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

AUDYIONEERS' AFFRAINERS

AND SURVEYORE.

-Public Auctions-

THE

TIBE Undersigned have received to siructions from Mrs. G.A. Bachse to soli by Pablic Auction

ON

WEDNESDAY, August 8, 1893, commencing at 2.45 p.m. at the Kingsclere Fall. A Quantity of Fine Furniture and Linen.

Comprising:

Wardrobes, dressing table,washstands, writing tablos, armchairs, Korean Cabinet etc., ato.

Lanou face towels, hand homestitched towale, kemstitched sheets, pillow cance, counterpaucs, dusters, blankets, case- ment cloth, crepe, etc., etc.

Alsa

Soverei piaces Plate and China ware, Canton Blackwood ware.

And

One Coorgian Dining Room Saite. On view from Tuesday the 7,

August 1923.

Catalogues will be issued.

Terms: Cash on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS,,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong. July 28, 1023.

BAKITABY ENGINEERA

MONUMENTALISTE

Duces and Godowns,

F

OK, Wauthal Road Hongkong..

Tel Central No, seo

Large stock of

BATHS and BATH BOOM

FITTINGS.

LAVATORY HAMINS FLUSH CLOSETS.

COMMODES, BIDETS, do, do,

OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING BANGES, TILED GRATES.

AMERICAN ITALIAN MARDLE MEMORIALS—Also in polisted Hongkong Granite.

A large selection of Artificial Wrestlin

Prices [en Application.

COLLECTION OF

POSTAGE STAMPS

mounted in books containing both

mint and used stamps

500 stamps all different for 8 4.-

1000 do

do

* 8.-

1500

do

do

& 18..

$000

do

$30..

2000

to

8 50.-

4000

do

$ 75,-

5000 de 10000

do

8100,-

do

5510..

THE CHINA MAIL.

Three Castles The Three

Virginia Cigarettes

Smoked 'round the World

ER WAY.

AUGUST 1928.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS

& JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansió,

Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

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

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

PHOTO... BUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Rodan and AK Films, 86.. 8.

DEVELOPING ★. PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 17a, Query's Road Chitral, Hororing.

HOTELS

& CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

Hongkong Hotel

Peak Hotel

Repulse Bay Hotel

HONGKONG:

SHANGHAI:

PEKING;

Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits

Astor House Hotel Palace Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalee

FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.

The fares prescribed for public vehicles are as follows:-

In the land of Hongkong, Cuine Koul and Toner Levels, and in Kowloon, and New Kontoon

2103KAS.

Fire u antes-444

Tan minuta.

Quarter Lousy 1999.

Ball bour,.....

b conta

.30 11

Ono houry.........** Bery Subsequent beer...t

the inricksha be cagaged within the City of Victoria, and be dis- charged outside the Weetern part of the City of Victoria after 9 pra.. or be dis charged to the East of Pay View Falice. Htation on the Eastern side of the Uity of Victoris after a p... an extra half faro shall be chargeabic.

For 2 or 3 drivers the fare is double or

trable respectively.

II. In the Hill District.

Ten minutsy,... 15 cents

20

Daartor kontorsmas.

Ha tour. A KATAS

--- 30

17

"

One hour

III-In de New Territorica

By mangement with the proprietors

through the Police.

With

CHEIEN.

1.-Lower Levels,

Beavers With 4 Bearers.

Ton minuter, 10 cents

'Quarter buur...... 15

Th

40

FULL BATISFACTION QUABANTEED.

GRACA & 00.,

Dealers in Philatoic Goods, Pictorial Postcards, Flower and Vegetable

Seeds, Toyu ate., alc. No. 10, Wyndham Stroot,

Hongkong.

P. O. Box 820.

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese Hand Made)

Every kind of Footwear.

MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO.,

e. D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Co. Telophone Central No. 491

Hongkong, March 50, 1914.

YEE SING.

GENTLEMEN'S

TAILOR

20 cents

30

11

Half hour,

M

Oro hour, ni

31

80

27

Tel. 1882

Every absequoat

hour.

Z$

40

11

IT. -Hill District.

Fith Beurera With 4 Bearers.

Ten minutas, ... 15 cents

30 conta

Quarter car...... 20

40

11

Half hour. .................... 30

60

One hour.

