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LAMMERT BROS.

LUOTIONANES, APPEAINERS.

AND SURVEYORS,

Public Auctions-

4+BE Undersigned have recaived Instrno- ions soos by Paulle Apotion,

ON

FRIDAY, Dovember 8, 1822.

commencing at 11 *.m.

at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street. WITHOUT RESERVE

A Largo Quantity of Vainable Household Furniture, (Removed to Sales Rooms for convenience of Sale).

Comprising:-

8 rolla Lion Par Belting, different

width and ply

5 Electric chandeliers and shades

32 Bundles Copper wire, Rubber

ored, single strand, Westber pros?

ས

Braid "Roeblings"

40 cases each & grlices "No Tarnish"

Lacquer

1,800 packages each. 5 lbs, Alabastin

various Colours

12-kegs erch 100 lbe. Galvanized

Ecst Nails

6 Chemical closets.

Tarma-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers,

Hongkong. November 30, 1922.

FOR SALE.

ONE SINGER Bemstech Sering Machine, early new. Apply to LAMMERT BROS.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED IN THE. ** MAIL.”

ENTERTAINMENTS,

December 4-Coronet Theatre; Panline Frederick in "A Slave of

Vanity" World Theatre; William

INTIMATIONS

FOR SALE.

Postage Stamps of French Post Office In China..

Canton, Hoihow, Mongtsen, Pak- bol, Tchongking, Yunnanfou, Kouang-tcheou-wan. Complete sets from 2/5 cent to 4 plastres at $9 per ect net.

GRACA &.00.,

Dealers in Fontage Stamps, Post Cards, Boeds, Toys, &o, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street.

P. O. Box (20.

.." Hoogkong.

SHOEMAKERS. (Japanese Hand Made)

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY &00%

8, DAGUILAR STREET, Telephone Central No. 491

Opposite Kayamally & Co.

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

MASSAGE.

Mrs. SEKAI

The Canton Bank, fod Floor, No. 2, Duddell Street, Hongkong.

MASSAGE.

Ecsell in "The Challenge of the Mrs. HONDA, Mrs. KISAKI and

Law." Kowloon Theatre; **The Bon of Wallingford." Booking opens at Mostries for the A.D.C. Xmas Pro- dustion of Shakespeare's "Tempest."

Theatre Royal Enchanted Lake" and "Faity Doll"

December 5.-Kowloon Theatre;| Cabaret DancE.

December 5 Theatre Royal; : Coppelia" and "Snowfakes,"

December 6, - Theatre Royal; The Magic Flute" and "Automa Leaves."

December 7.- Theatre - Royal; Polish Wedding and "Flora's Awakening.'

December 28. -- January Theatre Royal; "The Tempest,"

K

SOCIAL EVENTS,

2,-

“December"9=Dance at the V;R:0;} st 9. p.m.

SPORTING EVENTS,,

December-10-Golf-Match, Eng- land v. Sootland at Fanling.

December 23. Theatre Royal; Next Boxing Tournament.

January 27-Theatre Royal; Box-

fog Toumament.

PUBLIO AVOTION SALES.

December 5.-Hughes, and Hough: teakwood and blackwood furniture etc., Sales, Rooms, 2 20 p.m. --

December 8 Lammert Eros,:. belting, copper wire, electric chande Tots etc, Sales Rooms, 11 a.ro.

COMPANY MEETINGS,

Decrmbar 5-Hongkung, Canton and Macao steamboat Cey ex traordinary general mieting, noon.

December 22.--Hongkong Canton Macao strumboat Coy, extraordinary' general-meeting, noon.

December 14-Chits Light and Power · Ügy, (1918) Ltd., extra- ordinary general mealing, 11 a.m.

R. SHIMIDZE,

No. 24 Wynd) (L. Istenek, (opposite to the Uhina MAR”)

MASSAGE EXPERT HARRY: FURUKAWA, K. SAKI, *19, Wyndham Street.

JAPANESE MASSAGE. N. AKAJI, Graduate of Tokio Massage School,

No. 23, Wyndham Street, Tel. Central 1395.

TANG YUK, Dartir.

the late STEN TING,

14 D'Aguilar Street.

TERMS VERY. MODERATE.

Consultation Free

ASAHI BOWR

PILSENER BEER

GRAND PRIZES.

SZUKA PACIFIC EXPERIEN

HONGKONG HEIGHTS. SAHIB

For the information of visitors t following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainland is published:

16LLND..

Feet

Bigcal Station

1774

Mt Parker

1784

Mountain Lodge.

1725

The Eyzia

1725

Pesk Rotal

1505

Taikoo Ennatorium

MÉ, Davis

Taimoshan

1000

877

Bowen Rd. (filterbeds) 393

MAINLAND,

· Kowloon Peak.

Custom Pass

Le Book

Devil's Peak

SPECIALLY

EXP

EWERY COM

ASARUBBER

8194

· 1971...

1645:

780.

MITS!

SAN KAISHA

THE CHINA MAIL

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SKELETON RIDDLE

PREHISTORIC MINER OR

INVADER'S BLATE ?

INDIAN STUDENTS;

PROBLEMS OF THEIR LIFE

LIN ENGLAND.'.

tionery Office, Bs. nat.) On October 31 last there were 1,450 Indian students in England.

