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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONERES, AFFRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,

Public Auctions-

*

$40

1160 Undersigned nave rsönlvad Instruc- sons to wall by Pablis Auction, SATURDAY, March 24, 1823, commencing at 11 am.

at their Bates Rooms, Duddell Street, 120 doz. Glaser's Enamels

44 casca Tanesh Water

12 Electric tabia fand

And

1

A Quantity of Office Furniture. Term:-Cash on delivery.

* LAMMERT BROS.

Apetioneers.

on

MONDAY, March 26, 1923, sommencing at 8.45 p.m.

at No. 2 Clermont Villa (10 Chatham

Rosd) Kowloon

A Large Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture,

Comprising:

Chesterfield Sofa and armchairs, mantel piece, fluwer stand with marble top, bats ornaments, pictures, curtains, neic cabiust, marble statuss, else troller, carved cherrywood desk, silver-

ware etc.

Extension dining table, dining chairs, sideboards with bevelled mirror, dinner waggon, ailver cabinet, tea sot, liquor set, cut-glasses, etc.

Double brass bedsteads, double and singto wardrobes with glass doors, dressing table, chest-of-drawers, couch, etc.

Also

One Dresden.Chinn Dinner Sorrico Ono Canteen Sat

One American Ice Chest

On view from Sunday the 25th inst.

Catalogues will be issued.

Terms --Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Austinders,

THE kr. 31. L. Hoared 18E Undersigned have received in- Sell by Public Auction.

WEDNESDAY, March 28, 1923,

commencing at 8.45 p.m.

at his residence "Clovelly " No. 12, Peak Rond

A Largo Quantity of

Valuable Household Furniture, Comprising:→→→

A Fino Selection of Carved Black- wood-ware.

Teak hattard, Drawing 100m Suite (cilk tapestry covered), oil paintings, water colours, ceiling and table fans, silk brocade curtains, tras curtain poles, electrolier, teak bookcases, etc.,

etc.

Take sideboard with bevelled glass, Dining table and chairs, dinner waggons, Ice chest, Tea tables, glisá cabinet with glass shelves, Dinner and Tea services, glain ware, etc., etc..

Brass and Iron bedatende, double und single wardrobes with bevalled glass doors, dressing table, narble top washstands etc.

Large Fates and porcelain vasRE, Lonzo statues, brass crnaments etc.

Also

etc.

Large Axminster Carpole, File ruge

One Piano hy Eatey, New York

One Pinna by Coiled & Collard

One Victrela XVI

Ono Lot of Records

INTIMATIONS

FOR SALE.

1 Asistic and Foreigna

POSTAGE STAMPS ́·

in Bags, Packets, Beta and Single. PICTORIAL POST CARDS with Chinese Costumes, Views of Hongkong, Canton, Macro &c. and ALBUM OF HONGKONG SCENES.

GRACA & CO.,

Dealers in Philatelic Goods, Arántic Post Cards, Toys, Picture Books, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street,

P. O. Box 620.

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese Band Mado)

Every kind of FootweAT. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00,,

0, D'AQUILAR STREET,

Opposlta Kayamaliy & Co.

Telephone Central No, 491

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

MASSAGE

K. SAKAI, T.KANAMORI

18, Praya East,

2nd Floor,

MASSAGE.

| Mrs. HONDA, Mrs. KISAKI and

R. SHIMIDZU,

No. He Wrody. Erect (opposite to the Ching MAIF")

JAPANESE MASSAGE.

N. AKAJI,

Graduate of Tokio Manage School,

No. 28, Wyndham Street.

Tel Central 4395.

NAMSAN & CO.

886 Des Voeux Road West

Photo Engraving and Designing LITHOGRAPHERS Tel. Central 1363.

WING FAT CHEUNG

SPARROW CARDS (MA FONG), FOR BALL. CARDS MADE OF IVORY AND FISH BONE,

No. 176, Queen's Road Central,

BRANCH

No. 99, Man Hum Street East.

And

Several Enamelled

batha,

and

porcelain basins, Bath Room requisites.

Garden seats, Lawn mower, store

rolier, palms and plants. -

ASAHI BEER

PILSENER BEEK

On view on day of sale.

Catalognes will be issued.

Cattime on dalievry.

LAMMERT BROS.,

On

Аистории.

WEDNESDAY, Aprik-11, 1923, commencing at 3 pm

st their Sales Hooms, Daddell Street. ONE SET OF MINT MACHINERY This lot comprises a complete set of Mint Machinery capable of producing 100 000 (One hundred thousand) pieces 20-ocat (Twony cent) coins or 200,000 (Two hundred thousand) pieces 10-cent Ten cent) coins per working day of 10 hours.

Further particulars and inspection orders may be obtained from Messre, Gilman & Co., Ltd., or the Under- signed.)

Terus-20% of purchass money to be paid ou fall of hammer.

Balance to be paid within two weeks

of day of sale.

LAMMERT BROS.

ANCTIONET.

