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LAMMERT BROS.|| C. E. WARREN & CO., LTO,

Anctionners, Affraissen

AND SURVEYOUR.

-Public Auctions —

1188 Undareigned have received meer co Mons to sell by Pablly Auction,

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SATURDAY, September 15, 1923, at 12 o'clock (noon)

at their Sales Rooms, Duddall Stroot.

A Quantity of Bigh Class Havana. Manila & Dutch Cigars (Well Known Brands) Ta-Canh on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, September 18, 1923,

THE Undersigned have received in. structions from Ms. G. A. Buchne

to sell by Public Auction

Un

TUESDAY, September 18, 1993, commencing at 11 a.m.

at "Kingsclere," Keanedy Road. a Large Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture.

Comprising:

Dressing room suite (Chesterfield much and chairs, took lapestry chaire. wak round and card sabler, teak screens, beautiful Japanese carred and lac quered curio cab uet, Japanese lacquerert creen, large Chinese porcelain vasce bruke electrolista, iras ornamente, cut glave punch barrel, ni glass decanters and glasses, blur and white Chinese din- uer lat, white derrert est, oil paintings, large carpets, pile ruge, curtains, cesh one, Chinese Curios, wall plates etc.,

tc.

Bedatende, teak wardrobes with be relled mirrors, teak dressing tables with bevelled mirror, maible top washotnude, oilet sete, tables, elstire, etc., etc.

New counterpanen, linen sheets, pill.

cases, hand and face towala.

A large quantity of blackwood. ward, One Baby Grand piano by Jobu Broadwood & Sons

Also

One full size Billiard table by Hennig "Eureka" with London, Bros., improved eashion by Burroughes Watts, London (cloth recently changed by Jane Crawford, Ltd.)

And

Large Quantities of palme, ferus, plants and porcelain Bower standa.

Catalogues will be issued.

On View from Monday, 17th Septem- ber 1933.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers Hongkong, 11th September, 1923.

Tarione by Fabio audion HE Untersigned have received in-

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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 18, 1933. nt Keon.

st their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street. (for account of the concerned) The Wooden Motor Ship "Wah Kin.'

34 she now lies in the harbour of

Hongkong of Sham Shui Po,

Tree propelers.

Groes Tonnage 838.81.

Registered Tonnage 527.52.

Length 103.1 ft.

Breadth 30.7 ft.

Depth 19.14 ft.

Terms:-20% f Purchase Price on

all of Hammer.

For Further particolare apply to the Undersigned.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 12th September, 1923.

On

THURSDAY, fept. 20, 1923,

at 8.45 p.m.

at "Cinig Byric" No. 18 The Penk. A Large Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture,

... Comprising ---- Halstands, ball chairs, Chesterfield couch and chairs (by Lane Crawford, Ltd., teak & tapestry arm chairs with severn, curio cabinet, large round dia- ing table, teak sido beard, dining chairs, dinner waggons, pictures, ornaments, carcets, curtains, etc., vic

Teak and iron donble & single bed- tead, teak single and double wardrobes with glass doors, dressing table, marble top washstand, chet of drawers, tank folding table, teak erees, double and single toilet sets, Ehangbai bath, filter, ice chest, ocoking stove, aluminium and iron cooking utebrils, etc., etc.

And

Eeveral pieces of-blackwood ware. A large quantity of palms, feras and plante

On View from Wednesday the 10th, September 1923

Ostalogues will be faced.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

"Hongkong, 11th September. 1993

WHY BUY FOREIGN

MADE SUITCASES.

When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases?,

They are Cheaper and More Durable.

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Tel Contrat Na, 200

ALL KINES OF BUILDERS' NEQUISITES IN STOOK. 1800, VENT AND RAIN WATER PIPES.

QRATES RANGES-STOVES. INDICATING ROLTS-LATCHES,

HINGES--LOCKS-FINDER PLATER

OIL AND UAS WATER HEATERS, BANITARY INSTALLATIONS.

HOT AND COLD WATER SERVICES

MONUMENTAL WORKS A SPECIALTY||

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TO OWN PEROX OB FROM RELECTION

ARTIFICAL WREATHS IN STOCK.

For Household ECONOMY

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Home-grown

VEGETABLES.

Just received. New supply of

SEEDS.

GRACA & 00., No. 10, Wyndham Street,"

P. O. Box (RO),

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese Hand Made)

Every kind of Footwear, MADE TO ORDER

CHERRY & 00.,

8. D'AQUILAK STREET,

Opposite Kaysmally & Co. Telephone Central No. 491

Hongkong, March ), 1914.

