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LAMMERT BROS.

Arerasts, ÅFPRAISERS AND SURVETORS -Public Auctions-

HULE Undersigned, have received instrus-

all by Paille A settor

THURSDAY, March 31, 1921, commencing at 11 am. at No. 3 Lyeemur Villas, Kowloon. ▲ Quantity of` alzable Household Furniture,

(Full particulars from cataloguel Also

A Selection of Japanese Water Colours.

Du viaw on day of sale. Tax Cash on delivery

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers,

Hongkong, March 28, 1921,

-THURSDAY, March 31, 1991 commencing at 5 pm

their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street,

A Valuable Collection of

. Postage Stamps.

(Full particulars from catalogue)

Do view from Thesday, the 29th

distant.

Terme-Cash on delivery.

ONE

LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers.

FOR SALE

NE HORNSBY-ACKROYD OIL ENGINE-3 Horse Power, Fuel, Kemena. Complete with cooling apper

in good condition" May be viewed by appointment at Gan Club 61 Barracks, Louicom. Apply to the undersigned.

LAMMERT BROS.

FOR SALE

MILNER'S SAFES

Apply to

LAMMERT BROS.,

Daddell Street.

FARES FOR PUBLIC

VEHICLES.

CHURE.

Ila Fictoria, with two Beireri-

Quarter hour,

Half hour.

10 cents 50

One hour. Amma res

Three hours,

Day (6 am to 6 pm)

$1.00

If the trip is extended beyond Victoria, Half fare ex

Between the hours of 8.30 p.m. and 6 am the above fares shall be increased Say 50 per centum.

",

#1-Beyond Victoria, with four Bearera.

0.60 cents.

Three hours meconomics- $100

six hours, memorati

1.50

Day (8 am to 6 pm)

2.00

III.-In the Hill Diarici.

Quarter bour,.0.15

Hath hour, as 0.90

With t Beavers With Bearers.

$1.29

0.40

0.80

0.80

0.70

7 1.00

1.50

2.00

Que hour, 0.30 Two hours, surmenter 0.50 "Three heuth

six hom

• 107

Shy (8 a. bc gate

KICKSHIS.

In the Island of Hongkong, it engaged

Ten minutes.

Quarter hour,

Hail boar,

in Fictoria

One hour, Every Subsequent hour,

$ centa

10

If the rickaba be engaged the City of Victoria, and be dis charged outside the Western part of the City of Victoria after 9 pm, or be dis- charged to the East of Bay View Police Station on the Eastern side of the City of Victoria after 9 p... an extra half dare shall be chargeable.

11-In Kowloom. Quarter bour, macar Half hour,

L cents. 15 "

Every subsequent hour,......... 10

III-Taipe Boad

To 4th mile...

Twenty cents shall be added

for each extra hour or part

of an hour if the hirer causes

the journey to take longer than

single... 78 cente..] hour.

return...... $1.00

Beyond 4th to 6th mile-

single

return....$1.5

Beyond 6th to 9th mile

single....$1.70

return......$2.00

Beyond 9th to 11th mile

single $2.00..... retura...$.60.......... 7

hours.

bouz.

Fares for journeys beyond the 11th

mile to be a matter of previons arranger spent in each case.

The fares here set out to apply to one wiczha with three coolies from Tsim Sha

Tani.

A

RUB IT IN

without a

good many people think rheum

Eng Daizsedus medicine, bamberlain's Fan Balm massaged thoroughly into the kin has cured far more, rheumatism than any internal remedy in existence and gives relief quicker. For sale by all Chemists and Btórekeepers,

"

INTIMA Phen

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO

BE WITHOUT THEM.

JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestire food for Infants which keeps good in quality during Hot weather (2) LAC- TOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (3) VILFORD MCGRATH FLUID INJEC- TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fless, Mosquitoes, Bugs, Fies 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. In pection and Enquiries are cordially invited

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SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Sole Agate for Hongkongrand Bontà chia Xon, (Tā 18, Candanght Road Dissent, Hongkong-

Traphone Nos. 1938 -

理代泰豪華

Fine Assortment

of

G.

