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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS,

Public Auctions-

Toy Public Auction

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THURSDAY, Jane 10, 1920.

commencing at 11

al No. 10 Godown of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., West Point.

(For Account of the Concerned),

$97-bags Tonkin Rice

(Stored in above Ġodown).

35 bags Tonkin Rice

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Stored in No. 12 Godɔwn, Hongkong &

Kowloon

Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd., Kennedy Town).

-30% bags Tonkin Rice

(Stored in Wah Kee's Godown, Kennedy Tow)

513 bags Tonkin Rice

(Stored in Yue Fat's Go down, Kennedy Town).

LAMMERT BROS, Aactioneers:

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THURSDAY, June 10, 1970,

commencing at 12 o'clock (noen),

at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street.

7 doz: Lace Suckings.

200 doz. Loop Mantles,

9 tina Painting Ink,

0 cases Asparagus.

16 cases Armours Bologna Sansages.

Also

A Quantity of Sundry Once & Hansehold Furniture, Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, Jane S, 1920.

on

SATURDAY, Jane 12, 1920, Commencing, at 11 a.m.

at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street,

A Large Quantity of Wines

and Spirits,

Comprising:-

€0 cases Australian Hock,

35 do Claret Medoc"

20 do Champagne "Duc de

Moraco"

20 do Peppermint,

20 do Salamander Cognac, 3 stars,

50 do Salamander Cognac, No. 1

5 do Burgundy.

20 do Sherry (various brands)

20 do Dry & Old Tom Gin,

14 do Oorla Gin,.

etc.,

etc.

etc.

NB. A large quantity of the abore will be sold without reserve.

On view now.

Tarma-Cash on delivery."

LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers.

Hongkong, June 7. 1920.

MESSRS, LAMMERT BROS.

instracted to sell

The Steamship

"JEHANGIR"

are

Now lying in the Harbour of Hongkong, under an

Order of the Court

RT

PUBLIC AUCTION

JA

MONDAY,

the 28th day of June, 1920, at

3 o'clock r.M.

IN ONE LOT

At their Auction Roous, in Daddell

Street.

The ship is a Britist ship registered at Hongkong of 5206 zona Gross and of 336071 Registered tonnage and was built by W. Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton.

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

For further particulars

Apply to

Mess88. JOHNSON, STÖKES

& MASTER,

Prince's Building,"

or to

Mans, LAMMERT BROS,.

The Auctioneers

Daddell Street.”

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THE NATIONAL ANTHEM,

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STRANGE SHIPPING

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without any formal enactment, had become established and reconised under the title of the National An them. Twenty years after its first

The Ministry of Shipping does not public fame the melody began to be known of the Continent; first in seem fortunate in the way its accounts Denmark, where, in 1750. a version are presented Those for the year was published or a Royal birthday. ended March 31 last disclose a deficit The chief item Three years later it passed to Berlin, of £100,403,000. and after being somewhat altere?! of revenue is £74,452,000, being both in words and tune, it was Receipts under Liner Requisition adopted as the national air of Prus-Scheme" and the chief item of sia, of Saxony, and some other North expenditure is £202,615,000, German States.

account of "Hire and Expenses of Requisitioned and "Other Vessels." We know that the Liner Requisition Scheme came to an end early last year, and we are entitled to believe that the Hire and Expenses of Requi- sitioned and Other Vessels must have been substantially less last year than in 1918. when they were nominally £152,991,000. Therefore, we com clade that much of the expenditure incurred and much of the revenue received during the past twelve months actually related to an earlier period.

Members of the Royal Society.of St. George attended, the afternoon service at the Temple Church recently, and the Master (the Rev. W. F. Draper), in his address, spoke of the National Anthem. The story of the National Anthem was, he said, one of very curious interest in regard to the words and the music. It had teen investigated minutely, and was As to the meaning of the prayer sall not perfectly cleared up. The and the spirit in which it should be four words which were its refrain, sung, the first point to observe was and

carried the chief that the words "Ged save the King" which burden of its prayer, were derived were recognitio hat there was a from I. Samuel, 2426, where Fower higher and treater than the there were the words, And all King, and that ifested with this the people shouted, and said God Fower to save or destroy. If we save the King,'' or from one of let our minds go back over the the parallel passages where the history of kingship this country, same. words recur; for in the we should discern hat in its long Old Testament they were used suffi course it had been saved by its ciently often to entitle us to regard gradual growth in power of adapta- them as a proverbial form of prayer.tion to new needs. The pattern of The form in which we now sang the kingship was the pattern shown by A. year ago, when a deficit of National Anthem was an expansion Christ. God saved kings by saving £110,947,000 was announced, the of the four words, God save the kingliness. There had never been a Ministry stated that much of the King," and had been traced back time when we needed to have a fuller outlay incurred in respect of hire with great probability to a Latin idea of what we asked God to do and expenses of requisitioned and chorus which was printed in the than when, in the present time, we other vessels was for

