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LAMMERT BROS.

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AND SURVEYORS

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rgi 33 Undirstene? hare rscetrid inseras-

Haned by Public Anction,

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PRID Y,pril 23, 1932 commencing at II a.m. at the

Fon Shan Godown, Kennedy Town

80 Bags White Rice

169 packages Hemp

3 packages Leather

And

Afterwards at th· China Pro- vident Godown, West Peint

1000 Bags Flour

896 Bags White Rice.

`s more or less damaged by sea-water

ex sa "Asia

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

INTIMATIONS

Just received

STANLEY GIRDON'S IDEAL

Postage Stamp Albums of latest edition

In one volume at $18.

In two volumes at $20.

In for volumes at $30 & $40.

GRACA & 00,

Dealers in Philatelie Goods, Garden Seeds, Pictorial Pest Cards, Tara, de

No. 10, Wyndham Skeet,

Hongkong 1.0. Box $50

JAPANESE, HARDRS.

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

"Embassy"

Virginia Cigarettes

Finest Quality

The kind of quality that not only pleases the smoker bot gratifië an ideal of the manufac

turers to produce the finest of Virginia

Cigarettes

Sold in ting of 505 25 Cigarettes

also

· packets of 10°5

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1922

NOTICES..

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

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Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPE:, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS. BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,

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KAM HING KNITTING COMPANY.

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24, Usiphong Road, Kowloon.

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No. 17A, QUIN'A BOLD CENTRAL, HOSGKONG.

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FRIDAY, April 28, 1922.

commencing at 5 D..

their Sties Roma, Duédell Street, A Collection of Rare and Valuable Portage Stamp3

3000 Gécaire Poetage Stamps in perfect condition, including British Fortagues: Celtics, Wa

anu Armistice

Ốp view from Tuesday the 25th inst Catalogues will be issued.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

SATURDAY, 3pril 23, 1983. commencing at 11am

at No. 5 Humphreys Buildings, Korloos

A Quantity of Household Furniture,

(Fall Particolars from Catalogue). And

One Cottage Piano by "Moutrie" in far condition.

On view from Friday the 28th inat Terms :-Cash on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS., Auctionsera. Hongkonz. April 24, 1922.

Messrs. Lammert Bros. we instructed 10 sell

The 8. "KIM MA” Now lying of Shamsulpo ander an Order of the Court

by

PUBLIC AUCTION

ca

TUESSAY

the 2nd day of May, at o'clock p.

In Ope Lot

At their Action Mocas

in Duddell Street,

The ship is a rocden ship of approximately 1500 tons opacity with semodation for alur 800 Chinese passengers,

Length 252 ft. or thereabouts

Beam 25 ft. or thereabata,

For particulars to view apply to Mesere. Lammert Bros. The Auctioneers.

For further particolars apply to

MESSES. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Prince's Buildings,

or 10.

MESSRS. LAMMERT BROS.

the Auctioneers

Duddell Strect.

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MADAME DE STAEL.

WOMAN-WHO HATED NAPOLEON.

Sweden fed givin a definite promize among the male friends of Germaine,

to retain ile Bren asedish Ambasader in Taris. De Steal

Narbone apparently being recognised as the reigning consort."

HOTELS AND CAFES.

Mme. de Start met Napoleon as the HONGKONG HOTEL.

is described os en amiable man, about serezteen years older than conqueror of Austris on his return to bis bride, who, with all Lr Paris. At their first encounter An extracidicary cost'e catra-'umettraired passion: never wasted Germaine, expecting a compliment, cristy he is described by Licut. say of it ca ler Eustard." Cel. Ardhew C. P. Haggard in. In Sechty Mme. de Stad Faded?" Bonaparte rezilid, with a

"Madame de Stad: Bex Trials CLC tremendous tale.." Men and women;

asked him. "Whom do you think the i most celebrated women, alive or

Triangle which he just be we seen at b. feet or l'acting mocking smile: "The woman who publiled (Botcbirser, 108) speibuze to Ler Bewing end in das brought the most children into gle face her wealth, fascination, prompir cligrezie", Shervin made the world." Upon another occasion lete scurries, and lusty gite cl-herding were-dil at Germaine asked Lim pointedly:"Are crested a stir leversle spend she was "tigatihti o fend of women ?" "I love y

to the ad ca krg, acryle. Se her fans as Tarn Cre of was consumed within uree land the spilloud läks raid: "Wire ei Ferche, lo rejected Ler ad- 1 Qurch-1 et créer me. de vaces spied or ler, send her letters, Stad to talk to meter ever." -- politie de utication of Gomake of this time to have liament Ecke, sidecond by cutti Frezte. Ert ile celebrated Genaire tad ro All success in ally.ng the hated take of the Crist spsiret Napoleon's 13:arrera "zystem.”-

