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LAMMERT BROS.

ATUZIONENES, Appraisers AND BUKVATORK,

-Public Auctions-

WE Undersigned bare recoised in

structions from the Executrix of the Estate of this Into. IL E. Belilios (deceased) to sell by Public Auction

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WEDNESDAY, March 19, 1923

commecoing at 2.45 p.m. in the Hall, "Kingicloro'

fby kind permission of Mr. Sachso)

A Quantity of

Valuako Household Furniture, Comprising:--

Bookcase, sideboard, Extension dining table, Chesterfield armchairs, Toak bedstonda, Bedroom site, Pine Carpets, Rugi, Brass fandora, Curtains, Water colonre, Silver and Electroplated ware, Beonza, Pigurs Cut-ghus sta.

Also

Une Eaumolled Bath.

Onu Qaysar.

One Victor Victrola with records.

Opo Very fine Jsce infaid Blackwood

Sensen.

Que Microscope

Che Wardrobe Trunk.

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A Collection of Books.

including one set Library Edition "Aubin Nights Entertainments"

On view from Tumday the 13, March Catalogues will be invited.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Austioneers.

Hongkong, March 6, 1923.

***, F. Oncesaiguɛd have romlyod instzno- donate well by Pablis Auction,

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THURSDAY, March 15, 1923, -

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

- "X"Large Collection of White and Coloured Marble Statues, Busts, laraps, Yates, Powder Boxer, anil Pedestals

by

Well Known Italian Sculptors. Oa view from Monday the 12th March.

Cataloguss will be issued, ferma;~Cach on dolievry,"

LAMMERT BROS,,

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Hongkong, March 3, 1923.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

COMING EVENTS

ADVERTISED.

ENTERTAINMENT'S.

March 12. Coronet Threnire,! John Barrymore in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Worial Theatre; Con- way Tearle in "The Fighter." Star Theatre Bryant Washburn in "Why Smith Left Home."

March 12.--Theatre Royal Band- man's Eastern Circuit Ltd., present Ratiert Courtneidge and W. E. Holloway's London Co., in the Mysterious Mystery Play "The Bat"

March 13-Theatre Royal: Robert | Courtneidge ard W. E. Holloway's London Co., in Gladys Cooper's Grestest Success, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray."

March 14-Theatre Royal; Robert Courtneidge and W. B., Holloway's London Co. in a romantic Play of the East"The Garden of Allah."

March 15-Theatre Royal; Robert Courtneidge and W. E. Holloway'a London Co., in John Drinkwater’a History Play "Abraham Lincoln."

March 16-Theatre Royal; Robert Courtneidge and W. E. Holloway'a London Co.. in The Comedy that is Breaking Recorda "Ambrose Ap plejobo's Adventure,”

March 17-Theatro Royal; Robert Courthridge and W. E. Holloway's Ladon Co., in Sir Gerald Du Maurier's Greatest Success "Bull Dog Drum-, mend."

SPORTING EVENTS. March 22-23-R. A. Athletio Meeting, UB.R.C. Ground, Kowloon, are mile race open to the Services and all British Ecaudents in the Balony, race timed for 3.20 p.m. on the 23rd.

· PUBLIC AUCTION,

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March 14-Lowmert Bron, a quantity of valuable household faraiture in the hall of Kingsclere including books..000 enamelled bath, org gayner, and one Victor Victroa with records, a very fine jade ínlaid Blackwood screen, I microscope, and 1 wardrobe trunk, at 2.45 p.m.

March 15-Lammer Bros.; a large collection of marble statues, baste, lamps," vases, powder boxes, peden- tals, at Room 17, Astor House Hotel,

2:30 pm.

A Tamily Necessity: Ereny, family sho id te provided with Chamberlain's Fun amat all tires. Spenzie may be co-ed ninth Mine ben promptly treated. L-ms Emok, iame shoulder, wine in the itaani chest and ih gasile pains er nogo, the disesse for which it (a'pecially vult- ableTry this heimst and become quainted with t qualities and you tever wish to bishopt it Wor by all Chemista and Storekeeper

INTIMATIONS

FOR SALE

HARBUTT'S PLASTICINE

The Child's Delight","

PLAY WAX

For clean and Easy Play-Models

THE NOVLART

Dry Stencil Pictures

GRACA & CO.,

Doslors in Postage Stamps, Pletorial Post Carda, Garden Seeds, &o. No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620,

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese Band Meda)

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO.,

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Hongkong, March 20, 1914,

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Also alpationta' residenca by arrangement,

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Tel. Contral 4395.

MASSAGE.

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WING FAT CHEUNG

SPARROW CARGS (MA JONO) FOR SALE, CARDS MADE OF IVORY AND FISKI ZONE.

