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LAMMERT BROS. C.E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

Awogrammers, Appramers

AND SCEVETOXS.

-Public Auctions-

MILE Undamigned have received incENO.

sons to sell by Publis Anstion,

OM

TUESDAY, April 24, 1993, commencing at 11'.m at No. 8 Man Choong Fong Terrace (Happy. Valley)

A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture,

Comprising:-

Teak dressing table, side board, dianer waggon, chairs, double and single bedstoads, wardrobes, dressing table, wash stands etc., olc.

And

A Quantity of Plants in Pote

On View from Monday the 23rd

April, 1023.

Catalogues will be issued.

Torma:--Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers.

Boogkong, April (7, 1823,

ON

BANITARY KNⱭIKERES MONUMENTALISTS

Dicas and Godowns, Ma, Wrochal Road Hongkong-

Tel. Central No. 201

Large stock of

BATHS and BATH ROOM”,

FITTINGS LAVATORY BASINS FLUSH CLOSETS.

COMMODES, BIDETS, A., &c.

OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING BANGES, TILED GRATES.

J

AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALS-Also in polished

Hongkong Granite.

A large selection of Artificial Wrestle.

Prices on Applicalico.

FOR SALE

Collections of

POSTAGE STAMPS

MONDAY. April 30, 1993,

500 Stamps, all different, $ 4,00 1,000

da

10,00

at 12 o'clock (noon),

1.500

do.

18.00

their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street;

2.000

do.

30.00

The Wreck of the

2,500

do.

40.00

2.a. "Nichiren Maru”

3.000

do.

50.00

se she now kes stranded in Lon 110° 49 60" E Lat 20° 10' 30" N together

4,000

do.

5.000

do.

with whatever cargo of coal as may be is the vessel at the time.

10.000

do..

75.00 100,00 500.00

Terms: Cash on fall of hammer. when vessel, do. will be at the par- chaser'a risk.

LAMMERT BROS; Auctioneers,

Hongkong, April 2, 1923.

The sale of Mint Machinery has been postponed until a date to be noticed later,

ARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS

OF SALE

OF

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY

registered as

INLAND) Lot No. 1759 Together with the messunge thorcon known as No. 13A Macdonnell Boud to be sold by order of the Vender by

PUBLIC AUCTION

on

THURSDAY

the 3rd day of May, 1923, at 3 pm.

by

Mera, LAMMEET BROTHERS at their Ofco, DudJoll Streat

The property consists of:—

All that piece or pereel of ground situate at Victoija in the Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office as foland Lot No. 1759 together with the moungs ercetions and build- inge thereon known as No. 13A Macdonnell Roid beld for the residuo of the term of 75 years from the 25th March 1901 renewable for a further term of 5 years created by the Crown Lesso thereof.

Area: G850 sq. fror thereabouts, Crown Kont: $10.00, Particulars and conditions may be, had from

Mesaro. LO and LO,

Alexandra Building.

and

Messrs. LAMMERT BROTHERS,

Auctioncere.

Hongkong, April 14, 1923,

GRAUA & 00., Deslore in Postage Stamps, View Post Cards, Religious Books, Toys, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 020.

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese Hand Made)

Every kind of FootweRT, HADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO.,

6, D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Co. Telephone Central No. 491

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

NAMSAN & CO.

288 Des Voeux Road West Photo Engraving and Designing LITHOGRAPHERS Tal Central 1383.

WING FAT CHEUNG SPARROW CANDS (MA JONG) FOR SALE CARDS MADE OF :: TVORY AND FISH BONE. No. 276, Queen's Road Central,. No. 39, Man Ham Street East.

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MITSUT BUSSAN KAISHA

ODDS AND ENDS,

THE CHINA MAIL.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Early to Bed.

Muriel Wrinch, in an article on Adolescence, writes in Goodlouse keeping: If the child has heen brought up always to control him self, it will not be necessary to tell the adolescent to go to bed at the right time: but if this training

Tes and Nervés.

SHADOWS BEFORE:

Coming Events Advertised

In The Mail. ENTERTAINMENT'S.

19, Theatre

has not been given, even then it is and not allowed to stand long Robert Courtneldge and W. E better to sacrifice a little sleep to the protection of the adolescentin- stincts. An adequate supply of sleep is very important, but the desire for growth, once it is stifled, cannot be easily again aroused." Electricity from the Air."

