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AMMERT BROS. C. E. WARREN CO.,

AUCTIONEELS, APPRAISRES AND SURVEYORS,

Public Auctions-

Undersigned have received inovado - alone to fall by Pabis Auction, CHEA

FRIDAY, September 14, 1923, commencing at 12 a.m.

at their Sales Rooms, Duddoll Street, A Quantity of·'

Vminable Household Furniture,

Cox.prising

Terk bedsteads, wardrobes, marble dreaming tablo, top wahetande, extension dining table,

chest of drawers, ice chest, carpet, curtains, Darble clock, electric table fans, barometer, etc., etc.

A fom pieces of Canton Blackword

WATO.

One Cottage Piano

One Enamel liath.

Catalogues will be issued.

On View from Thursday the 13th.

September 192

Terms -Cha on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

מויז

Azetioneers.

FRIDAY, September 14, 1923,

commencing at 5.15 p.m.

at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street.

A Valuable Collection of

Postage Stamps

Catalogues will be imed.

Ou View frem Thursday the 13th,

September 1921.

Terme-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneer.

Hongkong. 10. dieptember, 1993.

THE Undersignal, have received in Truutious on Ms. G. 6. Sachin: to sell by Public Auction

on

TUESDAY, September 18, 1023, commencing at 11 am.

at "Kingsclere," Kennedy Road.

A Large Quality of Valuablo Household Forniturs.

Comprising:-

Dressing room site (Chesterüeld couch and chairs, leat tapestry chairs, teak round and card tables, teak screens, beautiful Japanese carved and lac quared curio calmet, Japanese lacquered screen, large Chinese porcelain vase brass clectroliers, brosa ornaments, cut glase punch barrel, cut glass decantore and glasses, blue and white Chinose din- er Eth, white dessert set, oil paintings, large sarpate, pils rugs, curtains, cash- ions, Chinese Carics, wall plates etc., etc.

Bedatends, tesk wardrobes with be velled mirrors, teak dressing tables with bevelled mirror, marble top washstands, toilet set, tables, chairs, etc., etc.

Ner counterpane e, linen sheets, pill- of cases, haud and face towels.

A huge quantity of blickwood wars. One Baby Grand piano by John Broadwood & Song

Also

One full size Billiard table by Hennig

with "Eureka' Bros, London, improved cushion by Burroughes & Watts, London (cloth recently changed by Lane Crawford, Ltil.)

And

Large Quantities of palms, ferns, plants and porcelain tower stande.

Catalogues will be euod.

On View From Monday, 17th S. ptem- ber 1033

Tarmu:-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneera

Hongkong, 11th Soft mber, 1999.

00

THURSDAY, Cept. 20, 1923, at 8.45 p.m.

at "Craig Byric" No. 13 The Peak. A Large Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture. Comprising —

Flatslands, ball chairs. Chesterfold couch and chairs (by Lane Crawford, Lad, teak & tapestry arm chairs with een, curio cabinet, large round din- table, teak side board, dining chairs, diantt waggons, pictures, ornaments, carcels, curtains, etc., etc,

ips

Task and iron double & single bed. tead, teak single and double wardrobes with glass doors, dressing table, marble top washstaud, che t of drawer, tok folding table, teak screen, doatla and single toilet este, Changbai bath, filter, ice chest, cooking store, aluminium and iron cooking utensils, etc., etc.

$120

Several pieces of blackwood ware. And A large quantity of palmu, ferns and

plants.

On Vier from Wednesday the 19th,

September 1923.

Detaloguos will be inued.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

¿uciomierz,

Hongkong, 10th September. 1923

WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITO A SES.

When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases?

They are Cheaper and More Durable.

* CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO--

(Opposite Tastmati Ferry, Praya)

SANI) TRY KNÜİNKRIČA

MOBARNTALISTY

{{'cos 'nm1_Godowna,

sea, Wanchal Rond, tiongkang.

