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

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAINDRE

* AND SURVEYORS,

Public Auctions-

* Undersigned havo recaved instens

Kone to sell by Publiŋ Anction,'

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THURSDAY, August 23, 1823, ~

commencing at 11 am..

at the premises of the China Pro- vident, Loan & Mortgage Co, Ltd's. Godown, Connaught Road West, No. 1 Godown

878 Bago Sugar (raore or less damaged) Terms-Cash on delivery.

I

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

ON

SANITARY BRUINERIJ

MONUMENTAJASTH

\--

Ob nad downs, v, Wanchal Hond Hongkong.

Tal. Central No. 209

Largo stock of

BATHS and PATH ROOM FITTIKOS. LAVATORY BASINS FLUSH CLOSETS.

COMORODES, BIDETS, &c., &c.

OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING RANGES, TILED GRATES

AMERICAN & ITALJAN MARDLE MEMORIALS-Also in polished Longkang Granite.

A large slation of artificial Wreaths.

Prices on Application.

THE CHINA MAIL.

"Beautifully, cool and Sweet Smoking" CAPSTAN

NAVY CUT

TOBACCO..

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 22, 9:8

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,

LONG HING & CO., and Kodak Filme, da. dan.

PHOTO SUPPLIES, DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 17A, Quer's ROAD OKITRAL HONGKONG.

FRIDAY, August 24, 1023,

commencing &; 11 a.m.

at York Building, (Top Ficor)

Quantity of dmce Furblare and Fittings

Comprising:-

Deaks, Show Caser, Cabinets, Filiog Cabinets, Counters, Partitions, Copying Presses and Electric fans and Inverted Ceiling Lights.

Two Sales

8160

One Remington Typewriter

Ono Monarch Typewri er Two Typewritern

And

One Mimeograph

Ons Cheque Protector

Co View From Thursday the 23rd

August 1923.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.

A actioneere

#ongkong. Argust 21, 1993,

PROPERTY SALE POSTPONED.)

Messia. LAMMERT BROTHERS bavo received instructions to postpone indefinitely to Public Auction (by order of the Mortgages) of The Valuable Leasehold Proporties

Stare at Victoris, in the Colvay of Hongkong

agd know

Inland Lot No. 9,155 together with No. 249, Des Voeux Road Weat theroon; Section F of Inland Lot No. 99 together with 30, Hillier Streat thereon; Section C of Juland Lot 1,421. together with No. 20, Equare Street, thercon; Scetious A and I of Marine

JUST RECEIVED Flower and Vegetable

SEEDS.

Indications point to a HEAVY DEMAND

for seeds

THIS SEASON

To be sure of getting every variety you wish, we suggest that you

ORDER TO-DAY

GRACA & 00., No. 10, Wyndham Street,

P. O. Box 480.

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese Hand Made)

Every kind of FootwORK. MADE TO ORDER.

OHERRY & 00.,

E, D'AQUILAI STREET,

Opposite Kaysmally & Co.

Hongkong, March 29, 1914.

Lot 239 together with No. 24, Bolchers || Telephone Central No 491 Street thereon,

Hongkong, August 8, 1923.

LEE KEE

ESTABLISHED 1896

FATHS & BATH-ROOM

ACCESSORIES.

Estimates furnished

free of charge.

Office 21, Wellington St.

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE- GRAPH COMPANY, LTD,

The following unclaimed telegrams aro lying at the office of The Great Northern Telegraph Company (Limited):--

Feitenbu, from Nishikeratau,

Lee Chong Ero 203go Eirakunishigai, from Tokyo.

Holm 119 Praya East, frem Yokoisms. Feema, from Weibainci.

Nam Kee, 50 Des Voeux Road Central, from Amoy.

Pan Leo Chon Kes, Queen's Road, from Ebanghai.

Kobyanzor, Care Great Eastern

Hotel, from Shanghai,

Ng Kam Fai, Portland Street, Yagmati

from Amoy,

011, from Shanghai.

Chang Gee Bin Great Eastern Hotel,

from Shanghai.

0035 (2), from Kobe.

N. LUND,

Act. Aaporintendant. Hongkong, Augnal 9, 1923,

LASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL" ASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO.

List of unclaimed telegrams lying in

Telegraph Office, Hongkong. Fun Wallaca 12 Bollywood Road, from Manis.

Paterson Carlton Hotel (3), from Hear gleaf.

R. M. MACALPINE,

Buperintendent. Hongkong. Asgail 18, 1993

GENTLEMEN'S

TAILOR

Tel. 1882 19, Wellington Street,

MILD

APST Navy Cut

D&HOW Stol & Lo

APSTA Navy

·Cut;

HOW tol & Lon

PAPSTA

Navy Cut D&HOME stol & Lon

This alvertisement is issued by the British-American Tobacco Co. (China), Lul.

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Common Beauty.

