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on MONDAY,
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A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture.
(Catalogues will be issued), On view from Sunday, the 80th September, 1926. ~
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29,. 1928.
A WOMAN MAYOR EXPLAINS KISS.
"ONLY MAYORAL," SHE DECLARES.
Foster-Welch, Alderman Mrs. Mayor of Southampton, returned recently, from a five days' tour in
America.
She travelled over 2,000 miles, and was welcomed by the mayors of six towns.
In New York Mrs. Foster-Welch received by Mayor Jimmy was Walker, and on leaving the city he gave her a farewell kisa.
"That was only a mayoral kiss," LAMMERT BROS.“
she said, laughingly, when remind- Auctioneers.ed of the occurrence.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
The Undersigned have received Instructions to sell. by Public Auction
on MONDAY,
the 1st October, 1928, commencing at 2.30 p.m., at No. 2, Quarry Point A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture.
Comprising:-
Chesterfield Couch and Chairs, Teak Book Case, Pictures, Carpet, Bookmakers,, Tic Tac Men, etc.Table Fans, Brass Ornaments, etc., will not be permitted to operate
elc1, within tho precincts of the Hongkong Jockey Club during the Race, Meeting.
NOTICE.
Dr. ASGER, DENTAL SUR- GEON, has removed his office to Kayamally Bullding, 20-22 Queen's Road Central.
HONGKONG TRAMWAYS LTD.
BATHING AT TSAT TSZ MUI.
FAMILY HOTEL-Victoria Gar-WESTERN MARKET & QUARRY
dene. Qulet apartments and Suites of rooms. Full board from $96, $110, $130, monthly, Large commodious rooms. Also dally rates; five minutes from ferry, next new Hotel, Hankow Road, Kowloon, Tel. K.357.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE-Jade Tree Inc, Pek Ing lanterns parchmont lamp shades, iron pictures rugs, just ar- rived.
BAY SERVICE.
The special Quarry Bay-West- ern Market cars will be withdrawn for the season as from the last day of September.
L. C. F. BELLAMY,
General Manager. Hongkong, 25th Sept., 1928.
NOTICE.
owners, the
At the request of Me. Mathieu, | Public Notary at Saigon, the undersigned, Acting-Chancellor of the French Consulate in Hong- kong, informs those whom it may FOR SALE Storage .batteries, concern that the sale of 8.8. Lucas bulb horne, Sparton elee-"Hwak Cheng" has been agreed tric horns, wrenches, jacks, pumps, upon between the brakelining, tyro paints and South China Steamship Company patches, spark plugs, cutouts, 8 of Shanghai, and the buyers, the meters, windshield wipers, &c., &c. Firm of Yee Cheong & Co., of Prices exceptionally low. Insper tion cordially invited. The long- kong Motor Accessory Co., 1st floor, Bank or Canton Building: Tel: C.577.
PREMISES TO LET.
Salgon:
have any nature
Should any person claim or liens of such a Bs to prevent or obstruct the salo or postpone the payment of the purchase monoy, they are requested to make or produce the same within fourteen days from the date of this notice, at the office of the French Consulate In TO LET.-Large Rooms for Office Hongkong, Alexandra Building, or Residence, with flush system in Top Floor, Room No. 23. most central locality, Apply E. After the above mentioned Mervan & Co., first floor, 18 Ice period of fourteen days the sale will be completed and no claims or fena against the a.s. "Hwah Cheng" will be effective or enter- tained thereafter.
Hongkong, 16th September, 1928, Le Chanceller-Substitue
du Consulat de France,
T. X. DUC.
CHURCH NOTICES.
House Street.
TO LET Office rooms at No. 22, Queen's Road, Central. Apply to Kayamally and Co.
TO LET-One European FLAT Wanchal Gap Road, Hanging. Apply to 82, Kennedy Road.
TO LET Ofice Rooms, 2nd floor, Now Hongkong Bank Building. Apply Sang Kee, sams bufiding. TO LET.-European Flats Nos. 41 and 4B, Konnedy Road. Apply Thornhill Aerated Water Factory, 164, Praya East. Phone C.547. ARE YOU SICK? Why Continue To Suffer. Get The Poo On Chin- ese Iferlis and Get Well. Constipa- tłop; Rheumatism; Dropsy; Typhoid Fever; Nervousness; and Diabetes. Yes Foo Lun, Chinese Herbalist, Managing Director. Ea- trance 66, Queen's Rand Central, Tel. C. 5009.
