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

AWOTIONEERS, ÁFFRAISTEN

ANTS SUBYETORS.

-Public Auctions—'|

THE Undersigned have received to- basilkhir-ti Bag, to sell by Public Auction

ON

MONDAY, October 1, 1993, commencing at 11 am.

at his coridence No. 82 The Peak "The Falls."

The Whole of bis Valuable Honsehold Furniture, Comprising:--

Trak hat stand, elen erfold couch and armchairs, (cretorne covered), curio cabinet, book case. masic cabinet, fre brases, card tables, teak overmantle with bevelled mirror, brasa and bronz ornamente, marble check, curtains, carpets, rugs, curios, etc., etc.

Tosk extension dining table, choice, teak aide board with borelled itror, dinaer waggons, crockery, glass wote, catlery, ont glase. E. P. warn, tablá) foot, desks, etc., etc.

Bouble and single toak and iron bed leads, teak double and single wardrobes with glass doors, dressing table, marble top wel stande, chest of drawers, toilet esta, olc., etc.

Cooking stove, cooking tersila, plaate, ferns, garden sents, etc.

4190

A Large Quantity of Blackwoodl Ware.

And

One Grand Piano by John Broad-

wood & Son.

On View on Day of Sale.

Catalogues will be tested.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, 24th Septimber, 1923,

Undersigned have lived de 'ons to sell by Pahlte Anebion.

ON

THURSDAY, October 4, 1923, commencing at 10.30 a.m.

at the premises of The Hongkong Steel Foundry Company, Limited (Shaukisan Rond.)

The Complete Foundry Plant,

Comprising:

Molting Farances (complete), Annealing Furnaces, Renting Ovens, Cranea, Drilling Machines Screwing Machines

lor Pipes and Bake,

Double Goer

and Stile Burface Screw Cutting Machine, Planing Machine, Fan Blower, Overhead sling Flogging Hexomers Anvile, etc., etc.

Also

Our Electric Furnace complete with all equipment and 1 extra Transformer, Office Furniture and Fittings including Dnwings.

And

The Steam LaunchTM" Peggy."" Terms: Cash on delivery.

Fr Further particulare apply to the ander signed: --

d

LAMMERT BROS,, Auctioneers. Hongkong, 22nd September, 1923.

PUBLIC AUCTION

The Borios of Auctions at "KINGSCLERE"

Kenuels Road with commence on TUESDAY

2nd October 1923

at 11 a.m.

and

WEDNESDAY

3rd October 10:3

at 11 am.

The datos of Subsequent Bales will

be announced later.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctionsore Bongkong, 25th September, 1893 -

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HANTALY ENGINEERS

MONUMENTALISTS

Offices and Boduras,

, Wanchal Road. Hongkong,

Tel, Central No, 500

||ALL KINDS OF BUILDERS' REQUISITES IN STOCK.

HOIL, VENT AND RAIN WATER PIPES, GRATES RANGES-STOVES. INDICATING BOLTS-LATCHES. ITINGES-LOCKS-FINGER PLATES.

OIL AND GAS WATER HEATERS. BANITARY INSTALLATIONS. HOT AND COLD WATER SERVICES.

MONUMENTAL WORKS A SPECIALITYĮ

ITALIAN MARBLE NDJOR .

HONGKONG GRANITE

TU OWN DESTON OR FROM BELECTION

ATIFICAL WREATHS IN STOCK,

BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME. Flowers beautify and make attractive the Heme BH nothing else can do.

FOR SALE.

FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS.

GRAČA & 00., Dealers in Garden Seeds, Postago Stamps, Post Cards, Toys, Etc. No. 10, Wyndham Street,

P. O. Box 620.

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese Hand Made)

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00.,

8. D'AGUILAR STREET,

Oppoelte Kayamaliy & Co.

Telophone Central No. 48

Hongkong, March 20, 1914,

WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITCASES,

When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases?

They are Cheaper and More Durable.

CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO. (Opposite Yaumati Ferry, Praya)

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DIAMOND MERCHANTS

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Agents for:—ADMIRALTY CHÁRTS.

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturer; High Class English Jewellery,

THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO. Head Office::79 Wyndham Street. 2nd Floor. (Opposite Central Police Station) Tel. Central 4168.

Dealere in all kinds of High-chan Silk Shirts, Collars, Necktie and Pyjama for Gentlemor AND ALSO

Chemisen, Skirts, Wraptors, Scarfs, Veils, and Night gowns for Ladies ALSO MADE TO ORDER

MODERATE PRICE

PROMPT DELIVERY

Mausgor: ILIO LAU

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Kodaki and Kodak Films, on. #1.

