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

AUCTIONEERS, Appraiskas AND SURVETŐEN.

-Pablic Auctions -

TEX Vadersigned havo recaved insafns doms to sell by Publio Auchlen.

ON

THURSDAY, July 18, 1983, commencing at 3 p.m.

at the old premises ni the Hongkong Electric Co.. Wing Kung Street,

Woochai

Two (2) 650 B. II. P. Diesel Capora tors Complete with alternatora & exciters

Three (3) 390 B. 11, P. Diesel Genern-! tors Complete with alternators & exciters Two (2) 250 K. W. Steam alternators complete with oxeiters and switchboards One (1) Habeeck & Wilcox water tub boiler complete with fittings an cluin grate sinker

One (1) Varine type boiler complete with fittings

,

Two (2) 50 K. W. Alternators (without enginee

One (1) Main Switchboard ennsisting of machine panels and feeder panelā

Que (1) Duplex Food Pattp

Threo (3) Heenan & Frands type water Poolera

One (1) Lot of steel stram pipes and valvee

** Awó (2) Sulzar plumps

Three (3) Albany Notary pumpą

Three (3) Fans for rooling towers and

Three (3) motora fer samo

One (1) Water tank

Ope (1) 120 Ballou oil tank

One (1) Set, of spur gear for Diesel Engine consisting of 251 items

Ons (1) 10 ten Travelling crane and

A Large Quantity of Structural Steel work on the premises

Now on View,

For Further Particulars and terms of Este apply to the Undersigned.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers

Hongkong, May 23, 1923.

SANITAUT ESOINEENS MONUMENTALĀ STS

Unleam Galowns, 994, Wanrial to Uongkong. Tel. Content No. 27

Large stock of

BATHS and BATH ROOM

FITTINGS.

LAVATORY BASINS FLUSH CLOSETS.

COMMODES, BIDETS, &c., &c.

OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING RANGES, TILED ORATES.

AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALS—Also in pedinbeck Longkong Granite.

A lugn election of Artificial

Wrenth

Price Application.

FOR SALE

A Fino Collection of

63 Transvaal

Unused Postage Stamps,

1885 to 1901,

Including £5 Stamps,

for $50 net.

GRAUA & CO.,

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

P. O. Box 620.

Hongkong.

THE CHINA MAIL.

"Turkish AA

Charles

والتمي

Westmins Burkish

Jurkish Cigarettes of exceptional quality manufactured from the finest selected tobacco leaves.

Manufactured in England

Westminster

Tobacco

Co. Ltd., London

MONDAY MAY 28 1928

G FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansion

-ågents for:—ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

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

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

THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO. Head Office: 79 Wyndham Street. 2nd Floor. (Opposite Central Police Station.) Tel, Central 4166.

Donlers in all kinds of High-class Silk Shirts, Collars, Neckties and Pyjamas for Gentleman AND ALSO

Chemisen, Skirts, Wrappore, Scorts, Veils, and Night-gowns for Ladies

ALSO MADE TO ORDER

MODERATE PRICE

PROMPT. DELIVERY

Managor: EMILIO LAU.

PHOTO SUPPLIES.

LONG HING & CO., Kodaks and Kodak Flims, ão, de.

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 17a, Quinn's Boad CESTRAL, HONGKONG.

HONGKONG:

SHANGHAI:

PEKING

Hongkong Hotel

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS:

Peak Hotel

Repulse Bay Hotel

Astor House Hotel Palace Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalee

Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits

The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.

In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

and

The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Ltd.

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE GBAPH COMPANY, LTD.

The following unclaimed telegrama of The are lying at the office Great Northern Tolograph Company (Limited):-

Repits, from Shanghai.

Joctong, from Amoy.

Dover Jones Isolation Hospital, from

Ochahiradio...

Nagashima, from Geaks.

Kablico, from Shanghai.

Kardow clo Compradore Dept Jardine Mathesen & Co., from Amoy..

