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LAMMERT BROS.

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Tara

AUCTIONEDES, AFFRAISÉES

AND HURVEYORA.

-Public Auctions-

TIKE Undersigned bavarssaved LEGLED- elong to coll by Pabile Anodion,

ON

THURSDAY, July 12, 1823,

sommencing at 3 p.m.

st the old premises of the, Hongkong Electric Co.. Wing Fung Street,

Wareka

Tiro (2) 550 B. II. P. Diesel Genern- tore Complete with alternators & excitera

Three (3) 300 B. II. P. Diesel Genera tors Complete with alternators & excitern, *Two (2) 250 K. W. Steam alternators complete with exciters and switchboards

One (1) Baberok & Wilcox water tube boiler couple with fittinge ani chain grato stoker

One (1) arine yra Eniler completo with fittinga

Two (2) 50 K. W. Alternators (withent engines)

Una (1) Main Sairabonni consisting of enche pensie nod feeder paneli

One (1) Duplex Fest Pump

Three (3) Heena & Proude type water

сосста

One (1) Lot of steel -trual pipes und -Valves

Two (2) Sulzer pun p

Three (3) Albeny Notary pumpa Three (3) Fans for corling towers and

Three (3) motors for sine

One (1) Water tank

One (1) 120 Gallon dil tunk

Oro (1) Bet of spire gear, for Diesel

Engine consisting of 251 items

One (1) 10 teu Travelling crasse and

A Largo Quantity of Structural Steel

work on the premises

Now on View.

For Further l'urricuare and terme cl Eale apply to the Undersigned. ·

LAMMERT BROS.

Hongkong, May 23, 1999.

HANITARY ENGINEERS

MONUMENTALISTS

r.

Ofera and Godown,

964, Wanchai Bowl Hongkong. Tel, Control Na, 2001

Jargo mtnek nf

BATNE and BATH ROOM FITTINGS.

LAVATORY BASINS FLUSH..

CLOSETS.

COMHODES, BIDETS, Ac., do.

OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING

RANGES, TILED ORATES, A

AMERICAN & ITALIAN WARBLE MEMORIALS--Also in polished Hongkong Orcilo.

A large selection of Artificial Wrentha

Trines on Applicatioa.

FOR SALE

A Fine Collection of 63 Transvaal

Unused Postage Stamps,

1885 to 1901,

Including £6 Stamps,

for 850 net.

GRACA & 00.,

Dealers in Postage Stamps, Pictorial Post Cards, Garden Seeds, Toys, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Stroot.

P. U. Box 20.

Hongkong.

THE CHINA MAIL.

"Turkish AA

Westminster Cigarettes unkish Blend A Grode

IVADI

Westmins Turkish Sale

Jurkish Cigarettes

of exceptional quality manufactured from the finest selected tobacco leaves.

Manufactured

in England

Westminster

Tobacco

Co. Ltd., London

FRIDAT MAY 725

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

Hotel Mansion

Agenta for :-ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPE), KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS. BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,

ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Mannisetursin, High Class English Jewellery,

THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO. Blood Office: 78 Wyndham Street. 2nd, Floor, (Opposite Central Police Station.) Tel, Central 4166.

Dealers in all kinda of Higb-olaan Silk Ehirte, Collars, Neaktios and Pyjamas for Gentleman AND ALBO

Chewison, Skirts, Wrappers, Restla, Veils, and Nightgowns for Ladies

ALSO. MADE TO ORDEA

MODERATE PRICE"

PROMPT DELIVERY

Manager: EMILIO LAU,

PROTO SUPPLIES. ·

LONG HING & CO., Redaks and Bodals Films, &c. s

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 174, Queen's Road Clara, Hongkono,

HONGKONG:

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HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

PEKING:

Peak Hote!

Repulse Bay Hotel

Aator House Hotel

Palace Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalee

Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits

The Hongkong Rotel Co., Ltd.

In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

and

The Grand Hotel dos Wagons Lita, Zsä.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised

In The Mail

ENTERTAINMENT,

May 25-Coronet Theatre Priscilla Dean in "Conflict.".

May 25. World Theatre; Pauline Frederick in

Mistress of Shenstone."

The

May 25-Star Theatre; Mildred Harris "Old Dad."

„SPORTING EVENT..