Tel Castmi No, mo

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ALL KINIS OF BUILDERS REQUISITES

IN STUCK,

BAIN WATER PIPES-80IL IZPE LOCKS-BOLTS—WINDOW

FASTENERS

THUMB LATURES-WATER HEATERS

DATUS-BASINS—DIVETS—

COMMODES

STOVES GRATES-RANGES.

SPECIALISTS IN MARBLE AND KONOKONG ORANITE WORK,

TO OWN DESIGN EN FROM BELLOTION

ARTIFICAL WREATHS...

For Household

ECONOMY

use

Home-grown

VEGETABLES.

Just received.

New supply of SEEDS.

GRAÇA & 00.

No. 10, Wyndham Street,

P. U. Box 49,

Ilongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese Hand Made)

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & ED..

B. D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Co.

Hongkong, March 20, 1914,

Telephone Central No. 491

YEE SING.

GENTLEMEN'S TAILOR

Tol. 1882

12, Wellington Etreet.

WING FAT CHEUNG SPARROW CARDS (MA ZONⱭ) FOR BALE. CANDA MADE OF IVSET AND PICH DONE.

No. 276, Queen's Ilond Central

BE ANCO No. 2. Men l'am "treet Esa.

ASAHI BEER

MILSENER BEER

KSAHI

LAGER

SPECIALLY!

COME

15 BEES

AGRETE: MITSUIT BUSBAN "KÄISHA

The

THE CHINA MAIL.

Three Castles

Guaranteed manufactured in England...

Made in -Regular Magnum and Super | Magnum Sizes.ˆ ˆ ˆ

Virginia Cigarettes

Smoked 'round the World

Three Castles

Cigarettes

Registered Trada Mark,

Wills.

London

Tij advertisement in leand by, the British-Americo Tubecco Co. (China), Lud.

ODDS AND ENDS. ·

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Flying Home To Die.

A Belgian woman, suffering from an incurable disease, flew from London to Brussels. She had ex- pressed a wish to die at her old home. The woman was a patient in a London hospital and was

Town Mourns A Cat.

Lincoln's electricity department is mourning the death of the power I station cat. Since the town was plunged into darkness through the fatal adventures hf mice which played too Intimately with amper es und volts, a grey tom-cat has helped to keep the electricity works running smoothly. He had succeeded another cat who sat on a rotary transformer and was whirled to death.

He was ex-

driven in an ambulance to Croydon cellent mouser and a great favour ite with the staff. An adventurous Air Station, where she was trans-animal, he was in the neighbour

The March of Human Know-

ledge

"Great as has been the advance of science in modern days, there has been. a tendency in recent years to regard the problems of the origin of matter and of life as beyond its scope and ourside its ken says the Express. This is a limitation on the possibilities of scientific research which Sir Oliver Lodge declines to accept.

ferred to an air liner in which a hood of a high tension cubicle travelling through space, only

bed had taken the place of the usual when it was being cleaned. Before seating accommodation for eleven people.

The 450-horse-power engine had been specially silenced and the

patient was carried the 200 miles between London and Brussels in I hour 40 minutes in absolute comfort.

What Might Have Been?

Now that Lady Rachel Cavendish is married happily to Captain the Hon. James Stuart, son of the Earl

fraction

"In a lecture the other.day, the famous scientist described the enormous amount of radiation

of infinitesimal an which is caught by the earth. it was closed he walked into the He declined to believe that cubicle, perhaps in dutiful search all this wealth of radiation could of mice. It was 11.30 at night.be wasted, and put forward the Lincoln's electric lights, to quote one of the sorrowing officials, suggestion that somehow light re-

gave a bink. The "blink" was the tribute of the town to the pass- jing of a loyal servant.

Simplicity.

