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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS

#Public Auctions-

THE Undersigned have received in-

GSORGIL structions from Miss STEVER to sell by Public Anction.

THURSDAY, July, 29, 1930. commencing at 2.30 pm.

at her residence. No. 39 Wyndham Street The Whole of the Valuable Household Furniture, (therein contained)

Comprising

Teak console table with bevelled viirror, Chesterield. couches & arm- chairs, eay chairs, teak orerantels, ine Japanese water colours, engravinga brass vases, craiments, white lace art curtains, brass electric standard. lamps, electric Sttings, carpets, etc. - etc.

Teak extension dining table, leather covered dining chairs, teak sideboard

with bevelled mirmar, teak dinner

waggon, teak ice chest, teak silser cabinet, dinner set, glassware, etc., etc.

Double brass bevisteals with bor springs, teak doable anlobes with berolled glass doors, teak dressing tables with bevelled mirrors, teak arble & tiles top washstands, teak chests of drawers, lady's desks, tia lized box coaches, toilet crockery, eic, eic

4150

cryopri-

A Cuantity of Ricken aing:-marble top tables, stools, tower stands, teapoye, etc.

And

1 Cottage Pizo by Allison.

1 Victrola with cabinet &35 records,

4 Electric ceiling Fans,

Singer's treadle sowing achite.

O view from inst

Catalogue will be issued. -

Terms: Cash on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, July 22, 1991.

THE Undersigned have received in

stractions from THE CUSTODIAN Esay PoP/RTY to sell by Pablic Läction,

on

FRIDAY, Jaly 30, 1920

commencing at 11 am..

at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street,

A Selection of Antique China and Curles.

ivered, blue and white vases, bow's, piates. tes cups, and fizures. Seen with onlgured plaques. Sang- de-breuf ASCs and owl, Celedon vases, Famille rase pen holders and seal box, White"Goddess of 3eres," ete.. etc.

A Collection of Bronze Ware, (Lane tower pots. Figures, Baddha, Joss, vases, Incense bomers, wine cop utr.)

Also

A Quantity of Personal Effects, Books,

and Chinese paintings

On view from Thursday the 29th just.

Terms-Cath on delivery.

Catalogues will be issued.

LAMMERT BROS.. uctioneers.

Hongkong, July 26, 1920.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

S. 8. WING HANG"

NOTI

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE STEAMSHIP "WING BANG " as she lies near Shamship in the Harbour ct Hong- kong.

Will be cold by Order of the Mortgages

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PUBLIC AUCTION,

OX

TUESDAY, the 10th day of August,

1920,

at 12 o'clock Noon,

by

VESSES, LAMMERT BRUS.,

Auctioneers."

at their Anction Rooms in Paddell Street.

"The Ship is a Chinese Ship register- ed ni Canton.

Her dimensions and tonnage tre approximately as follows,

Length:-140 ft. 1 inch REGISTERED PONKAGE:- Cross-142 Net-264

Breadth:-15 ft. 8 inches Depth: 9 ft. 6 inches

and her speed is about 10 Knots.

For further particulars and condi tions of sale apply to Mess. WIL KINSON & GRIST.

9, Queen's Road Central,

or to

"H LAMMERT BROS..

Dodd-}1 Street.

Auctioneers.

Burglar and Fire-resisting

SAFES

Prevention is better

than Cure." Undersigned have just ¦ La new consignment of Milner's Bafes

FLAMMERT BROS.,

Daddell Street.

INTIMATIONS.

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO

BE WITHOUT THEM,

::

JUST received a large Consignment

food for Infanta which keeps good in of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive quality during Hot weather (2) LAC TOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (3) MILFORD-GRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying

Fleas, Mosquitoes, Baga, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days, and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Houses.

PRICES are Very Moderate. Ins pection and Enquiries are cordially invited.

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

No

Soie penta for Huggkung and Santa Chize

Connaught Bord Central, Hongkong.

Telephone Nor, 1938.

理代

"WE HAVE

Just received

A New Supply of

WAR and ARMISTICE

STAMPS.

Many varieties and calces of NEW EUROPE also..

CAFALOQUES and ALBUMS for sale.

