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IG. P. LAMMERT.
AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER
AND SURVEYOR
Public Auctions-
RE Undersigned has received instrtic
dom to nil by Puble Auction,
on
FRIDAY March 25, 1919, Commencing a 2.30 p.m., at No. 4 Peak Rond,
A Quantity of
Yaluable
Household Farnlti o,
comprising -
Silk tapestry covered drawing room suite, tenk cbifaniier, teik hitsural cherrywood desk and chair, eurikol mirror, marble clocks and statne, Bruss flower pots and vases, Japanese wutor colours, engraving, etchings of ments, tapestry curtains, pile carpets and }| rugs, electric fittings, etc.
Teak extension dining tables and morocco covered chairs, teak sidebonni and dinner waggon with bevelled mir- Tors, tank ice chest: brass fenders, disser and dessert services, electro- plate and glass ware, cutlery, etc.
Said double brass belstead, teak single and double wardrobes with bevelled mirrors, teak haftinx with bavelled mirrors, marble top wishatarla, tapestry and moroces rivéret rockers. sollut crockery, etc.
Also
cle.
A few pieces of Canton Back- wood.
rompeg-
INTIMATIONS
METEOR GARAGE'
Sole distributors of
MAXWELL CARS.
Automobiles for Hire
and for Sale
at reasonable Prices,
'Phone 2500,
65 Des Voux Road Central
KODAKS
& FILMS
Plates & Papers. Developing & Printing Undertaken.
Tahies, chairs, settees, Hower stands, A. TACK & CO.,
music and curio cabinet, stools,and cvermantel, etc.
And
One Cottage Plane
Brinsmend & Song,
(in fine condition).
of John
Oa view from Thursday the 27th
inst.
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Catalogues will be issuel, Terms-Cash on delivery,
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctionor.
Hongkong, March 21, 1919,
THE Umersignede las reveived in- Tin
W? Mengap SCOTT Esy, ta 'sell by Public Auction.
03
MONDAY, March 31, 1919, commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at his residence La Hacienda " No. 73 The Peak.
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The Whole of his Valuable Household Furniture,
Comprising:
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Chesterfield coach, Tapestry covered Cosy cornor, Teak writing desk and bonkease. Teak curio cabinet, conver fender hd coal settle, Electric stand- dard and table: Famps, File carpets und Rugs, Lace, Tapestry Rad casement curtains, etc., etc.
Teak dining table and chairs, Tenk sideboard and dinner waggon, Sectional bookense, Ouk smoking cabinet, Teak ice chest, Screens, Dinner and breakfast services, Cutlery and Glass ware, Dic., etc..
Brass and teak twin bedsteads, Teak toilet tables with bevellel mirrors, Marble Lop wasbetands, Teak wardrobe And chest of drawers, Oak Bedroom site, Tin lined box couch. Toilet crockery, etc, leto.
Also
"Que Tennis contre net and boundary. net (nearly new)
One Lawn Mower,
A Large quantity of Placts in pots.
And
One Cottage Piano by "Collard & Collard
(in five condition).
One Japanese sale.
Oo view from Saturday, the 29th
inst.
Catalugzes will be lauet.
Term-Cash on delivery.
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer Hongkong, March 21,"1919,
WEDNESDAY, April 2, 1918, commencing at 230 pm
at No. 2 Minden Villas, Kowloon." A Quantity of
Valuable Household Furniture,
comprising :-
uite,
Maliogany drawing room mahogany, couch, easy chairy, desk
black wood bockcase, cherrywood table, tempoya con i mirror, marble clock, curos, color prints, -ngravings, pictures, curtains, carpere, vie, ett:
Teak extensions diuing table & chairs, teak sailboard dinner Wargon, teak ailver gabibels, Aneirian refrigerator, silver comminity electro-plated ward, cutlery, diner & dessert services, glassware, ele, etc.
26, Des Voeux Road Central.
FURS & CARPETS.
..
Save your fos al carpots by storing them in our Cold Stores for the summer months.
For particulars as to packing and rates apply to
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THE DAIRY FARM ICE & COLD STORAGE CO, LTÄ.
