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LAMMERT BROS. G. E. WARREN FD.
Auctioneers, ÁPPRATERR AND SURVEYOR),
-Føblic Auctions-
THE Onderdgned havėreaAYOK INICIDE- Types
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FRIDAY, March 31, 1924, commencing at 5.15 p.m.
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street.
a Valusblo Collection of Postage
in:Stamps
Catalogues will be ferved.
On View from Thursday, the 20th March 1924.
"Torms:-Chah on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
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MONDAY, March 24, 1984 cosamencing at 9.30 p.m.
at No. 3, Gachigne Road, Kowloon,
A Quantity of Valuable House-
hold Furniture
(Particulars from Catalogue)
On view on day of anis.
Terms-Cash on dollvery.
LAMMERT BROS.; Auctioneer,
Hongkong, 17th March, 1824,
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WEDNESDAY, March 20, 1824,
commencing of 12 o'clock Noch
at their Bales Rooms, Duddell Street,
ONE GRAVES ETOHELL 20 OWT ELECTRIC {lized for
FURNACE, including One 250 K.V.A., Two 200 KV A., One 150 K.V.A., and One 120 K.V.4.. ringle phase Trade- former, compie with all cables, copper bars, cast iron clamps,, 2 way grooved bronze bare add bronze bolta, and spare #c., Sch.,
Also..
41 Tons ACBESON'S "B" ELECTRODES
"And
1 Tous "OROMITE (Latending Purchasers may view the above at the Old Steel Foundry Building. Shaaliwan Road, on any day between the hours of 8:30 and 5.p.m. Inspection orders may be had from Undersigned.)
Terms-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
Hongkong, March 8, 1924.
THE WATER SUPPLY.
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Paris will vanish with the demo- Plition of the unsanitary old houses that have survived the Middle Agas in those quaint, narrow
Loon & WLA THA—BATIN DANCER.
FOR GA, O OR COAL PUSS (Dew ChE MANTIDE
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HONGKONGOZATEZ {JUST_RECKIVED
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America. WaRATIS FROM B to 19. DIAMETER
In-Stock
FOR SALE
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Dealers in Postage Stamps, Religions Goods, Garden Seeds, Toys, &c.
No, 10, Wyndham, Struct, P. O. Box No: 620, Hongkong.
SHOEMAKERS,
Japanese Hand Made)
Every
and of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & 00.,
6, D'AQUILAR STREET,
Opposite Enyartilly & (o Telephons Central No. 19!
Hongkong, March 20, 1914 |
WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITCASESH
When we sell. Shanghait Manufactured Suitcases?
They are More Durable,
CHAG CHEUNG TRUNK CO.
(Opposite Ketti Forty, Praya)
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February 1912 and 1991.
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U. T. Carany.
Water Authority.
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After using a shaving brush bought at a sale of work at Catford, Bernard Ebbs, 17, of, Bromley, ú clerk, died of anthrax poisoning At the inquest to brush, which re vealed anthrax bacilli, was stated to have been imported from Japan in June 1920.
An open verdict was returned ath an inquest at Folkestone on Emra Boyd, on Baker, who was foutube dead in the house where she lived alone, a doctor saying that he vonk not state deckvoly the cause of death. The weta no signs of wing lenos or paisol
Mark All, who will be 96 in June, and who came to be the world's champion long distance walker, ar rived in Hounslow, Middlesex, CHA the last stage of a 24 kears' walk. anon which be embarked in August 1900, and, in the course of which fo states hotne tramped all over the
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des Btuves St. Martin, rue Pierre au Lard, and rug Bise Miche, says a Paris correspondent to the New York Herald.
The Municipal Council has voted 1,200,000 dois, for, their suppression.
CHINA MAIL.
AMAZING FRAUDS.
SWINDLER WHO LIVED IN
A CASTLE.
MYSTERY MAN UNMASKED.
Astounding chapters in the life of Ernest Dunbar Cairns, the self-styled "sugar king," who four years ago conducted campaign against the Government from his
sustain his role, for he was g erally regarded as a type of wealthy eccentric,
Sugar King Marriage,
It was about this time that ther augar king-to-be contracted and advantageous marriage. Ho
wooed and won a lady who was possessed of substantial means.
After leaving the hotel (omit ting the little formality of paying his bill), "Mr. Collingwood" went
streets, Geoffrey l'Angevin, lonely retreat at Drumnadrochit, to Southampton, where he pre- Inverness; were revealed at the tended that he wished to buy a
fleet of steam yachts. Old Bailey.
