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

AMETIOSHEEN, AFFRAINORS

AND SURVETOZU.

--Fublic Auctions—

TEX

8 Undersigned have received in structions from C. D. Wilkinson Eg, to sell by Publio Auction

UN

MONDAY, October 1, 1923. Kommencing at 1! ..

at liere idence No. 82. The Penk "Tite Falle."

The Whole of his Valuable Household Furniture, Cou pricing:-

Tenk atad, chesterfield couch and armchairs, (relaune envrred), curio cabinet, book case, misie cabinet, fire brasers, card tables, teak evermantlo with herelled mirror, brass and bronzy orasments, marble cleck, curtsine, carpete, rugs, sutios, etc., etc.

Teak extension dining table, chairs, tepk sido board with bevelled irrer, diaper weggor, crockery, class ware, cullery, cut glass, E. . ware, inlilo fans, desks, etc., etc.

Double and ring'e teak and icon bedstrade, teak on in and single wardrobes with glass doors, dressing table, marble t wash slands, chest of dramers, toilet.sis pla, etc.

king utopila, Cooking's ve planta, ferns, garten neure, etc.

/ Iso

A Larg Quathy of

And.

· Ware.

Blackwood

One Grand 'in by John Broad-

Food & Son.

On View

Catalogues

Pay of Sule.

be issuad.

Tomash olivery:

· LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers

Hongkong. h S-p'ember, 1923,

danigned have chatou tamno Hate la collo.l'ublic Auction, ON-

THURSDAY, Cetober 4, 1983. ∙commencing x 10.30 am.

at the premises of The Hongkong Steel

Foundry Company, Emited (Shaukian load.)

-The Complete Foundry Flant.

Comprising:

Melting Purners (complete), Andealing Furnaces, Heating Ovens, Cranes, Drilling Machines Screwing Machines

"Pipes

and and

Bolts, Dubie Gear Slide Surface Screw Cutting Machine, Plasing Machine, Fan Blower, Overhead sling Flogging Hemmers "átila, clc., etc,

A lao

One Electric Furance completo with all equipment and extra Transformer, Office Furniture and. Fittings including Drawings,

And

The Steam Launch "Peggy." „Tim■ :—Cash on delivery.

For Further particulare apply to the unders god

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

PUBLIC AUCTION

The Series of Auctions at "KINGSCLERE'

Kennedy Read

with commence on TUESDAY

2nd October 1923 at 11 a.m.

Tick

WEDNESDAY

3rd October 19:3

at 11 a.m.

The dates of Subquent Sales will

be announced later.

LAMMERT BROS.

AuerunderH

Hoazkung, 25th September, 1923.

Peaceful Nights in the Hot Weather for your Baby.

'Allenburys'

Foods for Infants.

Entirely free from germs, they give complete indepen- dence of doubtful milk supply and their use is a safeguard against suminer diarrhoea and infantile cholera...

Further particulars and 100 page boklat on "Infant Feeding and Management" will be sent post Free upon application.

Allen & Hanburys Ltd.

40 Canon Road, SHANGHAL

SANITARY ENGINEKKA BONESERTA LANDO

Offers and Gentumar, Wanchai Hose, Hongkong.

Tel. Cenital No. 200

ALL KINDS OF BUILDERS' REQUISITES IN STOCK.

6OIL, VENT AND RAIN WATER FIPES.

GRATES-KANGES STOVES. INDICATING BOLTR—LATCHES. FINGRS-J.OCKS-FINGER PLATES,

OIL AND GAS WATER HEATERS.

BANITARY INSTALLATIONE., 'HOT AND COLD WATER SERVICES.

MONUMENTAL WORKS A SPÉCIALITY;

IN

ITALIAN MARBLE NDJOH

HONGKONG GRANITE.

TO OWN DEION OF PHOK BELECTION

ARTIFICAL WREATHS IN STOCK.

BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME

Flowers beautify and monke Ilome an uttractive the

nothing else can do.

FOR SALE

FLOWER AND VEGETABLE

SEEDS.

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

P. O. Box 120.

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS. (Japancen Hand Made)

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00,,

8. D'AQUILAR STRFET.

Opposite Karamally & Co.

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

Telephons Central No 491

WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITOA SES,

When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases ?

They are Cheaper and More Durable.

CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO.

(Opposite Yaumati Der y, Traya)

ABARI

PILSENER BEER

ASAHI

PRIZES

ASA

LAGER

SPECIALLY

COMP

ASANIBBER

AGER BEER

SOLE AGENTS. MITSUI BUSSIN KÄISHA

THE C CHINA MAIL

"Turkish AA

MADY

Jurkish Cigarelles

of exceptional quality manufactured from the finest selected tobacco leaves.

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

A Medical Story.

Manufactured in England

Westminster

28, 1978

G. FALCONER &CO, HONGKONG) LTD

WATCHMAKERS & JEWÊLLËNS

DIAMOND MERCHANTS

UNION BUILDING (OPPOSITE GP,0.)..

