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LAMMERT BROS.

ÁVOTIONERES, Appraisers

AND BUSVNYORA,

Public Auctions-

THE

THE Undersigned have received In- structions from Mrs. Rosser to sol Pabllo Auction.

DA

· THURSDAY, 5th April 1083, semmencing at 2.45 p.m.

at "Harting" und "Rogate" Austin Road, Kowloon, The Whole of bor Valuable Household Furniture,

Comprising:

Teak hataland" with "kovalled mirror, Chesterfield Couch and armchairs (cro- omne, covered), Teak bookcase, Musio Cabinet, Tenk fendurs, Fire brasses, Leather covered armchairs, Roll top

paka, card tables, Task overmantola (with bovelled mirror, Brasa ornaments, (Curtains, Carpets, Rugs &c., dc.

Teak dining table and chairs, Finoi teak sideboard with boyelled mirror, i Dinner waggon, Silver cabinet, Croc- kory, Glassware, Cutlery, E. P. Ware.

Double and single teak and iron! bedsteads, Teak dooble and single wardrobes with glass doors, Dreasing tablar, Marble top washstands, Chests of drawers, Toileta sets &c, &c.

Also

Cooking stoves and cooking utenuils One Piano by Mostries

One Victrola IX

And

1 Lot of records.

One View from Tuesday, the 3rd

April 1923

Catalogues will be issued. Terma-Cash on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, March 28, 1923.

Farticulars and Conditions of Este

of the

Very Valuable Leasehold Property

Being The Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No. 588 and

The Mesonge Known se No. 10 Seymour Terrace to be sold by

PUBLIC AUCTION

Ab

The 6th day of April 1023, at 12 o'clock noon by

Moers, LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers At their Auction Rooms in Daddell Strooi.

The property consists of :~~

All the piece or parcel of ground situate at Victorin, in the Colony of Hong- kong, and registered in the Land Office

1 BemainINO FORTION OF IBLAND Lor No. 588 held for the residue of a term of 009 years from the 25th day of June 1859 created by the Crown Lease Fat Inland Let No. 688 dated the 25th day of August 1859 and made between Ber Latonjesty Queen Victoria of, the ona part and Frederick Henry Lalangler Forth of the other yarı.

Area 6031 square feet or thereabants. Proportion of Crown Reut 84.08 per

genum.

Particulare and Conditione of Ele bey be had from -

Meera LO & LO,

Alexandra Building,

tingkong.

Vendor's Solicitors,

or from Hesore. LAMMERT BROS,

the Auctioneers,

Hongkong, March 23, 1825.

THE Undersigned havorecaved instino- Mons to sell by Pabllo Aschton,

`SATURDAY. April 7, 1923, commencing at 11 am,

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at their Falos Rooms, Daddoll Street, Two AMCO Gpassenger Motor Cars (now)

4 Cyl.: 22.5 H.P.: Artillery Wheels:

91 X 4" Tyree. One Bax top: Nickel ated drum shaped Headlamps, &c. complets).

On view on day of sale.

Darma -Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BRÓS., Auctioneers.

OR

WEDNESDAY, April 11, 1925, commencing at 3 pm, their Salon Rocko, Daddell Street. *WE SET OF MINT MACHINERY This lot comprises a complete set of Bat Machinery capable of producing. 100.000 (One bundred thousand) porn 30-bent (I's, any ceux) csics ur 200,000 Two busdred thousan 1 pieres 10 cent (Ten cent) coins per working day of

bourn

Fortber particulare und, sospection aders may be obeniuril from Šlesere, ilman & Co, Lad, or the Under good.)

Terme-20% of purchase money. to "gaid en fall of hammer.

Balance to be paid within two wak* (day of sale.

LAMMERT BROS.

·Auctioneers,

Hoogkong, March 12, 1993.

DAY-April 30, 1993, #613 Welock (neop),

Booms, Daddell itrost, Clef she UAE VERNhiren' varu

now Bee Stranded in Lon 110°:

E Lat 20 10.80′′ N together

wchstaver marga.df coal as may be

Weasel at the time.

