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

Αστειονότητα, ΑΓΡΕΛΙΣΣΙΑ

AND SURVEYORS

-Public Auctions-'

THE Undersigned have received instead. Bons to voll by Pubile Auction,

03

TUESDAY, August 14, 1923, at 12 o'clock (noon),

a thoir Sales Rooms, Daddell Strout,

·Ono Liver & White Pointer Dog One Liver Pointer Dog

محمد

Terme :-Carb on delivery. On view on day of Sale.

LAMMERY BROS., Amerioncors

Hongkong, August 19, 1923,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Mctura. LAMMERT BROTHERS have received" instructions to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

by order of the Mortgagee

FRIDAY

the 17th day of August 1923 at throo]

o'clock p

I

SANITARY: JANDINKKUA

NONUMENTALISIS

Dices A Calomni, Wachi 1 longkang

Jal Center No. 209

Large stock of

BATHS and BATH ROOM FITTINGS LAVATORY BASINS FLUSH CLOSETS.

COMMODES, BIDETS, Ac., do.

-

OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING *RANGES, TİLED GRATES.

AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALS—Also in polished

Hongkong firanite.

A large selection of Artificial Wreathe.

Peires on Application.

JUST RECEIVED

a fine assortment of

at their Auction Rooms in Duddell St.CATHOLIC PRAYER BOOKS,

The Valdabis Leasehold

Proportios

Situato at

Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong

and known na

Inland Lot No 2,155 together with No. 249, Vuens Road Wost thereon: Section Fot Inland Lot No. 99 together with 30, Hillier Stroot thereon; Section C of Inland Lot 1,421 together with No. 20, Square Street thereon; Sections A and I of Marine Lot 239 together with No. 24, Bolchers Street thereon.

IN FOUR LOTS For further particulars and Conditions of Sale apply to

Mesars. JOHNSON STOKES AND

MASTER

Solicitors, or to

Messrs. LAMMERT BROTHERS,

the Aetioncare.

Hongkong, August 5, 1923.

PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE

of the

STEAMSHIP "CHEKIANG"

now lying at Shum Shui Po

to be sold by

Order of the Yortgagee by

PUBLIC AUCTION

021 TUESDAY

the Elst day of August, 1023 st 3 o'clock p. m. IN ONE LOT by

Mesre, LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers At their Auction Rooma in Daddell St.

The Ship is of 985 2 tous gross and 535.4 rett tonusge. Her length is 100 fret or thereabouts. Beam 33 feet or thereaboats, draft 18 feet 9 inches or thereabouts and horsepower 252.

For orders to view, apply to Messrs. LAMMERT BROS., the Auctioneers,

For further particolam,

Apply to:- Mesars. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Prince's Buildings Messrs. LAMMERT BRŐS, tba Auctioneers,

Dnddell Strest.

or to

Hongkong, August 11, 1993.

THE WATER SUPPLY.

Lavel and Storage of water in reservoirs

on the 1st August 1993 -

MIXY ANU HILL DISTRICT WATKA WORKS

1921.

ZIYEL.

Tybe 10. ta. Below, Below Gracion

overhe

Tyram by jolt 11. 70. Below crerfow

in Balaw orerdow

Tram Interesadato

1 1. below overlow Level with OTRIÖSM

yam Fax sti in.

Below are:Sowbhf, Kip. Level with overdon

12/2 WARK

Nei Chung

in Balow orestowgli, dim. 1arol with overflow Puttalam 16 on }

Bains Groom Lered with ovacion

SICILLAK IN SILLUKI AND DIMRAIN OF GAULINA,

in

ENGLISH, PORTUGUESE

AND SPANISH,

from 50 cents to $20 each.

GRACA & 00., Dealers in Religious Articles, Philatelic Goods, Garden Seeds &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street,

P. O. Box 620.

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese Hand Made)

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO.,

1, D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Co. Telephons Central No. 491

Hongkong, March 29, 1914.

YEE SING.

GENTLEMEN'S

TAILOR

Tel. 1882 12, Wallington Street.

WING FAT CHEUNG

SPARROW CARDA (MA JONO) FOR BALE GARIS MADE OF IVORY AND PIRH DONE. No. 278, Queen's Road Central

No. 39, Man Fam Street East.

BRANOJ

ABAR!

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PILSENER BEER

AND PRIZE

1002

31.85

Sam

Płytam, Berwib

4,91

TI bervollista -

105 DU

Tam Tak

107.92

403.80

28.20

7%

921.10

BCL00

1,093.87

Wow Chang

Total wit

Consumpilan at water in the Olty wad Hill Districs in millions and 'decimale

galloss during the month of July,

(mangyption wit

me pupulation Comption per hand

103.51

194 104.2 301,04 ¥200

17.6 17.2 Exllows

1923 Intermittent Eapply in Western

Ridor Main Districts only from 1st to

ith

1989 Intermittent Fopply in sil Rider Main District from 5th to 31st July,

Intermittent Bapply in ali Rider Main

Districts during July 19x3.

