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LAMMERT BROS.
ÁVOTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS
-Public Auctions-
28 Uodarsigned have received instrue
Mots to sell by Public Anellon
to
"SATURDAY, Jane 4, 1921. commencing at 11 am.
at their Sales Rocims, Paddell Street.
1 case Bookbinder Cloth,
cases Kabler boots,
1 esse Rubber Coat,
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3 cases Thermos bottles and fillers,
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) LAC TOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dygreptics (3) MILFORD MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Flaid for destroying Fless, Mosquitoes, Bugs, Flies and all other Insect Pesta in Summer days, and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Fonses.
PRICES are Very Moderate. Ins
iarited.
1 case Thermos bottles and kits for pection and Enquiries are cordially
.. bottles.
esses Clocks,
3 cases Straight Razors.
6 cases Cinnamon.
6 cases Dragon. Bloed,
1 rase Copper Powder.
Term-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers
gkong, June 1, 1021.
сп
MONDAY, Jace 8, 1921. commencing at 230 p.m. thair Sales Rooms, Duddejl Street.
A Large Quantity of Vilnable Household Furniture. comprising:-
Teal batstands. Chesterfeld couch, Armchair, Koll top desk. Writing tables, Teak screen, Brass fender, Carpets and Rugs, Pictures and Engravings, etc; etc. Teak dining tables and chairs, side- boards, dinner waggon, cupboards, tea tables, Dinner crockery and glass ware,
TKC.
Twin teak bedstead, teak wardrobes, dressing tables, chest-of-drawer, wash- sands, toilet crockery, lace enctains, etet.
Also
& few pieces of Crystal Cot-glass Azd
1 Cottage
Pium "Collard &
•Collard" in good condition,
1 Developing Camera,
1. Cinematograph Machine,
- Vetor Typewriters
1 Oliver Typewriter,
On view from Saturday, the 4th
Jane, 1521.
Catalogues will be issued.
Terms -Cash on delivery...
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, May 31, 1921.
HE Undersigned bave received in-
from the Lectrsson of The CERA MINI, & SMELTING Co. LD, to sell by Public Auction,
ON
THURSDAY, June 16, 1921, commencing at 11.30 a.m. on the Premises of the
Lin Ma Hong Mine, Lin Ma Harg.
The Whole of the Machinery and Plant of the above mino.
.Comprising:-
1 Six Stamp Battery,
1 Ore Crusher.
1 Wilfey Table,
1 Monarch Table,
2 Hydra Ulic Classifiers.
1 Ropeway.
Shafts, Belting, Pipe Line, Pump
Wheels, etc, etc.
(To be sold in one lot). Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
Hongkong, May 30, 1921.
THE WATER SUPPLY.
Loreland Storage of water in reservoirs
the 1st May, 1991-
CUT AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKA
LIVEL
591
mam tatt. in. Below 41 ft. tia, Below arettur. 10. love or erfor
1920
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1912.
200
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13:1 7. A in Alam Semerun) below orgelare, Belew overdom.
Moalan Opomiar 1'77 £li
atsoende 12'ertésaud and SHOCKLISH OF MALLORA
Magicom Gortation |
CANIVORE ---
150.
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106.52
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-millions and decimale of galvos dagleg the
mrmath of Aquil. #pende
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Public Works Department.
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Water Authority,
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Sole Agents for Hongkieg zzA SAVER CHEL
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Nice Assortment of
FINE ART
PICTORIAL POST CARDS Types of Beauties, Children,
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ste.
at 75 cents per dozen.
GRACA & C0, Dealers in Post Cards. Postage Stamps, Garden Seeds, Toys, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 630.
Hongkong.
JAPANESE MAKERS.
Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & CO.,
PEDDER STREET, Opposita Hongkong Hois? - Telephons No. 49.
Hongkong, March 20, 1914.
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good a metal filament lamp can be,
Westinghouse Electric International Co.
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my mother likes you very much, found to her astonishment that she though she doesn't
care for could not gain admittance. The door foreighers as a rule; and as for poppa, refused to open in answer to her he'll come round all right; I can repeated ringing. Growing alarmned always twist him round my finger! at last, she summoned the concierge; Remember, I am yours, beart and and when he in turn received no THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN THE RE soul. I shall soon be able to tell you answer to his violent tugs at the bell and hammering on the door, he when to come and claim me.”
fetched a policeman and a locksmith, and a forcible entry was made.
MOTAIGNE.
MUTUAL DECEIVERS.
GRUESOME DISCOVERIES.
