Page
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONENES, Appraisers AND BURVNTORS,
-Public Auctions-
́ç›XX Undare!gued have recefred Insiemo-
Palle auron
ox
FRIDAY, December 8, 1024,
commencing aɛ 11 x.m. -
at their Sales Nooms, Daddell Street. WITHOUT RESERVE
A Large Quantity, of Valuable Household Furniture, (Removed to Bn'os Rooms for. convenience of Sale).
Comprising:-
8 rolls Lion Paw Belting, different width and ply
6 Electrio chandeliers and shades 12 Bandles Copper, wire, Rubber ered, single strand, Weather proct Braid "Rosblings"
40 cases ench gallons "No Tarnish" Lacquat
1,800 packages vach 5 lbs. Alabastin Various Coloura
12 kegs cach 100 lbs. Galvanized
Boat Nails
6 Chemical clowets,
Terms -Cash on delivers.
LAMMERT BROS.
Austioneers.
Hongkong. Sermber 30, 1922. st
ONE
FOR SALE,
NE AINGER Hemstech Bering Machine; nongly' new. Apply to CAMMERT BROJ. **
SHADOWS BEFORE.
COMING AVENTS · ADVERTISED IN THE "MAIL.”
December 5.-Coronet Theatre; Chatha Rey in "The Swimmin', Hole "Fould... Theatro; Williams Kamell in*** The Challenge of the Law," Kowloon Theatre; Osbata Pance. Booking opens, si - Moutrina to the AD.0. Xu Produts of Shakespősző's "Tempest.” Theatre "Royal" Coppelis" and "Browflakes, "
December 6. Theatre Royal; The Magio Flate" and "ànitazon
·Leaven,"
December 7-Theatre Royal; "Polith Wedding" and "Flora's Awakening.**
December 26, --- January Theatre Royal; "The Tempert,”
SOCIAL STEKTU.
2,
December 9.-Dancs at the V.R.C. t:9. p.m.
STORTING KYKITĄ,
Decmber 10-Golf. Match, Eng- fand v. Scotland at Fanling.
December 23.-Theatre "Royal;. Bext Boxing Tournament.
January 27-Theatre Royal; Box-
Tournament.
PUBLIO AUUTTON RALES.
December 8. — Lammert Bros. Belting, copper wire, electrio chande liers etc, Sales Rodmė, 11 a.m.
DOTTANT MEETINGS.
December 23.—Hongkong. Canton Macso steamboat Coy., extraordinary gpheral meeting, wasa.
December 14-Chica Light and Power Co. (1918) Ltd., rxtra- ardinary general meating, li a.m.
The Best Cough Medicine. Chamberlain's Cough Pemale is the fargest n-ling comel med gino is the World day because it do a fasetly aghat a congli medicine is soprado. Cetop, congha and cuida aprelily and elgatiul. For sale by all Chémista and Steepers.
G. E. WARREN Co.. LTD.
BANITANY RYO'NIKAS
MONUMENTALISTS
Tess and
odowni.
$8, Wang'al Real, Ingkonz."
Tol. Celui Ne, Lou
targaterk of
DATHS & 4:RATH; ROKSI
FITTINGS,
LAVÁTORY BASINM" - FLATSIT
JOIASISTS,
COMMODES, BID) [$,. &c. d«,
OPEN #CIÐSB) STOVER COOKING
RANDRE TILED GRMERLY
AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARTLE ***
MEMORIATE SA i joli-zet
Hongkong. Orinite.
A large acloction Di-ArilGeld
Weathe
TIMATIONS
FOR SALE.
Postage Stamps of French Post
Office in China.
Canton, Holbow, Mongtseu, Pak- hoi, Tchongking, Yunnanfoù, Kouang-cheou-wan. Completa sets from 2/5 cent to 4 piastres at 88 per set net.
GRACA & 00.,
Dealers in Postage Stampa, Post › Cards, Seeds, Toys, de, &c. No: 10, Wyndham Birset,
Hongkong.
P. O. Box 420.
SHOEMAKERS.
