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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1920.

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In St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon,ITANTED-GENTLEMAN this afternoon, the Rey. G. R.WRENCE CONVERSATION;

Mr. Edward Dorothy St. John George writes in a Lindsay married Home paperDo youknow that you Kenneth Seyer, of Foochow to kiss ma for the time of about one manth and one hour everyday, stating terms, may leave Victoria one Friday morn Kathleen Abraham, youngest daugh Apply Bus No. 1946, co Caixa Man" ingby P. and O. express to Marseilles,ter of Mrs A. E Abraham, of go on board at noon next day, reach Torres Buildings, Kimberley Reid, ing Port Said on Wednesday night, Kowloon.

The bride looked charming in a dress from "La Favorite of white brocade embroidered with pearls. The bridesmaids wore pretty dresses of crepe de chine.

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DARTICULARS and Conditions of

be held on MONDAY, the 30th day

and Kantarab, the junction of the The bride, who was given away Palestine and Egyptian railways on by her brother, M. E Abraham, the Suez Canal, the following evening? was attended by Miss Ruby

Miss an!

Cissy The Catro train comes in to Kan-Young tarah at 10 o'clock. You go to bed Hast as.bridesmaids. Mr. R. G. Shaw in it, and it remains stationary all was best man. night, on the edge of the desert, till Sin the morning, when it starts on

of December, 1993 at 3, at the its wonderful journey up nearly the

Ofices of the Pable Works Department. whole length of the Promised Land.

by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of Una Lot of CROWN LAND at On Friday morning you open your

After the ceremony in the Church | Coombe Road, in the Colony of Hong eyes on the changeless desert which

option of renewal at a Grown Rant to be was part of the dominions of Ham, a reception was held at No. 4. og for a term of 23 years, with the son of Noah-the Way of the Land Aima Villas at which the customary fired by the Surveyor of His Majesty the of the Philistines-on a sea of sand toasts were honoured

King, for ous further term of 15′ years. will be honeymoon stretching as far as the eye can see,

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. sparsely spotted with tufts of green, spent Macao and Canton. The with half-buried palm trees here and bride's travelling dress was of ribbed

Boundary silk with It is related of Bishop Samuel there.

white

hat georgette ostrich feather trimmings Through the gulleys and over the with berforce that when a divine of a severer school reproached him with ridges of sand goes a string of attending a ball his defence was that camels, a caravan of muffied travel- derive from a learned scientific he had never been in the same room lers swathed in long striped cloaks. journal, which is the medium of comes the dancers. From the speeches carrying with them their teats and munication between the students and at the Church Congress we infer that all their household goods. They 'sach subtlety of ethical distinction | might be trying to find their way teachers of the mystery of tailoring and such an egg-dance in conduct is back to the days of the Old Testa Come the four corners of the world in arms, and there is to be no charge now required of the episcopate ment. It is like waking to dream, in the Englishman's evening clothes. For the Bishop of Sheffield laid or as though a thousand years were or, to use the language of pure on as a universal principle that indeed as a watch in the night. science, there are no

Change and decay are all arooda ts, and the barassed mind finds nothing which gives assurance that it will be in the same condition to- morrow! But there is balin in Gilead. Oce, if but one, of the works of man abides, and is to be the same as of old. This comfortable assurance we

for this season's dress

novelties trade."

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FRENCH JUDGE'S WAY.

The Government, through""''M.

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TUESDAY, December 21, 1990,

Commencing at 11 a

at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street. ▲ Consignment of High GRE → Ladies' and Gent'sBoots

and Shoes. And

A Selecting of Lalias" Costumes,

the recreation of dancing de At lunch time you will see Aliel pends almost entirely upon the Mantar Hill, where Samson carried Bold inventors of the past, we are company" What can be better the gates of the city, and here a Richard, judge of the Tenth Correc told, have striven to introduce "cer. Company than bishops? asks the stranded "tank" stil stands as a tioral Chamber, has given evidence tain colour schemes, such as red : Liatky Telegraph. It is clear that ] morument to the brave men who į of its earnest desire to deal sternly! THE Codersigned hara received in-

there is anything wrong with modern made that famous hill yet more

want to get rich at the expense of! we have to regret that these birdlike-rooms the bishops have the famous

