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LAMMERT BROS.

Ábetioskusa, APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS,

-Public Auctions--

THE Undersigned have received in- stractions from the Committee of the Hongkong Cricket Club to sell by Public Auction,

FRIDAY, March 9, 1923, commencing a 11 a.m.

at their old Pavilion

A Quantity of Fornituro and Mixtures,

On rias from Thursday the 8th, March 1929,

Terz→Cseh on delivery,

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LAMMERT BROS..

Anotioneers

BE Undersigned havo received In- *tructions frem Mowbray 8. North- veoto, Eaq, to sell by Public Auction.

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FRIDAY, March 9, 1923, ·

commencing at 245 p.m.

at his residence "Iddéalaigh" No. 5. Bowen Rood

The Whole of his Valuable Honsehold Furniture, Comprising:-

Took batetand, Drawing Room Suite (tapestry covered), bookcase oto.

Teak sideboard, Dining table and chairs, Dinner waggon, leo chest, Tea tables, Dinner and tea services, Glas ware etc.

Brass and teak bedstesks, plain tesk double and single wardrobes, dressing table, marble top wasbstaud, pile carpet and rugs, lace curtains, water coloure paintings, vegravings, brasa ornaments, etc., etc.

لله

ALEO

One Cottage Fiano by John Brinsmead

and Bona

And

A quantity of Palms, plants, and

forms.

On view from Thursday, the 8th

March, 1923.

Catalogues will be issued.

Terms -Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, March 2, 1923.

.

THE Undersigned have received 10- Thou Dr. G. D. Back to Boll by Public Auction

- MONDAY, March 13, 1923,

́commencing at 2.45 p.m.

at bis realdonos" lan Mor" No, 16 Peak Rosd

The Whole of His Vainable Household Furnitura, Comprising:

Chesterfield couch and armchairs, Bran fenders, fire brassos, Leather covered armchaire, Roll top deaks, Fino, pot curtains, card tables, Mirrors, Bookcases, Bronzce, Brassce Ornaments, Carpets, Rugs, etc.

and

Teak extension dining table, Leather covered armchairs, dining chairs, Fine Teak sideboarde, Dinner waggon, Glaze. ware, Crockery, E. P, Ware, etc., etc.

Double and single teak bedstearts, teak double wardrobe with hevelled mirror, dressing table, marble top wzahatruunt, chest-of-drawers, etc.

Cooking stove and aluminium cooking tensile.

also

A Large Quantity of carved Black- wood-ward

Winkelmann"

One Grand Piano by

One Perambulator

And

Large Quantity of Palms, Ferns and Plant in pots.

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

LAMMERT EROS. *

Auction pers

E Undersigned have received in- structions from the Frecutrix

the Estato of the nte R E. Bellios (deceased) to s1 by Public Auction

UD

WEDNESDAY, March 14, 1823

commencing at 2.45 pm. in the Hall," Kingsclere"

(by kind permission of Mrs. Saebeo) A Quantity of Caltablo Househoid Furniture, Comprising:--

Bookcases, sideboard, Extension dining table, Chesterfield anschairo, Teak bedstouds. Bederom suite, Fino Carpets, Ruge, Brass fenders, Curtains, Water colours, Silver and Electroplated ware, Bronze, Pigure Cu-glasa etc.

Aino

'One Enamelled Bath,

One Geyser.

One Victor Victrola with records.

aud

A Collection of Books.

including one set Library Falition

24 Arabian Nights Entertaiments"

On view from Tuesday the 13. Marchi “Eridegnen will-berigned

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TomCash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Austicadern,

Hoaglung, March 6, 1993.

@PUR Undersigned have resatyad (patītas. Mons to asi by Fuħila Amerlon,

THURSDAY, March 15, 1923,

commencing, at 2.30 p.m. at the Astor Houen Hotel

(Boom No. 17)

A Large Collection of. White. anti Coloured Marble Statuen, Benit, Lampa,

ales, Fowler Foxes, and Pedestala

by da

Well" Known Italian Bedlptors. On view from Monday the 12th

Catalogues will be lasted,

INTIMATIONS

JUST RECEIVED RELIGIOUS

STATUETTES

OF

SACRED HEART OF JESUS &o., 4., &c.

at $10 and $14 each.

GRACA & 00.,

Dealers in Religions Goode, View Post Cardo, Postage Stamps, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620.

. Hongkong.

SHOE MAKERS.

(Japancas Hant: Mado)

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER,

CHERRY & CO.,

4, D'AQUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Oo,

Tulophone Central No. 491

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

MRS. HAN INOKUCHI.

Telephone Kowloon 754. No. 21, Ashley Road, Kowloon, Back of Star Theatre, CERTIFICATED EXPERT' MASSAGE, HAND AND ELECTRIQ

Also at pamester' residence dy arrangemmit,

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Tol. Central 4395,

MASSAGE.

Mrs. HONDA, Mrs. KIBAKI and R. SHIMIDZU.

No, Wycher.. Ekreets (oppodle to the Uking Mal”)

WING FAT CHEUNG SPADKOW CARDS (MA JONG) FOR BALL CARDS MADE OF IVORY AND FISH BONE.

No. 278, Queen's Road Central,

BRANCH No. 99, Man Ham Street East.

Ecco

"ANG YUK, Destier,

the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Agullar Street.

TERMS VERY MODERATE.

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FINDS IN NEW CALEDONIA.

LINKS WITH OTHER RACES.