FOR SALE
YVERT'S
POSTAGE STAMP CATALOGUES
for
1919.
GRACA & CO.,
No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620.
Bongkong
JAPANESE- MAKERS,
Every kind of Footwear.
MADE
TO
THE CHINA MAIL.
The
Three Castles"
Virginia Cigarelles
MAGNUMS
"Three Castles"
Cigarettes
brand
WD&H.O.Wills. Bristol & London
ATTLE
MAGNUMS
Better because larger.
The tobacco in the Mag- nums is the same bright Virginia tobacco found in ordinary Three-Castles.
The difference in size, makes the Magnums a fuller,
richer cigarette while retaining all the mild flavor. of the smaller
cigarette.
This advertisement is sued by the British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd.
FOREIGNERS AT DAIREN.
DRUNK ON UNEMPLOYMENT PAY.
The unther of foreignersi entu Dairen is purly inaresing, and during
In three successive cases of drunk • 'n Bikin Be, magistrate were reiving the unemployment allowance of 29. a week.
g Jamiary it teachel 30 at na-ertained from the men that they Febntury 272, a day on an avenue, The total number of fondgaters en ,tering during 1918 was 2,873. and in
1917 was 1,127,
PLOT AT VLADIVOSTOCK.
FOR THE CHURCH PLATE?
According to a leading official at!
LORD INVERFORTH.
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Mr Andrew Weir's title of Lord Inveriortù is obviously molälied on that of Lord Inverlyde. The new Per could not call hiswelt after bia birthplace, Kirkendy on the Forth. Kirkerkly does not sound pretty,'' and forth appropriated. Already
claimed by Lady Faith Drummond, and, after her, by Mr. Francis Drum- mond and the Earl of Perth.
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the Mint, Scottish Banks ask for, there exists a Viscounty of Forth, ore tima, double the number of which goes with the Earlem of Ma A serious" plet hatched by anum threepenny pieces required by Erg. fet, a title at prest dorant, but ber of Kuhans and Jupe At High Banks. It looks like a reference Vladivostock was recated by the to theft in the matter of tips. Or Jupress gondurues and the ebiet ingers isleding Korean,pruduire the nimble coins required for the eliver collections" at church doors? ute of the mperial Unicity Anrbose it is safe, to be quite usual Tokyo, together with some Japanese, for Ranks to ask for e5,000 worth of Wele arrestel.
threepenny bits at one time.
CARGO CONGESTION IN THE
SALE OF ARMY STORES.
Al kinds of Any stores are ch
SOUTH.
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ORDER at Ashford, Rent, he she is reported that there are about two
CHERRY & 00,-
PEDDER STREET, Opposite Hongkong Hotel Telephone No. 491,
Hongkong, March 20, 1914.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
THE Undersigned has reverted
tructions to sell by Public
tion
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WEDNESDAY, AFTll 8, 1919. commencing at 12 o'clock (2003)
at his Sales Rooms, Duddall Street, (ME ACCULINE OF THE CONCEBFED), The Wreck of the 9.3 YIAM'S AMUD
(2032 tons nett register).. As abo now lies on Alligator Island (near Foochow) with all sachors, chaine, gear and appurtenances, &c. &c., &c.
THE OLDEST FIRM IN LONDON,
Whitechapel Bell Foundry, The which has been entrusted with the re-tuning and re-hanging of the bells of Westminster Abbey for the Peace rejoicings, coincneed "truding in 1570. It is fairly safe, therefore, in believing that this is the oldest busi- news in London.
The to the shortage of ships, it Canadian Oulance Depot is beg mild vous of cargo awaiting shop. dispersert Ashford (za overensedeti | ment in Jars and other South, Sea Bell-casting was, of course, at one with buyers who arrived Jo, bac ports,
At Java there are 300,000 tirae, a more extensive traile, even opening sale. Many had to go of gar to be shipped, and in in the City, with its former 89 Canterbury for rooms.