After lis escape from Elts, when Le saw the Als closing lim, Even Nayceen ackzolidged her FORT: IEnd that i we wg. be asid to his brother Lucin. Madame de Stɛel kas made me more cnemies abrced during the time of ler éile than she could ever have done in France.

wife," was the disconcerting reply, If Germaine really hoped to win apoleon and share his throne she played her cards badly. Her lover Constant attached Napoleon in Par- Eelected her lovers from the festiu novel "Delphine" "stirred up in Germaine herself in her ticral Panty, and their es wie France all the latent opposition to excargoes in the Sprater mes Napoleon." sacres 12. le and they fed reared his brother that Germaine Joseph Bonaparte the certy. The three mit stem was anxious to become his friend: I loved the mat in my setb"If only you would show a little Gamaize wicle, were Telleyirid, the goodwill towards her, she would Cratere Naire, and bistka če; Montmeny-the last remeda mest.

adore you." faith friend krg after end to

LONDON TRIUMPHS. be Gumaine's lover and terme a Napoleon's reply is said to have Christian dicply religious." been: "Oh, that's too much. I don't fancy those sorts of adorations; she's

MEETING WITH NAPOLEON.

The party veicolly gathered at too egly." Alluding to Germaine's Germaine was the only child of Necker, the Fin zee Minister of Louis Jurijer Hall Lar. Melem, in open relations with Benjamin Con- XVL Ber mother had been much Suey, alere Miss Fonts Eures, ite stant, Napoleta complained that admired by Edward Gibbcb, the other cl Evelina" ezd Cecilis," her mode of living upset his efforts at taught Gericaine Entleb. Germaine social reform and "displayed a return historian, whose father, however, being richer than all the others put to the worst babits of the society of would not bear of "euch a gaztegether. aid the rest of the Locs" the eighteenth century."

alliance." Germaine was no mote

than leven when the became the The harry ally occasioned no small. In fact Napoleon had made up his object of admiration of all those who scandal is the blowleed, but mind that Mme. deStael vasan enemy. frequented ber father's palatial] there was apparents no quarrelling Ordered to leave Paris Germaine ac dwelling."

While writing novels, comedies, tragedies, and a book about Ecurseau, Germaine was also by the time that she was fifteen carrying on a ciandis- tize love affair with a middle aged general quite devoid of moral character, with whom the exchanged a fervid corespondence.

HUMAN WHIRLWIND.

Although her face and form were both som what havy sed inclined to coarseness," she had a "strongly scorntuated bust and beautiful bands but what really redeemed her iratusen frem mediocrity were her piercing! dark, -almat tlack, eyes, burning with the passion with which het whole caner shows her to have bren Lumed." Benjamin Crietant, the mcat celebrated of her locere describes her as a woman with the nature of a whirlwind of fire, “more! faming than all the volcanoes, gg After Williaur Pitt, who was a Franse in 1785, had a kid for her hand in vain, Necker consented to bants me dowry, la- Baron de Simei rifustan, Älter" Gustavnä -III, of

PRAS

cepted defeat. In her book "Ten Years of Exile" she tella pa what were her thoughts as the carriage bearing herand Constant rolled on its way towards the Rhize:

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I desired by the good reception that was promised me in Germany to life myself up from the outrage put upon me by the First Conval and I wished to oppose the friendly welcome of the ancient dynasties to the impertinence of that wbich was preparing to subjugate France.

Germaine's glory rea bed its height

in Lndon, where she arrived in 1813..

In London she talked and she talked; she preacher he held forth, ustil she lost breath and her hearers lost pati-ge, i

Byron, she declared the sedactive man in Englan." The poet complained that Graine wrote octavos and talked in.

most

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broken it off

Nevertheless even bly thronged to meet the Mostrim: creme of i Napoleo"; and her friend. Mias Berry was able hay: "If one wishes to meet the Muster in Con-

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