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G. P. LAMMERT.

"AUCTIONEER APPRAISEN

AND SURVEYOR Public Auctions-

HE Versigned has received ifi-

THE

MURRAY

SCOTT ESQ 40 soll by Publis Auction,

on

MONDAY. March 31, 1919. commencing 11 8.30 p.m.

At his residence La Hacienda"

No. 73 The Penk.

The Whole of his Valuable Household Faraftare,"

Comprising:-

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Chesterfield coach, Tapestry covered soxy corner, Touk writing desk and bookcard Teak curio cabinet, copport fender and coal seattle, Electric stand- dard and table lamps, Pile carpets and Bugs, Lace, Tapestry and casement

etc., etc. curtains,

Teak dining table and chairs, Teak ideboard and dinner waggon, Sectional bookcase, Ouk smoking cabinet, Teak ice chest, Screens, Dinner and breakfast services, Catley and Glass ware, ate, etc.

Brasa and teak twin bedsteuls" Tenk toilet tables with bevelled mirrors, Marble top washstands; "Teak wardrobe such chest of drawers, Oak Bedroom

muite, Tininal box couch, Teilet crockery, etr,, etc.

A iso

INTIMATIONS METEOR GARAGE

Sole distributors of

MAXWELL CARS.

Automobiles for Hire

and for Sale

at reasonable Prices.

'Phone 2500.

65 Des Voeux Road Central

KODAKS

& FILMS

Plates & Papers. Developing & Printing Undertaken.

One Tennis centra net and boundary A. TACK & CO.,

net. (nearly new)

One Lawn Mower;

A Large quantity of Plants in pots. And

One Cottage Piano by "Collard &

Collard

(in fine condition)

One Japanese safe.

On View from Saturday, the 39th

it

Catalogues will be issued.. Terma-Cash on delivery.

GEO. P. L'AMMERT,

Auctioneer.

Hongkong, March 21, 1919,

Tatructions to roll by Public Auction, HE Undersigned has received in-

on"

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 1919, commencing at 2:30 pm.

at No. 2 Minden Villas, Kowloon.

A Quantity of

Yaluabin Hogashold. Fornitur

suite, Mahogany drawing room mahogany couch, easy chairs, desk & bookcase, cherry wood table, blackwood teapops, consol mirror, marble clock, curios, color prints, engravings, pictures, curtains, carpets, etc., etc.

Teck extension diring table & ebaire, teik sileboard & dinner waggon, teak silver cabinets, American refrigerator, electro-plated ailve, community ware, cutlery, dinner & dessert services, glassware, etc, etc.

American made mahogany twin beds. tenis, doubla teak & iron bedatesda, American made mahogany dresser, single & double mahogany tesk wardrobes with bevelled mirrors, chifoncier with bevelled mirror, teak) Brewing tables and marble top wash- stands, etc., ate.

Algo

Pantry and Kitchen Requisites.

And

1 Vietrols with cabinet and records.

1. Electric ceiling fun.

On view from Tuesday, the 1st April.

Catalogue will be issued.

TERMS-Cash on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT. Auctioneer.

Hongkong, March 25, 1919.

FRIDAY April 4, 1919, Commencing at 2.30 p.m., at No. 4 Quarry Point,

Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture,

comprising

Plush covered, drawing room suite, blackwood cabinet, tables, toapoys, sercón & flower stands, teak desk & "bookcase, brass fenders and fire brasser. face curtains, pictures, carpets, rugs, oto, eto.

Mahogany extension dining table feather covered lining chair, martie top sidebond, dinner waggon, teak overmantels, bras&tandard lamp, dinner & dessert services, etc., ots

Double brass & single iron bedsteads, teak single & double wardrobes with bevelled mirrors, dressing table & marble top washstand, camphorwood chest of drawers, toilet crockury, glass- Warg,, ste, ste.

Also

1 Victrola with record cabinst de records

1. Singer sowing machine.

1 Iron safe.

And

A Quantity of Flauta in Pets.

