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

AWOTIGERSEN, APPRAISERU

AND 'SUUTETOKS,

-Public Auctions-

TH Underlqued havo zataveČ INSINO-

Mona to wall by Pabllo anebloms

りば

MONDAY, July 30, 1823,

comirenting at 5.15 p.m.

their Sales Roama, Daddoli Street,

A Valuabio Collection of

Postage Stamps

(Fall Particular From Ostalógan),

On View from Wednesday the 25th

July 1923.

Terms -Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Anctionem.

Hongkong, July 21, 1953

THE Undomigned have received 10. structions from 31. G. A. Sachse

THE

to soll by Public Auction

CN

TUESDAY. August 7, 1923, commencing at 8.45 p.m. at the Kingsclere fall. A Quantity of

Fine Farnituro and Linen,

Comprising:-

Wardrobes, dressing table, washatands, writing tablea, chairs, Koresa Cabinet to, etc.

Lines face tomolo, Land homestitched

towels, bemistitched

Sheets, pillow cases: counterpanos, dasters, Blankets, cusement cloth.

Crepe, eto,, etc.

6130

Beveral piecca Plate and Chins wart, Cinton Blackwood werg.

And

One Georgian Dining Room Suite. On view from Monday the 6tb, August 1923.

Catalogues will be lamed.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BRUS.,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, July Et. 1923.

MANITARY KNOINKERS MONUMENTA LYSTS

vices, sod Godewna,

84, Waschal Ioad Bangkong.

Tol., Contral No. 50

Large stock of

BATHS and DATE ROOM FITTINGS.

7

LAVATORY BASINS FLUSHI CLOSETS.

COMMODES, BIDETS, c., &c.

OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING' RANGES, TILED GRATES,

AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALS Also in polished Ilongkong Granite.

A large selection of Artificial Wreathe.

Price us Application.

COLLECTION OF POSTAGE STAMPS

mounted in books containing both

mint and used stampe

600 stamps all different for

4.

1000 do

do

*8.

1500 do

do

8 18.-

2000 du

do

30.-

3000

do

do

50..

4000 do

do

8 76..

6000 lo

do

10000 do

do

$100. SID.-

FULL SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

GRACA & 00.,

Dealers in Philatelic Goods, Platorial Postcards, Flower and Vegetable

Seeds, Toya etc., etc.

No. 10, Wyndtam Strook,

P. O. Box 690.

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS,

(Japanese Hand Mado)

Every kind of FootwORY. MADE TO ORDER.

THE CHINA MAIL."

"Turkish AA

Westminster Cigarettes

thish Blend

Grade

Jurkish Cigarelles

of exceptional quality manufactured from the finest selected tobacco leaves.

Manufactured

in England

Westminster

Tobacco

Co. Ltd.. London

MONDAY JULY:#‍30, 1928.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansio

Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS,.......

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH. WATCHES,

ENGLISH SILVERWARE; direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery,

THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO.

Hovi Office: 79 Wyndham Street. Bad Moor (Opposite Central Police Station.) Tel, Central 4166,

Dealers in all kinds of High-class Silk Shirts, Collars, Neckties and Pyjamas for Gentlemen AND ALSO

Chemises, Skirta, Wrappons, Scarfs, Voils, and Night-gowns for Ladies

ALHO MADE TO ORDER

MODERATE PRICE

PROMPT DELIVERY --

Managor: EMILIO LAO,

PHOTO SUPPLIES, Kodaks and Modak Plims, &i, Bs. DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 174, QuemY'S ROAD CHITHAL, Hongrond.

LONG HING & CO.,

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN. HOTELS

Peak Hotel

Repulse Bay Hotel

Palace Hotel

HONGKONG:

Hongkong Hotel

SHANGHAI:

PEKING :.

Astor House Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalea

Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits

THE WATER SUPPLY.

Lovel and Storago of water in reservoirs

en the 1st July 1999-

NITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKE

11

LRYAL

TAB. Vin. Bola 1. In. Below overdow

otation

Tytan Dyew

dia. Exlar verdoft.

