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

AVOMONIDES, AFFRAIKERE

AND BURVEYORS, Public Auctions-

PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS

OF SALE

GV

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY

registered as

INLAND Lot No. 1759 Together with

the casuage thereon known a8 No. 13A Macdonnell Road to be sold by order of the Vendor by

PUBLIC AUCTION

06

THURSDAY

the Jal day of May, 1993, at 3 p..

by

Messrs. LAMMERT BROTHERS at their Ofice, Daddell Street

The property cocaists of:—

All that piece or parcel of ground xituate at Vietoria in the Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot No. 1759 together with the messinge erections and build- ing thereon known as No. 13A Atalonnell Road bell for the residus of the term of 15 years from the 25th March 1901 renewable for a further torm of 15 years created by the Crown Loase theroot."

SANITARY: ENDINKAS

MONUMENTALISTS

Dices and Gadomus, Ba, Wanchai Rond Wongkerg Tel. Central NGC 50+

Large stock of

NATNE and BATH BOOM ·

FITTINGS

LAVATORY BARING FLUSE CLOSETS,

COMMODES, BIDETY, &, do,

OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING RANDES, TILED GRATES.

AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALS-Also in poliahod

Bongkang Uranite.

A large selection of Artificial

Wrestlin +

Price on Application.

FOR SALE

Collections o

POSTAGE STAMPS

500 Stamps, all different, $ 4,00

1,000

do.

10,00

1.500

dos

18.00

Area: €850 ̄8q. ft. or thereabouts, Crown Rent: $40.00,

2.000

do.

30.00

2,500

de.

40.00

Particulars anil canditions way be

3.000

do.

00,00

hut from

4.000

• do...

75.00

Messrs. LO and LO,

| 5,000

do.

100.00

Alexandra Building.

10.000

do.

500.00

and

THE CHINA MAIL.

The Three Castles Cigarettes

FOR EVERYDAY

SMOKING

VEÐNI

1928

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mi

Agents for ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,

ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Hazufa

High Class English Jewellery.

THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO.

Bed Onion: 79 Wyndham Street. Bad Floor." (Opposite Central Police Station) Tel Central 4366.

Dealers in all kinds of High-claw Silk Shirts, Collars, Necktion, and Pyjamas for Gentlemen AND ALSO

Chemises, Skirts, Wroppers, Scarfs, Veils, and Nightgowns

ALSO MADE TO ORDER

PROMPT DELIVERY

Mattgér: EMILIO LAD

MODERATE PRICE

"The Cigarette

with the Pedigree"

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Kodaks and Kodak Films, best

DEVELOPING & FRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 17, QUEN'S ROAD CENTRAL HONUKORG.

Mussa. LAMMERT BROTHERS,

Auctioneere,

Bogkong, April 14, 10%).

The sale of Mint Machinery has been postponed until a date

to be notified later.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENT.

May 2. Cornet Theatre; at 5.15 and 9 p.. sharp, "Intolerance."

May 2. World Theatre; Mollie King and Creighton, Bale in "Her Majesty," also Snub Pollard in" 365 Days."

May 2. Star Theatre: Eaid Bennet in," What Every Woman Learns,"

May 7. Concert at Governinent House in aid of welfare work 9.5

D..

SPORTING EVENTS. May 5. Second Gyinkhana al Happy Valley.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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

„COMPANY. MEETINGS. May 3. Extraordinary general, meeting of the Hongkong Central Estate Ltd., at the offices of Messrs Jardine Matheson and Co., Ltd, Pedder Street, at noon.

May-3-Extraordinary-general meeting of the Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Company Limited at the offices of Messra Jardine Matheson Co., Ltd., Pedder Street, at 11.30 am.

May 5--First annual ordinaz general meeting of Lane, Crawford, Ltd. at the Hongkong Hotel at

71000.

May 10 Fony-second ordinary general meeting of the Canton In- surance Office, Lt at Messrs. Jardine Matheson and Co., Ltd., at

noon.

THE WATER SUPPLY.

Level and Starego of waterin arvoirs

on the 1st April 1923---

(OTY APP WILL DISTRICT WATER WOBLE LEVEL.

*Rec

102,

Tytanft, la. Erlow, 21, 1. Below averdam Grytum Brewal

Overtow

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161 in. Below overfo

Belew overhaw Im fu, Dio. Kelow overtow

·Johrnism, 231.7 in.

Below overtow

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JA POORLON IN MILLIOND AND DIGIMATE OF WALLETS.

Tybam

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Wylam Intermediate

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44,24

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GRACA & CO.,

Dealers in Postage Stamps, View Post Cards, Religious Books, Toys, &c.

No. 30, Wyndham Street, PO Box 020.

:

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japansen Hand Made)

Every kind of Footware, MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO..

5. D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kavatusily & Co. Telephons Central No. 491

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

NAMSAN & CO.

