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LAMMERT BROS. G. E. WARREN CO., LTD.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AND BURVITORS.

Public Auctions-

Watersigned havorecaved inatine-

Popis Auction,

ON

THURSDAY, July 19, 1093,

commenclag at 8 p.m.

at the o'd premises of the Hongkong Electric Co., Wing Fung Street,

Tradin

Two (2) 560 B, II. P. Diosal Geor tore Complete with alternators & exciters Three (3) 300 1. B. P. Diesel Geners- tor Complete with alternator & exciters Two (2) 250 K. W. Steam alternators complete with exciters and switchboards

One (1) Babcock & Wiloux water labe boiler complete with fittings an obain gralo stokor

One (1) Marine type boiler complete with Altings i

Two (e) bo K. W. Alternators (without segines)

One (1) Main Switchboard consisting

of machine panela and feeder panels

One (1) Duplex Food Pamp

Three (3) Heeran & Fronde type water

coolera

One (1) Lot of steel steam pipes and Pivos

Two (2) Sulzer pumps

Three (3) Albany Notary pumps

Three (3) Toua for cooling towers and

Three (3) motors for same

One (1) Water tank

One (1) 120 Gallou all tank

One (1) Sot of spur gear for Diesel

Engine consisting of 251 items

One (1) 10 ton Travelling crane and

A Large Quantity of Structural Steel

work on the premison

Now on View.

For Further Particulurs and terma off Bale apply to the Undersigned,

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers

Hrushong, May 93, 1913.

on

FRIDAY, July 13, 1928,

commencing at 5.15 p.m.

at their Bales Rooms, Duddell Street,

A Valuable Collection of Postage Stamps

(Full Particulars from Catalogus), Da View from. Wednesday, the 11th July, 1923

Torms Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneert.

Hongkong, July 7, 1923

он

- MONDAY, July 16, 1923,

commencing at 3 p.æu mohair Balas Rooms, Daddell Street, One Set of Mint Machinery This lot comprites a complete set.of Biot Machinery, capable of producing 100,000 (one hundred thousand) pieces -cent (tweuty cent) coins or 200,000 (bro bandred thousand) pieces 10-cent ten cent) coins per working day of 10

yours.

(Further particulars and inspection aders may be obtained from Mesars. Gilman & Co., Ltd, or the Urdersigned). Terms:20 per cent of purchase money to be paid on fell of hammer. Balance to bo reid within two weeks of day of sale.

LAMMERT BROS..

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, June 13, 1993.

TR Undersigned, have received in-

Rudragon

doll by Public Anction

CK

TUESDAY, July 17, 1923,

commencing at 11 am.

BANITARY · „ENGINEERS MONUMENTALISTS

- Dicerand Clodowas, 090,"Tranchalı Dead' Hongkong. -

^, Tel¶Central No, top!

Large stock of

BATHS and BATH BOOM FITTINGS.

LAVATORY BASINS ́ FLUSH

CLOSETS

COMMODES, BIDETS, dc., 8o.

OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING BANGES, TILED GRATES,

AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARBLE

MENOBIALS-Also in polished 7

Hongkong Oranite.

A large selection of Artificial Fireathe.

Prices on Application.

FOR SALE CHINA

AIR POST STAMPS,

Complete set of

5 Stamps,

at $7.00 per set, USED OR UNUSED.

GRACA & 00.,

Dealers in Postage Stampe, Philatelic Goods. Garden Seeds, Post Cards, Toys, &c.

No. 10, Wyndbar Street,

P. O. Box 020,

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanone Hand Made)

Every kind of FootweAT. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO.,

6, D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Co. Tolophone Central No. 491

Hongkong, March 10,.1914.-

YEE SING.

GENTLEMEN'S

TAILOR

Tel. 1882 12, Wellington Street

WING FAT CHEUNG

SPARNOW CARDS (MA JONG} FOR BALE CARDS MADE OF IVORY AY! FISH RONT. No 176, Queen's Road Central BEANCH No. 39, Men Cam Etreet East.

the

ASARI

at "Belm.nt" No. 03 Bobinson Roud

The Whole of His

Vainable Household Fursitaro, Comprising:-

Grandfather Clock, Eststands, hall Impe, marble top table, hall chairs, bell carpets, drawing room suite, bevelled glas overmantle, marble top tables, carpets and ruge, brass vases and ornaments, bronze statuettes, electroliers, and brockets, curtains, and a collection of old Chinese Curios, ceiling and table fans, etc., sté.

