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ODDS AND ENDS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
LAMMERT BROS. NOTICE OF REMOVAL MAINLY ACISSORS LOOT,
AWINGS WA, APPRAIAKS
AND BOYSTORİ
Public Auctions --
Undersigned have received in
titans from the Special Manager Mom Tu ra, Ltd. (in Liquidation) › sell by Public Auction
011
FRIDAY, 20th June, 1994, commanding. t 11a.m.
ut No, Calrhick St H. Que (1) Six Cylin fitted with Mansion Magurts and highrestor for
Zeronine Stern
al, complete, with Gear and necesantion, Make-ixon Beathers &
Hutchinson, Southampton, p cur (4) 6!" x 6'6" Gap Bed Sliding
Surfacing Sertw
Chattin
1.atbes complete with Counters Point Stendy Rents, 4 Jew Independient Chucks and all accessories. Makars The Atlas Engineer- ing Works, Teda,
The above Machinery may 38 inspected on any day between the hours of 9. nuc p.m. at the above mentioned premises.
Torm-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS, Auctioncorn.
have received instruction from the Executor.
THE Undersigne
of the estate of the late Bun. Mr. A. R. Lowe to roll by Public Auction,
AN
FRIDAY, 20th June, 1924... commencing st 2.43 p.m.
at Kellet Ludge" No. 184 The Peak
Quantity of Valuable House.
hold. Thraltars Comprising:-
Tonk Halstand. Chesterfield Courh and Choirs, Desks, Touk Extension Dining Table, Dining Chairs, Trak 'Sideboard, Dinner Waggon, Book Catce, le Chest, Carreta, Curtains, Glass Waru, Feturs, Brass Ornaments, Overmantel. ntu, atu
Bras Bedstead, Double and singla, Tosk Hedsteads, Paulde and Single Wardrobes with Glass Donts, Chest of Drawers, Dressing Tables, Wh Standa, Ferries, Proka, ste, ele.
Plants, Ferns, Lawn Mower, "Stone"] Roller, etc, etc,
Also
One Grand Piano by Pleval
Catalogues will be issued.
On Viw from Thursday the 19th..)
June 1921.
Termin-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, Jana 14, 1924,
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HE Vodomigned have raceasta, LOW-
on to eat by Pablls auchlon,
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SATURDAY, 21st June, 1924,
at 11 o'clock a.m...
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street.
543 lba. Jabhing Type
4 Cages Wood Type
35 Tin Cooking Compound Lard
1 Case Mercarised Brocadee
20 Pieces Waterproof-fulle
1 Drum Anti Fouling Composition
1 Drum Anti Corrosive Composition
"Alsa
A Quantity of Paltings
And
A Lot of Viscellane as G vde Tarina: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS. ÂUCTİORASTE,
Hongkong. 18th June, 1994.
TORA INOKÚCHI QUALIFIED MIDWIFE..
No. 2, 1st Floor, Chee Wo Street, Kowloon,
(Facing Diocesan Girls' School.) Telephone K. 754
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS
THE GREAT NORTHREN TELE GRAPH COMPANY, LTD.
The following unclaimed telegrams- dre lying at the oilies of
The
Great Northern Telegraph Company (Limited):---
Yun Wah, from Amoy,
Chung Lang 23 Wing Shing Streek
2nd Flour, from banghai,
Thediaahataro, from basebo
Gritsilos, from Yokohama.
Patterson Wharf, from obasghai.
$120, fon Ohe oo.
Loe Yen Yee 10 Waocari, from
Shanghai.
Beglia, frore Shanghai.
2889 3293, from Amoy.
Hagh King Edward Hotel, froz
Shanghai,
Tobyotel, fmm Osalu.
A. V. JESSEN,
**2; Maperintendent,
longkong, 2240 May 1974.
KMASTERN EXTENSIUN AUSTRAL ABIA & CHINA TELEGRAFH Co.
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Les of unckimet Kelagrams bying in
K'E Telegrapė Office, Hongkong-
Angloshins, frbes Landin
Keyboard, from (podna. Hentrybar, from Bestbay.
ME FAIREY,
Superintenden
Bongking 22nd May 1924).
We have this day
removed to
No. 31D, Wyndham St., (Opposite The Dairy Farm)
C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
'SANITARY ENGINEERS, &c
Hongkong, 5th June, 1924.
FOR SALE
A Fine Collection of 63 Transvaal Unused Postage Stamps,"
1885 to 1901, Including £5. Stamps
for $50 net
GRACA & 00,
Dealers in Postage Stamps, Pictorial Fest Cards, Garden Beeda, Toys
ko. do.