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Reiss, Massey & Co., Ltd.
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Exchange Bldg.
Tel €672
Wesleyan
Tesk Extension Dining Table, Teak Sideboard, E. P. Ware, Glass Ware, etc.,
withi
Brass Mounted Iron Bedsteads, Teak Bedsteud, Wardrobes Bevelled Mirrors, Teak Dressing Tables, Marble Top Washstanda, Chest of Drawers, etc., etc..
Also One Safa by G. Price and Co.
· And A Few Pieces of Blackwood Furniture,
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On view from Sunday, the 80th September, 1928.
Catalogues will be issued, Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, Sept. 24, 1928.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auc- tion,
on TUESDAY,
the 2nd October, 1928, commencing at. 5.15 p.m.
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street,
A Valuable Collection of Postage Stamps,, (Particulars from Catalogue.)
On View from Monday, the lat October, 1928.
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Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
The Undersigned have received instructions from the The Regis- trar, Supreme Court, to sell by
Public Auction,
on TUESDAY, the 2nd October, 1928, commencing at 10.30 am..
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street,
"I had the most wonderful time any woman could have had. Every-
where I went I was received in the and hospitable
most charming fashion.
Motor Police As Escort, "They are wonderful people, I think, and such hustlers. Men and women alike all seem to be terribly interested in their business and their work, and never seem to pause
for breath.
me
"One thing which struck about America was their policemen. They are perfectly marvellous.
"Everywhere we went we had n big squad of them on motor-cycles, clearing the way in wonderful time with the great sirens which they have on their machines."
MACAO RACES.
DRAFT Programmes and Entry Forms for the TENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING
to be held Do SUNDAY, 14th Octobor, 1928. (Weather Permitting) may be obtainad from the I. R.R. C. Macao, Causeway Bay Stables and Roxor Advariising Co.
Entries CLOSE st Macao 2.30 pm. WEDNESDAY, 3rd October, 1928.
Lincoln
Bennell
HATS
There is no better hat for style, finish; material, workman ship. and wear than a Lincoln Bennett. : We have now a large and up-to-date stock of these premier hats, 'May we fit you? LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
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THE INTERNATIONAL RACE AND RECREATION 'CLUB
OF MACAO, LTD. Holders of the undrawn tickets in the MACAO CHAMPION
SWEEPSTAKES are requested to com- municate with the Inter- national "Race and Re- creation Club of Macao, Ltd., MACAO.
Carlos de Mello Leitao, Chairman.
Board of Directors. Macau, 20th Sept., 1928.
MRS. SEKAI
MASSAGE
6, Wyndham Street, 1st floor. Hongkong.
DAIRY FARM NEWS
Orders are now being booked
for "Real Mackay"
HAGGIS
60 cents per lb.
Nothing finer ever sold in the Colony.
A Large Quantity of Provisions The Dairy Farm Ice & Cold Storage Co.,
(removed from The Shing Kee Store of No. 12, Queen Victoria |---- Street, Ground Floor)..
Methodist Church, Queen's Road East, Sunday...
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
· LAMMERT BROS.,
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auc- tion
on WEDNESDAY, the 3rd October, 1928, commencing at 11 a.m.
Services: Morning 10.15 a.m. at No. 4, King's Terrace, Nathan Preacher, Rev. J. C. Knight Rand, Ground Floor, Kowloon Anstey, Subject: "Jaber". Even- | A Quantity of Valuable Household
Furniture. ing, 6 p.m. Preacher Rev. J. C.
(Particulars from Catalogue), Knight Anstey, Subject, "What
Is Life." Saliors and Soldiers Home Arsenal Street Sunday 32nd October, 1928, 1. Men's Bible Class 8.15 p.m. Service Men's Hour.
Monday
3 p.m. Meeting of the Ladles Church Ald. Wednesday 8.15- p.m. Gospel, Servics for Servict Men. Children and Parents are rominded that the Sunday School will resume on the first Sunday in October. First. Church of Christ Scientist, Macdonnell Road, below Bowen Road Tram Station. Sunday Ser- vice, 11.15 a.m. Subject "Chris Lian Science" The Sunday School is held on Sunday Mornings at 10 o'clock. Wednesday Even- Ing Meeting at 5.30 p.m. Read-, ing Boom at above address open Tuesday and Friday, 10a.m. to 12 noon, Monday and Thurs- day, 5 to 7 pm. The Public
la cordially invited to attend the services and visit the Read- ing Room. Branch of The Mother
Church, The First
On View from Tuesday, the
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers.