Solid teak extension dining table and chairs, side-board with bevelled mirror, dinner waggon and glass cabinet (im- parted from America), ten table, di nor cookery and fine hand painted desartt eot, marble elcck, brass mounted fender and fire braanes, crystal cut glean table services, tablo ornaments vares, and bowls, cutlery, allvar table ware and E P. ware, eto, eto,

Iron bedsteads, (double and single) denble and single wardrobes with bevelled. mirror doors, dresing table with marble top and bevelled mirrors, dicats of drawers, washstande, toilet crockery, tapestry and lace curlaine, linen and one fine ashwood bedroom mite, porcelain Ussine and enamel bath, American ice chest, cooking store, geysers, boilers, and cooking utensils, A collection of oil paintings and water olours by well known artista..

Also

One Auto piano by Bebinson & Co., with a large quantity of records.

Ops Columbia Gramaphone and

Avia

One full size biliard table by John Hoberis & Co. Ltd., with complete necessarios, comprising: Cues, markers, bells, con atanda and electric light fittings, shadre etc., elo.

And

A quantity of maiden bairs, palme

and plants in poti.

On View from Sunday the 16th Julv

Cainleguen will be fasued.

ALSENER BEET

LNO PRIES

ASAHI BE

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LAGER

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→ LAMBERT BROS.,

SOLE AGENTS

· Hongkong, July 29:3913,649

[113UI "BUSSAN" KALHA

THE CHINA MAIL.

HYGIENIC

MACHINE-MADE Cigarettes

OBVIOUSLY

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

In the manufacturing of CAPSTAN Cigarettes for insearici

MEDIUM

CAP

(Nav Ciga

W.D.&

POINT NO I

Pure dust-free tobacco leaf is fed to Modern Machines in Model Factories and no soiled human hand comes into contact with the cigarette during the -process of manufacture,

POINT No 2

Machine-Made Cigarettes are uniform, ly well made. Each paper receives its proper quota of tobacco leaf and is rolled to the correct degree of "tightness" This Uniformity is impossible to attain under any other process.

CAPSTAN

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THE COOL HYGIENIC SMOKE

ASK THE MAN WHO KNOWS!

Mila pdrecisament in houd by sha Delilah-Anniina. Tulaner On (Min), Kab.

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Simmered Sausages.

Put some sausages in cold water and bring them to the boil, then take them out and place in a sauce pan with half a pint of milk. Cook half an hour after they begin to simmer, then skin them. Thicken the milk with one heaped des sertspoonful of flour, a teaspoonful of made mustard, a dessertspoonful of Nabob sauce, pepper and salt to taste, mixed with cold water. Res place sausages in this sauce and make thoroughly hot. It is equally good if cooked overnight and re- heated in a double saucepan for next morning's breakfast.. Daddy's Long Story.

How an "incident which nearly ended his career" occurred when, as Governor and representative of the King, he opened the Parlia ment of South Australia was de: scribed by Sir Archibald Weigall to the London-Lincolnshire Society

400 Years Ago--And Now.

We como

"He succeeded Lord Shaughnessy however, that this time the secret five years ago, at the age of 41, and has really been revealed, but it his advance was hailed, even in must be remembered that although the classic continent of oppor- there are many who firmly believe tunity, as sensational. Mr.. that the virtue of a Stradivarius is Beatty is a lawyer, not a railway in the varnish, other experts are man, by training, but his equally convinced that a Stradi- executive ability has proved more varius violin would sound as sweet than equal to the demands of the with any other varnish. However position he holds. It is a big lob over this may be, even if we sup this, the control of one hundred pose that the old secret has been thousand employees, twenty thou-found, it yet remains to be proved sand miles of railway, and a fleet that the varnish makes the fiddle. of steamers aggregating half a mil- The best of comparatively modern lion tons, besides hotels, farm violins are those made by-Vuil lands, mines, and smelters. He laume, of Paris, and their varnish fills the bill, to use a Transatlantic is certainly not that of Stradi- phrase, and fills it without the ac varius. companiment of trumpet blowing. Appalling Motor Ordeal. As president of the Canadian Pacific Company and as Chancellor

