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

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS,

-Public Auctions-

ITEM Undamigned havarscavad knowno-

ON

the

MONDAY, April 30, 1823,

at 12 o'clock (noon),

a their Bales Rooms, Duddoll Street,

The Wreck of the

8.6. "Nichiron Mara' Anbe now lies stranded in Lon 110 49 60" E Lat 20' 10' 30 N together with whatever cargo of coal as may be Au the vessel at the time.

Terms: Cash on fall of bammer, vben vessel, &c. will be at the pur- chaser's risk.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers,

Hongkong, April 2, 1923.

THE que a HOWARD, EAC- THE Undersigned have received_in

to sell by Public Auction

сут

MONDAY, April 30, 1933, commencing at 2.15 p.m.

at his residence No. 20 Chamberlain Road, Peak

A Large Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture,

Comprising:-

BANITARY ENGINEERS

MONUMENTALISTH

Ochces and Omiawan,

pes, Wanchai Ioad Hongkong.

Tel. Contrať No. 503

Large stock of

BATAS and BATH ROOM

FITTINGS.

LAVATORY BASINS FLUSH

CLOSETS.

COMMODES, BIDETS, dc, de,

OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING BANGES, TILED GRATES

AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALS—Also in polisited Hongkong Grunite.

A large selection of Artificial Wrenika.

Prices on

Application

FOR SALE

Collections of

POSTAGE STAMPS

500 Stampe, all different, 8 4.00

1,000

do.

10.00

1.500

do.

18.00

2,000

do.

-30.00

2,500

do.

40.00

3,000

do.

50.00

4.000

do..

75,00

000

do.

100.00

do.

500.00

Teak hatstand, Drawing Room Suite (Chesterfield couch and chairs) tenk tapestry chairs, music cabinet, took round table, teak zcreen, glass silver cabinet, brass fender and fire acte, large overmantel,, carpals, rugs, brass orna-10,000 mento, water colours, pictures, engrav-{ ings, marble clock, etc., etc.

Tonk and iron and single bed steads, teak single and double wardrobes with glass doors, dressing tabis, wash stand with marble top, chest of drawers, glass ware, dinner seis, E. P. catlers, lass" curtains, ceiling lights, electroliers, electric fittings, cooking stove, cooking atea ile, etc., etc.

Severni piecos of carved blackwood ware, American Ise cheat and patent filters.

Also

One Cabinet Victrols

One lot of records

Ono pianby F. Dorner & Son Stuttgart

And

Several enamel baths and porcelain brains

And

A Quantity of Plants and fores in

pets.

On View from Sunday the 29th April, 1923

Catalogues will be issued. Terma-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, April 20, 1923,

The sale of Mint Machinery has been postponed until a date to be notified later.

PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE OP

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY

registered as

TNLAND) Lot No. 1759 Together with the message thereon known as No. 13A Macdonnell Road to be sold by order of the Vendor by.

PUBLIC AUCTION

THURSDAY

the 3rd day of May, 1923, at 3 p.m.

by

Mesars. LAMMERT BROTHERS at their Office, Duddell Street,

The property consists of:-

All that piece or parcel of ground situato at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Lond Office as Inland Lot No. 1759 together with tho messuago orections and build- jug thereon known as No. 13A Blacdonnell Road beld for the residua of the torm of 76 years from the 25th March 1901 renewable for a further term of 75 years created by the Crown Lesse thereof.

Area: 6850 sq. ft. or thereabouts. Crown Rent: $10.00.

Particulars and conditions may be

Jnd from

Messrs. LO aud LO,

Alexandra Building.

and

Mesurs, LAMMERT BROTHERS,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong. April 14, 1995.

HONGKONG HEIGHTS.

-For the information of visitors ti following list of some of the highest paints on the Island and Mainland is published-

GRACA & CO.,

Dealers in Fostage Stamps, View Post Cardo, Religious Books, Toys, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 120. ·

Hongkong.

SHOE MAKERS,

(Japanese Hand Made)

Every Had of Footwear, MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY &.00,

8, D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamsily & Co. Telephone Central No. 491-

Hongkong, March 90, 1914.

NAMSAN & CO.

286 Des Voeux Boad West Photo Engraving and Designing LITHOGRAPHERS Tel Central 1363.

WING FAT CHEUNG SPARROW CARDS (MA JONGJ FOR SALE. CARDS MADE OF IVORY AND FISH PONE. No. 276, Queen's Road Central,

BRAKCH No. 99, Mao Ham Street East,

ASAMI BEER

MISENER BEER

PRIZES

ISLAND,

Feat

Signal Station

1774

Mi Parker

1734

Mountain Lodge

1725

The Byria

1724

Peak Hotel

1905

Taikoo Sanatorium

1000

HL. Davis

877

Bowen Rd. (filterbeds). 585

MAISLAND.

Taimoshan

3124

LAGER

ABA

1971

SPECIALLY

1045

1000:

780

Kowloon Peak

Lion Rock

Shatin -Pass

Customs.Pass

Devil's Püsk

121

SWAY HOUSE

HAT MAKER

Ja 16, Wyndham, Skroet.