Not long ago a society lady went down to Crown, by Plymouth, to investigate the simple life as led by the Faithists, or, as they prefer to be called, The Kosmon Dawn. The visitor saw all there was to be seen

sulted in

matter.

the regeneration öf

"Likewise Sir Oliver Lodge commended the efforts of men of science to investigate through physics and chemistry the origin of life. The mind of man, in Sir Oliver's view, is not altogether of a different order from the mind of the Creator. If that is so, its past achievements are the best justific-

of Moray, we may to a certain the colony, shown over by Sisteration of optimism for the future. extent raise the veil covering royal Miriam, the head of the movement. To parody a famous phrase, Who history, says a Scottish paper. Now she has returned and has shall set limits to the march of Every body knows that there was a developed an enthusiasm for nuts human knowledge?" strong rumour that the Prince was and fruit, sandals and plain flannel, Talent Buried Under Social to Le engaged to the charming dew-paddling and poverty. Her daughter of the Duke of Devon- friends hope that the phase will

of the

house and the mansion on the river

mer

System.

meeting at examination schools was opened by an address by the Master of Balliol upon the

which he said they had not tapped subject of "Extra-mural work of the Universities,"

in the course of

shire; an enterprising American pass, because in the place of the The course of lectures of the newspaper published full details lavish hospitality of the big town Oxford University Extension sum-

approaching wedding." The fact is the Heir Apparent was is now a hard regime of plain living much attracted to Lady Rachel, and strange thinking. Unhappily, ham Palace that the Prince was his wife's new views. On the other and hopes were raised in Bucking the lady's husband does not share thinking of settling down." Just hand, he has for long suffered from at this delicate moment a number the disability of debt, relieved in anything like the reservoir of first- of busybodies commenced to 6ix extent by the fact that his spouse class talent that lay buried under H.R.H. advice on the subject of brought the cash into the matri

our present social system. The choosing a wife, and well, he remonial contrau So that his post-present machinery was so in- sented it. From that day may be tion is a difficult one, and, as he efficient in selecting early promise dated the Prince's determination disconsolalgi tells his friends, be that our education practically stop- entirely to please himself in a has to put up with a veg. diet or else the purse strings will entirely tighten. He is hoping for the best, A Picturesque Prayer.

4

matrimonial choice. Princess as Factory-Girl

A Royal maid of Persia dis- covered working in an East- side doll factory in New York, and registered DS Princess Meer Damady, of the Asfavid dynasty," admits that she is there to study sociology, preparatory toreturning to Persia to carry on a campaign for votes for women, Liberal idens, and wider education for women: The Princess works from nine a.m. to five p.m., dressing dolls. She talked to newspaper representa- tives while standing on the kerb, taking lunch from a wagon restaur- ant. Her Highness admitted that she was tired and said the romance. of being a factory-gfri was wearing off. She will be glad to go to Wells College, Aurora, New York, ånd later will tour the United States. She declared that Persiap Women are revolting against arranged marriages as burial be- hind, the veil, but was shocked at the idea than they might ever be- como Americanised. All that she expects to do is to widen their education along American Unek. :

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 1928

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

V.

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,

THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO.

Heal Office: 78 Wyndham Street 2nd Floor. (Opposite Central Police Station.) Tel, Central 4166.

⚫Dealers in all kinds of High-class Silk Shirts, Collars, Necktice and Pyjeras for Gentleman AND ALSO

Chemises, Skirts, Wrappers, Scarfs, Voils, and Night-gowns for Ladies ALSO MADE TO ORDER

HODERATE PRICE

PROMPT DELIVERY

Manager: EMILIO LAU.

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Roda and Kodak Films, la, bə

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 17A, QUZIN'S ROAD OKITRAL, HONOXOGO.

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

HONGKONG:

Hongkong, Hotel

Peak Hotel

Repulse Bay Hotel

Astor House Hotel

Palace Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalee

Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits

1

The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd In conjunction with

The Shangbai Hotels, Ltd.

and

The Grand Hotel des Wagons Léa Led.

