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AMMERT BROS. C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
AUCTIONEERS, AFFIAISEND
AND SURVEYORA.
-Public Auctions —
THE Underaigued bave received in- structions to sell by Public Auction
FRIDAY, September 28, 1929...
commencing at 11 a.m.
at the China Navigation Steamship Co'e 'Godown, West Point,
(For account of the Concernel), 143 Baskets Groundnut Oil.
50 Wooden Tube Groundnut Oil.. 512 Empty Oil Baskets (etored at the China Navigation Cola Coal Yard, North Point.)
forina: Cash on delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.,
Anctioncara.
THE Undersigned have received in.
structions from C. D.
Z to sell by Public Auction
ON
Wilkinson
MONDAY, October 1, 1923. commencing at 11 am.
at bie residence No. 82 The Peak... The Falls."
The Who's of his ValuableTM Housebold Furniture,
Comprising:
Teak hat stond, etewterfield couch and armchairs, (erciorno covered), curio cabinet, book car, music cabinet, fire bratsee, card tables, teak overmantle with bevelled minor, bras and bronze craments, marble clock, curtains, carpets, rugs, curios, etc., etc.
Teak extension dining table, chairs, tenk sile board with bevelled mirror, dinner waggons, crockery, glaus ware, cullery, cut glase, F. P. ware, table, fans, doeks, etc., ele..
Double and single teak and iron brdeteadis, teak deni le sad single wardrobes with glass doors, dressing table, marble top wosh stands, chest of drawers, toilet sata, pic, etc.
Cooking stove, cocking utensils, plants, ferus, garden teate, etc.
A Large Quantity of Blackwood
Ware.
And
One Grand Piano by John Broad-
mrid & Son
On View on Day of Sale.
L'atalogues will be issued. Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneere..
Hongkong, 24th September, 1923,
: Underolgued, have saved mewno-
one to sell by Pablle Auction,
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THURSDAY, October 4, 1923,
* commencing at 10.30 am.
at the premiers of The Hongkong Steel Foundry Company, Limited (Shaukisan Road.)
The Complete Foundry Plaut. Comprising:-
Mriting Furnaces (complete), Adscaling Furnaces, Genting Ovens, Crints. Drilling Machines Screwing Machinen
Pipra and and Gear Slide Belte. Double Sure Screw Cutting Machine, Flaning Muthine. Fan Blwer, Overhead sling Physing Bramis Anviln, etc., etc.
Also
One Electric Furosco complate with af equipment and 1 extra Transformer, Oce Fornitate and Fittings including Drawings.
And
The Steam Launch "Peggy." Terms
on delivery.
For Further particulars apply to the undersigned:
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneer.
Hongkong, 2nd Sep ember, 1923.
PUBLIC AUCTION
The Series of Auctions at
"KINGSCLERE”
Kennedy Road
with commence on TUESDAY
2nd October 1993
at 11 a.m.
and
WEDNESDAY
3rd October 1913
at 11 a.m.
The dates of Subsequent Sales will
be appooned later.
LAMMERT BROS.'
Aactionpore Hongkong, 28th September. 1993,
HONGKONG HEIGHTS.
For the information of visitors 11 following list of some of the highest points on the Jaland and Mainland 1, published
BANDARY *NGINERIA
MONUMENTALISTA
Onces and Ovikawna,
9. Wanchal Bond, longkang.
Tel. Central No. 200
ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Dinosaurs in Alberta.
5,000,000 TELEGRAMS.
GAMBLING.
Few people travelling along the Canadian Pacific main line, where || TOTALISATOR ENCOURAGES it crosses the prairies east of Culgary, know that a compara Fashion Notes.
