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LAMMERT BROS. C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
À COTIGSHEIA, ÄFFRAISYRI AND BURVEYORK.
-Public Auctions—'
THE Undersigned have 16cmreĄ INDO-
have notion
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THURSDAY, Sept. 20, 1923, commencing at 11 am,
at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street,
A Large Assortment
of HardwaTO. Choraprising :-
Stone-Mason Toola, Nose Pliers,!
Oilstone®. Card n Tools, Pincers,
Tinman's Block Flammers, Augers Furriars Pullers, Horn Cutting Pincers, Engineers Straight Edges. Round and Smooth Tiles, Square Files, Spanners, Navy Picks, Bason Tools, Stone
Boiler Breakera Batumete, Bammer Beads. Pruning Knives.
And
Fire Caece Naphtalize Balls, Terms -Cuab on delivery.
OD
Faker
SANITARY ENGISEXMA
BONUMENTALISTS
Oficas Anil ̃Qoiłowan, Wanchal Mand, Hongkong, Tol. Central Nu, 200
ALL KINDS OF BUILDERS' REQUISITES IN BTOCK.
BOIL, VENT AND RAIN WATER PIPES. QRATES RANGER-STOYES. INDICATING BOLTB-LATCHES,
HINGES.OCKS-FINGER PLATES.
OIL AND GAS WATER HEATERS. BANITARY, INSTALLATIONS.
HOT AND COLD, WATER SERVICES.
MONUMENTAL, WORKSA SPECIALITY
IN
ITALIAN MARBLE NDOR HONGKONG GRANITE
TO OWN RESION OR"YİSH SELECTION
ARTIFICAL WREATHS IN STOCK,
BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME.
THE CHINA MAIL
Turkish AA
Tartush Blend A Girode. Westminster
Westminster
Turkish 15
Manufactured in England
WAONESDAY, BENJEMBER 19, · 1923
G. FALCONER & CO., LTD. WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS,
Hotel Mansio
Agents for:—ADMIRALTY CHARTS,
BOSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,
ENGLISH SILVERWABE, direct from Manufactuurą,
High-Class. English Jewellery...........
THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO. Hos Oco: 79 Wyndham Strest. 2nd Floor,
(Opposite Central Police Station.) Tel, Central 4186.
Dealers in all kinds of Bigh-clom Silk Shirts,
Collars, Necktica and Pyjamas for Gentlemen AND ALSO
* Chemises, Skirts, Wrappers, Scarfs, Veils, and Nightgowns for Ladies
ALSO MADE TO ORDIR MODERATE PRICE
PROMPT DELIVERY › Masager: EMILIO LAO.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
THURSDAY, Sept. 20, 1023,
at 345 p.m.
at "Craig Fric" No. 13 The Peak,
A Largo Quantity of Valorblo Household Furniture.
Comprising
Hatatands, ball cheire.Chesterfield couch and chairs (by Lane Crawford, Ltd.) teak & tapestry arm chairs with corera, curio cabinet, large round din- ing table, tink side board, dining chairs, diener aggas, pictures, ornaments, carpets, curtsins, etc., etc.
Teak and iron double & single bed. sload, teak single and double wardrobes with glass do rs, dressing table, marble top neblau, che t of drawers, tak folding table, lesk screen, doutle and single toilet sets, banghai both, filter, ice chest, cooking stove, aluminium and iron cooking tensils, etc., etc.
4730
Beveral pieces of blackwood ware. And
A large quality of palms, ferns and plants.
On View from Wednesday the 19th, September 193
Cataloguar will be issued.
Terma: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Bongkung. 1th September, 1993.
ON
TUESDAY, Eept. 25th, 1893, commenting at 8.45 p.m.
at No. 30 (top Scor Bumphreys
Buildings, Hanoi Road, Kowloon ▲ Large Quantity of Valuable Household Forniture, Comprising:-
Drawing room suite, chesterfield couch and chairs, mantel piece, brass. ware, pictures, carinine, teak extension dining table, choirs, sideboard, dinner Wongco, cut glaer, glass ware, teok bedateade. teak wardrobe with glans doors. dre sig table, chest of drawers,
teikt marble up abstand, carpets, pile rugi. etc, etc,
Also A few pieces of Blackwood ware
And
Fetu
One Baby Grand Piano (in excellent condition) by Jehn Broadwool & Eone.
