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THE CHINA MAIL.
AMMERT BROS. C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
AUCTIONEERS," AFFRAISERS
AWN SURVEYORS.
Fblic Auctions—'
THE Undoraigned have received initia
Torellie Fublin Anction.
THURSDAY, Fobrnary 14, 1924,
commencing at 11a.m.
at their Sales Boome, Duddell Street,
5 Bales Canvas,
4 Cases Files.
3 Cases Machine Needles.
I Case Chints."
ro Cases Shoe Nails.
10 Cases Shoe Wire.
2 Cases Motor parts.
I Case Magneto.
1 Case Electric fittings,
1 Case Ice Shavers.
I Case Label Cutters.
---Case-Cap Blocks.
180 Pairs Black Elastic Gartering
14 Cases
482
Kalsomine (various
colours.)
Rolls of Congoleum in different patterns and plain colours...
And
29 Shoe and Sewing Machines: On View from Wednesday the
13th February, 1924.
BANITARY ENDINERIA
MONUMENTALISTY
Gülcel Ücdawsk PA, Wanelial Bond, Hongkong
Tul. Central Nue, I
ALL KINDS OF BORDERS ReaveTYRE IN STOCK.
Bott, VET AND
JATKUS
A
KAUWWATER PHE Froon & Wair Tuxe-BATHS, BAKINS. BAT ROOM FITTINGS-WAK
FOR GAL, OIL OR COAL Furt BEW Car Heaters. OPEN AND CLURED GRATES-Commo RAKOKS
ESTIMATES FREE FOR ALL BANTART
INSTALLATIONA
HOT WATER Systems, a
GENERAL Bariins PROMPTLY ÁTTEREND TO.
REZORALSETH IN MONUMENTAL WORK
CUT IN ITALIAN Marula Ún
Honkong UsAKITE,
JUST RECEIVED
A SHIPMKET QF ITALIAN MAKELE ICON "XTLES
PRICES ON APPLICATION.
AATICAL WAKATHS FROM 8" to 18"
DIAMETER ➢”," །༦
In Brock.
FOR SALE
Collections of Postage Stamps
Mounted in books,
ali different, without duplicate.
500 Stamps & 2500 Stamps $40.
CEEDIUM STRENGTH
CAPSTAN
Navy Cut Cigarettes
WD&HOWILLS Bristol & London
66
CAPSTAN
VIRGINIA
CIGARETTES
SELECTED & BLENDED BY EXPERTS FROM THE FINEST VIRGINIA LEAF
Smokers of
“CAPSTAN” CIGARETTES
are always sure of a cool and pleasant smoke with an excellent flavour
MONDAY, FEBRUARY- I1, 1974.
HOTELS & CAFES.
LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS
1
HONGKONG. Telegraphic AddressKREMLIN, HONGKONG.
P HOTEL HONGKONG HOTEL
KEPULSE BAY HOTEL
SHANGHAI.
Telegraphic Address-CENTRAL, SHANGHAL -
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL
GRAND HOTEL KALEE.
**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 Lite. Ltd.'
Tel. Cent. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add: "Cart
The Only American Hotel in the Colony Central Dis
Nice and quiet yet only a few miasto walk from the Benks, and
49 Bedroom Excellent Casino-Berzpalously clean. Under American Management. A now Dining Room has been opened at Na, 2 Queen's Road (1st cor) Entrance Ios House Street. Tifins speciality.
For terms apply to Mr. F. E. CAMERON, Propriotes
Telolon PALACE HOTEL
No. 3
Tel. Address "Palaco
(Three minutes from Kowloon Forry Wharf & Railway Station), Entirely under English Management. Electric Licht und Fats Throughout. Every Room with Private Bath.
Loungo Bar & Billiard Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the Proprieten Terras moderata, special terms to families on application to
J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor.
PUBLIC AUCTION."
10000 Stampa 8500.
Terme-ach on dolivary.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers,
1000
r
Hongkong. 9th February, 1924.
1500
300G 3. $18, 9500
19
850.
$60.
2000
830. 4000
$75.
