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LAMMERT BROS. G. E. WARREN & CO. LTD.

ÁVOTIONERIA, "ASTRAISING

AND "SURVEYORS, -Public Auctions-

THE Vaderrigned "havo ragaved inwar clous, it sail by Paolle nation.

OF

MONDAY, Tsurussy 25, 1974,

commencing at 2.45.p...

at No. 44A, Nathan Road, Kowloon, A Quantity of

Valuable Household Furniture, (Particulars trom Catalogue)

Also

Ona Cottage Fiana by "Allison" Loadica.

On View from Banday, the 24th February 1924.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers.!

Hoogkung. 10th February, 1934,

- TUESDAY, February 26th, 1924, commencing at 9.45 p.m.

at Clavadel No: 208 The Peak

A quantity of

Valuable Household Furniture.

Comprising:-

Chesterfield Couch; and Am-i chairs, Teak Desk, Teak dining table, Dining Chairs with leather cover seats, Teak Sideboard, Brass Ornaments, Glass Ware, Crockery, Ourtains, Carpets and Washable rugs etc.

BANITAN INGINERET MONUMENTALISTUJ

Olenečând Godowne, 9, Wankal Head, Hengkeng · Tal Control _ZO_2000).

As Know Or Bukone' Baét

Best Yarr As

BAINWAZIR "TLOOM & AVALE Tiles Barut, Bang Bang --Beam -Ferrerga--WARM -BIHANI A Ten GL, Os On Coal TEL

Tow Car Harnas.

ÖY AND CLOSED. GRAM COOKING

Komtarm Fxx For ALL BAXMANY INSTALLATION=-

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY BOZSSORS LOOT.

How Authors Write.

The renunciation of luxury by the poet d'Annunzio in order that hb, might rid his genius of the cloying effect of comfort, is an | Interesting" sidelight" on the methods of different novelists

As a rule, hunger and resentment make for the best writings says the Sunday Express. One might, even say that resentment is the mother GENERAL REPAIRS PROMPELT AT of Itérature. That is probably

HOT WATER Dzerama, ke.

A

STROLALIPER IN MONUMENTAL WORK

COW IN ITALIAN Marsen: On Hexors GLÁMTH, JUST RECEIVED ABUSEMENY OF ITALIAN MARKLY FLOOR THE

PRIS O Arrizoagiem. Jerictal. Wanatun Trən 8′ ta 18 2 DJAMRYER.

*Is Harbor

FOR SALE

Collections of Postage Stamps

Mounted in books,

all different, without duplicate. 500 Stamps: 1.2600 Stamps 240. $50. # 8, 2000 -1000

8000

$60. $18. 1500

*$30. 4000

Bedstead, Large teak wardrobe 2000 (with heaters inside) Teak ward- robe with glass front, Dressing table with bevelled mirror, Long Dressing Mirror, Chest of drawers, Book Case, Bed Couch etc. etc.

Also

Vacuum Cleaner, Steel filing cabinet, Mellink Safe,

And

Carved Cherry Wood Desk,, Cabinet Pethephone, American Refrigerator.

Catalogue will be issued.

On View on Monday the 25th February 1924

Terme-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers.

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$76.

10000 Stamps $500,

GRACA & CO.,

Dealers in Postage Stainpe, Religiona Goods, Garden Seeds, Toys, &c.

No. 10, Wyndham, Street, 'P. O. Box No. 690. Hongkong.

HE Undersigned have received lo- } }}^ ·

ጥጫ።.

structions from the Liquidator

to sell by Pabllo Auction

THURSDAY, February 23, 1924,

commencing at-11-a m. -

at No. 6 Daddell Street, the premises of the China Spocie Bank (in Liquidation)

A Quantity of Valuable

- Office Furniture

Comprising:-

Teak desks, Filing Cabinet, Chairs, tables. typewriting tables, Copring proes, clccka, large mirror, etc, etc.

Rex Visible and Underwoord type- writers, Monroe adding machine and Barrough's Begistering machine, Electrie fittings, inverted celing lights etc., etc.

Aino

One Bafe by Philip and Sors One Safe by James Black

One Stall Cabinet File

One John Tann's Patent strong room door

And

One Fine Teok Counter with Bram Rails and Toak and gloss partitions.

Catalogues will be issued.

On view from Today; the 28th February 1994

Torms:-Cash on delivery, '

LAMMERT BROS.

Austioneste. -

Hongkong, Flat February, 1984..

