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

ÀVOTIONEERA, ÅFFRAIZEIS AND BURYZYORK.

Public Auctions—

FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.

The fates prescribed for pahle vehicles are as follows:---

-In the Island of Hongkong. Crine

Road and Leer Levels, and ta Korioon, and New Kowloon.

BANITARY KYLINKSHA

SIGNEMENTALIST*

Offres szal Sudirman, se, Wunchal Road Hongkong.

Tel Central No. 229

Large stock of HAT BATH ROOM

FITTINGS.

LAVATORY BASINS FLUSA CLOSETS

COMMODES, BIDETS, do, do.

OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING RANGES, TILED GRATES.

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AMERICAN & ITALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALS-Also in polished Hongkong Granite,

A large selection of Artificial Wreate.

Prines on Application.

THE CHILA

ICESHAS.

five minutes..

Ten minutos,

Quarter hour, annar

Half hour,....

Qao bour,

gry Babeoquoht ter

6 conte 10

20

90 30

engaged

tho jinriekaba bo thin the City of Victoria, and be dis charged outside the Western part of the Dity of Victoria after 9 p.m., or be dis sharged to the East of Esy View Poller Station on the Esatorn side of the City of Victoria after 9 p.m.. as extra bult fare shall be chargeable.

For 9 or 3 drivers the fars in double or treble roepectivaly.

-In the Bill District.

Ten minutos, .................................

dalf hour,

ne hour

15 cont

20

30 H 140

-In the New Territories-

By arrangement with the proprietors through the Policu.

1-Loneer Berela.

CHAINS.

With

Bearers With 4 Bourart.

Ten minutos,

10 conte

20 cants

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30

411 ***

25

40

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13

......... 475

40

Quarter hour.

Half hour.

Jae hour.

Every subsequent

11. Hi District.

With's Rearers With 3. Beurors.

hour,

Ten minutes,

...... 35 cents

30 cents

Quarter hour....... 20

40

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THE WATER SUPPLY.

Lavel and Storage of watorit reservoirs

on the 1st August 1923 —

CITY AND HILL DISTRIOF WATER WORKI

192.

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overdon

Istmo Brewash 18ft.

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Tylam Indicomate 44f5%)

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below avaɛnow 118. Dig. Level with overdow

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MALADE DE MILLJOEN AND ORDEALS OF WALLONE.

Trian Brewa

Fram Intermediate

Tra Tak

Wong Kal Chur

Pot

Toll....--

10%

Vagnu

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 & CO., No. 10, Wyndham Street,

F. O. Box 820,

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

Japaneso Hand Made)

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO.,

D'ÁGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kaysmally & Co.

Telephone Central No 491

Hongroog. March 20, 1914.

YEE SING

GENTLEMEN'S

TAILOR

1DA

4.91

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193.00

153.00

£8,4%

24

BAN

60.00

Tel. 1882

H21.50

1,000

Concampion water in the Olty and Fill District in millions and decimal

of gallons during the month of July.

17-estion... L

#al natot populatijn ... Kamation per teed!

262,040 5,100

-17.6

rellose

122 Intermittent Supply in Western Rider Main Districts only from fat lo tth

1922 Intermittent Fupply in all Rider Blain District from 5th to 21st July,

Intermittent Supply in all Rider Main Districts during July 19:3.

EDWLOON LATEX WORER LEVEL

193

1992

Burgloon Gravit in. Love' vow

Man Blenceydir...] below Ovociiow

FRYKAAN EN MILLIONS AND PROLFATA ON VALTOTI.

IRTZ

12:11

* Orritation!

300**

Consumptios of wavor to Kowtown in lllions and decimals of gallons during the month of July.

ption sangriene

"Estimated population ..

Coop Band |

thes. 21.12 175.550

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140,729

140 nilos a Restriction in all districle from 8th to 31st July 1999.

Restriction in alluriota daring July

1923,

The Government Analyst's raports shaw that the quality of the water is satisfue- toy.

