2
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, AгPRAISERS
AND SURVEYORS
-Public Auctions-
FISITORS AT TEM HOTEL
HONGKONG HOTEL
Kr J. AlstoİL
S
September 19,
Mr & Mrs, M: W. G. Anderson Learch.
M: C.. Anderson Miss H Lülie
Mes E. K. Belilios
Mr R. J. Birbeck
Kr Blackbura
H: P. B. Por
Hr W. E. Brown
MR. S. Cuvin
Hiss CasinoN Mes C. T. Clark
HT. W. Cochrane
M-L. R. Cole
M: A. T. Colley
Mr H W. Itean
Miss M. H. Macy
INTIMATIONS
YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO
BE WITHOUT THEM.
JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the mucst digestive food for Infante which keep good in quality during Hot weather (9) LAC TOSE (Milk Sugar) for weekening the foods of Infants and Dyrpeptics (3) MILFORD MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICHE the Best Finid for destroying Fleas, Mosquitoes, Bags, Flies and all other Insect Pesta in Summer days, and (0) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in
Hauses.
PRICES are Very Moderate. Ins W.pection and Enquiries are cordially
invited
Mr and Mrs C L
bailey
Dr. Mariett
3- C. Martin
Mr J. W. MeCrocky |
Mr G. Mollison
SHIU FUNG TAI & 00.,
Sole Agents for Hanghong sad Boeth Chien,
No.4, Connaught Road Central, Bongkar g
Tripà esa Kos
理代農業
Me and Mrs W. Just Received
Neeson
Major G. W. Olive-
efnda
Mr A. Onderwejzer
MRUD porin Miss D. E. Pepperell Head Mis E. &.Mrs S. L. Perrea
Brey
Mr. S. 8. Perry
Hts W S. van Dyke Lt. Col. and Mrs J Engineer-Captain
Polits
S.F. Ferguson is C. Rubert- Mr John S.GardinerCapt. Siquelard
Seith
Mr & Mrs Grossman ra N. R Mr F. J. Guan Jape. T. P. Hal Mr J. Boss Smith HrC. Hanimeed Rev. and Hts E. T
C. H. Hanscomb. Sepges
R. F. Harris
Mr W.. de Steen
H: Anthony Jenkins Mr and Ms W..
Me and Mr W. G. Stevens m
Jotepli
Mc
Thornborrow
E. M. Joseph Mrs W. H.Timbrell
Mr J. Kerr
Me C. King
Mies R. Wein
MH. Yamoto
RIPIK BAY BOTEL
Mr and Mrs AV. Hrand Mrs Geare
Miss Geare
Mr and Mrs R. T. Mr. Grons
Baxter
$ & Mrs Benson
& Mr R. Chris.
tisan
* Columbine
Mr J. D. Danty
SI E. Draki
A. W. Fastmaz
Mr and Mrs Bar-
rington
Mr Hes-ipe
Mr A. M. Hrish
Mrs W. E. Kent
Mr P. METT
Mr. A. Meguaschi
Mr E Moliti
Me and Mrs G. E.Mr and Mrs R.
Eliott
Nezre
Brand Mrs Eostein Mr & Mrs Newcomb
M: G. T. Eveligh
of R. Yarrant
Mr G J. Robinson
Mrs G 1. Kobinsen,
Mr and Mrs. P. 5.Mr & Mrs Travers'.
Karur
PEAK HOTEL
September 10.
Mr J. Anguía Mrs McAinsh
Mr Wm. Acderson
Mr & Mrs Ashton
*r E. C. Bell
V. Fenjamin
* B. Baie Mr. D. K. Blair Mr 31. J. Brees Mr J. G. Bridger
Mr H. B. Bridge
His C. C. Brenes
Mr. M. Ilm-
phreys
Mrs. Jacquemin Mr P. W. 1er Jones
$ie Ellia Kadogrie
Mr and Mrs N. B
Karanjia
Mr J. H. Kring
Mr J. D. Lloyd Air R. MacGregor Mr and 31-
Mayger
T.
