THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
TO BE LET TO LET-European flats in Lee Building. Wanchai Gap Read, Apply to 39 Kennedy Rd.
TO LUIT Premises suitable
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY
CLUB
PUBLIC AUCTION,
THE Undersigned have
MONDAY JULY
1923
FORTHCOMING AUCTION SALES
HUGHES & HOUGH LAMMERT BROS.
GENERE AUCTIONEERS
AND
BROKERS.
The Undersigned bave rece Instructions to sell by Public Auction
received Instructions to edili by Publia Auction un Wednes.. the lith... «July, 1923
commencing at 3 p.m. at their Sales Rooms, Duddell N Extra Gymkhana Meeting Street, MALENE A will be held (weather permitt for account of the Concerned ) ing) at Happy Valley on Satur A Lage Quantity of Wines, day July 7th commencing 330
Spirit & Malt Licquers of p.m. The charge for admission
Well known Brands. to the Fublic Eciclosure will be $1.-Soldiers and Sailors in
comprising unifrom half price.
Champagne (Mumm, Fammery Members are advised that they and Greno, Moet & Chandon, must show their Badges to obtain Heldsick, Louis Roederer Duo: TOLET
OLFT-Office Rooms at No admission to the Members de Monaco, Monopole, Clicquat the 4th July, 1933, commencing at
sto)
2.30 pm at their Sales Rooms, 6 Des Voeux Road, Central Enclosure.
Sparkling Burgundy, Sparky No. Des Vœux Road, Corner of Apply to The Bank of Canton, Each member has the right of Mosella Sauterne, Claret, Pan, Ice House Street Ltd.
introducing 2, non-members to the members enclosure, tickets Sherry, White Wines
**Gin (Geilen, Old Tom, Holland for whom can be obtained from
etad
for Office or godown in the central district. Apply Wan Fling, 10, Queen's Road.
SPACIOUS Offices an Ground
Floor of No. 4. Duddal Street, newly fitted with teak wood Panels ard counters; suitable for Banking and other
· Light businesses. Electric Installation completed. Centrally located. Ready for immediate occupation. Apply to Box No. 054 o/a." Hongkong Telegraph.
NOTICE.
ALL FRIENDS of the Ameri
can community are cordi- ally invited to a The Dansant at "the Hongkong Hotel Grill on
July 4th between the. houze of. 4.00 p.m. and 6.30 p.m.
FOTICE.
N. Official reception will be
·AN
held at the American Con- sulate General on Wednesday, July 4th., from 12.00 pm. to 1.09 p.m. in celebration of the National Holiday of the United States.
NOTICE.
NOTICE is heroby given that
Mr. K. G.. Blair's conneo- tion with the undersigned Firm ceases as from daté... WILLIAMƐON & COMPANY, Hongkong, 1st. July, 1923.
OHINA MINING & METAL CQ., LTD.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL,
\N and after the Ist. July 1923 the Regletered Office of the above-named Company will be located c/a Johnson, Stokes & Prince's Building, Hong
Master, Kong.
CHINA MINING METAL
CO., LTD., Hongkong 30th June 1923, "
"NEWS FROM THE OLD COUNTRY,
Messrs; Linstead & Davis at 85.- each up to Friday July 6th The Stewards invite the ladies of Hongkong to be present.
NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned bas resigned from the desistant managership of The General Exchange Co., Ltd.
SYDNEY NG QUINN, Hongkong 30th June, 1923.
THE BANK OF CANTON LTD
Whiskey (John Dowar, King George, Black & White, Napier Johnstone, Haig and Haik, Cana- dian Club, American etc.,)
Brandy (Hennessy, Martell Fetc..)
French and Italian Vermouth, Crome de Menthe, Cacao, Beno- dictine, Chartreuse, Apricot Brandy, Curacao, Absinthe, Du bonet, Blackberry Brandy, Kum 'mel, Amer Picón, etc.......
Bitters (Angostura, Orange, Keesh Lash sted
San Miguel Beer, American Beer, Bass Ale & Stout etc., etc.
Terms: Cash on delivery. 7 On view from Monday, the 9th. July, 19:3.
LAMMERT BROS.,. Auctioneers.
