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G. P. LAMMERT.
AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER
AND SURVEYOR.
Public Auctions-
THE Undersigned has received Intrao tlons to sell by Fublic Auction."
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WEDNESDAY, Sept 10, 1919, commencing at 280 p.m.,
at his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street A Quantity of
Valuable Household Furniture, Comprising:-
Teak batstund with bevelled mirror. Drawing room suites, Leather covered couch, armchairs and chairs, Lady's clerks, Bookeuse, Electric ceiling faca and table lamps, Carpets, Pictures and Engravings Brass and Bronze erns-
'menta,
ote.,. ele..
Teak afboard with berelled mirror. teak dining tables and chairs, Dinner waggons, Fluss cabinets, ten tables. 'Dinner and Dessert services, Glass and
Cutlery ware,
ctc.. etc.
Double brass mountal iron bedsteada, teak bedstenris, Tek wardrobes,
Chests of drawers, Pressing table with bevelled mirror, Marble top washstands,
etc.
A180
A few pics of Blackwood-ware. And
1 Great Fiano by "John Brondwood)
& Non
1 Cottage Piano by W. Robinson
& Co."
(in fice condition)
1 Remington Typewriter No. 10.
1 Oliver Typewriter No. 5.
And
1 12 Bure Doublo, Barreled Gun, by Wilkinson, Louion, with Letter
Terta-Cash on delivery, Catalogues will be issued.
On view from Tuesday the 9th inst. GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.
Hongkong, September 4, 1919.
INTIMATIONS.
HONGKONG CLUB,
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N EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Members of the Hongkong Club, will be held in the CLUB HOUSE, on MONDAY, the Stb September, 1919, at 5 30 p.m.
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of the Cinh.
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Secretary,,
Boogkong, August 27, 1819.
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IN THE MATTER of the Trurling with the Enemy Ordnance, 1914 to 1919
THE COOL of Fremy Property, Turn offor male by Private Tender the following number of shares in the tertake of the Hongkong and Wharpes Dock Company Limited, namely, 290 (Two hearted and ainety) Ordinary sterren, in respect of the capital of the sail Cumpary as existing prior to ita increase in 1916 and 57 (Fifty seven) Ordinary shares (heing the rights in respect of the said 290 shares) in topou on the capital of the said Com pany as ineressen in 1915.
Tenders for the above will be received up to and including the 10th day of September, 1919.
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break in presence of the guilty. If tiger is the hunter and man the such a one still protects his innocence hunted theriolatry is understandable. and blames another, he must submit A sudden grip, a scream, and Captain to ordeals for the tutelazy spirit of Baudesson has lost a boy attendaur. the individual will abandon him if His weeping uncle explains that ill-fate overtook he have violated morality and ne the glected due rites. A favourite ordeal the boy's father and mother. is for the accused to drink excesive | The Captain should know that the quantities of water or alcohol which spirits of my relations, who never Captain Henri Baudesson has writ last form of ordeal must surely be received burial not the rites that ten an entertaining, book which is one of the most frequent incidents in were their due have long demanded reviewed in The Times as follows the daily life of the Moi, for all oc another companion." Even when a Captain Henri Baudesson, longcasions are good for the consumption. tiger falls into a pit laid for deer. engaged in the survey for the Trans of rice spirit. Finding from Captain and is at the mercy, of the Moi, they Indo-Chinese railway, has a close Bandesson that ammonia dissipates will labour to set it free, fearing lest acquaintance with certain barbarous the fumes of alcohol, they put his it should die and its spirit molest peoples, and a vivacious style. He flask to constant requisition. But them ceaselessly, and offer humble sets a high value on the comparative perchance, after all, there is a more apologies for having detained it so method in the study of primitive edifying explanation for such a run long. Captain Baudesson's tiger races, and links narrative with in on the flask. "Man cannot do with stories are a good commentary to formation in such a way that his out his dream worlds. The Moi is Mr. Kipling's "Tomb of his Ances readers pass through an introductory no exception, He too, needs antors." course of such study imperceptibly artificial paradise, and finds it in the NEW SEASON SEEDS and with pleasure. It was a good bottle. He drinks to see life rosy! concerned with the Cham, about idea to translate his book, which Not seldom, among the civilised, whom much has lately been written. reads easily that excellent note of 2 high appointment is accepted with While the Moi are stationary the translation-in its new form...
