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LAMMERT BROS.

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AND SURVEYORS,

-Public Auctions-

@@THM Undersigned have received fratrum

kona to. edil by Pabile Aactium.

AMA

SATURDAY, April 1, 1922, commercing at 11 a..

at Yuen Seng Fat Godown, Kennedy Town

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"WOK ACCOUNT Dr fax conces),

535 Bags White Bite

481 Rags White Bird

fall more or less damaged by sea-water).

Terme >--Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

INTIMATIONS

JUST RECEIVED

SUTTON'S FINE GRASS SEEDS

FOR

GARDEN LAWNS, &c.

GRACA & 00.

Dealers in Garden Seeds, Postage Stamps, Poet Cards, Toys, &c. No. 10, Wyndham St.ėsi, P. O. Box 620.

Hongkong

MONDAY, April 3. 1921,

commencing a 2.45 p.

st "Glen Iris No. 174, The Peak (Magazine Gap)

A Quantity of

#stumble Household Fornitura (Bedroom and Dining Roora farniture

by Wa. Powell, Lid)

On view from Sunday the 2nd April Catalogues on application, TERM-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers

JAPANESH MAKERS,

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

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THE

CHINA MAIL.

The Three Castles

Họ

Guaranteed manufactured

Virginia Cigarettes

Smoked round the World

Free Castles

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WEDNESDAY, April 5, 1922, "commencing at 233 p.m.

at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, A Very Fine Collection of Japanese Carved Ivories

A Few Spesimene of High-Grade! Cloisonne

Also

Canton Blackwood Curios Cabinets wad Stands

On aiew from Tuesday the 4th April 1922.

Terma:-Cash on delivery," Catalogues will be issued

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF

HONGKONG

PROCATE JURISDICTION

ACTION No. 2 cf 1020.

Between Lo T-z Tsau, Lau

Tang Shi, Lau She

OHERRY & 00..

& D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Co.

Telephone No. 491

Hongkong, March 90, 1914.

MASSAGE.

Mrs. S. UZUNOYE,

c/o STATSUBARl Hotel

10, Queen's Road Central. 2nd floor

Tel 405.

Hongkong.

MASSAGE.

Mrs. HONDA and Mrs. KISAKI.

14 years' experience.

So. 24 Wyndham Street. (opposite to the "China Mail");

SWAY HOUSE

in England...

Made in—Regular; Magnum and Super Magnum Sizes......

Registered Trade Mark

This advertisement is issued by the British-American Tobacco Co. (China),

30d

Lan Shin Chaen

By order of the Supreme Court

of Hongkong and

Shi, Lan Yiu Shi

and Las Li Shi

Plaintifs

Defendant

"HAT MAKER. No. 16, Wyndham Street.

Under the direction of the Registrar, Supreme Court.

FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1922

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel MansionN.

| 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,

Latest Novelty in Pen Nibs.

Most superior quality Nibs of INCORRODIBLE metal.

For swift and elegant handwriting it is unrivalled

NEVER SCRATCH. ́ ́ NEVER SPURT..

Sole Agents for East.

DANIELS & CO., 17, Wyndham (Flower) Street.

KAM HING KNITTING COMPANY.

Maniactarers d

Socks, Singlets, Jerseys, Sweaters, etc.

24, Haiphong Road, Kowloon.

Telephone K

Manager, WONG KAM FUK.

KOON YICK

DEATER IN

Chilli Sauca. Tomato Sauce, Chilli Powder, Pepper, Sour Frais,

Carry Powder, and any Powder, Sauce, Etc.. HEAD OFFICE IN

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

Master TAM KIT SANG.

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

LONG HING CO., Redaks and Kodak Films, &c. &

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALTY.

No. 17, Qus's BOAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG.

HOTELS AND CAFES.

Messrs. Later BROTHERS. have) received instrctOES TO sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

WEDNESDAY, the 12th day of April, 1922,

at 3 o'clock p.. WITBOLT RESERVE.

All the right title and interest of thei abovezamed defendant Lan Sbia Chuen

as Lau Wai Con or (Chan) of and in the following properties situate in the Colony of Hongkong,

Nos. 402 and 104 Des Voeux Road

West and

Not. 397A and 97B Queen's Road

West, Victoria,

being Joland Lot No. 1743

No 27 Bonham Strand, Victoria. being Sub-section of Section B of Marine Lot No "4.

