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LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS'
AND SURTETORS.
-Public Auctions-
"
WE Undersigned have received taste
here real
on
TUESDAY, February 22, 1931, wommencing at 245 p.m. at No. 5, Aimai Villas, Kimberly Road, Kowloon,
A Quantity of
Valuable Household Furniture,
(Particulars from Catalogus),
Texash on delivery
LAMMERT BROS,
Anctioneer
Hongkong, February 14, 1991.
ON
WEDNESDAY, 'March 2, 1991,
their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street,
commending at 2.30 p.m.
A Quantľy of
Valuable Housebold Furniture,
comprising -
INTIMATIONS.
| YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO
BE WITHOUT ›THEM.
JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive food for Infants which keeps good in quality during Hot weather (2) LAO- 20SE (Milk Sugar) for systentes (3)
the
foods of Infants and MILFORD-MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Flaid for destroying Fissa, Mosquitoes, Bugs, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days, and
JOHN CABILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in House
PRICES are Very Moderate. Ins pection and Enquiries are cordially invited.
リ
BETU FUNG TAI & CO.,
Bolermass for Hongkong and Sexta Chian
Ko,&, Connaught Bond Central, Dongkang. Palephone Nok, IISR
理代泰臺發
The demand is for
GOOD STAMPS
in good condition.
Blackwood chair, flower stands We have the supply.
stools & table, Chesterfeld couch, easy chairs, brak overmantels, teak desks
bookas, pictures, carpet, rugs, elc, etc,
Test dining tables & chaire, teak sideboards, dinner waggons, ice chesz, glassware, tlery, electro-plated" & c., etc.
Double brass & teak helsteads, teak wardrobes with bevelled mirrors, teak dressing tables, washstands, chest of dxwers, etc. etc.
Also
I Indian Motor Cycle with side car, 2 Grand Pianos.
Oa view from Tuesday, the ad
Fastent.
Catalogues will be issued.
Term:-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., £uctioneers.
Hongkong, February 16, 1921.
FOR SALE.
NE HORNSBY-ACKROYD GIL ENGINE 3; Horse Power, Fuel, Karone. Complete with exoling appara- twa in good condition. May be riested by appointment at Gun Club Hill Barracks, Kowloon. Apply to the andersigned.
LAMMERT BROS.
FOR SALE
MILNER'S SAFES
Apply to
LAMMERT BROS., Daddell Street.
FLUGEL'S
AERATED
WATER MACHINES
SIC PROFITS | MADE OUT OF BOTTLING MATEK WAT EN FILTERED PURITY ASSURED CROWN CORK
·BOTTLES, SYPHOKS
12 2000 BOTTLES
Fitzo
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FLUGEL & C° L. LONDON: 2,18
MUMEYA
Japanese Photographers. We have removed our Premises to No: 384, Queen's Road, C.
Sitting hours from 9.m. to 9 p.m. Passport photos finished. in one hour.
THE CLEANING, OF SUMMER FROCKS is an important matter and we make a speciality of "refinishing" light Frocks and Costumes so that they keep clean longer than when treated by ordinary methods.
Our processes are thorough and reliable. Our facilities and re- sources enable us to carry out all
work quickly and sur charges are
really reasonable.
Write for Price List and Bee 1 The Diamond Dyeing and Drycleaning Co.
Agent
CASSUM AHMED.
General Draper.
22&34, Wellington Street. Hespoh 28, Nathan Road, Kowloon
*Phone 1482.
Our Stock of all Countries is strong, and not to see the selection of our Stamps is to miss a large pick of the Stamp Market.
GRAÇA & 00.
Dealers
in Postage Stamps, Philatelic Goods, Religious Books, Garden Seeds, Toys, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street, 2.0. Box 620.
Hongkong.
JAPANESE MAKERS.
Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & CO.,
TEDDER STREET, Uppas te Hongkong Hotel
Telephone No. 49-
Hongkong, March 30, 1974.
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From an article on Journalism in
NOTHING FINER-BOTTLED or CANNED.
The first requisites with CROSSE & BLACKWELL Delicacies are Quality, Purity and Freshness.
30 Varieties of SOUPS, 15 Varieties of POTTED MEATS, OXFORD SAUSAGES, OATMEAL, OILS, VINEGAR & TINNED FISH.
CROSSE & BLACKWELL
Agents for Luna Permits Worcestershire Sauce
In
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DR. JOHNSON'S LONDON.
