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LAMMERT BROS. C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
AUCTIONEERS, Appraisers
AND SURVEYORS,
-Public Auctions-
FRAM Undwenignød have raamved inmuno- Cona be asli. by-Publia Auction,
ON
THURSDAY, July 12, 1923, bommencing at a p.m.
at the old premises of the Hongkong Electric Co.. Wing Fang Street, Wanchis
Two (2) 550 B. H. P. Diesel Genera- sor Complete with alternators & excitors Three (3) 800 B. H. P. Diesel Goners- sons Complete with alternators & exciters Two (2) 280 K. W. Steam alternators complete with exciters and switchboards One (1) Babcock & Wiloor water tube boller complete with fittings and cbsin grate stoker
One (1) 'aring type boiler complete with fittings
Two (2) GO K, W. Alternators (without engines)
One (1) Main Switchboard consisting
of machine panels and feeder panela
One (1) Duplex Feed Pump
Three (3) Heeran & Froude type water coleta
One (1) Lot of steel steam pipes and Valves
Tera (2) Salzer pumpa
Three (3) Albany Notary pumpe
Threo (3) Faus for scoling towers and
Free (3) motor for same
- One (1) Water tank
One (1) 120 Gallon oil tank
One (1) Bet of apare gear for Diesel
Bagino consisting of 251 items
One (1) 10 ton Travelling canne and
A Large Quantity of Structural Stool
work on the premises
Now on View.
For Farther Particulars and terms of ]; Sale apply to the Undersigned.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, May 23, 1923.
OF
FRIDAY, July 13, 1998, commencing at 5.15 p.m.
their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street,
A Valuable Collection of Postage Stamps
Call Particulars from Catalogue). On View from Wednesday, the 11th Jaly, 1923
Terma-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auptioneers.
Ox
MONDAY, July 18, 1923, commencing at 3 p.m.
a thake Balon Rooms, Daddell Strooi,
One Set of Mint Machinery This lot comprises a complete set of Mint Machinery, capable of producing 100,000 (one hundred thousand) pieces B0-cent (twenty cent) coins or 200,000 (two hundred thousand) pieces 10-cent ian cent) coins per working day of 10
qour..
(Farther particulars and inspection) orders may be obtained from Messra. Gilman & Co., Ltd., or the Undersigned). Terma-20 per cent of purchase money to be paid en fall of hammer. Balance to be raid, within two weeks of day of sale.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctionsers.
Hongkong, June 13, 1923.
THE Undersigned have received to- struction from Mr. A. Blys Netto
so sell by Public Auction
TUESDAY, July 17, 1823,
commenting at il am.
at "Belm-nt" No. 03 Robinson Road
The Whole of His Valuable Household Furniture, Comprising:---
Grandfather Clock, Batatands, hal Lampe, marble top unble, hall chaire, ball carpets, drawing room enite, bevelled glass overmantle, marble dp table, carpete and rugs, brass vases and exnamenta, brenze statuettes, electroliers, and brackets, curtains, and a collection of old Chinace Carice, ceiling and Lable fans, etc., cle.
Solid teak oitension dining table and chairs, side-board with borelled mirror, dinner waggon and glass cabinet (im. parted from America), tea tables, diznar crockery and fine hard painted dessert set, marble clock, brass mounted fender and fire brasses, crystal cut gloss table services, tabla ornamenta vases and bowls, cutlery, silver table nare and E. P. ware, etc., sta
Iron bedsteads, (doublo and single double and single wardrobes with bevelled mirror doors, dressing table with marble top and bevelled mirrors f chests of drawers, washatanda, toilet Crockery, tapestry and lace curtains, linen and one he ashwood bedroom mito, porcalia baaina and enamel bath, American fee chat, cooking stove," geysers, boilers, and cooking utensils, A collection of oil paintings and water colours by well known artists.
Also
One Auto pieno by Rubinson & Co., with a large quantity of records.
One Columbia Graphons and moords.
And
Ogo fall size billiard table by John. Roberts & Co. Ltd, with completo moçessories. comprising -- Chom marker, batis, cue stands and electric “light-fittings, shades eta, ato."
And Pa
A quantity of maiden fairs, palmon
and plants in pots.
On View from Bunday the 18th-Jo
salogues will be issued?
Tormas-Casti om delivery,
LAMMERT BROS. Amptiononen.
Hongkong, Jaly 1022
SANITARY, EKOINKERS
MONUMENTALISTO
Q" Godowa, sen,'|Wanchal, Road – Hungusap
Tel, Central No.
Large stock of BATHS and BATH BOOM FITTINGE, LAVATORY BASING FLUSH OLOSETS.
COMMONES, BIDETS, 20.," &,
OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING BANGES, TILED OBLATES,
AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALS-Also in polished
Hongkong Granite.
A large selection of Artificial Wreathe.
Prices on Application,
FOR SALE
CHINA
AIR POST STAMPS, Complete set of 5 Stamps,
at $7.00 per set, USED OR UNUSED,
GRACA & CO.,
Dealers in Postage Stamps, Philatelic Goods, Garden Seeds, Fost Cards, Тога во No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 020.
Hongkong.