SHANGHAI:

PEKING:

Tél: Cenfl 812. CARLTON-HOTEL. Tel. Add: "Carlton.”

The Only American Hotel in the Colony. Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Batiku, and Central Districts. 43 Bedrooms. Excellent Cuisine. Scrupulously ; elena. Under American Management, A new Dining Room has been opened t No. 8, Queen's Road (lat floor), Entrance Ice House St. Tifies a speciality,

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

(Two minutes from

PALACE HOTEL ROWLOO

Hosntly renovated and refurnished, alactris light and fans throughou and surely under new management. Cuisine under the personai supervisios of the proprietor, Bar and EBard Boum Terme moderate. Epecial forum te imandiles on application to

Telephoon Howloon 3.

:

·Talegraphia Add.: "PALAOK“

2. H. OXBERRY, Prop: takow.

HOTEL "ASIA”

WEST BUND, canton.

Leading Hotel in South Okina.

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans 202 Elevators. Roof Garden. Hairdressing

Splendid Views of City Excellent Cuisine,

SalcoL,

Pearl and

Rivar

Moderate Rater

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

KING EDWARD HOTEL

OENTRAL, LOCATION

LZ KLBOTELO THAMS Pam Extracos, Eleo- the Life, Man, and lighting, ExopenA

Water System throughrát. Best of Food and BOTTOM TAL, EMIL KIR. Telegraphlo 4õétraux 20" WITÉRIA

*7. WITCHELL, MARKAMI.

ped at fourteen, and very few boys and girls got an education adequate for a university to build on IA would be some time before the educational ladder from the In Frederick, G. Detweiler's elementary school to the college book on The Negro Press of the could be transformed into a United States, published recently real educational highway. State by the University of Chicago, afd, was needed, because, higher Press, the author quotes the ful- education would never directly pay lowing prayer, delivered by a its own.

pious founder coloured parson-

was almost extinct, and the re- sources of the universities, were already strained to the utmost.

The

O Lawd, give Thy servant this morning de eye of de eagle and de wisdom of de owi; con- The war had taught them there gect lis, soul with do gospel was more in the average man than telephone ta de central skies; they had recognised. They could 'luminate his brow with de sun not make ledders of; men 'by of heaben; pizen bis miod with educations, it was true, but could love for de people'; turpentine educate the workers in the mine, his imagination; grease his lips factory, did shop so that they were with possun oil; loosen his able to recognise natural leaders tongue with de sledgellammer when they appeared. Adults, he of Thy Power; 'lectrify is said, could not be taught by the brain with de lightnin' of de simple methods employed with Word'; put (petual motion in bis children. They must be left a wide ms; fill him? plum full of de latitude of choice, and must select dynamite of Thy Glory; noint their subject of stady and their him all over with: de kerosene teacher. The fact of the students |-off of «Thy Salvation. And sot running the class and taking da him on fire.-Amenian R (pride fa it was, reponsible for the This Is fiery éloquence. In more success of the tutorial classes in

ienses than one.

the past.

THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE THE HOUSE FOR GOOD RATS

·Timns And Dianera (Wonk and a Im Caŕta)

Bakers and Confbotfäneen. Dakes made for parties ato. "Tel. Cóntral #667.'* 14, Des Voeux Road Central.

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL. Queen's Road Central

NEW DINING ROOM opered for Hoelent Colape. Monthly Ticks for Siftor & Dinners. For furthed particulars y to,

GER,

„Hongkong, May 1182.

JAPANESE MASSAGE N. AKAJI Graduate of Tokio Manage School, No. 9-10, Praya Eset, Wanchuk, c. Central 2080,

MASSAGE

K. SAKAL T-KANAMORI

18, Prarast, End Floo

MASSAGE.

'MA, HONDA; Men, KISAKI.

"N. BHIMEDZU,

"TANG. YOK. Derme

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VERY MODERAYM