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LAMMERT BROS.
AVOTIONEERS, AFFRAIBERS AND SURVEYORS,
Public Auctions-
## Undersigned have revalved Instruo- toas to sell by Publlo Anclum,
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OF
TUURSDAY, March 2, 1982 commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at Fairview" No. 1, Robinson Road,
A Largo Quantity of Valpable Household Furoltare,
Comprising :-
Chesterfiel couch and armebairs, Blackwood curio cabinet, Teak writing table, brokenso, Carpets and curtains, etc., etc
Teak extension dising table, Side- board with bevelled mirror, Dinner Waggon, etc., etc.
Toak berlatendis, wardrobes bevelled mirror, drossing table with bevelled mirror, marble top washstand, atc.
Also
INTIMATIONS
FOR SALE
HARBUTTS PLASTICINE *The Child's Dolight."
PLAY-WAX
for Clean and Easy Play-Models,
THE NOVLART Dry Stencil Pictures.
GRADA & 00,
Dealers in Toys, Postage Stamps, Pictorial Post Cards, Garden Seede,
4. do.
No. 10, Wyndham Bizeek, P. O. Box 620.
ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Vanished B asts of Australia.
Troed by a Button.
elastic surface of the water was very justice in this world, and that is the much greater than that used in truth." Tro ceremony of execution overcoming a friction. It was thus lasted twenty minutes during the necessity in a asigns of yachts or whole of which the death-bell tolled. fast-moving it to adjust their Napoleon's Sof..
curvas s that they could pass According to the Labalanzeiger, a through the water without making A button found on the floor of a party of French officers have carrie any moca ripple thap was house with bad been broken into, off the sofa on which Napoleon rested necessary. The great energy used in | led to the arrest and conviction at the before the Battle of Jena. They crenting waves was the main lemon West Riding Quarter Sessions at arrived in a car at the Green Tree and that the Professor taught. He Leeds of Mrs. Cooke, a member of Nightingale inn, in the village of mished by showing how invisible the Otley Board of Guardians.
this Cospeda, where article of vortex rings could be sent across a Henry Cooke, 02, an iron sawyer, her furniture was treasured, and having room in such a way as to blow out a husband, was also charged, but was produced identification papers show-candle after one had tucked one self found not guilty and discharged. ing their nationality and status, up in bid.
It was stated that the house which demanded that it should be
bad been entered was shut up, the sarrendered. Apparently the in
occupiers being abroad and the gardener found that windows, had been tampered with. The police found a button on the floor which Koscin ko in New South Wales.corre ponded to remaining The object of the expedition was to buttons on the woman's coat, one of study the traces left by the now vaa- which was missing. For the defence ished glacier ice. The observations it was said that the woman had been confirmed the suggestion made to the soil as not to know what she was Linnean Society in 1893 that during doing and she told her husband she the maximum glaciation the plateau had bought the furniture which had was a miniature antarctica inhabited been found in their house. Mrs. by slephant-like wombats, the inar-Cooke was sent to prison for three supial rhinoceros, the gigantic ema, months in the second division. 12 ft. high and the terribly fierce and powerful marsupial lion, who roamed over the greater part of Australiá 100,000 years ago.
Interesting discoveries have been made by a party of Australian geolog ists who conducted an oxpedition to
| kroper never thought of questioning the legitimacy of their demood, and meekly allowed them to have their own way. The correspondent who Mt Hongkong
reports the incident suggests that they may bave been impostors,
Chorister's Strange Outburst.
МАКИНО.
with
JAPANESH
Every kind of Footwear, MADE TO ORDER.
Dae Cabinet "Grifanola" (practically new).
Une Upright Grand Pinoo by Wagner
And
One American Billiard Table.
Don view from Wednesday, the lat March (afternoon.
Catalogues will be issued. Terms ---Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
Hongkong, February 26, 1922.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED IN THE MAIL."
ENTERTAINMENTS.
February 28-Coronet Theatre, Anita Stewart in "The Yellow Typhoon" Hongkong Theatre, "The Auction Block." World Theatre, Olive Thomas in The Follies Girl." Kowloon Theatre, Black and White Dance.
SPORTING EVENTS,
March 31.-Hongkong Boxing tournament. Association, novices'
Theatre Royal.
April 1. Hongkong Association, nuvices'
Theatre Royal.
Jak
OTHER EVENTS.
Boxing tournament
March 2-Hongkong Horticultural Society's anual +how. Botanic Gardens.
PUBLIC AUCTION SALEN.
