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LAMMERT BROS. C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
'Avorionezka, APPRAISSES
AND - SUNYETOma, -Public Auctions-
#912EUndersigned havy received instruc- idoos bo sell by Pablo Auction.
ON
MONDAY, April 30, 1923,
at 12 d'olonk (noon), · shoir Salos Rooms, Duddoll Street, The Wreck of the
..Niohiron Maru” se she now lice stronted in Lon 110° 450" E Lat 20°-10' 30" N together with whatever cargo of real as may be A the vessel at the time.
Terms: Cash on fall of hammer, vben vessel, &c. will be at the 'pur- chaser's risk.
LAMMERT BROS.,.
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, April 2; 1923.
THE Undersigned have received_12- structions from D. Howard, Esq.
to all by Public Auction
MONDAY, April 30, 1923,
commencing at 2.45 p.m.
at his residence No. 20 Chamberlain Bood, Peak
A Large Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture,
Comprising:-
Tenk hatstand, Drawing Room Suite Chesterfield couch and chairs) tenk ispestry chairs, music enbinet, tank Found table, teak screen, glass silver abinet, brass fender and fire sets, large overmnatal, carpets, rogs, brass crpa- menin, water colours, pictures, engrav- inge, mathle clock, etc. to bed stonde,
Teak and iron and single
teak single and double wardrobes with glass doors, dressing tablo, wash stand with marble top, chest of drawers, glass ware, dinner sets. E. P. cutlery, lace urtains, ceiling lights, electroliers, electric fittings, cooking stove, cooking utensils, etc., etc.
Several pieces of carved blackwood ware, American Le chest and patent filters."
Alao
One Cabinet Victrola
One lot of recorda
One piano by F. Dorner & Bos
-Stuttgart
And
Several enamel batha and porcelain bagine
And
A Quantity of Plants and ferns in
pote.
Un Viow from Sunday the 20th April, 1023
Catalogues will be issued.
Xers-Cash on delivery,
LAMMERT BROS., AUCTIONSSTE...
Hongkong. April 20, 1923.
The sale of Mint Machinery has been postponed until a dato
se bo notiföd later.
PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS
OF SALE
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY registered as
INLAND Lot No. 1759 Together with
the mesenge thorech known as No. 13A Macdonnell Roar! to be sold by order of the Yendor by
PUBLIC AUCTION
OB
THURSDAY
the 3rd day of May, 1923, at 3 p.n.'
by
Mesura, LAMMERT BROTHERS at their Offer, Duddell Street.
The property contists of:-
All that piece or parcel of ground situats at Victoris in the Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot No. 1769 together: with the mucesunge erectione and build-
nga thereon known as No. 134) Macdonnell Road beld for the residue of the term of 75 years from the 35th March 1901 rooswable for a further term of 75 yeare created by the Crown Losse thereof,
Area: 6850 g. it. or thereabouts. Crown Rent: $40.00.
Particulars and conditions may he
had from
Mesars. LO and·LO,
Alexandra Building..
Messrs. LAMMERT BROTHERS,
and
Auctioneers,
Grogkong, Aptil 14, 1929,
HONGKONG HEIGHTS.
For the information of visitors ti following link of some of the highest oints on the Island and Mainland ja
blished
ISLAND
Feed
Signal Station
1774
Mo Parker
1734
Mountain Lodge
1725
The Byrje
1725
Peak Hotel
1305
Inkoo Banatorium
-1000
Mt. Davis
8TT
Bowen Rd. (filterbede) 383
MAINLAND.
Trimochan
"Kowloon Peak
Lion Book
BANITAHY XXGINEERS
MONUMENTALI978
Olen and Godawas, Wa Wanabel Head Nongkong. sta Tol. Central No. 56
Large stock of BATRS and BATH ROOM FITTINGS. LAVATORY DASING FLUSH CLOSETS.
• COMMODES, BIDETE, de, &c.
OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING RANGES, TILED GRATES,
AMERICAN A ITALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALS—Also in pollabed
Hongkong Granite.
A large selection of Artificial
Wreathe..
*
Prince on Application.
FOR SALE
Collections of
POSTAGE STAMPS
600 Stamps, all different,
1.000
do
4.00 10,00
1.000
do.
18.00
2,000
do.
30.00
2,400
do.
40.00
3.000
do.
60.00
4,000 5.000 10.000
do.
dn.
.do.
76.00 100.00 500.00
GRACA & 00., Dealers in Postage Stampe, View Post Cards, Religious Books, Toys, &c. No. 10. Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 680.
Hongkong.
SHOEMAKERS.
(Japanese Hand Mado)
· Every kind' of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & CO..