Agents for ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES. KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Chai English Jewellery,

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THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT 00. Heal Office: 79 Wyndham Street, 2nd Floor.

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

Dealers in all kinds of High-class Silk Shirts, Collars, Neckties and Pyjamas for Gentlemen AND ALBO

Chemises, Skirts, Wraptors, Scarla, Veile, and Night-gowns for Ladies ALSO MADE TO ORDER

MODERATE PRICE

PROMPT DELIVERY

Manager: "EMILIO LAU.

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Rodale Films, wo,

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 17A, QUEEN's Boad Crithal, Hondzone.

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

HONGKONG: Hongkong Hotel

Peak Hotel Repulse Bay Hotel

-Astor House Hotel. Palace Hotel Grand Hotel Kalee.

Tobacco

Co. Ltd., London

SHANGHAI:

PEKING:

Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits

A New Bishop,

elsewhere and would rather attend The translation of the Bishop of to it, and be thought unworthy of Truro to the see of Chelmsford the rights of a citizen? Or is she will be generally approved of, to pretend not to hear, and be except in Cornwall, where his

thought deaf or half-witted? I offer departure is greatly regretted, The following is a story from the more as he is leaving just when no solution; I merely state the the Medical Press and Circular. It he has warmed to his work in the problem. Often-alas! · too often is too good to be reserved for pro diocese. Dr. Warman will certainly there are no servants. Then fessional use only-A London be most suitably placed in his new someone, of one sex or another, surgeon found that a serious opera- diocese, which is a thoroughly tion was necessary upon the Evangelical centre; but he is free it does not matter which, has daughter of a woman who came from any narrow party feeling, got to do something about it. with her to the hospital. The details and his relations (both as vicar of Men have proved themselves far of the operation were explained, Bradford and as Bishop of Truro) cleverer than women in shelving and the consent was asked of the with the clergy of other schools, this onerous duty. A tradition has mother to the operation being per- as well as the Nonconformists, formed. "Oh," was the reply," it have been most cordial. He has is all very well to talk about con- taken an energetic part in all seating, but who is to pay for the public and local affairs, and he is funeral?"

an admirable preacher andspeaker, A Wonderful Clock.

with a fund of versatile energy, Dr. Warman is a brother of Mrs. Earle, wife of Professor Earle of the Hongkong University. London's Sweetest Organ.

A Viennese watchmaker, Jacob Jawurek, has placed on exlúbition a clock which took him twenty- three years to construct (says the New York World.) It is made en- The Worshipful. Company of tirely of wood, three metres high, Parish Clerks have in their hall an two metres wide, and weighs over organ built in 1660 which, accord- 5000 pounds. It consists of eighteen ing to connoisseurs who have other clocks, of smaller size, listened to both, is fully as sweet- twenty-two mobile figures, sixteen toned as the organ of the Temple chimes, two canons, a music box, Church. It was acquired as the &c. Besides these marvellous minutes of the Company show-to attachments a little automatic rail- enable members "the better to road train passes every two hours perform a service incumbent upon beneath the porch of a little castle. them before the Lord Mayor and The inventor and builder of this Aldermen on Michaelmas Day, gigantic clock intends to go to New and also the better to enable those York in the near future to exhibit who already are or hereafter.shel

It

now for long been established that cooking and cleaning are woman's work. As these occupations are among the most tiresome which humanity has to endure, this tradi- tion is very unfortunate for women.! But there it is; and the problem is, how to get what is needful done as rapidly as possible, so that one can go and do something else, more lucrative, interesting, or amusing. There must be something to eat at stated intervals and the house or the flat must be about as clean as the houses and flats of one's ac- quaintances. It sounds simple, but actually to secure both these results will often be found to take the en- tire time. All the time there is. And that is so tragically little. None left over for reading, writing, walking, sitting in woods, play- ing games, making love, merely be parish clerks of the City and existing without effort. And ever Sturgeon.

Westminster in performing their at your back you hear Time's duties in the several parishes to winged chariot hurrying near..... Recently Edward Stevenson

which they stand related." Nowa and so the grave yawns, and at the caught a gigantic sturgeon in the days (H. W. writes in the Morning end you will be able to say, not Saskatchewan River, near Ed- Post) it is rarely heard except at "I have warmed both hands before monton, It was 52 feet long, the Company dinners, when it the fire of life," but "I have Kept weighed 75 lbs. and had a tail diffuses a flow of soft music while spread of 9 inches. It had reached

the members chant the old grace, the place where it was captured For these and all Thy mercies after a journey of 1,000 miles from Hudson's Bay, through the rivers given, we bless and praise Thy and lakes of Manitoba, Saskat-ame, O Lord." chewan and Alberta.. It was caught A Woman's Problems.

Let us consider, for example, by using part of a sucker as bait and landed after much careful! jury-women, The learned Judge playing on a line that, ordinarily, is apt to turn kindly to the honest would not hear more than 50 lbs. twelve and remark, "There are dead weight. When Mr. Steven-some (or there is one) unmarried son had tired the 'fish out, he women in the jury. They (or she)l dashed into the water, seized it by may retire before the hearing of

this case.