In the meantime Pranzini's funds In the Paris police records there is no more sinister figure than that of were running low, and it was neces
On entering the hall the quartette Prazzini one of the cleverest, most sary to replenish them. While he brutal and also most elusive of was waiting for a summons to his shrank back in horror; for there, at criminals who have ended their millionaire bride's arms he must find their feet, lay the huddled form of a some other fair one who would keep woman-Madame's maid. Annette, misspent days on the scaffold
When the curtain rises on the last his purse supplied; and her he founding dead in a pool of blood. And scene in his amazing life drama he or thought he had found, in Madame this was the first of three gruesome tad already crowded more adventure Regnault, a lady of considerable discoveries which an examination of and disgrace into a few years than charm and easy morals, who had just the appartement revealed; for in most criminals into a long life time. been abacdoned by her latest lover, Annette's bedroom was found her Bom at Alexandria, the son of an when after squandering much gold child-stabbed through the heart; Italian father and mother, he was an on her he had decided at last to take and Madame herself was found, also expert thief while other boys were still to himself a well-dowered wife and dead, lying across the bed in her own at school, and had served six months close this costly and unprofitable room.
All three had apparently been done imprisonment for stealing from a chapler. Madame was heart-broken post <ffice at which he was employed. at such treachery, which meant an to death by the same weaper-a large We next see him doing Porter's end, at least for a time, to her life of knife such as butchers use; and work at a Cerstantinople hotel and ease and luxury; and thus she was everywhere throughout the entire plundering the guests, as a prelim in a mood to console berself with the appartement, on cupboards and inary to starting a fraudulent busi-good-looking Italian, who professed wardrobes and on the floors, were pools and stains of blood. It has at ness with an American and a Gercan to te as rich as te was devoted.
"All the joy and brightness have once clear that murder of a particu for partners. Then, Presto! be is in the Soudan, acting as interpreter for gere cut of my life," she wrote. "Ilarly brutal type bad been committed, Lord Welseley's army; and, later, in feel wretched and sad. I feel that I and that its motive was robbery, for France playing the role of conductor annet forget the past. Prsazini] every drawer had been ransacked, on sleeping-cars. And everywhere in trests and amuses me, and I feel and all. Madame's valuable jewels, his course is marked by thieving, as if I would like him to be my lover; estimated to be worth 200,000 francs, swindling, and every kind of low but there is something strange about had disappeared-except, strangely bim that I don't understand and I enough, those she was actually dissipation.
don't quite like. I don't want a new wearing at the time of her death. master. I should kill myself if it
A LADY KILLER.
THURSDAY, JUNE
NOTICES
1521.
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WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.
Hotel Mansions,
Agenis 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,
PROTO SUPPLIES,
LONG HING & CO., Kodak and Rodas Films, &c. *2.
DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.
No. 17, Qures' ROAD CENTRAL, FONGKONG.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO.,
OPERATING:-|
THE HONGKONG HOTEL,
HOTEL MANSIONS,
THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,
AND THE
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
LTD.
J. H. TAGĦART,
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
KOWLOON
Recently renovated and refurnished, elazide light and fans throughom and entirely under new management. Caldins under the personal parvision of the proprietor, Bar and Ellard Room, Terma moderate- Special sarmas in familles où spplication to
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HOTEL
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"ASIA"
WEST BUND, CANTON.
Leading Hotel in South China
Roof Garden.
First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fats and Elevators.
Hairdressing Saloon.
Splendid Views of CityTM and Pearl River.
Excellent Cuisine..
Moderate Rates.
Under the Management of the SUN CO., LTD.
KING. EDWARD HOTEL
CENTRAL LOCATION
LL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pass Ence, Elec trie Lisy Fam and Lighting. Etropest Bath And Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water Bystem throughout Best of Food and
Section
Telephones Telegraphúc áðrizma :~! FICTORIA' J. WTTCHELL, Mamigo?..
To the perpetrator of this atrocious broadcast in all the principal news were act for the devotion of my crime certain clues were discovered papers of France, together with good servant, Annette Greneret, w:his shirtcuffs, stained with blood, list of the stolen jewels. is really the only friend I have and one of which was found under can unst.
Fet his chief source of ince me was in bis good looks and rewers of fascination. To a five figure and a bardecme face with dark, magnetic
It was not long, however, before eyes, be allied a charm of manner and a clever tongue which few Madame found that her new lover women could resist. He was also a was by no means the wealthy man brilliant linguist, able to converse fo she had fancied him to be. He soon eight tongues, from Erslab and confided to her that he was in tem Turkish to Russian and Hindustan, perary (only temporary) difficulties, Ard thus he was equired to pose as and that a loan would be a godsend,
a man of fashion and rank, and to for which he would be eternally
A PUZZLE FOR THE POLICE,
CANTON.