Our remedy in their own bands, and no The train goes right through Gaza the community by preventing a re- decorations had no vogue. evenings would be merrier if men of one will fail to recognise the nobility-Gaza which existed before the duction in the price of commodities adequate proportions thes enlivened of their motives in assisting at our Tower of Babel. before Abraham left In June when there was a tendency cances. A good many years ago an his fatherland, or Samson'st agedy for the prices of fruits and their physique. But it would not do;

vegetables to fall the commission men, as a class, are not brave, or, as eminent Nonconformist divine pro- gave it immortal fame

Beyond Gaza begins the Plain of agents at the Central Markets be- the expert softly puts it, "the few tested that his objection to dancing weare of such attire simply make was not concerned with the mere Sharon, where turbaned, white-robed came alarmed, and sent letters to i

saltatory exercise, which seemed to labourers, goad in hand, till the land food producers in the provinces themselves the cynosure of all eyes him exhilarating and blameless, but with or and ass (there is no set asking them to stop sending supplies. and so they have been dropped" with the deplorable custom of the time for ploughing here), where Their cbject was to create an artificial The delicate confusion of pronouns

which sexes eq-operating in

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its per women in antique dress of Bible scarcity and so keep up prices. These Dresses Clanks in Silk and other marks an emotion

formance. Whereat some wit blue head to bind the sheaves or man were arrested, and one of them, materials (from Paris) share. I are proud to

Terms: Cash on delivery, a glean, and where on threshing floors Bonnetaud, who received a commis is tragic that a too tender modesty

of natural rock the unmuzzled oxsion of 8 to 10 per cent, and com should rob the world of what the poet

the colour and bloom and waltzing in each other's arms treads out the corn. Complete is the sequently aimed at selling stocks as calls

a blameless dance. No doubt it is Musion of a glimpse of a long past dear as possible, has been tried mesic of" waistcoats. But things.

Judge Richard showed him no mercy. are what they are, and the con- true, as Johnson said, that whereverage

young "women are, there is danger, After the junction of Lyda, orHe spoke of him as a public male- sequences will be what they will be. Our expert, in fire, is of opinion that but we feel that even the lodera Lude, which boasts the tomb of St. factor, as a "burglar of the domestic WEDNESDAY, December 12, 1920,

nothing but plain goods will be bishop is inclined to exaggerate the George, you proceed through the budget," and described one of the worn during the present season," Dossible evils of the ball-room. "Some beautiful Valley of Sorek, the home letters seized as a proof of the "per- | dares to look conspicuous. He is respecting person, and certainly no bulwark of mountains which, in the netaud, who betrayed the interests |

words of the Psalmist are round of those who still believed in the plainly aware of the psychological

about Jerusalem as the Lord is round free play of economic laws, had to difficulties in this explanation. Hel

about His people"

be prevented from doing harm, and discovers them in his statement

From the train you may trace the the judge sent him to prison for six of the paradox that the male animal

We

man

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design to

cartoon representing reverend gentle

Christian, would talk of frequenting." It may well be true, but everyone knows that such dancing is an in significant fraction of the total

will wear the gayest socks in the Terpsichorean output of the nation. ancient path by which the Ark of months, fined bim 15,000 francs.

Everybody dances nowadays, and

it

phraseology, "harks to the proverbial black for evening wear. Why is that a man should by daylight venture the most violent assaults, in form and

though we dare not say that they Jerusalem, and you will be in the rights, and ordered tea insertions of do it well, we appeal to common Eternal City, on the scene of an event the judgment in the newspapers. observation to witness that they do it the most moving, the most far-reach- This smart sentence has given great very respectably. The Bishop of ing in its effect on the history of satisfaction, and the hope is wide. Sheffield, indeed, seems to recognise nineteen hundred years, before the spread that it will not be without its colour, upon the innocent eye, while this when he allows that " there was hurrying twilight of the East has effect on the Central Markets. of nights he seeks to escape notice by a sad sobriety and a protective more ugliness than wickedness in turned to night.

dances so assimilation to his neighbours? We some of the fantastic know no answer, but we are of the popular before the war" It is cer tain that to the calm observer those

unlearned, and surely the pundits of i who, trod, and still persist in tread-

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commencing at 12 o'clock (u son) at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street. 35 cases Heidseick Extra Dry Cham-

pagne. (qts) -15 cases Duc de Honsco Champagne,

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50 cases Salamsoder Brandy, 500 cases Salamander Brandy, No L

34cises Australian Rock,

44 cases Old Tom Gin.

