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

AUCTIONEELS, AFPRAYNERS

AND SURVEYORS,

-Public Auctions -

SANITARY KNOINKRU MONUMENTA HISPS-

Officer and Godawas,

Wanchal Road, Hongtang

Tol Central No. 200

JUST RECEIVED A NEW STOCK OF --~~++NATIVE TRAP CLOSETY-LAVATORY

HM Undersigned have received manDO-

Mox to all by Pablle Auction,

DX

SATURDAY, Catober 57, 1823, commorcing at ROON,

at their Salos Rooms, Daddell Street, A Quantity of

Wines, Spirits & Liqueurs.

Comprising: --

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

Terms-Chih on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Hoogkung. 2ind. October, 1993.

on

MONDAY, October 29, 1923, commencing nt 11a.m.

at The Sun Sau Seap Factory; Wing

Hing Street (Cansoway Bay)

A Quantity of Machinery Comprising -

One Boilor

One Pump

Five Soap Boilers

One Paper Cutter i etc, etc.

And

A Quantity of Furniture

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 15th October, 1925.

DN

MUNDAY, October 29, 1923, commenting at 2.40 p.m.

at No. 20 the Fesk, Chamberlain Road. A Quantity of Volzable Household Farnitura, (Full particulars from Catalogue)

On View frem Sunday the 28th

October 1923.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

он

Auctioneers.

TUESDAY, October 30, 1925. commencing at 2.30 pm.

at No. 25 Belilice Terrace, Conduit Road,

A Quantity of

Valuable Household Furniture, (Full particulars from Catalogue) On View from Monday the 20th October 1923.

1

Terme-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT-BROS., Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 23rd October, 1923,

THE WATER SUPPLY.

Lare! and Storage of water lo reservoirs en the Let October 1993-

UITY AND HILL DISTEJOT WATER WORKI

LEVEL.

1972

1925,

Tylam 311. 550, Abore oft. gle. Abore protiom

Overdow

Tyler Brewi

sia. Abore ofarlow

1. B. Below overfor

Interardinis 50ft.) "dia Abore preciow o, Delow awardow Syam Tak sort. Bln.

Below overlow Hazel with prerdow

Wong Burung. 12/1,

zin, slow overdooft.is, Bolow uvardow

11h 10m. 7 Balow overtow

1. lin. Pelo prazo

ITERAAN DE MILIJONA ATO PRIKALI OF MARKANI.

BASING RATHS EGGSHELL” HEARTH TILES &o. ESTIMATES FREE FOR ALL WORKS

GENERAL REPAIRS PROMPTLY

-ATTENDED TO... –

ALL KINDS OF BUILDERS' REQUISITES IN STOCK.

BPECIALISTS IN ITALIAN MARULE & HONGKONG GRANITE WORK- MEMORIALS &, TO OWN OR SELECTED DESIGN-COMPLETE IN ALL DETAILS & ERECTED IN HONG. KONG-DANTON-MACAO ON F.O.R-HONGKONG.

A LARGE ABSORTMENT OF ARTIFICIAL WREATHS

FOR SALE.

CARMONA FERTILIZER

It promotes healthy and vigorcua growth, and in this way imparts to the plauis sufficient strength to prevout disease attacking them.

GRACA & CO., Dealers in Garden Seeds, Postage Stamps, Pictorial Post Cards, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street,

P. O. Box No. 320.

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese Hand Made)

Evory kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00..

8, D'AGUILAK STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Co.

Telephone Central No. 41

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 Forry, Praya)

ABAHI BER

405,71

2805

►

Train Brews an

*1

* Intermediate ****

117.00

084.60

91040 1,410,00

Hea

01 1,473.13

61.43

2,14340

Consumption of water in this Olty and Hill District in miliona and decimale

1 gallons during the month of September.

cmmcnction crem

Caption

1 Ko

13.

190.84 302,700 $71,690

197 17.0

210.77

tellows

Intermittent Supply in all Rider Main Districts during September 1929 except fox 8 day vic, let to th. when a Con stant Supply was given in the Rider Main Districts West of Eastern Street.

Constant Supply in all districts until 3rd September 1923,

Intermittent Supply in ait districts From 4th to 20th excepting the district Fast of Arsenal Street which was giroa

• Constant Supply from 13th Septambor. These restrictions were necessitated on account of damage to the Bowen Rond- Conduit by landslide.

KOTLOVE RATER WOSKI LEVEL.

$261

Bloom Ocarf | ZIT. OUL ITL 9. Áboro Ureñow

dan Katard. Abore avantiom

TROMAGE IN JISAJONS AND DONÓSLÁSH NO HALLONI."

Xion Gearkatos

Boris 874-03

1998

SI ZA

Consumptio of water to howloon in

allions and decimais of gallons daring tha

month of September.

W pinnatud population

45.51 136,320 gerbond 11.1 *

Bestelation

3打底。

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in all districts up to the 6th and Full Supply in all districts from 9th September 192

Fall Hopply in all districts during September 1913.

