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LAMMERT BROS.

AWOTŁÓWNEKA, ÅFFRAINEES

SAND SURVETOMA

-Public Auctions-

M. LAMMERT BROTHERS Euro received instructions from the Liquidators of the Hongkong HIDE & LEATHER Co., Ltd. (In Liquidation)

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

un FRIDAY

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The 21st day of December 1923, at 3 o'clock p.m.

ai their Auction Rooms in Duddell Street The Property, Machinery and Plant, and Tanning Cheruicals of

the above Concer

(to be sold in 3 Lots subject to A Reserve)

Los 1 THE EXTENSIVE WELL BUILT. COMMODIOUS AND. MODERN FRAMISES situzio at Ma Tau Kok, Kowloon, on K.I. Lote No. 1287 and 840 which contain

AN AREA OF 110,002 Sq. Ft.

held under Crown Lasses for 76 years from the 18th December 1911 with on options to Lot No. 1267 of a further 15 years subject to a Crown rent of $500 -per annum. The premises ure within the ofensive trade ares as defined by the Sanitary Authorities and a licence has been granted by the Governz- ment to carry on the business of tannery in all respects thereon. The property altust ed on the main road between Bok Un and Kowloon City and jin

CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE SEAFRON L.

The extensive buildings erected on the property are constructed of the

BEST SOLID BRICK AND

CONCRETE

with tiled roofs and CONCRETE PITS AND FLOORS.

There is an independent supply of water rem a specially cons trncud well on the primes. Lot 2. Tanning Machinery and Plant. Lot 3. Tarining Chemicals.

The Tanning Machinery and Plant will be put up first as cre lot. If the reserve price not stiched, the Plant and Machinery will be put up in sover- al lots.

For further particulare including con- ditions of sale, schedule: dachinery and Flaut and Chemicals, apply to the Vendor's Solicitors, M. WILKINSON & GRIST, 'Hongkong

....

or to

the Auctioneers,

3, Inddell Breot,

Hongkong. Hongkong, 7th, December 1928.

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THURSDAY, December 20, 1923, commencing at 9.30 p.m.

at their Sales Boom, Daddell Street:

▲ Fine Bolection of Toys.

Comprising:-

Dolls, teases, motor cars, foot balls, rocking horses, etchings, furniture

els, and Various other toya

alnoj

X'mas Crackers.

On View from Wednesday, the 19th

Becember 1923,

Terms ---Cath on delivery!,

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctionners

Hongkong, 14th December, 1913.

on

SATURDAY, December 22, 1923,

commencing at NOON.

at their hales Room, Daddell Street

& Chaise Pokef Jiunaus eis,

Comprising

Lemon Peel Gin, Oringe Curacao, Creme de Menthe, Anisette, Kummal, Momonte) etc., etc.

And

"Solention of Dutch Cigara.

(in good condition)

Al Muantity for!

Bigb, Clays Provisions

(to be sold in suitable lots)

KAMMER BROS..

Hongkong, 19th December, 1913,

HONGKONG HEIGHTS

For the information of visitors

fallowing lies of some of the highöjt is on the Island and. Mainland ja

Bignal Baton

My Parker Mountain Lodge

Yest 1174 1754

1730

The Byzic

Fast Hotel

Tulkoo Sanatorium

3000

Mt. Davis

-Bowen Ed. (Blbarbuch

MAINLANE.

Taimozhan 44

Kowloon Frak:

1971

Low Book

2645

Chatin Four

1000

Dative Prab

124

G..E. WARREN & 00, "LTB:

BANITARY INGINERA

MOMCHENTALISTS

Glow and Godowan Pra, Wanchal Road, Hongkong |

\Del. Central No, son

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JUST, RECEIVED

New Block Of LOWDOWN FLUSH CLOSETS- Mickel Plated, On Dr Bath Room Fittings-So-Dishes, Tumbler Holdern Tooth Brush Holder, Towel Raik, do. Opal Tumblers-Towel Rails Elinor

*Glass Metres, dc.

Brass Canopied Interior Grace Cooking Ranga--Filter, Soil Pipes, do.

Estimates Free For All Banitary Installa....

tions." Heating & Water System

Monumentaliata In Italian Marbjo-- Hongkong Granite. To own or selected design.

A Large Assortment Of Artificiaï Wreaths

In Stock,

1

FOR SALE

Fine Assortment of XMAS AND NEW YEAR

CARDS

WITH LOCAL VIEWS

and

TOYS,

at Moderate prices.

GRACA &.00,

Dealers in Toy, Postage Stampe, Pictorial Fog Care, Garden Seeds &o., No. 10. Wyndham Street, P. O. Box No. 820. Longkong.

SHOE MAKERS,

(Japanese Hand Made)

Every kind of footwear; MADE TO ORDER,

CHERRY & CO..

6. PAGUMATO&TREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Co.

Telephone Central No. 49)

Hongkong, Maroli 20, 1819.

WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITCASES,

When we tell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases 7

They are Cheaper and More Duráble.

