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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, ÅFFRAISERS AND SURVEYORS, -Public Auctions-

Trond well by Pablo à action,

WE Undersigned have received Instru

on

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 23, 1921,

commencing at 11 a.m.

their Bales Rooms, Daddell Street,

INTIMATIONS:

ELECTRIC MOTORS.

ELECTRIC VACUUM

CLEANERS

" NILFISK " COMPLETE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANTS with STORAGE Batteries delivery from Stook.

Chinese Commercial Company, Ltd,

A Selection of High Grade Cash-Danish

mere and Tweed Salt Lengths,

Superior Overcoating, etc.

Terms --Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

Hongkong, November 17, 1931.

KERMATH

Dependable Marine Engines

The Kermath Merine Engine known for ite dependability be cause it han always been buile fundamentally right.

Its sound design has been main- tained and though improvemente have been made every part of every Kermath Engine is inter- changeable.

4 to 40 H,P: 4 cylinder, 4 cycle Engines only.

Price: $230 $1,050, Detroit.

Jardine, Matheson Co. SHANGHAI, CHINA.

Kermath Manufacturing Co. Detroit, Michigan

Cable Address: KERMATH,

1A, Chater Road.

RARE STAMP

of

Cape of Good Hops

Triangle

WOODBLOCK

One penny Vermilion, used,

fiue colour.

Catalogue Price £18 Our pries $100 net.

GRACA & Co.,

Dealers in Postage Statape, Garden Seeds, Toys, &c.

No. 10, Wyndham Street,

P. O, Box 620.

Hongkong

MASSAGE.

Mr. HONDA, Mr■ HONDA and

Mrs. KISAKI.

14 years' experience. No. X, Wyndham Street. (Opposite to the China Mali).

JAPANESE MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER..

THE CHINA MAIL.

"Embassy"

Virginia Cigarettes

Embassy

VIRGINIA CIGARETTES

WD&HOWILLS

BRISTOL

Finest Quality

The kind of quality that not only pleases the smoker but gratifies an ideal of the manufac

turers to produce the finest of Virginia Cigarettes

Embassy

NITT. VIRGINIA CIGARETTES

Sold in Fins of 50 25 Cigarettes

also packets of 10'4

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21. - 1 31.

_____NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansions.

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,

BE DRESSY THIS WINTER.

Order your suits from ms. Iatest American 'and English stylis. Heat - material–modérate prices. FELT HATS from auch manufacturers as STETSON and BATTERSHY stocked by us. OVERCOATS MADE TO ORDER.

BEE US NOW & SEE YOURSELF AFTER. THE CHEN KWONG CO.,

Universal Providers.

LTD.

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ROYAL

SILK STORE.

Just Received New Consignment of Benares Real Gold, and Silver BROCADE for Trimming Dresses, Shoes and Scarfs, We are the Only Dealers for the above Articles & Invite Your Inspection. D. CHELLARAM, 184, Queen's Road Central,

KOON YIOK

DEALER IN

Chilli Sauce, Tomato Sauce, Chilli Powder, Pepper, Sour Fruit, Curry Powder, and any Powder, Bance, Etc.

HEAD OFFICE IN

No. 180, Des Voeux Road, Central, Hongkong.

Master TAM KIT SANG,

PHOTO-SUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Kodaka and Kodak Films, &c. e.

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No, 174, QUIEy's Road CentRAL, HONGKONG.

HOTELS AND CAFES.

FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.

OHAIRS.

1-In Victoria, with two Bearers. Quarter bour...zr.emitériáid......eti 10 cents Half hour, «««XPL 20 One hour, akademupon. ** 50 Three hours,................... 50 Six hours,..................... 70 Day (8 am to 6p.m.) 1.00

If the trip is extended beyond Victoria, half fare extra.

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

-Beyond Victoria, with four Beam CTS. Hour,

0.60 cents.

Three hours................... $1.80 Six hours.............. 1.60 Day (8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

III-In the Hill District,

2.00

With Bearers With 4 Bearers.

Quarter hour......$0.15

80.30

Hall hour, ...

*...0.20

0.40

One bour, ......... 0,30

0.80

Two hours.****** 0.60

0.80

Three hours,

0,70

1.00

Bix hours.......... 1.00

1.50

2.00

Day (6 a.m. to 8 p.m.)1.80

RICKSHAS.

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1-In the Island of Hongkong, if engaged

Five minutes.

Ten minutes,

Quarter hour,

Hbour,

One hour,

An Victoria

CHERRY & 00.,

PEDDER STREET, Opposite Hongkong Hotel

Telephone No. 491.

Hongkong, March 10, 1914.

TANG YUK, DENTIST.

Soccer to

bbe late SIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street.

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than

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MARGOT'S IDEA OF HELL.

PEN PICTURE OF JOURNEY FROM BRINDISI TO NAPLES.

A eccond instalment of Mrs. Asquith's lively new series of intimate reminiscences is published in the

Ladies' Field.

Again she is telling of her "Jittle journey" out of the Near East in 1891, and here is her pen picture of the train journey to Brindisi from Naples (with eight in the carriage),

CHURCH OR JAIL?.