Is. Below araber

Wytwo Zubermediate 48/24 ft. 9 in. Balow overtow

1. Belaw overdow

Bynes fake til, tin. |

Below arerba

ful Orung, 24ft, 3

"

. Below ovachaw

sin. Below ovdow) 22 8. 9 tu, Bricm crariow

Pokfulam, 21 I win.

Below flow

tata. Below ornellaw

STORES IN KILLIONS AND DISCIMAIS OP KALZONE

1

Cina Prevale

T'kam Intermediain...

Tram Tik

- Kal Chang

Total urm

4.02

1029.

199

10kju

196.13

$5.18

FRANS

4.04

31.00

€8.79

150,75

Consumption of water in the City

wid Bill Dietrice in milfione and decimale

1 gallons during the month of June.

Caption

population Basumption per

PE ĜAT se mutan

fal.79 150.00

121,800 311,150

$1,1 10.4 púlve

Constant supply in all d tri in doring Joue 1922 with the exception of the Dis tricte West of Eastern Hiraat and Arsonal street to Heard Street where Inter- mittent Bupply by Rider Mains was resorted to from 12th and 18th June 2912.

Intermittent Supply in all Rider Main Jistricts during June 1923.

KOWLOON WATER WORKS LEVEL-

1STE

Celia ). 30 TL

#

1999. 16, Din

Eelow & W

OD Bolt. 61low OTDROW

FROMAGE IN MILLIGRU AND DRĢINĀLS OF SALLONI,

Ovitation

-

g

10

Consumption of water in Kowtorn in

millions and doɑinals of gailons during the

wath of June.

10:3

Camation

AKRS

477 T. 1,200

113

stated population ... 135,400

Grayson per head } 11.2

Restricted Supply in all districte from Hi to 29d inolunre June 1997.

Restricted Supply in all districts up to 17th June 1923.

The Government Analyst's reports show 1: the quality of the water is satisfac tory,

F

19

10/23

Total Halofail to 20th June Sígy in, n07 in.

H. T. JAOKMAN.

Water Authority.

Public Works Department-

LEE KEE

ESTABLISHED 1896

BATHS & BATH-ROOM

ACOBSSORIES,

Estimates furnished

free of charge.

Office 21, Wellington St.

CHERRY & 00.,

6, D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Co. Telophone Contral No. 491

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

YEE

SING.

GENTLEMEN'S

TAILOR

Tel, 1889 12, Wellington Etreet,

WING FAT CHEUNG SPARROW CARDS (MA JONA) FOR BALE, CARDS MADE OF ITORY AND FISH BÓNK.

No. 276, Queen's Rend Contral BRANCH No. 38, Man Fam Street East.

ABABU ZAB

HILSENER BEE

KGRAND PRIZES"

ASANI BE

LAGER

(SPECIALLY "

COM

ASANI

BEE

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA.

This Advertisement is koned by Bellish-Amoriaan Tolacco Co., (China) Lt.

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

An Essay on Frogi.

The Ring.

.

The two, an old man and an old woman boarded the tram. opposite a terrace of cramped houses with dusty, tired express ions and rusted iron roofs. He was A classic essay, lately immor.almost expressionless. Years of work and the unending drudgery talised in type, is about frogs, and of his kind had brought a settled was written by a young Norwegian.sadness to his face. But the sad The essay runs: "What a won-ness was in the lines and wrinkles, derful bird the frog are! When rather than in the expression itself, he stand he sit, almost. When he Amended shirt and a shapeless He ain't got coat showed that the lean and hop he fly, almost. no sense, hardly. He ain't got no lingering wolf made frequent tail hardly either, when he sit he visits sit on what he ain't got almost.”

BULLETIN OF THE CHICAGO

to

fortable seat and manipulate machinery. No one, as yet, has invented a substitute for swim- ming, but it will surely come, while we can easily foresee the invention of an automatic" dancing-partner,"

would have all who

the attractions and попе of the drawbacks of his living prototype. And lately we have surrendered our most human, most intimate ac- complishment. We no longer tell the children bed-time stories, but suffer the acrial wires to perform this age-old rite. Children who their door. The train their father (while he is still woman was also marked by

young) to invent satisfactory bed- years of hard work. Her hands time stories may look forward to were gnarled and the skin was hard seeing him develop into a novelist and mottled. The only brightness of note, and even a "best-seller.” about her was her wedding ring.

