1919-10-27 — Page 2

G. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER, APPRAISIE

*AND SURVEYOR -Public Auctions-

THE Undersigned but received: In-

tlon

structions to sell by Public Auc

41

ON

A

TUESDAY, October 98, 1919.

Commencing: : 2.30 p.m.,

at his Sales Rooms, Duddel: Sarees

A Quantity of

Valuable Household Furulture,

Comprising

Teak batatand with tovelled mirror, tapostry covered drawing room suite, easy chairs, teak overmantel, desk. bookcasu, card table, Bronzo ware, pictures, vases and ornaments,

etc., etc.

Teak dining tables and chairs, teak, sideboard, chifonier, dinner waggons. taa tables, ice chest,, dinner service electro-plated ware, cutlery sad glas

Ware,

etc.,

etc.

Double brass mounted iron bedstead, toak wardrobes with bevelled glass doors, teak dressing table, washstand, obest-of-wars, tolles erockery,

etc.,. etc.

Also

A few piccok Blackwood-ware:

And

1 Remington typewriter,

1 Endarwood typewriter,

INTIMATIONS

METEOR GARAGE

Sole distributors of

MAXWELL CARS.

Automobiles for Hire

and for Sale

at reasonable Prices.

'Phone 2500,

65 Des Voeux Road Central

海蝶

JUST RECEIVED

from AUSTRALIA a large shipment of· LACTOGEN, UNSWEETENED CONDENSED M'LE, STERILIZED NATURAL MILE, MALTED MILK. andi SWEETENED COCOA -Jand. MILK. sold at very reasonable prices owing to the present high rate of Exchango, especially for Retailers.

TOCEN

THE CHINA MAIL.·

"Embassy

Virginia Cigarettes

Embassy

VIRGINIA CIGARETTES

WD&HQWILLS

Baisfor

Finest Quality

The kind of quality that not only

pleases the smoker bat gratifies

an ideal of the manuface.

turers to produce the finest of Virginia

Embassy

VIRGINIA CIGARETT

Cigarettes.

Sold in fins of 50% 25 Cigarettes

also

packets of 10's

MONDAY, OCTOBER 27,3

NOTICES

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS

& JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mangions,

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,

THE HING WAH PASTE MFG. CO., LD.

HEAD OFFICE: 47 & 43, Connaught Road Central, Hongkong. Tel. No. 1990, BRANCH OFFICE: 430 & 431, Nanking Road, Shanghai, China.

TRADE MARZ.

A REDUCTION OF 20%

is allowed on the retailed prices of all our VERMICELLI, PASTE STARS, MACARONI EGG NOODLES, and all other kinds of Soup Stuff, in respect of the OPENING CEREMONY OF OUR NEW FACTORY AT CAUSEWAY BAY, HONGKONG, on the 35th

OCTOBER for 20 days from the

25th inst. to the 14th November.

HOTELS AND CAFES,

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

- OPERATING:-

THE HONGKONG HOTEL,

HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

(To be opened Ist January, 1920.)

J. E. TAGGART, MAYADIR

1 Oliver typewriter.

1 Tronlle Sewing Machine.

On view from Monday, the 27th inat.

Cataloguea will be issued.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

GEC. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

Hongkong, Petober 23, 1919.

HE Undersigned has received in- THE

structions from A. D. KEIGWIN, Es to sell by Public Auction,

on

WEDNESDAY, October 23, 1818, commencing at 2.45 pm. at No. Humphreys Building Kowloon,

A Quantity of Useful Household Furniture,

comprising:

Chesterfield couch and armchairs, lady's blackwood desk & flower stands, teak writing table & bookenas, tosk card tables, brass fender, Japanese screen, brass electric standard lamp & table fan, curtains, carpet, ruge,

etc.,

ware,

etc.

etc.

Teak extension dining table and morocco covered chairs, teak sideboard with bevelled mirror, teak ice chesta, dinner acrrican, teak dower stands, side tables, cooking utensils, rattan:

etc., Tank twin bedsteads, took single & double wardrobes with hevelled mirrors teak dressing table tiled top waahetand, chest of drawers, toilet erockery, etc.. etc.