House in aid of welfare work 9.15 May 7-Coronet at Govemment m

7

LAND SALES.

P.W.D. offices, 3 p.ra.

April 23-Crown land sales,

Tea is an item to which the nerve-worried woman usually clings, while her doctor tolls herit is injurious, writes the Editor of the Woman's Magasine. A certain kind of tea is decidedly undesirable in such cases the strong, hard, bitter blends of Indian tea. But Too Much Business"

April 19-Coronet Theatre, may console the tea-lover to know

World that more that one nerve specialist Theatre; William Farnam home that he does not con "A Daughter of the Gods."

"The Scuttlers." Star Theatre; in sider China tea harmful if weak

April times when" there is nothing like Holloway's London Co., present Royal; the leaves. Undoubtedly there are

cup of tea!", and I think it is The Second Mrs. Tanqueray" hard to deprive those who are used 9.15 p.m. But the danger is that the patient Robert Courtneidge and W. E. to it of this form of refreshment.

April 20,--Theatre Royal; takes tea when she should be tak-Holloway's London Co., present ing nourishment. A young Hungarian engineer, nourishment whatever in tea; yet ture," at 9.15 p.m.

There is no

"Ambrose Applejohn's Adven- 22 years of age, nathed Joseph many women fly to it when they Dezsoffy, reports Reuterfrom Buda feel their system low, thereby Robert Courtneidge and W. E. April 21 Theatre Royal; pest, has invented an apparatus for assuaging the body's demand Holloway's London Co., present extracting electric current from the for food for air without the least expense. The But in a very short while farewell performance, 9.15 p.m.

a few minutes. "The Man from Toronto," their chief feature of his device is a the system is lower than before; its mast similar to those which are used appeal for nutriment (and that low for wireless telegraphy, and the sinking feeling is usually the electric energy gained from the air body's demand for sustenance) varies according to the height of has been trifled with the stomach the mast. He claims that he would hus merely been "put off" with a be able to reach 40,000 volts at an drink that possessed no strength- altitude of 900 feet. The inventor giving quality whatever. It is in has fitted several houses, with his this direction that ten-drinking apparatus, supplying electric cur-undermines the nerves. When a rent for their lighting. It has been woman is doing a tiring day's observed that the current is shopping, and feels at last that she strongest at noon and weakest at cannot wrestle with the task of about midnight.

finding the right bus, it would do Marriage Superstitions.

her much more good to have a A January bride

plate of soup, even though a cup will be prudent, good-tempered, and a

of tea seems more refreshing at careful housekeeper. A February microbes she has been swallowing. the moment, after the dust and bride will be an affectionate wife I do not say that one can always and mother. The man who weds sit down and eat a solid meal when in March will find that his spouse tired; but I have proved again and is frivolous, gossipping, and quarrelsome!

again that it is a mistake to stave valuable household-furniturej No. The April bride off the body's demand for nutri-8 Man Cheong-fong Terrace will be fickle, pretty, but not very ment with a cup of tea that contri- (Happy Valley) If a.m. intelligent. The bride of May will butes nothing to the building up of be amiable and handsome, and she of June will be generous and impulsive. A July bride will be pretty, smart, and quick-tempered, but the bachelor mated in August wins, a bride both amiable, practical, and loyal. September brides are discreet, affable, and popular, and those of October will be pretty, coquettish, loving, but jealous! Wild of disposition, but liberal and kind, is the November bride, and the December bride will be handsome, fond of novelty, rather extravagant, entertaining, and warm of heart. Sleeply Sickness.

is

over-wogn nerves,

Human Fly" Killed.

America as "The Human Fly," Harry Young, known to all fell from the Hosé Martinique, in Broadway, New York, and was killed, before thousands of hor- rified spectators. The street was packed with Hundreds of eyes,fascinated by the a silent crowd. daring audacity of this man, who had challenged death in every big city of the country, followed his up- ward climb.

meeting of V.R.C, at Hongkong SPORTING EVENT: April 21,-21st annual athletic Football Club Grounds, mencing at noon.

April 25-Inter-School sports at Happy Valley.

com-

May 5-Second Gymkhana at Happy Valley,

PUBLIC AUCTION. April 24.

