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LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISER AND BURVEY:22.
-Public Auctions -
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kloms to end by Pabile Aasilon, ON
TURIDAY, Sopt. 95th, 1923. commencing at 2.45 p.r at No. 30 jep floor, Humphreyn
Buildingr. Hanoi Road, Kowloon, A Largo Quantity of Valuabio Household Furniture, Comprising :-
Drawing m uile, chesterfield couch and chaire, and pirce, brass. ware, pictures, curtaine, tenk extension dining table, chaire, sidelourd, dinner wagged, cut gloss. glass ware. tenk bedstende, tenk wardrobe with ginse doors, craning table, chest of drawers. Table top wabatoze, toki carpete, pilo rugs, etc. etc.
A few pieces of Blackword ware
And
Lete.
One Baby Grand Piano is excellent" condition) by Jbu Breadwco & Son
Terms-Canh on delivery. Catalogues will be issued.
On View from niloy, the 24th September 1923.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.
The fact prescribed for public vehicles tre as follows:--
Is the datend of Hongkong, Chine Read and Lower Levels, and in Kartoon, aut Nea Kensloon
NICKSHAO.
Fits 1ster.....
Ten minutos,
Quarter hour,
If hoar,....
One hourante na
ory Babeoquent hour,
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⚫ cepts
.10
.20
30 H
If the jinricksha bo engaged within the City Victoria, and be dis sharged outside the Western part of the City of Victoria after 8 pm, or be dis sharged to the East of Fay View Police Station on the Eastern sido of the Oity of Victoria after 9 p., an extra ba tare shall be chargeable.
For 2 ur 3 drivers the fars is doublu or
treble respectively.
11-In the Bill District.
C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
SANITARY ENCIKELAS
MOM MENTALISER
Offices and Godawni,
De Manchal itood, Hongkong,
Tel Central No. 19
ALL KINDS OF BUILDERS REQUIÄITES 18_STOCK.
BOIL, VENT AND RAIN WATER PIPES. GRATES-RANGES STOVER,
INDICATING BOLTS-LATCHES. HINGES--LOCKS. VINQER PLATES.
OIL AND GAS WATER HEATERS. BANITARY, INSTALLATIONS. HOT AND COLU,WATER SERVICES.
MONUMENTAL WORKS A SPECIALITY
ITALIAN MARBLE NDJOR HONGKONG GRANITE.
TO OWN DRSION OR FROM MILECTION
ARTIFICAL, WREATHS IN STOCK.
BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME
Flowers beautify and make attractive the Eloise да nothing else can dɔ.
FOR SALE.
FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS
GROA & 00., Deslera ja Garden Seeds, Postage Stampa. Ist Cards, Toys, Etc. No. 10. Wyndham Street, P. O. Box
1.
Hongkong-
SHOEMAKERS.
(Japanese Hand Made)
Evory kind of FootweaT. MADE TO ORDER.
THE CHINA MAIL.
"Turkish AA
Furtish
Wesplend
Turkish
Jurkish Cigarettes
of exceptional quality manufactured from the finest selected tobacco leaves.
Manufactured in England
Westminster
Tobacco
Co. Ltd.. London
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the taste for
FRIDAY, SETEMBPKR 21, 1999
G. FALCONER & CO CHONGKONG) LTD
1
WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS
DIAMOND MERCHANTS
UNION BUILDING (OPPOSITE G.P.O)
Agents for :—ADMIRALTY CHARTS,
ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELI SCOPES KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery,
THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO, Hovi Ofico: 79 Wyndham Street 2nd Floor. (Opposite Central Police Station) Tel, Central 4166.
Destore in all kinds of Bigb-class Silk Shirt, Collars, Neckties and Pajamas for Gentlemer AND ALSO
Chemises, Skins, Wrapporo, Ecarfs, Veils, and Night-gowns for Ladies
ALSO MADE TO ORDER
MODERATE PRICE
PROMPT DELIVERY
Manager: BMŲJŲ LAU.
PHOTO SUPPLIES,
LONG HING & CO., Kodaks and Rodak Finis, &c. **.
DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALTY.
No. 17A, QUEEN'S ROAD GETHAL Horaxoso.
HOTELS & CAFES.
LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS
HONGKONG:
Hongkong Hotel
Peak Hotel
Repulse Bay Hotel
SHANGHAI Astor House Hotel
PEKING:
Grand Hotel Kalee Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits
Palace Hotel
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.