No. 10, Wyndham · Strest,
Hongkong.
P. O. Box $20.
SHOEMAKERS.
Ivory
Japuseos Hand Mąds)
and of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & CO.,
8, D'AQUILAR STREET,
Oppoetic Haysmally to
| Telephone Centra) No. 421)
Hongkong, March 80, 1914.
WHY BUY. FOREIGN MADE SUITCA¿ES
When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases 7
They are Cheaper and More 'Durable,
CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK.CO.
(Opposite Twomatí Forty, Praya)
ASAHE BEER
PUSENER BEER
GRAND PRICES
AMORTIZAN EXCITIN
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BEER
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“SPECIRÉEY BREVÉD
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FOR
EXPORT
COMPAN
TOKYO, JAPAN
LIMITED
AMERICAN TOURISTS.
WHAT THEY SEE WHEN VISITING LONDON.
COURT {{SURPRISE.
PICTURE OF. HERSELF AND CHILD.
There was a dramatic surprise during the hearing of a charge at Westminster Police Court against George John Heron. 34, formerly an Army bandsman, of stealing £50 belonging to Edith Margaret Hollingsworth. of Rosetta-street, S.W. to whom he had been
gaged.
Why Marie Corelli Never Married Friends often asked Miss Corelli why she never married. This was An Excuing News correspondent her answer: There is no need went with a party of Americans for I have three pets at home which, round London, and this is his des together, answer the same purposcription of where they went and as a husband. I have a dog which what they saw. growls all the morning, a parrot which sweats all the afternoon, and a cat which comes home late at night." That is much wittier. then
It was alleged that Heron, who most of the diatribes in her novels,
lodged at the house of the woman's The Best Seller of Yesterday.
mother, eloped with a young "Maria Corelli was hetore my
At the Abbey they reproached married wornan, a pianist at a time, "a young lady is reported to him because he started broadcast-kineno.
The appetite for history lessons that seizes middle-aged Americans is a curious affliction One guide was not enough for ten of them as we toured London in a luxurious mator-coach.
The Magistrate (Mr. Chapman): Do you mean he will marry her?
have said the other day. The hesting history before all had gathered Mr Fryzer said he understood sellers of one generation trend around him. I discovered also that that there had been a rapproche, hard on the heels of their immed-his little crystal-set voice didn't ment ate predecessors, and for them, please them-especially after we though the prizes are glitering, had encountered one guide who the hour of fame is brief. Possibly was apparently working on several middle-aged people find it hard to valves, coupled to a very loud réalise that to the worshippers of those twin goddesses, Miss Hull and Miss Dell, the authoress of "The Sorrows of Sutan" is a back number.
A Dress Problem Solved.
speaker.
Before this, I had felt that our guide was the boastful Mr. Pedsnap come to life from Great Expectations," for this is how he talked:
The appointment of Mr. James
"We are.now entering the City Brown, the Labour M.P, to be a of London-the historic old City Deputy Lieutenant for the County old London-full of historical and of Ayr has. I understand, solved the literary associations the old old problem of the dress he will wear City. This thoroughfare Cheap during his stay at Holyrood Palace side-known hundreds of years as His Majesty's Lord High Com missioner of the Church of Scoteo as 'The Chepe, meaning the land (says a London Evening News bargain, was originally an open writer. He will wear the Deputy side-streets-Bread-street.
space occupied by a market. The
Milk Lieutenant's uniform, and thus
street, Wood-street, Poultry Will
maintain the memorial probably indicated the position of custom according to which the different classes of traders' booths. King's representative appears in Every yard of this old street is official garb.
steeped in historical and Ilterary associations.
Master Lascelles:
The Hon. George Lascelles, the fourteen months old son of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles, who recently paid his first visit with his parents to Windsor Castle is, of course, proving a centre of attraction to the members of the Royal Family. More than once lately he has been in his perambulator at the changing of the guard in the "Quadrangle. The child has grown wonderfully during the past few months (say's a London Ering Netes writer) and is just beginning to try to walk.
Scott's "Muckle-bachits ""'
In-
■
Mr Fryzer: Not while this charge is hanging over his head. No money has been traced to him. The Magistrate: I will adjourn the case if there is nothing to hinder the marriage,
The woman was then asked by the dark if she had ever been married, and with some hésitancy she said she had about 15 years ago.
Was your husband's name Sidney. Moore, and did he live at Scunt horpe, Lincolnshire?I know he is dead. I have not seen him for more than 10 years,
Exhibiting a faded photograph from the letter, the clerk. asked if that was a picture of her and her child.
