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LAMMERT BROS

"AUOPIONEERS, Appraiserm

"AND BUKTATORS, -Public Auctions-

1.4.

TUIH Undwsiquad havozacaved insLUG- sons to sell by Fublis Ancilon,

on

THURSDAY, the 12th April 1923, commencing at 3.45 p.m. At No. 15 A Orient Buildinge Coronation Road, Kowloon.

A Quantity of Valuable Hense- hold Faroitars.

Teak aterand, chesterfield couch and chairs, teak extension dining table, chairs, teak sideboard, dinner waggon, glaswore, crockery, putlony, ele, ets.

Teak bedsteads, teak wardrobe with bevolled glass door, dressing table, waabstand with marble top, curtains,

And

One Perambulator.

On view from Wednesday the 11th. April.

Catalogues will be issued,

Terms-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, April 7, 1923.

on

SATURDAY, April 15, 1923, commencing at 11 am.

at No. 18 Dodowa of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godowa Co. Ltd., Kowloon

(for account of the concerned) A Quantity of Miscellaneous Goods,

Comprising:-

Camphor, Chinese Medicine, CassiD, Cardomon Seeds, Peanuts, Green and Yellow Beans, Peper were, Vermicelli, Matches, Fire Cruckers, Cigara, etc., etc. All more or lets damaged ex as, "Kwaisang"

FARM: -Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

ON

MONDAY, April 30, 1923,

nt 13 o'clock;(noon),

their Sales Rogas, Daddal Strest,

The Wreck of the fu

6.a. "Nichiren Maru"

na the now lica stranded in Lon 110

-42'50"-E-Lat-20"-10"-30"-N together with whatever cargo of coal as may be

in the veure! at the time.

Terms: Cash on fall of haromer, when sat, &c. will be at the pur- chaser's risk,

LAMMERT BROS.,

Anctionner.

Hongkong, April 2, 1923.

The sale of Miut Machinery

has been postponed until a date

to be notified Inter,

SHADOWS BEFORE.

April

COMING EVENTS

ADVERTISED.

ENTERTAINMENT'S,

11-Coronet Theatre, Max Linder in "The Three Must Get Theres," World Theatre; Pris scilla Dean in "Under Two Flags," Star Theatre; Robert Warwick in

'An Adventure in Hearts."*

April 13-Boy Scouts' Jamboree, City Hall.

April 14-Boy Scouts' Jamboree, City Hall.

April 17-City Hall, Chamber of Commerce Room), Concert given by Miss May Murkle and her assist- ants, 5.30 p.1.

April 17.--Musicale at the He- Jena May Institute, at 5.30 pm.

May 7-Concert at Government House in aid of welfare work, 9.15 p.m.

SPORTING EVENT.

April 14-Football, Hongkong, League, Club Ground, Happy Valley, Division II, kick off 3.15 p.m. Division, I kick off 4.45 pan.

April 21-21st annual athletic meeting of V.R.C. at Hongkong *Football Club Grounds, commenc ing at noon.

PUBLIC AUCTION,

April-Lammert

Bros., the sale of one set of mint machinery at their Sales Room,Duddell Street, has been postponed until a date to be notified later.

April 12-Lammert Bros., 3 quantity of valuable household furniture at No. 152, Orient Build- înge, Coronation Road, Kowloon st 2.45 p.m.

April 14-Lammiert Bros., at No. -18 Godown, Kowloon Godown Co., a quantity of miscellaneous goods ex. 8.5. Kwaisang,” at II_mm, :

April 30-Lammert Bros, t their Sales Room, the wreck of the ss."Nichiren Maru,” at noon,

M

COMPANY MEETINGS.

April 21, Thirty-fourth, ordin ary general meeting of the Hong- kong Electric Co., Ltd. at the Co's. offices, St. George's Building, at 23.30 am.

-April '12-First annual meeting of Peak Resident's Association

the Peak Club, 5.45 p.m.

INTIMATIONS

C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

BANITARY ENGINEERS

MONUMENTALISTHTM

Offen und Glodówce,

Ok, Wanchat Bond Hongkong...

Tel Cantrai No. p

Large stock of

BATHS and BATH MOON FITTINGS

LAVATORY BARING FLUSH CLOSETS.

COMMODES, BIDETS, do, do,

OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING RANGES, TILED GRATES,

AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALA-Also in polished Hongkong Granite,

A large selection of Artificial Wreaths.

Prices on Application.

FOR SALE

Anistic and Foreign POSTAGE STAMPS

}

In Bogu, Pooksis, Scis, and Single, PICTORIAL POSTCARDS With Chinese Costumes, Views of Hongkong, Canton, Macso, do,

and

ALBUM OF HONGKONG SCENES.

GRAÇA & 00.,

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P. O. Box 620,

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese Hand Made)

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00,,

6, D'AQUILAR STREET,-

Opposite Kayamally & Co.

Telephone Central No. 471

Hongkong, March 20, 1816.

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ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Cynical Criminal.

