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LAMMERT BROS.

"AUCTIONEERS APPRAISERS

AND-BURTETORS. -

Public Auctions-

HE Undersigned bave received in- structions to tell by Public Auétion

FRIDAY, October 28, 1999,

commencing at 8.30 pm. at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, a Collection of Valuable Chinese Carlos.

Comprising:

5-coloured, 3 ecloured, and Blae and White rases, plates, bowls and figures "From Kanghi to Tokwang periods, plaques with porcelain panels, Agate, Arystal and Jade prazments, etc.

Also

Sung Celadon se, One pair Large Black vases with 5-colbared decoration, (Torkwang)

Από

A few pieces Canton Blackwood-ware

On view from Thursday, the th

AMEL.

Catalogues will be ised.

Tarma-Cash on delivery.

"

··LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, October 23, 1990;

PUBLIC AUCTION"

of the

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY.

*Situated at

Hollywood "Road, Hongkong, and registered in the Land Office as! Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No. *702-and the Building thereon-known as Na. 233 Hollywood Road to be sold by order of the Mortgagee by Public Auction,

"

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TUESDAY,

the 9th November, 1920, at 3 p.m., by MESSRS, LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers,

"at their Auction "Rooms

in Duddell Street.

The property consists of

All that equal undivided half share of and in all that piece or parcel of ground registered in the Land Office as the R.P. of Inland Lot No. 702 together with the building thereon. known as 233, Hollywood Road held for the term of 999 years from the 29th June, 1861 under a Crown Lease -dated the 25th January, 1863 and -made between Queen Victoria of the one part and Chan A Kum of the .other part.

Area: 1402 sq. feet or thereabouts. -Crown Rent:$15.50.

Particulars and conditions of sale may be had from:

Or from

The Mortgagee's Solicitors,

MESSES. LO & LO,

Alexandra Buildings,

Des Voeux Road,

MBSSRS, LAMMERT BROS.,

The Auctioneers.

FOR SALE

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply to

LAMMERT BROS., Duddell Strect

JUST

ARRIVED

A Choice Assortment of

AMERICAN CHOCOLATES. THE BRITISH AMERICAN

CANDY STORE.

15, Pottinger Street.

MUMEYA

Japanare Photographers. We have removed our Premises to No 3, Queen's Road,"C.

-Sitting hours from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Passport photos finished is, one bour.

THE CLEANING OF SUMMER FROCKS is an important matter and we make a speciality of "refinishing" light Frocks and Costumes so that they keep clean longer than when treated by ordinary methods.

Our processes are thorough and reliable. Our facilities and re- sources enable us to carry out all work quickly and our charges are really reasonable.

Write for Price List and Bes

The Diamond Dyeing and

Diycleaning Ca

Agent

CABBUM AHMED.

General - Draper,

34 Wellington Street.

Nathan Road, Kowloca

Phone 1462.

INTIMATIONS

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.

JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive food for Isnts which keps good in quality during Bot weather (P) LAC LOSE (Milk Sugar) for

the

eptics (3) foods of Infants and MILFORD HCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fleas, Mosquitoes, Bags, Flies and all cther Insect Festa in Summer days, and

JOHN CAHILL'S “GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Blouses.

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

SHIU FUNG TAI &. CO.,

Sole Agent for Hangtong and South China.

¡No Cà d, Connaught, Road, Cioncal, Hongkang.Į Telephone Non 1233.*

理代泰、帶

FOR SALE

ONE & ALL

FERTILISER

for

General Garden Purposes,

at 75 cents per Tio-

GRACA & CO.,

DEALER IN GARDEN SerDS, TOTS, POSTAGE STAMP, Pottyard, de

No. 10, Wyndham Street,

P. C. Box 620.

Hongkong

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE

TO

ORDER

CHERRY & CO.,

FEDDER STREET, Opposite Bangkong Hotel Telephone No. 491.

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

MASSAGE HALL

Gradajze from. Nagasaki Massage School MRS. HAN INOKUCHL

Pbrze No. 1964

Stanley Street,

1st Floor.

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY.

THERAPION NĚ. 1' THERAPION.NĚ,2 THERAPION No3 TEA DE SOL) He. 1 for Altenká 10 000

BOLDETELDING CRENTSTE, PRICE DF ENGLAND.34 DE LECZENCKAL. Coulartestoet RAIN WALOMA REX TRADE MARSED WORD *TREZAPIOK BEL HOVE, PEAKP AFFISED A GENUINE PAGESSA

ASAHI BEER

NER BEER

PRI

SANI BE

LAGER

SPECIALLY

EXP

COMP

PLSENER BEER

ASAHI

BEER

MITSUI BURKAN KAISL.