280 Dee Voeur Rood West Photo Engraving and Designing LITHOGRAPHERS

Tel Central 1363.

WING FAT CHEUNG SPARROW CARDA (MA JONG) FOR MALE CARDS MADE OF

TVORY AND FISH DONE No. 276, Queen's Road Central,

BRANCH No. 29, Man Ham Strent East.

"

48AHI BEER

PILSENER BEER GRAND PRIZEO

SAHIB

Commpion & water in the

And Hill District Ja milions and decimals

I gallons during the month of March.

-1945.

41003 185.16

(tak našel population... 358,000 30800 „Taurapton per hand

**11 193

Bailout Constant supply in all districts during March 1923.

Intermittent Supply in all Rider Main Districte during March 1913.

HOWLDƏN KÄTER"WODEN LEVEL.

Core Orevital € 23 te. I les...

IDEN

* ( 11 lay Men Ranetrend... I Hetom pe

Below grafos Pacomama za KILAJOIE,431 OROIKÁCH OF MALIZIRA,

Coot honnnc?

Chamption of water in Kowloon, in

one and decimals of gallons during the pab of March,

population.

Sper hand

11J

The Government Analyst's reportesbam

& the quality of the water is satisfact

LAGER!

SPECIA

*153.03

1006. 318-51

Authority.

Works Depar

WERY

COM

SAHT

Three Castles

Cigarettes

VD&HOWIS Bristol & London

Registered Trade Mark.

The Three

This Advertisement is issued by British-American Tobacco Ce. (China), Lââ

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Those who are in want of a light- house are informed that this one has a particularly fine tower, and com- mands a

view of the Bristol Channel the Somerset Coast, and An Unimportant Husband.

Who, for instance, who has de-the Welsh hills, and the buyer will lighted since childhood in the be at liberty to convert it into a gaily histrated pages of Mrs. week-end or summer residence. Beeton's Cookery Book has ever This is the usual fate of disused given a thought to Mr. Becton |[(writes ). B. Sterndale-Bennett in lighthouses, of which there are « Jolino London's Weekly) When that considerable number. masterly woman was sitting at her

desk blending the spices of the The Shadow.

|

Skeleton 3,500 Years Old.

A stone cist containing the re- mains of a "prehistoric person is- covered on the farm of Upper Mains, of Catterling, Kincardine- shire, is believed to have been in existence for about 3,500 years. So far all that has been taken from the pending a decision as to whether grave is an earthenware urn, and an expert fron

the National Museum of Antiquities, Ediaborgh, "is to visríku discovery, the contents will be left in their original posi- tion. In the tomb lay the skeleton earthenware uri at the right side of a fully-developed person with an of the skull. The skeleton, which ges, adding to taste, but with no in the Official Receiver's Court in-is in a fairly complete condition, thought of a modest income, the sisting upon the fact that he was placed in the cist in a crouching showed that the remains had been condiments of five continents, how an ill-used ran, and that, if "al position. The bady had been laid was Mr. Beeton speading his time?lowed the liberty," he could prove He was, in point of fact, a respect~ |

East with the meats of the West, I know nothing more saddening throwing carelessly into the stew-than the spectacle of Mr. Bottomley pan the breasts-of-a-dozen-partrid-

ed and successful man of business, that he was unjustly sentenced,says engaged in the City during the Glasgow Herald writer. I do not day, and spending his evenings wish to dwell upon this, but what quietly in his suburban home. It struck me as most pathetic was the may be assumed that his invita-tier reduction of this once-over tions to dinner were seldom refus-shadowing figure in our fational ed--and, as the landladies say, in life. Nobody outside those interest the home of Beeton everything ed in his examination troubled to go

to the court; no longer did cheer ing crowds wait outside to see the popular idol arrive. He might well have said with another fallen one, "I am forgotten and out of minilas

was of the best." All-night Coffee Stalls.

on its left side with the head facing

in an easterly direction. The skeleton appeared to be that of a person whose height was about 5ft 7in.. The skull was of the brachyce- phalic type. The head was round with a full forcheagl, and the face was broad and short. The um be- longed to an early type period of the Bronze Age, and from this it is believed that the skeleton was that of a person who had been buried in the period 2,000 to 1,500 B.C., of fully 3,500. From the fact that the

Not least, though little noted, among post-war changes in London is the development of the all-night a deal man." He appeared cist was covered by three layers coffce stall, observes the Daily strangely aged and shrunken lur- of stones in place of the usual Chronicle. Many of these newering the few months that have passed covering of one large slab, it is restaurants on wheels" are run by since, at the Old Bailey, he pas thought possible that the body had ex-Service men, some of them dis- sionately called upon the great been that of some person of note. abled. They are roomy, brightly, Sword of Justice to fall-from-its- and tastefully painted and decore place if I am unjustly convicted." ated, well lighted, and the propriet He is still animated by the hope, ors smart and fresh in clean white that a movement to secure his re couts. As the stalls and owners are lease will succeed. Sa contrast to the former dingy and

dejected dispensaries of doubtful Ancient Anaesthetics.

