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LAMMERT BROS.

AUDIONEERS, Affrainers AND ŠURVZITORA. -Public Auctions-

* Undersigned have received Instrac-

islom to wall by Pablla Auction,

on

MONDAY, February 19, 1023,

commending at 5.15 p.m.

at their Ezles Rooms, Daddell Street,

Breaking up Collection about 800 picked Stamps mostly FIRST ISSUES COLONIALS (few after 1900)

Also

Many good

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HONGKONG

Lot catalogued about

£200

On view from Saturday the 10th

February

Catalogues will be issued Ferma Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS..

Anetioneers. Hongng. February 0, 1925,

ON

TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 1923, commencing at 11 a.m. their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street. A Quantity of Valuable House- hold Furniture

Comprising:-

Wardrobes, dressing tables, hat sands, bras and teak bandlateæis, carpets, ice chests, pictures, etc.

Several pieces of blackwood ware

وماد

One L. C. Smith & Bros. typewriter No. 6 with teak table.

Two strong rickehas with rubbar BYTEK.

And

Das astrorismical telescope with stand.

Qu view from Monday the 12th February 1993.

Catalogues will be issued. TERRE; —Osah on delivery

LAMMERF BROS,, Austinere,

Mongkong, February 7, 1923.

By Order of the Executor. PUBLIC AUCTION of the Following Valushie and Desir. able Leasehold Property Inland Lot No. 1779 and the meenusge known as "ULBANE" No. 2 May Road, situate thereon

To Be Sold Subject to a Reserve Price TUESDAY the 13th day of Feb. 1923 at 3 p.m.

on

By LAMMERT BROTHERS,

Auctioneers

at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street. Particulate and Conditions of Sale can be obtained from

Mesars. DEACUN, HARSTON & SHENTON

No. 1 Des Vœux Road Central

or itcm Menare. JAMMERT BROTEENS, The Auctioneers.

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INTEMATIONS

FOR SALE STANLEY GIBBON'S

IDEAL POSTAGE STAMP, ALBUMS EIGHTH EDITION In two volumen In fout

- At $20 per saf nt $30 &$40

H

GRACA & 00, Dealers in Postage Stamps, Philstol

Books and Reqnieftam, View Post Carda, Toys, de. No. 10, Wyndham Street,

Hongkong. P. O. Bax 690.

SHOE MAKERS.

(Japanese Hand Made)...

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO URDER.

CHERRY & 00..

8. D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Co.

Telephone Central No. 471

Hongkong, March 90, 1914.

MRS. HAN INDKUCHI

Telephono Kowloon 784. No. 21, Ashley Boad, Kowloon, Back of Blar Theatre, CERTIFICATIE EXPERT MASSAGE, HAND ANL ELECTTIO, Atros: patients: voeldeson by arrangement.

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

No. 28, Wyndham Street,

Tel Central 4395.

MASSAGE.

MT, HONDA, Mrs KHAKI ARİ

FAIKIDZU.

No. 24 Wynn, ikrost. (opposite to the Chios MAP")

MASSAGE

K. SAKAI,

T. KANAMORI

18, Prays East, 2nd Flom.

TANG YUK, Diziaz

1

the lake-SIEK TING,

Hongkong. Felruary 1, 1923.

ONE

FOR SALE.

NE SINGLE Hemstech Sewing Machine, nearly mw. Apply 10 LAMMERT BROS.

WING FAT CHEUNG

SPARROW CARDS (MA JONG) JOB SALE CARDS MADE OF IVOEY AND FIBA BONE.

No. 176. Queen's Road Central, BRANCA N, 99, Man bum Street East.

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

дод

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE

GRAPE COMPANY, LTD.-

The following unclaimed telegrams ars lying at the office of The

Great Northern Telegraph Company (Limited):--

Doimisto, from Dairen.

Hiuran Balai, from Wladivostock, Tucwubing, fran Tsingına Lamyalam Ghat Enters Hotel,

from Bhangbei.

Hockchenisz, frem Amoy.

7777, from Shanghai.

Kwang ie, from Shanghai.

Ho Chourng, from Kohe.

Tonglahwo, frem Shangbai

Wing Fai & Co, Den, Voeux Road,

N. LUND,

Act. Raperintendent.