"Cash on fall of hammer, paul, do will be at the per-

April 2 1992.

BROS

INTIMATIONS.

FOR SALE

Asintio and Foreign

POSTAGE STAMPS"-

In Bags, Pockets, Bots, and Bingle, PICTORIAL POSTCARDS With Chinese Costumes, Views of Hongkong, Canton, Macao, &c. and

ALBUM OF HONGKONG SCENES.

GRACA & CO.,

Dealors in Fhilatelic Goods, Artistic Post Cards, Toys, Picture Books, &o. No. 10, Wyndham Street. P. O. Box 820,

Hongkong,

SHOEMAKERS.

(apazess Hand Made)

Ivory kind of Footwear. MARE TO. ORDER.

CHERRY & 00.,

6, D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Co. Telephone Central No. 491

Hongkong, March 20, 1914,

MASSAGE

T. KANAMORI

K. SAKAI,

18, Prays East,

The

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"Three Castles

Virginia Cigarettes

MANUFACTURED

IN

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BY

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL (4 1923

NOTICES.

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Head Office: 79 Wyndham Street, 2nd Floor, (Opposite Central Police Station). Tel Central 4166.Į

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AND ALSO....

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PROMPT DELIVERY Manager: EMILIO LAU.

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

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The Cigarette with the Pedigree

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JAPANESE MASSAGE

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NAMSAN & CO.

288 Des Voeux Road West

Photo Engraving and Designing LITHOGRAPHERS Tal. Central 1303.

WING FAT CHEUNG

SPARROW CARDS (MA JONO) FOR SALE. WARDS MADE OF IVERY AND FISH BONE.

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This Advertisement is issued by British-American Tabsoco Co. (Bhian), Led.

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT,

Homes Without Stairs.

H. V. M. Emerson, A. R. L. B. A., writes on bungalows as labour saving homes in the February number of Good Housekee ping: The labour-saving pro- perties of a bungalow should appeal to all women. The rooms, being all upon one floor, are more easily cleaned than those fu a multi-storeyed house. Passages are reduced to a minimum, and the staircase is eliminated altogether.

expensive manner. For this work gliders had the advantage that the motive power used was gravity,

South Africa's Long Sight.

"Will Londoners eventually be come blind?" is a question that has puzzled me ever since I arrived here three weeks ago (says a South and was thus perfectly definite in African, writing in the London amount and always reliable. The Evening News.) In South Africa, two main technical problems in especially up country, one scarcely ever comes across a spectacle connection with the development wearer from one year's end to an- of the commercial aeroplane at other. But Londoners are a very the present tiine were the spectacled people. Perhaps the increase of aerodynamic effi-

healthiness" of the average South

African's eyesight is due to the Ciency and the improvement of fact that his vision is not cramped control at low flying speeds. The every hour of the day by the near- author thought there could be little ness of buildings, which prevent doubt that substantial progress. the eyes from being used at long would be made in solving these. ange. Ninety-nine per cent of and other problems in aeronautics In a two-storeyed house the amount European city dwellers visiting by means of experimental work of energy expended daily in going Africa for the first time are amazed with gliders. Finally be appealed up and down the staircase is sur-at the remarkable eyesight of the to business men and others to offer prising, and if a record were taken natives. I have seen a good pair of prizes for such work in order to of the number of stair journeys native eyes recognise a person, stimulate competition and thus made in the course of the year, it once seen, at a distance of over a hasten progress.—Engineering. would be found that the height mile away. Acquaintances are fre- A Novel Wrench. climbed would be greater than the quently recognised at a distance of one and three-quarter miles away, height of Mount Everest."

and intimate friends or relatives at Wireless Maids.

two miles distant. In Zululand the

an

contrast is even more striking, Here the air is so clear that the natives are able to pick on objects over seven miles away. And this by starlight not daylight Coloured Handkerchiefs.

