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

** ACOTIONENES, APPRAISEKS

AND SURVETORA 1.

-Public Auctions-

45118 Undergrad haru received inszene- sions to sell by Pabllo Auction.

WEDNESDAY, July 11, 1923.

commanding at 3 p.m.

at their Sales Rooms, Laddell Street. (for sccount of the concerned) & Large Quantity of, Wiuss, Spirita and Malt Liquors of Woll Known Brande

Comprising...

Champagne (Mumá, Pommery and Grene, Moet and Chaodion, Baidsick, Lis Reeders, Duc de Monaco, Mon opole, Clicquot etc.)

Sparkling

Sparkling Burgandy, Moselle, Sauterne, Claret, Port, Sherry White Wines

Gin (Gordon, Old Tom Holland etc.,) Whiskey (John Dowar, King George, Black and White, Naper Johnstons, Haig and Baig, Canadian Club, Ameri pant etc.,)

Brandy (Hennessy, Martall etc) French and Italian Vermouth, Creme de Menthe, Caca, Benedictine, Char- ama

Apricot Brandy, Covaca. Absinthe, Dabonet, Blackberry Brady, Kummal

Amer Fioon,

Bititers (Augostura, range. Keesh, Josh alc.,) LA

Sen Miguel Beer, Lerican Bear, Has Ale and stout etc., etc.

Form-Cash on delivery.

1993.

:

On View from Monday the 9th. July

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

או

THURSDAY, July 12, 1923,

commencing at 3 p.m.

zi the old premises of the flongkong Electric Co.. Wing ng Street,

Wechat,

Two (2) 350 B. H. P. Lécsel Geners- Sora Complete with alternators & exciters

Three (3) 100 B. H. P. Diesel Genera- Lors Complete with alterasrors & excitera Two (2) 250 K..W. Steam alternators complete with exciters and switchboardu

One (1) Babcock & Wilcox water tube boiler complete with fittings and chain grate stoker

One (1) Marine type biler completa with fittings

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

One (1) Main Switchbcani consisting

of machine panels and feeder panels

One (1) Duplex Feed Pump

Three (3) Heenan & Froude type water. polera

One (1) Lot of steel steam pipes and mives

Two (2) Sulzer pumpa

+

Three (3) Albany Notary pumps

Thres (3) Fane for cooling towers and

Three (3) motors for astme

One (1) Water tank

Oze (1) 120 Gallon oil tank

Ocs (1) Set of spare gear for Diesel

Engine maisting of 25 liters

One (1) 10 ton Travelling crane and

A Large Quantity of Structural Steel Fork on the premises

Now on View.

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

LAMMERT EROS.

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, May 23, 1923.

ON

MONDAY, July 16, 1923, commencing at 3 punti.

at their Bales Rooms, Duddall Street,

One Set of Mint Machinery This lot comprises a completo set of Mint Machinery, capable of producing 100,000 (one hundred thousand) pieces +20-cent (twenty cent) coins or 200,000 (two hundred thousand pieces 10-cent en eent) coins per working day-of 10: hours.

(Further particulars and inspection arders may be obtained from Messrs. Gilman & Co., Ltd., or the Undersigned). Terma: 20 per cent of purchase! money to be paid on fall of hammer. Balance to be paid within two weeks of day of sals.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, June 12, 1923.

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Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

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8, D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Co. Telephone Central No. 491

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

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Tel. 1882

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HYGIENIC MACHINE-MADE Cigarettes

OBVIOUSLY

MACHINE-MADE CIGARETTES · are more HYGIENIC - and more CONSISTENTLY WELL MADE than those made by any other process.

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Pure dust-free tobaco leaf is fed to Modern Machines Model Factories and no soiled huma hond comes into contact with the, carette during the process of manuftture.

'POINT No 2

MAGNUMS

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MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Ware Soot.

Dull as duty-Don Marqui A face as vacant as an ungan ted house.-Marcel Proust..

About as much charice a woodpecker making a nesin a concrete telephone pole.hon Adroit as a rhinoceros.. P

Adams.

Eyes like acetylene heaghts. Alexander Black. There are many mindst are like a sheet of thin ice. Yhave to skate on them pretty raply or you'll go through.-Chripher.

years.' I returned to Tree's room, lit a cigarette and sat facing the open door, in front of which any one going up or down the staircase had to pass. There was a strong gaslight just outside the door. I had waited only a few minutes when heard the sound of footsteps coming up the stairs. I could fol-' low the sound clearly across the small landing outside the door about nine fect from where. I sat, and up the second flight of stairs, but I could see nothing, I ran up the stairs, but there was no one on either of the floors above and every door was locked."

The Lady of the Keys.