tively short distance north, in the Red Deer River valley there is a *OF 36,000,000 telegrams which This is the time of year when section known as the "Bad Lands." passed through my office we ceti- woman begins to think about the In it are found the fossil remains inute 2,000,000 are in connection autumn and winter styles, while of many prehistoric inonsters, such with horse-racing, but not neces gross, greedy men are thinking as the duck-billed dinosaur tragarily betting. In the country at about oysters on the halfshell. clladm, which attained a length of large 72,000,000 telegrams are dos- 100 feet. Several patched, excluding Press telegrams, 50, 60, even Advices from Paris tell us that the scientific expeditions have visited and of that number 5,000,000 tete. hobble-skirt is coming back, also the "Bad Lands" and each year gneus are in connection with horia- that the coming back will be a bare tourists in icreasing numbers
racing." one, as the newest evening frocks make the trip by motor car from This statement was made by Mr. have no backs in them at all. An Brocks, on the Canadian Pacific John Lee, Controller of the Central attempt has been made to po Railway, 110 miles east of Calgary Telegraph Office, to the Select Com pularise low heels, but it may not attracted by the picturesque characmittee on Betting, Racing tele- be successful, as refined vomenter of the Canyon of the Red River MONUMENTAL WORKS A SPECIALITY! dislike anything that is low. Skirts and by the long-buried secrets of will not be worn longer, but mar bygone ages which it is now ried men's suits will be worn much | giving up, longer.
ALL KINDS OF BUILDERS' REQUISITES 'IN_STOCK"
{ BOIL. VENT AND RAIN WATER PIPES ORATES-RANGES STOVES. INDICATING BOLTS-LATCHES. HINGES LOCKS-FINGER PLATES,
OIL AND GAS WATER HEATERS. BANITARY INSTALLATIONS.
HOT AND COLD WATER SERVICES.
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ITALIAN MAHRLE NDIOR HONGKONG GRANITE
TU OWE AKSION OR FROM SELECTION
ARTIFICAL WREATHS IN STOCK,
BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME.
Flows brautify and make attractive the Home BB nothing else can do.
FOR SALE.
FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS:
GRACA & CO., Dealers in Garden Seede, l'ostage, Stamps Fest Cards, Toys, Etc. No, 10, Wyndham Street. P. U. Bax 620.
Hongkong.
SHOEMAKERS/ (Japanese Hand Made)
Every kind of Footwear, MADE TO ORDER.
ה- - - -- - - - - -
CHERRY & CO.,
8. D'AGUILAR STREET,
Oppcelte Kayamally & Co.
Telephone Central No 491
Hongkong. March 20, 1914.
WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITCASES.
:
When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases?
They are Cheaper and More Durable.
CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO. (yppiste Youmati Ter y, Praya)
ARAS.
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The Eyrie
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Peak Hotel
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Taikoe Sanatorium
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Kowloon Pink
Babies Bom With Teeth.
M. Bolard, a surgeon of Bordeaux, France, recently reported to the local medical society a case of twin boys, one of whom was born with all his teeth, and the other having cat a tooth twelve days after birth, the World Magazine relates. "This
A. B
y German.
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us represented about 7 per cent.
of the whole telegraphic traffic duri ing the year, while Press telegrung dealing with racing represented about 10 per cent,
An incident in pleasing contrast
In the large offices the number of to the stories of sabotage, outrage telegrains sent in connection with and reprisals it the Rulir Valley horse-ncing was considerably in comes from the Ehineland and excess of what it was before the tells of the heroic conduct of a
war: while the telegeatus forwarded young German who, forgetting past and received at race meetings Ind enmities, went to the rescue of a couple of his former enemies. Max considerably decreased. In London
is a very rare occurrence, of which Fleit saw two French soldiers bath-alone 14,000 betting telegrams were: only about fifty cases have been ing in the Rhine River, and who, sent daily by telephone.
There were usually an increase in recorded in medical literature," a junable to swim, were, in a perilous London physici told a Daily Mail condition. He swan to their as-belting telegrams during an indus- representative. It used to be re-sistance and rescued both of them. trial strike and he instanced the coul garded as a portent that the child The French Tribunal, wishing to strike in South Wales, when it was would grow up with exceptional reward him, told him that he could particularly heavy. strength or mental ability. King ask anything he desired. He re- Richard I., Louis XIV, the great quested that the lives of seven men philospherBigot, and Boyd the poet, who had been condemned to be were born with teeth; Louis XIV. shot for cassing trouble to the had two teeth at birth?
French authorities, might be Sea Music.
spared.
