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LAMMERT BROS.GE WARREN 60, 10.

"

Áucuronumis," AFTRAINORU

{AND SURVETOREJ -Public Auctions

HE Undersigned have received In- nations from the Liquidator to sell by Pabllo Auction

on

THURSDAY, February 28, 1924,

mencing at 11 am.

at No. 6 Daddell Street, the premisen of the China Specis Bank (in Liquidation) A Quantity of Valuable Office Furniture

Comprising

Teak desks, Filing Cabinet, Chairs, tables. typewriting tables, Copying press, clocks, large mirrors, ets, BL,

Bex Visible and Underwoord type writers, Monroe adding machine and Burrough's Registering machine, Electric fittings, inverted ceiling lighte etc., etc.

Also

One Sale by Philip and Boon

One Safe by James Black

Ono Stall Cabinet File

One John Tann's Patent strong room

door

And

One Fine Teak Counter with. Braem Rails and Teak and glass partitions.

•Catalogues will be issued.

On view from Tuesday the 26th February 1824

Terme --Osah on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.; Auctionsert, Hongkong, 21st February, 1924.

THE Undersigned haverserved inanus-

sons to call by Fabio Auction,

02

FRIDAY, February 20, 1924,

at 11 o'clobi à..

at No. 2 Leys Bullding (ground floor) Nathan Road, Kowloon

Quantity of Valuable House.

hold Furniture

(Particulars from Catalogue)

On View on day of sale

Terma-Cash on delivery.

All lots must be cleared on day of Bale.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 25th February, 1814.

Traction from Rt. 1. Wilton Esq., to THE Undersigned have received 10-

all by Public Auction

TUESDAY, March 4, 1924, commencing at 2.80 p.m. at No. 4; -Broadwood-Rood,-

A quantity of Valuable Household Furniture, Comprising:-

Chesterfield couch and chairs, tesk dining table and chairs, teak silver cabinet with glass shelves, teak side- board with bevelled mirror, dinuor waggen, ver plated standard lamp, brass fender, bronzes, China vases, pictures, ornaments, marble clocks, curtains, carpets, rugs, etc,

Single and double iron and bross bedsteads with spirol springs, single and double werk wardrobes with glass doors, esipharwood wardrobe, teak dressing table, wash stand, cilet sei, screen, overmentel, chest of drawer book csses, etc., etc.

Lawn mower, garden pomp, plants án pots and garden tools.

Ало

Beveral pieces of blackwood invalid table, white frost refrigator, barometers and combination male

And

One piano by Brinsmond & Son, London;

One Viotrola VVIX and several

records

(Most of the above furniture made

by Powell & Co.)

Catalogues will be issued.

On View from Monday the 3rd March

1924.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.

Anotioneers.

Hongkong, 18th February, 1924.

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS,

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELB GRAPH COMPANY, LTD.

The following unclaimed telegra ars lying at the office of

Tho

Brost Northern Talograph, Company (Limited)-

Lambert Gas0orga Kowloon, from

Shanghai.

Booca Koroloon, from Nice;

Bakyoki, from Wakstolu, Shimodayaka nyukaiboru,

Nagasaki

from

Chotain ole Lun Shing Co, No. 4

Arsenal Street, from Beijo,

Bukyoki Dee Voeux Bond Central,

Troms Wanita

Tang Wai Pek 35 Koe Too Taze, from

Shanghai,

Law Tien Nion Nathan Road, from

Shanghai

Ting Yum Chuan and Chick Bangla

Bonham Road, from Paking, w

EV JESSEN,

Reparintendent.

Hongkong, Elst Fobmary, 1924

SAJTER

KTENSION AUSTRAL PASTA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO

laimed telegrama lying in

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schmeant,undressa MONUMENTÆttiky Olmaafiami Ciliwu,

264, Wanobal Zond, Ilongkang

Tol. Content Na. 200

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FOR GAR, OT, ÜS COAL

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Errmann Fam You ALL BANNAST

``LUPTALLATIONS

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SFRIALISES IN MONUMENTAL WORK

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Hozzone GRANITE,

JUST RECEIVED

A fatraent Oy IvALIAM MARBLE FLOOR TYLNÍ Poza O APPLICATION.

ARTIFICIAL Waxants From '8′′ 17 DIAMIRK

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Ir! Brock

FOR SALE

Collections of Postage Stamps

Mounted in books,

a different, without duplicata.

500 Stamps.] E500 Stampa $40. 1000 1500

2000

88, 2000

$50.

R

$18. 8300

+

$60.

$30. 4000

$75.

か

10000 Stamps 6500,

GRACA & 00...

Dolore in Postage Stamps, Religious Goods, Garden Boods, Toys, &c.

No. 10, Wyndham Streek,

P. O. Box No. 890.

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

Japanese Hand Made)

Every and of Footwear. MANE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO.,

8, D'AQUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & to Telephone Ocotal No. 481

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 Täumati Ferry, Praya)

ASAHI BEER

COM

GER-B1

THE CHINA MAIL.

