G. P. LAMMERT.
AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER AND SURVEYOR.
-Public Auctions-
THE Undersigned has received in stractions to sell by Public Auction,
ON
THURSDAY May 29, 1919, commencing at 2:48 p.m. at No. 3 Patell Villas, Top Flat,
(Kowloon).
▲ Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture,
(Full Particulars from Catalogno). On view from Wednesday the 28th
fastank
Termo-Cash on delivery,
GEO. P. LAMMERT;
Auctioneer.
Hongkong, May 22, 1919.
02
FRIDAY, Yay 30, 1919, commencing at it a.m.
No. 1 Austin Avenue, Kowloon.
▲ Quantity <t
Fatuable Household Furulture, (Full Particulars from Catalogue). Da view from: Friday the 30th just.. Termia-Cash on delivery.
GEO. P. LAMMEHT,
Auctioneer.
Eongkong,, May 24, 1909.
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FRIDAY, May 30, 1818, commencing at 2.45 p.m..
at Meirion "No. 5, The Peak,
▲ Large Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture,
comprising :-
Tenk hatatind with bevelled mirror, teak ball table, writing table, bookcase, Harble top octagons table, Leather cavered armchairs, Lacquered respoys, toak sareens, Gramophone, Copper .conf scuttle, Curtains, Pictures, Wail Plates, Anases and ornaments,
etc., etc.
!
Teak extension dining table, dinner waggon with bevelled mirror glass. cabinets, ice chest, cupbounds, inner. Services, Glass-ware, etc.
Teak and Iron bedsteads, teak dress- ing table with bevelled mirrors, ward- sabe with bevelle 1 glass doors, marble sop washstands, chests of drawers,
etc., etc..
Also
A Fine, Selection of Fine Canton Blackwood-ware:-Curio cabinet and atanis, lady's desk, side table, aro ehair, settles, jos table, Bower
tands, tempoys, cake stands, etc.
And
A quantity of Maiden hair ferns in pota and plants in pots.
On view from Thursday the 29th instant.
Catalogues will be issued.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
CEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioners.
Hoogkong, May 22, 1919
SATURDAY, May 31, 1919, commencing at 11 am.
at No. 10 Godown of the flongkong Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Lu.
Kowloon
A Large Quantity of Steel and Iron Bars, Roan?, Flat and Square, of various sizes. Trays -Cash on delivery.
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer...
Hongkong May 27, 1913
on
MONDAY, June 2, 1919, commencing at 11 a.m.
at Blue Building godown da, Wanchai,
of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf.
& Godown Co., Ltd.
305 pieces MI'd teel Angles "x3"x3"x 18 1/2"
211 ploces Mild Steel Angles
4" x 3" x 3 x 33.
101 pioca, Mild teel Angles 516" x 3" x 3" x 22'
3 pieces Mild Steel Angles
5/16" x 2"x3"x9
and afterwounds at 3 p.m.
رد
at No, 16 godown of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & (down Co., Jad.
(Row!).
98 pieces MP2 tel Plates 5/15" x 5" x 10'
48 pieces Mild Steel Plates 4" x 5' 10"
43 pieces Mild teel Plates
2"x5'x10
10 places Mild Steel Plates 2" x 6' x 12'
66 piaces Mild Steel Plates
6A6" x 6 x 10"
3 pieces Mild Steel Plates
5/10" x 4 x 8'
(stored in No. 11 Passage)
.18 placas Mild Steel angios 'xxx 19722
.83 plecos Mild, Steel 3ngles 1 "x1" x 2" x 1/2*
52 pic cog Mild Steel angles 12" x 10,2%
The abivered in Ma 2 Passingol a cashs 20 G Pright Wire,
4 casks Zing Sheets Chagn,
7 4' x 8'
The shoe stured in No. 23 Godown). Terms-Cash on delivery.
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
Hongkong, May 23, 1919.
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Kodak Catalogue Free on application.
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Ice House Street.
AU Photo gooda" supplied Films, plates,~ Balf toning papers, Velox papers. Just arrived.