"On view from Thursday, the 3rd. "April 1910,

Catalognes will be issued. Terios -Cat on delivery.

GEO, PLAIMERT,

Auctioneer. Hongkong, March 28, 1919.

26, Des Vœux Road Central.

FORS & CARPETS.

Save your furs and carpets by stering them in our Cold Stores for the summer mouths.

For particulars as to packing and ztes apply to

THE DAIRY FARM ICE & COLD STORAGE CO, LTD.

FOR

SALE

YVERT'S

POSTAGE STAMP CATALOGUES

for

1919.

+

GRACA & CO., No. 10, Wyndham Street,

Hongkong. P. O. Box 620.

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

TO

ORDER

CHERRY & 00.,

PEDDER STREET, Oppoutte, Hongkong Hotel Telephone No. 191.,

Hongkong. March 20, 1914

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

THE Undersigned bee received ins 'tructions to sell by Publio, Auc

tion

WEDNESDAY, April 8, 1919. commencing at 12 o'clock (NON) at bis Sales Rooms, Duddell Strees, (TOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCELJED), The Wreck of tho 9.S. YIA MSAMUD (2932 tona nett rogister)

&C.

kic.

As she now lies on Alligator Island (near, Fooshow) with all anchors, chains, gear and appurtenances,

Terms: Cash on all of hammer when the wreck will be at purchaser's tiek.

GEO. P. LAMMERT,--

Auctioneer. Hongkong, March 12, 1316.

FOR SALE

بت

Ewa Cycle 14 HP Fay & Bowen Kerosene Engine, Marine Type, with reversing gear shafting and propeller. Apply GEO. P. LAMMERT."

THE CHINA MAIL.

The

Three Castles"

Virginia Cigarelles

MAGNUMS

"Three Castles"

Cigarettes

Three Cafles

WOCHOWAIIS Bristol & London

MAGNUMS

Better because larger.

The tobacco in the Mag- nums is the same bright Virginia tobacco found in ordinary Three Castles

The difference in size makes the Magnums a fuller, richer cigarette while retaining all the mild flavor of the smaller cigarette.

This advertisement is issued by the British-American Tobaces Co., Ltd.

LOWER AMERICAN FREIGHTS. ed their South African South Amer can freight rates from 150 yen to 130 yen, and with the XY.. steamer Sanuki, Meru, which will leave Kesh in the latter part of the month, the new rate is to be put in force. Bub, recently a further lowering is being proped, and, while the negotiation is still pouding, it is considered that the rate wil be lowered, to around

100 yen.

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BOTTLED WHISKY AND SODA. EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN..

Now that the war is over the Dunn, as directors of Schweppes,

l; the minemi-wafer company, prolongation of the East African have issued a reply to the circular campaign is, becoming a subject of of the Shareholders Committee cri- increasing criticism. In an article ticising the board and propesing that four members of the committee in the Cope Times, Mr. Owen Let- Sir Ivor Plulips, M.P., M. Laws cher, a well-known authority, on Eislam, M.P., Mr. J. McLaren, and Central Africa, demands the appoint. Mr. C. Williamson Milne--all dis- ment of a commission of inquiry: phire the, present thembers of the He asserts that the total strength of Board, with the exception of Mr. B.

the enemy at the time of General Kemp Welch.

CAN I GET A NEW HUSBAND ?". In the reply there is much critic-Northey's departure for England ism of an ex-director. Mr. Walter scarcely cutnumbered the motor cars Harris: who, it is alleged," while a possessed by our mechanical tran-

sport. director proposed that the Schweppes Co. should go in for lager beer and should bottle and put on the mar ket a mixture of whisky and soda."";

Can I have another husband?" a woman asked the Highgate magis trates. She had had a very unhappy married life, she said; and for „ponse s'me nogy her husband had not main tained her. She lud met a nice mary young man and wanted to bian.

The Clerk: You cannot have two husband-I don't want two, i want a new one for the okl.

