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THE CHINA MAIL.
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LAMMERT BROS.
AVOTISTRERE, AFFRAMEES AND: SUKTETORE.
-Public Auctions-
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Toner
C. E. WARREN & COLVATD.
412. K
SANITAT ENGINEERE
- MONUMENTALUZIE
User And Gedown,
Wapobal Bond, Hongkong
Os BunDare Baqueray
Best, Vary AND__ Raruwatim Porno
Frbon & Wazz Tuks---Barus) Bastia
DAY TO BATE ROOM FITTINGS WAZ BY
tlong to sell by Pablle kustion,
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MONDAY, Fabrasry 15, 1924,
commanding at 2.15 p.m..
at No. 44A, Nathan Road, Kowloon,
A Quantity of
Valuable, Household Furniture, (Particulars from Catalogue)
A110
One Cottage Piaro by “Allison" London,
On View from Banday, the 24th February 1994.
Torm-Cash on delivóry.
LAMMERT BROS.. Auctioneers.
Hongkong, 10th February, 1814.
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TURSDAY, February 28th, 1924
commencing, at 9.45 p.m.
at Clavadel No. 298 The Peak
A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture.
Comprising
Chesterfield Couch, and Arm- chairs, Teak Desk, Teak dining table, Dining Chairs with leather Cover seats, Teak Sideboard, Brass Ornaments, Glass Ware, Crockery, Curtains, Carpets and Washable Tugs etc.
..
Bedstead, Large teak wardrobe (with heaters inside) Teak, ward- robe with glass front, Dressing table with bevelled mirror, Long Dressing Mirror, Chest of drawers, Book Case, Bed Couch etc. etc.
Also
Vacuum Cleaner, Steel filing cabinet, Meilink Safe,
And
Carved Cherry Wood Desk, Cabinet Pethephone, American *Refrigerator.
Catalogue will be issued..
On View on Monday the 25th, February 1924
L'orme:-Lash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS: Auctioneeru.
FREE Undersigned have received in structions from the Liquidator
to sell by Pablic Auction
.. on
THURSDAY, February 28, 1924, commencing at 11 am.
ar No 8-Daddeli-Street, the premises-of- Lie China Specie Buak (in Liquidation)
A Quantity of Valuable Once Furniture Comprising:-
Teak deska, Filing Cabinet, Chaim tables. typewriting tables, Copying. prees, clocks, large mirrora, etc., etc.
Rex Visible and Underwoord type- writers, Monroe adding machine and
Registering Burrough's
macbine, Electric fitting, inverted ceiling lights exc., etc.
Also
One Safe by Philis and Sons
One Safe by James Black
One Ball Cabinet Fils
One John Tana's Patent akrong room door.
And
One Fine Teak Counter with Brass Rails and Teak and glass partitions.
Catalogues will be fasuod...
On view from Tursday the 26th February 1924
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Terms -Cats on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS; Auctioneers." Hongkong, 21st February, 1924.
FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.
The farm proscribed for public vehicles
are as follows:-
In the Island of Hongkong, Coina Boad and Lower Levels, and in
Kowloon, and New Kowloon,
י
emington... & coate
Ten minutes,"
10
11
Puarter hour, som
Ope boar,
30
Eubooquent bunn
K
Half hour... a m. saponimined20
If the juricksha ba engaged within the City of Victoria, and be dis charged outaide the Western part of the City of Vistoria after 9 p.m.. or be dis charged to the East of Pay View Police Etation on the Eastern' side, of the City af Victoris ifter 9 p.m., an extra half fara aball be chargeable.
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For 2 or 3 drivers the fare is denkle oz
treble roepoctively.
12.—In the Hill District,
en minutes, ecomozionisioon, 15 of
Quarter boat,manum 20
Ball hour.arimaninstarevodnémsés 30–19.
Choko 40 11-In the New Territoria
By arrangement with the proprietors.
through the Police.
1-Lower Levels.
** With # „Bearers? With 4 Beavers,
Ten minutos, 1000ta 20 cents
Later hour. 15
30
Г
Fall bour, 25
40
no hour
A
ry subonquent
buor.........
