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LAMMERT BROS.|| G. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
APOTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
AND SURVEYORS,
-Public Auctions-
Undersigned havoreceron Rulzar. Mons to sell by Pablla Auction,
OG
THURSDAY, August 18, 1923, commencing at it a.m.
at the promises of the longkong & Kowloon Wharf & Gastown Co., Ltd. Godown No. 51 Koloon
(rom 4000unt of the coropaszo}, 66 Cases Foochow Toa-New Season (More or less damaged) Torme: Cash on delivery."
LAMMERT BROS.
Bactoneare
Bongking. August 14, 1923.
Messre, LAMMERT BROTHERS
have received instructions to sellthy
PUBLIC AUCTION
by order of the Mortgagee
Qu
FRIDAY
the 17th day of August 1993 it three
o'clock p
MASITARE ENDINERUS MONUMENTA LISTS
Untry and thuduws,
, Wuchat Road Hongkong.
Tulentral Sa, 200
Large stock of
BATHS and BATH ROOM
FITTINGS,
LAVATORY BASINS FLUSH CLOSETS,
COMBIONES, HIDETS, A., &c.
OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING RANGES, TILED GRATEN.
AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALS Also in polished Hongkong Granite, '
A large selection of Artiɓcial Wreaths.
Prives Application.
JUST RECEIVED
a fine assortment of
at their Auction Rooms in Dudoll St.CATHOLIC PRAYER BOOKS,
The Valanble Leasehold
Properties
Siruate at
Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong
and known as
Inland Lot S2,155 togather with No. 249, Des Voeux Road West theroun; Section F of inland Lot No. 99 together with 30, Hillier Street thereon; Section C of Inland Lot 1,421 together with No. 30, Equaro Street thereon; Sections A vad of Marine Lot 239 together with No. 24, Belchers Street thereon:
IN POUR LOTS For further particulars and Conditions of Salu apply to
Biosers. JOHNSON STOKES AND
MASTER,
Solicitors, or to
MORATS. LAMMERT BROTHERS,
the Auctioneera.
Bangkong, August &, 1923.
PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS
OF SALE
of the
STEAMSHIP "CHEKIANG"
now lying at Shum Shui Po
to be sold by
Order of the Mortgagee by
PUBLIC AUCTION
on
TUESDAY
the 21st day of August, 1923 at 3 o'clock p.m.
IN ONE LOT by
Messrs. LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers At their Auction Rooms in Duddell St.
The Ship is of 9852 tons gross and 535.4 nett tonnage. Her length is 190 feet or thereabouts, Beam 33 feet or thereabouts, draft 18 feet 0 inches or thereabouts and botsopower 252.
For orders to view, apply to lessrs. LAMMERT BROS., the AnctioneeTS,
For further particulars,
Apply to
Messrs. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
Prince's Buildings or to
Messre. LAMMERT BROS, the Auctioneers,
Duddell Street.
Hongkong, Avgust 21, 1993.
THE WATER CUPPLY.
Level and Storage of wator ip reservoirs
on the 1st August 1993--
QFTY AND BILL DINTRIOT WATEK WORKI
TramW 71z. Below
Tytas
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LEVEL
1923.
All in. Below overdow 121 it. ants. Below pretion
Prism Tabernaclade 447%.) Level with flow
11 in Balow overfow
Below Decor
wont
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65.00
321.00
3,00387
Consumption of water to the City And Bill Dietlot in millone and docmalz
of gallons during the month of July.
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as mani pegulations, Cserenption per band i
1919.
196.51 168,82 20.4040 771,6
Home
17.t 17.6 1925 Intermittent Supply in Western Rider Main Districts only from ist to
6th
1912 Intermittent Supply in all Rider Main District from 5th to 31st July.
Invermittent Supply in all Rider Main Districts during July 1943.
KOWLOOK WATER WORKR LEVEL,
Lets.
Keskon Ezzrīkst. 21th Bia
Berol.. Below overdow
1821.
Lars! orafow
"REVVITO AO STIRINGA LLES SIERPCDL if RaysDAS
1903
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Ocrumption of water to Kowloon in allops and decimals of gallons during the womb of July.
17 womanpilen yet hand j
199 ** 31.40 138,580 140,000 7.4 214
4 m.
The
Restriction in all districts from 8th to “Ferialy 1912.
Bostriction in all cricte daring July
The Government Analyar's repórteshwa - the the quality of the water is satisfac.
