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HAMMERT BROS.

KUOTIONNEUR, AFFRAINERS AND SURVEYŐZS,

~Public Auctions-

ytam Undersigned havo réseared, snemne- Mons to well by Public Auction,

03

WEDNESDAY, July 11, 1923. ommencing at 3 p.m.

as their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street: (for account of the concerned)

A Large quantity of Wines, Upirice and Malt Liequors of Well Known Brands

.. Comprising ?-- Champagne (Muma, Pommery and frenc, Moet and Chandon, Bidsick, Louis Reedere, Duc de Monaco, Mon- opole, Clicquet etc.,).

Sparkling Burgundy. Sparkling Molle Sauteroe, Claret, Fort, Sherry White Wines.

Gin (Gordon, Old Tom, Holland etc..) Wiriskey (Jobu Dewar, King Goorge, Black and White, Napier Johnstone, Halg and Haig, Canadian Club, Ameri-{ non etc..)

Brandy (Hennessy, Martell glo) French and Italian Vermouth, Oreca Menthe, Cacao, Benedictine, Char-

Zee.

Apricot Brandy, Curacao, Absinthe, Dabonot, Blackberry Brandy, Kummel,

Amer Picon, situ.

Bitters (Angostura, Orange, Keesh, Inoh etc.,)

Ban Miguel Becr. American Leer,

Boes Ale std stout etc., olc.

Terms --Cash on delivery.

On View from Myndar the 9th. July 1023.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

OK :

THURSDAY, July 13, 1828, commencing at 3 p.m.

at the old premises of the Hongkong Electric Co., Wing Fang Street, Wanchisi

Two (2) 550.B. H. P. Diesel Genera . Complete with alternators & expiters

Three (3) 300 B. H. P. Diesel Genera yrs Complete with alternators & exciters Two (2) 230 R. W. Steam alternators explete with exciters and switchboarda One (1) Babcock & Wilcox water tube boiler complete with fittings and chain grate stoker

One (1) Marine type boiler complete with fittings

Two (2) 50 K. W. Alternatore (without sigines)

One (1) Main Switchboard consisting al machine panels and feeder panele

One (1) Duplex Feed Pump

Three (9) Beenan & Froude type water

One (1) Lot of steel steam pipes and

Valves

Two (2) Sulzer pumps

Three (3) Albany Notary pumps

Three 3) Fans for cooling towers and

Saree (3) moture for same

One (1) Water tank

One (1) 120 Gallon oil tank

One (1) Set of spare gear for Diesel

Engine consisting of 251 items

One (1) 10 ton Travelling crane and A.Large Quantity of Structural Steel work on the premises

Now on View.

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

LAMMERT BROB

Anotioneers

Hongkong, May 23, 1933,

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MONDAY, July 16, 1933, commencing at 3 p.m.

at their Sales Rooms, Daddel! Street, One Bet of Mint Machinery This lot comprises a complete set of Hint Machinery, capable of producing 100,000 (one hundred thousand) pieces 20-cent (twenty cent) coins or 200,000 (two hundred thousand) pieces 10-cent ten sent) coins per working day of 10

(Farther particulars and inspection crders may be obtained from Messrs. Allmez &Co., Ltd., or the Undersigned), Terms:-20 per cent of purchase money to be paid on fall of bammer. Balance to be paid within two weeks of day of sale.

LAMMERT BROS.,.

Anetioneers.

Hongkong, June 12, 1933.

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AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARBLE NEMOBIAIS-Also in polished

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Every kind of Footwear, MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO.,

8. D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opporite Kayamally & Co. Telephone Central No. 481

Hongkong, March 21, 1914,

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GENTLEMEN'S. TAILOR.

18, Wellington Street

Tel. 1882

WING FAT CHEUNG

APARROW CAEDA (MA JOKI) FOR BALB.. GARIS MADE OF IVORY AND FISH BONE.

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Dead Baby Miracle.

THE CHINA MAIL.

DRAGON AWAKING.

"RISING TIDE OF COLOUR" NO PHANTOM.

| bo cultivated, óbɛurves · tho Daily Chronicle. English is as barbarous- ly mispronounced there as a gencral rule as it is in London, though in a far differbny way. Wint is true is that the further north you go, A baby, apparently born dead, the easier it is to find people who

If there is a great race in the has been brought to life by the ua can be taught to speak English te world to-day whose chamoter is an

it should be spoken. From the lazy enigmo to of adrenalin at Baylar Hospital, at

the man in the Dallas, Texas, Doctors, Warren, E, Southerner cheat-nated are seldom street, it in the Chinese. People hoard, because some effort is stalk of the teeming millions Massay and J. B. Smook unnounced recently. "The child was dead quired to produce them. Hence of China much in the

there is a lack of fullness, depth; way as they did of the Russian when born," Dr. Smont, anid, "Heer sound was extinct, and and roundness in the broader vowels atcam-roller early in the war--with- there was no evidence of reapin.and diphtirungs, while in the keer out in the Joast realizing what it tion. Dr. Massey prepared and in- air of the Norṭli folk speelt with means. China is as big as Europe jected the drug into the heart throats, and, therefore, there and hus, a population of my 400 are more fullness, melody, and millions. This is a huge potential muscles. After the injection we continued other means of producing variety in their delivery of vowel foron. In what way will it expend sounds. This is the beginning of itself? Ta it antagonistic to West- respiration, and in a short time the good speaking.