Styles in Chairs
The chairs of the Charles IL and
were
EFFECT OF THE "TOTE." Mr. Arthur Fawcett, who was secretary of the Royal Calcutta Turf Club for ten years until March. 1921, explained the system of taxa- tion prevailing in India.
A modern composer who loved
Upon a day's meing there was a sheer profit of 100,000 rupees, the sea and tried to paint it in his
£6,000 and music was Debussy, whose three the William and Mary periods to between
£7,000, The Government took 4 symphonic sketches "La Mer"
in many respects very ("De 1 Anbe à midi sur la Mer, similar, but it would seem that the per cent. from the totalisators, and Jeux de Vagues," and "Dialogue motifs introduced in the former le 'marker who won had to contri du Vent et de la Mer") are to be reign found a more finished ex-bute 4 per cent. of his winnings, but reckoned among his most Import pression when William became the latter were so small it was an orchestral pieces. And his King. The very strong Datch in hardly worth the trouble to collecti example in this respect has been fluence that affected the furniture the tax. The profits of the club; followed by many of our leading at this time was responsible for would be about £198,000 on a year's British composers, writes H. A the first development of themcing of 28 days. Scott in Joly . 'London's- Weekly. | cabriole leg, the first use of which The totalistor was a wonderfal Elgar's Bttle essay in one of his we find towards the end of the money-making muching. If it were famous Enigma Variations, de reign. The contour of the backs of established in Britain, be be- dicated to a friend travelling at sea chairs, too, was now elaborated, liored it would have the effect of and introducing a quotation from being shaped in an ogee curve for inducing people to het who other Mendelssohn's "Calm Sea and Pro- the greater comfort of the sitter.wise would not do so. 'That hind sperous Voyage," hardly counts The carved under-stretcher also been the result in India. perhaps; but his famous set gave way to a series of more or less The Committee then adjourned. of songs, Sea Pictures," can elaborate shapes, joining all four certainly not be overlooked in this legs together diagonally, connection. More important still these changes became possible by is Vaughan Williams's Seacraftsmen realising to the full the Symphony," one of his finest works possibilities of walnut in contrast (in which connection nay also be with oak.-C. H. Hayward, August mentioned an orchestral piece, Gand Housekeeping.
The Solent," which he has not yet Archbishop's Costly Palace. published), while another big choral work, similarly inspired, The Archbishop of York, writing is Delius's "Sea Drift," though here in his Diocesan Gazette, says:
All
"I
WHY BUILDING IS DEAR-
HIGHER WAGES, LOWER OUTPUT AND HEAVIER TAXES:
With reference to the offer of a
the sea serves, only as a back-gather that it has been stated in the Belgian firm, mentioned in The ground to Walt Whitman's poem. Fress that I have obtained a loan Daily Mail, to supply bricks to the Then Frank Bridges has written an from the Ecclesiastical CommissFolkestone Council for about 50s, a admirable 'Sea Suite, while, isoners for 'improvements in the
1014. 1923. Cost of materials...£100 £225 Cost of labour......£100 £209 The causes of this increase of more than 100 per cent., the corres- pandent says, are:-
harking back a little, Stanford's episcopal residence at Bishopthousand, the lowest British offer famous setting of Tennyson's "The thorpe. I have been somewhat being almost double that price, a Revenge" must, of course, be amused by comments on this fact correspondent in the building trade- included, and also his equally which have reached me implying stands the following tabulated com- popular Songs of the Sea." that this is not the time to spend trison of British prices;-- Mackenzie, ton, owed to the sea large sums of money on improve one of his happiest inspirations in ments of a house already too large the shape of his brillidat "Nautical" and expeasive, &c. Also! the word overture, though Parry, rather improvements' is only a technical word for very necessary economies. curiously, seelog that he was passionately devoted to the sea The huge stables at Bishopthorpe and an ardent yachtsman never are in urgent need of very exten Fewer skilled men, with lower seems to have been moved to sive repairs. They contain stalls output per reen: shorter working combine the rules of mariner and for twenty-six horses and day: fewer apprentices of improv- musician.