In conjunction with
The Shangbai Hotels, Ltd.
sun
The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Led:
Ten minutes, se manie
Quartor hour,.
galf hour, H
Ove bour......
...... 15 cents
++
+
40
In the New Territories-
By arrangement with the proprietors
through the Palico.
ORAIRS.
1.-Lower Levels.
With Bearers With 4 BoaYOTE.
Ten soinuter. I conts
20 conte
Rosrter hour,... [5. Balf hour,.... 26 One bour,... 30 Every subsequent
hour.
*
1
11
11
60
4
11
11. Hill District.
48898 * *3988
With Rearers With $ Bearers
Ten minutes, ... 15 centa
זן
30 cents
Quarter beat,... 20 .. Eall hour... 30
40
60
One hoor. ..................... 40
11
Every subsequent
heur
......... 25
THE WATER SUPPLY.
Lare) and Bectage of walix'a leservoirs
the le: September 1995-
ILL GIRTRICT WATIZ WORKS
LEVILY
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friso 1. n. Below, trust ulit overdow
fin. Beins overdo
La Level with overSom
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A Level with overdow
kn. Hetor averflow } Level with new
rotarum, tit. f.
Below eadcm
ATURANG 1 MILLADIH JE DIOMASH UP GALLENG
Besel will armiðum
1923
Tas
31.87
Jam Dewaan
7.15
Triam itermediate
B
203.08
1.413.09
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70.10
GEN
1,191.42
2,196 47
CHERRY & 00,,
8. D'AGUILAR STREET,
Opposite Kayamally & Co. Telophane Cestral No. 491
Hongkong, March 20, 1913.
WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITOL SES.
When we sell Shanghai
Manufactured Suitcases ?
They are Cheaper and More Durable.
CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO. (Opposite Ysumati Tery, Praya}
ASABI RURR
PILSENER BEER
14.
14.01
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Oonemption of water in the City and Hill Blotrict in millions and decimal of gallons during the month of August.
matad population
C mammpsion par landi Į 274
215
Intermittent Supply in ail Rider Main Districts during August 1922 excepting 1 day viz, alot when a Constant Supply *as operated in Western Hider Main Dli- tricts only.
Intermittent Supply in all Rider Main Districts up to 12th and Constant Supply In all districts from 13th August 1923.
KOWLOON-NATIE WORDS LEVEL
1991.
de Bartote.. Below we
1423,
EVORANE IN SIRKILKU AY DI DREI LES " WATŁOWE
mrritation
1923
_KOTYZ 10:50 min) Coosampilan 3 water le nowwen M
Euro 100%
allitona and decimals of gallons during the math of August,
1722
1913
$1.00
134230
10,510
7 armatytion per Sand Į
10
ralfor
0.3
1927 Restriction in all districts during August.
1918 Fall Supply în a!? districts during Aukost.
The Government Analyst's raports shar
2982 the quality of the water in satisfar- BOTY.
Taka Bull to 1 A
2013
II. T. CHEAST
Wabr Authority Public Works Doperiment.
thropic Diarrhoea. Are you subject to attacks of diarr- Poem Keep abeolutely quiet for low days, rest in bed if possible, be careful of your diet and take Chamberlain's Colic and Darthco Remedy. This mediaire oured cases of chronle diar boss that physicians have failed dn, mod fe will etro you, For la By all Chemists and Storek epem.
ASAHI
LAGER
SPECIALLY
WERY
COMP
ASAHT
BEER
LAGER BEED
SOLE AGENTS MİTSUI BUBSAN, KABIHA
ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
The Life of a Building.
How long will a building last?! asks The World Magazine. For the guidance of property-owners who are not sure how much to charge for depreciation in figuring taxes, the Federal Internal Revenue gives the following:-"The aver age usual life of a frame building is twenty-five years, a brick build ing thirty-five years, and a stone or concrete building from fifty to one hundred years." Piano Strain.
without
whole fortune squandered. The ing nephew and niece absconded leav-strong liquor, and this IC- ing their aunt to mourn in penury
presents a great victory for the consequences of her misplaced trust and her attempt to outwit the temperance advocates. According tax-collectors. The nephew and to investigators Americans niece have been condemned to are now becoming "food drunk- prison, the one for a year and the other for six months, and oxderedards, and there is no nation in the to pay 60,000f to their aunt as the world where people eat so much first instalment of the damages meat at breakfast, luncheon, and which remain to be assessed, Mr. Churchill Libelled.