érn civilization?. Is it s menace to child began to breathe."

the peace of the world? And, Judge Acquits Himself,

The death of Lady: Constance lastly, what sort of man is the in- Lytton-at 20 years older than any-dividual Chineso? asks Cecil A. body thought her calls it she Lewis in John O' London's Weekly, was the biggest suffragist problem

Mr. Peter A. Seddon, a New York Justice of the Peace, was both eened and judge in a case in which

| Suffragiat Memories.

RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE.

a complaint, was made against him the Home Office had to deal with. by Police Constable Rothermel for they simply did not know, what would be absurd to suppose, there China is a continent-no less; it under the street traffic laws. The to do with her. She was in prison fore, that the character of the peo policeman, who was unable to find three times. Silly though one maple is the same throughout. It is another magistrate, declared that think them. undoubtedly those mis

beld

Mr. Seddon was riding a bicycle guided women who went to Hollo not, and it must be borne in mind without a light. The indge, after way Prison, who were forcibly fed that the following remarks are hearing his own evidence,

re and enffered other indignities. diceted more particularly to the In- that it was not dark at the time, create the situation which made habitants of Northern China, with found himself not guilty, and im

possible fur Mrs. Pankhurst to whom the writer is familiar. Racist pased costs on the constable. To

gain with Mr. Lloyd George that character depends upon religion, show there was no ill-will, howevere suffrage should be granted te tradition, climate, food, and condi- he remitted the amount of the costs. women. The harvydom of Lady on. Let us take each of those five Holidays In The Air.

Constance was a big item in the in turn and consider its relation to

Chino. Gefferies necessful, the holiday and forcibly fed sa "Jane Warton.

If the invention of Mr. A. fight, because, after being arrested resort of The future may be suspend the revelation of her identity com ed from giant airships "anchored palled decent and equal treatment in the clouds. Everyday Science to be mated ent to all the suffragists: tells us.

The lifting and sustaining Very few people know-and it is sions, Tranciscans, Dominicans, power of aircraft will be increased not so out of date that it doesn't Jesuits, Taoism, Confucianism, and She bas to mich an extent that a girderruatter if one tells--but the actual even Molmmmedanisio, strengthened platform, on which a fact was that practically the whole welcomed-all, refused none. This miniature city was built, could staff of the wardresses at Holloway shows a fine tolerance and brood. Buddhism bae prob easily be supported. Visitors would Prison were themselves suffragiste mindedness.

China has given official sanction to In the course of the centuries such widely differing creeds as Buddhism. Orthodox Russian mis

be brought to and from the earth or in sympathy with auffragiotably exercised a greater hold-over by aeroplane. Great secrecy, it is energics, so that until bunger-strik- the mind of the people than any stated, surrounds the details of the ing and forcible feeding came on the other belief, and it teaches, as

tapis, imprisonment as a suffragist at Holloway was rather an enjoy. able lark.

Taming A Spider...

invention. The Pigeons Of St. Paul's.........

Tf contentment without regret or longing is happiness, the pigeons of St. Paul's Cathedral are the happi- est creatures in all London, obser- ves the Morning Post. Without Muffet liked them they are un-

We like spidem about the house no better than poor little Miss

everyone knowa, the ultimate Nir vana that may be reached by the sout after lang years of contemple- tion and a blissful detachment from the material and temporal things.

TRADITION,

fudition, our next consideration,

zest for a wild life, they are petted sightly, and their webs, unless we has been strengthened and in- and loved by thousands of London sweep them clear the minute they fluenced by such ethical and philo us and visitors through the year. are spun, may cause gossip among sophical teachings as Troism and Their self-complacency is visible in housekeeping neighboum. One of Confucianism. The former teaches their bold strutting and in the sleek the few students of spiders in man to follow the Tao" or norm ness of their bodies, ruffled only at America once succeeded in taming to follow the middle path, turning the neek, where iridescent feathers on ordinary garden or house spider, neither too much.t the right shine against siate-gray. It is the Youth's Companion tells us. A or too much to the left. The strange that such comfort should fully grown speciuier she says, latter teaching in so strong, in fall to this little group of birda liv was captured and placed in a mile its hold over the people that ing in the midst of much poverty mouthed half-once bottle, which it may almost mak 68:16- Gud sadness. Yet, not so tunge, was laid on its side on the library ligion, though in practice it teaches perhaps. when we remember that table. Every day the creature was no more than the reverence due to life makes the most unselfishy of us given a small drop of water and one the bend of the family, and hence selfish, so that we lavish our affeg-house fly or more. The flies were the worship of the ancestors. tion on idlers.

fed to her by placing one in a bottle. The moral teaching of Kung-fo similar to that in which she was Sze (Confucius) is so important in Girl As White Slave.