GRACA & CO.,

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

Bongkong.

JAPANESE MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE

TO

ORDER

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Telephone No. 491

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NOBLES SEEK DEATH.

SUICIDES IN SWITZERLAND.

ARISTOCRATS REDUCED TO

DESPERATE STRAITS.

A PRINCESS'S PLIGHT,

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO.,

OPERATING :-

THE HONGKONG HOTEL, HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

LTD.

J. H. TAGGART,

MANAGER.

THE PEAK HOTEL.

francs of debts run up by fallen digni- A young Russian princess was re- taries of one category and another, cently served.with a summons by a and of different nationalities, by no Swiss hotel keeper because she had means always Russians, for among! run up a bill of 1,000 francs, which them are Germans, Austrians and she could not pay. She pleaded be- Rumanians. When I asked him why fore the court that her income, which he allowed thern to run up such bills amonated to several thousand francs he replied that they were always ex- La month. had been lost awing to Bol-pecting an improvement in the ex- He instanced a lady, the shevist rule in Russia; that she had change. Some of the saddest sights to be nothing to live on, and could not even widow of an Austrian sutesman well Seen in Switzerland row are the many get a place as a servant in a house or known in his day. Her income was month normally princes. princesses, diplomats and maid in a hotel because of her rank 5.000 kronen a satesmen stranded in the country. as a princess, and she did not know $1,000).

The hotel keeper

DEPRECIATION OF MONEY. and reduced to something very near which way to turn.

With three children, a maid and à beggary. Most of them are Russians. said the reason why she could not get some of whom were in Paris during a post as waitress or chambermaid was governess, she was able for a time to the first years of the war, while others that she was much too good looking stay in his hotel and pay her bills 1,500 Feet above Sea Level

Now, however, 5,000 have escaped from Russia, where they The court absolved her from the debt, regularly. fived until the revolution. Not a few and decreed that the cost of the trial kronen are worth about 125 Swiss of them were millionaires before the should be borne by the canton, while francs (say $25). The lady, a coun- war, with large estates in various parts the hotel keeper had to be satisfied tess, and her children, who are too of Russia, and with incomes commenwith the profits which he had made young to earn anything, have left his 'Several of these out of her while she was still in re hotel with several thousands francs of surate faerewith.

debts and are living in two rooms-in highly placed personages have been ceipt of her income.

Many of these princes and prin- a poor quarter of Geneva, only able driven to suicide, and it is rumoured | that hardly a week, passes but some cesses have never done any work to keep themselves alive by the assist one of them is found either drowned their lives, and they would not be able lance of some friends who knew the! in the Lake of Geneva or shot by his to earn their food pow that it is so countess in the days of her wealth She used to be one cwn hand. In Geneva there is a com- dear. They do not know how to pick and prosperity. mittee of Russians to help their strand their own trunks, so that nobody could of the most elegantly dressed women, ed fellow countrymen, but the people employ a Russian princess as a lady with beautiful jewellery. furs and Russian laces, all of which have been sold. who have recourse to it are so numer travelling companion of a ous that its resources are not suffi- prince as a valet, except some charit- Now she is wearing clothes given her cient. Moreover, like every organisa- able and 'very patient person. I know by friends. tion managed by Russians, it is very badly managed.

NOBILITY CAN'T GET WORK.

one young prince hanging about here..

.

IN DESPERATE STRAITS,

A well known Genevese jeweller!

and I certainly would not recommend told me of one of these refugee prin anyone to engage him in any capacity. cesses, who called et his shop and sold He would probably cut his master's him a valuable diamond ring This Some might say why do nor these throat it asked to shave him, and so was at about in the morning. In stranded Russian princes and prin-far from locking alter his master's the afternoon he had the ring in the cesses, diplomats and others try to get clothes, he is not capable of seeing to window for sale, and a stranger called and bought it. The next morning the some kind of work to do. Strange as his own.

princess entered the shop to tell him it may seem, however, although many of them would be ready to do so, no

The most miserable" sex of these that she saw her ring worn after din- one wants to employ them. The other day a Russian diplomat who once held allen dignitaries, however, are former ner in her horel by the wife of a war a position as charge d'affaires, applied high officers of the German, Austrian profiteer.