Inda and other South Sea ports, (eighty-nine) spires. Prices feduled a thoreand there is a congestion of cargoes de
Bliter-street was Bell-sitzers (or) Belsize probably Liron posts, up to ud, a foot or yelled to the European ports. The founders). 1978.
low deal, 7d. for Norwegian pine, slippers are aslang the. Japanese owes its name to a bell-foundry on £15 a ton for invests shipowners to send their ships to the the lower part of Hampstead-hill, South Seas to carry the congested where afterwards Belsize House was cargoes to Europe, but on neerunt erected-in establishment famous for of the low freight rates offered and gaming during the card craze of the Gener unwelcome conditions imposed, eighteenth century. the shipowners are not inclined to uccept the offer.
£1 2s, to £1 10%, 6d. each for woollen
rugs.
The sale includes clothing, bed- steads, bedding, and hospital equip
Tuent..
"MISLED BY CHANGED "NAMES.
"
THE MACLEANS OF GERMANY.
THE CUSTOM OF HANDFASTING.
The Highland clan system stands A settlement was announced on January 28 of a libel uction by the Among those present at Dunoon out as the most finished expressions Ideal Film Rent'ng Co., Ltd., against when the Thike of Argyll handed of tribal organisation, and one of the insulin Bull, in respect of an axicle over the regimental colours of the details of it which has lately attrast- Aao tunmenting on the composition of 5th Argyll and Sutherland High-ed a good deal of study is the cus- the company, which produced the lenders to a enlour party from Beltom of handfasting Sir Pul Vino Fun: were Maclean of Ardgour, gradoff, Professor of Jurisprudence film of Mr. Lloyd George's life.
The allegation, said Mir. Hastings, sing nothing the worse for his long at Oxford, has taken it up is a mate for the company, was that the reprisonment in Germany. He waster of research with some interesting Handtasting is not, of tors and shareholders were Gens captured at La Catenu in August results. The company was, in fact, composed 1914, and last year was released for course, purely Scottish; but in the entirely of a Mr. Rowson and h's internment in Holland. While at the Highlands it was one of the best widely family, and every one of the diree Baguio he rried the daughter of finished expressions of a ters and shareholers was a natural Lord Inverclyde, the larly being spread custora. Sr Paul quotes re- both British subject, but nearly all engaged in Red Cross work is ferences by Scott, Skene, and Linde which might be interesting to knew that Ardgour, say of Petcottle to the practice by possessed rames mistaken for Germans.. Mr. Row when in Germany, was visited by Highland chieftains of marriage by son's father's name we Rosen Gurman Macleans! The forbears of hundfawing, the contract coming to these Macleans left Scotland for an end at the expiry of a year und "They all changed their names, Germany after the Rebellion of 1745, a day. if there was no issue. He As many people have done," said and flourished exceedingly in the trice a similar-custom'in Yorkshire, winkel to English names, and land of their adoption. Still keeping and describes the form of contmet that is the reused why the man whether Highland surname, they had which we the contemporary custom wrote the article was misled into always Archibalds" and "Dug in the South of England.. "Handfast- thinking they were Germans,” alds as Chiristian numes; and, ing he considers a simple survivor of Sir E. Marshall Hall for John before the, war, when Sir Fitzroy the ancient ceremony of marriage as Bill, di, apologised and offered to Maclean camo back to Duart, a num practised before the Church made a ber of them were present to do hon land of monopoly of that cerembuy, pay the company's costs.
Mr. Justice Darling, in agreeing our to the'r Chief To Arigour which really was a form of contract. to the settlement, said people who when a prisoner in Germany they Tay had on all sides, he says, evi- Two Cycle 14 H.P. Fay & Bowen wrote about matters of dangerous showed all the courtesies possible, denos as regards forms of probation- Kurcoat Engine, Marine Type, with public controversy shioukl ascertain but were, of course, unable in any ary marriage among the Gemánic reversing gour, shafting sad propeller.the facts before they wrote insteau of material way to mitigate the seventy and Celtic tribes, and even in the
law of uncient Rome. afterwards: Apply GLO. P. KAMMERT.
American made nunogany twin beds- Leads, double teak & iron bedateada, American muda aahogany dresser, aingle & domblo mahogany teak wardrobes with bevelled tairrota, chifonnier with bevelled mirror, teak Terms Caab on full of hammer when dreming tales and marble top wash the wreck will be at purchaser's risk, stands, etc, eta
Alsa
Pantry and Kitchen Requisites.