Lammert Bras

April 30-Lammert Bros., at their Sales Room, the wreck of the s.s. "Nichiren Maru," at noon;

May 3.-Lammert Bros., valuable, Macdonell Road at Auctioneers' household property known as 13. Office, 3 p.m. •

• COMPANY MEETINGS.

www

ary general meeting of the Hong kong Electric Co., Ltd. at the Co.'s April 21-Thirty-fourth ordin-

offices, St. George's Building, at 11.30 a.m.

of the Hongkong Hide and Leather April 30.-First general meeting Co., Ltd. at 67-69, Des Voeux Road, Central, at 12 noon.

Cinema operators April 28.-Ordinary turned the handles of their cameras meeting of shareholders of the yearly with slow monotony, From build-Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd., at the The news from Winnipeg as to ings opposite, from the street far Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street, the occurrence of sleepy sickness below, from the roof of the great at11.30 am., and the twenty-eighth there quite surprising, says an building high above, from windows ordinary general meeting of share Evening Signdard writer. It ap-level with him the film men follow-holders of the Shanghai Hotel Ltd.. pears that there are no less than 150 ed "The Human Fly" He was at same place, at noon. cases in Winnipeg alone of what dressed in white, with the words is called encephalitis lethargica, and "Safety First:blazoned on his many deaths are reported. No back. His coufäge and the keen other locality in Canada appears to edge of his nerves were a proverb. be infected, and it is a puzzle as to His wife, white faced in the how the disease got an entry into crowd, had faith in her man.

May 3 Extraordinary general Winnipeg. This disease may not had said- My nerves and muscles Estate Ltd., at the offices of Messrs He meeting of the Hongkong Central be quite the same as the sleepy are so under control that I cannot Jardine Matheson and Co., Ltd., sickness which affects great disk fail". At the eighth-storey he hung Pedder Street, at noon. tricts in South Africa, and

from a window sill, his body possible there may have been some swinging small and black above meeting of the Hongkong Land May 3. Extraordinary general little confusion in the diagnosis, the tense multitude. His fingers Investment ane Agency Company In South Africa the sleeping sick slipped. He fell The camera Limited at the offices of Messrs ness is spreading so fast that it has handles turned faster. become a source of great anxiety spinning in an awful death dive, Street, at 11.30 am.

Young, Jardine Matheson Co. Ltd., Pedder Lin all the Colonies, both British and turned over and over in space. It French, where it has made its was tragedy, swift and awful. appearance. At one time it was Every second of it was recorded confined to a comparatively narrow by the cameras, which did not blunder, we now see deliberate de- strip of veldt bordering on the cease to turn even as the crow sign (writes Cicely Hamilton in the Zambesi, but of late years it has surged forward and round the dead Daily Chronicle.). Judged by the spread north and has appeared in man. His wife fainted, and was new and unamiable standard, what the French colony in the north Young had climbed hundreds of taste may really be a howling. hurried away in an ambulance, seems like a failure in feminine west of Africa. Its encroachments America's tallest skyscrapers with success; are so rapid, and hitherto the means of dealing with it were so ineffec. in the last three years. He did not on a

Jade-green tive, that some authorities issued ambition was to climb every ly clashing colours may have sallow complexion-a know the meaning of fear. His the despairing try that all these famous building in, the country. been selected with no thought of creation compounded of fierce- countries would become depopu-Once he held a crowd breathless the wearer's personal advantage, lated.

with fear while he scaled the sheer but solely to enrage the, artistic.. The suggestion that the Pen-white blaze of a searchlight

face of a skyscraper at night in the While the dancing plumeoF sioner inmates of the famous Dressing to Annoy?

feathers in a fashionable hat has Chelsea Hospital should not be allowed to walk about the London

possibly been chosen on other streets, and that the establishment feminine attire; why, in spite of all hum

It is a possible explanation of one grounds than ornament-fist to

the abiding mysteries of make savage and annoy should be removed to the country, the efforts of the costume designer, light, there may be purpose even . Considered in this aroused a storm in Chelsea, for there is no doubt that those who the artist, and the milliner of the in the undarned stocking, the live in the Royal Hospital have reams devoted to dress by the unbrushed coat, and the heel that is

affection for the present profit by instruction and go unbe-] be taken to indicate sloth-as like

newspapers so many of its fail to trodden on one side 'they need not building, with its fur traditions, comingly clad But if aggravation ly as not, the eyesore is deliberate, says a writer in the London Evening and not charm is the objectif we hit at the tidily inclined. The News. All the 550 inmates are choose our garments chiefly with a idea is interesting, if unicam Army Pensioners and are over 55 view to annoyance the mystery plimentary years of age, with the exception of vanishes and, where once we saw certain men disabled on service.

