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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVETOLS. Public Auctions-

[THE Undersigned have received instruc

1 Mons to Deli by Pablla Anction,

00

-FRIDAY, June 4, 1920, Dommencing at∙10 30 a.11. at Mooers. Fee Fai's GodowE, Kennedy Town,

(For account of the concerned)

1063 bags Topkin Rice

(Stared in above Godown).

116 bags Tonkin Rice

(Stored-in No. 11 Godown, Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd., Kennedy Town).

$80 bags Tankin Rice

Stored in No. 12 Godows. Bongtong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co, Ltd., Kennedy Town).

:50 bags Tonkin Rice

(Stored in No. 10 Godowo, Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd. West Point).

T-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT. BROS., Auctioneers,

INTIMATIONS.

WE HAVE

Just received

A New Supply et

WAR and ARMISTICE

STAMPS.

Many varieties and valves of

NEW EUROPE also

'CATALOGUES and ALBUMS for sale.

GRACA & 00,

No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620.-

Hongkong.

JAPANESE MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

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ORDER

The

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Three Castles

1

Virginia Cigarettes

MAGNUMS

sweet

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Ask for the

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THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1920.

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 WÄTCHES,

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

HEALTH against

SICKNESS.

By taking our ROOSTER BRAND MACARONT, PASSE STARS, EGG-KO DEES, FERMIGNTA, or other kinds of Boup Stuffs REGULARLY you will have no complaint of any kind of sickness, as all our Products being manfactured from Fleur of the Best Quality and ander the most Sanitary Hatbod can be easily digested and give you GOOD HEALTH & STRENGTH.

Largo quantities have been exported to racious parts of the World. Your esteemed Orders will receive our prompt and careful attention. / Tarma moderate, especially for Agencies.

FRADE HANK

THE HING WAH PASTE MFG. CO. LTD. ~READ' OFFICE "Hongkong, Nos. 47 # 45, Connaught Road

Central. Tel No. 2230,

· Branch Office : Shanghai, Nos. 4 & 431, Nanking Road. FACTORIES Hongkong, Wing Hing Street, Causeway Bay and Shanghai, No. 71, North Soochow Bond

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on

FRIDAY, June 4, 1920. –

Commencing at 11 am

þeir Sales Rooms, Daddell Street,

For Account at the Concerned),

Lite Enamelled Pedestal Lavatory with Entings.

Roll Printed Linoleam.

Also

.1

A Quantity of Sundries. Terms -Cash on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers,

Hongkong, May 31, 1990.

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FRIDAY, June 4, 1920, commending at 11 ami,

At their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street.

Qoe Lang Ch'an Celadon Tase, Early Sang Period.

(slightly damaged). Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

Hongkong, June 2, 1990.

од

FRIDAY, June 4, 1920, commencing at 11 am.

at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street A Quautity of

Valuable Household Furnitura, Comprising :-

El

Very Enely carved blackwood, tables lady's desk, armchairs, Bower stands & atools, silk tapestry covered drawing room upholstered chain Nikko carved

corner auch, invalid chaiz. & "table,

carpets, rags, pictures, glassware, din-

per crockery, brass fender & fire brassss, very finely carved Cherrywood dressing table, Japanese water colours, Aass flower pots, ornaments, marble dup washstands, etc., etc.

Also

1 Cottage Piano by S. Moatrie & Co.

Ltd.

1 Enamelled Bath,

2 Treadle sewing machines,

1 Rubber Tyre Ricaha.

On view from Wednesday, the 2nd

Jane, 1920.

Catalogue will be issued.

Terms: Cash on delivery,

3

LAMMEET BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, May 28, 1920.

By Order of the Mortgagees MESSES. LAMMERT BROTHERS

have received instructions to sell

by Public Anction

WEDNESDAY,

the 9th day of June, 1920, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, at their Exlesom in Daddell Street, Victoria, Hong Kong.

THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY euitate at Cheung Sha Wan in New Kowloon and registered in the District: Land Office 48 THE REMAINING PORTION OF LOT 916, THE RE MAINING PORTION OF LOT 318, LOT 921 and SECTION A OF LOT 922, in Survey District No. 4.

IN ONE LOT.

The property is known as the Kol Garden" and comprises well laid out - Bower and vegetable gardens and è pavilion with residential quarters ad-

joining thereto, all artistically designed in the Chinese style. Its area is about £1,000 sq. ft.

For further particulars and conditions deale, apply to

MES, DEACON LOOKER

DEACON & BARSTON, Des Voeur Road Central,

Vendors' Bolicitors;

MESSA LAMMERT BROTHERS,

1920.

CHERRY & UO.

PIDDER ERKEZ, Opponi a Hongkong Hotel. Telephone No. 42L

Hongkong, March 30, 1914.

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STONEHENGE.

joists. The stone being made fast, excavations are made round tts basis, which is thus laid bare. The

HOW IT'S DONE.

>

The final report of the American

PEJSERVING THE PAST FOR base, as a rule comparatively taper Red Cross leaving Siberia contains

years,

THE PETURË.