Mrs M. FL Brown Mr and Mrs J. P
M- and Mis B. de Miller
Chazoumnes Capt Mrs.S.M
Capt. C. J.Church Mr T. Hitchell
Mr and Mrs J. A.Mrs M. S. Mitchell
Chadwick
Mist J. Michell
Major G. J. Clap Mr J, W, Noran
MA
Mr C. C. News7 Mr and Mrs T. W.Mr A, R. Penp
Crorch
Mix Clarke
$ir A. Cormack Mr W. A. Cornell
My R. Crowley Col C. W. Darey Eag. Comdr W.
DAWKOD
Min Fairly
Kon, Me and Mrs 7.
L Perkins
Mrs J. Proton Mr and Mr WE
Roberts
Me J. R. Robinson Mr and Mrs R I.
Rodger
Mr R. P. Shaw
Bey, and 51 W. T. Mr A. Findlay Smith
Featherstone Mr EL, Spi
E. Gibbons Mr and· Mon F. J.
Mr A. Gregso
as M. 3. H
Stevens-n
Miss N. Stone
Bliss Howard Me 1. F. 5w ndella
Mr H. II. Webster
PALACE HOTEL.
Q. Bentley
Epten ber 1.
Mes E. Dobilemm
Hr & Greeneit
Mr and Mrs J. H.
Oxberry
Mc Wm Pescia vl
dr. Havnenaner Mr B. Pelhei am
G. L. Bod
Mr T. (1. Ferris
#EA. Dey
Mr A J. Rowe
Gapt, F. N. Licks Mr B. Fhalabanoff
nd Mr Y. O.Mr H. Buiith
Macerichonce Ke I. Tit
Mr & Mira Morssey Mr and Mrs B. X.
Me 8. J. Onhen
Wapka
CHRONIC DIARRHOEA,
“IE you submet të allað gos d'iaren' 1. mál keep absolutely quiet for a Kam deya rest in bed il posible, be sure fel of your diet and take Chamu bór ladr'a Gile and archies Boos Ari, Thala *** med-eino bas' Barad Passchronie "Abserons this: physician, bara failed see, and it will.ches you. For sale by
Chemists and Steepers,
Fresh Sapply
SUTTON'S
Tested
of
Vegetable and Flower
SEEDS.
ids is the year to have a good
garden. Flat:lots of Feeds and take care of the Garden: then you will have every reason to be pleased with the result.
GRACA & 00. No. 10, Wyndham Street,
M. O. Box 620.
JAPANESE
Hongkong,
MAKERS.
Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & 00,,
FEDDER STREET, Opposite Hongkong Hotel
Telephone No. 12
Hongkong, March 30, 1915.
TANG YUK, DESTEL
Boom
the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street. TERMS VERY MODERATE.
Coasvation Pam
THERAPIONE THERAPION NĎ. 2 THERAPION NO.3
14.1 for Kate Somerset for Bank, 2
LIGE UI ENGLAND, SA
> TV 108
AFAEL BERR
PILSENER BEER
ASANT
GER
SAH
BEER
66
THE CHINA MAIL.
The
Three Castles"
Virginia Cigarettes
MAGNUMS
"Three Castles"
Cigarettes
The Three
WDZHO WILLS!
les Tobacco BRISTOL BLONDON
W.D.&H.O.WIIS
Bristol & London
cites
MAGNUMS
Better because larger.
The tobacco in the Mag- nums is the same bright Virginia tobacco found in ordinary Three Castles.
The difference in size makes the Magnums a fuller,
richer cigarette
while retaining
of
all the mild flavor the smaller cigarette.
This Advertisement is issued by British-American Tobacco Es. (China) Ltd
SOUTH SEA TALES.
the smell of a garden bonfire." He
ate cakes made from the stem of
of the giant aruna lile, served up in a
NATIVE MAGIŲ,
WRECKED SAILUES ROW TEOUSANDS
OF MILES.