Koud Want to Buy 2019, 47 UER.
1024
H, T. JACKMAN.
Water Authority
Works DerDNES.
in
ENGLISH, PORTUGUESE
AND SPANISH,
from 50 cepts to $20 each.
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MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
Changing Morals.
worth, as he then was, at the dinner table of 3 nutual friend he
"There was a time a when a pass- graciously told me," records the
age through the Divorce Court was veteran journalist, "he had long desired to make my acquaintance, considered sufficient reason for the since at one period dating not, exclusion of the parties from Court many years back I had been the functions," says the Church Times. object of his ardent envy. At that "The time seems to have gone time,' he said, 'I lived down Brixton by. A peer of high rank, who has way, and made a precarious living followed his father through the by flimsying news paragraphs and same Court, does not suffer from personally delivering copies at the the same disciplinary regulations, newspaper offices. Sometimes they but is invited to Court function, were used in full; occasionally they and his new pride is presented at were ruthlessly cut down to a few Court. lines; often they went direct to the.The case is the more to be de waste-paper basket. Opening my plored since the bishop of the Daily News throughout the Parlia- diocese, or one of the dioceses, in mentary session I found morning which the aforesaid peer lives, has
column, very properly taken action of after morning a full
a-half, column and
over disciplinary kind, which he now see balanced by Court your signature and dolefully has to thought of our different positions, favour. Since the King is, in You wrote as much as you thought temporal matters, the head of the proper and no sub-editorial blue-, Church of England, it is a cause of pencil cut it short. My candidate stumbling that his Majesty should: working perhaps equally as hard, be made to appear at variance was such as I have described with the bishop."
Banking and Church-Going... Bankers think it good business good personal business, that is to go to church, and a bankers' mag azinehastens to report the evidence. According to the replies to a ques- tionnaire sent out in Bridgeport, Connecticut, by Dr. William Horace Day, pastor of the United Church, and summarized in The American Banker (New York), "74 per cent, of the financial leaders of Bridgeport are habitual church- goers:9 per cent, stay away 75 per cent, of successful men habitua ally go to church; 95 per cent. believe that people should go every Sunday."
A 3-Ton Camera.
A camera which occupies two rooms of the Department of Interior Building. Washington, is being it." However, my honourable One Church For China. used by the Geological Survey to friend has since "managed," com-
"There are one hundred and photograph maps and charts. Ac-mented the famous diarist nine:
thirty-four different missionary cording to The Nation's Business years ago, "to strike what may societies and other organisations (Washington, D. C):-"The lens, be regarded as an average between working in China, and we each bellows, and copy-holder are in us." ane room, and the plate-holder and Cats Versus Dogs. dark room are in the other room. The camera will take a picture I yard square. It weighs 7,000 pounds, and is operated either by hand or by electricity. Focussing is done by means of an electrical contrivance which flashes a signal when the proper focus is reached." His True Country.
have ourown peculiar name. The Chinese have searched the New A whimsical philosopher has Testament and found none of made the following remarks: We those names. They have found The Church of Christ, and they really like cats. They are likable pets; they are things of beauty are asking that they may have the they and birds are the only animals Church of Christ in China," says that wash themselves. Like the Myfanwy Wood, of the London dog, they are a heritage from the Missionary Society. wilderness. But here is found the "In 1842 there were, only six cause of the reason why we like Chinese who knew Christ: In dogs more than we' like cats. Fido 1907, at the Conference, that num- has made a nice adjustment bet- her had grown to 200,000 baptised. ween savagery and civilization but Last May there was held the first Pussy clings to much of her National Christian Conference of O, God, whose peculiar at ancestors' ways. She likes the China, and there was still greater tribute it is always to have mercy darkness; her paths are those of rejoicing, for there were 400,000 and to spare, we humbly beseech the night; the stars evoke the baptised Christians. There were Thee, for the soul of Thy servant, melody of her soul. She travels as many won in fifteen years as it Maurice Hewlett, which Thou alone. Who has seen a pack of had taken one hundred years to hast commanded to depart out of cats. Secrecy, confided to no one, is win before then. At that Confer this world, that 'Thou wouldst not her abiding trait. She moves with ence emphasis was laid on the fact deliver him into the hands of the all the proudness of her race. One that China wanted one Church." enemy nor forget him unto the would think that such diminutive Where Dick Turpin Kissed the end, but wouldst command him descendant of the lion and the tiger
At a simple memorial service in the Temple Church, London, for Maurice Hewlett, the novelist, this prayer was said:---
to be received by Thy holy would be marked by humility. Not Angels, and conducted
Paradise, his true country."