corresponding lofts, which will ers; painters, at trade union rates, certainly never be used again for doing rough painting formerly done the purbose for which they wereby labourers; increased cost of rates, A professor of psychical research built. Only a portion of the stables taxes, State and other insurance, out in California has evolved a is needed for use now, or will ever earringe and freight charges; and means of photographing thought, be needed for use in the future. I and has demonstrated it to the cannot myself bear, nor have I the trades union restrictions, such as a satisfaction of one and all, the New right to impose upon my successor;
labourer to each bricklayer. York American tells us. The em- the burden of keeping all of these
From any parts of the country barrassing part of the thing is that large and useless buildings of hundreds of skilled men
Photographing Thought.
have
he can work it on anybody and repair, in addition to the very heavy emigrated to the United States, without a camera. All he does is burden of meeting, of necessity, where there is a building boom with to hold up a sensitive plate, and if the dilapidations on the house high wages.
you concentrate sufficiently, your itself. The object of the loan for
thoughts will appear on the plate which I have applied is to pull
all pictured out, truthfully and life down such portions of these stables
like. It is now up to all men to as are not, and will never be, used, known to all, here for giles, at take an inventory of their thoughts and to reconstruct the portions intervals, are the ruined tombs of and rearrange them so they will which will remain. This will ulti-Romans of the past, some eminent, look well in print, just as a man mately mean a great casing of the many rich; Romans of different combs his hair and gets a shave already too heavy cost of maintain periods, representatives of dif before he goes to have his photo-ing Bishopthorpe."
graph taken. In other words, he
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 1923.
G. FALCONER & CO., (HONGKONG) LTD.
WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS
DIAMOND MERCHANTSTM UNION BUILDING (OPPOSITE G.P.O.)
Agents for—ADMIRALTY CHARTS,
ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers,› High Class English Jewellery.
THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO.
Head Office: 79 Wyndham root; 2nd Floor. (Opposite Central Police Station) Tel. Central 4168.
Dealers in all kinds of Bigh-class Silk Shirts, Collars, Necktion and Pyjamas for Gentleman AND ALSO
Chemises, Skirts, Wrappers, Scarfs, Veils, and Night-gowns for Ladies
ALSO MADE TO ORDER · MODERATE PRICE PROMPT DELIVERY Manager: EMILIO LAU.
LONG HING & CO... PHOTO SUPPLIES,
Fod b pnd Kodak PURE, Đà L DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.
No, 17A, Quxen's Boad Chitral, HonGKONG.
HOTELS & CAFES.
LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS-
HONGKONG:
SHANGHAI:
PEKING:
Peak Hotel
Hongkong 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 Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.
azd
The Grand Hotel des Wagons 'Lits, L4d.
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, and Central Districts. 43 Bedrooms. Excellent Caisina. Scrupulously clean Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened as No. 2, Queen's Boad (fet floor), Botrance Ice House St, Tiffins a speciality.
For terms apply to Mrs. F. E, CAMERON, Proprietress.
(Two minutes from Star Forry).
PALACE HOTEL HOWLOON
Kscently renovated and refarniabad, electrie Higbi and fans throughout ad exurely outler new management. Caltine auder, the persona! supervisdos of the proprietor, Bar and Billard Boom Terms moderate, Special terms familias on application to
Telephone Howloon 3. Tolographio Add.: "Palaos."
HOTEL
2. . OXBKERY, Proprietor.
“ASIA”
WEST BUND, CANTON.
Leading Hotel in South China,
First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans 20 Elevators. Roof Garden. Hairdressing Salcon,
Splendid Views of City and. Pearl River,
Excellent Cuisine.
Moderate Rater.
Under the Management of the BUN CO., LTD. CANTON.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
A
CENTRAL LOCATION
LL ELECTING TRAMB Pass Entrance, Elo 2010 LATA, Fan and Lighting, Bispad Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Holand Doll
Zest of Food sai Water Bysiam throughout. Scrrica Tal. Centi, grå. "Telegraphie Addz →→ VICTORIA J. WITOLIKLIS Manager.