Fascinating tales of the South Seas-of sorcery and shipwreck and Robinson Crusoe adventures-are told in two books reviewed below.
BULL-FIGHT FARCE.
green bamboo cane."which gave the CROWD WHO BECAME AMATEUR
TOREADORS.
At what was advertised to be a
a delicate perfume. He discovered there was no housing problem in that happy island in five minutes any man could build himself sufficient.. shelter. and food in the shape of "great bull" fight" at Nimes (80 delicious fruits he could have for miles north-west of Marseilles) the nothing. The only drawback was the"fights" 'with the balls became French taxation.
farcical.
Mr. O'Brien met Brooke in Talúti Anemic, undersized animals trott- and swam and travelled over the ed into the ring, two making feeble island with him, sharing his and
It is strange that the lure of that remote South Sea Island, Tahiti, should have drawn to it two such Calderon's belief that it was the efforts to charge the toreaders and men as Goozge Calderon and Rupert most ideal place in the world to work the others refusing to display any Brooke, both writers of rare gifts, and live in. Seen from the sea, as interest in the proceedings
and both destined in after years to Mr O'Brien describes it. Tahiti is love- Irritated by not getting anything fall in that same fatal expedition to liness made material: A dim like their money's worth, the spec Gallipoli-Calderon in the thunder of shadow in the far offing, a dark speck taters leaped from the barriers into battle at Cape Helles and Brooke of in the lofty clouds, a mass of tower the ring and indulged in general fever before the landing. As their ing green upon the blue water, the horse-play, the bull then in the arena ways crossed at Tabiti, so they came fast unfoldment of emerald, pale hills retreating hastily. together at death.
and glittering reef. Nearer as sailed
The ball did seem to make up its
mind to charge, but the effort petered And it is another most curicas our ship, the panorama, was lovelier. out and the crowd began to show a chance that two books dealing with It was the culmination of enchant nasty temper. their visits to Tahiti should be ment, the fulfilment of the wildest | The trouble was calmed, however, published by two different firms fantasy of wondrous colour, strange and the spectators returned to their on the same day. The first is form, and lavish adornment.
seats, when the authorities decided George Calderon's posthumous work, And the climate is unexcelled for to release a specially fierce ball which "Tahiti" (with 50 illustrations by the the tropics," with a sky and a people they had been keeping in reserve as author; Gract Richards, 25s. net)the most lovable." so that Mr. too dangerous.
This bull all but fatally gored the the second, Mr F. O'Brien's "Mystic O'Brien declares it made him dance or
toreador who tackled him. Idles of the South Beas" (Holder and skip. The fish are a feast of colour:- Stoughton, 208, net).
Pale blue; brilliant yellow; Calderon lived in Tahiti as a native, black as charcoal; sloe with making the islanders as he alter orange stripes; scarlet, spotted and wards made the privates of his barred in rainbow tints. The schooner "El Dorado," of which no- platoon-bis personal friends. His parrot fish are especially splendid in thing had been heard for months. Next vivid descriptions of Papsete, Tahiti's spangling radiancy." 5. chief town, are touched with his
He, too, noted the hermit crabs, peculiar genius and bring up the
and saw that they kept each a watch whole scene.
They were the survivors of the "E "The air is heavy with the smell of man on guard on his roof" in the unknown spicy things; and trembles shape of stinging-emones. The Dorado, after a voyage over the stinging cells of the anemone ward Pacific in their little craft which for to the lily-slender' voice of innumer fish off the crab, and in exchange the its perils and hair-breadth escapes anemone is carried about free of surpasses the wildest adventures.
able cicadas. There is too much out-
days ship's boat came into sight from a wreck, with three men on board her.