The Goverment Analyst's reporte sher #2 the quality of the water in salefac- kry.

192

1922 Tots: Rainfallin sock Beyanwber 00:19 la. 58'19 in.

11. T. CHKASY,

Watar Authority.

Pabllo Works Department.

Bunabizo-and-Common-Sense--| Don't doctor your blood for them alim. Use an external application of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. In a few days it will get you up and out into the Buahina, then Nature will restore the rich red blood to your veins and soon rid the system of ibis trublesome dis Co. For sale by all Chemisia and Storekeeper

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GRAND PRIZI

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WERY COME

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THE CHINA-MAIL.

99

The Three Castles

Guaranteed manufactured

in England...

Made in -Regular Magnum and Super Magnum Sizes.i▴e

Virginia Cigarettes

Smoked 'round the World

"Three Castles

WD&HOWills

* Trade Mark,

The Three

This advertisement-is listed by-the-British-American Tobacco Co. (China), LAL

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

A Silent Room.

опсе

"Foreign Office in Kent."

"Whole families travel down from Westminster to spend their holidays on the hop fields, and the standard of the workers is a good deal higher than the castal nature of the work might lead one to sup- pose," says the Scotsman, "Women who all the year earn their living by scrubbing out Government offices Kent

succumb to the great passion once only in their lives, and after it has faded are left with no desire to re- new it. Certainly no man can love two women at the same time. Pro bably, too, there is not, and never has been, such a thing as love at first sight. Falling in love, if not always gradual, will, on analysis, reveal three or four quite well-defined in sleeping

stages. One does not, as a rule barns on straw beds. "One consciously fall in love at all, outhouse near Tunbridge Wells is one's sub-conscious mind which houses nine charwomen who have acts for one; so that one may have labelled their home 'The Foreign been in love long before the per Office.'"

are now

•

It

sonal realisation of the fact. What is love--this powerful universal force, egoistic even when self- sacrificing..which can change the temperament, habits, and character of a man, sustain him in hope, drag him into despair?

FRIDAY OCTOBER 26 1923

C. FALCONER & CO., (HONGKONG) LTD

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS-

DIAMOND MERCHANTS.

UNION BUILDING (OPPOSITE G.

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 CO.

Head 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 AL80

Chemises, Skirts, Wrappers, Scarts, Veils, and Night-gowns for Ladies ALSO MADE TO ORDER

MODERATE PRICE

PROMPT DELIVERY

Manager: EMILIO LAU.

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Kodaks and Kodak Filmas, &s. De.

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 17A, QUEEn's Road Uzitral, Hongkong.

HONGKONG:

SHANGHAI;

PEKING;

:

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

Peak Hotel

Hongkong 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, Lid.

and

The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Ked.

Tel. Centl. 812. CAELTON HOTEL, Tel Add: "' Carltom.”

The Only Amariona Hotel in the Colony,

***** Nice and quiet yet only a low_minutes' walk from the Banka, and Central Districte. 43 Bedrooms. Excellent Cuisine. Scrapulously clomu. Undar American Management, à new Dining Room has been opened as No. 8, Queen's Road (1st floor), Entrance Lee House St. Tiffins a speciality,

For terms apply to Mrs. F. E. CAMERON, Propristrein. ·

(Two minutes from Star Ferry).

PALACE HOTEL KOWLOOM

Recently renovated and refurnished, electris light and fans throughout and entrely under new management, Caleine under the personal suparvískom of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Boom Terras moderate. Epecial terms families on application to

Telephone Kowloon 3, Telegraphic Add.; "Palath.""

HOTEL

7. EL OXBERRY, Propaletom.

'ASIA”

WEST BUND, CANTON,

Leading Hotel in South

China.

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans an Elevators. Roof Garden, Hairdressing Salcon,

Splendid Views of City and Pearl Biver,

Excellent Cuisine:

Moderate Rater.

Under the Management of the SUN CO., LTD

The British Museum Reading Room, which is closed for a few days for cleaning purposes, is one of the most silent spots in London, says the Morning Post. Though the room is capable of accom- modating 450 readers and there are generally not fewer than 300 pre- sent an atmosphere of profound Maids to Match Rooms, silence enwraps the place. It has "Experiments made in several always been so, for the port Gray, West End mansions prove that who was one of the first visitors to maids will work more contentedly the mom, wrote:-"I often pass and efficiently when they are wear four hours in the stillness and Ing clothes of nice design, and

One famous philosopher has de- solitude of the reading room." It bright colours," said the manager

fined it as "the genius of the race is appreciated to-day far more than of a London servants' agency. it used to be for Lord Beaconsfield She added that some clients-pro- manifesting itself in the feelings has left it on record that when his minent society women-had allow of two people for the purpose of its father first frequented the place his ed their maidservants to choose own perpetuation." And that, pro- companions never numbered half their own working dresses, and bably, is the best definition there a dozen !