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on WEDNESDAY,
Valuable Teakwood and Blackwood Furniture and Household Sundries, &c, &c., &c. Comprising: Dining Suites, Chesterfeld Sofas," Arm-cheirs (new), Tea Tables, Teakwood Twin Bedsteads, large and small Wardrobes, Dressing Tables and Chairs, Washstands, etc., Sideboards, Dinner Waggonë, Crockery and Glass Ware, Cutlery, Carpets and Rugs, Staircase Car- pets, Electro-plated Waro, Electria Reading Lamps, Teskwood Screens, Blackwood Teapore, Marble-top Flower Stands, Side Tables and Cabinets, and a few lots of Hand- bags and Suit Cases."
Also
One American Ice Chest (large), One Piano by Joseph Wallis & Son, One Piano by Robinson Piano Co, One Iron Bath and One American Roll-top Desk.
T
*
PUBLIO AUCTION,
HE Undersigned have receiv
ed instructions to sell by Public Auction on
Tuesday, the 3rd, July, 1923. commencing at 3 pm. On the premises, 40 Coronation Road, Kowloon next to the
Kowloon. Motor Bus Co.):
The Business of the Motor Cycle Exchange (including the Jitasy Bus Servics)
With all Stock in trade gor sto, etc.as a going concern.
The Stock comprises: 1.Andian Scout.
3 Powerplus Indian
Oycles,
Opposed Twin Indian,
Motor
A BEAUTIFUL CARDEN
AFTER, APPLYING THE. WAKING MOF FERTILSTE
. BẢN GHO "EASTERN" AGRICULTURAL
VENTILJJER
Jarvon St."
Ard, Joor:
Hongkong
Write
to-day.
Tal 2680.
TUBERCULOSIS IN THE EAST.
I Powerplus Indian & Sidecar, How the Disease Might 2. Harley Davidson & Sidecar. 1 Levis
9 Clevelands, One 5 Seater Dodge
Car
One Model 90 5 Overland Motor Oat..
Controlled,
A SEX MATTER,
Are You Left-Handed?
Why are some prople born loft- handed T Do they differ, and how. do they differ, from other people ? An eminent physiologist, Dr. Frarz Deuticko, of Vienna, has beon going into the problem. And bis conclusion le alartling.?
It is this: That left-bandedness means an abnormal sex balance, that in both men and women the right side is the predominantly sexual one, and that cocs quente 1y left handednose mears in a man more or less effeminacy and in a woman more or less, man- sculinity.
Curiously enough, the surest tent of left-handedness is not that of throwing stone. With a man it is the manner in which hagor- maily claaps his hands together. Nino men out of ten will do it
be with the right thumb uppermost, The tenth will have his left thumb on top, and he will be în some de-
In view of the recent comments gres or other effominate. Motor in the local Press on the ravages Again, watch a woman man- of tuberculosis in the Colony, the lipulating her hairpine, always a Seater following, from the Singapore Free fascinating performance: If she Press, is of particular interest:uses her left hand, her character Writing the other day on what will show the relative masculinity had taken place at the Kuals that attaches to left-handedness. Lumpur Sanitary Board and the There is no suror test. need for tackling the problem of tuberculosis, we werd not aware
6.
One Continental 5 Seater Cylinder Overland Motor Car,
One Cyclomabile, (All the above machines in
It is not without reason deep, fine running order).
Large Quantity of Spares, that the Hon'ble D. Galloway all nations men west their physiological reason—that among (for all makes of motor cycles) two years ago had published a
buttons on the right side and Paints, Varnishes, Motor Life, valuable memorandum on same Spring Oil, Mobil pil B., Batteries local aspects of the desse. Like women on the left. Tradition bas nothing to do with it any Magnetos. Generators, Tyres, all the learned doctore theses, it Tubes, Speedometers, wind goes thoroughly into the matter ways in which men and women more than it explains the diverse
and a fallacy in our statistics, axe and thread needles. and sex incidence, the soil, the
Almost as curious is the fact seed, anti-tuberculosis measures that women, like men, invariabi There are many carious and:
NOTICE is hereby given that
an Extraordinary Genera}] THE "HONGKONG LAND IN- (Full Particulags from Catalogue), shields, Tools, Frills, Vices, definition of the disease, an error strike matches, sharpen pencils,
Meeting of the above Company will be held at the Offices of the Company No. 6. Queen's Road Central Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong on Saturday the 7th. day of July 1923 at 2 p.m. for the purpose of considering and if thought fit passing the following Resolution as an Extraordinary Resolution, namely
That the Articles of Association be altered as follows - (a) By substituting the word twenty" in Articles 129 the words two hundred (b) By deleting Article 157 (c) By adding
after
immediately "Chief the words Manager" in line 6 of
VESTMENT AND AGENCY COMPANY LIMITED.
