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THE CHINA MAIL.
LAMMERT BROS. C.E. WARREN & CO., LTD. WATCH YOUR
AWOWYRWHILE, "APPRAISNES
AND SEATWTORG,
-Public Auctions
THE Undersigned, have receivers kæbeta- Tribble castles,
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THURSDAY,May-29,–1924.- commencing as 2.45 p..
at No. 5, Leighton Bill Read A Quantity of
Household Furniture,
(Fall Particulars from Catalogue), On View from Wednesday, the 21st
"May, 1994.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS. Auctioneer
Hongkong, May 18, 1994.
THEstructions from the Liquidator HE Undersigned have received in-
to sell by Public Auction
on
FRIDAY, the 23rd May, 1924,
commencing.al 3 o'clock pm,
t No. 6 Catchick Street, Kennedy Town
3 Motor Boat Engines.
1 Eomi-Diessi, Stationary Engine.
1.Eemi-Diesel Crude Oil Engine.
3 Borizontal Crude Oil Engines.
6 Electric Generating Sets. 4"Atlas" Sero, Cutting Gap Bed Lathee
4 Universal Screwing Machines.
Vertical and Horizontal Pumps, Chue Crushing Mechings, Hock Drill Punching Machine. Shearing, Machines, Pipe Cutting Machine. Wheel Cutting and Dividing Asparatus etc, etc.,
(all new and in good condition) Terms:---Cash on delivery.
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The above machinery inspected on any day between the boure of 9 am and 4pm, at the above-
mentioned premiNED.
LAMMERT BRON Auctioneers,
Bongbong, 17th May, 1904.
FOOK SUN FOR SALE,
Panama Hats, Folt Hats, - Stiaw Bats and all Kinds of Haze
HATS CLEANED A SPECIALITY. No, tu, Wallingun tree.
MAIL WEEK NEWS,
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
Wider poings for local authorities Jān matters of finance and wunicipal. trading an aird at in a Bill intro- duced in the Héma- of Commons by Mr. Herbert Morrison, Socialist
aber for only Hackney.
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Judge Sir Alfed Tobin, who dis «posed of enses at Westminster County Court centered London nursing home for a mined operation, and will residue his dutes until after
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'Alidol, Medjid, the ex-t'aliph, bas given an undertaking to the Swiss Government this be will not parti- cipate in any political or refig.cals ac- tivities, and in consequence be will Bbe allowed to remain in Switzerland,
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The outavak of typlaid in the chips of the 3levliterránoun "Best is confined to the lower does of the battleship Hayat Sovereign". One death beurred and several 1g- ients and in a very serious condition,
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The Brighton nugishates onkredd Mrs. Minnie James, a widow with ning children, to give up her milk business. She was summed for the third time for selling milk adul- #eated with water.
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· Nearly £1,088) will be distributed mong the children's hospitals of Caradh from the proceeds of the sale of gramophone records of the Dimpire made by the King and Queen for Inst Empire Day,"
BANITARY ENOTNEKUS,
MONUMENTALISTY
Dios sad dowww,
Ma Waschal Road, Honghent
Tel Castral No. 18
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BOOK.
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Phoo & WALL TILES ----Barns, Having.
ALUM BOOM WINWINGS--WAWA
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Whon Humphrey Francis, Bing- ham, of the Royal Field "Artillery, Equitation Sebol, Weedon, Nortli- tnts, was fined £5, with £5 58; comis, *d. Marylebone Police Corat for driv.: ing a motor-car at # dangerous'specal it was stated int he knocked down
• prrumbulator, containing a bubý,
Belform of the whole system of "Pour Law is under consideration. Mr. Wheatley stated when the Bill to extend the duration of the Locu Authorities (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1928, 'eams before n Acuse of Commonę Committee,
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Demozamino In Mogensal Youn OWY IN WALLay Markle On Rongkong. GRATIVE
JUST RECEIVED
A DRIPIKER CV Iwaizan Manney F2000 Tans „Prom O» ÄRPLIGASTON.
Aamniotal War Two Bio 18
ADAM
WE HAVE.
GREAT VARIETIES OF USED AND UNUSED POSTAGE STAMPS SINGLIN, SETH, PACKITS, Bans
AND
ON APPROVAL BOOKS.