women but,

Chelsea's Red Coats.

real

A few, invalided during the Great War, are under 40 years old. While

a Pensioner lives in his pension

is paid into the hospital funds and

in retura he receives food, accom- modation, clothing and pocket money. A private receives is. 9d. a week, a corporal 3s. 6d., a serge- ant 78., and a colour-sergeant 10s. 6d. The Pensioners have their moals in their own cubicles, which are built like small ships" cabins. Each is allowed a pint of beer a day. The veterans wear their blue undress uniform on ordinary oc casions, and in the summer, when la full dress, they wear cocked hata and the familiar red frock coats similar to those used in the earliest days of the Hospital. Some £160,000 was raised to found the hospital, tradition having, if that the Royal favourite, Nell Gwynne, was largely responsible for much of the money being found.

The Fruit Season

Towel complaid ja sule.to be prora lost during the frail so 1001

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THURSDAY APRIL 19: 1929

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS

& JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansion

Agents for s—ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES ENGLISH SILVERWARK, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery,

THE INTERNATIONAL

SHIRT CO.

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

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

Chemises, Skirts, Wrappers, Boards, Volls, and Nightgowns for Ladies. ALSO MADE TO ORDER

MODERATE PRICE

PROMPT DELIVERY

Manager: EMILIO LAO,

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Kodaly and Kodak Filme, ko, 2s.

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY. No. 17A, QUEEN's BOAD ÜRITEAL, HONGKONG.

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS HONGKONG: Hongkong Hotel

SHANGHAI:

PEKING:

Peak Hotel

Repulse Bay Hotel

Astor House Hotel

Palace Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalee Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits

The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd. In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

and

The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Ltd.

Tel, Centl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add: "Carlton." The Only American Hotel in the Colony, Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes" walk from the Banks, and Central Districts. 43 Bedrooms. Excellent Cuisine. Sorupulously clean. Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened as No. 2, Queen's Road (1st floor). Entrance Ice House St. Tiffins a speciality.

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

(Two minutes from Star Ferry)

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOOM

Becently renovated and refurnished, slectric light and fans throughoos and satirely under new management. Caisiae under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Booma Terme moderats, Special terme to families on application to

Telephons Howloon 3, Telegraphio Add. : "Pamon,"

HOTEL

7. EL, OXBERRY, Proprietor.

"ASIA"

WEST BUND, CANTON.

Hotel in South

Leading

China

Roof Garden.

the

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans are Elevatora.

Hairdressing Salcom Splendid Views

City and Pearl Biver Excellent Cuisine:

Moderate Rates,

Under the Management of the SUN CO., LTD., CANTON.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

on the whole, it seems more likely that we dress to please and the persons we please are ourselves. That explanation-self evident as it appears to the majority of women has always had water difficulty in finding acceptance among men who, bey cause they do not dress

to please themselves because they are put by their tailors into something like uniform and made to wear it, whether they approve of it or not cannot grasp the mental- ity of other human beings who pick out the shades they may happen to admire and the shapes they may- happen to fancy. The Dean of St Paul's is confined, to sober black: his non-clerical brethren to a nar row range of tints but any woman, if she so desires, may go clad in

Cuticura Toilet Trio the colours of the rainbow

every-wint of the tical in nsing

Fand

and

Which is only another way of say- ing that, in this particular matter of clothes, we are very much. fréér than our menfolk who have been; sylon't compelled tokiness ostute- galiɑhrone, 70: wear exactly what t

her man wears, 1 lost the power of

are dri

·CENTRAL LOCATION,

LY ELECTERO TRANSP30 Katrinen, Xiao-

system throughrst.

• Erie Lifta, Fans and fighting, Exropean Baths and Badlisty Biting, Hot, sad, bald

Best of Food an

Barrios

1 Cepth 15. Telegraphic áddress 2-1 FIUTORZE 2. WETCHELL, Masager,”

THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE THE HOUSE FOR GOOD EATS Tisina and Dinners

In Carto)

ars and Confectioners.

kal 2887.

JAPANESE MASSAGE.

N. AKAJI, Graduata of Tokio Massage School, *** No. 28, Wyndham Street.

Tel, Central 4395.

MASSAGE

K. SAKAL T. KANAMORI

2nd Floor,

18 Prays Fast,

MASSAGE.