Gruesome scenes were witnessed at Nancy (France), when; Carnille Salvador was taken to the scenes

¡Alas; for the Blue Danube! Butterfly Farms.

were told that the Danube isn'tcident whose number has for blue at all (observes the Daily some time been too. great Chronicle) At any rate, it's certain for their disposition" at the 'they would go on calling it blue, be- Morgue-will henceforth be taken! cause blue is the colour of romance, to a temporary resting-place and yellow the colour of the more worthy of the great city, the banana. And yet that lovely blue Medico-Legal Institute, which has Danube, which seems to appeal so been established on the Quai de la much to our imagination is really Rapée, near the Gare de Lyon. yellow, trimmed with green or Here, in contrast to the poor accom- of his crimes, and forced to wit-grey, according to the seasons. Atmodation at the, Morgue, relatives ness the exhumations of his least, so say the Danube experts. At will be able to wait when they one point in the upper river come to identify their dead in con- victims. Salvador stood unmoved three streams flow together for veniently arranged rooms. In addi-| while fragments of bones, pieces some distance without mingling tion, the new institute, with its of clothing and paper, and empty their waters. From the steamer deck laboratories, will be of considera- purses were recovered. He related may be seen on the left the Ilz, ble value to doctors, lawyers, and almost black; on the right the Inn those engaged in the investigation cynically how he led his victims in green; and in the centre the yel and detection of crime. Lectures toin to the edge of a dugout and lowish-green-Danube.

will be given to students of medi The schoene blue Danube is not cal jurisprudence, and a crime. killed them. A Paris message of

blue,

museum will be available, When February 20 said: The charges

But glitters with a yellow-the site of the Morgue has been against Camille Salvador

greenish hue

cleared it has been proposed that ganger employed in destroying is the versified verdict of one that hitherto melancholy area shall ammunition dumps, eclipse those authority. That is true in summer be utilised as an extension of the for which the notorious Landru was time; but at this season, when enclosure around Notre Dame, so executed. Itisalleged that Salvador, swollen with glacier water and that grass plots and flowers may in order to obtain the money of the melted snow, the Danube is brighten this picturesque comer of

old París. men in his gang, blew up dumps, greyish-yellow. killing the men and taking their

Girls Of 1823 And 1923. money. He reports that the deaths

It is sometimes profitable to note were accidental. Salvador admits

Quite a novelty in the way of the changes of the years. The the

crime. Other similar farming is the butterfly farm. And young girl in 1823 had her hair unaccountable explosions, with a very paying business it is, too done in strange and fantastic heavy mortality, are recalled. but a thorough knowledge of manner. On the slightest provoca- Salvador is charged with these, but entomology is necessary to carry tion her head was decked with is silent. He was arrested in con- out the work successfully There feathers with flowers with heavy sequence of his attempt to cash ais a great demand for butterflies of plaits-with curls-with ribbons. bond which belonged to one of the all sorts by collectors, scientists. Her dress was high to the throat. victims.

the makers of the beautiful but Her sleeves high to her ears. Her terfly's wing jewellery/etc. As waist was pinched and tortured. much as £5 and £7 is paid for some She was weighed down with thick With apologies to any male of the rarer specimens.. Butterfly and starched petticoats (sas a friends of mine (I cannot remem farming requires very little space writer in the Westminster Gazette). ber many) who may have been and scarcely any capital to start The young girl of 1923 wears hier. entitled to the name of Rufus, Iam with. An old shed, attic, or spare hair flat or curled and bobbed: bound to say that I never knew any room can be utilised, provided it Her throat and arms are free of man who would not have looked is free from draughts and has cumbersome covoring. She wears better with hair of any other colour. a fairly warm temperature. Empty clinging frocks, and has a supple, On the other hand, red hair in girls jars or wide-mouthed bottles, and loose, waist-line. Miss: 1823 lived and women is often-I think much even boxes and barrels, can be continuously under her mother's more often than not perfectly used for the breeding comparteyes. She did embroidery and chaming. Brick-dust red; with no mente, whilst most of the stock needlework. She made preserves, gloss, is ugly enough, no doubt; can be caught outside, except, and knitted, Her only sport but then all hair except of course, the rarer varieties, was a walk taken with the members very peculiar kind of black which have to be purchased, of ber family. Miss 1023 is not, quires gloss. Every other shade, The successful farmer knows generally speaking, fond of from the lightest nasturtium to the exacty how to feed each variety, needlework, in fact, does not darkest auburn chestnut, can be Some butterflies produce their eggs, care for Sitting stillit bores her, beautiful, This Venice knew, and, in boxes or bags, others require no She wants, to be on the go" all long before it, I think, the Greeks. food whilst laying their eggs, and the time. You don't find her like "The Romans, Mr. Feeder did so forth. The larvae hatched from the heroine of a former age, not like red hair, but the Romans the eggs have to be fed on certain were people of very doubtful taste leaves until they turn into pup in many, if not, most, points of from which the butterflies even esthetics. There were probably tually emerge never prettier.girls, or kittens, or Morgue, to disappear roses than there are at present;

Red Hair.

do not believe that there ever were.

warbling a romance at the piand She says and very rightly the gramophone does it much better than I, or she argues very right ett mouth will see the discerts to-day within the purse and ly again There are excellent con

braver men than those who fought appearance of the Morgue that the reach of everyone." You will at Ypres and Zeebrugge; and (rash Srim: feature of the sights of more, often than not-find, her in as this may seem) I doubt whather Paris" which for sixty years past the fresh air, will a racquet br. á there ever were greater fools than has attracted the morbid or merely golf stick. It has taken 100 years those we have with us. From Curious visitor to the little building of evolution to accomplish such Scrap Book, by Emeritus Protader the shadows of Notre Dame, decided changes, and they are all George Saintsbury.

Of recent years mich idle curiosity for the better. To-day young girls Bolt from the Einer

mend has been restricted, und certain are given. chance in Halikathair

Formalities have had to be fublica;

longer are they re Blue before admission could be secured, quired to stay at home and mope-n. pro-|The Portelan proud of his city, is doing, nothing, or doing for enjoy only too glad that the bodies of without a recognised positic

they unknown victims of, crime or nos

ying the

bably the dancers would not themi

bit, the less

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