FOR COLLECTIONS.
GRADA &
Dealors in Postage Stamps, Post Cards,
Seeds, Toys, "
Mine. Margaret Matzenauer, the Hungarian soprum, of the. Metro- politan Opera House, New York, and two other artists whose coin. | bined New York fees would have] exceeded £2,000, appenved nt es con- cert in the “Aquitania, ** houri,?_fot. Bouthampton.
Best Liniment
For cuts and braben, there is nothing equal to Chamberlain's Pain Balm.. It not only relieves the p-in almʼat instant. Xy, but if is an antiseptic Uniment and when applied “promptly `ckgives the wound to heal without any danger of
No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box No. 880,
Hongkong.
SHOEMAKERS.
Japanese, Band Minde)","
Every
and of Footwear, MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & CO.,
6, D'AQUILAR STREET,
Opposite Kayawaily & Co
Telephone Central No. 491) |
Hongong, March 20, 1914.
WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITCASES
When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases ?
They are Cheaper and More Durable.
CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO. (Opposite Yaumati Ferry, Praya)
J
ASAHI BEER
PASENER BEER
| GRAND PRIZES AMETRITION CONSUMER URAL PAGITED KEMPESTA VE
SAHI BEER
ASAN LAGER BEER
SPECIALLY BREWED FOR EXPORT
COMPAN
CAPSTAN
ODDS AND ENDS.
-MAINLY 8C18BORS LOOT.
Roasting by Electricity.
NOTICE THE ABSENCE OF SPLUTTER
The Pale Primrose.
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THE SLOW BURNING
WHAT A DELIGHTFULLY
COOL SMOKE IT IS.
MONDAY MAY 19 1924.
THE
HONGKONG
'HONGKONG' HOTTT; NEPULSE 'BAY HOTF'.;
Tel. Kowloon No. 3
TAK HOTEL.
Telegraphio, Address, "KREMLIN, KONGKONG,"
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL: PALACE HOTEL; GRAND HOTEL KALEE; MAJESTIC. HOTEL. Telegraphio Address; "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI,”
HOTELS-
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel
des Wagons Lita, Ltd., Paking.
Tel. Address,
"Palace
PALACE HOTEL
(Three minutes from Kowloon Forry Wharf & Railway Station.). Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans Throughout. Every Room with Private Bath.
Lounge Bar & Billiard Room. Unrivalled Coisine under the personal. supervision of the Proprietar. Termos moderate. special terms to families on application to
J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor.
MANUFACTURED
IN
ENGLAND
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.
Telegraphic address "ASTOR"
Telephone Central 176, -
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 Dinners Under entirely new Management.
For further particulars apply to
SOLD
Is It Snobbery? |
Pringtees are belated, but now Corsiderable interest has been trural school children add them to aroused in Edinburgh by the state- the pusies of sweet-violets they de- I ment made by Sir Thomas Hutchi- light in carrying to teacher says a son, Bart,, at a public dinner in
Morning Post writer) Pouts have invested the in-eyed primrose with a tinge of melancigly. Thus, Cole rutge sang. The joy is ours, but all its own the sulness, Shake sprare mutued it, in "Cybeline," snuong the funereal flowers. It figures as a lover's Hower in a song ses tabuted to Thomas new its sad aspect and frail bend. ing stalk tokening "all in" lover"s "Soune, bumnists fears and doulis, account for the pale, love-fora look by a theory that the primrose lures, not bees, but insect By-by-nights. Golden Daffodils."
The
A new and mustad application of
Edinburgh that the shopkeepers in electric heating was made revenily when eletrically harbecteil beef was
the capital were saying that they were not getting the same amount of served to 50 prople at the annual
orders from people who attended. and up anal celebration at Ephate,
functions at Holyrood because they Washington, We barn from
it not props to attend this year. trieul World that foår steers, whigh-
He considered us, declared Sir ing abom 2,80 poind, cach, were dressed and prepared for the herbe
Thomas, to be an exhibition of cir, and rested in a large ele
nobbishness on the part of the capi carly-heated por bih especially for
tal of Scotland: From inquiries the qurasian.
