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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEEL, APPRAISDES

AND SURVEYORS.

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$5B Undoraigned havo racaved instinė. Mone bo sell by Pabils Auction,

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FRIDAY, Aug. 10, 1923, commencing at 5.15 p.m.

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st their Bales Rooms, Daddoll Street, s Valuable Collection of Postage Stamps

(including zovorni lots of Hongkong and British Offices in Chins broken crown)

Catalogues will be issued.

Termas :-Carb on delivery.

Or View from Thursday, tho th

August, 1993,

LAMMERT BROS., Anotioneers;

Boagkung, August 7, 1093

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Mesto. LAMMERT BROTHERS have received instructions to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION

by order of the Mortgagee

FRIDAY

the 17th day of August 1923 at three o'clock p.m.

at their Auction Rooms in Duddell St. The Valuable Leasehold Properties Situate at

Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong and known as

Inland Lot No. 2,155 together with No. 249, Its Voeux Road West theroon; Section F of Inland Lot No. 99 Logether with 30, Hillier Street thereon; Section C of Inland Lot 1,421 together with No. 20, Equare Street thereon; Sections A and I of Marino Lot 239 together with No. 24, Belchers Street thereon;

IN FOUR LOTS

For further particulars and Conditions of Sale apply te Mesers. JOHNSON STOKES AND

MASTER,

Solicitore,

or to

Messro, LAMMENT BROTHERS,

the Auctioneera,

Hongkong, August 8, 1913,

PASSENGERS.

DEPARTURES.

Fer P. & O. B.B. "Khiva" on Augnet 8-Mrs P. J. Motha, Mr J, Jackson, Capt. R. D. Cooper, Mr B. L. Wilson, Maa Shirley Rutherford, Mr C. T. Frsyn, Mr M. H. Brown, Majer. J. R. Lloyd, Miss Orr-Ewing, L. Comdr. O. J. M. Korrigan, R. N. Mr and Mre L Mc Murray, Mr G. C. Ray, Hru Morrison, Mies Morrison; Mr U. Bishop, Mrs Haigh, Missen G. and E. Haigh, Mr MacGillivray, Master J. Haigh, Mr Wo Luen Fhang Mr Lin Chang An, Mr P. J. Belts, Mr A. O. Morrison, Mr I. 8. Paterson, Mra d. O. Bustell, Miss M Eston, Mr and Mra Matsui, Miss B. Thomasun, Messrs & Bradden, W. O. Smith, F. E. law, 0. G. Helyar. J N. Bisvas, Kirpalani, Mins M. 1. Paul, Mr O. Leoch. Mr &. H. Bolton, Mr J. M. Watson Mr J. B. Black, Capt. J. S. Lewingdon, Mr W. Hall, Mr and Mrs Y. Sandoh, Mr W. C. Lobb. Mr and Kra M. O. Blakey, Mrs Vidal, Mr W. F. Savale. Mr P. O. Murray, Mr A. P. Rotigura, Mr F Rahman, Hiss Matthaw, Mr D. B. Hoss, Miss P. Tonheim, Mr H. Diproso, Mr W. Hotchkiss, Mr A. Pritchard, &r Som Po Tal, Mr J. D. B. Hotwood.

THE WATER SUPPLY.

feral and Storags of water ip reservoirs on the 1st August 1919-

STEW AND WİLL DISTRICK WATER WOKTO LETAL

1022.

1923.

Tra 107. Below, all in. Below orandon

UTOFLOW

Tytan_Dyewash 16-11 t. 10in. Below overdos

3. Below overdow

Ty Interadiate sitt.) Larei with prezion

13. Below orgelow

Tylam tak biri. Ha, ƒ”

Below overflow sit, diz. Level with argrdow

Lai Khi Chart 11

la. Below overflow

Pokal 1 ft. in.

Below or dam

171, Ala. Level with orezlow

Level with ovTACK

POOHANN IN MISERDOS ANTI DROINÁNÍ ÚT ÞALLINE.

Teken Ever200_

Tiia Tak

Totalt of

10000

4.91

10.76

100.0%

201

KLAS

161.60

14 B

25,74

BLSZ

64,00

**2.09

1,090 87

Consumption of water la

ths City

and Bill District in millions and docimale

of gallons during the month of July.