caged, holding a card over the its relation to Chinese life that it is Ilose Grill, 16 years of age, is mouth of the bottle that contained carving of, further mention here. being sought by the police through the fly, withdrawing the cork from The Master, who arrogated to him. out Southern France for selling her the spider's bottle, and placing the self no divinity, lived in the days 37-year-old daughter into white two bottles mouth to mouth, and when the Jews returned from slavery, A band of smugglers, with then removing the card. At once Babylon, over two thousand years headquarters at Toulouse, working the spider would rush into the go, and taught a code which has sems the Pyrenees, plotted to second bottle, seize the By and re- hold. China together throughout her transfer the beautiful girl as if she turn with it into her own bottle. Hay vicissitudes until the present was a bale of expensive contraband. She soon learned to run to the day. Briefly it may be described as A Spaniard, named Fontana, who month of the bottle whenever I follows: the sanctity of the family formerly lived with the woman approached with water or with a depended upon, reverence of the Grill, eloped with the girl in accord. After a few days the cork was children for their father, the father ano with the mother's arrange taken out of her own bottle so that in turn revered the bendman of the ment, and took her across the she could come and go at will. She village, the headman. of the village Pyrenees where she was sold would wander about the table, the head of the district, the head, Three members of the band have crawling over and round books and of the district the governor of the been arrested at Toulouse, but the papers, but would always hasten province, and the governor of the woman has escaped. Search is back to her bottle when frightened, province the emperor himself. being made amongst the mountains she had span & small web in it with With the disintegration of the at Marseilles, throughout the crude retreat at the further end, monarchy, the princial governors Riviera, and in Spain. The girl, She learned so readily to come for found themselves without control, whose name in Andres, is now under food and water that I um led to and this is responsible for much of the tare of the Madrid police. The wonder if Fabre's contention that the civil strife and chaos in China mother's share in the infamous every act that a spooker performed to day. transaction is understood to be impelled by an instinct tint has 50,000 French france (about come down to it through untold £9,000).

generations" is not subject to some modification,

Chinese "Seers."

There has been an increase of late

in the number of coloured gentle UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS, mea who practise palmistry, crystal-

gazing, etc., in the West End. It wHE GREAT NORTHERN TELL

is a profitable business indeed, bat, as the police are apt to be trouble some, the profession" is shrouded with a good deal of mystery, mys a Glasgoto Herald ̈writer. For in stance, ono Celestial, who inhabits a wonderful suite of rooms furnieb ed in true Oriental style, has his paid boute in the underworld as well as in Mayfair. He is recommended to credulous ladies by some of the moths of the night as well us by one. or two read Society ladice, who draw a cohmiasion for each introduction. Doing the same sort of business is à

GRAPH COMPANY, LTD.

Passing noxto climate, we fnd it surprising by its regularity. To on inhabitant of England it seems strange, that a country can exist where the weather forecast is truth- ful, and where sun, wind, rain, and frost can be foretold to within thres days, years aboad, The climate is 1 continental one-of extreme heat and cold. (This, of course, refers to North China.) But, whether hot or The following unelaimed telegrams cold, the sun always shines. Except lying at the office of The in the hot and rainy season, the sky amited) or Company is always a stain lore blue

By centuries of observing and Victorie Cinems, from Berlin.

recording, the weather from the Bridge Fabricant Oxygene, from mists of antiquity until the present Tintain

day, its cycles are so accurately known that any Chinese is able to tell you when the three great heat waves will sfert, when the first cold snap will come, and when the will break up and he will always be right,

Cheng Kwong-long c/o Kwan Yick Pawn Shop Hollywood Boed, fruk Tientsin, pa

Fooksing, from Amoy 0171, from Shanghai. Aurang, from Hankow.

Jap and an Indian the fatter call-Maniat, from Amoy, ca

ing himmel The Wise: Fakir." It is not difficult to see what possibili tice for evil lie in this "profession" Blackmail not infrequently followa the confession of a boret and it is an amazing fact that many ladies will tell these are the most inti mate facts little tit-bits of in- formation found very useful by the Chinese Necromancer," or what ever the aliett may call himself.

The Best English

Mr. John Masefield declares, det for the first time, that he has found

Kunghing, from Shanghai. 0505, from Shanghai:: Quanyang, from Shanghai, Tagespan Tailoy Hotel, from Amoy.]

N. LUND Act. Fuperintendent Hongbong, Jan 28, 1923.

EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL ASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO

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List of núclaimed telégrupis lyingʻit. EE Telegraph Ofice, Hongkong,

Dent and Company Laym. Aydiny”. Oski Trelloture, four Tulpens Orical feain London

pur Innguage beat spoken in Scoteftantly from bilməkhác,

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M.MAGALPINE

The entalanding features of the climate, then, are the regularity and. its sunnigeus

POOR FOOD Fourthly, food. The staple diet of the Chinees rice is not over: pourishing All sorts of feeb, this trap, are consired by the manses, but meat is a very small percentage of an otherwise all vegetable dist This may account for generally poor individual eficiency, Make (Continued on Faya 11.

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