4150

1 Small Steel Safe by Herring-

Hall Marvin. Ca..

1 Victrola with Records.

Ou view from Tuesly, the 28:1 instant,

Catalogues will be isaved. Terms-Cash on delivery."

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

Hongkong, October 29, 1919.

Columbia

Dry Batteries

Strength and Reliability

1000 ponť]|

detores are apportance in ceria Both of the art be found the Celta. Paintbey arevaluvely usmyasted a

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They remitable for Rs of ligt s

(1), pon see kooking for wurzt to stor bat:perate ¿lephcom uod sibiale: ilgt kancer; false tëactore

moter bna, Calibda tuttarius.

Zach for the Engin Tendettack; it l'aguamistes of

dians and across Fiestach &pring Clip

Bandol, shown in tin

PENMA.BRT)

No. 8.

MORIAL CARBON SP

tion, la Culumale factory

1 batten. With this.

Minilog Port Etim almply a z

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Like wire w

the roncation ·

logan and durable trvan

Anderson, Mejer & Co., Ltd.

Yuan Ming Yuen Road

Shanghai

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

bois Agenta for Hongkong and Santa China. Yon, 17 & 18, Connaught Rout Cest'inh Hongkong. Telephone Jos, 1990.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

Received direct from the NORTHERN SCOTTISH

FISHERIES selected

FILLET FINNAN

HADDOCK HADDOCK

AND

KIPPERS.....

WE HAVE

Great Varieties of used acd anused

POSTAGE STAMPS Single, Sets, Packets, Bags, and or Approval Pooks FOR COLLECTORS

GRACA & 00.,

DEALERA.LT

POSTAGE STAMPA, POST CARLA, SEEDS, Toys, &c., &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street, P..O. Box 620.

Hongkong

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

„TO

This Advertisement is issued by British-American Tobacco Co., (China) Ltd..

SCOTTISH LETTER.

UTILITARIANISM TRIUMPHS, HIGHLAND MARY'S GRAVE".

THE KHAKI GREYS.. Moss of the horses which saw ser- vice with the Scots Greys in France have rejoined their regiment in their true colours. During the war the famous grey boses were dyed khaki in order to make them leas visible to the enemy, and the troopers are grently pleased to see the last of this necessary indignity to their mounts,

moorlands or the Western seas-and now there are to me that sniff of the Highlands and Lands, "the pun- gent reak of the peat.

The pent reel called up the beg myrtle, and in my mind's eye I sa the little erofters' houses, shining white in the sunlight. The rose bushes, with the strongly scented pink roses, by the doorways. The glossy leaves of escalonia were rond -the windows, with their sticky, aromatic warmth. The elder hedges were 'overed with jace-like circles of bloom. Tellow-legged hens, boot-

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

August 20. The Oki West Kirk of Greetook, and its kirkyard containing the grave of Burns' Highland Mary, are SCAPA FLOW NOT BRITISH. doomed at the demand of "enlight- It will come as a surprise to many ened utilitarianisto."

The Corpora.people to leurs that the Ocknes tion's schema of town improvement islands, which include the creat and a shipbuilding company's plan naval station of Scapa Flow, do noting their heads forward with engir for extending their yard have been really belong to fireat Britain in the puesed and approved of by u Parlia-me that they were ever ceded by mentary Commitee of laquiry. Yet treaty required by contest. They rarely have the lovens of their coun-wise simply transferred by Denmark try history and literature been able to Scotland in 1468 in pledge for the to present en strong a case for leas-payment of the dowry of the Princess ing ancient, landmarks alone. The of Denmark, who was married to Of West Kira is one of the moet James III. King of Scotland. In interesting buildings erected in Scot the deed of trendfer, which is still land since the Reformation. It was in existence, it is specially mentioned the first Protestant Church confirm that Denmark shall have the right ed by the National Parliament. That to redero tem at any future time as not saved it. The minister and by paying the original amount of the

wtep, processed across the rond to a field all clover and retch and yellow bird's foot trefoil. On the other side be litt strip of cornfield was turn- ing from green to pizkish gold. Be- youd was the wor, where grew deli. cate pink berth and sundew, spiky Pimple orchises with spotted leaves, thereally blue forget-ux-not, and the myriad stare of my lady's bedstraw. And little burns were drumming under the overhanging peat banke and bracken fringes, and small fronds

dainty nave.