MTISUI BUSSAN KAISHA

THE CHINA MAIL.

The Three Castles

Guaranteed. manufactured in England....

Made in -Regular Magnum and Super Magnum Sizes

Virginia Cigarettes.

Smoked round the World.

"Three Castles

Cigarette

WOCHOW

Bristol to Londo

Seymorea Trade Mark,.

This advertisement is issued by the British-American Tobacco Co. (China), Ltd.

ODDS AND ENDS.

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MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Dyed Lace.

Gazette

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In Paris and on the Riviera there is an absolute passion just now for dyed lace, observes the Pall Mall Sometimes it makes the wide transparent sleeves of an otherwise plain frock. One of the newest notions, however, is to acquire a little jacket made of frill upon frill of Valenciennes lace dyed to match the dress with which it is intended to be worn. These. look quite delicious in conjunction with the new printed silks and crepes, and a favourite colour is apple green. Very fresh and dainty, but anything but cheap! Pharaoh's Rings.

divides the "nice" from the un- the plaintiff, both cases revealing pleasant. At one beautiful flat, in- either the defendant's complete habited by an "art lover"-another | ignorance of the piano's. construc- term for one of the idle rich, young tion, or his flagrant deception of men-who disguise unpleasantness the customer as to its actual condi- beneath a veneer of culture "a tion. It is to the very real interest number of dances were given the of the public that they be warned other night of a decidedly startling as to the dangers which menace the character. They were camouflaged unwary piano buyer. He should be Worn out and as "dances antique." At another jon his guard. flat the lady dancer gave "In the Moonlight "and of this the less said the better! Raisin Cake.

First take one cup of butter,

All golden, pure, and sweet, Then two cups of white.sugar,

And these together beat, Three eggs, all lightly foaming: Of good, sweet milk one cup, Put in a little soda

To lightly raise it up. Then two teaspoons cream tartar,

And grate a lemon rind- 'Twill give a pleasant flavour, I'm sure that you will find. Then add one cup of raisins, And just four cups of flour, And set it in the oven,

And bake it just an hour. I know twill be a nice one, If but just right it bake:

I know 'twill please your husband

When he shall taste the cake.

-Pall Mall Gazette.

useless pianos. euphemistically as 'second-hand described bargains," make one sort of trap for him. New pianos appear before him as what they are not, by means of the simple device of a bogus name-plate which-conceals their origin. In any case a piano is of elaborate and highly technical construction, and defects in it are easily hidden from the uninstruct- ed eye. For all those pianos should be bought only from dealers who are piano-experts. Why Girls Exaggerate.

reasons

Why must girls exaggerate ? asks a writer in the Woman's Magazine. Take, par exemple, Theodora. She is a friend of mine, and I hate to criticise her; but honesty compels me to say that you have to wianew down her assertions till not que i quarter of their original exuberancs remains. Only by so doing can you get somewhere near the truth. Janette is another example... She

FRIDAY, APRIL 27 1983

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD,

& JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansión

Agents for ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES,

KELVIN'S NAUTICAL` INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,

*

ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English "Jewellery,

THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT. CO. Head Ofoe: 79 Wyndham Street 2nd Floor.

(Opposite Central Police Station.) Tei. Central 4166.

Dealers in all kinds of High-class Silk Shirts,

Collars, Necktion and Pyjamas for Gentlemen

ANDALSÓ M

Cheminee, Skirts, Wrappers, Scarls, Voils, and Night-gowns for Ladies ALSO MADE TO ORDER

MODERATE PRICE

PROMPT DELIVERY

Manager: EMILIO LAU.

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Kodaks and Kodak Films, G., Ma

DEVELOFING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 174, QUEEN's HOAD ÜKSTEAL, HONGKOKO.

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

Peak Hotel

Repulse Bay Hotel

Palace Hotel

HONGKONG:

Hongkong Hotel

SHANGHAI:

Astor, House Hotel

PEKING;

Grand Hotel Kalee Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits

Tha Hongkong Hotel Co.

Lta.

In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

.and

The Grand Hotel dos Wagons Kits, Ltd,

Tel. Centi, 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add: "Carlton.

The Only Amarican Hotel in the Colony, Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes walk from the Banks, and Central Districts, 43 Bedrooma. Excellent Cuisine. Scrupulously clean. Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened st No. 2, Queen's Bood (fst floor), Entrece Ice House, St. Tifias a speciality,

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

(Twe minutes from Star Ferry)

PALACE HOTEL

1.