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ODDS AND ENDS.

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MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

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Roman names to new American villages as it gave the facade of the Parthenon to the little houses of the settler."

Safeguarding Property.

best in the world, as they are the most ingenious. The reason for the latter fact is of sonte psycholo-I gical interest, inasmuch as ex- A neat system of safeguarding perience has taught home manu- Ten Flavourings.

As a rule, we are content to drink property against the attacks of the facturers that for her first-born tea served with creatn, lemon, milk, modern scientific cracksman con- baby the poorest mother will buy or sugar, or with a combination of sists of an arrangement of electric cream or milk and sugar. But not wires in open circuit, which closes a new "pram" which, she insists,

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American. Sometimes unmediately safes, doors, or win-shall be different in some little (writes Elizabeth Craig in the dows so protected are tampered way from her neighbour's. Westminster Gazette) she varies the with. It is impossible then to stop Names in Novels. sugar by rubbing lumps of it on the the alarm, which may be a bell, a fog-horn, or the loudest of Klaxon washed and dried rind of an oranges. No current can pass until or lemon till the knobs are quite yellow. Often she gives you the choice of both. Again, along with your cup of tea she will sometimes hand a tray containing thin slices of lemon, with their seeds removed. Sometimes these slices are stuck with cloves. Sometimes they have a sprig of mint inserted in the centre of each. On the tray there often is also a plate containing tri- O ange, angles of crystallised occasionally accompanied by tiny cubes of cystallised ginger. And at one American tea party lately I noticed an American visitor adding three cloves to her cup of tea to gether with a knob of sugar. Idiom Verrus Logic.

An amusing lecture un idiomatic English was given by Mr. Frank Jones, of Birmingham, at the recent session of the Teachers' Vacation Course at the Connaught Rooms, London. Idioms were used, he said, by all educated and sensible people In certain circumstances. But they should distinguish between the colloquial English of the breakfast table and the English of a literary supplement. Some children were apt to bring the language of the breakfast table into the school essay, and were inclined to say, "The King decided to chuck it." (Laughter.) "It is better," he said. to have the child who says, 'Isn't it' than the teachers who say It is not' or 'Is not it." When idiom is up against logic idiom must always win, Mr. Jones declared He mentioned that a certain boy once parsed the word never as a verb. When challenged to give a sentence in which it made a state ment he produced the sentence, "Well, I never."

contact is established by tamper- ing, and risk of fire is thus obviated. Windows fitted with this system may be left open in hot weather. Any thief attempting to get in would set off the alarm directly he moved the window at all. Even

Next to finding a good title for a story is the importance of getting good names for one's characters, says a writer in John o' London's Weekly. It is true that there are realists among writers, who have acted up to their conviction that ordinary names are best for or a confederate in the house is of no assistance. Directly an attempt is dinary characters. Jane Austen, made to tamper with or cut the Trollope, Henry James, and Merc- wires, the alarm is given, and this dith seldom went out of their way happens whether the alarm is switched on or at the time. The to hunt out high-sounding names claim is made that the system for the people in their books, and makes property completely bur-among modern writers Wells is the glar-proof. The cost of installa-one who can and does use common tion is reasonable, and of upkeep names with effect. But he does small. The alarm, according to it with a purpose. Little folk like the Daily News, is in the lands of Henderson and Gregg, Wall and Technical Inventions, 32 Red Lion Street Holborn, London, W.CI.

The First "Prame."

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 14. 19:3.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS

& JEWELLERS,

Botel Mansio

| Agents for:—ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES,

KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS. BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,

ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturer, High Class English Jewellery,

THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO.

Blow Office: 79 Wyndham rost. 2nd Floor.

(Opposite "entral Police Station.) Tel, Central 4166.

Dealers in all kinds of High-class Silk Shirts; Collars, Necktios and Pyjamaa for Gentlemso

AND ALBO ----

Chemises, Skirts, Wrappers; Sinefs, Vells; and Night-gowan-for Ladino

ALSO MADE TO ORDER

MODEKATE PRICE

PROMPT DELIVERY

Manager: EMILIO LAU.

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Redaks and Kodakz Films, 86. as.

DEVELOPING A PRINTING A SPECIALITY,

No, 17a, Queen's Road Central, Hovokona.

