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LAMMERT BROS.

AHOTIONHWKA, ÁPPRAISERS AND SURVETOLS,

-Public Auctions-

94% Undergrad bave received insirao Bone to well by Poblio Auction,

он

SATURDAY, July 29, 1822

comurencing at 11 am.

at "Atillingflete "No. 4 Penk Road A Quantity of Valuable Househo'd Faraitur●

(Full particulars from cataloguej

Also

1 Colunga Piano by "Hopkinson" in good condition.

On view from Friday the 28th: July.

TomCash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Hongkong, July 22, 1922.

THURSDAY, August 3, 1922,

commencing at 215 p.m.

at "imish, No. 98, The Peak A Quantity of

Valuable Household Furniture,

Alio

A Fe Pieces of Blackwood-ware.

On vie from Wednesday, the 2nd

Angust.

Catalogues will be insned.

Tertus-Cash on delierry.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers,

Honve, fuly 27, 1929.

RICH WIFE OF SOLDIER

HUSBAND.

CONVESHED THAT THINGS

EAD HAPPENED

How thich wife of a Colonial Civil servant left him for another man was related to the President (Six Henry Duke of the Divorce Division. in proceedings brought by Major John Batanel RichimonalRobertson formerly of London road, Gloucester and Holly Wood Hayward's Heath Husser king for the dissolution of his marriage because of the adultery of bis wife, Cecily, with the co-respondent Mr. James Tacket.

Major Robertson, who was permitted to give his evidence on affidavit, he being a Colonial Civil Bervant at present engaged at Sekundi, West Coast of Africa, said he was married in October, 1906. He and his wife lived quits Eappily together until the war broke out, when he oined up, attaining to the rank of major.

In 1917 and 1918 he was away in Gallipoli and Palestine, always spending his leave with his wife. Then ber letters became strained and eamed less affecticuate. Finally, in March, 1921, she deelined further cohabitation without giving any e3900. On April 21, 1921, she

WIOLD!

Dear Jack,--I am very sorry to bave to write this letter, but I think it only right to tell you that things have Lappened which make it impossible. for me to return to you as your wife. I don't believe we have ever really been happy together, although w have tried to make the best of it. hope you will take the necessary steps to obtain a divorce.

Evidence showed that CO- rependent was aware that Mrs. Robertson was married, and their stay together at the Craven Hotel London, in 1921, was proved.

His Lordship. Who is this man, the co-respondent?-- Counsel: I Believe he is a barrister

Where does he live, in London-1 Think so.

A decree nisi with costs was [concutie.d.

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JUST RECEIVED

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London's water supply bas always - ben taken. The ideal water supply, is probably that of such placca as Verviers, on the north flank of the Ardennes. where the streame have flowed over nothing but eandstone and alate But any derivatioh for drinking water is better than from sluggish rivers with mud bede, and such are most of England's rivets south of the Peak.

On the principle, perhaps, that all news ought to anger, terrify, or in come way excite the public, a scare ja being raised already about a pro- bable water faming" throughout England. Some very firm talk is added about the default of water aut' orities, and especially those of London, and the public is urged to Ergiard, as a whole, Las plenty of insist that all public water supplies perfectly good water to supply the should henceforth be on such a scale whole of hir needs. The only dilli that we should never feel the heaviest culty is one of distribution. The summer drought making much dif- Borh-western part of the country is ference in our bathrooms or flower of rouse, very roughly speaking bcds It is ccttainly nice not an irregular slab of stene slanting

TEN MONTHS CHILD.

SURGEON'S DIVORCE AT SECOND PETITION,

Postemberg

An echo of a former suit was heard before Sir Henry Duke in the Divorce Court when Captain Ellis Campbell Bowden, F.R.C.S., of Upper Bedford. place, asked for a dissolution of his marriage on the ground of the mis- conduct of his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Borden, who did not defend,

Mr. Cotca Freedy, who appeared for the husband, stated that by the peti tion it was alleged there was one child of the marriage, but the husband

connet.

