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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, "Affzainwes

AND SURVETORK

-Public Auctions-

1983 Undarulgnað have received Inakuno. Kuna wema by Publia Aucion,

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TUESDAY, April 3, 1928, commencing at 11 am.

at No. 1 Stewart Tearace (No. 87,

The Posk) /

A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture,

Comprising:

Tosk hatstand, Chesterfield Coach and armchairs, Teak overmantel with bevelled mirror, Brass ornamente, Pio- tures, Carpots, curtains &c., &e.

Took extension dining table, Dining chairs, Teak sideboard, Dioner waggon, Teak screen, Glassware, Crockery, Cutlery, Ko, ác

Iron Bodatende, Teak Wardrobės, Teak dressing table with bevelled toirror, teak washstond with marble top, Chest of drawers &c., &c.

And

A Quantity of Plants and polme On View from Monday. the 2nd April 1929,

"Catalognes will be issued.

Terma-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,,

Autationsern.

"Hongkung, March 27, 1923,

HE Undersigned have received in- notions Kim Mits. Rosser to sell by Public Auction,

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WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, the 4th and 5th April 1923, commencing each day st 245 p.m. at "Harting" und "Rogate" Austin Road, Kowloon, The Whole of har Valuable Household Furniture,'

Comprising:---

Teak hatatand with berolled rairror, Chesterfield Couch and armohairs (cro- tonne covered), Toak bookcase, Music Cabinet, Tenk fenders, Fira brasace, Leather covered armchairs, Roll top desks, card tablos, Teak overmantels with bevelled mirror, Brass ornaments, Cartains, Carpets, Rugs &c., dc.

Teak dining table and chairs, Fino teak sideboard with bevelled mirror, Dinner waggon, Silver cabinet, Croe- kery, Glassware, Cutlery, E. P. Ware &o., &c.

Double and singls teak and iron bedsteads Teak double and single wardrobes with glass doors. Dressing tables, Marble top washstands, Chesta of drawers, Toilets sets &c., &c.

Also

Cooking stoves and cooking utensils One Plan by Moutrien One Victrula IX

And

1 Lot of recorda.

One View from Tuesday, the 3rd April 1923

Catalogues will be issued. format:-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers,

Hongkong, March 28; 1993.

Particulars and Conditions of Bla

of the Very Valuabio Leasehold Property Being The Ilenia Ding Fortion of Inland Lot No. 588

'And

The Messunge Known as No. 10 Seymour Terrace to be sold by

PUBLIC AUCTION

The 6th day of April 1923, at 12 o'clock noon

by

Meeurs, LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers At their duction Rooms in Daddell Street.

The property consists of:-

All the piece or parcel of ground aituate at Victoria, in the Colony of Hong kong, and registered in the Land Office 28 DE REMAINING PORTION OF ISLAND Lor No. 538 held for the residue of a term of 999 years from the 25th day of Jane 1869 created by the Crown Lease of Inland Lot No. 688.dated the 25th day of August 1859 and inade between Ber Late ajesty Queen Victoria of the one part and Frederick Henry Azander Forth of the other part.

\

Arvo 6031 iquare feet or thereabouts. Proportion of Crown Hent 84.08 per BIDUM.

Particulars and Conditions of Sela may be had from:

Mears, LO & LO,''

alexandra Building,

Bogkong, Vendor's Salaitors,

ar from Messrs. LAMMERT DROS,

tha ́Apotionseri,

Hongkong, March 23, 1923.

«a tinderigned haynreonved instru

rious to sill by Fabiis kuillon,

WEDNESDAY, #pril 11; 1994,

aommencing at 3 pm.

* their Sason Rooms, Dúddell Street: ONE BIT OF MINT MACHINERY

. This tot comprises a complete set of Mint Machinery capable of producing 100,000 (One hundred thousand) pienem 20-cent (Twenty cent) coins or 200,000 #Two hundred shonmand) pieces 10-cent (Tan cont)" coins per working day of

"¿Parther particulars and inspection, sadors may be obtained from Wesurs, man. & Co., ... Ltd, or the Under-

wocka

BROR:

INTIMATIONS

FOR SALE,

Asiatic and Foreign

* POSTAGE STAMPS Į in Bags, Packets, Sete and Single PICTORIAL POST CARDS with Chinese Costumes, Views of Hongkong, Canton, Mocso &o. and ALBUM OF HONGKONG SCENES.