"I would find Thee,
to
so. Her very whiskers, pure relic
Beauty.
In 1764 a Mr. Low, the then pro-| of the jungle, exude haughtiness,prietor of the Gardens, at Maryle- reward often At the beginning of the service. She washes herself publicly that bone offered a
all may see the rite of the elite. guineas for the apprehension of these words were sung
She possesses a most uncertain any highwayman found on the disposition. Her set countenance road to his demestie, and it was in may mean friendliness or a scratch, the Marylebone Gardens that Dick She is a daughter of many moods, Turpin kissed Mrs. Fountayne, royal in her fits of temper. Where a celebrated beauty of her day," the cats is a pet, the dog is a com- before the company and all the
Where the cat is a lady, quality."
Whom here no eye can see; Only the heart can rise And reach Thy throne beyond
the skies," Lord Northcliffe as A Penny
panion.
¡A Liner.
the dog is a roustabout: Where Here Handel was, wont to take Sir Henry Lucy, in Chambers's the cat is disdainful, the dog is a an easy constitutional while the Journal tells, in his "More Un- good fellow. Where the cat is un- band discoursed his music "under published Pages from the Diary of concerned with its mistress, the dog the direction of Dr. Arme," and a Journalist," of his first meeting apes the moods of his master. here a Miss Trusier made and dis- with Lord Northcliffe. Relating In brief, we use she when pensed the fruit tarts with which how in early years Phil May-speaking of cats but we ex- she "hoped to give equal satisfac "Toby's", colleague in later days press our high regard for the dog tion as with the rich cakes and In an on Punch made a fair living by by referring to Alm in the third almond cheese cakes." penny-a-lining, he remarks, in his person singular masculine." announcement of hers, dated May 6, 1759 Miss Trusler says "The diary for April 19.1914, the "quite
fruit will always be fresh gathered. another unexpected disciple of the
having great quantities in the gar poble art, of penny-a-lining, of which I myself was at one time a Immediate rate in boccauty in den; and none but loaf sugar used poor practitioner, is to-day the attacks of diarrhoes Chamberlain's and the finest Epping butter. Tarts most widely possessed and weal Colin and airhoss Remedy should of a twelve-penny size will be thiest of newspaper proprietors, always be be hand, For sale by all made every day from one to three When I first met: Alfred Harms Chemists and Storkeepers.
Keep It Handy.
o'clock.
Tel. Centl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add: " Carlton.'
The Only American Hotel in the Colony.
Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banks, mad Central Districta. 43 Bedrooms. Excellant Cuisine. Scrupulously clea Under American Management. A now Dining Room has been opened at No. 2, Queen's Rood (1st floor). Entrance Ice House St. Tiffics a speciality.
For terms apply to Mrs. F. E. CAMERON, Proprietress.
(Two minutes from Star Ferry)
PALACE HOTEL KOWLOOR
Recently renovated and refurnished, aleôtria lighs and fans throughout and entirely under now management. Caladus under the personal supervicios of the projristor, Bar and Billard Room Terma moderate Special terme de families on application to
Telephone Kowloon 3,
Telegraphin Add : "PALLOK,"
3; H. OXRERRY, Proprietor.
THE KOWLOON HOTEL
HANKOW ROAD.
OPENING 1st SEPTEMBER.
First Class and most up-to-date Residential and Tourist Hotel Bix Stories of commodious large and airy rooms with every moder appliance. Hevator to every door and to Boof Garden. Hot and cold water, Electric lights, Fans and Bells throughout. Exceptionally well ventilated Bar and Billiard Rooms. Moderate tariff and most excalient cuisine supervised by experienced chef. Monthly and Family rates cao be arranged on most reasonable terme.
For terms apply to Mrs. J. J. BLAKE, Manageress.
HOTEL
"ASIA"
WEST BUND, CANTON,
Leading Hotel in South China.
Salcon,
First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans and Elevators. Roof Garden. Hairdressing
Splendid Views Excellent Cuisine:
of City and Pearl River.
3
Moderate
Rates.
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ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL. Queen's Road Central
NEW DINING ROOM opened for SHAN AJA ŠUrte
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