KOWLOON WATER WORKS LEVEL.

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Conrumpties of water in Kowloon in miffions and decimals of gallons during the monks of July.

алуун

20 pepala Mor 238,500

11.00

NGO DA VIE

2.4

160,0 ILS

Ka

Restriction in all districts from 8th to Bist July 1929.

Restriction in all districts during July

.

The Government Analyor's repoeta show the quality of the water is entinfac

Band Balatali in tim "Taipi

ASA

LAGER

SPECIALTY

WERY

SAMBEER

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The

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ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

British Sailors' Plight.

The British steamer Hartington' (4,000 tons of London, from Nairu Island to Walrarco, which caught fire off the Queensland coast, and to whose rescue the destroyer Auzac" was rushed in a heavy sen, arrived at Moreton Bay, with the fire still burning but under control. Tire broke out in the bunkers Inst week, and dense volumes of gascous stroke impeded efforts to put it out. The bulkhead became white hol. At great risk, the captain and officers were lowered in turn into the hold with the object of survey ing the nature of the outbreak and restricting it.

and so remarkable are its acoustic derness throughout her somewhat properties that we could bear a pin melancholý life." fall which our guide dropped some seventy yards from where we were standing. All the roof is hung with festoons of leaves so as to prevent the slightest echo. "Serendipity.”

Whan Caruso was fifteen he was sent to business, and used to get small engagements to sing at church festivals, his employer frequently giving him time off to Some years ago Mr. Everard fulfil them.. One of these festivals Meynell, eldest son of Mr. Wilfrid at Majori was the cause of a hum and the late Alice Meynell, opened

a

Pocahontas.

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Peak Hotel

Repulse Bay Hotel

Palace Hotel

Astor House Hotel

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Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits

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and

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~

Tel. Centl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add=" Carlton.”

The Only American Hotel in the Colony.

Nics and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banks, and Central Districts. 43 Bedrooms, Excellent Cuisine, Scrapulously clea Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened st No. 2, Queen's Road (let floor). Entrance Ice House St. Tifius a speciality.

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

THE KOWLOON HOTEL

HANKOW ROAD.

OPENING 1st SEPTEMBER.

First Class and most up-to-data Residential and Tourist). Hatch Bix Stories of commodious largo and airy rooms with every modern appliance. Elevator to every floor and to Roof Garden. Hot and cold water, Electric lights, Fana and Bella throughout. Exceptionally walk dik ventilated Bar and Billiard Rooms. Moderate tariff and most excellent cuisine supervised by experienced chef. Monthly and Family rates can be arranged on most renounshle terms.

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Talaphe. Kowloon 3. Telographic Add.: "PALAOR"

HOTEL

delightful shop for the sale of rare orous incident. Casuso sung at the books and works of art under this church festival-this was in 1891– name. It was a clever adaptation and afterwards was taken to the of the word which Horace Walpole home of the mayor, Baron Zazza, to coined for his own and his friends sing at a reception. It was six o'clock amusement nearly one hundred the next morning before the young sevenly years ago. singer was told he could go. It and

Serendipity" means the finding meant a long, cold ride to Naples, of things for which one is not and he did not possess an overcoat. looking. In a letter dated January The mayor dug out an old shooting 28, 1754, to his friend Horace Mann, pea-jacket, and wished that Caruso who was in Italy, he thus explains should keep it in remembrance of the occasion.-N. F." in Cassell's The captain was the word:- eventually overcone by the fumes. "I once read a silly fairy tale weekly. and was brought up unconscious. called The Three Princes of He did not recover for several Serendip as their Highnesses

Gravesend is not Luxor, and the hours.

travelled, they were always making

and opening of a grave by the Thames School of Scandal.

discoveries, by accident The scandal of a school at Ranst sagacity, of things which they side with a view to discover the re. village, some ten miles from Ant- were not in quest of; for instance, inaing of the Indian Princess, one of them discovered that Pocahontas, buried there 300 years werp, which, it is alleged, about 100 children were housed in disgraceful a mule blind of the right eye ago, has been vigorously denounced; conditions, is to come before the lud travelled the same road lately, The United States apparently are Belgian Parliament, when the Min- because the grass was eaten only anxious that the remains should be America, though ister for the Interior will be asked if on the left side, where it was transferred to an Antwerp doctor warned the worse than on the right-now do whether this would be permitted, if they were discovered, is doubt Ministry of the condition of the you understand Serendipity?"