Terms: Cash on delivery. Catalogues will be issued.
On View from Yonday, the 24th September 1923.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctionsom
PARTICULARS AND CONDITION
OF SALE
of the
STEAMSHOP "CHERIANO"
the now lieast Etone Cutters Jaland
to be told by
Order of the Mortgages
by
FOBLIC AUCTION
OD
FRIDAY
the 21st, day of September, 1923
at 3 o'clock p.zo.
IN ONE LOT by
Messrs. Lommest Bros., Auctioneers
at their Auction Rooms in Duddell Street
The ship is of 985.2 tons gices and $35.4 nett tonnage. Her kngth is 190 feet or thereabouts, Beam 33 feet or thereabouts, draft 18 feet 9 inches or theres boats and horsepower 252.
For orders to view, apply to Messrs. Lammert Bros, the Auctioneers
For further particulare apply to:—.
Meeres. JOHNSON, STOKES
& MASTER,
Prince's Buildings or to Hers. LAMMERT Bra, the
/actoneers,
Duddell Street.
Longkong, Feptember 11, 1923.
FOOK SUN FOR SALE. Panama Hsis, Falė Hats, Straw Hats and all Kinds si Hats. HATS CLEANED A SPECIALITY. No., Wallington Streek.
SWAY HOUSE HAT MAKTE.
Flowers beautify and make attractive they Home 08 nothing else can do,
FOR SALE
FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS.
GRACA & CO., Dealers in Garden Svode, l'ostaga Stamps Test Cards Toye, Etc. No. 10, Wyndham Street,
P, O. Box 620.
Hongkong.
SHOEMAKERS.
(Japanese Band Made)
Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & 00.,
6, D'AQUILAR STREET,
Opposite Kaysmally & Co. Telophone Central No. 191
Honghong, March 20, 1914.
WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITCASES,
When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases?
They are Cheaper and More Durable.
CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK GO.
(Opposite Yaum si Jerry, Praya)
ASAHI
BTR
PILSENER BEEL FABRAND PRIZIJS
SAHIB
AS
ASA LAGER!
SPECIALLY
COM
SAHI
BEE
SOLE AGENTS: MIISUT BUSSAN KAJSYA
Jurkish Cigarettes of exceptional quality manufactured from the finest selected tobacco leaves.
ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
service.
An Expensive Plaid,
Westminster
Tobacco
Co. Ltd., London
noth Restaurant de luxe, but she is the maiden aunt of the cheaper tea shop. Many years ago, an enter prising firm of caterers discovered her character, and built, in the West end, magnificent palaces of marble and glass and rosewood, where she might be entertained accompanied expensively, and these crections by creating a chain of inexpensive tea-shops in the City, where the man who paid the bill could avoid starvation for the rest of the week.-Edgar Wallace in the Royal Magasine. The Dress Mania.
But it
This season has seen a most marked development in what the less responsible Press calls "the boom in dress." There is no need to labour the point that this is a matter of satisfaction from the advertising point of view. is not the type of dress offered at reasonable price, by big popular shops that is meant in this conhec- tion. The illustration of the smart coat-frock, pretty blouse or jumper. and becoming hat, may well prove exceedingly helpful to those l quest of useful and practical attire. No exception either to dress itself of this class, or its advertisement, could possibly be taken by the severest of critics, What is much more insidious is the mannegain glorification of the parade," at the more extravagant modistes. A class of paragraph which has arisen and is allowed to appear deals with a gown as a creation of artistic genius, talks of the ligne classique, and" enthuses" over a detail of drapery as an "in- spired touch" of the master hand of Mme. Something or Mr. Another
the
size. The importance of such an invention in the field of astronomy is obviously great. The average large lens manufactured out of massive glass for astronomical pur- poses has a diameter of about one A Link With Nelson.