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FROM MISS BELLE HARDINGS ACADEMY, LONDON, PAKIS, BRUSSELS, THE HAGUE And Mindame Judith Espinous's Academy of Stage and Operatio Dancing, London,

Miss O'Beefe gives lesions in the latest Ball Room dances, including The Blude Old and New Tango,, Exhibition Work Balleh Classical Hurythmics ate. Candidates pre- pared for the Loudon Technical tyllabus Examar Correct Tashnique taught

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and of Tootwear. Every

MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00,,.

8, D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & to Hongrong, March 20, 1914.

Telephone, Central Bo. 191

WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITCASES

When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases?

They are Cheaper and More Durable.

CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO.

(Opposita Taumati Ferry, Prays).

ASAHI BEER

PILSENER BEEN

HASK LAGER

EXPECIALLY

THE BE

why so many novelists never write anything worthwhile after they become successful. Woolworth Building Sold."

CHINA MAIL.

CHURCH NOTES,

ADDRESS ON:

GOSPEL

· SEXAGESIMA · SUNDAY.

***LOCALS

GAMBLERS'

BETTING

ITTIONS? ON OUD NUMBERS.

Every year the casino at Monte Carlo collects in the aggregate one million six hundred thousand people who think they can beat Dame Fortune at the tables. To The Agenda-Paper for the

watch the hopes and fears," the Church of England Diocesan Con- twists and cunning little tricks of, ference on Monifay, March 10th is now to hand. This year is a special all those players, blasé and ex- occasion, owing to the visit of the perienced or young and green, is Bishop and Delegates in connecto me the most fascinating of tion with the général Synod of the amusements writes a correspon-

dont in the Statesman. Chinese Church, The afternoon Session 5.15.6.45 is an open one supreme. I remember once a man Superstition, of course, reigns it is a good thing-to-make-a-note- of this right away. Füller refer- sat at one of the little tables out ence will be made in this column to side the Café de Paris with the sole of his boot exposed. An the programme of the Conference. English duke who every year The band of the East SUITCX visits the gambling, resort was The Woolworth Building Reginent provided the excellent

leaning across, staring fixedly-at familiar to all visitors to New music at Evensong last Sunday in that sole through his monocle York as America's tallest and the Cathedral and helped very Then he carefully figured on a most beautiful office structure, has much in an inspiring congregation- been sold to the Woolworth-Com-al service. It is hoped that the piece of paper and tucked the note pany, the owners of Woolworth band will play the Evensong music carefully into his wallet Glancing across also I saw chalked on the chain of shops, it is reported, for during the Sundays of Lent. the sum of £3,000,000, exclusive of In this connection it is interest- unconscious man's sole the number any consideration for goodwill, ing to note that the use of an 27 It was the chalked number of which was originally valued at orchestra bas Biblical sanction: his hotel room. That night at the £10,000,000. The building and Some of the marks over the Psalms trente-et-quarante table the duke site cost £2,700,000 and was owned in the 'Hebrew Manuscripts are played consistently on 27, and entirely by the late F. W. Wool thought by scholars to indicate thewhen the tables closed had won The late Arthur de Rothschild worth, who erected it in 1913 out signal" strike up for the orches nearly three thousand pounds. of the profits derived from the tra. It will be reiiembered that sale of 5c and IDe articles.

Solonion made harps and psalteries Was very fond of staking on sumber 17, which number was for the Temple singers. The Home of St. Cuthbert.

strangely kind to him, Cornelius Statistics of the ordinations for Vanderbilt the younger would the last eighteen years show that only make one bet at, each table. the number of those ordained was would circulate from table to steadily rising down to the oustable as flurried about the fate of break of the war and in 1914 the 1,000 franc note that, was his reached 685. It then naturally invariable stake as though that fell rapidly, the lowest point being sum, so trifling to him, represented touched in 1918 with 130 ordina-half his fortune. tions. Since then it has again risen in 1923 to 575.

GENERAL

Liverpool Cathedral when com pleted will exceed York in area by more than one half and will be nearly three times the area of the Roman Catholic Cathedral.

Westminster

I have known people who would stand half the night waiting to get a obair at the centre of the table. Other people will only, sit at the ends. Last season there was an numbers: It was a celebrated odd fashion for betting on the odd theatrical impresaria who won over thirty thousand pounds in one night by betting on the odd num SYSTEM PLAYING. bers who started the craze.

This season there is a recrudes- cance of system playing. Princes, exited grand dukes, wealthy cos mopolitans may be seen about absorbedly figuring, figuring, figuring on scraps of paper. They hope by intricate mathematical calculations to scoop in quantities of bits of soap, gs the square ivory counters worth 5,000 francs are called:

Women calculate very little. They like the light whims of faucy. Their pink counters representing each a louis, the bigger blue ones of five louis, they sometimes throw. with closed eyes at hazard upon the cloth. Even the oval grey ivories worth 500 franes I have seen pretty young milljonairesses and actresses with too much money throw blindly into the void of chance...