El vapĢim

male, pognition ---

1963 TILSI 3.g. 301,040 15,000

11,5 17.3 Eg 1929 Intermittent Supply in Western Rider Main Districts only from fat to

ith

1928 Intermittent Supply in all Rider Malo Plotriot from 8th to Bist July,

Entermittent Bupply in all Rider Mfsần Blatriots during July 19:3.

KOWLOON WATER WORKS LEVEL.

1021.

ईमार

I

36 valcem Oxwrite, titt. gin, love) are ow

karole... Dalow dos

GOOGLEN IN MALIONU 330 SkormÁLE DE GALLONS

M. glenn Chavkation

135-11

100$

Consumption of water in Kowlcón in

millor and decimals of gallóns during the month of July,

1123

1940

21.43-

Med pogaine 115.000 140,000

13 vanglion per hond j 3.4 uy

pilos

Bestriction in all districia from Bih to

3'st July 1911.

Bartelation in all districts during July

The Government Analyst's reports sh mer the quality of the water is satisfac-

Ivțul Babulali to Kiev July 2007 là, 43 80 E

H. T. JACKWAY.

- Wsher Authority

· Public Works Departmană

C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

SANITARY KNUINERIA

MGNUMENTALISTS

Offices and Bolowna,

pyn, Wauchini Rapil Hongkang.

Tel Cantial No, 109

Larg stock of

BATHS and BATH ROOM FITTISOA

LAVATORY BASINS FLUSH.

CLOSETS.

COMMODES, BIDETH, 40, Ac.

+

OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING RANGES, TILED GRATES.

AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALS Alan in polished Hongkong Grouits.

A large selection of Artificial Wreaths.

Fries r Application.

JUST RECEIVED

a fine assortment of

CATHOLIC PRAYER BOOKS,

in

ENGLISH, PORTUGUESE

AND SPANISH,

from 50 cents to $20 each.

GRACA & CO.. Dealers in Religious Articles, Philatelic Goods, Garden Seeds &c.

No. 10, Wyndham Stroot, - P. O. Box 620.

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS. (Japanese Hand Made)

Every kind of Footwear.

·MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00.

8, D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamsily & 00.

Telephone Central No. (91

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

YEE SING.

GENTLEMEN'S

TAILOR

Tel. 1882 12, Wellington Street.

IPRON

WING FAT CHEUNG

SPARROW CARDR (MA JOxo) FOR SALE OARDS MADE OP IVORY AND FISH BONK, No. 478, Quoca's Head Central RBAYCA 13 38 Hàn Fermat Rest

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MITSUI BUSSAN::KASHA

THE CHINA MAIL.

The Three Castles

Guaranteed manufactured

in England...

Made in Regular Magnum and Super. Magnum Sizes..........

Virginia Cigarettes

Smoked 'round the World

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10 1973,

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCH MAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Missio

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,

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Rodan and Kodak Films, 83, 159,

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALTTY,

No. 174, QUEEN'S ROAD ÜHICAL, HONGKOSO.

Hongkong Hotel

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

HONGKONG:

Peak Hotal

Repulse Bay Hotel

Astor House Hotel

Palace Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalee

Grand Hotel des Wagon Lita

The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.

In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

and

The Grand Hotel dos Wagons Litz, Ltd.

SHANGHAI:

PEKING;

Three Castles Cigaret

W.D.&HOWILS

London

Registered · Trade Mark...

This advertisement is issued by the British-Americau Tobaodò Co. (Chim), Ltd.

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Wealthy Australians.

wholesomeness of the stale loaf, Last year each of eight Austra shows the waste produced by pre- jiano hind an income of over sent bakery practices, and urges fur- £100,000, and between them they ther investigation, of why some contributed £433,260 in taxes.

Tel. Centl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add: " Carlton."

The Only American Hotel in the Colony. Nice and quiet yot only few minutes' walk from the Banks, ad Central Districte. 43 Bedrooms. Excellent Cuisine. Scrupulously clean. Under American Management. A now Dining Room has been opened at No. 2, Queen's Bond (1st floor), Entrance los Houss St. Tiffins a speciality.

Far tarms apply to Mrs. F. E. CAMERON, Proprietress,

THE KOWLOON HOTEL

HANKOW ROAD.

OPENING 1st SEPTEMBER.

First Class and most up-to-dato Residential and Tourist Botel Six 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 Bells throughout. Exceptionally well ventatod Bar and Billiard Rooms. Moderate tariff and most excellent cuisine supervised by experienced chef. Monthly and Family rates can be arranged on most reasonable torme.