6. D'AGUILAR STREET.
Opposite Kayamally & Co. Telephone Central No. 491
Hongkong, March 20, 1914,
NAMSAN & CO.
286 Des Voeux Road West Photo Engraving and Designing LITHOGRAPHERS Tel Central 1833,
WING FAT CHEUNG SPARROW CARDS (MA JONG) FOR BALL CARDS MADE OF IVORY AND FIRE DONE.
No. 278, Queen's Hood Central,
BELYOK No. 89, Man Ham Street Fast-
ASARI BER
PILSENER BEER
GRAND PRIZES
ASAHI
LAGER
$124
Ekatin Pam
1971 1645
·1000.
SPECIALLY
Onatoms Pass
Devil's Peak
780 734
SWAY HOUSE
20. 16, Wyndham Stress.
ITSUL: BUS
SAR
BEE
ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
More Wonderful Still!
THE CHINA MAIL.
This success in Egypt lends additional interest to the expedit- on which is about to set out to explore Ur of the Chaldees, one of the greatest,of ancient cities, and best known, perhars, as the birth place of Abraham. Older than Nineveh, older perhaps than the oldesi city of Egypt, it has been for centuries only gaunt and de- solate mounds in the desert.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS,
(Router's Service to the China Matl.)
MESARS. REISS BROSA IN LIQUIDATION.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS,
(Reuter's Service to the China Mali) INDUSTRIAL UPHEAVALS.
LONDON, April foth. The conference of the minora exocy itive and the mine owners, hold in London LONDON, April 27, has failed to produce an agreement, "Messrs. Heiss Bros., Limited, of for a revision of the national agreement The mine owners rejented the damnad Moneheater, trading with China in order to provide a principally in cotton goods, have wage, and the miners declined to agroo
a higher minimu announced that the Official Receiver to a roversion to an eight-hour day.
PARIS, April 2011. has been appointed liquidator pend-}
the hearing of a petition for All but the extremists among the mid- compulsory winding-up.
The position is attributed entirely to the fall in the value of good lying in Chinese markets at the line of the 1990 shrugs,
пи
nettes have resumed work.
:
'BRITAIN AND RUSSIA.
LONDON, April goth. The Daily Na Tobby correspondenti says that the Government is considering In proposal to cancel the Anglo-Russian trade agreement, as a result of protesta by miniatorinlists against the religious persecutions in Russia,
THE COCAINE HABIT..
Out of these ruins the expedition expects to 'get the earliest written story of the Deluge; the first re-
SIBERIAN MAIL ROUTE, corded "description of Eden and: the Fall of Man; the real identity,
LONDON, April 27. The Postinusetr-General race, and personal history of Noah; the origin of that marvellouslynounces that the Russian Fost Office brilliant race of thinkers, dreamers, destined for the Far East, except How accapts loiters and post cards
poets, builders, and scientists, the Japan, for themission by the! The Government has appointed a Sumerians; and oberiaformation. Siberian railway. Mail will be, medical committee to investigata passibin A Japanese Toilette.
despatched froni London on Satur. substitutes for cocaine for Therapeutio days and should reach, Peking in purposes, which will avoid the risk of et twenty-two days, and Shang-patients becoming addicted to drags. hai in about 23 or 4 days with a prospect of further Acceleration if the service is satisfactory,
Aineske plucked out one pin, and the whole wonderful coiffure tumbled down in waves of beauti ful blue-black hair. Barrenger was startled then to set a solitary art- ficial tress, gathered at one endir to a thick jewelled pin, fall with) the rest; and it was not till long, afterwards that he discovered that
KOLTCHAK'S ARMY.
Lesbos, April 27. in the land of the Rising Sun, to
Questioned in the House of Com wear this one faise lock is not mons relative to the relief if remn deed of necessity, but a custom ofants of Koltehakis army scattered venerable antiquity. Ainoské then
bent-hor-head-almost to her knees, North Manchuria, Mr. McNeill combed out the abundant red hair, said that while the Government wound it round a big comb of yel-pathise with the plight of the low tortoise-shell, finally poising political refugees they cannot under the whole in an arched crest on the lake any fresh financial burden. crown of her head. He then sawis Majesty's Consul at Harbin, the practical use of the one tradi- however, would be authorised to tional lock. Ainoské worked this end his good offres for the purpose into a still higher crest and fasten- of securing the return home of a ed securely home by means of the portion of the refugees. ruby-studded pin. Two further tortoise-shell pins, jewelled and gold mounted, and fully a quarter CHINESE MINISTERIAL RESIGNA. of an inch thick at the butt were, then thrust in for added splendour and Ainoské's head-dress was set fair for the day.-From "Flower of Asia," by Gilbert Collins. Wireless Position Finding.