R. I.

POSTAGE STAMPS

surcharged ou

German Colonies,

now on view at

GRACA & 00.,

Dealers in Postage Stamps, Philatelic Goods, Garden Seeds, &t, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620.

Hongkong.

JAPANESE · MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO.,

PEDDER STREET, Opposite Hongkong Hotel Telephone No. $32.

Hongkong, Mach 20, 1914.

TÄNG YUK, Dastur Successor to the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street.

TERMS VERY MUDERATE"

Copanitation free.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

COMMANDER

Super Size Virginia Cigarettes

"Commander" has many

leading qualities –

"Commander" smokers

know what they are.

“Commander” must be smoked to be app- reciated.

TRADE

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Westminster

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This Advertisment is issued by British-American Tobaco On:'(Chi) Ltd.

MISSING MILLIONAIRE.

A BAFFLING MYSTERY.

"

CASE OF AMBROSE SMALL.

la connection with the missing millionaire mystery which has again come into prominence a Toronto cor- responden: writes

an English paper :--

门

The disappearance of Ambrose Small, the millionaire theatre proprie tor, is the most sensational and baffling case is the records of Canadian crim-

inology. In a few days or weeks John Doughty, his secretary for twenty years, is to be placed on trial on s charge of conspiring to kidnap" his former employer. The public does not know what evidence will be produced at the trial and has as yer learned nothing about the case which in any important degree dissipates the oys tery in which it has been shrouded for the last fourteen months.

THE PRIVATE SECRETARY,

treal on the night of December 2, Now what about Doughty, the pri- he had handed the bonds in a parcel rate secretary? Under the sale which to his sister, telling her it was Mr. Smali's property, and to place it in Small had completed Doughty was safe keeping. A few weeks later he being transferred from Small's employ became alarmed at Small's continued to that of the purchasing company at almost double the salary he had been see, which not only prevented getting. He was to move to Montreal, im from returning the bands to and, on December 2 he took the Smail, but would be sure to direct right train for his new work. Three suspicion toward him, the bonds being

in his possession. His alarm increas weeks later he returned to Toronto to

On May 24, ing, he took flight. spend Christmas with his family, but 1920, Doughty's sister handed the on December 28, instead of returning bonds to another brother, Wiliam, to his post in Montreal as arranged, he who secreted them in the attic wall, alse disappeared.

and it was William who, on John's This second disappearance had the return, led the police to the secret efect of producing a sense of reassur-spot. ance about Small on the theory that

In committing Doughty for trial on Small in retreat somewhere had seat the bond theft charge the magistrate for his secretary to join him, though commented on the fact that no effort among those who knew both men this had been made by any of the Doughty theory was never given much weight.

་

But

It was not until some weeks after family to dispose of the bonds or even Doughty's disappearance that search Doughty's flight and the whole cir-

to cash the interest coupons. for the missing men was energetically cumstances made a committal neces pressed. When it was found that $100,000 worth of bonds were mis

It was on December 2. 1919, that sing frora Small's deposit box a war-

sary.

THE KIDNAPPING CHARGE.

the last was seen of Ambrose Small.rant for Doughty's arrest was issued But main interest, of course, cen- His wife and friends were immediate and rewards for information of tres on the kidnapping charge. Or ly anxious but, scouting the idea of 350.000 for Small and $15,000 for foral play, thought he must for some Doughty were offered. reason have gone quietly away, per-

this charge Doughty was commit.ed for trial on evidence from two or three haps for a rest alter the completion By this time the case had achieved witnesses to the effect that Doughty