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The clerk said that if she married again she would render hewelf Eable be charged with bigung. Would she toke that riskt? ""Oh, yes," she replich um esport.",

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NEW JAPANESE SHIPA,

According to the investigation made By the Shipping Bureau of they Communications Department, Tokyo, eight steel vessels were built in January lust and eighs store in February set. The particulars are as under

CHARWOMAN'S TESTS.

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We had an overwhelming superiority in numbers, besides an organisation extending from There Capetown to Nairobi, were also two main headquarters at Dar-es-Salaam and Zomba which em- ployed a much larger number of offi

A woman correspondent who late-cers than the whole of General von by worked at several causes as cook Lettow's European force. Mr. Let and churwenun to see what was cher adds: "It is understood com- the cause of the dislike of domestic monly that the East African cam- service," gives the folowing reasons paign has cost much more than the wity she left the job

Boer war. Only a strong committee Western suburb: Bedroons bad. of unbiassed men can give a satis Insufficions clothes. Wages 40s. factory answer to the question, Why Chestersquare: Wages 409. In-was the campaign not finished months ago? Banquet speeches and congra- sufficient food.

Grosvenor-square: Flat. Consider. tulatory telegrams must not be allow-

ed to obscure the issue." ately treated.

Mistress Sussex: Bedroom bad. (clergyman's wife) treated me with Could not have utter disda a. stayed if my living depended on it." Lancaster Guto: Wages 428. Bedroom in the worst condition. Left some night.

Hendon (charwoman): Treated nicely.

In January. The Scifulen (5,857 tons gros), Chijuku (6,880 "tons gross), Jufik (5,600 tons gross), und Tokufuku (5,860 tong groes), which were all built as the Kuwusuki, Dockyard ut With the exception of the Gros- Kote for sale. The Hiri 14,720 tons venor square flat all the mistresses gross) at the Urugu Dockyard for treated me haughtily," says the cor Messrs. Suzuk! & Co., the Toyosuki | respondent. (2.500 tons grows) at the Lichida Dockyard for the North Jupan Steamship Co.

GIRL GERM CARRIER.

WOODEN SHIPS IDLE.

A ROTTEN TRADE.

In the course of a letter to the Japan Chronicle, Capt. D. H. James, who knows, saysIt is war that makes military service the degrading servitude that it is. To fit men for the brutality of war it is necessary to discipline and train them to kill. They must be taught the correct method of jabbing a bayonet Into human flesh and, giving it a turn, draw it smartly. out. There is a knack in bashing a man's brains out, with the butt end of a rifle. It is With the fall of heightage and bayonet strength which counts in the cargo, woolen "ships were the first firing line. To prepare for murder Another curious case of a germ to be thrown out of employment, by reading the Bible would not carter is brought to light in the and at present at Osaka. and Moji result in "bayonet efficiency." post of Dr. A. W. J. Nefudden, and in Hokkaido ports there are To pretend that, military life

time-tends to the Local Government Board chief many wooden ships anchoring idle. in war inspector of foods. He describes on Up to the present, however, there prove the body and soul is as outbreak of food poisoning last was not an instance of steel vessels accurate as the statement that Ene November at the Sussex County being idle, although there were o sight of hundreds of dead and wound. Hospital, Brigiton, where thirty few chees of sailing is, bullast: How ed men broadens a man's views on People were affected and two died.ever, with the continued dulings of vivisection. The poisoning was traced to a kit the market, the Kawasaki Dockyard There is no "glory of war in 'the chenmaid who was a carrier of Co. declured its inclination to keep filth of trenches, nor is the education, a ger discovered by Dr. W. G. their ships idlo at so low rates of of the nation uplitted by making Savage. The kitchenmaid" did not treightage and charterage, as rule at officers of boys of 18. Boys without suffer in any way during the out prosent. Corsequently, the Ryu- the ideas of men, placed over men to break, and there was no record of jul ari (released from Govern lead them into battle. What can be any previous illness, Numerous inent chatter, the Yeifuku Mara (ra-more humillating to the men they caves are recorded of healthy, un lensed from the MB.K. chuter), the lead. Thousands of these gallant suspecting, people saying in the Washington (pow ship), and the boys have proved their right to be system can gers which did not, Portland (new ship), all of 9,000 classed with the best leaders. But affect them but disseminated news ton cuts, are now at anchor at Kobe, that does not lessen the pity that Tawong older people of lem, robust na bellevnd for some time these they should have been thrown into

the furnace. (constibution,

large-sized ships will remzio idle,

-im-

SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1918.

