LAMMERT BROS.
Public Auctions.
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TUESDAY, April 3, 1923, commencing at 11 ́á.m.
INTIMATIONS
FOR BALE COLLECTIONS:
FOREIGN STAMPS
500
1000 to
1500
2000
2500
8000
at No. 1 Stewart Tearson (No, 87, The Peak)
4000
5000
A Qüsutity of · Tainable Household Turnišnem,
Comprising —
1939399
30.
40,
1100.
GRACA & Co., Dealers in Postage Stamps, View Post Cards, Religions Books, Toys, do
Teak batstand, Chesterfield Coud and armchairs, Teak overmantel with barelled mirror, Brass ornamente, Pic-|||| dures, Carpets, curtains &o, &c.
Teak extension dining table, Dining chairs, Teak sideboard, Dinner waggon, Tank screen, Glassware, Crockery, Cutlery, &c, do,
Iron Bostoads, Teak Wardrobes, Teak dressing table with bovolled mktor," tank wabatsed with marblə -tóp, Chest of drawers &c, &c.
And
A Quantity of Plants and palme OnView from Monday, the 2nd
April 1923, S
Catalogues will be issued.
Terran :----Cash on delivery.
L'AMMERT BROS.
De Axationlara,
Hongkong, March 27, 1923.
THE Undersigned have received In
"atruotions from Mrs."Rosser to sell by Public Anation.
Con
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, the 4th and 5th April 1993, commencing each day at 2.45 p.m.
At "Harting" and "Rogste
Austin Boad, Kowloor, The Whole of her Válasble Household Furniture, Comprising:-.
Teak hatstand with "berelled mirror, Chesterfield Couch and armchairs (cre- tonne sorared), Teak bookcaso, Muzio Cabinet, Teak fendere, Firo brasses, Leather covered almehairs, Roll top desks, card tables, Teak overtantola with bovalled mirror, Brass ornaments, Curtains, Carpets, Rugs &c, đe,
Teak dining table and chairs, Fine toak sideboard with bevelled mirror, Dioner weggoo, Silver cabinet, Croo kory, Glassware, Cutlery, E. P. Ware
Double and single teak and iron bedsteads, Teak double and single wardrobes with glass doors, Dressing tablas, Marble top washstands, Chests of drawers, Toileta sets &ò,
Also
Cooking stoves and cooking utensils Ous Piano by Montries
One Victrols EX
1. Lot of records.
One View from Tuesday, the 3rd
April 1923
"Catalogues" will be issued.
Terme>Caso on delivery,
LAMBERT BROS,
Auctioneers,
rch 28, 1923.
Boogkong, A
Particulas and Conditions of Sale
of the
Very Valuable Leasehold Property
Being The Rems ning Portion of Inland Lot No. 588 and
The Messunge Known as No. 10 Seymour Terrace.
to be sold by
· PUBLIC‘AUCTION
The 8th day of April 1923,
at 12 o'clock nooi
by
Meers LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers At their Aoction Rooms in Daddell Street,
The property consists of ¿---
All the piece or parcel of ground situsteat Victoring in the Colony of Hong- Long, and registered in the Land Office SO THE READING PORTICE OF Incand Lor No. 588 beld for the residue of a term of 999 years from the 25th day of Joue 1869 created by the Crown Lesse of Jaland Lot No. 585 dated the 25th day of August 1859 and made between Hex Late ajesty Queen Victoria of, the cam part, and Frederick Henry alexander Forth of the other part
"Area 6031 square feet or thereabouts. Proportion of Crown Beat $4.08' per
Particulars and Conditions of Bale
be had from :--
Mrs. LO & LO,
Alexandra Building,
Bongkong, Vondor's Solicitora,
or from
Mesars. LAMMERT BROS,
the Auctioneers.
1923.
mgkong, Match 13, 1
2018 Undandgoed havorsoeten komenNO emona no melt by Pablis Anction,"
WEDNESDAY,. #pril 11, 1993, commencing at 3 p.m.
their Bales Rooms, Daddell Street. HR SET OF MINT MACHINERY This lot comprises a complete set of at Eschinery capable of producing 100,000 (One hundred thousand) piècem 20-cent (Twenty cent) coipe or 200,000, *Two hundred thousand) pieces 10-cent (Ten cent) coins per working day of 19. "bowan,
(Further përticolare und
nder
two weeks
RT BROGA
No. 10, Wyndham Biroek, P. O. Box 630.
