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FRIDAY, March 31, 1994, commencing at 8.15 p.m. ---
st their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street,
A Valuable Collection of Postage
Stamps
Catalogues will be issued.
On View from Thursday, the 20th March 1924.
Torms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
30
Απολίπαστα
MONDAY, March 24, 1974
commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at No. 3, Gatcoigne Read, Kowloon,
▲ Quantity of Vainable House.
hold Furniture
(Particulars from Catalogue)
On view on day of salo.
Terms
Oath on delivery.
BANITAET ENGINEERA
MONUMENTALISTU"
Olen und Dolovák,“
Wanchal Road, Hongkong
Tel: Central No. 30
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Étoon & WAIN TIL12--Barzo, Banten. BARK" Boon: Fr-Waza Tọn GAB, On Os Coat Yuss Few Quiz HATE.
OPEN AND CLOzo. Graves-CoogiTO RATORS.
Barn Fan For All SanTWAKE.
INWALLATION—.
How Warna Bṛorius, &o. Ginskas RuraishH PROMPTLY APERruno To.
Bimetatures Is Monumental" WORK
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JUST RECEIVED
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ARTEIONAL WEATHE FRơm 8 to 18 ". DIARITER
IN STOCK.
FOR SALE
Collections of Postage Stamps
Mounted in books, -//
all different, without duplicate.
000 Stamps. 841-2500 Stamps $40. 1000.
LAMHERT BROS.
Auctioneer,
Hongkong, 17th March, 1914,
$ 8, 3000
$50.
ON
1500
819. 850 fl
$80.
WEDNESDAY, March 26, 1984,
commencing at 18 o'clock Noon
2000
830. 4000,
$75.
10000' Stamps $500..
CAPSTAN
NOTICE THE ABSENCE OFISPLUTTER.
THE SLOW BURNING
WHAT A DELIGHTFULLY
COOL SMOKE IT, IS..........
MANUFACTURED
IN
ENGLAND
& SOLD EVERYWHERE
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19° 1
1924
HOTELS & CAFES.
LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS.
.HONGKONG, I
Telegraphic Address-KREMLIN, HONGKONG HONGKONG HOTEL
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REPULSE BAY/HOTEL.
HOTEL
SHANGHAI, Address:—CENTRAL, SHANGHAL.
PALACE HOTEL,
ASTOR HOUSH HOTEL.AS
GRAND HOTEL KALEE.
PEKING..
Telegraphic Address:-WAGONLITS, PEKING. GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONS LITS.
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD In conjunction with
The Grand Hotel das Wagons Lits, Ltd.
Tel. Centl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL Tel. Add: "Carlton," The Only America Hotel In the Colony.
Nice and quiet yet only a few mkuta walk from the Banke, sad Oentral Dis rict. 411 Bedrooms Excellent Online, Bernalobal olean. Undar American Management. A new. Dining Boom has been aperodno, No. 2, Queen's Road (lat Bloor). Entrance Los Hones Street, Tins capeciality
For farms apply to Mrs. F. R. CAMERON, Proprietre,
Tel. Kowloon PALACE HOTEL
No. 3
Tel. Address
"Palaco
(Threo minutes from Kowloon Ferry Wharf & Railway Station.} Entirely under English Management Electrio Light and Fans Throughout. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge Bar & Billiard Rooms, Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the Proprietor.
Terms moderato. special terms to families on application to
LH OXBERRY, Proprietor.
as their Salus Rooms, Daddell Street.
ONE GRAVES ETCHELL 30 OWT Line for 2 ten) ELECTRIC FURNACE, including One 250 K.V.A., Two 200 K.V.A., One 150 KV.A., and Ode 120 E.V.A. Single phage Trane- formers, complete with all cables, copper bara, cast iron clampa, 2 way grooved bronze bars and bronze bolts, and sparts J., &c.,
Also
Tous ACHESON'S "ELECTRODES
And
1 Tons CROMITE (Intending Purchasers may view the above at the Old Steel Foundry Building, Shaukiwan Road, on any day between the boure of 2.30 and 5 jim, Inspection anders may be bad from Undersigned,);
Terme-Cab on delivery,.
LAMMERT BROS.. Auctioneers.
Hongkong, March 8, 1914.
GRACA & 00.,
Dealers in Postage Stamps, Religious Goods, Garden Sooda, Toys, &c. No. 10, Wyndham, Street,
P. O. Box No. 680.
Hongkong.
SHOEMAKERS.
Japanese Hand Made)
Every ' and of Toɑrwehr. MADE TO ORDER.
FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.
The fares prescribed for public vehicles re as follows-
In the island of Hongkong, Chine Road and Loww Ľavels, and in Bowloon, and Now Koselooń,
Fire mianter.
Ten minste,
MICRO ER
Quarter hour, seminaries
Hit hour,... Ken
One boar, SZA KAİNATMAM
ry Babeoquens nonr.
15
cants
amgagod
the jinrinkaha..bo within the City of Victdela, kad be dis sharged outside the Western part of the City of Victoria after 9 pm.. or be dis sharged to tho hast of Bay View Polic Saston on the Eastern sklé of the Citỷ of Victoria after 0 p.m., an extra haft fare shall be chargeable, ...
