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LAMMERT BROS.

A PCTIONEERS, APPRAISEKS AND SURVEYORA. -Public Auctions-

Undersigned have received sist:50 tom to nell by Pablla Anotton,

TUESDAY, September 11, 1923, at 18.15 p.m.

at the premises of the Hoogkung & Whampoa Dork Co., Ltd., (flunghom)

(for grcount of the concerned)

4 Furnaces ex ae. "Nilo "

Terms: As Customary

Inspection orders may be obtaine

from the Undersigned

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers

Hongkong, th September, 1993

C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

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Mice 2125 Gosdowne,

Wanchal Kent, Hongkong.

Tel. Sentral Ni, 200

ALL KINDS OF BUILDERS REQUISITES

IN STOCK.

RAIN WATER PIPES-80IL MIFES LOCKS-BOLTS-WINDOW

PASTENERS

THUME LATCHES-WATER || EATERS

BATIIS-BASINS-BIDETS

COMMODES

STOVES-GRATES-RANGES.

SPECIALISTS IN MARBLE AND HONGKONG GRANITE WORK.

TO OWN DESIGN OM #HOM BELICTION ARTIFICAL WREATHE.

THE CHINA MÀIL.

The Three Castles

Virginia Cigarettes

Smoked 'round the World

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 19:3.

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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 Manufactures, High Class English Jewellery.

THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO. Howl Office: 79 Wyndham Street, 2nd Floor, (Opposite Central Police Station.) Tel. Central 4165.

Dealers in all kinds of Eligh-class Silk Shirts, Collars, Necktion and Pyjamas for Gentlemen AND ALSO

Chemises, Skirts,, Wrappers, Scaris, Veils, and Night-gowne for Ladies ALSO MADE TO ORDER

MODERATE PRICE

PROMPT DELIVERY

Manager: EMILIO LAU.

THE WATER BUPPLY.

Level and Storage of watoris creervoirs

on the 1st August 1993 -

TITY AND FILL DISTRICT WATER WORLD

LEVEL

+***

Trimit. in low

TELAH Arwah salt,

1220

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10. Herdown. Below overlion

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13.57

For Household ECONOMY

use

Home-grown

VEGETABLES.

Just received.

New supply of SEEDS.

GRACA & CO.,

No. 10, Wyndham Stroot,

P. U. Box 02. 10.10

Lousoutfulon of water in the Cits Butre in milllace and decimals

of gallons during the mouth of July.

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10453 264,140 175

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1829 Intomittent Supply in Western Kider Main Districts only from 1st to Bih

1922 Intermittent Supply in all Rider

Main Listries from th to 31st July,

intermittent bupply in all Rider Main

Districts during July 193.

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STGRADE IN MILLION OINALE OF GALLONS.

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148'11 Vaaramption of water to Kowtown in litons and decimals oi galions during the mouth of July.

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16.12

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160,092) 148 AALTONE Restriction in all districts from 8th to 31st July 1922.

Restriction in all arcte during July

4929.

The Government Anmigate reports the be, the quality of the water is satisfac-

ry.

1929 153 Hail to 21 July 289 an. 47 59 Le. H.. JACKMAN.

Water Authority.

Public Works Departmen

LEE KEE

ESTABLISHED 1896

BATHS & BATH-ROOM

ACCESSORIES.

Estimates furnished

free of charge.

Office 21, Wellington 8t.

THE CHINA INDUSTRIAL

CO'S STORE.

26 Wing Lok Stret,

Opposite World Theatre

SWAY HOUSE

HAT MAKER. No. 16, Wyndham Hirest.

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japareno Hand Made)

Ivory kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO.,

8, D'AQUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Do. Telephone Contral No. 481

Bongtung, March 20, 1914.

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MILA

Roses As Rent.

Chloroform or Ether?

nervous condition. The intensely

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

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DEVELOPING & FRINTING A SPECIALITY.

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SHANGHAI:

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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.

And

The Grand Hotal des Wagons Lits, 144.