With that sniff of peat reek there arose a daydream of the road through the village, where there was the Post Office with its counter of sixpenny novele, pendy paper, post-carde, tinned fruit, sweets, and while golf balls. Beyond the village lay the harbour, with two or three thick. asted firing smacks dozing in the sunlight. The river slid under the bridge and between blazing yab low banks of wateł mimula, a dower that long, long ago came over the cenn by the Gulf Stream and was this: Western Coast. stranded en The sea lay shimmering under the heat-lazed sky, and rippled over the white sand. The long sweep of the bay was deserted save for a herd of

the session prefer a brand new dowry with interest to date. Thereof heather were showing a faint and clanceb and fat contribution of is no likelihood that Denmark will money. Then the kirkyard contains ever atteapps, to exercise her right the tones of the ancestors of James to redemption, because 60,000 florins, Wait, over which is a monument the original amount of the dowry, erected to their memory by the Would amount, with interest to date, great inventor. But these bones, to several thousands of millions of and the bones of many less notable pounds sterling, and that is a bit persons, are to be dieintered and more than the lands are worth. placed in some other resting place. When the islands were given a Lastly, the Burnsites have their security for the princess's dowry, sentiments lacerated by the various there is reason to believe that it was proposals for dealing with the dust intended to redeem the pledge, be ORDERf" Highland Mary" and her measure it was then stipulated that the ment.. Whichever of the methods Norse system of government and the of dealing with the remains and the law of St. Olaf should continue to monument may be adopted detracts he observed in Orkney and Shetland from the sparedness of cherished Thus the udu!" succession and associations, Only local people can mode of land, tenure-that is, abso accurately estimate the necessity for lute freehold, as distinguished from this prevalence of útilitarianism over feudal tenure-still obtains to some historical interest. But Greenock extent, and the retraining not to be congratulated on its respect lers hold their lunds and pass them for the associations that should halfco without written title... low a town to its sina nnd daughters.

JHERRY-&-00,-

PEDDER STREET, Oppcefte Hongkong Hotel. Telephone No. 491.

Eengkong, March 90, 1914.”“.

MUMEYA

Japanese Photographers.

All kinds of Photographic Work done In latest styles also Passport Photos.

Dovoloping and Printing for Amateurs & Speciality.

-No. 8, Queen's Road Central. Tel. 254,

·THE. NEW FRENCH RIMEDY.

THERAPION NO.1 THERAPION NⱭ2. THERAPION No3

No. 1 for Bladder Dulsark, No. 3 for Miód k- Skin Dinonarak Mo. #Cat Chrania WeakTLARSOR. BOLDBYTRASITOCHEMISTÉ JUGE WIRELANDŽI DILIGENcHok.CouHaverrigendi, WJ.Lost. SER TRADS MERETO MOLD FURETATION... ON BRIT GOTZ, WASP 197(22N TOGIRONE PACKETS,

NEW VESSEL FOR B.LSIN.C.

Mesas. Barclay, Carle & Co.,

PEAT REEK.

ndal.alves that lay asleep. the brilliant

Scotstoun, have launched the twin- (From Our Scottish Correspondent)

screw steamer Nardana," built for

the BIS.N.C. The vessel is the

-Iniffed pest to day in the city, fifth launched for this company dur-Where it cane from I do not know; ing the current year. She is a cargo but writably it was peat neek.