For 2 or 3 drivers the fare is double or treble respectively.
In the Hill District,
en minutes, .................... 18 causs Quarter hour,
Half boar, cessezetemposarsiune: BO One hour................................näidatiú 40
IL--In-the New Territories
By strangement with the proprietors rough the Police
Loiver Loveka.
With Beaters With A Bearers
Tan minsten, omnes 1) denta
Arter hour,......... 14
$ocnte' 30
*
**
Balf hour,
us hon, 33
rey anlaymont
Line 23
-Hill District.
With's Bearers Wich & Bonérre,
Ten minutos, ..... 18 cente
Quarter beur,
"Half bour, ......
One bour,
very subarquent
Beur
20
40
.60
The oldest European inliabitant
Fez, Morocco, the Italian Com
mandante Campini, has just died
there after 22 years' service in the equntry.
*
Three Caversham boys were re- mended as Rending on a clurge of fully damaging letters by drop- ping lighted matches to a street pillar-box.
At Darlington Mr. Henry E. L. Whitwell: 4 of Houghton-le Skerne, who said lus car could de. elop a speed of 100 miles.an.hatar, as fined $10 and £6 118: vosta. for riving to the danger of the public. on December 17, when he knocked down, wilde his ear ft. of wall by the road-side.
A verdict of Willar: Murinë Pyyadi Fatummeldt Market Bosworth. Leicestershire, inquest, nguinet Jamaa Johill Broome, 36, a wagon.
of Colon, who was found to have. the iront of his 7-years old tighter Gwendoline and then comp otted miclip. Broome a wife and tist died of pneumonia and her body
CHERRY & 00.,
6, D'AGUILAR STREET,
Opp wie Kaysmally à to
Telephone Central No. 471
Hongkong, March 20, 1914.
WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITCASES ·
When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases?.
They are Cheaper and More Durable.
CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO.
-(Opposita Yaumati Ferry, Praya)
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MR. ASQUITH'S BOOK OF ESSAYS.
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ODDS AND ENDS.
· MAINLY SUISSORS LOOT,
Weathervanes.
STUDIES AND SKETCHES.res is wasted to-day in the reading fel smply and fleeting trivialis By people who will not take the kunable to go to the true' fountain Eest plexsuro ibhut dows laugh the.) Huppy is the statesman whose Alat trasterpieces juf Elsion and mental equipment and lastes enable. biography. This writers of the him to switch off his mind from the gententh century, we are remind-
Weathervanes, popular a century turmod of politics and furget party of lave never been surpassed in all go, and which disappeared from strife in the delightful quietude of the variety of qualities which give genord use about a generfion back, his library. Horace Walpole pos English prose an annivalled place are coming into vogue again, re sessed this feculty, or facility, to a nong wodeen instruments of ex-ms the New York Herald. This pre-ominent degree, and the tight sun-such prose as is to be mobably is due to the increasing Hot. H. H. Asquith is to be found in al Authorised Version of use of copper, as & weatherproof reckoned eung those Farlimen the Bible, in Bacon's Essays, in material for the vines, and the tarians of our own are over whoin some of the pumpsters of Milan, in revival of oclonal architecture. In literature has continued to excreiss Iznik Wahón, Clarendon, and Sir contrast to weathervanes of the. a fascination undiminished by the Thomas Browne. In this com- past, whibit ware conventional ar- distractions of the politieni tona.
Tay you cannot go filr ustray, and, rows, horses, or birds, gilded, the That Me: Asquith has a rendy pen high the dialects and actual new weathervanes an anore works no familia fact that it comes museology way often have an old-of art, and lack, the garish appear- as a surprise to one to realise that fashioned and even obsolete air, yource imparted by gold leaf. he has contributed to literature to will find in the choice of words, the thing more abstential than occa-rhythm of sentences, the building A Queer Ride. monal review articles. But he is of paraphs, that those authors A horse has had a queer and essentially an essayist, and some had cylate romniand of the exciting ride not quite of its own charming examples, of his com- whole at of style."
free will (reports the Children's petence in this realm are to be
LITERARY STYLE,
Newspaper.) The engines of found in his just published
The famous paste of these au- American tralas "Studies
crossing the and Sketches Hutchinson and thors should. Mr. Asquith urges, beairies are provided in front with Co.. 109. Gd.) collection of committed to memory, for he is of a contrivance for scooping up any articles some of which have, deser- the opinion that it would be quite movable object that may be on the vedly, been rescued from the pages as seful if schoolboys wore trained Hine. This contrivance has the of reviews and other periodicals, in lening prose by heut na well plain and simple name of a cow- and of addresses delivered before a poetry. Elubouting his own catcher variona educational and
ideas on feary style. Mr. Asquith bodies.
