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LAMMERT BROS.

ÁVOTIOSEREN, AFFELIKERS

AND BUKVETOZS,

-Public Auctions

THE Undersigned bavo received an-

bagelin b Weller to sell by Public Auction

100

WEDNESDAY, Jan, 24, 1923,

commencing at 8.30 p.m.... st his residence No. 23 Humphree Buildings, Hanoi Road, Kowlocs.

The Whole of his Valuable Household. Faraiture, Comprising:-

Walnut wood tables, chairs and cabinets (imported from USA.). Draw- ing Room Suite (Chesterfield couch and chairs.)

Stained teak wood extension dining table, obair, dinner waggon with bevell- ed mirror, largo aide-board with borell-. ed mirror, ten tables, ice chest, dinner and' tes services, cut-ginas and crystal tiple services,

Walnut wood double bedsteada, dress- ing table and eboat-of-dirawera (American made), wasbeland, toilet eet. pictures, double and single wardrobes with bevelled glas door, etc.

New Carpets, pile rugs, curtaine, etc., etc.,

Braga -figure, hall lamps, brass orament and curios.

And

Specially designed carved binckwood tables, chairs, cabinents, jardinieres, and wall brackets.

On view from Taça day the 23rd. inst. Catalogues will to issued - Tarme Cash on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers

Hongkong, January 13, 1923,

FOR SALE:

FINGER, Hemstech Sewing Machine, nearly new. apply to LAMMERT BROS.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED IN THE "HAIL"

ENTERTAINMENTS. **

January 22.-Cornet Theatre; Charlie Chaplin in "The Idle Class " and "Flower of the North.' World Theatre; Constance Binney in

• Boom El Board." Kowloon Theatre; "The House of the Tolling BJi."

January 22-Harmstèn's Cirens at Kowloon.

January 22.---Theatre Royal; Fraw- ley Co., "The Gold Diggera,"

PUBLIC AUCTIONS, January 23-Hugh's and Hough. valuable teak wood and blackwood forniture-am-Fonarbold-quadrice-ip-||- cluding J piano by S. Moutrie, 1 Baby Grand Piano by Jahi. Broadwood and Son and upright Piano by John Broadwood and Sun.

:

January 24-Lammert Bros., the ➡hola valuable household furniture of Mr. Franklin Weller at 23 Humphreya Blogs, Hanoi Road, Kuwluna, 2.30 P.10.

EPORTING EVENT. January 27-Tbratr Royal; Bor 10g Tournament.

F-bruary 19-St. Andrew a Church Men's Association Youun) Marathon Bace at 4 p.m.

February 28--Fires say of Jockey Clave race meetic r

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March 1-Send day of Jockey

Club's race meeting

March 2-hird day of Jockey

Club's race me ring.

March 3-Fourth day of Jockey Club's race meeting.

COMPANY MEKTIKCA,

January 20-langk, ng Central Estate Ltd.. ninth ordinary general meeting, 31.45 am. Hongkong Land Reclamation Coy: Luh, twenty- cand ordinary genral meeting,

MOOD.

- January 26 The Hongkong Land Investment and drenov Co. meeting at-Kesure. Jaiding Math-eon's offices, 12 15 p.m.

February 3-The Bank of East Asia meetug at Co's cffice, 10 Den Voeux Roard, 330 pm.

February 13.-Hong ng ard Cap tos, Macao Steamboat Ple - mreting at Colïolic $a, D×4 Vowóz Road, noon,

FLOWER SHOW

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INTIMATIONS

FOR SALE PHILATELIC "BOOKS The Boys' Book of Stamp

Collecting

$5.00

The Stamp King

2.00

Reprints of Postal adhesive

Stampe

2.00

The New A. B. C. of Stamp

Collecting

1.10,

Stamp isering Countries &

their currensier

1.25

1,00

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The Fascination-of Stamp

Collecting

Stamps & Stomp Collecting 1.00 The Postage Stamps of

Hongkong..

.80

GRACA & 00., Dealers in Postage Stamps, View Post Cards, Philatelic Requisites, Garden Seeds, Toys, &.

No. 10, Wyndhani Street,

PO Box 12).

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS,

(Japanese Band Made)

Every kind of YostwaRE. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00,"

6. D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Da. Telephone Central No, 491

Hongkong, March 20, 1914,

MRS. HAN INGEUCHI.

Telephone Kowloon 764, No. 21, Ashley Road, Kowloon, Back of Star Theatre, CERTIFICATED EXPERT MASSAGE, HAND AND ELECTRIC, Alront patioula' cosidenen hy Armagement,

JAPANESE MASSAGE

N. AKAJI,

Graduate of Tokio Maaaags School,

No. 28, Wyndham Street,

Tel. Central 4395.

MASSAGE.

Mrs. HONDA, Mrs. KIBAKI and B. SHIMIDZU,

No. 24, Wyndhve. Etrans. (opposite to the Confisa MAP")

MASSAGE

K. SAKAI, T. KANAMORI

2nd Floor.

18, Praya East,

TANG YUK Date

Tomate

the late BIEN TING, 14 D'Aguilar Street.

TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.

ASAHI BIER

PILSENER BEEL

RAND PRIZES.

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MONDAY JANUARY 13, 1829.

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BITTEN BY LION.

WHAT IT IS LIKE,

HUNTER'S THRILLING NARRATIVE.

In 1913 Mr. Ardold Wieabolt who sits in the Australian Commonwealth Parliament, went on a lion hunting trip in Portuguesa West Africa, His adventures are related in "The Story of a Lion Hunt," which has just been published (Melrose, 7a. 6d. ).

RACE ON THE SANDS.

DIVORCE COURT SEQUEL.

