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SATURDAY, 19th July, 1924,
commencing at 11,30 A.m.
at their Balos Rooms, Daddoll Streat, A Quantity of Brandy, Whisk
Hock, Liqueura, etq., 'ato, Terms: Cash on delivery,
LAMMERT BROS,,
, Auctioneers.
SANITARY," ENGINEEÜS
MONUMENTALISTO Ort: Wyn:lham Stevet, (Opposite The Dalry Para)
Tel. Central
No, op.
JUST RECEIVED
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SATURDAY, Jaly 18. 1991.
coinmenwing at tā Nova their Sales Room, Daddell Street Comprising:--
Quantity of Omos Roquisites
Comprising:-
Efficiency Doek, Commercial $:001 Safe, Steel Filing Cabinets, Stutionary Cabinet, Storage Cabinet, Kardex Filo. Ramen Daplicator, Typewriters, etc. ato,,
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Sarvoying Instrumenta, Engineer'e Lavale, New Model
· Transit Theodɔlate, Olack Vi Scoomster, Abel Oil Tester, etc., otɔ,
1921
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MONUMENTALISTS IN ITALIAN
MARBLE AND HONGKONG GRANITIL
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ATTENTION !.
Philatelists and those interested
in
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are cordially invited to inspect at
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View from Friday the 18th., JulyAN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
Forms:-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
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·PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS
OF SALE
of a
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY
situa o and boing
Rural Building Lot No 4 und Kellett Lodge, No. 180, The Peak
situate thereOTE
to be sold under the instruction of
"The Executor of the wilt of the Hon.. Mr. Arthur Rylands Lowe, deceased
by
TUBLIC AUCTION
on
WEDNESDAY, 23rd day of July 1994
at 3 o'clock p.m. subject to a Reserva Price
by
Mossra, LAMMERT BROTHERS, Auctioneerą,
at their Auction Room, in Daddell St.,
For further particulars and condition
-of-sale apply to:-----
Mesra. DEACONS, Solicitor for the Exocutor,
1, Des Voeux Road, Central"
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Hongkong. 19th July, 1924.
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145 19-MEAN. A MATTE na Treman 19 Kiani lik,
Tyrian Purple.' KRY;
Purple and mauve are, in our variable climate, the most anthrifty colours which can be worn, as they quickly fade.vobserves a writer in John o' London's Weekly,
It was not so with the famous Tyrian purple, which, in place of fading was deepened by exposure to the air. We can picture the Roman dandy, as he fared forth in his bright sunlight, instead of injuring purple toga, knowing that the
He also knew that only the wealthy and luxurious could afford to wear the Tyrian purple owing to the expensive method of producing it. Its mamfacture was a great source of wealth to the merchants in the ancient city of Tyre, which had a world-wide celebrity for its dyeing and weaving establish ments. The colouring matter was procured from the shell-fish
on the coasts of Asia Minor and Phrenicia. The quantity in cach shell was very small, hence great quantities were required. The murex are noted for their bright
The Man in The Moon.
We all feel wise nowadays about the moon, and "smile indulgently as we relate tales of its lonely.old male inhabitant to the young. Our wisdom; based as it is upon Lall these maps and photographs Some of the most stubborn op and scientific theories, is, how- ponents of summer time are among ever, of very recent origin, points Essex farmers, many of whom re- out Jahn a' London's Weekly. The fuse to advance their clocks, points moon for generations was the out the Morning Post. Other greatest mystery of mankind countrymen make as firm a stand, greater even than the sunit, would intensify its rich tints. as a sexton of Buckinghamshire When Galileo," in 1609, first The clock of the parish church of turned his telescope upon This ministration still keeps Green, the moon, he created throughout wich time; it shall not tell a Hle, he Europe a much greater sensation says. The old man's obstinacy, than did Columbus when he dis- based on religious views, is humour covered America. Till then the ed by his vicar, even though the scientific, men had, believed in sexton refuses to toll the bell at Aristotle's theory, that the mooh is what he considers the wrong time a perfectly smooth and round for week-day services. On Sun- body, its markings being the con- days, when the bellringers report tinents of the world, reflected, as for duty, his cynical attitude ex-in a mirror. Everyone else ex-Mures trunculus, which was found presses his belief that to hold the plained away the mysterious marks in the. Mediterranean and chiefly eleven o'clock service at ten is with myths. There is nothing against Nature, and a flouting of more remarkable in history than the Providence,
strange resemblances which exist
•Hly Wells,
between the explanations given by Ascension Day is regarded as of them interpreted the marks colours and for their fantastic
different races. Almost all the festival of streams and fountains (says a Daily Chronicle writer.) as being aman carrying shapes. During excavations. at Water has ever been regarded as a bundle of wood. Further Paropeli shells of this species were the source of all life and power, him as one who, on account of a by painters Fahric to be dyed more, they all seemed to regard found, having probably been used spiritual and physical.. On this day beautiful Tissington, in Derby-crime, was condemned to eternal was sometimes moistened with
He was, sea-water. shire, decks its five historic wells isolation on the moon.