shows himself to be no newrow or In the ranching districts, where violent pedant. While agreeing there are large herds of cattle the. While I cfton wish that I could that the writer or speaker who uses cow-catcher is needed; but the remember half the things thur words where qne would suffice catch is by no means confined to have forgotten, sometimes wish is deserving of malediction: le goer cows. In Minnesota, not long ago, that I could forget nearly half the on to day:
a train picked up a horse, The things that I remember, says Mr. That does not in the lost imply driver did not see the horse, but Asquith in a chapter on Teaching the good writing should be indiffer felt he had encountered some and Learning. He has these ont to sbales of merning to dis obstruction, and stopped the train ruges prova, not allowed the pre-crimination, anil, if necessary, to Nobody was found, and the train occupation of politics, to make him cumulation
appropriate went on When it stopped again,“ forget his favourite authors, oloridis, er to the meds and quarter of a mile farther; the and madoras, Thə' - question felamuns of metaphor and artistic or horse was discovered riding on the inemory training must always purnament. Cicom and Burke ser cow-catcher! PER sess an attraction for the student, vulgarly called diffuse writers; but and it be of interest find Mr. Asif you examine their best passages 3 qurth confiding, I have a fairly and every writer ought to be judged
good, though somewhat patchy, by his best) you will not find memory myself, which I believe superfluous word. Subject to these one entirely to the curly days of two dominating principles them is my schooling-though it is no limit to the arily or notificon by true that one is left conjecturing which what we call style can be en- whether it is the fairly ed or riched and adapted to its special the "somewhat pataliy quality that purpose. One of tho, minor arti- is attributed to the schooling fees; both in poetry and prose, is is far more difficult, he goes on to point out, to evolve a discrimim ting than a merely receptive and res tentive memory and one of the most dangerous
MITSUT BUSSAN KAISHA.
Lay or and Acton
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other
When it was approached, it got down and trotted, away, almost uninjured.
Asquith relates the story of the First Kiss, the date of which was early in the November of 1778:
In the evening (the "Dairy ro- alliteration, more often abused than lates) the company divided pretty fitly used. If you want to see and witch into parties, and almost realise the mibile of the true art of everybody walked upon the gravel alliteration you will find, countless walk before the windows. I was
ones in
in Shakespeare and Mil- going to have joined some of them,
on.
whion Dr. Jobinson stopped me and
can bestow on the new born infant is the porfuntoils, unlealing mo One of the most alluring of the asked me how I did a vá macy of
Mache ariel I, 'you tut pelating to Dr. Johnson and did not intend to know me again, Some reflections on reading and Fanny Burney-originally on ads for you have not spoken to me since writing lend Mr. Aaquuth to nomurk dress to the fallen Club, Mr. your ratarm from town, that one of the rangst figure that Asquith a there was the store of My done, otiod be, taking both que encounters in the highways and Interial regarding the great cholar my bands, I was not mu of you byway of life is that of the men of and lexicoupler this. I then-Tam so inour-sighted and I appre woman whe knowe both how to read thinkable rant of swell daving honded making, sane mistake." and how to write A toul of self never written or published anything, Then, drawing me very expected revelation is contained into com, we should still have, Ind available ly towards him, he actually kissed
to an almost instinule in
Diary of the authorities moleman on fandraba for good.
stories
that book which bota Mre, Thrale, Sir Joshuis Reynolds eat ground, binat
read the first two the mouldingo, and of Fam. Burney Hoorn to have exem
they maye
king in the back
HOTEL "ASIA"
WEST BUND; CANTON,
Leading"" "Hotel in South China.
First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans eco Elevators. Roof Garden. Hairdressing Salcon, Splendid Views","of City મુnd Pearl River. Excellent Cuisine:
'Moderate. Rates,
Under the Management of the SUN CO., LTD, CANTON.
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.
Telegraphic address "ASTOR”
Telephone Central 170.
13, Queen's Road Central,
A first class Hotel centrally located, large and airy room, completely renovated and refurnished. New Dining Room for Meals and in Carte. Excellent Cuisine.. Monthly Tickets for Tiffins and Dinners. Under entirely new Management.
For further particulars apply to
M. A. VAZ, Manager.
1, VICTORIA GARDENS.
HANKOW ROAD, KOWLOON, NEXT DOOR TO WWWWWY NEW KOWLOON HOTEL,
BOARD 199 RESIDENCE. Every home comfort. Very larga well famlabed Pila double and magló, rooma. Qus, mincía hêm atanmora, Pozsonal supervision.
*Bornom $4. por day:
MRS, STEWART OGILVIB,
KING EDWARD HOTEL
A
CENTRAL LOCATION, TË
A LL BLKOTRIU TEAMSPI— KStranda, šlao- Erla, Lda, Fans and lighing, European
Water Bystem Uhrenghrik Best Food a
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J. WITCHELL, Kisnagu,
29, 2
MASSAGE
Mr. N. AKAJI & Mrs E. AKAJI; Gradaste of Tokio Masasga bahudi No. 8, Queen's Road, C Telephone No
Propelements.
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the late STEM TING...:
· 14, D'Agullar Street.
TERMS VERY. MÜDERANK Consultation res.
MASSAGE.
| Mrs. HONDA, Mrs. KIBAKI and
B. SHIMIDZU.
* No. 24 Wyndham, Biznet.
topponite to Elm China MaiP1
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LONG
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Dealers in all kinds of High-c Bill Shirts Collane, Weakties and Prjakpas for Gentlenen
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