June 2-Third Gymkhana of the Hongkong Jockey Club, Race Course, 3.30 p.m.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

May 25-Lammert Bros., a valu- able collection of postage stamps at their Duddell Street Sales Rooms, 5.15 p..

COMPANY MEETINGS.

May 30-Hongkong Hide and Leather Co., Ltd., extraordinary general meeting at the Company's Office, 67-69 Des Voeux Rond Central, at noon.

May 31-Twenty-fifth ordinary annual meeting of the "Star" Ferry Co. Ltd., nt Messre. Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s offices, at noon.

THE WATER SUPPLY,

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on the 1st May -

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SHOEMAKERS,

(Japanese Hand Made)

Every kind of Footwear, „MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00..

- 6, D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Co.

Telophons Central No. 491

Hongkong, March 20, 1014.

NAMSAN & CO. 136, Connaught Road West. Photo Engraving and Designing LITHOGRAPHERS

Tel. Central 1303.

WING FAT CHEUNG SPARROW CARDS (MA JONG) FOR SALE. CARDS MADE OF

IVORY AND FISH BONE,

No, £70. Queen's Road Central,

DRANCH No. 29, Man Bam Street East.

ASAHI BEBR··

PILSENER BEER

RAND PRIZ

ASAHI

Bonampion of water in $2 Oliy

and Filll District in millions and, doelmanla

of gallons during the month p! April

wusted population

374.50'S. 205,460 2,780

Conmengikon per band Į *** 127 galing

Constant supply to all distriota doria April 1992.

Intermittent Supply in all Bider Kain istries during April 18.3.

KORLIÐI KAZER WORKA ZEVK

35 valoon flanella 1_22 ft. 10 in.

Dushan Beenvatten i Balew uryELOW. Eslor meat on [MFORANN, EN 'NEŠALOVÉ AN D VHOTRÁLA ME MARiven'

„Dansmaptleri of umer"in" Kowloet in afflezja neid deelsands of gallons during than mouth of April.

LAGER

13.8

18.

118 co

Bratciction in all districts from 4th.

of the water'de satis

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ODDS AND ENDS.

This Advertisement is issued by Westminster Tobacco Co., Ltd.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Some Fortunes.

John Bunting of Oldham, who began work at the age of nine in a brickyard and ultimately became a sharebroker and controlling head He made no will but letters of ad of 20 spinning mills, left £658,189. ministration have been granted to the widow. Walter Smith, maker of Christmas crackers, left £146,000; Theodore Crombie, woollen mer chart, Aberdeen, £155,000; Sir

years. Kant would be even more good as any nowadays made any- amazed at the starry heavens where. Mr Alfred Vincent, the above' if he had these dimensions | first prize winner, was warmly con- to contemplate. Meanwhile, that gratulated. other object of his astonishment, "Spirit" Hauntings.

the 'moral law within,' is as my-} sterjous as ever." Out of the Way!

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

The Only Ameriona Hotel in the Colony. Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Hanks, and Central Districta. 13 Bedrooms. Excellent Cuisine Scrupulously-cla Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened a No. 2, Quesa's Bond (let floor), Entrance Ice House St. Tiffins a speciality,

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

(Two minutos from Star Ferry

The phenomena of hauntings. and poltergeists represent a very large region of mainly unexplored Westminster Abbey no doubt territory (according to Truth). We stands upon what would be an freely admit that some cases of extremely valuable site,-and-St. hauntings are explainable by the congestion of traffic. Whitgift Ho- the locality haunted" has receiv Paul's is obviously causing a great psychometrical sense, that is to say spital is a poor relation of such ed in some mysterious way a pic- majestic and popular landmarks, ture or register of a tragedy which but it is as fully entitled to the once occurred there, and that protection of every Englishman psychically, sensitive people visit- who cares for his heritage." Thus ing the spot may get a strong writes Mr. John Drinkwater, the mental impression of the tragic poet and dramatist, in a preface to event, whatever it might have been. a brochure just issued on the case But it would be absurd to attribute for the preservation of Whitgift all hauntings

• this source, Hospital at Croydon. "It is uolfor we Know by experience nuch use," he says, "arguing with that in some cases there is an actual the people who think that it is only haunting by a spirit who in certaini Mr. Wilson's Advice To America. plain little old building that circumstances makes his.presence Ex-President Wilson, in a letter might just as well be out of the very clearly apparent. It has published as an exclusive dispatch way; it is for those who have the seemed to us that rapport with the to the Philadelphia Public Ledger, power to do so to see that such spirit is occasionally obtained from urges the unconditional adhesion cpinion is kept to itself, and is not contact with the impression left, so of the United States to the allowed to destroy the beauty that that it may be sometimes just a International Court of Justice. is curs from wise and loving hands reproduction of the occurrence as Opposing President Harding's of old."

