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

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Pablle Auctions-

Will Underd guod have received incarno-

Mens to sell by Pabllo Auction,

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AFURSDAY, JOko 19, 1803,

eqmmencing at 8 p.

their Sales Room, Daddell Street

The Valuable Leasehold Property

Comprising

The whole of the adjoining Lole No. 20, 121, 122, 129 and 130 D. n. 448 tasted near Krei Chang (Gin Drinkers

in the New Territorica ct Hoag- ng of a total na of about 102,496 quare feet of which 62,545 quam, fest building jana and 39.850 sqaro gricpitoral land, The property nts on to the sea and theróin depth

foot of water at medium tide na hari ad of the pier and 18 feet at medium ide at a distance of 200 foot from sea- Ward boundary of the property.

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In addition there is ore wooden pier. 100 feet long, on water reservoir with Fconnections to all pusta of the property. Jone Dolo Electrio Light Plant with connections and fittings for lighting tha

hola property, telephone connected to The Kowloon exchange and buildings Covering a total of about 20,825 square. Hot Including one European-style house,

Chizess style houses, oflices lock-up tore buite, sheds etc., etc. almost all of which are practically new.

The whole of the land, buillinge. electric plant &c., &c, described above fate to be sold in one lot.

Particulars of the Crown Lease under which the land is held may be seen at the Office of the District Loud Officer Bouth. -

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An outline plan of the property may be seen at Messrs. Lammert's Office to sebom application for further informa tion should he made.

LAMMERT BROS,,

Auctions.

Hongkong, June-13, 1923.

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WEDNESDAY, June 27, 1929. commencing at 5.15 p.m.

A Valuable Collection of Postage Stamps

(Fall Particulars from Catalogue). On View from Monday the 25th

Jaso 1923,

Terms -Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Austiseer.

Hongkong, June 10, 1923,

ON

THURSDAY, July 19, 1823. commencing at 3 p.m.

at the old promises of the Hongkong Electric Co.. Wing Fang Street, Wapchai

Two (2) 650 B. H. P. Diesel Genera- town Complate with alternators & excitera *Three (3) 300 B. II. P. Dineol Genora- tore Complete with alternators & arcters Two (2) 260 K. W. Steam alternators complete with exciters and switchboards

One (1) Babcock & Wilcox water tabo boiler complete with fittings and chain gmie stoker

One (1) Marine type boilor completo with fittings

Two (2) 60 K. W. Alternators (without Longines

One (1) Main Switchboard consisting of maching panels and feeder panels

One (1) Duplex Feed Pump

Three (8) Heenan & Froude type water

COOLAT

One (1) Lot of stool steam pipes and

valves

Two (2) Sulzer pumpa

Three (3) Albany Notary pumps

Three (3) Fans for cooling towers and

Three (3) motors for same

One (1)Water tank

One (1)120 Gallon oil tank

One (1) Set of spare gear. for Diseal

Engine consisting of 251 items

One (1)10 ton Travelling crane and

Large Quantity of Structural Steel

work on the pramison.

Now on, View.

For Further Particulars and terms of

Bale apply to the Undersigned.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, May 23, 1949.

On

MONDAY, July-16, 1928,. commending at 3 pm.

their Balow Rooms, Daddell Street, Ons Bet of Mins Machinery This lot comprises a complete set of Mint Machinery, capable of producing 100,000 (one hundred thousand) pieces -cent, (twenty cent) coins or 200,000 wo hundred thousand pieces 10-cent cent) coms per working day of 10 Yours.

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(Further particulars and inspection beders may be obtained from-Mesere. Gilman & Co., Ltd, or the Undors good).. Terms-20 per cent of purchase money to be paid on fall of hammer. Balence to be paid within two weeks of fily of sale.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Bengkons, Juns 13, 1993.

YEE SING

GENTLEMEN'S TAILOR

$832

12, Wellington Ekrest,

SWAY HOUSE

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SANITARY KNGINEERS

HONUMENTALINTY

Cices and Godawa,

231, Pancha: Xoad Hongkon

Castral No. 200

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Large Block at BATHS and BATH ROOM FITTINGA LAVATORY BASINS TZISK CLOSETS

COMMODES, BIDETS, &c., de.

OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING BANGES TILED GRATES.

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AMERICAN & TTALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALS-ALo in pollated y

lingkeng Crizite.

- Á tage selection of daztiecha

Trestle

Prawn on Application,

BEIGHT & SON'S A B C DESCRIPTIVE PRICED CATALOGUE

of the

STAMPS

of the

DRITISH EMPIRE. Continent of Europe and its Colonies. Foreign Countries (Extra Europears). FULLY ILLUSTRATED

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GRACA & 00,, Dealers in Postage Stamps, Garden Seeds, Pistorial Post Cards, Toys, &c. No. 10. Wyndham Street.