Hongkong Hotel

Repulse Bay Hotel

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

HONGKONG:

Astor House Hotel

Peak Hotel

Palace Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalee Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits

The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.

In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

mad

The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lite, Ltd.

SHANGHAI

PEKING:

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

The Only Amariosn Hótel in the Colony.

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Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banks, said Central Districts. 43 Bedrooms. Excellent Cuisine. Scrupulously class. Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened at No. E, Queen's Bosd (1st floor). Entrance Los House St. Tifins a specialky,

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

(Two minutes from Star Ferry).

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON

Recently renovated and refurnished, slectric light and fans throughous and entirely under new managemant Cuisine under the personas supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Booms Terme moderats. Fpecial tarmie ib familles on application to

Talephone Howloon 3.

Telegraphic Add.: "PALACE"

HOTEL

7. H. OXBRREY, Proplet

"ASIA”

WEST BUND, CANTON.

Leading Hotel in South China,

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

Views Splendid

Excellent Cuisine:

of

City and Pearl River.

Moderate Bates

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

KING EDWARD HOTEL

A

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Cave are brought into contact with tremendous events, and the contrast helps the story. Not that Mr. Wells cannot invent good names if he The "pram" is such a feature of wishes to. Jimny Goggles, for our street life nowadays, and so instance, and Tono Bungay. indispensable to mothers of every Dickens is, of course, the master class, that one is inclined to forget of names. One. sometimes is that it did not spring up, mush driven to, wonder where he got room-ike, in its present perfected them, especially when you con- condition. In a paper read before sider the immense number of the Society of Arts Mr. Samuel J characters that he used in his Our Sewell traced its interesting and books. In this respect astonishingly remote history, re- Mutual Friend" holds the record. ports the Daily Telegraph. The No fewer than 101 different charac- Greeks are believed to have used a ters are mentioned by name in primitive form of child's carriage,Our Mutual Friend Remem made of baked clay and fitted with ber, too, that Dickens had not the wheels some centuries before the advantage of modern directories Christian eral However that may at his elbow, and that most of his have been, the device started more fantastic names must have humbly in China as a chair on four been coined outright. Turvey drop, wheels, in India and Ceylon as a for instance, Pardiggle and Prum- miniature cart, in France as a blechook. Yet Pickwick is the wooden frame on wheels, and in name of a village in Wiltshire, and England as the humble "hop wag Edwin Drood was actually, the gon used in Kent by the hop name of a public-house keeper not pickers for carrying their cooking far from Gad's Hill. Scott again. THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE utensils, food, and children-has What wonderful sounding names That delightful story Just record-attained an astonishing degree of he picked for his heroes and Waverley, Peveril, ed of how the town of Peculiar comfort and perfection. The first heroines! came by its name has been para' two "prams," bullt in 1780 for the Ivanhoe, are all perfect in their way. leled more than once in many an eldest daughter of the fifth Duke So is Meg Merrilces, while as for American township, points out the of Devonshire are now regarded nicknames, what could be better Daily Chronicle. Application of as the finest ever made, but the than Madge Wildfire? Scott did not actually not mind taking, liberties with the principle of gay irresponisbili manufacture was ty was made on the wholesale scale taken up until 1840, when several historical names when the result by the New York Legislature more men began the construction of was a definite improvement. For than a century ago, when it was three-wheeled baby carriages on a instance, Amy Robsart's real name decided that "Commissioners of small scale. From that period the was Anne, but no one can deny that the Land Office shali designate step to the modern" pram," with Amy sounds better than Anne In every township to be laid out by its devices for comfort, security, conjunction with this surname. them as they shall think proper." and adjustability, its hood, springs, Apparently the board was dominat- and rubbertyred rims, was a ed by an idiot with a passion for comparatively rapid one, and was the antique, and so there came into influenced to a Certain extent by being, innocent, villages doomed medical opinion, which decided for, etemity to the names of Ovid, that for seven or eight months the Pompey, Marcellur. Hipnome child should lie down in its car Carthage, Ution.„Sigracliner annan ringe, and that afterwards it should game example set unhappily be made to sit up. Hence the became drahlonable, and the fiste, ficcessity for the well. The Bas gave Greek and tibaburams are admittedly the

Strange American Names.

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ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL. Queer's Bond Central. NEW DINING ROOM opened for Meals a la Carta,

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Hongkond May 1, 1983/

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An outral $630,

MASSAGE

K. SAKAI,

T. KANAMORI

18, Prays East, 2nd Floor.

MASSAGE.

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