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD. WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansions.

Agents for ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS. BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,

ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery.

MACARONI, PASTE STARS, EGG NOODLES, VERMICELLI,

A

AND ALL KINDS OF SOUP STUFFS.

LL our Pastes bear the "Rooster" label and are made from Flons of the Rest. Quality containing a large percentage of Gluten, Starch and Gluten arabe prinsipal components of Flour. Cintan is easier to digest and contains molt Lutriment than Starch Manufactured under the most sanitary cod·litude.

Large quantities have been exported to various important cities in the World

Terms moderate, especially ler Agenales. Orders axecuted promptly. THE HING WAH PASTE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD. Head Office: No. 47 and 48, Connaught Road, Central, Hongkong: Telephong-1176 Principal Factory: No. 71, North Soochow Road, Shanghai, China; Telephone St. Branch Factory: Wing Bing Street, Canseway Bay, Hongkong. Cable address: "RESOWAX.

THE

BREEZY

31, Daa Vieux Road, Central.

GARAGE.

Opposite. Central Market.

TE No. 2499.

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The Intest model, “Chandlar," "Hadson" "Oakland" cars for hiro,

Theatre parties.

Plessure tripa,

Shopping, etc, at moderate charges.

Our cars are only driven by experienced drivers, so that all clients can

be sure of avery comfort and reliability.

Large stocks of spare parts and children's "Skuddera" on sale. Motor cars, launches and cycles, repairing done daily... Call and inspect.

TANG TSUM, Managor and Proprietor.

The 100% Cross Expansion

Packing.

Sold by:-

·GERIN, DREVARD & CO. Telephone 114.

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

AND

GRILL ROOM

J. H. TAGGART

MANAGER

THE PEAK HOTEL.

1,500 Feet above. Sua Level.

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of-

Mrs. BLAIR,

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOCATION

ALL ELECTRIC TEAMS PAR Entrance, Electric Lifts, Fans and Lighting A Emopann Baths and Sanitary Fittings Hot and Cold Water Sytrom throughout Best of Food and Service.

Telephone 373. Telegraphie Address:— VICTORIA."

J. WITCHELL, Hanager.

PALACE HOTEL

...

KOWLOON.

"Two minates from Star Ferry).

Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughori

and entirely under new management. Cuising under the personil miparision

of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Room. Terms moderate. Special terms to families on application to

Telophone K. 3. Telegraphic Add: "Piron

J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor.

CARLTON HOTEL,

(IAR ONET AMERICAN MOZEL:ENİPER COLONY.)

ICE HOUSE STILIET.”

Under American Management Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes walk from the Banks and Coutral District, 43 Bedrooms, Excollana Cuisine, scrupulously clean. Molorate Terms. Monthly and Family Eaton on application to the Proprietress. Launches mcet esger Boats,

KRS. F. E. CAM-BOX.

Telographic Address "CARLTON"

BLUE

BIRD

CONFECTIONERS &CATERERS ION ORFAM PARLOUR

BLUE BIRD

TANG YUK, Dentist,

the late SIEN TING, 14 D'AGILAR STREET. TERMS VERY MODERATE

** Cezaaltation free.

HOT and COLD DRINKS.

(ALSO

DEALERS IN

Gimbals and Orange

Воднот

American Chocolates Assorted Fancy Cakes

„ÄDDERIS I --OLD.POST_DEVICE BUILDING,

Queen's Hood & Peddler Breet.

FRENCH LESSONS

*G. "MODESTON.

15, Morrison Road.