What he actually did was to "Baron Cairs, who once lived the life of a Scottish-laird, and obtain full particulars of a luxuri ous craft of 1,000 tons, advertise afterwards became the tenant of it as his own and invite people to Watermouth Castle, one of the most beautiful country seats in pay a large deposit for the Devon, was shown up by a detec-privilege of joining him on a long
cruise, tive as a confirmed liar, a forger, One or two intending passen- and a perpetrator of colossal gers became suspicious and in-
formad the police. "Mr. Colling Wood" departed hurriedly for
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houses in these streets, through which an ordinary motor car can- not pass, lying behind the spacious rue de Rivoli and close to the frauds. Hotel de Ville, will disappear,Į and their 12,653 tenants will have
to move,'
The Life of Trees.
the
A dramatic story was told of his marriage to a rich woman who thought he was a millionaire, of his flight to the Continent in a steam yacht, of his arrival in Brussels as an American with un- limited capital, who had come to advance loans to the nations of Europe, and of how he finished his adventures as an inmate in a pauper lunatic asylum in Kent.
Last Desperate Effort. When he stood in the dock of the Old "Bailey with every shred of reputation torn from him Cairns made a desperate last endeavour to save himself from the penalty of the law,
London.
CASTLE TENANT.
Sequel To His Famous Cheap
Sugar Campaign.
After serving a sentence of three months' imprisonment for an offence under the Business Names Act, Cairns retired to Scotland, and rented the largo place in the Highlands from which he conducted his famous
cheap sugar" campaign.
He made it known that he held concessions abroad, and could sell sugar at 2d. a Ib. cheaper than the Government.
Trees, more nearly than any other organisms, seem to have attained to something approaching eternal life, writes S. L. Bastin in Open Air. It has, of course for Jong been known that certain kinds, such as oaks and yews, live for many hundreds of years, but it has never been proved that they really die of old age. As a rule, the tree decays owing to attacks of fungoid pests, and, in the absence of the rotting disease which is set up it would seem that the individual might go on living indefinitely.. The ancient tree, which may have weathered cen turies, makes its new shoots with as much vigour as a young sapling. Quite likely. trunk may be perfectly hollow, but the yearly additions of new tissues are developed with the umosi regularity. Oftenan ancient tree which has been blown down will spring again from the roots and one of more new trunks will arise. This is commonly to be
There he kept a motor-car, seen in the case of the Englished his criminal record. “I was
lived in great state, with a big elm. A large tree at the side of a convicted on false evidence. field is either felled or blown down was all a put-up job.
staff of servants, installed by a gate. All along the hedge
electric plant at a cost of over arise a row of new stems which every means to convince the Court £10,000, and had an organ, cost- come from the far-spreading roots that he had been the victim of a ing over £8,000, built to his of the original tree. In the end sinister political plot, sometimes ⚫ order. there may be half a dozen lusty breaking into angry denuncia-Before very long the bailiffs elms, none of which is a new in- tions, at other times rambling off were in his mansion, and bank- dividual, seeing that all are merely into a complicated explanation of ruptcy proceedings were com suckers from the original tree. his financial ventures, and em-menced against him. That trees are extraordinarily
phasising his points by shaking Cairns decided that the time tenacious of life is demonstrated an authoritative forefinger at the had come to fly. He failed to put in an interesting way by some
in an appearance at the adjourned kinds of pine. Foresters have for impassive judge. long been puzzled by the fact that,|
proceedings, and remained in hid- after a fir tree has been felled, the
ing until the autumn. stump will sometimes increase in circumference for a number of years. This is really very remark- able, for pines, unlike most other trees, are not able to send up stump shoots which can produce foliage and so continue to live.
He had been tried and found guilty on a minor charge that of obtaining money without disclos- 'Before his claim was exploded ing that he was an undischarged after official inquiry and much bankrupt which Irad been hang-publicity, Cairns amassed a con- ing over him for nearly three siderable sum of money out of a years, and the full story of his concern which never imported a many misdeeds had been laid single grain of sugar, or anything before the court.
Jelse.
What the witness says is a It was with the money that he nice little fairy tale" he cried, thus raised that Cairns, took over pointing an accusing finger at the tenancy of Watermouth Detective Cooper, who had reveal Castle, in North Devon.
:
Colour Effects.
It
For half an hour he tried by
Eloquence In Vain. "That's another damned. lie,"
His next move was to charter a he shouted angrily, when the detective referred to his flight steam yacht and make good his from the country in a steam escape to Halland, where he went yacht. "I went to The Hague to ostensibly to collect enormous. attend to business with the sums of money which he declared Minister of Finance and the were due to him as commission. Minister of Foreign Affairs."
He actually took a. number of his creditors and victims with him in the yacht.