had been agreeably surprised to is-and the real truth of the matter. find that they preferred colours Life Austria and Opera

which harmonised with those of the the fanious as

"There is in life only what we Ischl. favourite holiday resort of the decorations of the rooms which Emperor Francis Joseph and other they cleaned! Three servants put into it. If we will not take to employed in a house in Mayfan ourselves the verities of faith and monarchs, is now the headquarters asked for permission to wear al prove them in experience we can- of Austria's most important

and mond green

black-the not know their value; indeed, we understand their industry, which sends its exports to all parts of the world, the Daily dominant colours of the best rooms cannot even Chronicle reminds us. It is the in the house. Their request was meaning. They are at best but industry of turning out operettas granted; the required material was figures of speech, at the worst and musical comedies. At the supplied; the girls made up their mocking promises which taint out present time work is going on at own "uniforms" and got through pleasures and darken our sorrows, Divine goodness and deny the very high pressure. Franz Lehar their work in half their usual time. leading us at last to doubt the capacities of our manhood. The is there at his villa,busy endeavour What is Love? ing to "go one better" than his

At least 200 theories, mainly bane of indolence is the degenera- wonderful "Merry Widow." Leo scientific, have been propounded tion of life in unfaith. Those who Fall, Emmerich Kalman, Robert concerning the nature of love, and refuse to act in the light of the Stolz, and Julius Bittner are also in the last few years psychologists truth they acknowledge, and do working overtime in order to devise have come very near to answering not express their faith in life, will sooner or later lose the faith they new tunes and harmonics, while the question, "What is Love?"

Their cry will be, 'Who their librettists are at hand conjur Some psychologists still regard have. ing up rhyme and plot. Oscar love as a disease. They point out will-show us any good?' To that Straus has settled down in a suite that it is an obsession, and an cry of the indolent of soul-there is

is now obsession is a marked characteristic nothing but silence their own self-in and an En God of many mental ills. Love again created apathy. Life and religion water Bratate reagents Best of Food 14.1 is very akin to hate, points out "A are for them without meaning." Psychologist" in the Lenden Even- ing News. With some people the two emotions bold sway alternate- Avalon. "A poor man might be a thou- and when, as occasionally There's rose and gold in Somerset: There's rose and gold and blue; happens, the hate becomes abnorm- sand years old without anybody ally powerful, there often results A loveliness you can't forget, being any the wiser. In my jour one of those crimes of passion" Whatever else you do. neyings through Great Britain and which figure so prominently in the Ireland I have met old men and old newspapers. There is little doubt women who were half as old as that many men and women are par- time. Nobody could tell when ticularly susceptible to love. Others they were born. "As most cen- tenarians are poor, we are not able to ascertain their exact age, for poor folk are hazy about dates, and few families keep the Family Bible posted. The old custom of recording the dates of births in the Family Bible is dying out. It ought to be revived. The Family Bible was immortal. It lived from generation to generation. And the pages in which every birth was re- corded were valuable records. But I am afraid thatthe Family Bible is defunct. No longer does it repose majestically on a wool mat laid on a loo table in the parlour, We ought to revive the Family. Bible. It is the Burke of the poor man.”

-JAMES DOUGLAS,

putting the finishing touches to his Cleopatra's Pear," which is to be the sensation of the coming season in Berlin and Vienna. Old.

In the Sunday Express.

H

L safety last!

-The Times.

There's mystery in Somerset ;

A wonder anda light; of amethyst and violet Upon the hills at night.

And oh, the air of Somerset

Is scented deep and sweet With lavender, and mignonette.

And harvesting of wheat!

The earth's ablaze in Somerset ·

And crimson as the dawn,

For never rains have quenched as

**yet

The fires of Avalon,

Since Avalon Is Somerset,

י

Where legend all comes true;

A Land of Dream you can't forget,

Whatever else you dol

LAUDINE CURREY,

in the Windsor Magazine,

KING EDWARD HOTEL CENTRAL LOUATION EL ELECTSIO TLAMA Puus Entrance; Eiso-

Lighting,

Brivion.

TEL. COLL. TR Telegraphio Adtran >-~" VICTORIA 7. WITORELL, Manager.

LEE KEE

ESTABLISHED 1896

BATHS & BATH-ROOM

ACCESSORIES.

Estimates furnished

free of charge.

Office 21, Wellington St.

CANTON.

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL Queen's Road Central.

NEW DINING ROOM opened for.

Meals a is Carte. Excellant Cuisine. Monthly Tickets for Tiffins & Dinners. Fr Further particulars apply to

THE MANAGKE Bongkong, May 1, 1993.

MASSAGE

Mr. N.AKAJI & Mrs. E. AKAJI. Graduate of Tokio Massage School, No. 8, Queen's Road, C. Telephone No. C. 4996

MASSAGE.

Mr. HONDA, Mrs. KIBAKI ANG „B, EHIMIDEU.

Eo the Wyschen. Birast. (opposite to the Chulan Men)

TING-FUK+=Durin

Punonna in the late 'BUR3,5

· 14, D'Agullar Bléták.

TERME VERY MODERATE Commulation@T20.