SHOEMAKERS.
(Japanese Hand Made)
Every kind of FootwoRT, MADE TO ORDER. ·
CHERRY & DO..
6, D'AQUILAR STREET,
Opposita Kayamaliy & Co.
Telophons Central No. 491
Hongkong, March 20, 1914.
YEE
SING.
GENTLEMEN'S TAILOR
Tel. £882
19, Wellington Street,
WING FAT CHEUNG SPARROW CARDS (MA JONG) FOR BALE CARDS MADT DY IVORY AND FISH BONE. No. 276, Queen's Road Contral HEANEY No. 80, Man Bem Street East.
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may play, the game. The corres of high-powot transmissions and to
TUESDAY TOLY 1928
ODDS AND ENDS..
.MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
probably it was not only the game ning at close range. In a steel-lined of royalty for many years, because darkened room the spectators await of the amount of time it took from ed the turning of the switch that: Alexandra Day: Potnis.
the work at the person charmed transmitted an electric camont of Wedndeday, June 19, as Alox moves, but also because of its ox-than the total electric power used. with its pystical combinations of 2.000.000 volts- force greater andra Day. It has always been the pense. A set of mah jongg with by the entire country. It was an most popular day of the year chopy and ivory filos enclosed in awe-inspiring spectacle on the first The roses are mado almost entirely casket of cak or tenkwood costa a bolt bartled down, struck and do- by hand-a great feat, for sonic number of pounds. The sets are molished a church steenks while thing like 20,000,000 are produced: made in Chino. In New York, s thunder roared, and rain poured Last year the "Day brought in young woman has started to touch down from artificial oloude. Ae £46,000 in Loudon sud £60,000 in the game, and in a very short time bolt after bolt descended sud build. the country. In all more he has found many pupila. There ings crashed, the spectators retrout £1,000,000 has been collected sees a scientific reason for every ed, terrified before spitting tongues Alexandra Day was started eleven)
pondent goes on to point out that study the netion and efforts of light G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.
WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS
Hotel Käänma©
Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS, --
RÖSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S | NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, “BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jowellery,
years ago. The rose sellers work, the teacher is stated to have of purple flame and bands of in- very hard, and in London, inany of said, and most people consider it tensely white light leaping from contact to contact. The engineers the mystery of lightning, and thus THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO. hope that the experimenta will solvo help to protect human life and pro- party...
them are up before three in the more scientific than chess, morning collecting at Covent Gay. Three Royal Character Sketches Sir Almerie Fitzroy, who has just retired from the post of Clerk to the Privy Connell, sums up in the Weekly Dispatch the characteristics
Brain or Body?
den and other centres where work) starts oarly Three years ago a girl collector took £70 in a day and in 1921 a bunch of rosea sent by Queen Alexaura was auctioned at Chris of the three monarchs he served ation which engaged the attention. What is a workbrt was a ques-. tie's for the sin of £1,003. Alex follow- Andra Day owes its origin to a Queen Victor-Had very strong the foundation stone of a new of Archbishop Duhig while laying Danish parson who aroused the views, which she did not fail to Roman Catholic church. He said charitable instincts of his flock by express. Always judicious and took that in some circles where men 'collecting daffodils from them and a keen interest in all Orders in thought they were born leaders and Belling the flowers hack at so much Council: a blossom. When the idea reached England the enterprise was dedicat. jed to Queen Alexandm.
Clearing Fogs To Order.
One day not long ago a couple of veroplanes loft their their aerodrome:
King Edward-Geniality per sonified. Understood the import ance of everything he signed, and showed great political tact and acumen.
King George-Very business
a
teachers, anybody who did not wield # tool or a pick and shovel was not regarded as working man. He would like newspapers and professors to give a definition of a working, man." His bellef was that a working man
in a thick Jog. After they had die-like and quick to gmap every point was a man who worked. It did not appeared for a short time the aern-in the proceedings of the Council.matter whether the workwas done drome began to clear, and soon During the war, when vital orders with the brain or the body, He there was no fog at all for a distruce, were being passed, it was wonderful himself had to work with both, and of a mile round the 'drome. The to note how quickly his Majesty he was often at his task at night, two planes anal carried a quantity "got the bang of things."
of fine sand, which was automati- Fewer Millionaires.
cally fed into a tank on the fusilage.
IIere it was electrified and shot out
discover.