40

42 23

80

H

F

BYgy subsequent

bcur

THE WATER SUPPLY.

12, Wellington Etreet.

WING FAT CHEUNG

SPARROW CARDS (MA JOND) FOR SALE CARDS MADE Or IVORY AND FISH DONE.

No. 276, Quoca's Road Central

BRANCH

Tu

No. 88, Man Ham Street East

Larol and Storage of water in reservoirs

on the 1st July 1923-

INTE AND BILS DISTRICT WATER WORKS

Tata EGR

c. flow

Jeron

Tytars Dfwand Itil.

LEVEL

12.

fin-Below overflow.

Dn. Below orazfont. Sin. Below overton

Tyrer box 4ft. 2 km. Balowotesflow

f

ain, Uolor

t ein,

Below precio jest 7 in. iota overflow

do

Wong Nei Chung,

24th

la, Below averdown: tt. 0 in. Below dow

i . 10.

Peki,

Bol prordw

ft. 6 im Eslow overflo

VROPADR"US WIʊtlom AND DESTRALS OF SALJONA

ID+9 20470 1.117 23,10

TH

T'kam fivrouchmann

Pitam Internseddity ***

Tran 200 COOKIES ANYON

1.

21.00

475.70

14.29

RU

n 11

ASAHI BERR

Were Not Chang

tatt 2-

Ocmumpdeo of water la the Olty

and Hill Dietrich in millions and decimals

af gallons during the month of June.

Et sted population DongHom

DEBA

FA1.72 169.00 造。

1,180 873,00

21.1

26.6 mallung

Constant supply in all distat to during June 1993 with the exception of the Dis rict West of Eastern Street and Arsenal Street to Hoard Streat where Inter- mittent Supply by Hider Mains was resorted to from 18th and 18th Juno 1912,

Intermittent Supply in all Rider Main districts during June 1923.

KOWLOON WATER WORKA LEVEL.

ASAHI

!

salon Omvita int. vin.

Hoe Beervolt. Dalow orlow

Delow overlan

STORAGE EN HILLMANN AND AMOZBALE OF BALLOKI,

(mdison Czarfallen)

*PL

*25

306-78

Uccisumption of water in Kowloon in pillons and decimals of gallons during the

month of June...

Maleated popullimin 135, CON · 130, 600

ALS

11 -

Restricted Supply in all districts from 8th to 23rd Inclative June 19

Beatriated Supply in all districts up to

17th June 1923.

The Government Analyst's reports show. that the quality of the water is satisfac- tory,

II. T.

Water Author Pablo Worka Departmen§.

LAGER!!

SPECIALLY

WERY COM

SAH

SOLE - AGENTS;

BE

KAISHA

Guaranteed

manufactured

in England...

Made in—Regular Magnum and Super- | Magnum Sizes... ~ ~

Three Castles

Cigarettes

WD&HLOWNS

Brick & Lendon

Registered Trade Mark.

This advenement is ined by the British-Americau Tobacco Co. (China), Ld

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT,

When Buying Gloves.

ingenuity shall supply the interest the sensations of deglutition. I heretofore afforded by the com- finally decide to take a big piece parative nudity of the dancers.or

the skill of stage dressmakers. Miss of rich strawberry shortcake, as Fuller has been questioned by de- that is timely now. Here's my signers who are convinced that station, 186th street. As 1 linger- audiences re tired of festivals

It is a great mistake to buy gloves in a hurry. Each glove should wherein the dancing and costumesingly leave these remarkable food be carefully examined before leav soon become a bore, and are insist products I wonder if their effect of ing upon a new form of gaiety repletion will endure the couple of ing the shop; yet many a woman, just asks for such and such a pair.nder multicoloured lights, with blocks to my room. If not I'll have emotions interpreted in accordance with chromatic scale, as it is well to buy a bun at the corner. known to psychologists that coloursThe Yellow Peony.. harmonise perfectly with the vary- ig mood of the public. Women as Architects.

of gloves, and they are wrapped up, and she is out of the shop within a few minutes, and the bayer is surprised if a seans gives way the This first time she wears them, might be avoided if they had been examined in the shop, observes a writer in the Pall Mall Gazette. Examine the gussets to see they are properly sewn, the stitching on the back well finished, and the seams quite straight a faulty seam gives a twisted appearance when on the hand. A good price should washing be paid for chamois gloves; a cheap quality is net an

economy.

