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

AUCTIONEERS, AppRAINERS

AND SURVNTOLA.

—Public Auctions—

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THE Undersigned havorumred inspino-

by Pablo kuesion,

מס

MONDAY, Aug. 27, 1923,

ocmmencing at 11 am.

at their Sales Hooms, Daddoll Street,

12 Kegs indigo Poate

8 Barrels Clirsmasino Blue

1 Case Dyes

40 Cases

angantite

And

A Quantity of

Misaelixneous Goods Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

07,1:!!

WEDNESDAY, August 29, 1923, commencing at 10.45 .m.

at No, 51 Godown, of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co, Lid.,' Kowloon,

128 Bales Indian Tobacco Loaf.

Termas on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctionesys.

1X 79.

WELN SDAY, August 29, 1823.

commencing at 11 am.

at No. 18 Godown the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Gudowa Co., Ltd., Kowloon.

A Quantity of Miscellaneous Goods

Comprising:-

Inn Bare, Augle Iron Rivete, Ohi Wire, Bar Frds, Steel Plates, Porcelain, Perfumery, ele.. etc.

Cerma-Cash on delivery.

LAMMER? BROS., Auctioneers.

Bogkong. August 24, 1993

PROPERTY SALE POSTPONED,

Mesire LAMMENT BROTHERS

⚫ have received instructions to postpone

indefinitely the Public Auction by order of the Mortgagee) of The Valuable Leasobold Proportles

Situate at

Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong and known ne

Inland Lot No.. 2.155 together with No. 249, Des Voeux Hoad Weat thereon; Section F of Inland Lot No. 99 together with 30, Hillier Stroot thercon; Section C of Inland Lot 1,421 together with No. 20, Egnare Stract thereon; Sections & end of Marino Lot 239 together with No. 24, Belcbars Street thercon.

Hongkong, August 8, 1923.

ASTHMA CURE

Overdoysarnage the Into Lord Banconsheld trstined to the benefita Le rateived from Himrod's Asthma Cure, and every post brings similar letters to-day, FAMED FOR 50 YEARS

Bolt sii Chemlaća mi terve throghaat

BEWARE OF MEITATION

1952

LAVRI

175

THE WATER SUPPLY.

Level and Storage of waterli reservoirs

the let August 1923 --

TAND KILE DITESOY WATER WORIE

Tyto 101 Fin. Below

DTerow

Cic. sip. Delaw orerdam

Tytam Byah 11. 100. Below Iław

Sin. Below overdow

Friedlände 42ft.)

1 1a, Below OTATEAN

Tylam Taz sift. Haf

Below overfoW

4. Below overflow / 1't. Bin, Lovel with overdow

bin. 1

Level with VAJZAM

VECKANS LE JOLLIBER AND DROMALE DY HALAL PA

Below Ton

Tram ÖVLAD

TOLE!ent and

„Level with overflow

Bin Level with overtow

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MANITARY ENDINEKRO

SINGARNYALISTS.

offices soul. Godawns, Wanchal Bond Hongkong.

Tel. Dinical Na, 200

Largs stock of BATIS and BATH ROOM FITTINGS.

LAVATORY BASINS FLUSH CLOSETS.

COMNODES, BIDETS, do, &c.

'OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING

RANGES, TILED GRATES.

AMERICAS "A TTALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALS--Alan da polished

Hongkong Granite.

A large selection of Artificial Wreaths.

Prices on Application.

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,

Hongkong.

P. O. Hax 820,

SHOEMAKERS,

(Japanese Hand Mado)

Every kind of Footwear, MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00..

6, D'AQUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Do Telephons Central No 491

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

YEE SING

GENTLEMEN'S

TAILOR

Tel. 1882 12, Wellington Street.

WING FAT CHEUNG SPARROW CARDS (MA JONG) FOR BALL CARDS MADE OF IVORY AND PIGHI BONE. No. 178, Queen's Road Central BRANCH

No. 39, Man Uam Etreat East.

ASAHI BBAR

PILSENER BEEN

tay on

4.91

131,45 B

29,70

157 DX

199,00

16. B

Y

0:32

188.00

823.50

1,093 093

mpden of water in

1030

the Olty

District in millions and decimali

Juring the month of July.

1979.

1923

1Pant 18.03

bela 5- 101,040 172,100

17.5

17.3 Kollan

ermittent Supply in Western

Su Districte only from Ist to

ermittent Fupply in

for from 5th to 31st July.

Rider

mittent Bupply in ail Ridor Malu

Kts during July 19:3

KUWLOON WATER WOSKS LEVEL.

& Brain $ 2176.

Bia.

194

705$

15% DO

Lore W To... Below areciles MTOLASE IN BERLIONS AND USOMAIN DE GALLOVE.

1991 Kreison Kreekathon 7

11518 Canwmption of water to Kowloon in gutions and denimsin of gallone during the month of July,

**to

m..

10Th

1913.