Tel. CentL 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Təl 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 Cuisine. Scrupulously class. Under Amarican Management. A new Dining Room has been opened at No. 2, Queen's Road (Ist floor). Entrance Ice House St. Tifon a speciality.

For terms apply to Mra. F. E. CAMERON, Propristrees.

(Two minutes from

Star Forry PALACE HOTEL ROWLOON

Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughout and ancoraly under new management. Onisina under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billlard Roomy Tarma moderata. Fpecial forms to families on application to

Telephone Kowloon 3,

Telegraphio Add.: "PALACE.”

*. H. OXERRRY, Propaistow,

HOTEL "ASIA”

both a home and a career; the wear ODDS AND ENDS.

In reference to the presentation and tear of city life, and the fact of a rose to the King during his that people nowadays seem to have MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Border tour recently, L. F. Hution, all end to bring on a depleted lost the power of intelligent relaxa. sey in the Daily Chronicle writes: Everyone ins heard of a peppercorn Naked-Eye Comets-

The conel discovered by Dr. rent, but roses were equally popular busy woman who does not know. d'Arrest, of Feipzig, in 1851, for at one period as an annual offering how to relax should take up knit. the return of which astronomers are in lies of rent. There is a cottage ting. The occupation is restful, and keeping a sharp look-out, will not in West Sussex whose owner at the same time satisfies the be visible to the naked eye. Many formerly had to present a chaplet of nervous craving to do something. years have passed (II. W. writes in roses to the lady of the minor each Woven even more than men are His neigh apt to be too introspective, to think the Morning Pest) since a really midsummer, as rent.

about themselves and their mental When they are told to first-class naked-eye comet appear bour's rent consisted of two mats of

processes. ed in the heavens. Apart from the ginger and a penny. In Spofforth, relax they carry out the physical washed-out appearance of Halley Yorkshire, land was let in 1240 for ia 1910, and the much more visible render of two chylets, one for the part of it by lying quietly in a darkened room, perhaps, but their "daylight comet" of the same year, lord and one for the lady, of prim there has been a shortage of naked roses at Easter, of roses at midsummental activity becomes keener. eye comets for the past forty years.mer, and of sunflowers at Michel-und they spend the time of enforced physical rest torturing their minds mas, and one pair of furred gloves with memories of what might have at Christmas. There is something on and what probably will be. Royal Snuffboxes.

The result is, of course, that they At Messrs. Christie's, in London, very picturesque in this offering of recently, an usually interesting chaplets. History does not record collection of old French snuf boxes whether the tenonte remained to got up more nervous and taut than belonging to Cart Michael, Duke of Witness the placing of the chuplete they were before they tried to rest.”

In upon the brow of the noble lord and Eastern Banking. Mecklenburg, was up for sale.

that of his lady. Nor does it relate 1866-their Imperial Russian Majes-

In a review of the banking results ties presented to the late Duke (the which une got the pair of furred

of the half-year The Times refers to present Duke's father) one of Louis gloves.

the strength of the Eastern banks. XV. period, finely painted with

Trading conditions in the East have subjects. It military

A remarkable difference of opinion been very difficult, we are told, hut A similar on the relative merits of chloroform this is more accentuated in the case sold for £1,522, 10x. price was given for another of the and ether as anesthetics among of India than in the Far East. kame period, decorated with Wat-doctors is revealed by a discussion Indus has had its special troubles, tean subjects. This was brought which has been given in the British though the progress made by the out of the famous Perofskej collec-Medical Journal during the last few P. & O. Banking Corporation is tion by the Russian Imperial weeks. One docter says that ether noted. This comparatively now Cabinet, and presented to Duke is perfectly safe and chloroform bank is working under powerful George in 1858 by the Empress deadly, and another contends that auspices, and has been able to in- Dowager Alexandra Feodorovna, deaths from chloroform are common crease its field of operations at a Two other Louis XV. boxes brought and from ether rure. The advocates time when trade was generally de- £1,102. 10s, and £1,050 respective of chloroforin argue that it is per-pressed. The Chartered Bank of ly. Other prices ranging from £7. fectly sais if properly administered. Initis, the National Bank of India, 78. to 2504 helped to bring the total and that it has many advantagesthe Eastern Bank, and the Mercan for the 42 boxes up to £10,006, 10s. Jover ether. Ether was first used by tile Bank of India have again made

an Americau doctor in 1812, and the same distribution as for the pre- | Old Lighthouses.

