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LAMMERT BROS.

AWOTIONEERS, ÁFPRAISEES AND SCAVEFORS,

-Public Auctions-

THE Undersigned havorserved ingreto Hons to all be Publin Amotion,

ON

THURSDAY, January 14, 1034, commencing at 5.15 p.m.

at their Baler Rooms, Duddell Street, A Valuable Collection of Postage Stamps

Catalogues will be issued.

On View from Wednesday the 23rd January 1924

Terma-Cash on delivery.

LAMMER BROS., Amerioneers.

Ou

FRIDAY, January 25, 1824, commencing at £30 pm.

st their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street. A Fino Collection of Chinoso. Curios

including:-

Five coloured, Red and White, Blue and White Forestsin of the Ming, Kanghai, Yang Cheng, Kionlung and Towkwang Periods

Jada, Crest, Agile Ivory Ware

Fice Lacquered Ware

-Also-

"

One Very Fine Blue and White Vase (Kanghai)

On View from Thursday the 24th. January 1924.

Catalogues will be issued

Terma :-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS. AustionHors

MONDAY, January 28th, 182k. comincacing at 10 30 a.m. & 2.00 p.m.

at Godown No. 23 The Hongkong Kowloon Wharf & Godown. Co., Ltd. Kowloon

A Quantity of Miscellaneous Goods

Comprising:-

Round; Flat and Square Bars, Angle. Iron, Joists, Bar Ends, Galvanized Wire, Flour, Planke Old Newspapers, Sulp hate cf Amman, Cussin, etc., etc,

Alao

50 Cates Chinese Wine

61 Canze Stont

24 Cases Provisions.

20 Packages Sewing Machines

48 Cases Machines

5 Bales Cotton Canvas

10 Casoo Shoe Wire

482 Bella Congoleum

10 Cases Shoe Nails.

Tarms: Cash on delivery.

.. LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong. January 18, 1924.

FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.

The Earos prescribed for public vehicles. are as follows ****

In the Iriand of Hongkong, Caine Rood and Lower Levels, andis Kowloon, and New Baloon.

Five minutes.

Ten minutes,

Quarter hour,

Que boar,

Half hour, NE

1

EXTRAS.

5 cente

$0 30

ongaged

INT ery Babeoquent nour.......

the jinricksha bo within the City of, Victoria, and be dis ebarged outside the Wostorn part of the City of Victoria after 9 p.m. or be dia charged to the East of Fay View Police Station on the Eastern side of the City of Victoria after 9 pim., an extra balt fare shall be chargeable.

For 3 or 2 drivers the fare is doublo or

trable respectively.

In the Hill District.

Tea minutos,

Quarter hour,

Salf hour, ries

16 coats

21

30

IL-In the New Territories.

By arrangement with the proprietors

through the Police.

C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD,

BANITARYJIKNGINNRI

MONUMENTALISTS

Offices Godawa,.. Dance! Food, Hooghear

Tel.Contrai No.

ALL Kine Or Bus RMS IN STOCK. Boa, VIT

AND RAINWATER Firs Btoon & WALI. TILLS-BAZY, BARING. BATH ROOM FITTINGS WATER HEATERS You 12, Q. OS COAL EVIL--ALSO À

Fw, Citur REATENS... OPEN AND CLASES ORITES-COORD RANOX

ESTIMATES FREE FOR ALL SANTTANZ

INSTALLATIONS

HOT WATER SYSTEMS, &a.. GENERAL REPAINS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO

SPECIALISTS IN MONUMENTAL: Work CUT IN ITALIAN Manngs. Ou Hoxakos GRANITE. JUST RECEIVED ABUIMENT OF ITALIAN MARRUE Fioon T

PRICES ON APPLICATION. ARTIFICIAL WREATHS FROM 8" to 18"

TAMIKI

In Stoca.

FOR SALE

Highly interesting Novelty for

Ladies,

Hand Embroidery Machine

The Fairy of the Home"

with direction for use, at $2.25 each.

GRACA & 00%

Dealers in Fancy Goods, Postage Stamps, View l'ost Cards, Garden Seeds, &c.

No. 10, Wyndham Serest P. Q. Box No. €20.

Hongkong."

SHOEMAKERS,

(Japanese Hand Made)

Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY, & Co.,

8. D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kuyacially & Co.

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

Telephone Contral No

WHY BUY FOREIGN

MADE SUITCASES,

When hell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases ?...

They are Cheaper and More Durable,

CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO. (Opposita Yaumati Ferry, Praya)

ABAHI BEER

1.-Lower Levels.

With Bears Wish & Becerii.

Ten minutes, tú conta

Quarter hours... 10

Hall hour, 20

One on 33

Bvery subang t'exit'

Lour

20 ́conta

II. -Hill Dietrict With Bearers' With & Haterers.

Ten minutes, 15 cente

Dancer hour

20

Alt bour, 20.

