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AMMERT BROS.

ABUTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AND SULYSTOKK.

Public Auctions-

RE Undersigned have received In-

·structions from Mowbray 8. North- Esq. to sell by Public Anction.

ON

I

FRIDAY, March 8, 1989. sommencing at 9.45 pm.

at his residence Iddesleigh" No. 5.

* Bowen Road

The Whole of his Jainable Household Farniture, Comprising:→→

Teak hatstand, Drawing Rooms Suite Gapestry covered), bookcase etc.

Teak sideboard, Dining table and hairs, Dinner waggon, Ice chest, Tes ables, Dinner and tes services, Glam rare dic.

Brass and teak bedateaks, plain teak double and single wardrobes, dressing table, marble top wasbstand, pile carpet and rugs, lace curtaina, water colours, oil paintings, engravings, prnaments, etc, etc.

Also

brass

One Cottage Piano by John Brinemend and Bous

And

A quantity of Palme, plants, and

On view from Thursday, the 8th

March, 1923.

Catalogues will be issued.

Terms ---Coah on delivery.

LAMMERP BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, March 2, 1913.

THE Undersigned have received in- structions from Dr. G. D. Black to sell by Public Auction

од

MONDAY, March 12, 1923, commencing at 2.45 p.m.

at his residence "Ian Mor" No, 18

Peak Road

The Whole of His Valuable Household Furniture, Comprising >-

Chesterfield couch and armchairs, Brasa fenders, fire brasses, Leather covered armchairs, Rol top desks, Fine met curtains, card tables, Mirrors, Bookcases, Bronzo Brasice Ornaments, Carpets, Rugs, etc.

and

Teak extension dining table, Leather covered armchairs, dining chairs, Fine Teak sideboards, Dinner waggon, Glasa- ware, Crockery, E. P. Ware, etc, etc.

Double and single teak bedsteads, teak double-wardrobe with bevelled

eror, dressing table, marble top asbatand, chest of drawers, ate Cooking stove and aluminium cooking fateorile.

Also

A Large Quantity of carved Black- Wood-ware

One Grand Piano by "Winkelmans" Ona Perambalator"

And

Large Quantity of Palms, Ferns and Plant in pots.

On view from Saturday the 10th inst. Catalogues will be issued., Terms:-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BEOS.

Asationsera.

qHB Unduenigned have received Instrue Kons to all by Palle Auction,

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02

THURSDAY, March 15, 1923.

commencing at 2.30 p.m. at the Astor House Hotel (Room No. 17)

་

A Large Collection of White and Coloured Marble Statues, Busts, Lámpa, Vases, Powder Boxes, and Pedestals

by

Well Known Italian Sculptora. On view from Monday the 12th March.

Catalogues will be issued.

1ma-Cas on delevry.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auestoners.

Hongkong, March 3, 1922.

FOR SALE

ONE SINGER Hemstech Sewing

Machine, pearly new. Apply to LAMMERT BROS.

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

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The following noclaimed telegrame are lying at the office of The Great Northern Telegraph Company (Limited) ------

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Fackmow, from Shanghai,

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Hongkong, March 1, 1923, 9

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SECRET SOCIETIES.

HOW THEY ARE SPREADING.

When the countries of the world

CIGARETTES

SPORTING PIE," MY MOST TERRIBLE

AMUSING STORIES OF FAMOUS

CRICKETERS.

I have been exhausted by external of

Mr. F. B. Wilson; a well-known internal strife, when legitimate politi-Fleet Street personality, & Harrow boy who captained Cambridge University cal and social avenues to prosperity at cricket, has made a book of bis and happiness seem interminably long, personal recollections of all the great when romance seems dead and duty cricketers, racket and five players, of more drab than ever, secret societies the laat 28 years in "Sporting Fie" rise and flourish like mushrooms in (Chapman and Hail, 158.) The volume the night.

is leavened with that, aly, pleasant bumour which is characteristic of the aathor, and there are some delightful stories of some of the heroes of the boyhood days of the present genets tion of grown upe.

That is why there are to-day more Perhaps than in any period of history Since the Middle Ages, whether they be old and respectable. Freemasonry or young, raw, and untried as the very newest of all, the Most Noble: Order of Crusaders recruits fleek con tinuously to their ranks.

IN ITALY.

Fascismo, in Italy, that now holds the war' imagination in thrall, started, as all the rest have done, in epired by revolt against injustice, actual or imagined, and the spiritual thirst for an ideal to serve.

Its etupendous growth. despite all impediments and obstacles, forced it at lart into open conflict with its fees batele from which it has emerged triumphant.

It will be interesting to see how the Fascisti, now that they have at tained political omnipotence in Italy, vill deal with the notorious Camotra, Mafia, and other sinister organisations with which their country has in the past been riddled.

