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LAMMERT BROS. C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
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ANY SUNTETORE,
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THE havors SUCCE
THE Undervignod have riconvoc« LUETIRE.
WEDNESDAY, April 18, 1924,
at 3 o'clock p.m.co at No. 6 Catchick Street, Kennedy Town
Two Complete Sets Rattan and Cane Splitting Machinery
to bo put up in two Lots
Lot 1 Machinery consists of 2
Splitters and 4 Shavers complete with Shafting and Pedestals and a Quantity of Spare. Cane Splitting Cutters (New)
Lot 2 Machinery consists of 2 Splitters and 6 Shavors with a Quantity of Spare Cane Splitting Cutters NB. The Machinery comprising Lot has been in use for 6 months and is in first class and serviceable con dition.
The items comprising Lot 2 are new and are still in their original caɛes
For Further Particulars apply to the Undersigned.
.
Terma 30% of the purchase price on fallof hammer
LAMMERY BROS., Auctioneers,
Hongkong, March 29, 1924.
ON
WEDNESDAY, April 16, 1924, commencing at 3 o'clock p.m." a No. 6 Catchick Street, Kennedy.
Town,
..
(for account of the concerned)
18 "Dover" Independent Cook-
ing Stoves
18 Bets of Fire Bricks to suit "Lover" Stoves an abors.
Alio
84 Grator and Fire Place In-
teriors as follows ;-
48 Interiors 20" 38" x 16" Fire 12 Interiors 20" x 8" x 16" Fire
12 Tile Register Grates 34" x 36" x
18" ki
1 Tile Register Grates 36" x 38" I
16" Fire
A Good Opportunity for Builders and,
Contractors
Torms :-Cash on delivery.
LAMNERT BROS., Austioneurs
Hongkong, April 9th, 1914.
WEDNESDAY, 11th Juno, 1824
Commencing a 3 o'clock p.m.
at the premises of the Hongkong Tramway Co., Ltd.. Bowrington Canal Road Eest The Steam Driven Electric Generating Plant Consisting of:
Boilers
Two Babcock and Wilcox Boilers (complete) each having approximately 3,664 square feet of 'heating warfson, guaranteed to evaporate' under normal conditions 19,000 lbs. of water por hour,
Working pressure. 160 lbs. per quare inch.
Both Boilers fitted with chain grate tokers.
Enginos
Two 428 B.Hr. Horizontal Com- pound condensing steam engines by Menors. Yates & Thom of Blackburn, coupled direct to two 300 Kilowatt Direct Current Dick Kerr GeneraÍTS.
Volis 650, R.P.M, 100. Complete with steam piping, etc., etc., One 150 BHP. Vertical Compound ondensing steam engine, by Mesars. Bellisa & Morcon Lid roupled direct to one 200 Kilowati Direct Current Dick Kerr Generator.
Volta 550, R.P.M. 250. Complete with steam piping etc, etc.,'
Auxiliary Plant
One W. u. Allen Laudem compound engine, coupled direct to a 20 Kilowatt Direct Current Dick Kerr Generator.
Volts 110. R.P.M. 500.
One Dick Kerr Motor Generator Set. Motor 550 Volts. Generator.. 110)
Volta R.P.M, 500.
One Remington two cylinder crade od engine, direct coupled to a 15 Kilo- watt Direct Curront Chandeyson Amator.
Volts 125. R.P.M. 400.
Switchboard *Switchboard of highly polished alate bompletely fitted up for running Eleoratore and Anxiliary Plant.
Catalognes will be issued.
For further particulare apply to the
Undersigned.
Togna-Aa Customary.
LAMMERT BROS..
Anatomers.
`Hongkong, April 10, 1926.
Two boys,· Frederick Post- Jamous. 18, of Tynemouth, and Benjamin Foreman Ritson, of South Shields fell through the ice n a reservoir at North Shields and were drowned.
The British alemen' who will tempt a round-the-world flight this summer have been promised by Mr. Hughes, the United States Secretary of State, all possible, help in crossing · Alaska/ and the Aleutian Islands (American, torritory).
