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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONKEES, APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYUES.

Public Auctions-

za. Undersigned have received instruc

Mons to weli by Public Auction,

-- OD

TUESDAY, June 8, 1920. Bommencing at 11 am

at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street

Oscillating Electric Table Fans (6

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ជំង do do "

6. Electric Table Fans 12"

& Hotpoint Boudoir Sess.

Tara-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

DX

Auctioneers."

१।

TURIDAY, June 8, 1938, - commenting at 11 am.

at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street.

2. Bales Cotton Yarn

4 Cases Cotter Yam,

(all more or less damaged by cil), Terms -Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Arctioneers

Hongkong, June 5. 1890,

By Order of the Mortgagees

WESSES. LAMMERT BROTHERS

by Public Auction

to

INTctions to sell

WEDNESDAY,

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

THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY

euitate at Cheung Sha War in New Kowloon and registered in the District Land Office a9 THE REMAINING PORTION OF LOT 916.. THE RE- MAINING PORTION OF LOT 918. LOT 921 and SECTION A OF LOT 822, in Surrey District No. 4.

The

IN ONE LOT.

property

is known as the Fai

Garden and comprises well laid out Hower and vegetable gardens and a pavilion with residential quarters sd- joining thereto, all artistically designed a the Chinese style. Its area is about $1,000 sq.

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For further particnlara and conditione

of sale, apply to

MISES. DEACON LOOKER

:

DEACON & HARSTON, 1) Des Voeux Road Central, Tenders' Solicitors, or to

M LAMMERT BROTHERS,

The Auctioneers. Hongkong, May, 22, 1990.

́ESSR. LAMMERT BROS are

instructed to sell

The Steamship

"

JEHANGIR"

Now lying in the Harbour of Hongkong,

under an

Order of the Court

BT

PUBLIC AUCTION

MONDAY,

the 28th day of Jane, 1920, at

3 o'clock P..

IN ONE LOT

At their Austion Rooms, in Duddell

Street.

The ship in a British ship registered at hongkong of 5206 tons Gross and of 3360.71 Registered tonnage and was built by W. Denny and Brothers, Damberton.

For particulars to view apply to Mesire. Lammert Bros., the Auctioneers.

For further particulars

Apply to

Ms. JOHNSON, STOKËS

& MASTER,

Prince's Building,

or to

MESER. LAMMERT BROS,

The Auctioneers, Duddell Street.

FOR

SALE.

One Complete Set of 26 Volumes

KNOYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA

-(Never been used).

Apply

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

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HITHEAMMATTIKA

THE CHISESE IN BURMA CAPTAIN FRYATTS SHIP. HOUSES FIRST AND LAST:

The members of no Christian denomination in Barma are such literal exponents as are the Chinese. of the Biblical precept "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it withi thy: might."

Anyone walking through the business quarter of Rangoon, or any town in Burma, will see them hard at work even in the early mornings and at hours which most of the other nationalities devote to relaxation. The Chinaman seems to be satisfied with two or three days holiday in twelve months on the celebration of his New Year.

THE BRUSSELS KETUEN TO

ENGLAND.

The steamship "Brussels" was the centre of a brilliant ceremony at Antwerp and it may not be long now before she is once more on her old The heroic and North Sea ran. tragic adventure of Capt. Fryatt and his crew on board the steamer received its last honours when, amidst a large crowd, the "Brussels" At other times, except when taking was banded over by the Belgian

in

ABSOLUTE BAN ON

COMMERCIAL BUILDING."

A bombshell has fallen among the large firms in Londen who have begun, or have in view, the construc- tion of buildings. Notice that build- ing will have to cesse has already. been received from the London County Council by several firms engaged in alterations or rebuilding of their premises, Mesars. Harods, Swan and Edgar, Péter Robinson, and Liberty are in this position.

The service of this notice, said an official of the Ministry of Health to a Daily Express representative, lies at the discretion of the local authorities. They are empowered by Section 5,of, the Housing (Additional Powers) Act, 1919, to stop any building contem plated or in the course of construction which may cause a shortage of labour or material for the provision of dwel ling accommodation.