1994 [441 4. Tolas Bɔinish to 21 - July gard în. 47-30 kn;

H. T. JACKA K

Water Anthority

Pablic Works Department

HONGKONG HEIGHTS...

For the information of visitors following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainlan i le

published --

A

*ISLAND.

12. Wellington Street,

WING FAT CHEUNG

BPARROW CARDS (BLA JONO) FOR BALE. CARDS MADE OF

IVORY AND FLAT BAN No. 76, Queen's Head Contra! BRANCH No. 39, Man Fem Street East.

ASAHI

BBER

BEER

PILSEN

PRIZES

ASAHIER

Fect

Signal Station

1774

Mi Parker

1734

Mountain Lodge

1720

The Eyrie

1795

Peak Hotel

1508

Taikoo Sanatorium

1000

ASAHI BEER

Ht. Davi

877.

Bowen Ed. (Alterbeds:

393

MAIKLAUD.

Taimochan

8124

Kowloon Peak

1971

1645

Shatin Pasa

1000,

Custom PosT

780

Devil's Pook

724

SWERY.COME

Lion Rock

For a Weak Stomach,

general rule all you need to do is

"t adopt a diet suited to your age ard, "o"cupation-and-to keep your bowelt

regular. When you feel that you have ]...... vien too much and whou-out stipated Eske one of Chamberlain's Tablets. For @le by all Chemists and Storekceptis.

-AGER

SOLY AGENTS: M MITSUI BUSSAN KANHA

All

"Beautifully cool and Sweet Smoking" CAPSTAN

NAVY CUT BON

TOBACCO.

SAPSTAC

MILD

Navy

Cut KDAHOWIE Stol & Lon!

APSTA

Navy

Cut D&HO. Stol & Lond

Navy Cut

D&HOW!!! Stolt Lon

This advertisement is lasted by the Hrubah-American Tobacco Co. (Ohinily Lac,

ODDS AND E..DS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

World's Fattest Man.

A Budapest message says that "the Serbians; Croats, and Slovenes possess the fattest man in the world. He comes from the town of Zaitchar, and is said to

weigh about 36 stone? His" width" is given as 5 feet, and more than 16 feet of cloth is necessary to make him a snit. Poured Oil on Fire

When a pressing machine in a tailor's shop blazed-up suddenly. an employee picked up a bucket of gasoline, believing it to be water, poured the oil on to the machine, and started a fire which virtually wiped out Orangefield, village in the Orange' oilfield at Beaumont, Texas. Thirteen build- ings were consumed, and the loss is

estimated at 100,000 dollars. A Gruesome Story.

that

stiff, hard furniture, in spite of tlie | Woman Who Kept Secret. saucer baths in the bed-rooms, it Mrs. Beatrice Provost Trenkman') seems to me that the Victorians had proves that silence is golden, and their advantages. All their house also risproves the old story that a arrangements were made on woman cannot keep a a'secret, says the principle

it was

a Ner York message. It was the pleasant to take your time. Even keeping of a secret that has just their dinners, their monstrous din gained her £300,000. It came about hers, had that merit. It went hard in this way. Mrs. Roxy Smith was with you if in all the many courses the widow of Van Rensselaer you could not find something Smith, partner of Arbuckle worth eating, if in all the long Brothers, coffee merchants. She evening there was not something left an estate of £600,000, making said which was interesting. Now her son, William B.; Smith, the we never get beyond trivialities principal: beneficiary, and estab In our, households everything is >IkhisJr her granddaughter done to save labour. But is our Mrs. Trenkman, who was room as comfortably warmed, as, then Ms.Nugent, a life incume theirs was, is our light as, soft and from a trust of £120. This was soothing as theirs, does qur con- renounced by Mrs. Nugent, ber. stant hot-water supply give us cause she claimed that she was. water as hot as their caus, our tele entitled to bail of the residuary phone keep us in as close toutcl estate received by her uncle. She with our friends as their calls and started proceedings. She claimed their three-cornered actes? Sir Joshua Reynolds.

