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LAMMERT BROS.

ASCHIOTSELU, ÁṛPRAISINS

AND SULVETORN,

-Pablic Auctions-

Undersigned have received in Mom to sell by Public Avetion.

on

THURSDAY, Qutobor 25, 1923.

commencing at 5.15 p.m.

at their Bales Rooms, Duddell Street.

A ̈Volnablo Collection of

Postage Stamps

Catalogues will be issued.

On View Irem Wednesday the 24th October 1923

Terms: Cash on delivery,

!.....

LAMMERT BROS.,

Autonoor

Hongkong, 19th October, 1923.

on

FRIDAY, October, 26, 1923, commencing at 11 am.

thair Bales Roome, Duddell Street,

! One Cass Tweed.

Bait Longtha.

Shirts.

Neckties and Sundrica. Torms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS. Auottonoers

ON

SATURDAY, (ctober 17, 1923, commencing at NUON.

at their Salos Rooms, Daddell Street, A Quantity of

Wines, Spirits & Liquours. Comprising:--

Sparkling Hock, Creme do Menthe, Moscatel, Anisette, Cherry Brandy, Orange Curacao, Lemon Peel Gin, Kummel, Sloe Gin, etc.,

etc.

Terma-Cash on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneer. Hongkong, Find October, 1923.

ON

MONDAY, October 29, 1923, commencing at 2.45 p.m.

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at No. 20 the Peak, Chamberlain Road. A Quantity of Talable Household furniture, (Full particulara from Catalogus) On View from Sunday the 28th October 1923.

Tarms -Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

TUESDAY, October 30, 1988. commencing at 2.30 pm.

at No. 25 Belilios Terrace, Conduit Road, A Quantity of

Valuable Household Furniture, (Full particulars from Catalogue) Oc View from Monday the 20th October 1993.

forms: Cash on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Blongkong, 23rd October, 1923.

THE WATER BUPPLY.

Laval and Bloraga of water to vaservoirs on the 1st Cctober 1923-

TY AND HILL DISZATOT WATER WOKED

LIVIL

10分

1023.

Tessm 21. fin. Abute jutt.. Cin. Alone overdow

arortow

Team Brevik 11. 11. Below avaztan

a. Alors avesom

Tywin Intermediate 10ft.) ula, Are overlow

'. Below overflax

Syam Tak Maf sin.

eleorachow

We Came !!!L'

(Laval will overdos

Tin. Bator wwwrdow Juli. Tin. Below arerdow

Pokialam, it. 10.

Below overflow Jen, 10. Below aradan EXTRADE IN NELLIES AND DIOTELES DY WALLZNE

1PZL

tran

Itam Berrach mornin

5.44

43.85

Trum Intersadiste

17.00

Krian Tak

210.40 5.419.09

Wee Ke Chang sun

18.04

£4,50

01.43

Total

1,479.15

2,143.07

المشار الي

Campdon of water in the Olty and Bill District in millions and decimals gallons during the month of September.

nama

Option Derb

Gay some HON SPA

1932 1919. 19546 210.77 GE 363,700 374,0va

17 μ 197

Intermittent Supply in all Rider Main Districts during September 1922 except- Boy, 3 day viz, lab to tth when a Con- bent Bapply was given in the Rider Main Districts West of Eastorn Street.

Constant Bupply in all districts until 3rd optomber 1925,

Intermittent Supply in all districts frem 4th to 30th excepting the district Tout of Arsenal Street which was giren

Constant Supply from 13th September. These restrictions were' necessitated on account of damage to the Rowen Road Conduit by landslide.

1973

KOWLOON WATER WORKA LEVEL. #rios desvika } SIL Ola." ZIU; Vin. A bars överfow

4 Bater..... § Above overÄYN

„ÉTERANN, SI, KINEZONE AND BETIKALA EV HALLOTS. roca Chowdon

02-26

BUTORE permen4:00

Dontumption of water to Kowloon in millions and decimals of quilons daring the month of September.