"THE PEAK FLATS "
CITUATED within Two Minutes' Walk from the Tram Station and overlooking the Southern Bide of the Island. Ready for Occupation,
Five-Roomed FLATS and
Six-Roomed FLATS with all Modern Conveniences, Drying Rooms and Out-houses, Two Lilita.
Apply to-
CREDIT FONCIER = D'EXTREME-ORIENT,
4TH FLOOR, FRENCH BANK BUILDING.
MRS. MOTONO
HAND & ELECTRIC MASSAGE
Church of Christ, Scientist, in No. 81B, Top Floor, Wyndham St.
Hongkong. Boston, Mass, USA.
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MANNERS TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY.
VICTORIAN ETIQUETTE,
[By Osbert Sitwell.]
GIRL STOWAWAY SEEK ROMANCE.
LOWERED OVERBOARD FROM LINER BY ROPE,"
In search of romance and ad- venture, Miss Mona Kiralfy, of
I have been reading an article Queen's-road, London, W., attemp-
by my friend Mr. Sidney Dark.ted to stowaway in the Cunarder It was, one must admit, entitled Ausonia, which sailed from South- "About Nothing in Particular."ampton to Montreal early this After comparing my conversational mont).
Miss Kiralfy and her mother powers, much to my detriment, with that of my elders, who aphad been saying farewell to a parently talked without ceasing, New York student, a Mr. Robin- but only in the precincts of the non, and his mother, but when the Cafe Royal, he then goes on to dis-liner was about to anif nothing: cuss the manners of the present could be found of Miss Kiralfy.. day. Reading it, I wondered, Her mother went to the station, "Are my manners worse than Mr. thinking her daughter had preced- Dark's 7" (even then, mind you,ed her.
When the liner was under way they would be pretty good) and turned to an anonymous book on officials discovered the girl hidden. Etiquette which I was fortunate in a cabin. She was lowered enough to buy a year or two ago by a ropa round her waist into a in the village post office.
"I was aching for excilement,"
The date of this book is not tug alongside. given, but there are numerous re- ferences to "The racious Lady who explained Miss Kiralfy. "I was now presides over us," and by in-not attempting an elopement, us. ternal evidence it cannot be much that would have been imposaible with my friend's mother on board.. later than 1870, (I note, pass- ing, that the same firm isnued two had no money with me." musical handbooks entitled "The Concertina Without a Master" and
"The Complete Tutor for the Conby some few, who think that a for- eign habit cannot be unseemly." certina." Well, after reading it,
all I can say is that the manners One imagines that Mr. Dark
of that day are not ours.
disapproves of the dancing of to- day, for there are frequent re
At a party, for example, guests ferences to Jazz! in his article, seemed to have behaved rather bus our Author comments on the queerly, "Let no one ask for fish dancing of Mr. Dark's days in much or soup twice, because by so doing the same or actually in a stronger part of the company are often kept tone. "Dancing has too gener- waiting for the second course; and ally degenerated into vulgar while thus disengaged they general-ggling; couples scuffle and spin occupy themecives with looking about as if they were determined at the awkward, and perhaps some to exhaust their physical energies what greedy, consumers of the by bouncing down all who would second portion No such Oliver participate in the enjoyment with Twist fears Intimidate the braver, them. The rudeness of their reck- if smaller, eaters of what Mr.less evolutions fa equally out of Sidney Dark has no graciously taste with their absurd wrigglings, termed "The era of Mr. Osbert when, in the midst of their Sitwell. But others at such boisterous plunges, they appear Victorian dinner-parties seem to suddenly seized by St. Vitus, and have gone still further, for the their muscles take on a tremulous author remarks apropos of finger but fitful motion. glasses, which "come, on with the After this alight resume are not dessert," that "Many persons wet wo juniors allowed to frame the A corner of the napkin, and wipe eternal "Billy Season' question: their mouths, but it is best to only "Are we Inferior to our elders in dip the fingers. An odious custom Dancing and Deportment?" of gargling the mouth is adopted We demand and await a reply.