And
Victrols with cabinet and records.
1 Electric celling fan
Un view from Tuewing the 1st April.
Catalogus will be sued
TryCash on delivery
CEO, F. LAMMERT, Auctioneer. Ingkong, March 25, 1919.
GEO. F. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
kong, March 19, 1919.
FOR SALE.
baum.
of his treatment
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1919,
NOTICES.
G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.
- WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.
Hotel Mansions
Agents for ADMIRALTY CHARTS,
ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, "BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,
ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery.
MACARONI, PASTE STARS, EGG NOODLES, VERMICELLI,
AND ALL KINDS OF SOUP STUFFS.
ALL our Faster bear the " Rooster" labai and are made from. Floor of the Fort
Quality contemning largo percentage of Gluten. Starch and Glat arn the principal ponent i Flour. Gluten easier to digest and contains mort nutrident than Starch Manufactured under the most sanitary conditions.
Large quantities have been arported to various important cities in the World.
Terma moderate,, especially for Agoncias. Orders executed promptly. THE HING WAH PASTE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD. ELead Office: No. 47 and 48, Connaught Road, Central, Hongkong: Telephone 129. Principal Factory: No. 71, North Soorow Road, Shanghai, China; Telephone 3080. Eraach Factory: Wing Hing Street, Causeway Bay, Hongkong. Cable Address: "HINGWAL
THE
BREEZY
81.. Des Vieux Road, Central.
GARAGE
Opposite Central Market.
Ta No. 3499.
The latest model “ Chindler,” “Hadson" "Oakland" cars for hire
*Plaasure trips.
Theatre parties.
Shopping, oto, at moderate charges.
Our cart are only driven by experienced drivers, so that all clients esu
be sure of every comfort and reliability.
Large stocks of spare parts and children's "Skudders " on sals. Motor ears, launches and cycles, repairing done daily. Call and inspect.
TANG TSUMĄ? Msanger and Proprietor.
MOTORS
at present in Stock.
GERIN,
DREVARD & CO.
Tel 114.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL
AND
GRILL ROOM
THE
J. EL TAGGART
MANAGER
PEAK HOTEL.
1,500 Feet above Sea Level,
154 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of-
--Mrs. BLAIR.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
.... CENTRAL LOCATION
LL ELECTRIC TEAMS Pa Entrance, Electric Lifts, Fans and Lighting AEdropean Bathe and Sanitary Fittings, Hat and Cold Water Sytse throngboat. Best of Food and Service.
Telephone 373. Telegraphic Address VICTORIA'
J. WITCHELL, Manager.
PALACE HOTEL
*KOWLOON.
<«(Two minutes Iron Star Ferry).
Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughout and entirely under new management. Cuisine under the pazionalagamentitious of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Rooms. Tarma moderata. Special bras. familics on application to
Telephone K. 3. Telegraphic Add: "PALACE
3. H. OKBERRY" Propri
CARLTON HOTEL,
(ZHA ONLY AMERICAN HOTEL DE TU datory.) 10E HOUSE STREET.
Under American Management Nice and quiet yet only's Bow makonder walk from the Banks and Central District. 43 Berirame, Frvellous Calcine, scrupulously clean. Holesto Terms. Mantuly and Family Bater application to the Froprieties Launches meet. Inger Bowls,
BEN. F. E. CAMERON. Telegraphic AddressTM"CARLTON"
BLUE BIRD
CONFECTIONERS A
& CATERERs
IOE OREAM' PARLOUR.
TANG YUK, DENTIST,
Maccuser to
the late BIEN TING, 14 D'AGUILAR STREET." TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation fres.
HOT and GOLD
DRINKS. ALBO
DEALERS, IN -Gizbal's and Orange Blossom
Americas Chocolates Assorted Fancy Cakos.}
DLE FOR QYFICE -BUILDING, Queen's Road di Fadder üzrovia,
FRENCH LESSONS
G. MOUSSION.
15, Morrisón Hul Rond,