The Farne Islands, off the north- east coast of Northumberland, will, it is hoped, before long become a sea bird sanctuary: points out the Morning Post. A fund is being raised only £2,200 is necessary to buy, them from their present owners and to place them in the hands of the National Trust. On the main island is a chapel probably about 700 years old, and said to occupy.the..site of the Oratory of Cuthbert. Here he lived for nine years in the seventh century, and after presiding over the See of Lisdisfarne for four years returned to the island to die.

The Gospel contains the parable On the other islands are a few scattered gravestones and traces of the sower. There are described of monastic buildings. There are in it various kinds of lives on two lighthouses, and that at Haw which God's influences fall, and kers Island is the scene of Grace fall in vain. The first of these is the hard life, like a road, so Darling's well-known exploit.

that the seed lies there as if fallen Nature On The Riviera.

on a pavement, and gets no root, One of the delights of the and the pigeons come and pick it French Riviera (writes "W. M. C." up. We usually think of the to the Westminster Gazette) is the hard life as if it were a life of complete change of flora as sin. We speak of a hardened compared with the English sinner, of a hard man, as of per Here the characteristic trees are sons whom good influences can

olives, grey-green

eucalyptus not penetrate... But the hard soil (acclimatised from Australia), dale of the parable is not that of sin. palms (of which the fruit, covered It is that of a roadway, hardened with "gold dust divine," does not simply by passing to and fro. It effect of ripen here), fan palms, aloes, is the hardening prickly pears, mimosa (the Austra-habit. Sometimes, the passage llan wattle) Cork tree (a species says, your life gets so worn by the of oak) also abound, and a sort of coming and going of your daily fir, generally called the Mediterroutine that you become impene. ranean pine, of which the foliage trable to the subtle suggestions is the favourite resort of the quaint of God, as if your life was paved. processional caterpillar. Orange Some people are thus hardened trees and lemon trees abound, and even to good. They lose capacity for

Mascots are greatly in favour. the round golden fruits of the Impressions. Some people are even former against their background Gospel-hardened; they have heard Perfect strangers will beg young of dark green, like golden lamps so much talk about religion that it men and women who never play in a green shade," are one of the runs off the pavement of their lives to accompany them to the tablea most glorious sights of this azure into the..gulter. Thus the first and stand beside their chairs to coast. It is difit to imagine demand the sower is for bring them luck. Few of the gold nothing more omaniental than

receptivity, for openness of mind, and bejewelled vanity bags of the Give God a women gamblers that do not hold heavily fruited orange grove. for responsiveness. The Spanish Naval Programme. chance, says the parable. His some trusted luck bringer.

The visit of the King of Spain seed gets bo fair opportunity in a to Italy during the last quarter has life which is like a trafficking aroused a good deal of interest highroad. Keep the soil of life and discussion in Spanish naval soft, its sympathy tender, its circles At the present moment imagination free, or else you lose the following ships are in hand; the elementary quality of recepti. practically all the work is being reness, and all the influences of done by the Sociedad Espanola de God may be scattered over you in Construccion Naval, which employs

The second sort of unfruitful 1,200 permanent hands and officials and about 10,000 casual artisans. soil is just the opposite of this. Two light cruisers of 7,850 tons It is not the unreceptive, but the and 33 knots, armed with eight Gin, impulsively receptive, life. It is guns and 12 21-in. torpedo tubes. not too hard, or too soft, but it is It is a superficial son Three fotilla leaders of 1,650, tons too thin. and 36 knots, armed with five which has no depth of earth, and 47-inch guns and six triplo zin so with joy it recelves the word: torpedo tubes. Three destroyers of but the seed has no depth of earth 1,300 tons and 34 knots armed with and so withers away. This sort three 4-in guns and two twin 21-in, of soil receives quickly and as torpedo tubes. Three gunboats of quickly lets go. It is like that 1,335 tons and 15 knots, armed with unstable man of whom St. James four 4-in. guns. Two submarines writes and who is like the wave of of the "B" type, 600 tons on the the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. We see the waye. surface and 740 submerged, and six of the "C" class 900, tons on come flashing up out of the the surface and 1,290 submerged, Engineering.

Accurate Watches

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WEDAY FEBRUARY 23" 1926

HOTELS & CAFES.

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS.

......... HONGKONG, DIBONNES graphic Address! KREMLIN, HONGKONG.

PEAR HOTEL

HONGKONG HOTÉ

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

SHANGHAL

Telegraphic Address CENTRAL, SHANGHAL ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL---

PALACE HOTEL:

CEAND HOTEL, KALER.

