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

ANCTIONEDES, AFFRAINEES §.

AND SURVEYORS,

-Public Auctions-

Torty Pabils Auction,

Na Undersigned baresarea insU DO»

dn

WEDNESDAY; Eccember 8, 1929,

sommencing at 6.15 p.m.

at their Salon Roome, Baddell btract, ▲ Valuable Collection of Postage

Stamps

including :-

Ears Old Enropo, China, Shang-

bai and British Colonies Oatalogues will be issued.

On View from Tuesday the 4th Debomber 1928

Tarma-Cash on delivery.

LAMMENT BROS.

Augitonedru.

Hongkong, 29th November, 1923,

DN

THURSDAY, December 8, 1923,

commencing at il ..

at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street.

A Fino assortment of Valuable and Suitable artioles for

Xmas Presents Diamond, Pearl, Emerald, Platinum and Gold Jewellery. Fine Belgian Cat} Class, Marble Blasues and Fancy Goods. On Vion from Wednesday, the 6th December 1923.

Terms --Cash on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS.; ÁDOMODMIE.

Eongkong, November 30, 1923.

SANITARY ENGINERALS MONUMENTALISTS ETC.

Office and (DORA, Wacht Brind, Hangkasy Tel.:Content Mo, 209

"JUNY RECEIVED A NEW SUPPLY OF *g" & "P" TRAP ULOSETS.

ALL KINDS OF BUILDERS REQUISTIES IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY.

ESTIMATES FREE FOR ALL KINDS OF BANITARY WORK-MONUMENTAL

WORK IN ITALIAN MARBLEE

HONGKONG GRANITE

A NEW STOCK OF ARTIFICIAL WREATHS JUST, ARRIVED... FROM 18′′ £ 8" diameter.

GENERAL REPAIRS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.

JUST RECEIVED POSTAGE STAMP

CATALOGUES 1924

Yvert et Tellier

Scott Stamp and

Cola Co.

@ $4.00 each

» $3.50

"

GRACA & 00,,

Dealers in Postage Stampe, Religious Goode, View Post Cards, Garden Stads, Toys, &c., do.

No. 10, Wyndham Street,

P. O. Box No, 820.

Hongkong.

THE CHINA MAIL.

LIKE

LANDMARK

DIGNIFIED BY YEARS OF SERVICE

60

THE

CAPSTAN

LABEL

HAS BEEN A DIRECTING SIGN

TO

DISCRIMINATING SMOKER/

MONDAY, DKCEMBER ® -8, *1929-*

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING ̈FAR EASTERN HOTELS.

HONGKONG.

Telegraphic Address :--KREMLIN,"HONGKONG. HONGKONG HOTEL

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

"SHANGHAI.

PEAK HOTEL

- Telegraphic Address"-CENTRAL, SHANGHAL ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL -

GRAND HOTEL KALER.

PEKING.

PALACE HOTEL.

Telegraphic "Address :-WAGONLITS, PEKING.

·GRAND · HOTEL DES WAGONS LITS,

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

in conjunction with.

The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lita. Ltd.

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

The Only American Hotel in the Colony. Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banks, mad Central Districts. 43 Bedrooms. Excellant Onisins. Borupulously clean. Undar American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened wi No. 2, Queen's Boad (ist floor). Entrance Ice Lonse Bt. Tilflow a speciality.

For terms apply to Mrm, F. E. CAMERON, Proprietress.

PALACE HOTEL

Tel. Address Painoo

(Three minutes from Kewloom. Ferry Wharf & Railway Station.). Entirely under English Management. Kisotrie Lisht and Fans Throughout. Every Hoom with Private, Bath.

Lounge Bar & Billiard Rooms. Unrivalled Voisino under the personal

supervision of the Proprietor.

Torms moderato. special terms to familias on application to

J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor.

Tel. Kowloon

No.

