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TUESEAY, Jans 20, 1923. commencing si il s.m. tthole Sale Rooms, Daddell Strant, One Wonten Electric light Plant with

batteries

Ota Rica Hulling Machine

One Small Chubbs Safo

200 Spark Pluge

And

A Lorgo Assortment of Hardware

Comprising:-

Stone Mac Tools, Nose Pliers,

·Garden Toole. Pincers, Dilatones, Angers Sinus' Block Hammers, Far- riors Fallon, Hora Cutting Pincers, Engineem Pirsight Edges, Hound and Smooth Files, Equare files. Spanners, WATTS Picha Mason Tools, Sunde Breakers Hammers, Boiler Maker hammer heals. Pruning Kniven.

Teru:-Gab on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS.; Auctioneers."

Hongkong June 21, 1923.

+371

TUESDAY, Jano 20, 1923, onomeacing at 3 p.m.

at their Soles Rooms, Duddell Street. Tie Taluable Leasehold Property

Comprising:

The whale of the adjoining Lots Nos. 120, 121, 122, 120 and 130 D. D. 448 altasted near Ewei Chung (Gia Drinkers Bay) in the Fer Tirritories of Hong- kong of a total area of about 102,495, aquero fent of which 82,516 equare feet are building hari and 19,060 square feet rgricultural land. The property ebuts Cu to the sea and there is a depth of B feet of water at medium tide at the and of the pier and 13 feet at medium tide at n niatanco cf 200 feet from sea- ward boundary of the property.

In die there is one wooden pier 100 fost long, one water reservoir with convection to sil parts of the properly. one Delco Electric Light Plant with pgerections and fittings for lighting the colonhone connected to hole proper the Kowloon exchange and busaingo eovering a total of about 20,825 square Let including one European-style house, 6.Chinees style houses, offices, lock-up more hops, sheds etc, etc, almost all of

hich are practically new.

The whole of the land, buildings, dectric plaat &c., &c., described above are to be sold in one lot.

Particulars of the Crown Lease under which the land is held may be seen at the Clico of the District Land Officer South

Aa cuthier plan of the property may be seen at Messra Lammert's Office to bon application for further informa tion should be made.

LAMMERT BROS...

Auctioneers. Blongkong, June 13, 1923.

02.

WEDNESDAY, June 17, 1823. commencing at 8.15 p.. A Vainable Collection of Postage Stamps

(Full Particulars from Catalogue). On View from Monday the 20th June 1923..

Forms-Cash on delivery.

L'AMMERT BROS,, Asatizwšers.

Hongkong, June 19, 1923.

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THURSDAY, June 28, 1923, commencing at 11 am. No. 4 Carnarvon Villa, Kowloon

& Quantity of

Valuable Hansehold Furniture,

Comprising

Drawing Room Suite, Dining Room #uite and Bed Room Suite etc., etc.

(Particulars from Catalogue) Terms:-Cash on delivery.

On View from Wednesday the 27th Jazo 1923.

CAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

· Hongkɩng, June 23, 1973.

00

THURSDAY, June 28, 1923,

commencing at 9.45 p.m...

at No. 66A Nathan Road, Kowloon A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture,"

Comprising

Toak hat rack with bevelled mirror. Chesterfield Coach and armchairs, Tenk deboard with bevelled mirror, Tesk dining table and chuire, Teek twin Bedsteads with apting mattresses, Teak domble and single wardrobes with glass pers, Dressing table and wash stands, eak chest of drawers & Ice cheat sto Revolving table fan, "electric lampa

and silk shadow, silver and E.P. ware

etc.

descant pieces of carved blackwood

One Gramophone

On View from Wednesday the 27th

1928,

Watalogman-will-be isnode-

-LANKERY BRUS,

BANITARY ENGINEERS

MONUMENTALIOTO

004 and dodoWIN, ven, Wanchal, Boad Hongkong.

Tei. Central No. 299.

Large stock ol BATUS and HATH BODY

FITTINGS. – LAVATORY BASINS FLIISH CLOSETS

COMMODES, BIDETS, Ac., &o.

OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING BANGES, TILED GRATES.

AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALS—Alao in polished Hongkong Oranite.

A large election of Artificial Wreaths.

Prices

Application.

BEIGHT & SON'S

ABC

DESCRIPTIVE PRIČED CATALOGUE of the

STAMPS

of the

BRITISH EMPIRE..

Continent of Europe and its Colonies. Foreign Countries (Extra Europeans). FULLY ILLUSTRATED t $2. Gạch. GRACA & CO.,

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Dealors in Postage Stamps, Garden Seeds, Pictorial Post Cards, Toys, &c.]

No, 10, Wyndham Street,

P. D. Box 620.

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese Hand Made)

Every kind of Footwear.

WADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO..

8. D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kaysmally & Co, Telephone Central No. 49-

Hongkong, March 20, 1915,

NAMSAN & CO. 136, Connaught Road West, Photo Engraving_and_Designing. LITHOGRAPHERS.

Tal. Contral 1383.