Kutanckeliong, from Yakobama.

N. LUND,

Act. Superintendent.

Hongkong, May 24, 1923.

EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL- ASIA & CRINA TELEGRAPH CO.

List of unclaimed telegrama lying in

L. & Tolegraph Office, Hongkong.

B. Aloiai, from Bangkok. Mather 07 Queen's Road, from Jobanuraburg,

Nappowo, from Luebeck. Wameniz, from Grandrapidamach,

R: M. MACALPINE,

Superintendent.

Bongkong, May 24, 1923,

THE WATER SUPPLY.

Loveland Storage of waterip weservoirs

on the lat May 1923-

SITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATEA WOBER

LIVEL

"Pytam sort. On. Below (27 76, 11 im. Below overkom

STATION

Tytan Byrvas 28 in, Below overblow

3 Below overfow

Intermediate 3516) se ft. 10 in. Below overtow

in. Balow greetow

In 1812 The

Below overdow

Tel Ching, 28,

17. & in Below overfow

WORK ON Orestow the. Belor ovariow

Teknum, 15.9 in.

Falow UVC750%

10. Belaw overfo STORE X LLIONS AND PSORIJA OF WALLE

SHOEMAKERS,

(Japanese Hand Made)

Every kind of FootweNT, MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY &00,,

8, NAGUILAR STRKET,

Oppbelte Kayamally & Co. Telephons Central No. 491

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

NAMSAN & CO.

136, Connaught Road Weat.

Photo Engraving and Designing LITHOGRAPHERS Tel. Central 1363,

WING FAT CHEUNG SPARROW CARDS (MA JONG) YOR BALE. CARIS MADE OF TYORK AND FISH BONE,

No. 976, Queen's Road Central,

BRANCH

No, 38, Man Bam Street East.

ASAHI BIRR

PILSENER BEER

1993.

196.50

139.69

From Byewash mu From Intermediate .......

MA LAKÁS TO P

GRANO PRIZES

OLFI

B0040

S.TI 29825

4.3M

Jelt

10.00

001.84

401.18

Paktális zemerdeka

Total

Consumption of water in the Olty

and Hill District in millions and dealmeis

of gallons during the month of April.

1.3

145 m. 1

. population. ... 326,400 302,730

250.

157

gallon

ALDENER BEEL

Constant supply in all dlotdota Aurla April 1911.

Intermittent Supply in all Hider Main districts during April 1913,

KOWLOOK WATER WOLKS LEVEL

*Men Zanervate......... } Delaw mertow Below an dow BORARE IN TOLEDONE AND DROZMASH OF SALE.OVE

Evaloon Cleartiation)

DL00

Donsumption af water in Kowlorn in loma arid docdasale of galleon during the month of April.

SAHLE

SART

11

1053

29 fà, 0 in,

113'00

Disallows. Bestriellion, In all districts from th April 1919.

The Government Analyuk's suports shaw, that the quality of the water is satisfac

T. L PERKINS.

Authority

Public Works Depsi

"Now Is The Time,

Iam you will find nothing Vor rheumatism hotter than Chamberlain's: Pain Balm, is the time to get rid of in Try Enfrsent and are how quickly it wil. Horn the pain and arenes for mis Tall Claciniata and BorekeeperS

BEER

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA

ODDS AND ENDS.

passenger

**

steamer

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

Table Gardens.

