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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONETES, APFELISERS AND SURVEYORS

-Public Auctions-

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. 342 and the Building thereon--known

No. 233 Hollywood Road to be

ld by order of the Mortgagee by Pblic Auction,

On

TUESDAY,"

the 9th November, 1920,

at 3 pm by

Messrs. LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers,

at their Auction Rooms

ia 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 f 29th June, 1861 under a Crown Lease chased the 25th January, 1863 and made between Queen Victoria of the cne part and Chan A Kum of the ether 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,

MESSRS LO & LO.

Alexandra Buildings,

Des Voeux Road,

MESSRS. LAMMERT BROS.,

The Auctioneers.

INTIMATIONS

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM,

JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the moet digestire foot for Infants which keeps good in quality during Hot weather (2) LAC TOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetening the foods of Infants, and Dyspeptics (3) MILFORD-MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fleas, Mosquitoes, Bags, Flies and aff other Insect Pests in Summer days, and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clena in

Hanses.

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

SHIU FUNG TAI & 00.1

Sole Areata for Hongtong and South China. Noa Comanche Road Central, Hongkong, Telephone Nos. 1979.

FOR SALE

New Postage Stamps to commemorate

the taking of

FIRST

in

CENSUS

JAPAN

used only on October first, the day of

the Census.

Li 25 cents per set of 2 Stamps.

GRACA & 00. DEALERS Postace StEMPS, GARDEN SETce, Tors, dire No. 10, Wyndham, Street, P. O. Box 620.

Hongkong.

JAPANESE MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE

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THE CHINA MAIL.

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NOTICES.

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WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

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BATH TUBS.

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AND ALL KINDS OF

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394, Queen's Rond Central, Hongkong..

FURNITURE.

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BRASS AND IRON BEDSTEADS, UPHOLSTERY, ELECTRO-PLATED WARE, GLASSWARE, CROCKERY, HIGH-CLASS TEAKWOOD & BLACKWOOD FURNITURE.

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FOR SALE

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply to

LAMMERT BROS.,

Daddell Street.

MASSAGE.

Mr. HONDA and Mrs. HONDA

"Trained male Masseur.

13 years experience.

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INSTANTANEOUS WATER

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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 source enable us to carry out all

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LOST GOLD MINES,

FABLED' WEALTH.

CRAIG'S COURT.

صنعية

Cox, the Army bankers, are about to dispose of their property in Charing Cross; and the this includes Harring.

VOW OF FIDĒLITY.

LIKE GRAND GUIGNOL PLAY,

SEARCH FOR KING SOLOMON'S MINES ton House, Craig's Court Real ..students of the old London topography Now that German East Africa is have always been especially interest-

this house, because it was a The details of a tragedy in the purged of the horror of German ed colonisation, "there is talk of a test of all London books Like systematic search for the real King the water-gate at the end of Essex eighbourhood of Les Halles-in Street, Temple Bar, it was always which two Apaches are concerned shirked at close quarters by the and the victim'is a pretty flower girl Harrington House named Marselle Rigel-hare just topographers. was built in the reign of Queen been made known. The whole story 1,500 Feet above Sea Level

Solomon's Mines

that

Anne, and after the destruction of Northumberland House it was the in its lurid realism reminds one of most eastern town mansion in Lon- the most grue-Guignol. don. Its garden reached to the river,

The setting of the crime is the and there is still a scrap of it with back room of a third floor flat in one plane trees that can be seen from of the network of dark and ill-condi Old Scotland Yard. At the beginning

the

office over-

at

The Portuguese believed Ophir, frem which came the vast treasure of gold for the temple at Jerusalem, was situated in this country, and it is a fact that some years ago Dr. Cart"Feters formed a company to finance such a search.

Ophir has been lost to the world for thousands of years, but its wines were rich beyond dreams. In the Bible we are told that there were of the century the Manchester! tioned streets that form the greater part of the underworld of Paris. brought to Solomon from Ophir first Guardian London

Close hand is a cafe, frequented 420 and then 450 talents of gold. looked Craig's Court, and when Seeing that a talent was worth the big Foreign Office and India for the most part by criminals, whose records are kept carefully among the £6,000, bere was a trife of Office receptions were held

time of King Edward's archives of the Surgete the Scotland £5,220,0001

North America is full of lost mines. Coronation and the old London Yard of Paris.

Here, night after night, came Mar- One of the most famous is the seignorial life fared up again, the Talopa, in the Mexican province of little court used to be alive with celle Rigal. She was very popular Sonora. Perhaps it is wrong to call Hogarthian vignettes. Noblemen's with the men, and could dance it a lost mine, for some of the Pima state coaches with hammercloth and charmingly. Good-looking and vira- Indians know its whereabouts, and footmen ifi shorts and white stockingscious, she had many suitors, but at times these bring in lumps of Earboured there, and the footmen showed a distinct preference for

and coach en drank beer under the Pierre Maurice, who rough and enormously rich ore.