E1.40

13,500

110,930

7.4

140

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Restriction in all districts from 8.1 to 3:3 July 1921——

ASAHI

ASA

LAGER

SPECIALLY

EWERY COME

SAH

BEER

BEER

Restriction in all. wiels during July

1919.

The Government Analyn's reports she at the quailty of the water in antinfec tory.

1923

1023

Kuta Balafukte 81 3 Zuly 198298, 477ā īs.

H. ́L. JADINAM,

- Water Authority.

SOL ACT:

MTUSUN - BUSSAN KAISHA

Fable Works Deparlament.

:

ODDS AND ENDS,

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Frog Farming.

From his backyard frog ranch

THE CHINA MAIL. U

| Oshkosh, Wis., Emil Neuenfeldt | ships 2,000,000 frog legs a year. The frogs are kept la concrete trenches fifty feet long and six feet wide, in which are refrigerated pipes and running water. The cold water makes the frogs hibernate and silences the frog chorus. When an order is received the re- quired number is scooped from a trench and the frogs are placed in a tank of water charged with electri- city. This (says the World) kills the frogs, straightens out their legs, and makes amputation easy. "Monkeys" at Large.

When a modern backer owes a bit to the Ring he generally goes to Paris or Dieppe. La the old days it used to be Calais and...then | Boulogñe. A big London hook- maker who run over to Paris for a change the other day, to see the big event at Saint Cloud, on being usk- ed what he thought of the Gay City and its racecourses, Teplied: “Quite O.K, a...l very nice, too! If we had Sunday racing in England the Tote might pay. The Paris courses reminded me of the Zoo with a lot of the cage doors open and the animals running about loose." Asked what he meant, he answered: "I saw a lot of 'bian- keys' about that belong to me, but I couldn't lay my hands on 'em."

East is East,"

Ob, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shull meet. Til Earth and Sky stand presently at Claf's great Judgment |

Ketit.

The sentiment of Mr. Rindyard Kipling's Ballad of East and West was chosen as the subject for the debate on Visitors' Night of Dur- hum University Union Society, and (one of the debaters, Mr. Bagoat! | (Oxford), said he hul written to Mr. Kipling for an explanation of the phase. The author replied that in spiration came when he was at Bletchley. Instead of the maces of the world having

World's Five Scourges.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1928,

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO, LTD. G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

ANNOUNCEMENTS.

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

A DINNER DANSANT

will be held on

SATURDAY, September 1st,

and thereafter

each

WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY.

WEEK-DAYS

During the Summer Season an Orchestra will be in attendance

from 8 p.m. until Midnight. SUNDAY'S

An Orchestra will be in attendance during Tiffin and Tea.

Tables may be Reserved at the Hongkong Hotel (Telephone C. 32),

or

At the Repulse Bay Hotel (Telephone C. 807).

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

ROOF GARDEN

IS NOW CLOSED

Until Further Notice.

A DINNER DANSANT

will be held Nightly in the

GRILL ROOM

Climate and Crops.

(Sundays Excepted).

There is still much to be done in

determining what sort of climate best suits each crop. It is known, for instance, that, generally speak- ing, the citmate of castern England connuou is better suited to wheat than is clameter, feeding, and sensibility, cach shoith retain its own charac- that of the west. But certain varie- teristics. If the world was all one ties might be found to stand jazz time, what a dreadful place it the western climate better than would be.

others, and, where a crop is found to be unsatisfactory in a district, it Dr. Charles Childe, in his Pre- may be profitable to cultivate a sidential Address to the Congress variety more suited to the climate. of the British Medical Association Again, says the Morning Post, there at Portsmouth, said that the five are certain critical periods in the most formidable endemic scourges growth of most plants; and, where of to-day were cancer, tubercu- Į unfavourable conditions often losis, rickets, venereal disease, prevail just at a critical period,'tt and alcoholism. Dr. Childe em- might be advisable to select varie phasised the evil effects of slum ties of which the critical period conditions on the four, omitting falls earlier or later. Tables show-

· cancer, of which little was knowning the average rainfall, temper- Tuberculosis and rickets accounted ature, &c., at different times of the for most of the cripples; cancer, | year are published by the Meteoro- tuberculosis, venereal disease, and logical Office. With a knowledge alcoholism accounted for most of the requirements of the crops deaths; and venereal disease and and live-stock, a former moving to alcoholism for most of the misery a new district, or trying a new and moral degradation of our race. crop, such as sugar beet, in a fami-, Taking the cost of the country's liar district, could, by studying sickness and disablement at these records, form some opinion £150,000,000 annually, the country as to how far he is likely to be could afford to spend £50,000,000 successful. each year, or £1,000,000,000 capital-"The Last Of The Tichbornes.” ised at 5 cent., in clearing the slum

areas.

Society and Sin.