KILLED IN CHURCH.

JUDGE OFFERS CHOICE TO MEN MERCHANT'S FIGHT WITH THE

CONVICTED OF THEFT.

PASTOR.

What would seem to a judge in A fight in front of the altar of St. Washington to be the dreadful alter-Nicholas's, the Greek Orthodox Dative of attending church regularly Church at New York, ended in the on Sundays for a year or serving a death of Mr. Nicholas Varzakakos, a year at hard labour in the penitenti- wealthy merchant and founder of the ary has been offered to five young church, who, it is alleged, was killed men of that city convicted of stealing by a blow dealt him by the pastor with automobile supplies.

The prisoners, needless to say, chose

"I heard a Neapolitan Jew, after gazing at me, way to his friend that I to go to church instead of jail. was charming. He spoke in dialect,. but one wants no interpreter for this kind of language. I had a cold in my head and chest, and my hair felt

heavy.

Thanks to papa preferring to listen to Cook's man, who met us at the station, instead of our courier. Corelli, we were. bundled into a 'bus with eight people in it, and there WO waited an hour till feveryone had reclaimed their luggage.

"As there were two ships and several 'bases, a stormy confusion raged between the passengers. Oaths in every language and a jumble of Italian, French, English, and Ameri-

can voices reached our ears

On board the good ship "Bokhara," in her berth:-

"A row of mustard coloured wooden basins on an upper shelf above my head did not restore my confidence.

We-washed as well as we could, and turned into an endless dining-

It seems to be becoming a practice among American judges and magis trates to condemn young delinquents to church or Sunday-school as & punishment calculated to awe them into amending their ways, for similar sentences have been meted out in New York.

& brass candlestick.

HONGKONG HOTEL (Hongkong)

REPULSE BAY HOTEL (Repulse Bay)

PENINSULA HOTEL

(Kowloon)

(projected)

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

TOWN GARAGE & RUSSELL STREET GARAGE

SHOW ROOMS

(Pedder Street)

The trouble appears to have alison from the remarks made from the pulpit by the pastor, who attacked the administration of Mr. Verzakikos and other trustees of the church. He concluded his remarks by declaring that the church "could not pay its 1,500 debts and would close immediately."

Mr. Varzakakos thereupon went to the front of the church and began to On the other hand it is being point-address the congregation. He got ed out by indignant readers of the only as far as to contradict the pastor's newspapers that the great majority of statement when the latter descended crimes of violence are committed by from the pulpit, rushed at the mer- adolescents and young men, and ad- chant and grappled with him, option of the cat-o'-nine-tails is arged

a deterrent. The little State

t

A scene of the greatest confusion followed as the partisans of the two of Delaware resorts to the whipmen dashed into the fray. Pand- ping post for culprits convicted of emonium reigned round the altar robbery with assault and this form of until Mr. Varzekakor was seen to fall Grime there is very infrequent as a into his wife's arms. When the com- batants were deparated he was found to be dead.

consequence.

Sentiment elsewhere, however, is generally and strongly against flogg ing.

room, where we sat down on each side she had been--the General's wife had,

of the first officer-the sort of man I or had not, called on her; should sho,.

never meet-small, with clear eye and yellow hair, indifferent and civil, with a scanty laugh and businesslike way of enting or refusing.

INFERNO.

"He was neither stupid nor vulgar clever nor refined; just a simple, everyday man."

or should she not, call upon her or some such problem.

I felt as if I had been translated

Unfavourable comparisons are being drawn between the new United States cruisers of the "Omaha" type, the last four of which has just been launched at Philadelphin the "Rich- mond" and our light cruisers of the

into a society novel such as those "C" and "D" type, the balance of sold for light reading on a railway gun power and speed being to the stall-Cut by the County' or 'Ought credit of the US, ships. In fact, the We to Visit Hor?"

new U.S. quartette are the heaviest There is a pretty descriptive touch light cruisers afloat, with the excep about this entry for the next day-ations of the four of the "Hawkin

type. "the "Howkina"". being, the "Mr. Alfred Milner took me for a flagship of the China Station, long drive up the Nile.

the Raleigh" flagship of the The loveliest, affecte I ever saw North America and West Indies were the sailing ships, with their bent Station, and the other two getting poles and saila furled round them like ready for the flag at an early date. the petals of a flower when the sun The Omaha type, however, has goes down, all closed round in a kind the speed of the

And later: As the ship was still and we were tired, we dozed off." Sunday:

"Suddenly we were awakened by the most awful noises: doors banging people talking, every voice on each ide distinctly heard-only thin planks between the cabina-porters, people and baggage overhead, which went on most of the night.

armament, the Yankee

"Huge boxes and cases were dragg of alode virginity, white and beautiful at least 2.5 knots,

along over our heads and the masts shooting up into a red rose bumped down, sometimes one bump akys with purple bars across and, as sometimes three or four for each box, it were, prevent the palm trees

ave been at least from catching fird.

all the time,

alked and drove in turn

talk. He has

of hell!

woman, tol

were placed in the same, dilantas

thout being

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Hawkins and Raleigh Boven 17.5 gün," and are heavier in displacement. intor

ment

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