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 174, Quins's Roar Crittal, HONGKONG.

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

HONGKONG:

Hongkong Hotel

Repulse Bay Hotel

SHANGHAI: Astor House Hotel

Tobacco

Co. Ltd., London

PEKING;

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Why Petrol Is Cheap.

The fall in the price of petrol to the lowest figure since 1914, in addition to proring a windfall for motorists, should, a Morning Post representative way informed, contri- bute to a reduction in the cost of living, as so many commodities are now transported by road. As stated in the Morning Post the price for ether. They are thoughty dis

united. It is not that Bavaria is No. 1 grade peizul is now is. 84d. per

gallon, and for No. 3 grade is is. 6., white Id. a gallon has been taken off paraffin, These "euts' are a reflection of the reduction in oil prices which has been taking For place in the United States. Some little time there has been over-

owes its origin to this medieval | blem of bread and butter, is likely tree-lover."

to wid to a girl's happiness, it wil What the Future Holds for automatically increase her chances of marriage, for, although men ars Germany. When one is usked whetlar Cheruppassed always to fall in love with a pretty face, they do sometimes) any has changed, says A. Wkeep their weather eye open for a Vernon, in The Century Magazine, happy one. To live with a person the reply is difficult. The instilu of a happy temperment is better. tions have changed, but it is difficult than a tonic and a much nicer to say whether the German people medicine to take. No nice girl have changed or not. They are enters a profession solely with a scarcely a pople any more save as view to marriage. On the other the scorn of the world welds them hand, she can hardly be blamed if she weighs the pros and cons. Tha average of marriages is said to ba suspicious of Prussia or that Bre highest in the nursing profession. men and Hamburgare proud of This may be an additional plum for independence. It is not geography, the girl with a taste for nursing, bat economes, which divides the But if she hasn't the requisite taste prople. In the present Govern it is a plum she will do well to

out there we but few men of

neglect. eluration and driving power: it represents, however, the heart of The Heroine. the German people striving to be

of mantun ambitions.

"Most girls will cheerfully run heart of the German is essentially the risk of double pneumonia in childlike. It is not inmersed in the order to present nu attractive "In accordance with time-hon-world: it has never led the world in appearance to inen."-Daily Paper. sured euston, the University of culture, as Prince luas, or us Italy) Edinburgh took the opportunity ator as England: it is essentially a the graduation ceremonial of con- | democratic, unspoiled, energetic, ferring honorary degrees upon a comfort-loving, easy-going people number of distinguished men and over whom a veneer of imperialistu women," says the Scolaman, "The and militariam has been spread. With blouse as open as a candid

beart, guests of the University were enter. Now it is humiliated; it has lost its; lained to dinner in the Library place in the family of nations. It I brave the rigours of our Eng Hall, when Sir Alfred Ewing pre-knows that it was stupidly led to| sided. In proposing the toast of destruction; it believes that it was The Honorary Graduands, the guilty of the blood of mankind, bat; Firmly convinced of my alluring

chori, Principal made felicitous references not much more so than the sur-

1 care not if the doctors call me to those who were to receive banor-rounding nations, hostile to it and

silly, ary degrees. "Ta a few words he envious of it. Will it seek to gracefully chameterised each. It revonge itself upon the nations My would be difficult to find a better | which now hold it in the tire or description of Dan Inge than that will it. Targetful of the past, pross be in the prophet, the social critic, on toward the high work of the the seer, the master of epigram, and

production of oil on the America continent, and that has had the ordinary effect on prices. Dean Inge, Prophet.

The

In stockings delicato as spidors"

webs

In underclothes as dainty as a

feather,

Ish weather.

Peak Hotel

Palace Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalee Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits

The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd

la conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels; Ltd.

and

The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, L&IL:

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

The Only American Hotel in the Colony. Nice sad quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banks, and Central Districts, 43 Bedrooms, Excellent Cuisine. Scrupulously chan. Under American Management. A new Daing Room has been opened t No. 2, Queen's Road (int fyr). Fetriuce los Hoasa St. Tiffins a speciality.

For tarms apply to Mrs. CAMERON, Proprities.

(Two minutes from Star Ferry).

PALACE HOTEL HOPLOOM

Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughout sad snurely weder new management, Culins under the personal supervis of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Booms Tarma moderate. Special termo de familias on application to

Telephone Kowloon 3.

Telegraphio Add.: “PALAOR"

HOTEL

J. H. OXBERKY, Propatesor

"ASIA"

WEST BUND, CANTON,

Leading Hotel in South Obina

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

Splendid Views of

Excellent Cuisine.