THE LONDON SCOTTISH.

useat and black and white of them making a strong contrast to the muted pastel shades of the links and ses and sand. The flags on the put- ting greens were vivid points of scar- let, and the scent of sun-warmed

thyme lay all over the land.

It all came to me to-day as I sniff- ed peat reek in the city street. Where it came from I-do not know, but veritably it was peat reek..

DIPHTHERIA-HOW IT MAY BE AVOIDED. IPHTHERIA is usually contracted

carrier of about 8,000 tona gross, and The air was heavy; the sun glared Itas maschinery of 6,000 h.p Large through nint aze; the heat rose batobes, with three carricks to each, up in waves from the pavements; ensure rapid handling of cargo, and the city trees hugg limp and breath the bolds are kept clear by this £t-less, Hardly a creature was to be ting of wide maced pillars with girseon on the street. A hungry-inok. Do the child has a cold. The ders at each deck.

ing cat rubbed its lean ribs against some area railings, purring noisily cold prepare the child's system for the An authoritative "Llory of the at finding a living soul in the de- tharin germs. When there are cases of reception and development of the diph London Scottish Regiment is being Gerbed neighbourhood. The dairy af diphtheria in the neighbourhood children prepared. It will be mainly devoted the corner was the only cool-looking that have colds should be kept at home, to the work of the three battalions spot, with its display of palms and and off the street until recovered. Give during the Great War, each batta hanging plants--the greenery some they will not have to remain at home them Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and Him-being given a separate section. now suggested, with quaint role- long. It also cleans out the coiture There will, however, be something Vancy, that the service should be beds, which form in a child's throst said of the earlier history of the

fully choral. These were all when it has a cold, and minimizes the Scortiffy, and of the part it played signs of holiday: I had been yearn for mit by all Ühemiata and Bbora risk of contracting infectious diseases ing to-be-away to the hills or the

keepers

in the Boer War.

THE PEAK HOTEL.

1,500 Feet above Sea Level.

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of-

Mrs. BLAIR.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

UENTRAL LOCATION

ALL ELECTRIC TRAMS Fase Entrance, Electric Lifts, Fans and Lighting A European Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water System throughout. Beat of Food and Service.

Telephone $73. Telegraphie Address; VICTORIA'

J. WITCHELL-Manager.

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON.

(Two minutes from Star Farry).

Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughout and entirely under new management. Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bat and Billiard Booms. Terma moderata. Special terms to families on application to

Telephone K. 3. Telegraphic Add: "PALACE”

J. H OXHERRY, Proprietor,

CARLTON HOTEL,

(SEE ONLY AMERICAN HOTEL IN THE COLONY,)

-ICE-HOUSEK 'STREET, -

Under American Management. Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes walk from the Banks and Central District Bedrozas, Excellent Cuisine, perapulently alesan.. Moderate Terms. Monthly and Family Bates on application to the Proprietress. Launches meet Passenger Bosta

Telegraphie Address “CARLTON."

Max. F. E. CAMERON,

THE ALEXANDRA CAFE

"

(OPEN TILL MIDNIGHT,)

Noted for:

THE BEST TIFFINS AND DINNERS. FILLET HADDOCKS.

ICES AND IUED -DRINES,

CAKES AND PASTRIES.

Dinner and Picnic Parties catered for:

'A' European Café under European Supervision. Tel 909.

BLUE BIRD JOE ORNAM PARLOUR

"AND. CONFECTIONER: «

~TANGITEK, DETI,

“Bancsaber, kr

the late BIN TING, -114, D'AQUILAR BIKERT,

KREME VERT MODERATE.

* Consultation free,

Tel 909

CHOCOLATES, Maia Sweet Vanilla Chocolateau Home-Made Amored Chocolate Hershey's Kortle's ved Borde

Charolate m California "sterhoose American Chocolaim 116i per The sota, per is. 00004

Imperial Cous......... ...5) eta per ž FarmEr Chirardelli rakat Cooma

FRENCH LESSONS

Q. HOUSSION.

15, Morrison, Hin Road-