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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISTEN

· AND SJIVETŐEK.

Public Auctions-

HB Codersigned tyce received instruc-

dons to sell Es Public Auction,

WEDNESDA¥, March 29, 1992,

B at 11 am.

No Godown of the Hongkong & Kowboo Wharf & Godown Co. ht

Kowl

{FOR APCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED)

500 Boxes Tiaplates.

Train :-Chalf on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Anctioneert

FRIDAY, March 31, 1922. --

$ commencing at 5 p.za. their Sales Rocas, Daddell Street, About 1030 Obaclete British Colonial Stamps, including me rare and per- fect copies of Early Great Britain and Hongkong.

(Fall Particulars from Catalogue) On view from Monday the 27th inst. Tarma --Cash on delivery.

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LAMMERT BROS.. Auctioneers.

Hongkong, March 21, 1992

"DEAD" WOMAN.

RECOVERS TO DOCTOR'S

SURPRISE.

A quarter of an hour after the doctor said she was dead and while he was expecting the relatives to call for the death certificate, Mrs. Hart, the 23-years-old wife of a professiozal Kinger, of 6, Herbert-street, Heckmondwyke, Yorkshire, amazed the mourners at her bedside 95 showing signs of life.

Bewildered, the nurse rushed to the doctor's surgery. "Have yon: called for the death certificate?" be

No!" she replied. Esked. have just left the patient drinking champagne!"

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The doctor is comely mystified. He said: "It is a case where the woman had an attach of syncope followed by heart failure three days after her conficemeat. I stared with her a night and could not make out what Was the use of the heart attack. At 6 am. ehe was still alive, but almost on the point of death, and then for cer- tany a quarter of an hour she was to all intents and purposes dead. I can only suppose that the heart minst have. been active to a certain degree ärd that the effect of administering stay line and oxygen tended to avit ber. The patient is cow practically convalescat, and I hope to sce her make a good recovery.”

FAIRY GRANDMOTHER.

“HBR” WHO RAISED £10,000 | AND NOW IS LOST.

A grandmother with a fortune of £1000 bas been causing some anzlěty to a group of London business

She sailed into their view some mos ago, when on the strength of the fortune she was going to leave s newly found grandson they made adɩange to him of sums varying from £200 to £1,200,, and amounting to £10,000 in all.

His story was simple and romantic. A solicitor bad called on h m with the welcome news that he was the grand- son of a woman with a country inn is one of the Home Counties, iguty cottages, and cash in the bank, ali to the value of £40,000.

The grandmother was ailing but firm in her devotion to her newly Wound grandson. Weekly he made reports on the state of her health and tato stories of his visits to her river- de horse. Lately, be broke the gad news that she was dead.

With mingled feelings on regret and relief his business acquaintance con- doled with him. He sheered, them with the news that he would repay their loans with interest. Half a dczel at least took him seriously and alled at his office on the appointed dzy.

Bat the grandson did not appear. "Enquiries were made for ten mies sound the house where the grand- mother was zaid to have lived; but no trace, was found of her dead or alive. Meanwhile the grandson had said “Good-bye" to his wife, intimating to her that he was in financial difficult.

ies, and she has not seen him since.

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A DISSERTATION ON" LIQUID

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Tian, Californian, Cape, Greek, Italian and Cashmere wine. The last named was killed by the high freight and poor quality. The Swiss eparkling wine and the satifying Engeldiner were, for some extraordinary reason, Dot appreciated. The good Carlowitz though intelligently advertised, found

BETS BY CHEQUE,

THINGS A CLAIMANT MUST PROVE.

Because he failed to give the book-

no friends, and the Australian and makers who contested his claim for wire only the return of 582 6s. 36. sa the

Horses backed,

In an article on What India Drinks" & contributor to Harper's Wine and Spirit Gazette writes :—

I European circles in Irdja Californian vintages

ared for

сер purposes. The amount of cheques paid for betting fashions in liquor change much as they do ekewhere. Brandy, for ex- Care wine became a joke, as loser particulars of the

also did the juice of the Greek ample, was custed-temparatily-by

Dates of the bets, and the whisky, the doctors having declared grape. And the Italian wines. could

Amount invested in each case, (hand on heart) that whisky was not (so the connoisseurs declared)!

Mr. David Lewis, of Finsbury better suited the climate. For a compare with the red and white wines time the civil surgeons"

of France. India, in short, remained

market, E.C., lost his action against believed, and brandy bad

very conservative, though at one! friends. Then a reaction set in, and time she favoured the red wine of Messa, Archie and Co., turf commis-" honous were divided, brandy being found to be too rough a tipple. Only Smithfield, EC., before Judge Parts Algiers. But not for long, for it was mon agents of St. John-street, West. considered invaluable in cares of Lest enervation. Eventually brandy it please the Anglo-Indian palate. when plentifully dashed with soda did was relegated to medical nee, and

Mr. Lewis said that the 12 chèques whisky and seda became the drink Epanish claret also was tried, and for

few years it enjoyed a limited produced in court were drawn by him From rose embowezed Peshawar on the

popularity. But "Rioja" eventually" in favour of Messrs. Archie and Co., for went the way of many another bits made on home racing. innovation.

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Afghan border to dusty Tuticorin in the extreme south, and from muggy Bombay to equally steaming Calcutta, the whisky peg had a vogue.-And-Attempts have been made to intro-Archie, contended that unless Mr. to-day Whisky, whisky all the way, dace little-known champagnes. Ex Lewis was in a position to give details Two minute from Lime-juice and soda (dashed with gin) cellent wine, dry without losing its of the various transactions there was has been tried; also santerne and soda characteristics and of the desired no case to answer.

and claret and soda. Cider has had

many a good end-off, and pery, too. The insidious "peg," however, always

ourts them.

bougcek. The stubborn ones, how-

After some legal argument, Judge ever, refused to how to strange gods. Parfitt held that Mr. Lewis had given "Heideck, we know, and Pommery no evidence either in respect of horses we know," said they, paraphrasing backed, the dates of the losses, or the Eton's impudent (and classic) query, amounts invested. As Mr. Lewis had but who are you!" Still, Pol Roger not proved his case there must be has had many friends in India, and judgment for Archie and Co. with

have Feuve Clicquot and Moet. costs.

Fordancee champagne is in demand clant and sauterne, or grapes, being required for cup purposes. At every burra khasah (official dinner) there is a plentiful supply of champagne

simpkin" the native servants call it. At weddings babbly is a necessary as the ring and the parson, while it ciculates at race dinners and Promotion parties. But outer wins are rarely to be met with-that is sent out to the East Indies" during

to say, wires of dignity and charac

roy, too, has made a favourable impression, as also has Perrier-Jouet.

Certainly some, of the champagnes

ter. The noble Romanes, the well the past thirty years have been bodied Pommard, the Chateau Tcarious decoctions. They also were Qu'em of poetic bouquet, the admir furnished with names, testimonials able Montrachet, the agreeable Bartac, and guarantees which failed to impress the pleasant Pouilly; there, alas, are

the oivil and military population. not in demand, and probably tenz

will be an alter dinner glass of port The remit of these overtures is that is all the civilian allows himself, and club secretaries and mess secretaries perhaps an occasional glass of Madeira

as an aperitif. Norare officers mesas simply will not try new brands. “It any longer renowned for their cellam," they declare, "as much as our

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