ElaeocnyMom per hondj

46.41 10,70

11,1

EPLA

111,700

142

1011 m. J.

G. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

SANITARY ENGINEERS

MUNUSIENTALISTA

amra and Godowo,

, Wanchal Kand, Hongkong

Tel. Central No. 209

JUST RECEIVED A NEW STOCK OF NATIVE TRAP CLOSETS-LAVATORY BASINS BATH18-EQOBITELL HEARTH TILEY &c.

ESTIMATES FREE FOR ALL WORKS

GENERAL REPAIRS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TU.

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

THE CHINA MA

Sir Thomas Lipton's Struggles.

To Sir Thomas Lipton the first rungs of the ladder were hard to climb. Such was the poverty of his parents that when "Ton "was but nine years old he was sent out to add a weekly half-crown to the poor family purse as an errand- boy-a humble part which he played for half a dozen years. Then came a stirring of boyish

Three Froggies and Nelson.

↑ A Modet. Venture.

The late Mr. William Whiteley On the occasion of the big Gor don-Bennett Motor race in Ireland, had worked many years, as aps, won by Jenutzy, three Frenchmen, prentice and assistant, behind not unknown in the motor-world,

were being shown round Dublin by drapers' counters, before he took a jarvey. He took them out to his courage in both hands, and, Phoenix Park and said: "You with his modest savings, opened couldn't bate that in France." The his first small shop in Westbourne Sunday afternoons at Longchamp,

Parisians, who never missed their Grove. On the opening day his

ALL KIND OF BUILDERS' REQUISITES restlessness and ambition. The that in France," only to hear the Whiteley, "in the presence of my-1

IN STOCK.

SPECIALISTS IN ITALIAN MARBLE & HONGKONG GRANITE WORK- “STESIURIALE-As., TO-OWN-OR SELECTED DESIGN-COMPLETE IN ALL DETAILS & ERECTED IN HONG- KONG-CANTON-HACAO OR F.0.B.-HONGKONG,

A LANGE ASSORTMENT OF ARTIFICIAL WREATHS.

FOR SALE

CARMONA FERTILIZER

It promotes healthy and vigorcus growth, and in this way imparta to the plaate sufficient strength to prevent disease attacking them.

GRACA & Co., Dealers in Garden Seeds, Postage Stamps, Pictorial Post Cards, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Bux No. 620,

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese Band Mado)

Evory kind of FootwORT, MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00.

6. D'AQUILAK STREET,

Oppoetre Kayamally & Oo. Telephuse Central No. 401

Hongreaz. 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)

ASAHI BER

PILSENER BEER

MORAND PRIZAJI

MASAN BE

NIPPON

SAHI

LAGER

-SPECIALLY

KREWERY COME

Bestriction in all districts up to the 6th and Fall Sapply in all districts from #th Reptember 10...

Full Supply in all districts during Beptember 1923,

***ans Goværumánt kinlyst's sporta zbaw S'aïble quality of the water is antisfac- Jory.

Total Relata 1 is 30th September de-là la 1070 12.

EL T. OBMAAY.

·Water Auiborily. #ubllo Works Deperiment.

SOLE AGENTE:

BEER

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA

F

and

or Auteuil, shnigged their first customer was a pleasant-faced shoulders and said: "Facilement old lady, who, after purchasing a easily. The jarvey then took cap front, proposed to offer a prayer them to several other places, and for the success of the new under repeated his: "You coudn't bate taking. "This she did," said Mr. errand-boy heard wonderful tales usual reply. Finally he showed self and my two assistants. This of fortunes quickly made on the them Sackville Street and drove lady was one I most dearly loved gold-field of the New World; them up to Nelson's pillar. Point-until the time of her death, and I and, taking i brave heart ing to old man on top, he said: very often think of her and her with "That's Nelson, you couldn't bite many acts of kindness to myself empty an

pocket him, he fared forth to America, him in "France, anyhow." And and those associated with me.” a steerage passenger in an occan then the three Froggies were Such was the modest cradling of tramp. From New York he drifted silent.

