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GENERAL NEWS.

“AN 'INDIGNITY TO AUTHORS,"

Anglo-German Exhibition.

Below are two replies to a letter It has been determined to make in a home paper we printed lately the Fine Art section the leading complaining of advertisements feature of the Auglo-German Ex-next the text in sixpenny editions hibition; to be held this year at of novels.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1913.

Prepaid Advertisements

ONE CENT PER WORD

TO LET.

FOR EACH INSERTION.

·TO LET.

Mr. Charles Wells FROM 1st February, MEI-TO LET on 2nd Floor No. 2.

1913.

Pedder Street,

One roomed Office. Property Office, Jardine, Mathe- son & Co., Ltd.

[485

Apply

TO LET AT KOWLOON,

the Crystal Palace. With this writes: most cordially agree end in view on executive com-with the protests made by "Rita" shed or unfurnished. 6 Rooms.

RION, No. 10, Peak, furni mittee has been formed, consist-and: fr. Herbert Flowerdew No. 21, SHELLY STREET. ing of Sir James D. Linton, P.R. against the introduction of ad- No. 2 Mountain View, Poak, I, chairman; Mr. Walter Bevertisements into the pages of from 1st July. roughs-Fowler, R.B.A., vice-fiction or any other form of To lot or for sale, GLEN- chairman; Messrs. Arthr-literature, And as a reader I SHIEL, Barker Road, No. 124, Hacker, R.A., Chas. O. Murray would like to know what Mrs., 5 rooms from 1st March, R.E., Louis Wierter, R.B.A, Desmond Humphreys thinks of Herbert A. Olivier, T. Mewborn the puffs of Bath tradesmen in Peak to let; fine situation; 8 Pantry, Kitchen and Servants CRAIG RYRIE, No. 4, the ED FLATS with Two Bathrooms NEW MODERN 3 ROOM. Crook, R.B.A., W.S. Frith, and troduced by "Rit" into the pages rooms; tennis and croquet lawns, Quarters. Bathrooms fitted with Herbert Sydney, with Mr. Ken of "A Grey Life," recently ro neth Blackmore as secretary. The viewed in your columns. "AROGATE, on part of Kowloon In-glish Cooking Range and Hot FOR SALE-HARTING and English Baths. Kitohen has En- responses to the special and Grey Life" is "A Romance of land Lot No. 1154. ordinary invitations are

Water Boiler. Electric Light! very Modern B th," the period being FOR SALE. LADBROKE." throughout. Immediate Posses gratifying, and with the assist-mid-Victorian, but all the busi-No. 9 Conduit Road. Fine View sion. Also NEW FIVE ROOMED ance of Mr. A. K. Brown, R.S.A., desses mentioned are still being Garden and Tennis Court. Ac TENNIS COURTS. Now ready

of harbour, 8 Rooms, 3 Bathrooms, TERRACE of Glasgow, and Mr. Robe carried on under the names men-comodations for 30 Servants. Noble, R.S.A, of Edinburgh, the tioned in the book. In one osbo addition of Northern work will a change of address is considerate- further enhance the promise of a ly mentioned in a footnote; in fine and thoroughly representative another that friendly service is collection of British art. They not done. are arranging the contributions. from the east and west of Scot- land. The secretary and 3 mem- ber of the committee will go to Germany to arrange for the German exbibits.

Waster.".

I take a few of the sentonces, omitting names and addresses

Booksellers:-

I'll goin's. That's the place for information about Bath. (p_51.)

I had hughed at them (early illustrations of bathers

Brid

:

Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,' Hongkong, 25th Feb., 1913

3rd Floor; Alexandra Building [211

LA HACIENDA EAST, 74

Mount Kellet Road. GODOWN in Ice House Road, at present in occupation of Mesars. E. D. Sasson & Co.

Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY

Co., Ltd, Hongkong 7th June, 1913.

Ο

HOUSES WITH

for occupation. Apply HUMPHREYS ESTATE FINANCE Co, Ltd.

Alexandra Buildings. Hooghen, 22nd May.. 1918.

FOR SALE.

Alls Digestion Prevents Indigestion.

O.T

O.T. is a true digestive, and really does what liqueurs are supposed to do, namely, Aid Digestion. It is the only liqueur in the world without alcohol, and thus is most suitable for Indies and those

averse to spirituous drinks. As a preven- tive and remedy for Indigestion, O.T. is favourably known to thousands of people. in all countries.

A Stimulant as Satisfactory as Alcohol A Liqueur-Stomachic-Pick-me-up.

Made from natural inuita and herbs O.T. is a pure and healthful beverage, and only favourable effects follow its use. After over-indulgence there's no better "pick-me-up." As a tonic when you feet "out-of-sorts," there's nothing better to make you At and well again.