Hongkong, Jantasy 26, 1923,

EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAI ABIA A CBINA TELEGRAPH CO

List of unclaimed telegrams lying in EK Telegraph (ffice, Hongkong.

Ballin, Palace Botol Kowloon, from Al, Naibas House Kowloon, from

14 D'Agular StreOAL

TERMS VERY MODERATE.

Consultation Free.

ASAHI BER

SAHIB

LAGER

SPRONUNCIATION.

BOME PUZZLING WORDS.

"What does 'vehemently meant" a child asked me on hearing me using the word, writes Robert Land in the Daily News, I told her. "Ob," the "said, "I always call that "vebemmio atly.

If you say it over to yourself, you will see that it sounds much better that way. It is melancholy to think that as the child grows up she will inevitably take to the correct pronun- ciation of the word and give up her own vastly superior one.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

ponies along and insist that little boy and girl shall call up bitterer an upholstare

to me exceedingly dail

+ THE GRIMES OF EDUCATION.

I have no quarrel with school- teacher for teaching children the correct pronunciation of words, when the mispronunciation is not eccentric, but follows convention of its own. There is no vistae, for instance, in calling ham am, if the child does this merely because it has heard other people doing so. The only mispron unciations that give pleasure are those which are individual and are, sa it were, freshly invented.

ALUM

SALVED."

THU

TEBRUARY 19x3

NOTICES.

TORPEDOED SHIP'S CARGO.G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

Large quantities of aluminium are being recovered from the sea thres miles off Witherisen,

Balvage experts and divers have scorsefully located at the bottom of the ess the steamer "Empress " which, laden with a valuable cargo of aluminium, was torpedoed in 1917.

The metal was being brought to this I remember sea'small boy going up country for war purpoáca, particular one day an hour before a party way the construction of aeroplanes. to begin to aideboard on which

The metal as the present time has s there were jellies a beautiful so market value, of £100 per ton, says rainbows and all manner of oter Pall Mall Gaselt. delightful dishes. A servant came into the roomy and saw me drawing When the wreck was first located, dangerously near the food with greedy the water being 60lt. deep at this eyes. "Come away, now, the point, the diver signalled to his atten ordered, me," from them.com-dants that it was "very black," but bustibles." I had never board the he preferred to work by. feeling, as to word before, but even then I enjoyed it. And it still seems to me a much more expressive word than "comestibles for too rich mix tore of exquisite foods.

* 1 myasi! as a small child always prononhoed "determined" "detter minded, " with the sosent on the last syllable bat one. You will agree, think, that, pronounced in this way, the word expresses purpose much bet ter than if you pronounced it correct ly. As I grow up, I weakly gave in to authority, and my vocabulary is the poorer as a result of my cowardice. It is one of the evil results of educa tion that we all try to pronounce words in the same way to give them the same "prononciation," as onos heard it called by a countryman,

There should be scope for indivi- There is one kind of mispronuncia dual preferences in the pronunciation tion that pleases many people, I do of words. I have heard a young poet not know why. This is the mis- osing the word "lagaborious" in des- pronunciation of the names of places, cribing a ballad singer's music, and If you pronounce Baschiehall this seems to me to conveys sense of Street" in the hearing of a Glasgow gloom, boringnees, and toilsome effort man in the way in which it is spelt, in a way in which "lugubrious "does you will amuse him more than if you told him the best joke F-W. Thomas ever made. In the same way, some people regard you as an object for mirth if you do not know whether or not to pronounce the "W" in Gat Is is a curious fact that most wick. As for "Horsham," there are people find mispronunciations of two schools of thought, some people words extraordinarily interesting. A deliberately omitting the second "h." man can become one of the day's but the vast majority of men pro subjects for convenation merely by nouncing it as you and I do. pronouncing a word wrong in a pulpit

not.

What a good adjective, saain, did the house maid invent when she described somebody ass "pompties"

or on a platform,

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One speaker startled his bearers a

few years ago by speaking tenderly of Both bride and bridegroom at a what he called "an ee-wee-lamb." wedding at Martin, Lincolnshire, were It is almost incredible that an educat-deaf and dumb. ed man should be able to go through life without ever having heard the word "ewe-lamb "pronounced in the usual way and quietly giving in. This man, I imagine, had got it into his head as a child that "eye" was pronounced "see-wee," and he simply had not the power to unlearn it.