The great "W. G." naturally loams large in these pages. Here is one anecdote of many?—

Many of the best judges consider that Knox was the fastest English amateur bowler who aver lived with the exception of 0. J. Kortright, and possibly the second fastest who "ver lived. W. G. Grace always said Kortright was the fastest bowler be aver played when O.J. was at his very best. How much faster than other really fast bowlers he was one may judge from a remark of W. G.. Somebody once said to him, apropos of pace. And how fast was Jones, Doctor?" "Jones, Jones, what Jones!" raid W. Q. Ernest Jones, the Australian." "Oh, the man who bowled through my beard," said W. G. Yes, he was fast."

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APART."

SYBIL THORNDIKE'S RÉMARK

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Miss Sybil Thorndika, the briljant tragedienne, has a remarkable article on My Most Terrible Part." London Entertainments, a bright new monthly published at twopence and devoted to the amusements of London. The part Miss Thorndike describes is that of Tonise in the Grand Gaignol horror, "The Old Women," and she explains that on first reading the play in bed it brought her back to her childhood daye, when the had nightmares. She

Jays

TWO" WAKILIANI.”

I was haunted then, as I'am haunted now, by familiam.her one is a shape, a transparent share crowned with a fags. "L"cannot des anbe it, but in my sleeping and waking dreams 16 peers at me from doorways and windows. The other is not so much a spectre as a vision. I'm on a long plær, stretching out into an unknown wea. Each side of the pier is lined with what appear to be bales of cotace-greyish stuff, siceaked with veins of rod.

"Sometimes I can walk batween the bales unharmed, but at others they cl se in upon me and horrible tentacle-like hands

come forth cla'ching and elswing at my tram- bling, paralysed form until I svake with a abriek, 'The Old Women' Walter Brearley, the famous pitomize and concentrated all the Fericketer. gave the author the horror and terror I had ever known of following account of the Gentlemen v imagined. Moet playgoers know Player' match at Lord's in 1906, in something of the story, which is which played among others Isid in a madhouse and relates the Martyn, considered by many to be the killing of a young girl, who is about greatest wicket-keeper who ever lived, to be discharged as cared, by three

.

The American Ku Klux Klan is another secret society that to day making stapendons strides, so that its power in the United States may shortly away the entire continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

and Knex, who was ́ bowling at a old mad women. But the horror does Despite the ridicale heaped on tremendous pace-

not arise so much from the sotual them by its opponents, the weirdMartyn stood up to Knox as murder, which, indeed, comen sa tome dress and mysterious ritual of the if it was quite a matter of thing of a relief, as from the extra- Klan are probably largely reponsible course, though the ball was fre- ordinary atmosphere of haunting for-it-anocess:

quently getting up foot and terror and nightmare which the It is impossible for the child-like more over the stumps. Knox said dramatist has sucoseded in creating. beart of man to resist the thrill of the to Brearley You know Martyn mysterious, and the darkly spectand. I don't. Will you ask him to cular. The leaders of the Spanish and back I shall hit him on the Inquistion knew it when they dragged head Said Brearley: "You won't together. First the shadow of one, their vicitime before a silent black-hit him on the head; more likely played by my brother, appears in the he'll hit you on the head first "A doorway the Face of my nightmares, The Ku Klux Klan Lnow it, and little later Martyn took one off then all three come with skinny, borrowed those robes with a few vari left eyebrow, and all in one delight horrible, clawing hands the stacles stions, the chief being the substitution, fal action fobbed the ball back to the of the pier and the cotton bales. | of ghostly white for ghostly black..

Now, perhaps, you will understand bowler, Knox was attending to s The new Ordes of the Cresders bootson which, had come undone, why Louise gripped me as no siber recently founded in London, has bor and as he stopped, looking down, the part has gripped me before of sinor. rowed certain of its ideals, its nere ball hit him on the bead

În was not a part, it was myself, a monial, and ita habit from all ite

quivering slave to terror. predecessors.

hooded tribunal. -.--

INTOLERANCE.

BOWLED BY THE GARDENER'S, An amusing reminiscence of Gilbert Jessop At a cricket match between a team from the staffé of two newspapers and man employed on Lord North- cliffa's estate at Button Place

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* At first I felt I ogald not possibly. play it, but the truth is that I never felt better, calmer, or saner in my life Thew ideals all secret socïaties hold

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The Old Women. My famlliam execution of them. Religion, love of

left me. For the first time I could country, self-sacrifor, and a bitter The field was spread ont in all dires- remember I slegt dreamleanly." I can intolerance of all who appear to differ 123ng, Jessop sool guard and a csanal, only suppose I get rid of the terrore from them in views or in actions are took round and was ready to pay; (He pouson in my system by translating it their basis, as they are the rule of all had, by the way, got over two hundred into the part men's conduct, whether "secret" or in a first-class match that week, so the]. “No play I have known ever had Favoned,

"runs.)- The" gardener's boy such an sico upon

It is only when the methods taken mustered up his courage, rushed at The Old Wome

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