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LAMMERT BROS. C. E. WARREN & CO.,
AUCTIONEERĄ, APTRAINERS
AND SURVEYORS,
Public Auctions
HE Undersigned have received in. Tatructions to sell by Pubile Auction
ΟΙ
THURSDAY, 30th October, 1986, commencing kt 8.18°p.m.
at their Bale Room, Duddall Stroot
▲ Valuable Collection of
Postage Stamps
Catalogos will be issued.
On View from Wednesday, the 201 October, 1924.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
'Auctioneers.
PRINCE IN ROCKIES.
HIS SPACIOUS-LOG-CABIN- HOTEL.
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After his brief stay at his Aiberta ranch the Prince of Wales will visit a beauty spot in the Canadisn Boekies that he luas.never seen before, says writer in a home paper. Jasper National Park, the the largest game sanetary in
world, extends over 1,100 square indes, nearly double the size of Devonkire.
The Princes going to stay at Jasper Park Laxlge, the delightful chulet hotel on the shores of Lac Fenuvert, ply opened up last suits
er by the Canadian Notional Railways. The revolving panora mie model of the hotel at Wembley gives very little idea of its real huetia. Most tourists who stay in the Caundian Hackier go to Hand, The better-known beauty spot, on the beaten truck, where there is an Intel that looks like the Ritz, and prices prohibitive for most of us. Jasper is evisadorably to the north, and deserves to be better known. for it is one of the favoured spots
if the earth for à rend holiday,
I was fort mate in spending a few days there last, samuner, and in seeing the start of the Tanndary survey' party that was to make the Graal boundary on the rights of the Rockies batweggi" Alberta and British Colun:ba. you inve travelled across Canada and Win- pipeg has been the lust place you stayed at, your first impression on abghing at Jasper will be this: "Why, it is just the the films "Hird" by Gu inte station platform is n hugie totem pole, rridely painted | and goudily curved. weirdly re- miniscent of the mysticism of the Red Indian. True, there are no Dadigms in paint and feathers of the platform-they wear shirts and sen in otobreos and the rough woolly or the sunboth leather "chups" that we have seen them *wearing on the films. They wear bended or enibinidered coatis, too, and altogether! FIT most pic- turesque, but lack the shooting- irons and film habit of their frequent, se
Another impression is that die nountains are not so high as in Switzerland. True, but the whole effect is vaster, mightier and less crowded together, In Switzer- Jand, you must, either go dawn, you capt go far on level ground; but here you are perched Jagh on a platnu, and you can walk or ride for miles or practically | Jevel motor fonds or fruits
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Alter a three-nules drive you arrive at the hotel, which is entire ly in keeping with its surrounding. No palace here, but a spacious log Bungalow, with flower decked porch, where you dine overlooking Gio lake, Each fumily or party has its separate fungalow, entirely detached, delightful arrangement that makes for privacy. 11 looks se a log cabin, but it Ime its own Tath-room. derbone, electric hght, and even central i:eating, for the nights are sometimes colà. · ·
Few Canadian women weer skirts in the mountains, noat knicker bocker mite being preferred for riding and hiking as they call their long truuyps O sporting joys I cannot spank, hut wander. ing through forests of jackpine or spruce there are wonderful wild flowers to rejoice the heart of the botanist; there is buthing and f canoeing in the lakes; there is joy and beauty everywhere: but best of all is the pure tonic freshness of the mountain air, and the sbiding calm that restores the tired spirit and gives it new life.,
IDEAL FOR WOMEN. 4. Forwomen, also for the seed. Pinketten are the foal lazative bensuso thøy are as and to action yet so efficient in realts." "They are not babit-forming.sad da sot Impact the atomich an my many vargstiver de. Vned when necegumes, they ensure
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SANITARY ENGINEERS
MONUMENTALISTS.
DESCRI
$19, WYNDHAM STEBE, HONGKONG.
TEL,CENTRAL 269.
Estimates Free
for complete
Sanitary Installations
Hot Water Systems &c. Specialists in Monumental Work
out from
Italian Marble-Polished and/or
Fine Punched Hongkong Granite.
Artificial Wreaths in Stock.