them such points as Small's indebted of negotiations for the sale of almost wide notoriety, and the police depart had discussed with one or other of his entire theatre holdings which he ment, following the announcement of ness to him, Small's great wealth, the had been working on for some time the rewards, was deluged with suppos possibility of kidpapping him for the Accordingly it was three weeks or clues. More than $100,000 was purpose of extorting money. Appar more before any official report was spent in investigating them, only to ently in no case had these conver

prove that they originated either with sations been regarded as of much im- made to the police department or any steps taken to find him. The delay cranks or with very superficial obser port until after Small's disappearance. has had an important bearing in hamvers. However, in November, 1920, Doughty in his statement to the police, It surrounded a clue, apparently no different from dentes any knowledge of Smail's pering investigation. with difficulty efforts to trace Small's hundreds of others, led to the appre-whereabouts or fate. movements on the day he disappeared hension" of Doughty, in Oregon City, But if Small was kidnapped," where and, if crime was committed, gave the Oregon, 3,000 miles from Toronto is he now? If he is dead, where are criminals time to hide their tracks. He was working as a labourer in a the remains? As far as the public As far as can be pieced together paper mill, with no other attempt at knows, there is not the slightest now, Small's movements on the day disguise, and on arrest returned to physical clue as to the disposition or of his disappearance were as fol- Toronto without appeal to the extra fate of Small's body, dead or alive. lows-He lunched at a restaurantdition laws. Alter five adjournments. It is as if the earth had opened and with his wife and his solicitor. Doughty appeared before a magistrate swallowed him. Small's Office was After lunch he accompanied his for preliminary hearing, and was comin the Grand Opera House, his prin- wife to an infants home, telling mitted for trial on two charges-(1) her in parting he would be home of the theft of $100,000 bonds, and cipal theatre, which is within a block of the business centre of Toronto. He (2) of conspiring to kidnap Small. He There, according to the evidence avail- to dinner at the usual time. then went to his office. There his remains in jail awaiting triat

An immediate result of Doughty's solicitor had a conference with tim in the late afternoon, and fixed the hour return was the recovery of the of his departure by the fact that he $100,000 missing bonds, and also of left about 5:30 to catch a six o'clock $5,000 bonds of which the police had train.

Small was alone when the no record. They were found in an solicitor left. After that all is blank.. attic room of his sister's home, which

Among the thousands of letters that For a time the stories of two news had been his home; concealed in the have been received from all parts of vendors who asserted that they sold wall behind fresh plaster and wall the globe there is on the detectives Small papers on the street on the paper. At the preliminary hearing a fies one series that has a special evening in question were accepted, statement by Doughty to the police interest. These letters came to Mrs. and there have been built up on that was read, and evidence was given by Small and her lawyers during the first assumption many imaginative stories Doughty's sister and brother. From half of 1920 through practising telling how Small must have been kid this testimony the following explana lawyer of New York City, who on one napped on the dark street on the waytion of the missing bonds and of occasion came to Toronto and had from his office to the point where he Doughty's Hight was presented interviews with all the principals. But when the Doughty, in possession of the bonds of The origin of them is a correspon- newsvendors a year later came to tell December, 2. 1919, planned to hand dent who signed his name “B.B. their stories in the witness box it was them personally to Small in the hope Friend." To the New York law- found they couldn't fix the date. There that Small would give him a substanyer he professed to have informa is accordingly no evidence available tial honorarium at the termination of from anyone who saw Small after he his twenty years' service. Not find- ion concerning Sman's whereabouts, left his office on the evening of his ing an opportunity to stage this little disappearance.

scene before las departure for Mon-

would take a "tram.

able, he was last seen, Through his meatrical connections and tis wide. travels, he had acquaintances all over the world, and it is regarded as im- possible that he would pass for long anywhere without recognition.

one occasion hinted at (Continued en Page D

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 80, 192

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AND THE

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I. WITCHESLA, Manager.

Just arrived,

quantities of

Large

White

Glazed Tiles, also "Cast

Iron Porcelain Lined

Baths and the last word

in bidets.

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Established 1900

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