It is in Geneva and along its lake Hungarian and Russian armies, who to several business houses asking for have never done anything in their lives that most of these decayed diplomats employment as a clerk, but unsuccess save drill men and perhaps read at have chiefly taken refuge. Even the fully, his only disqualification being lile military history. They have ro German Eaten idols tend rather to apparently, that he was known to have an idea in their heads unconnected congregate in French than in German Lbeen a diplomat.

with arms and armaments. Some of Switzerland; and they contrive to live - There are in Switzerland several them have been appealing to the mainly because, in crossing the fron- former diplomats who have filled im- American consulates asking to be em- tier or before doing so, they smuggled portant posts in European capitals and ployed as instructors in the American over considerable quantities of jewel also in Washington. One of them army, and when told that they were fery and other valuables which could Other- saw the other day in a Swiss hotel, not wanted, they appealed to the be realised in Switzerland. where he occupied the least expensive Japanese minister. Recently, a lady, wise. they could not stay in hotels room, and even this he was unable to the widow of a well known Swiss Where they are charged. 25 francs a afford, as it was being paid for by a physician, asked me whether, I know day, for 25 Swiss francs mean, even friend of his in London. He was still of any man wanting a fine fur coat, now that the German exchange has wearing the clothes which he had be adding that a former military attache slightly risen, more than 300 marks.

What many. would do, if they could, fore the war. His morning cost, belonging to the German legation was which had doubtless come from a West anxious to sell his coat, to get enough would be to emigrate to America, with He which some of them have connections End London tailor, looked distinctly money to return to Germany. shiny his linen was frayed and his had been hanging about Switzerland by marriage. But here again they do shoes patched.

for some time trying to find employ-not possess the money to enable them *Foften meet this man in the streets meat, but no one would employ him; to emigrate, even supposing they could of Geneva, and he looks half starved and the lady had supplied him with obtain the necessary passports: Of and almost ragged. Yot only three meals as often as she could to keep course, Switzerland would not regres years ago 1 saw him in a gorgeous hun from starving. Yet this man at their departure, but-as she was very uniform,, with his chest covered with one time during the rule of the Kaiser glad to have their money while they accorations, medals and orders,; and was a power with the Swiss general were sill rich, she cannot decently expel them. Here they remain, fall manner of flunkeys making hum staff

ble obeisance to him as he passed. One of the chief hotel proprietors therefore, like pieces of faded and But then he still represented the Tsar in Switzerland told me the other day misplaced finery with which no one

that he has several hundred thousand quite knows what to do, of all the Russians.

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of-

Mrs. BLAIR.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

: CENTRAL LOCATION

LL ELECTRIC TRAMS Fan Entrance, Electric Lifts, Fans and Lighting A European Bathe and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water System throughout. Best of Food and Service.

-Telephone 373. Telegraphile Address :-01" VICTORIA" -

J. WETCHELL, Manager.

CARLTON HOTEL.

(TIK ONLY AMERICAN HOTEL IN WIN COLCONT.) ICE HOUSE STREET.

Under American Management Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes walk from the Banks and Central District Bedrooms, Broslent Cuinos, arupplously clean, Moderata Terms Monthly and Family Face CD syplication to the Proprietress. Launches meet Passenger Bosta

MRR. P. E CAMERON Telegraphic Adirom CARLTON.".

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON.

Two minutes from Star Ferry).

Becently renovated and refurnished, electria Night and fans through. and entirely under new management. Calsins under the personal inpervises of the proprietor. Bar and Billard Rooms. Terma moderata. Special terma families on application to

Telephone K. S. Telegraphie Add: "PALAOR”

Tel No. 3026

Dandies Ioes

Soda

1. J. EL OXBERET, Proprieto

BOSTON CANDY STORE OPPOSITE THE ROYAL TRENTES.

'CALL BETWEEN ACTS: TELEPHONE ORDERS FILLED..

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the late BIESS TING,

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12 Queen's Ed. C.

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FRENCH LESSONS

41. MOUNITOMA

15, Morrison“Hill Koné.