FEJDAY, JULY 28. 1922

NOTICES

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

to bave to diminish the depth of our down south eastward until, near did not ask for its custody. In 1917 morning cold bath just at the Derby, it finally dips down under the he presented a petition against his time when total submersion is most clays, chalks, sands, and ro forth of wife, and alleged that the child in delicious, nor even to Lave to rave up the South English plain. This north-question was not his, The case was its remains for the irrigation of car western quadrant of the country heard by Mr. Justice Horridge, and window-box geraniums. It is nice to together with Wales, collects so much the offspring was proved to be a 307 have the command of any commodity mountain and moorland water that it days child. Mr. Justice Horridge in limitless quantities. But even in could supply the needs of all England found that the husband had not made the case of baths, as well as in those and Wales almost as casily as an Alpine out his case, and that the child could of conta and summer holidays, there torrent supplies a.high ion. We in be legitimate. Subsequent to that. has to be some sort of ratio between the north-west have the luck in euit the parties entered a deed of what you get and what you care to this matter, just as the south-eastern separation. Since then then the Indy pay for. If a community really quadrant has the lack in the matter had, unfortunately, committed mis- thinks it good business to pay of everything else that wheat wants all the year for a water supply for its happiness. But even we

Petitioner stated that be married on the scale to which cousump. have had to lay a hundred miles of; tion may possibly rise in a pipe to Thirlmere; Liverpool bas had tespondent at St. John's Church, few hot and dry summer weke, to go as far as Vytawy in Wales, and Lethnal Green, on June 17, 1915. by all means let it do the thing well. London must make up her mind to go Worthing. He presented a petition

They afterwards lived at New Parade, ¦ To every town its own choice, in farther still, as soon as she can do so the way of smalice. But what without being deafened with shrieks for divorce, which was heard by Mr. a row there would bare bern, say, of "Waste!" and "Think of the poor Justice Horridge on November 7, 1917 Last Christmas or the winter before if ratepayer!" Besides, if she does her and dismissed. On March 14, 1918, the Metropolitan Water Board had duty she will not act alone, but will be entered into a deed of separation announced that it was going to do on secure joint action by the whole with his wife, allowing her £150 a year, the spot what it will almost certainly of the South east of England. and he kept to the payments. On of August 14, 1921, he received a letter have to do sooner or later-dam a whether number of good sized valleys in South this area are ber partners or her from his wife, in which she wrote:-- Since our separation I have beezi The only complete Wales and bring moorland water to customers. Lordon by an aqueduct longer than and businesslike organisation of water akeing out as miserable an exinterce the Thames 1

eupply is either federal, as in the case as it is possible for any woman to do: Of course-London's water supply is of the Joint Water Board of the great allowance you have made me. Lately on the beggarly and totally inadequate far from ideal. When the biggest midland towns tapping the Peak, or city in the world is planted in the in some other way cooperative. For I have known a man who has shown middle of a plain of clay, not very a town like Brighton, Chatham, or me what happiness can be, and he helpfully diversified with low ridges Ipswich to make its own pipo to South wants to marry me, and in return I of chalk, with none but lowland rivers Wales or to the Feonine would be love bim, and have given myself to anywhere near it, you cannot in the absurd;; but that its requirements him. If you will release me we are mature of things have such good water, sbould cau e a slight increase in the going to be married the moment I am or to much of it, as you easily con il cal bre of a great London aqueduct free. Ho and I are everything to each you lie in a cup among moorlands, would be economical and reasonable, other. It you wil maka inquiries at like Sheffield or Buxton, with the And more good than harm.would be the Stanhope Hotel, 60 52, Standhope- rain water flowing to you down in-done to municipal life if municipali gardens, 8.W.. you will and that I clined planes of stone thinly coated ties in Bouthern England, as well as in stayed there with the man as husband with earth. Of course chalk is, in a the North, wore this led to form a and wite on August 6 and 7. I enclose way, a good filter, though not the one babit of federal action for any special the hotel bill

DOROTHY BOWDEN, you would choose if you had a pre- 1urpose for which it might be of use, disposition to suffer from stone. But Nor is it a quite negligible item that Petitioner said he had never stayed Bons of this lowland water is really, each a piece of engineering as a Welsh with his wife at the techope Hotel. judged by the higher standards, grorth water supply for the Homs Counties He did not ask for the custody of the of Baman commmption. The New might give British architects such acild.

tho

outer towpa

River, so long a beast of Londoners, ace ao that which the architects of A chambermaid identified the is only a few degrees better than thesauriert R me nsect so magnificently spondent as the lady who stayed with Thames, which was used witbont re- at the surviving traces cf & eis a gentleman or “Mr. and Mr. Blake' striction swer by riverside Aqueducts rank with Roman law and neth Brankope Hotel on the night of villages until less than mity years ago, Romance as monuments of Roman Augie Wsz and from which large part of genius and power.

A decred nisi was granted.

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MASSAGE EXPERT HARRY FURUKAWA,

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19, Wyndhata Street.

A PODICURE AND MANICURIST Mrs. N. TSUCHIOKA, 31 WYNDHAM STREET, HONGKONG PAINTING OFFICE.

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Weddings, picnics and other parties

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Leading Hotel in South China.

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