'

trable moes of lanjana, Mr. Vogan' discovered the strange symbols of a WHAT WOMEN ARE WEARING. long-forgotten race. There were crosses, double and single, apparently All who know Chins will scarcely the sign manuals of different tribes, need to be reminded that jewellery, who had thus defined their respective which in a passion common to women Was Australia once the home of an boundaries; terpents identical with the world over is in China an obsession other and earlier white race?

those already well known in places with all classes. The favourite stone According to Mr. Arthur J. Vegan, as far sport se India and Central is green jade, but blue and white F.R.G.S., the well-known traveller America; eun-symbole, anch as one varieties are also greatly worn, siater and ethnologist, who has been study finde in Mexies, and were used in the writer in the Daily Telegraph ing this and kindred subjecta for pre-Buddhist cults of ancientest Rabies, sapphires, emeralds, and many yeaza, it is possible that among Chica, Cae photograph, taken on pearls are esteemed highly, whilst the earliest inhabitants of the cen- the spot, clearly shutes the familiar Chiness buyers have been keenly ia- tinent were an Asiatic people belong. symbol of the Tree of Life-cpe of terested over the 1 cultivated pearlsTM ing to the same family as the Phoeni- the oldest symbols in the world, of recent Japaness discovery, and ciane-the ruddy folk" who, eman- Thousands of years before Christ it many women are as well-pleased with ating somewhere in the neighbour fgured continually upon tembs in thede as, with thoes that they know hord of the Malay Penitsals, moved Egypt; it is frequently found in the as the pure teardrop." The style gradually westward till they finally sculptared monuments of Assyria in jewellery has undergone change of settied on the Syrian shore of the and Chaldea; it is a common motive late. During recent years the heavy, style of Mediterranean. As these people wore in the wonderful carpets of Persia, old-fashioned Chiness little, if any, darker than the present some of which are generations in the jewellery is not much seem, except in Spaniard or Italian, a fresh interest is making se Ygdrasil, the World Aah, the remote country provinces. lent to the romonis that have been it was celebrated in the ragas of Westernised students have influenced and the their brides to wear less ornaments eaught from time to time among the primitive Scandinavia;

trea and tha and adopt "foreign fashion. This natives of a "white race" existing in Christman the still unexplored recesses of New Throa

is a great advantage, as under of, Jere," pictured so Guinea, where also the strangers insy aften in old church windows, are both the old regime a Chinese lady was A naturally have settled.

probably sprung from the same walking jeweller's shop, and looked primeral root as the tree rudely scalp anything bat attractive, except to har tared long ago on a rock in a savage unable to display so many costly own envious women friends! Those Facific island!

jewels at a public fanation were treated with soorn, to that present- day fashions at the ports have the neutral regions of New Caledonia, narvings in Australis, with which they resulted in a kindlier spirit amongst and, to quote bis own words, "in New have much in common, these most in the upper-class ladies in China. Thus Caledonis we have, in my opinion, a teresting carvings are always found in they are unconscionaly practising the whole new field of archaeological in proximity to water, cr, at any rate, to maxim of their Great Bago, ""Manners tarest linking up Asis, the Pacific, where water had once been, and are and courtesy are the finest jewele to and America. Hundreds of miles related to what Mr. Vogan has be found in the universe. were traversed among natives, who, christened the running water cult." hostile to the French their masters. This calt, which looks upon running gladly amisted him on learning that water as the nitimate source of all life,

DRUNK ON COFFEE.

·That, however, is a digression from Mr. Vogan's discoveries. For nestly a year pant he has been wandering in

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INVADERS FROM ASIA. Lake the so-called "aboriginal "

he was English. Forty yesis or so is originally found in China, the water cult than their cousins in New ago Englishmen were found fighting cradle, in his opinion, of most of these Caledonia, who were possibly more on the side of the tribes, who very early beliefs. That the Australian High Church," At all events the were then in open revolt, and the carvings have anything in their origin latter employed the "cock's comb " natives have never forgotten the fact to do with the oborigines he entirely syabal, the emblem of the "Bird of On one occasion: Mr. Vogan's dusky | disbelieves, **.

Life," as the cook was called from its allies, had ad orgy en cofies! One At Karing-gai Chase, for example, habit of saluting the dawn. This would hardly suspect coffre of being are carvings recognisable as the well-symbol in fully 5000 year old, and is so potent a faid, but the condition of knowa, Chinese symbol of the flying found even in Mexico and Ingatan, the natives left no possible doubt on goose, which typifies rain. At Woy often Lide by side with the the subject! At one real of his Woy are carved the unmistakabla so called Christian ErOSSES, explorations, Mir. Vogan has just figures of rabbits or hares, which which are of course, really ada mado a presentation to the Sydney were unknown in this country until symbole. What is still more strange, Museum of a large and highly 1838, whereas the hare is a symbol one may clearly valuable collection of carvings and of the Moon all over Asia, and has. ir. Vogan, in the head-dremes of the other object, including the first been to from the earliest times, priest in New Caledonia a reprisen- collection of lepidopters to reach Carvings such as there could, thiretation of the head, trunk and ears of Bydnay trend New Caledonia, fore, only have been made, not by an elephant, although there are, of "Hidden' away in the. of the aborigines, but by foreign settlere cruise, no such animals in the faland, jungle, carved

from Asia bringing their old beliefs. The russon la that this symbol has with them. It is quite possible that come originaly from Asin, whimes it

aboriginal, Couperstition of☺a) has spread right across the Ennyip," any evil spirit haunting Ameri A Corelasive pro

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