The above fre; named property 14 sold subject to all existing mortgages | and charges.

Particulars and conditions of sale raz

be obtained from

Messrs. DENNY & BOWLEY,

No 6, Des Voeur Road Central,

Ho: ckoog,

Selicitors &

or from

Mesra. LAMMERT BROTHERS,

The Auctioneere.

Fengkong, 28th March, 1922,

THE

THE Undersigned bave received instructions from the Fender to el by Public auction,

ON

TUESDAY, April 25. 1922.

at 3 pm.

their Bales Rooms, Dudde troet, The Valuable tea anoid Property

situated at Mong-Kok-T-ui, Kowloni

and known s Kowloob Inland Lot 1261 with Building there»D

In One Lot

The Property consists of

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All that piece or parcel of ground itude at Mong-Kok-Tsui, Kowloon and registered in the Land Office as Fowloon Inland Lot No. 1261 together with the meiosges or tenements and other erections and buildings thereon. known on Nos 15, 16. 17 and 18 Argylé Street, Kowloon. The said property is Bounded on the North side thereof File Street, and measuring thereon. 1463 or these boats, on the South ide on Argh Street and measuring 1463 or thereabouts, on the East side Coronation Boud and measuring 2750 or thereabouts ed on the West ide on Forlind Street and measuring 750 or ibereabouts. Ares 10,280 son-re feet. Auns Crown Rest $198. Ser for farther varten am apply to

B. LEO DALLADA E CASTRO

Net Vendur's suicitera

WESTPA. LAMMEET BROS.

The petioncert.

TANG YUK, DENTIST.

the late SIEN WING, 14, D'Aguilar Street.

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LAND OF THE LONELY MAN

The other day I hear of a man who Ead not been home for 10 years; his income was £1,000 a year, and £1,200 of it went on the education of his

HOW BRITONS FARE IN THE children.

FAR EAST.

Viscount Northclife, writing to The Times from Singapore on Dec.

1921 say

4

Suppose he is childless still his wife mast, as a rule, leave the tropical climate and go home for the necessary change at least once in every few

Year?.

of surroundings-the monotonous- rubber plantations. Theirs, as I have previously explained, is a particularly hard life, because, apart from the in- evitable joreliness of work carried on far from other men's habitations and apart from the heavy gloom of the plantation itself, there are many hours of the day which must be spent with- oct either work or companionship- hours in which a solitary man may fail to brooding.

THE WOMAN IN THE FÄR EAST.

In smaller matter, too, the map----

We may at but set aside the From this Far Eastern land my thought of the spending struggle to mind's eye travels Home, and sees there all the good people who sit in make both ends meet in lands where fireside comfort. with the a las of the there is a natural tendency towards world on their knees, and pat them extravagance; to the men in the Far selves on the back for their own share in the parts coloured red," those many parts of the enormous British Empre which lie separated by huge distine:s all about the great globe. Suppose the boys sent home at the stand. And I fail to wondering how many of age of seven: They will not have left spend a few days in a planter's these Imperialist und-istand the life school before they are 17 or 18. And bungalow. They are fascinated (and rightly) at the spacious, lofty rooms of th man who is chiefly responsible that is an age at which it is most un for those red patches on the map, or advisable to bring lads. Fast again. at the size of the house, at the bestti- bnow how much they are in his debt. They must be at home for some yearful garden and the troops of xp- This pen is the Englishman, the yet. Say they are lucky, and when parently perfect servants. Cooled by Sect the Irishman the Whman, in they are old enough outer jobs on prokah, they eat piquant and appointments in their father's district; delicious luncheons and dinners, while the Far Fast. If we are to recken up between the time they go home and they gaze out over exquisite scenery. what we owe bin, ne ust call not the time they come out again it may They do not see what lies behind it on the present only, but on may be 14 years.

all. They do not see what brings those untimely lines upon the white. dead and gon- generations for their

face of the brave lady of the house, who must age years before her time be cause of the all but unendurable bur- den that her life sometimes becomes.

East that is a small matter compared and especially, the woman-in the with the heart-breaking separation Far East suffers in a way which we suugir arranged houses cannot under- from wife and from children for many, in our comfortable, weatherproof, Globetrotters come out and any rears.

testimony.