How a wife, by winning a race OB! the rards and reaching a bathing tent

RACES NOT RACING,

ANTHROPOLOGICAL MIS- UNDERSTANDING.

The betting adventures of an in advance of her husband, made a anthropological student were describ- discovery which wrecked her marital ed at Marlborough streot during the bappicess, was the story told in the hearing of a charge against Frank Divorce Court by Mrs. Dorothy Loftus, of obtaining £10 by false Ethelinda Field, of Baron's Court.

pretences from Astley Goodwin, of She was granted a decree of restitu. Toynbee Hall. tion against ber husband, George Mr. Goodwin, who is a student at The cool wed careful grcription Tracst Field. Telling ber story in University College, said Loftus got which Mr. Wienbolt givis of the bites suppost of the petition. Mrs. Field into conversation with him outside indicted on him by a wounded. lion said that they were married in May. Bond Street Tube Station through Brems something unique in the annals 1918. After the return of her hus-another man asking him (Goodwin) of men's warfare with the great band from Mesopotamin she found a to direct him to an address. flesh.esters. Mr. Wienholt houted letter from a girl in bis.pocket. They Loftus pave the strange man 10s., alone with a few natives, and he had quarrelled parted, and were re and asked him to put it on "some no doge a very serious omission in conciled.

thing good.” Tha man returned with following up a wounded lion,

Last year they were bathing at £1, and when Loftus handed him Shanklin together.

another £1 witnesa also banded over Mr. Field said that he wanted some- £1. thing from his pocket. Mre. Fidd went to fetch it.

The lion was tracked into a piece of rough busby ground, "and I could bear bim breathing as though in dis- treas like a borse gone in the wind," He charged. Mr. Wienboit, badly placed for a steady shot, fired, failed

to kill and was knocked down,

After knocking me down, the lion ushed in on my right side, and in stinctively I tried to ward him off by shoving my rifle, which I still had hold of, up against him. He bit tavagely on this reveral times, biting right through and cracking the thin part of the stock.

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The man rt turned and said they had won at 45 to 1, and he gave him £9 as She had no sooner started for the commission, as he said he wanted 45. store than Mr. Field remembered in the £. Eventually both Loftus and that there was something else in his the man disappeared and he did not pocket that Mrs. Field ought not to see Loltus again until after his arrest. tee. So he went after her. Mrs. Field thought he was trying to race her. she put on speed and won.

In the pickets abe discovered a letter from a girl to her husband,

Loftus: Were you accustomed to backing horaco-Goodwin: "Never basked a horse before.

Doring the conversation yon said you were studying racing 1-You mis. "In October, 1921, she said; "we understood. I said "race"—AX. went back to Huddersfield, and in thropology. (Loud laughter.) Then he seized me and bit me December my husband sold the house What induced you to bet 1-Tha several times through the wrist, and said that he did not want me fact that you seemed to get money so treaking it badly and splintering some any longer. I had to go into easily. of the small bones. Thore bites burt lodgings." Mrs. Field added that in Loltas pleaded guilty, and was sen like fury at the moment; it was like a April last she wrote to her husband: tenced to six months, hard labour.. Dine-inch nail being continually driver We ate too young to live apart like through one's hand. The lion bit this. I have no desire to bring op very quickly, but with a horribly our past differences. Those we can silent ferocity. He would have done bary, but I do desire to resume our better I think, if he had taken more married life. I sincerely ask you to time over it.

join me, or say whether I can join you, and I will do all in my power to make you happy.

LIKE A CUT LEG OF MUTTUN..

There followed, this extraordinary, parative states. ELveral bites above the wrist and a big bite caching

WONDERS OF YOUR BODY

Importance of the Blood

Every body should have come know ledge of the wechanism of the body, and of the important_functions: which ths. blood performs. Every drop of blood in veins many times every day, carrying off your body" pa 808 right through your impurities and getting

of them in the kidneys and

Juanset of

Her husband wrote:- Our marriage has been, like so, the bone of the forearm elbow. many hasty war marriages, a failure, My biceps caught the next bite, and, was a grievous mistake. We which cot clean to the muïcle | have given it a fair trial, but it ie

When the blood is thin and work it opening out like a cut in a leg perfectly clear that we were quite ties. This shows itself in many ways. becomes overloaded, with these impur, of mutton, 'A' bite through a muscle unsuited to enob other,

your face grows slow, and often impor of the shoulder followed. As weakness We are both young,-and-it would ities force themselves through the skin, made me lower the rife, the lion, with be a pity for both our lives to be forming pimples and blotches. Then

quick shuffle of bis forefest, closed spoiled, as I-am certain they would their origin to impure blood

again, rheumatism and lumbago o up with me, whipping down his big be if we were to ramume co-habitation. F

Also, indigestion, lack of appetite and head and biting ms twice on the We are entirely opposite in tempera inability to darive nourishment frors cheat. These bites, too, though not ment and everything else, food are caused by the fallare of the very bad, hart badly, and the right uf Mes, Field stated that her husband his big, hairy head, so near that we had since relused to return to her, a almost rubbed notes, was unlovely andaɔffensivra

bicod to keep the stomach fit for its

Almost everybody needs, from time to time, richer, botter blood, and for this purpose there is rothing to equalsDr. effect of these pile on the blood, soon Willama: pink e pilla. Vi besparifying.

"rough" shows in improved appetite, increased

roke vitality and e-m

Buddenly, after biting the un lion's bite--he is a foul feeder-is often fortunate hunter again on the chest deadly +tés-lion-whipped-round-and-cleare--|-mari

cout of sight back in the Füchen.

unately Mr. Wienholt had at complet carbolic map with Lstitution

nter to

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