers, who do WED AND PARTED IN FEW war, the Boxer outbreak would not draw the dole) and asked them OF VIEW From WEDNESDAY, the

Mr. King's never have occurred.

if they would work in fields," he subsequent account of stances he at added. "I offered the usual -309. tended with the late W. T. Stead weekly. One who was getting 278. and Julia," when the spirits of unemployment pay said: Do you

-DAYS.

A YOUNG WIFE WHO WENT Hung Chang and Gordon were

AWAY.

What Lord Merrivado described as an extraordinary case of a wo-

t man karing her husband for an ether man.. within a few days of

supposed to be present, will appear to many readers as but another ex ample of what people can accept as evidence when they wish to be deluded.

A Hong Kong Problem. Our record from early days is of her mariage was heard in the Lon-special importance in a controversy

don Divorce Court.

Mr. Charles Frederick Trower, of Severns-rond, Batterson, Lan non, asked for the dissolution of bis marriage on the ground of his 'wife's welsconduce with the co-res pondent Mr Harry George Aarons. The petition was undefended.

The marriage was on January 27 this year. A few days after the ceremony; the husband alloged, his wife told him that she could not

think I shall work for you for 38, TERMS -Cash on DELIVERY. work!!

"One refused without giving a reston, and the other said it was too bad to work in the fields. Both were receiving the dole. Is this not proof that the legislation of the English Government is against us farmers at every turn? KAI

Other farmers throughout Athg now acute. As a free trade colony, Hong Kong is inevitably the source county have had similar experi of a good deal of snuggling to the fences, and grain, still in the web mainland, which the Customs desire Grids under the frowning skies of to stop by putting stations in the this watery September in almost Colony. Mr. King saw much of useless this question in 1898, and he touches the whole crux in the SORE PAINFUL FEET. following:-

T1BU

BLISTERS AND. ALL SWOLLEN RAW PLACES. WITH ZAM-BUK.

If Hong Kong admitted a Chi-

Customs control, steam | HEAL Jaunches and Geir tows from Hong Kong could teado freely under Inland Steam Navigation rules, with many non-Treaty ports in its vicinity.

If you suffer badly with your live with him as she loved another the question is too complicated feet-if they are painful, swollen man and was expecting to become a for details here, but this sentence or inflamed, or perspire too freely mother. She wont and lived with contains the one supreme important you will find in Zam-Buks Bure Aarons at Mariac-parade, Worth-stipulation on which Sir Cecil Gurce of relief. Zam-Buk contains Clementi insisted when Governor of refined and costly herbal extracta. ing.

Hong Kong, but which the Chinese It gets right to the roots of fook Governinent refuses; Mr. King is trouble. It ends pain, relieves not kind to Sir Robert Hart, swollen blood-veseels, zod drawe out all roisonous secretions which ing him out tyrannical, capricious,

Gry wesponsible for the tissues re even apiteful.

But for all that he says) his mining tender and sore,

Rub Zam-Buk. well into the soles, knowledge of the language and toes, and insteps to case aching mus people especially of the governees and tendons Leo it in perfont ing class--was uncenny. Yet he safely on open sores, for regular

Lord Merrivale said that the young wolnan, for her own cou venience, went through a ceremony of marriage' with petitioner, who for a long time had contributed to her mother's maintenance,

things Chinese,

LAMMERT BROS., AUCTIONEERS.

PUBLIC AUCTION,

THE Undersigned have received

Instruction

TU-BELL DY

PUBLIC AUCTION

'ON

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, COMMERING AT 11 AM

A.M.

Ar No. 85, HUMPHREYS BUILDING, KOWLOON,

A QUANTITY-OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE.

20th NOVEMBER, 1930,

About a fortnight after the mar.

was newer hypnotised by the applications of Zam-Buk thorough O VIEW From THURSDAY, the riage ceremony the wife and, an.

medium the worked in the com. by mothe and cleanse the raw dosh, ether man, with whom she had been

mon fate of too many students of Etop any tendency to suppuration. nasociating for a long time, go and

and poisoning, and cause strong live together at Worthing of which This is true Sir Robert's Thear now akin to grow, Boften hard they gave notice to the ansound.

from the Land of Siním" is, to use | growths, EGINS, onlousiesaúd It was as flagrant a care as could Mr. King's word, uncanny in burlons with Yun-Buk. Use it TERMS:-Cast ON DELIVERY.

pomidoro understanding and foresight, all-sira tantura injuries anil, dicens:s

umrallerARE IL MACg Mr Julpg cared at skin and scaliers were not some criminal elements taamly does not fail to recognise in it.

Docree nisi with costs.

the 1.G.'s" greatness and might fats Zam-Buk is sold only in handy have been kinder to his faults.: Boxes. Of all medicine dealers.

AUCTIONEERS.