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LAMMERT BROS.

ÁDOTIONERS, APPRAISENS

AND SURVEYORS. Public Auctions—

WE Undersigned have received lustrac- Tur to sell by Public Auation,

OR

WEDNESDAY. april 91, 1890,

·commencing at 11 am

at their Salas Rooms, 6 Duddell Street. 300 Bags Castor Seeds

(samples on application)

Term:-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

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Auctioneers.

WIÓNESDAY, April21, 1030,

commencing at it

..

at their Sale Rooms, 6 Duddell Street,

19 Bales: Dear Hides (weight about 10 picul) Torme:-Cab on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers,

INTIMATIONS

HOW TO AVOID INFANTILE AILMENTS.

When there are diseases prevalent in the season, is in the most dangerous to Infants and so Great Care must be taken in feeding them with proper food otherwise they would give their Mothers a lot of trouble. To ruid the trouble is to feed them with LAC TOGEN which resembles human'milk. It is easily digested and promoten healthy appetite. It keeps the Infanta shriving and free from all Infantile Ailments.

ACTOGEN

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Commanghi Bond Central Bangkong.) Telephone Nos. 20051 à 1030

The

THE CHINA MAIL.

"Three Castles"

Virginia Cigarettes

MAGNUMS

It the same sweet. Three Castles "Virginia Cigarette you have always smoked, made in a larger size.

Ask for the

Magnum size

MONDAY, APRIL- 19, 1920.

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On

MONDAY, April 90, 1920,

Commencing at 2:45 pm

st "La Hacienda No. 74 the Peak

A Quantity of... Vainable Household Farnitare, (Fall Particulars from Catalogaak. Og view from Sunday, the 23th inst. Tarni-Ch on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,.

Auctioneers.

Undersigned have received to

Truclides fum MORS, THORESEY

Co. to sell by Public Auction

TUESDAY, the 18th May, 1910, at 3 p.m.

at his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street,

The Steamer "DAGMAR"

an aby now lies in the Menam River,

Babkok, with all her maghisery.gear and appartenances, etc!

tons gross. Reg.

1 tons net Reg.

1800 tons deadweight capacity ön

17 feet mean draft. Speed 10 knots.

This Steamer went abore ia the Gulf of Siam, was salved, and towed to Bangkok, where she was dry-docked and patched up."

Inspection orders on application to the East Asiatic Co., Ltd., Bangkok.

The Steamer to be at purchaser's risk after fall of hammer, when purchase

ey is to be paid.

.fall particulars apply to

LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneer.

Messa, THORESEN & Co.

Hoogkong.

MARTIN'S APIOL & STEEL FSFILLS

A French Esmady for REVENA BULLS

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AT THE SAME TIME THIS LIQUID WILL NOT DAMAGE THE FINEST FABRIC-

WE HAVE

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STAMPS.

Many varieties and values of NEW EUROPS

also

CATALOGUES and ALBUMS

for sale.

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This Advertisement is insood by British-American Tobacco Co., (China) Tad. SILVER PRODUCTION. SCARCITY OF HUMOUR,

SHORTAGE FOR SEVERAL YEARS LIKELY.

[By M. $.....

material of laughter. The sources of supply have dried up, and those! human brains which were formerly the factories of fur, are either not working or are turning out a very in- ferior article.

A flood of light is thrown on the!

The rarest and most valuable thing highly important question of the in the world to-day is humour, the raw world's silver production and demand in an elaborate report, covering some 60 foolscap pages, submitted to the Secretary of State for India by Pro- fessor H. C. H. Carpenter, F.R.S., and Professor C. Gilbert Cullis, D.Sc., who respectively occupy the Theatre managers and others who Chairs of Metallurgy and Economic may be likened to retail dealers in Mineralogy at the Royal School of humour, are all complaining of the Mines.

Lack of supplies. Such is the dearth This interesting expert survey of a that humour is at question intimately affecting our for premium. Offers of twice or thrice eign exchange is liable to be lost sight times pre-war rates fail to bring re- of, since it is buried in the volumin-sults, and the very few genuine ous pages of the evidence and appen- laughter-makers to-day are earning dices accompanying the report of the surns of money that would stagger the Committee on Indian Exchange and prolific humorists of old. Currency. The broad general con- clusion is that though there are some years of continued shortage to be ex- pected, ultimately supplies will again get ahead of consumption and price reduction will ensue.