FOR SALE
YATES
PLANT FOOD Perfect Fertilizer,
in one pound tas, sufficient for 30 to 50 POT PLANTS, according to size
for one year.
GRACA, & CO.,
Dealers in Garden Seeds, Postage Stamps, Post Cards, Toys, etc. No. 10, Wyndham Street, P.O. Box 620.
Hongkong
SHOEMAKERS,
(Japanese Hand Made) Every kind of Footwear
MADE TO DELL
CHERRY & CO..
6. D'AGUILAR SESHIT,
Opposite Kayawally & D Talspbons Central 240, 491–
Hongrong, March 30, 2014,
WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITCASES
When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Sulicasse ?
They are Cheaper and Hors Durable.
THE CHINA MAIL.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1924...
"Three Castles HONGONG
CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO. Stool Houses.
(Opposite Tsunil Farfy, Frys)
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| An Interesting Cass.
"Suicide Pact.”
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(Three minutes from Kowloon' Ferry Wharf & Hallway Station.) Entirely ander English Management. Elsetris Light and Fans Throughout. Every Room with. Private Bath
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Lounge Bar & Billiard Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the Proprietor. Terms moderate
opecial tarms to familie on spplication to
VOAJALE OXBERAT, Proprietor.
ODDS & ENDS.
A policyholder was having a The Paris correspondent of the MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
two-storey office building erected"Daily Telegraph and the bricklayers hoisted their amazing murder was perpetrated The Second City.
by a young Parisian girl named The Second City of the Empire, materials in a barrel attached to a Helene. An elderly commercial -as Liverpool likes to call itself rope that passed through a pulloy traveller, Heat Durand, desiring when Glasgow Isn't looking-be on the end of a timber projecting to have an evening's fun, invited gins a week's "Wemble" shortly from the roof of the building
two girls, Helene and Lucienné, to There is to be no pageant of civic
dinner. They drank treely and activity. The Liverpool docks are When the brick work was finished, became excited. When they were too damp and the faction riots too the insured, who was a thrifty walking on the outer boulevards brisk for realistic production, and individual, noticed that the work Durand jestingly nourished an even the Stadium could hardly man had left a number of surplus empty revolver, and said "I am hold lifelike models of the great bricks on the second floor, which tired of life. I am going to kill Liverpool ocean liners, apart from he felt should be saved. He hoisted you both to-night. Thereupon the growing risks of an injuncthend too to the window of the the three made a suicide pact, tion by Southampton Port. Butecond floor, tied the rope securely where by Durand should shoot the Lord Mayor of Liverpool will below, then went up to the second them, and then himself. The three, be at Wembley ia full civic regalia,oor and filled the barrel with returned to a café, and wrote to their rela- with prominent citizens, some fine bricks, returning to the ground to farewell letters miniature models of famous Mer lower it. As the brick-filled barrel tions, After further drinks had sey argosies, and a parade of huge ward as soon as he loosened the toyed with the revolver, and the was heavier than he, it shot down been consumed Durand loaded and elephantine draught horses which are the pride of Liverpool. And rope, and he went up, as his legs girls began to dare him to carry there is to be a banquet attended had become entangled in the rope, out the programme. Helene sald He collided with the barrel in mid-Give me the revolver. I will do by distinguished Liverpolitans.
air and fractured an arm. When it. He handed over the weapon the barrel hit the ground he struck and Helene shot him, and then A house of steel was built in a the pulley at the roof with such fired at Lucienne, but missed her day at Glasgow on October 4 force as to break his nose. At the Helene left Durand” dying, and This accomplishment was witness same time the bottom fell out of the went to her home and slept: When ed by a deputation from the com- barrel and it lost its weight, again she was arrested the following mittee which had been appointed | shooting upwarde as the insured morning she refused to believe by the Minister of Health to study started on his downward course, that Durand was dead. She told and advise him on the style, con- Once more he hit the harrel at the the police that in any case it was struction and materials for mass halfway point and broke a wrist, only a joke služ house-building at workshops. In When the barrel reached the pulley an hour and a half, the walls had it went to pieces and some of the Monument to Co been put up, the floor laid, and the falling stavce struck him and broke,
Sir Joseph Carruthers recently woodwork of the roof nearly com his collar bone. As the insured visited Hawall and inspected pleted, and before the deputation carried an accident policy that
Captain Cook's monument at jeft at 5 o'clock the house had provided that the company's Kealakekua Bay. The area, forty, been practically completed. It is ability was limited to only one
feet square, was vested in the stated, however, that in ordinary injury arising out of one accident, British Goremment when the circumstances, after the concrete the case was an interesting one Hawaiian territory was annexed to foundations have been laid, the for the assessor.
