P. LAMMERT
AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER
AND SURVEYOR.
Public Auction.
38 Undersigned has received in. stractions to sell by Public Auction,
TUESDAY,
January 14, 1919,
commencing at 245 pm.
at No. 1 HUMPHRAYS BUILDING,
T
KOWLOON...
SALSA QUANTITY OF
INTIMATIONS
METEOR GARAGE
Sole distributors of
>
LUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
Comprising:
Teak hatstand, Chesterfield couch & hchairs, blackwood desk, armchairs, Ales, tea poys & fower stands, marble Ck Japanese silk embroidered screen, tures, ornamenta, casement curtains, Tet, skin rugs, etc., eta
ale extension dining table and sirs, teak sideboard with bevelled ror, din er waggon, teak bookcar, abet, electric Attings, dinner crock-
glassware, etc., etc.
Teak twin bedsteads, ninale & double rdrobes with bevelled glass doors Jet table, tiled top washstand, woollen liketa, toilet crockery, etc., etc.
And
A Quantity cf Palms in Pots Also
Cottage Plano by Moutrie, Shanghai |
(in fine condition)
A Victrola with cabinet and records.
Ferambulator:
MAXWELL CARS.
Automobiles for Hire
and for Sale
at reasonable Prices.
'Phone 2500.
65 Des Voeur Road
Cantzal
KODAKS
& FILMS
Plates & Papers. Developing & Printing Undertaken.
A. TACK & CO.,
view from Monday, the 13th inst. 26, Des Voeux Road Central
Catalognes will be issued.
Terms: Cash on delivery. «
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
Hongkong, January 7, 1919.
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Among elementary school-children in The chemies! and engineering laboro- The Bayswater vicat who spoke of s some of the poorest founties, the Courries of Colgante University have a certain octingency
sacrifice Conger has been Extriping
ment that they have perfected a greater than Calvary itself;" was prob "for the kiddier to take "home to the drying process by which meals and fishably a victim of that vice of oratory which, mothers. In language of item zecessity, can be kept indefinitely and then restored consists in using words without a toil other is warned that she must give to their former-state of freshness by the appreciation of their meaning. It was by up the derative lights and the shades apdication of water. It is believed that similar lapse that a"Parliamentary can. Bights In the drawing-room.", nuke do this d'acovery will serve to increase the diante, quoting the other day the words, with fewer hot baths and avoid her werd's pient shipping capacity by more Vengeance is mind, said the Lord," actoriously wasteful practice of diuing than twelve times by doing away, with wided; And surely what the Almighty" said the British Empire has as the right to suy."
in one room sitting in another, and the need of refrigeratoral entertaining in another,"
USING GREASE CUPS IN COLD
WEATHER.
In 2 weather oil gers "thicker and
ASQUITH'S" SQUIES.
John Bull on November 18 rather sympathised with poor Mr. Asquith in the manner in which he was being
THE EXPLOITERS.
For outgebus atlacity and impudent insitiveness an advertisement in the
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HOTELS AND CAFES.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL
AND
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J. H. TAGGART.
MANAGER
THE PEAK HOTEL.
1,500 Feet above Sea Level,
15 Minutes from Landing Stagej Under the Management of
Mrs. BLAIR.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
OENTRAL LOCATION
LL ELECTRIC-TRAMS Pass Entrance, Electric Lifts, Fans and Lighting.
grease burder, so that in screwing down dished " by his former lieuterant, the Evening Press" of York would be bars |} A European Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water Byttem
to beat Home in Ben of wages," it
a grease up the grease already in the present Prime Minister. Home Rule and ruds, ofered discharged soldier and bearing is too hard to be pressed home Free Trade are meagre substitutes for wife. Man look after small garden; wife and, consequently, there is a tendency-for the grease to age out of the cup. It is National ecoustraction and New household daties; no food." "It is notice. advisable, therefore, to serme down the World. Whether the politicians like it able that the advertiser, with all his cheek, has not the counge to append his caps afters run instead of before, some of out, they must reconcile themselves name. He is pbably a mesanerob` iữ of the beatings being then slightly warm-
small way; and the only discharged- ed by the engine, and the grense soft in | cromiseMagher. In other heatingy the
soldier he is likely to get for his purposes motion of the parts will have softened
is an insane one. the grease, so that it will for in the right direction when the tip" is screwed down
in the fact that, as in the case of, the Tories in 1500, Mr. FloydyGeorge intends to ride the Khaki horse for all it is worth and, as the game is played, who shall blame him?