made them seems to be no doubt The improved oven was feet long, I feet wide, and
that such statements are circulating in the city, but the precise degree & Fest deny - Twelve beating ele ments, each of 3 kilowatt capacity,
of reliance to be placed on them is and insisting of about 150 feet of
another matter. Most of the naders approached" were not inclined to at- No. 1 joon wire, were placed one
tribute any diminution in orders to font above the bottom of the pit.
this alleged snobbishness. Sheet-iron beat deflectors were plac
owner of one establishment, how- ed, one foot gigve the heating ele Daffodils have inspired poets from ever, stated that most of their re monts and feet and a half above the Shapespear to Tennyson, but their gular customers hd declared that defectors were placul iron bars to pensive beauty as net a universal they did. rot intend going to Holy- hold the heel. Thermostatic con appeal (observes Daily Clinicle rood functions this year. They were. trol was provided to maintain an writer) Sir Herbert Maxwell tells endeavouring to persuade them to even litt in the pit. The meat was of a Scottish kirkyard where "change their minds, first gensted at a temperatude of 550 | Arent store of Jaffodils" was an ans degrees for two hours. The beat mul delight to churchgoers, One Microscopic Life in the Ocean. was then reduced to 350 degrees anil | March Sunday morning, when he The surface waters of the sea in maintained at this pointer four and others wont to church, expert all parts of the globe abound in unic. hours. For the next six hours the ing to tind the flowers in bloom roscopic floating life which can be temperature ranged from a le- they were four mown down and lycullected by a towing nes of close grees to 300 degrees. At midaighting in dismal swathes upon the Innesh through the water; indeed, it the meat had been roasting for among the graves. After the bus be said that a man on a raft twelve bons, and the temperature service Sr Herliert went to the with a silk handkerchief never need was then reduced to 200 degrees. minister to inquire the reason of this starve. Now, when the micro-organ- and held there for twelve hours in outrage. "Oh, it was done by myismus die, their shells, which are im. fil the time of the barbeeg.-orders," was the explanation my perishable, staat upon the long, slow Workly Telegraph.
wife dislikes vellow, which she con- downward journey. They descend siders a vulgar colour."
Oscillation of the Atmosphere.
Hungry-Yet Afraid
To Eat!
gradually in the warm surface layer of water till they reach the limit of sunlight. Thus it comes about that down to a depth of 2,000 fathoms or so the great abysmal plain is covered with greyish-white deposit of cbulky mud, known as the globi-
Even
A paper scently brought before the Royal Meteorological Society by Professor S. Chapinan deals with the cause of the aspheric oscilla- tion which níunifests itself in the semidiurnal variation of barometric
Such is the plight of thousands, gerina ooze. The name is derived pressure. It has remained an open
from the question whether the oscillation was They dread mealtimes, for they whow sheit preponderates in num organium globigerina, mainly caused by the daily heating know that suffering will follow; bera over all others. Observations and cooling of the atmosphere, or they know that, diet as they will, made in the work of laying and tak
hether the sun's gravitational in- digestive disorder is remorseless, ing up cables in the Atlantic have fence also played an appreciable and it has them in its grip. The shown that the rate of deposition.of part in the phenomenon. This in- pity of it is that such suffering is globigerina cose may be as high as certainty rendered it difficult to ex- quite unnecessary, as any doctor one inch in ten years. At greater plain, even roughly, the observed can tell you. A little Bisurated depths than 2,000 fathoms on an aver. Phase of the oscillation. In the pre- Magnesia, taken in water (or ange the globigerina shells are all dis sent paper un attempt is made to estinate the relative importance of couple of the tablets swallowed) solved before they reach, the bortom, the two causes, assuming that the will instantly neutralise the but the radiolariare are still wanking semidjutral changes of temperature harmful acid which gives rise to and form radiolarian onze in the in the lower atmosphere are mainly the trouble, and thus prevent all deeper parts of the abyss. due to the thermal conduction up- possibility of discomfort. You'll the glassy radiolarians are dissolved in sinking 19 very much greater wards from the ground. The result suffer no more from stomach depths, and in the deepest region of is Homewhat indefinite, not because troubles or weakness of the vital all the ocean-bod is covered with red of mathematical difficulties, but organs if you go to the nearest clay in which living remains era chiefly owing to the scarcity of re-chemist, get a package of this sure city. Other deep-sea deposita liable, data concerning the semidir care, and take as directed. Re- formed from the sinking of the hard mal variation of temperature and the member, a dose of Bisurated shella of face-living organisms are oddy conductivity over large parts of the earth. It seems not unlikely. Magnesia will stop the worst the pteropod ooze, from shells of the however, that the sun's hormal and attack of stomach pain instantly.e-butterflies, and the distom. mitational infondare about and you've only to take the pre, poze. In order to take a sample of equally responsible for the oscilla paration for a very little while to see bottom, it is merely neces Ition, and or this hypothesis the obfeel a different person together to smear the bottom of the lead. |with grease before taking a sound. sarved phase of the oscillation can healthier, happier and brighter. ing. Then when the lead comes up.