Before Your Time!

The

"Three Caftles algoreties

were established favourites.

To-Day there is

no finer Virginia Cigarette,

Three Caftles

The Cigarette with

This advertisement in issued by British-American Tobacco Co. (China), Lide

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCIBBORS. LOOT,

Largest Inland Steamer.

clip their words short instead of scent battle is useful in case of a drawing the "" and "" sounds. shock of any kind, and some jewell- For instance, the word "guard”

ery, because you never can tell; and in American usage is often prone or two letters that you do not longed and the "r" is slurred, but!

Canadians are inclined to bite the like to leave lying about, and some The largest passenger steamer in word into a short, quick "gart." bills that Pierre might not under- the world for use on inland waters Americans say that Canadians-j-stand.or like-husbands are so tire bne just been launched in America, always try to compress such some about bille and naturally for use on the Great Lakes, relates, words as 'barnacle" and "article" there is a notecase that must be The Children's Newspaper. It is into one brief syllable. The fitted in. Obviously no pocket over

the first big boat to be built for names of Canadian cities sound made by a condescending dress- such service since 1917, and hus cost over $700,000. It is 550 feet strange to persons not familiar

long and 100 foot wide amidships with local usage. Rupert Brooke her cold over accommodate all which means it is the same width discovered that Toronto, when this luggage, and indeed every year as the "Leviathan' end only 357 spoken by Canadians, became Madame bitys a bigger bag, and she feet shorter, Altogether 1200 passen- "Tranto," with the accent on the knowe. better than anyone how gera and 300 crew can be accout-an" syllable. Americans often heavy it langs on her arm

says

modated on it. It has three fun-give the final "o" the weight, with and mind. "At a pinch

the dressmaker, "I could make

nels, which are not in the middle the result that the word sounds

tiny 20

pocket here in the

but towards the fore-part of the strangely foreign to natives.cloak, but only for a handker ship.

The first "a" in Ottawa ia scarcely chief, and a small one I warn pronounced by Canadians, yet Madame that a bulge here would outside the Dominion one hears the name of the capital curiously distorted.

A "Bad Patch."

tho

in the appearance of the suit, and

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 1924

HOTELS & CAFES

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS.

HONGKONG. Telegraphic Address-KREMLIN, HONGKONG.

•HONGKONG HOTELÄ-

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

SHANGHAI,

PEAK HOTELA -

Telographic Address :—–CENTRAL, “HANGHAL

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL

GRAND HOTEL KALEE,

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 Lits. Ltd.

03-0-0-0-0-0-0-0

Tel. Centl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add: "Carlton,”

The Only American Botol In the Colony.

Hice and quiet yes only a few minutes' walk from the Banka, and Central Dini jista, 4 Bedroomía Exseliani Calzine, Berupulovaly clean. Under Americsa Management. A new Dining Room Ias been opened at No. 2, Queen's Road (1st floo?). Entranos Zee Homes Bieges. Tilina a spoolality, Forforma apply to Mis P, R. CAMERON, Proprietro,

Tel. Address

Tel. Kowloon No. 3

PALACE HOTEL

(Three minutes from Kowloon Ferry Wharf & Railway Station.) Emrely under. English Management. Electric Light and Fans Throughout. Every Room with Private Bath Lounge Bar & Billiard Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the Proprietor.

Torme moderato. special terms to familles on application to :

J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor,

HOTEL

"ASIA”

WEST BUND, CANTON.

Leading Hotel in Bouth China,

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans and Elevators. Roof Garden. Hairdressing Salcom

of City Splendid Views

and Peart River.

Excellent Cuisine.

Moderate Rates,

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

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL. Tangraphic addroom "ASTOR"" Telephone Central 170. 13, Queen's Road Central.

A frst class Hotel centrally located, large and airy room, completely renovated and refurnished. New Dining Room for Meats and la Carte,: Excellent Cuisine.. Monthly Tickets for Tiffin and 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 RESIDENOK Egy home comfort. Very large wall farmlaboð `double and】 single`stoma. -One miótio; front atoszines. Pastonal' supervisŠON.

MES. STEWART OGILVIE,

- Tornis fem '64 per day

HING EDWARD HOTEL

Jerky Maska and isadbery Tinies, Blot and, Dald) Food And Fat Canal, 37: Télégraphie dškrema >— TINZONTA

3. WETORRIA, Manager)

MASSAGE

Mr. N. AKAJI & Mrs. E. AKAJ, Graduate of Tokig Mamago Bohool,,

"No B, Qusina Road, Di -

Telephone No 0, 4391

Proprietor

TANG YUK, DENTIEL

the late BIEN TING,

14, D'Agullar Birent.

TERMS VERY MODERAVE „Consultation” rod.

MASSAGE.

