1921-12-23 — Page 2

AMMERT BROS.

UOTIONEERS, AFPRAISERS

AND SUBYETOKA.

Public Auctions-

14 Undersigned bare rareived intrac

tions will by Pabhe Aucsion,

on

WEDNESD Y, Dec. 28, 1991-

fremmepeing at 11 am. No 6. Ds Veenx Road Central,

(First Floor).

Quantity of Oten Furniture

and Fittinga,

Chubb's Sofe,

A180

Height

45"

Width

3' 4"

Depth

3"

Remington Typewriter. 18"

Remington Typewriter,

Bowe Scale,

5 Electric Pans,

1 Radiator,

And

Lot Electric Fittings.

Da view on day of sale. Cataloguen will be issued.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers.

INTIMATIONS

YOU

are invited to inspect our

CHRISTMAS BAZAAR

Fine assortment of

EUROPEAN TOYS

at Mudorato Prices.

GRACA & 00.,

Dealers in Toys, Postage Stampa, Religious Goods, Soede,

&c.

No. 10, Wyndham Street,

Hongkong, P. O. Box 620

JAPANESE MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO.,

PEDDER STREET,

Opposite Hongkong Hotel

Telephone No. 491.

Hongkong, Misrch 20, 1924.

THE CHINA MAIL.

"Recess

A Large Size. Virginia Cigarette

Exceptional Quality

Bland

Westminster

Tobacco

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1921.

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,"

GIVE YOUR WIFE, SWEETHEART or MOTHER. A BIRD OF PARADISE

for a XMAS PRESENT.

COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF.

We also sell GURAH FEATHERS.

GRAECO-EGYPTIAN TOBACCO STORE,

Top Corner Pedder Street & Queen'e Road.

KAM HING KNITTING COMPANY.

Manufacturers of -

Socks, Singlets, Jerseys, Sweaters, etc.

24, Haiphong Road, Kowloon.

Telephone. K 277. Manager, WONG KAM FUX,

KOON YICK

DEALER IN

Chilli Sauce. Tomato Sauce, Chilli Powder, Pepper, Bour Frait, Curry Powder, and any Powder, Sauce, Eto. HEAD OFFICE IN

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

Master TAM KIT SÅNG.

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

TONG HING & CO., Kodaks and Kodak Films, to. as.

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 17A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG.

HOTELS AND CAFES.

He's Happy!

5 yon fate que turply from mi ha hardy a changing dealulrep lama ser nog and THE PALLET BURYS' cam med, 12005 studime pak pred propor

baby's brain and body developlazhit.

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*.37

Trade

FARES FOR PUBLIC

VEHICLES.

CHALAN.

Biath

In Pictory, with two Bearers.

Quarter bour........

Half hour.

Que hour.

3x houra,

three hours.

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20

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If the trip is extended beyond Victoria,

alf fare extra.

Between the lure of 8.30 pun, and m. the above fares shall be increased by 9 per centym

trast,

Beyond Victoria, with four Beavers.

Thre, hours, -****

9. burs.

0,40 cents.

$1.00 1.50

Day town to 6 pa), 200

11 In the Will District

*

With Bearers With

Bearers.

Quarter hour......80.15

$0.30

Haif bouts

0.20

0.40

One hout

0.30

0.60

Two hong... 0.50

0.80

Three home....... 9.70

1.00

1x hours.

1.00

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Au Victoria.

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within the City of Victoria, and be dis

charged outsile the Western part of the

ity of Victoria after 9 m., or be dis

curged to the East of Pay View Police te on the Entorn side of the City of Victoris after 9 p.m., an extra half Lare shall be chargeable.

-In Kowloon

Janetor hour.

Faalf hour, ...******

rary cabsequent hour,

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Beyond

4th

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70 cents....t hour.

1 to 6th mile-

to

hours.

$1.50 boars

Futur...... $1.0)

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with threw noolios from Arkas BIM

MUMEYA & SANO

| NORMAJ, ARTIFICIAL LIGHT STUDIO. Studiu reopened at 38-10, Queen's Rd. C. (opposity Hongkong Theatre plote takes Day and Night using 5,000, p. light. Film Printing and Developing undertan. Special attention to Hotor portraite.

Telephone 254.

MASSAGE.

Mrs. HONDA and Mrs. KISAKL

14 years' experience. No. 24, Wyndham Street. (opposite to the "China Mail")

TANG YUK, DENTIST. Buccemar to

the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street. TERE VERY MODERATA,

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THE SPOOKS,

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volition."

were others, but beneath them all she recognised the shirt front of the medium, and ultimately she grew so angry that she demanded to know how much longer the mummery was to continue, whereupon the lights werd turned up. She threw on the table the "spirit finger," which turned out to be a longstemmed carnation, and left the seance room; and I am afraid Sir Alfred Turner had a mauvais quart d'heure for having quite honestly been party to in attempt to impose upon

her.

HONGKONG HOTEL (Hongkong)

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

·

(Repulse Bay)

PENINSULA HOTEL

(Kowloon)

(projected)

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

TOWN GARAGE & RUSSELL STREET GARAGE

SHOW ROOMS

(Pedder Street)

REPULSE BAY GARAGE,

THE PEAK HOTEL.

1,500 Feet above Sea Level,

15 Minutes from Landing Stage, Under the Management of---

Mrs. BLAIR.

Star Ferry).