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MADE
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Hongkong, March 20, 1914.
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DROUGHT IN SHANGTUNG.
LETTERS OF JOHN DELANE.
THE CONTROL OF OIL FUEL. No rain is yet fullen in Shantung
At a time when 'moss shipowners this your, and drought is working With reference to the dispute con- jare thoughtful, so far as the design of serious have to the crops. Prinsening the ownership of the letters new ships is concerned, in the fuel of cereals have visen. Lower, eines Jules Thadeus Deine, a former question, any movements in the con people are joining, the brigands, } erliter of The Times," it was stated trol of great oilfields peromes a zat- threatening to throw the whole of in the Chaney Division that a suleter of vital importance, and, there- Shantung into wmplete discolor.hudi Been armuged of one job of the fore, interest will be nuset in the Water supply is running short at and letters in one that setin of them announcement that there is no unth about Teinan..
might be destrove and the mist, of fin the repart pirblished in the Ameri the t placed where they would nos fa Press to the effect that the be accessible to the genes public, Tiritish toverament has acquired the object being to avoid publicity pontrol of the flowdray oil interest and sundal
in Mexico. is well known that the cited the control of the Mesian Shell Royal Dutch Company has pur Eagle, but there is not the slightest thith in any report of control of the property by the British Government.
-TRAIN WRECKER" DEAD.
call he brought into court pending the trial of the action..
CHINA'S POLICY TOWARDS MONGOLIA,
One of the most romantic figures of the South African war has been that the peels of the sale, to
After some discussion it was agrend nored by the death of Jack Hin-gether with all in her letters, don, the Boer Scout, known as The Trip Wrecker." who was largely be sponsible for Lort Kitchener's di culties on the Delagon Railway in the later stages of the romsligh He was born in Sentland, bus going to South Africa at an early age, 'ter. weil sie with the Beer opala. ton. Many stories were toll ul Hinden stenge cute. He was sabl, to have been a British private who fought with Sir George Colley at Majabu, but he always denied Pisal he served in une British foree, Bur Ing the South African War he saved
den, with the gunsent of the Central Military Inspector Chang, at Muk- fasement. trying to establish Cole's toile influence more solidly
MYSTERY OF DESERTED SHIP IN
NORTH SEA.
A strange find was made by the Hartlepool triler Kathleen Burton in the Northem Set. When shout in Inner Mongolia and finther to 150 inthes off Hartlepool she care,
over the district in Outer Mongolia
Aires a large Go-hun ship, which' hold andar Ri-sian tamination, takved to be the Gernot, of Hamburg, a British ofeer whom, the Boershad | ing ndvustage of the present per
A ale previst, und "the vessel captured and decided to wheat, hy turbation in Rusin. The above ne was drifting helplessly ja rough seus.† smuggling him away in a waggon. During his prčenyses
counts for the sugressive Dequtches The Donts were gone, and there was truin of Fungties and Heilungklung troupe
a on olemnt. Only the foremast wicker several expeditions were table Mongolia on the pretest of frontier
was sturing, and on deck houses
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off to mentore him, but he proved defence, in spite of the protest filed ben built. These, as well as ebisive De Wes. surrendered by the Russian Minister to Pekinger holds, were lined with beds, in ut Balitoa! May. 1002.
demanding the withdrawal of thedienting the vessel a probably been! Chinese tineps from the Russian set as a hospital slip at some Ger- boup.Bay. To ill appearances, no mas depot.
With dilleulty the derelies was
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MORESBY OF NEW GUINEA.
sign of anti-Japanese feeling has yet
VICKERS LIMITED'S DIVIDEND.
Another cent ways that tise vessel is thought to have formerly
area British.]
CHINESE LABOUR IN MALAYA.
