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

ÁVOTIONKIES, APPRAISERE

AND SURVEYORK, NY -Public-Anctions-

PRM Undamigned haversaved STUDIO+

Hons to sell by Publis Auction,

Ox

MONDAY, May 14, 1983, commencing at 2.30 am.

at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street. A Quantity of Valuable Houso. hold Furniture

Comprising:

Teak not Brass mounted iron bed. tenda, Wardrobes with mirror and dressing Tables, Marble" tep wash alexde, Teak Dining Talls, Teak side- beard, Dinsor Woggone, Etc., Etc. Etc.

Also

Further particulara from Catalogue.)

One Grand Piano by "Collard and Collard."

One Cottage Piano.

Ono Cotinge Piano by "Rozenkrņuz”

And

One Largo Amrican Ice Chest. TomCash on delivery.

One View from Saturday, the 12th

May 1923.

RANITAXY - ENDINEWES MONUMENTALISTO.

J'aim

Otes and Gedonas, '

96a, Wanchal Bouil· Hengkong:

- Tel Central No. 1969

Large stock of

BATHS and BATH ROOM

FITTINGS.

LAVATORY BASINS FLUSH CLOSETS.

COMMODES, BIDETS, &c., -du,

OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING BANGES, TILED GRATES.

AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALS-Also in polished Hongkong Granite.

A large selection of Artificial Wreaths,

Frices on Application.

FOR SALE'.

THE CHINA MAIL.

The Three Castles Cigarettes

FOR EVERYDAY

SMOKING.

FRIDAY, MAY 1) 1928

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD, WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS,

Hotel Mansion

Agente 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 Offee 79 Wyndham Streat. 2nd Floor. (Opposite Central Police Station) Tel, Central 4168. ·

Dealers in all kinds of Bigh-class Silk Shirta,. Collars, Necktios and Pyjamas for Gentlem

AND ALSO

Chemises, Skirts, Wrapporn, Boris, Veils, and Night-gowan for Ladian ALSO MAD_TO-ONDER

MODERATE PRICE

PROMPT DELIVERY

Manager; EMILIO' LAO.

Collections o

POSTAGE STAMPS

LAMMERT BROS.,

500 Stamps, all different, $ 4,00

Auctioneers.

Hongkong. May 9, 1923.

1.000 1.500

do.

10.00

do.

18.00

2,000

jo,

80,00

2,500

do,

40.00

The sale of Mint Machinery

3.000

do.

60,00

has been postponed until a date

4,000

do.

76.00

to be notifed later.

5.000

do.

100.00

10,000

do.

600.00

The Cigarette with the Pedigree"

PHOTO SUFFLYES,

LONG HING & CO., Kodak and Roda's Films, are, as,

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 17, Queen's Road ChitRAL, HONGKONG.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENT.

May 1-Coronet Theatre; The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." May 1-World Theatre; Pearl White in "Know Your Men."

May Star Theatre Stewart in "Virtuous Wives."

_May_13.-Star Theatre; "The Three Must Get Theres."

LAND SALE,

Anita

May 14-A1 P.W.D. Offices, one lot of Crown land at Lo Lung Hung Valley, Kowloon Inland Lob. No. 1583, at 3 p.m.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

May 14-Lammert Bros., a quantity of valuable household furniture, also three pianos, at Sales Rooms, 3.30 p.m.

COMPANY MEETINGS,

May 25-Extraordinary general) meeting of the Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ltd., at the offices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., at 11.80a.m.

May 25.- Union Insurance Bocisty of Canton, Ltd., annual shareholders' meeting, Union Build- jag, noon,

May 25-xtraordinary general moeting of the Hongkong Central Estate, Ltd., at the offices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Pedder Street, at noon.

May 25.-British Traders' Insur- ence Company, Ltd., annual share- holders' neeling, Union Building, $2.15 2.

May 25.-China Fire Insurance Co., Tid.. annual shareholders' mecting, Union Building, 12.20

p.m.

FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.

The fara prescribed for public vehiclos

are as follow

Lin the island of Hongkonn, Cains Road and Lower Levels, and in Koteloon, and New Howloon,

Five minuter.

Ten minutes.

LICESHIS.

Quarter hour, jooser.

Half hour,

Ose bour....pls paka

wry Rubsequent beer.

.. & cents

TO

30

*

rese90

LF the jinrickahs be within the City of Victoria, and be dis- sharged outside the Western part of the City of Victoria after '0. pm. or be dis, charged to the East, of Pay View Folles Station on the Eastern side of thá City Victoria ter 9 pm.. an extra hall

Care shall be chargeable.