impressed on the ether, and at other times contact with the spirit)

was actually concerned. These matters, however, are being

Frederick Graham, of the Colonial Office, £17,000; Sir Charles Loch, Secretary, Charity Organization, £19,000, and the Hon. Mr. Arthur Eliot, of the Edinburgh Review, £8,000.

that I approve not the conditional,

volves."

Pompeian Finds.

10

Tanks to Replace Horacs.

proposal of conditional adhesion, Bruges set an Example. Mr. Wilson writes.-"Let me say

who "They had in York, as a trust, a but the unconditional, adhesion of singularly beautiful city, and there the United States to the Interna was another singularly beautiful studied by many able psycholog tional Court set up under the city in Bruges, where if any one ists, and no doubt we shall in time auspices of the League of Nations, wanted to add to his house or re-be able to arrive at the origin of though I think it would be more build it the municipality might the phenomena more clearly than consistent with the fame of the make a grant out of the public at present.. United States for candour and funds on condition that his plans

Messrs. Vickers, the armament courage to become a member of satisfied them he was carrying on the League of Nations, and share the tradition of the city. Why not form, of Sheffield, have secured the with other members the full re-York?" asked the Dean of York in contract for the building of 20 sponsibilities its Covenant in a recent speech in his city. It was tanks, which, according to the War a detestable heresy and utterly un- Minister, are to replace horses in true to say that if you have a pic the transport of artillery. Since ture palace it must be loud and the end of the war the armament The Giornale d'Italia states that vulgar and spoil the whole neigh departments of Vickers have been the Government has ordered all bourhood. It was an equally detest more or less closed down, and the the excavations of Pompeii to be able heresy to think that a restaur-majority of the experienced hands opened to, the public, and an ant must be modelled on those of as well as hundreds of labourers nounces that the opening will take the newer parts of London. Why have been idle. The tanks are to place shortly. The newspaper re could not something be done in cost £120,000. This is regarded as produces an article by Professor York am logous to what was on foot the best nows industrial Sheffield Spinazzola, Director of Excavations, in Bruges? He appealed to the

has received since the. Armistice. stating that five hundred yards of people who owned or occupied the How this order will affect the very the Roman road from the Forum beautiful old houses of the city to heavy unemployment. figures the, of Pompell to the amphitheatre regard, themselves as trustees for officials are at present unable to have been cleared of ashes,· Ten- future, generations.

say, but all agree that it will pro- more houses on the road have The Strad. Challenged.

vide work formany hands for some been cleared, and the interiors.

The 200-years-old ascendency of considerable time. The new war were found intact with mural paint the Stradivarius violin has been tractor is stated to be a formidable ings, which throw much light on: the period. One of the most in challenged by a modern English looking machine and when the made violini. A test held at Aeolian trial weapon" was complete and teresting of the discoveries made. Hall in London recently, at the made its first run it naturally by the excavators is a jeweller's adjudication in the Cobbett com created considerable interest, The shop, with the jeweller's tools and petition for English-made stringed tank is about 35ft, long; it has the precious stones...

instruments may not have been power of an ordinary tractor, is Just A Glimpse.

decisive, but it was extraordinarily mounted with a turret, and al- The American astronomers at curious. Mr. Albert Sammons together appears to be a very effi Lowell and Harvard calculate that played (behind a screen) on a cfent fighting machine. It is con- the universe is more that ten times. Strad" and a violin just made by structed so that it can take into as large as scientists have hitherto Mr. Alfred Vincent, and the audi action big field guns with great believed," says the Inquirer, "Some once voted for the latter as giving cst case, and figures may, or may not, help to the better tone. There was a comic will be able

des with ward a conception, of how large it, show of chagrin when the majority out its elle Is Light travels, as ordinarily be realized that they had downed" Heved, at a rate of nearly 200,000 the Stradivarius and the minorty mijes it a second. The distance la considerable minolšty) that light travelswitha year a proud of themselves | {light year') is over six million, will not be the means,

million miles. Formerly,

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the measure.

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set it at 350,830)

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Night to have

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