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REMEMBER TEL. No. 977.

·FOR

NOTICE

MERCURY GARAGE

COMMERCIAL NEWS,

»

JAPAN'S DEMAND FOR NITRE.

The Japanese demand for Chilean nitre has increased so much that one T.K.K. steamer, which has been plying between Japan and Chile for the import of nitre, is inadequate to cope with the situation. The deficiency for the first half of this year has been made good with nitre received from Vladivostok. But since the recent trouble with the Russian

exporters, Japanese importers

THE MOST MODERN. CARS IN TOWN.

producers. The only effective way of meeting our new burdens is by making the nation, as whole

The Canterbury Diocesan Cons ference war opened at Lambeth Palace recently by the Arch bishop of Calebury,

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

PUBLIC LUGNIONS.

HS Undersigned has received Instructions to sell by Public

Auction on

FRIDAY, the 15th August

· 1919**

commencing at 3 pm.

The Archbishop, in his prest dential address, said that there was a peril in not adequately recognising the new conditions which must be faced and under- stood. He urged the exercise of stern economy in private ex- penditure until we had met our obligations and provided for our country's needs. He did not mean that people should now live under all the restraints they

(Fitted with cylinder engine. accepted during the war. It was New-Sims Magneto & Paragon right to resume, reasonable ex Reverse Gear. Awnings & side penditure and

at A. King's Slipway, Wanchtai The 28 Motor Boat "Boronia"

"SHELL PERFORM

to recognise screens. Speed' miles per how.

amusement as necessary, es pecially for the young, but it was the bounder duty of all who could to place immediately such money as they could in the hands of the Government for the country's needs.

Also

The Gael Class YachtTM "Toinette **

(winner of 3 cups during the 1917 season, in good condition)

On view Now ~*`. Terms: Cash on delivery

Geo. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

The revival of our country's very more productive. The healthy life would be nation can no more pay the cost difficult unless we responded pro- of the war merely by a manipul-perly to the call that was now ation of taxes than Mr. Micawber being made. An appeal'was going could discharge a debt by writing out that night to every parish an I.O.U. The only real way to priest in England suggesting they pay for the war is to replace, by should use the opportunity that new construction, the material these weeks afforded to explain wealth that has been destroyed the needs and to urge that they SPECIAL MATINEE The only way to do this without should be forcefully and patrioti- lessening the amount that we cally met It was endorsed by annually consume is actually to the two Archbishops, and was increase the amount of commodit-commended to the consideration.

AT THE

ies and services that we annual- and, he hoped, the action of the VICTORIA THEATRE

have been unable to get satisfacly produce. What the community people. tory delivery. Towards the end has now to consider is not how The Archbishop referred to the of this month, the s. Valparaiso to tax. but how to increase the new method of election to the is sailing from Chile to Japan national production." This is conference, and hoped that it with about 3.000 tons of nitre both not from a speech of Sir Auckland would be accepted, as it had been OWING TO THE FACT THAT for fertilising and industrial Geddes, it will be observed, but in other dioceses. It would mean WE ARE SHORTLY TO SHOW about the deliberate economic doctrine the eligibility of women to the FINE SERIAL with PEARL »Prices are purposes. Y. 161 per ton spot cash at Kobe. of Mr. Wabb and his Fabian assembly.

colleagues. It may be hoped that this part of the book is being attended to by the coal miners as much as the chapter on "batlona- lization."-Times.

at

mense

war.

the

HANKOW TRADE.

Mr. Laurence Hardy presented WHITE, WE HAVE DECIDED the report and balance-sheet. TO HASTEN THE SCREEN- Both the receipts and expenditure ING OF "THE BULL'S EYE” were "record sums, and they had

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come well out of a difficult year. CONSEQUENTLY ON THURS The Board of Finance had under-DAY & FRIDAY at the MA- taken a scale of minimum salaries TINEES. WE WILL PRESENT for the assistance of the clergy as EPISODES 3, 4 and 5.

AT followsDeacons. £160 a year:

ordained priests. £180; priests THE MATINEE ON SATUR- ordained five years, £200. The DAY (2.15 & 5) WE WILL increase took effect from January SCREEN EPISODES 6, 7 & 8. last.

Mr. E. J. Bishop protested against the scale as a "scandalous pittance."

that

Another speaker said £160 a year for a deacon was less than be paid his carpenter.

the

CONSIGNEES.

Mr. Howard Houlder, Mayor of CHINA MAIL STEAMSHIP Croydon, suggested that

COMPANY, LTD. amounts should be £180, £200, and £250.