Sir Isaac Hayley Balfour, for many ears King's botanist, in Scotland and formerly Sherardian Professor of Botany, in the University of Oxford, died at Courts Hill, Haslemere, Surrey, in his 70th year.

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introduce lights would have meant being hampered by cumbersonis equipment.

The ship is badly broken up, but all the aluminium is intact, and apparently all of it will be recovered.

Another sunken ship, four miles off Witheransen, which interferes with navigation, is to be dynsmited.

THE MEANING OF

"NERVES."

How to Avoid a Breakdown.“ When wo have an "attack of norvea" it means that the body is in some way out of order, and the nerves have become Over sensitive, so that we get beuralgia pains, headache, sciatica, and so on. The whole nervous system be fed and kept besithy by your blood. If the blood is thin and poor, nervous weaknesses follow. lo such cases a serve tonic is needed to feed up the blood, so that it in turn may feed nerves, spins and brain.

The raedicine which goes direct to the blood enriching and purifying it, is Dr. Williams' pink pills. You cannot take thour without feeling the uplift they Will give. Your appetite improves your brain is olearer, and you feel full of zew Tila. Men and women of all ages and every nationality have proved this. For

example the Boy. Father Pietro Caneto, parish priest of Calies Ligure, Genova, Italy, writes:

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**[ am of advanced age and Dr. Williama pink pills bare greatly bone- Hted my health. They hare enabled me to regain all my forces-energy appetite and activity and have thus facilitated

of myministry.

the work

I knew a child who for years

"I have one of the best wives in so begin to day to brace up your thought that upholsterer" was pro the world, a lively card without a narves by starting Dr. Williams pink nounced youful steerer." Could grey hair." said Mr. Samuel Brighouse, pills. Of chemists er, direct from Dr. The the South West Lancashire coroner Road, Shababai, $150 pár bottle, --- Williams Medicine Co. 60 Kiangoe anything be more; charming? world is surely the richer for to nobly when a Daily Mail reporter confor six bottles. The price includes pronounced a trade. Yet education gratulated bim on his golden wedding. postage. Good for men and women too.

No stiff joints or aching back

when you were young.

Yet now you are at middle age, or perhaps a little older,

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansion

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ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS,

~~ BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery,

THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO.

Head Office 79 Wyndham Street, 2nd Floor, (Opposite Central Police Station.) Tel, Central 4168.

Dealers in all kinds of Bigh-class Silk Bhirts, . Collars, Neckties and Pyjamas for Gentleman AND ALSO

Chemises, Skirts, Wrappers, Boarda, Veils, and Night-gowns for Ladies

*** ATSO · MADE TO ORDER → MODERATE PRICE PROMPT DELIVERY Manager: EMILIO LAU.

PHOTO BUFFLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Kodaks and Bodar Fisk, 86..

"DEVELOPING & PRINTING AT SPECIALITY.

No. 371, 'Quins's Bead Cheezhat, Boxoxoxo”

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING "FAR EASTERN HOTELS

HONGKONG:

SHANGHAI:

PEKING:

Hongkong Hotel

Peak Hotel

Repulse Bay Hotel

Astor House Hotel Palace Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalee

Grand Hotel des Wagon Lats

The Hongkong Hotel Co, Ltd.

In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotela, Ltd.

and

The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Ltd.

Tel. Centl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add: Carlton.

The Only American Hotel in the Colony; WAARN Nics and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banka, and Central Districts. 43 Bedrooms, Brcellent Cuisine. Scrupulously clean Under American Massgement. A new Dining Room has been opened a No. 2, Queen's Bond (let floor). Entrance Ice House St. Tifins a speciality.

For terms apply to Mr. F. E, CAMERON, Proprietrees.

(Two minutes from Star Ferry).

PALACE HOTEL

"KOWLOON

Becently renovated and refurnished, alostre light and fant throughout and entirely under new management. Cuisine under the personal expervision

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Telephone Kowloon 3. Telegraphio Add.PALACE

your back aches fit to break". There are sharp twinges alles on application to of rheumatism in your muscles and joints. And you do not feel as well as thirty years ago, when you could romp with the youngsters. and feel that life was really worth living. Why thin great change?"

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Get rid of those armpions by getting the Hidacys back to health and strength, and you will be able to enjoy life

- sa-day so you did thirty years ago!-- De Witt'a Kidney, and

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APAR

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