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

AVOTIONNAES, APPRAISERS

AND BURVEYORS,

--Public Auctions-

Undersigned have recored inrune. Moon to sell by Fabin Auction,

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THURSDAY, September 0, 1929. commencing at 11 a.m

at the Kowloop-Canton Railway Locomotive Yan!, Hunghom, (Kowloon)

A Quantity of MiscalianGORA Storos

Comprising:-

Wire Rope, Winchos, Rock Drills, Tunnel Columas, Boiler Tabes, Pumps, Aerial Ropoway, Boiler, Arc Lampe And Carbons eta, sin, otu.

Also

One Vertical Compound 15 H. P.

Engisc.

One Vertical Compound 10 B. F

Bingle Cylinder Engine One 5-Ton Crane

And

10 Tons Octagonal Stes!

Catalognes and furpection orders may be obtained at the Railway Stores, Old Chion Light and Power Building, Hongbow.

Terme--Cash on delivery.

*LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

Hongke. 31st August, 1923.

ON

FRIDAY, September 7, 1923,

at 12 o'clock (noon)

at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street,

The S. L. "Atalanta."

(as she now lies in Hunghom Bay.)

Length, 86".

Breadth 17' 2".

Depth in hold 8".

Grass Tonnage 108.98.

Nett

37.41.

Engines:--Compound Surface Con-

densing.

Cylinders 15" and 30".

Stroke 18",

N. II. P. 37.5.

Terms: Cash on Fall of 1lammar.

For Further Particulars apply to the Underaigned.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 3rd September, 1923.

THE WATER SUPPLY.

Level and Storage of waterly reservoirs

a the int August 1913 --

GITT AND HILL DIETRIOT WATER WORKS

10+2

LEVEL

1920

Wytam 19ft. Tja, Below; a it, An. Belew overdow

180.11. 10. Below averfion Tytam By

hit. Below overfow

Trim Intermediate - Terel with ovardow

it in. Below overION

Tylem Tak tafi, Jin, f5

Below overlow, fin. Level with crONOW

NCE, 1977

n. Below araba yt, sin, term) with orestow

Fakfelem. 1, oin.

Below overdow

Lernt with OTH

UiO MILLIONS AND DROIRALE OF GAIKANI.

19%

Qu'

1723.

I/iam

1.95

Thom Brown

4,01

Team Intermediate mem

T

Tytan Zük..mmg terak

107.2

253,00

ichth

02.72

68.00

wwwwww

Cbarompton of water in the City and Bill District in millions and decimale

ri gallone during the month of July.

⇓ption...

Kab malad population ...

Q mammption pat hand

day car_

194.51

182,04 17,6

1923.

22.10

Callanu

82 Intermittent Supply in Western Hider Main Districts only from lat to Ott

1982 Intermittest "upply in all Rider Main District from 5th to 31st Julg.

Intermittent Bupply in all Ridor Main Districts during July 1923,

LOWLOON RATEK WORKS IZYCI.

123. 195. Kalon Oratila 4.21 ft. Ha. Leratoreef om~

on Borroka.Below ơw

SPORLON IN KLASIKA AND DRITKÁLE OF BALIONL

18.3.

#vicon läraritalien | 166731

149 $2

Usaramptios of water in Kowloon in skloomad decimals of gallons during the mouth of July.

EJTS.

THE

*mated population...

31.10 136,680

65 US 7.

140,029

3 memption DAY MARG Į

7.4

140

Ser day ANTON BABET

Restriction in all districts from 8th to

31st July 191L.

Restriction in all stricte during July

1923

The Government Analyst's reports abaw der the quality of the water is satisfac- tory.

1999

Joint Rainful to 31 July 180, In. #7 63 in.

Water Authority,

Public Works Department.

H. T. JACKMAN.

HONGKONG HEIGHTS.

J

For the information of visitors 1 following Frs of some of the highest | points on the Island and Mainland is publiskand

IRLAND,

For

Bignal Station

Mountain Lodg

1774 1734

1795

1735

Kt Parker

The Eyrie

Peak Hotel

1805:

Taikoo Sanatorium

1000

"

Mh; Davis

817

Bowen Ed. (Alterbeds) 295

~312$

Kowloon Fock

1971

Liam Book

1645

Thatin Pane

1000

"Custom"Pass

730

Dévis Pack

SANITARY ESOINSKIS FIGNUMENTA }.{~TH, &C.