16 case French Vermouth,

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LAMMERT BROS," Auctioneers.

THURSDAY, December 23, 1920, commencing at 5 p.

of China after six months, but cannot at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street. do anything at present, according to & Tine Sélection of High Class Mr. Liao Chung-hai, Commissioner of Cat Crystal Glass-ware, Finance,

when а committee

of native bankers called on bim

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cempriting :- Bowls Dishes, Decanters, spirit to ask the Government to accept at bottles, scent bottles, vases, jags, etc., least one-fifth of all public dues pay e able to the Government in notes. So. far no definite decision has been

the tailors' science should give us at ing, certain exotic measures which least an hypothesis. It is not si

as delirious many generations since bright colour fancy fondly paints and a certain fantasy were banished and voluptuous seem to take no from men's evening clothes. Our vicious delight in the adventure, expert himself notes a recent advence but rather to be engaged upon an The arduous course of gymnastics which towards deeper solemnity.

There are proud owners in America buttonhole, be proficunces. is a involves not only great physical strain who boast of their dozen Caxtons or thing of the past, and the man whose but a very painful mental concen- coat provides the possibility thereof tration. The true argument against cre. Let them and others berersind ed that once a Bermondsey cheese is obsolescent.

The possibility of tango and jazz is not that they appeal monger possessed thirry. And their made by the Government to relieve individual taste is tot admitted. No to those whom the bishop calls science likes to allow the factor of inherently vulgar," but that they in mouths will water at hearing that the bankers. The Courts have issued when they were sold at Christie's in a notice requiring all payments of free will. But we subrait that the fict upon the human organism 1776 the thirty fetched under £300. £nes and court costs in silver instead world has a right to ask more of punishment greater than it can bear. The worthy cheesemanger, John of is Bank of China rctes as in thei these pundits of tailoring. It is not We may take our pleasures sadly. Ratcliffe, had begun to collect books enough for any science to record facts, but not so sadly as that. The bishop's because in the course of business we demand explanations. What our cheery confidence evening clothes are we know well enough, or too well What baffles us is why they should be anything like that.-Daily Telegraph.

PALACE OF GOLD.

GRAFT IN ARGENTINA:

IN ONE DOOR AND OUT ANOTHER.

Buenos Aires, October ".11.-

Argentina has been having a graft 'investigation, as a result of which it has been found that 5,500,000 pesos have been "unduly" disbursed by former Government officials, who directed payments to contractors for building the Capitol here. The pre sent Government has announced its intention of bringing suits to recover the money improperly paid."

SHANGHAI SERVANTS.

the

that ugliness

parcels of old Elack-lettered volumes is gradually disappearing" is well founded, and we may add that were brought to him as waste paper, the eccentric and the contorted will and now and again he would find time never inng be in favour. The modern to read them. His copy of that 1483 Canton, The Booke called Caton," popularity of dancing depends upon the modern cult of physical exercise, was bought in 1776 by the famous and that modern love of rhythm Dr. John Hunter for only 5gs. One which, though less advertised, is thought of this at Sotheby's first making itself felt in art and, above autumn sale of books, when, the all, in education. It is altogether to example from Sir William Ingelby's be approved upon the bishop's sound Ripley Castle library, with the first principle that all amusements" should leaf of the text missing, brought £780. be such as to recreate the whole man, This Yorkshire library was unknown to the sleuths of book collecting, and there were other prizes. -Tars, a body, mind, and spirit.”

fourteenth century Fountain's Ab- bey register or "Coucher-book," being the second volume of three, the first being in the Cottonian collection, and the third in the inexhaustible Phillipps's library, realised £400, and another fourteenth century manu- script in English caligraphy of the Legenda Aurea," by Jacobus de The building, a magnificent struc-