C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

BANITA GY KNGINEERE MONUMENTALJAKÝ

Ollors and Dedovnu;"> Wanchal Bend Hongkong

Tel Central No. 209

...Large stock of

BATHS and BATH BOOK

LAVATORY BAKING FLUSH GLOBETİL

ONMENDES, BID-TS, ar da

OFF & CLOSED STOVÉ, COOKING

«ANUES, TILED GRATES, A

ALMIGAN, & ITALIAN MARBLE SEMORIALS--Algo la polished. Bonghong Gracite

MRAND PRIZES.

ASAHI

B

CAHIE

SOLI

MİTSUI BUSSAN KAISHA

Navy Cut

Cigarettes

WD&HOWILLS Bristolá London

THE CHINA MAIL.

CAPSTAN

VIRGINIA CIGARETTES

SELECTED & BLENDED BY EXPERTS FROM THE FINEST VIRGINIA LEAF

Smokers of

“CAPSTAN” CIGARETTES are always sure of a cool and pleasant smoke with an excellent flavour

The CIGARETTE for the CONNOISSEUR

Navy Cut Cigarettes

FRIDAY MAROH _23_1923-

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansion

| Agents for:—ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

- ROSS'S' BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES,

KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS." BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,

ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Elanufacturers High Class English Jewellery,

THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO.

Howl Office; 79 Wyndham Street and Floor. (Opposite Central Police Station) Tel. Central 4168.J^

Dealers in all kinds of High-clam Silk Shirts, Collars, Neckties and Pyjamas for Gentlemen AND ALSO

„Chemises, Skirts, Wrappers, Boarfs, Veils, and Night gowns for Ladies

ALSO MADE · TO ORDER

MODERATE PRICE

PROMPT DELIVERY

Manager: EMILIO LAU,

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Kodals and Kodak Films, de..

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A BRECIALITY.

No. 17a, Queen's Road Chitral, Hongkong.

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS.

HONGKONG:

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Hongkong Hotel

Repulse Bay Hotal

Palace Hotel

OBTAINABLE FROM ALL HIGH-CLASS TOBACCONISTS Packets of 10

Tins of 50

SHANGHAI:

PEKING;

Astor House Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalen Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits

This Advertisement in famed by British-American Tobacco Co. (China); Ltd.

ODDS AND ENDS,

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

A Natural Thermometer.

It was a wonderful sapphire, so it is said, that led the celebrated Dr. Sorby to the discovery of the mature of the liquid sometimes found in-.

poetry, or what, parts of lines, but ye may have forgotten that he's would you be prepared to bet that a Paisley man. And see'st'ou that he knew, in such a way that they kirk wi the doom on't?, That's St came readily and swiftly into his

into

10

am

conversation, or repeated them- George's, where a' the gentry at- selves in his mind as he walked tend for the sake of the singing; alone? I suppose I am not what and I'se warrant ye'll no hear the you would call a plunger, but after like of the precentor in a' England. They ca' him R. A. Smith, and he's thinking hard about it, I

"And see'st 'ou prepared gamble on only a Paisley man."

where a thac coaches are waiting three. One is "I shot an

to start? That's the Register Office. But atrow

the air." closed in the cavities of crystals. am not going to lay very long odds Ye may say it's the keystano of the The gem in question contained a on that. The second is safe. It kingdom; for lairds and lands a But, though it's the tube shaped cavity a quarter of an is: To be or not to be, that is the hing by it.

Why people should place where dukes and earls keep question. inch long and an eighteenth of an

their titles, and the king himself know this line I cannot imagine, inch in diameter, which was so regular in its bore that it served, but I am sure that they do. It is keeps his papers, every day when by means of the liquid partially even harder to understand why the clerks gae hame and door is filling it, for a thermometer. The they should know the third which steekit, the entire place is left in charge of an auld wife, and she's a garden, contained liquid half filled the isCome into the bore at 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and Maud." But this line, too, I believe Paisley woman.": completely filled it at Bo tcgrces, to be familiar, because I remember Lamb's Favourite Books.

a music-hall comedian who used

What were Charles Lamb's to say. We've got a pig; we've called it Maud because it will keep favourite books! We know that coming into the garden." And the he adjured Coleridge to read audience always laughed. You can Beaumont and Fletcher's plays, imagine, then, with what delight likewise Massinger's and Ford's and with what amazement I over- and that Coleridge in turn advised to study Plutarch and heard a chance remark outside one hin

A study of the rate of expansion of the liquid led to the conclusion that it must be carbonic acid. New York Herald.

New Panama Canal

The question of a new canal join- ing the Atlantic and the Pacific came up for discussion when, the of the Tube stations a day or two Porphyry, through whom we know Secretary for War, M, Weeks, pre ago. Anewspaper seller, a cynical- all that can be known about "sented figures showing that traffic looking and rather a ragged man, Plotinus. He tells us that Burns through the Panama Canal was in- shivered a little, and said to one of was an old favourite. The appear touch of ance of a presentation copy (to C. creasing at a rate which, if con- his colleagues with tiqued, would soon render the bitterness, "If Winter Comes." May) of Walton and Colton's And then, after a slight pause-- waterway inadequate. Earnings Can spring be far be'ind?".