GRACA & 00. Dealers in Philatelic Goods, Artistío, Post Cards, Toys, Picture Books, doi No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Boor.620.

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS, (Japanese Hand Made)

Every kind' of 'Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO.,

8, D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Co. Telephone Central No. 441

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

MASSAGE

K. SAKAI, T. KANAMORI

18, Praya East,

2nd Floor,

MASSAGE.

Mrs. HONDA, Mrs. KISANT and R. SHIMIDZU.

No. 3. Wynder, Brent, (opposite to the Olzien Mal”)

JAPANESE MASSAGE.

Ń. AKAJI Graduate of Tokio Massage School,

No. 28, Wyndham Street,

Tel. Central 4395.

NAMSAN & CO.

286 Des Voeux Bond West Photo Engraving and Designing

· LITHOGRAPHERS Tel. Central 1383.

WING FAT CHEUNG SFAHROW GANDG (MA JOŠO) FOR BALE. CARDS MADE OF IVORY AND FISH BONI, No. 978, Queen's Kond Central,

BRANCA No. 30, Man Ham Street Fast.

AJAHI BAIR

white all

PILSENER BEE JAMAND PRIZES

ASAH

LAGER

B

SAHI

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT,

Baby's 12,000 Miles

THE CHINA MAIL.

INTIMATIONS.

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OFFIUR *** KARTER HOLIDAYS.

FRITIS – OM50 (WELI? be acilirety, closed on GOOD

all it? 18 hoon

the

at DIY, the 30th Mares. march and 4ONDAY, the sed April,

1

Lerked Warekoues will be entirely clowed or Eliose dates.

J. D. LLOYD, Superintendent, Imports and Exporta, Hongkong, March 20, 1913,

sued another for 90,000f, the price paid for icture which he believed to be a Whistler but, which was afterwards discovered to be a forgery. It should be said that the artist, named Stassy, who painted A much-travelled-baby arrived the picture had not the least inten-flat

tion of deceiving anyone; end was at Southampton by the White Star, astonished when he found his liner Olympic. He was Maste? own canvas labelled as a Whistler. John, Marriott, son of Major and In 1905 M. Stassy and a brother Mrs. Marriott, and grandson of Mr. ardet, M. Bebin, challenged each other to a pictorial contest. They Otto Kahu, the New York million were both to paint the same aire. The baby, who is only, a model of still life between year and nine months old, com dawn and sunset, the one whose pleted his fourth Atlantic crossing picture was judged the better wine and so has travelled over. 12,000 later Stassy exchanged his picture ning a small stake. Three years miles. He has returned from a for an old camera, and the dealer three months' visit to his grand-who made the bargain resold the parents in New York. Stocking Fashions.

in

In nothing do the fashions change more quickly than in stockings (says the Star) A few months age the seam running up the back of the leg was considered essential Now women of fashion are wear Ing, even at afternoon functions town, broad ribbed seamless stock ings of thick silk or "sylko." The prejudice in favour of the scam was doubtless due to the fact that those stockings without it were, formerly of the cheaper kinds and but crudely fashioned.

| Cheap Nitraten.

|

BANK HOLIDAYS.

Naccordance with Ordinance No. 5 of 1912, the EXCHANGE BANKS. will be closed for the transaction of SATURDAY and MONDAY, the 30th PUBLIC BUSINESS on FRIDAY, and 31st instant and 2nd proximo.

Jongkong, Murah £6, 1923

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

ON GOOD FRIDAY, the 30

Instant, and on EASTER MON DAY; the 2nd April, all departments

will be CLOSED..

