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LAMMERT BROS.

VOTIONEERS, APPRAISERN

and SorvuTORS.

-Public Auctions-

#VR tindaraigned faverscaved instTWO-

-Mons to sell by Publiŋ Auction,

OB

THURSDAY, May 10, 1993; commencing at 11 a.m.

at their Salès Rooms, Daddell Stroși,

2 Westco Electric Light Plants

5 Platform Scales

10 Drums Anti Corrosive Composition

10 Brace Anti Fouling Composition

6 Brass Whistles & Valves

19 case "Tanglefoot" Fly Papers

50 Bozen French Polish

/ And

6 Bates Cotton Tent Cloth,

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMBRT BROS., Auctionsors.

C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

SANITARY ENGINEĶUS

MONUMENTALISTY

J

Offc shd: Gadebne,

10s, Wanchal, Bond Mangteng-

Tal Central No. 1941

Large stock of

BATIS and BATH BOOM.

FITTINGS.

LAVATORY BASING FLUSHI CLOSETS.

COMMODES, BIDET8, dc., &c..

OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING RANGES, TILED GRATES,

AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALS-Also in polished"

Hongkong Oranite.

A large selection of Artificial Wreniba.

Prices an Application.

ON

THURSDAY, May 10, 1923.

commencing at 3 p.m.

Godown No. 10 Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd., Kowloon

FOR SALE --

Collections o

POSTAGE STAMPS

500 Stamps, ell different, $ 4.00 1.000

Sundry old Iron Safes, Iron Bars and

old Nawapapers

Terms: Cash on delivery.

do.

10.00

1.500

do.

18,00

LAMMERT BROS. Auctioneer

2,000

do.

30.00

2,500

do.

40.00

Hongkong, May 7, 1923.

3.000

do.

50,00

4.000

do.

75,00

5.000

do.

100.00

10.000

dq.

500,00

THE CHINA MAIL.

The Three Castles Cigarettes

FOR EVERYDAY.

SMOKING.

WEDNESDAY MAY-

G. FALCONER

& CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansion

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,

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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, Collars, Neckties and Pyjamas for Gentlemen AND ATRO

Chaises, Skirts, Wrappers, Scarfs, Veils, and Night gowns for Ladian ÁLSÓ MADE TO ORDER

MODERATE PRICE

PROMPT DELIVERY

Manager: EMILIO LAO...

The Cigarette

with the

Pedigree"

PHOTO, SUPPLIES,

LONG HING & 00, gatal kors Films, #6., 85,

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 17a, Quor's ROAD UKITZAL, Honakoga.

The sale of Mint Machinery has been postponed until a data

to be notified later.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

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Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENT.

May 9.-Coronet Theatre; Anita Stewart in Virtuous Wives."

May 9-World Theatre;"Cheat- lag the Public."

May 9-Star Theatre: "The four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

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May 10-Lammert Bros., at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, electric light plants, platform scales anti-corrosive and anti- fouling compositions, brass histles and valves, "tanglefoot"

GRACA & 00,

Dealers in Postage Stamps, View Post Cards, Religious Booki, Toys, do, No. 10, Wyndham Street,

Hongkong.

P. O. Box 620.

SHOE MAKERS.

(Japanese Hand Mado)

Every kind of FootweRY. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00,,

8, DAGUILAR STEKEL,

Opposite Kaysmally & Co.

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

flypapers, French polish and tent || Telephone Central No. 401 | cloths, II a.m,

May 10-Lammert Bros., sundry fron safes iron bars and old news- papers at Godown No. 10 HK, and Kowloon Wharf Godown Company | Ltd., 3 p.m.

COMPANY MEETINGS.

www.

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

NOON.

Muy 25.-Extraordinary general] meeting of the Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co., Istd., at the offices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., of 11.30a.m. May 25.Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd.. annual ebareholders' meeting, Union Build. ing, noon.

May 25.Extraordinary generat meeting of the Hongkong Central Estate, Ltd., at the offices of Messrs. Jardino, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Pedder Street, at noon.

May 26.-British Traders' Insur- ance Company, Ltd., annool share- holders' meeting. Union Building, 12.15 p.m.

May 25-China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., annual shareholders' meeting, Union Building, 12.20 p.ui.

-UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE.

GRAPH COMPANY, LTD..

The following unclaimed telegram! are lying at the office of The Great Northern Telegraph Company. (Limited):--

Baburgh Hongkong Hotel, from Yokohama.

Chenkwayacon 38 Bonham West,

from Nice.

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Wongleeydan, from Amoy.

2000, from Tiantain.

