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

Auctioneers, Affraisers

AND SURVETORS.

-Public Auctions--

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THURSDAY, July, 19, 1923, commencing at 3 p.m.

at the old premises of the Hongkong Elec'rio Co., Wing Fung Street, Wanchpi,

Two (2) 550 B. H. P. Diesel Genera- More Complete with alternators & excitars Thice (3) 300 DB. P Diesel Geners tors Complete with alternators & excitors Two (2) 250 K. W. Steam alternators complete with exciters and switchboards, Ons (1) Babcock & Wilcor water taba boiler complete with fittings and chain grata atoker

One (1) arine type boiler complete with fittings

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

One (1) Main Switchboard gmsisting

of machine panels and feeder panels

One (1) Duplex Feed Pamp

Three (3) Hesian & Froude type water coolers

One (1) Lot of steel team pipes and

valves

Two (2) Sulzer pumpa

Three (3) Albany Notary pumps

Thres (3) Fans for cooling towers and

Three (3) motore for sime

One() Water tank

One (1) 120 Galina oil tank

One (1) Set of spare gear for Diesel

Engine consisting of 251 items

One (1) 10 ton Travelling crane and

A Largo Quantity of Structural Steel

work on the premises

Now on View,

For Further Particulars and terms of Sale apply to the Undertig ed.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers

Hongkong, May 29, 1823.

ASLEEP IN MINE. TRAPPED MAN THOUGHT DEAD.

One of the five men trapped in the Dandy Pit, at Pensnett, Stafford- shire by a sudden inrush of water) has been rescued. He is "Enoch Cadman, a single man.

A rescue party at work had al-

must given up finding any of the

SANITARY ENGINEER'S

MONUMENTALISTY

Bices and Galovac, son, Winchi toad fösgkang Tel. Central No. 900

Large stock of

BATHS and DATH ROOM FITTINGS

LAVATORY BASINS FLUSH-

CLOSETS.

COMMODES, BIDETH, dc, do.

OPEN A CLOSED STOVES, COOKING RANGES, TILED GRATES.

AMERICAN A ITALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALS—Alna in polished Hongkong Granite.

A large selection of Artificial

Wreaths...

Prices on Application.

WE HAVE

discovered an ERROR

-on

HONGKONG POSTAGE

STAMPB.

7

One only in a sheet of 240 stamps. DO YOU WANT THEM ?

Call at

GRAGA & 00., No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 020.

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese Hand Made)

Every kind of FootweAT. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO...

8, D'AGUILAN ÉTRÆET,

Opponita Kaysmally & Co. Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

men when they came upon Cad-Telephons Central No. 401

man.

He was asleep. When awakened he said, "I thought you were an angel, but whatever you are, I am hungry?

Clothing and restoratives were provided, and the man was taken to the surface.

Cadman told a reporter that he was slightly crippled. "I could not get along as fast as the others when the alarm was given, he explained. Ilost them, and on my way scent- ed the water ahead...

Iknew then it was no good go ing that way, so I retreated. Igrop ed about in the dark for hours on any hands and knees, and getting tired I gave up.

"I knew I could not get out myself, and that I should have to be rescued if I was to live, so I went to sleep."

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FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.

"The farms proscribed for public vehicles

are as follows

In the Island of Hongkong, Caine Boad and Lower Levels, and in Kowloon, and New Kowloon,

RICKURES.

Thro minutes..i

Ten minutes,

Porter hour,

Half hour,” KOʻQ » Amazo Doe bitir, ARANANTONGKA

finricksha

ery Babsequent hour,

within the City of Victoria, and be die charged outside the Western part of the Olty of Victoria after 9 pm, or be dis charged to the East of Hay View Police Station on the Eastern side of the City of Victoria after 9 pm, an extra kalí Bare shall be chargeable.

For 2 or 3 drivers the fare is double or

#reble razpectively.

12In the Hatrick,

Ten minutes, escomportarsesäraseir 20 cons Porter bear,

Half hour,

One hour.com 40

In the New Tety Glories-

By arrangement with the proprietors

shrough the Police.

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TO 90

1-Lower Levels.