On these days The Hongkong Dispensary will be opened for dispensing prescriptions from 10 AM to 1 P.M. and· from

The war did a great deal of damage to the nitrate industry of Chile, owing to the interference with exports, and the competition of works established in Norway and elsewhere for separating nitrogen froin atmospheric air by means of the electric arc. Since the armistice, however, the demand for nitrates has lessened to such an extent that the business of produce ing them, artificially has almost ceased to be profitable. Some of the largest works have closed down, although we hear of others being projected. Thus Chile is now enabled to regain the market Professor Charles Pellew. an for the nitrate of soda which she nounced that when he sails digs out of the ground, where, in a for England to take his place desert region, it was deposited by as seventh Viscount Exmouth he the evaporation of vanished lakes, will be accompanied by his bride, But a fact of special importance in now Miss Mabel Gray, of New this connection is that a new York, who was prominent during process is claimed for extracting the war in Red Cross work. The this nitrate of soda, by which cost professor, who is 59 years of it so greatly reduced that it can age, told the Press that he in- undersell the artificial product. tended to renounce 'his American Popular Science Siftings. Chocolate Boxes,

canvas for Sof to an unknowń purchaser. All trace of the picture was then lostungil it was found re- produced in a book on Whistler as one of the master's authentic works, Bebin, who had also sold his picture, The discovery was made by M. of still life, only to find that the purchaser later accused him of having copied, a Whistler picture, photograph of which he pointed out in the book, referred to. 'M. Bebin and M. Stassy were agreed that the picture.reproduced was M. Stassy's own work, and they began careful inquiries, as to its whereabouts. When M. Stassy6 P.M. to 7.30 PM. finally discovered his picture it was exposed in a dealer's shop' and priced at 150,000f. 'He learned that the dealer had bought it for 50,000 from a German, who had paid 30,000f for it to a certain dealer M. Stassy was awarded If Englishman. In a suit against the

certified by experts as his own damages, after the picture had been

work. The dealer's only course was therefore to sue the man from whom he bought it,, who may sue someone else; and so on, until the picture is traced back to the stage at which a few cunning touches trans- formed an Sof Stassy into a Whistler.

persons

Even those

of encyclopedic knowledge oc: casionally to be met with would probably be puzzled if they were asked when chocolate sweets were first put into fancy decorated boxe (suggests the Daily Telegraph.) The much-regretted death of Mr.George Cadbury is a reminder of the fact, recalled now by few only, that it was the Bournville firm, in days

Surprise Viscount.

citizenship and "play the game as a titled Britisher." Not having been' reared in the expectancy of being a viscount,he smilingly said he was prepared to "begin training before, the end of the year, and as a preliminary would marry his old friend, Miss Gray, whose acquain- tance he made when they were at Columbia University together. The new viscount does not inherit any property, but says he is Government that a goes with the title."

certain

grant

On SATURDAY. the 31st Instant, all departments will be open as usual.

Hongkong, March 27, 1923.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

B

PUBLIC AUCTION,

DARTICULARS and Conditions of the Lotting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on TUESDAY, the 3rd day of April, 1923, st 3 p.., at the Offer of the Public Works Department, by Order of Eis Eroalloney the Governor of one Lot of CROWN HAND at Battery Street 75 years, with the option of renewal.sta in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of

Crown Rest to be fired by the Surveyız ef His Majesty the King, for one further

term of 75 years.. --

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Rondary

Locality.

Inland Lot No. 1:59.

Y'a of Balo..

Begistry No

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Maestro.amb

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prior to the building of that Miss Gray told the interviewers C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

pioneer garden city, which first that, she never expected to be a made the innovation. To the late viscountess, and that, as a quiet, Mr. Richard Cadbury, brother of old-fashioned person, she would be the gentleman who has just passed cuite content as her husband's wife. away, is due the original idea,| She confessed that she did not which he put into effect as far back know precisely what the social re- as 1866. Mr. Richard Cadbury was sponsibilities of a viscountess are." an amateur artist of much taste, She is a Unitarian, and the viscount and from his studies were derived is an Episcopalian, but they are the pictures that appear on many of broad 'minded, and just whatj: the earliest boxes to be thus church will be selected for the adomed. He liked painting pretty wedding would not occasion them children amid pleasant surround too much anxiety. Mias Gray, ings, and he also loved Swiss is the daughter of the late Mr. landscapes and mountain flowers, Richard Gray, formerly general and these are the influences that pre-traffic manager of the Southern vail in these earliest decorations. Pacific Railway in California. She Many of these first boxes and their became engaged last August, when colour prints have been preserved the prospect of her fiancé ever sit- by the firm, and have on occasions ting in the House of Lords was ex- been shown at exhibitions,

tremely remote. Professor Fellow's Artistic Hoax.