(Japanes Hand Made)
Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY FU
6, D'AQUILAR STREET,
Opposite Kayamally & Co. Telephone Central No. 491.........; - Hongkong, March 20, 1914.
MASSAGE.
Mrs. SEKAI
The Canton Bank, 2nd Floor No. 7, Duddell Street, Hongkong.
MASSAGE.
Mr HONDA, MTB, KUHÁKI TEA,
E. AHIMIDZE------
"(opposite to the". Ohlas Mažy
MASSAGE EXPERT HARRY FURUKAWA, K. SAKI,
19, Wyndham Street.
JAPANESE MASSAGE. N. AKAJI, Graduate of Tokio Massage School,
No. 23, Wyndham Street,
Tel. Central 4395.
TANG YUK, Darter.
the late BUEN TINO, 14· D'Agullar Birent.
TERMA VERY MODEBAYE Consultation Free.
ABAHI BWER
PASENER BEER
ASAHI
SA LAGER
COMP
LASTERER BLEER
SAH
BEER
BEER
ITSUI, 81
· KAISHA
THE
WEDDING SCENE.
BELOND WOMAN IN BRIDAL DRESS.
CHINA MAIL.
The wedding was celebrated at the Church of the. Annunciation, Bryan aton-square, W., of Canon Hamilton the Hon. Douglas-Hamilton to Rosamund Bateman Hanbury. The wedding service was interrupted in
a moet unusual fashion.
MAIL WEEK NEWS,
A vote of confidence in M. Polri care's Government was passed by the Chamber of Denoties by 389 votes tq 148.**
M..
Mr. J. Piorpant-Morgan, the Am- oican fizazier, bas arrived with his wife in Romo,purely for pleasure," he says.g
.
4
CHINESE ESEAMEN
EFERRED.
AMERICANS DISPLACED DESPITE PROTESTS.
A few months ago vigorous protes'■ were made in America against the oc- tion of a shipping company in dismis eing-American-seamer at Seattle 'in order to take on Chinese.. The resent. Mrs. Lakeman, aged 84, of indepen- ment was the more koen because the dent menne, was knocked down and steamer concerned had been chartered Jact as the bride was walking "Totland, Isle of Wight.
killed by a mator car in Avenue-road, from the United States Shipping the aisle a taxicab arrived at the
Board, A request was made that the employment of Asiatics on the church door and another woman Workmen excavating, the North State-owned ships should be pro dressed as a bride, who was unknown Dane at Lowestoft found human bibited. However, the process of to any of the people gathered in the bonds, together with three skulls, replacement has continued. Officinin church, hurried towards the altar. embedded in the sand 4ft, from the of the Pacific Steamship Company,
surface. Two minutes later this second
which is employing Chinese, justify their action on the ground that bride," was conducted from the
Chinese give better service in the church and put înto s taxicab, whore
Tropics, mys the Japan Chronicle. driver was told to drive her as far away as possible,
This second "bride" was dressed in silver brocade and a tulle voil, She was asked by the attendants at the church if she had not made a mistake, and all she said was, "No; this is the place. I am sorry to be so inte."
The woman had not paid the
taxicab driver, who had picked her up as a fare. iu Blcane-street, B. W., and had driven her to Wetherby mansions, Earl's Court, Where she asked him to wait while che changed her dress.
Half an hour later she came out of the house dressed as a bride and told the taxicab driver to go to the Church of the Annunciation. When the vargar at the church refused to allow her to take part in the ceremony, she drove back to Wetherby-gardens changed her dres again, and left some money to pay the taxicab driver,
A
According to the African World the Union Steel Corporation of Veree piging and the South African Iron and Steel Corporation of Pretoria are to be amalgamated,
British subjects travelling to Italy on their way to Egypt do not require Italian passport visas but they have to produce their passports at the frontier as proof of identity.