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Fourteen year--and those the most His work of en lis at the spot on difficult, the crucial years in their the globe farthest from his native lives, the years which almost always Brita b, fortest rom all that be determine success or fa lure for their bolds dear. furthest from all which whole future. Can you not imagine for most of us makes life worth while. the mental torture which is the daily In the majority of cases, perhaps, life of the man in the Far East, whose the man in the Far East lives a life children have gone home; whose wife utterly un ike that di any other white must leave him for twelve year wap in the world. For years and who must remain, year in, year out, years at a stretch, in many cases betaling to scrape together the money

For bruly arrived bachelor life may be tay, but interesting. He

has

zest tri

besuti to t

They know nothing of the ceaseless sapervision of the servants, but for which the whole domatic scheme would collapse; nothing of the ex hausting strain of keeping some kinds of natives, up to their work, the drudgery of struggling day in and

is cat ff on the home which keeps which keeps him from all that he most day out against their inborn laziness, tugging at be beart trings. Some loves, always wondering, always their fecklessness, their genral time such a man married and with afraid, Ist the whole agonising sympathy with dirt. Above all, they children may not see the land sacrifice may have been in vain, and know nothing of the loneliness of the of biz birth. for 15 or 20 years after his children return to his strangers woman's lift in a remote station, he has cut to the East.

in character and entlook?

where the nearest white woman may We talk lightly of links of Embe half-a-daya zide or drive away. pire," but it is no light thing for us The wife of the man in the Far taking up new work in at home to understand just how lone Esst must be a pearl among women. Lih are often even more ly truse men are: Their wives are to support, year after year, the steady Lan be ha imagined them sway or long periods, their children inroads upon her health and her wate of his own desire few an lebg that they return East to looks made by the climate, the con. chose him a creer of exile. In find, not the playmate of that ditions, the narrowness of social life.. manos niet he may find excellent nursing days, but a prematurely grey-She must be content with simple spordith nah games may be haired and middle-aged stranger. In amusements, and with what at Home

gbaps impossible their loneliness these men turn for would be deadly monotony. ex brief today ther iz solace to what is, perhaps, the lone She must be happy to play lawn muto gder the Eastern life liest life of all the life of the club. tennis, or ondge, or (but only in planyoung man with active They make their little club the favoured stations) golf with the same tastety włum companionship is not centre and pivot of their lives, pend-people month after month. She must findecsabir.

ing a much time as possible there never grow weary of seeing the same for the sake of the mere human com- ister day after day, and the faces of so good, for the bachelor, panionship. Gradually they drop none but her servanta for we ki at a But when the wild sad the little ones back into bachelor life, with its sup time. Not the least among her trials posed freedom; but it is bachelor life if the be a normal woman, will be the

hard

8.

THE FAMILY MAN;-

1 ster of a family must so with all the zest gone out of it. Be diffulty, and the expense of dress

finance that his children Phind it hes ways the empty. Unless she is a slatt. zz

can see home when they ave mevɛn bangalow, peo

Chat esential if they thon

phaltby in body and

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makna by drain on his nÕLINGOs. Į Tínív

hard to come.

HONGKONG HOTEL,

PEAK HOTEL,

REPULSE BAY HOTEL.

HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

Tel. No. 612. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add: "Carlton.", The Only American Hotel in the Colony. Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Backs, sad Central Districts. 43 Bedrooms. Excellent Cuisine. Scrupulously clean. Under American Management. For terms apply to

MRS. F. E. CAMERON, Proprietress.

(Two minutes from

Star

Perry PALACE HOTEL

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KOWLOOK

Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and lase throngkons and entirely under new management. Caine under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Booms Terma moderata. Specizi berme to famfiles on application to

Telephone K. 3. Talagmphis Add: "PALACK"

HOTEL

·J, H. OIKKERY, Proprietor.

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"ASIA”

WEST BUND, CANTON.

Leading Hotel in Bonth

China

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans and Elevators, Boof Garden, Hairdressing Saloon.

Splendid Views of City

Excellent Chisine.

2087

and Pearl River.

Moderate Rates.

Under the Management of the SUN CO., LTD. CANTON,

THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE. 24 Dear Voeux Road, Central BREAKFAST from 30 am. TIFFINS and DINNERS (Menn and a la Carte) at all hous TRY QUE FICS & PASTRIES.

Bakers and Confectioners.

Cakes made by arrangement.

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