Bat all his cloquence and declamation was in vain. Mr. Justice Greer passed sentence of 15 months' hard labour, with the remark that he could only regard the offence as an incident in the prisoner's life of fraud.
.
MYSTERY OF HIS BIRTH.
Nothing Known Of His Life
Before The War.
While in Amsterdam he sold s number of worthless shares to the manager of the American Ex- press Company, and when one more warrant was added to those already out against him for offences elsewhere, he continued his cruise as far as Ostend.
Our knowledge of colours as hav- Cheaper anding a marked effect on our lives is in its infancy, writes "A Gallery Girl" in the Star, We are told by mystics that everyone is supposed to have a particular colour surroun- ding the body, and this colour aura, as I think it is called, is as definite- ly unchangeable as the colour
Posed As U.S. Financier. of your eyes OF your hair.
It was while he was ashore here But very few people give any
that the captain of the boat! thought to this colour-influence,
realised that Cairns was a fraud; though if they did they would,Iam Ernest Dunbar Cairns can un-and took his ship back to Eng- told, be far less troubled with doubtedly be numbered among land, leaving Cairns behind. nerves. Miss Nora Johnston, to the most remarkable of the many Cairns later drifted to Brussels, whom we owe the revival of accomplished swindlers who have where he made a tremendous im- Maeterlinck's "The Blue Bird" in stood in the dock of the Old pression as an American financier London, is like a blue bird, herk self. When I saw her in her Bailey.
who had come to float loans for dressing-room
A man of many aliases, who the benefit of European countries. at the Garrick Theatre she was wearing a blue lived like a millionaire, the num- frock and blue was the colour of her of his victims must run into the curtains, the chair coverings, thousands, and his frauds were on and the ornaments.. "I could not scale almost without parallel. live happily unless I had plenty of
One of the strangest facts of blue round me," said Miss Johnston. all is that the police do not know who he is. Although they have probed into every detail of his
When he came up for trial on life during recent years, they this occasion he was treated as a cannot trace him back to before lunatic and sent to an asylum for
Wa perfod.
HER BEER!
AHE
LAGER
COMP
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BUSSAN KAUHA
the war.
Where he was born, what is his real name, and how he spent the first 40 years of his life, Scotland Yard cannot tell. Somerset House has been searched in vain for a record of his birth. The police of other countries can throw no light on his early history.
He was soon exposed and thrown into prison for forgery. After his sentence had expired, he was extradited, and handed over to the Dutch authorities to answer for his offence at Amster- dam.
After his release he came back to. England penniless, and before very long the one-time "million- aire" was an inmate in a pauper lunatic asylum in Kent.
Blue is my colour-in, the big sense, I mean. not merely for frocks, &c and very early in life I discovered that plenty of blue around me made me happy and contented, whereas other colours strongly depressed or irritated me. I may be particularly sensi- tive to colours, but I am sure women make a very great mistake [ in lgnoring their sympathetic colour and going crazy over any new shade
In due course be again regained that happens to come into fashion
hie freedom, but it was, only to I don't mean that they should
find that he had to answer for the never wear any other colour at all
mold is charges, in respect of his offences but their particular aura"one, but He first became known to the in England, that had for so long. very few people seem to realise police in April, 1915, when he was been hanging over his head. Sthat the cause of much Irritability convicted at Cardiff of fraud, and ff and depression can be traced sentenced to six months' impri
to the wearing of colours sonment. Since then he has been that affect the nerves and the convicted four times in this coun emotions, There is... gerlerally
··MAGICAL IN, TEETHING, Every pa ent knows the worries that
one colour, too, that is as powerfal try and twice on the Continent. for bad in a person as her own His first big exploit was income when the baby is testhing. Many parunte havai fuopt Baby's Own Tabwa colour is for good. I can't wear 1918. On coming out of prison he almost magical in the prompt, effion of green at all. I was induced once went straight to a well-known at this time. From the first dose ey to have, a whole, frack in hight West-edd hotel, where he booked ooth the nerves and play the pain; green, but, whenever I wore IIan expensive suite of rooms, and the little here drops off into p omfortablo calm sleep from, which he was so irritable and yes-bad- convinced everybody that he was wakra clitory and ready for a meal. tempered, that I always had to millionaire..
Baby's Own
USA Tablets
ins
change it quickly in order to regain Mr. Collingwood was the alins my normal state of feeling. Other he adopted on this occasion, and People find all shades of red irritat in this name he floated a company ing. They don't know it, poor which never did any buginosa, but Things, mit when rist red was the which seems to have served his rage a little time ago, I used often purpose well. to wonder if, the many attacks of nervae and bad temper, all around, were belog Caused by the Tasmon Cairns never took the trouble to collcg-diarrhrs, croup, expelworms; for this colour At any rate, dreas himself over-well; and and break up simple faver and colds. If your
chens lat does not keep them people did seem more generally cut anything but disting dahertenth for Teak to tabl Dr. Willine Fintable Edithe Graze died figure. His carelessness of benedicine Co. Riangen: Road, Chaug.
haviour helped him in fect to hikampen
are guaranteed abeolutely harmless, to the youngest infant. They gently. In his pose as a milionaire that the bakele bellovo Indicoolton.
