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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONETES, AFPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS. -Public Auctions—

SATTE Undersigned have received, farbene- blocs to sell by Public Auction,

Op

TUESD TUESDAY. March 23, 1921.

- "commancing atli am at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street. (For sccount of the concerned).

A Quastity, of Olsina Water" Paints. Varnish, Nails, etc. more or less damaged by smoke (4)

water!

Terms -Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers,

TUESDAY, March 29, 1921,

commencing at 11 am

at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street,

▲ Quantite of Fresh Provisions.

Cust unpacked).

Terms: Cash on delivery.

CAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

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-TUESDAY, March 29, 1921.

commencing at: 2.45 p.m.

at No. 15, Bankow Road, Kowloon. FOR ACCOUNT of ter screNID} "Quantity of

Valuable Household Forniture.

..Comprising:

Plush at leather correl cenches. Upholstered sofa & arushairs. Faner mirror topped tables, music cabinet & ols, teik overmantels with bevelled rrors, teak, writing table. Green stained bookcase. Hanging mirrors

chle top tables, Japanese ailk em- roidered pictures, nemrings lace carains, brass monated fenders & fire brasses, ornaments electric ceiling & able fans, electric fittings, etc., etc.

Teak sideboards with berelled mir- "yors, leather covered diamg chairs, ice: dheste, green stained marble topped orice locker, tea tables, bestwood chairs, teak screen, brass curtain poles, etc,

Double brass & single iron bedsteads. & doable & single wardrobes with Bevelled mirrors, marble dressing tables, marble top washerands, marble dos pedestal, teak chests of drawers, colet set, easy chairs, shaving mirrors, sta, etc.

Bathroom, Pantry & Kitchen Requisites.

Alo

Quantity of Finely Carved

Blackwood Ware comprising:-

Marble top round dining table, silver cabinet, marble top fower stands, chairs, lady's desk, card table, rea-poys,

tables, hatstand, stools, etc.

And

fire scree

1 Underwood Typewriter. *** On view from Monday, the 25th inst. Catalugues will be isced.

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Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS...

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, March 22, 1921.

**

WEDNESDAY, March 30, 1921, Commencing at 2.45 p.m.

at Gilstead" No. 18, Broadwood

Road, Quantity of

Valuable Konsehold Furniture, Comprising:

Hatstand with bevelled" mirror, Chesterfield couch & covers, armchairs cavers, Bookcase by Powell Ltd, Books, Dining Table & chait, Teak vermantels, with bevelled mirrors, teak reens, Teak & silk lamp shades, Praes fender & fire brasses, Aluminium coal seattle, Casement curtaine, Teak Rower atanda, Tantalus liquor stand, Dinner & dessert sets, Cutlery, Linen, etc.

Brass and brass mounted bedsteads. Teak dresing table with bevelled mirror, Teak dock & single ward robex with bevelled mirror, Teak marble top washstand with tile back, Toilet crockery, Chests of drawers, Shaving mirror, Teak writing desk, Carpets, etc.

Bathroom, Pantry & Kitchen Requisites,

Also

Wine Tientsin Carpet in good condition,

izd One Lawn Mower & Garden Uteasïs,

One Tennis Net & Pots,

·One Lot Boundary Netting,

Two Rustic Garden Senta,

A Large Quantity of plants in pots

-Bower standa

On view from Tuesday, the 29th inst. -Catalogues will be isened.

Taris: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

., Auctioneers,

Mongkong, March 24, 1921...

FOR SALE

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply to

TAMMERT BROS..

Daddell Street.

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YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO "BE WITHOUT THEM.

JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive food for Infants which keeps good in quality during Hot weather (2) LAC TOSE (Milk Sagar) for sweetening the faods of Infants and Dyspeptics (3) VILFORD-CGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying | Flena, 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 Hotses.

PRICES are Very Moderate. Ins perting and Enquiries are cordially

invited,

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CHINESE WRITING.

BEAUTIFUL ART.

INTERESTING SHANGHAI LECTURE,

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vere sent Urgent dispatches throughout Chin yesterday by the recruiting department of the 'Upited

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SÁNG LẠI HÁN EDIGNANT.

In the course of a letter to the N.E.C. Ners W.B. Kent says

MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1921,

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansións.

Agents for:---ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,

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

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

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HOTELS AND CAFES.

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PALACE HOTEL

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Recently renovated and refumfihed, alectric light and fans throughout and antiraly under new management. Onixine under the personal supervISION of the proprietor. Bar and Billard Bocs. Ta moderate. Specia), ferma, biè familles on application to

Telephone K. 3. Telegraphia Add.: "FALAIM."

J. H. OXKKRRY, Proprietor.

HOTEL International Famine Relief Com

Mrs. F. Ayscough gave a lecture mittee, calling for men and women on the evolution of Chinese caligrato volunteer their services for the phy, poetry and painting at the Royal Asiatic Society. Mrs O. M. Green final offensive against plague and presided and, in introducing the hunger. lecturer, referred to the famine condi-

The plague cannot be stopped nor tions as worte now than they ever grain delivered to the starving in suf-

had been.

