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LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERN, AFFRAIDERS AND SURVEYORS,
-Public Auctions-
Undonload have revered Instrno- tons to sell by Pabllo Auction,
On
TUESDAY, October 24, 1928, commercing at 11 am.
the China Provident Loan & Mortgage
Co's golorn, Kennedy Town
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNIO),
17 Barrels Norin
Tarms
Cash on delivery.
LAMMENT BROS.
Austionsors.
ON
TUESDAY, October 21, 1922, commercing at 11 am.
at the China Provident Lawn & Mortgage Co's gotonn, Kennedy Town
20 Platform Scales, 600 lbs. Capacity
50 Rolle Insulated Roofing
26 Relle Asphalt Roofing
22 Rolle 15 lbs. Saturated Felt
Roofing
20 Rolls Positive Seal Felt Rooling Forms Cash on delivery.
L'AMMERT BROS.,
Auctionsors,
INTIMATION
WE HAVE
GREAT VARIETIES OF USED & UNUSED
POSTAGE STAMPS
SINGLE, SETS, PACKETS, BAGS
AND
ON APPROVAL BOOKS. FOR COLLECTIONS,
ISY ↑ RACA & 00.,
Dealers in Postage Stamps, Post Cards, Garden Seeds, Toys, etc. No. 10, Wyndham Stree1, 2. U. Box 120,
Hongkong
SHOEMAKERS.
(Japanese Hand Made)
Every kind of Footwear.
MADE TO ORDER.
on
WEDNESDAY, Cetober 25, 1022.
commencing at 11 a.m.
at their Sales Rconie, Duddell Street.
A Consignment of High Grade Cashmere and Tweed Sult
Lengths, Superior Overogating, etc.
And
12 dozen Woollen Socks
On vies en Tuesday, the 24th inst. Terma-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
ON
Auctioneers.
THURSDAY, October 28, 1922, commencing at 10.30 am.
st No. 10 Gedown of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd., Kowloon
A Quantity of Round, Flat and Square Iron. Wire Nails. Stool Flates, Zincplates, Wire Ropes. Scrap Iron, Flat Rubber, Cod Liver Oil, Flour, ato.
Torms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS..
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, October 18, 1921.
FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.
CHAIRS.
I-In Fictoria, with two Bearers.
... 10 cents
One bour, PA on 25
Quarter hour...............
Zalf hour.e
Three hours,
D
dix bears,
.................. 70
Day (8 a.m. to 8 p.m.), 1.00
If the trip is extended beyond Victoria,
half faro extra.
Between the hours of 8.30 p.m, and 8 am. the above fares shall be incresaed
by 60 por centum.
-Beyond Fittoria, with four Bearers. Bear......ne
Three hours,...
0.60 cents. $1,00
Bix hours. 1.50 Day (6 am, to 8 p.m.)........ 1.00
II1-In the Hill District.
Quarter hour......$0.15
Balf hour, w
With Bearers. With 4 BéareTS.
... 0.20
$0,30
0.40
ile hour, ... 0.30
0.80
Two hours,... 0.50
0,80
Threa bours... 0.70
1,00
six hours,..... 1.00
1.50
Day (6a.m.top.m.)1,50
1.00
RIGEMELAS.
In the Island of Hongkong, if engaged
in Victoria.
five minutes..
Ten minutes,
Quarter hour,
6 cents
10
..20
Balf hour,...
Une bour......KALA 19 Every Sobeequent boar
.30 30
Nota-bo ricksis be engaged within the city of Victoria, and be dis charged outside the Western part of t) e City of Victoria after 9 pm., or be din- sargod to the East of Pay View Polico Station on the Eastern-side of the City. of Victoris after 9 paa, an extra kali fara shall be chargeable.
11.-In Route con
Quarter hour, ....................................................... & cente, Balf hour, and
..... 15
HOT, GAJI UDOSALT Every absequent hour, ..................... 10
-Taipo Road
Ior each extra tour or part
of an hour if the bicer causes
the journey to take longer than
single......... 75 cents.... hour.
Beyond 4th to eth nille-
++
19
+
Twenty centa al all be added
CHERRY & CO.,
e, D'AQUILAR STREET,
Opposite Kayamally & Co.
Telephone Central No. 491
Hongkong. March 20, 1914.
MASSAGE.
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MASSAGE.
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MASSAGE EXPERT HARRY FURUKAWA, K. JAKI, 19, Wyndham Street.
JAPANESE MASSAGE,
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Tel. Central 4395.
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TEL MS YERY MODERATE Consulation Free.
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PILSENER BEER
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return $1.00
single $1.20
hou
hours.
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singlo $1,76..........................3) retorn......69.00
singla.....$1.00
f
retora .......... 150 p... 7 Fares for journeys beyond the 11th
mile to be a matter of previous arrange,
ment in each esan.
The fares bere set out to apply to one sickaba, with three coollow from Talm Sha
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1922
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INDIAN RULER DEAD.
FROM POVERTY TO A PRINCE.
The death is announced of one of the greatest of the Ruling Princes of India, his Highness Maharaja-dhiraja Sir Sawai Madbo Singh Bahadur, 0.0.8.I., G.C.LE, G.C.V.O., G.B.E.. LL.D., of Jaipur, the bead of the Kachhwaba Rajputs.
DRUNKEN BEES.