dinner, topped off with sweets and icecream. Dr. Alfred Glascock, Before Mr. Justice McCardie, in speaking at the Medical Conven- bi New York gave 2 the High Court, a settlement was tion announced of the two libel actions public warning that heavy eating brought by the Right Hon. Winston is hardly less injurious to the aver Churchill against the Associated age sedentary person than heavy Newspapers Ltd, and the Victoria drinking. He says that 10,000,000 House Printing Co., Ltd., with re-little Americans are suffering pre- The supporting structure for the gard to allegations made respec-maturely from decayed teeth, and strings of a piano, notes the tively in the Erering News and the 15,000,000 others are afflicted with Scientific American, involves a very Daily Herald relating to an official some other ailment due to the con- careful engineering design in or mission which Mr. Churchill paid sumption enormous quantities of der that it may withstand the to Egypt when Secretary of State sugary foods. Americans he des- tension of the strings, providing for the Colonies in the late Coaltcribed as a nation of overeaters perfect stability ander all temtion Government. It was said that Many of us are dead on our feet." perature conditions sa that the the defendants had based their Overcating he described as the piano will not get out of tune. The statements on the report of the greatest cause of disease in total tension of all these strings House of Commons Select Com-Anerica, and suggested that men in a standard piano is between mittee on Public Accounts, and should wear corsets and diet strict- 25,000 and 50,000 pounds.
they now admitted that they have ly to combat the danger of over- New Music
made a mistake. Consequently, weight.
the allegations were unreservedly The Singe: And Culture. withdrawn, and both defendants apologised for having made them. Mr. Justice McCardie said the result of the proceedings was that Mr. Churchill's character had heen com- pletely vindicated. Stonehenge Mystery.
mere
A sixpenny edition of the popu-
How seldom is it that we hear a lar temperance song, "A Guid Cup 'Ten, by P. S. Gleadhill, dedi- cated to Mr. Scrimgeour, M.P. for
song interpreted with intelligence. Dundee, has been published by
It is indeed a popular fallacy that anyone who is gifted with a voice Methven Simpson, Ltd Edin
can sing a song. But what con- burgh. A sprightly air, it is well
stitutes the realm of song? Is it set for soloist and quartette or
not the entire universe itself? The chorus. Four small encore song
Strange, as it may seem, the musical setting is really only of numbers, the lyrics by John Ber-identity of the great blocks at secondary importance-a tram and music by Howard Cole, Stonehenge, the Druidical forma adventitious aid to the proper and have been published in a sixpenny tion near Salisbury, England, effective elucidation of an artistic series by Beriram Chevalier, with any known stony outcrop has picture in words. It is thus not Amersham. They are entitled never yet been proved, although always the great musician who is The Garden of Remembrance, the problem was carried an import- the best singer of a song. To be "Love's Altar," "Comrades Ever,"
ant stage nearer to its solution re- a great musician requires long and and "Pictures that are never cently by Dr. H. H. Thomas, petro-constant concentration upon the grapher to the Geological Survey, acquirement of facility in the in a paper read by him before executive branch of the art alone, the Society of Antiquaries of Lon-and in most cases there is little
seen."
An Aunt's Folly.