11
H
The CIGARETTE for
APSTAN Navy Cut Cigarettes
the CONNOISSEUR
BY OF DER OF THE MORTGAGEES PARTICULARS OF SALE. of
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY
SITUATE AT VICTORIA IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG
AND KNOWN AS
No. 18, Ice Bcuso Street and No. 6,
Daddell Street
to be sold by
PUBLIC AUCTION
30
MONDAY
the 18th day of February, 1924
it 3 o'clock p.m. by
MESSTS. LAYMERT BROTHERS, Auctioneer.. At their Fahsroom Laddell Street
PARTICULARS
The property is situate upon See- TION OF ISLAND LOT No. 339. There is a frentage of 91 feet 2 inches, in Dadriell Street. The premises cover. an area of 5500 square feet or there- abouts and are held for a term of 999 years from the 11th day of May 1849. The Rroun Rent payala in respect f the premises is $80,- per annum.
For further Particulars and diuona of sale apply to
con-
MESIR. HASTINGS DENNY & BOWLEY, Solicitors,
3 Des Voeux Road Courl
or 13
Messrs. LAMMERT BROTHERS,
Auctioneers,
Duddell Street.
Does Baby fret?
In the majority of cases it is a question of food. Either the diet of the mother who is feeding her child is insufficient or unsuited to her peculiar need, in which case Virol will help her, or the food substituted for that living liquid is unsuitable to the needs of the child.
More than 3,000 Infant Welfare Clinics and Public Health Authori. ties are meeting these difficulties by supplying Virol the food specially designer by Medical Experts to meet the needs of growth and development. Virol contains those vital principles that enable the body to transforia food into living tissue. "Virol is such a palatable and delicate preparation that it is assimilated by the weakest digestion. ·
Try Virol for yourself and for your little ond
VIROL
Flas your baby
the Viral Smile?
VIROL LTD. HANGER LAKE, YALING,
Lay LongON, W.,
FOOK BUN FOR SALE.
GRAUA & 00,
Dealers in Postage Stamps, Religious Goods, Garden Seeds, Toys, &c.
No. 10, Wyndham, Street,
P. U. Boz No. €20.
Hongkong.
-
SHOEMAKERS.
Japanese Hand Made)
nd of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER,
Every
CHERRY & CO.,
6. D'AGUILAR STREET,
Opposite Ramally & (o Telephons Central No. 191
Hongkong, March 20, 1914,
WHY BUY FOREING MADE SUITOA BES
When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases?
They are Cheaper and More Durable.
CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO. (Opposite Taumatį Ferry, Penya)
ASAHI BEER
PILSENER BEET
„GRAND PRIZE
CASAHI BA
LAGER
SPECIALLY
WERY
A SPECIALITY.
No. Willington Street.
MITSUI : BUSSAN KAISHA
OBTAINABLE FROM ALL HIGH-CLASS TOBACCONISTS
Packets of 10
Tins of 50
This advertisement is issued by British-American Tobaws Co, (Ubira), Lad,
ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS-LOOT:-
Rockefeller Gift.
He had heard by ed to excite the jaded appetite.. A lint described. dish may be perfectly delicious in telograph of the accident and of the itself, but if it fails to make an death of a young lady, but, happily, Tappeal to the diner-it-may-never-be-
suberitted to the final test. Where Sir Thomas Watson was able to set colours are concerned, nothing is so his mind at rest and assure him that
The very effective is contrast.