and a half metres, and it requires a Miss Laura Burton, who has died period of several years to make it, at the age of 88 at the Home for while the price is much in excess a lens, Officers' Widows and Daughters at of 100,000 dots. Such
manu- Queen Alexandra Court, Winible- it is claimed, may be don, was the daughter of a man factured by the French process who served in the Royal Navy as mentioned in afew weeks, at acost a midshipman under Lord Nelson. of from 500 dols. to 750 dols. In 1804 he obtained a commission Lenses of smaller diameter for in the Royal Marines, and was photographic purposes, for opera present at the battle of Trafalgar in glasses, reading glasses, &c., can be 3805, and at the siege of Copen-produced, it is said, at correspond- bagen. He also served in the ingly smaller cost. The lens Walcheren expedition. He died consists of a fluid substance in in 1840 after forty three years' closed between two unusually hard glass surfaces, similar 10 watch crystals, in which the refractive powers and other characteristic A good deal of stuff will now he properties are so chosen that the written about Balmoral Castle- glass surfaces not only serve 10 seme of it rather amusing to hold the fluid but also combine with Scottish readers who are well up in the fluid to overcome such defects the history of this royal residence, as are scarcely to be avoided in says the Glasgow Herald. One of ordinary lenses. It is for this rea- the King's nearest neighbours son also that the lens is achromatic. there is Mr. Farquharson of Inver--New York Herald. cauld, the representative of the The Petty Tyrant. fierce and haughty chieftains of
Many a good man has been ruin- the famous Clan Farquharson, ed by bestowing on him a bit of They formerly owned tracts of country in Aberdeenshire. Part authority. As a servant he was a success, but when he was made a of their estate was the great deer master he made a fizzle. It fre- forest of Ballochbuie, which was quently happens that when a man bought from them by Queen graduates from a subordinate posi- Victoria. It is said that the Far- tion to a place of authority he is quharsons were given it originally seized with inflation of the egoand by the Earl of Mar in exchange for suffers from over-expansion of the a tartan plaid. If this is true, it was a chest. He has an idea he is bigger valuable gift, for Her Majesty paid than his job, but as a matter of fact the late Colene! Farquharson he is several sizes too small for it. £102,000 for it
-for the man now is often the He gives orders with a snarl or a The End of "Bliger."
snap and gets sour looks and ill-figure-head. All the available ad- Thesaurus" are Scotland Yard and the French his faith on harsh words is not boss hunted up, and as to the wonderful
will in return. The boss who pins jectives of the Surete detectives must have heaved of his job. The man in authority gradations between a cyclamen a sigh of relief when Bludger B" was "sent down" for five who believes and acts on the basis and a fuchsia, a king-cup and a
that bossism, browbeating and daffodil of the years in Paris for defrauding Sir bawling-out win is riding to a fall, played, you feel that nothing Walter Cockerline, a wealthy Hull The wise boss knows his business. short of a dyer's colour card shipowner. "Bludger's" real He merely makes a suggestion and could enable you to appreciate name is Willian Warren, and he the work is done. His slightest was arrested with other members hint is a command. He gets 100 of this gunga gang which has per cent. of service and efficiency worked London very assiduously from those under him and is belov for some time, and, it is estimated ed by every man on the job. netted many thousands of pounds. Warren came frem Durban, and made a special practice of in- Gilded Tea-Shop.. gratiating himself with rich South"
Once upon a time there lived a Africans, Australians, and Ame chef who discovered that girls pre ricans. He always patronised ferred Pêche Melba to rice pud- the most swagger hotels, and ding, and he made money and was lived in high style with a small able to keep a bookmaker's family retinue of confederates, male and in affluence ever after. And then female. He adopted many dis- arose one who gilded a tea-shop gulees, and did not hestitate to and called it a restaurant, and, spend several hundreds of pounds havitig acquired an interest in the where he thought the prospective souls and bodies of a coloured trap victim worth it. His portrait drummer, a saxophone soloist, and adoms the Rogues Gallery of a self-taught pianist, announced practically every police office in that the Original Dixie Syncopated the big cities of the world. He Orchestra would perform at dinner, was certainly the king of interna- accumulated wealth, and a passion tional swindlers
for vivid Ilfe, dying fall "of Curiouza Loncer
honour and visions. And both It is reported that, after many these men to the very end spoke years of experimentation, a French enthusiastically of the modern sclentia has succeeded, by using girl and never mentioned the glass shells filled with fluid, in pro-modern-young man without hold ducing optical lenses said to be asing their sides lest their merriment food as the massive glass.lenses in unshipped their floating ribs. Not present use and of much greater, only is she the mother of the Mam-
