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LAMMERT BROS.
ÁVOTIONALES, ÄPPRAISEEN AND SURVETORA,
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4 Uatusigned have received Instrus- due to all by Pabllo Auction,
од
THURSDAY, March 15, 1933,
sommering at 2.30 p.m. at the Astor House Hotel (Room No. 17)
A Large Collection of White and Coloured Marble Statues, Buste, Lamps, Vasor, Fowder Boxes, and Podestals
by
Well Known Italian Sculptors. On view from Monday tho 12th March.
Catalogues will be issued.
kerma Cash on dofievry,
LAMMERT BROS,,
Auctioneers,
Hongkong, March 3, 1923.
on
WEDNESDAY, April 11, 1923, commencing at 3 pm.
their Sales Rooms, Duddall Street. ONE SET OF MINT MACHINERY This lot comprises a complete set of Mint Machinery capable of producing 100,000 (Ono bundred thousand) picces. 20-cent (Twenty cont) coins or 200,000 (Two hundred thousand) pieces 10-cent (Tot cent) coins per working day of 10 hours.
(Further particulara and lospection orders may be obtained from Mesers Gilman & Co., Ltd., or the Under- eigned.)
Terms: 20% of purchase money to be paid on fall of hammer.
Balance to be paid within two works of day of sale.
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LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers. Hongkeng, March 12, 1985..
WING FAT OHRUNG
SPARROW VARES (NA JONO) FOR BALL CARDS HADE OF IVORY AND VIAH DONE. No. 278, Queen's Road Central, BRANCH No. 3, Man Ham Street East.
TANE YOK, Darien
As
tho to BIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street.
TERMA VERY MODERATE. Consultation Froe."
SHADOWS BEFORE.
COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED..
ENTERTAINMENT'S.
March, 14. Coronet Threatre, John Barrymore in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Matinee: Baby Mine." "World Theatre; Bessie Barriscale in "The Breaking Point." Star Theatre; Charles Ray in "Bill Henry."
March (4.-Theatre Royal; Band- man's Eastern Circuit Ltd., present Robert Courtneidge and W. E. Holloway's London Co.. in a romantic Play of the East "The Garden of Allah."
March 15-Coronet Theatre, George Ariiss in The Ruling Passion."
Murch, 10.-Theatre Royal; Robert Courtn-idge and W. E. Holloway's London Co.. in John Drinkwater's History Play Abraham Lincoln.”
March 16-Theatre Royal; Robert Courtneidge and W. E. Holloway'a London Co.. The Comedy that is Breaking Records "Ambrose Ap- plejohn's Adventure,"
March 17-Theatre Royal; Robert Courtneidge and W. E. Holloway's Lender Co., in Sir Gerald Du Manrior's Greatest Success "Bull Dog Drum- mond."
March
19.-Theatre Royal: Robert Courtneidge and W. El Holloway's Lontlon Co., in "The Faithful Heart."
#POETING EVENTS.
March 22-23-R. A. Athletic Meeting. U.S.B.C. Ground, Kowloon, one mile race open to the Services: 'and' all British Residente în the Colony, race timed for 3.20 pm, OU the 23rd.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
March 15.-Lammert Bros; a large collection of marble statues, buste, laja, vases, powder boxes, pedro- tala at Room 17, Astor House Hotel,
2:30 pm.
April 11.-Lammert Bros, one set of mint machinery at their Sales Room, Duddell Strect, 3 p.í.
W
COMPANY MEETING,
March 26-Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. at the Company's offices, Queen's Build» ings, noon.
INTIMATIONS
FOR SALE
HARBUTT'S PLASTICINE
"The Child's Delight" PLAY WAX
.
For clean and Easy Play-Models THE NOVLART
Dry Stencil Pictures
GRAÇA & 00., Donders in Postage Stamps, Pictorial
Post Cards, Garden Seeds, & No. 10, Wyndham Street, T. O. Box €20...
Hongkong.
SHOEMAKERS.
(Japanese Hand Made)
Every kind of Footwear. HADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & CO.,
-6, D'AGUILAR STREET,
Opposita Kayamally & Co.
Hongkong, March 20, 1914,
Talophone Central No. 491
C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
BANITART KNGINKEES
MONUMENTALISTS
Oticon al downs,
Bs, Wanchali Road Hongkong
Tel. Central No, 200
Large stock of
BATIIS and BATH ROOM
FITTINGS
LAVATORY BASINS FLUMI CLOSETS,
COMMODES, BIDETS, &c, &c.
OPEN A CLOSED STOVES, COOKING RANGES, TILED GRATES.
AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALS—Also in polished
Hongkong Gmnite."
A large selection of Artificial Wreathe.
Prices Application.
MASSAGE.
Mrs. HONDA, Mrs. KISAKI KRÁ K. SHIMIDZU,
No. 34, Wyndira. Brook (opposite to the Chin MuF")
JAPANESE MASSAGE, N. AKAJI, Graduate of Tokio Massage School,
No. 28, Wyndham Street.