PEKING.

Telegraphic Address: WAGONLITS, PERKING. GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONS LITS. THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD

in conjunction with.

The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lite. Ltd.

Tel. Centil 819. CARLTON HOTEL, Tél. Add: "Carlton.” The Only American Hotel in the Colony.

Be Mine and yules yot only a few mławion', wałk from the Banks, and Oralia) Die- triple, 48 Bedrooms. Kreslians Cuisine. Sarupulously clean. Under Amari Minaguruk A new Dining Room has been opened at No. 2, Cosen's Fand (lat dopr). Entrance You Homme Shcool, Tiffos a spadakty,

For tirma apply to Mac ». E CAMERON, Proprieto

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WEAVE

Tell Kowloon No. 3

PALACE

HOTEL

www

Tel. Addr

Palaco

(Three minutan from Kowloon Ferry Whart & Railway Station.)" Entirely under English Management. Electrfe Light and Fans Througho

Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge Bar & Billiard Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the Proprietor. Terms 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 acú

Roof Garden. Elevators.

Hairdressing Salcom

Views of

and City

Pearl River

Moderate Rates.

Splendid

Excellent Cuisine:

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 large and airy' rooms, completely remuvated and refitruished. New Dining Room for Meals and le Carte. Excellent Chloe Monthly Tickets for Tiffins and Dinners. Unde entirely new Management.

For further particulars apply to

MA. VAZE Managır.

1, VICTORIA, GARDENS.

HANKOW ROAD, ROWETON, NEXT DOOR TO

NEW KOWLOON HOTEL “HOARE and RESIDIKUE. ETury Home comfort, Yury large wall Furnished double and single,zooma, Onedikute from stedmeck. Personal supervision. Term from $4, por-day.

MRS, STEWART OGILVIE

KING EZOTARD HOTEL

The most extraordinary gam- bler's whim I ever came across in Monte, the haunt of the bizarre the fantastic and the unexpected, was that of a delightful young

with extraodinarily,Lite 261 and Highner, Stro

Amitary Fittings, HOE REAL Übed Russian counters who seemed

spectacu Įkaitis, Syetem 1ongheut. Best of Food A gifted i lar coups but nice steady Centh, alegraphia Address :—"VICTERIA consistent luck-mo profits from the bank: She would look around on coming to the tables, count the studs visible in the dress shirts of the men playing as her guide to and take that number, its multiples and divisors fortune...

And turn to purpose`strong. But be who lets his feelings run In soft luxurious flow,

Faints when hard service must

* be done And shrinks at every blow."

A PRAYER,

O God" who hast made man in general level, catching the sug shine as it leaps and crowns Thine own Image and hast never with its spray, and then we look left Thyself without witness, grant again for it, and where is it? It that as Thou didst send the Spirit The record for the highest has, sunk, again into, the indisiin of Thy Christ into the hearts of accuracy in watches has again been guishable lever of the sea. Thus holy men of old to reveal the glory broken. The official tests recently the parable turns to this unstability that should follow them: so we completed at Teddington, give the and says." It is bad to be hard but who know Thy Son Jesus Christ, Highest place to a Solvil watch it is bad also to be thin. When may believe on Him Whom we see made by M. Paul Ditishelm, of La tribulation or persecution arises hot, and look for the fulfilment of Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland. something more than Impul- His purpose with joy unspeakable This watch gained 97 marks out of siveness is needed to give a root and full of glory through the a theoretically possible total of 100, to life, How strongly and severely same Thy Son Jesus Christ our representing an absolutely perfect Newman writes of this patte

watch. It is estimated by experts that on account of variations in humidity and atmospheric pressure and also in the recording lostry. "ments" and the observers them-ng

selves no watch could in practice gain more than 98,5 marks.” The 100 achievement of 497 per cent. is therefore, all the more remarkable, especially' as the successful watch | kis a plain lever going barrel" dock'

Watch" of robust construction. 2002 the Highest figure attained Kenmerken THIEL Framsed, by 132/Dítľahších in

he improved the results its |7979:@holdingu, forial years

robbed andion more than 384 chronometers tested in the inter

Prune thou thy words the

thoughts control" That o'er the swell and throng They will kondense within thy

soul,

Himrod's

CURE

LordAMENT!

VERSES.

Found in his Bible in the Gate House at Westminster: AAND Even such le time, that takes in

Dr. Strustsk Our youth our joys, our all we

have,

PALERME And pays us but with age and pak dostyukle

When we have wandered all our

Shuts up the story of our days; da But from this earth, this gIAYO,

My God shall raiseime up, HighwaysIR WALTEROZAURICH, I *NB Correspondencehión ro

fous matters the

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