the United States. Sir Joseph completion of the house in all its
Carruthers states he found the details will take 10 to 14 days.
moniment dificult of access' as of Other types
steel houses
In the mther remarkable absence there is no means; of, approach by: are - to
be examined by the of any general movement to com- land. He suggests that the sur depulation,
memorate the late Lord Kitchener's roundings should be acquired as st -Greenwich Hospital's Future.
dramatic death on the immediate public reserve and a road and, i The report of the Earl of mise en scène, the Orkney is-Jetty built to give access. He Crawford's Committee, which is landers, who much" prefer to call, assured the local authorities that considering the future use of the themselves the Orcadians, are the Commonwealth would deem it historic Greenwich. Hospital, will| raising public subscription an honour to be allowed to contri- be issued shortly. It has been amongst themselves to erect a bute to the cost. An accessible already decided to transfer the suitable memorial to the great shrine would serve as a link" of Royal Hospital School to a site in soldier of the Empire: This closer friendship between America, the neighbourhood of Lowatoft, memorial is to be placed on the Britalo and Australia. It is under- although the new building there summit of Marwick Road,' a great stood that the suggestion will not be ready for two, or sheer cliff, two hundred feet high, he communicated to Preside perhaps, three years. Lord overlooking the storm-ridden sex Coolidge, Mo K Crawford's Committee, howswey, within two miles of where the is dealing more particularly with HMS. "Hampshire,on that faus!
A romance of the sea, worthy of the hospital buildings, and to what and perfidious night of June 5th, ever purposes these may be put eight years ago, sank beneath the Stevenson's pen, is revealed by eventually, the removal of the wayes in the darkness of night." | "the arrest of Captain Jemato Phalt Royal Naval College is practically i In it wild grandeur the scene of a German-American, on a charge assured. Portsmouth is mention this Orkney memorial somewhat of piracy on the high seas. The. ed as a much more suitable locality recalls the savage solemnity.df | stary runs that, the steamer, for this branch of Senior Service Cecil Rhodes' grave amidst the "Mulbouso, left Canada; kn Jun work. It is suggested that the everlasting silences" of the Mopop with a cargo of 32,000 cases of whole of the famous hospital, Fills. which was begun by Inigo Jones and completed by Wren, shall be transformed into a great national meum. The appointment of the GriWord Comtultee was inspired by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Building, whose action was the direct outcome of certain proposed structural alterations and ↑ nditions to meet the modern re- |-wek) quirements of the college, and which it is urged would completes
Orkneys and Kitchener.
Comfort fur the Aged
Old prop
17 destroy, the architzmáral effdth (inntak. and beauty of the whole plies
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Are escly tire
Ching. For
Scotch Whisky, its destination being Europe. On June 25 the “Mulhouse" met the schooner.
Patara
under 'the'
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 Mexis and in Carte. Excellent Cuisine. Monthly Tickets ** for Tiffins and Dinners. Under entirely new Management,
For further particulara.apply to
M. A. VAZĄ Manager.
SOUTH CHINA RESTAURANT
CO., LTD.
CHINA BUILDING,
9th FLOOK
NOW OPEN,
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The Finest Restaurant In Town
MONA Fors. Chinese Chow”
Afternoon Tea With The Finest Chinese
Pastries Also Supplied.!?
Cold Drinks Cf Every Description
Obtainable At All Times. Clubs Supplied At Short Notice.
Telephone.C. 4682.
OPEN DAILY FROM NOON TO MIDNIGHT,
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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 complers hospitality and comfort in a refined atmosphere.
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Unsurpassed for Meals. Excellent Wines.
Dally during and. After Dinner
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The ONLY HOTEL IN SINGAPORE
tated throughout with Modern Sanitation, an
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