Voragine, £550. A rare survivor of ture of classic architecture, marble

a former Poet Laureate's (John facings and broad sweeps of inarble

There is a move on in Shanghai to Skelton), "Pithy, Pleasant, and Pro- steps, not unlike the Capitol at Was force servants in the employ of fitable-Workes," fetched £375, and hington, is jestingly called in the foreigners, and probably Chinese also, among many other interesting lots newspapers El Palacio de Oro."to join the labour union. Circulars was a fourteenth-century Freuch ("the Palace of Gold.""). It was begun | are being distributed to servants, and relic manuscript of "Le Roman de in 1897 and was originally to have several such have been found by, la Rose," containing the bookplate of cost 10,000,000 pesos. It is not yet foreigners, calling upon the recipients the Earl of Ancram which brought rentirely finished and has cost 27,000 ( to fill in the blanks with their names, £300,

003. pesos.

age, position and other information. Buenos Aires newspapers, told, The text of the circular gives an im years ago, of wagon-loads of build-pression that failure to comply would ing material that went in at the front be met with unpleasant consequences.

door of the structure, soon after

A BINISTER MOYE..

: ASKED TO JOIN LABOUR UNION,

It is learned that the Chen-yi The purpose of all these questions Bank (formerly The Sino-Italian In-

came out at the back door and then is not known: the fact that none is danial Bank) will be formed with a disappeared, Charges were made sisted on the circular would seem to capital of $10,000,000 Subscrip that marble was paid for, but con- Indicate that it cannot be one which fons for the capital wore to be issued crete used, for part of the construc- the organisers of the move would on December 15, and will close at tion, and other accusations of graft care to preclaim outright.

the end of the year. The bank has were aired:. It was then that the newspapers began to call it The Palace of Gold"

Interesting developments may already been registered and approved therefore, be expected as the outcome both the Currency Bureau and at the of the move,Shanghai Times,

Ministry of Finance.

past

jast

On view from Wednesday, the 2nd

Terms -Cash on delivery, Catalogue will be issued.

LAMMERT BROS..

Auctioneers Bengkong, December 16, 1990.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 5, 362.—IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that Sealed Tenders ia duplicate, which should be clearly marked "TENDER FOR QUARRIES will be received at this Office until Noon on MONDAY, the 20th day of December, 1920, for the letting of the undermentioned Granite Quarries at Hongkong, Kowloon, sad the New Territories, for one year or, a6 20 alternative, for a period of 3 year from the 1st January, 1921

Each, tender must be accompanied by a receipt to the effact that the tenderer has deposited in the Colonial Treasury & cum as stated in the schedule bereander opposite to each quarry, as a pledge of the bond fides. of his offer, which am shall be forfaited to the Crown, if the tenderer refuses to carry ont bis tender and comply with the conditions hereinafter contained, should the tender be accepted...

The Government does not bind itself to accept the highest or any Lender.

Forms of tender can be obtained from the Director of Public Work!

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No. 1 HAMFER.

1 Qt. Moet & Chandon Champagne "Crown Brat"

1

Hackberry Brandy

Pt. D.O.

Qt. Marsall's XXX Brandy

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...Superb Tawny Fort

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Old Brown Sherry Bed Boel!

D.CL Old Tom ur Dry Chia

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24" King George IV WL. Whisky or Perfection

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Acros.

Approximate, past Annual Deposit with

Area in

tender. Crown Bent

2

Shaukiwan Nos, 3 and 4.

78-15

5,100

880

I DOL Old Tom of Dry Gin

Hck UA No. 6.

8:44

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700

Ma Tau Kok No 8.

4-60

2,100

200

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1,300

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1,100

200

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10.80

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Cha Kro Liang No. 1--30,

24-56

2,400

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Sai To Wan Not. 1-16.

10-53

700

100

Lyeman No. 1-95

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2,600

460

Lyeman No. 26.

·2·10

500

65

Ngau Tau Kok A/10′ant A/17

250

30

Ngau Tau Kak Na 26..

200

30

Too Tes Wan No. 1.j

¡1-84

200

Too Tee Wad No. 2

1-84

200

30

Ah Kung-Ngam; Na, L.

1:90-

780

100

The attention of the tenderem for Hok Un No. 5 is hereby drawn' to the fact that the road between, K.M.L. 63 and 69 will be completely closed, and that it will nos be ardinhle für er visance of stone to junks after Std Decoraber, 1990;

*80

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