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

AUCTIONERES, AFĻTAINERI

and SUIFYORA.

-Potlic Auctions-'

Undersigned

Mone to sell by Paklis Auotion,

on

TUESDAY, Foptember 25, 1098. commoncing at 11 a.m.

at their Balen Rooms, Daddell Street.

& Cases Coloured Wool

3 Cases Black Silk Gauze

Yarne

B Cases Shorwin Williams Copal

Varnish

5 Cases Naphtalino Balls

2 Jars Hydro Chloric Acid

10 Pieces Colten Voiles

1 Coil Rubber Riksba Tyre

1 Lot Optimal Goods

And

A. Quantity of Miscellaneous Goode

Terta-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BRUS.

Auctiones:

Hoogkuna. Zlat September, 1913.

OK

TUESDAY, Sept. 25th, 1893, commencing at 2.45 p.m.

at No. 30 (top floor) Humphreys

Building, Houci Road, Kowloon A Large Quantity of Valuable Rousehold Furniture, Comprising:-

Drawing room suite, chesterfield coach oud chinits, tantel piece, brass- ware, pictures, cursins, teak extension dining table, cbaie, sideboard, dinner waggon, cut glass, glass ware, teak bedateade, teak winlobe with glass docre, dre airg table, chest of drawers, tcilel sets, mable top wartstand, carpet, pilo rog, tlc, etc.

$150

A few pieces of Blackwood were

And

Cae Haby Grand Piano (in excellent condition) by John Brondwcod & Sone.

Termos-Cash on delivery.

Catalogues will be isaned.

On View from Monday, the 24th September 1923.

LAMMERT BROS.,

**

Anctioneer

THURSDAY, October 4, 1993,

commencing at 10.30 a..

at the premisen of The Hongkong Steel

Foundry Company, Limited

(Bbaukivan Road.)

The Complete Foundry Plant.

Melting

Comprising:

Furnaces

(complete),

Annealing Furnaces, Heating Ovens, Cranes, Drilling Machines Screwing for Pipes and Machines

Dear Slide and Bolte, Double Barfice Screw Cutting Machine, Planing Machine, Fan Blower, Overhead sling Flogging Hemmers Anvila, etc., etc.

A180

Que Electric Furnace complete with ait equipment and I extra Tranelormer, Office Furniture sod Fittings including Drawings.

And

The Steam Launch "Peggy." Tow:-Cash on delivery.

For Further particolare apply to the andersigned:-

· LAMMERT BROS.. Auctioneer. Hongkong, 2nd September, 1993.

THE WITER SUPPLI.

Level sud. Storage of water in servoirs In the 1st September 1929

TO AND BILL DIETRIOT WATKA WORKS

LEVEL.. 1623

2.951.

Tytan ft. 19. Below Zenel holow

OTARDON

pizm bjesh 39% Lesel wih prašom

10.0. Botow oRDeR

Fyram Intersočiluja Kit

in. Balowowow

*41.9in. Abare STATŠOM

Ta" 281, HJ

below overlow Hevel with offaw

ein, Below overlos Lore with: werdow

OVERSOS

Lerel wills orasdem „ATRANS IN MEBLIṀM AND DHOTMALA IN BARZONA,

19.02.

לדי נד

7.45

SAL,

PLAY

Az Istarmediažu „s

05,26

21.0

78.40

3.105.82

205.IN 1,413.00 20.34 $1,00

2.128.47

Boneampcion of water, in the City and H District in millions and decimals

gallons during the month of August.

Con varasemat

40

198.01

* Baled DoFulletin ... 304,900 ail,

174

1:5.19 2.5.

Jailan

R.L

Intermittent Supply in all for Main Districts during August 1922 acepting i day viz, 31at when a Constant Supply was operated in Western Rider Main Dis. tricts only.

Intermittent Bupply in all Alder Main Districts up to tath and Constant Supply in all districts from 18th August 1923.

LOWLOON RATED WORKS LEY KI-

vinom GTAVĚ Lots al laval ow

Below ar

HOWANE IN WILLING => D DROVKATI ^I KALKONE gimon Charitulkka |

Corimption of water to

totor

BIK Bowing)

wis to in

allions and decimals of gallons daring the

senih of August.

fath

15.

tt.to

御

J. JA

it smoked population

130,200

141,440

5.2

119

1917 Restriction in all distikts duri August.

1910 Fall Supply in all diskrists during

The Government Analywři sportu abaw #at the quality of the water is satisfac- Jory.