cry for understanding; it is like belis charge and shares the crab's meala. They had rowed and tailed thousands
ringing inside the skull; one feels a
There is a touch of the uncanny in of miles, first from near the Chilian certain uneasiness, a vague stirring of the account. Mr. O'Brien gives of a coast to Easter Island; then from regret and undefined desire," The native sorcerer, whom he saw "walk. Easter Island to Tahiti. They had | scenery is "overwhelming": "Instead ing the fire," which consisted of stones passed through storms when "the of trees, great palm topped things white hot: "He traversed the entire entire havens, were a mass of coruscat which ought to be in flower pots but which tise up to the sky instead. It length barefoot, with no single flinching clotricity and they could feel the has the look of something mysterious ing of his muscles or Butter of his air alive with it. They were shocked eyelids to betray pain or fear. The by the very atmosphere and feared as seen in a dream, where everything native spectators hazefooted marched for their lives every moment." is larger, clearer, more story-bookily over the path he took. Bix Limes the beautiful than in real life.”
BREAD-FRUIT DIET.
After the storm and the terrific
throng were led by him forwards and seas came the fish: "Five times a backwards over the stones. A woman boat, head on, and drove them frantic giant shark launched himself at their The very sea-shore is
ex who looked down and stumbled left with his menace of sinking them. traordinary: "Big land-crabs sun the ranks and cried out that her leg They were able to kill him with a themselves in the mouths of their was burned. She had an injury that blow. The next day a swordfish of: burrows like Chinamen in their shop was weeks in curity." fronts, and dive softly in as the The legs and feet of the others were traveller approaches. Little sea-shelia
slarning size played about them,
of every kind go capering in thousands examined by Mr. O'Brien, but no acting in such manner that they felt trace of búra or injury was to be over the path, moved by tiny hermit- difcerned. crabe. The earth is like the surface
of some unhealthy, parasite-infested
body."
..
GIANT SHARK ATTACKS. This book narrates one very curious He tried a diet of bread-fruit, bet coincidence. Someone picked up found it “white and meely, like an 'and read out the list of ghising old potato it tarbed something like Pacific ships, Amang them was the
|
sare he was challenging the boat as a strange fish. Une thrust of his bony weapon and they might be robbed of their chance for life. They shouted and, banged on the gunwales, and
caped."
Here is the veritable romance of the Bouth Best.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, -- 1521
NOTICES,
G. FALCONER & CO., LTD. WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.
Hotel Mansion 1.
Agenia 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,
NESTLE'S PURE THICK CREAM
IS
REAL CREAM
NOT
EVAPORATED CREAM or UNSWEETENED MILK.
NESTLÉ'S
Obtainable at Lane, Crawford & Co.,
and other Stores.
TWO SIZES:
51 oz. 11!
1
50 cts. per tin. 90 "
៨៧
PROTO SUPPLIES,
LONG HING & CO., Kodak and Kodak Films, &c. de,
DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.
No. 17, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL HONGKOND.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
HONGKONG HOTEL (Hongkong)
REPULSE BAY HOTEL (Repulse Bay)
PENINSULA HOTEL (Kowloon)
(projected}
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
TOWN GARAGE & RUSSELL STREET GARAGE
SHOW BOOMS (Pedder Street)"
REPULSE BAY GARAGE
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 ORION
KOWIDOX
Recently renovated and retornished, electric light and fans throughout and entirely undar new management. Calins under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billard Rooms Terms moderate. Special tazmun no families on application to
Telephone K. 3. Telegraphia Add, "PALACE," S
HOTEL
J. H. OXERRRY, Proprietor,
"ASIA'
"
WEST BUND, · CANTON,
Leading Hotel in South
China.
Saloon -
First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans and Elevators. Roof Garden. Hairdressing Splendid Views of City and Pearl River.
Excellent Cuisine.
Moderate Rates.
Under the Management of the SUN 00., LTD. CANTON.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
CENTRAL LOCATION --
LZ. ELMOTRES TRAMS PAS Katanese, Mis Sačku sali Aguitary Fitting, Hot and Cold | Water Mystem.Gongwrite, men då 29sé nat
Tabiphona 271. Tõngestie saddewu pur FicroNZA.")
3. WETCHELL, Muangter
FRENCH LESSONS