Cites and Colown, panchalinad, Hongkong.

Tt, Cestral 10, 200

ALL KINDS OF BUILDERS' REQUISITES

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10 cents blue

INVERTED

Script Watermark

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Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

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Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

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Hongkong, March 20, 1914. .

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Smoked 'round the World

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egistered Trade Mark,

This advertisement is issued by the British-American Tobacco Co. (China), Lid

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

M. Poincare.

we

in the "clearance how the term arose. Dean Inge.

substances.

Excellent

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1929

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Agents for:~ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

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Dealers in all kinds of High-clam Eilk Shirts, Collars, Necktion and Pyjamas for Gentlemen AND ALBO

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MODERATE PRICE

PROMPT DELIVERY ·

Manager: EMILIO LAU.

PROTO SUPPLIES.

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DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY,

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HONGKONG:

SHANGHAI:

PEKING:

Hongkong Hotel

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

Peak Hotel

Repulse Bay Hotel

Astor House Hotel

Palace Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalee

Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits

The Hongkong Rotel Co., Ltd

In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd:

and

The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lita; LeE

Tel. Contl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel Add: "Carlton.”

The Only American Hotel in the Colony. Nice and quiet yet only a few minute walk from the Bank, d Central Districts. 43 Bedrooms. Excellent Cuisine. Scrupulously elena. Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened at No. 2, Queen's Bond (let floor). Entrance Loe Hours St. Tillos a speciality,

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

(Two minutes from Star Ferry).

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Renantly renovated and refurnished, slectric light and fans throughout and steroly under new management. Caleine under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Boom Terms moderata. Fpecial terms Lamilisa on application to

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HOTEL

*, H. OXERERY, Propitecor

'ASIA”

WEST BUND, CANTON,

Leading Hotel in South

some woman, hesitating whether other

is still mined in to buy or not, has thumb-nailed graphite them too much. A buyer over various parts of the world, in estimates the public demand for Bavaria, Bohemia, and in the certain articles. When sale time United States, for instance; indeed, comes she is told, sometimes angri- one town in Bavaria each. week. "clear that surplus stock." turns out four million pencils. The ly, to M. Poincaré is an entirely honest of a buyer new to a department, lead is made from graphite mixed and rigid man. That is the core of intent on making a fresh start with with powdered clay in various pro- the tragedy and what has threaten- goods of his or her own choosing, portions. Thus a dark, soft pencil, ed to make it hopeless. He has less points to mountains of stuff and is made of equal quantities of those understanding of Britain than any man who has ever been at the head says "Clear it." Hence it figures materials, while the light, hard sale. That is pencils may contain only a quarter of affairs under the Third Republic

of black-lead. The mixture is made into a kind of dough, which since the Entente was founded. He has less understanding of us than

is placed in a cylinder perforated Waldeck-Rousseau, Delcassé, or "If he has a fault, it is a weak with a number of small holes, Millerand, far less than Gambetta, ness which he has learnt from his When a plunger is pressed the Clemenceau, or Briand. He is competitors in publicity, the stuff is squeezed through the holes, a number of semi-hard absolutely convinced that he em journalists. He loves to make our and bodies all the right and reason of Besh creep. He conceals some. rods of black-lead result. These, the matter. Every fibre of his be where deep down in that distin- after being hardened by heat,

cut into ing urges him to inpose his own guished ecclesiastical composition are

proper lengths, red-hot. finally made view and his own will. The quality a taste for scare-headlines. And and which