A case is out record in which a burglar, disdaining doors and windows, -climbed down т chimney. holding a half-opened unbrella beneath him to catch the mortar and soot which he dislod- ged. Discussing the various ways in which one may cry check, if not checkmate, to the burglar, it iere- corded that one householder Morley. devised the ingenious expedient Reproachful as a curate'iye. of laying a path of fly-papers Osbert Sitwell. from a window to a safe. The Married men are like Fd cars:

When the bridegroom of Old fly-papers were stuck together to you can tell their by theilutch. Rome placed, on his wedding day. resemble a hearthirug, and the-Anon. intruder was caught as securely. He has more many in the with due ceremonies, the keys of as any fly, rousing the household telephone company's gowrong the household in his bride's hands,

he was paying her a significant. numbers. Samuel Hellm by his struggles. Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy.

Grave, but satisfied,ke a compliment, the meaning of which widower. Gordon ArthuSmith was well understood by them The controversy is generally be-

Forgotten as a flame up chin both. For the key ranks high am- lieved to have begun with an article

ong the early symbols of authori- : which appeared in Chambers's ey-Sir Arthur Quiller ach Edinburgh Journal under the title, flower show.-Gertrude Aerton.

Thrilling as an accof of aty, responsibility, and governing power, observes a writer in the Who Wrote Shakespeare ?" in the

North Westminster Gazette. The gods of A month as open as issue for August 7, 1852.It apAtlantic.-H. C. Witwer.

of the ancient world were pears, however, from a

"Biblio

Love is like a lounge shion themselves called "Key-Bearers," graphy of the Controversy" (1884) it has, to be stuffed with lusions and were often represented carry- that Col. Joseph C. Hart in his and patched with laught before ing the keys with which they were "The Romance of Yachting, had a one can rest on it-Begmin De thought to open and shut the gates chapter headed, "The Ancient Cassers-From A Dichary of of life and death, summerand win- Lethe" in which he queries Similes," by Frank J. Wack.

ter, storm and shine. And all the Shakespeare's authorship. The

great officets of State had their date of this is 1848. Bacon's name. The Ghost on the Stai

great official keys, which were car was first connected with the plays Major Fitzroy GardneO.B.Eried before them at public functions in a book which was published In in his "Days and Ways af Old to mark their rank, and strike awe 1856 called "William Shakespeare Bohemian", has some feresting into the spectators. As Keeper of and his Plays," by Della Bacon. By reminiscences conceng the the domestic keys, and guardian 1884 two hundred and fifty-five supernatural," says irriter in of the family treasures and the different writings on the subject Light. Although he wincredu family honour, the young "matron.... had been published. A few years lous as regards ghost pries, he in her own way, took her plate later Mrs. Gallup came on the scene had a strange experieerat the among those exalted personages. with her Bi-lateral Cipher, said to Haymarket. Theatre whe Buck-The Lady of the Keys" played disclose Bacon's confession of stone, the famous art manager, her part also in mediaval Christen- authorship.

was supposed to walk und downdom. The dame of the Middle The staircase betweema upper Ages carried her keys carefully Bloor at the back of te house, attached to her girdle and The other day a dramatic little where he died, and theage. The the very name "of_chatelaine, scene occurred in the House of Major tells us that wh he was or lady of the castle, by which Lords when Sir John Simon ar associated with Tree manager, she herself was known, came to be peared within the Bar to make a "After the last pernance of applied also to the grakmental strong, protest against some very Tree's lesseeship of thheatre, an cluin from which her keys severe strictures which Lord Birkenhead had made over his eptertainment was gen on the suspended, as though it were absence in a case in which he had ge to the stage st and their understood that she and they were been briefed to appear before the friends. At about 2o, I was lit separable. To resign your keys Tree's sanctum wait to see the was equivalent to resigning your Lew Lords. The two men glared last of the royiterergut of the wifely duty and privilege, and the at each other in a receiprocated theatre, and diling te by des dame who, for one reason antipathy of feelitig, and their oying a number valueless another wished to mandiate her voices become raucous with tage letters found in the divers of his husband might signify her laten as they assailed one another withable, when I was surred to hear ton by the dramatic gesture of accusations. It was indeed someone coming do the stairs plusking her kays from her girdle, strange, scene à pathetic anti-ust outside the The

and throwing them to the gromid. climax.in the thigh hopes of their lang

perfectly Oxford days when side by side.

have denoted no they achieved one triumph after out of the room- another

staire

A Dramatic Scene.

(Similar and limilasi ARZANI

hiervan wii în il should Be-like the good hotel ropes, the year | Mỹ) round

illiam Lyon Phelps. been doing.

for many

or

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