Meters. LAMMERT BROTHERS have received instructions to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION

FRIDAY

the 7th day of Lacomber 1923, at 3 o'clock p..

at their Auction Rooms in Duddell Street The Valuable Leasehold Property situated at

Kennedy Road, Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong and

Registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot No. 1744, together with the message and buildinge thereon known BS No. 24 'Kennedy Road,

For further Particulars and Conditions of sale apply to WILKINSON & GRIST, Vendor's Solicitors

9, Queen's Road Central

or to

LAMMERT BROTHERS, the Auctioneerá. Hongkong, November 30, 1923.

Hoera, LAMMERT BROTHERS have received instructions from the Liquidator of the Hongkong BIDE & LEATHER Co., Ltd (in Liquidation) to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION

un

FRIDAY

The giet day of December 1923, at 3 o'clock p.m.

at their Auction Rooms in Duddell Street The Property, Machinery and Plant, and Tanning Chemicals of the above concern (to be sold in 3 Lots)

Lot 1. Property situated at Ma Tan Kot, Kowloon on K.I. Lots Noe. 1287 and 840 containing an are

of 110,842 sq feet. Crown Rent $506.00 annum.

Lot 2: Machinery and Plant

Lot 3. Tanning Chemicals.

For further Particulars opply to

WILKINSON & GRIST, Vendors Solicitors,.

9, Queen's Road Central, or to LAMMERT BROTHERS, the Auctioneers. Hongkong, 1st December, 1923.

HONGKONG HEIGHTS.

For the information of visitors tl following list of some of the highest gujaks on the Island and Mainland i

MEARD

Blewal Shahe

Mi Parker

Moumain Lodge The Eyrie

Talkoo Banatorium

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese Hand Made)

Every kind of FootwORT. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00.,

6, D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally à Co. Telephone Central No. 491

Hongkong, March 20, 1914,

WHY BUY FORŽIGN MADE SUITCASES, -

When we Hell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases ?

They are Cheaper and More Durable.

CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO. (Opposita Xaumsti Ferry, Pray's)

ASAHI BINE

FLSENER BEER

SAHE

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

New Boys At Eton,

The sons of three eminent roen are among the new boys at Eton this term. They are

The Hon. P. R. L. Beatty, son of Earl Beatty.

Court Humou:

I am not a servant; I am a cat's meat man by profession!" said a man at Marylebone County Court

Mighty Atoms

The sun's rays, acting through of the wandering molecules of car- the vegetable world, build up some

She said she would like to have five minutes with me in the dark," said a woman at Acton, referring to a neighbour.-Magistrate And do you go in fear of her bonic acid, of water, of nanomis, Applicant: Yes, now the dark and of salts, into the fabric of plasts. The plants are devoured by animals, nights are coming along.

animals devour one another, mun devours both plants and other animals; and hence it is very passi- He was, trying to emulate Joe blo that atoms which once formed Beckett," said a constable of a an integral part of the busy brain of man charged at Lambeth, Why Julius Caesar may now enter into not the victor?" asked Mr. Rooth, the composition of Cresar the negro "He was fighting an imaginary in Alabama, and of Cmear the house-dog in an English homestead. foo," said the constable.

Has he ever given. you any. And thus there is sober truth in money?" asked the clerk at the words which Shakespeare puts Strafford of a woman who was into the mouth of Hailed:~~ summoning her husband, for de sertion. "Yes," she replied, "a 108, note on my wedding day !”

My son bit him in, self- defence," said a woman at. Tower Bridge. Mr. Waddy: How old is your son Thirty. Mr. Waddy: Then I know what you mean by "self-defence. I've learnt a good deal about “self-defence" since I have been a magistrate, Life With Youth Missed Out.

Youth goes.

The first wild

HOTEL

“ASIA”

WEST BUND, CANTON,

Leading Hotel in South China.

....

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans and Elavators.

Hairdressing Roof Garden.

Balcon

Splendid Views of City and Pearl River.

Excellent Cuisine:

Moderate Rates.

Under the Management the SUN 00,, LTD. - CANTON. A

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.

Telegraphic address *ASTOR"

Telephone Central 170. 13, Queen's Road Central.

A árst class Hotel centrally located, largé and afry rpomu, completely renovated and refurnished. New Diding Room for Meals and la Carte. Excellent Cuisine. Monthly Tickets for Tiffins and Dinners. Under entirely new Management.