Hongkong
SHOEMAKERS.
(Japanese Hand Made)
Every Kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.
OHERRY & σ0,
8, D'AGUILAR STREET,
Opposite Kayapally à Ca. Telephone Central Mo, 191
Hongkong, March 30, 1911.
MASSAGE
K. SAKAL, T.KANAMOR
18, Prays East, 2nd Floor,
MASSAGE.
| Mrs. HONDA, Mrs. ZIHAKI and
R. SHIHIDZU.
No. 2% Wyndra. Bante (opposite to the · Cling MaIP?)
JAPANESE MASSAGE. N. AKAJI, Graduate of Tokio Massage School,
No. Wyndham Street. Tel Central 4395.
NAMSAN & CO.
288 Des Voeux Road West Photo Engraving and Designing LITHOGRAPHERS Tel Cental 1385.
WING FAT CHEUNG SPARROW CARDS (MA JOND) FOR SALE CARDS MADE OF ITORY AND ISH BOXX.
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ODDS. AND. ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
Flatter Footgear.
papers of Morrison Foste the death monwealth the other members had of his brother is marked by a brief) wandered some distance, and she document. It is a receipt given to did not know where they were. him in 1864 by the warden of She waited till she had gone. some Bellevue Hospital in New York distance from the cgg in order not City. It runs-Ward II-Stephen to endanger it, and then cackled, One of the most
Foster. striking
Died January 13th Coat, after also having taken a good look windows in Bond Street is that of pants, vest, hat, shoes, overcoat, round to assure herself that no a fashionable shoemaker's. It is January, 10, 1864. Received of Mr. enemies were near. The rooster, devoted to smart and up-to-date Foster ten shillings charge for hearing the cackle, answered it by footgear built with the low, broad Stephen C. Foster, while in hospit- a crow, and thus informed the hen heel with which we have been al, January 16, 1864. William E. of the whereabouts of the tribe. threatened for some time (observes White, Warden, Bellevue Hospit- This sort of thing may be seen now a Daily Nees writer.) I am told al." Following a plan suggested among the ancestors of our dome that the cult of the flatter shoe is by Community Service, musical estic fowl in the Malay countries accounted for by the number of groups in Pittsburg, Harrisburg, and India.. women who of late have been and Philadelphia, as well as in Those "Duty" Calla. obliged to "put down" their motor. smaller Pennsylvania com- and take to walking instead. The munities, have this year given im excessively high heel may be petus to a memorial for the six charming for wearing in a carriage, tieth anniversary of Foster's death. but proves exceedingly uncomfort- Flower Superstitions.
set out in their broughams or able when one has to go afoot. It is particularly in Scotland that victorias and pay "duty" calls for Making Rain.
the mountain ash is believed to be the best part of three hours, and But the tree is of equal repute as a cross, but very pleased with them endowed with mystical properties, return home, tired out and probably lucky one in the Isle of Man, selves for having satisfied the where you will still find people demands of social convention.
But to-day does anybody pay
The announcement has recently been made in America that ex- periments in genuine rain-making have successfully been carried out.
:
to keep calling" lists, writes A In the old days, ladies were wont Male Cynic" in the Daily Chronicle. On certain afternoons they would
The idea sounds fantastic, but, if carrying bits of it in their pockets duty" calls? Yes, there are
Baby's "Trousseau.”
the American claims are justified, as a charm against evil influences, might prove to be of considerable relates John London's Weekly courtly old boys who put on their value in improving climatic con-Along the side of many a country best clothes, and armed with ditions in certain dry zones
road you may find, if you look for a sinal pack of visiting cards, throughout the world. The one it, an insignificant plant with a distribute them carefully about. essential is the presence of clouds. spike of very small, pale lilac And there are still lonely old Given these, it is claimed, as a re-coloured flowers. This is vervain, ladies who set fout after luncheon sult to these experiments, that rain now of little repute, but once the to" pay calls" on their friends. But can be produced more or less to holy herb of many great nations.the youngsters know nothing of order. The method employed is Thousands of years ago the these older customs. They prefer the scattering of electrically Persian Magi carried bunches of a less rigid, though not a really loss charged sand from aeroplanes, vervain in their hands when they courteous, coût. According to one of the directors approached the altar. Later, the The telephone has banished those. of the scheme, the electric charge Greek and Roman priests made old pasteboardy customs. diminishes the surface tension of equal use of vervain, while in the
The little beli-rings... - the drops of invisture, thus Middle Ages vervain had great re- "That you? Come to dinner to- facilitating coalescence and computation. No doubt the herbalists night, will you? Eight o'clock. I've densation.