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Old stamps are getting scarcer áa timo rolls on, but we should not lose sight of the undisputabiojfact';has once wHID #young" stamps, and cheap to buy. The young stamps of recent isced will grow old too, and with the attain. 'ment of riper age, they also will ripen in valus.
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Every and of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY &00.
6. D'AGUILAR STREET,
Opposite Kayamally & Co Talephons Central No. 491;
Hongrong, March 30, 1914.
WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITCASES
When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases ?
They are Cheaper, and More Durable.
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ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
Thirty-six Years After.
Memoirs of Mrs. Macdonald.
1
stroke engine. Thin walls were enployed, and to withstand the "presseuro'stresses due to combustion It is probable, I hear (mys Star the liners were ribbod in such a way writer), that a new edition of Mr. that they did not take the stresses, Ramsay MacDonald's memoirs of but transunited them through to after waiting patiently for the steel hoop by, mess of ribs his wife will shortly be placed ou yous, original holders of shares in which becanes piors supporting a the market. The Leatherhead (Surrey) Water-inler. Though not solely essential of the most beautiful tributes that They constitute cue works Company are to be paid ar-
to the Still engine, this construction any su has ever paid to his life's reses of dividend at 8 per cent, for was adopted because safety was the last half of the year 1887. The considered of more importance than partner and are couched in the most mant to be distributed mounts to first cost. Overxid may be carried teader louage. Not without rea- £78, which equals £1,000 loss tux. by a Still orgine by the use of the on, these memoirs have boon com- Although many of the shares have extra steam geuented in the waste pared with those of Carlyle, penned passed into other hands, quite heat boilers by the use of oil burnunder no less poignant circum- number of the original shareholdersors and in that way full load could stances. But in the case of the will enjoy the fruits of their invest be maintained, oven though the Prime Minister, there is no self- ment. One is a promoter of the onustion and of one cylinder was reprisal; for for such there was no enterprise, Mr. W. B. Brown, Wix out of action. The significance of occasion. was prosiding at a board meeting of fuel injection and other factors in the company, recently said he reliable rimning, such as water cir- company was started in 1883. culation, lubrication, and the design was a struggle in the early days, for of bearings were reviewed by the the local people would remain faith-author, who claimed that in the ful to the old wells. The district Scott-Still engine the substitution of hasgrown, and the older inhabitants steun for the compressed air of the have grown more sensible, Wo common Diesel engine made for have prospered and are now quito simplicity, safety, and economy, waves that have never been heard well off. Thus our ability to pay Engineering.
theo arrears.
Marine Oil Engine..
|A New French Cement.
The Hum of Life.
Hundreds of sounds are going on all round us which we never hear. A now microphone has now been invented by an electrical adviser of the Westinghouse Electric Com- pany which will make sudible sound
before, in somewhat the same way that dlectro-magnetic light waves, which the eye never aces, are de
An essential requirement in any
-According to & paper read before tected. Soine light waves are too tys of marine engine is absoluto the Institution of Engineering In-short to be seen by the eye, and some reliability, since on it depends the spection by Mr. Herbert J. Davey, sound waves are too short, and make safety of the ship at so. Little M.B.E, a new cement of French too shrill a sound, to be heard by Bead be said nowadays about the origin has been lately discovered the car. The squeak of a bat, high standard attomed in this re-which peaches nearly to its full though it can be heard by young speed with the marine steun engine, strengths in 24 hours, and is much people, en seldom be heard by peo for it was generally appreciated that stronger than Portland equent. ple over 40 because it is too shrill the exceptional reputation of British Tests to show the strength of ce-