The natural dye, as with rushes, ferns, flowers, and
indeed, a horrible example to found in the shell, was then wild weeds. There is a general young and old alike." In brushed over it two or three times,
European procession, which halts at each
countries the story after which it was exposed to the spring, while the clergy read generally had a so-called Biblical air and sunhine. At first a faint appropriate psalms." The early significance. In England, it was Christian saints are responsible Moses who found a fan gathering for many "holy wells." They
sticks on the Sabbath, and expelled caused springs
him to the moon.. The reference break out of the rocks for the baptism seems to be to a passage in the of converts. St. Patrick was afteenth chapter of Numbers, but great well-maker. To him and to the resemblance is only slight. Oswald, king" and saint,
In France, the man the
in the The flower sellers at Plccadilly North owes many holy springs Iscariot, and the wood a load now after a very hard winter, in moon is none other than Judas Circus are finding business better" In the Lake Country, in the dale which bears his name. Patrick which he must always carry as a opened a fountain by Ullswater punishment: The earliest English Oswald has his in Grasmere. From record appears in the writings of a the old rock basin in the woo variation of the usual theme:-
St. Albans mook. It is a slight beneath Red Bank, the dalesfolk carried (until the last two genera-
A rustic in the moon, tions) water to the church font
Whose burden weighs him down, when children were to be baptised.
This changeless truth reveal, The curative renown of the holy
He profits not who steals. peasant who was reprimanded by The German versioh dealt with
to
yellow, it turned green, then Anally to deep purple, and the colour was fest." During the process a disagreeable odour was usual, and ching slightly to the fabric for some time after. Piccadilly Posies.
which one of them at least, who numbers many friends anrong her patrons, was forced to retire awing to illness (says the Morning Post.) Gilbert's. beautiful fountain forms a most picturesque setting, for their gay baskets and their own cockney Costume, which, though familiar enough to us Lon- longer remarkable, strikes the eye doners, and by, its familiarity no
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well has never ceased. In Plinta shire there is the miracle-work- an angel for gathering faggots on of the visitor from overseas with 4gante for;—ADMIRALTY CHARTS, ing fountain of St. Winifred, the Lourdes of Wales, with its list of a Sunday. He replied, "Sunday its quaintness of straw hat, shawl, modern cures. The basin is fed by on earth, or Monday in heaven, it and apron. Gilbert himself, the
Je all the same to me,"
For this, famous artist who has adorned
a spring yielding 2000 gallons of he was sent to an eternal moon-day London with one of the most clear water every minute. Sacred in heaven.
wells are often the terininals of ancient roads, or at least important points which they furned. Malvern's many wells are dedicat-
ed Herefordshire is full
THE "LIVE WIRE"
beautiful monuments, is still alive, working quietly in Ghent, The world hears little of him. But" there are two of bis works on exhibition lent by
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of springs. In Cornwall the wells is the own who is wide avence, effeipt. Mr. J. P. Heseltine, the senior LONG HING & CO., TO SUPPLIES are marked by many ancient liver. good digestion and the regular who knew Gilbert so well in his structures and covers. In some daily hit. If you are troubled with youth. churchyards the holy wells are empid liver irregular bowel aution. balanced by waters of sinister drowoca, dizziness, a dismal repas of renown On the dark north side inefficionaý zisa Piakolles trials you'll–
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Too Late. "han to Konz
No time to hunt for a doctor or drug
log intestinal crains: dearly, nause
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