AN INTERI DIVIDEND of
Six Dollars per share for the six months ending 30th June 1923, will be payable on TUES- DAY. July 24th., on which date Dividend. Warrants
may be obtained on application at the Company's Office.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY the 9th. to MONDAY 23rd. July (both days inclusive), during which period no transfor of shares can be registered. vyk
Directors
Hongkong, 26th June, 1923, Terms: Cash on delivery.
-HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.
DO NOT MISS ROCHA'S POPULAR AUCTION SALES
Every Tuesday Thursday & Saturday At 2:30 p.m.
Spanners, Pipe Wrenches, etc.,
etc.
야
Sundry office Furniture,
Terms --As Oustomary,
Inspection orders may be had from the Undersigned, "
LAMMERT BROS.,
"Auctioneers.
the
interesting reflection in these the left hand for buttoning
and unbuttoning, though earlier part of the pamphlet, to movements are different,den which further reference will be In these German and Austrian made, but for the moment we willi
researches into "left-handedness”. refer to the anti-thbarculosis
(or rather the far-reaching dis- THE Undersigned have receiv-measures suggested. The death- turbance of paschological balance ed instructions to sell by rate from phthisis in this Colony that it pontotes) we have a new Public Auction on
has risen during the last few
test of character-Ex.. Thurs. The rath. July, 1923. years, but in that we are not commencing at 3 p.m. | singular, or The factors which at the o'd premises of the Hong at once suggest themselves as kong Electric Co., Wing Fung St. (contributory to the incresse are
By Order of the Board of Specialist is the Valuation of Two (2) 550 B. d. P. Diesel called upon to mention only one,
1. S. GREENHILL
Article 175 the word ог Hongkong, 25th. June 1923.
Assistant Manager.”
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that a further Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at "the same time and place on Mon- day the 23rd. day of July 1923 for the purpose of confirming the above Resolution as a Special Resolution,
Send 735. and we wil Ball you regularly every week for 62 werks a copy it any Briti Weekly Hesapaper, much as Cards, People, Tit Bits, Pearson's etc., ele, ele. Bundredi ta "- "papers on Cur Big Liet mailed free. A differend
paper erst weekly, or the same pushbestions for ol weeks 13% pay's for a year's subvoripilon, g inshiding postage. Most unique uniupilo dete serving, memily appreciated by members
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Dated this 19th, day of June,
1923
By Order of the Board LOOK POONG SHAN,
SEV
Chief Manager.:
fles
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In all Departments.
NOW IN FULL SWING
Come and, see our displays and let the merchandise speak for itself.
BARGAINS!
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"Household and Office Furniture.
2 D'Agullar thong 1932
ELOPERS, PAUSE!
Wenchai.. numerous and obvious, and I feel SCHOLARS WHO BOLTED.
Ganerators Complate with that those activities which bad "alternators & exciters,
found an outlet in. anti-tuber-A correspondent of the Times. Acting Secretary. DA ROCHA'S MART Three (3) 300. B. HP. Diesel culosis work had been diverted slate that the first ragged school Generatore Complete with into more urgently necessary was established in 1841. under alternators & exciters, channels" The fact of the increase the direct supervision of "the Two (2) 250 K. W. Steam of tuberculosis in this Colony, seventh Earl of Shaftesbury. At alternators complete with where there is not nor ever has festival of the Shaftesbury excitera and switchboards, been any direct anti-tuberculosis Society recently the Attorney. One (1) Babcock Wilcox work of any kind at once General told the story of the first water tube boiler complete negatives such a solution.” ragged school taught by his. with fittings and chain grate The words emphasised above father, Mr. Quintin Hogg, sixty stoker.
carry their own- metsage. De years ago. One (1) Marine type; boiler] Galloway describes the Edinburgh The schoolroom was. Lan complete with fittings, ayetem, of a tuberculosis, dispen- archway on the banks of the Two (3) 50 K. W. Alternatorssary, in which every case which Thames; the scholars were two
(without enginee),
comes up into the dispensary is homeless boys who were earning. One (1) Main Switchboard followed up, the home visited, all their livelihood-or rather picking consisting of machine panels the inmates examined, the "march it up-by picking pockets; the and feeder panels,
past” as it is called. This could illuminant was a candle, stuck One (1) Duplex Feed Pump. only be worked locally as a section on the end of a broken beer bottle - Three (3) Heenan. & Froude of the Health Department and by the lesson was ▲ - lesson in
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Sole Agents MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD.