the enormous business which later to California, where he toiled for a

sprung up in-Westbourne Grove poor piltaace on a plantation, only

which em- and Queen's Road, Sir Richard Burbidge, the maker to return to New York to hardships, the full story of which has never of Harrod's great stores, began his been told. But in spite of every brilliant career under even less handicap, the youth managed to favourable auspices, for he was scrape together £100; and with this born in a poor home to a boyhood he proudly returned to his native of struggle. "I owe my success in Glasgow to open a small provision life almost entirely to the training shop, the nursery of the gigantic and example of the best of "She was one business which has made his name mothers," he says. known wherever the sun shines. Sunlight Soap.

The Maker of a Great Store.

Mr. Gordon

plays some 7,000 hands, and has annual tumover counted in mil- lions of pounds. Selfridge, who, if not British by birth, has made his fortune in Eng- fand says of the beginning of his wonderful career:I started as a boy at Marshall Field's great store in Chicago, and worked my way up of the old school, who did her own baking, bacon-curing, cheese and step by step to be manager of a

THURSDAY, OUTØBER 25, 1923

G. FALCONER & CO., (HONGKONG) LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS DIAMOND MERCHANTE

UNION BUILDING (OPPOSITE G.

Agents for S—ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

KOSY'S BINOCULARS and TELI SCOPES KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS,

· ENOLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery,

THE INTERNATIONAL

1

SHIRT CO.

Howl Office: 79 Wyndham troet. Pad Floor. (Opposite Featral Police Station.) Tei. Central 4160-

Dealere in all kinds of High-class Silk Shirts, Collars, Necktion and Pyjamas for Gentlemen

AND ALSO

Chemises, Skirts, Wrappers, Scarfs, Veils, and Night-gowns for Ladies ALSO MADE TO ORDER MODELATE PRICE

PROMPT DELIVERY Manager: EMILIO LAU

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

There is no royal road to riches," Butter making, as well as the wash-department. Isaw losses, friction.ONG HING & CO., Kodaks and Kodak Filma, det.. des.

Mr. John D. Rockefeller, king of multi-millionaires, once said. "The path that leads from poverty to wealth is very steep and rough, and it requires sturdy limbs and a stout heart to climb it." And there

ing for the whole family. She waste on every hand. This was due taught me lessons of hard work, thought out a central organisation to a want of organisation. "I thrift, and pluck, which have been all the departments built up, so invaluable to me. While I was an apprentice I worked 14 and 15 minating in a single head.

to speak, storey on storey, cul- hours a day, and revelled in it worked it all out; and, as I got more and even in those early years I

power at Marshall Fields', Ibrought

is probably no self-made Croesus dreamt of the day when I should

Leverhulme

horizon was limited to cutting and wrapping up soap; but I soon made up my mind to see what lay beyond it. I determined to master every detail of the business; and, in spite of my father's opposition and lack of enterprise, I persuaded him to let me go out as a traveller on £1 a week. I was so successful in my new venture that, by the time I was twenty, my father had made me a partner, with £800 a year, and from that day I never looked back. At 28 I bought a wholesale business; and with the money I made in it (£27,000) I resolved to start soap- making—with what results, I think, the world knows." An Evil Mind.

they made me a partner." For thirteen years he was director of the world's greatest store, before he crossed the Atlantic to found the business in London, which is known the world over. Millionaire Shipping Magnate.

ving who would not heartily be the head of a great departs it into being there, and at length} endorse this sentiment, Lord mental store, such as was then commenced his unknown, and such as I have been father's shop, as a boy of sixteen, able to realise in Harrod's. As a toiling carly and late for a boy I saw my goal clearly; and shilling 1 week. "In these with hard work, concentration and early days," he says, "my pertinacity I was able to reach it." What Women Think of Mussolini.