for them but there are many other engine-builders has been founded on monts are made upon shall blocks sounds wounds made by insects- the wardy constructions they have which measure exactly 1 in. square which are too shrill for anyone to adopted to meet the most exacting in cross section, which are pulled her. The Westinghouse micro- requirements that have confronted apart to give the tensile strength. phone, ade by Dr. Philips them. The motor ship is a com- Larger blocks are sometimes squeez-Thomas, is said to be able to make patively recent innovation, and, until they crumble, to 8nd out these very short sound waves audi- blogh it is attained a great inos what is the power of resistance to blo. The human car cannot take sue of success, it must not, at nay crushing, Mr. Davey has made in anything above 88,000 vibrations time, be forgotten that only by the tests on the new coment, and finds second. Dogs can hear much pretion of engines which can be it capable of withstanding a pull of higher notes than that. Sir Francia relied upon for consistent and con- more than 800 lb, par square inch Galton had whistlos made producing. timous running on full, load can when only one day oil, the strength to walk through the streets of s 81,000 vibrations a second, and, used. genal satisfaction and extended inoreusing to over 1000 lb. in seven application be achieved. Many days, whereas some blocks of Port- town sounding his inaudible whistle shipowners are studying the ques-land coment showed an average to take the dogs turn round. But. tion of reliability of the marine oil strength of only 1 1. per square there are other sounds besides these engine very closely, nod for this inch in one day. In seven days a high sounds made by insects which resom the detailing of experiences good English cement might have a are at present, perhaps, audible to at the present time is of great value. tensile strength of 750 lb. per square insects alone. All our muscles-the Mr. W. J. Säll has recognised this, inch, Metar made from the now muscles of the veins, the skin, the and in the paper an "The Type of cement brakte under pulling tests at heart-are quiefly thrilling Still Engine required for Marine at average of 573 lb, after one day's vibrating, and they do not cease Service, which he read on the 16th setting, fnd 612 lb. in seven days. When we sleep. But they are all ing to the Nord-East Coast In Blocks of Partland cement mortar brilling at the very slow rate of etition of Engineers and Ship one day old failed with a pult of 21 only ten or twelve vibrations a se builders, he showed the advantages. A crusting test on concrete cond. The new microphone may caing from the outstanding fea- made up from the new cement help us to hear this curious hum tams of the design of the Scott-Stilf showed a resistance of close om 8000 of life. The Children's Newspaper, engine. When waste heat was lb. per square inch after 28 bours utilised in the muaver adopted in while another block failed at 9100. this engine the heat stressed in the lbs. after 90 days. A crushing malarind structure weris reduced to a strength of 5,000 lb. per square inch very low value, because there was after 90 days is an exceptionally anya mall difference of tempern good romlt from Portland cement to be what yon appear. That is precisely way to gain good reputation is tam between the gases and the concrete. The chief coristituents of bow Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has cylinder walls. Acumlly, though the w cement to which the name gained it repulation, as a more for the engine has the characteristic Ciment Fondu has been given, Bro cought, elds, croun and bronchial high power output for a given cylin-clav, lime and kilica, these being trouble, Every bottle of bin va nod der rolure of the other two-stroke brent in the limestone and bauxite medicina is fully up to the high-standard cyde engines, the beat flow was found in a certain district in France of excellence claimed for it. For an e comparable with that of the four- --Australian Municipal Journal. N 'overywhere.
How It Gained a Good,
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or
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PALACE HOTEL
Tel. Address "Palaco"
(Thres minutes from Kowloon Ferry Wharf & Railway Station.) Entirely under Buglish Management. Electite Light and Fras Throughout.
Every Room with Private Bath,
Gauge Bar & Billiard Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisino under the personal
supervision of the Proprietor.
Terma moderate. special terme to families on application to
J. H. AXBERRY, Proprietor.
HOTEL
"ASIA"
WEST BUND, CANTON,
Leading Hotel in South China.
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First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans EKČ Elevators. Roof Garden. Hairdressing SalcoL.
Splendid Views of City and Pearl River.
Excellent Cuisine.
Moderate Rates
Under the Management of the SUN CO., LTD., CANTON.
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.
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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. Excellent Cuisine. Monthly Tickets for Tiffins and Dingers. Under cutirely new Management.
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Proprietor.
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