sincere or felgned reluctance. It is Cham are a remnant of a Mosle The word "Mei" is a mere generic traditionally the same with the chief mised people, once powerful, who term convenient to describe a medley among the Mol. He must, by occupied the eastern coast line of of barbarous or semi-civilised groups custom, take refuge in flight and be Indo China proper. Now confined dwelling in the mountain uplands of
pursued. No wonder, since the by their conquerors to a province Indo-China. Belonging to the Malayo village chief, nominal head of as it in Annam, save such as preferred exile
called Polynesian race, they are
were an anarchical republic, is the In Cambodia or Siam, they offer an In Karens, Khas, Stieng, Paong, Mau, or depositary of the common health example of apathetic decay. Moi, by their stronger neighbours and responsible for all misfortune. Cambodia they are all Mahomedans; in Annam, about two thirds remain the Laotians, Cambodians and As for the sorcerer, selected by the Annamites. In character they are spirits themselves and raised beyond Brahmins. In any case, their insti easy going and Ble, fovers of amuse common mortais, at least he takes tutions and beliefs, akin to those of ment, and amiable when not danger office in suffering. It is by a violent the Moi but more complicated, are a ous by reason of their poisoned cole or other peculiar disease that conglomerate. They are specially arrows. They remove from their his mission is announced and proved. notable for traces of matriarchal villages, which are concealed and of After that, detector of the guilty, government, and. for the variety and easy defence, when theresources of the potent to drive out malevolent individuality of their agrarian rites.
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The later portion of the book is
sol are exhausted, or fires, epidemics spirits that bring disease and Of the initiation and seclusion of
and tigers press hardly, or the death, skilled in poisons and... the their girls at the age of puberty, genius of the place is found adverse?" They exhibit in conjunction the three Practice of "envoutement the their marriage and birth rites collective, casting of a spell upon a person by and those accompanying the forms of ownership, family and individual. The spoils of transfixing an image of him he is ordination of their priestesses, obviously awe aspiring. les the Captain Baudesson. has not a little war, the produce of the chase and Djarai group, the King of Fire to tell of his own observation, harvest, are shared equally among has but to draw his magic sword an: Farthermore, the Cham are extremely such as are entitled to them. The inch or two from its scabbard to food of their children... Indeed, public granary is naively secured by quench the sun. There is a trace their affection, go the length of a rattan thread passed through an of Brahminism here; the Moi, rather, leaving them in complete, ignorance empty egg shell, each man watching
are of purely animistic belief. of soap and water, an omission for his neighbour diligently. To have Religion, with them is in the stage, which the babies are duly grateful" group girls able to weave and of magic. Spirits, and the did, are Benevolent, spirits approve of figur make pots is to be fich: and the naturally inclined to malevolence, and saffron rubbed on a child's face, unthrifty, borrowing food from their It is useful to propitiate the male resultire in a complexion like their neighbours and falling to discharge volent rather than the Beneficent, own, G. the other hand, a mother their obligation, are liable to become who may safely be neglected. And who has been visited by a bad dream bond servants for life in return for to conciliate the malevolent, it is covers her baby with soot to hide-it HALL.Bupport In time of great scarcity desirable to incite the spirits to turn from the malevolent spirits. If such is the lot of many familica: and their anger against one another, sickly, the children receive an redemption, facile, in theory, is close being naturally jealous. But wor, appropriate name of reproach, which upon impracticable.........
ship, though useful at need, le a tax still clings to their if they become strong and notable. Thus your meet upon poor communities,
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THE SORCERER.. They have their conception of morality, which fail however, to embrace pity, gratitude altruism. At first they offer no more than And yet Bebthap, scorning the say they can help. Will an egg suffice? age, would have had to find the Moi If not, they bia higher with schicken, strict utilitarians, for they solely ask a goat, a pig, even an ar le case of what acts are prejudicial to pubic extremity. But chief among malevol and private well-being. It is the ent spirits are tigers, man eating sorcerer who plays the chief part at Ugers. The Noble Master, the trials. The spirits alone know the Lofty One, the Lord. Uger tear malefactor, and are too multi why should he not be feared and
fariously occupied to appear in per worshipped if trees and stodes No. 84, Queen's Road Central 2 The sorcerer acts as their are fit for the housing of spirits
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