At the moment, to be sure, they are A novel illuminated gauntlet She happened to look down at it at only bent on extracting an exciting glove for motorists and traffic con- the same time as he did. Worn, tale from their male parent. For trollers has been invented. On the ain't it?" he remarked with a smile back of the glove are two electric that took a long time to develop. 1st as mothers make incomparable tuckers-up," so do fathers fill the years," she an- role of Scheherazade. The man lamps, one red, the other white. Yes, fifty-two The red light is used by motorists swered, and, in her eyes was ant

who has not the patience, courage, when turning or stopping, and the echo of a young yesterday when and imagination to invent a plau white light is used for inspection, Youth went seeking with the wings sible and pleasing tale for his reading signposts, or maps, The of adventure set to his heels and children at bed-time will never cut battery is carried in a small pocket the garland of high hope upon his figure in life. Let him not fall on the outside of the gauntlet. On forehead,

in his most elementary duty. the inside of the thumb and two

Spider Silk Stockings. fingers are small metal contact points, and to light the lamps one simply closes the finger on the

BOARD OF EDUCATION. Hluminated Gloves.

thumb.

"Black" Englishmen.

The Age of Riddles.

A

There has been talkin France of

The age of riddles is immemorial, and they are to be found the world reviving the manufacture of goss over. Africans, wandering Arabs amer silk stockings from the silk and Persians, among others, are in spiders, writes Bassett Digby, possession of riddles that they F.R.O.S., in the Daily Chronicle. Mr. J. Marcus, who represents have inherited, as we our popular These used to be a little factory at the British Chamber of Commerce ones, from an unknown past. Languedoc which wove spider silk in Germany, referring to some of There are certain riddles that have into the most, delicate feather- the difficulties of his work there, received the name of "world weight gloves and stockings, but said that recently he was approach- riddles," for they are familiar it failed on account of the difficulty ed by a Bohemian peasant, who among peoples living far apart of rearing and farming enough said to him, "You are a German," from one another. On one of the spiders and attending to them. Mr. Marcus replied, somewhat clay tablets from the library of the You can't keep spiders in big pens, indignantly, "Pardon me, sir, Iam Assyrian King Assurbanipal, there like rabbits and poultry and the an Englishman."

Is a riddle to which the answer is larva of Bombyx mori (the "silk- The peasant's retort was: "Now, "Cloud." King Solomon and worm.") They fight and eat each don't be silly! There was a circus King Hiram exchanged riddies other unless given privacy and here last werk, and a black man and paid forfeits to each plenty of elbow room, and to keep who was performing said he was other when they failed as feeding and tending tens of thous- English, and that all Englishmen guessers. The cultored old Greeks ands of spiders, each in its own were black!"

thought riddles a good exercise for

'fat," means a high wage bill for Lion and Unicorn.

wit and intelligence, and played labour. Though the making them over their wine and fruit of stockings from spider silk We have not always had the lion at the close of the banquet. In old has been suspended, the silk has and the unicorn as supporters to romances riddles are often given never ceased to be a necessity to the Royal Arms. There have been to the suitor of some rich and the makers of theodolites and considerable variations since sup beautiful lady, death or marriage other surveying instruments for porters were first introduced into depending on his ability to guess taking observations. In these in the Royal Arms by Edward them, and there were always struments two lines of spider silk He had a crowned lion and a princes and knights ready to cross the centre of the glass, at crowned eagle, or falcon; Richardaccept the challenge. Schiller's right-angles. The method usually I had a crowned lion and a hart play of "Turandot" may be re employed is first to toss the sur The three succeeding Henrys all called in this connection. There is prised spider from hand to hand. had antelopes, mated in turn with a certain collection of Anglo-Saxon Thus alarmed it begins to emit a a swan, a crowned lion and a leo-riddles, but the first printed book thread of its stik, preparatory to pard. Edward IV, Edward V and of riddles, called Demaundes trying to escape by dropping. The Richard L. all had lions mated Joyous," came from the press of winder then twirls a kind of wide. with different animals; but Henry Wynkn de Worde in 1511, and pronged hairpin, of slightly more VII had a dragon and a greyhound, contained riddles of considerable, than the width wanted for equip the dragon being the ensign of

ping the batch of instruments, the Cadwallader, the last king of the age, and very popular even then.