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with dread and terror, and that by no legislative acts, but after present- derivation nice means foolish or silly, ing what it calls some “old-fashioned though in the modern sense it has ideas," tells the law-makers that, “in come to mean agreeable. Yet awfully nico" has been current as a

the interest of public welfare the synonym of complete approval almost batterfly existence of the childless There is a recurning moment in a as long as a middle-aged peron can re-wife should cease." It is emphasised woman's life when the teele a painful member. Some of the youngsters, with

Women and Tips.

inferiority to the mere male. When a spasm of originality, bave substitut- by the overworked housewives that

the maid tells her the coal has been ed" frightfully," or "frantically" or

childless marriages are fashionable. in delivered, and the taxi-driver wipes" delitiotaly" for the old-fashioned American cities among young couples, big honest brow after helping up with epiti et, but it still retains its and in the country districts birth the trunks; when the porter an popularity. There have been efforts, restriction is growing. "We believe nounces be bas "put the small mainly among "nice" people, to that wives andor 50 years of age things" in an emply compartment; invent er mething which should take having no children," says the latter, or when tervants she has never seen the place of the adjective. But any should be compelled to do housework before line up as she prepares to leave ore who keeps his este open in a three days a week for wives under 50 her ipn; at these crucial moments the public place-from a picture show to years of age who have children.""" lone lora woman is thoroughly cona bargain sale- will find that "Dice" The association claims a membership scicus of the disadvantages of in the pre dominant adjective. What of 4,100,000, and declares that its independence. Man says he is lorda is the reason. Merely that most of headquarters are "by the cook- mentally more generous than woman, us, in speech, at any rate, possere a stove and cradle, with wach-tab near saye, a writer in the Westminster very small vocabulary.

Thereby...

Gazette, Sbe declares that he is merely are agricultural labourers in remote London's Sajuts. thicker-skinned, and lese conecious parts of the country whose outfit of

and considerate of other people's feel words, it is raid, does not extend be Much is written concerning the ings. The opposed aftertions are ford a few hundreds. Some of us bistory of the London churches, but probably two halves which together who live in town are not much better make a whole, the whole being the equipped. complacent assurance, in tip giving. Photographing Sea Birds. which the female envice sud cannot emplate.

MONDAY, MARCH 12 1923,

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little about the holy men and women after whom they were named, writes Ormonde Butler in the London Striking results in photographing of London were believers in the Evening News. The early inhabitanti aen birds, declared Mr. Baton Gordon virtues of their own countrymen, and A Story of Lord ballsbury,

recently, could be obtained by a com There are ecme delightful stones in paratively cheap camera with an City churches shows that omitting a glance at the dedications of the Mt. Douglas Aindie's Adventures, ordinary lens. He had an outfit which the Apostles-native saints like Social and Literary, about the great cost just over five pounde, and had Dunstan and Swithin were just as Lord Salisbury as to his immense taken hundreds of bird photographe popular as the famous sanctified capacity for failing to recognize even with it, some of which were just as gcres of other lands, such as Clement, those with whom he was daily in good as photographs taken with 6 Nicholas, or Anthony. St. Botolph,. contact. A neighbouring squire camera, that had cost him ten times for instance, was & Lincolnshire hermit dropped in to luncheon-"Lady that amount, It was wonderful, he and the founder of Boston-which Sabstory was rather apprehensive said, what could be done by stalkingword is a corruption of Botolph's that her husband might fail to re-sea bide if it were done gradually. town. He was supposed to be the cognier this somewhat obecure perron, But creeping forward quietly, it was patron saint of travellers, which ex- and was greatly zelieved to find, when possible to get within four or plains why a church dedicated to him Lord Salisbury entered the dining five feet of the bird. Explaining, stood at each important gate of the room a little later, that he immediate how erme photographs of the pull City--Billingsgate without, Aldera- If engaged their homespun guest in were taken on a small island in the gate, without, Aldgate, and Biope. A the paying Speed Co conversation, which he kept up Outer Hebrides he eaid he put op a gate, the last threa, being still in vigorously, till the end of the repast, hiding tent and left it for two or existenca. when the squire rather bastily took three days. After the birds had got|

his leave Lord Salisbury, then used to it, he went across with his Wonen Bow Too Much. Cordially remarked I was glad wife and a ghillle. He went into the..It appears to be the fact (and there Lord Roberts dropped in to luncheon tent, and the others left him and is more in it than may at first be hap to day; but I fear ho is not what he rewed away from the island., Within pored); the adept needlewoman does Was intellectually, Bo append to three minutes the pulls came back her work as all the higher craftamen me to be remarkably vague as to our and took absolutely no netice of him do with the best and most alert sho military dispositions in Egypt, and in the biding tent. If only one per, has at command (writes Elizabeth his views on Indian question semed on wint, the gulls were put on their Robins in Good Housekeeping) Bhe even more nebulons. But we all grow guard, but if there were one or two does not, nes rale, in her hours of older. I believe that it was thought othem who went back after landing, weariness or her times of recreation, advisable not to disillusionies him as their rare were dirgelled. One cr turn back to needlework whether of to the identity of bia late guest." two birds, such as the grey crow, the the plain or the decorative sort. - The raven, and some of the terne, could

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