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LAMMERT BROS. C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
APOTIONEERS, AfpRAINERS
AND BURVEYORS,
-Public Auctions-
THE Undersigned have ICLOUD
alons to woll by Public Auction,
on
THURSDAY, October 25, 1923.
At 3.45 p.m.
at No. Observatory Villas, Kowloon A Large Quantity of Valuable Household Furnituro,
Comprising:
Teak hat stand, plush covered easy chairs, took extension dining table and chair, teak side board, curtains, arockers, glass wate, etc.,
Toak badsteads, teak wardrobee, teak dressing table and wash stand, mantle, clock, toilet aut etc.,
Also
One Cottage piano by Rachals & Co., On View from Wendenday the 24th
October 1923
Catalogues will be issued
Torta:-Cash on clolívary.
LAMMERT BROS.
Qu
Auctioncera.
THURSDAY, Ortobor 25, 1923,
ecmmencing at 5.15 p.m.
at their Sales Roonis, Duddell Street.
Valunblo Collection of
Postage Stampa
Catologues will Leigned.
Ou View from Wednesday the 24th October 1023
Terma
Chah on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
Heagkong, 19th October, 1923.
on
FRIDAY, October 28, 1923.
commencing at 11 a.m.-
at their Sales Rooma, Duddell Stroot,
One Cass Tweeti.
Suit Lengths.
Shirts,
Neckties and Sundries.
Tarme: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS. Auotioneers
ON
SATURDAY, Cctober 27, 1893,
commencing at SUON,
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Strast, A Quantity of
Wines, Spirits & Liqueurs.
Comprising:
Sparkling Hock, Creme do Menthe, Moscatel, Anisett, Cherry Brandy, Orange Curacao, Lemon Peel Gin, Kummel, Sloe Gin, etc.,
etc.
Torms-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Hongkong, 2nd October, 1893,
ON
MONDAY, October 29, 1923, commencing at 2.45 p.m.
at No. 20 the Penk, Chamberlain Road. A Quantify of Valuable Honashold Furniture, (Full particulara from Catalogue) 'On View from Sunday the 28th October 1923,
Tims
Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.; Auctioneers.
ON
TUESDAY. October 30, 1923,
commencing at 2.30 pm.
at No. 26 Belilios Terrace, Conduit Road,
A Quantity of
Valuable Household Furniture, (Foll particulare from Catalogue)
On View from looday the 20th October 1993,
·
forms:
Cash on delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, 23rd October, 1923,
UNCLAIMED
TELEGRAMS.
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELF-
GRAPH COMPANY, LTD.
The following unclaimed telegrame
are lying at the office of The
Grest Northern Telegraph Compsty (Limited);—
Yip Chun-poo Malads, from Shanghai. Shinson, from Kobe.
Ebing
Cheong, from Eobe
Yuen Sam, from Shangbai,
Wo Fat Cheung, from Bhanghai, Chan Tai-hi Wing Sbing Street, from
Turis.
Kwong Shing Hing, from Shangbai. Sang Hing Biogicong Street, from hanghai.
N. LUND, Act."Superintendent. Hongkong, 18th Catober, 1923,
EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL ASIA 4 CHINA TELEGRAPH CO,"
List of unclaimed telegrams lying in
K. Telegraph Offles, Hongkong. Cooper Banksia fmm Shanghai. Eogniga Marrell Gunboat Anavilo,
from "Philadelphis.
Expoenny, from Hamborg. Bagar, from Bożabay.
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historical record. But the war is be equalled than the other outstan over, new troubles accumulate ding feat-the thirteen scores of round us every day, and the next 100 or over, made by Hendren, who is the idol of the Middlesex generation will probably be far
crowd. This has not been accom- more interested than we are in re- Radio While They Sleep.
reading the familiar tale of the plished since 1906, when Hayward The Instructors of the United beginning of Armageddon. In his equalled the performance of Mr. States Navy have had difficulty in introduction Mr. Asquith, tells a C. B. Fry in 1901. But 1906 was teaching the radio code to some of good story of the scholarly, dignif- Hot Hayward's great year as a run- Buker. In 1900 he made more runs their students, relates The World | ed. Cabinets of a generation ago. Magazine. Apparently certain He says:-"I remember in Mr. than anyone has done before or minds could not memorise the Gladstone's Cabinet of 1892-94, since, namely 3518; and during ten tricky dots and dashes as well as which contained a number of ex-years this Surrey player exceeded others. Many students were at cellent scholars, a division being 2000 runs. Yet he made thirteen their wits ends till someone bit on suggested-I think by Lord Rose-100's in one season only. To do abrilliant idea. The sub-conscious bery-on the correctness of a quota- what Hendren has done demands not only supreme skill and mind has a memory 99 per cent. tion from Juvenal, which was keen- perfect, whereas the consciously disputed between the Prime endurance, but supreme patience mind is very poor in that depart Minister and Sir Henry Campbell ment. While in is asleep the Bannerman. The matter was hap sub-conscious is dominant,
the pily settled by the production of conscious being out of the way for the text: Sir Henry proved to be the time being. Well, then, said | right." the instructors, put the men to sleepi with 'phones on their ears and send then code while they slumber, When they wake up they will know it perfectly! There was a good deal of joking when the scheme was announced, but listen to the The sunlight swept the cornfields report from Pensacola, Fla., where In trails of burnished gold, the innovation was inaugurated. And flaming poppies laid their
When the
started test wis twelve students were unsatisfac-On a cloth of gold; tory. After two nights, during And golden was the gilded which the radio code was sent to With purple shadows flung, these students in their sleep, only And golden-brown were the two were unsatisfactory, and these two had left the class before the
finished, experiment was
pro- fessing their disbelief." So the instructors have the last laugh, and many a man who despaired of ever learning code may take fresh hope.
