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AMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
AND SURVEYORS,
Public Auctions
HE Undersigned have received Instruc
Mons to sell by Public Auction,
сп
FRIDAY, June 25, 1920. commencing at 3.30 p.m.
their Sales Rooms, Duddell Stroet,
4 Electric Ceiling Fans,
100 volts 10 cycles
On view now..
Bran Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.. Auctioneers.
INTIMATIONS.
WE HAVE
Just received
A New Supply of
WAR and ARMISTICE
STAMPS.
Many Tarictim and values afv
NEW EUROPE:
also
CATALOGUES and ALBUMS
for sale.
GRACA & 00., No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620.
Hongkong.
P
FRIDAY, June 25, 1920,
cammezcing at 250 p.m.
their Sales Rooung, Daddell Street.
A Quantity of
aluable Household Furniture, Comprising:-
Teat dining table & chairs, tapestry overed couch, easy chaire
Nitko.
arved corner,coach & table, Japanese rater colours, engravings, carpets, rugs, Ginner service, cutlery, glass & electro- Jated ware, etc. etc.
Teak & iron double bedsteads, teak Fapirobes, dressing tables, washstands,
ins
Also
1 Side Car for Motor Cycle,
6 Electric Table Fans, (new)
And
A.Quantity of
Valuable Books & Novels.
On view from Thursday, the 24th
Catalogue will be issued.
Terme-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong June 22, 1920.
Mructed to sell
TESSRS, LAMMERT BROS. are
The Steamship
"JEHANGIR"
Now sing in the Harbour of Hongkong.
under an
Order of the Court
BY
PUBLIC AUCTION
MONDAY,
the 28th day of June, 1920, at '3 o'clock P.K.
IN ONE LOT
At their Auction Rooms, in Duddell
Street.
The ship is a British ship zegistered at Hongkong of 5206 tous Gross and of 8360. Registered tonnage and tra built by W. Deasy and Brothers, Dumbarton.
Fuz particulars to view apply to Mossra. Lemmert Bros., the Auctioneers.
For further particulare
"Appi to
MS. JOHNSON, STOKES
& MASTER, Prince's Building,
or fo
Marsas, LAMMERT BROS,
The Auctioneers. Daddoll Street.
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EXPLORERS' PLIGHT.
TJOBLESS WITH WOUNDED
MAN 14 JUNGLE.
A DECADENT QUEEN.
COCKROACH KING,”
HISTORIANS, FEW LIGHT ON PAVEMENT SKETCH THRILLS.
ELIZABETH,
At his opening lecture at the Royal Institution, recently, on The Private Character of Queen. Elizabeth;
A thrilling story of adventures in the wilds of Northern Quebec is told by Mr. H. F. Blake, who has returned to Quebec bringing with him Dr.Professor Frederick Chamberlin, the Corbett, an Ottawa expedition's American historian, advanced views medical man, seriously injured by a which are contrary to those of most
historians. gunshot.
A well-equipped party left at the beginning of March to explore Tagava on behalf of a syndicate of London backers, interested in the proposed Quebec-Chibougamo rail way, and also to investigate the mineral deposits of Central Ungava, Travelling by dog train, they reached Lake Chibougamo and encamped to await the ice breaking to permit them to continue by canoe.
Instead of being the exceptionally strong woman. represented, Mr. Chamberlin declared that Elizabeth was a woman of the poorest health and bad nerves all her life. She had many dangerous illnesses, and some chronic diseases which attacked her early in life and recurred at later intervals. She had nervous fits, was extremely hysterical, swooned per- iodically, and remained unconscious and lifeless in appearance for many hours.
Chelsea has provided the Cock- roich King. He is a pavement artist, and his sketches of cockroaches in coloured chalk are the envy and despair of the talented young men and women whose kingdom is the King's. road.
Students from the art schools are making pilgrimages to the pitch of the paveinent professor. Artists who have exhibited at the Royal Academy-and-artists who scorn the Royal Academy and all its works mingle ia admiration at the shrine of the chalked cockroach.
Copies of the Chelsea cockroach are filling innumerable sketch-books, and there is a great demand for models that are seduced from their native haunts by the dregs of beer bottles or trapped in the recesses of neglected boots
With the modesty of genius the Cockroach King makes light of his gilt Cockroaches came to him as generals, admirals, mackerels, ship wrecks, and sunsets come to his many competitors, A cockroach by the gutter drawn is just a cockroach and nothing more.
Real artists ask him how does he
On April 20 Dr. Corbett accident- ally shot himself in the body" when
For the whole of the ten years taking a gun from a canoe. Mr. Blake's surgical experience in the prior to her accession, he said, Eliza. war enabled him to dress the wound, beth was ill from some disease which but he was faced with the problem permanently took all colour from her of conveying his patient through face, and she was pitted with small 160 miles of dense trackless forest. pox before she was thirty, and was With the assistance of Mr. Cuthbert for years expected to die at practi- son and six men' Mr. Blake drew the cally any time.
By way of explaining these condi- wounded man on a toboggan over the treacherous ice lakes until they tions, the lecturer referred to events reached the River Ashuapmouin her early history, and said that make the creeping, crawling thing chouan, where the ice was gone, the execution of Seymour, the know-look alive? He doesn't know, but, ledge that her mother was killed by he admits that a fine day and a and embarked in two canoes.
The second canoe was upset, with her father, and the general condi- smooth pavement are necessary to five men, all the provisions being tions under which she lived, induced the creation of the perfect cockroach. lost Mr. Blake, in the other canoe abnormal gravity, amounting almost But with the gratification of the true with the wounded man, rescued the to melancholy. She was, however, artist he relates how his best work men. Their canoe was, however, extremely accomplished, and could has scared nervous women off the
speak and write six languages at a side walk. swept over the falls.
The journey was resumed, with the very early age. She once told the patient in a stretcher, afoot through French Ambassador that there was patbless forest, and with nothing to no difficulty in teaching a woman to cat. After four days' starvation Mr. talk-the difficulty was to teach-her Blake with two men pushed ahead to hold her tongue.
secured The lecturer showed lautern slides to *31 outpost and assistance to convey Dr. Corbett to giving samples of Elizabeth's pedman. Roberval, "where after two ship, which, he said, was incompar days medical attention the doctor able in one of her age. He quoted was able to be sent home to Ottawa. the views of eminent medical experts, based on authentic medical records as He is probably crippled for life.
This ended a perilous journey of to the Queen's health, supporting his 14 days such as has seldom been conclusion that instead of being the encountered even in the wilds of Amazon or masculine creature she Mr. was supposed to be, the was at best Canada's northern forests. Blake lost his South African war an Intermittent invalid. Elizabeth's went confinements at the Tower and else medals when the
where served only to accentuate her over the s
physical and nervous disabilities, and the lecturer drew a patheric picture of the effect produced by the sight of the grinning heads of her executed friends on the ramparts of the Tower
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