"services word-book of a concert given in 1743 said "God save the King." The rendered to other Departments of oz 1744 by John Travers, organist of three verses of the National Anthem the State, such as the War Office the Chapel Royal Dr. W. H. were clear in phraseology and direct and the Ministry of Munitions, for Cummings and Dr. Julian, after in in thought. They showed a progress which there was no repayment.” vestigation, considered that John from the simple wish for long and This year we read of the Ministry of Travers discovered the Latin words happy life to the wish for complete Shipping having had a difference in the music books of the Chapel defence and victory over external of opinion with the War Office on Royal; and they adopted the opinion enemies. The word "politics," which the subject of £635,000, on account recorded by Dr. Arne (who arrang, was sometimes misunderstood, meant of the cost of labour and super- ed the musical setting in 1745), "hostile devices" by such enemies. vision" provided by the War Office that the Latin words had The last verse embraced a petition for at the very expensive National Ship been sung as an anthem or occasional i God's best gifts, the choicest gifts yards. In the end, although the hyme in the Chapel of James the stored in the divine treasury, and Shipping Controller considered the Second. But no particular public passed to the idea of the defence War Office claim "unreasonable," fame had gathered round the anthem of our laws. The words, Thy he paid it in fall. The impression in its Latin version, and it was to an choicest gifts in store implied that which the average student of affairs English version, sung in Drury Lane we asked for our King the same gifts will draw from these two incidents Theatre on Sept. 28, 1745. (twelve that were the crown of Christ, and is that, in its business dealings with days after the proclamation of the when we sang them we ought to other Government Departments, the Pretender at Edinburgh), that the know that that, was their meaning. Ministry of Shipping has not always first great flood of popularity of the we were witnessing the birth, not stood out for its financial rights. words and music was due. Two other only of new ideas but new things in - The recent criticism by the Select London theatres followed suit by the world things beginning to be Committee of National Expenditure including it in their programmes, expressed in the phrase," a common of the National Shipyards Scheme and in the following month the words wealth of nations" The more and also of concrete shipbuilding will and music were published in the distant nations ander our flag regard-be fresh in the minds of many. Both Gentleman's Magazine with the addi·ed the Crown as a symbol and centre schemes were terribly costly. But if tion of a third verse, substantially the of union with a connection more we recall that criticism now, it is isame as that still in use.*

intense, because of the distance from fair also to remember the influences

The history of the music was even which they beheld it. How' to which the Ministry was subject in more difficult to trace. Dr. Ame jour- prayers followed the Heir a time of grave, emergency We ? stated that it was a received opinion Apparent to the Throne as should be less disturbed by the

in his day that the music as well as he moved about from one part to present accounts if we could be assur- the Latin words came from James another of our commonwealth of ed that the bulk of the expendi the Second's Chapel; but the point of nations, with the true kingliness ture was incurred during the crisis chief interest was that as early, as about him. Those men whose hearts of the war. Had it been incurred 1616 Dr. John Bull, the first Lecturer God had touched would say "God since, when the need of retrenchment in Music at Gresham College, publish save the King" with a sense of some has been insistent, explanations of ed an "Ayre," entitled "God save the thing like age when they thought of any sort would be hard to discover. King fitting the four words, and what might open out before long in The Ministry of Shipping has admir described by. Dr. Caimings as "either the future. They would think not tedly done very fins work. If report chant to the four words or a music so much of divine rights as of divine be true it will soon be but the merest ́al embodiment to the cry of the opportunities, and less of earthly skeleton of its fighting self. Before populace". From the time of the power and riches, than of the ap it retires Into obscurity let it dry to anthem being sung in the three parent vocation to show what those free itself of any suggestion," as theatres in 1745 it had continuously could be when they were counted as regards this last year at any rate, won its way into the possession of the nothing compared with the true that it has been wasteful of the hearts of the >British people, and, richen of the kingdom of God. -15% nation's money. “Times.

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