14:
MoKinley of the Pacific Steambip The big passenger liner "President
Company's trans-Pacific fleet carries twenty seven Chinese in her fire and ists of twelve Bremen, wipers and engine rooms. The complement con
in pilers. The positions re formerly hold by: Filipinos who were replaced in the Orient by the Chinesa For driving & motor car after it had during the last voyage of the President McKinley." The passenger been racing at Brooklands through in Frondent Jefferson" of the Weybridge, Surrey, without having a icer or identification mark, Paulaited from Beattle recently for Pacific Steamship Company, which Dudeld a French chauffeur, was the Orient, has Filipino oilers, fire- fined £5.
men and wipers and white water ten- Viscountess Cowdray was presented Chiness in the, Orient, according to ders. They will all be replaced by with the freedom of the Borough of s Colchester in recognition of her kus Present plans of the Shipping Board band's services as representative of and the Pacifio Steamship Company. the borough in Parliament from On the freighter Wheatland Mon- 1895-1910.
Gallio acid, used in medicine as an aatringent and in photography as ***" | reducing agent, is included in the lista of articles chargeable with duty onder Fart I. of the Safeguarding of, Industries Act. 2014
Lord Birkenhead, the ex-Lord Chancellery was elected Lord Rector
"A GREAT TRAGEDY,” The woman has been identified as Mies Corbett Winder, who is living with Lady Mary Leslie, at 26, Wetherby mansions, Earl's Court, W. Hise Corbett-Winder has been living here as my guest for the past month, Ledy Mary Leslie told a Daily Mail reporter. ......." I - knew her mother Lord Birkenhead, 1,165; Sir Jahu. very well, and that is why I bave let her stay with me.
tana,” of the rams odmpany, thirtően Chinese were orgaged at Seattie laat trip for the engine department, not- part of the American members of the withstanding a protest strike on the row. The Chinese took the place of nine Americans.
KING AND CRIPPLE.
of Glasgow University in succession to CHAT WHILE WALKING TO Mr. Bonar Lan. The figures were:
Simon, 590; Mr. H. G. Wells, 353.
#It occasioned no surprise to mar Sir John Higgins, chairman of the when she dressed herself-in bridal clothes, as she did the same thing last work, and went as a bride to St. Mary Abbot's, Kensington, where she found when she arrived that she was not the bride and busther wedding was in progress, thede en fantastiq
"It is a great tragedy that she should have these hallucications about matriage. She is quite sensible in ordinary every-day chairs,””, istan
SCISTAKE."
Miss Corbett Winder, a woman of medium height with a rosy com plexion, caid to a reporter, "I am dreadfully worried at what I did to day.
I
When I arrived at the church they asked me if I was a guest, and when I told them that I was not, but that was the bride, they told me that I-had made s mistake and suggested that I- had come to the wrong ohurch,
"CHURCH.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1922.
G. FALCONER & CO., LTD. WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.
Hotel Mansion
Agents for:—ADMIRALTY CHARTS,
BOSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS. BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,
- ENGLISH-SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery,
THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO. Head Office: 79 Wyndham Street 2nd Floor (Opposite Central Police Station.) Tel Central 4166.
Dealers in all kinds of High-class Silk Shirts, Collars, Necktionand Pyjamas for Gentleman
AND ALSO PA Chemises, Skirts, Wrappers, Scarfs, Veils, and Night-gowns for Lad
ALSO MADE TO ORDER MODERATE PRICE PROMPT DELIVERY Hanager: EMILIO LAC.
LONG HING & CO., Kodakond Katharine de
PHOTO SUPPLIES) DETELOFING SA PRINTING. A SPECIALLEYSSLAPKRI
No. 174, Qor'S ROAD CENTRAL, Hamakosa.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS
HONGKONG:
SHANGHAI:
-PEKING:
Hongkong Hotel:
Peak Hotel
Repulse Bay Hotel
Astor House Hotel Palace Hotel
Grand Hotel Kales
Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits
The Hongkong Hotel Co., “In conjunction with th
The Shanghai Hetals, Ltd.