THE CHINA MAIE.

ARE YOU

TAKING UP YOUR PIPE AGAIN?

To thoroughly enjoy it you should fill it with Capstan Tobacco,

The Standard Tobacco.

"CAPSTAN

For Flavour, NAVY CUT For Quality.

IN MILD, MEDIUM AND FULL STRENGTHS.

FROM ALL TOBACCONISTS.

This Advertisement is farmed by British-American Tobacco Co, (China) Laď.,

SALVAGE TRIUMPHS.

U-BOAT VICTIMS RESCUED.

WORK OF THE ADMIRALTY SECTION.

COFFIN MISSING.

CHURCH DEMOLISHED.

raised and returned to service." Close upon one and three-quarter ülion. tons of merchant shipping was thys saved during the war. It does not require a very vivid imagination to grasp how great a boon it was to the FORMER LORD MAYOR'S BODY GONE. Allies that such a considerable fleet as

The successful salving of H.M.S. this tonnage represents about 440 Vindictive at Ostend forms one of vessels in all was literally snatched the outstanding features of the work from "Davy Jones's locker.” of the Salvage Section of the Admiral- ty. To this department had been en- trusted the task of clearing the Bel- gian harbours, and the removal of the Vindictive from the fairway at Ostend marks practically the comple- tion of the work.

The coffin containing the body of a former Lord Mayor of London is miss- ing from St. Alphege's Church, Lon- don Wall.

most Among the

notable fears

When it was decided to demolish achieved by the Salvage Section was the patching up of the bartle-cruiser the church an opportunity was given Lion after the Dagger Bark fight. the descendants of people buried there By constructing an ingenious coffer to remove the bodies and re-inter dam on, her side, they enable her to them. The descendants of Sir Row- steam to the Tyne for repair. For this fand Hayward. Lord Mayor in -1570)

the end 1590,desired to re-inter his At the outbreak of the war no Ad-Commodore Young received

Another remains 'n Devonshire, the county of miralty salvage organization existed thanks of Admiral Beatty,

but the need of such a department remarkable piece of salvage was the his birth. became pressing and early in 1916 the raising of submarine K 13 in Gair He was buried at St. Alphege's in Lords of the Admiralty called in Cap-Loch, and rescuing 35 of the men 1593, and the large marble monument

Com-erected to his memory depicts his first! tain F. W. Young as Naval Salvage who were entombed in her. Adviser to form such a section and modore Young also adopted and intro-wife and eight children kneeling at his to take charge of it. Captain Young, duced the submersible motor pump, right hand, and his second wife and who had been for 30 years engaged which Admiral Jellicoe ordered to be eight children at the left. in salvage work in the interests of fitted as, standard. to all ships in the underwriters, being chief surveyor to Grand Fleet. the Liverpool Salvage Association, was afterwards given the rank of com modore In the Royal Naval Reserve, which position he now holds. Before the formation of the Salvage Section the naval authorities had availed them- selves of his assistance. He carried through plans to guarding our pets against enemy submarines, and he made sele anchorages where no such anchorages had existed before...

His tomb was discovered, but al- By the use of com-though three coffins were found-the; pressed air the first-class battleship one containing the remains of Sir

Conqueror" was, salved when she Rowland was missing. had been given up as a total loss, and the saving of the hospital ship "As- turias" is to the credit of the section.

But perhaps the most spectacular of the Admiralty salvage performances during the war were the litting of the Araby" after she had been sunk in Boulogne harbour and the bringing of

THE DREAM LAUNDRY.

“MILLENNIUM APPROACHES,

A LAUNDERER RESEARCH

ASSOCIATION.

A dazed incredulity, as at the ar-

her back to the Thames in two pieces, The Salvage Section was formed and the hauling upright of a sunken principally of the ships, officers and transport at Folkestone by means ol men of the Liverpool Salvage Associa four railway engines. Later the col- tion, which were taken over while alllier Bedale" was lifted in the Firth rival of the millennium, will beset other salvage companies in the United of Forth, where she had sunk in the most of us at the news that a day may Kingdom were also placed under the way of the battle-cruiser squadron. be coming when our clothes may re- charge of Captain Young, with a staff Upon this occasion a dead weight of turn from the wash entorn, unpitted,

with Buttons experienced in salvage operations. In 3.000 tons was literally hauled to the unfrayed, and addition old composite gunboats, surface. This was the heaviest "Lift" hole buttons, still attached. especially suitable for the purpose, ever performed by salvors until the years, the dissolution of our washed were quickly converted into salvage Brussels" was raised. She weigh clothes has been growing more rapid AH this may be vessels and equipped with every sal-ed about the same. In the early part and complere. ving device that experience could sug-of 1918. too, the Salvage Section re- changed. A British Leanderers' Re- gest, so that within a short time the floated within a week four ships that search Association has been licensed by the Board of Trade; and the title Admiralty had the finest, salvage plant had gone ashore off the Irish coast.