Half an hour's roaming about u street or village or railway station shows so much beauty that it's ira- possible to be anything but. wild Air Force Pageant....

with suppressed exhilaration. And The Royal Air Force Pageant, it's not only beauty and beautiful held recently at Hendon, England. things. In a dicker of sunlight on doubtless was a striking spectacle. a blank wall, or a reach of muddy Fully 100 aircraft took part in it, pavement, or smoke from an engine many of which had never been seen at night, there's a sudden signi- by the public before. They includfeauce and importance und inspira

Gaoled for Contempt.

Three members of the staff of The Birmingham Post, an after- on paper, were sentenced to guol for twenty-four hours for contempt of court. The court gave the men an alternative of apologising and promising that they would not again print what the court termed impro- per matter, but they chose the gaol news item concerning the alleged sentence. The case arose over a record of a man charged with mur-

YEE SING.ed the Inge Aldershut bomber, will tion unnt makes the breath stop with the largest single-power unit in the gulp of certainty and happiness. world (the 1,000-horsepower Napier); ... I suppose my occupation is der. The citations charged that the Cub engine), and the Wren three being in love with tho universe or news story was prejudicial to the horsepower machine, the tiniest air (for it's an important difference) defendant, and exused postpone plane in the world. They demon with certain spate, and moments andment of the trial. Counsel for the struled, as an advance notice of the points of it.Rupert Brooke.

journalists held that nothing was pageant said, the tremendous 4 Who Is Sílvia ?"

printed except absolute facts based advance which had heen made in

on court records, and tlit nó hárm was done the defendant in question the development of fighting airerafi since the war. When will it be

as the law interpreted prejudice. realized, however, that preparations

The judge, in passing sentence, said for war do not make for peace, des

that the court was higher than the pite all the penes talk in the world?

newspaper, and that the liberty of the Press was socondary to huimar A Big Trek.

liberty. Leave to appeal was

WING FAT CHEUNG SPARROW-CARDS (HA JONG) FOR SALE CARDS MADE OF IVORY AND PIGA BONE. No. 270. Queen's Road Central BRANCH No. 99, Man Bam Front East,

ABAHI BIB

MISENER BEEREN

GRAND PRIZES

ASAILLES

ASA

LAGER

SPECIALLY

COMP

ASAH!

BEER

LAGER BELT

COMPAR

SOLBURNTS MITSUI BUSSAN KAGHA

Even when he takes ap grdinary English name, Shakespeare some times makes it his for ever simply by kauwing better than anyone else What een be done with itby know ing its character. Is the name "Sylvis" ever heard without the accompanying ripple of

Who is Silvia What is she?

denied.

Swinburne.

It does not fall to the lot of many men to enjoy the experiences and adventures which have befallen

Mr. Kernahan in his latest book Capt. Angus Buchanno, who ar

tells a good story of Swinburne, who just returned to London after an extensive trek in the Sahara Desert. And when Shakespeare had written rived at an important reception Perhaps tie net remarkable was those six words, was not his poem late, and drunk. The hostess, being his journey to the Bitmu salt mines practically dons? He had found informed of the difficult situation by with a caravan of 7.000 camels. the one name to lead the imagina discreet manservant, quietly told Standing in the middle of the line tion in the direction he desired, the one of Swinburne's friends, and neither the head nor the tail could one name to do at least half hiegged him to see the poet home. be discemed across the desert. Then work for him. Consider how little Swinburne, however, proved recal one time he travelled almost con actual information concerning Sylvia tinuously with but a single break the lyric gives-and how little we for 129 days. Captain Buchanan miss it! True, she is holy, fair declares that, contrary to popular and wise," but so might an

been, belief, the desert is not pure sand. "Angela" hve

ora

It is true that it is frightfully har-"Cecilia." It is not these qualities ren, but there is generally a little that are of the very essence of the short tafty grass. The measure of name, but a heavenly lightness and the sticcoss of his expedition is ovi-grace, an ethereal radiance, so that dent in the keen interest which the it is not only easy but inevitable to officials of the Natural History | believe that Museum, in South Kensington, are taking in the specimens he has brought lane with hùm.

Commercial Honour

Chinese.

Among

It appears that there is a very high Bonso of honour among Clinego, writes Henry

Enery, LL.D.,

Crosby

in Harper's

She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling.

AN APPEAL TO BRITONS IN CHINA

Mouthly Magazine. So is thers 100,000 DOLLARS

among the merchants of America, England, Germany and other coun tries. Again, the differences, he- tween individuals

infinitely

BEL

greater than those between nations.

To all this must be added timat, since China is an older country, her uer chante doveloped a senso of bominur long before Western countries. At a time when European commerce, was hall trade and half piracy. China had developed this bigh com inercial, morality. It is probably the half-buccaneering traders who first brought news of this strange | and honourable custom to lands who as-yet know.it not. To-day Chinose commercial honour and English or Americaa, commercial honour differ little except that China had develop: ed it centuries before it was adopted in foreign lands.

URGENTLY NEEDED

FOR

THE "ARETHUSA” TRAINING SHIP.