*DISH O' TRA”
ARTIFICIAL MEASURES.
China, appearing in the British | HOW ARID TRACTS MIGHT BE MADA Chamber of Commerce Journal for February, we clip the following:
Generally speaking no man comes East to join a newspaper without an agreement, very much on the same lines as those given to hong men, with the same privileges as to leave and medical attention, etc. They are, however, expected to do con |siderably more than they would in similar positions on daily papers at home, and as a general rude mes from provincial papers-weeklies and bi-weeklies are
more fitted
PRODUCTIVE.
A HAUNTED CHAMBER,
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life."-Johnson.
A band of pious pilgrims started out the other Saturday afternoon from beneath the shade of the plane
When a Daily Chronicle representa trees in Staple Inn, Holbern, tive joined the group the custodian had been persuaded to hand, on a little of his knowledge of the old buildings, and the pilgrims were gaging with reverence at a top-floor window.
The artificial formation in South Africa of a lake as large as Great Britain was one of the suggestions put forward by Professor E. H. I Schwartz in the course of a lecture on The Control of Climate by Lakes Royal Geographical before the Society. He showed how dead forests for and human and animal skeletons the work than are those who come marked the area between South West from the big dailies, where covering Africa, Rhodesia, and the Transvaal, assignments is the main, if not all which had been deprived of natural the work expected of the reporters. irrigation by the disappearance of quite Johnsonian dignity. They must further be able to write lakes and the diversion of rivers party were Staffordshire-bom, and comment, such as would be expected which had watered the Kalahari the Staffordshire Society had organis- of the indoor staff of a home news region. paper, to cover more sport than
"In that room Dr. Johnson wrote Rasselas in the evenings of one week. in order to pay for his mother's funeral," recited the custodian with
All the men and women in the
DUTCH GARDEN.“
By way of the Dutch Garden, modelled on the one of Johnson's day, through Lincoln's-in-helds, and along a piece of the Strand, the Pilgrims traced the perambulatiora of the great man to St. Clement Dane's Church, where they gazed at his statue in the church yard.
There were there, he said, vasted for them a little pilgrimage, led by Mr. Frederick Hackwood, to follow in would ordinarily fall to their lot attracts of country suitable for cultiva the shambling footsteps of Lichfield's home, and, generally, "make them ton awaiting a regular water supply, selves of considerably more all round and be suggested the cutting off of reat son, who became so eminent use inside and outside the office. The rivers running into the Zambesi and and wholehearted a Londoner. young reporter fresh from home turning them south, and the forma is apt to be dismayed at the tion of a lake covering about 90,000 very great amount of additional square miles as a reservoir for flood work expected of him. To be suc water north-east of the Kalahari cessful he must cultivate the happy country. The question was whether. faculty of making acquaintances, of owing to evaporation being in excess maintaining a good standing in com- of rainfall, the lake would disappear. munities considerably smaller and, One effect, be thought, would be that consequently, more censorious than when the wind blew inland the at- at home and to mix on equal terms mosphere, being humid, would allow with men earning far more than is precipitation, so that the rains would the average junior's lot. It must fall in das season with fair average not be forgotten in this respect that intensity, instead of in cloud-bursts even the most junior reporter out following drought. East is thrown into tasks which require more savoir faire than would be the case back in the West.-
The foregoing picture is not par- ticularly heartening, standing by itself, but the advantages do tend to
WHAT'S IN A NAME.
Inside the church each pilgrim sat for a quiet minute or two in the seat in the gallery to which Dr. Johnson used to drag his ponderous weight Sunday by Sunday for the pleasure of listening, hand to ear, to the but he must have longed to argue with the parson, sometimes, thought some of the Staffordshire folk.
Sermon.
The culminating thrill of the after-
outweigh the disadvantages. A good HEW RHJULT OF BOLSHEVISM. noon, however, came when the pil
man, one who is trusted, can soon
be on the inner side of things, bigger than he would ever en- counter at home, anticipate events of which elsewhere be would only come to know as accomplished facts,
'amongst move
med
SWISS OBJECTIONS.
