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FLETCHER'S

COUGH LINCTUS

THE IDEAL REMEDY

————— ‘TOR ----

COUGHS, COLDS, BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, ETC.

75 cents. Per Bottle.

PREPARED ONLY

AT

THE PHARMACY.

FLETCHER & CO. LTD.

2. Queen's Road. Central, Hongkong.

Tel No. 345

FOOK WENG & CO.

Astor Housa Buildings. Manufacturer of Swatow Drawn Work & Embroideries, Dealers in all kinds of Silk goods of the best quality, Mandorin Costumes. Antique China and Curios, Etc., Etc.

CHEAP SALE

The opportunity occupies 25 days only. 15th. December. 1923

Tel. Cu. 654

HOP

to 8th. Jaunary, 1924..

CHEONG 55, Queen's

Road, Central,

COMPLETE HOUSE FURNISHERS

DEALERS IN

SWATOW DRAWN AND LACE WORK

EMBROIDERIES, OLD MANDARIN COATS, SILE, ETC., ETC.

LARGE CONSIGNMENT JUST UNPACKED. INSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED.

MORISON PIANOS.

Specially built for this Climate, Cash or easy payments.

TSANG FOOK PIANO CO., Telephone 2127.

940, Wanchai Road.

A permanent roofing at a price competitive with corrugated iron.

“ ITALIT

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The perfected red and grey.corrugated cement asbestos

ROOFING

-

The Inspecting Engineer to the Crown

Agents. for the Colonies

has conducted an in teresting and conclu- sive series of tests on **ITALIT

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and a copy of his report, together with full parti culars of "ITALIT," will be forwarded post free on request.

JJ

**ITALIT

provides the muzi-

fum in durability

and safety at a

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Delivered or fixed in any. quantity anywhere. Just ask for a copy of the "ITALIT," Booklet, STOCK CARRIED BY-N

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

HONGKONG & CANTON.

SOLE AGENTS

THE HONGKONG TEL

NOTICE

NOTIC

· HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE CO., LTD.

C. R. WARREN & CO., LID NOTICE is hereby given that

Sanitary Engineers, Monmentalists, etc.

Godowns.

Hongkong.

FERRE

THE CHINA DOG

Origin of A Popular Ornament

Old country cottages are still being ransacked by curio collec the ORIENARY ANNUAL torg for these quaint little china GENERAL MEETING OF effigies of dogs which used to be SHAREHOLDERS IN THIS the most popular chimney-pieca COMPANY will be held at the ornament in Early Victorian Offices & | 584, Wanchai Rusi,- | Hongkong Hotel. Hongkong on days, says the correspondent of a SATURDAY, the 9th February Home paper. These dogs were 1924, si 11 am. for the purpose always remarkably aliko, even to of receiving the Report of the facial expression, which was so Directors together with a State-mild and gentle as to be almost ment of Accounts for the year inane; and their general colour- ending 31st December 1923 ing was white, with large' ear of The TRANSFER BOOKS of bright brown banging down on the Company with be closed from each side of the face in a way the 1st February to 9th February which made the animals curiously (loth days inclusive), during suggestive of the dear old ladies which perind no transfer of of the period with their pendent curls. There were usually ono ar Shares can fo Registered. JOHND. HUMPHREYS & SON two brown spots on the body, which was clothed in rather curly buit. The general aspect of the dog was that of a very chastened spaniel with a rather peaky nose.

Tel. No. 269

All kinda of Builders Requisites in Stock. Soil & Yrar Pipes, Rainwater Pipes Floor & Wall Tiles Batha, Basina, bath Room Fittings Water Heaters for Gas Dil or Coal Fuel. Also a Few Chip

Heaters.

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Opes & Closed Grates-Cocking Ranges ESTIMATES FREE FOR ALL SANITARY- INSTALLATIONS - HOT WATER SYSTEMS. 8%. General Repairs Promally Attended to Specialists in Monumental Work-Car in Italise Marble or Hongkong Granite. Just Received a Shihment of Italias Marble Floor Tiles-Prices on Applica

tira.