TUESDAY, MARCH 18 19x4.
HOTELS & CAFES.
FAR EASTERN HOTELS.
BEADING
HONGKONG. Telegraphic Address KREMLIN, HONGKONG. HONGKONG HOTEL
P HOTEL
KEPULAK BAY HOTEL.
SHANGHAI
Tolographic Address: CENTRAL, "HANGĦAL CASTOR-HOUSE-HOTEL
-
GRAND HOTEL KALEE,
PEKING.
PALACE HOTEL.
Telegraphic Address:WAGONLITS, PEKING. GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONS LITS,
THE HONGKONG & SH^NGHAI HOTELS, LTD in conjunction with. The Grand Hotal'des Wagons Lits. Ltd.
Tel. Centl. 812 CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add: "Carlton."
The Only American Hotel in the Calony,
1) Mios sądamist jak konby a few minutes' walls from the Banks, and Central Die- triota. · 43 (Bajronics Encadlers Careins. Herupalovaly olsan... Under Ammšeques Mazagatank. “A, now. Dining Rooms has been opened at No. 2, Queen's Bond (lak door). Kairinen Ton Koose Street, · Tillus a špeciality.
For terms apply to M. F E CAMERON, Fropriations.
Tel. Kowloon No. 3
11
PALACE HOTEL
Tel. Address
" Palace
(Three minutes from Kowloon Ferry Wharf & Railway Station.) Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans Throughout. Evory Room with Private Bath. Lounge Bar & Billiard Rooms. Varivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the Proprietor.
Termus moderate. Spoctal terms to families on application to
J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor.
HOTEL
"ASIA"
WEST "BUND, CANTON,
beading Hotel in South
China,
First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans 20
Hairdressing Elevators. Boof Garden. Splendid Views of City Excellent Cuisine:
Salcon,
and Poart River.
Moderate Rates.
Under the Management of the SUN 00., LTD, CANTON.
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL. Telegraphic address "ASTOR"
Telephone Central 170. 13, Queen's Road Central.
A Bret class Hotel centrally located, large and airy rooms, completely, reppygină; And refurnished. New Dining Room for Meals and la Carte. Excellent Cuisine. Monthly Tickets for Thins 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 HOTHLY BOAED and RESIDENCE, Every human comfort, Very large woll faralabad double and single pogens. One minnie trom statmers. Personal supervision.. "Tarnia from $6 you day
MRS. STEWART OGILVIE,
“KING EDWARD HOTEL
CKNERAL LOCATION LL ELKOKKIO TEAMS Phan Katranos, lo Arin Alle Tans and lightany, Karupos
Bitha and Salary Fittings, Hot and Coldh Artes By Droghest. Bast of Food a
aut Tal, Couth, a Telegraphie Addram>— VICCHIA 3. WATCHELL, Manzen,
MASSAGE
"Mr. N. AKAI & Mrs:E. AKAJI, Graduate of Tokio Massage Hobok No. on's Road, O Telephone No. G. 95
Proprietarmi.
TANG YUK, Diener,
Bodegr
the Into SIEN TING, 14, D'Agollar Strock.
TERMS VERY HODERATE
Consultation 106.5
MASSAGE.
MTE. HONDA, Mrs. XISÁKI SII R. SHIMIDŽU. -No. 34, Wynch. Strost. (opposite to the 'Châm”)
G. FALCONER & CO., (HONGKONG) LTD.
WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS
·DIAMOND MERCHANTS UNION) BUILDING (OPPOSITE G.P.0.)
Ageniu for —ADMIRALTY CHARTS,
ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, JENDUSH-SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery,
THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO.
Head Onge: 79 Wyndham Street. Tad Floor (Opposite Gentzld Police Station)Tel, Central 4168,
Dealers in all kinds of High-ola Bilk Shirts, Collars, Notaried and Pyjamas for Gentlemen AND ALSO
Cheminon, Skirts, Wrapper, Soucis, Veils, and Night gowns for Ladian ALSO MADE TO ORDER MODERATE PRDEKA `PROMPT 'DELIVERY
- Manager :MILIO LAU,
WWE PHOTO SUPPLIES DEVELOPING, PRINTING A SPECIALE
to LONG HING & CO. ZA