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LAMMERT BROS.|| G. E. WARREN & CO., LTD,
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MONDAY, May-14, 1923, commenting at 2.30.m. thair Bales Rooms, Daddoll Street, Quantity of Valuable House-
held Faraiture
Comprising *-- Teak and Brass mounted iron bed- teada, Wardrobes with mirror ard dressing Tables, Marble top wash stande, Teak Dining Table, Tesk side- board, Dinner Woggons, Etc., Etc.. (Forther particular from Catalogus.]
One Grand Piano by "Collard and Collard."
One Cottage Pisuo.
Also
One Cottage Piano by "Rozenkreuz."
And
One Large American Ice Chest,
Terma-Cash on delivery.
One View from Saturday, the 12th
May 1923,
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneora
SANITARY ENDINEKRA
Mées sod: fledonia,
086, Wanchal Road Hongkong, Tel. Central NÚIL 2007
large, stock of DATES and BATH ROOM..
FITTINGS,
·LAVATORY. BASINS FLUSI CLOSETS.
COMMODES, BIDET8, do, ac.
OPEN A CLOSED, STOVES, COOKING HANGES, TILED GRATES.
AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARBLE NENORIALS-Alaq in polisised Hongkong Granite.
A large selection of Artificial Wreaths.
Prices on Application.
ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
Comets and Meteora.
Comet- Bande-will; move during January in a south-easterly direc tion
through the constellation
THE CHINA MAIL.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS,
(Reuter's Service to the China Mally CHINA'S FINANCE MINISTER
RESIGNS.
FURTHER LOAN RUMOURS.
BARLIER TELEGRAMS. (Reuter's Service to the Ching Mail.)
BRITAIN AND THE SOVIET.
IRISK REBEL'S APPEÁL.
LONDON, May 9th. Now has been, recsivod at Hall that PERING, May 9." A Russian guabost has arrested the Liu Eu Yuan (Minister of Fin-British trawler Lord datori in the Whits Pegasus (according to The Scots unoffically reported that he has loft limit
ance) resigned this mornings. It is Bos for fahing within the twelve mile man), passing north of Markab for Tientsin."
Three cls were chased, but two towards the S.E.. comer of the There were not sufficient funds in whence they cabled the news of the cap- escaped and reached Norway from Great Square. It is gradually be hand to meet the post dated cheque, ture. The Foreign Oiles has been us coming fainter, and has never been die May 10, for $600,000, which formed. visible to the naked eye. Comet was for the pay of the police nad
gendartues. This general shortage ]. Skjellerup is now invisible in Great of fund to the resignation of Britain. It was nearest to the earth. the Minister. on December 4. The periodic Coinet Perrine, observed in 1896 and 1909, has duly made its reappearance in December, but its faintness and its southerly position in the constella- tion Argo make it difficult to follow by northem observers. The chief meteor shower for the month will be the Quadrantids, radiating from the borders of the constellations Draco and Hercules. They ought to be most conspicuous between the 2nd and the 4th. On December 2 jews was circulated from the Inter national Astronomical Bureau at Copenhagen that a bright | new star of the first. magnitude had been discovered
FOR SALE
Collections o
POSTAGE STAMPS
500 Stampe, all diferent,
4.00
1.000
do.
10,00
1,500
do.
18.00
by a certain M. Zwierelin Rumania,
2.000
do.
30.00
2.000 -
do.
40.00
3,000
do.
hasbeen postponed until-a date
4.000
do.
to be notified lebr.
5.000
dr.
10,000
do.
Hongkong, May 9, 1929.
The sale of Mint Machinery
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised.
In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENT.
May 10,--Coronet Theatre; Anita Stewart in "Virtuous Wives."
May 10-World Theatre; Pearl White in "Know Your Men,"
May 9-Star Theatre;" The four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."
LAND SALE.
May 14-At P.W.D. Offices, one lot of Crown land at Lo Lung Hung Valley, Kowloon Inland Lob. No. 1583, at 3 p.m.
PUBLIC AUCTION. May 14-Lammert Bros., a quantity of voluable household furniture, also three pianos, at Sales Rooms, 3.30 p.m.
COMPANY MEETINGS.