A Large stack of Artificial Wreaths in all Sizes.

T. NAKAO

Japanese Shoe Expert. TORTOISE SHELL BOXES and CASES A SPECIALTY.

Astor Mouse Hotel Building. Queen's Road Central.

General Managers, Hongkeng, 23rd. Jan. 1924. THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.

THE EAST ASIATIC CO. LTD.

Regular Freight, no

S.S.."Bankz

(1548 tons) M.S. "Bintang”.

(9779 tons)

Expected on or about

in port

5th. February

For further particulars please apply to --

4th. February

11th February

Subject to change without notice.

JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.

Agents.

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.

COPENHAGEN,

The M. S. ""ANNAM ·

It is possible to give all these will be loading for Valencia, Donkirk, Rotterdam, Amsterdam,

Hamburg Copenhagen and other Scandinavian

details of little china ornaments. OTICE is hereby given that which must have been manufac

the FIFTH ORDINARY tured by many hands, because YEARLY MEETING OF they were all so similar in their SHAREHOLDERS will be held points as evidently to be correct at the Registered Office of the representations of some familiar Company No. 10, Des Voeux, kind of dog which was then bred Road Central, at 3.00 p.Des

very true to type, and therefore Saturday February the 2nd 1924, presumably of value, but belang- for the purpose of receiving the ing to a breed which has been. Report of the Directors together lost, for is corresponds to no kind with a Statement of Accounts of spaniel-to-day. for the year ending 31st

For many years the writer, Desember, 1923.

puzzled over the identity of the The Transfer Books of the china dog in vain, until the other Company will be closed from day he picked up for a shilling at Monday, 21st January to Satura bookstall an odd bound volume! day, 2nd February 1924, (both of "The Edinburgh, Journal of days inclusive) during which Natural History and of the period no transfer of shares cap Physical Sciences." published in be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

KAN TONG PO, Chief Manager. Hongkong. 15th January, 1924.

Cafe Wiseman MASSAGE HALL (LANE, CRAWFORD LTD.)

MRS. S. UZUNOYE,

Expert MISSUES

87 Queen's Road Denizal

Ind Jour

RADIO-MAGNAVOX Loud Speakers and Amplifiers. Batteries, Insulators. Crystals, Aerial Trixés, and all other parts.

DE SOUSA & CO, LTD., St. George's Bldg, 2nd Floor. Tel. No. Central 1264.

・For the Blood is the Life."

Sufferers

from Bad Legs, Abicenses Cleem, Pues. Gladur Swell 125, Eerem Botis. Paples and traptions. Goot, Rheumatism, my realise that the only sure way to compime and lasting reel to tree the biond of the poisonous wave at the one case of such trouble q Clark's Blood Misture contains ingrediens

HCA som over.

Eve and

expel

The impuriLEN,

thats why so many

Lasting cars stand to its creat

Pleasani lo take.

Of all Chemists and Stores.

Refuse Substrates

Clarke's Blood Mixture

**Everybody's

Blood Parsler."

THE NEW FRENOR ASMENY

THERAPION NO. 1 THERAPION NË 2 THERAPION N: 3

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GAL ZOTT. DIANE APVORENÝ və YOU ITE Joe Gam

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

Wedding Cakes

From $10.00

Christening,

B

Almond Iced and decorated

the year before Queen Victoria came to the throne. This contain- ed many hand-coloured plates, among them two of the various sporting dogs of the day.

The two sporting dogs which have undergone least change sizce then are the English pointer and the setter; but the rest of the

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types have varied greatly or

Further Sallings :-

S.S. "Kina S.S. "Erle M.S." Java 3.S."Natal " M.S. "Asta

ports about

10th of March 1924.--

{Expected

on or Will have homewardboun about.

on or about

4th. February

6th. February

11th. February

26th. February.

4th. March

10th. March.

10th. April Subject to change without notice.

For further particulars please apply to ♪--

JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.

Agents.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

THE CANADIAN MINISTER TO U. S. A.

