LAMMERT BROS. C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD."
AUUMIONEZIA, AFFRAISERS
AND SURVEYORS,
-Pablic Auctions-
Mrs. LAMBERT BROTHERS have received instructions from the Liquidators of the Hongkong HIDE & LEA) BER Co., Ltd. tin Liquidation) ta sell by PUBLIC AUCTION
FRIDAY
The 21st duy of December 1923, at 3 o'clock p.10.
at their Auction Rooms in Duddell Scot The Property Machinery and Plant, and Tanning Chemicals of
the above Concern
Lot 1 THE
(to be sold in 3 Lots subject to u Reservo
EXTENSIVE WELL BUILT, COMMODIOUS AND MODERN PREMISES aitmate at Ala Tau Kok, Kowloon, on KI. Lot No. 1287 and 640 which contain
AN AREA OF 110,902 Eq. FL
held under Crown Leases for 75 years from the 18th December 1011 with an option as to Lot No. 1287 of a further 70 years subject to a Crown rent of $508 per annum. The premises are, within the offensive trado atos se defined by the Sanitary Authorities and a licence has been granted by the Govern ment to carry on the business of a tsonery in all respects thereon. The property is situat ed on the main road between Hok Un and Kowloon City and is in
CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE
SEAFRON I
The extorsive buildings erected on the property are constructed. of the
BEST SOLID BRICK AND
CONCRETE
with tiled roofs and CONCRETE PIIS AND FLOORS.
There is on independent supply of water om a specially cope tructed well en the premises.
Lot 2. Tanning Machinery and Flant. Lot 3. Tanning Chemicals
The Tanning Machinery and Pleas will be put up, first as cae fot
If the
reserve price be not reached, the Plant and Machinery will be put up in sever al lots.
For further particulate inchiding con- ditions of sale, schedule i Machinery and Plant end Chemicals, apply to the Vendor's Solicitors,
Messrs. WILKINSON & ORIST,
Hongkong.
or to
A
the Auctioneers
3. Duddell Street,
Hongkong. Hongkong, 7th, December 1923,
ол
THURSDAY, December 20, 1923, commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Salta Room, Duddell Street. A Fine Selection of Toys.
Comprising:
Dolls, tenset, mater care, foot balls, rocking horses, acckinge, furniture eets, and Various other toys.
X'mas Crackers,
Also
On View from Wednesday, the 19th
December 1923.
Terms -Cash on delivery.
I
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
Bangkong, 14th December, 1993,
UNCLAIMED: TELEGRAMS.
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE, GRAPH COMPANI;::LTD.
The following unclaimed telegram- wro lying at the office of The Great Northern Telegraph Company (Limited)
Protection, from Robe.
hai,
Nolte Hongkong Hotel, from Shang-
Yasukawe Fakai Yoko Kakrigai, from
Takefiz..
Fowler Hongkong and Ehanghai
Bank, from Shanghai,
Chosen, Hongkong Hotel, from Kobe
Batoncizo Nihonyssen. from Kobe,
K. Yamada Hotelc/o Waids Wanchai, from Kobe,
Hangmow 363 Queen's Road, from Shanghai
Tong Hing Lung, from Nagasaki. 0679, from Ningpo.
Yeeshainchan, from Shanghai.
Yimyip - Chang Shing Street West
Pains, from Tiantain.
· Wan Ching 231 - Queen's Road, from
Mornillon
Uylipkes, from Amoy.
Tinlee 283 Queen's Road, from Bhungbai.
N. LUND
Act Raperintendoni.
Hongkong, 13th December, 1923.
EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL ABIA & ORINA TELEGRAPH CO.
List of unlaimed telograma lying in
Telegraph Offles, Hongkong. Denon, from New York.. Windmurah, from Shanghai.