SMALL WHITE PIMPLES ON CHIN
Burned and Spread Over Face. Cuticura Heals.
ferent phases and complexions of the glory of this city. They are of has got to pose his thoughts. But On The Appian Way.
many sorts and sizes, these ruined the lule machine is going to be Those who go to Rome walk too tombs. There are marble frag- very valuable when people gen- little upon the Appian Way. It is ments, some with effigies upon erally learn how to operate it. not specially recommended to the which simple modern cottages have How handy it will be when a tourists. True, there are other sometimes been built. They seem man goes into the financial district things, so many of them, to see now to be poor neglected things; to buy a few stocks, to have and do in Rome, and they may be but what glory has this Appian one of these thought plates with more historically spectacular. The Way not been the witness him. He can even go into a bucket Appian Way, to the eyes and of since Appius. Claudius began
about shop with perfect security. If he minds of some, may not appear like it
before 312 years knows what the stock salesman.is a brilliant relic of the past. It is the beginning of our new thinking about, he will never be not at once-accessible. One must era? He who now comes to walk stung. A lady will be able to sit take a motor-car or go down to the in thought and meditation along at the dinner table in the evening public omnibus by the Trajan this Appian Way, for choice on a with one of these plates ready for Forum to reach the gate of Sau day that is a little dull and chilly, action, and when her husband says Sebastian, and pass some way be when soft tints lle upon the land- he has got to go down town and yond it to the gentle incline by the scape, must find this one of the meet a customer from Chicago, she side of which the majestic tomb of most
deeply impressive ex- can learn the truth in the twinkling Cecilia Metella stands. Herenhout periences in Rome. Here is a road of an eye. The supreme test of we emerge into something like of history, of ghosts, of warnings,' the machine will be to try it on open country, and the Appian Way There is no walk on earth that can some of our present-day statesmen. leads on before us, straight out to yield profounder meditation. Yet Nobody in the world can imagine wards the east. It is a roughish so few of those who should come what they are thinking about, and road, but little cared for now. In this way. Some Americans whiz we have an idea the machine will the winter-time it is deeply rutted out to a point for a few minutes and fail. Turned on the average wife, and muddy. There is waste grassy back again, and on Sunday after- ft will show a picture of a new hat. land about the sides, and walls noon items of young Rome come On a motorist, it will show a large | which were built by the here a courting because it is quiet,ment which I found most beneficial red gasoline pump in front of a successors of Balbus, the specialist almost a secluded walk, and, not alling station. On the average to these constructions. Poplars like the Pincio, where people pro hard-working husband and father, and cypress trees are bent by the menide to see and meet their kind it will show a set of Income-tax prevailing wind. Here and there. There are distinguished Romans, figures. The safest thing to do is a Roman cottage of the time, the hundreds of them, who have never, when these, machines are abroad occupants living in the humblest seen the Appian Way, though it is throughout the land is to think way; and there are farmhouses of within half-an-hour's walk of the about nothing, and Jarge percent sorts with husbandmen, at humble Plazzi di Venezia-Henry Leach,. age of the people do that, too, work. But most specially, as is a Chamber's Journal.
"By trouble started with amali, white pimples which broke out i Bround my chin, · Shortly after they “began to rán water and formed Targa- sclich, which burnid and spread kii over my face. The pimples Itched and burned a lot when I got ward. "I tried several differens recedien but none doused to help me. I be gas deing Cusicupa 'Soap and Dint-
I continued cising them-and 'within' fourweeks I was completely healed." (Bigned) H. Morris, 42, Cross Str “Wodničebury; Hexffy, Brgy--
Those frigfant emollients are all you need, för, all tollet - porjoneu Bomp to cloupe, Dintdient to bual.
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL Quder's Road Contral
NEW DINING ROOM opened for Moals a la Carte. Excellent Cuisine. Monthly Tiazota for Tillina & Dinners.
Fr Further particulars apply to
THE MANAGIB Fongkong, May 1, 1924.--
JAPANESE MASSAGE.
NA AKAJI, Graduate of Tokio Massage Schock, Nos. 9-10, Praya East, Wanobal.
20. Contral 2639,
MASSAGE.
Mrs. HONDA; Mrs. KHAKI 636 R. SHIMIDZU. „No. B. Wyschen" inroet (oppódits to the "Uhins MxIP)
TANG TOK Di
tho ate STEN TING, 14 D'Agullar Street.
TERMB VERY MODERATE Comanitation Fraz.