Osa hour,imu:40.

Every athequimé

·beaz

33 ccnts:

SAHI

TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS,

ALL, trellminary notices of forth coming meetings, lectures and entertainments, sent for Insertion in the news columns of the China Mail, are charged for at the rate of $1 each. as announced in May and June of 1923) providing that they do not occupy, vora than four lines. In future if this space is exceeded they will be placed in the advertising coluzona', the prevailing rates

BA

MITSUI BUSS

ASAHT

KAUKA

THE CHINA MAIL.

TIME CHANGE

ime has had its effects on most things. It has not however seen any change in the quality of the

Three Castles & Cigarettes

Away back in the early days of the tobacco industry, the manufacturers of this famous Cigarette were noted for the pirity, flavour, and fragrance of their product. Those Standards have been main Lained and today there is Ao beller Virginia cigarette

Three Castles

"The Cigarette with the Pedigree:

ODDS AND ENDS..

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Not Aloof,

On a winslow in the parish house of the Rogers Memorial Church at Fairhaven, Massachusetts, are the lines:-

God, the Creator, doth not sit akoof As in a picture painted on a roof; Occasionally looking down from

thence,

||

This advisement is me by the British-American Tubexxa On

during the centuries. In 1560 it London who had been attracted by belonged to the founder of the the lights and music in the Tribune Mogul Dynesty, and wes then re- ofice, and he invised them to carry puted to weigh 28 carats. It came off the baskets of orchids in the hall, into Indian lands again, and one is a slight taken of his affection and rajah refused £100,000 from the sympathy. Indeed, his generosity Indian Government for it. When was so unbounded that he made the Punjab came under British rule them a gift of the hull clock-a it came into the posscusion of magnificent timepiece with chimes Queen Victorin, who had it re-cut like St. Paul's Cathedral.

It now forms for the last time.,

MONDAY JANUARY 21, 1994.

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS.

HONGKONG.

Telegraphic Address[-KREMLIN HONGKONG. HONGKONG HOTEL

REPULSE BAY HOTEL.:

SHANGHAI....

PEAK HOTEL.

Telegraphic Address: CENTRAL, SHANGHAI, ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL

GRAND HOTEL KALRE.

PEKING.

PALACE HOTEL..

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

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD

In conjunction with,

The Grand Hotel des Wagoon Litu. Ltd.........

Tel. Centl. 812, CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add: "Carito

The Only American Hotel in the Colony,

Nico and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Enaks, and Central Districts. 43 Bedrooma. Excellent Cuisino, Sarupulovely clean. Under American Management, A new Dining Room has been opened No. 2, Queen's Bead (1st floor), "Entrance Loo Honso St. Tiffins a speciality.

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

Tel. Howloon PALACE HOTEL

No.

Tol. Addres

"Palace

(Thrço minutes from Kowloon Forry Wharf & Railway Station.) Entirely under English Management. Electrio Light and Fans Throughout. Every Room with Private Bath.

1

Lounge Bar & Hilliard Rooms. Unrivalled Calsina under the personal supervision of the Proprieto

Terma moderate. Special terms to families on application to "

J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor.

HOTEL "ASIA"

WEST BUND, CANTON.

Leading Hotel in South China.

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans acd Elevators... Roof Garden. Hairdressing Salcon, and Pearl River.

Splendid Views of Olty

Excellent Quisine:

Moderate Fates.

Under the Management of the SUN 00., LTD., CANTON.

.

ASTOR HOUSE HOTHE

Telegraphic address "ASTOR"

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

A first class Hotel centrally located, large and airy rooma, completely renovated and refurnished. New Dining Room for Meals and la Carte. Excellent Cuisine. Monthly Tickets- for Tiffins aud Dinners. Under entirely new Management.

For further particulars apply to

M. A. VAZ, Manager.

1, VICTORIA GARDENS:

HANKOW ROAD, KOWLOON, NEXT DOOR. TO

NEW KOWLOON HOTEL. BOARD and RESIDENCE Every homs comfort. Very large well furnished doable and single roots. One minute from steamers. Pozsonal, supervision. Terms from poi day

MRS. STEWART OGILVIE

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL-34UATION-

LZ ELKOTANI TRAMS-Pass Entraison, Xlad- trio ifte, Fans and Kightmg, European2 Bath Beaitary Fitller, ifes and Dela Water Braten througbenk, Best, et Food and Bervie Tel. Conti, 37 Talograpble Address yin', WIOTCHER -

2. WITCHILL, Manager.

part of the English Crown jewels, Does the average person sat and many virtues are ascribed to it."

too much?

was definitely President Kruger had a diamond which once belonged to a twoll-This question w He is all nature and all providence, known Zulu elitef, and to which the threshed out during the war, when