સાર્ધ
G. N.
colours dis-
them. And then as to the young persons upon whom they are dis- played! The manner of the moment is to give them a name each that savours of Soho. Therefore you read of "Lolotte," and "Mimi,” of "Bianca,” and “Mercedes,” and a score more of the same sort, whose whose swaying movements," "rhythmically undulating arms," whose "flashing glances" or "Southern allutement set off some remarkable garment with the train in front instead of at the back, or a sash round the ankles with the ends pointing upwards rather than down. The occasion hardly seems to call for superlatives on such a scale- and, indeed, the ordinary person suddenly dropped into one of these events falls to see wity they should be bestowed" A Woman of the World" in The Woman Magasine.
frenimini for Dymm Chamberlain's Dolip and Dir Remedy followed by » dón will offectually burn the cams of dysentery. It is pralally? for summer clinhoes in. Calidroo
by all Chémiar and fiberglootsion
PHOTO SUPPLIES,
LONG HING & CO., Rods and Bodas Films, as, as.
DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.
No. 17A, QUExe's Road Cz.TIAL, HONGKONG,
HOTELS & CAFES.
LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS
HONGKONG:
SHANGHAI:
PEKING;
Hongkong Hotel
Peak Hotel
Repulse Bay Hotel
Astor House Hotel
Palace Hotel
Grand Hotel Kalbe
Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits
The Hongkong Bótel Co., Ltd.
In conjunction with
The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.
and
The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Led
Tel. Centl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL Tel. Add: "Carlton."
The Only American Hotel in the Colony.
Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes walk from the Banks, mad Central Districts. 13 Bedrooma. Excellent Quisine. Sorupulously clown. Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened at No. 2, Queen's Road (Ist foor). Entrance Ios House St. Tiffins a speciality.
For terms apply to Mr. F. E. CAMERON, Proprietress,
(Two minatos from Star Ferry).
PALACE HOTEL
KOWLOON
Escenaly renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughous and entirely under now management. Qufairs under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billard Boomy Tamme moderată. Spesial terms ma families on application to
Telephons Fowloon 3. Telegraphia Add.: "PALLON,”
J. H. GRÉKKEY, Prop: 18tor.
HOTEL "ASIA"
WEST BUND,
Leading Hotel in
First class Accommodation. Elevators.
Roof Garden.
of
Splendid Views City Excellent Cuisine:
JANTON,
South China
Electric Lights, Fans 23
Hairdressing Silcou
and Pearl River.
Moderate Rates.
Under the Management of the SUN
LTD. 00.,
KING EDWARD HOTEL
A
CENTRAL LOCATION
LL ELECTRIC THANE PAN Entrance, Elec
tela Lifts, Fans and Lighting, Xuropean Batha and Sanitary Vitliga, Hot and Cold Water System throughest. Best of Food NJ Berries Tel Chath #72. Telegraphío Address—' VICTORI
3. WYTCHELL, Manager.
LEE KEE
ESTABLISHED 1896"
BATHS & BATH-ROOM ACCESSORIES.
Estimates furnished
free of charge.
Office 21, Wellington at.
CANTON.
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL Queer's Road Central
NEW DINING ROOM opened for
Meals a la Carte. Excellent Cuisina. Monthly Tickets for Tins & Dicnet.
Fr further particulars apply to
THE MANAGIR Hoogkong, May 1, 1923.
JAPANESE MASSAGE N. AKAJI, Graduate of Tokio Muage School, 'Nos, 9-10, Praya Fest, Wanchal,
201. Central 264.
MASSAGE.
Mrs. HONDA, Mrs. XIFAXI naë R. SHIHIDEU. No. 2. Wyndkrt. Bren (opposite to the OLIM MAIP).
TANG-YUB, Dorur
TĚKMA VERY, MODERAT
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