With Bearers With 4 Badvers.

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Every picbanquent

With 3-Bearna

hour,

Every subs

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136, Connaught Road West. Photo Engraving and Designing

LITHOGRAPHERS

Tel: Central 1383. »

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ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Luxurious Swindler.

Carl Schindler, an enterprising man di 27, has just had a delightful month in Berlin which has costa number of business firms 350,000, ooo marks (about £2,300).

Schindler posed as agent of an important Breslau firm, took a suite of offices, engaged clerks and typists, and managed to get a large quantity of goods which he paid for with post-dated cheques or bills of exchange. The goods were soldor pawned; and on the proceeds the young man fived in a luxurious hotel, hired a motor-car, and with a woman.companion went to fashion- able restaurants. He has disap- peared, and business firms who un- wittingly floanced his holiday are anxious to discover his where

abouts,

This Year's Flower.

MONDAY JUNE 11, 1928

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

Hotel Mansio

Agenta for--ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

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

KNOLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery,

THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT GO,

Howl Office: 79 Wyndham Street, 2nd Floor. (Opposite Central Police Station.) Tel, Central 4160:

Dealers in all kinds of High-class Silk Shirts, Collare, Neaktios and Pyjamas for Gentlemen: AND ALBO

Chemises, Skirts, Wrappons, Sostis, Veils, and Night-gowns for Ladine ALSO MADE TO ORDER

MODERATE PRICE

PROMPT DELIVERY

-Manager: EMILIO LAU,

PHOTO: 'SUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Kodak and Kodaz Films, o.

DEVELOPING & PRINTING & SPECIALITY.

No. 174, Queen's ROAD UNITRAL, Homoktao.

HOTELS & CAFES.

· LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

Hongkong Hotel

Peak Hotel

Repulse Bay Hotels

Palace Hotel

Astor House Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalee

HONGKONG:

SHANGHAI:

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Grand Hotel des Wagon Lita

The Hongkong Hotel Co, Ltd.

In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

And

The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lite, Ltd.2

Tal. Centi, 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, and Central Districte. 48-Bedrooms. Expellant Cuisine. Berppalously clea Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opemodi aš No. E, Queen's Road (ist door) Entrance Ice House St. Tiffins a speciality.

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

pensation. Benjantin reigned as profile a face and form of virginal The in- an old-time patriarch, and also innocence the maiden's name -taught creed permiuing falsehood being Giulia Astallia. and perjury where his legal inter scription"Unicam For (titudinis) Jests were concerned. He further bet Pad (icitiae)" pays tribute to compelled female members of the her, and she probably died young, as a holy rite." is a phoenixon ä pyre. This medal colony to submit to improper rela- as the "exemplum" on the reverse tions with him " Benjamin eloped before the trial can be matched only by examples took place, and judgment went in the British Museum, and it re- partly by default. Application is calls the charm of one of the most to be made to the Supreme Court beautiful profile portraits in the to disband the "House of David" world, Domenico Ghirlandaio's painting of Giovanna Degli Albizzi, one of the glories of the Rodolphe and disperse the disciples. Mysterious Race of Indians.

Top hatted idols, 600 years old Kana collection. Ghirlandaio was la medallist also." The Latin cartel mummified remains just as ancient, which he added to this portrait is plantes from

worth remembering: and one queer figure like a German soldier ia a spiked helmet, were exhibited by Mr. F. A. Mitchell

by Hedges, the explorer, at a luncheon given

-

Mr. Selfridge,

Ars utinam mores Animumque.effingere Posses pulchrior in ter ris nulla tabella foret. to celebrate his return from the interior of the Panama. Mr. Which, being interpreted, shows "Art.couldst thou but limn. Hedges revealed secrets of a my again the painter's eternal problem, sterious race of Indians dwelling in character and mind there would be a land inhabited by, prehistoric animals. They are the Chucanuque no more beautiful picture in the Indians, and their country is on the world than this!”. This year, in consequence of the Isthmus of Panama, beyond the Unlucky Wedding Month.