Zetaj Metronille Siss August 1000 is, 81-90 in.

H. T. Caus

Water Authority : Public Works Department

FOOK SUN FOR SALE. Panama Hato, Felt Hats, Straw Hale and all kinds.

'Hats Cleaned Ą. ŠPECIALITY.. No 80, Wellington Buret.

BANIJALLY ENGINEKRA

MUNUMENTALISTE

(

Uces Innd Dodewis, Wanchal Brić, Wangkang.

Tel. Central No, ma

ALL KINDS OF BUILDSEN REQUISITES IN STOCK.

BOIL, VENT AND RAIN WATER PIPES

ORATES RANGES-STOVES. INDICATING BOLTS-LATCHES. HINGES-LOCKS-FINGEN PLATES.

OILAND GAS WATER HEATERS. BANITARY INSTALLATIONS,

HOT AND COLD WATER SERVICES.

MONUMENTAL. WORKS A SPECIALITY

ITALIAN MARBLE NDIJON HONGKONG'GRANITE

TO OWN DESIGN on O ELECTION

ARTIFICAL WREATHS IN STOCK.

BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME.

Flowers beautify and make attractive the Home

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nothing else can do.

FOR SALE

FLOWER

AND VEGETABLE SEEDS.

GRACA & CO., Dealers in Garden Beode, l'ostage Stamps Post Carde, Toys, Etc. No. 10, Wyndham Street, P.0. Box 620.

Hongkong.,

SHOE MAKERS,

(Japanese Band Made)

Every kind of FootweRI. MADE TO ORDER.

OBERRY & CO.,

8. D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Co.

Telephone Central No. 481

Hongkong, March 29, 1914,

WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITOA SES,

When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases?

They are Cheaper and More Durable.

CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK GO. (Opposite Yaunati Fery, Prays)

ABAHI BR

PILSENER BEER

FACAND PRIZE

ASAHI

LAGER

*SPECIAL

BA

COME

SARIERER

AGENTS:

MIT SUIT BUSSAN KABHA

THE CHINA MAIL

"Turkish AA

Westa

Turkish

Westminster

Jurkish Blend A

Jurkish Cigarettes

Manufactured in England

of exceptional quality manufactured from the finest selected tobacco leaves.

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

tions

Westminster

Tobacco

Co. Ltd., London

for not having utilized his excepit is be who is admired by Miss tional opportunities by killing and M'Cormick, whose lack of affairs eating the whale.-From "The of the heart have puzzled her Days Before Yesterday," by Lord friends. This is the. explanation which is given for her pilgrimages, Frederick Hamilton.

made almost daily, to the tomb of Points of View.

the dead officer, upon which she interest in places flowers. Miss M'Cormick has recently, shown an Spiralism and through mediums she and the mother of the dead solider are said to be striving to get into communication with him. The remarkable devotion shown by his parents to the dead officer is said to have fired the imagination of Miss M'Cormick until it was not difficult for her to see in him the ideal man, who had never enteredi into her life in reality. According to Mrs. M'Kinloch, Miss M'Cor mick has made the former's son an ideal. Her love for the mother has extended itself to her dead boy to

Where Most Milk Is Drunk.

Women are the worst enemies Los Angeles has the second of women. Mrs. M. Brown. There largest per capita milk consumption oistinction between attending of any city in the United States, school or college and getting an said Robet E. Johns, an officer of the Califomia Dairy Council, who education-Dr. N. Murray Butler. is now studying dairying condi-It would be for better were an old "Boston is the first city in cricket shirt and a pair of flannel trousers worn in the office.-Dr. I per capita consumption," he said. M. Low. Compulsory arbitration -New York American.

with the present unequal division A Democratic Age.

of property is the institution of "This is a democratic age," says slayery.-Mr. G. K. Chesterton. It the Daily News. "A bus boarded is a fallacy to suppose that we are yesterday was hung up for a going to be happier because some- few minutes at Ludgate Circus.body else is going to be more Alongside was a Rolls-Royce, and miserable-Sir John Simon. It is in it a resplendent individual in always easier to urge a policy based a silk hot who asked the police on half the facts than one which man regulating traffic to direct him happens to need a consideration somewhere. Our driver, taking of all of them.-Mr. Norman An- a hand in the discussion, inquired gell. I believe myself that had of the silk hat:

we stuck by Russia and saved her, Where d'you want to get, mate?'

