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Nos. 1366, 1375, 1314, 1320, 1394, 1376 1385, 1342, 1392; 1397, 1409,
TUITION
FPANISH LANGUAGE TUI-
MISCELLANEOUS.
"House, Flats, Building-Lols, TION Students tought" both | Estates negotiated for rant, auc- Manage- Technical and Commercial tión, or private sale. spanish, rapid method. Pro- muut arranged for clients pro- ficiency guaranteed in six months coading abroad. Telephone C.4630 The Spanish professor is a higher, Small Investors, 16. Dos Vaux graduate of Madrid University, Road," For particulars, apply Post Oflice Box 35..
SITUATIONS WANTED.
Wanted Position as Nurse or to do sowing. Apply to Box No. 1413 co "Hongkong Telegraph."
PREMISES TO LET
OFFICE in Bank of Canton Building. Well Lighted. Mo- derate Ronial. Apply Box No.. 1412 e o "Hongkong Telegraph."
TO LET 1arge double furnished room with beard also, I small, Tregunter Mansions, May Road. Reply Box 1410, c/o "Hongkong Telegraph."
TWO ROOMS. Top Floor, Queen's Buildings. Apply Holyoak, Massey & Co., Iąd.
HONGKONG
BOXING
ASSOCIATION.
THEATRE ROYAL
November, 21st. at 9.15 pm..
First Tournament of the Soason.
MARINE BETTS H.M.S. "HAWKINS* Wolterweight Champion of the Colony.
Y.
A. B. EWIN
H.M.S. "HERMES" Middleweight Champion of the Fifteen 2 Navy and Marines minute round contest for tha Welterweight Championship of the Colony and the Scott-Hareton Bait.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1925.
LAMMERT'S L. MOORE 8 CO., LTD.
AUCTIONS
PUBLIC, AUCTION,
The Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by Public Auc- tion
on MONDAY,
the 23rd November, 1925, commone- ing at 2:30 p.m., at Nos. 9 and 10, Kennedy Road.
A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture. Comprising:-
Dining Tables, Dinner Waggons, Sideboards with Bevellad Mirrors, Chairs, Overmantels with Bevelled Mirrora.
Fine Bedroom Suites (by Wm. Powell Ltd.) consisting of Tenk Wardrobes with Bevelled Mirrors Dressing Tables with Bevelled Mir- rors, Marble Top Washstand, Teak Desks, etc., etc.
Carpets, Curtains, etc., etc., also
Some Handsome Pieces of Blackwood Ware and Brasses, and
One Upright Piano by "Vose". Catalogues will be issued.
On View from Sunday, the 22nd November, 1925. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers. Hongkong, November 10, 1925."
PUBLIC AUCTION,
Important Sale of Property in the Business Centre of the International Settlement
of SUANGHAI,
"
L. MOORE & CO., LTD. Established '1874 Favoured with instructions from
H.B.MS. OFFICE OF WORKS
Will sell by Public Auction- within their Salesrooms No. 45 Kiangse Road. Shanghai,
on
1925 at 4 p.m. precisely.
Wodnesday, November 25th
A portion of that very desirable and important.
PROPERTY
known as Cadastral Lot No. 15 (British Consular Lot. No. 581) situate at the corner of Museum & Peking Roads and formerly known us
THE BRITISH POST OFFICE
This very important property comprises LAND of a measured daren of M. 2 P. JL. 1, H. 4. with an approximate frontage on
Peking Road of 110′ 9′′ Museum Road of 128' 5" and The Undersigned have received on a lane connecting Yuen Ming instructions to sell by Public Auc-Yuen Road and Museum Road of
26' 816" together with the
101
on THURSDAY,
the 26th November, 1925, com- mencing at 5.15 p.m., at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.
A Valuable Collection of Postage Stamps. Full Particulare from Catalogue).
Catalogues will be issued. On View from Wednesday, the 25th November, 1925. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BRÖS.,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, November 19, 1925.
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auc-: tion
on FRIDAY
BUILDINGS THEREON providing an excellent dpport- unity for the purchase of one of the finest business sites in the International Settlement.
Copies of Plans and Conditions of Sale may be seen on applica- tion either to H.B.M's. Office of Works, 14 Yuen Ming Yuen Road or L. Mooro & Co., Ltd., Shanghai.
The property may be inspected on application to H.B.M's Office of Works.
L. MOORE CO., LIMITED. Auctioneers, Appraisers, &c.
CHINA AUCTION ROOMS.