Lord Pirrie, the millionaire Women observers of the Dicta shipping magnate, left a very tor are not so covinced of his humble home in the village of Napoleonic: appearance. Miss Clandeboye, County Cown, to sit Viola Tree. saw Mussolini at

on stool in the office of Messrs. Venice in June last, surrounded by Harland and Wolff, who had re- his faithful Fascisti.. He walked cently started a very modest ship- splendidly and bareheaded," says building establishment in Belfast; Miss Tree; "I thought him like and, such were his zeal and in- Lord Beaverbrook, but I thought, dustry, within six years he had be more obviously perhaps, like the come head draughtsman to the firm, older Napoleon" That vigorous and by the time he was twenty- American writer, Mrs. Clare seven he had blossomed into a part» Sheridan, is less kind. She does

ner. How the firm progressed by not like Mussolini, and makes no leaps and bounds under the stimu bones about it. Is it because he lus of his clever brain and his en- "cares not for women or children,"thusiasm the world knows; and to- as she admits, and alleges that he day the boy who was cradled in an One of the weirdest letters ever also admits? Anyhow, Mrs. She Irish cottage controls companies written has come to Messrs. Foyle, ridan described him as the man with a capital of £30,000,000, has under him an army of scores the second-hand booksellers of with the mock Napoleon head Charing Cross Road. It was whose "walk hud not the firm of thousands of men, and wears addressed to them by a would-be decision of a strong man, but the the coronet of a Viscount. Almost customer and reads thus: Good shuffling step of a defiant child." more astonishing has been the morning Sir, I am writing you to This view is exceptional. Most of career of Sir James Hill, Baronet ask if you have a book in your those who have seen Mussolini and," wool king" who started on have been impressed by his the road to riches by hawking possession which I can weave a spell on any one. I have a lot of strength and forcefulness. The vegetables through the streets of them worst type men and women Observer describes his first impres- he says,

correspondent of The Bradford. "The market salesmen," were keen. My deals as well. If you have a book in your sion as that of a man in perfect with them taught me how to bar possession the same please forward

gain, and the training has stood me in good stead all my life," Desert- lng his barrow, he set himself to learn weaving and wool-stapling: graduated as buyer and salesman, "Houses I Have Lived In.” scraped together every pound he My early recollections are of an could spare from the most frugal old ivy-covered farmhouse on a living, and was at last able to start bleak upland in the South of in business for himself as a wool Scotland. It was a roomy family merchant, in Vincent Street, Brad- house containing the lowest ford. From that time his progress percentage of comfort and con- to riches has been unbroken; and the ex-hawker controls venience of any house I have lived to-day,

several large companies, employs in since, save une. Picturesque without, it was, draughty within, an anuty of workpeople, and is re- of England's minus water, sanitary convenience, puted to be one and coal-cellar. Everything had richest men. to be brought in from outside, and the winters of those days were the

Roman

it on to me as I am in earnest for health who showed no sign of the book, I don't care if it is a strain or flurry, who came forward witches book I want one so that I with a smile, quietly confident, can have my own back with them. without arrogance or show. I don't believe in heaven or hell. I hevent been to a place of worship this forty years Don't believe in Infeldisan so you see I want a book of the blackest kind so as I can weave spells or do anything what is evil, he sure and let me know by return of post and I will send the money immediately for the book of any kind what I can pay them back. Ring Off." What diabolic purpose was in the evil mind of lim who peaned this letter?