when the working man was in bed, and in the morning before the working man had risen. If it were
Millionaires in America are on the not for the brains of the community
through a fanel into the air. As decline, according to the latest off-which planned great enterprises it left the funnel, it was caught by cial evenne income returns. The there would not be much room for a revolving fan and whirled into the official figures just issued at Wash-the working man, clouds through which the planesington show that only twenty-one Wireless to Heaven. were passing. The electrified sand Americans are reported to possess
"The Rev. J. R. Kader, geeking, brings the little droplets of moisture net incomes of $1,000,000 or more in a prayer at the opening of the for the year 1921, as against 208 session of the Colorado Legislature, in the cloud together into. kirge drops, through the agency of the in 1816, and sixty in 1014. to speak the truth as he saw it, drop in the millionaire class is attri-brought down upon his bead a ro electricity in it. Those large drops buted to their large investment in solution of consure from that State's of rain are affected by the force of gravity and fall to the earth, and tax-free securities, and there is House of Representatives, says the so the cloud or for disappears. The movement efoot to discontinue the Times. His invocation began was electrified to 11,000 volts. It any case, strictly to limit them. dision to endure, and be continued! -"Oh, Lord; how long is this con- sand carried by the aeroplanes further issue of such securities, or, is now hoped that it will be possible It is complained by working men Our courts are corrupt; God has to send up aeroplanes fitted with and the middle classes that they been expelled from our churches;
must pay income-tax to the limit, our pulpits are this sand-discharging machine too
filled with very great height, and so to dry whereas the rich are able to buy essayists; our boys and girls are rain from any clouds that they may greater part of the burden. The men are going to work with emply tax-free securities and escape the going to the dogs; our labouring total income logs on this account in dinner pails while our farmers 1921 as compared with 1020 is starve and middlemen was fat on Will the game of "mah jongg placed at over £800,000,000: The xorbitant prices, our banks are take the place of bridge? That is average net income per reporting bursting with money... the question which Anerions are individual is, roughly, £600. Four Immediately after he had con- asking one another just now. This pensons in the United States had cluded the prayer, it was the subject new game, which is said to have comes exceeding £1,000,000 of a debate, which continued for originated in China thousands of yearly, two being Mr. Henry Ford several hours, It was led by a years ago, has recently reached Now and his son Edsel,
The largest farmer. Minister among the repre York, and is already well establish- number of returns are in New York sentatives, who prefaced his specch cit at all the California resorts, at State, which filed 16 per cent. of with the statement: I do not be Palm Beach and Washington. And the total. according to a correspondant in one, of the New York papers, the game has a fascination which is equalled Man-made flashes of lightning by no other game on earth. One spluttered and crackled through the must believe this when told also testing laboratory of the General that, according to history, it was Electric Company at Pittsfield, against the law of Chim for the Massachusetts, and destroyedîn common people to play it. When a artificial miniature village, while Chinaman defied this law, he had artificially-created thunderclaps
A Foe To Bridge.
Artificial Thunderstorm.
lieve that the Almighty is especially concerned by these little verbal wireless bulletins wherewith our chaplain had been annoying Him."
When You'Lát Too Much.
Distress in the stomach after eating in relieved by aking one of Chamberlain's Tablets Try it the next time you cat more than you should. For sale by all
his head out of. Not until 500 A.D. shook the building, The spectacle was the ban lifted. Now anyone was ananged to test the possibilities Cham scs and Storekeepers.
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Head Office 79 Wyndham Street. Had Floor. (Opposite Central Police Station) Tel, Central 4168.-
Dealers in all kinds of High-class Silk Shirts, Collars, Necktion and Pyjamas for Gentlemes AND ALSO
Chemises, Skirts, Wrappore, Scarfs, Veils, and Night-gowns for Ladies ALSO MADE TO ORDER MODERATE PRICE · PROMPT DELIVERY Manager: EMILIO" "LAQ.
AP PHOTO SUPPLIES,
LONG HING & CO., Rotaks and Kodar Films, No.
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SHANGHAIS
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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 Shanghal Hotels, Ltd.
and
The Grand Hotel den Wagons Lits, Zza.
Tel. Centl. 812, CABETON HOTEL Tel Add" Carlton.”
The Only American Hotel in the Colony. **Nice and quiel yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banks, and Central Districts. 43 Bedrooms. Excellent Catalina Scrupulously load. Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened me No. 2, Queen's Food (fat flour). Entrance Toe House St. Tifins a speciality.
For termos apply to Mr. F. E. CAMERON, Propristress,
(we minutes from
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PALACE HOTEL OOO
KOWLOON
Recently renovated and rafarmlahed, electric light and fans throughost and aniraly under now management. Únisins under the paramal supervision of the progzister, Bar and Billard Room Terme-moderate. Fpecial terme to families in application to
Telephone Kowloon 3.
Talographie Add.: “ PALADS.
H. OXBERRY, Propafator.
HOTEL "ASIA
WEST BUND, CANTON.
Loading Hotel in Bouth China. First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans Elevators Roof Garden. Hairdressing Salcon,
Splendid Views
Excellent Cuisine:
City and Pearl
Moderate
Under the Management of the BUN CO., LTD, OANTON.
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THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE THE HOUSE FOR GOOD EATS Plains and Dinners- (Mèna “and” Â ̈Ea" Carto) at mil hours, Bakers and Confectioners. lakas, made for Parties'.
· Central 2007;
24, Des Voeux Rond Central
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.
Bond Contral
NEW DINING BODM opened for.
Bioktank Calsine.
Theaet the Tiffen & Dinner urther partit nga spoly to-
CMANAGER. Hongkong, May 1, 1928.
"JAPANESE MASSAGE.
KAASAN, AKAJL Graduate of Tokio Manage School, Nos. 10, Prays Esate Wanchai
A Untral 2680.
MASSAGE
KISAKAL
T. KANAMORIZ |18, Prays East, End Floris
MASSAGE