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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, ATPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,

-Public Auctions-

THE Undersigned han mosived i

structions to sell by Public Auction,

on

THURSDAY, July 29, 1880. commencing at 8.30 p.m.

at her residence, 39 Wyndham Street The Who'e of the Valuable Household Furniture, ¿therein contained) Comprising:--

Taak console table with bevelled mirror, Chesterfield couches & arm- hair, easy chairs leak overmantels, Ins Japanese water colours, engravinge brasa vases, ornaments, white lace & art cartaics brass ketric standard lampe, electric lungs, carpets, etc.

etc.

Teak extension dining table, leather covered dining chairs, teak sideboard with berelled mirror, teak dinner waggon, teak ice chest. teak silver cabinet, dinner set, glassware, etc, etc.-- Double brass bedstems with ber springs, teak double wardrobes with bevelled glass doors, trak dressing tables with bevelled mirrors, teak marble tiles top washstands, teat chests of drawers, Indy's desks, in lined box couches, toilet crockery, etc.,

sta

·Also

A Quantity of Blackwood cumpri- eing marble top tables, stools, thver stands, trapos, E C.

Aud

1 Cottage Piano by Alliem.

1 Victrals with cabinet & 25 records,

4 Electric ceiling fans.

1 Singer's treadle sewing machine.

Da view from Platinet.

Catalogue will be issued.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong. July 22, 1929.

an

FRIDAY, July 30, 1920, commencing at 11 am.

at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street, A Selecting of Antique China and Curios:

Boloured blue and white vasOS, bowls, plates. tea cups, and fences, Saeen with taloured plscopes, Sang- die-breef vases and towl, Celedon vases, Famille rose pen holders and seal box, White Goddess of Mercy,” etc, etc.

A Collection of Bronze Wate, (Large tower pots. Figures, Buddhas, Jussis, vases, Incense burners, wine cup etc.)

Also

A Quantity of Personal Effects, Books, and Chinse paintings...

O view from Thursday the 20th inst Terms Cash on delivery. **Calogues will be issued.

LAMMERT BROS., £uctioncert.

Kongkong, July 26, 1920.

Burglar and Fire-resisting

SAFES

'Prevention is better

than Cure."

The Undersigned have just received a new consignment of

Milner's Safes.**

LAMMERT BROS., Duddell Street.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO. 1

have installed an additional

WTELEPHONE and clients can

now ring up. No. 482 or 3552.

:

8. 8. FAUBANG.”

Tenders are invited for the purchase

of the wreck of the above steamer na

she lies on Hainan Head Reef.

GILMAN & Co., LTD.

Agenta, The Salvage Association,

Londoa.

Bongkong, July 21, 1927,

Just arrived

a large assortment, of

FILTERS

Gallons up to é gallons

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PRICES are Very Lo'erate. Ins pection and Enquiries are cordially intiled.

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Sole Agents for Hongkong and South Ca

Now, 67 & 18 Connaught Road Cental, Bugtong- Telephone Yos, 1958.

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WE HAVE

Just received

A New Supply of WAR and ARMISTICE

STAMPS.

Many varieties and values of NEW EUROPE

a're CATALOGUES and ALBUMS

for sale.

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No. 10, Wyndham Street, P.0, Bax 620.

Hongkong.

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear.

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+

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Telephone No. 491

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

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MAN WITH A GRIEVANCE.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Mr. C Grant, a British subject born in Canada, sppeared before the International Barispah Court in Bangkok on July 9 (says the Bangkok Times) charged by the police with having sent, on the 4th inst., a letter of insult and threat to Mr. Th. H. Lyle, HBM Consul General, and with trespassing GD the British Legation on the 5th inst., when he knocked down a Smith Premier type writer and damaged it.

"HEARTS OF OAK"

VERONESE PAINTING.

· SENT FROM BATTLEFIELD.

- Henceforth and for ever, then detachments or brigades of men of the Royal Navy march past at re views, the tune is to be "Hear's of

A strange story has just been told Oak." The strains, no less familiar, to the police by a lady living in one of "A Life on the Ocean Wave" are, of the suburbs of Paris who banded as the private regimental property of in at the local police station an old he Royal Marines, to be reserved for painting and a number of papers. them. So the Admiralty declares its She said that her son, a lieutenant, policy. Both tunes are by long was at Berry-au-Bac in 1915, and association linked with the Senior that just before an assault a soldier Service. His admirers will remember came up to him and handed him a the sentiments of that remarkable packet with the words; "If I ara petty officer, Mr. Emanuel Precroft, killed, please keep this." The soldier concerning "A Life on the Ocean did not come back, and a few days Wave," "which I hate more than any later the lieutenant himself was When the letter was shown him, other tune I know, owing to my mertally wounded, but before his accused said that there was no re having dragged so many little guas death he handed the packet to a

it." ference made to the charges against | to

really nurse asking her to forward it to his him. The Judge therefore read out no innovation in the assignment of mother together with other articles. the different clauses under which he it to the Marines. Some thirty years was charged, viz.-Sections 30, 114, ago their right to it as a regimental 116, 117, and 268 of the Penal Code. march was formally declared by the The court then pointed out that Admiralty. Neither of the two tunes accused was principally charged with has come down from the early days insult, trespass and creating trouble. of the Navy. They are not, like Defendant then wished the court some of the Army's regimental A Life on the to note that no warrant of arrest had marches, foll-song. been made out and also that be had Occartyre is, indeed, not a cen- had no previous knowledge of the tary old, the work of the famous charges so as to be prepared to coa Victorian, Henry Russell. But it is sult a solicitor.