TIONS,
.PEKING, April 26.
At the last meeting of the Cabinet, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs informed the Premier that he de- Some interesting experiments on ernment's inability to pay the sired to resign, owing to the Goy. wireless position-finding and its application to navigation made by salaries of members of the Lega- the United States Bureau of tions and Consulates abroad. The Standards, in conjunction with the Premier urged him to remain, and to raiso Bureau of Lighthouses, are dealt the Cabinet decided with in a publication of the former $200,000 to forward to Europe. body, numbered 428.The. ap-This, however, will pay one month's paratus, installed on the lighthouse salaries nut of gleven months tender "Tulip," on which many arrears. successful experiments have been carried out, comprises a square frame aerial with 4 ft. sides, and having 11 turns of wire, mounted on ball bearings so that it can be turned through a complete circle It is understood that the Presi about a vertical-axis. The frame dent has declined to secept the re-. has been installed on the roof of signations, and the Cabinet has the pilot-house of the ship and con- decided to borrow $100,000 with nected by means of a vertical shaft which they intend to pay salaries.
a stirup carrying a pair of
The Cabinet hopes to borrow horizontal wires, which serve to in-funds from the Russo-Asiatic Bank. dicate the angular position of the frame on a specially calibrated scale fixed on the edge of the
to
The Minister of Education re signed an account of lack of pay for the teachers and professors in the Government's schools and colleges,
binnacle. Connected to the frame By Courtesy of "Daily Bulletin.""} |
ærial by means of a pair of insulate
ed slip rings on the shaft, accord-MAYOR OF TOKYO'S RESIGNATION.
ing to Engineering, is a six-valve
receiving,set, and to obtain a bear-
ing on any transmitting station, it
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Tokyo, April 26,
Viscount Goto's resignation,
is only necessary to turn the frame which in the topic of the hour, forme by means of a hand wheel into such the groundwork for bread specula- a position that the signals heard in tion front Viscount Goto as a special a pair of telephones die away. The Envoy to negotiate with Soviet bearing can then be read on the Russ to binnacle scale, and, by taking bear Premier. ings on other stations, the position of the ship can be fixed with reasonable accuracy.
Wooden Shoes.
Viscount. Goto
38
the reason for his resignation in that Viscount Goto bimself asserts that
be had simply reached the psycho- logical point where resignation was the wirest course, and that he de eives a period of rest. '
The Dutch make so many uses of wooden shoes that one is persuaded to believe the
Meanwhile, the newspapers are Old woman who lived, in a shoe and insistent that the Government ja had so many children she didn't now inclined to yield to Viscount know what to do was a Dutch Goto's insistent request that Japan vrouw, observes a writer in the Pall should open_negotiations with. M. Mall Gazette. The children turn Joffe, the Soyist Envoy, who is shoes into boats, and paint them a reported to be willing to negotiate rich deep brown, in imitation of for the retention of Northern the large boats which sail on the Saghalion by Japan in retorn for rivers. As they trim the tiny sails, the recognition of diplomatic status, of their snips, and launch them and also as compensation for the upon the waters of a sloot, to some massacre of Japanese nationala at imaginary Van Dieman's Land not Nikolaieval
to be found in a geography, they |
TATER.
seem to be possessed with the The organisation of 1.new pohti same spirit which inspired the cal party composed of the most pro- Dutch navigators of canier days, minent industrialists, headed by Wooden shoes are ornamented for Mr. Sanji Muto, the president of an Rower pots, and many a bright immenso, industry and the lending flower, whose roots are-ficuly, carbedded in a shoe, has graced cotton operator in the Far East, is the window of some peasant's regarded by well-informed onlookers cottage. They are used as as very significant; und ie possibly hammers, and it is not uncommon closely connected with Viscount
LONDON, April 20th.
INTERNATIONAL COURT.
WASHINGTON, April 26th. Mr. Elihu Root endorsed President Harding's ples for participation by the United States in the permanent Court of International Justice.
U.S. CONSULATE AT VLADIVOSTOCK
WASHINGTON, "April 26. ---The American Consulate at Vladi- vostock, through which the United States has maintained representa-
tion with Russia has been closed in consequence of the anticipated can- cellation of the Consul's exequatur by the Soviet, but the Consul may be permitted to stay if the Soviet reconsidér, their action.
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WIFE BY CONSENT."
SCOTS MARRIAGE DISPUTE.
INTERESTING EDINBURGH ACTION,
A remarkable action to declare the validity under Scots law of a marriage alleged to have been con- tracted at Edinburgh nearly. 35 years ago has been raised in the Court of Session, Edinburgh.