and
The Grand Hotel das Wagons Lits, Ltd:
Tel, Centl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel-Add: "Carltim
try to The Only Ameriwa Hotel Is the Colney? Nice and quiet yet only a feminates' walk, ffm the Banks, and Central, District. 43 Bedrooms. Broallant Cuisine. Barupulously closes Bader American Management, Aw Dising Boom Ba ba opened No. 2, Cowen's Bond (fat floor). Entrance for House By Life Spec
For termos apply to Mr. F. E. CAMERON, Fr
The King, with the Prince of Wales, ||| walked over from Buckingham Palace British Australian Wool Realisation to attend eroj" (Builo" Gaurds” Association, has given £8,000 ball his Chapel at Wollingtoire Bartsicks, annual salary, to charitable and other -Birdcage-walkinnot for und dreina institutions, including £2,500 to While they were on their way the Melbourne University for veterinary King noticed among the crowd which tentokuin orientat
always gathers by the barracks rail- ings at the hour of church parade a After a second trial, the judges one-legged ex-rifleman. The old disagreeing on the first: occasion, soldjes bad seen and recognised him Alfred Long, one of the ringleaders in and made a valiant attempt to stand the disturbances at Johannesburg in to attention, with the aid of his March, has been found guilty of mini-"cratché??
death. dering a storekeeper, and sentenced to l-Immediately the King stopped and had a chat with him. The man said afterwards that he was so taken aback Adjustments of wages in the trans that be could hardly was Ver bur qu
ques spoit worker's section of the London tions, but he was very prandel the County Council Tramways Depart honour, minded adrenas ange ads mert will save £62,000 in the present Since the King's presence in financial year (ending March 31, 1923) London, owing to the political orivis, and about £124,000 in subsequent was unexpected, no service had been
Telephons Kowloon 3. 1959 arranged for the chapel in Bucking-
ytam.
*
#ant Palice. The King Would Hot Instructions were given for the bear of putting anybody to Bossible Central Reserve of Minesweepers, inconvenience by having service numbering 35 vessels, with the cruiser arranged at the last moment, when Blenheim as depot ehip, now based on there was a regular service being held
Chapel, and he insisted dri? walking across to the barzzoki,
Of course, I know now that I did make a mistake. I do hope that no ode was npect, but I know that some dar am going to be married, and I Harwich, to be transferred to Sheer to close at hand as the Guards' suddenly thought of it this morning mess, which will become the Bae of while out shopping, and I hurried | the central minesweeping force. home to chatge, and I really thought when I arrived at the aburch and When Daniel Benjamin Litten, 49, every thing in readinges that it was cabdriver, appeared don remand at for me that the preparations ad Epsom Surrey, charged with, the man bean made, and I was to walk to the slaughter of Allied Hayward, 50, altar and be married."
led sporting correspondent, the police.
offered no evidence, and he was dis charged. Litten's bolleitor said 'that UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. his client was attacked toore than once,
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE GRAPH COMPANY, LTD
wwwwww
we lying at the office of
The
The following auclaimed telegram Great Northern Telegraph Company (Limited):-
Peak, from Shanghai.
Brands Thorpe Manor, from Shanghai. Gilberto Elizalde Poet Bestante, from
Kobe
Firefly, from Kobenhaven. Thichung 81 High Street, from Peking.
1717, from Bhanghai. Foon Sam Tai 64 Wyndham Street, from Peking.
Kwong Wah Choung Los Venz Road, fron Yokohama.
7689, from Bhangbai.
Kwong Wing Choung, from Yoko
hema:
N. LUND,
Superintendent. Hongkong, November 30, 1922.
EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL ASIA MOHINA TELEGRAPH CO.
l of unisimed telegrama lying in legra (os, Hongkong. Giber care. Ameriona Consul fr meme Yorks
En prema
Rumny New York.
forma, brzegi Lunefvck; -1,5 Veccs, from San Francisco.
ME FAIREY
Huperintendent Bergkonie November 30, 1925,
...
The annual report of the Hans Crescent Hotel shows a profit of £12,784, and ouncinces that in ad dition to the 6 per cent. preference dividend for the past year, a payment of 6 per cent, on these shater will be made in respect of interest arrosta,"
•
The Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. Henry Russell Wakefield, preaching at a special footballers service at Birmingham Parish Church said he could raise a fifteen from the clergy of his diocess capable of giving the best. local Rugby teams, something to thick about
·
Charged with the manslaughter of Wilfred Thomas Pickford, 20, private in the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, by a blow on the forehead at Kempston Bar racks, near Bedford, on October 6, Arthur William Baldwin. 23, a lance corporal in the same regiment, was sentenced to 13 months' hard labour at Bedford Asaizen, Bet
noosssary Words.