R. M. MAUALPINE,
Buperintendent Hongkong. 13th December, 1923
BANITARY ENGINEERS MONUMENTA LINTS
Offices and Godavaa,
, Waschal Road, Hongkowy
Tol, Centyni No. 2004
JUST RECEIVED
A New Block Of
+
LOWDOWN FLUSH CLOSETS. Nickel Plated, On Bra, Bath · Room Fitting-Boop Dikes, Tumbler Holders Tooth Brush Holder, Towel Rab, do Opal Tomblon-Towel Hall-Mirror
Gas Shelver, "&s.
Brass Canopied Interior Orates Cooking Hargo-Filters, Soll Pipei, &c.
Estimates Free For All Sanitary Installa
tions. Howing & Water Bystema.
Monumentalista In Italian Marble- Hongkong Granite. Te own or selected design."
▲ Large Amoriment Of Artificial Wrothe
In Stock.
FOR SALE
Fine Assortment of
XMAS AND NEW YEAR
CARDS
WITH LOCAL VIEWS
and
TOYS,
at Moderate prices.“
GRAQA & CO.,
Dealers in Toys, Fostage Stamps, Pictorial Post Cards, Garden Seeds, &c., No. 10, Wyndham Street,
P. O. Box No. 62.
Horigkong.
SHOEMAKERS.
(Japanuse lisad Mado)
Every kind of Footwear.
MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & 00.,
&QAGÐILAR:STREET,
Opposite Kayamally & Co. Telephuda Contral No. 41
Hongkong, March 20, 1814,
WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITCASES.
When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases ?
They are Cheaper and More Durable.
CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO.
(Opposite Yaumati Feny, Fraya)
ABARI 8828
BRAND PRIZE.
ASAHTE
LAGER
BREWERY
COME
BE
MIISUL HUSSAN, KAISHA
CHINA MAIL.
The Three Castles Cigarettes
MAC NUM
and
REGULAR
SIZES.
WEIKENDAY
EUBER 19 1923
HOTELS & CAFES.
*LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS.
HONGKONG.
Telegraphic Address-KREMLIN HONGKONG.
HONGKONG HOTEL
REPULSE BAY HOTEL
SHANGHAI,
PEAK HOTEL..
Telegraphic) Address CENTRAL, SHANGHAL ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL
GRAND HOTEL KALSE
- PEKING.
PALACE HOTEL
Telegraphic Address-WAGONLITS, PEKING.
GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONS LITS. ¡
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI, HOTELS, LTD.
in conjunction with!
The Grand Hotel des Wagons; Liu, Ltd.
Castles
Cigarettes
The Three
The Cigarette with the Pedigree"
4
Tel. Centl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL Tol. Add: "Carlton."
VEH Dont jamƒ}%+-4ôtel à thè Oblóny,
Nice and quiet yet caly a few minates walk from the Banka, saḍ. Central Districts 43 Bedspops. Excellent Cajalne. Scrupulously cleani Under American Managerhart A' now Dining Room has been opened me No. 2, Queen's Road (lat floor). Entrance Ice House St. Tiina a speciality
For terms apply to MORET CAMPRI Proprietrese.
PALACE HOTEL
(Thren minated from Kowloon. Forty Warf & Rallway Station.) Entirely under Enghab Management. Electric Light and Fans Throughout Every Room with Exivare, Bach,
Lounge Bar & Billiard Rooms. Unrivalled Uuisine under tho personal
“supervision of the Proprietor.
Terma moderate. special terms to familier on application to
J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor.
W.D.SH.OV
Bristol Londo
Regimeted Trade Mirk.
This advertisement in fanied by British-American Tobacco Co. (China), Ltd.
7
ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT..
Balzac's Morning.
ست
A very heavy sleeper, he used to set a big alann-clock be carried about with him, for two o'clock in the morning, and on rising in his little room at Saché he made a cup of coffee on a spirit lamp. When he had drunk this and eaten several lices of dried toast, he sat up in bed and; on a sort of portable desk, Continued to write for hours, at a stretch. When in the midst of a story, he was known, to continue until five o'clock in the evening, his only nourishment being coffee and toast, Then he would rise, dress for dinner and remain with his hosts until ten o'clock, when he would retire for the night.