Five couples started one Saturday to break the record established at 65 hours 30min. Undeterred when ordored to stop by the police, they decided to carry on the contest in the neighbouring State of New A large, motor-lorry was Jersey ordered, and the five couples danced out of the ball-room in New York, across the pavement, and up an inclined plank into the truck. Still dancing, they drove to the ferry, crossed the river, and rode several ailes through the streets of Jency City, Arriving at their destination,

A Bond Street Borist has hit upon a novel and charming idea, observer MAINLY SCISSORY LOOThe Sanday Express. He has plent ed a miniature English garden in Struggle With Madman In Sea. the sort off bowl in Which one is While the Norwegian tail and accustomed to see those Japanese "Midnatsol" bits of landscape which have become was on her last trip to the Russian so popular of late. It seminds one frontier at Vardo, a lunatic, who was travelling with two attendants, of the old-world garden at Kensing succeeded in evading, their watch ton Palace, with its terrace steps and jumping overboard. The mate of and sunken pool, with gold fish, the Midnatsol" inmediately dived water lilies, and a swan. A frog the young people danced into the from the bridge into the icy sea.site pensively on the bank near a new ball-room with the record un- He was able to catch hold of the sundial, and a careless gardener has interrupted by the journey of about madman, who struggled violently left a broom against the rustic arch,

cabling they were still going strong, and nearly dragged him down. The The trees are pine-needles and twenty miles. At the time of steamer was stopped and a boat. grass, and the flowering shrubs, lowered, the mate and lunatic both primroses, forget-me-nots, and tiny Seeing Without Sight. being rescued. The mate has been white starry anemones grow in the recommended for the Norwegian rockeries. Government's medal for bravery. White Australia.

Labour And The Ring.

Traders in the grain pite of Chicago witnessed an amazing dis- play of "seeing without sight" when Curl Bostrom, a blind studeat from North-western University was taken to the door on an inspection trip.

Bostrom's "eyes are unusually. sensitive nerves in his cheeks, which

A Labour member's describing Recent statisties indicate that the Lady Astor's dinner party at St. policy of a White Australia is being James's Square, where members of effectively safeguarded. Examina- tion of the latest census has reveal the Lebour party and their wives ed that the Asiatic population of met the King and Queen, says when register any differences in air pres the King and Queen arrived the sure, while discerning ear drums Australia has decreased considerably since the previous census of 1911. guls were divided into two lines register the slightest sounds.

Lady Astor soon as he had stopped on the big to welcome them. The number of Chinese has divind took the King down one line and floor he was asked to estimate the led from 20,772 to 20,674 of Tord Astor conducted the Queen size of the trading room. Japanese, froin 3,476 to 2,221; and along the other, and both the King

Tel. Centl, 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add: "Carlton." The Only American Hotel in the Colony, Nice and quiet yet only a for minutes' walk from the Banks, and Central Districts. 43 Bedrooms: Excellent Cuisine. Borupulonely clean. Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened at No. 2, Queen'a Road (lat flour). Entrance Los House 8t. Tifins a speciality.

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

(Two minutes from Star Ferry)

PALACE HOTEL KOWLOON

Becantly renovated and refumlahad, electrin light and fans throughout and surely under new management. Dalsina under the parsansa supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Hilliard Booma Tarină föderata. Special farma to familles on application to

Telephone Kowloon 3,

41

Talagraphis Add.: "Paraur”

Ав

HOTEL

"I guess it is about 150 by 155

of Hindus from 3,606 to 3,634. The and Queen shook hands with all feet, he said after listening total non-European population at who were present.

decrease of 4,032. Card Dealing Complaint.

moment to the sounds. The dimen

Bostrom quickly noted, placed

both stages was: 1911, full-blooded The guests were again divided sions of the root are 189 by 160 37,760; half-caste 14,564 total into two sections at dinner, when feet. 52.343; 1921, full-blooded. 30,612 the Queen sat with Lord Astor at (decrease 6,977); half-caste, 17,499 (increase 2,945) leaving a net totale aval table and the King with and measured the four pits, noticed Lady Astor at another oval table, the corridors leading off the trading After dinner, when, the women floor and distinguished between withdrew to the drawing room, anthem and the doors, estimated the The popularity of bridge hae armchair was placed by the fire for height and weight of persons who brought the new complaint, "bridge the Queen. wrist." Its most easily recogniz

Mrs. Dash in a Bolshevik, stood within two feet of him and

men marking quotations. able symptom is a lump on top of ma'am," said Lady Actor as she pointed out the blackboards and the the wrist. At first the lump is not presented me. painful, but it becomes tender it "Indeed, I am not Your Majesty, A Novel "Corkscrew." the victim does considerable card T hurriedly interposed. dealing. The swelling is caused by I know Mss. Dash is not a excessive use of the muscles which Bolshevik" said the Queen reassur. are not normally called on to do ingly.