BRAZIL TO HELP BRITISH MANUFACTURES. The members of. the Brazilian Commercial Mission recently visiting the United Kingdom

the

of invitation General Electric Company. Hankow, Aug 2-At the be visited the Osram Lamp Works ginning of the week a fair amount at Hammersmith, and were after- of business was done in gold wards guests of the company at a dollar bills for September, but luncheon at Claridge's Hotel. later on there was very little to: The Chairman of the company, report as banks, owing to the Mr. H. Hirst, spoke of the im- tightness of money. would not value of electrical buy for near delivery at all. appliances in the

and There was little or no demand referred to a newly-invented for T. T. Taels T. T..oo Shang valve which had been instru-hai--The rate remained, under mental in defeating submarines, shipping point 96.7-96.725 being and was used to direct aeroplanes, | quoted. Dollars were frm and and would in future, lie closed at 719-72.1, buyers and said, play great part sellers respectively. Interest.-15 Bishop Knight moved that the NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. in solving the transport proper cent, after being 13 per cent scale should be accepted as a blem. Dr. Sousa Bandeira thank- Changsha Exchange:26. The temporary one, and should be ed the company on behalf of the demand

wood oil reconsidered before the end of the From delegation, and referred to the and tallow remains good and we year projected formation of an Anglo- have to record a further consider- The Chairman, the Bishop of Brazilian Chamber of Industry able advance in local prices. Dover, in the absence of the Pri- and Commerce. which was cordi- Supplies of tallow are running mate, whose brother had died in ally approved by the Brazilian low. Several large purchases of the morning suggested that the THE Steamship Legation. Dr. Cochrane Simon- seeds are reported which practic-original report should be accepted sen referred to the dolegates' visit [ally consume all available on the understanding that the

* NANKING ". on Wednesday to the London supplies. Gallnuts seem to have profits raised should be consider- docks, and said Brazil wished to come into demand again and ed. This was agreed to.

Having arrived, from the above send its meat, corton, rubber, prices are firm up. Usuals The Archbishop of Canterburyports, consignees of cargo are timber. coffee, and countless other are bare of stocks. There were presided at the afternoon sitting hereby notified to send in their products, in exchange for British no piece goods inquiries for for which was devoted to discussion Bill of Lading duly endorsed for manufactures. The party afterward business. Stock goods on the Enabling Bill.

countersignsture and take im ward attended the opening of the slightly easier. Yarn prices are

mediate delivery of their goods Naval and Military Tournament firm and slight advances on

from ship's side. as the guests of the Federation of several of the counts have to be British Industries.

2

THE NEED FOR GREATER PRODUCTION.

recorded.

for both

SISAL COMPETITION HURTS HEMP

MARKET.

Canon Garbett, in opening the discussion, said that the Enabling Bill would confer great benefits.

SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU, YOKOHAMA,

rent.

& BHANGHAI.

THE HAT TRICK

3 SUCCESSIVE TRIUMPHS

1st

* DAILY MAIL" $10,000 PRIZE

London-to-Manchester Flight,

Won by Paulhan on

1910

"SHELL.

2nd

"DAILY MAIL" £10,000 PRIZE

Circuit-ol-Britain Flight,

1911

Won by Beaumont on "SHELL."

3rd

'DAILY MAIL" £10,000 PRIZE

America-to-Europe-direct Flight,

1919

Won by Capt. Sir John Alcock, D.S.C., on £* SHELL.”

"SHELL"

AVIATION MOTOR SPIRIT

THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO. (South China) Ltd.

HE Undersigned has received THE

instructions to sell by Pablic Auction on

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

The Best Tiffin

G.

in town

TO-DAY

1919.

is at

commencing at 2.30 p.m.

at

No. 29 Dock Terrace, Kowloon

WEDNESDAY, the 20th Aug.

Docks

A Quantity of Valuable House- hold Furniture

Also

2 Electric ceiling fans

-1 Electric table fan

And

1 Cottage piano by Collard-and Collard

On view from Tuesday, the 19th August, 1919.

Catalogue will be issued. Terms: Cash on delivery.

Geo. P. LAMMERT.-

Auctioneer.

undead he received THE Undersigned has

thews to sell by Public Auction on TUESDAY, the 19th August,

**1919,

It would mean the establishment Cargo impeding discharge, will of Church Councils in every be landed immediately and carzo parish, and the laity would have remaininz on board on and after a real voice in the affairs of their Saturday 16th Aug., 1919 at 5 p.m. parish. It would set up a Church will be landed into the Co's Go Assembly which would represent down at Consignees risk and In the course of the sectional Fear is generally entertained the voice of the Church as

2 expense. Cargo undelivered an report contributed by the repre- both by hemp dealers and the whole. The Bill also facilitated and after Wedesday, 20th Aug. sentatives of the coal-owners on labour organisations in Manila legislation to enable anomaly in 1919 at 3 pm. will be subject to--- the Sankey Commission, reference that this important industry will the Church to be removed. is made to the fact that one of the come to a standsill, or at Archdeacon White Thomson, schemes for nationalisation put least suffer a great drawback in Archdeacon