Everywhere these rotices are .re- garded with consternation.

bie meals he will generally be found Minister of Marine to the British The ceremony took working, and to derive as much | Government. pleasure from it as an Englishman place at quays Nos. 22 and 23 in when joining in some favourable the Antwerp docks, and England was game. People of other nationalities represented by Sir Francis Villiers, often work to working hours, the British Ambassador in Brussels, from six to eight

the and naval officers on board the twenty-four.

the To

China cruiser "Dragon." The well-known to story, now a part of British sea man working hours be "synonymous with waking hours, bistery, of Capt. Fryatt's fights with Always of course provided he is German submarines, and his tragic working, for his own advantage and and heroic death at the hands of the

Mr. Hannen, of Messrs. Holland, not for a master. Barzdans are Hans after a mock trial, was told by better exponents of another well Monsieur Poulet, the Belgian Minister. Hansen, and Cubitt, pointed out that known maxim, Moderation in all of Marine, and as he performed the it is not simply a question of the things." The bulk of the Burman ceremony of handing over the ship to stoppage of "luxury building." We population is agricultural, and they the British Ambassador, the Belgian have in London at the present work excessively, hard and often fag was hauled down and the British moment, he said, building contracts to the value of £3,000,000, apart If under disagreeable conditions, for flag took its place at the masthead.- about four months in the year, but Monsieur A. C. Pain, the Belgian from our housing contracts. they do but little of hard work in agent for the Great Eastern Railway, these are stopped the result will the remaining eight months. In the the original owners of the Brussels," he absolute chaos. The authorities April number of the Rangoon received a posthumous decoration for may find 40 per cent of our labour Chronicle amongst other interesting Capt. Fryatt from the Belgian of use in building houses, but at least 60 per cent. will be thrown matter, there appears a letter from a Government.-

out of employment Then there correspondent deprecating Chinese

is the question of the large amount immigration into Burma, mataly on the

of capital that will be locked up in work that has ceased for an indefinite period.

ground" that they are monopolising less. He is often a gambler, and the rural trade of the province. The often a clever smuggler, and a writer frankly acknowledges the breaker of our excise rules and re-

Mr. John W. Simpson, president of Chinaman's characteristic for hard gulations. But without any wish to and constant work, and thinks extenuate any of his fallings, it may the Royal Institute of British Archit this is to the great disad- be said that he is one of the most ects, said The Ministry of Health vantage of the average Burman valuable inmigrants we get in have the "wind up," and are simply rustic." There are of course two Burma, that his good qualities make going from bad to worse. Dr. ways of looking at it, and many up for many of his deficiencies, Addison warned us when he spoke people might think that the China and that it would be a matter for at the Building Trades Exhibition man in Burma was setting a good regret if he was in any way discoura- that we should have to be prepared considerable reduction in exam to the Burmese, who though ged from coming here, where one of for a they possess many admirable quali- our greatest wants is population. We luxury building" but he led us ties are somewhat prone to lethargy owe it largely to Chinese labour that to believe that this reduction applied and would prefer constant angse Tavoy at the time of the armistice almost entirely to cinemas. We ment to constant work. The core was the largest exporter of wolfram naturally did not feel that, if this was spondent gives no hint of how he of any British possession throughout 20, we could raise any serious objec- would propose to, prevent the in the world and the Allied possession tion. Now we are in a very different migration to Burma of the subject of of wolfram, was one of the factors position: Labour is, I am afraidh, friendly and allied nation even if which helped to bring about most apathetle concerning the whole our business, and, without its support, their prelence here was objectionable. Four victory The Chinaman is by no means fault enemies. Some of the Chinese our position is not as strong as we secret societies no doubt tend to bring should like. Any building that is about disorder and bloodshed. The valued up to £1,000 can, at the victims hitherto have been only moment, safely be started, but it is Chinese, and people of other races not wise to go above that amount. have not been molested. A few well-

THIS

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