the world would have been a bet "Silk hat having explained, re-

ter and a happier place to-day ceived detailed directions and General Sir Ian Hamilton. Be- nioved off, our driver thereupon cause of the moral code connected put it to the policeman. All right with them, and the possibility of for me now, sir? Politeness to their being made a physical fine policemen on point duty probably art, games have an enorious pays when you have to keep to educational value.-Mr. C. B Fry, scheduled times."

Mr. Rockefeller 84.

such an extent that her visits to lis

tomb with Mrs. M'Kinlock are great drama" to her. Matrimonial Anomalies..

1

Old laws are hard to kill. They hang on to their successors with amazing pertinacity. Recent cases in the Law Courts regarding the rights and fiabilities of married women are good examples. It is strange in these enlightened days, when women have been emancipat- The principles of State enterprise ed, that a husband should remain have been tested in its most liable for wrongs or as lawyers call extreme form in Russia, and we them, "torts" committed by his must be thankful that the ex-spouse, and that he should be so periment was not tried in this because formerly she could not be sued alone. No doubt the rule was country.-Major Tryon.

due to the ancient law, repealed England's Largest Church.

forty years ago, whereby on marri age, in default of a settlement, the wife's personal property passed to her husband. This being no longer the case, why should a hus band be able if his wife utters a slander or libel or commits an assault or runs over a pedestrian when driving her motor-car? Most

that even people will be surprised to hear now in England and Wales (the law differs in Scotland) a married woman cannot contract like a man or spinster. She can

Mr. John Rockefeller celebrated his 84th birthday by attending church and passing a quiet day with his family. In previous years a brass band usually attended the

The observant Observer tightly birthday party at the Oil King's country home in the hills near bids us notice that the largest of New York, playing favourite English churches-and, indeed, of melodies, and always ending with all the churches in the world, Old Black Joe," after which except St. Peter's-will soon be the benevolent multi-millionaire half built. "The new Liverpool would cut a big birthday cake, Cathedral, when finished will distributing a piece to each mem-cover for more ground than either greatest of ber of the band, and saying he York Minster, the hoped everyone would live to be ancient English, churches still old and healthy. Mr. Rockefeller's standing, or St. Paul's, the only doctor declared that with very great Anglican Cathedral

precautions, reasonable

more built since the Reformation," says "It particularly dietary, Mr. Rocke the Manchester Guardian. feller would see his hundredth will be flextraordinarily in- only contract in relation to her birthday.

teresting. to see whether either the Translating the Bible.

architect of the Church of England Apropos of Eskimo, I once heard will succeed in breathing into the a missionary describe the extra-complete building the kind of ordinary difficulty he had found in immanent life that can almost be translating the Bible into Eskimo, keard and felt, like a living pulse or It was useless to talk of corn or breath, in such buildings as Amiens wine to a people who did not know Cathedral or Westminster Abbey, whichi almost seem to retain in their even what they meant, so he had

Therefore she separate estate. Cannot be subject to a personal judgment and cannot, unless a trader, be made bankrupt. Then, settled by deed or will upon a again, if the income of property is woman-subject to what lawyers calla" restraint un anticipation while married she cannot mortgage

to use equivalents within their very material, as fine ancient it, nor can it be attached by her fiddles have been fancifully powers of comprehension. Thus, in the Eskimo version of the thought to do, some latent reson Scriptures the miracle of Cana of ance or lustre absorbed from the Galilee is described as turning the glow and stir of a genius and water ino blubber; the eighth verse fervour more intense than we can

muster."

creditors. Her income may be £10000 per annum, but she can defy them if she spends her income as she gets it and refrains from keeping a balance at the bank. This pleasing device was Invented by