4, Duddel Street. If you have anything you would like to sell, oxchange or advertise send it to the CHINA AUCTION ROOM.
E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA, Auctioneer.
MIXED
ASHLEY STERNE ·
GRILL
AUTHOR or -
TWISTED TALES-
I am very glad to see that Sir solution of the difficulty is sim.. Oliver Lodge's appeal to seion-plicity itself, for not only uro the tists, mudo at the recont mooting
ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH. of the British association; to use
Kowloon
Missionary Campaign
To-morrow, Sunday
8.15 am. II a.m. 6 p.m. Preacher Rev. W. H. Murray
plain language when speaking or writing on scienific matters, has alroudy borne fruit. Before me, As I write, lies a little book entitled, Relativity Without Professor Watt- Buncombe, which I have already an read, and now open haphazard.
Tears" by
Says the author: "It, therefore, two things spelt differently, but follows that the co-efficient of also pronounced differently. He. Walton, M.A., F.R.G.S. gravity of a differential ellipse further points out that toads con- moving through the cosmos with not sit on mushrooms. They fall Anthem "0, Taste and See"
an initial inertia equivalent to off; or else the mushroom broaks p the cotangent of its ordinates and he strongly advisos every Ofertorios for Church Missionary Apoc. varies inversely as the logarithm mushroom-gatherer to carry a
(Lions)
INSTITUTION FOR THE BLIND.
KOWLOON CITY ROAD,
20 min from Star Forry by Kowloon City Bus.
Como and buy our hand-kaitiek Coats, Swoaters, Jumpers, Shawls, Scarves. Socks and all kinds of Children's Woollies, Latest styles in "Fair Isle and plain and francy Junipes.
Orders taken for knitting in wool or silk
K. BESWICK, Supt. Telephone K, 101.
WHAT LIFE IS LIKE.
of its stimulus when the ionist- tion of its molecular pelarity has been metamorphosised by en- pirical catalysis." To which I can only remark that I couldn't have put it plainer myself. In fact, the whole book is similarly lucid and after roading it the only thing which I don't under- stand is, what is Relativity?
An eminent business man has described life as like a strenuous game of push-ball. To play the
An East London magistrate game successfully efficiency is of the atmost importance, and to has been rebuking a witness for keep mentally and physically facetiously referring to efficient the system must be (witness's ПONG as his nasal sustained in a clean and healthy organ. But (as Shakespeare very condition.
nearly observed a nose by any
his
aid to internal clean- other name would smell as.
And about five other minor the 27th November, 1925m- LAMMERT'S AUCTIONS As an id to inting better efficiently. So why worry?
contesty.
Booking at Montrie's for TO LET-One European Int. Members only on November 17th.
Wanchai Gap hoad, Hong-and 18th. kong. Apply to 32 Kennedy Road.
No: about March 1926 whole flat or spacious suite of oflice.
Ox
5
in the French Building "
No. Building," * Victoria Queen' Road Contrul (between Chartered Bank and Mercantile Bank.)
Apply to: Banque de l'Indochine
Chater Road,
o Let.- Two newly-con structed European houses, Magazino Gap, Motor koad, taree lus, three large rooms
servants oach with kitchen.
General Public November 19th, 20th, and 21st.
¡
Prices, $5.00, $3.00 and $1.00
UNCLAIMED CARGO AT HOLT'S WHARF,
mencing at 2.30 p.m., at No. 78, Nathan Road (Top Floor) Kowloon. A Large Quantity of Valuable, Household Furniture, comprising:-
Ex. s... "CITY OF POONA" Waggon, ele,, ete:
arr: 16-3-23
PUBLIC AUCTION.
A Quantity of Vainable Household Furniture (Particulars as per Catalogue) Teak and Iron Single and Double
On View from Wednesday, the Bedstends, Wardrobes. with Bevel-25th. November 1925. Capt. Shaw-1 Case Personaled Mirrors. Teak Dressing Table
Effouts.
with Bevelled Mirror, Teak Chest of Drawers, Towel Racks, etc., etc.,
Ex. s.s. "CITY OF MADRAS"
arr: 24-7--`3 H.G.C.
9961 Case Fire Accessories.
If unclaimed, for within 1 week from this date, tt a above packages will be disposed of by Public Bank Auction to dofray charges due
quarters and bath room, fitted with flush gyslom. Garages provided. Immediate possession Apply Sang Keo, New Building.