P. O. Box 820,

Hongkong..

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Every kind of FootwGAT. MIDE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00..

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Opposite Kayamolly & Co. Telophons Central No 491

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

NAMSAN & CO.

136, Connaught Road West.

Photo Engraving and Designing. LITHOGRAPHERS Tel Central 1863.

WING FAT CHEUNG BPARROW CARDS (HA JOKO) FOR SALE CARDS MADE OF IVORY AND TISH BONE.

No. $78, Queen's Bond Central,

BRANCH No. 89, Man Ham Street East.

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Looking After-£168,000,000,

· GORGONZOLA HALL

MYSTERIES OF THE STOCK

EXCHANGE.

The report of the Public Trustee' for the year to March 31 last, states that the result of the year's working --was a surplus of £75,490, compared,

with a deficit of £41,295 for the The Stock Exchange, that great In a letter from Wornwoods previous year and of £98.537 for building next to the Bank of Eng 1920-21; This result was due, says land; is a jealously guarded spot, Scrubbs to his wife and daughter, Mr. Simpkin, the Trustee, tot so and sacred to tho-ita membern Horatio Bottomley says-No.ap: much to increase In the revenue and their clerk

bince is petite and no sleep make a bad to reduction of axpenditure, The the buying and selling of shares, combination, especially when aggregate value of new business,

including accretions to cid trustsay Pearton's icelty... aggravated by a variery of painful during the year was £15.332,309, a

No unauthorised person is allowed nerve disorders. The loss of compared with £19,911,220 for the to enter its doors, and any stranger weight, which has been consider-previous year, when, however, the who manages to lind his way past aggregate was swollen by one the "Waiters" who guard the doors able, may not necessarily be ser estate of unusually large value with eagle oyee is almost certain to lous, provided the process is check The number of new cases ac-oe discovered inside and be turned. ed in time. But the insomnia, Icepted during the year was 9557 45 out. confess, docs cause

Should member see the intruder. me come compared with 1,136 for the anxiety, and at times, I am afraid, previous year The number of he ends up the cry, Waiter! some depression. There are," adds cases under administration at the 1400 at which a. Waiter leads the the letter, "those suggestions for a. end of the year was, 15,600, having trecpasser to the door. series of monster petitions (some an estimated value of approximate«. unique in character) but I still dis-ly £168,600,000. The gross proceeds of the realisation of guemy proper courage the idea."

ty amounted at the end of the year Traitor's Fate,

to about £60,000,000, 4410 A Great Foreign Nation. "I wish you would strike out of your vocabulary the word cousins' until it is used in the United States to ourselves," said. Mr. Wickham Steed, late editor of the Times, who

gave an address DA

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The cry 1400. list is set up when a stranger gets in originates from the time when the number of members was 1,899.

On one occasion, when a foreigner refined to go be was ragged, and forthwith challenged one of the members to a dual!.

Naval Sub-Lieutenant Ulimo, who was sentenced in 1908 to de- tention for life in a penal settle ment for the crime of high treason and who has served 15 years of his

The Waiters, men dressed in sentence on the Devil's Island, the

gold-mounted top hats and blue French Guiana penal settlement. where Dreyfus was confined has Americans" at the Samson Clark doors in the capacity of janitors, and The costs with red facings, stand at the had his punishment reduced. He has building in Mortimer-street. The now been transferred to Cayenne, less we talk about cousinship, he ough there are many thousands of said, the better. We should re out during the day, these men authorised persons who pass in and gard Americans as foreigners, and are Acne the fost important soldom let strongera pass without to dent. When we learn to look to know when a trespasser is trying foreign nation with which we have question. They seem instinctively

the capital of French Guiana, where he will enjoy comparative freedom. Uilme, whose passion for the spy woman known as the beautiful Lison," prompted him to betray his country, has aged considerably during his detention. Ullmo was on the Americans as a great, but to dodge by. induced to steal secret war plans young, community that has endless

possibilities of developinent; vated boxes something like pulpits by La Belle Lison," who under-hen we understand that the ac- where they receive telegrama to dis mined his will by her fascination and by causing him to contract the opium habit;

Padlocked Man.

-The fact that a colliery worker was found unconscious and with his arms padlocked behind him in a passage near his home is puzzling the police of Rotherham, Yorkshire. The

man, Joseph Edwards, 36, lives in Sidney-street, Rotherham. When he was found bis arms were fastened behind his back by a padlock which had been thrust through the material of his coat-sleeves. The round his neck was a luggage label on which was written: Take care of him until we come again." Letters which seem ed to come from a secret society were in his pocket. Edwards was taken to hospital, where he speedily recovered. He had no apparent injuries, and said that he remein- bered nothing after leaving, his house to get his bicycle, on which he usually rode to work. Seat Corrects Scot.

both

The inside Waiters stand in ele.