Kid gloves should not be too large; they stretch very much and look ugly. To test siede gloves pull the skin width ways; if faulty the skin will at once show flaws and white cracks. Gloves of reindeer and doeskin are both hard wearing. Grey suede wears well, but is apt to become. greasy..

There is a newcomer in the flower world, or at least, in the flower matt-the yellow peony. It is a lovely, big, shaggy thing, not unlike a chrysanthemum, and

Architecture as a profession is quite as attractive to women as to men, but naturally women are drawn to housing, interior decora-Bond Street florists are quite ex- to, garden design, and so on, cired about it. A bowl of them rather than to the handling of large mingled with yellow irises has all building schemes, involving big the charm of spring's daffodils and contracts and complex construc-autumn's "mums," with a delight- tional, problemis

All over the ful summery look as well. West country so-called "model" houses End florists have wrested another are springing up, but they are jealously guarded rarity from the rarely considered wholly satisfac- people who win prizes at horticul tory by the average practical house-tural shows-white-love-in-the- wife. She feels that the woman's mist (says a writer in the Daily point of view has been not over- Express.) In shape and size it is lasked, but considered by a man exactly like the starry blue flower, who, howevergifted as an architect, with its aura of filmy green, which is not familiar with housekeeping we all know and love so well, and and housework. Will there bewhich by any other name would be an improvement when women-well, almost as sweet. architects get busy? asks a Daily there is an enchantress among the Chronicle writer. The first qualific-Spanish irises so new that it has not One of the largest trees in the ation needed to ensure success in yet been given a name. It is much world--if not the largest has been the profession is an aptitude for rounder than the usual orchidlike discovered in the bush at Waihon, drawing. Draughtsmanship is the flower from Spain; the purple of its Hockianga, New Zealand. It is a language of the architect, who also petals seems much riche, and their large Kauri tree, the vast trunk of requires imagination, reasoning yellow "eyes" shine like gold. If which rises to a height of 75 feet power, and good taste, together it is brilliance you want in your old before being broken by the first with that rather rare combination, oak room, choose Iceland poppies. branch, and measures 22 feet in artistic temperament and business Their smooth yellow, or orange diameter, or approximately one ability. chain in girth. Mr. H. Howe,

A Mammoth Tree.

Then

surfaces glisten with the white light of the sun on frozen slopes. English anemones-red ones with

HONGKONG HEIGHTS.

com.

For the information of visitors $1 following list of some of the highest points ou the Island and Mainland is published

whose firm draws its timber supply A New Way Of Feeding. from the Hokianga district, esti There is no good reason for any black eyes-are cheery mates that the tree contains over įman with imagination going panions. Sweet peas rua through 195,000 fect of timber, sufficient to hungry if he has a nickel to buy all the delicate shadings from build three double-storied houses him into the subway. Often of creamy pink to red and purple. of 20. rooms each from floor to late when I would be glad of a Purple pansies seem larger and ceiling. It is hoped that this re-meal I have spent my last nickel more velvety than ever, and look markable tree will be jealously { for a ride in the underground satis- 'perfect clustering in low, purples guarded from destruction and pre-fying the growling inner man by a toned bowls at intervals on an old served, to show future generations Barmecide feast the advertise oak refectory table. what the lordly Kauri was at its ments in the cars there provide, best. From a marketable point of says a writer in the New York | view it would be impossible to fell | Herald. The minute I enter I have, it, much less to break it down, for a choice of oatmeal or plain but no mill possesses saws large nutritious bread to start a dinner enough to tackle it. Its age is on. There is a life-like picture of estimated at 2,000 years at least, a beautiful loaf of white bread that and carefully conserved, it should has been cut into, and beside it is have another thousand years be a plate or two of rich golden for it