a small quantity of the bottom de posit adheres to the tallow Dust from deserts, powdered pumice, vol. See it on çime and meteoric dust, slacksk
teeth, ex-bones af whales. costni upberules, all corribute to the dust rain in the ocean dépihs---G. P: Bleggs, in the Daily Mail.
be accounted for fairly well. The See the aval "BISMAG" Sign on magnitude of the oscillation indicates the wrapper when buying. that the approximation of the adja- cent free period to twelve sölær houps must be very close-that is, to within a few minutes this in macht, notrer than existing theories {of) atinospheric vilizations can no-
ayment for-Engineering.
The Sign of the Genuine
RISMAG.
every
·Package
1, VICTORIA' GARDENS.
HANKOW ROAD, KOWLOON, NEXT DOOR, TO NEW KOWLOON HOTEL.
BOARD and BESIDENCE. Every bome comfort. Very large wall farmlabed 'double and single roniza, One minute from steamers, Personal supervision.
Terms from $4 per day
K
MRS. "STEWART OGILVIE,
Propriate.
ADELPHI
HOTEL.
SINGAPORE,
This distinguished Hotel in the heart of Singapore's social life, with its commanding position facing the beautiful Cathedral Grounds and Sea, offers you complete hospitality and comfort in a refined atmosphere.
Unsurpassed for Meals
Orchestra
Excellent Wines Daily during aud After Dinner
The ONLY HOTEL IN SINGAPORE. fitted throughout with Modern Sanitation
Cables: Adelphi Phone: 937, 938
KING EDWARD HOTEL
A
DENTRAL LOCATION
LE ELECTRIC TRAKS Phan Kostranos, Zisc. Predo Zifta, Fane and Llabung, Europala
Bathe and Brafiary Fittings, líoland. Colds ||Water System throughests, Bast of Food and
Rorried.
741 Cent. I. Talagraphie AddĪRAKI Ş→ VICTORIA 7. WITCHELL, Manager,
MASSAGE
Mr. N. AKAJI & Mrs. E. AKAJI, Graduate Tokio massage Senoci No. Queen's Road, C. Telephone No. C.
25
ADELPHI HOTEL LTD. HARRY H WILLIES,
Managing Director.
'TANG 'YUK, Daumer,
7
the lase SIEN TING,
14, D'Agullar Street.
TERMS VERY MODERATE. Consultation Fròs,
MASSAGE.
Mr. BHIMIDEU, Mrs. HONDA
No., 24, Wyndham Street.
G. FALCONER & CO. (HONGKONG) LTD,
WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS
DIAMOND MERCHANTS
UNION BUILDING (OPPOSITE G.P.O.)
Agents for:ADMIRALTY CHARTS,
ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS. ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery,
THE
EASTERN GARAGE CO.,
35, DES VOEUX ROAD. C.
Best cars for hire and sale, clean place for storing cars, and repairs of Motor Oyoleń undertaken.
JODERATE CHARGES.
·EXPERT DRIVERS.
LONG HING & CO Kosar Žima, a
PHOTO · SUPPLERS.
"DEVELOPING & PRINTING & SPECIALTY.
No. 124, Quzur's Boso Oxitral, Hongkong, b
PIANOS for SALE or Hire
TSANG FOOK PIANO CO,
Tel. 2127.
BIA. Wanchal Ros