HONGKONG.
THE SKILL OF AN ARTIST
is necessary in the, making of a suit of clothes.
HAWTHORNE & PEARSON'S
tailoring, will give you that touch distlaction decessary to well-cut clothing.
SUMMER SUITS FOR THE HOT WEATHER RAINCOATS FOR THE WET SEASON.
St. George's Building,
Telephone 2318.
type water coolers,
a specially trained officer. He reading, and the text book was One (1) Lot of steel steam thinks, even before the appoint-the Bible. The lesson ended before
pipes and valves,,
ment of such an officer, a begin. very many minutes had passed, Two (2) Sulzer pumps,
ning might be made. Ordinance because the scholars cried out Three (3) Albany Rotary XIV of 1908 deals with spitting something which my father could Three (3) Fans, for cooling in public places, and tuberculosis] not then understand, but after-
towers and Three (3) motore for same, k
One (1) Watar tank,
pumps,
is included in the list of notifiable warda found out was thieves" diseases. The importance of the slang for "Look out for the tormer is obvious and it is only police," and bolted on hearing the One (1) 120 Gallon oil tank, necessary to call the attention of footsteps of a policeman. My Ons (1) Bet of spare gear for "occupiers of premises to the father was left with no scholars Diesel Engine consisting of risks which they personally run with an overturned beer bottle 251 itern.
to enlist their co-operation in the and an extinguished candle to Che (1) 10 ton Travelling crane carrying out of its provisions, and face the suspicions of the majesty
and.
a few prosecutions would have a of the law A Large Quantity of Struc-salutary effect." Notification is tural Steel work on the premises. the necessary point d'appui "
Now on View..
for any systematic anti-tuberculo- For Further Porticulars and sis measures, terms of Sale apply to the Undersigned,
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers.
PUBLIC AUCTION
HE Undersigned have receiv
od instructions to sell by Public Auction
at their Sales Room. Duddell
A Street
One Set of Mint Machinery,
necessity and try and diminish the. avil. Certainly's very great im- SOME REQUIREMENTS.
provement could be made on the The accommodation required present cubicle, and to that for aggressive anti tuberculosis end, prizes should be offered for work would be (1) A dispensary the best plan of such a house. As (2) A sanatorium or schooling the erection of these would be institution (3) A hospital with venture, the first few should be spare land for advanced cases, erected by the local authorities,. But there is imperative and municipal or other. This would urgent need for.amelioration, and demonstrate to building specula we quote the words of Dr. tors that such houses would meet
Galloway. Blog words of with the approval of the authori- The need for better housing tics and, should the cost be pro- Monday, the roth. July 1923 accommodation is, apparently, hibitive as a speculation, there commencing at 3 pm, adinitted, but ita urgenes, appar ao able to grant relief with
tently, is not. At the present rate erentual saving to themselves.
of improvement it is evident Lastly, there is the question of that any anti-tuberculosis scheme nutrition, of the invididual and of which may ba formulat the mass. A low price of food This lot comprises a complete will receive scant assistance means a low death rate from set of Mint Machinery, capable in that direction. In any housing Phthisis, and it is reasonable to of producing 100,000 (one bundcheine special considération assume that the recent phano- ed thousand pieces: 50 cent should be given to the provision menal rise in the price of food twenty cent) cins or 200,000| of a sanitary one-roomed house, stuffs, outstripping as it did the ( two hundred thousand) picces It is fatucus to quota statistics as rise in the purchasing power of 10-cent (ten cent), coine per to their undesirability.
the lower classes, has been pan- working day of 10 hours All phthisis returns bristle with tributory to the recent rise in the (Furtier particulars and in them but such houses are en phthisis death-rate. This will spection ordere may be obtained, throlute hecessity here. There continue until the rise in money. from Mesere, Gilman & Compare many thousands, chiefly wages has overtaken the rise in any Limited or the Undersigned small tradesman and artisans, the price of foods.
Tris-20% of purchaan who try to form a home here and Here,saya the Singapore paper, money to be paid on fall of the tztant to which their finances is the chance for our budding hammer, Balancs to be paid permit them to proceed in this associations formed for the pur within two weeks of day of direction is a single room. These pose of improving the town to sale.
are frankly admitted to be an evil ask in the most eropbatic manger but they are a necessary evil and of the Government, "What about cur only course is to admit the lit
Lammert Bros.,
Auctioneers,
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