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LAMMERT BROS.
ADOTIONEERS, APPRAINERS AND SURVEYORS.“ -Public Auctions-
FFER Undersigned have, received instruc
tons to ll by Pablla Anction,
AD
ŜSATURDAY, August 28, 1920,
commencing at 11 am. at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street.
A Quantity of Gent's Boots, and Shoes. Farma p---Cash on delivery,
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers,
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SATURDAY, August 28, 1920, commencing, at 11 am.
at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street, (For Account of the Concerned)
50 Instantaneous Kiestrie Water Heaters, 100 volts.
(more or less damaged by sea water)
Terms: Cash on delivery,
- LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers,
Hongkong, August 25, 1920.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 1, 1920,
Commenting at 11 am.
at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street
A Quantity of
Wines and Spirits. Comprising →→
10 cases Brandy, fats,
25 cases Bull Dog Stout,
(pls. and Split)
45 caska Claret, 3r
-13 cases Chianti," (ts, and pix) 45.cases Hock,
On view from Tuesday the 31st August.
Txxx-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
„Hongkong, Augar 26, 1990.
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The Undersigned have just received a new consignment of
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GLORY OF THE EMPIRE RECALLED.
Ghosts of the French Empire and its fast fading memories were pre sent for a brief hour at the funeral service of Fugenie, last Empress of the French, at St. Michael's Abbey, Church, Farnborough.
Never will such an assembly be repeated. The past days of the glory
THE LAST HONOURS, Shortly after this striking incident- the King and Queen arrived in a motor car, followed by the King and Queen of Spain. Joining King Manoel, his wife, and Queen Amelle, who were waiting at the porch, the royal party entered the church, Princess Clementine being kissed in greeting by Queen Mary and by King Alfonso.
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The following day the driver of the char-a-banes returned and' gave
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They treated me right well and tipped more than liberally," he said. "I wish we could get more trips of the same scrt," said the manager,
Varsity men are real sports." "Varsity men!" gasped the driver. "Why, they were the borough dust- men!"
15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of-
Mrs. BLAIR.
In the small abbey church, on a bier covered with a black and silver pall embroidered with silver eagles and set on a spacious purple carpet, of Imperial France were recalled lay the body of the late Empress. again and again and they will never! On either side were three fall candles more be so recalled. A page of of yellow wax. On the altar the history was turned. With the parsing little golden flames of rows of other of the consort of Napoleon III. there yellow candles twinkled in the gloom. bas passed one of the few remaining
To the left of the bier sat the figures of the old regime. The at- King and Queen of England, behind mosphere was peculiarly un-English whom sat the Duke of Connaught and reminiscent of the days of fifty and other members of the British years ago.
Royal Family; to the right set the For an hour before the service King and Queen of Spain, behind men and women that seemed to whom sat the Portuguese Royal belong to a past tradition filed up Family. Earl Howe represented the leafy avenue to the grey stone Queen Alexandra; and the Italian church upon the hill-stern, erect and Swedish Ambassadors were also men with aquiline noses and white present. moustaches and imperials, in high The chant of the monks, with silk hats and very formal frock-coats its rise and fall, monotonous yet not -accompanied by women dressed firing, like the wail of the wind round With the background of the grey in deep mourning and with the same an old house, was in perfect fitting church wall and the high doorway stern aristocratic features beneath with the solemn scene. Before the through which could be seen the dim the black veils.
áltar and its score of shining candles interior of the church and its twink- Gradually this sober-clad, proud- moved richly garbed officiating ling candles a doorway Crowded visaged tarong gathered round the priest and his white robed assistants with a silent throng of black-clad doorway of the church, near which as the Requiem Mass of the Dead figures, with the splash of scarlet. were a number of white bloused girls was celebrated before the earthly and khaki and gold to relieve the from a couvent school near by remains of the Empress, whose soul, mass of gloomy colour in front Two Spanish officers with dark blue i after so many years of bitter suffer- coats, scarlet trousers, and gold and ing and patient grief, at last mows white kepis, and a French officer in horizon blue, splashed the sombrei From the pulpit the simple and have passed-talked for awhile
scene with colour.
SALUTE OF ROYALTY,
rest
earnest address was given by the Father Abbot with a considerable For a while this group of French amount emotion and the service and Spanish nobility stood together, was soon ended. occasionally exchanging a grave
A MEMORABLE SCENE.
word and looking round with quiet At the door of the church appeared eyes in which were depth upon depth Queen Mary, betraying considerable of memory. Then occurred a strange:
ly dramatic incident. A motor-car
awept up the drive. Every head was NO HOME WHERE THERE bare in a moment; every shoulder was even more erect."
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emotion—with her was the King. The other royal groups joined them, and for a little time there was a remark- able and unforgettable scene.
of that • background three Queens and two kings-with the descendants of two royal houses that
quietly and in friendly acquaintance- ship before they were borne away on the routine of life. Probably that group, where the grandeur of the past met the grandeur of the present, will never meet again.
SOLDIERS AS BEARERS, When, the King and Queen had departed the service was concluded. From the church to the vault the remains of the Empress were carried by monks chanting from their books, by eight khaki-clad soldiers, preceded
mitre.
Out of the car stepped a tall, queen-shoo'd be without Baby's Own Tables, 1y figure dressed in, deep black, with for they are aspecific for all the ordin and by the Bishop of Portsmouth, fair hair and a proad and beautifulary ailments of infancy, and childhood, with his scarlet cassock, black and face. With her was a powerfully built such as simple fever, colic, constipation gold cape, and white and scarlet man with a heavy dark moustache troubles and stormen.
indigestion, diarrhes, wind, teething 1 There was an electric air of ex- Guaranteed to contain no opiates or In the crypt, where, in huge sarco pectancy, Towards the tall lady other barnfeldrags, Bebrawn phagi of brown granite, repose the moyed an elderly man with high, Tabets induce soothing, healthful sleep bones of Napoleon III. and the Prince thin nose and carefully brushed in a natual way aid the appetite and Imperial, the final ceremony: took white moustache. He hawed low them MSXavier Manis, of Stoner place. The bishop chanted the fare- promore domil growth. Concerning and kissed her hand. It was the Foint. Ontario, Canada, writes well of hope, Requiescat in Pace; the salute of royalty a salute of the consider Baby's On Tablets a wonder, holy water was sprinkled over the deepest and most passionate respect, fal medicine for children. My little cofin; the procession filed out
Another followed him, and yet an girl was constantly feverish had no For a moment Princess Clementine other. The French Royalists were "ppetite and was very paley faced the remains of the late Empress, making obeisance to their Queen were irregular and he was very cross and then turned and walked our brith boy was cutting his teeth, his bowels Princess Clementine Napoleon gave thems Baby's Own Tablets and grief drawn fase One by one the beside whom stood, her husband bey are not like the same children, relatives and friends, from princes.to Prince Victor, Napoleon They had they have done them so much good servants, paid the last tribute, ma come to pay a last rribute to them.Now I would not be without the past Empress of reality, and they of chaunista, of 1t tree.
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then leaving with tears in their? verta the Express of dreams.
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