For 2 or 3 drivers the fare in double or

treble respectiva'y. :

FIn the Hai' Diatlet,//

Ten minutes, tunauzanmin '16 contt,

Quarter hour, si possono manuaalne

HA hour,

One hour smartmanneye

50%

11---In the Vew Territories

By arrangement with the proprietors

shrough the Police

"With & Bowers With 4 Bourr

Ten minutes, 10 cente

Falf hour,

GRACA & 00.,

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

No. 10, Wyndham, Street,

P. O. Box 02).

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese Hand Mads)

Every kind of FootweaT. MADE TO ORDER,

CHERRY & 00,

6, D'AGUILAR STREET,

Oppelte Kayamally & 06. Telephone Coatzal No. 481

Hongkong, March 20, 1914,

NAMSAN & CO. 138, Connaught Road Went, Photo Engraving and Designing LITHOGRAPHER.

Tel. Central 1883.

WING FAT CHEUNG DPARKOW CARDS (MA JONG) FOR BALK CARDS MADE OF IVORY AND FISH BOME. No 276, Queen's Rood Central,

DRANCI

No. 39, Man Bam Street East.

ASAHI BUNR

PILSENER BEEL

LAGER

Three Castles

Cigarettes

WD&HOWIS Bristol & Londo

Registered Trade Marks.

"This' Advertisement la luned by British-American Tobacco Co. (China), £43. -

ODDS AND ENDS.

Animals In Church

at the Casino, and crowds actually Bocked in to ses him. The impostor was later interrogated by the police and asked to leave the Casino. It is said that the mock king" was doing the "etunt" for wager... Dressing The Wells,

Not very often do animals figure in stained-glass windows (observes MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

the Sunday at Home), unless they bo the sheep or the lamb, and ones a faculty was refused for the erec Handel's "Messiah.” ̈

tion of a stained-glass window in One of the most interesting of Handel's Messias," which will Carlisle Cathedral on the ground Easter customs is the "well dress be sang in hundreds of churches that one of the panels would causeing on Holy Thursday at Tissing- and chapels throughout the land this ridicule, as it depicted a dog in the week, and must be easily the most company of the two disciples of ton. in Derbyshire, where is the popular of oratorios, was one of the Eminaus. most rapidly written of musical probably find a supporter in Lord Tissington is a village of wells, five But the dogs would ancestral home of Sir Hugo Fitz- Herbert (says the Daily Cronicle.) masterpieces, for it was began on Brownlow, in whose private chapel in all the "Hall Well," near the August 22, 1741, and completed or at Ashbridge are two stained win. September 12 (according to the dows, one of which represents a dog old Elizabethan mansion of the gates of Tissington Hall, the fine. Daily Chronicle.) Handel, how curled up asleep on a quilt, and the FitzHerberte: the Coffin Well," ever, was always a rapid writer. other a ruan, with a dog, laughing named thue from its curions shape; "Israel in Egypt was composed in at Job.. Among the miseries of two monthe and three days, and Wells Cathedral can be seen a cat the "Hande Well," from the family "Saul" between October and 28, playing a fiddle, and a violin doet of that name owning the adjacent by two cats is a feature of the the Town Well.! On Holy farm the Yew Tree Well, and internal decorations of Hereford Thursday the wells are decorated Cathedral.- Man Attacked By Weasels. with cloborate care and taste, but

1738.

Gift Book For Children.

the. Hall Well is the most beauti-

A unique offer is made by the principal of the Wylie-Tate Produc. {fiona, who ta anxioun that the rising

generation of Beats should be as alarming experience in the High-situation under the bill on which An English visitor has had an fully "dressed," because of its fond of Jules Verne's books us he is lands, being avagely attacked by a the church stands Gardens and himself. To that end he has had dozen weasels. He was cycling woodlands are rifled of their flowers a special edition of "Round the from Elgin to Dalice, and the excit to adorn the Wells, and moes and World in Eighty Daya" printed, ing.incident occurred in a quiet and and purposes giving away a copy to

tion now on tour.

Diamonds Of Death,

ed Lake of Fire, recently in the

ferns are brought from the lovely dale of which the poet sings

HONGKONG:

Hongkong Hotel

SHANGHAI:

PEKING:

Astor House Hotel

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

Peak Hotel

Repulse Bay Hotel · ·

Palace Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalee

Grand Hotel des Wagon Lite

The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.

In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

and

The Grand Hotel des Wagens Lita, Lêä.

Tel; Cent 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. 48 Bedrooms, Excellent Cuisine. Berapalonsly clean. Under American-Management. A new Dining Room has been opened at No. 2, Queen's Road (1st Hoor). Entrance Ice House & Tiflus a speciality.

