1920-05-03 — Page 3

LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORA.

|_Public Auctions-

THE Undersigned have received inntrac Mons to sell by Public A notion,

on

Wednesday, May 5, 1930, " commencing at 11.30 a.m.

as their Sales: Rooms, Daddell Street,

5. Bags Rhinoceros Scrapa

5.Cases Lead Pencils

1 Bale Gray Shirting

1 Cuas Mosquito Netting

20 Cheee Soft Soap

6. Caske Bolt Scop

6 Bags Soda Aah'

1 Case Whale Teeth

77 Caske Red Oxide Powder

240 Kegs Red Oxide Paint

100 Kegs White: Zinc Paint

12: dozs, Lady's Hose,

Cara-Cab or delivery..

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers..

HE Undersigned have received in

structions from MESSES. THOLESIN. Co to sell by Publie Apetion.

00

TUESDAY, the 18th May, 1920, at Sp..

his Sales Rooms, Daddell Street, The Steamer "DAGMAR"

she now lies in the Menam River, Bangkok, with all her machinery, gear

and sppurtenances, Dio. 1457 tons groes Reg.

621 tons net Reg

1800 tons deadweight capacity on 17 feet mean draft. Speed 10 knots.

This Stanmar went nshore in 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 ater fall of hammer, when purchass money is to be paid.

For fall particulars apply to

LAMMERT BRHOS, Aneticnoer.

"

Of

HISSIS. THORESEN & Co,

Hongkong.

FOR SALE.

One Complete Set of 25 Volumes

ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA

(Never been used),

Apply

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

THE CLEANING OF SUMMER FROCKS is an important matter and we make a speciality of "refinishing" light Frocks and Costumes so that they keep clean longer than when treated by ordinary methods,

Our processes are thorough and reliable. Our facilities and re- sourced enable us to carry out all work quickly and cur charges are really reasonable. Write for Price List.and See!

The Diamond Dyeing and Drying Company.

Agent

01SSUM AHMED.

Desper

39, 34, Wellington Street.

28. Nathan Road, Kowloon.

'hone 1462.

CLEVELAND MOTORCYCLE

THE MOTOR CYCLE WITH THE WORM

· DRIVE.

to the grou

- WE WANT TO SHOW

YOU THIS REMARKABLE

MAORINE

ALEX. ROSS & 00,

15, Des Voeur Road Central

Tel 57. GARAGE, KOWLOON,

Tel.-K417.

INTIMATIONS

HOW TO AVOID INFANTILE AILMENTS.

When there are disesas prevalent in the season, it is the most dangerans to Infants and sa Great Care must bo taken in fooding them with proper food otherwise they would give their Mothers a lot of troubla: To avoid the trouble is to feed them with LAC- TOGEN tich resembles human milk. It is easily digested and promotes healthy appetite. Es keeps the Infanta thriving and free from all Infantile Ailments.

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SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Hole rects for Manghong and Beat Thi

13. Comaught Bond Central, Hongkang.

Telephone 20, 1333 4 3880)

WE HAVE

Just recaired

A New Supply of

WAR and ARMISTICE STAMP3,

Many varieties and valuca of NEW EUROPE

also

CATALOGUES and ALBUMS

for sale..

GRACA & CO., No. 10, Wyndham Street, P.O. Box 670.

Hongkong

JAPANESE MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

TO

ORDER

CHERRY & UD.

FXEDER STEELE, sopol Hongkong Housi Telephone No. 481.

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

THE NEW FRENCH RIMEDY.

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HOUSING PROBLEM.

A SINGAPORE SUGGESTION.

PROPOSED REALTY COMPANY.

The draft of a prospectus of the "Singapore Realty. Company, Limited," has been issued and the Straits Times commenting on it says

is

The

THE OUIJA CRAZE.

EVERY PERSON IN EL OSEBITO, CAL, NO FACE EXPERT ALIENISTS. -

El Cerrito, Cal, March 5. El Cefrito's twelve hundred in- habitants have the ouija board craze child in the city is to be tested by so badly that every man, woman and expect alienists.

It also was voted that ouija boards not to be allowed within the city limits. adjudged Insane, from the influence of the table tipping plank, and the Seven, persons have already been

investigations are expected to in-

create the list.

State Senator Will R. Sharkey Martinez, antiounced here tonight, next session of the California legi that he would sponsor a hill' in the slature to prohibit the sale of ouija boards in the state.