There las just cutered his ninetfoulppeared in Fengtian, or "Heilunged to Fartlepool. year a naval officer with reachable
Hung Provinces." links with the pust. Admitul John: Moresby, still hate and hearty, though, he writes to a friend. **very sinusightert," with "a gale and heavy seus raring in his head," The ditestors have decided to re- served for eighteen months under the contrend a final dividend for the Jate Admiral Sir David Mine, then year 1918 of 1%, öd, per share (frey) (1842-5) 82 years old and Caminand cure-tax up to ds. in the 6) to er-in-thief at Plymouth, Milne en- the registered holders of the ordinary tured the service in 1779, tuking wart shares of the company, Nos. 1 to
in Kolacy's action, and Admiral | 5,550,000, making 2. l. per share Moreby well reneigbers the stories
or 121 per cent. for the year, and 91.
he used to tell of men who had fought per share (free of income-tax up-to with Benbow."
In writing on bour.conditions in British Solaya, United States Con- sul-Genel Edwin N. Guasaulis, Singapore, notes that, apart from special war reasons, there has been general tendency for wages in every brunch of labour grudnally to Tiss
, in the ) to the registered holders This increase, he thinks, may be There has been a century and for of the shaies Nos. 5,550,001 and on-regarded as the natural "conermitant of Moresbys, for Admiul John wards in accordance with the condi- or the country's development and Moresby father was Admiral Sir tions of issue of those, shares in prosperity. Incidentally, he notes, a Fairias Moresby, who entered the other inst. The dividend will be prevalling tendency for Chinese Navy in the closing year of the payable on the 9th May, 1010. The Inbour to drift into the merchant eighteenth century in the days of transfer books of the ordinary shares classes when circumstantes permit, flogging and ram and Nelson, for the reanpany will, in secordande It is well known that many flourish, was Admimt John Moresby who, with the company's articles of usso-ng Chinese trading and merchant nearly half a century up, annexed ciation, Le closed from April 28, 1919, firms in the Straits Settlements and British New Guinea to the Empire to Muy 8, 1915, both days inclusive. the Federated Maing States owe their and is the only waike who bas i In a statement issued to the shere existence to men of the ecolie eluss, the honour of saving a ship named holders, of Vickers, Linvited, the and it may be said to be typical of", after him in his lifetime de directora express.regret that it is not the Chinese labourer to set up in stroyer foresby, which sank a Gerset pusble to subunit ang balance trade or business as soon as he has mar submarine, und at Jutland; to- kisest to the shareholders for the yearned sufficient capital to do so... pedoed an elong battleship, His 1918, and that it will therefore he This is one of the reasons that the whole rent is lique, and be con-wag to aljourn the annual Chinese unite such excellent inni? tinues to take a nest active interest lieting, which will be held on May gruste. One and all strive to get on. in all matters relating to his pro sa till the accounts can be completed and it is estouishing how well they
for presentation,
succeed.
sion.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1919.
NOTICES
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WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.
Hotel Mansions.
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AND ALL KINDS OF SOUP STUFFS.
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KEEN COMPETITION.
IMDIES AND GENTLAMLY.
Please notice The Breezy Garage is giving Special quotations with the latest and Lewest desigo CARS ON HIRE for the coming Season.
CHANDLER
7 passengers $8.00 per Hour.
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WESTINGHOUSE. ELECTRIC
"WESTINGHOUSE " PUTS THE STAMP OF CHARACTER
ON AN ELECTRIC APPLIANCE.
FOR SALE BY:
Mr. TANG TSUN,
Proprietor and Manager.
WESTINGHOUSE
ELECTRIC- CHAFING-DISH.
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THE HONGKONG HOTEL
AND
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15 Minutes from Landing Stage, Under the Management of-
Mrs. BLAIR.
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"
KOWLOON.
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Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughout of the proprietor, Bar and Billard Kouma. Terma moderata. Special terms to and entirely under new management. Cuisine under the personal supervision families on application to
Telephone K. 3. Telegraphic Add: "PALACE""
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(THE ONLY AMERICAS HOTEL IN THE COLONY.) ICE HOUSE STREET.
Under American Management. Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes. walk from the Bariks and Central District. 43 Bedrooms, Excellent Cuisine. scrupulously clean, Moderate Terms Monthly and Family Rates application to the Proprietress. Launches meat Passenger cute.
Telegraphic Address "CARLTON,"
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