1912 HIGH-WATER MARK.-

liar,

an enormous

U. S. SHIPPING BJARD TO SELL JAPAN 300 SHIPS.

says

The

The U.S. Shipping Board will seli 300 freighters of 3,000 tons each to japan, according to dispatches pub- lished by the Kobe Shimbun. paper publishes three dispatches. One of them, which is described as having been received at "a certain shipping quarter in Kobe

งา "Having been hard put to it for the disposal of the many ships built dar ing the war, the U.S. Shipping Board has decided to sell a part of its ocean- going ships on the Japanese market, and has already set about putting that decision into effect,"

Another telegram which has been received in "certain quarter. in Kobe reads:-

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"The American offer to sell ships has been received through London. The vessels offered include wooden Consider first the music-balls. New ships, and most of thern have a capa- comedians are not to be found. The city of 3,000 tons gross each. The stars" have been before the public Lake and the Duncan and 298 for years, and mostly they are retail ather ships are offered." ing the jokes and comic business with Still another relegram, also "re- which the public has been long fami-ceived in a certain quarter in Kobe,

Never in the history of the says:- O In the year 1860 the world's pro-"halls," have there been such good duction of silver is reported to have chances for

"The price quoted by America is new comedians,

$200 per ton.. Lew

There are been about 30 million ounces. With comic song writers, and new comic methods of payment: cash on delivery some fluctuations it steadily increased sketches as there are to-day.

and payment in instalments, In the from that dare until 1912, when the outpur was 233 million ounces, or position is as bad. The actors taking in cash on delivery, and of another On the "legitimate" stage the cent. on the total price is to be paid case of the father payment, 25 per nearly eight times more than half a comedy parts with success are all 25 per cent., 12 per cent. is to be century earlier. A continuance of the with one or two conspicuous excep- paid within the next six months and upward trend was then to be expected. tions, growing eld in the service of the the other 121 per cent. within the. Its cessation and subsequent con- stage. vérsion into a precipitous downward trend are assignable, not to any sudden our old favourite comedians both four years following. For the unpaid I do not mean to infer that many of ing 50 per cent. to be paid within the following twelve months, the remain- failure of the world's resources, but on the stage and on the "halls are portion of the price the buyers are to a sudden interruption in the win not funny. They are.. Some of them to pay an interest of 5 per cent, per ning of them.State

are vorderful. Approximately three-quarters of the French droll, a comic genius." Then Take Grock, the world's silver was being mined in there are men like Robey Leslie been published by some Tokyo papers, annum until payment is completed."

A report similar to the above has North America and Mexico. A de Henson, W. H. Berry, Alfred Lester, but unless the proposed sale is to be crease at this time in the Canadian Harry Tate to name only a few, great made on the world's market instead production, due to the progressive Laughter makers all of them. But of on the Japanese market, as is men exhaustion of the Cobalt field, was none of these is strictly speaking.tioned in the above dispatches, the more than compensated by an increase new.. in the production of the United States. The key to the shortage of world sup-been formed in London to discover a disengaged from old contracts, and A syndicate of wealthy men has Japanese steamers have recently been story is very improbable, Many ples is to be found in Mexico, where,new comedian, and is prepared to back many more are following during the owing, to protracted revolution, the him with money and a new theatre, next few months, or there is no part production fell from an average of knowing it to be a first-class business calar demand for tonnage. As a close upon 74 million fine ounces for investment, if he can be found. So matter of fact, the shipowners la this the years 1910-13 to an average of far agents have searched provincial country find it so difficult to obtain tle more than 30 million fine shows and touring companies in vain. cargo for their ships that they are ounces for the years 1914-17, & re- Even if the man is found, there will Cuction of some 43 million ounces, still be ficulty in Riding a good compelled to be them up in some out of a roti redaction of 301 mil comedy or farce. Every manager is

lion ounces in world output. In the same period the Canadian production declined by 7 million ounces, the Aus. tralien by the same figure, and that of Europe by three million; while the "United States production rose by mine million, and that of Asis by one mil Hon. These latter increases, though in some measure referable to war Stimulation, were due in part at least to normal ore development, and may bo regarded as compensating for the oro depletion-in” Canada,

inundated with tragedies, dramas, and problem plays. They are not wanted

cases,

The real money winner is a good lato years. Even the native wit of the laughter-making show.

Finally; les diy mut

sall whether the wor

streets, the reveries of the Cockney Tohum-office-boy, the back-chat of the Damibus driver, and the costermonger

ter-dinne

speeches has it delitied greatly of merely rude where once it was

Funny

Humour did not die during the war The men who laced, wth jested-and- faked in the trend

laughed with them

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