(There are also, pro the tail and dragged it ashore.

bably, soine unmarried men among "Forbidden," But Flourishing. the jury, but Judges do not seem Gambling is prohibited in to think that these have minds Austria and liable to heavy punish capable of tarnish from anything meat, and recently a list of no less they may hear. It is, for some odd than twenty-one forbidden games reason, only women whom marri- was published. Nevertheless, age is supposed to harden from gambling casinos have been open-sensitiveness. insensibility.

to.

House." The only solution of this problem which I can suggest and Lalmost hesitate to do so in these pages-is, Do not keep house, Let the house, or flat, go unkept. Let it go to the devil, and see what happens when it has gone there, At the worsta house unkept can- not be so distressing as a life un lived.--Rose Macaulay in Good Housekeeping.

Too "Pro-British."

'

About a year and a half ago Mayor Hylan, of New York, re- ceived complaints from various quarters that the text-books on American, history in use in the schools contained "pro-British and Ho un-American" sentiments. immediately ordered an examina- ion of the offending books, Mr. David Hirshfield, Commissioner of Accounts, being appointed to the

of undue friendliness towards 'Great Britain, and for suppressing the "consecrated maxims, such as "Tization without representation

L

The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd. In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lite, Lšė.

and

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, and Central Districte. 13 Bedrooms. Excellent Cuisine. Scrapulously clan. Under American Management, & nệm Dining Room has been opened at No. 2, Queen's Bood (1st floor). Entrance Lee Honae St. Tilfins a speciality,

For terms apply to Mr. F. E. CAMERON, Froprietress,

(Two minutes from Star Forry)

PALACE HOTEL HOWLOOM

Kaoantly renovated and refurnished, electric Ngbt and lane throughoub and ensurely vader now management. Cntains under the personai supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billard Rooms Terma moderate. Epacial termo se families on application to

Telephone Kowloon 3,

Telegraphic Adḍ.; "PALAGR.”

HOTEL

WEST

9. 8. UXSEKBY, Propitator.

"ASIA"

END, CANTON,

Leading Hotel in South

Uhina.

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

Views of City ⚫ and Pearl River.

Moderate Rater.

Splendid Excellent Quisinė:

Under the Management of tha SUN 00., LTD., DANTON.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

A

Weler

CENTRAL, 1OUATION

LL'ELMOTITU TEAMS' WAM Entrarma, El- trín kätte, Fans and lighting, European Baths and Bradincy Fillings, Hot and Cold Bystem throughrat. Det at Food saj

TWO FAROE

Tal Centi, 17%. Telägraphie &cktron ====* VICTORIA Z. WIICHELL, Manager,

LEE KEE

ESTABLISHED 1896

BATHS & BATH-ROOM ACCESSORIES,

ed in several places, especially in These things are a mystery.) So the Tirol, under the pretext of here is the probleni. Is the task. The result has been, that Lattracting well-to-do foreigners for unmarried jury woman to retire eight text-books have been ban- the benefit of the Alpine regions: at the Judge's word, liko aned for containing a post-war tone The gambling establishments are child ordered out of the room be flourishing, and they include fore a private conversation, and Gastein; Igls, near Innsbruck'; look n fool? Or is she to stay Pertisau, by The Achensee; and where she is and be thought a har popular Kitzbuhel; while Innsbruck dened, insensible, and unwomanly 18 tyranny." Mr. Hirshfield's Estimates furnished itself is to be added shortly to the creatures she to raise a report, although voluminous and number. In all those places large question about what marriage has stims had to be paid in advance for to do with it and why marriage the concession, and usually half affects only one sex; and be thought the profits must be paid to the insubordinate and over-inquiring? muniolpailty, which has this motiye Or is she to depart, but with an ex- for defiance of the law. Most of the plamation, remarking that she does croupiers are said to be Austriaır not in the feast object to hearing ex-officers.

anything, but that she has business

detailed, has received title atten- tion from the Press One Super

intendent of Schools is reported as saying that "The very idea of the Commissioner of Accounts Inver tigating such a subject as the teaching of history, in the public; schools is highly amusing."

free of charge.

Office 21, Wellington

ASTÓR HOUSE HOTEL

Quoor's Road' Central.

NEW DINING BOOM opened for Meals a la Carte. Excellent Cuisine. Monthly Tlosets for Tifins & Diument, Fr Further particulars apply to

"THE MAÑACKE Fongkong, May 1, 1821

JAPANESE MASSAGE.

N. AKAJI, Gradence of Tokio Manage Subook, Nos. 9-10, Prayá East; Wanghal.

Central 2830.

MASSAGE.

Mrs. HONDA, MPV,,KIÑAKI RAË K. SHIMIDTV.

No. 2, Wyndrul Biznes Čopponita.to.Czw. Thin Mal!!).

TANG YUE" DENTIE

Cho Late SIEN TING.” 14. D'Aguilar Bilik TERMS VERY MODERATE Donatilation Pries