of old are responsible for some of got the Robinsons coming. And the queer beliefs about plants that that pretty Harrison girl. You'll "Of course, our first concern eyebright,
still survive among us The pretty come? Good, Auʼvoir."
for instance, is must be to give baby all the com- occasionally used to make a wash Dead Leaf Butterfier."
And how much more human l fort possible. This means warmth for sore. without weight. If baby could blooms are steeped to form a fluid eyes, while cowslip sprout feathers or fur, that would for improving the complexion: be ideal; that would represent the The pink mallow, again, is of good abound, but probably none of greatest warmth with the least repute, but as a lncky plant and a them is more intriguing than the weight, But since he cannot do preservative against various ills. this, the nearest we can come to it Why the Hen Cackles.. is with garments made of soft, The accepted explanation of the (observes the Montreal Witness.) 4 that has been named Kallina open, celluar Wool. What keeps cackling in which a hen indulges With its colourful wings spread in baby warm is not so much the wool after laying an egg is that she is the sunlight a Kallima butterfly la. itself as it is the air imprisoned in so pleased that she wants everyone more gorgeous than a precious the meshes of the wool and be to know it. The rooster answers jewel, but its beauty would be a tween the successive layers of the cackle with a crow, and this is fatal possession often enough if it wool. This Imprisonment of air taken as further indication, that were not for the secret in the tiny spaces of the wool hoth are Immensely proud of the There are birds in India that prey Stricture is more characteristic of achievement. This explanation is upon the Kallima butterfly, and wool, than of any other textile hot, fenable, argues the Montreal the little creature's very beauty material. It is this, for example, Witness. If the question is con seems to attract them from afar. which makes two or three layers of aidered fairly, it is easy to see that They see the flash of brilliant à light fleecy shawl much warmer instinct would teach the hen that colours and then begin a relenticas than a closely woven tug weigh-to cackle is to call the attention of chase. But the ing two or three times as much the enemy to both herself and her capacity of fold Hazel Hunkins, in February Good embryobffspring, which the wool! | Housekeeping o
naturally avoid doings
Pennsylvania has been leading fowls were not domesticated
iny a movement to pay tribute to ran about wild. When the
Ufty-nine years wished to lay she're
ica's rest of the fowl comm
charity ward performed the taski
tal In the she was ready to rejoin the com
wonderful things in India, where There are, of course, many mystery and ancient secrets
secret of the beautiful butterfly
has the
its wings and, vals Concer
Hongkong Hotel
Peak Hotel
Repulse Bay Hotel
Astor House Hotel
Palace Hotel
Grand Hotel Kalee
Grand Hotel des Wagon Lats
The Hongkong Hotel
Co.,
In conjunction with
hai Hotels, Ltd.
ad
The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lite, Lád
Ltd
Tel. Cent! 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add: "Cariton The Only American Hotel in the Colony. Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banks, and Central Districts 43 Bedrooms, Excellant Cuisine. Scrupulously clo Under American Management. A now Dining Room has been opened at No. 2, Queen's Rond(1st floor). Entrance Ice House St. Tiffins a speciality,
For terms apply Mrs. F. E. CAMERON, Proprietress.
(Xw minutes from
Bar For PALACE HOTEL
KOWLOON
Recently renovated and refurnished, electria Highs and fana throughout and entirely under new management Cafeine under the personal supervision. of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Rocuna Terms nodurată. Special termi‚dej familles on application to
Telephone Kowloon 3. Telegraphia Ark. ↑ "ParacË."
HOTEL
J. H. OXBEREY, Fraptistor,
ASIA'
WEST BUND, CANTON,
Leading Hotel in Bouth China.
First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans ne→ Elevators Roof Garden. Hairdressing Salcos Splendid Views of City and Pearl River Excellent Cuisine:
Moderate Rate.
Under the Management of the SUN 00., LTD. CANTON.
"KING-EDWARD HOTEL
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