March 1-Hughes and Hough, house bold furniture. No. 4 Mindew Vilius, Mody Road, Kowloun, 11 a.m. March 1.-Hughes and Hough, a large number of well-known race ponies. Jockey Club Stables, 5 p.œ. March 2-Lammert Bros. house- hold furniture, graianola, upright piano, and billiard table. "Fairview," No. Robinson Road, 2.30 p.m.
March 3. Hughes and Hough, Chinese procelains, cuftos, lacquered ware, etc. Sales Rooms 2.30 p.m.
March 10.---Hughes and Hough, old and surplus victualling stores. Kow- loon Naval Depot, 9.50 a.m.
COMPANY MEETINGS.
March 3-The Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Ltd.. 38th. ordinary annual meeting, &t. George's Building, Chuter Road, 11 a.m.
March 3.-Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Ltd., extraordinary general meeting. Hongkong Hotel 11.30 ..
U.
March 4.-Bank of East Asia, Ltd., 3rd. ordinary yearly meeting shareholders. Registered office, No. 10 Des Voeux Road Central 3.30 p.m. March 8--Hongkong Butel Co.. Ltd., ordinary yearly meeting. Company's Hotel, noon.
OTHER MEETINGS.
February 28.-Kowloon Residents' Association, annual general meeting. St. Andrew's Hall, Kowinou 6 pas.
Keep Your Skm Clear By Using Cubeura
OAERRY & 00.,
8, D'AGUILAR STREET,
Opposite Kaynally & Co. Telephone No. 491
Bongkong, March 20, 1914.
MARIAGE.
Mrs, S. UZUNOYE, c/o MA BARA HOTEL.
10, Queen's Road Central. 2nd floor
Tel. 405.
Hongkong.
MASSAGE.
Mrs. HONDA and Mrs. HISAKL;
14 years' experience. No. 24, Wyndham Street (opposite to the “Chim Mail")
SWAY HOUSE
HAT MAKER.
No. 18, Wyndham Strest.
TANG YUK, Davest, Ворошеет о
the late BIEN TING, 14, D'Agullar Street.
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There was an extraordinary incident i. the Sistine Chapel on the termina. tion of the Memoriam service, states Rome message. When the Cardinals were leaving, a member of the choir attempted to leave saying that he was as good as any Cardinal and he was not going to wait. His colleagues vainly tried to quiet him. Finally, Swiss Guards placed him under arrest. Owing to the intervention of the director of the chair, the man's release was ordered. The offender's Lame is Ferrari. He has one of the finest voices in the choir, but he is known to be highly strung. He is likely to be greatly in demand for operatic ongagements.
Girls Kidnapped.
Frogs and Snails.
the
Frogs and anails have just been put on the bill of fare at the Savoy Hotel, This exciting news is accompanied by the explanation that English and A story that two Scottish girls were American officers who have served in kidnapped on a South Americau France have acquired a taste for them steamer and carried from Glasgow and want to be able to get them there. half round the world, locked in the Those who have tried agails state hold, is made public by the Charity that the snail part is tough, and the Organisation Society. The girls trimmings taste too much of garlic. allege they were enticed on board to Perhaps the Savoy snails will be A Way of Escaps.
take tea with some sailors, and that tenderer and the garlic part kept in The desire to escape military service the vessel set sail before they could check a little. At any rate it is in France sometimes leads to more leave. At Liverpool other girls said that Sir Hall Caine has gone in serions results than the infliction of arrived. They could not escape, as for the new items on the bill of fare the Savoy. Frogs' legs, personal injuries (writes a reader) in they re imprisoned in the hold at a home paper. When I was a student and the captain did not know of their are just like chicken, only more were discovered so, which sounds mild but 110- presence. They at a French University many years when the veel arrived at Colon. exciting. But the tremendous com- ago, one of my fellow students com- mitted a dastardly crime, with this and along with the sailors who mercial fact is that 250 frogs and 200 object in view, Ae the eldest son of decoved them they were put ashore anails are now being brought to a widow be would have been exempt at Callao. Here they were taken to London daily by air from Paris. It from service, and so hit upon the disreputable house, but later they seems a shame that snails should be plan of killing his own father. For-escaped and sought relief from the rashed like that. Moreover, the daily tunately his attempt was nosuccess ful, and he received what was gener ally considered, the light sentence of seven years' bard labour. Singularly enough, the scene of this attempt was in Nancy, where M. Vilgrain, the French Minister accused of inflicting on himself bodily injuries with-a-like aim, was recently arrested. The Uncanny Powers of Waves
British Consul, who had them sent back to their homes, Steps havoj now been taken by the Clyde authorities to prevent the possibility of similar happenings in the Glasgow
docks.
Murderers Beheaded.
order is going to be doubled. Queer Burials.