FRENCH LESSONS
& MOUSSIGN :
15, Morrison Hill Kera
sail for New York. He had accosted
a woman in that city and had asked.
a
her to direct him to the offices of the
Red Star Line. His name she was
sure was Geissier; he seemed very Madame's body, the other on the
While the police were thus depressed, his hair was dyed, and on one of his brands was a recent wound neck of her maid; behind a window curtain, a waistcoat of yellow leather. diligently hunting for the missing which she had dressed with one of bearing the name "Gastop Geissler" Geissler of the Hotel Cailleux, rews his own handkerchiefs, She had in Ledian ink and in a drawer of the came that a man named Pranzis the handkerchief now, she told the dressing table, an affectionate letter had been arrested at Marseilles, police, and it bore the initials G. G On examination, however, the initials signed," Gaston," addressed three daya previously to Madame Regnault, charged with being in possession of were found to be unmistakably, not Equipped with these clues, the certain of Madame Regnault's jewels. G. G. but C. Its owner was not choose his victims, whom he scbbed grateful, and which he would quickis Paris police at once sex to work to One of these, a watch, set with the man they wanted.
*From Antwerp to Cologne from in turn, from a wide range of ration- repay, when his father, who was alities.
very rich, sent him his quarterly trace Gaston Geissler search diamonds, he had given to a demi-Cologne to Berlim and Breslau, one
which proved to be one of the most 'It was in the character of a allowance wealtby young aristocrat on But Madame scon let him see difficult and baffling in detective mondaine in the town: to another, clue after another was followed, all his travels that he made a that, though she did not object anuals, and which in the end proved he had given a pair of earrings idem proving equally illusory. In a dozen was ransacked; and hundreds of ccrquest of a very well-gilded-girl to him as a lover, she had so utterly futile. It was, in fact, a tified as Madame's property. It towns every hotel and boarding house shortly before this story rens. She intention of accepting him as a wild goose chase," on which the was reasonable to conclude that shops were visited to trace the sellers the cleverest Pranzini and Geissler were one and of the valise, shirts, and collars foncé was the daughter of in American drhter. It was really too drole, murderer started.
the same person; but when in the Hotel Cailleux. millionaire, whose scquait farce be too impossible! It was his duty, es sleuth-tounds" in Europe.
And when, after months of futile. made in the lounge of a Paris hotel, thould be his pleasure, to keep! The register of almost every hotel to such good purpose that wit in a fer parse supplied. Why, his pre- and boarding bote in Paris was their descriptions were compared almost heart breaking hunting, the few days of sening eyes on the band cerisor bad spent half a million examined before at last it was found it was found that they were totally owner of the shirts, valise, and collars some Frenchman (88-he professed to fiams on her, he had given her that a Monsient Geissler had been different mer fact on which was at last discovered at Breslau in be) she had lost both heart and head such jewels as few women in France lodging in the Hotel Cailleux, near the police decided that Geissler George, son of a Madame Gatentag
the Gare de Lyon and had disappear was the murderer and "Franzini the same Geissier" was, by a curious to him. "And the fact that her father could boast.
Thus checkmated, Pranzini, who ed on the very night of the crime only a receiver of the stolen jewels coincidence, anmed it was found: frowned on his daughter's folly In proposing to marry a foreigner" was to desperately in reed of Fortunately, as the detectives natur Thus they continued their chase of that on the night of the murder he only made her more res lute to have money, was quick to make up his ally thought, he had left certain pcs the former, while ignoring the latter had been safe, under lock and key in Ler way, And thus it was that, when mied that, it he could not get it one sessions behind him in his bedroom Never probably have the police a Paris prison, charged with attempt they parted, it was, with the underway, he would get it another, and cheap valise of yellow canvas, a been led such a dance as the Paris ed suicide. Thus, after one of the standing that Pranzing was to follow it was not long before he had dis paper bag which had contained detectives in quest of the will o' the longest and most exhaustive 350 ter in a few weeks to America covered the way
cigarettes, a couple of shirts marked wisp Geissler, the man of the yellow exhausting hunts on record, the Paris #Alex days later, when Madame G. G, and a few Collars-bearing the wairtcoat and cheap valise and collars detectives had actually run an entire- and vicka her his wile
(Continued en 1 are: 30 You are the only moi could Regcault's cook presented Tere naker's name, Nadge, Morgensiassa marked. "Nadge, Berlin. At An-ly innocent man to earth. ever love." she wine s tim on the early in the morning, at the arparte Berlin Gelesler's description was twerp they thought they had ran him voyage home,baodness ment in the Rue Montaigne, she easily procured; and it was published to earth in a man who was abgut to