Tol. Central 4595.
ASAHI ENER
PILSENER BEER
„SRAND PRIZE.
ASAHI
ASA LAGER
SPECIALLY
EWERY GO
SAHI
BÓLK Kamers:
BEER
MITSUI, BUSSAN KAISHA
THE CHINA MAIL.
DON'T GROUSE
OLD MAN!
Have a
"FELUCCA”
This Advertisement is issued by British-American Tobacos Co. (#hina), Ltd.
KING DAVID'S PALACE.
HOPES OF FINDING TOMBS
OF JUDAH'S KINGS.
STUDY-IN-CONTRASTS,
CHINA'S ECONOMIC LIGHTS
AND SHADES.
-there-is-great-trepidation regarding the possibility of merchandise falling into the handa of the maranders in the interior, with the result that no Chinese merchant has the heart to make purchases. Many parts of the country are with-
The remarkable find by Lord Tew merchants in Chins will regret Carnarvon at Luxor has given the passing of 1923, writes the out stocks, but under present-con- stimulus to the interest in the forth-
Manchester Guardian's Shanghai ditions there is no inducement to re- correspondent. It has been a year of plenish
With the increased industrialisation
coming project to find not only the actual site of King David's palace at Jerusalem, but the actual tomb of the king himself.
had trade, unemployment, and heart-
breaking struggles with overwhelming of China the trade of the country is Dr. E. W. G. Masterman, hon. difficulties. Everywhere, however, certain to increase. In speaking of secretary of the Palestine Explora. there is a feeling that the time for a the indpatrialisation of the country I tion Pund, in an interview speake trade revival in China is ripe, for in am not altogether a victim to the hopefully of the outlook.
this country many firms have shown tyranny of a phrase. It must be con- Much has been done in the past, commendable enterprise in their coded that China is making a power- sudden ful attempt to emerge from the status he sail, and some valuable dia- preparations to meet, a coveries have been made, bub work increase in demand.
of an agricultural country to one haa necessarily been of a more or
determined to manufacturs for barself losa scattered character.
most of the things the needs. Even while, outwardly, everything has been hopeless confusion, there has been
WIDE CO-OPERATION.
san
As a result scores of cotton mills,
whose products are taking the place of the foreign fabrics, havo aprang up
The main difficulty confronting the A great business world of Shanghai and Chins deal of the work has fallen upon the to-day is, of course, the timidity of British pioneers, who have already buyers both in Chins and abroad, a made notable progress there, timidity which is caused by a number going on in the past few years a of ecoramic reasons. Two of these spontaneous organisation of national, The proposal now is that no one stand out above all others. One is economic, and industrial life. nation should have the exclusive rights, but that various nations the constantly changing government should unite to carry on this great in China without any stability, and work. Great Britain will bo repre- the other is the fluctuating exchanges, Bented, for instance, by the Pales of whose detailed intricacies the in the industrial centres. The spirit here of progress is now pervading the tino Exploration Fund, France by average business man the Dominican Monks, and America scarcely make head or tail. There entire industrial life of Chins, and by the American School of Arch- must also be added a third reason everywhers nsw enterprises are mology. Among the other co the poverty of many of China's being planned.
The effect of this industrialisation is operating will be the Jewish bayams, . Society, with whose activities Baron Rothschild is associate, and painted of the commercial possibilities that she is now manufacturing, Two distinct pictures have been already being felt in countries that have been supplying China with goods for which Mr. Weill had been doing of 1929. They comprise the generally Thera is no doubt that Manchester Box excavation work which was recognised favourable and unfavour is slowly losing its hold on the slopped by the war.
Our great ambition is to soud out bl factors bearing on the future Chinese market, for though a set of Professor Robert Macalister this industrial and political situation. On cirenmatanoes may have combined to summer to undertake the British the one hand there are amall stocks cause this, one of the principal once side of the work:
of many imported articles in the
in the establiment of so many cotton Before anything is allowed to be hands of Chinese dealers, an improve milia in Shanghai and other parts of done, the Palestine Government in ment in the labour situation, the the country. sists upon a guarantee of a mini- harvesting.of bumper crops in China, mum of £5,000. As the excavation and an easier credit position. On the will last for at least three years, I other hand, there are the acute world am anxious that the British should financial position, demoralised ex- find this £5,000, the two other changes, and possibility of curtailed amin bodies raising, like sums, exports, recuation in buying power, so that the work may go forward over-expansion of many industries without a hitch.
both in China and elsewhere, and the "Ten minutes, to nine,” said, the
MAD. continued periodical unrest here.. We want to locate the actual site The 1922 trade of Shanghai and, "Well," replied the boy, "at nine of ancient Jérusalem before it be- yan to extend in King David's time for that matter, of the whole of China, o'clock get your hair cab, and he dividen itself into three phases. The took to his heels and ran, the bo site in question is known as the ill of Ophel; and thero is an first was che of some activity, which aggrieved one after him. advantage in the fact that there are continued until the struggle between Turning a corner the man ran into now only a few houses on-the site; Generals Tsang Choling and Wn a policeman, nearly knocking him it being chiefly covered by gardens. Per-fa came to a head! Before the over."