The Egyptian influence which was so self-evident in feminine
attire. carly in the year, consequent
од the wonderful
discoveries
in the Valley of Kings, far
At a meeting of the University Court of the University of Edin-appearance of a Crete Vichy or young lady was safe nt Crewe, burgh, a letter was rend from the "Cremes de Tounts will be The Egyptian Note. secretary of the Rockefeller Founda- enough to stimulate the average tion, New York. The letter referred palate; and if this is followed by a to certain proposals, which included little abilland Meier, the an offer to the University of Falin-pression made by the former is burgh, on the part of the Rockefeller intrusified nither than spoilt. rests, of capitul sum of the matter of entrees the skilful chef
it by fashion £50,000 towards (1) the erection, in is aver at a loss to serve a course from suffering the early eclipse Association with the Royal Infirm at once appetising and artistically foretold for
If it be a "Filet de experts, is asserting itself more rs, of a clinical laboratory, and (2) inttructive,
the beautifully vigorously than ever, and has even the completion of the endowment of Houf Nose, the Professorship of Surgery on a mised 4. Banked on either side invaded the latest designs for full-time basis. The Trustees fur with a garniturs of red tomatoes cushions and draperies of all des- ther affered an annual grant of gut dural shape and cooked in criptions (according to the Daily
butler-noisette
potatoes, and Telegraph) £1,750), for a period of at least five ech beats, should satisfy the That Carriage Window. years, to meet certain salary charges
Trost fastidious taste. Similarly Is there anything which brings in clinical medicine and clinical with sweets, jellies, puddings, bava-out the worst part of an English- yoise, friandises, gateaux, afford un- It is believed that this is the first limited scope to the original thinker man's character so thoroughly as occasion in which the trustees have only in the garest emergency the burning or should, one say made an offer of this mature to a Scottish University.
surgery..
Envelope Presents.
would
Melba
HOTEL
WEST BUND,
Leading Hotel in
'ASIA'
CANTON,
South China.
99
Hairdressing SalcoL,
First class Accommodation: Electric Lights, Fans d
Roof Garden. Elevators. Splendid Views Excellent Cuisine.
and of City
Pearl River.
Moderate Rates.
Under the Management of the
CO., SUN
LTD., CANTON.
ASTOR HOUSE HOTSL.
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 fur Meals and la Carte. Excellent Cuisine. Monthly Tickets for Tiffins and Dinners. Vader entirely new Management,
For further particulars apply to
M. A. VAZ, Manager
1, VICTORIA GARDENS.
HANKOW ROAD, KOWLOON, NEXT DOOR TO
NEW KOWLOON HOTEL.
BOARD and RESIDENCE. Every home comfort. Very large well faralshed
·double and single rooma. One-minate from steamers. Persons! supervision Terma from $4 per day
MRS. STEWART OGILVIE,
Proprietro.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
CENTRAL LOCATION
LL ELECTRIU TRAMS Pas Entrance, Kiss- srio LA, FADE and Lighta, European Baths and Ruslary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water Bystem throughout, Best of Food and TH. CHALL Trigraphio Address :—TRYCKTA
3. WITCHELL, MARAKWY:
MASSAGE
Mr. N. AKAJI & Mrs. E. AKAJI, .Graduate of Tokio Massage School,
No. 8, Queen's Road, C. Telephone No. C. 4395.
TANG YUK, 'Det
M
tho fato SIEN TINO, 14, D'Aguilar Strosi.
TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation rét.
MASSAGE.
Mrs. HONDA, Mrs. KIBAKI and R. SHIMIZU,
No. 24. Wyodrez. Etress twrite to v China Mali")
G. FALCONER & CO., (HONGKONG) LTD
fall back upon "Peche freezing question of upen windows
in a railway carriage (nska Merwyn A Harland in the London Evening A useful Christians present tip for A Warning Vision.