that her uncle married Miss Claire Staley, an onera singer, and he did not want his mother to know about the whole history of British Art, ofit Mrs. Trepknaan know of the a reputation so steadily maintained marriage, and agreed to withhold it

There is perhaps no instruce,

as that of Reynolds. Some artists from her, grandmother, her uncle we recall who had great yogue promising, in return, that he would A gruesome explanation is during their lifetime, and later share equally with his niece his furnished from Moscow of the dis-faded into oblivion; others, we inheritance froin his mother, covery during the last, two years in could name were neglected during Through, approyal given by Sur- the Moskva River and other places their lifetime and have enjoyed”T of 27 corpses sewn up in sacks and continually increasing posthumouse, Foley, it is learned, an agreement was reached under having their skulls shattered. The reputation. But, since Sif Joshur which Mrs. Trenknian was to re- police have arrested a citizen Reynold's studio, in his thirtieth ceive half of the residuary estate. named Petroff, who boasts he took year, became the resort. of the Truth Dope"; only 15 minutes to operate on pro-

wealth and fashion" of the spective purchasers of a horse ha offered for sale by smashing their skulls, strangling them with a rope, and putting them into a sack.. A House Stoler.

Metropolis, "women who wished, Medical experts throughout the to be transmitted as angels, and United States (says a Washington men who wished to appear as correspondent) are intensely in- heroes

terested in experiments now being and philosophers conducted at various State prisons. the present

hour, this great English portrait ; painter » -bas/ with a new drug called scopolamin, had hardly anything but praise which, it is asserted, absolutely both from the public and the critic. San Quentin penitentiary, a State prevents the subject from lying, At And, after all, time is the greatest institution of California, the drug critic of them all. The men now, living whose work will be regarded John Farrar, convicted of the was administered to three inmates. of land and a wooden house to be even a century hence are few and murder of a Chinese in the city of erected in sections. Those he set far between. Yet this year, and

A resident of a Paris suburb has had the misfortune to lose his entire house. Tired of living in a cramp ed flat and unable to find suitable accommodation, he bought a plot

2'51ATUOK

UGUST 311923,

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HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS HONGKONG:

Hongkong Hotel

Peak Hotel

Repulse Bay Hotel

Astor... House Hotal Palace Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalee

SHANGHAI:

PEKING;

Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits

The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd. In conjunction with

The Shanghat Hotels, Ltd.

and

rd? The Grand Hotel das Wagons Lits, LES.

"ÜTER

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

2 The Quly American Hotel in the Colegy Nice and quiet yemly a few minutes' walk from the Banks, and Central Districts, 43 Bedrooms. Excellent Cuisine. Scrupulously clean. Under American Management. A now Dining Room has been opened at No. 2, Queen's Boad (1st Boor), Entrance Ico Hoans St. Tiffins a speciality.

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

(Two minutos from Star Ferry).

PALACE HOTEL HOWLOON

and anuraly vader now management Caisins under the personal supervision Hesently renovated and refuzalatod; ateatrieight and fans throughom of the proprietor. Bar and Billiard Room Terme moderats. Spaciat tarma to fatalities og application to

Telephone Howison 3, Tutographlo Aud.: "PALACE,"

7. H. OXHERRY, Propistor

HOTEL "ASIA'

WEST BUND,

CANTON.

Leading Hotel in South China.

First class Accommodation, Electric Lights, Fans e Elevators. Roof Garden; " Hairdressing... Salco.

Splendid Views of City and Pearl River.

Excellent Cuisine.