ANCIENT JERUSALEM.
PLENTY OF TIME,
A long-haired man met a little boy who ssired him, the time.
Modern Jerusalem, of course, is war started the Chinese, dealers, who "What's up?" asked the police built on another site altogether ware apprised of what was coming, man. from that occupied by the ancient stopped all buying, and the nervous The man, very much out of
ners and tension which began to be breath, said:---
City
The project, apart from its Bibli- arhibited beforo (be hostilities notual- "You me that young." urobin cal interest, which 'is paramount, ¡y: commenced assumed big dimen- ranting along theref ́ Ho sekod the hae ao o. purely historical aspect ions and all markets became time. I told him, "Ten minutes to nine,
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 1923,
NOTICES.
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.
Howl Offco: 79 Wyndham Street. 2nd Floor. (Opposite Central Police Station.) Tel, Central 4166.|||
Dealers in all kinds of High-class Silk Shirts, Collars, Neckties and Pyjarsas for Gentlemon AND ALSO
Cheanines, Skirts, Wrappers, Scarfs, Veils, and Night-gʊwna for Ladiem
ALSO MADE TO ORDER
MODERATE PRICE
PROMPT DELIVERY.
Manager: EMILIO LAU.
PHOTO SUPPLIES,
LONG HING & CO., Kodad Kodala Films, 2.
-DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.
No. Ma, Queen's Boad Chitral, HonoKong.
HONGKONG: Hongkong Hotel
HOTELS & CAFES.
LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS
Peak Hotel Repulse Bay Hotel
SHANGHAI: Astor House Hotel Palace Hotel
Grand Hotel, Kalee Grand Hotel des Wagon Lite
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd. In conjunction with
The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.
and
The Grand Hotel des Wagona Lita, Itā
PEKING:
Tel. Centl. 813. CARLTON HOTEL Tel Add: "Carlton." The Only American Hotel in the Colony.
-Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banku, and Central Districte 43 Bedrooms. Excellent Cuisine. Scrupulously class, Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opener No. 2, Queen's Road (lat floor), Entrance Ice House St. Tillins a speciality.
For terma apply to Mrs. F. E. CAMERON, Proprietrees.
Two minutes from Star Ferry)
PALACE HOTEL KOWLOOM
Beorntly renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughout and antiraly under now managemant. Oufsins under the personal supervision of the propriator, Bar and Billard Booma. Terms modamata. Epecial toyzas so families on application to
Telephons Kowloon S.
Telegraphia Add. 1. "PALACH”.
J. HL OKBERRY, Proprietor
HOTEL “ASIA”
WEST BUND, CANTON.
Leading Hotel in South China
Hairdressing
First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans ard Elevators. Roof Garden.
Sal:OL
Splendid Views of City and Pearl River.
Excellent Cuisine:
Moderate Bates.
Under the Management of the SUN CO.,
LTD., CANTÓN.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
A
CENTRAL LOCATION
LL ELECTRIC TRAMSPass Extranos, Klee- krka Ličin, Yane and Lighting, KusopenA
Water Bralem, throngbrit. Best of Food sad Bom Tugiklio Addess = VICTORIA
·J. WATCHELL, MEKEKEN,
THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE THE HOUSE FOR GOOD EATS
Timas and Dinners (Menu and A La Carte)
at all hours.~*~. Hakers' and Confectioners. Cakon made for parties sto
· Tol: Central-2007.
Des Voeux Road
Central.
E36 DeVoeur Hond Wenk
of great interest. We hope 10 demoralised. The eril effects of this and he said, 'At nine o'clock get your NAMSAN & CO. paly to be able to trace the site of cars still with us, and confidence hair cel the original city, but also to locate not yet restored. Just when the Well," the tombs of David and of most of dealers were becoming little less glancing at ble sha Kinge of Judab. Needless to sarvous the Honan bandits got to running for say there are many archeological and at the close of the year minuten yoll possibilities in the affair.
and the policeman,
got
Photo Engraving and Designing
LITHOGRAPHERS
Tel: Uential":1301.
UILE,
SHUN TAICO HONG,
* Dealer-in SHANTUNG FONGEE
*Laos and Straw. Braid.- Ginseng, Door's Horns eta, No. 70, Lower Lascar Row, Tel: Central No, 889, Hongkong-
HWA LEE & CO, Shanghai and Bhantuur Hand Hade Lace, Hair Nota
Embroideries, to ||No. 70 Lower Itscar, Bow, Tel, Cen, Stie
SWAY HOUSE
HAT MAKER.
No:"16, [Wyndham Street.
YEELSING. WEIGENTLEMEN'S
ILOR
Tal 18821-12, Wellington Street,