ERT BROS.
AUCTIONNERE, APPRAISDIE
AND SERVNTOIN
Fublic Auction-
THE Undersigned havo received in-
Mi 6. Enthis to sell by Public Auction
on
TUESD V. Feptember 18, 1999, commencing at 11 am
At
Englere." Kennedy Road,
A large Quantity of Valunblo
Hoosehold Forniture.
Comprising:-
Passing Teem
snite (Chesterfield!
and ebira, teak tapestry chairs tak round and card tables, tenk Breons bautiful Japanere carved and fac quel curiacal net, Japanese lacquered Art, large Chinese porcelain vases bra electroliera, brass ornaments, cut gla punch burri, a gloss decantora mad al- uses, blurand white Chingodio- net, white desert set, oil paintings. lage carpets, ile rugs curtains, cush- 10 Chinese Carina, wall plaves etc., etc.
Bedstrands, teak wardrobes with be velled mirrors; tank dressing tables with bove mirror, ambletop webrtarde, toilets, tabla, ehuis, etc., etc.
Vew routerpane, linen sheela, pill-
of cases, hand and 1 ca towels..
A large quantity of blackwood wire. Ose aty Grand piso by John Broadwood & SOLS
Also
O full se filluar table by Hunnig
Eureka with Broe Lon lon improved cushion by Rurroughs & Waits Lundton felt recently changed
Lane Crosfont, Lau)
And
Largo Quantities of palms, foras, plantu as di penceliu flower stands.
Catalogues will be issued.
On View from Moulay, 17th Septem- ber 1933
Tom-Oub on delivery.
LAMMENT BROS.
Apetionera.
ficogirne, 11th September, 1928,
Underoloned havo zeæRYJÄ KOSKIBA+ Moun bo mali by Publis Anglon,
on
WEDNESDAY, 9ept. 10, 1928, at Focu.
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street.
(for account of the concerned}
The Wooden Motor Ship "Wah Kia.'
sa she now lies in the harbour of
Hougkong Sham Shui Po.
Three propelere.
Groen Tonnage 838 SI..
Registered Toaneg : 627.52.
Length 183. ft.
Breadth 30.7 ft.
Depth 10.14 ft.
Torma-20% Purchaer Price on
fall of Hammer.
For Further particulars apply to the Undersigned.
LAMMERT BROS, Auctionee18, Hongkong, 19th &ptember, 1993.
01
THURSDAY, Fopt. 20, 1923, at 9.46 p.m. at "Craig Byric" No. 13 The Peak,
·A Turgo Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture. Comprising - Batetande, ball chaire. Cheaterfield pouch debaira (by. Lane Crawford, 1.td., teak & tapestry arm chai with eveis, curio cabinet, large round din- ing table, leak side board, dining chaire, dinner wegge, picturer, cruamente, carrele, curtains etc., etc.
Teak and iron double & single bed- aroad, teak single and double wardrobes with alta decus, dressing table, marble 100 usbstaud, ebet of drawers, teak lding table, trak teren, doute and ingle toilet sets, Ebar gbai bath, fler, ice chest, cooking stove, aluminium and iren cucking akasile, etc., etc.
Feveral pizecs.of blackwood ware.
And
A large quantity of palme, feras tund
'ants,
On View from Wednesday the 19:b,
Eeptember 1823.
Catalogues will be issued.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctions, Hoazkung, 11th Feptember, 1992,
PARTICULARS AND CONDITION
OF SALE
of the
STEAMSHIP "CHEKIANG"
she now lies at Stono Callers Island
to be sold by
Order of the Mortg»ged
by
PUBLIC AUCTION
On
FRIDAY
the 21st. day of September, 1923
at 3.0’alock p.”,
IN ONE LOT
by
Hemera Lammert Bros., Auctioneers
at their Auction Rooms in Daddell Street
The ship is of 185.2 tos gross and 515.4 neli touage Herlength is 100 feet or thereabouts, Brim 33 feet or shereabouts, draft 18 feet 9 inches ar thereabouts and bornepower 252.
For orders to view, spply to Mezara. Lammert Bros, the Anctioneers
For further particular spply to:—
Mears. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Prince's Buildings or to Moser, LAMMERT Exts., the -Äuotoneers,
Duddill Street.
·Kangkoux, September 11, 1923.
C. E. WARREN & CO.,
RANITARY ENDINEKKS
MONUMENTALENTE
anticon 'atul Godawns.
Wanchi Baid, Hongkong.
Tel, Central No. Cou
LTD.
ALL EINDS OF BUILDERS' REQUIBITTA
IN STOCK.
BOIL, TENT AND RAIN WATER PIPES. GRATES RANGES-6TOVES. INDICATING BOLTE-LATCHES.