FAUN FASHIONS,

FRENCH DANCERS IN

RECOURT.

WERE THEY INDECENT?

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

Peak Hotel

Repulse Bay Hotel

Palace Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalee

HONGKONG:

Hongkong: Hotel

SHANGHAI:

·PEKING;

Astor House Hotel

Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits

The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.

In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

and ·

The Grand Hotel dos Wagons Lits, Eté.

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 Districte. 13 Bedrooms. Excellent Cuisine. Scrupulodaly clean. Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened st No. 2, Queen's Road (1st floor). Entrance Ice House St. line a speciality.

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

(Two minutes from- Star Ferry).

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON

Essently renovated and refurnished, aleotrio light and fans throughout and enurely vader new management. Culains under the personal supervision of the proprietar, Bar and Billard Rooma Terme moderate. Special terms' to fandies on application to,

Telephone Kowloon 3. Telegraphio Add. :'"PALASE.”

#. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor.

HOTEL "ASIA"

WEST BUND, CANTON. Leading Hotel in South

China.

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans Elevators.

Hairdressing Salcox,

City and Pearl River.

Moderate Rater.

Roof Garden.

Splendid Views

Quisine.

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

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOCATION

KL ELECTRIC TRAMS-Pázs Katrance, Klao- 10 KANA, Mana ‘and Lighting, European Walar Bystam throughente. Best of Food and Berrice Tab Cepil-27%. Telegraphis Address 3-=-=-* VICTORIA ·

WITSERLJ, M

THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE THE HOUSE FOR GOOD EATS.

Timas and Dinners e

La Carte)

coffee and "door-steps" of bread, The use of anaesthetics in surgi- the fare provided is also of a new cal operations is not a modern in- style. Generally the coffee is quite vention. Thousands of years ago, good, and cakes and other things says a writer in Hearst's Interna are of an order that seems to be win- tional Magazine, surgeons knew of Harry Pilcor, formerly dancing and light Batea ning increasing favour in the small anaesthetics and used them. They partner of the late Gaby Deslys, hours among

homeward-bound trepanned skulls: they amputated and Mesdemoiselles Zouljaka and theatre and dance goors. There is, farms and legs and performed the Rahna, appearing as dancers in the indeed, one stall of gay-striped Caesarian section, and they did all revas, at the Palace Music Hall, hues in a West End thoroughfare of those things with the help of were the first artists to appear that is becoming quite a recognised angosthetics. They commonly before the magistrates, under the stopping-place for motor cars." used vegetable drugs such as Government order for the suppres

morphine and hashish and alcohol. sion of offences on the stage against Buying A Lighthouse.

The ancient races of South Ameri-public morality, says the Paris. It is not every day that one has ca preferred the leaves of plants correspondent of The Times, the opportunity of buying a light-containing cocaine, The surgeons of Pilcer is aggrieved, as he was house, nor is it everyone who ancient Egypt, who probably were covered to the neck in a tight- Wants one. In general the difficul- the most skilful of antiquity, had a fitting costume, ty would be what to do with sucha method of their own. They hit the piebald anlam); in the scene, resembling a stricture when bought, says the patient on the head with a club and L'Apres m'di d'un Faurie,' Journal of Commerce. But that operated while he was unconscious, whereas Nimski, the previous such things are: bought is incon- they fitted wooden, blocks to the delineator of the part, was naked testable, for a Newport firm of auc head to protect the skull from to the waist, and no action was tioneers has been instructed by the fracture and the scalp from injury, taken Elder Brethren of Trinity House The mallet with which they hit the Mlle, Zoulinka, clad to sell under the hammer the West block was also of wood. The art abbreviated

most Usk Lighthouse at St. Brides. For of hitting just hard enough and at Oriental dance, volup 56 years this lighthouse has func exactly the right point was & sensuous, but the mana tioned at the mouth of the River delicate one. No dount the expert Usk, and with its companion light at this scientific blackbelting was

house on the other side has been as

of considerable service to the

mariner, but henceforth slight

respected in ancient the skilled anesthetist is to-day in New York or

plains that the dance

then: many others of the

ways staged in Paris The decision of the mag

is awaited with the gre

“Bakire and Confectionors." Onkássáde for parties' eto Tel Contra) 2007.

Ste Road.

JAPANESE MASSAGE,

N. AKAJI, Graduate of Tokio Haszare School; · Noe, 9-10, Praga East, Wanchai..

Tel. Central 2650,

MASSAGE

KSAKAI T. KANAM

18, Praya East,

MASSAGE.

YEE SING.

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