II-Hill District
With Bearers With & Beavers,
Ten minutes, à 15 centa
Quarter Ecor 20
“I hour, min 30'
One bough 40.
Evary.subsequent
According to a well-known firm of boal factors in London, there is no ustification for the price charged at the presund, mordante lys latne upon the failway comper which, since the amalgamation, he States, azo holding up wagons...
GAS, OIL ORAL
FTCHUP HAAZAAR. ****
OPEN AND CLOSED GRATZE-COOKEDING
RAWOZ
Barré KYLA -Fawn ·Fon “Azz Bäxerame
İNSTALLATIONS kak
Hot WATER" BYsinas, En, (OWERAL REPAIka Prometer ArtsFDED Toj
Bercialists In Moxumuural Work
GOT ÎN ITALIAN MARDIN ÜR
Booking Ga
JUST RECEIVED
A ŠEITMENT OF STALIAN MARELY F1008 Taas,
PS ON APPLICANTON.
ARTIFICIAL WELATHS FROM 6" to 18"
DAMIT
IN BOUL.*
FOR SALE.
Collections of Postage Stamps
Mounted in books,.
all different, without duplicate. · 500 Stamps 8.4. 2500 Stamps $40, 1000
1500
2000
J
€ 8, 3000
850.
$18 3500
tt
$80.
930.4000
H
$75.
10000 Stamps $500.
GRACA & CO., “
Datore in Postage Stampe, Religious .. Goods, Garden Beeda, Toya, &c.
No. 10. Wyndham, Street,
Hongkong.
F. O. Box No. 820.
SHOE MAKERS.
Every
Japanese Hand Made)
and of FootWERT. MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & 00.
8. D'AGUILAN STREET,
Opposite Kayamally d'? Telephone Central Bio/91 og 2
Hongkong, March 20, 2914,
WHY BUY FOREIGN-
MADE SUITCASES
When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases?
They are Cheaper" and More Durable. ·
CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO.
(Opposits Yasmati Ferry, Prays)
ASAHI BEER
PILSENER BEER
„GRAND PRIZRENJ
ASAHI BE
COMP
Before Hour Time!
Three Caftles Cigarettes
were established favourites.
Co-Bay there 26**
no finer Virginia- Sigarelle.
1980%:
Three Caftles
The Clearcite with a Pedigrée!
This söverilsenient is invited by Belthah-American Tobacco Co. (China), Léč.
war-had no grievances. Other very soon all the coloured' people excuses might be found, but they of the neighbourhood, with a flock were justified in saying that social of piccaninnies, were outside the misery was not the cause of
Child's Tragic Vigil..
**
ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
Heiress's Secret Wedding.
revolution. Is had always happen-modest red-brick home tenanted ed hitherto that civilisation had by Brooks, in order to cheer the New York society was surprised been upheld by a small part of a, President and his wife on leaving by the unexpected news that Miss nation-those who, by virtue of Millicent Rogers, grand-daughter some qualities that led to social Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge spent twenty and wealthy heiress of the late success, had more wealth and more minutes with Brooks, expressing Standard Olt millionaire, Mr. H. education than the majority. And their hopes for his recovery, and Rogers, was married, at the City it had always happened that ruling receiving thanks for the flowers Municipal Building, to Count classes ended by ruling themselves. Ludwig Salm Von Hoogstraten out. Nothing failed like success. sent him from the White House head of an old Austrian house. Nearly all the "Red" leaders; in conservatory during his illness, The marriage was entirely without Russia, said Dean Inge, diagnosed Brooks told his neighbours that the the knowledge of either the bride's by. some medical professors who kindly, visit had done him more or the bridegroom's. friends even escaped, were of unsound mind, good than medicine, and that he Miss Rogers's parents. Colonel most of them alcoholics and and Mrs. Henry Huddleston diseased, and many addicted to hoped to return to his duties before Rogers, having no inkling that drugs. Russia would soon become the end of the week. such a ceremony was to take a State of peasantry governed by a Flying Messages. place. In સ brief
statement military tyranny which would call
The British Air Service in through their attorney, they admit itself something else. the wedding has occurred, but
Mesopotamia bas, it is stated, per. make no further comment. The
fected a scheme for delivering bride is extremely wealthy, baving
A boy of five years has just been written messages to planes without inherited practically the whole fortune left by Mr. Rogers, who rescued from a Paris flat after the necessity of their landing and- was associated with Mr. John D. spending three days watching over stopping to pick up the documents, Rockefeller in the building up of the bodies of his parents, whom he A line is stretched between two the Standard Oil Trust, -
was still trying to waken when he poles about six feet high and per was found sobbing by his mother's haps 20 feet apart. To this line "Pussyfoot" Johnson.