HINGER-LOCKS-FINGER PLATES
OIL AND GAS WATER HEATERS.
BANITARY INSTALLATIONS.
HOT AND COLD. WATER SERVICES.
MONUMENTAL WORKS A SPECIALITY
IN
NDJON
ITALJAN MARBLE
HONGKONG ARANITE
TO OWN DES;ON OR FROM SELECTION
ARTIFICAL WREATHS IN STOCK.
BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME Flowers buffy and make attractive the Home BA nothing else can do.
FOR SALE
FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS
GRACA & CO., Dolors in Garden Scede, l'ostARD Stamps, Fost Cards, Toye, Eta No, 10. Wyndham Street,
P. D. Box $20.
Hongkong.
SHOEMAKERS. (Japanuro fland Made)
Every kind of Footwear.
UNDIR MADE TO
CHERRY & 00.,
8, D'AQUILAR STREET,
Oppoelte Bayamally & Co. Telophone Central No 191
Hongkong, March 20, 1914.
WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITCASES.
When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases?
They are Cheaper and More Durable.
CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK GO. (Opposite Yazmati, 3 uzvy, Praya)
ABASI *YIR
PILSENER BEEN
APAMAITLAN
ASAHI
LAGER
SPECIALLY
WERY C
COMP
SAMOLER
SOLE AGENTE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA
THE CHINA MAIL.
"Turkish AA
limde ster Cigarettes Westminste Thish Blead
Turkish
Jurkish Cigarettes of exceptional quality manufactured from the finest selected lobacco leaves.
ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT,
Marks as Wallpaper.
swamps.
Manufactured in England
Westminster
For this reason
Tobacco
Co. Ltd.. London
laps better grands than most of picture of a cat dying of mange. those mentioned is that some snakes "It must have felt in its awful will follow the person who has kill, plight the worst of all sufferings of ed their mate and wreak: vengeance a cat-that of not being able to by biting them. The Indian cobra make its toilet, to lick its fur, and has this reputation, and so has the to groom itself with the care cats A cat which formed part It has been carefully calculated large anaconda of the Brazilian always bestow upon this opera
the tion."
of the Loti household ten years bad that for a matter of four shillings Indians refuse to kill the swamp her own visiting cards, inscribed one can have a fair-sized room
"Mile, Moumoutte." Charles very
artistically papered with anaconda. German mark notes. The best Workhouse Girl's Achievement. Pierre Baudelaire, poet, who BO scheme would be to paper the At a meeting of the Birmingham greatly admired Edgar Allan Poe, walls in vertical strips of 10, 20, Board of Guardians, Mr. R. Whaite was even more fantastic in his love 50, 100 and 1,000 mark notes, and stated that a girl formerly in their of cats thun Pierre Loti. Not one particular cat, but all cats claimed Baudelaire's affection, and he
It was with this particular scheme care had gained a Bachelor of Arts
in view that the above expendi-degree at Birmingham University. ture was calculated. Of course, if Her name was not disclosed so would not pass even a stray, tabby on the street without bestowing a one would rather have a cheaper that her connection with the in-
On entering a house, his
design by using one and two stitution might not prejudice her caress.
first anxiety was to become mark notes, the total capital ex-future, but it was stated that she is pended would be less than three farthings!
The Stradivarius Varnish.
That the secret of the varnish employed by Stradivarius has been discovered is not surprising, for. like the story of the sen-serpent, the secrets of Stradivarius are dished
it
fabout 20. She was boarded out in acquainted with the household cat; Warwickshire and showed such often he would sit fondling it and promise during her school days that talking to it, indifferent to the mere humans who were, present. teacher recommended that sheThis, Baudelaire's critics said, was But,bis, friend, should be given a chance to go to a merely a pose. university. This was agreed to. Champfleury, who wrote a hook on She showed special aptitude for the cat, tells how the poet used to languages, and will take a position take his walks past a certain laun- dry where dwelt a particularly fine cat and thereby unconscious- ly touched the Ticarts of the coquet- tish laundresses, who thought he was flirting with them. Falling Off Trains.
school.