Mrs. HONDA, Mrs. KISAKI · And-

-K. FRIMIDEU....... No. 24, Wiz. Bernet. (opposite to the `Thêun Ma37")

G. FALCONER & CO., CHONGKONG) LTD

An English Institution.

Pantomime is essentially an English institution.

1 strongly recommend Madame not No other

to me it at all." Madame surrend country in the world-not even America-puts fairy tales on the

ere the point. "No pockets, then," she says feebly. After all, she atage at Christmas time (saysIt is a psychological fact that each thinks, it is Christmas. She had the "Morning Post.") Yet few one of us strikes a "bad patch" better get a bigger bag for herself, of the stories themselves are of at some time dr other (says and at her favourite shop she aalects English origin. Most of them are London Evening News" writer.) the widest and deepest and costliest French, or came to us by way of Some small thing may happen to offered, and as she curries it off she France, but "Jack the Glant go wrong, and, just as we are realises that next year she will need Killer," is Norwegian, and "Jack recovering from its effects, an- more than a bay in buttons to bear O and the Beanstalk" is claimed by other little load of worry will the load An Englishwoman m Germany, and came to us with descend crushingly. It is in the Paris in the London Evening our Hanoverian Kings in the way of things that, subcon- Netcs. eighteenth century. "The Babes sciously, we give way to what we Wonders of Wireless. in the Wood," however, is Eng-feel to be the inevitable, and find American radio exparte prediot lish, and is cominonly, but per- ourselves in for a "season" of that concerts on either side of the haps not correctly, believed to misfortunes. The most success. Aflat will be heard aqually well have originated in the murder, of ful business man has periods before the end of the present your. the little Princes in the Tower when all his schemes seem to go Soon, it is declared by the Amari- "Little Red Ridinghood," too, can wrong, when everything which an Auxiliary Language Associs. be claimed as English, though its normally contributes to his suc- tion, come universal language will exact origin seems unknown. Oncess brings, him nothing but a be adopted, and henceforth inter the other hand "Dick Whitting series of failures. Every creative national communication will be ton," which seems essentially worker--the actor, the artist, the easy. Experiments in the railway English-even Cockney is a writer has his devastating in tube 80ft below the surface of

River Hudeon'

proved story common in every country intervals, when he is sure that he conclusively that radio waves day Europe, and quite well known in will never act or paint or write steel, on mid, and wat the East.

again. Paradoxically enough, the Miners equipped with a small port- The Canadian Accent.

people who have the small "don-able appamatus will henceworth The current discussion regard key work" lobs are least of all the work under less dangerous condi ing accents and the desirability victims of the "bad patch." In a tions. President Coolidge press

Washington of purer-spoken English suggests hard and monotonous existence of a button at certain peculiarities of speech the despair of an imagined failure sending forth a telegraphic ware that exist in Canada (says a is apt to pass almost unnoticed: causing the whistle to blow on the writer in John of London's distinct from a run of bad luck, in San Francisco Bay. The radio im A "bad patch" is something quite steamship President Harrison' Weekly.) In England it is gen- and shaking it off is largely a palas leaped sores 3,100 miles of erally, understood that Canadian

matter of temperament

and space and, passed through five con born people speak, with the same accent as Americans, but, on the strength of mind. The weak trol stations, but, took only one! fiftieth part of a second in so doing. other hand, Americans find Canary person will allow his to Mr. Lee de Forest, the greatest of dian speech quite distinctive. In swamp him the stronger one American nudio inventors, annour- such words as "house" and "out" naturally emerges the sooner. Ices that talking pictures Canadians (and particularly No Pockets,US

chat is to say, the process of Byn- Ontario people) seem to employ "And now, OYA Madame, chronously recording the voice with 4 double "o" sound as in "loose, what about pockets? The tailor the notion on the film-are now Americans' pronounce the words falle book is though she had prick perfected. He gave a lemonstra na' fat, drawled manner auged him with one of his own pina tion at Cleveland, Ohio, which gesting."how. It would seem as. "Pocketa?" be faltera. On this is described as a great se though the Canadian had inherit model there is no place where cess, differing as much from the ed this feature of their speech pockets could be put. And besides, previous efforts in the same direc

Pro- Indame tion na chalk and cheese! from the numerous Scottish what pockets? What dood

nt Fossar Gault, of the North-Western

“Univerary

new device by which the tota

may receive impresmons of

settlers of a few generations ago.

A Canadian in the United Stathe can often be detected by the Blightest burr to his "THE Alsď, probably traceable, to Scot

zcan people find co ble amusement at the man

adians are inclined:

ibee

Aginta for

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ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE direct from Manufacturers, High Class Riglish Jewellery,

THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO. Head pofise: 79 Wyndhamn rest. 2nd Floor. (Opposite Central Police Station.) Tel, Central 4166.

·Deglare in all kinds of Eligh- Collar Necktie“

LONG HING

Mr Gentlewom

owns for Ladica

LIVERY