MURDEROUS ATTACK BY
WASPS.
tree, involving a murderous ttack by A tragedy of a late-flowering lime wasps on bers which were apparently helplessly drunk with nectar, has been described by Miss P. Gibbons, of Won bourne, Wolverhampton, who wit need the incident.
of
The tree has always been a coUICE Born on August 28, 1862, and given mystery, because when it has been the name of Kiem Singh, the future in blossore a few days the ground Maharaja was the second son of the beneath has been found, as Misa Gib Thakur of learda, a petty chieftain bens rays, "a shambles, strewn with related to the ruling house of Jaipur.the corpses of bres, some headless, Kaim Singh was in his teens when bie come legless, while in other rares the
father died.
Owing to disputes relating to the succession, his elder brother, after bringing about his imprisonment, drove him into exile. He lived in poverty, and ultimately obtained em- plosment as rizaldar of a troop of horse of the Nawab of Tonk.
In 1880 the Maharaja of Jaipur, who had no heir, nominated on his deathbed Kaim Singh. By this wholly unexpected tarn of fortune's wheel the young soldier, who was still only 18, was given control of one of the most prosperous and important of Indian States, comprising an area of nearly sixteen thousand equare miles sada population of some 2,588,000.
JBOLS TAKEN TO ENGLAND.
whole of the thorax has been removed
and deposited a few inches from the rett of the body."
than ever, etarting at the beginning This year the tree bloomed later of this month. Then, while the beca ware at work in it, anddenly one dropped from the ground as though lifeless.
"We went up to it and touched it.
BOY-HUNT.
BORSTAL YOUTH CAUGHT AMONG THE ROCKS.
in height, named Thomas James A pal-faced youth of: 20, bit. Sin.
Edwards, who escaped from the Bortal Institution at Portland was caught after an exciting heat on the rockleat part of the Portland pro- montory.
:
Ho escaped with a colleague while working, outside the prison gates. His friend was quickly caught, but Edwards made a much more deter- mined dash for liberty. With warders, policemen, and "blue coat" (good in pursuit, he managed to elude them contuot) boja placed on special parole
and secrete himself in the famons Portland stone quarries.
He remained in hiding throughcnd Friday night, and in the early dawa The lege quivered slightly. Then, of Saturday crept from a fissure on we watched the end of its abdomen began to twitch. The bee struggled to a rocky ledge, under which a to regain consciousness, the twitching dynamite charge had been placed grew more violent, and at the end of ready for blasting operations. two minutes it flow away straight. Just as the fare was about to be back to the lime blossom.
fired." the foreman of the gang! noticed the youth dambaring up the side of the rock throwing fortre glauses about him,
MANY MURDERS.
►
Men shouted to him to clear off for
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3. WTICHELL, Manager,
"Another intoxicated bee fell down, Madho Singh (as he was not named) and no sooner did it reach the ground brought to the gadi high religious than a wasp dow up and alighted on principles, benevolence, and shrewd its back. There was a short struggle, your life," and he did so. He dropped judgment. He showed himself readily during which the drowsy ben tried to into another fissure just as the Excessible to modern ideas, cepecially ating the warp. But this did not advance party of pursuers managed in education and sanitation. Selected avail, for alter several efforts the wasp to get him in sight. A cordon was to represent the Rajputana Chiefs at atang the bee in the back of its formed round the fissure, and warders King Edward's Coronation, Bir Badho abdomen, a pareatly killing it. The trid to approach him, only to find Bingh paid his only visit to England. wasp then bit off one of the wings, him rimbly climbing up the rocky sur- In order to maintain his caste re then a leg, and then bit all round the face to drop into another quarry hole quirements and religious datira. he bee's head and dragged the latter off out of reach. chartered a special ship, brought with also.
ESCAPE OUT OFF. him a suite of 125 persons, large.
"We saw several other murders, in
Borstal boys shouted to him, “Come quantities of Ganges water, some every case the be, being too drunk to household idols, and all the estables defend itself. Only twice during the on, Tom, give in," but Tom seemed to required for the stay. At Moray afternoon did we see a wasp obtain
think he would 'scape, not knowing Lodge, Campdan Hill, which was honey direct from the flower. In that ovary possible avenue to the THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE placed at his disposal, Hindu chet me both cases the wasps fell from the mainland had been effectively closed and sumptuary restrictions were care tree intoxicated twitching like they a guard of policemen and Bartal folly followed.
boys, Last summer the Maharaja adopted to recover.
bets, and taking about two minutes
Blue coat" lads, equally adept ta Wasps in that state the art of climbing, were detailed to the ten years old second son of bis showed inclination to fight." feudatory, the Thalcor of Isaidha, as
These murders" continued for arrest their clusive colleague, but they bis heir, who now succeeds under the about three days, and Altogether met with no more abcess than the title of Maharaja Man Singh,
Mix Gibbons found about lud corpses
portly policemen and warders. al bees, rome of which she has seot to The Daily Mail. She ads that apparently the waspe suffered no
THE KING'S REGRET,
The King has sent the following telegem to the new Mabaraja of Jaipur-
cargaltics...
The Queen and I have received with deep reget your Highness'a telegram announcing the deatbot your remember. I thank you for your Father. We, sympathise with you in loyal and friendly assurances and am the lows of one whom it has been a cooldest that you will ever strive to plessure to us to aumaber among our livanp to the high ideals of your dis- oldest friends and whose hospitality | tinguished father. at Jaipur we shall always gratefully
GEORGE BL
Edwards was 'cäight at Victoria- equato, Portland, which is alore to the mainland. The capture was affected sation from which trina save for the
by lócal police. Ca
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