A full account of the discovery of a The position of Indiaia who come mysterious skeleton in what has been as students to England has been supposed to be a prehistoric gold considered by a committee appointed mire is now to band from the actual by the India Office in May last year discoverer, Mr. Duncan Simpson. The committee's report is published The skull of a man and several bonesas, Blue Book of 520 pages. (Sta were found in July in a very old working near Gwands, Rhodesia. From the position of the find, the man had evidently been working at the face of a gold reef, and had probally been killed by a fail of rock. A heavy stone hammer lay by in the position in which it would have been hold if the worker had been lying prune.

The report states that the feeling

FAR NORTH.

BOYS AND GIRLS 300 MILES

FROM THE POLE.

"After a cruise of nearly 4,000 miles among the Norwegian fjorde and off the Spizbergen coast, during which a point 300 miles from the North Pole was reached, the "Fantome. II.," Mr. Ernest Guinness's 486-tous racht re- turned to Portsmouth. It is claimed that the vessel made the farthest

in general among the students that in north voyage ever accomplished by a England they encounter, race pleasure yacht. hostility. This allegation the com- Mr. and Mrs. Guinness took 12 boy mittee do not support, but they admit and girl guests with them on the that there are obstacles in the way.of free social intercourse.

cruise. The party included the host

The skull and bones are now-in The committee express no opinion and hostess's three daughters, the charge of Dr. Arnold, of the Rhodesian on Lord Haldane's suggestion for the youngest of whom is only 12 years of Museum, and are to be examined by establishment of an Indian Bar, but experte to decide what was the race point out that, unless some such age; Mr. Michael and Miss Bottine or character of the man to whom schema is carried out, the stream of Russell (nephew and niece of Mrs. they belonged. On a cursory in Indian law students will continue. Guinness), Min Nancy Tennant, the rection they are thought to bava It is the view of the committes second daughter of Mre. Geoffrey

Lubbock by her marriage to the late Sir Charles Tennant; and Mr. Mark Ogilvie Grant, son of the famous naturalist.

story of the trip to a reporter.

A member of the party told the

been Bantu or Altican Negro If to that the Students' Department of the a point of great importance will have India Office never recovered from the been established. There is a tradition, shock of the police antivity following that certain comers from Asia the murder of Sir Curzon Wyllie by Phoniciani or other Semitesniacd an Indian student at the Imperial gold in South Alrics; and the work institute in July 1909. inge by the Ancients" with which The committen think that it would Though the yacht is: rigged ás a Rhodesia is covered Lave been gene, bo sreless to recommend the con-make much us of the sails during the three-masted schooner we did not rally attributed to them. But never tipuation of the Students Depart before has a skeleton been found in ment as at present constituted, and trip," he said. At Hammerfest we Ficked up the ice pilot Floating ice one of there workings in such con- recommend the establishment el a ditics that it can be said (as in the bureau composed of representatives and glaciers bad begun to appear on case of the preeent fid) that it was of Indian and British Diversities for all sides. We steamed as far as North the skeleton of one of the original arsisting students. The discontinu ance of the Cromwell-road fiestel is The skeleton lay under 20ft. of aleo recommended. débris in the old mine, and within a few inches of the stone-bamnier «dig....

inineta.

Covered near it was an unustarbed tracted by civilized man until the portion of the gold-reef which modern cyanide process was in probably indicated the worker's pointtroduced,

von is rare and where stone im

Cafe, which is the northernmost point of Europe, and from here we had intended to visit Iceland. This did not seem sufficiently original, however and we decided Instead to go to Spitzbergen Wabad not brought clothing for such a rigorous climate, bat we bought fur caps and gloves, at Hammerfest

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-Tenil 173, Telegraphic Addison" VICTORIA makita k

of attack. The stone bammer deen. Again, how the ore was cut cleanly Spitzbergen la but a little more not necessarily indicate extreme age cut of the rock is another mystery. than 600 miles south of the North as there are parte of Africa where Apparently the work was performed Fele and the cold was severe. We

by the application of great beat, very made many wonderful trips over the THE NEW VICTORIA CARE plements were ed in quite recent carefully controlled, as the ore body, glaciers, but we could not go very far Lames. In some of the Rhodrian

THE HOUSE FOR GOOD EATS Timns and Dinners workings made by the Arcients according to an account published in sfield owing to the youth of some of

Jobanuerborg Sunday Times, has the members of the party. hon tools bays been discovered, but been to skilfully removed that it is

The thy seed is bright in the 5 (Henn andwa La Carte) there do not fix the date, an the use rare to find a piece adhering to the night sa it was during the day. At

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• GHEAT HEAT, UARD IN WORK.

The exami: ation of the old workings"

has left many mysteries which

be solved. The first is se to

which made them--and

| may be thrown on this

|diat e'n the recent skpl) is known.

It is, of course, possible that the even take photographe work was done for Bemiter by African We then went till farther north Alaves, and that the engineer; and to Templo Bay. We had to go very directors came from the Mediteralowly and were kept busy dodging or Asia, and were Cretans, the great blocks of ics that fell from stines or Phoenicians, or possib- the glacier on Chenn fever Beyptiane. This has been "In the North Bra coming home jectured,but as yet beyond kome we ran into a terrible storm that there has been nothing lasted nearly thres dayı.BANANAN skipper of the to give it support. The avstematic

mination.

daunfal the

second is as to the methoda" "which" potte

they employed. In rome

inga ore has been remo

coulaire the mj

bancs per ton,”

of gold soonid

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