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MMERT BROS.

UCTIONEERS, AFPRAIR

AND SURVEYORS,

Public Auctiona-

122

Undoraigned have received loetao- fons to soll by Public Auchon.

vn

RIDAY, January 6, 1822,

commencing at 230 p.m. heir Saloe Rooms, Duddeli Street,

Large Quantity of Club Tarniture and Fitting,

Comprising:--

okwood beda with Tailee stond marble backs, couches, deska, tables, round tables, bali round cupboard, chairs, steels, teapots, aieren and lower stands.

nhedsteads, Tenk writing tables, tables, wardrobes, washstands, ele

Also

ectric Ceiling and table fans and gs,

And

| Quantity of Fany Glass Partitions

n view from Thursday the 5th. inst. atalogues will be issued.

BME-Canh on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS..

Auctioneers,

Zongkong. January 3, 1992.

THE SUPREME COURT OF

HONGKONG ORIGINAL

JURISDICTION.

Action No 221 of 1991,

et weet

Waller

H. 1 Murray

d

Plaintif

Food nu! Company

Walter Leon Fail and Fung Yan Sand puntneps theroin.

Defendants

ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG

NDER THE DIRECTIONS OF THE EGISTRAR, SUPREME COURT,

MESK LAMMERT BROTHRS,

to sull by

yo served instantons

lie Auction: on

THURSDAY,

the 12th day of January, 192,

WITHOUT RESERVE

the right title and interest of the ove beurd 1mlard Fang Yan Sam and in the following properties situate the Colony of Hongkong.

No. 4 WYNDHAM STREEP, Victoria,

ing the Botaning Portion of Section

B of Inland Lot No. 970.

No. 342 SHANGHAI STREET, Mongkokteni. cing Section B of Kowloon Tuland Lot

No. 713,"

No 96 PORTLAND STREET, jing all hai,

eing Section Bot Kowlen Inland Lot

No. 711.

The above properties are sold subject all existing mortgages and chatgra Parteniors and actions of Sale an be biased from.

Miks, LU & 1.0, Alexandra Huildings, Hongkong,

Bobenters

or from MESSES LAMMERT BROTHERS,

The AuctionEETS,

Hongkong, December 28, 1921.

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MIERE inouefour “beating argand 1. the hush." We might well out with it firms in list. We want you to try Casunterlaítín Chenuhr Bomerly the next time you hare n cough or cold. There 339 18 renou 10 far 19 we eno-sen why

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INTIMATIONS

WE HAVE

Great Variclics of used and unused

POSTAGE STAMPS

Single, Sets, l'ackets, Bags,

and

On approval Books,

FOR COLLECTORS.

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Hongkong.

JAPANESE MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE TO ORDER.

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PEDDER STREET, Opposite Hongkong Hotel

Talophons No. 491.

Hongkong. March 201914

PALACE MOTOR Co., Ltd,

Phone Central

844

Western Branch 3148

Kowloon Branch E397

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Repairing Cara a Speciality.

MASSAGE.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

"CAPSTAN"

NAVY CUT CIGARETTES are the Acme of Perfection

They are made from the finest quality Virginia Tobacco, and sold in two strengths,

Mild and Medium.

Navy Cut Cigarettes DEHO WILLS

are

THE CIGARETTE FOR THE CONNOISSEUR

SOLD BY ALL LEADING

TOBACCONISTS

This Advertisement is issued by Priti-b-American Folmero Co. (China), Ltd.

DEATH COMPACT.

CHAMPAGNE AND CYANIDE

FOR FOUR.

FAMILY REBELS.

NOVELIST'S ADVICE.

"The contention of age and youth is sternal and salutary for the race," said Professor Sir A. T. Quiller Couch lecturing on English literature at Cam-

The tragedy of the death by poison- ing of four people in the locked house in Leigham Court road, Streatham, S. W, forms one of the most poignan domestic dramas it is possible to con-bridge University.

ceive.

The victims were.

Mr. Ernest Coates, an electrical

engineer; Mrs. Marie Coates, bis wife (who

was married three times);

He sympathised with both parties, but it was his view that no young man or woman could live beyond a certain time under the parental roof without grave risk either of pauperis Mrs. Daisy Townsheed, her maring the intellect by filial docility or of ried daughter by her second rebellion in which good manners marriage, and

would be forfeited. Heury Marin, her son by her

firet marriage.

They lived in a large house which had

The break should be decisive, yet affectionate and regretful, with either side tender for the feelings of the other.