The Thirteenth Correctional Chamber has just been occupied don. According to the latest in time left for the attainment of a with the curious story of the Mar- vestigations it appears probable broad and general cultural outlook quise de Meoflet, whose efforts to that these stones were transported upon life and the universe, so that make things easy for a nephew and from the castern end of the Pres- the greatest artist of an age is not niece who were to inherit Eer for celly Mountains in northern Pen-necessarily, or indeed generally, most cxpert in the tune ended in her being left in brokeshire, a distance of sonic 180 the
miles. Then comes the question, department, be it musical, literary, abject poverty, while her hers How were they transported? for or that of the plastic arts, in freely disposed of all she possessed,
their average weight is from two which he makes his name. We are says the Daily Telegrapli's Paris to two and a half tons. There are all aware of the decided vocal Correspondent. Madame de
two kinds of stones in this group limitations possessed by the late Meoflet took up her residence withing, those of local origin, known Mr. Gervas Elwes yet was there hernephew and niece, and confid-
as sarsen stones, of which the main ever a greater artist in the interpre- ed to them the managementof the fabric consists, and the thirty-four tative aspects of old English fortune they were to inherit. Her transported blocks, forming an lyrics? We write in ne spirit of estate included a large number of stocks and shares and three big laser circle and horseshoe,
farms in Normandy. In order that her heirs should not be too heavily
LA
A Nation Of Overeaters.” Since the repeal of the law in
carping criticism, nor with any particular vocalist view, but we ask every singer to take serious coun- sel with himself, or herself, hit by the inheritance tax on New York State enforcing Pro- her death the Marquiso con-hibition, bootleggers' prices have as the case may be, and before cluded with her niece a fictitious been reduced 30 to 40 per cent from oneself an answer to the singing any song in public demand sale of her Normandy estates, and to-day in New York you can her niece simply giving her buy real Scotch at 245, a bottle and question whether I have a sufficient a letter acknowledging that the synthetic gin guaranteed not to grasp of every fact and circumstan property really belonged to the "blind" the consumer at 8s. says the ce, light and shade, huance and Mamuise. For three years the old Daily Telegraph's correspondent. effect, embodied in that literary lady and her heirs lived amicably Apparently the supply is equal to and musical entity, to justify me together, but then, after a quarrel, the demand; in other words,me in standing up before an the Marquise demanded the return "booze" flows as merrily by sea and audience and presuming to instruct of her securities, the deeds of her land as was predicted. Neverthe- these people in all the knowledge property, and her jewels and furn-less, the opinion of all the impartial that is connected by every word iture. It was then discovered that critics is that, with the diappearance and phrase and turn that the song everything, including the farm of public drinking-places, the 2018 contains,Scottish; Musical
Magazine properties had been sold and the younger generation here is grow-
*
Tel. Centl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add: "Carlton.' The Only Amerisan Hotel la the Colony.
.
Nice and quiet yet only a few inatos' walk from the Banks, and Central Districts. 43 Bedroome. Excellent Cuisine. Scrupulously alon Under American Management. A now Dining Room has been opened as No. 2, Queen's Food (tet floor). Entrauss loo Housa. St. Tins a speciality.
For tarms apply to Mrs. F. E. CAMERON, Proprietress.
(Two minutes from Star Ferry).
of
PALACE HOTEL KOWLOON
Recently renovated and refuru'shed, electre ight and fane throughou and ancurely under now management. Cabine under the persona, supervision the proprietor. Bar and Billard Boom Terme moderata. Fpecial terma j smile on application to
Telegraphic Add.: "PALAUR"
Talophons Fowloon 3.
HOTEL
*. B. UXBERBY, Protetor.
"ASIA"
WEST BUND, CANTON.
Loading Hotel in South China
First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans erd Elevators. Roof Garden. Hairdressing SalcoL,
Pearl
River.
Moderate Rates.
Splendid Views
Excellent Cuisine:
and of City
Under the Management of the SUN 00., LTD., CANTON.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
A
CENTRAL LOGATION
Water system through
LL ELXOTEJU TRÀMH Pasa Kulrance, El»c»
trío Lifta, Tane and Lighlang, Europa
Kathi and Banitary Pricings, Lột and bola Best of Food and Borvine Tal, Cantt. 172. Taisgraphie addzom >—" VICTORIA ¿WITCHELL, Maungur,
LEE KEE
ESTABLISHED 1896
BATHS & BATH-ROOM
ACC288ORIES..
Estimates furnished
free of charge.
Office 21, Wellington St.
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL Queer's Road Contral.
•
NEW DINING ROOM opened for Meals Carte. Excellent Cuisine. Monthly Tici ots for Tiffins & Dinnere.
Fr hither particulare apply to
"THE MANAGER Pongkoop, May 1, 1924,
JAPANESE MASSAGE. N. AKAJI, Graduate of Tokie Massage Sabood, Nos, 2-10, Prays East, Wanchai.
401, Central 2030.
MASSAGE.
Mrs. HONDA, Mrs; MISAKI- and ]
B. SHIMIDAU.
No. Wys. B:rest (opponite to the China Mang
JANG YOK, Destras
Ab
the late BIEN TING, 14. D'Agullar Street.
TRIMS VERY MODERATE Consultatba Free.