Ottawa, Jan. 31.

It is understood that General Sir Arthur Currie has been fered the position as first. Canadian Minister and- Plenipotentiary

to Washington-Reuter.

Washington, Jan. 31,

The report that Sir Arthur Currie has been offered the appoint-" become extinct during the inter- ment as Canadian Plenipotentiary to Washington, is construed to vening 87 years. The Spanish mean that the oft-reported project in Canada for direct diplomatic pointers, to which pride of place contact with Washington is is process of being carried out. The was given, one entirely white and appointment does not mean the establishment of an independent- the other black, were larger but Canadian mission, but merely the transfer by the British Embassy built on finer lines than the of jurisdiction over diplomatic matters affecting Canada and the English pointer. The bloodhound United States. The Canadian official for the proposed negotiation was a tall and powerful brown with the State Department would speak for the British sovereign. dog, closely resembling in size The change would be important for Canadians, as communications and shape the Great Dane of to- would pass directly between the Embassy and the Government at: day. The staghound was a type Ottuwa, isfead of through the Foreign Office in Londos -Renter's unknown now, like a very large American Service.

[General Sir Arthur William Currie, acva, dcs, has had a and graceful foxhound, beautifully coloured with large patches of notable career. both as a soldier and educationalist. chestnut. brown, and black on Since 1920 he has been Principal of the famous M'GID Dai- white. The English terrier was aversity. Born in 1875, he was in command of the 2nd Canadian well-bred "black and tan," once Infantry Brigade in 1914-15, afterwards becoming a Divisional Com- our commonest dog, but now mander. His decorations include the French and Belgian Croix de fàlmost extinct, except in Irish Guerre, and the Legion of Honour.]

memories, which gave the name

to the specal levies sent to restore

order in Ireland.

All the others were recognisably

the breeds from which our modern

VENIZELOS LIKELY TO RESIGN.

M. Venizelos' resignation of the Premiership almost immediately,

sporting dogs have been specialis-owing to ill-health, is considered certain.

Athens, Jan. 31.

There is great uncer-

London, Jan. 31.

fed, with one exception and when tainty as to what political development will ensue.-Reuter.

the writer's eyes fell on this--a little dog, sitting humbly in the According to a Greek source in London, M. Venizelos is suffer- background while all the othersing from nerves, due to overstrain. He will only temporarily relin- were in active sporting attitudes quish the Premiership while resting-Reuter,

-be recognized at a glance the long-lost china dog. In every detail, with its brown ears and a few brown spots on white, and its very chastened expression, it left

no possibility of mistake. It was called the "comforter."

GERMANY'S BUDGET.

Berlin, Jan. 31. Among the official data to be examined by General Dawes and

the experts committee is the Reich Budget for 1924, showing « revenze of Gold Ms. 5,254,000,000; and expenditure Gold Ms.

At a time when the King Char-5,712,000,000.-Reuter, les spaniel, now a waddling toy- dog like a long-haired black-and- tan pug. was an active little sporting dog, the comforter was the lap-dog of the day, originat- ing from 'a cross between the! Maltese

and King Charles spaniels. It was first known as

OBITUARY.

Clermont Ferrand, Jan. 31.

The death is announced of the Duf de Montpensier. Reuter.

BLACK SEA GOLD.

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I was a comforter. No wonder i Wreckage is reported to have was the most popular ornament and Birthday Cakes the spaniel-gentle, and found

place in every Court lady's boue been discovered in the Black Seon English mantelpieces 87. doir and drawing room, and the of part of a ship which foundere years ago... That it should have famous little lap-dog which came when carrying gold for the Britis'left no trace is easily understood, out of the folds of the dress of forces during the Crimean War. too, when one looks at the pen Mary Queen of Scots after she Experts consider that there arosive little chins effigies and was beheaded and tried to awa- good prospects of finding an mentally sums up the merits of kon.the corpse with its carosses raising the gold.

the original as a dog.

From $3.00 each.

A Big Difference

BY BLOSSER

The Hongkong Telegraph,

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