manufacture of which is in hand, Britons, from whons Heary VII Life Machine-Made. claimed descens The dragon as We are getting perilously like and drops the spider. Siroul- one of the supporters was used by the machine men and women of the taneously he turns the "hairpin " the Tudors up to Queen Mary, who, new drama from Prague (writes over and over, so that it winds up on her marriage to Philip of Ella Hepworth Dixon in the the flowing silk. The spider can Spaln, had as supporters an eagle Westminster Garette). We no not understand, no doubt, why it and lion. Elizabeth reverted to longer write letters, we telephone; takes such a long time to reach the the supporters ured by her brother, we do not learn to play, we stick a ground, but by the time it has Edward Van imperially crowned mechanical instrument to our plane lowered itself by several hundred Hon and a dragon. It was James I and work our feet with frenzy: we feet of silk all of which is steadily who faced the English lion with do not sing is there not the and speedily wound on to the the Scottish unicorn, and these gramophone, with records of all the hairpini," It at last finds a footing have been, the supporters to the world's drtists? We cannot ride or on the floor and is allowed to run driva a horse, but we sit in = COÙ-

Royal'Arms ever since.

away

The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd..

In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

and

The Grand Hotel das Wagons Lits, Ltd.

Tel. Centil 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel: Add ; " Carlton.”

The Only American Hotel in the Golong, Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banka, aud Central Districts, 43 Bedrooms. Erosllent Cuisine. Seràpalously clean. Under American Management. A now Dining Room has been opened an No. 2, Queen's Road (1st floor). Entrance Loe House St. Tiffins a speciality.

For terms apply to Mrs. F. E. CAMERON, Proprietreen.

(Tw minutes from Star Ferry).

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON

Recently renovated and refurnished, slectric light and fans throughout and surely under new management. Onlains under the persons! supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billard Rooms Terms moderats. Special termos de facilies on application to

Telephons Kowloon 3..

Talographio Add: "Paraon."

HOTEL

*. H. OXBERRY, Propitator.

"ASIA

WEST BUND,' CANTON.

Leading Hotel in South Chins.

First clasa Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans 2 Elevators.

Hairdressing SalcoL,

Boof Garden.

Splendid Views of City and Pearl River.

Excellent Cuisine:

Moderate Rates.

Under the Management of the SUN 00., LTD., CANTON.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

A

.OINTBAL LOCATION

EL ELECTRIC TERAMI PAJE Mátrsson, Mie

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THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE THE HOUSE FOR GOOD EATS Timps and Dinners (Menu "and & Is Carte) atfall hours.

Bakers "and Confectioners. Gaker made for partian ato. Tel: Central 2667.

24, Des Vodax Road

Contrat

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL Queen's Road Central.

NEW DINING BOOM opened for Meals à la Carte Ewoellent Cuisine. Roothly Toned the Tiflus & Diens

For further particolare apply to

WITHE MANAGER. Hongkong, May 1, 1983.

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JAPANESE MASSAGE.

N. AKAJI, A Graduate of Tokio Massage School, Nos. 9-10, Praya East, Wanchai. - Central 2630.

MASSAGE

K. SAKAI, T. KANAMORI

2nd Floor.

IB Praya Dast,

MASSAGE.

Mrs. HONDA, Mứt, XIHARI mad

E, SHIMIDEDJEN Ko. 36, Wyndhen. Biznes- \`{opposību to šku" Uhina Mall”)

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Bukajmer be. the late BIEN TING,