”,,

CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO. (Opposite Taumati Fony, Paya)

ASAHI BEHR

LAGER

COME

BUSSAN KAISHA

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Flapper Pioneers.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Our purists have lately become very much alarmed about the su

supi posed deterioration of our

;

The golfer lunges fiercely at the ball and scars the fair turf come thing cruel, removing the father of all divots. The divot lete off on & true line and distances the ball ve yards. The ball hus bech busslightly disturbedij

In High street, Kensington the other day I saw pho waken woman with so gracious a manner and so cultured and attractive a face that I felt she could only be a Hormione or a Francosca

On the other side of the road how- ever, I sawi a little while ago a This crisis is too poignant for dreadful apparition. He was a was words. The man merely strides to named him, was in evening dress. gentleman." Sidney, as I have language.

the nearest tree and with perfect His trousers were very baggy, be This increasing barbarism, they stance and swing wraps about its a large red handkerchief assert, is largely due to the slangtrunk the shaft of the choice brassy protruding from the top of his words borrowed by modem He then laughs in a hollow man waistcoat, and he had a silly face youths and girls from America and ner and goeswiftly away from with K Horrid little black moustache. from other.countries.

there. He is somewhat eased in He might have been an organ Certainly rapid communication mind by this demonstration that he nowadays prompts all nutids-to-is-a-man and not a worm: ***

grinder or a costermonger going to these mutual borrowings. During Sex In Wax,

ball in hired evening dress, and he the war dozens of French Wörül

was actually entering with a smirk were acclimatised here.

a room in which were several charming women.

But isn't this the beginning of the universal language so mych desired by the very experts who yet con- demn its first lispings when they hear them? Are not the slangy youth and the Americanised"

flapper linguistic pioneers: without knowing it?..

Let them alone! In a few years they may be able to travel every where without the need of a dictionary,

Stage Animals.

Trained animals have always been very popular with the French and there' are two winter" circuses in operation all the time in Paris. Recently French authorities have been making exhaustive inquiries as to how per forming animals are trained. It is understood that those infairies: have shown that this training is almost torture. It is believed that efforts will be made to eliminate performing animals from all Freach films where they, haverg prominent place. The French Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has appealed to film makers not to eniploy animals in the future. The mem bers of this society have agreed to Jeave any theatre or motion picture house where performing animals are shown. It is doubtful if this will be effective. As we white there is

a letter from a kindly lady in one of the evening papers who wants all the animals in the Central Park Zoo and in the New York! Zqölög cal Park returned to their native jungles. It is strange, how many misguided persone are at largal.. A Tea Substitute

A new drink called "Cassina" may give tea a run. It is brewed | after the manner of tea from the! leaves of the cassina shrub which grows abundantly along the South Atlantic and Gulf States. Its active principle is caffein. Cassina con- taibe less tantin (hani tëú;however, and is less harmful to the system on this account. The average of all analyses of cassina made by the bureau showed a content of peri cent of caffein, and some samples ran as high as 1.65 per cent. The highest amount found in coffee is! given as 1.80 per cent, and for tex] the percentage runs as high as 3.50 About a year ago, Congress appro priated $5,000 for the investigation of the possibilities of the cassina plant.

The Bordau of Chemistry. using this money and a lot of old tea manufacturing machinery which had been used in the Govern ment's long and futile attempts 10 grow feat a resonable cost, set up an experimental station for the nianufacture of Cassing, hear Char leston, SC. The shrub grew wild in the vicinity, and the Bureau's exi perimentt hinged largely about the manufacture" from its leaves of al product from which the caffefn-con- taining drink could be brewed economicilly; and on a commercial 'sedle::

From A New Book.

Life is greatest when it is not tcp.soft.

The voluptuousness of. Puri taniam has never received full ré cognition.

aitengade b

em-

No religious formula has braced all mankind; groups are as inevitable Vs Mich@ality within the group.

A

...To eat, drink, and be merry is to make death inevitable and Jeaves immbrtalifyin' all its "ölő, un- certainty of tenure.' “

Mass production has invaded every walk of life, and we are ali in danger of being branded like herded cattle,SCLES

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If Whitman makes a virtue of the Inevitable Shaw, turns the inevit able into a vice.

As modern commerce develops and gets a firmer grip upon all things, including art, "the" little citadels of personal varicly, and excellence be needed nogonly

London's manhood is suffering from a scandalous indignity, writes a correspondent.

pag

I refer to the question of the wax models appearing in fashionable shopfront.

silent women of London have be- During the last few years the come more and more attractive. From simpering, silly fedures with farious expressions, they have changed to charming, women with intellectual faces and haundig

charm.

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Why should waxen man he sa contemptible. Why should they not have a loving care spent on their faces, and stand-handsome, well

There are plenty of men who could dressed, elegant company with their glorious women companions 2

act as models

How I would like to put Hex mione (or is it Francesca?) in the him melt and crumple and collapse. Katie window as Sidney and see

under her gaze.