When Balzac had once decided on the theme for a new novel: be wrote it straight off, leaving spaces only when documents of which he was in need were japking. Having completed his documentation, be, made what modification, he con- sidered necessary, and finally he went over his text a third time, sentence by sentence, so that when. his MS, was ready for the printers. hardly a single phrase of the first, draft remained.
Humour, in the Courts.
* ́ ̈A ̈ husband replying to a wife's complaint at Tottenham that he was not maintaining her, said he reduced her wages" to £z Ős, a week because she didn't give him that attention a wife should give her husband:
A Meteor,
taste the least bit queer? Did he think there was any advantage to be got out of the French exchange? If so, she would leave the ship at
An interesting description of a meteor of extraordinary brilliancy has been received from the com- mander of the Royal Mall-Steam Packet Company's Orbita:: In the Marseilles, and stay in the Riviera. official report which was sent to Steward, some more. bacon, well- the United States Hydrographic done!, "Somebody told me," she Office in New York appears he went on, that the ship lurched following: "In latitude, 46:12 NG longitude 38.43, W., at 5:55 am frightfully once last night. I al- GMT, a meteor of extraordinary ways said it would, if ever it mat brilliancy was observed travelling really bad weather." at a great speed from the direction
He trusted she would, take no through Cassiopeiae, and vanishing open window, and found himself of the constellation of Pegasus hairt from the accident of the in the vicinity of the Great Bear speculating, while listening polite. The meteor appeared to burst in the ly but without attention to her region of Cassiopeiae, illuminating complaining voice, whether there the heavens from horizon to was not a more profound difference horizon. Such was the vividness. between, some human creatures, of the flash that the observer was say between a man like Amiel and temporarily blinded, being unable the lady from Hongkong, than to see for about five minutes. The there was between ben and one of meteor appeared to be about four the lower animals. The passengers times the size of Sirius, and for a at the captain's table laughed aloud period of about 20 minutes, after its tlaljóke secret to themselves. The passage a brilliantly luminous captain was not with them that vaporous gas remained in the sky morning. One of the men there marking the meteor's trail." What to Wear?
turned, and called over to the next table. "I'say, Mrs. Taft here says she was just climbing out to shut her window when the ship sudden- ly rolled last night, and her husband says!!
I
I am bidden to go to a party,
A Fancy Dress, slap-up'affair; have sent an acceptance that's
hearty
But cannot think what I can wear Perhaps I might venture to mooch
in
As Hodge with a miniature
plough;
it
Hadn't you better let him say asked the young botanist from Java puta 4 "There," exclaimed the lady be- side him. "Now we shan't hear it. Or should look better as Chu Chin It's too bad of you."H M
Of China whose surname Is Tamlinson
Worries
Chow?
Shall I purchase some hose and a
doublet?
Matrix people. worry over their Should I pose as a babe in a bad memories, and it is no doubt
pram?
www.oftam. troublesome -to forget Shall I go as a house that is sub- names, incidents, useful informa
let, ↓
ption, faces, and promises,, Starting And look like the "flat" that I on a long railway, journey, we buy- the book we bought a month ago; ...am?
One woman at Wood Green of another She threw a broom and then exclaimed, "Now am What price me an Emperor? having rung the bell, we stand in a going to start to kill you and when my sister Kate comes home she will finish you offig
Y cold sweat because, we havelfor (Nero?) Should Ecut any ice as a Greek gotten, the householder's name. ***Shall I dress, as a peer or a pierret? But how grateful, we should be that Or should I look chicas a Shejk ;) we forget, or seem to forget so much. How erhbarrassed with The role of a Rolls automobile.
„Might suit me (though painful to luggage we should soon barome if * stoop)
- it were not for oblivion. How in-. might make a bold Buffalo Bill, bibited 'should soon become If
lass who my lasso would we remembered all our disappoint loop
money meets and failures. How depress
"When I served the summons she flung ber 'make-up” pot at me, and left looking like a Reg Indian, said a witness at Bow County Courts
Wifeat Bow County Court: "The
But my family's juvenile member; ad we should soon become if we A solution attempts to supply -- had to remember all the Ugly sights
only difference when I married"Why not go is the Fifth of we have seen all the criệĩ things
was that I left a part-time job for
a 'whole-time job,”azu
we have heard.