O.T, is a true digestive, and therefore good as a

to;

&

987

Gold

Seal

British Analytical Control

FOR SALE-No. 199 Wancha. Road, on Inland Lots No.: 742 & 743.

Apply to:

THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AGENCY

CO., LTD.

Room Bosgkong ad Jaue 1919. and its descripted importance let at. "BERYL "Station Hotel Suites and single rooms to may be learned thore! (p. 32) Annexe, Kowloon, Separate bath- shop or ita rivals was and separate entrance. Apply I only know that a visit to that room to every room, tennis court spacial joy to me. (p. 73.)

Draper.-

Station Hotel, Kowloon.

"The Chinese painters engaged drinkers) in old prints and old in cleaning the Government build-guidebooks at 'a (p. 72). inga have been busy at work In brief, child, let none who during the last few week and cups to this historic rity leave it have given the place a neater before a init to friend →yoader. appearance, states the "Pinang Whatever is to be learnt of Bath LET-Drawing Gazette." Ascenting by the main staircase, visitors will imagine that the workmen have also been endeavouring, during the King's Birthday holiday, to confer new titles on the Government officials, One of the repainted signboards I got a couple yards thrown in, indiosted a change of designation being Christmas time, and re in the case of the harbour master. such good customers to The new honour is neither a (p. 33.) "O.M.G.". nor a "G.0.V.0." In dulcet tones we know Comman- der MacIntyre will declare that the old name was good enough for him. He certainly deserves something better than the title of "Harbour Water"!

Bairdresser

Do advise her to let 's of the do it for her. He can dress hair, even when it's poor and skimpy. (p. 54.)

Furniture Warehouser and Undertaker-

The people are -'s in Street, They are to wore the thing, 80 they say. (p. 213.)

new.

(284

Limited, complete with 100 re- FOR SALE-Auxetophone, by the Gramophone Company, cords, of which 70 are practically TO LET (from 1st July 1913) by an electric motor.

This gramophone works It was Peak.

No. 2 Mountain View, The bought in May, 1911, and is in Apply LINSTEAD & good condition. Originally cost £100. Apply to Adjutant 126th Hongkong, 9th June, 1913. [345 Baluchistan Infantry, Kowloon.

DAVIS..

THE OPIUM TRADE.

The position of the opiam trade with China at the present moment is a very intereating one." There is no doubt that the accumulated "Under the arrangement and stocks of the drug at Hongkong conductorsbip of our esteemed and Shanghai, are being slowly local firm,-of-street." (p. 323.)

reduced by sales to Chineso

A BYRON CURIOSITY.

J

In the "In Memoriam" columa of the "Times" for April 19 the following advertisement appear ed.

Byron-George Gordon Noel Lord Byron died nobly for Greece at Miesalongbi, April 10, 1824.

"When love who sont forgot

to save.

The young, the beautiful, the

brave."

W

Pianos for the Tropics. Meesra Moutrie and Co, have just completed, to the order of a French official in Saigon, & iuno of which they may justly be proud. The tone is pure and fall The last puff is supposed to be and the touch excellent, while the quoted from an excellent Bith dealers, and it is equally clea cabinet work, made of teak, is newspaper, the present name of that a certain demand exists in beautifully executed. Such pianos which is given. are well designed to resist a hot

While I congratulate all these Chias, as shipments of Malwa damp climate. Apropos of this, business people on obtaining a fium are still being made from

"The Bride of Abydos." and with the worst period of the splendid and an enduring ad- Bombay. In each instance the

Sir Walter Scott, speaking of year for pianos just approaching, vertiesment at the hands of such chests have been certificated for

bie death, said, It is as if it may be mentioned that, apart a popular writer, I fail to see how export, and presumably they This notice annually is paid for

the sun had gone out." from ordinary precaution, such as the dignity of authors (that is, pass into China in spite of the under the terms of the will of a an ocuasional fire in the room, the dignity of Literature) is main obstractions placed in the way by lady who greatly admired the the beat way to keep a piano in tained thereby. Perhaps Mrs, provincial authorities who ignore poet, and is to appear, we under- good order through the summer Humphreye can show me..

the Anglo-Chinese Agreement of is to play on it regularly. Not Mr Horace Nawte writes:-1011, The effect of these eles until a memorial, of Byron is ad- atand, every year in the "Times" much is possible beyond gentle As a humble follower of the craft has yet to be seen, but we cannot mitted to Westminster Abbey. scales and exercises, which are adorned by the novels of Mrs, accept Mr Montagu's sanguine dull. But the determination to Humphreye ("Rita") and Mr estimate that the big stock at keep them goiug repays both Herbert Flowerdew, I should like Hongkong and Shanghai will be. player and piano."N. China to say that my sympathies are all cleared off by the end of the year. Daily News,'

on the side of the patent medicine though they may be materially "Sex Confusion."