The action is by Florence Braith or Murison, 24 Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh, and she geeks a declara- tor that she was married to Dr. Patrick Murison at Edinburgh on August 17, 1888,.
On record the pursuer states that the first met the defender in Edin- burgh when he was a medical stu- dent at the University. In the following year, an 'or about August 17, 1888, they interchanged con- sent, and accepted each other "un husband, and wife: The defender had by this time qualified to prae- tise in medicine: In the end of 1888 the defender bought a medical · practice in Dundee, and they set up house. During this period, which lasted for 11 years, "the defender carried in practice and the pursuer. lived with him as his wife.
CONSIDERATION FOR CHILD..
She was publicly avowed by him as such, she presided at his table, and received his friends as his wife, and she was so received by them on visiting them, and was by "habit and repute" the wife of the defen- dor, In June, 1800; a daughter was born to the prior and de- fender, who registered the birth as that of his lawful child-In-1902- the defender obtained his present position as Medical Officer of Dur ban? The pursuer lived with the defender in Durban as bis wife until 1910, when in consequence of the bobaviour of the defender, disagres- mant rose between them. Since March 10, 1921, pursuer has not lived with the defender. He bas sold the house and furniture, and has refused to support the pursuer, although making provision for the daughter,..
Defender denies that pursuer is his wife. From the first she fre quently suggested that they should get married, but le has always:: refused to marry her They separated on several occasions. Since the birth of the child defender hasonly resumed cohabitation with the pursuer out of consideration for the child. Lord Morison has upe held the jurisdiction of the Scottish Courts to try the case, which was challenged by the defender on the ground that he is no longer a domi point of view thera was, in his Lord. ship's opinion, expediency and pro prípty in holding that the forum for all actions in which the existence or Gavälidity of a marriage was 10 issue should be in the country of the place of the matringer jam k
The case was continued for far ther procedure.
to see a koopman (merchant), by Goto a resignation and the resurrecciled Scotsman. From the public the wayside, with a few taps of his tion of the Russian recognition shoe sending his cart, pied high question, and especially because of with yellow carrots, brittie round new developments that may occur Dutch cheeses, white his dogs rest within twelve months of the gen- in the traces. During the week, oral election.
affer school, hours, the little ginsAt present it is difficult to palyse welk along the dykes in rows, the situation owing to the absence knitting; and the clatter of their of the Premier, who is recuperating shoes, to an ear unfamiliar with it, at the hot springs and a number is like the sould of an advancing of member of the Cabinet being regiment. Saturday is the great absent during the Formosan: visit cleaning day in Holland, when' of the Princo Régent. everything is made ready for Sun day, the day of rest. The houses are scrubbed aside and out, and among the pots and ketties are seen the wooden shoes & then- scored. Boy, white, hang upon forked sticks, near the doorway, to with tie
bin on the dry in the wind and sun.
DR. O. TAWANGMURES
confere
April
TAKI
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HOTELS & CAFES.
LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS
HONGKONG
SHANGHAI:
PEKING
Hongkong Hotel
Peak Hotel
Repulse Bay Hotel
Astor House Hotel
Palace Hotel
Grand Hotel Kalee
Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.
In conjunction with
The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.
and
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Tel. Cenfl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL Tel Add: "Carlton." The Only American Hotel in the Colony, Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes walk from the Hanks, and Central Districts, 43 Bedrooms. Excellent Culaine. Scrupulously clean. Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened st No. 2, Queen's Road (lat floor). Entrance Ice House 8. Tiffins a speciality.
For terms apply to Mrs. F. E. CAMERON, Proprietres.
(Two minutes from Star Ferry).
PALACE HOTEL
KOWLOON
Esemily renovated and refurnished, electric light and 'fans throughout and surely under new management. Culalas under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Booma Tarma moderate, Epecial terma to families on application to
Telephone Kowloon 3.
Telegraphic Add.: "PALACE,"
7. H. OXBERRY, Propuistor.
HOTEL “6 ASIA"
·
WEST BUND, CANTON.
Leading Hotel in South China.
First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans
Roof Garden. Hairdressing Elevators.
Balcon
Splendid Views of City and Pearl River,
Excellent Cuisine:
Moderate Rates
Under the Management of the SUN 00 LTD CANTON.
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at all hoTTSSA Bakers and Confestiendruű Cakes Made for
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TEUMA
JAPANESE MASSAGE.
AN, AKAIL Graduate of Tokio Manage School,
No. 25, Wyndham Street. Tel: Central 4395.
MASSAGE
K.SAKAYE ST KANAMORI
18, Paaya Eust,
Zad Flour.
MASSAGE.
YDE SING.
Tel: 1882