What is Truth?
up for public use at regular inter-as teacher in a council secondary vals, and it is some time now since the last discoverer told of his find. It was then clained that any fiddle,
From time to time newspaper no matter how decrepit or what its organic defects, after being dipped cuttings from American papers,
The rapid trains rush people into now varnish would be a giving views on the Prohibition paragon of beauty, possessing all question, come into my hands, past any number of places quite as the qualities of the violins of the old together with letters requesting bracing as the sea and much more makers. Unfortunately time has that comment should be made upon beautiful. Somebody ought to failed to substantiate the claim of them as being the true index to the write a Romance of the Brighton this as of previous discoveries. It prevailing conditions under Pro Express, about a clerk going with may be, however, that this time the hibtion, says a Weekly Scotsman his family from London to Brigh- seeret has really been revealed, but writer. Generally one batch of cutton, who accidentally fell out of must be remembered that tings flatly opposes the views given the train, and found himself although there are many who firmly in another, and as space is of some recovering consciousness in an believe that the virtue of a Stradí consideration, an attempt to give Earthly Paradise that is called varins is in the varnish, other the view on both sides, leaving England I am not sure that this of collaboration between many experts are equally convinced that readors to draw their own conclu- great work should not be a matter a Stradivarius violin would sound as sions, would be futile. The latest authors. Mr. Pett Ridge or Mr. Pain would describe sweet with any other varnish. batch, which I am, assured is un- Barry However this may be, even if we biused and from reliable nowe admirably the consternation of the suppose that the old secret has been papers, is strongly in favour of Pro- family in face of the great an found, it yet remains to be proved hibition, but when I read that the nouncement Father has fallen that the varnish makes the fiddle. slatements and figures are those of off the train," Mr Rudyard Kipling The best of comparatively modern Prohibition advocate, and the could be trusted, to write a few violins are those made by Vuilnewspaper comments are based on snappy pages about what had gone laumo, of Paris, and their varnish the same figures and statements, I wrong with the engine. Mt. Bellec ie certainly not that of Stradivarius.am naturally a little sceptical. Nor would have to describe the great Am I disposed to accept unreser- awakening in a valley of the Downs Snake Superstitions.
vedly the conclusions of a Dulch but he should have the right In the West of England, should delegation that "Prohibition is a to co-opt assistance in the matter a cow como in from pasture with a success and a fixture in the United of extras: as of Mr. Hardy about swollen leg or udder and it is sup States," when I find that one rustics or Mr. Yeats about fairies. posed that the higa been bitten by a delegate is president and the other Then it would fall to Mr. Wells to viper, the mill is.But aside for the member of the Executive of the describe the general change in
for
Abolition of social habit, dating from the incld- the night. If the injury has really been Society caused by a snako, then, when the Alcoholic Drinks. People so often ent. On the next train journey, by cream rims, you will see in it the see just what they wish to see that shape of the enake, perfect scales it seems impossible to get at the and all complete. There is n areall truth.
a curious coincidence, two or three fathers would fall off trains. More and more, numerous, crowds, of fathers would accidentally fall sanke common in Florida and other Pierre Loti's Cats.
off trains. Families would have Southern States known as the
Pierre Loti, whose death rocent- to be fiercely vigilant in hold- spreading adder," which has the cobra-like habit of dilating or ly is so deeply deplored, adored ing fast to fathers, and hanging on. cat, the Now York World tells us. to their coap-tails, lest they should sprending its head. when angry. For many years he was president fall off trains. But soon the mi- The Negroes and the "crackers, of a society of cat-lovers known as gration would become avowed and or poor whites, firmly believe that patte de Velours? The universal; familles would move to to this maka buman alive is even Velvet Paw." In the story he gether, as on a patriarchal trek. more fatal than the adder's own wrote "for my son Samuel when he not leaving the tiniest Infant be- poison is to a human being An- has learned to road," Lot describes hind; and in time it might even be other peculiar creature is the fire how lie once saw the soul of a cat discovered that it is possible to find anale of Mexico. This serpont not reveal itself suddenly for a moment one's way to some of the most only possesses the properties of this and as a human soul and searchlag beautiful scenes in Western famous salamander, but is actually for my soul with pleading tenders. Furtipe without falling off a train Fsupposed to be able to set fire to dryness." In his "Le Livre de la Pitle in order to do so G, K Chesterton
berbage. A belief which has per et de le Mort there is a terrible in the London Magasine
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBRE 17, 1928"
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Hairdressing BalcoL,
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City
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Moderate Rates
Excellent Cuisine:
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A
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Estimates furnished
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Office 21, Wellington St.
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL Queer's Road Central
NEW DINING ROOM opsood for Heals a la Cartò. Excellent Chleins. Monthly Tickets for Tiffing & Dinners. Fr. further particulara apply to
THE MANAGER Bongkong, May 1, 1923.
JAPANESE MASSAGE
N. AKAJI, Graduate of Tokio Massage School,
9-10, Praya East, Wanchal
Le Central 2630.
No
MASSAGE.
| MrF, HONDA, Mrs. KISAKI audi R. SHIMIDEU.
No. Wynchez, Busi (opposite to iku Ohlan Malpry
TANG YUR. DETE
#BOOMT 1
- the lake BIEN TINU, 14, T'Agullar Büroek. TERMS VERY MODERATE
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