But only one white person has flicker of the carriage lamps. Old conditioned was a striking contrast ever seen it. She is a Mexican Lady Harrington lived in Harrington to the dainty and fascinating dancer. woman who was kind to the Indians House then, and left it only on the Maurice was of a jeajous type, and and who cured a chief of blood verge of the war. There was a induced the girl to swear a vow of down by detectives, however, poisoning. As a reward they showed little shop at the corner where fruit fidelity to him. He was tracked her the mine, taking her there by a and cheese from the Harrington circuitous route, and bringing her to Estate were sold by an emeritus and sert to prison for a "theft butler. All sorts of tramps and committed in the Rue de Made

Marcelle was the spot at night...

broken people used to go in there at leine.

In the faint moonlight she saw the great ore dump and a dark tunnel leading into the hill-side. The place bad evidently been worked by some ancient race. But that was all she did see. After this one tantalising glimpse they took ber away, and though again and again she strove to find her way back, she never succeeded.

present

night to repair their outfit and eat at the trial, and, after receiving his things from paper parcels. It was a sentence a short one-Maurice waved queer bit of old London and always a hand to her, shouting. "I shall made one think of Hogarth's "Night" 3000 be with you again. Remember that was drawn from Craig'e Court, your oath." But Marcelle was fickle, which was then a place of bagnios turned for consolation to a man and stews.

One day, in the 'sixties of the Inst century, three men came into Fort three prospectors, Galt, Ulrich, and "Ole" Stanford, were crossing the Randal, on the Missouri, with a sack

He at otce re-

named Piot, and went to Tive with him. She seems to have for gotten Maurice who, conducting himself well in gaol, was released few days before the expiration of his sentence. of nuggets, and a story of a marvel- Elias Range near the Yukon River. turned to his accustomed haunts, lous gold find on Cabin Creek An They came upon a small lake, and enquired for Marcells, and learning expedition was hastily organised and the evening sunlight, shining full on what had happened waited till night started out. It never came back; it the bar, "scintillated back in a fell, and rushed upstairs to the room where Piot and the girl were liv never was heard of again. The in thousand golden rays."" dians saw to that. And the Cabin Creek mine has never been re-found.

The men flung down their rifes, ing. He burst open the door, rushed at plunged into the water, and swam to his rival with an open knife stabbing

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PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON.

(Two minutes from Star Ferry).

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Telephone K. 3. Telegraphic Add: "PALACE”

JUST

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A Choice Assortment of

"THE BRITISH AMERICAN

„CANDY STORE. 15, Pottinger Street.

It is said in California that the the bar, which was only 30 feet out him to death. Then turning on Mar. Pegleg Mine has cost as many livess The first nugget weighed 101b, and cellewhous he had prevented from AMERICAN CHOCOLATES.

leaving the apartment he bore her as an average battle. The Pegleg is presently Ulrich had one of 501

During the next five weeks those to the floor and poured vitriol into her not a myth, for four people have at different times found it, and each three stowed half a ton of gold in a eyes, and left her rolling la agony; cave They built a but, Intending Maurice then rushed down the stairs, has brought of its gold. It lies ou a: hill top, and from this hill the smoke to settle for the winter. Indians and shouted to a man he met: #1 attacked them, killed Stanford, and have killed the man and spoiled the of trains passing Salton Station can burned their hut. Ulrich and Galt beauty of the woman, You had be seen. But all that country is a tangle of bare and waterless hills, and got separated, but both, after fearful better go upstairs,"

not one of those four who stumbled hardships, reached Bonne's Ferry. There was, of course, a hue and Galt was paralysed, but next year cry after the murderer, but he was on this rich deposit of dark-coloured gold has ever been able to find his Ulrich tried to get back to the lake.not traced till his body was washed

What happened to him no one up on the banks of the River Seine, was back A

Every miner in Alaska fervently knows, and the Lake of the Golden Marcelle is still alive, but the shock believes in the Lake of the Golden Bar is still awaiting a discoverer has destroyed her reason, and see is

totally blind. Bar. It was in August 1884 that Dail Mail

TANG YUK, Dozier,

the later this"NING,

16, 17Aquinas, Spain.

TERMS VERY MODERATE

J. H. OXEKRRY, Proprietor.

Y.' NAGATA

FUERIER.. Furs made up Artistically, Farz derned and Remodelled.

Can calfat Private tiesidences by Appolniment, "Brom: Yloor, &, Prays Baqt. --

FRENCH LESSONS

G MOUSSION,

15. Morrison 200 Monä.

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