SENNET FRERES

THE

COLONY'S BEST KNOWN JEWELLERS

**

DIAMOND MERCHANTS

“HAVE OPENED THEIR

NEW SHOP

at radi vend "Roy Vol

IN

PEDDER STREET TOPPOSITE HONGKONG HOTEL)

CUM BAM it goale

THEIR SALE of Cut Glass and Silver Ware continues in their old premises Queen's Road Central) until the end, of this month.

THE

QUALITY STORE

FOR

QUALITY GIFTS

Come and purchase your

7 er"!;"

Christmas presents from our

- ༈, *→

wonderful display of Jadestone

Jewellery, Silk Embroidery,

to give joy to the few who like Bars Preven such thinge, but to provide a jumps ing off place for new ideas,&

A great deal of nonsense ja falke ed about books, especially when they are assembled in libraries. A public library, is an Invòigible in- stlipifon for the, student." It is- essential for purposes of research. But in public Abrary may also be nothing more than the convenient instrument of a bad Kabterap

The American people are only repeating the meifing-pot process which England haa?? practised successfully down the ages

The taver, even when a paternal Puritaniam polis is of most duochiq të potions, will always roznih » symbol of date-and-good fellow shipp of high mal and Inspired ime, biraginings,ith the memories of men whodn that til ddy; if ever it come, will no longer be patrons of mine host From End Papers by Burnard.

Ivory, Silver, and Gold Ware.

SHIU YUEN CHEUNG

Old Post Office Building,

Cheen's Road 0.

Telephone C. 225,

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20 1923

HOTELS & CAFES

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS.

HONGKONG Telegraphic Address KREMLIN, HONGKONG, HONGKONG HOTEL

PEAK HOTEL.

REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

=་";' SHANGHAI. Telegraphic] Address 1-CENTRAL, SHANGHAL.. ÁSTOR-HOUSE-HOTEL

PALACE HOTEL.

GRAND HOTEL KALER.

PEKING.

Telegraphic Address:WAGONLITS, PEKING. GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONS LITS,

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

in conjunction with.

The Grand Hotel das Wagons Litu, Lâd.“

Tal. Centl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel.. Add "Carlton

Kadarmo The Only American Hotel in the Colony.

Nice and quer yet only low minted walk from the Banks, and Central Districts. 45 Bedrooms. Excellent Cuising. Borupuloudly clean Under American Management. A new Dining Room has beer Upened si No. 2, Queen's Road (1st Bloor). Entrance Loe House 8. Tiffins a speciality.

For terms apply to MoFE, CAMARON, Proprietresa,

Tal. Kowloon

No.

PALACE HOTEL

Tal. Addrom *Palson

(Three minutes from Kowloon Ferry Wharf & Railway Station.) Entirely under English Management: “Klectris Lápht and Fans Throughout. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge Bar & Billard Rooms. Uasirali Unising under the personal

supervision of the Proprietor.

Terms moderato. Special terme Co Tamififée on application to

HOTEL “ASIA

WEST BUND, OANTON.

Leading Hotel in South China. First class. Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans a Elevators Roof Garden. Hairdressing Balcos, Splendid Views of Chand Pear! River. Excellent Cuisine:

Moderate Rates.

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

:

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL. Telegraphic address, ASTOR" Telephone Central 170.

13, Queen's Road Central.

A first class Hotel centrally located, ikge and airy rooms. completely renovated and refurnished. New Dining Room for, Wendalausula Excellent Celine. Monthly Ablata for Tifline and Dianera. Under entirely new Management.

HAIX hoe evol For further particular apply

M. A. VAZ, Manager.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

A

CENTRAL LOCATION

EL BLOGERIS TRANSPAN KATĪBA, Mino- Tria LAZA, Pias and Lighting, Kuressa JEN ASÍ LAUttary Fitno, Hot and Cold

Berrios

TAL OIL A Tuligraphie dáárown >==" VIQTORIA;

FJ. WEICHELL, Manasm.

MASSAGE

Mr. N. AKAJI & Mrs. E. AKAJI, Graduate of Tokio Masugo Syboo

No. &, Quodtry Esd Telephone No. 6. 4395.

CO

tho lata BIEN TIBU, 14. D'Agullar Bros. TERMS TERFÄTÖDERATE

Conanitation re

MASSAGE.

Mrs. HONDA, Mrs. RUKAMI – mand „R. #HIMID 17

(apposite to the Thing Mol"}

G. FALCONER & CO. (HONGKONG) LTD

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS

DIAMOND MERCHANT:

UNION BUILDING (OPPOSITE G

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Agents 1992----ADMIRALTY CHARTS.

ROSS'S FINUCULARE And TELESCOPES KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, H-gh Class English Jewellery,

THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO.

Hind· Offres 7% Wyndham Street. And Bloor. (Opposite "entral Police Station) Tel, Central: 4166.

Dealers in all kinds of Bigh

Collars, Spoki

Ukenison, Skirts, Wrap

MODERA

KORDE for Ladies

Vela, and Eig

ERONTT DELIVERY

Hongkong,

LONG HING & 00.

DEVELOPING A PRINKING JA, SPI