surprising that the Navy, which has The court pointed out that they always made much use of music. were only enquiring into the case and should not have consecrated some not carrying on a trial. At the same ancient melody of its own making.

But there is

He told the nurse the story of the soldier, explaining that he did not know his name, but would be glad if his mother would do all she could to return the painting to its rightful owner.

The painting represents Mose saved from the waters and is signed by Veronese.

It will be examined by experts in order to determine whether it is authentic.

Swooping out of

time the custom was that the charges Drake took his musicians, with cawen destroyed the Toalon fleet in be first read cut to all accused and him round the world, and there Lagos Day, in July Rodney made an it is expected of the latter to plead were chanties before Drake and end of the flat-bottomed boats at

his silver trumpets. either guilty or not guilty.

But the Havre; in stormy November weather fact is that Hearts Hawke, who was blockading Brest, The defendant enquired if the plain judge sitting in the case was a judge of Oak" is a creation of the sophis heard that Confians's fleet had put and a representative of the King of licated eighteenth century, of the to sea; he came Siam of whom he could asks for theatre, and even of the pantomime, the west upon the wild Biscay assistance or justice. And when told. We need not treat it contemptuously coast, and won the greatest naval that he was addressing the right on that account. The eighteenth cent victory since the Armada. person, he asked for leave to make a ury. if not the most lyrical age in was no more fear of invasion, and Harlequin's Invasion" was the history, gave us Dirdin's sea songs, and though the origin of Hearts of title of the pantomime which Oak is no more dignified than a Garrick put on at Drury Lane. pantomime of Garrick's it celebrates

Hearts of

state.ment.

When he was allowed to do so, he stated something in regard to some mining matters.

Its

song

There

Oak"

Para Vorasert, the judge, inter.one of the greatest of our naval took the fancy of the Navy. Cer- rupted biran told him that he could victories, and the glory of that annes tainly no ture could come to us with mirabilis, of our history, 1759, the more glo-lous associations. We not go on with it as it had no bearing year of Quiberon Bay and Lagos, shore folk do not hear it often. It is on the case under review. All that and Wolfe's victory at Quebec in the nature of things that a march- he was surposed to say was either. Through the spring and summering-time for the Navy should not be guilty or not guilty to the charges, of that year France was threaten- often needed. But many of our wars before he could say anything else. Defendant thereupon refused to comply with this, and the court thea pointed, cut that "the refusal was

equivalent to pleading "Not Guilty." The court proceeded to examine accused by asking his name, age, but defendant refused to answer. The court Dext noted

ctc:

down that accused refused to answer to the charges but wanted to say something else, and then asked him to sign it. This accused refused to do.

Mr G. R Watson first gave evid. ence and stated that he was ап officer of F.B.M. Legation and that he saw the defendant at about nine o'clock on the 6th inst, in the morning. Defendant was standing near to the entrance to the con sulate-general, or middle 'office as it is called. Witness did not eer him do anything; but later, a clerk ré- ported to him that defendant had thrown down a Smith Premier typewriter, damaging it. Witness knew that two or three of the clerks saw the affair.

Defendant's. letters to Mr. Lyle were then produced and copies of them filed.

Why defendant went into the Legation that day, witness had 20 idea; but surmised that he was there to carry out his threat. The Con- sular office opened at nine, Mr. Lyle arriving ten minutes later. Defen- dant or anybody else could go into the room; it was a public office. Witness saw the damaged typewriter afterwards and said that it belonged to the British Government Witness could not say how long they had it, but knew that it was in good order and condition.

The Bangkok Daily Mail undai- stands that Grant, who is an elderly man, had been prospecting in the Singora district for some time past and had applied for prospecting rights over a piece of ground on which somebody else is working. under-licence from the Mines Depart- ment. This the department refused, and Grant, who conceives himself ill- used in the matter, came to Bangkok to support his claim. This claim the Mine Department declined to enter- tain, whereupon Grant wrote various letters to the Consul-General threa tening to "do things" in order to draw attention to his grievance.

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have called for the services of a. Naval Division or Naval Brigade, and more than one admiral, living and dead, has won high honour in land fighting. In the triumphs of victory it is rare that no naval contingent should march, and the future will hear with pomp and circumstance the strains of "Hearts of Oak."- Daily Telegraph.

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