It is odd how often this celebrat- ed case crops up. The appearance in the police court of a lady who The Bishop of London, speaking claims to be the "last of the elder at the annual meeting of the Lon-Tichbornes" is a reminder that don Diocesan Council for Rescue the Tichborne family in posses Work held at St. James's Church, sign of the estates still hear echoes Piccadilly, said that the way to pre stirred all England years ago, and of the famous litigation which vent the evil which threatened our led to two of the longest and most young national life was to change

The the whole idea of society on the costly trials on record.

claimant "generally admitted. matter. I am sorry to say," he

now to be Arthur Orton-died aaded, that many respectable families believe that it is healthy some few years ago in utter for a man to sin, and I am told that poverty in Paddington Green, and doctors actually recommend it. his last bours were only saved One thing we must do is to mail from something very much like that lie. It is not healthy, and the starvation by the generosity of Charles Morritt, the famous authorities agree on that. In deel illusionist, who was once very well ing with the young unmarried mother who has been turned out of known at the old Egyptian Hall, home with her child we are dealing The "claimant" left two children. and afterwards with Maskelleynes. with the most helpless thing in the world, and if we do not stand by a boy and a girl, and both of them her what is the good of the were exceptionally clever. Their Christian Church?" In 1922, he father lies buried in Paddington continued, the council dealt with Green Cemetery, and it is a com- 3,700 girls, and cared for $20 babies, meat upon life that the man who and in addition gave help to a large in life hundreds of people flocked number of other cases.

to see fad but one mourner at his graveside.

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Escape From THE COILS OF

BRONCHITIS

Uproot the Trouble

T is awful to be conscious that bronchitis is gradually tight- ening it coils around your chest; that your breathing is becoming more and more obstructed; the suffocating cough more and

more persistent.

The discovery at last of the Peps breatheable remedy comes as a boôn and a blessing to all afflicted with chest weakness. The wonderful potency of Pepa is due to the ingenious idea of condearing Into handy tablet form balsamic pine essences with other volatilo celicical ingredients.

When Peps dissolve in the mouth, powerful bealing and germicidal vapours are breathed into instant and direct contact with every part of the bronchials and lungs. This brings. SPEEDY WELCOME RELIEF

of which the sufferer is immediately seasible. The inflammation or sore.. ness in the chest caused by coughing is greatly soothed; the troublesome stingy phlegm that blocks the air- passages being cut is maily expelled, and that feeling suffocation gives way to free comfortabla breathing..

Peps heal and strengilien siger mail parts of the bronchial tubes and lange that cannot be reached by liquid medicios. They aro "unequalled as remedy for coughs, colds, and chjils or other thrpas and cheat weakness.

Peps

THE REMEDY YOU BREATHE

af mii medicina vandees.

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Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

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

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PHOTO SUPPLIES. DEVELOPING & FRINTING A SPECIALITY.

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HONGKONG;

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LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

Peak Hotel

Hongkong Hotel

Repulse Bay Hotel

Astor House Hotel Palace Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalee

Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits

The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.

In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

Bod

The Grand Hotel dos Wagons Life, Les.

Tel. Centl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add: "Carlton. The Only American Hotel in the Colony,

Nice and quiet yet only a far minutes' walk from the Banks, and Central Districts. 43 Bedrooms. Excellent Cuisine. Sorupulously cl Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened s No. 2, Queen's Road (1st floor). Entrance Ice House St. Tillis a speciality.

For terms apply to Mr. F. E, CAMERON, Propristros.

(Two minutes from Star Ferry)

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOOK

Recently renovated and refurnished, electrio Hght and fans throughout and entirely onder new management. Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billard Roomy Terms modes Fpecial terms do tamilles on application to

Telephone Kowloon 3.

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Telegraphio Add,: "Paradía”

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THE KOWLOON

HANKOW ROAD,

HOTEL

OPENING Int 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, Fans and Belts throughout. Exceptionally well ventilated Bar and Billiard Rooms. Moderate tariff and most excellent Quisias rupervised by experienced chef. Monthly and Family inter can be arranged on most reasonable terms.

For terms apply, to Mr. J. J. BLAKE, Managoros.

HOTEL

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WEST BUND, CANTON,

Leading Hotel in South China

Boof Garden.

Hairdressing

Salcom

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fana Elevators.

Splendid Views

Excellent Cuisine.

of City and Pearl River.

Moderate Bates.

Under the Management of the

SUN CO., LTD., CANTON.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOCATION

EL KLKOTHIO TRAMH Pan Yatranos, Eles-

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24. Den Voeux Road Central.

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL Queer's Road Central

NEW DINING ROOM opened for? Monina is Darts. Excellent Cuisine. Monthly Tickets for Tiflus & Dinners. For farther particulare apply to

THE MANAGER, Hongkong, May 1, 1924,

JAPANESE MASSAGE. N. AKAJI, Graduate of Tokio Massage School, Nos, 9-10, Prayo East, Wanchai.

1. Central 2630..

MASSAGE

K. SAKAI, T. KANAMORI

18, Praya East,

2nd Floor,

MASSAGE.

| Mrs. HONDA, Mrs. HANAKI KAB- R. BHIMIDEU.

No. 24. Wyndh12: Street (opposite to the Chins Mall”)

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