After describing, with the help of scient quantity to meet the coming some excellent lantern slides, the expansion of relief work unless the origin and evolution of the Chinese staffs are more adequately manned, written character, Mrs. Ayscough went on to say that no rigid conven according to P. A. Swartz who is in tion feltered the fatcy of caligra charge of this work. The danger now phists. Esch had striven to write his according to Mr. Swartz, is that the characters more beautifully than his staffs may find themselves shorthand predecessor. Generations had been toiling from time immemorial to per-ed in the most crucial period of the fect this art, so that through centu- entire famine. The dispatches were ries of tireless effort the primary ideo-sent to mission stations throughout graph had evolved into "a thing of the Republic, and appeals are also beauty indescribable." Characters being made locally.

-There are many instances of vessels getting ashore which could have been saved if assistance had reached them soener, sometimes many days

elapse before any assistance arrives at a stranded vessel.

I have worked a wireless apparatus

on many occasions, and one of the fascinating things about it is that, when one touches the key, the same moment the ware produced leaves the aerial at the speed of 186,000 tiles per second. I have merely

mentioned this fact to illustrate to non-technical readers that this is the speed that letters of a message can be tapped out. An S.0.5. can be sent to all vessels and store stations in a few seconds, the position of the ship in trouble would take a few minutes to transmit.

We have just read a pitiful story of the wreck of the "Hong Mohand, its attendant loss of life, and although

only consisted of a few brush strokes, The special call is for thirty foreign but in every stroke there was a subtle ers who speak Mandarin and thirty we have no details, I think it is safe grace. An imperceptible curve would capable Chinese to aid in the directo assume that she carried no wire- make a word seem alive, the lecturer tion of the field Torces. Physicians. less (and yet she had over 1,000 lives declared enthusiastically.

clerks, stenographers, engineers and on board).

In China the arts of caligraphy, many others capable of supervising The ship that went to her assist- poetry and painting were indissoluble and aiding in direction of the work, ance (it says in your paper of the 15th in their relation to one another. To are needed at once. Every recruit

the question, "How should Chinese means the saving of many lives and art be envisaged?" Mrs. "Ayscough characterized it as being above all human the art of reasonable, con- crete-minded men with a sensitive ness of the pathos and gaiety of life, and the beauty and grandeur of

nature."

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instant) had to leave the wreck and go in search of further assistance. It the crippling of a single staff means is also stated that they morsed to pass- the loss of lives, Mr. Swartz says. ing vessels and got no reply. If this is Many men and women have been in true,itis terrible reading ships on the the field all winter. Some of these China Coast in the year 1921, trying are about to retum 'to their home to summon help with morse lamps to countries, some, must rehin to other a wreck where terrible loss of life it work and their places Allied. On the taking place, and eventually baving other hand, many who volunteered to leave the wreck.to get help, is too for short periods are standing by to shameful for any words of mine the end and more of these are now properly to express. This should be wanted to see the fight through.

sufficient food for reflection for those interested in shipping whether they are owners. crew, passengers underwriters. I estimate there are

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As regards the literature of the country, it resembled in spirit that of Wordsworth and the modern literary movement in Paris. Chinese poetry was all poetry, the most human, but not symbolic or romantic. It con- } templated life just as life presented Mrs. Ayscough had some interesting | 10 steamere passing every day with itself. It cleared away the obstruc remarks to make about dragons in 10 miles of the Boat. Rocks, tion which habit had built up be-Besides the four kinds referred to by where the "Hong Mob” was wrecked. tween us and the beauty of things, the Kang Hsi dictionary, she con- Now if the "Honx Mob" had used showing nature revered but not tinned, dragons of varying colours wireless it is safe to assume that recreated. Mrs. Ayscough gave such as gold, purple and scarlet, were she would have got help in two or same chanting interpretations of the found; as varying as their glasses and three hours. In any cas, il 1 re- verses inscribed on the poem pictures colours were the numberless duties member rightly, the Boat Rock shown on the screen. A beautiful perfarmed by these saurians. The are about 35 miles from Swatow so poem by Li Po to a firefly was also spiritual dragons controlled the winds, that she could have got help from quoted by the lecturer, which runs the clouds and rains, while the there in a few hours as possibly Rain cannot quench thy lantern earthly dragons opened streams, and she would have been able to send

light

deepened seas. The Imperial dragon a message for some time after Winds make it shine more brightly was always to be distinguished by a striking, and no doubt steamers in

bright

fifth claw, which it assumed as being Swatow could have attended to her, Oh why not fly to heaven afar

intimately associated with the Son and actually been alongside in a And twinkle near the mood, a of Heaven,

star?

Mr. W. E. Souter, in proposing a Li, when he rose to fame, joined a vote of thanks to the lecturer, made dissolute coterie known as the Six an appeal on behalf of the famine Idlers of the Bamboo Brook," but sufferers. He reiterated the Chair-

few hours.

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in spite of becoming a victim to man's remark that the real stress of good may be alred without tak alcohol, he always succeeded in liter the famine was only just beginning aily dashing off much excellent work. to be felt. The distribution committee ing pass medicina. Chamberlain's DRAGONS, AND THEIR FUNCTIONE, of the United Famine Relief Funds Pain Balm massaged thoroughly into the While explaining to her audience had handed $7,500,000 to various

the series of lanterni slides showing bodies for relief, but more and more classical examples of Chinese art, sabscriptions were needed.

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