The Zurich "municipal authorities
grims krocked at the great knocker on the door of the house in Gough- square where the monumental dic tionary was compiled.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19. 1921,
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,
PHOTO SUPPLIES,
LONG HING & CO., Koda's A RodAL FINE, 26. IN-
DEVELOPING & PRINTING & SPECIALITY. : No. 174, Qur's Boan ChestrAL, HONGKONG.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.
OPERATING
THE HONGKONG HOTÉL, HOTEL MANSIONS,
THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,
AND THE
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
J. H. TAGGART,
MATLONE.
THE PEAK HOTEL.
1,500 Feet above Sea Level,
15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of-
Mrs. BLAIR.
(Two minutes from Star Ferry)
PALACE HOTEL
KOWLOOK
Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughout and entirely under new management. Origins under the personal superriales of the proprietor, Bar and Billard Rooma. Tarma modarske. Epecial ferma to fuffies an application to
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HOTEL
:
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WEST BUND, CANTON.
Rooms en Suite
Garden, Boof
Excellent Cuisine.
& with private Baths. Hairdressing
Baloon, etc.
Moderate Rates.
to Tourists.
Leading Hotel in South China.
attention given Special. Under the Foreign Supervision of, -
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CENTRAL LOCATION LZ ELECTRIC TRAKE PE Extrance, Mec- Lighting, Karepma Water System througkeit. Best of Food Thephone
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Telegraphic Adirme 2* VICTUMA*
J. WITCHELL, Mainger.
Just arrived,
large
Through the panelled rooms which have been preserved by Mr. Cecil
quantities of have been faced with a new Bolshe. Harmsworth, the present owner, in whose acts savour of largeness, vism. A father demanded that his their original condition, with here noteworthy piece where at home the only thrill would son should be christened Lenin, and, and there a be that of occasional parish pump poli- after considerable discussion between of furniture helping to preserve tics, and, in time, aequire a clearness the various municipal officers, this
round that "the giving of unusual Christian names is condemned by the use and customs of our land,
of vision and ripeness of judgment demand has now been refused on the which could only come otherwise by long years of hard experience. Undoubtedly a few years out, East can do much for the ambitious cub reporter willing to learn. It is no place for the press män who knows everything."
the domestic flavour of the old house, the pilgrims wandered. They in spected letters to and from the Great Chamber of Literature, and saw the
original volumes of the dictionary.
A DISH O' TEA. Best of all, they ended up their pligrimage in the beamed garret in which Johnson wet up the desks of the clerks who helped him in the compilation of the dictionary. And there, just as the great conversation
list would surely have had it, was waiting them a dish of tea.
Lenin the authorities declare is certainly an unusual Christian name in Switzerland, and we have therefore refused to allow it. Furthermore, With very few exceptions, the the name of Lenin embodies at the senior-journalistic positions suffer in present moment a much discussed comparison with mercantile berths political programme, It makes no very much as do the junior, but there difference that, by the choice of this are comfortable livings to be obtain name the father desires to show his ed, though, naturally they are not sympathy for this policy. The name many. Of them as of the lower is likely to injure her interests of the ranks it may be said that the scope child both now, and in later years, The Socialists insist, by way of afforded equals anything given & senior on a home paper, demands, it reply, that the authorities should, by anything, a wider and more continu- the same token, refuse to name reverence for achievement. Shallow ous reading and necessitates a close child Albert after the King of minds, sir, are sufficient for their own study of that delightful farrago of Belgians, or Hindenburg after the meds But the mind which is con inconsistencies - Chinese politics. German Commander-in-Chief, and axious of the immensities of human Here' there are given more oppor heated controversy on the subject existence will always find interest in tunities of meeting men who do is beginning.
things than" probably any where
alse in the world, a chance of seeing Ifirst band those intrigues, etc, of
which ordinary people only read. To some these things are êmall cán And, above all, there is an oppor pared with more concrete examples tunity of making a name for oneself, of the world's estimation, but the tree a possibility of ranking, large in the Journalist, like the real artist, derives section of the world, and of making the completest satisfaction from one's voice heard and appreciated. 'them.
“Sir"-the Daily Chronicle repre sentative seemed to hear the words boom out from a shadowy corner
Str, there is no characteristic. I would rather observe in a man than
contemplation of the lives of hir predecessors.
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White
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Baths and the last word
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