The Woman: Yes. But I know my husband is dead,
The Clark: Oh, no-he is alive. Mr. Champman said this develop. They like the most difficult rent much altered the position, history lessons, so the Tower of and Heron was further remanded London is served up to them, on bail. hot and strong. The story of the Tower is as full of dates as Tunis or Basra; the Americans took all that were given to them- and chewed them reflectively.
We had a quick look at St. Paul's Cathedral-walked up the centre aisle casting our eyes upwards as directed into the stuur-blue haze of the dome, and thus were awed by the great spaces, and felt like very sntall people.
An hour in the Abbey passed like ten minutes.
We lunched in 2 restaurant fashioned after the scheme of a dining-room on board an Atlantic
An interesting story of how Sir Walter Scott hit upon the name
Muckle-backft" for the habitants of Auchmithie, a quaint liner. fishing village near Arbroath, as
After lunch, the National Gallery, he does in "The Antiquary," was And did the Americans then go told by Mr. Edward Cadogan, the home and call for iced water? No: historian of Auchmithie, whose they plunged into the British death at a ripe age is announced. Museum. When Sir Walter visited Auchmlthie (says the Morning Post), the infirmity from which he suffered necesstiated his being carried down the cliffs to the: beach by a sturdy villager, whon the novelist clapped heartily on the shoulder with the remark, Sandy, you're a 'muckle-backit fellow." The word recurred to
SUICIDE FROM LINER.
EFFECT OF UNREQUITED LOVE.
Driven mad by thoughts of unrequited love for his girl at home, Mr. Thorndyke Hilton, a wealthy Chicagoan, aged 21, com- mitted suicide by jumping over- board in the night off the steamer "Orduna," of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, which has arrived at Cherbourg from the United "She jilted me, but States. she won't be troubled with me much longer; I am going to end it all." Mr. Hilton said this to a fellow-passenger at dinner just before he walked to the stern of the ship and leaped into the inky black waters of the Atlantic) and nine o'clock on the hight parent 29, three days out from New York: Two deck stewards and two passengers-saw the melancholy. youth walk aft and seize the bang- ing rope and swing himself over Years ago it used to be said that the rail into the churning waters An im- mediate alarm was given, and three born in humbler circumstances, lifebuoys with lights were thrown would have made a good commer-overboard, while the ship was
stopped. cial traveller. This abservation, through the strange mutations of
EX-CROWN PRINCE.
EMPLOYED AS COMMERCIAL
TRAVELLER.
J
Sir Walter when he came to write the German Emperor, had he been around the propeller.
The Antiquary,
Byron the Best Seller.
The night was pitch
The Byron Centenary has revived the old Continental legend of the poer's lack of honour and apprecisfortune, has actually come true in dark, with a heavy north-west tion in his own country (says the the person of his son the ex-Crown Swell and, a heavy Sea. The life- |
Daily News. One recalls the Prince.
boat, under the command of the typically sentimental tablet on a Moved by his plea that his and searched the ocean for nearly first officer, was launched carefully, building in the Rue Ducale, fortune had suffered just the same Brussels, which reads:-"In the as everybody else's through the two hours, but no trace was found! spring of 1816 this
house depression of the mark, the of the missing man; so hope was sheltered for several days Lord German Government gave the abandoned and the ship continued } Byron, who which misunderstood his genius bring
left his country, ex-Crown Prince permission to on her way,
his family to Ger and which he was never
nany to seek some remunerative to see again. Here he composed occupation. This he has obtained the verses on the Battle of Water as a traveller for agricultural Joo in the Third canto of the Childe
machinery. He should do very Harold." So far from his country well in this line since all the large not appreciating his genius, I find landowners are staunch monar that just before Lord Byron left chists and many of them are per England for the last time no fewer sonally known to him." than 14,000 copies of "The Corsair' were sold in a single day. A best
seller indeed!
A Stratford Celebrity.
Without Marie Corelli, the Birth day Festival at Stratford-on-Avon will seem facking in its accustorn- ed favour (says a Daily Chronicle writer), for Miss Corelli took a
£445.000 WAR CLAIM,
8,000 AEROPLANES THAT
* COST £11,500,000.
A claim amounting to £445.000
family are at -present living in came before the Royal Commission W. Hohenzollern, jun., and his by the Aircraft Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hendon, NW, Potsdam, and he is in the habit of on Awards to Inventors,, presided taking them to the pictures like over by Mr. Justice Tomlin at the any other respectable business Law Courts. man. It is said that he fills the Part of "drummer" to the ilfe.