City

Although my legs are just a trifle

chilly,

inner being with contentment

glows,

calling which some men in the pre- The best and most attractive things the sworn for of complacency," sont Government believe to be a A Magnificent Avenue 30 Miles

Long.

holy calling? That is the question) which now trombleg in the balances. There is hope in the sturdiness of "A magnificent avenue of Japan- ese cedar trees. 30 miles long and the people, in the essential simpli. If averaging 200 ft. high, lends to the city of the nation that lives much on the public street and eția in the Mikado's summer palace at Nikko," says the Times Trade Supplement. open air, in its sons of the futility "The village where this avonue and arrogance of a military aristo cracy, in the deep convictions of a begins was the Lome, centuries ago few leaders in the present, move-

an impoverished nobleman.: "One day the reigning Emperor further democracy in the world.

ment that they are summoned to noned the nubility of the coun-

of

try to Nikko, na invitation that was Careers And Matrimony. lantamount to a demand for a pre- There used to be a projudice sent. The nobleman, although against cancers for women," because Jacking gold and silver, had a fertile, it was supposed that a woman who and far-seeing mind. Taking a bag had brains and used them would of tree seeds, he set out on his never marry. Thinking was said to journey to the palace, planting the produce wrinkles in the forehead as seeds on each side of the road as he auro'y ns drinking produces pink- went. Sueered at for his seeming nuas of the nose. And mothers who menneer when tendering his were considered intelligent taught homage, he ventured to say thai, his their daughters that no nice young gift would prace to be "the most man, would ever look twice at a girl valuable the Throne had received with wrinkles. Nothing more seri- that day and that his name would que than dimples could exert the line to be blessed by many a jature necessary elem, writes R. B. Ince generation. "To-day these trees in the Evening Standard. The world ifford grateful shade to inillions takes a different view of the matter. of travellers yearly while the coun- to-day. Does a career prejudice u try on each side of the road is well girl's chances of finding aitable wooded with trees grown from seeds, husband? The problem stated in produced from this mighty avenue that way is too vague. One must of codara. Further, the great be introduced to the girl before majority of the houses in the neigh coming to a decision. If the pursuit

bourhood as built of timber that of a career, irrespective of the pro-

in life

Can only be acquired with risk

and trouble.

men pursue me down the Bromp

ton Road

I do not mind pacumonia (even

double).

VICTOR BRIDGES.

HONGKONG HEIGHTS.

For the information of visitors following list of abus of the highest pointa on the Island and· Mainlani is published :—.

ISLAND.

Bigaal Station Hi Pariter Mountain Lodg The Eytia Peak Hotel

Fant 1774

1754

1720

1723

1805

Taikoo Sanatorium Mo, Davin

000. 877 Bowen Rd, (filterberin..... 893

MAYNY AKDY

Taimoshan, eta 3124 Kowloon Peak (21973 Lion Book's actual ... 1848 Ekalin Paar Lamp 1000

Chatom Pam

Birl's Peak

and Pearl River.

Moderate Rates.

Under the Management of the SUN 00., LTD,

KING EDWARD HOTEL

A

DENTRAL LOCATION

LL ELECTRIC TILAMU Pam Extrazive, Blan- La La, Town and Ligilag. Fatupesa Baiba and Bankary Fitcines, Bot and Cold Water Bratam throughput. Best at Food and Berrics.

Tel. Osnil, 27%, Talegraphio Addasan :-) VICTORIA J. WITCHELL, Manager,

LEE KEE

ESTABLISHED 1896

BATHS & BATE-ROOM.

ACCESSORIES

Estimates furnished

free of charge.

Office 21, Wellington St.

780

CANTON.

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL Quper's Road Contral,

NEW DINING ROOM opened for

Moals a la Carto. Excellant Cuisine. Monthly Tickets for Tiffins & Dirtet.

Fr Jaither particulars apply to

THE MANAGIR

Hongkong, May. 1, 192.5.

JAPANESE MASSAGE,

N. AKAJI, Graduate of Tokis Mazaage School, No. 9-10, Prays East, Wanghai, UL. Contral 2630,

MASSAGE.

Mr HONDA, Hrv. KIBAKI : ANG-

·R. #HIMIDZU,

No. 9 Wynter, Bizot (opposite to fầu. Chios Mal?)

JANG TU. DET

tha Into ERM. TENGI,^, „Mi-14) D'Agular Brook

TERMS VERY MODERATE Conkalation Free.

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