father was over 94 years old, and femained an American citizen till he died at Washington recently, and the title came' to his son.

The story of an amazing artistic hoax occupied the attention of the Paris courts when an art dealer

BANITARY ENGINEERN

MONUMENTALISTS

Oficos al Godowne, DEA, Wanebal: Boad Bangkeng Tol Coutral No. 105.

Largo stock of BATHS and BATH ROOM FITTINGS. LAVATORY BASINS FLUSH CLOSETS.

COMMODES, BIDETS, &o, &c.

OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING BANGES, TILED GRATES,

AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARBLE. MEMORIALS-Also in polished- Hongkong 'Granite.

Fact

A large selection of Artificial Wreathi

Price on Application.

-better tobaccos. -in greater variety -better blended No other cigarette

the

price gives

at

such value.

They Satisfy

Chesterfield

CIGARETTES

THURSDAY, MARCH 1928

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

M

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansion

Agente for--ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENES, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Mant

High Class English Jewellery,

THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO. Head Office: 79 Wyndham Street, 2nd Floor. (Oppelle Central Police Station) Tel, Central 4166.]

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

Chemises, Skirts, Wrappers Boats, Veils, and Night-gowns for Ladies ALSO MADE TO ORDER.

MODERATE PRICE

PROMPT DELIVERY

Manager EMILIO, LAU.

FHOTO SUPFLIES,

LONG TING & CO Kodak non Hoa Trung Quốc khác

DEVELOPING FRINTING A SPECIALITY. « No. 174, Queen's ROAD CKITKAL, Hongrong.

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 Lits

"

The Hongkong Rotel Co., Ltd.

In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

and

The Grand Hotel des Wagoné Lita, Ltd.

Tal Centl: 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel Add: "Carlion. The Only American Hotel in the Colony,

Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes walk from Me Banks, and Central Districts 43 Bedrooms, Excellent Cuisine. Sorupulozály a lean, Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened si No. 2, Qusan's Bond (1st floor) Eatrazon loa House St. Tifing a speciality,

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

(Two miantos frozá

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOOS

Hecently renovated and refurgiaked, slectric Hight and fans throughous and entirely under new management Colaine under the pataosa aupervision of the propriater, Bar and Billard Booms Tarma modaćate, Epecial terms, te families on spollestion to

Telephone Kowloon 3. - Telegraphic Add, 1 "Paratu.".

3. H. OXHERRY, Protecor

HOTEL "6 ASIA

WEST BUND, CANTON,

Leading Hotel in South Chins.

First clase Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans ar Elevators. Roof Garden. Hairdressing Balcom

Splendid Views of City and Pearl River,

Excellen Cuisine.

Moderate

Under the Management of the SUN CO.,

LTD., CANTON.

"KING EDWARD HOTEL:

CENTRAL; EDUATIONANAV PVLZ ELKOTRIOTRAKS Pass Balaszos, Badr Leke Lifts, Fana And Lighting. - Kuropas

Water System, througholti - Best of Yood sad

THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE THE HOUSE FOR GOOD EATS

LE

TEUN TẠI LONG. GM Dealer, in

SHANTUNG PONGEE

Læbe and Styaw Braid.

Ginseng, Deer's Horns ats, 3 No. 70, Lower Insour. Bów, Tel, Central No. 869 Hongkong.

&00.

SWAY HOUSE

SOLE ADENAS)

STORLOCO, CO

METQUI BUSSAN KAISHA