2,600 OLD BOYS HAVE JOINED THE ROYAL NAVY. AND 0,500 THE MERCHANT FERVIOR.

Patrona:

TRENU SAJENTIES THE KING AND QUEEN, President:

DER. THE FRISCE OF WALES Chiness and Treatme

6. E. MALDEN, E., MA. Dep. Chair: F. 16. CLAYTON, Eay. Chainman of Stay Committer: HN F. DEVITT, Ex

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11. BRISTOW WALLES

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Choques Drafta,etc, plum)! de made

payable, to and "seni.tgan.

THE SHAFTESBURY HOMES &` AFETHUSA TRAINING SKIP

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HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

Peak Hotel

Repulse Buy Hotel

Astor House Hotel

Palace Hotel

Hongkong Hotel

HONGKONG:

SHANGHAI:

PEKING;

Grand Hotel Kalee hind Hotel des Wagon Lits

The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.

In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

und

The Grand Hotel den Wagons Lite, Ltd.

Tel. Centl. 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 Districts 43 Bedrooms. Excellent Onisins. Sorapulously cl Under American Management, A Dew Dining Room has been opened at No. 2, Queen's Road (1st floor). Entrance Ice House St. Tiffins's speciality,

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

(Two minutes from Btar Ferry)

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLODE

Recently renovated and rafurnished, electric light and fans throughou and anurals vader new management. Calaine under the personal supervis of the proprietor, Bar and Billard Rooms Terma moderate. Fpesial tema so tamilina on spplication to

Telephons Kowloon 3,

Telegraphic Add;; "PALAOR."

THE

7. H. OXEKKRY, Propistor

KOWLOON HOTEL

HANKOW ROAD.

OPENING 1st SEPTEMBER.

First Class and most up-to-date Residential and Tourist Hotel 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, Faus and Bolla throughout. Exceptionally w¤· ventilated Bar and Billiard Rooms. Moderate tariff and most excellent eulslae supervised by experienced chef. Monthly and Family rates ona be arranged on most reasonablo torma.

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

HOTEL “ASIA”

WEST BUND, 、 CANTON.

Leading Hotel in Bouth China,

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans ez? Elevators. Roof Garden.. Hairdressing Salcot,

Splendid Views of City and Peart River.'

Excellent Cuisine.

Moderate Rates.

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

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOVATION.

LL EL VOTRIO TEĪNS F10s Entrande, Ki-

Baths and Banitary Fittings, Liệt sul Dom

BUTTON

citrant, and finally had to he car ried, loudly protesting, to his cab. The whole company was thus mado aware of the unfortunate truth:

But the matter did not end there. When he awoke next; orning Swinburne had not the faintest recollection of what had happened overnight, except that he had forgotten, as he thought. to fulfil his promise to be present at the reception.

To have promised to attend a reception and then never to have put in an appearance distressed him-great- - Iy. Some sort of apology and Alte nd Bebe Karopées explanation must, he felt, be Water Bystem through ft. Best of Food an made, al instantly. Imagine,Tol Cenil, 275. Telegraphic Adiram )—"TICTORIA-

İ. WITOHELL, `Manager, then, the surprise of his overnight hostem wheu-while at breakfast with those of hier guests who wern staying in the house, some of whom had been present at the overnight scane-Swinburne waR ushered in, unblushingly to pitch a proposterous story of how, when on his way to the reception the preceding evening, his cabnian had proved to be so drank that ha; bad collided with anothor cab. it seemed, had been overturned, throwing him into the street, and within an ace of having his braine dashed out by the mad kicking of the strate and frightened horse. Marston, who was present both at the reception and the breakfast, added that he did not know which to admire more-the confiding and childlike truthful- news with which Swinburne told his story or the borror and aların with which the lady appeared to listen to the account of the acci dant. **

THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE THE HOUSE FOR GOOD EATS Tifins" and Dinners ́(Mona and A La Carte):

(at all hours, ¿ Bakers and’Confectioners. ́Calter ́made for parties ́ete.

Tel. Central.2007. 94,. Des Voeux Rond

"Central.

ASTOR-HOUSE HOTEL Queen's Road Central.

NEW DINING ROOM opened for

Kroellant Cuisine.

Monthly Tickets for Tiina & Dinners. For further particulars apply to

THE MANAGER: Hongkong, May 1, 1024,

JAPANESE MASSAGE; N. AKAJI, Gradusts of Tokio Massage School,

· Nos: 9—10ˇPraya Eset, Wànchsi ̧

Lot, Central 2630,"

MASSAGE

K. SAKAL 7. KANAMORI 18; Play& East;

2nd Floor.

MASSAGE.

Men HONDA, Mra: KINAKI ́AME"

B. E HIMTOZÚ.

No. Wyndhar, Brewƒ“ (opposite to the - China Mall”)

ANG YUB, D

the labe BIH TING,

~14, L¥Àguilar Bkreek.

TERMS VERY MOJEMATE. Confutation Fros