The investigation grew out of tests given seren El Cerrito citizens afte

insane. Three others were found a-24-hour seance over the ouija board. Four of the women were declared insane to-day:

to the price which it is estimated they can be sold or rented at As a matter of fact, shouses in Singapore ought to be erected for very moderate £gure. Coronaria ra the essen tlal fittings in an English House, the grates, windows, hot and cold water services, etc with these found in any but the most luxurious of local dwellings, one, feels that building here should be very cheap, and that it seems to be the first serious builders can afford to give a very attempt that has been made foample air space to compensate for arapple with the bousing problem, the big saving they can effect in the at's math meeting in the El Cerrito The whole town fi crazy, speakers which becomes day by day more house itself. Most certainly sque town hall attended by practically acute. The proposal of the com- such company as that we are des pany, which, is not yet formally cribing is as imperative necessity,very person in it, declared last constituted, is to take power to raise Too much has been left to the mere agit, The decision to employ a capital of $10,000,000 of which the Asiatic tukang, a most capable per of El Cerrito was made without a alienists to test the mental workings. first issue would be $3,000,000. It son in his way but not one who can dissenting vote. has an option to purchase from: Mr. reasonably be expected to have a E. S. Manasseh 'the property known very clear comprehension of European as Mount Pleasant, totalling about requirements. It would be a very 250 acres of building land, for great advantage to have here a realty the sum of $1,635,500

This company under capable European property is situated at about the supervision, familiar with all the third milestone of the Bukit Timah most up to date methods of building Road, close to the railway and and, above all, capable of economising described as entirely suit in construction by working on a large able for building purposes. The scale. It has been said that to build Singapore Realty Company relies Ford motorcars by the dozen would for its success on the size of its cost twice as much as to build the undertaking. By the use of concrete, by the hundred, because it is the big by the standardisation of various output that makes possible the fittings, and by the employment of acquirement of machinery for the the most up "10 date machinery,perfect standardisation of parts, and it claims that it can produce good the purchase of materials on the houses at least 25 per cent. below most favourable conditions. price at which separate houses, principle is capable of application to built according to the ordinary local house building and in the present methods could be erected, and it condition of prices, we see no other reckons that it can make a very fairway in which it can be done at a profit in doing so. It is estimated cost thatwill bring abouse suitable for that two hundred bungalows can be European occupation within the means erected during the first year.

of junior men. Certainly it will be

The four women who sat around The Straits Times hopes that well sounder policy fotbe firms employ. a ouija board for twenty-four hours known business men will give the ing such then to become shareholders seance they offered $700 in currency are all insane," he said. "After the scheme their support.It is one in a realty company and purchasers as a sacrifice to the evil spirits of that ought to appeal strongly to the of houses built at a low cost than to the board. They burned this money, whole of the firms which are employ allow salaries to rise by leaps and together with the curls, shaved from ing a number of young men from bounds as they have been doing, the heads of the children who had Europe. The blight upon the lives ought to have been doing during of these young men at present is that the past two years. Life in the it is practically impossible for them tropics is not ideal for a European to establish homes of their own family under the most favourable Renta are phenomenally high, houses conditions, Health is affected, separa- are phenomenally scarce, and if the tion from children is inevitable, heavy 200 bungalows mentioned in this periodical expenses for travel to and draft prospectus were in being we from Europe cannot be avoided, and venture to say that the whole of them if men begin to find that the cost would be spapped up within a week. of living is so high that they are It is a duty owed by the big firms to better off at Home, the best of themed in solemn tones before the sanity their employees, and it must react to will stay there. That would not be that will be solved (Sunday) when a board (Friday) about "a great mystery. their own advantage, to have the for the benefit of British trade hole in the garden at home would be housing situation placed upon a more We want to increase our European filled and three evil spirits driven rational basis.

population if possible because that is Continuing, the paper saysThe essential if our trade interests are to away by the oulja board.“ chief asset (the land) of the company be fully safeguarded, and we must Is a perfectly sale one. If a strong strive to make file here not only at Board is formed of capable business tractive but profitable to good men, men there ought to be no serious because the juniors of to-day will be HIS disease is no dangerous and so difficulty in guarding against any the seniors a few years hence. The rapid in Ita deselopment that very policy that will not pay. The demand realty company ought to have very mother of young children should be for houses is so keen that even if the sympathetic consideration? There is prepared for it. It is very risky to walt cost is greater than the company d estimates, the properties will let or fulness

the germ of very grear use.til the attack of group appeare and sell, We would purest, howSTEL,..

then tend for medisine and let the child and this ought to be fully

suffer watilik çan be obtained Uham that before the prospectus assumes a

berlain's Cough Remedy is prompt and final form somewhat fuller details

effectual and has never been knowa; to should be given as to the class of

Indi" in any case. Always hava a bottle houses it is proposed to build and h

in the home For sale by su Chemist 8518and Blöceksepers.

Tako

VALLA ?-BÓÄT

Maritine Standard, is the moving Sharkey who is the publisher of the spirit in the investigation.~

been enticed into their house. I'm Convinced that many people place a superstition in these boards and we going to have a wholesale mental test in El Cerrito.?

school girl, said to have been of un- Miss Adeline Bottini, a pretty high usual intelligence prior to her fascination for the outja board, talk:

CROUP

MONDAY, MAY 3, 1920.

NOTICES.

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OPERATING----

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KOWLOON.

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Under American Management, Fics and quiet yet only a few miamies walk from the Boaks and Central Districs, 43 Bedrooms, Eccellent Calaine, serupulously clean. Moderate Toras Monthly and Family Bates on application to the Frupcletres, Launches meet Paasongor Bosta.

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