A HIDDLE UNSOLVED.

to

save them from the Bolsheviks,” and who are now being returned to generously agreed to reimburse the

·Petrograd, while the Bolsheviks have Red Cross for the expenditure In curred which, in the circumstances,

ing in shape, is found packed round with boulders, which are preserved one or two points which are worth and numbered with scrupulous care. pondering over. There is the case Finally, when the stone is held in of the hundreds of Russian children, position purely by mechanical means, brought to the Extreme East in order and the lintel has been lifted off by Anybody who comes to Stonehenge the crate, big jacks begin with just now in a fortunate hour may see infinite caution to move the stone a wonderful sight, writes a special Slowly, slowly it comes up, moving correspondent of The Times He by inches at a time, till after more may see the lintel stone of one of the than two hours it has reached its is extremely high. The fact that mighty trilithons, swathed in timbers right position. It is given a founda- they are returned to the people they and gripped in the clutch of a crane, tion of reinforced concrete in place were saved from and that these dangling in mid air over its two of the old packing of boulders, great people are paying the expenses, pillars. Then, gently, it sinks back care being taken not to disturb the shows on what utterly false assump to its place, where till now it has shape of the original hole made by tions the whole Siberian campaign rested undisturbed for nearly 4,000 r.e stone. The concrete is turfed was undertaken. Another interesting over and thus nobody is a penny the item is that about $4,000,000 worth This is not the first time that work worse or the wiser. Meanwhile the of Red Cross stores which Eave of this kind has been done at Stone lintel has been dropped in position, accumulated and the distribution bepge Nineteen years ago the but it must be removed a second which is impossible owing to "lack of greatest stone of them all, the time for a particular purpose. Each railroads This must be exceedingly splendid survivor of the Great Trili- intel rests the more securely on its gratifying to all the people in Japan then, was leaning even more danger. supporting monoliths by means of a who have worked for the American ously, and must some day have system of tenons and mortices. These Red Cross. No blame attaches to the crashed down by the side of its prostrate were rudely made at best and bave Red Cross except that of not telling brother that lies in two pieces on the been much wom by time. Plaster the people to whom they appealed turf, broken at the heart. This lean casts of them are made and the that they could not handle the goods ing stone was set upright again, and tenons are crowned with caps of lead required. After so much having been now the Office of Works, in association so that they may fit more closely said about the needs of saving the with the Society of Antiquaries, is into the mortices. Then thintel Siberians from death in the winter, restoring to position of safety other comes down for the last thrie and the fact that four million dollars' of the stones that are in danger, the tenons, with their leaden caps worth of stores remain unutilised One reed not-be a very bigoted Con- disappear from view, perhaps for an- now that the winter is over presum servative to feel on first hearing of other 3,700 years.

A good deal of time and labour perished for the want of them. And ably means that many people have them some mistast of such opera- tions. On the other hand, when once has already been devoted to this one the reason why they have perished is one has been to Stonehenge to see trilithon. Several other monoliths that the railways have been choked the work one would have to be very are sloping perilously and in same up with perfectly needless and wholly bigoted indeed to deny that it is cases the lintels seem to be poised mischievous military expeditions really necessary, and is being done with but a very small margin of Japan Chronicle. reverently and carefully with a deter safety, so that one can imagine some mination neither to add nor subtract malevolent giant coming by in the anything:

night and blowing them over with a positions of these newly found holes, aly puff. In all these cases the a series of depressions in the turf straightening process will be under which had certainly disappeared be-- At the present moment only one taken. As to what acts of restora fore the present day. In one of these of the outer circle of trilichons (that tion are or are not legitimate, the depressions there is shown a single is one of the gateways made by the Office of Works has, roughly speak stone which has also vanished, long two standing monoliths with the ing, this rule of conduct that where since, stolen for a gate post, perhaps, lintel or transverse stone on the top) there is a distinct record showing by some iconoclast of a Whiltshire has been restored to safety and the when a stone fell it may properly be farmer. Taking the old map as a work is not yet quite finished. It is restored. When it has been prone cine the explorers went forth armed however, typical of that which will beyond the time of records, then it with a heavy steel bar, pointed af the be done in other cases and so may be should He for ever. described in some detail. The lintels While the big stones are being the turf foot by foor, like Stony end. With this they patiently speared of the outer ring made originally a straightened something still more ex Durdles tap, tap, tapping with his perfect circle. This is a fact hardly citing is happening at Stonehenge.hammer for the "old "nas" in the to be perceived from the ground and Just inside the Ditch the now crypt at Cloisterham Prod, prod, one can only see the curves properly scarcely visible earthwork that surprod--nothing but hard chalk, by climbing up a ladder feeling just rounds the stones, there has been Another prod the bar went through a little brave, and dizzy in doing it discovered a circle of boles in the and there was one of the holes. The" and so looking sideways along their chalk; and that means, very likely range was soon found an interval of work faces. Those trilithons that that once upon a time there was here six or seven paces between each still remain in practically perfect an outer circle of stones. In all these and now almost the whole circle of position gave a basis for calculation, holes, which are of considerable size holes is exposed, The detached so that it is possible to restore the have been found charred human stone, well-known as the "Slaughter- fearing stones with very considerable bones, bits of barat animals bores, ing Stone, which lies in line with accuracy to their original angles, or only a single tine of a stag's horn, the Hele Stone," appears to fit al- That angle having been determined, There is, however, ammber of most exactly into place in this new the leaning stone is first of all pack-unburnt fragments of animals' bones circle. Whether it is the last sur ed or cradled in big baulks of timber.

A TOUCH OP, ROMANCE. KA tied together with bolts It is fur

vivor of an outer circle of stoner ther padded with felt and wedges so might call methodical romance about with Avebury, and was made before There is a touch of what one whether this outer ring was coeval that all possible strain may be ne the way in which these holes were Stonehenge itself existed here are moved Next, it is shored up with discovered; Auney & map, inde in questions that it is too early for the wooden struts, and these in turn are 1666, showed, in approximately.t

Jearned to answer: Bccured to a framework of steel

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