Mr. Hunter Gay, K.C., for the company, said that in May 1914 Captain Havilland joined the com- pany and designed the first D.H.
great interest in the anniversary, WHAT THE LETTER TOLD machine. The D.H.4 was pro
HIS WIFE.
duced in 1916 and was adopted by the Americans as their standard machine, and the United States Government awarded the company £60,000.
and had very decided opinions as to how it should be celebrated. She used herself to attend the
The coming of the portman i looked Birthday Performance in the forward to by most people. Bope aprings theatre, and sat in the front row of ete naf 14 ite huse breast, and who the dress circle-a figure once seen can tell what no news of good fortune
The British Government pald not easily forgotten-and enter our letters may bring tained distinguished visitors in her It was a letter to his wife which the company £50,000 for one D.H. ceremonious yet kind. way at her brought advice that proved of immense design, the D.H.6. The D.H.4 was lovely old house, Mason Croft. This importance and value to Mr. T. P. Mac designed when there wore no Doonid, who live at Trompsburg, in the British machines capable of coping stocal on the street, and each of Transvaal, South Afrio. Paya Mr. Mac with the German Fokker. the white-framed windows, set in Donald: For month I laid in bed with orderly rows in the rosy old brick, an attack of enteric fever, and although DH4 was able to outmanoeuvre all had its window-box. They were my life was despaired of I pulled the German peroplanes, and during always a mass of bloom, and, even through, but could not regain my the latter part of 1917 all the im
bombing raids in strength, no matter what I tried. After portant day in that town of well-kept gardens, I had been about for a while I was Germany were done with this made the brightest show of flowers, suddenly attacked with Lambago. This machine.
1
The
The claim also covered four other types of D.H. machines, and The D.H. totalled £445.000.
to be seen.
becanio on sovero that I was confined to Russell Case,
bed for months and suffered frightful Lord Birkenhead, in. the Russell agony day and night. One day my wife case, referring to the question of received a letter adtising her to treat the Russell child's legitimacy, said with Dr. Williams Pink, Pil machines made by the claimants that if and when the child became start a course, and was complutely and by other contractors exceeded
8,000 and cost £11,500,000. of age and applied for his writ to
The experience of Mr. MacDonald h
The hearing was adjourned. the Lords and if proceedings were bron that of many thousands of other to follow, the evidence led would peopl lot is because of thele not be admissible and he would he unique. boulth and stro gth restoring pronounced legitimate.
Lord act on on the whole system, through the bloid and nerves that pic. · Wiliams' Danedio said the child's legitimacy Pick Pills give the wonderful help ther
Chamberlain's Collo and In law was secure. His legitimacy do to wins auffering men and women f
“s, Distruoss Remedy in the eyes of the world had you, dre a sufferer from any form of
"CHIKMENNAT COUP and Hartbees perished with the verdict: The oath texcomble to impure watery Romedy poressor one unique character. husband was ordered to pay the blood or disordered norven you should intlo smong medicines. It's made solely costs of the appeal, Apart from givu Dr. William Pink Pills for Pale and only for the one purpose of immed certain issues on which the Poople trial without delay. Your fatalyelloving severe pain in the cham st sell them, or direct from Dr. stomach and bowels, for Intestinal appellant failed, the respondent Williams Medieins Co. 50 Elangse crampe (whatever the cause), enlie and can apply for a new 'trial in the Road, Bhanghai, $1, 15 per bottle, 98/or triarchons. Every family should keep it Courts below:
# bottles, post 'fiae, "
Handy.. For enļa story whare.
THURSDAY JUNE 191924.
THE
HONGKONG
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Throughout
(Threo sinutes from Kowloon: Forry Whart & Railway Station.) Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fa
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Terms wodarste. special terms to families on application to
J. F. OXBERRY, Proprietor.
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ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.
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 Tittins aud Dinners. Under entirely new Management..
"For further particulars apply to
M. A. VAZ, Manager.
SOUTH CHINA RESTAURANT
CO., LTD.
CHINA BUILDING,.
Sib FLOOR
NOW OPEN.
The Finest Restaurant In Town
For Chinese: Chow. Afternoon Tea With The Finest Chinese Pastries also Supplied.
Cold Drinks (f Every Description obtainable at All Times. Clubs Supplied At Short Notice.
Telephone 0, 4882.
OPEN DAILY FROM NOON TO MID NIGHT..
THE EASTERN GARAGE CO.,
35, DES VOEUX ROAD. C.
Best cars for hire and sale, clean place for storing cars, and repairs of Motor Cycles. .undertaken.
EXPERT DRIVERS.
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ENGINE BRAND BUTTER
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