May 25-Extraordinary general meeting of the Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ltd., at the offices of Messrs. Jardino, Matheson & Co., Ltd., at 11.30a.m. May 25.- Union Insurance Society of Canton, Itd, annual bareholders' meeting, Union Build- ng, noon.
May 25.-Extraordinary general beeting of the Hongkong Central Estate. Ltd. at the offices of Lesars. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Pedder Street, at noon..
May 25.-British Traders' Insur Once Company, L., annual share. olders' meeting, Union Building, 2.16 p.m.
May 25.-Chins Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., annual shareholders' beeting. Union Building. 12.20
FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.
The farm proscribed for public vehicles
To as follows:-
T~In the Island of Hongkong. Caine Bad and Lower Levels, and in
Kowloon, and New Kowloon,
Ive minutes..
Ten minutes,
Suarter hour,
RICK HIS.
50.00
75.00
100,00 600.00
GRACA & CO., Dealers in Postage Stamps, View Poel Cards, Religious Books, Toys, &e, No. 19, Wyndham Street,
Hongkong.
P. O. Box 630.
SHOE MAKERS.
(Japanese Hand Made)
Every kind of FootwaRY, MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & 00.,
6. D'AQUILAK STREET,
Opposite Kayamally & Co. Telephone Central No. 491
Honghong, March 20, 1911.
NAMSAN & CO.
288 Den Voeux Road West Photo Engraving and Designing LITHOGRAPHERS Tel. Central 1383.
WING FAT CHEUNG.
'BFARROW CARDS (MA JONO) FOR BALE, CAHOS KADE OF IVORY AND VISU BONE., No. 276, Queen's Road Central, BRANCH No. 99, Man Ham Street East.
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GRAND PRIZES
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Alf hour... The bour,..... Ay Babeɩquent biar, moi. 20
If the jinrichha to ergared Athin the City of Victoria, and be dis- Carged outside the Western part of the ty of Victoria aftek: 9 pm. or be dis Harped to the Kast of Fay View Polico sticp on the Fastern side of the City' Baleteria after 8 pitp., an extra buff De shall be chargeable.
# or 3 drivers the fare in double or
Bile roepectively.
In the Hi District.
minutes...
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10 cents So
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*}}},-) the Bar Terficries-
arrangement with the proprietors
to the Police
CREATES
1.- Lower Levels.
With's Biarers Wids & Bunteers.
de, min 10 cents
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MITSUI BUSSANĪ LASI
LONDON, May oth The Court of Appeal has made tha rule absolute for the Writ of Habeas Corpus applied for by Art O'Brien, ok the ground that the Home Seorotary is not empowered to order the internment of a in the Free State since the establishment of the latter,
PEKINO, May 9, It is semi-officially that $91,000,000 to all stated to
A difference of opinion apparently sortium. is nearing completion. This loan will be scoured by the salt continucu
exiated
na to whether the Home Secretary
to exerciso control surples, but foreign quarters feel O'Brien, and the question could not be that the Lincheng incident will properly disposed of unless the rule was postpone and possibly kill the loan made absolute This will enable the Home
Secretary to clarify his position. prospects.
2
PROMOTION FOR JAPANESE
- MINISTERS ABROAD."
Tokyo, May D.
of
'AMERICAN PROSPERITY.
over
New York, May 8th. “ Mr. Hoover, at the opening of the Convention of the Chambers of Com The Minister to the Netherlands, merce of the United States said he was on the borders on Lyra and Her Mr. Tatsuke, and the Minister to of the opinion that the present prosperity cules. Cloudy weather prevented Vienna, Mr. Honda, have been pro-if the businessmen of the nation exercised the bountry could be made permanent any observation for a day or twa,moted to Ambassadors, and trans confidence and caution. The
present busi. but when search was made at the ferred to Brazil and Terkey respec-ness and wealth of the country did not earliest opportunity no new star tively.
betokeh the approach of hard times. could be found: The position given
was quite a possible one, for all"). NORTHERN BANDIT OUTRAGE. new stars have appeared either in or on the borders of the Milky Way, but it is practically impossi- ble that so brilliant a new star should so soon have absolutely disappeared, and the inference that M. Zwierel," if such a person exists, has either made a bad blusider or attempted an unseason- able first April joke. Children More Practical.