Moderate Rates,

the

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Under the Management of SUN 00, LTD., UANTON.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

up and beautified, but before re- this month, mark the second eth Sacramento, was proved innocent, moving his furniture he decided tory since Sir Joshua Reynolds according to the experimenters; to take a week's holiday at Demy first saw the light of Plympton Eugene O'Leary, sentenced from ille. When he returned he found Earl, ia Devonshire, the date of his Sacramento on a charge of grand that his house had vanished, and birth being July 16, 1723; and, so larceny, provided, the authorities nothing was left but a few screws. far front his work having declined with information as to his identity.; The thieves had taken the house in appreciation, it has advanced and John L. Johnson, a negro, water to pieces and had curted them with the years, and to-day he is admitted his guilt and confessed. away, with even the dog kennel regarded as, on the whole, the to having participated in other.

greatest, portrait painter England crimes. In a hospital at Berkeley, California, Henry Wilkens, of ap has produced. But even if Romney,

and chicken house

A Strange Animal

to

account

the murder of his wife, Mrs Ahm

OENTELE LOCATION AND HUJAPANESE MASSAGE

LY ELKOTRIOTRAMĘ PAs, Entrance, Kino-

Leto Záros, Vàng: and, Lighting, Kuropean. Bathe and Jantary Filing, fat and Data

Brism throughout. Beah of Peod 231 Cantik Telegraphio Addess Victoza

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N. AKAJI, Graduate of Tokio Massago School, Nos, 9-10, Praya East, Wanabai,"

Central 2030.

THE HOUSE FOR GOODEATS MASSAGE

(Menn and ☎ik Calcor

at all hours. Bakera and Confectioners. Unkes made for parties den.

25 Des Voeux Road Central.

Scientists of Chicago, according and Gainsborough, and Raeburn; Francisco, who was acquitted of THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE

the New York, Herald, are who, in their lifetime had by Wilkens, last March, was acquilted hastening to Echo Lake, near Hay 10 means the invariable ap for the second time after submit- City in Nebraska State, to in-plause, which was the lot of Reyting voluntarily to the administra vestigate an apparently genuine nolds, have if the standard of sale

of the presence of a

prices is a fair criterion of public on, of the dnig, it je stated. prehistorie animal in the wilds of appreciation-enjoyed a greater According to Dr. House scopola- the vicinity George Locke and posthunious fame, it still remains in renders the subjects incapable Robert Cooke, wa, ranchers of that Reynolds, by his historic in-of mental inhibition and deptives Central City, Nebraska, got into portance, by his social affinities; by then of reasoning power, so that difficulties with their motor car his establishment of the Royal they are incapable of lying while while passing the lake and were Academy, and by his vast influence under its influence. All other forced to spend the night on the on English Art, stands in a posi-faculties, however, remain intact spot. In the middle of the night tion, apart among our national Victorian Housekeeping

My own frame, a writ tho the they heard a tremendous splash-painters. If Hogarth is the father ing in the lake, and were amazed Reynolds be called its "mother," enough pleased with modern far of English painting, thea, must Daily Telegraph declares as well

having a neck as long as a giraffe and a horn in the middle of its good mothers have upon theft more comfort than any other, forehead... Farmers in the heigh children, fostering it, setting it an When I contemplate as food time bourhood have been losing calves example, sparing-no pains to fit ifto time I do, with awe, the thiest in a mysterious manner, and they pan right lines, and giving it chair which my mother adulted to

status and culture and breadth~~ her drawing-mom, I record opiat, are confident that the strange Alfred B. Cooper in The Sunday of my generation is made of Bikes heast is responsible.

TOR HOUSE HOTEL ASTOR

K. SAKAI, ANTI KANAMORI . 18 Proya Esat,

2nd Floor.

MASSAGE.

LIZ HOWбIra, KIBAKI and AMIDŽU.

No. Ther. Strat (opposlta`ty the Chins Mall”?

to see a buge animal, described as for bo had that effect upon it which nitureIt seems to me to offer ZBUKU #LJ

Home.

{ stuff.:~: And yet in spite

NEW DINING ROOM opened for Monlara Jn Carte. Excellent Cuisine. Moosbig eysta pe Hillonk Dinner For father particularf apply to

HABERMASAGEIN Bangkook, May 1, 1924,

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NEĻVERY MODERATZ.

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