For further particulars apply to“

Imperial Casar; dead and turned | KING EDWARD HOTEL

to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the cald

away,

Oh, that that earth, which kept

the world: in awe Should patch a wall, t' expel

winter's flaw,

HUALRY.

M. McKenna, son of the Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna.

The Hon. A. R. Primroes, son of Lord Dalmeny, and grandson of Lord Rosebery. Their names

are printed in the School List isaned by the Elon College Chronicle.. The Light Aeroplane.

Aeroplaning develops fast on the two extremes on the one hand, bugines of enormous power Bre constructed and gigantic machines are driven at between 200 and 250 miles an hour; on the other light aeroplanes are being driven with engines of motorcycle capacity at moderate speeds and with a remarkably low consumption of

Instead Of One QB petrol. One of the competitions at Lympne is for the greatest distance

The Rev. Dr. Rosalyn Bruco in flown on a gallon of petrol, and ardour of the spirit goes. To the the Times says:-"In your bio- after three days the figure stood at writer, to the poet, youth is the graphical column on the man of 87.5 miles. Over a limited distance

speed had been obtained of 66.5 enchanted period, the way of many friends-Oscar Browning

But Vinevar had never the writer touches on the lighter divinity. miles per hour, while one place had flown altogether 700 miles and been young. Even in Frankfort as traits of this, remarkable character another 50 miles less. It is as a little boy Vinevar was not young with penetration and delicacy and tonishing that so much, progress He was old with the experience of I had almost hoped that He would And having never been allow himselfito quote a playful little should have been made in the last, his race. twelve months, and there will be young, as he grew all the thing for namber' which in its day delighted some interesting.conclusions to be which he lived had come to life, eo 0.B. very sincerely. His many drawn from the meeting about the to his friends he seemed younger friends will remember that at a cer- reliability of light machines, the His buzzing eyes drow, forth, their tain period he was much concerned possibilities of landing on rough arguments Life did not disquiet about the development of his phym- ground (because of the moderate hun. He knew it for what it was cal proportions, and it was then that landing speed"), and the use of worth. He played the revolution there appeared the following, which low powered engiacs.

for personal power. Things pass. is surely among tlle neatest bons. Mammoths Tinka

Men pass. Men and women drift mots of our time :----!!

40.B.1 Oh be obedienti

To Nature's stern decreza, Or else, instead of one 0.B., You will be too obese.

Two mammotiis" tusks, one four down the ages, so said. Vinevar, feet long and the other a foot long, watching the stream of humanity. have been found beneath zo feet of drift over the edge of the world: He London clay at the works of the knew that life was in its essence North London Ballast Company, what he phose to make it. And ho Angel Road, Edmonton, and have drew near to its uncertain moods; Henry Ford And The Presidency. been handed over to the local bringing to its bitterness time own News comes from Nebragim that museum. The gift was formally knowledge of its futility and the Mr. Henry Ford bad allowed, at acknowledged by the chairman of meaning of its sorrow. Vinovar least by silent consent, the inclusion the Museum Committee (Mri Fler and life had nothing left to find out of his name as Progresave candi- cher Thomas) at a meeting of about each other. His aim was to date at the State Presidential pri- the Edmonton-District Council. serve his race, no more, no less. Hamary election mys the Times In a report he states that the bore, to existence na illuson. Washington correspondent. If Mr. faiks evidently Belonged to two Sirstly, silently, the treatment of his Ford is to be a candidate on the distinct mammoths. *** They are↑ early days bad gnawed at his nature, Progressive ticket there is not the referable," He states, “to Elephas ariti hate had binded him to all the faintest doubt that he could'throw primigenius, "and" belong to the sweetness of human companionship, both Republican and Democrilio. geological periód known as the He (nd been brought to bitterness pártles into dire confusion. · His Middle? Pleistocene or the last by what ought to have been good tabulous wealth, the power, and in- Glacial Age when glaciare covered:

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for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

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· Dealers in all kinda of High-clnou Collars, Necktime sondi Pyjazone i