News. It is essentially an English-Herrice te very busy woman is buy The following account of an main's problem. The other nations nothing but what will pack into a
experience which befell Sir Thomas
of Europe have settled the problem good-sized envelope, observes Watson (reported by Light), one of quite simply, by just never opening Daily Chronicle writer. It is sure prising to find how i will pack the Physicians-in-Ordinary to Quce the windows at all. In the renioter comfortably into a good stout Victoria, ie taken from the Remini warts of the Continent no one has envelope of Manila paper-half aences of the luto Augustus Haro ever tried to see if the carriage win- Sir Thomas had occasion to pay down will open. On those lines dozen fine handkereliefs, kxxxi- sized diary, gloves, silk stocking, visit to a patient in the fur North, where the Englishman travels fro socks, fountain and just as the train was about to quently to windows have been baby's woollen poris, useful calendars, photogmph start a porter put a young lady into ruined to shut by themselves; at frames, all carts of little trinkets, the first-class compartment in which least that is the only solution I can hous seated. At first be was in offer of their mysterious behaviour. silver caddy spoon, fine lingerie, even clised to be vexed, had the young Suppose that your Englishman has a travelling dressing gown in fine silk will pack into one of the largely responded so charmingly when arrived in Calais or Boulogne. His sizes! Inside the outer envelope he offered her a paper that he deser- first action is to open the window in mined to be sociable. It soon tuns the Paris train. After a struggle may come a thinner che of almost parted that the vellers were ho succeeds, and then has to retire equal size, containing the gift bound for the same place; the young to wash of the dirt of ages which wrapped, if newly be, in cotton: wool, and lacked with or encased lady, in fact, was going to be ma he has dislodged in the process of inthin, stiff double cardboard.ed there on the morrow. After the unsticking the window. When he The inner envelop can be tied with first stop, just as they were moving hoe satisfied himself that a trickle off, the girl cried to the doctor to of water and a 3in. square towel. gay Christmas ribbon or tinsel stop the timin, and declared that won't do the job, le returns to his thrend, into which is tucked a card uw her sweetheart on the plat camiage to find the window is closed of seasonable greetings. For til form beckoning her to get out. Sir again, because, as I say, all windows dron, sets of Japanese stencils, with Sir Thomas looked out, but could in French milway caringes are stencil, brush, and cakes of Indiance nebody. At the next station a trained to ut by themselves. They ink, or gold and silver paint, com-similar thing, bappanel. She glide up mysteriously the second plate, pack into an envelope as do excited y exclaimed There, there, you talte your eyes off them--or airball bidders and compendiumy don't you see him? the young man perhaps it is because a thoughtful of table games, and sets of toy post in the brown ulster, beckoning to railway company has provided them cards to cut out-not to mention me," Again it was too lato for her wish special springs to protect its postal orders, to be transformed into to get out. und again the doctor pasongers against the reckless for- storybook. workbox. set of piggered her that are was mistakon. oigner. At home in England there pong or Mah-Jong, table fixework,At Crewe she saw the young man are few examples of more determin or even n tame squirrel, at the again, and as there was a short waited ferocity then the Englishman- choice of the young recipient. the old physician, seeing that the and still more the Englishwoman
young lady was upset, persuaded her in a suburban railway carriage who Few of us who dine out at two to rest for the night at the station believes that someone else wishes to Adnets a time realise the amount of hotel. Having utanged matters at deprive him or her of a due meet of care and forethought the chef gives the hotel, he resumed his seat. A fresh air or an icy blast according to the colours of the various items oond young lady entered the car to the way you look at it.
Coloured Dishes..
in a menu, observos & Daily Chroni ringe, und took the seat which for [cle writer. No olf with a tempera-predecessor had vacatod.
ment (our own culinary, correspon the trin lind gone many miles there dent asses us would think of sey, Was a sluiep colligion; "the doctor's ting white fish and white sauce im-heavy care of instruments was pitch-
Before
Mathara wby':
and
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THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO. Held Office: 70 Wyndham Street, 2nd Floor. (Opposite Central Police Station. Tel, Central 4166.
Dealers in all kinds of High-class Silk Shirts, Collars, Neaktion and Pyjama for Gentleme
AND ALSO
Chemises, Skirts, Wrappots, Scarfs, Veils, and Night-gowns for Ladies ALSO MADE TO ORDER MODERATE PRICE PROMPT DELIVERY
Manager: EMILIO LAU.
Staffy Calde
llow nufiles mediately after a white cream up end of the young Indy, and she was able when quick relief foliows the use ed violently from the rack upon the stuff wheez bredthing i din re your His soul would rebel; ngainst such dissonance quite apart from the killed instantly Hours later, when of Chamberlain's Conal Renied! It fact that a cream soup and a cream the doctor benched his destination, chroks the devel proent of weld and LONG HING & CO., A
saude bould never follow each other the first person be saw on the plate pattins no na'ties. It is good too for in giuck anocemoon. Colours, taste, form was the voting man in the staup and whooping cough. Svery user and garniture alike must be employ brown ulster, whom the young ladys friend. For anlo everywhere.
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DEVELOPING *" PRINTING. A SPECIALITY.
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