THE WORD "BUBH."
throughout Best of Food and Servies
Telephone 373 Telegraphig Address
VICTORIA
WITCHELL, "Manager,
PALACE HOTEL
KOWLOON.
(Two minutes from Star Ferry)-
Telephone K3, Telegraphic Add:
PALACE!
J. H. OXBERRY. Froprietor.
THE PASSING OF THE HORSE.
Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fada throughout Writing in The Star" for October 15, and entirely under new management Cuisine under the personal supervision WAR RISKS INSURANCE.
Katharine Tynan remarker. I would of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Rooms Terms moderata Special tarins to harness the gross spirit of the oil wells families on application to A good many beginners must have been only to bear huden for which the horse There has been an appreciable reduc-puzzled by the connection of the ordinary is unsuited, or to hurry, as a creature of tion in rates quoted at "Lloyd's for the word bush with a motor bearing flesh and bloxxi amy not hurry, After insurance, of wrey risks, and prices show The derivation, however, is a simple one, much of the usual twaddle on the cows
sharp downward tendency. In this con being apparently the French word nection inquiries having been made arhouche, a mouth, and long before ruzing quietly by the ropside the ving to the position of merchants and others the days of matgears it was upplica to
ing ul birds the robins song in the who may now or in the future efect in the wedges driven in round the linie in budgerows, etc., etc., she remarks: “ Of surances with the War Itisks Insurance millstone to fix it firmly Japon the that live the motor is the enemy, and Once in the event of the declaration of spindle. Another curious application of a motorist your whole concern with an Armistice de ween the belligerent the word bath is the proverb: Good the little brethrer is to urnid killing them. Towers, the Board of Trade stated wine needs no bush. Here the bush in with settingent probability of being. Notice is hereby given that the rates al a real ons, having been in-early times led yourself. Road-hoys area, nui- pretium upon all insurances accepted on the general of a roadside inn and Race, but is it really as had as that 7 and after Nov. 1, 1918, vtil be reduced one need not go further than the neut by 50 per cent. in cases where the veals Shepherd's Bush to find un example of j concerned shall saif during the continuity use still surviving from a time when shepherds were to be found very much nearer to the centre of London:
mue of such Armistice.
GERMAN PRISONERS AND, THE ARMISTICE.
The behaviour of the Ilus prisoners' at
pse into the paychology of the pres
STUFF AND NONSENSE.
ROBBER SHOT.
By crder of the Shanghai and Sung- kiang Defracy Commissioner, Foo Esa- kan, one of the gang which successfully robbed the Teo Foong Yang Back of several gold us, and got away, tempor
A word which in the reverse of pretty arily in an automobile, was shot the 4 certain camp not far from London was but which, owing to circumstances; is in other day in acordance with the special very enricus and gives cou a striking everybody's mouth nowadays and web regulations governing een robbery. appears with facreasing frequency in the Those in charge of the gold bars which tutes. When the news be the signing Press-is loodstuffs, The suffix "atut" were be carried in a carriage to the the tem slice comd the men dented for joy applied to food is objectionable as it smelting place in Jesteld, were held up and excitedly embraced one another, Teora to carry un innuende and with by the gang, in a moter.cat, and the bars offrers, on the other hand, wept copious Christians upon us this is unscrsonable taken away. Han was traced to Churg- ly, and in marry easer altogether broke ting is missible as appiled to turning Wome time ago, but anerceded in doneae Cuber Boche-officere went to thi
keys and other uniortunate fowl. But escaping by forceful resistance, He commandant to fuquin whet reprisals he why don't the serbes, bee plain fanguage, ufterwards went to Shanghai and wak insondel to take on them. On the follow call a jinte spade instead of, un agdel arrested. ing any great gliom frigueland calcurfural implement, and when referring to
and men were much worried about their rice write ite? Nobody, not even a money. They asked, the énimamiank whether their food was th opped and were, impungely, ralleyed bed they are told ibit the authorizes Lad Fluation of stupi their rationsund
publicen, has a hardihood to call beer
araksta although its good stuff Jandage and letters are an important as
uncheon and liquias. Fangy calling this. paregraph wordstuff
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