You'll need ino. disguise...asaļskata
November?
Guy 1"} 1
-HARTLEY CARRICK,
Hongkong.
* Willesden Magistrate, to witness applying for her expenses; You
KEEP THEM HANDY. came here as an act of kindness, and will no doubt be paid--but not The lady from, Hongkong com- over you, whod your temper gate awry.
When that dar
dark grey feeling creeps:
in casi PANGA MAKAGANA, plained at breakfast, that, her sour spirita sink to zero, you dign, want steward had forgotten to close her to be bothered with anybody or apribick
A police witness at North Lon-port window last night. "I had to try: Finletter, the daimy Title (kiktive đèn, in a drunk and disorderly, gerup mid skuriemyself Quit charge, said the prisoner was lean- suddenly the wind was terrible Jug against the railings blowing, a and do you know, my window was police whistle for a taxicab open? I might have got an awfulam k
PINKETTES
Chill, So carelere,su Now, on the dba vorteghasone,
A seaman charged at West Hem P & O She had travelled they will Tan for assault said he, was "not cape, widely, the lady from longkonginsport Free 602 able at the time. Clerk: Drunk by, all the principal lines, and shell Williams Mo or Incare Seaman: I lost my would never travel by this one any Road, Bhangh
^niore, you know. - Didn't the bacon PinkettAR
senses.
well
Tel. Howloon
No
HOTEL
Tol. Addre
"Palaco
"ASIA"
WEST BUND, - CANTON,
Leading Hotel in South China.
First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans and Elevators. Roof Garden, Hairdressing SalcoL,
Splendid Views of City and Pearl River.
Excellent Cuisine.
Moderate Rates.
Under the Management of the SUN. OO LIDI, ONKTON.
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL
Telegraphic-address "ASTOR"
Telephone Central 170. · 13, Queen's Road Central.
A first class Hotel centrally located, large and airy rooms, completely renovated and refurnished. New Dining Room for Meals and la Carte.. Ricellent Cuisine. Monthly Tickets for Tiffas and Dinners. Vader entirely new Management.
For farther particulars apply to
M. A. VAZ, Manager.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
A
·CENTRAL · LOCATION
IL KLNOTAIS TRAKƏ PAM ENIIanos, Blao- izio Lárty Pies and Lightong, Karupana Fikha and Sanitary Fritidues, Hót and, Qold Water Bielem tarongarút Berrios,
Tak Chathir
Tasdgrápido Adtraits* VICTORIA ---J; WYTOMEIL, Manager.
MASSAGE
Mr. N. AKAJI & Mrs. E. AKAJL Graduate of Tokio Massago Sohoot Np & Cons Hord Ca Telephone No. C. 4595.
BOOKMÁNY, AN
the late BIEN TINO, -16, D'Agallar Street,
TERMS VERY MODERATE "Conaüllition?" ra,
MASSAGE.
Mrs. HONDA, Mrs. KISÁKI and
INNA BEBININKU
C. FALCONER & GO, (HONGKONG) L
"WATOHMAKERS & JEWELLEES. DIAMOND MERCHANTS UNION BUILDING (OPPOSITBIG.
Agents for ADMIRALTY CHARTS.
ROSB'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS,-", ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery,
THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO.
How! Office: 79 Wyndham "treet and Floor, (Opposite Central Police Station) Tel, Central 4166.
Dealers in all kinds of High-class Bilk "Shirts, Collars, Neckties and Pyjamas for Gentlenen "AND, ALBO Chemines, Skirts, Wrapporn, Souria, Veils, and: zht-gow
MODERATE PRICE, SS FROMPT DELIVERY
67% EMILIO LI
FIFA FHOTO SUPP
LONG HING & CO Zod and Rodd', a
DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.
PSONIYA, QUIKʻstRoad, Chitrat, Holozeno,