•Lord Thurlow to protect his wards at allme when women were sup-

of the fifth chapter of the First Epistle of St. Peter ran: "Your A "Spiritual Sweetheart." adversary the Devil as a roaring A románce of two worlds i disposed to be helpless ninnies. The Polar Bear walketh about, seeking closed by the statement that Miss whom he may devour." In the Muriel M'Cormick, daughter of the same way, "a land flowing with Millionaire, Mr. Harold F. MCor milk and honey" became a land mick, is the spiritual sweetheart of flowing with whale's "blubber" a young hero of the war whom she and throughout the New Testament never knew in real life The New the word "Limb" had to be York American says that Lieut translated-itle seal" as the enant George Alexander M'Kin nearest possible equivalent. The loch, a member of one of the six missionary addett that his converts wealthiest families in Chicago, I had the lowell „ópinion of Jonah died on a battlefield in France, and

result has been to enable many scrupulous married couples to live in fluence without paying their. debis. The time has come to put these matters straight. LA husband should no longer be able for his wife's torts. 2. A married woman should be liable for her obligations as if the were a man ur a spinster. 3. Restraints on anth cipation should be illegal in future.

KOJUAY SEPTEMBER 24, 1925

G. FALCONER & CO., CHONGKONG),LTD.

*WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS

DIAMOND MERCHANTS

UNION BUILDING (OPPOSITE G.P.O.)

Agents for:---ADMIRALTY CHARTS, `

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS. ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers;

- High Class English Jewellery,

THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT 00.

Hand Office: 79 Wyndham Street. 2nd Floor. (Opposite Central Police Station.) Tel, Central 4166.

Dealers in all kinda of High-class Silk Shirts, Collars, Neckties and Pyjamas for Gentlemer AND ALSO

Chewives, Skirts, Wraptors, Scaria, Veils, and Night-gowns for Ladies

ALSO MADE TO ORDER

MODERATE PRICE.

PROMPT DELIVERY

Manager: EMIČÍO LAU.

hara

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Kodad Kodal Fiber, b. d.

*DEVELOPING PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 174, Quai's Road ChitrAL BONGEONO.

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

HONGKONG:

SHANGHAI:

PEKING;

Hongkong Hotel

Peak Hotel

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 Hotel das Wagons Lite, Edd.

Tel. Centl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add : "Carlton."

*(The Only American Hotel in the Colony. Nics and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banks, sad Central Districts. 43 Bedrooms, Excellent Cuisine. Scrupulously down. Under American Management, & new Dining Room has been opened as No. 2, Queen's Road (1st floor), Entrance Los House St. Tiffins a speciality.

For terms apply to Mrp. F. E. CAMERON, Proprierees.

Star Ferry)

(Two minutes from

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOOS

Recently renovated and refurnished, alectric lighs and fans throughout and sorely vader new management. Calzina under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Boom Terme moderste Fpeofal terms do families on application to

Telephone Kowloon 3. Talographic Add: "Palais,”

HOTEL

7. H. OXBERKY, Prop:istor

“ASIA”

WEST BUND, CANTON.

Leading Hotel in South China.

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans ezú

Roof Garden. Hairdressing Elevators.

Salcor.

Splendid Views of City and Pear! River.

Excellent Cuisine:

Moderate Rater.

Under the Management of the SUN 00., LTD CANTON.

•

KING EDWARD HOTEL

A

CENTRAL LOCATION,

LA ELECTRIC TRAMS FAM Katranon, limo- Stringate, Thay nad Járnjang, Karopens Baurkha Ballary viting, Hot and Col Watar Byla throughrát. Best of Food and

Tel.

7. WETOBELL, Manager,

LEE KEE

ESTABLISHED 1896 ·

BATES & BATH-ROOM

ACCESSORIES.

Estimates furnished

free of charge.

Omce 21; Wellington St.

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL, Queer's Road Central-

NEW DINING ROOM 'öpwed for Meals a la Carte. Excellent Caistine. Monthly Tickets for Mifios & Dinner.

Fr further particulars apply to

THE MANAGER. Fongkong, May 1, 1693.

JAPANESE MASSAGE,

N. AKAJI, Graduate of Tokio Massage School, No. 9-10, Prayn Enat, Waithní, zer, Central 2630.

MASSAGE.

Mrs. HONDA, Mrs. KINAXI and

R. SHIMIDŽUJ Fa. #Wyn't Bel Commonitate fie' Chins Hal”)

TANG TUB, Dentur

#comi

the late BIEN XING, 16 D'Agullar Baset. TERMS VERY MODI Consstation