Curiously enough, Walpole'sful. In any case, the turning up of school in November last, and why

About 100 account of the story appears to be skulls and bones, much as the no action was taken.

Colonel grave-digger in "Hamlet" turned boys, from six to 14 years of age, somewhat inaccurate. and a girl of six attended the W. F. Prideaux, now no more, up the skull of poor Yorick, hai school, which was run by a man commented on it in Notes and called forth protests which sound a named Slechten. The accommoda- Queries, to which for many years little strange from the lips of thosa tion available was fit for about 20 he was a most scholarly con- who have followed with eager in- terest the opening of the tomb of children, and the unfortunate tributor:-

"The animal, however, was not Tutankhamen. Is the sepulchre of pupils were obliged to sleep two and three in a bed, and often on old mule, but a camel, and the an Indian Princess in English soil cloth on the floor. The food was in serendipity of the eldest prince was more sacred than that of a Pharaoh keeping with the other conditions displayed in his discovery that it of the place. The care of the chit had but one eye. The two others in the Egyptian desert? Or are we dron was left to Slechten, his wife, found out, one that the camel, was to take it that sanctity is to be teacher. lame and the other that he had atooth gauged by them, and what is right after 8,000, years is wrong after and an assistant and Shameful accusations are being less than he should have. They also 300? The answer is, of course, KING EDWARD HOTEL levelled at the manager and the discovered other wonderful things teacher, both of whom, with the wife, are under arrest. The school

is closed and police are guarding

.

7. H. OXBERRY, Frapiisto

"ASIA”

WEST BUND, CANTON,

Leading Hotel in South China,

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans aKỶ

Boof Garden. Elevators.

Hairdressing

Splendid Views of City

Excellent Cuisine:

Balcon

and Pearl, River.

Moderate Rates.

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

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IJ KLECTRIC THAMS Pass Entra,

Kro Llits, Fans and Lighting, Suropea Baths and famtary Fiflings, Hot and bald Water Bystem thronghest. Er of Food sai

Lord Harris. # Telegraphlo Addrám 3–1 VICTOXIA

tomb about the animal, which are not that much may be learnell from a so easily quotable in N. & Q. They study of Tutankhamen's show, however, that Mr. Sherlock nothing from the disturbance of

Curzon, characterizes the proceed-T the building. Police investigations Holmes was anticipated by nearly God's were at Gravesend, reveal fresh horrors every day. a couple of centuries."

inga aa ghouliet, and urges that "in For example one child died, and Caruso.

our revived passion for antiquity"

shoold

dead. its body was left among the little

There is a lure in the work of an we

spare the ones in the bedroom.

opera singer which always believe Pocahontas is one of the romantic Salt Lake City.

few other vocations can offer. figures in our Empire atory. Her Where such romance, such fulfil neme recalle memories of what that ment as comes to the singer who story in its very beginning owes to rises from the by-ways of life to Captain John Smith. The news the position of operatic star?paper accounts of her marriage with Caruso's life. was a great romance Rolfe, and of her. death from a and the authorized biography of broken heart when she discovered him by Pierre V. R. Key which has Smith was alive, do not inspire. just been, publisfied (Hurst and

The following description of Salt Lake City is taken from Sir George Buchanan's journal:

It is a very clean, prosperous looking, place. with unpretentious, neat houses surrounded by gardens or orchards: On the morning after our arrival we took a carriage, and our driver, an Englishman, acted

Blackett) is very good reading to respect for popular history served Focahontas was brought to Eng- as our guide and informant First anyone who loves music and the up by certain daily roadsheets. we went to the Tithe House, beauty of a well-trained human lanul by Bolfe, was the sensation of where all Mormons, including even voice. Enrico Caruso, it seems, ladies of the demi-monde, have to was one of a family of twenty-one a London senson, and died of con American professore pay in the tenth of what they earn children, only one of whom sumption.

girl. Seventeen of scem equally, and more deliberato. We next visited the Temple was granite building which it will take these diedi infasoy and fly aide of the mark in their attacke another four or five years to finish Enrico was the eighteenth son on the veracity of John Smith: There and then proceeded to the The only girl, Assunta, was the seems no reason to revise the story Tabernacle. This is a long, twenty-first child, and he lived of Pocahontas, or to qualify the ugly, wooden building, some two until 1915, when she died adoring character of Smith, na set forth in hundred and fifty feet long, of an her brother Enrico, who, apart from the admirable, blography of the oblong shape with a low rof. It providing for her every com Founder of Jamestowa, by Mr. can hold twelve thousand people, fort, had shown her a constant ten A. G. Bradley,

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