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been converted into two maisonettes and was known as The Knowle. The family lived on terms of the greatest affection. The daughter was married |

was poisoned and to an Australian officer, and she loved His with her mother because her husband then handed him to drink. He did is at present in Australia. The son was broken in health by the war, and he was tenderly cared for by the other members of the family.

DECLINE IN FORTUNES.

almost immediately and was carried to his bedroom just as he was fully dressed, and laid reverently on a bed. His bead was tied round the lower jaw with a table napkin and a white cloth was placed over his face.

The drama of their lives opened Then the husband and the wife and with a decline in Mr. Contes's fortunes, the daughter prepared to die by their followed by a long illness of the own hands. They undressed and the daughter, and it came to a head when two women put on their prettiest Mr. Coates was charged at Bow street night drosses. Police Court with misappropriating When found the daughter was lying £200 beloging to a public company. as though asleep on a bed in the front He was remanded on bail, and was to room with her hande crossed on her have appeared before the magistrate breast and the husband and his wife shortly.

were facing each other on their own It is possible he was innocent of the bed in the same room, charge: but be that as it may, he and

LETTER TO CORONER.

VICAR AS TRAMP.

WEDNESLY, JANUARY, 4,

NOTICES.

1922.

G. FALCNER & CO., LTD.

Taking up a challenge that be could go on tramp and reture with more money than he took with bim, and at the same thing get a better coat than the torn and shabby one he wore when

M.C., Vicar of Margate, has tramped he started, the Rev. David Railton,

across country seeking work and beg- ging his bread from door to door.

The vicar, who, as a chaplain in

won the first part of the challenge, the Army, has seen active service, but he was unable to renew his coas

"I found it practically impossible to get work." he told a Daily Mail reporter. "I only had one job in 30 hours, and that was helping to clean ruta garage.

Sleeping in 'doss- houses' I found the men on the whole well behaved and eager to assist each other, but work of any permanent or profitable nature it was impossible to find.

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Equally impossible was it for me to beg a butter coat. I called at a vicarage and chose the middle of the vicar's meal time, because I am always being disturbed in the middle of a meal, and I wanted to know how another bloke took it. I did not get the coat, for the other vicer, though. very sympathetic, said as he lived on the bigh road he had given many conta away, and he had none so good as the one I was wearing."

Mr. Railton started out with 18. He found most sympathy from servant girls at the houses when he called, and the least sympathy from those in comfortable work. Whenever he was given money he promised to repay the amount when he got into better circumstances, "but nobody believed me." In each instance be has returned the money and received acknowledgments. At ons house he was given a 3d piece by a woman. Flo refused at first to take it, but the giver in a kindly way remarked. Take it, hoy, and spit on it for When be cleaned out the

his wife and daughter entered into It is clear that the daughter first a solemn compact to die rather than

All this is took her poison draught,, and that face possible disgrace. evident from what their relatives saw when she dier the man and wornan on entering the house after the trag. placed her on the bed and crossed her Then came the mother's hands. dy was known.

turn. She lay on the bed, took Mr. and Mrs. Centen and their the poisoned champagne, and rank. daughter resolved first of all that the

The husband arranged berluck.”

son abould die and then that they in death and turned her head sideway garage the woman of the house gave should die too. Having first of all so that he could take a last look at him 24. 6s. and a tract. sent the maid away for a holiday they the face he loved as ho held to cham- prepared their last meal and their lust

[driak-poinazed champagne.

PRETTY NIGUTDRESSES.

A table was laid out in the hall of

pago to his lips

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They were four face to face in death an iļ in poncriul sleep.

In the whole of a big industrial contr: that I visited," added tho vicar, "tire was no o'ganisation, so far as I could find, that coulls t'ar Įor Service man on the right rond.”

CROUP.

On the upper table in the hail, war the maisonette, and here ant the four found a letter writew to the curener. vielims of the tragedy. They had The paper on which these last words ebicken for dinner, and then were ware written was as large as tlu 10p produced {wo bottlen--one of of the table; and was profmbly, of champagne and the ether of poison, and mud by Mr. Contes in his probably cyanids of potassium. The buritan an on engine. He Champagne was poured into our also written two allier letterna to durses and into each,glues was pour-relatives, mud had further left in the chemists shops are anally el anme of the poison,

koue wiltten instructions iegarding It is believed that the young the fatorn care of his Inwin and hin knew Airoale terrier, of which I m vexy MAI. Harry Marin,

the death compact. fold. nothing of

VERY your child is susceptible to Tier up. Don't wait until this dread. fired tanks your little on befo o do pare for it. It mes in the

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do ed and this alone shold he wording, Tobra? keep hanifolla

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