French Conversation.

of

43

To speak French so that one can be understood of the French people, real thing. Weeks and weeks of rather than to read it, or to plough snow and desolating frosts which through dull exercises, is the ambi- necessitated the thawing out of

kettles pump-handles with tion of the normal student, observes a writer in the Westminster Gazette boiling water. I can remember Yet, if two or three people gather watching my mother winding together with the laudable desire to ropes of straw round and round the pump, until it looked like the improve their "speaking" French,

inflated does the gift of tongues descend

car tyres with which advertisement has made us upon them? Sadly we must confess that the plague of paralysis is usual-familiar. That was to prevent it 1y the outcome of such a gathering!

freezing-but it never did. Brains and tongues alike refuse to might delay the process but that act, and the whole business be- was the utmost limit of achieve- comes either boredom in excelsis ment. In the long run everything ora farcical comedy. A much bet- got frozen up, and a well at some ter plan is to procure some volume distance. had to be broken. Into of French plays, modern and there every moning, the ice inches thick fore colloquial, and for the members Smashed with a hammer, and of the circle, each with a type buckets let down to bring up the written copy of his part, to read the precious fluid. Yet I believe there was then less grimilling over play in parts, each member keep-household affairs than there is now. with shortness of breath on even slight

It

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DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 174, Qus's ROAD CHITRAL, HONGKOKO.

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

HONGKONG:

SHANGHAI:

PEKING:

Peak Hotel

Hongkong Hotel

Repulse Bay Hotel

Astor House Hotel

Palace Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalea

Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits

The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.

In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

and

The Grand Hotel des Wagona Lisa, 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, med Central Districts, 43 Bedrooms, Excellent Cuisine. Scrupulously cleme Under American Management A new Dining Room has been opened at No. E, Queen's Road (Ist floor). Entrance Ice House St. Tiffius a speciality.

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

(Two minutes from Star Ferry),

PALACE HOTEL KOWLOOS

Recently renovated and refurulabød, slestria light and fans througho sad surely enter new management. Qulzins under the personal supervidos of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Boomt - Tarma modarate. Epecial termen die familles on application to

Telephone Kowloon 3.

Telegraphie Add, : "FALECIT."

HOTEL

*. H. OXEFEKY, Proprietor

"ASIA"

WEST BUND, CANTON,

Leading Hotel in Bouth

China.

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans ac Elevators. Roof Garden. Hairdressing Salcot,

Splendid Views of City and Pearl River,

Excellent Cuisine:

Moderate Rater.

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

KING EDWARD HOTEL

DENTRAL LOCATION

LL, ELECTRIC TILAM? Pas Entrance, Kleo-

trio Lifts, Fans and listing. Bath and Banitary Pittings, Hot

Waler System throghrát. Deal of Food sal,

Carl. 273. Telegraphio Address...' VICTORIA ¿WITCHELL, Manager.

Tol.

LITTLE PIMPLES ON BABY'S HEAD Became Sore Eruptions. Hair All Fell Out, "Lost Rest. Cuticura Heals.

"When my baby was a month old hta hond broke out with little pirn- ples which became large, sore Grup- tions. The hair around the emptions all fell out. He lost his rest at night on account of the fellation, and. I | had to tie his hands to keep him

from werkubingo batman a

**I sent for a free sample of Carl-

· cura Boep and Ointmant. - After the Brat application he got radial to 1 purchased more, which hauled him.” (Signed) By, Louis Harris, 47, Orchard Pl.. Poplar, London, E. 14, __England._____

Cuticura Boap to ciasnas, Cmicture Olatment to soottia sind heŝt,

CANTON.

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL Queer's Road Central.

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NEW DINING ROOM opened for Heals in Carts. Rxcellent Cuisine. Monthly Tickets for Tiffing & DinnatŁ Fe further particulars apply to

THE MANAGER Bougkong, May 1, 1923.

JAPANESE MASSAGE N. AKAJI, Graduate of Tokio Massage School, No. 8, Queen's Road, C. Telephone No. C. ASDK.

MASSAGE.

Mes. HONDA, Mrs. KIBAKI saG R. SHIMIDZU. No, i Wyodřen. Etrmeň. (orpodle to Ban. Chia Yell

TANG YUK, DETE

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