Kruger family ascribed most of the one of our learned societies worked A

out.as carefully as possible exictly Who is it?

president's Juter misfortunes that we ate and what we need est, Sir William Berry, at the Read-as an ill-fated stone, farit changed. The result showed that the average ers Pensions Dinner, made an in- liands fifteen times in a few years, man was eating between a fifth and triguing reference to an amateur and in every ense the owner met newspaper proprietor who has just with a violent denth. Kunz, in his sixth in excess of the total he

really needed to keep fit. left Fleet Streck,

famous book on precious stones, tells Fleet Street," said Sir William, us that there are four rubies in exist "seemed to attract more adventur-ence which have brought misfortune ons men of money than any other on generations of their possessors trade, and many of them retired One almost destroyed hurt. One was retiring after invest in India. So disastrous was its in- Appetite, or greed, which is quite ing £180,000 in upper which refluence that the native with great ported his speaches in full, while no ceremonial removed it to the Him other paper reported then at all."layas and buried it secretly. An- Does this refer to the late pro- other brought tragedy to a pincel prietor of the Pall Mall Gazette, Rassign house. which has just come into Lord searching for ruby which involved their unfortunate island in many calamities, and the fourth is in Egypt.

Benverbrook's lands?

Old and New Newspapers.

The newspapers which existed A Rich Baptism.

narrower,

native state

Cubans are now

If this excess could be used up in the form of proper bodily energy, well nad good; if not, the surplus wis actually poisoning the man.

a different thing from hunger, tempts most of us to eat this surplus. Then, if we can't find a use for it

and very few non-manual workers cant clogs the machinery of our bodies with all sorts of neids and poisons with disastrous effects,

Football Poet..

Cricket has inspired much admir- able prose and verse, but the litera-

in the boyhood of elderly men were Sir Philip Gibbs was on the staff ture of football is still very meagre. immeasurably

duller, of the short-lived Tribune, which Mr. Sydney Horler, of course, more artificial; and less demnaematic,' was started by a Liberal million writes excellent football stories, and says the Westminster Gazette, aire calied. Franklin Thomasson: a first-rate humorous poet Mr. lic great circulations of to-day The paper began with & Hans T, H. Hurrison, has recently been are eloquent testimony to the wide Breitman party.

contributing clever football parodies appeal which newspapers wako, and they could never oxist if the Press Wine flowed like water, und bis to the Glasgow Evening Times I were really guilty of the charges torical truth compels one to confess particularly like the parody of Omar

that some members of the new staff Khayyam- Borie of its critics mako.

The old pressman uns gone, wore overcome by enthusiasm for never to return. At his best he was this ricli baptism of the new paper. The ball no notice takes of cries and stilted, pompous, limited, and rther One young gentleman, very tall and a... "che l'

cloquent, fell as gracefully as a lily. But trundles meekly, at the players unreal.

toes, When Mrs. Belloc Lowndes the feet of Augustine Birrell suggests that the Press of today Another, when the guests were gone, But he who stands around and

rosented some fancied impertinence shouts advice,

Brid He knows about it all-He knows from the commissionaire knocked him through the telephoneHE Knows boxOne of the office boys, un

is not the least part of our liter ture she is certainly stating some thing that, is profoundly true The Koh-i-Noor" of Many

Virtuen

accustomed to champagne, collapsed Fifty Years of Service. in state of come and was put in P

ester who

Over fifty years of useful and ins Our own famous Crown jewel, the the lift for metal plates and carried service abends to the cradis of celebrated Koh-i-Noor" (ar Moun plaft to the machine-room Tong Chamberlas a Coughlanigdy tain of Light) has a remarkably his after all the guests had gone, and that time have dry. It is said to have been found Franklin Thomasson himself had Finkle diasatlled uder, mor hear the Kriend River, and to have returned home, another gentleman highest terms to his patrov been warn five thousand years ago in high authority on the organizing childi #took 18, før. by Kahama, one of the old Indian side was so melted with the happy

Alaus It has been in innumerable influences of the evening that big vine it to hands, being lost and agam datorg, heart expanded with

ing into the light of day many times ly love for the nigh

of sale ave

MASSAGE

Mr. NAKAI & Mrs: E. AKAJI, Graduate of Teklo Massage Nchool, No. 8, Queen's Road, C. Telephone No. U. 4395.-

Propriet

TANG YUK, Dastur

-Summer

thu khác BIỂN TING. 14, D'Agullar Stevek.

TERMS VERY MODERATE ConsultationƑ rod.

MASSAGE.

Mrs. HONDA, Mrs, KIBAKI -and

LR #BIMIDZĘ,

No. 4 Wyntre Brot

- Topparits toʻlk» China Mall"}

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

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