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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS,

-Public Auctions—

THE Undergoed has received Instruc

Lions to sell by Fabllo Auction,

ON

TUESDAY, July 11, 1992, commencing at 10 30 a.m.

at No. 51 (upper) Godown of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon,

A quantity of Valuable Household Furniture, On view from Monday the 10th July.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers.

Messrs, LAMMERT BROS. are instructed to sell

WITHOUT RESERVE

Thu 8.8. "HAM D

Now lying off Shamshaipoo

under 30

Order of the Court

by

PUBLIC AUCTION

on

WEDNESDAY

The 12th day of July, 1928,

at 3 o'clock p.m.

In One Lot

At their Auglion Rooms in

Duddall Street

The slip is a woodon ship of approximately 1800 tons capacity with accommodation for about 800 Chinese pasdrogers,

Length 252 ft. or thereabout

Bear 25 it, or thereabout

For particulars to low apply to Messrs. Lammert B:cs. The Auctioneers.

For farther particulars apply to,

WESSRS, JOHNSON STOKES

AND MASTER

Prince's Buildinga

1

Cr to

MESSRS. LAMMERT BROS.

the Auctioneers,

Daddell Street.

Ezronu June 21, 1922.

B Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Publio

Auctiva,

ON

Thursday, Friday and Saturday the 13th, 14th and 15th

July, 1922.

each day commencing at 11 a.m. (continuing at 2.30 pm.)

at the Astor House Hotel, Queen's Road, Central

THE WHOLE OF THE VALUABLE FURNITURE OF THE JSTOR HOUSE HOTEL including some

VERY FINE OLL PAINTINGS, by well known Frooch Artime

$180

ONE ENGLISH HILLIARD TABLE by Burroughts & Watin, London

And.

A Large Quantity of Cutlery and

E. P. tablo-ware,

On view from Wednesday the 12th

Catalogusa will be issued. Terme-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

Toaders am invited for the purchase the remainder of the lose of the Astor House Hotel. The leu e expiring

or 30th September 1924.

For further particulare apply to

LAMMERT BROS.

Hongkong, July 6, 1922,

YAN KEE.

7 Tit Hong Lane;

Entrance from Jubiles Street. Coal Contractors for the

Household.

Tel. 3825,

NAMSAN & CO.

283 Des Voeux Road West, Photo Engraving and Dreigning LITHOGRAPHERS

Tel. 1383.

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The question, who is the greatest living Englishman? is raised by the statement made in a French news paper when Mr! Kipling received an honorary degren at the Borbonne :

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among

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