Once inside the Houses the Stock Exchange is sometimes called the stranger is faced with a vast crowd of men standing in groups in the huge, çathedral-like building with many massive arches to sup. port the lofty roof.

cident that we possess approximate-tribute to the members, and call anv ly a common language, is rather member that may be wanted. This a disadvantage than otherwise, calling is first done by a lusty shout then we shall begin to get some of the naine through the general dia, where. But so long as Pilgrim and then if that proves ineffective, dinners are held to entertain am- by means of an electrical contri bassadors and other important vance which flashes the member a personages from the other side, number on a board. and they talk of blood being thicker than water, and of all mis- understandings being forgotten they are rendering us a sore dis- service, as they are putting us out of touch with fully 75 per cent, of the American people. When he was returning to New York from

As one walks through these his travels across America, he realised that the Americans are groups of men standing about the not only foreigners to us, because Stock Exchange-which is some the conditions are so different, but times called "Gorgonzola Hall" on that we are foreigners and incom-account of the white marble with prehensible to them. They should green streak 'running through it be treated with the courtesy in- that ornamente the walls and pillars volved in dealing with great-one soon discover thist the vari foreign people, and that would lay ous ragged groups all have their own the basis of an understanding significance. between the two countries: Mystery Towers.

One group will be in the Kaffir Market, in which South African shares are boughs and aald. Another. is the Oil Market. In this group one may bear a man shouting fuatily to all who care to listen that he has Mexican Eagles to sell at a certain figure.

The war-thine "mystery towers," At a luncheon after the general the most famous of which was meeting in London of Buchanan moored at Shoreham, were given Dewar, Ltd., Lord Dewar said that further publicity, their design and one of the chief difficulties both construction being considered by firms had had to contend with in the Royal Commission on Awards their early days was the difficulty to Inventors sitting at Martlett

Another man, anxious to get rid of familiarising the Scottish name House, Bow-street. The Vibrocel of similar shates, may shout a lower of their products to the English Company Limited made a claim for public, but that was now being re- an award in respect of an invention figure, so that in a few seconds, to medied, most people being fami used on the towers in the construct all but the trained ear the hubbnb liar with the pronunciation of the tion of the huge concrete parts. becomes unintelligible. names

Very occasionally it happens that Dewar and Mr. Justice Sargant inquired of Buchanan.

counsel if it was desired that member of the Stock Exchange is Recently he had occasion to hail the case should be heard in unable to meet his liabilities; he a taxicab and asked to be driven camera It was agreed that cannot pay bis debts. His books are to the headquarters of the com-the hearing should be a public then sent up to the committes for pany In order that the driver me, but that the purpose for which examination. Then, if his case is a should thoroughly understand, he the towers were built by the serious one, he is turned out of the (Lord Dewar) instructed him to Admiralty should not be divulged Exchange. proceed to "De-rar" House. On

A slip of paper was handed to arriving at his distination, the the Commission stating that pur This is known as "hammering' driver, in a broad Scottish voice, pose. Counsel for the company a man. A heavy blow is struck with gave him the proper pronunciation went into technical detail at great a wooden mallet on the side of the of the name Dewar. (Laughter.) length, and after evidence had been box by one of the inside Waiters. called, Mr. Moritz, for the Treasury The hum of talk ceases. There is a The Prince's Canadian Ranch.

said that, from the point of view of second ominous thud ng word meets During his memorable tour the Admiralty, an adequate award through Canada the Prince of would be £1,095. Council for the wood, followed by a dead silence. Wales. purchased an extensive company said his clients could not / And then ʼn third blow, after which | ranch in Alberta, bordering of the accept that amount. At the con- the Waiter nemoves his hat and foot-hills south-west of Calgary, clusion of the hearing Mr. Justice announces that Mr. Blank cannot The ratch extends to 4,000 acres, Sargant indicated that, although the comply with his bargains, and already on it there are select Commission would make an award, This is a very solemn moment, small studs of thoroughbreds and they would have had to decide and it is seldom that the hamncred Percherons, as well as Dartmoor against the company had they member is present at the awful pro ponies, says Truth. From Glasgow made a careful judgment.

oceding which cuts him off from the Canadian Pacific tiner.

further business in the House until "Marbura" took out a further côn- |

he has paid in full the money be signment of animals for H.R.H's

A.R.W. ranch. The shipment includedthrea | Allies, intended to form the nucleus of a Clydesdale stud, and the well- known thoroughbred horse Will Somers, on loan from, H.M the King. This horse, which is being. taken out tothe ranch for breeding purposes, has won several races in England for his Majesty, and is a five-year-old by Black Jester out of Vervaine."

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