PALACE HOTEL ROWLOON

Recently renovated and refugilahed, electric light and fans throughont and entirely under new management. Calsins under the personal expervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billard Rooms Terms moderate. Sponfal tarms ́ to families on application to

Telephone K. 3. Telegraphic Add.: “PALAOH.”

breathed itself out of the dark- the face of a bald old man. There ness and melted away." When a face appeared and fingers plucked at his coat, indicating that the appear Truth saya-I bave, according to ance was for him, he was "speechless Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's desire, read with fright." The fingers touched bis hair caressingly, and he lost all sense the article in this week's Sunday of what was happening, and he found Express, in which Mr. James Douglas himself talking without knowing what recounts his further adventures he was saying. There followed some amongst the mediums. The result is manifestations of the "direct voice" that, so far from realising that my but Mr. Douglas was by this time in such a state of "abject terror" that he views upon spiritualism are wrong and reactionary," I find in that article was "incapable of any kind of ample confirmation for my belief that

Such in barest outline are the Sir Alfred Turner's faith in spirit- spiritualism is founded upon fraud occurrences which took place-occur ualiam, however, was not in the least and built up out of mere muttonrences which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle shaken by this exposure. And had beaded credulity. The Editor of the imagines will help me to modify my Mr Donglas turned on an electric Sunday Express is an impressionist views of spiritualism. The only thing torch-an essential part of the equip with no mean descriptive gifts, and which the account demonstrates quite ment of the explorer of these dark effectually in the baneful effect likely regions-and had he discovered that he takes the fullest possible advantage to be produced upon an emotional Miss X. or Mr. A. were manife ting in of the opportunities afforded him in person by the dark seance. Mr. place of the spirits, I doubt whether giving his impressions of a dark Douglas clearly had never been to a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's faith would acance before, or he would have have been shaken. The medium is

the that

whole always ready with bis explanation. Two minutes from recognised There were present nine sitters, familiar bag of med.umistic tricks and the dupes are always ready exclusive of the medium, Miss X.- had been emptied out for his with their belief. Mr. Douglas, whom I have no difficulty in identify. benefit. There is not a single new like a wise man, with many more How they may articles to write upon the subject, re- ing as a Miss Bessinet-and a Mr.item amongst them. Hewat Mackenzie, the head of the be produced Mr. Maskelyne made serves his opinion on the proceedings. known to an elder generation. Had He has done the same with regard to British College of Psychic Science, Mr. Douglas carried an electric torch spirit photography. There has been who stage-managed the proceedings in his pocket, at any crucial moment no lack of photograph rs who have The eleven persons sat down in a he could have at once discovered how accepted his invitation to produce a room with locked doors in total dark-the manifestations were being pro-similar photograph to that published duced, and his terror would have been in the Sunday Express under the same ness. They placed their hands on a

swallowed up in indignation at the conditi ns. I am not surprised, for table and a gramophone was started gross imposition which was being there is no great difficulty about pro- The gramophone was kept going practised upon him.

ducing these fakes. But if Mr. without cessation on the plea

a complete and the to that "vibrations"

A seance was arranged at the home

thorough eye-opener as for the production of phenomena, of the late Sir Alfred Turner some possibilities in this direction, I would It is equally obvious that the years ago for the benefit of a lady ask him to accept the offer which bas music also serves to veil the noise whom I know well enough to have the been made by Mr. Harriott, who can inada by any movement of the mod-fullest confidence in her observations. easily beat Hope and Mrs. Buxton at ium or any contederate of hers: On. It was identical in almost every detail their own game, the table was a tambourine with a with the scanco which so moved Mr. patch of luminous paint upon it. James Douglas. The lady, however, When a dame time-1ecord was was not impressed, nor was she ferror. placed on the gramophone the stricken. When a cold epirit finger" GAVE HER BABY RELIEF

AT ONCE tambourine rose into the air and touched her the grabbed it and kept time with the music. Before put it into her lap.. When What Another Mother Says About

Birit faces materialised this "spirit lights" bad made their the

Baby's Own Tablots. them oritically, Mothers everywheroer finding Baby'a appearance. Next, caveral spirits she examined sang songs to the gramophone accom- One of them was suppo cil to be the Own Tablets, the Canadian children's remedy, immensly valuable for thele. paniment, the sitters joining in the spirit of Mr. Gladstone. It w

American mother shys chorus. A six-year-old spirit talked nocepted ne genuine by qan of the little ones Here is what on

My baby was much troubled with in a thin, squeaky voice and sitters, a relative by marriage of the

colio" writes Mra B. Williams, of changed the record. The "spirits" G.O.M.. But the independent witness wind

Perth Amboy,

S. Y

and nothing book

corda from the way or ly struck by its liveness to the of Bomo

do any god until I tried table and bound Miss X., face of the medium. Later facra pay's Own Tablets. Thos gavureliot nt. the medium, to her chair. There were peated which the spirit control declar onco and I would not be without them. in recom. have taken grost plegico table rappings, cold winds blew, and ed wore for the lady herself. Some mending the Tablets to my friends.

opistes Baby's wa Tables contain no the spirits whistled tupea Spirit short time previously alis had been m

aro and hands touched the sitters, who re- discussing with Bir Alfred Turner the or, oxit tics,

guaranteed an hardees weedy for intanille plied, "Thank you, dear for the death of her father, to whom she had gestion, simple fover, colie. cuns (pat- lavour, After nearly two hours of been very warmly attached. Sholiad on and diarrhoea. They expal worms, the Taing of leathing: płómółe

Dougies wants are i cesary

J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor.

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KING EDWARD HOTEL FRENCH LESSONS this sort of thing the generki entortain- not mentioned, however, that her living sloop and regular devre KUTHIC TRAMS Vam Katraj, Bles

OE chemists, ala post entr

mout endod, and spirit facts mada father had died nearly twenty years their appearance. Mr. Trangia cone previously while comparatively a mont fedes that bis nerves were badly young man. A variety of facos conts the vial frou te Dr. Willsins! Bor shaken hud that he sat frozen appealed to her. One was a Medicine Co., 90, Bushuon Hood Bling. with fright as face after from old nan with a beard, another had.

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