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
抒
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
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Below precio jest 7 in. iota overflow
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VROPADR"US WIʊtlom AND DESTRALS OF SALJONA
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Pitam Internseddity ***
Tran 200 COOKIES ANYON
1.
21.00
475.70
14.29
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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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