3764, from Nigpo.

7193, from Shanghai.

Liwpoongoan Biaukotai, fram "Amoy."

N. LUND,

Act. Superintendent.

Hongkong, May 3, 1023,

CASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL- ASTA & UBINA TELEGRAPH 00.

List of unclaimed telegrams lying in

EE. Telegraph Office, Hongkong. AT

Brown, from Makasier.

Dies, from Sanlucarbaramoda,

Doctor Boy 94.Des Voeux Bond, from

Bydary,

→Farisolo,-from-London

Boss 68 The Peak, frum2 Liverpool.

Les Bros, friin Manta.

Abeth, from Calcutta,

Huperfine, from Buahiretown.2 HKMACALPINE,

Beskrin tende

Howghong, May 3, 1923.

NAMSAN & CO.

288 Des Voeux Road West Photo Engraving and Designing LITHOGRAPHERS Tel. Central 1883.

HIPPON

WING FAT CHEUNG STARROW CARDS (MA J9XG) FOR BALE CARDS MADE OF IVOMY AND FISH BONE

No. 178, Queen's Road Central,

ERANGLE

No. 30, Man Ham Street Exat..

ABARI BENR

PILSENER BEER

ASAHI

BEER

Three Castles

WOCHOWS

Le London

Registered Trade Mark.

The Three

This Advertisement is fumed by British-Amsileña Tobacco Co. (@bina), Ltd.

ODDS AND ENDS.`

MAINLY SCISSORS 'LOOT.-

Can You Sleep?

ham Carter, writing on Public Speaking in January Good House keeping.

A Mind-Reading Machine.

It is now possible, as the visitors

which comes from his intelligence; he realises to the full his tremon- dous responsibilities. A woman wants a man to be masculine in

HONGKONG:

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LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

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Astor House Hotel

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In ocnjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

and

The Grand Hotel dés Wagons Lite, Esd.

Tal, Centl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL Tal Add: "Carlton."

The Only American. 'Hotel in the Colony. Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banks, Central Districta. 13 Bedrooms. Excellent Cuisine. Scrupulously clean. Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened at No. 2, Queen's Road (fst floor); Entrance Loe House St. Tifins a speciality,

For teams apply to Mrs. F. E. CAMERON, Proprietrem,

(Two minuten from Star Ferry)

PALACE HOTEL HOLO

Recently renovated and refurnished, electrie light, and fans throughout and ensurely under new managemma. Onlains under the personal supervisīsu of the proprietor. Bar and Billard Booma. Terma moderata. Epecial farmo De families on application to

Telephona Kowloon 3,

Talegraphia Add, : "PAZAOR."

HOTEL

to the exhibition at King's College essence, but she wants him as The thin person is usually a poor are discovering, to make an well to possess just a streak of sleeper, and bread and milk taken electrical record of even the the feminine in his nature. It at bedtime frequently promote lightest emotion, As our thoughts must be big enough to enable Bleep by drawing the blood from flicker through our minds, unex-him to understand her weak- the head to the stomach. Do not pressed even by the movement of nesses, but not big enough to over- eat the bread and milk in the din- a muscle, they are duly recorded ride his virility. Because she likes ingroom and then spend a half- by this new wizard among scienti- a man to look what she thinks he hour undressing, but take it to the fic instruments, writes A Man of ought to be, she passes over the bedroom and, when ready for bed Science" in the Daily Chronicle, slender being whose appearance (just before cleaning the teeth), eat Yet, strange as it may seem, the expresses his effeminacy, and she and drink it slowly. A restless instrument and its mysterions shrinks from the hard, bull-necked, sleeper, who wakes once or twice powers are alike very simple, loud voiced male whose appearance in the night, should have a piece of Their discoverer, the late Professor expresses his brutality; but she bread and butter by the bedside, Wailet, looked on them as curiosi gazes long at the man whose looks so that it can be eaten perhaps with ties rather than as serious contri- are all masculine, but whose eyes a drink of water, and sleep will butions to science. What he was and mouth reveal that little streak often be induced to return.—really interested in was the princi- of understanding and the femininé Health and Beauty Section, Jan-ple which they made manifest, which she needs. A woman cannot uary Good Housekeeping.