butter. I sit as near the picture as I can and stare with both eyes. The future of state dancing the How satisfying, is bread to a world over is to be found in hungry man! But he should not eccentric lighting rather than waste all his appetite on bread, as eccentric costuming, says Loie the car always is a picture made some restaurant clients do. Down Fullex, who is arranging a special series of ballets at the Opera this up of all sorts of cold cuts, ham, month. Although it is more than logna, chicken, delicacies that thirty years since Miss Fuller with a pickle make the mouth startled Paris with graceftil evolu- water. There are salads if I can tians under changing colours remake room for them, a wide flected by wing-like draperies variety, and all delightful in these (reports the New York Harald), the freshness and piquancy. To be idea has only recently commenced sure, I can manage to add to what to gain a hold on the Parisian I have already eaten a leaf or two stage. This year's production is of lettuce and a bit of earp chesse. intended to attract the attention of As for dessert, I am embarrassed world masters to a point where by the number of pictures that are they will insist that mechanical life-like enough to easily call up

A New Paris Ballet'

ISLAND

Bignal Station, Mi Parker Mountain Lodge The Eyrie Peak Hotel

The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.

In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

and

The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Ltd.

Tel. Centi. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add: "Carlton.”

The Only American Hotel in the Colony.

Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banks, and Central Districte. 43 Bedrooms. Excellent Cuisine. Scrupulously clean. Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened at No. 2, Queen's Road (1st floor). Entrance Lee House St. Tiffino a speciality.

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

THE KOWLOON HOTEL

HANKOW ROAD,

OPENING 1st SEPTEMBER.

First Class and most up-to-date Residential and Tourist Hotel. Bix Stories of commodious large and airy rooms with every modern appliance. Elevator to every floor and to Roof Garden. Hot and "cold water, Electric lights, Fans and Bolls throughout. Exceptionally well. ventilated Bar and Billiard Rooms, Moderato, tarif sad most excellent cuisine supervised by experienced chef. Monthly and Family rates cun be arranged on most reasonable terms.

For terms apply to Mrs. J. J. BLAKE, Manageress.

(Two minutes from Star Ferry).

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON

Recently renovated and rafurulabod, electric light and fans throughong and entirely under now management. Caleine under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billard Rooms Terms moderata. Special terms to Ismilies on application❜to

Telephone Kowloon 3, Talogenphia Add.: "Pazaḍn."

~. H. OXBEERX, Fropiseter.

HOTEL

66

‘ASIA”

WEST BUND; JANTON.

Leading Hotel in South China.

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans ar Elevators Roof Garden. Hairdressing Salcon,

and Pearl Splendid Views of City

River.

Moderate Rates. Excellent Cuisine:

Under the Management of the SUN.00.,

LTD., CANTON.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOCATION

LL ELECTRIC TRAMA YAS Entrance, Xlea Szín Zlita, Pass and Lighting, European PABALSA and Banitary Fittings, Hint and, Vald WALAT NIKLUM throrgarst. Best of food and JOFTOR Tak Cinti, STE. Telegraphic Addrom 2- VICTORIA

-7. WITOHELE, Kanagan.......

THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE THE HOUSE FOR GOOD EATS

Tans and Dinners (Menn-and- & In Carto)

- at all hours, Bakers and· Confectioners. - Cakes, made for parties ato.

Tal, Dantral 2867.

11, Des Voeux Road Central

JAPANESE MASSAGE.

·N. AKAJI, Graduata of Tokio Manage School, Nos 9-10, Praya East, Wanchai.

A81. Central 2630.

MASSAGE

K. SAKAI, ~T. KANAMORI

18, Prays East,

2nd Floor,

MASSAGE.

Mrs. HONDA. Mrs. KEHAKI 454 R. SHIMIDZU, *Nov 264 Wyndhen. Birak; (opposlth to fầu China MAI”)

Fook 174 1734

1785.

1725

1300

Taikoo Sanatorium

1000

Mt. Davis

877

Bowen Rd. (filterbate VARALES MAINLAND;

Talmoshanjo Kowloon Fork

805

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL Queen's Road Central.

8124-

NEW DINING ROOM opened for Meals a la Carte.

TANG, TUK, Dunstar.

"1000"

Lion Rock

"SAKEK PANT

Cubbon Pass

Excellent Culino. Monthly Tlaketa for Tifins & Dinnere. For further particulare apply to

THE MAN GER Hongkong, May 19

the late SIEN TING;

16 D'Agidlar Birees...

TERMS VERY MODERÄTER

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