Shaxonai, May 9 Mr. and Mrs. Praft were not among the captives.
Is the modern child becoming more practical in its ideas and in the sort of entertainment it likes? asks Hubert Griffith in the Daily Chronicle, Is one live pirate worth
The British representative of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, men- tioned earlier, is believed to be named MacDonald,
THESTOIN, May 9.
Mr. Julius Barnes, President of the Convention, estimated the wealth of the United States at three hundred' billion doliare.
Mr. Fujiana, President of the Japaness Chambers, of Commarco, predicted a con- tinaanço of Japan-American co-operation.
NEW DUTCH LOAN.
AuSTERDAM, May 8th.
LEVI LEITER ESTATE CASE.
ORICA, May 9th,
•
A Bill has been introduced authoria. ing the issue of a new East Indina Loza Mr. Lowe, mentioned earlier, is of 400,000,000 guilders, either in Holland a hair not merchant who was going or abroad, in such instalments as the to Shanghai for a few days, but circumstancos dictate. The purpose of
the whose Chinese creditors thought he the now loan is
of the consolidating deficit of 5,000,000 was leaving for good.
guilders on the whole Budget of 1024, and the deficit of £ 281,000,000 At au extraordinary neral guilders in 1999.
The duration of the meeting of the United Services' loan will bo a maximum of forty years, a whole ballet of sylphs? Are Association a resolition was passed The Government believes that further fairies going out of fashion? On viewing with indignation the out- borrowing on behalf of the Colonies will the whole, I think, from the chil-rage perpetrated by the bandits o
be unnecessary. dren's plays and the children's the Tsinpu line, and assuring His books of the last twenty years, that Majesty's Minister of the Associa- there are two definite facts brought tion's unqualified support in any to light. One-that the modern steps that may be taken, no matter Marquis Curzon, as guardian of his child is considerably more practic-how drastic, to obtain the im- three daughters. has alled himself with al; and two--that what is liked best nediate release of the prisoners and the suit filed by the Countess of Suffolk, by the grown-up is very often to prevent a recurrence of such hap-of, the estate of Levi Laiter and the re asking for an account of the management é found to be what is liked best by the child. There is no doubt at all penings. The resolution also sup-moval of Joseph Loiter and Williama Warr about "actuality" making its strong gested that in future trains should appeal.
[The estate is valued at $100,000,000.] In the first Christmas carry armed guards. play of the year, "Through the The Danish subject, Mr. Jacob- Crack at the Apollo, I spent sen, of the British-American Tobac as much time looking at my smallco Company; who escaped on Mon- neighbours as in looking at the day, slates that the bandits were stage. I saw what I expected. In, not so much concerned with ransom all the homely scenes-the depar-3 with the withdrawal of the ture of the mother and father, and soldiers from their neighbourhood. the helping them get their luggage They released. Mr. Jacobsen in downstairs; in the supper party at order that he should proceed to midnight in the kitchen, the arrival | Peking and present this demand to of the Tramp through the window, the Government.
as trusteds.
LOSS OF THE "OKARA.”
RANGDON, May 8th. Elephante searched for hours in an The steamers Angoro, Takada and endeavour to locate the Okara. They found no trace of boats or wreckage.
The crew of the Okam numbers 83, in- cluding eleven European
MR. BONAR LAW'S HOLIDAY.
GESEOA, May 8th. Mr. Bonar La bas arrived and pro- ceeded to Aix les Bains.
the preparation with eggs and After leaving the frain, four of butter and rolls, and the frying of the bandits dragged him across a bacon-at pll this conviviality, in field. Here the passengers were a which every child would love to collected, and the party then made have joined, there was the fosta forced inarch till daylight, cover-
TRIAL OF KRUPP'S DIRECTORS. appreciative enthusiasm. Thinking 20 to 25 miles practically at the again of all the homely things in double, the bandits frequently beat.