All broken, chafed and damag- of Canterbury, before the Commission (and the course of a few months, if moved a resolution in sapport of ed package will be landed into flo's supported in evidence by Mr. the present condition of the the Enabling Bill and the co-ed on Wednesday, 20th Aug. 1919. Godown, where it will be examin- Sidney Webb, one of the Com-market confinues. The sharp stitution of the National Church missioners) was in substance the competition offered by the sisal Assembly. The Rev. Mr. Sopwith, at 10.

as that contained on this bemp produced in abundance in vicar of Ashford, seconded the sanje as in the nthian Research Mexico, has caused marked resolution, and Mr. Hapgood said after the goods have left the No claim will be entertained Department's book, "How effect upon the hemp industry in he shuddered to think what the ship's side and/or Co's Godown. to Pay for the War," published the islands Less than two Apostles would say if they came All claims must be presented in July, 1916, of which Mr. Webb months ago, the price of sisal on earth and found that a Bishop within 3 weeks of the ship's was both general editor and part in the United States was reported of the Church of England might arrival, otherwise they will not. author. In view of the serious to be fifteen centavos a pound or be chosen by a man who might be recognized. figures given recently as to the approximately P20 a picul. The not even be a Christian. decline of coal output, and the recent developments in the sisal | The Dean of Canterbury said

No Fire Laurance whatever necessity of raising the price of industry in Mexico, resulted not he opposed the whole principle will be effected. coal to the consumers, the follow-only in the increase of produc-of the measure. The constitution ing passage from the introduction [tion, but also in a considerable of the "proposed assembly, was to that book seems worth decrease in price of hemp abroad. unconstitutional and unnational. quoting-We do not believe that A week ago the selling price of Boys and girls of 18 the right way to bear the burden sisal fibre in the States was re-enfranchised, while Nonconform- lie, the cost of the warlis further ported to be only nine centavos ists-more than half the nation- to tar either the produces in the a pound. The price of hemp were disenfranchised". course of their production or the in the islands,

on "the The Archbishop of Canterbury consumers in respect of what they other hand, is P35 & picul said that there was always plenty He had always fought that consume. We need, on the con-of the good quality. The last of room for theoretical criticism disaster, but it was no excuse for rary, rather to reduce these sale local merchants were able to in any scheme for such a complex standing still. A vague charge charges. There is already to get for this kind in the States matter, but he believed. the of ulterior motives, had i been manch toll taken on the necessaries was P42. While the local fibre Bill was more theoretical than frequently made. His motive pov of life. Our manufacturers are is superior to the Mexican sisal practical. What was the con- was to enable the Church to do already too much hampered in hemp, it is felt that it can not atractive policy of the critics her work better, more promptly, their production. We shall not compete with the increased pro- Burely they were not to go on as sodifusore effecdenly for the increase our power of bearing the duction and the considerably they were. The only right people new burdens by taxing either the lower price of the latter. At this were deprived of was the right food of our working people or time approximately 200 Isbourers- slices babetictis laye the materials and incidental | are- out of work in a number of ....” The boger components » required by our hemp concerts in the city. thould be

O. H. RITTER,

Agoat,

were Prince's Buliding. Ground Floër.

Hongkong, 4th August, 1919.

commencing at 2.45 p.m..

st "Lyeemun" No. 153 the Peak A Quantity of Valuable House

hold Furniture (including Upholstered Draw fog Room Suite Dining Room Furniture (by W., Powell Ltd)i. White Enamelled Bedroom and Nursery Furniture

Also

One Dover Stova (practically

On View from Monday, the 18th Inst.

Cats

pporting the

Term

be issued

AMEET

NOTICE

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OFFICE

Whereas on July 19th, licen

ed junk T536H was seized by thị Revenue Department whil

WISEMAN'S lying off Saltfish Lane. T

$1.00

Tickets for 30 Meals

$25,00

All the Meat, Poultry,

Milk and Butter

is supplied by the

Cs

Dairy Farm

notice that if this junk is no claimed within seven days from Ang: 15 it will be sold by Publ Anction to defray expenses curred.

(Bd) S. W, BECKW

Supazi IMPORTS & EX Hongkong, 12th August, 1919

NOTICE

HONGKONG & SHANGHA BANKING CORPORATION

THE DIVIDEND DEC fax the Half Year ending June 1919 at the rate of Pourds five shillings

'D. M. GOODALL, share is payable

Manager.

TO BE LET.

TO BE LETA-ground floor fat at Saifee Terrace Kow" loon. Apply to Kayamally, and Co. Eongkong

MONDAY the 11th day August, Current, at the Corporation, holders are requested boug

By order of the Cour