Lot
LOST.
OBT on Tram No. 49, leather
pouch. On Tram No.
62,
a parcel containing knitting and papers. Please return to this offico.
NOTICE.
HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.
ET. ANDREW'S BALL. LAST REEL PRACTICES. The above will take place in the City Hall on Tuesday, 24th inst. at 5.30 p.m.
or storage.
For The Ellorman and Buck- nall S.S. Co., Ltd.,
The Bank Line, Ltd',
Agents. Hongkong, 2ist. Nov., 1925.
Y. M., C. A.
The new Building, Salisbury Road, Kowloon will be opened by His Excellency The Governor
On
Thursday, 26th. Nov., 1925;
at 5.30 p.m.
Taken when than Pinkettes. needed, a little dose of these!
Summer has indood gone, my dainty laxatives gently stimulatos friends, although on tennis lawn THE Undersigned havo receive the liver, dispels constipation, and cricket field may still be ed instructions to sell by ensures daily regularity, aids heard the bang of bat and bounce Teak Hat Stands, Chesterfield Public Auction'qn.
digestion, keeps the skin olear of ball. But, there is no mis- taking the warning note of the Couch and Chairs, Beokesse, Teak Thursday, the 26th Nov., 1925 and the breath sweet. Screen, Wall Plates, Electric Tabie'
commencing, at 2.30 p.m. Your chemist sells Pinkettes, or harbinger of winter. I heard it Pans, ole, etc.
Dining Table, Dining Chairs, at No. 34, Hose Terrace, Nathan post free, 60 cents, the vial, from for the first time yesterday in Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 60, London's lovely little garden- suburb of Brixton: and strange Teak Sideboard with Bevelled Mir-Road, Kowloon
Kiungse Road, Shanghai.
to say, it was greeted with no ror, Glass Ware, Cocking Utenails.
wailing and gnashing of teeth, Crockery, Filter, Ice Chest, Dinner
but with cries of rejoicing and "I wish most emphatically to smacking of lips. It was, in contradict the reports that chore, the ball of the muffin-man, intend to retire from the stage." whose advant promptly incited This romark was made the other my muse (with apologies to Mr. day by Mme. Anna Pavlova. Housman's musel to exude the the world-famous ballet dancer following versos:→→ Standard re- to an Evening presentative just before she began rehearsing for the month's ballet season, due to begin at Covent 'I believe Garden Opera House. the
were originally reports circulated in America because I was giving my farewell tour there," she sail; "but there are other parts of the world I intend IMPORTEERS, ‘EXPORTERS &io visit, and there is always my
beloved London."
also
A Few" Pieces of Canton Blackwood Ware. And
1 Coltage Piano by John Brins-
mead & Sons.
1 Gramophone and Records. Catalogues will be issued.
On View from Thursday, the 26th November, 1925. Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers, Hongkong, November 19, 1925.
PUBLIC AUCTION..
By Order of the Mortgages.
Messrs. Lammert Brothers have received instructions to sell by Public Auction,
on MONDAY,
the 30th day of November, 1925, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon at their Salearoom, Duddell Strect Victoria, Hongkong.
The Valuable Lensehold Property. being all those plecen or parcels of ground situate at Victoria The Directors extend a cordial aforesaid and registered in the re-invitation to all who are interest-Land Office as Sub-section 7 of
ad to bo presont.
Mombers and Guests are quested to wear dancing shoes.
Admission by Roel Practice' section of invitation card only.
A. RITCHIE,
Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, Nov., 21st., 1925.
NOTICE.
That the insuring public approves of our methods and I antisfied with our results is demen-i strated by the fact that the total amount of our assurance in force is now over 970 million gold dollars,
Sun Life Assurance Co., of Canada,
RAOB.
Saturday November 21st.
Section A of Marine Lot No. 95, Section A of Sub-section 1 of Sub-section of Section A of Marine Lot No. 95 and Section A of Sub-section 1 of Section B of Inland Lot No. 1311.
IN ONE LOF
The total area of the land is 882 Square Feet or thereabouts. |
R. N. CANTEEN THEATRE The property comprises the mes- suago known as, No. 239 (former- ly No. 199) Des Voeux Road West. Further particulars and condi- tions of sale may be obtained from the Office of
ALL
CARNIVAL DANCE
LYRIC ORCHESTRA
CORDIALLY INVITED, 8.30 P.M. MIDNIGHT
Messrs. DEACONS,
1, Des Voeux Road Contral, Vendora' Solicitors or Messrs LAMMERT BROS.,
Terme-Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
HUGHES & HOUGH
LIMITED.