corpse and calling to her. The boy the message is tied. By spread- "Pussyfoot" Johnson, a trifle was the son of a Polishshopkeeper, ing large pieces of cloth on the the worse for wear, returned home who, after the Armistice, married ground in a prearranged pattern after an eight months' tour in the an American student in Paris, the pilot of the aircraft is signalled distant lands of South Africa, whose parents in New York are that there is a message for him: Egypt," Arabia, and Zanzibar, said to be very wealthy. They cb-the arrangement of the cloth also spreading his gospel concerning jected strongly to their daughter's indicates in what direction he must the evils of the demon rum, and he marriage, and the family lived y to cross the line between the told the newspaper reporters that entirely on the profits of the hus-poles at right angles. If more than he had bothing but geod news to baud's small business. But recent tells which plane is to receive the one plane is up, the cloth again report to his fellow-werkers of the ly they appear to have been strug Anti-Salpon League. Mr. Johnsongling hard with poverty.
The selected plans message. It wore an expansive smile, despite is believed
swoops low over the poles, and that they the fact that his remaining eye is cided upon a suicide pact, and the pilot dangles a line to the end becoming dim and his hearing is
put it into execution by falling. But, as he expressed it, drinking poison. As they had not engages the line to which the you can't dampen the spirits of a been seen for three days the message is tied, and line, message good Dry," and declared, that he concierge of their building broke and all are dragged into the air. did not intend to die until the into the flat and found the man The pilot reels in his catch as the chief converts abroad was the with two glasses, believed to dives to the point of delivery and whole world was dry. One of his and his wife, both lying dead plane speeds away. If the message is to be delivered the plane simply Sultan of Zanzibar. Mr. Johnson's have contained poison, by their
de-
of which is attached a hook. This
latest complaint against England side. The little boy, crying from drops, the message.
lawless drinker.". The prize was
was that his watch was stolen on fright and hunger, related that his New Name for Lawless Drinker his last visit there, but he was con- parents had gone to sleep and he
"Scofflaw is the word chosen soled with the knowledge that Mr. had not been able to wake them. Ramsay MacDonald was dry, and He noticed a smell of gas and from more than 25,000 submitted that Englishmen would probably turned off the tap, and then, find in a £40 prize competition as the soon sanction local optioning that his parents lying so still epither best calculated to "stab "Nothing Fails Like Success.” grew perfectly cold; he had piled awake the conscience of the The French Revolution caused blankets, and rugs on them to offered by Mr. Decimus King, a as much alarm in Europe as the warm them. He had had nothing wealthy resident of Quincy. first outbreak of cholera, said to eat except a bar of chocolate Massachusetts, who conceived. Dean Ingelina lecture on during his three days' vigil, think "Revolutions."" "at the Royalty lag only of waking his parents, Theatre. It was a new disease, and oven yet he does not realise and nobody knew how far it would that they will never wake again, spread. Now we looked upon it as President and Negro an epidemic malady with per
the idea of coining a word with such, a vicious sting that its ap plication to the illegal"'drinker would shame him into mending his ways. To-day Americans em- ploy such relatively inadequate iodical, acute epidemic outbreaks. American citizens of African terms: as: ^" bunzehound,”-- nim- Hlatorians would try to explain descent—it is estimated that there hibber," whiskychster,” and revolution by expiating on the are close on 12,000,000 in the "hoochlɗpper," but they do not misery of the people who made | United States, and in some dis- sting the offenders, with sufficient them, but historians had a power, tricts they are an important voting force as lawless citizens, "and not claimed even by the Deity, of factor are very gratified by the many glory in their shame: Mr. | altering the past. The legend of announcement that the President King now offers an additional
the misery of the French peasantry and Mrs. Coolidge, after attending prize of £40 for the best" "state" was probably too deeply roosed to church service, stepped into a big ment of 100 words giving the be disturbed, but, in fact, France White House car and drove to the reason why the ot was the richest country in Europe, north west section of Washington,
illegally obtained
and prosperity was widely disc which is largely occupied by colour receive such a tributed, Russin vas, happy, and ed folk, to Lvisit Arthur Brooks, -a
may con prosperous in the years after the 'negro valet of the President's since untry was the Taft Administration, whol has
gett
befor
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HOTELS & CAFES.
LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS,
HONGKONG. Telegraphic Address-KREMLIN, HONGKONG.
HONGKONG HOTEL
REPULSE BAY HOTEL
SHANGHAIC
PEAN HOTEL
· Telegraphic-Addrosst-CENTRAL, SHANGHAL
CASTOR :HOUSE. HOTEL.
GRAND HOTEL. KÄLBE.
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 Lifts, Ltd.
00:03:00-0-00000000
Tel, Centi. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add: "Carlton."
The Only American Hotel in the Colony.
Mice and unles yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banka, and Central Diar teta. 43 Bedrooms Excellent_Cuisine, Berupulonely slead. Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened as No. 2, Queen's Road (lai floor)," Entrance Ice House Street, Tifine a speciality,
For terms apply to Mm. F. E. CAMERON, Propriétrosa,
Tel. Kowloon No. 3.
Tel. Address
"Palace
PALACE HOTEL
(Three minutes from Kowloon Forry Wharf & Railway Station.) · Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Funs Throughout.
Every Room with Private Bath.`-- Lounge Ear & Billiard Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the Eroprietor.
Torms moderate. opealal terma to families on application to
J. B. XBEGRY, Proprietor.
HOTEL
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'ASIA”
WEST BUND, CANTON. ̈ ̈
Leading Hotel in South China.
First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans a
Roof Garden. Hairdressing Salcon, Elevators. Splendia Views of City and Pearl River Excellent Cuisine:
Moderate Rates.
Under the Management of the SUN
CANTON,
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ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL. Telegraphic address "ASTOR"
Telephone Central 120.
13, Queen's Road Centrál
A first class Hotel centrally located, large and airy rooms, completely renovated and refurnished. New Dining Room for Meisand la Catte. Excellent Cuisine.. Monthly Tickets for Tiffine and Dinners. Under entirely new Management,
For further particulars apply to
M. A. VAZ, Manager,
-1, VICTORIA GARDENS. HANKOW ROAD, KOWLOON, NEXT DOOR TO
NEW KOWLOON HOTEL, A
Every home comfort. Very large wall famished One minute from steamar. Personal supervision.
MRS. STEWART OGILVIE,
BOARD and. BESIDENCE, doable and singla, ma Terms om 84 por day
KING EDWARD HOTEL
CENTRAL LODATION ELECTRIC TRAMS PAR ENTane, leo
vand Lighting, Water Bystems throngbrot. Best of Food and T. Canti. Talegraphle dáßEN:-" VICTORIA.
Art, And Gold
Service
3. WITCHELL, Massgiɛ..
MASSAGE
MEN. AKAH & Mrs. E. AKAJI, Graduate of Tokio Massage Serosi," No. 8, Quean'a Road, C Telephone No. C. 4395.
Prophetron,
TANG YUK, Dant
the Iste. BIEN TING, 14, D'Aguller Street.
TERMS VERY MODERATE ConsultationFree.
MASSAGE.
Mrs. HONDA, Mrs, KISAKI MENA "R. SHIMIDZU. Bu. Wyndkét Étreet. ferrous co thu Ghi Hiking
G. FALCONER & CO., (HONGKONG) LTD:
Agents
WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS
DIAMOND MERCHANT:
UNION BUILDING (OPPOSITELG.
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.
Hari 100oo: 78 Wyndham "treet 2nd Floor (Opponite Central Police Station) Tel, Central 4166.
Dealers in all kinds of High-claw Silk Shirts, Collare, Necktion and Pyjamas for Gentlemen
AND ALS Fikirts, Wrapp-órn, Bouríny Vails, and Night gowns for Ladies
PROMPT DELIVERY.
MOD
LONG HING