.'
FARES FOR PUBLIC
A HORORHICLES.
The fame prescribed for public vehicles are as follows and in
Road and Lower Levels, and in Boudoun, und Now Kowloos."
RICKSMAS.
the Island of Hongkong, Caine.
five minute Ten minutes........
all buyer Quarter book
6 can'ts
案
engaged
One boar,prius.De De Every Subsequent huar, within the City of Victoria, and be dis
the incicksha charged outside the Western part of the Oty of Victoria fiver, pm, or be dils
arged to the Bast of Fey View Pailie Station on the Eastern side of the Cit of Victoria siter § pm, an arten, büf Are shall bechargeable, dale linų
For 3 or 3 drivers the fare is double.or treble respectively.
~~In the Hill District,. Ten minutes, museoviðkompresorasa 15 cență.
Quarter hour,moviemaeron 30, 31
all hour,
30"
121-In the New Territorita» (u By arrangement with the proprietors through the Police,
SULEIRS.
Lower Levele
Veith, & Berura With 4 Bearers. Ton minutes, mužů cents 20 cente Quarter hour vouLE TO PER
One hour
why with words and advertising ot apce in describing the many points of
meris in Chamberlain's Cough Remedy 1
With Bearers With 4 Beareri.
HEH! District..
"The most faslidious are salaffed when. Tan minules won 15 cents.
westate that it pores colds and congba, Quar „frymmany cable candithah ISAMMAT
substancoss For sale by/all Chanista
and Bfor
(Two minutes from Star Ferry).
PALACE HOTEL
· KOWLOON
Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughout and entirely under new management. Coldfos under the personal supervibow of the proprietor, Bar and Billard Bodní Terma moderate. Special torise të familias on application to
Talagemphis Add.: "PALACE”
J. H. OXHERRY, Prop.istor.
HOTEL "ASIA"
WEST BUND, ̃CANTON.
Leading Hotel in South China
First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans 2:1 Elevators Roof Garden. Hairdressing Salco,
Splendid Views of City and Pearl Hiver. Excellent Ouisine:
Moderate Bates.
Under the Management of the „BUN -00,
A
KING EDWARD HOTEL
A
NYUKIKRAL LOGATION BE
LL ELECTRIC TRANSPas Kairanai, Kao- the Lina Park Had fàing, kutopata Baile and Banitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water Breton throughrit, Bast et Food sod Tel, Conti, 27%. Telegraphio Addrem >---* Tigrokra J. WERCHEIN, Manero.
Bortles
THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE
THE HOUSE FOR GOOD EATSTMTM
Tifinn und Dhunues (Menu' and 'A La. Carto) at all hours, Bakers and Confectioners, Fakes made for parties, ete.
Tel. Central 2697.
Gi. Des Voeux Read
Central.
NEW MACÃO
HOTELA
"All LES Confette of a komá maíbřand with :stodevila peleas.
· Hakutifully sitnoted frabig tha:non'up-to-dala
vietų vader Kiperforced)kuputridon,
& Ukonskoste, Pabllo and Privatu
Para and Võlliard Hoom. First, CiêM SOLÓRIAS D
CANTON.
Dealer Ins
BITI,
SHUN-TAI HONG, SHANTUNGPONGEE
Ence and Straw Brald. Y
Ginsong, Dear's Horns etc. - No. 70, Lower Lascar Bow Tel. Central No. 889, Hongkong.
HWA LEE & CO. Shanghai and Shantuur Hand Maḍa Laos, Hair Nota: Embroideries, Ito, No.70 Lower Lasour Row. Tal. Cen; 802
SWAY
HOUSE
HAT MAKER.
- No. 18, Wyndham Street,
YEE SING.
GENTLEMEN'S TAILOR
15, Wellington Brock