and ideal give grounds of hope, says - in existence. The section proved its AT. OSTEND AND ZEEBRUGGE; - -- -----

with

For

value almost at once although it was At the request of the Beigian Gov. the Daily Mail. not witil the submarine menace das erument the Admiralty Salvage Sec. Laundrying should, to use a dent is's phrase, be conservativey and the at its height that it rendered its most tion undertook the clearing of the workers in a laundry, being like other valuable service/

Belgian harbours, and by the raising workers, artists in their line, should of the Vindictive (they have car- Much was done by the section, infried through the largest marine salvage return the clothes sent to them not merely cleaned bur also sound and helping to defem-the-U-boat-campaign-undertaking ever combacked upon.

FIGHTING THE ́U-BOAT.

by saving torpedoed merchantmen. This involved, besides the "Vindictidy and with a certain flourish. The

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27,

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansion,

Agents for:-ADMIRALTY“ CHARTS,

'ROSS'S `BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS,

F

BENSON'S ENGLISH-WATCHES,...

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

Tel. No. 2558.

TH

TUBS.

Sasitary Goods, Bathroom Fittings

AND ALL MINDS OF

Glass and Mirrors.

LYSON COMPANY,

394. Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.

FURNITURE.

CONTRACTS FOLICITED „FQ8 HOUSES, OFFICES,

EGTAIS & SHIPS.

BRASS AND IRON BEDSTEADS, UPHOLSTERY, ELECTRO-PLATED WARE, GLASSWARE, CROCKERY, HIGH-CLASS TEAKWOOD & BLACK WOOD FURNI LURE.

CHEONG LEE & 00. Tal No. 801

FELD OTTICE, 55, Queer's Road Central. CABLE ADDRESA **CHEONGLER”

A.BC. CODE 5TH EDITION.

'HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

OPERATING — ̈

THE HONGKONG HOTEL, HOTEL MANSIONS.

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

AND THE

::

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

J. EL TAGGART,

MAKLUKK

THE PEAK HOTEL.

1,500 Feet above Sea Level,

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of-

Mrs. BLAIR.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOCATION

ALL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pitary Hot and Cold

European Baths and Sanitary Bittings, Hot and Cold Water System throughout. Best of Food and Service..

Telephone 373. Telegraphic" Arkira¡00' VICNELL*

J. WITCHELL, 'Managu.

CARLTON HOTEL,

(BEECH ONLY AMERISAN HOTEL IN YAX QOLUNT,) ICE HOUSE STREET

Under American Management Mice and quist yet only a few minutes walk from the Banks and Cectral District. 4 Bedrooms, Excellent Cuisine, scrupulously clean. Moderate Terins, Monthly and Family · Eabes.co application to the Proprietress. Launches meet "Passenger Bosts.

'Max. P. E. CAMERON. Telegraphic Address "CARLTON,”

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON.

(Two minutes from Star Ferry).

Recently renovated and refurnished,welectric light and fans throughout and tirely under new management. Cadalnia under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Booms. Terma moderata Special terms to families an application to

7. EL OXBERRY, Proprietor.

Telephona K. 3. Telegraphie Add: "PALACE”-

Candies

Toes

Boda

It scarcely need be added that the tive" at Ostend, the raising of Cap-present evils need no research; so well Tel. No. 3028 section found plenty to do. Its opera-tain Fryatt's" Brussels," the removal may expect that the new laundry re- tions extended into many waters, and of the blackships Iphigenia," The search scientists will set to work af were so successful that in the last tis," and "Intrepid from the mouth once on the remedies. Clothes are three years of the war the section of the Bruges Canal," and the carry-ey expensive; and, if washed, short-

lived. saved us something like "£50,000,000 ing out of many other exceedingly worth of shipping that would other difficult operations. Only those who wise have been a total loss. It went know how battered and broken the 10 the 155icance of many vessels thar Vindictive" was een beve anyades vented it from doing so. Ostend Har- had been damaged by the U-boats, quate cofiception of what a remark-bour would have been "bottled up?" Land by means of a special deviceable piece of, marine salvage was her for months to come. In recognition known as the "standard patch en- removal. Great risks amended it of his work. Commodore Young was abled them to reach the repairing for if once the hull of the vessel had decorated by the King of the Belgians yards. If the vessel went to the bot. slipped down into the fairway-end (and by the Government of the United tom and was worth raising she was only exceptionally skilful handing pre- States of America-Times cor

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