BERLIN, May 9th. "Peter Pan" that keep this en- ing the captives. Finally they public are indignant and horrified at the The whole of the German Press and the chanting piece of sentiment so reached the mountains. Late in fresh and so beloved. It, also, has the afternoon the captives were which oven the Communist organ Role- sentença paseod on the Krupp colleagues, its "Never-Never-Land"-but its population are not dream-children given water, but neither they nor fahne describes as monstrous, All the in ballet-skirts, but children who the bandits had any food..
newspapers agroa that innocent German Fighting began between the citizens aro build huts and kill pirates and
to oing savo the •prestige of Premier Poincaro. state that the sentences are a
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HOTEL punished merely
pillow fight before they go to bed, soldiers and the bandits, during They demonstration on the part of
The Mistletoe.
BANK OF ATHENS AFFAIRS.
pirates who use sewing machines; which Mr. Jacobsen started on his wolves, redskins, and crocodiles mission amidst a hail of bullets the French Government, and the general who swallow clocks.
"A from both sides. Rushing down opinion is that they will most probably the hill he fell, and remained result in strengthening passive resistance conscious for some time Regain in the Bubr area and the determination There are about three huntired ing consciousness he found two of Germany to hold out to the end. kinds of mistletoe in the world bandits from another gang watch. (according to the Montreal Witness.) ing him, The bandits had been And each variety grows on there for two hours, but finally one branches of trees and has either left. The other frequently prodded It is stated on good authority that the
CONETANTINOPLE, May 8th little white or, pink, berries. But him with his rifle in order to arose Government has decided to liquidate the the pink berries are,found only on him while he was pretending uncon-affairs of the Bank of Athena Alliod and cedar trees. The mistletoe, unlike sciousness. Eventually the-bandit Turkish subideta will be allowed to obtain other plants, gets no food from the turned his back, whereupon Mr. their deposits, but it 1. proposed to can ground, and that is the reason we Jacobson grabbed the rifle, threw it fiscate the property of lugitivos. never find it growing in the ground: over a precipice and then tackled
LONDON, May 8th. Advices from Lauseene atato that the Instead, it gets
food the bandit and puniruelled him till Anies have decided to officially protest from the tree on which it grows. he could not see. He then left the against the action of the Tarks in sealing Bluejays, redbirds, thrushes, bandit, reached, and crossed the the Constantinoplo branch of the Bank blackbirds, and mocking birds
its
are especially fond of mistletoe plain and was met by ante soldiers of Athens, and also to requests full ex- berries, and by them the little who escorted him to the Headplanation seeds are distributed. A curious Quarters of General Ho, the Mili thing about the mistletoe is that, tary Commissioner.
thought blossoms earlier in the
year than the trees on which it By Courtesy of the Daily Bulletin.] grows, yet the little berries do not JAPANESE EXPECT FAR-REACHING ripen before December. May be
this is because it has to steal its
food from the trees, and therefore
cannot ripen early. The very,
RESULTS.
TOKYO, May B.
name "mistletoe" gives some idea. This, morning's papers make a of its significance. It comes in feature of the accounts of the Lin- mid-winter, the gloomiest time of cheng railway outrages
the years and in Anglo-Saxon It is believed here that the out "mist" means" gloom," so "mistle" mage is calculated to have far-reach is used for the plant mistletoe. The ing manta in view of the personnel mistletoe was dedicated to Freys, of the captured foreign passengers, the Scandinavian Goddess of the interests involved, and as evi Beauty and Love, so long as it did once of the inability of the Govern not touch the earth, because if it
fell to the earth the charm was lost ment to aford protection to busi and it would fall into the power of ness and communications in China
the Evil One. It is still the custom
to hang it from the celling, because
it is supposed to lose, its charm
when it touches the ground, ghd It is supposed to ward off the poisonous elects of cortain pi and it unites lovers Perhaps is how the ceremony of kiss originated:
SWAY HOUSE
COULD NOT REST DAY OR NIGHT
Rash and Blisters On Ba- by's Body Canicura Heals.
*Wbán my baby whi len moti old a mish, and uttall blisters 'boolin' out on her body, The hching und' burning wade bae very cross, act her body was a treas of chi, Blotches: The Urbation was so grant that aba could be tolk, day or nigh
Are Boeing andduscriselaza, for Co- zlems Hosp und Ginstinting I put for "si Town Mariplast 3 purchased mors, and after waing onto box of Dintments
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