This is that electric currents pass in separate a man's looks from the The Ilford Crime.

the skin during every change of man himself. This admiration of emotional state. An emotion, manly instincts colours all a There is an inner history of the however transitory, sets flowing a woman's likes and dislikes with Ilford case and its grim culmina-stream of energy which "tingles" regard to man-Violet Quirk, in tion upon the gallows. The famous to our finger-tips. Waller perfected the Royal Magazine. letters will ever rank in criminal his instrument during the war, and, | Listeners-In. history as the most astounding with characteristic coolness, chose. The air was full of talk and music specimens of erotic passion. Some an air raid for his first test of it. countless centuries before, man could not be read in public; they While the guns were booming invented wireless broadcasting. were seen by Judge, counsel, and round him he was absorbed in the Any number of other creatures jury, who drew their own conclu- sions as to the character of the spectacle of their effect on his whom we never hear and never can subject," whose emotional states hear are busy talking to each other writer. The life of Mrs. Thompson were faithfully depicted on the re-(writes" A Naturalist in the London was such that her husband had cording drum. A little later he Evening News.) All sound comes every provocation, and it is a showed it to some doctors at slander upon the memory of the hospital. One of the nurses, to vibrations.

to the human ear in the form of dead husband to suggest that he whom its powers were explained, structed that it can catch only a Our ear is' so con- was cruel and brutish in his be expressed scepticism. Waller haviour. The pressure brought connected her with the instrument consitituting from 30 to 30,000 range of seven octaves of sound," upon the Home Secretary, to re- and then began repeating Christian vibrations a second Dogs, cats, prieve the prisoners was enormous names of men:"Hugh, Robert, and many other creatures can hear mostly from people who did not Thomas, Jack... When this a lot of sounds that we miss. Take know the real facts of this ghastly last name was mentioned the bell your dog out for a walk by the side crime. On the days preceding the attached to the cunning machine of a wood at night, and see how he issue of the decision ten sacks of began to buzz furiously. letters were delivered at the Home unhappy nurse jumped up and fled. hears noises too indefinite for the The keeps pricking up his ears as he. Office, each containing some ap- Her secret was not peal for leniency or advancing some science.

safe from human ear to catch. Watch two

cats in a room. One will suddenly tap on ba reason against capital punishment. Do Men's Looks Matter?

cock an ear, turn its head, and Speaking To Women.:

It all depends on the sort of looks listen. A moment later it will I have sometimes been asked a man possesses, and the sort of suddenly get up and cross what are, in my opinion, the best girl who regards them. No woman the room. For some reason, methods to adopt with a women's could look at Earl Beatty and a woman's ear can catch a smeeting. I am ashamed to say that despise him; few could look at him higher pitched sound than a man's. I have never myself discovered without admiring him. He would A woman can often hear a bat's them. I devoutly hope that women not adorn the Russian Ballet or a high note, for instance, that is will soon cease to be segregated in picture of the pre-Raphaelite school, inaudible to a man. Spiders are a political compound of their own You could criticise his features and constantly making sounds, and and expect to confine their their proportions, But what woman listening to sounds, that are in audiences and themselves to what thinks about trifies like that? See audible to us. Lurking out of sight are called domestic politics. There what his face suggests occans, in their isir, they can tell just what is sometimes an almost insulting wide spaces, ships, battle, invin- insect is approaching and some homeliness in the appeals which cible strength, all of which things thing of its strength and emotions are made to them, in the metaphors are entirely unfeminino, and that —whether it is fresh or tired, angry drawn from margarine, and hair leads us back to wise Darwin, who or good-tempered. Some of this pins, in the exhortations beginning said. The sexes like best in each; wing talk pven our clumsy ears Remember that every cup of tea other what is most different from can catch-but not much of it. A you drink, every lump of sugar you themselves. Then why do women bee's wing normally. abont pul in it, &c. &c, or Every cupedore, the Prince of Wales, who is 440 times a second kinga -board in the land fufertit the mudar light, and no aggressively, musical hore. A if m

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This touch is mascoline? Merely, because to it. makes the note; E, with 1330 overdone. Wom "like" tea and them he is still Bay. They love vibrations a second: “A houafiy sugar no doubt, and spend much him with the maternal part of their Bote, too, is E with 330 par secund more of their life than they injoy nahire Also, his face, kiso good vibrations Spiders and scorpions in cupboards, but then things are kidd, maken en, added appeals, show, overy, sign of. not the malaspri of their for the isternal too? 蚵 political conscience,

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ady. Bun" They understand he vistinifera ing a juning fork in their vicinity

7. H. OXBRENY, Propist.

"ASIA

WEST BUND, CANTON.

Leading Hotel in South China.

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First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans an Elevators. Roof Garden.. Hairdressing Salcon,

Splendid Views of City and Pearl River

Excellent Cuisine:

Moderate Rates,

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

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| Nos. 9—10, Praya Hast, Wa

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MASSAGE.

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