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

(Two minutes from Star Ferry).

PALACE HOTEL

· KOWLOON

Basantly renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughout and surely under new management. Cuisine under the parson supervision of the proprietos, Bar and Billard Rooma Tarme moderata: Special terms to families on application to

Telephona Kowloon 8,

Talagraphic Add, “Palach.”

HOTEL

J. K.-OXHEKRE, Prop:istor

ASIA"

WEST BUND- · CANTON.

Leading Hotel in Bonth China.

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans ez Elevators. Roof Garden: Hairdressing. - Salcon,

River

Moderate Bates.

Splendid Views of City. and Pearl

Excellent Cuisine:

Under the Management of the SUN 00., LTD.,

KING EDWARD HOTEL

GRAYSAGERTYRAL LOUATIONS A

LEKAJOTKO TRAME PIM MAkamny kies:

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any boy or girl who applies for it, unfrequented part of the country. and sends three penny stamps to He had paused for a few minutes to

Still, Dovedale, yield thy flowers cover cost of postage, to the light his pipe and admire the soon-

to deck the fountains Of Tiesington upon its holy day. Manager of the Empire Theatre, y, when he noticed a weasel dis Edinburgh. The book, needless to porting itself at the roadside. Pick Inventor Of Logarithms add, is the basis of a stage prodać up a stone he hurled it at the Logarithms were originally de

wenael, Imocking it to the ground. vised by Jobst Buergi, a German The weasel uttered a peculiar squeak watchmaker in the employment of or twitter, and in a few moments Landgrave William IV of Hesse, The famous Hope Diamond is ten or a dozen weasels made, their and not by the Scotsman, Lord now in the hands of a Hatton Gar-appedrance and attacked the cyclist Napier, commonly believed, dan dealer, and he is trying to find viciously, endeavouring to bite his according to statemente, made by & purchaser, says a Home paper. It bands and logs and climbing to Dr. Breithaupt, a prominent scien- is understood that the sinister fame reach bis face. After a sharp fight ist. Dr. Breithaupt's assertions of the gem will not prevent a very be beat off his attackers and, mount (socording to à message from eccentric Countess from becoming ing his cycle, sped towards the Cassel, in Germany, to the New the next owner, and she says that village of Dallas. The weasels, he York American) were made in the she will defy Fate. Another din declares (according to the Daily course of an address on the life of mond of death and disaster that is News), followed bio for fally two William IV., or William the again in the market is the celebrat miles bofore giving up the chase.

Royal Gamblers. “

Wise," whom he described as one of the most renowned of royal Water STEAM Throbektams of Food And Monte Carlo has been very full satronomers. The landgrave. Was Cent

Call 8 Telegraphic kaldrum s-- TRONOMIKA, theag last few days, aaya the Glas- the first astronomer to introduce gow Herald and some very well- time as an element capable of If modern women are not good known people have experienced observation, Dr. Breithaupt des housekeepers it is because circum-various plisses of luck. The Kingclared. A Neurnberger clock stanced, and too much for them. of Sweden was recently at the maker, Jobst Buerg lustus THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE One cannot dictate what these dir Sporting Club that exclusive Tom Byrgius), and, this Baldewein; the cumstances are, but oso may have a plo of Chance and bod a very landgrave a chief desistant, enlarged shrewd suspicion that they include wonderful run of good fortune reunit in sich a way that the land- the following the subjection of sulting in a net win of several thou-grave could simultaneously observe women which historians tell us be sand francs. The Grand Dake the stars god leten to the clock's caine pronounced in the seventeenth Andrew of Russia also did very well ticking of seconds, in the celestial century the invention of machin But the ex-Jing Manoel of Porta- globe. It was thought for a long ory which, with all its advantages, gol, always an unlucky gambler time that the landgrave already took interesting occupations out of gave up play after a persistent poteosed pendulum clock. the hoing and lured potential servorion of losses. Another figure at le fock, into ing-made to mill and, factory. Vic the fables of the Casino in the torian suobbery, which designate a King Ferdinand of Bulgari lady as one who did nothing with is still, hoping that something, iber bands. And when adéhminced turn up” in the Balkans to

household taska di mon Fand his present out-of-wor

possession" of the ex-King of Bul- garia

Why Women Fail.

maid

THE HOUSE FOR GOOD EATS.

CANTON.

JAPANESE MASSAGE,

NAKAIL Graduate of Tokio Mamage School, No. 9-10 Pray'a East, Wanchai,

Tel Central 2030.

MASSAGE

ESAKAL TKANAMORI Pasys Fast, 2nd Floor.

MASSAGE.

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