mechanics in these days, when all Many of us have to be amateur means of transport are dependent Wireless maids are the late

quently the interest in tools is upon mechanical power; conse- things in Paris, according to the

widespread, and new devices to. New York American. George

facilitate the keeping in order of Franchetto, president of the French Society for the Study of Wireless,

car motors and kindred machines, has replaced servants in his home

are being brought out almost every by-the Eiffel Tower. At 6 am..a

day. For taking to pieces or wireless wave from the Tower sets It is not difficult to discover the adjusting machinery few tools are off'.

alarm clock beside reason for women's preference for more useful than the adjustable Franchette's bed, opens the coloured handkerchiefs-it is sim-wrench. In spite of the many windows and pulls back the shut ply that they are so very much patterns already obtainable, new ters, and starts an electric stove easier to wash than the white linen; designs continue to make their heating his morning cup of variety (remarks the Pall Mall advent. Among these,is a wrench chocolate, which is automatically Gazette.) The boiling and blueing resembling a pair of scissors, in controlled so that it never bolls required to give the latter a snowy that it has two parts crossing each over. Official time is given him by appearance is avoided. It was other in the middle; there is, how- wireless-controlled clocks in all predicted quite six months ago that ever, no pivot, and each end of roons, doors are opened by but the vogue for coloured hacker- both parts forms one jaw of the tops, the controlling force of which chiefa was dying out, but, in spite wrench. It is possible, therefore, is waves from the Eiffel Tower, of this, they still fill the shop to turn a nut with either end and every evening Monsieur Fran- counters. Green; apricot, and of the contrivance, but one end chette gets the day's news from a orchid are among the most popular is normally intended for larger wireless receiver as he is seated at shades to-day, also tan and silver nuts than the other. Passing dinner. Next winter he says, he is grey, the latter omamented with through the foundation of each pair going to heat his house by wireless. bright. coloured hemstitching, of jaws and connecting the two London's Quietest Square,

Dainty trifles in chiffon are favour parts, is a screw with a knurled ites for, evening wear and pre-head, by means of which the jaws Kensington Square, whose re sidents are alarmed at the prospect sumably are used by women with can be adhisted in width so as to a sublime trust in Providence that take different sized nuts. A spiral of some of its houses being conr they will not want to blow their spring is arranged on each screw verted into business premises, has always been one of the quictest noses! These are shaded in between the jawe the effect of pastel colourings, or sometimes hand-painted or printed with a gay futurist design. ;

The Uses of Gliders.

which is to prevent the screws from squares in London (according to the Daily Chronicle.) Built in the

shipping, and to keep the jaws rigid.. reign of James LL, it was until 1851,.

and fully extended. With the ordinary screw-wrench, if the jaw when modern Kensington began to

are adjusted to go over a nut easily, ariso, almost surrounded by fields,

One of the papers read at the they are a loose fit less actually Even now it is so shut off from the recent Air Conference in London screwed up on the nut, in which busy world that the roar of traffic was by Colonel A, Ogilvie, bearing state the wrench cannot be trans only sounds like the murmur of the title Gliders and their Value ferred from one pair of flats to the waves breaking on a distant beach. to Aeronautical Progress." After next. The wrench now being des Its famous residents have, included giving a short account of the more cribed is as rigid and free froin Addison, Steele, Johh Stuart Mill, recent experiments with gliders, shake as if the jaws were solld. JR Green, the historian, who the author expressed the opinion Finished in case hardened steel; it wrote most of his looks there and that there was little like thong of open from de o Burte Jones, the artist, WA curious engineless aeroplanes ever being therefore is large on incident in the history of the square of practical, utility in travelling ing plugs By adusting a was the laying of a ghost there in from place ip place of oven of be to fit an object and screwing up the seventies by Bishop Wilber-Ling employed to any extent for others the wrench may be used force, who effectually dealt with sport Their real and immediate a portable

the troubled spirit by the aid of value, he said, was the op

the tradition bell, book; and they afforded of mak

candle

the Combin

powerful

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