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The ordinary form of corkscrew, while often effective enough for its purpose, destroys, or at least im pairs, the future usefulness of the

7. H. OXBERRY, Propiator.

"

"ASIA'

WEST BUND, CANTON,

Leading Hotel in South China.

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

Biver Splendid Views of City

Pearl

Excellent Cuisine:

Moderate Batem.

and

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

'CENTRAL LONJATION 2,

EL KUBOTAIS TRAME Pam Extranos, Eias|| ARAtha said Benitary Fittings Bot models Water Bata throughirst, Bit of Food and Barrie Tel. Call, 373. Telegraphia Addiem 500" FICTORIA. SZ, WELCHELL, Manager..

far and Labling, aroga

THE NEW VICTORIA CAFÉ THE HOUSE FOR GOOD EATS.

Timing and Dinners (Menu and A La Carte) at all hours, Bakers, and 'Confectioners. Cakey-made for parties eto.

Eral, Cent:

much work. Professional pianista I then explained to Her Majesty cork, and not infrequently leads to KING EDWARD HOTEL often develop a similar trouble in that Bolshevism, was dying out of its being broken, and particles of the tendons of the wrist. Women fashion, and that there were no cork being mixed with the contents suffer from "bridge wrist" more fre. Bolsheviks in this country. Pre- of the bottle. A new device which quently than men, but doctors have sently the Queen asked after my we have recently tested avoids these not yet discovered whether this is family, and I asked after her grand disadvantages. In form it is not a acrew at all, but consists of two because women play more bridge or son. because their wrist muscles are Oh, he is splendid, the replied. narrow strips of highly flexible Ispring-steel fitted into a convenient- weaker.

He now weigh's eight pounds." wad presented to the King later in ly shaped aluminium handle. The Earl Kinnoull's Ruso...

Many curious people were at the the evening. I was charmed by the two strips are not quite equal in landing stage at Southampton when wonderful memories of both the length. To remove, a cork the the liner Andes, arrived, in ox King and Queen. They seemed to longer of the two strips, is first pectation of seeing the young Earl remember everything about every inserted between the cork and tho of Kinnoall land. They were dis body. I had expected that it neck of the bottle, and is pushed appointed, however, for the young would be over fairly early and that down until in its turn, the end of the Earl, together with his mother, we should be home by eleven, but shorter strip can also be pushed in Viscountess Dupplin, and bis aunt, this was not the case. It was 10 on the other side of the cork.. This Miss Harley Bacon, had disembark tinutes to 12 before the King drew having been done, both strips are ed at Lisbon with the intention of out his watch and announced that gantly forced down, as far as they proceeding to Paris overland. They be hhu idea that it was so late, will go, this being easily accom haul ombarked at Madeirs. The Trumediately after the King and plished by a rocking motion import

le applied to the strips alt But it will be remembered, was Queen had left of course we all went ed to the handle so th

Those having bean, pressed home, sent out to the Cape six months ago home after the announcement of his pra Marathon Dancing Craze. an upward pal, socompanied lected mariage to Mr. Surle on With view to discouraging the turn of the pork

Crazo, which is the removal of the core in a Americia widow, Mrs. Burle ex- Marathon dancin

United

condition; pressed her intention of following apreading throu

have time him to Bouth Africa16 is now States, the New understood that all relations be revived an ancient law limiting the dew enduranc

res: hours! Itween the two have chased.

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