England like all Englishmen when they are The wood used varies, though think the greatest weakness in about to be most romantic and Florida cedar is preferred, this a practical statesman, M. Poincaré imaginative, he calls it Facing the having a straight grain, and being holds to be the greatest strength Facts. The fact that he is con- casi'y cut. Thin slabs of this wood he is superfluously decisive and tinually facing is the present state are formed by means of automatic likes to demonstrate the vigour of of England. He looks on it from machinery, the resultant slab being his enterprise by cutting off his time to time and finds that it is not partly the shape of half a pencil, a means of reireat. Three British good. Starting in the exalted number being placed side by side, Prime Ministers in succession-atmosphere of Eugenics, he each grooved to take the lead. men of the most contrasting cha-generally ends up in the crowded The lead is put in, a somewhat racters and differing methods-morass of present-day politics. similar piece of wood is glued to have found it almost impossible to his defence of Eugenics he the top, and so a number of rough deal with M. Poincaré. He has provides the engaging and unusual been much inclined to end the spectacle of the Church militant in Entente rather than vary his formu defence of Science. But it is to He does not shrink from be feared that the normal human being remembered in French his being will always regard Eugenics tory as the man who ended the Entente. When he has a logical notion in his head be does not shrink from anything. As was scientific marriage shows his Moaning Miseries. said, he is an entirely honest, characteristic courage in defence

Excellent Cuisine:' One wonders what on earth is rigid man, and that is at the heart of lost causes. But in his eagerness of the tragedy.

to fix the guilt on Democracy he happening to really good dancing need not have said that it is only these days, when we are dominated in the lowest strata that the worst by such queer importations from specimens, the imbecile, for indarkie-land, says a Scottish paper stance, get married, because some weiter. High-brow dancing in- of us have been to the House of structors say that "Jazz" is quite because you have bought a thing Lords. And the simple truth is out of date now, and that the Blues" will be all the rage. Morry cheaply that it will be unfashion that you cannot rob the Plain Mon

Blake introduced. It into Brit- able within a few weeks. That of his Plain, Wife."

ain and, since then, it has remnant' may be a fine dress-

PHILIP GUEDALLA,

spread like a pestilence through length cut a few inches short of Lead Pencils.

the ballroom and the cabaret. The the 3 yards or 34 yards nearly always demanded, but plenty long. Every day we call to our assist-idea is that it is a-sad, faraway, enough for the clever needle ance the lead penell, and also we lingering, "I-want-my-mam and woman. It has been waiting for call it by a wrong name, though the the roses round-the-door" sort of someone who wanted a shorter misuse is justifiable. There is no step, while the orchestra, mourns length, but she never came. Hence lead at all about a lead pencil, morbidly like a dying seacow. But it now bears a "reduced" ticket. Black-lead is a wonderful subst- what is really amazing is that this Those "solled" goods you bought ance, and is used for very many dance has for generations been are not soiled at all in your opinion. purposes besides making pencils, popular with the Southern State darkies," and it is said that it was You had understood on reading the The best black-lead in the world "slightly solled description in the was that mined at Borrowdale, in capied by them from the de newspaper that they had come out Cumberland, which produced the generate dance of the Vahdoo posturers of the Cuban forests. of the kind. They have probably the middle of the last century, Some hostesses, at the risk of being. been travellers' samples taken for however, the mines have been ex- called "old-fashioned," are sighing display from shop to shop; or perhauster Still a certain amount of for,a return of some of the decent, haps they have been a month or so black-lead is contained in a poncil, really nice dances of a few years

with ago too long on the shelves: or perhaps though it mixed

las.

July Sales

J. L. GARVIN,

Do not assume, writes "First Saleswoman" in the Daily Mail,

pen ils are formed fastened to- gether. Machinery cuts these apart, turns them into shape, a coating being placed on the pencil, and the maker's name and other as an unwarranted invasion of his particulars being marked upon it. right to select his own young lady. -Weekly Telegraph.

argument The Dean's

jor

.

of a buming factory or something finest penells ever known. Since

As Good As "DADDY LONGLEGS" Mary Pickford in "POLLYANNA"

China

First cla. Accommodation. Electrio Lights, Fans Elevators. Roof Garden. Hairdressing Salco..

Splendid Views of City and Pearl River..

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KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOCATION

IL KLECTIO TRAMS Fam Entrancs, Biso *taša Kifta, Mats, And Lighting Europees Baths And Barbary Tittinen Lipt nad Bou

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Qubec's Road Central.

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MASSAGE

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MASSAGE.

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