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

A Lover's Leap.

There were 450 persons in receipt | brend keepa better than others. We of from £10,000 to £100,000, read in Science Service's Foily After the steamer Stendfast" of whose aggregate tax amounted to Suence News Bulletin (Washing- Galveston, bound, for America from £2,789,901, nu avemge of £4,186| Antwerp, left Bordeaux, it was re-116. 9d. Drawing incomes ranging ton):-"What probably occurs is ported to the captain that there was between £1,001 and £10,000 there that much of the moisture in the a passenger too many on board. were 17,009 persons who paid bread is held by the starch which £5,564,185, or nearly £250 each. It was then discovered that a young The £501 to £1,000 class nuded has been gelatinized in the baking. Antwerp girl, Mlle. Dubuisson, had £1,106,517 to the revenue, the As the loaf comes out of the stove, got on beant without authority to average individual tax being £30 this starch jelly distributed through

179. 10d. whilst 84,059 taxpayers the bread contains all the moisture]| (Two minutes from follow to America her sweet-

thin the £201 to £500 section contri- it can hold. As the bread cools, the

heart.

2

young Hawaiian,

"Stendfast's' cook. A tng was buted £807,465, or £9 10s. 9it, each.

she

hailed, arul weeping girl In the lowest taxable section 200 starch gives up some of its moisture was transferred after being torn and under, 401.067 persons paid and this moisture is absorbed by the £784,089 or an average of £1 18. other constituents of the loof, from the arms of her lover. The

10. eneh. The income tax collect changing the crust from a brittle "Steadfast" resumed the voyage.j bat the flawatian; able to stand ed by the Commonwealth of Ausmaterial that crunches between the the parting from his sweetheart,tralia represents 79.2 per cent, and peized a lifebelt und, jumping over-company tax 20.8 per cent, of the teeth to a soft and pliable one, while board, swan for the tog where the total direct taxation. Of the income the gluten of the crumb is given a girl was waving her handkerchief. 1. persons in receipt of £200 and toughness and Arainess which sa He was picked up, and the couple under paid 5.4 per cent of the total fresh bread it did not have. Tha amount: those with incomes from bread becomes stalo at low tempera- £201 to £500 paid 5.6 por cont.;tures, and this accounts for the fact £501 to £1,000, -7.6-por-cent-that-bread when stale, but not dry, can be freshened up by heating. The process is reversed and the starch-jelly, reabsorbs the moisture from the other broad constituenta." Frank Criticism.

were re-united.

The US Mes-Grundy.

A passenger on board à Nor- £1,001 to £10,000, 98.4 per cent. wegian liner during a recent voyage £10.001 to £100,000), 10.2 per cent.; to New York tella of this tragi and over £100,000 3.0 per cent. comic incident, of which he was the Chinese,Wisdom. observer, says a Bergen mesange.

The American immigration laws are EIGHT Sailora; Seven want to steer. abnormally strict, and among them That Junk won't come to Port, I

fear.

is a clause which forbids emigrants

of one sex to visit the other in their

cabins during the voyage without In Eighty Years to dwell on Earth, the permission of the captain. On Expect not Thirty Thousand Days this particular voyage three coupler of Mirth.

who had struck up a friendship on

board broker, the rule and were dis-Fish, see the Bait alone; and is it covered by a ship's officer sitting in|| stranger

the cabin of one of them indulging, That Men should see the Profit, not

in a very harmless flirtation. The

result of the discovery was thut the!

the Danger?

鲤

six culprits had to be married before How amall, the Heavens are, the the mithorities would allow them Frog can tall;

ashore at New York.

The core- Ho's seen them --from the Bottom

mony took place in the second-class dining saloon, to the great interest! and ainusement of all the passengers and ship's company.. *.

Elegant!

A hundred years ago, the hucks'..

of the Welt.

We scheme, we toil, we pray

In wretched plight,

For what? Three Meals a Day,

One Sloep at Night!

[and "blooda"""always sported a, Who trusts Too Many often ends

| ningto_|__"'spy-glass" that is, a By losing trust in All,

monoclo mounted on a handle, the Tend not your Pillars to your parent of the modern Jurgnettes. į friends,

Now, fashionable gentlemon are! Or else your Roof may fall. abandoning the screwed-in-the-oye!