merchant who advertises in the reduced. Again, as regards un- cheapeditions of the above writers' certificated opium, prices are well New York, May 14-The Suff works. What more disappointing, maintained and the Straits Set- ragette leaders are deeply angered after paying a considerable sum tlements are said to have difficulty by the manifesto issued by Mrs. for a full page, for the patent in getting a sufficient supply at Arthur S. Dodge, president of the medicine proprietor to take up reasonable rates. The reduction District of Kowloon, and Supplies National Association Opposed to either of the books in question, in the quantity sold in Tudia has us daily with Woman's Suffrage, denouncing and be so interested in the thread had its effect, and this will be VEGETABLES, EGOS the votes for women campaign as of the narrative that he altogether more pronounced in the course of. POULTRY.

disregards the page that ad the next six months. By then vertises his wares.!

The Farm is under EUROPEAN And he mnat, also, reflect that whether the leading opium GROWING OF VEGETABLES, perhaps we shall be able to judge SUPERVISION and every atten- if he ignores what he has paid merchants will manage to escape and the Poultry of EUROPEAN tion is paid to the PROPER for, how much more must the the heavy losses which seemed to STOCK. Try Our Delicious public, who are not out of pocket, threaten thom last for the advertisement.

6 ser disturbance. In reply to the manifesto Mre Robert Putmen sayo' "True, some women in the New York parade of Suff ragettes did wear slit skirts, but that only indicates that the Suff rage movement appeals to all kinds of women-young and dar- ing as well as staid and thought ful. I see no harm in the lit skirt. It is ridiculous to assume that because some paraders wore Blit skirts they wanted to make n' ser appoal. As a matter of fact the arguments of the "Anti's' are.

Notice

ASTHMA

all based on a sex appeal and that CAN Be Cured:

alone."

F. M. S. Labour Code,

"Pioneer."

year.

Notice

THE FAIR FARM

IS Located in The Healthlest

the Choicest and

Gold

Medal

mealtime drink, as an after-dinner liqueur, and an a remedy for indigestion, fistulence and "fall feeling" after meals. colic, dysentery, and other stomach troubles. No. As a stomachic, it has wonderful virtues for drink is more suitable than QT. for both abstainers and non-abstainers; none is more healthful' for- young and old.

Grand

Prix

Paris Exhibition, 1999 Empire Exhibition, London.

1911

The More you Drink O.T. the Better you like it!

O.T. wins favour with all who try it. Its distinctive character, its refreshing and exhilarating qualities, its satisfying body and "bite" appeal to you-its taste grows on you, and you soon realise that each glass adds to your liking and appreciation.

O.T. Mixes Deliciously with Whisky, Gin, Brandy, Wines-

Lemonade. Soda, Mineral Waters, etc.

Given full body, fine favour, thulating refreshing lessens filling and stulent effects of grated drinks,

improves flavour, intensifies the good-qualities, and less en alcoholic effects.

Ale, Beer, Stout-givm fina nio, takes off heaviness and filling affect

Water (Hot or Cold)-giros a "bite" and a delicious favour that completely sathly,

SOLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA-

GARNER, QUELCH & CO.

"Yes Sir-Kryptoks!” "Kryptok Lenses are the greatest 'near and far glasses I ever saw.. Used to fool around with two pairs of glassca-then I got those bifocals with the annoying lines in front of my eyes. Now I know better-wear Kryptok bifocal lenses in

Fits-U Spectacles Try that combination if you wish to look and feel years younger." Call and see us about glasses while the matter is on your mind

N. LAZARUS, Ophthalmic Optician 1A, D'Aguilar Street.

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Explation

The Debit Account

By Oliver Onions. The Mystery! Woman

By Mrs: Campbel! Pra ed By Marjorie Bowen, The Cottage in The Chine

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By Gilbert Parker. ng and gasping for breath when Cheerful Craft By R. Andom. The Straits Times" reports a SINGLE dose of that the F.M.S. Labour Code is to: NOBBS ASTHMA CURE The Two Curgations be amended by repealing the will give you certain, prompt An Affair of State provisions of section 76 of the relief and ensure a good night's Labour Code, 1912, which, though rest? This, the only genuine cure

By J.C. Snaith, Phillidia Flouts me designed to limit and regulate for Asthma, discovered by Mr.

M. H. Pendered. indentured immigration from NOBBS, a qualified Chemist, and By E. Phillips Oppenheim. Helena Brett's Career China, may, it is feared, tend to a sufferer for many years, will, if Western men With Eastern

By Desmond Coke encourage the immigration of le- taken when necessary, effect a Morals By W. N. Willis. Hidden Hives By E. R. Punshon. bourere under contracts signed in radical cure of this erstwhile in The Love Pirate t

ourable malady

A Young Lady China, whereas the declared

Obtainable at Messrs. A, 8.

By C. &A. M. Williamson,

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