chloroform by Dr. Simpson, of vious year. The Hongkong and To Egypt belongs the credit of Edinburgh, in 1847. writes a medi- Shanghai Banking Corporation, the erection of the first lighthouse el correspondent of the Daily Mail, which concentrate more largely on on record, namely, the tower built and ever since doctors have disputed Indis, though, as the profits are on the island of Pharos at the which in the better to use. A Com-expressed in dollars, it should be KING EDWARD HOTEL mouth of Alexandria Harbour, bymittee appointed by the Govern einembered that the dollar has that most enlightened ruler Ptolemy ment some years ago decided that depreciated considerably. Thie SP-ER KINGTRIO TRAMS Pam Katuses, Eleo IT. about 650 years before the ether is the safer of the two strong bank repeated ite satisfactory the and Baltary Fitinga, Hot and Ja Christian era. This tower was Statistica show that from chloro- distribution of £8 per share afterler Bystem through Deet of Food and 100ft, high and stood as a monu- form there is one death in 3,500 putting a large sum to reserve. The mont to an ancient civilisation until administrations and from ether one outlook for the Eastern group of the fourteenth century, when it was 10,000. Chloroform is a much hanke should be distinctly botter in washed away by the sea. Its light nicer anwethetic to take, having no the future. They have gone consisted of an open fire of burning nasty taste, acting more quickly. through the process of facing the wood, and the same practice was and leaving little of the distressing effect of the great depreciation in followed in all subsequent light after-sickness caused by other. the prices of commodities, and there houses until the beginning of the

is little doubt that the countries they

seventeenth century. Even as late Knitting For Tired Nerves.

as 1790 the South Foreland light- "For jaded nerves one ball of serve, with their large output of house was merely a beacon-fire of yarn and two knitting needles, articles of first importance, will be coal. The famous Eddystone light-every hour until relieved. Children amongst the foremost to feel the house, in 1759 was fit by 30 lb. of in proportion to age." This is the bonefit of any improvement in the

world's consumptive demand. tallow candles, a clock being pro- prescription doctors are giving now- vided to ring a bell every half-hour days in

of nervousnore.

Cases

Obamberlain's Couth Romedy.

This remedy has po superior va curo in, croup and whooping cough. It has been a favourite with mothers of Chamber lane Couch Remo cen

to site.

bs depended upon and is pleasant It not only cares colds end grip, but prevents their residing in pooqmo is Camboilin's Courh Remedy com

children for almost forty years.

to remind the keeper to snuff them: Needless to say, the yarn and In 1763 oil lamps with reflectors needles are not to be taken inter were used for the lighting of the nally, adds the New York World: Mersoy Channel, and after the in-Senator Royal S., Copeland endurses for vention of the Argand burner the prescription given above. For twenty years later ail became the wornen especially." Dr, Copeland son standard illuminant, Mineral oil said, "knitting is to be recommend- was introduced in 1972, and the ed in mildly nervous crass. These concentric wicks, of the Argand cases may simply be the result of burner in due course gave way to wrong living habits, rather than of the incandescent mantle, which any serious organic disturbance. now. furnishes the light for all thetho intense spood at which most important light-houses of the modern life in sustained; the in world.-Engineering:

creasing desire of a woman to have

no opium or other parootio and may he siren as coal antly to a phild s an adult. For so by all Chem by and 8to-ekoopers.

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Excellent Cuisine.

Moderate Bates.

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ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL. Queen's Bond Contest

NEW DINING ROOM"

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