Scarcity of Blondes.
How far away it all seems! Rapunzel
Rapunzel leaned out of her window, And her pale gold hair dripped
down.
robics
waiting for the right ball to hit, instead of taking chances on balls which the Saturday afternoon bats- men would certainly "have at." This is Hendren's third great year since the war. In 1920, and in last season, he headed the bat- ling averages with 6t and 66 runs per innings. But run-getting is not everything. Hendren has made- nearly twice as many scores of 100 as all the Yorkshire batsmen taken Yorkshire together.
Woll the County Championship chiefly be- cause four of their bowlers vere so successful as to rank among of their first five in the bowling aver- ages for the whole season; sky-"Back to Methuselah."
sea
lark's wings, And golden the song he sung. There was gold in the wind and
wine in the air,
And golden music throbbed every
where;
And men were gods, and gods.
were men,
And life a bauble flung to them Out of the sun-god's diadem. . . When Rapunzel leaned out of her
window
And swept the world with her hair Ethel E. Mannin to the Royal Magazine.
Apple Harvest.
These mellow days of Autunn
glow Take me back to Devon land. As through the City streets I go, I see instead the orchards
stand
With leaning burdened apple
trees.
While pickers tread beneath
their feet
The fallen apples as they please. ripened odour sickly
The
The Lord Chamberlain, as the
Licenser of Plays, is a much more sensible and liberal-minded official than is the years when he refused
year.
permit, the performance of Ibsen's plays on the public stage. But he still clings to the Victorian convention that something dread- It has been amounced from a
ful would happen to the State, if a seemingly authoritative source that.
dramatist were allowed to put on we are running out of blondes, says
the stage characters who, in their the New York Amerigu, The
personal appearance as well as matter has even been mentioned in
their talk, resembled Ministers or Washington, and it is serious,
ex-Ministers of the Crown. Mr. Bernard Shaw's play, "Back to Every year there are fewer natural blondes in this country, and a good many.of the artificial blondes arc
Methuselah" is about to be pro- duced by the Birmingham Reper going back to the raven locks, oras
tory Company, which is one of the er the raven as they can get after being blondes It is usually a sort
most intelligent and enterprising of green. We believe the blondes
of all-repertory theatres. "Back to Methuselah" is, an even longer have added more to the spirit of
play than the same author's "Heart- ggiety in this country than any
break House, which was pro- other class of girl. At one time,
duced at the Court Theatre last several years ago, there was an
On the first night it was actual peroxide peril. Many ladies who were never blondes before.
still going on at mid-night. If joined this happy, irresponsible
a dramatist insists on going, back to Methuselah he must be throng. Now, all is different. The belief in Washington seems to be
allowed considerable rope in point. that the decrease in the number of
of time, at least. But the Lord Chamberlain insists that two dazzling blondes in this country and the preponderance of the
political characters in the play, Mr. Lubin and Mr. Joyce Burge, must dusky-eyed brunettes is due entire- ly to immigration. For many years
not look like Mr. and Mr. although, as one commentator fairly we have been importing five times
points out, the real Mr. Lubin has as many brunettes ns blondes. The great tide of immigration has come
far too much dignity to be affront ed by such a pleasantry, and as for from Southern Europe. The Gor
the real Mr. Joyce-Burgo, the limos | mans, Scandinavians, Slavs, and
light is his favourite medium. It is other blonde races have not been
-EDITH DART, in The Wind- a curious delusion that it is some coming here like they used to.
how more "offensive to put a sér Magacioti Aur Asquith's War Book
politician-physically on the stage,
hn-to-stasi hii legding: The old lady who proclaimed that Thirsson Centurier "Hamlet" was too Lull of quota- The season of Brstclass cricket, articles, to attack him in bitter tlonk for lier taste would have the has produced at least two notewotsatire in political verses, or to hold same fault.toBing with Mr. Asquith's thy records. Yorkshire, in winning him up to ridicule, in curtoons and The Gennits of the War" the Championship has won 25 other drawings, which exaggerate (Cassell, 255 is seober dignifie matches. That, has never been his physical, as well as his moral ed, extremely well-documented, equalled; and it is less likely ever to fallings and shortcomings.
sweet.
Hangs heavy on the quiet air;
Ruddy the cider apples lie Piled about the orchard there.
Here, in the Strand, the
crowds go by... But swift for one the bustle
fades,
M
Is blotted out, awhile is not. For streets are grissy orchard
glades, With all their turbulence
forgot.
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