"window," so long the characteris Make Iriende with Merchante-and tic of the, dandy, and are sporting! your Wealth will grow; the new type of lorgnettes for mon, Make friends with Noblog--and|

Some with single and others with your Wealth will goj double oye pieces, having tortoise Make friends with Boore and shell rims, and fitted with a short mother-of-pearl handle. The other day, a gentleman was seen in the Strangers' Gallery of the House of Commons pooring through onɑ of] theas dainty novelties for men. only one & Glasgow paper. Some Why Does Bread Grow Stale?

learn to use your Fials; Make friends with Priests-and sign Subscription Liste.-- Verse Translations from Clips of Jade," by Arthur Guiterman:

Dr. Frank Omno, the American newspaper writer, who spent recent- ly a few weeks touring Chion made! the following statement regarding his impressions of the country:

For PALACE HOTEL BOWLOS

Becently renovated and refurnished, electric Ught and fans througlasts and enrarely under new management, Calaine ander the personal supervision

of the propristor, Bar and Ellliard Room Tarma moderata. Epecial forms to | families on application to

Telephone Kowloon 3, Telegraphið Add.: "PALAOR"

3. H. OXBERRY, Propte

HOTEL "ASIA"

WEST BUND, CANTON,

-Leading Hotel in South China.

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans aĽÚ Elevators. Roof Garden, Hairdressing SalceL,

Splendid Views of City and Peart River.

Excellent Cuisine:

Moderate Rates,

Under the Management of the SUN 00.,

LTD, CANTON.

"No country can flourish when ruled by vermin and not until! China rida berself of the infected officials and chooses a commission of business men to handle her affairs, will she even sense aux- cess in the slightest degree, A body of strong educated and in- terautod men and women tea- chers from all countries should be chosen and brought ta, Chìn to educate the teaming millions of people, from the lowest labourer to the highest official in whom de Telegraphio Addrom VICTOR A

they should instil truth and honesty, clean.out the filth and sterol of the narrow streets in "the many cities, lift up the coolie from his low rank and make him interested in the progress of the', country. These are a few things that can be done but won't be taken care of principally because no one cares and the few who do aro in the minority, and therefore Bro absorbed by the masses. My travole in China and Japan bako been-equally enjoyed and if China can be cleaned of her impurity, all her own ronourees brought to the qurface, and the returne on- joyed, no nation can be superior in value to the rest of the world and to its own people.”...

proof tourists

KING EDWARD HOTEL

UENTRAL IOGATION

EL ELECTINỢ TRAJES PAM Extenece, Eise *tro-Iris · Yana suð Lighing, Europese

Bathe and Hazilag Flumen Lột kad bold Best of Food ADJ Water' Bystem throughénk,

TAL

7. VISCHELL, Managi

THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE THE HOUSE FOR GOOD EATS

Timas and Dianera ( (Menu "and" A La Carto)

at all hourM;

···Bakers and Confectioners.

Dakon made for parties; ute. Tel Central 2687. 24. Des Voeux Road.

Central

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL Que's Road Central.

of the more expensive. are fitted Old ideas of how breed etalca are usually constitute one of the chief NEW DINING ROOM opened for with handles of ebony lined with overturned by the Food Research forms of amusement for newmaper "Gentlemen who wish to Institute, established at the sugges- randora residing in the Far East,

gold.

be in the todo," says a fasluon nate tion ót. Herbert Hoover in its first but Dr. Crine seems to have proved addressed to young exquisites, will publication just issued from its an exception to the general run-t do well to provide themselves with beadquarters at Stanford Univer- least from the standpoint of frank- a lorgnetle." Elegant but foppish | sity. Th report pointa out the nee

Simfonie a la Carte;:/ bands Broellent Unisins ( Monthly Tiesets for Tiffing de Diemers?

For further particulam apply to'

AS THE MANAGER Hongkong, May 1, 1994.

JAPANESE MABBAGE N. AKAJI, Graduate of Tokio Manage School, No. 9-10, Praye East, Wanchal,

ani. Central 2680,

MASSAGE

K. SAKÁZ T. KANAMORI

18, Praya Est,

2nd Floor.

MASSAGE.

Mrs. HONDA, Men, KINÁME KUAT 1. § MIMEDKU. KA-SWROTE. Exroot

· (opposite jo tās Kalam Malt*)

TANG YUK. Derroli

14. D'arudinë Shk

TERMS VERY MODERATE