GENERAL AUCTIONEERS,
GENERAL BROKERS."
THEATRE
ROYAL
" IOLANTHE
December 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, at 9.15 p.m.
MATINEE
(Children Half-price)
December 16th, at 430 p.m.
Booking at Anderson's
THE RITZ
NOW OPEN
Meals at all hours from 8 a.m..to 12.00 midnight
Morning and Afternoon Teas. Good Assortment of Fancy Cakes.
Wedding and Christening Cakes to order.
Only the best food and wines served.
In muffin-time on Brixton The bells ring out so clear; And people all come running From dwellings far and near, And raise a rousing cheor.
For, since last April, muffins, Have not been seen; and so We rush to great the vendor And buy his slabs of dough, Ero home to ten we go.
* •
And as we munch our muffins In ostasy subilme, We cannot help but wonder To what far-distant clime They go in summer-time],
toad, about with him us an in- dicator. This certainly seems bettor mathod than the old one, which was first to ont the nupect- ed fungus; then if you died your. executors know it was in toad- stool. But this was not altogether satisfactory, as many deaths.. formerly attributed to toadstool- poisoning weta subsequently. proved to have hewn primarily cutsod by the victims having previously caten their wives pastry.
POEMS FOR THE PETS. A series of moral verses for
juvenile readers.)
A horrid lad was Sidney Soar-
lex!
He pulled the hair of little
girls.
He tweaked the trosses of his
sistpra
Till their scalps wore nought|
but blisters.
And whone'er he went out
walking
14
You could see him slyly stalk-
ing After other little girls, Chortling as he tugged their
curls.
*
One day Sidney had a seizure. "Of the dreaded alopecia.
All his hair cama oft completely As if his skull had been shaved
neatly;
And the doctor who was called Says he'll stay for over bald.
O don't, my pets, to girls be
crool,
T
Or you, like Sid, may lose your
wool!
*
MOULDY MARTHA, THE MAA- CLESFIELD MURDERESS: OR SHOULD THE GREEN-
GROCER TELLY
2. Chapter. IX. Left alone, Connie Corneraket
into foods. of
tears.
broke Two floods. One from each eye. Clearly sho was about to be mur dored, but what she had done to be murdered she couldn't im agine! Her work, at the factory had been quite satisfactory. Shep could glue the tails in the rocking-horses fastor and firmen than any of the other girls. She had never done no hurm to no- body, that she hadn't, not 'alf she kept on telling herself. Oy the contrary, she had been ver kind to anybody, and she remem bered with a thrill of pride bow she had once given a slab of balf- chewed gum and her last aspirin tablet to a starving woman with eighteen starving children who had appealed to her for food,
She had wops about a couple of quarts and was thoroughly wat through, when a footstep in Said an eminent American the passago outside made her pull- divine, who has been over here herself together. She was deter for a holiday, to a newspaper in mined to meet her death with o terviewer upon his return: "1stiff upper lip, although her. cannot think what the modern knees were wonky. So she quick young English girl is coming ly dried hor face, ears and neok to, Yet the exceedingly simple and with bold mien turned to con answer is, chiefly to the pictures front the incomer as the doo and the dance-clubs.
slowly opened. But the woman A number of cases of poisoning on the threshold stood as if turn through eating alleged mushed to Bath brick. She uttered rooms have recently been record- but one word
ed in the papors, and the bas
Cohnte ! "
caused many readers to submit and Connio, ere she awponed the old problem of how to and made a spinimming nose-dive distinguish batwoon a mushroom into the coal-box, just managed und ja toadstool. In the public'] to gasp out- interest, I have propounded this question to my friend Prof. Lin- naes Laborwurst, who says tho
A tablet of the Angas Con valescent Home, Cudham (Ben man's Hospital Bbciety), is to be unveiled by the boys and girla.
MOTHER!"
(To be concluded next week, an I
can't think how to go on);
has
Liverpool's Housing Committoe drawn up an instalment purchase scheme for the tenant of corporation houses,
Rev. Father Ralph Francis Mr. Samuel Morris, woollen Korr, son of Admiral Lord Walter manufacturer, and Mrs. Mar Kerr, has been chosen as new Thomas, Port I Superior of the Brompton Oratory, married.