KOWLOON

Recently renovated and refinished, alectric light and fans throughout, and enurely onder new management. Calaine under the parauma supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Rooma Tarma moderate. Fpovial terms to families on application to

The golden casket removed from the ante-chamber at Luxor two months ago has now been examin- ed. It contains a parcel of the King's signet rings. They are of solid gold and are exquisitely en- graved, some of the bezels consist- ing of scenes of the gods and the king as miniature statues modelled in a round" H.K." symbol in gold and lapislazulf and glass. The letters "H.K" mean "to mic,” while the symbol in the form of a Futuristic Flowers. secptre signites power. There are also collarettes of many colours and Most women who are at all bicycled to see me the other day, beads, besides a magnificent large nimble with their fingers are al-and the shy, sun of 1923 peeped golden scarab inlaid with tapis-ways on the look out for something the distance was a short mile. Her She rode quietly, and coyly at her. lazuli bearing an elaborate relief new and pretty, to make. In a verdict on the excursion would device showing the King presented quite charming ante-room belong-have suited a frenzied calling- by the God Tem to the God Haring to a well-known dressmaker without a halt-of the Dent, du mekes.

some attractive artificial flowers Midi. The refrain was, "Tum dying were seen the other day, reports a absolutely dying!" Such dam A Gruesome Feast.

writer in the Pall Mall Gazette sels are prone to speak of an Five happy murderers had dinner They were made of buckram, just ordinary breeze as together at midnight in the con- simple circles, and others were cyclone"

'a positive and to describe. demned cell at Fort Madison, Iowa slightly cut to signify petals, and prison. The function was the idea all were enamelled in white, deep as "literally kicking in money the rich fiancé of a friend of Earl Throst, who was executed blue, or a lovely shade of pink.a million a week, my dear, the next morning for the murder of The centres were of brilliantly at least!" Now, none of these a woman school teacher. His last coloured wools, worked over a "fact embellisters" are conscious-A' wish was to entertain the four other tinier round of the buckramly dishonest. Bella, whom I know inmatesof the death house to dhuner orange and black, yellow and red, pretty intimately, is a meticulous in his cell, and the prison or yellow and black being various truth teller-quite Washingtonian | |- authorities consented. The prisonly used. A long length of wire in her dislike of the whitest lie. warders served· an excellent covered in crinkled green paper This, however, did not prevent her banquet with cigars to follow, while was attached to the buckram flower from declaring in my presence that the five murderers sat round by means of a round of the green all her front teeth were decaying,

served. on cracked jokes, paper glued on, and this formed when I happened to know that al Throst leading in the fun. the stalk and calyx, while leaves microscopic suspicion of caries When the party broke up his guests were placed at intervals along the was the extent of the damage: In were returned to their cells, and stalks.

and

Throst sat up until sunrise when he Risk In Piano Baying.

all the professions absolute exacti- **tude is demanded, if the ambitious was taken to the scaffold. His. death-house companions slept as director of the Federation of girl, too, should particularly beware Mr. Tation, the organising girl would go far. The business- he was executed.

British Music Directors, draws of forid statements: To tell her Queer Dances.........

attention to the risks run by piano-employer that a hundred people There has been a sudden out- buyers who purchase Instruments have called in his absence," burst of queer dancing in some from amateur or otherwise inex- or that one of them "was "green) very exclusive West-End circles, pest dealers, some of whom, in- | with ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀rage at finding lim says a Glasgow Herald writer, It leed, are quite unscrupulous when out" is not the way to keep began with the Egyptian craze, the sale of a piano is ta question, a situation. It strains These dances might be diamissʊd Two recent actions. in 2: County | ɓidence to breaking-point. Perhaps with a simple admonitory Tuil Court, he writes, suficieillar the warnina i most likely, to be. The 1. But, after this, the desire for illustrate the point in each case heeded strange posing and posturing, damages were claimed by a plains, king of men dete called dancing by a stretch of tiff against a defendant who had Sometimes. Its true,

| langjuge," "blossomed • out "into sold a worthless, piano un an Inq fair exaggerator out, but only to | freakish dances that have come strument le good condition. In: see to what heights of verbal folly

perilously near the Border-line that each case fudgiment was given for she will kodr.

Telephona Kowloon 3. ・ Telographio Add. : "PALACE”

HOTEL

3. HL OXBERRY, Proprietor.

"ASIA"

WEST BUND, CANTON,

Leading Hotel in South China,

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

Splendid Views of City and Pearl River.

Excellent Cuisine.

Moderate Bates.

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

KING EDWARD HOTEL

DENTRAL LOCATION DUEN M

LL ELECTRIC THANK-Fios Kaltanov, 22 so- ten Liita, Tabs and lighting. Kuropesa Astha and Sanitary Fillings, Ezit and tal Water Byslem throughra. Bast of Food and Tel, Conti. 7. Telegraphia Addrami 2--* VictoRIA

. J. WITCHELL, Manager,

JAPANESE MASSAGE.

-29) - N. AKAJI, Graduate of Tokio Massage School

No: 28, Wyndham Street.

Tel, Central 4395.

THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE MASSAGE

THE HOUSE FOR GOOD EATS

mins and Dinners, (Menu" and "A"La" Carto). at all fours, Bakers and Confectioners,

·Caker made for parties etv.:

Tel. Central 2667,

26, Don Võsux Rest

TANG YUK, DE

14, DU

TREME VE

Cananl

K. SAKAI

· T. KANAMORI **

18, Praya East,

2nd Floor,

MASSAGE.

Mrs. HONDA, Mrs. KISAKI and

·R. #HIMIDZU,

No, M. WyskE BY: Copyosity to the ↑ Chlan Mall”),

YEE SING

Tel: (882 2018, Wallington Strank,

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