What is the month to marry in? Royal marriage, the white rose, the Darien Mountains... They are emblem of the House of York, is to ignorant of the uses of stone and From the days of Caesar, May has be the fashionable flower (the Daily iron, and all their implements are lever bean regarded as unlucky, Chronicle tells us. There are less of wood or bone. Some scientists and to-day we say,Marry in May varieties of this shade, however, recognise Mongolian character and you'll nue the day. The pen- than of any other, and so buyers istics, lending support to the old alty was sometimes said to entail a have but a limited selection. Snow legend that Central America was childless marriage, in other cases Queen, the renamed Frau Karl first settled by Asiatics. The race the first child would be an idiot, or At the same would be unhappy. Druschki is the most desirable of all is dying out, there being only be deformed, or the marriage in shape, size, and purity of hue, but 18,000 Chucanuques left.

time this was not always the view there are two objections to it. It is Luxor Fashions. sceatless and it is fanciful, refusing

held as to May celebrations, for in an old poem, the Court of Love, "Lhad not spoke so song the occur the following lines

My sovereino, did thank words, but she,

as.

ia

me

And there I bode till that, the season fell

American business representa to grow to perfection except under conditions which are exactly to its tives at Luxor are urging that every taste. In both these respects efort should be made by the heads Florence Forrester is preferable, of their concerns to secure the ex- and its delicious fragrance makes clusive style rights of garments, it first favourite of all the "whites embroideries, and colourings on

all apparel found in the tomb of heartily-

And sajde, Abide, ye with many a grower. But it can Tutankhamen, because they are hardly be deemed a true York rose, for, snowy as the white of it is, it is certain there will be a complete dwell still with me, sa

change in furniture, decorations, Till season come of May, for then faintly tinged with lemon.

Jewellery, women's dress and. mil-truly

The King of Love and all, his Landru's Stove Sold

linery as the result of the recent

silk Shall holde his feste full rially The Landru affair caused the discoveries. The representative of company cables from and well. Assize Court at Versailles to be one of the largest

the manufacturers filled again days of his trial, but this time the Luxor warning the home offices.

It is strange that the month which || Crown had come to buy relies of that the opening of the tomb will the French Bluebeard. The most probably bring about a complete interesting of these was the famous change in fashions, and may even is so symbolic of love and beauty kitchen stove in which he was result in the adoption of flowing should never have come to be any alleged to have burned parts of his robes and Egyptian headdress, thing bura fitting month for tying victims. It was the object of keen while "the sequin motif imitating the knot, competition among, cutio-liunters mummy beads on materials in gold, before it was knocked down for turquoise, and lapis lazuli blues and 4,200 francs to a dealer acting for carnelian red offer great possibili-1 the Grevin Museum, of Paris, ties." A large Fifth-avenue firm where it is to be exhibited. Table, admits that the Earl of Carnarvon knives were sold at some 60 francs had not even acknowledged the to 80 francs each, while 22 francs cable offer of £20,000 for exclusive was paid for the cheap purse which rights to the fashion designs found was found on Landru at the time in the tomb, and declares that it is of his arrost. Three bundred ready to go as high as £50,000 if small lots realised in all over 7,000 Lord, Carnarvon showed signs of

negotiating franco-

A Fraudulent Patriarch

After a long livestigation Judge Sater, of Columbus, Ohio, has decided that the Israelite House of David," as run by King Ben Jammin is a gigantic fraud, and awarded £3,000 to a family expell fed from the community on the ground that their farm Inbour du lug the sight years they spent as Funpaid worker in ROL ip's fold was - worth --

£450 For A Medal

Lord Allenby the British High Commissioner), the Grand Cham- berlain, representing King Fund, Adly Pasha, numerous other Pashas and English personal

ends of the late Lord Carnaryon attended a simple memorial service at All Saints Church, Cairo. HLA PRIMEKKORVARN

Chamberlain's Pain Bel

or twidge touch of rheumat

In the great days of art a medal was held to be the link between | berlain sculpture and painting, and one at case

in the bott signally beautiful illustration of Fink app

Been at Sothebs this y first day a sale of the fections:f brothers, 1 Rosenhoic

Star Ferry).

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KOWLOOM

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NEW.DINING ROOM opened for

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