Strange burials seem to have been offected at the Collogno cemetery,
near Taria. The town is a favourite resort of Communists, and its municipality is administered by them. Two young men have been beheaded | Owing to a doctor's report that s together at Waldshut, Baden. couple of burials had been carried out The elder of the pair modered there without the doctor being Professor J. A. Fleming bagan a separately க man and two requested to provide the customary
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28) 19222
NOTICES.
G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.
WATCHMAKERS
& JEWELLERS.
Hotel Mansion.
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,
Latest Novelty in Pen Nibs.
PURI PREMIER PEN
Full Portals Pro ser? Panic biasa
Most superior quality Nibs of INCORRODIBLE metal.
For swift and elegant handwriting it is unrivalled.
NEVER SPURT,
NEVER SCRATCH.
Sole Agents for East
DANIELS & CO., 17, Wyndham (Flower) Street.
“ENSIGN BRAND” TEAS. BROKEN-PEKOE (Iг'S WORTH DRINKING). THE FINEST OF ITS KIND
SOLD IN THE COLONY.
One-pound Packets from Store-keepers,
The Blue Bird and
The Graeco Egyptian Tobacco Store.
Ue from
The Glodale &. Terramia Tam Agency,
DANIELS & CO., 17, Wyndham (Flower) Street.
LONG HING & CO., Hodaks and Kodak Films, too. Ma.
PHOTO SUPPLIES, DEVELOFING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.
No, 17A, Quis's BOAD CENTRAL, Honakoka
HOTELS AND CAFES.
series of lectures to young people at the women for the purpose of robbery, certificate, the police held an inquiry. HONGKONG HOTEL,
Royal Ins itation recently. His His companion assisted, bim in two The cemetery was visited, and on the subject is wireless telephony. The of these crimes. According to law graves in question being opened they
murderers
lecturer began by showing a very large twelve representatives of the public were each found to contain several Dumber of experimenta on visible must by invited to attend the heavy zino-lined cases, representing waves, such as those that can be seen execution and altogether thirty-five a complete arsenal. There were on water, and demonstrating by persons were present at the grim small cannon, six machine-guns, 107 means of models and Jantern Flides ceremony. Both
wore rifles, a large quantity of ammunition what huge quantities of energy are crosses presented by the head of the and 126 bombs, including several big used up by ships in the mere effort of Lutheran Church in Baden. The ones, together with a quantity of
whole of making waves as they pass through elder of the two, who went to death explosives. The the water. The skin friction, or the first, mounted the scaffold praying municipal functionaries, together effect of water in sticking to the side earnestly. When the State Attorney with the gravediggers, all of them of the ship, he said, was very great read the judgment to the younger fervent Communists, have been when the ship was moving slowly, but man sad symbolically broke a staff, arrested, and inquiries instituted as as it got faster the effort made by the flinging it at his feet, the murderer ship in throwing waves over the cried; "Bravo! There is only one
HONGKONG
the
to the whereabouts of the mourners who attended the wonderful funerals,
DOLLAR $ DIRECTORY
1922 EDITION
THE BEST DOLLAR'S WORTH IN HONGKONG,
ON SALE AT:
THE DOLLAR DIRECTORY PUBLISHING OFFICES 5 WYNDHAM STREET.
THE CHINA MAIL OFFICES, KELLY & WALSH, LTD.,
CHATER BOAD
BREWER AND CO.,
QUEEN'S ROAD.
PEAK TRAMWAY LOWER STATION,
STAR FERRY WHARVES,
HONGKONG AND KOWLOON.
LEENTEE
DAGUILAR STREET..
PEAK HOTEL,
REPULSE BAY HOTÉL.
HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.
Tel. No. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add: "Carlton." The Only American Hotel in the Colony. Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes walk from the Bauke, and Central Distriate. 43 Bedroome. Excellent Onisine, Scrapulously clean. Under American Management. For terms apply to
MRS. F. E. CAMERON, Proprietress,
(Two minutes from Star Ferry).
PALACE HOTEL KOWLOON
Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughows and entirely under now managemans. Culsins under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billard Booma Terá moderata. Spacial farma so familien on wypitontion to ⠀⠀
Telephone K. 3. Telegraphie Add.; "PALAGIR.”
J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor.
HOTEL "ASIA
WEST BUND, CANTON.
Leading Hotel in Bouth China
Splendid Viewa
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First class Accommodation. Electrio Lights, Fans and Elevators. Boof Garden. Hairdressing Saloon,
City and Pearl River.
Moderate Rates.
Management of the
Excellent Cuisine:
Under the BUN 00.
THE NEW
BREAKF DINN
DANTON.
ORIA CAFE
Do Your Hold”
all hours.
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