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ODDS AND ENDS/

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Burden of Taxation.

sold for the record price of £7.343 last year. A pair of the famous "Post Office" Mauritius stamps. Id., and 2d. used together on one letter, costing threepence to send, "There is very little that need is an item which has just changed be said to bring out the force of hands for £11,000. Its owner is Mr. Baldwin's picture of taxation bringing it over from America to in Great Britain and France and show it at the London International the United States," says the Sun-Stamp Exhibition in May. Most of figures speak grimly the other great rarities described enough for themselves. Here they and illustrated in this picture book. of rare stamps shown is expected Taxation per to be nearly £2,000,000. The book

Head.

should help visitors to appreciate the rarities at the exhibition, but it £16 12 0

will also help many members of 5 12 6

the public to discover if any of the 5 17 9

old stamps in their possession are. of value. The book is published by E:F. Johnson, Fleet street, E.C. "Out of China crorst the bay."

day Times,

"The

are tim

United Kingdom France... United States "Roughly speaking, we in this country are taxed three times as heavily per head as the people of France, which is practically a self- supporting land, and as the people of the United States, which is a continent in itself.

Writes a John O'London Weekly man: I have not seen a copy of The main" Gems of Chinese Literature." by prop of our economic existence Dr. Herbert A. Giles (in its revised namely our foreign trade-has and enlarged edition published by been taken from us; there are still Messrs. Kelly and Watch in Shang- la million-and-a-half of would-be haf), but the following Chinese workers out of jobs; and yet we maxims, collected by the author, are supporting a burden of tax- and quoted by the Times Literary ation per head thrice as great as Supplement, recommend themselves either France or America.”

at first sight

Lions of the Pen."

If you bow at all, bow low. The host is happy when the guest has gone..

A bottle-nosed man may be a tectotaller, but ne one will think

The Pen Club, a literary dining club founded in 1921, has very quickly attained an International as well as a local standing, and at {so: its dinner on May 1 it will have

Armies are maintained for years, what will probably be the most in- to be used on a single day, teresting gathering of literary lions. If you owe a man money, there is and lionesses ever corralled to nothing Uke seeing-him often.

Medicine cures the man who is gether in one room. Mr. John Galworthy is president, and thefated not to die. English writers who intend to be He who has his back to the present include Sir James Barrie draught has his face to the grove,

Losing money isbegotten of win- and H. G. Wells says the Manches ter Guardian. Foreign lions will ning. come long distances. to the gather- A pretty woman entering a fami- ing. They include Blasco Ibanez, ly has the ugly ones for her foes. the writer of "The Four Horse. One more good man on earth is men of the Apocalypse" (Spain); better than an extra angel in "John Bojor, author of "The Powerheaven.

of a Lie" (Norway); Romain Gold is tested by fireman, by Rolland, author of Jean Chrise gold. tophe" (France); Gerhardt Haupt- Extraordinary men are ordinary man, the dramatist (Germany); to God.

Kate Douglas Wiggin, Arlington If a man keeps his mouth shut. Robinson, and Maxwell Aley his words become proverbial. (America); and Nicholas Jorga For every man that Heaven (Rumania), Italy, Austria, Den creates; Earth provides a grave. mark, Belgium, and Holland also will be represented by nationals The of literary distinction. It should

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised

In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENT.

جنة

June 25-Coronet Theatre Mr. and Mrs. Carter de Haven in

Twin Beds.":

June 25-World Theatre; Alice Brady in "Hush Money."

June 25-Star Theatre; Mary Pickford in The Love Light,...

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

- June 26.-Lammert Bros. at their Duddell Street sales room, ont Westco electric light plant with batteries, one rice bulling machine, one small Chubb's safe, 200 spark plugs and a, large assortment of hardware, at 11 am

June 26-Lainmert Bros., at their Sales Room, Daddell Street, valu able leasehold property at Gin- drinkers Bay with pier, buildings etc, at 3. p.m.

June 27-Lammer Bros., at their Sales Room, Daddell Street, a valu- able collection of postage stamps, at 5.15 p.m.

June 28-Lammert Bros... at No. 4. Carnarvon Villas, Kowloon, a quantity of valuable household furniture,at.11 am. /^.*

June 28-Lammert Bros., at No. 56a, Nathan Road, Kowloon," a quantity of valuable household furniture, at 2.45 p.m

July. 3.-Lammert Brod, at No. 40, Coronation Road, the business of the Motor Cycle Exchange as a going concern, including all stock, spares, stores, &c. at 3 p.m.

COMPANY MEETINGS:

June 30.-Hongkong Realty and Trust Coy. Ltd., Statutory meeting, Powell's Building, noon.

June 30-Meeting of creditors of the Hongkong Central Estate, Ltd at the offices of Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming; noon.

SPORTS MENTING,

July 7 Extra Gymkhana of the Hongkong Jookay-Club at Happy Valley, entries close June 28,

Duke and the Engineers: The Duke of York'a friendly call ** bean awe-inspiring spectacle at the headquarters...” of the The club takes its name from the Amalgamated Engineering Union. three classes indicated by its at Peckham is not, as the reports ing to them on behalf of the un letters-poets and playwrights, say, the first royal visit to a trade employed. Nothing so exciting essayists and editors, and novelists union, says a Home paper Two or happened when the Duke of Fortunes in Stamps. three years ago when the King and visited the A.EU. He wa In Mr. Fred-J. Melville's latest Queen opened a big-new social in--round the offices by the book, Rare Stamps: How to restitute in the East End they created Mr. Brownlie who hu cognise them, just published at te, a precedent by visiting a branch offered to initiate the Duke net, he tells of many curious in meeting of I think, the General the details of a Bolshevik cidents A mere schoolboy found: Workers Union, which was actually tion. He received- the rarest stamp in the world, the in session at the time. Feeling was Brownlie a full Brigsh Gugur bent of 1856 Its running high at the very existence was unsuspected by unemplo

collectors, and

space was provide

boy's album.

and spent the ones gift

istimps

spaces

about the Kind-there wAS 'R'CHTO

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