'Compleat Angler," at Sotheby's reminds us that he also worshipped the great Izaak. Writing to Wordsworth on April 26, 1816, "Izaak Walton any page. m. which

from Panama are now 50 percent. greater than last year, and 352|* Seestu.” vessels passed through in January,

says, How Paisley came to be known be. paying tolls of £300,000. Traffic

"Seestu" is thus told by a hallows as has nearly quadrupled since the correspondent of The Evening his reverend name appears." And canal was opened, and itis reason Times in reply to an anxious thirty years before, writing to able to believe that the normal inquirer in Gossip and Grum- Coleridge whose Religious Mus growth of the traffic will ́overtax Panama's capacity in the course of bles"The Rev. James Hamilton, ings" Lamb held to be the next the ten or fifteen years which must D., a Paisley man, who wrote the noblest after "Paradise Lost," he memoirs of James Wilson, F.R.S. asks: "Among all your quaint clapse before a new canal could be E of Woodville; a brother of reading did you ever light, upon completed. Military experts be-Christopher North, opens his Walton's "Compleat Angler" }; I could be more easily defended than first chapter with, the following asked you the question once be the Panama, because the locks story: The scene is Edinburgh fore: it breathes the very, spirit of would be further inland. Another. Castle about the year 1830. An innocence, purity, and simplicity consideration bearing upon the English tourist is standing on the of heart. There are many old construction of a new waterway is Rock with a lank, keen visaged choice verses interspersed in it; the inadequacy of the Panama Scotsman for Interproter and It would Christianise every dis 'Now, my good friend," cordant angry passion it would Canal, with its 1000ft locks, which guide:

lieve that the Nicaraguan: route-

find it difficult to handle the largest said the Soulbron," you have talk-sweeten a man's temper at warships in the event of their reed quite enough about your native any time to read it":"And quiring abnormal draft through town. Pray, forget Paisley for a he improves the occasion, by injury in a naval engagement moment, and let us look at Edin-questioning Coleridge whether Another important consideration hurgh it's no easy to forget he had, made it up with Southey is the dar ger to the present canal Paisley when you look at Embro," yet. Both were silly felows to replied the offended cicerone. fail out like boarding school by landslides, which may renderzeest ou?" and he pointed to misses. So kiss, shake hands, and the waterway useless for a pro-

wards the University buildings; make it up." Of course, Lamb longed period at any time.

that's Embro' College, where they could not afford a- first edition of Poetry bi the Street.

Cams from England and, a pairts the Compleat Angler (1653) He It is strange, when one comes to to learn to be doctors and chancel- had to be content with one of 1772 think of it, log few fragments of lors and members of Parliament, and (three years before he was born); English nostry are on the lips of it has the cleverest men in the tree and it fetched £17 (Spencer) One- the man in 4 extreet (writhe Eklegdoms for its professors but wonders where-Lamb's copy of Knox in the Daily Newsy To justify for the cleverest of them a' is ane Milton's works in Lain now hides. thir, I oughtaps to say that one John Wilson and he's a Paisley In presenting it to Coleridge he must choose one's man (and one's man. And see'st ou?” pointing wrote: "A book reads the better street) hon Terry If you chose to a distant spire, von's the winch is our own, and bas-been so quite ordlary man, I do not care steeple of North Leith. It's the best long known to us that we know the whether he were rich or poor, so stipend in Scotland, and at this topography of its blots and dog's. long as he clisarly had this great present time it's allowed to have cars, and can trace the dirt in it to grality of ordiýariness shining in the best preacher in Scotid for having read it at fen with buttered his eyes, uid reflected in cathin its minister. Ye must have heard muffins, or over a pine which conversation, what lines of English-tell Rev. James Buchanan; think is the maximum,ra

The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd. In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

Bod

The Grand Hotel des Wagons Litä, Ltd.

Tel. Centi. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Təl. Add: "Carlton. The Only American Hotel in the Colony. Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banks, and Central Districts 48 Bedrome. Excellent Cuisine. Scrupulously clean. Under Americas Management. A new Dining Room has been opened at No. 2, Queen's Road (1st floor). Entrance Ice House St. Tifing a speciality.

For terms apply to Mrs. F. E. CAMERON, Proprietress.

(Two minutes from Star Ferry)

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOOM

Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughons and entirely under now management. Ouleles under the persona: supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Bliliard Rooma Terma modernas. Spacial terma to families on application to

Telephona Kowloon 3,

Telegraphic Add,', "PALACE.”

HOTEL

J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor. /

"ASIA"

·WEST · BUND, CANTON.

Leading Hotel in South China.

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans Elevators. Roof Garden Hairdressing Salcom

Pearl Splendid Views of City and

Rivar.

Excellent Cuisine

Moderate Bater.

Under the Management of the SUN 00., LTD.,

KING EDWARD HOTEL

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