A barty of motorists touring in of McGill University, Edward the Vosges have had a terrifying" Wentworth Beatty holds a high experience. A car belonging to place in the national life of Maitre Gerard, of the Nancy Bar, Canada"

was occupied by M. Gerard and his wife, M. Brunet, manager of the At a bazaar held at Aldington, Madame Brunet, and a chauffeur. Nancy Municipal Theatre, and Kent, on behalf of the restoration A mountain road not far from of the church tower of Aldington, Colmar was being traversed when of which Erasmus, the great another automobile, which appear theologian, was: vicar for a shorted to have got out of control, at their annual dinner. Both period, Sir Philip Sassoon, M.P., dashed into the rear of M. Gerard's Houses were asssembled," said said: "Speaking of Erasmus and car and flung it over the side of the Sir Archibald," and the Ministers the customs of his day, it is when read, which at this point follows had given me a very long speech to deliver. My wife and daughter description of the manners of 1,000ft high.

to his (Erasmus's) the edge of a precipice, nearly Happily the wheels aged six-were close to me. When English ladies that we notice, the of the motor caught in a tree, and it I got halfway through the address sad change that has taken place in was held suspended over the edgo a shrill voice rang through the the course of four centuries of the abyss, its, occupants being Chamber, and I heard my little English ladies, says Erasmus, in thus placed in a position of appall girl say, Mummy, when is Daddy one of his letters, are divinelying danger. A number of other going to stop his long story!'".

pretty, and too good-natured. They motorists who were passing came An Immense Tree.

have an excellent custom among to the rescue, and the most difficult "One of the largest trees in the them that wherever you go, the task of getting M. Gerard and his world, if not the largest, has been girl kiss you. They kiss you companions out of the car, which discovered in the bush at Wailou when you go, and they kiss you at was threatening all the time to Hokianga, New Zealand," writes intervening opportunities. One wrench away from the tree and burl Mr. Evelyn Wrench in the cannot help feeling, as one reads itself into the yawning ravine, was Spectator. It is a huge kauri tree, the letter, that the writer's con- successfully accomplished. A few the vast trunk of which rises to a sidered opinion would have been moments after all had been exe height of 75 feet before being that the first purpose of our meeting. tricated the tree was uprooted and broken by the first branch; -and here might have been achieved 400, the car disappeared. M. and measures 22 feet in diameter and years ago with a success even more Madame Gerard and Madame 66 feet, or approximately one chain, complete than that which has Prunet were unconscious. The most in girth. It is hoped that this attended our rector's splendid serious injuries were sustained by remarkable tree will be zealously efforts this afternoon.” (Laughter.)| Madamo Primet, one of whose arms -guardel from destruction and pre- The Stradivarius. Varaith, was broken, wille the four other served to show future generations That the secret of the varnish victims were more or less bruised, what the lordly kauri was like at Its

The most remarkable feature of the « best, From a marketable point of employed by Stradivarius has been accident in that got one of the oc- view, it would be quite impossible like the story of the sea-serpent, over the precipice

discovered is not surprising, for,

cupants of the car was fiang out and to fell it, much less to break it the secrets of Stradivarius are down, for no mill possesses saws dished up for public use at regular big enough to tackle it. Its age. Is Intervals and it is some time, now estimated at 2hod years at least, since the last discoverer told of and, if carefully conserved, this find, says the Manchester Guar should have another thousandan. It was that claimed that any years of life before it".

A fiddle.no matter how decrepit or A Great Canadian Railway Man what its organic defects, after MrEdward Wentworth being dipped in the the now- * Beatty, now in London, has the varnish would be à paragon of

distinction of being, the first heanty, possessing alline munities with Thi Ganadian-borne president of of the violins of the old måkers... Canada's and, the world's great Unfortunately time has failed to est transportation system, writes substantiate the claim of this as of wan - Kelth; Morris in the Dally Mail. I previous discoveries. It may be,

Don't Waglect Your Family, When sen bil fa pasi ayam family

fa b'tilá of Chamberlain's Polio and.

“en Remedy af. this sens you the

WEDNESDAY JOLY IT, 1928,

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ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Cisas English Jewellery,

THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT GO. Hoad Office: 79 Wyudham Street 2nd floor. (Opponite Central Police Station.) Tel, Central 4169.

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

AND ALSO .....

Chemises, Skirts, Wrappers, Scarfs, Veils, and Night-gowns for Ladin ALSO MADE TO ORDER MODERATE PRICE PROMPT DELIVERY Manager: EMILIO LAO.

LONG HING & CO., Kodak and Koda 2 Films, 84. Dr.

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