LAMMERT BROS.
AWOTISKEERS,ӀFFRAINEES "ANDBURYHFORKS -Public (Auctions-
ructors from R. J. Wilton Etg., to
Undersigned have received in-B sell by Public Auction
On
TUESDAY, March 4, 1924, #Dommencing at 2.30 p.m.
at No. 4, Broadwood Road, A quantity of Valuable Household Furziture,
Comprising:
Chesterfield couch and chairs, teak dining table and chairs, tenk silver cabinet with glass shelves, teak side- board with bevelled mirror, dinner waggon, silver plated standard lamp. brass fender, bronzes, China Yes, pictures, ornaments, marble clocks, enrtalos, carpeta, ings, etc.
A
Single and double iroh and brass bedsteads with spirol springs, single and double toak wardrobes with glass doors, camphorwood wardrobe, teak dressing table, wash stand, toilet set, wereen, Cvod mantel, chest of drawers book cases, etc, etc.
Lawn mower, garden pump, plants in pots and garden tools,
Also
Beveral pieces of blackwood invalid table, white Frost refrigator, barometers and combination sale
And
One piano by Brineread & Son, London.
One Victrcia VVIX and several records
(Most of the above furniture made
by Powell & Co.)
Catalogues will be issued.
On View from hisnday the 3rd March
3924.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS. Auctioneers.
Hongkong, 6th February, 1824.
`THE WATER SUPPLY.
Level and Storage of water in reservoira
C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
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ARTIFICIAL WAKATRE FROM B to 18
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IN STOCK.
FOR SALE
Collections of Postage.
Stamps
Mounted in books,.
all different, without duplicate.
500 Stampe 2500 Stamps #40.
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10000 Stamps $500.
GRACA & CO.,
Dealors in Postage Stampe, Religious Goode, Garden Seeds, Toys, &c. No. 10, Wyndham, Street, P..O. Box No. 820,
Hongkong.
SHOEMAKERS.
Japanese Hand Made)
on the let February 1984-
STER AND HILL LISTRICT WATER WORKI LEVEX
Every
and of FooTWORE. MADE TO ORDER.
1999
1954.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Before Bour Time!
The
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mere established favourites,
To Day there is
no finer Birginia
Cigarette."
Three Caftles
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 29 · 1924.
HOTELS & CAFES.
LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS.
HONGKONG.
Telegraphic Address-KREMLIN, HONGKONG.
HONGKONG HOTEL
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KEPULSE BAY HOTEL
SHANGHAI,
PLAN HOTEL,
Telegraphic Address CENTRAL, "HANGHAI ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL ---
GRAND HOTEL KALEE.
PEKING.
FALACE HOTEL.
Telegraphic Address WAGONLITS, 4PEKING. GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONS LITS.
¡THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD).
In conjunction with
The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Ltd.
Tel. Centl. $12. GARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add: "Carlton.' The Only American Hotel in tha Colony.
Nice and suiet yet only a few minutes walk from the Baske, and Central Dir. trjota. 43. Bedrooms Excellent Cabine. Scrupulously clean. Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened at No. 2, Queen's Road (at for) Entrance Ice House Street, Tilins spreiality.
For terme "pply to En RE CAMERON, Proprietres.
Tel. Kowloon No. 3
PALACE HOTEL
Tel. Address Palaco
(Threo minutes from Kowison Ferry Wharf & Railway Station.} Entirely under English Management. Elecuie Lipht and Fans Throughout. Every Room with Private Bath.
Lounge Bar Billiard Rooms. Varivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the Proprietor.
Terros moderato." special terms faxullies on application fo
J. B. OXBERRY, Proprietor.
HOTEL “ASIA”
WEST BUND,
CANTON.
Leading Hotel in South China
First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans a
Roof Garden. Hairdressing Salcon,
Elevators.
Splendid Views Excellent Cuisine:
and of City
Pearl River.
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Intermittent Eupply in all Rider Main Districts during January 1923.
Constant Supply in all districts during January 1921.
KUWZOON WATIK WORKS LEVEL.
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January 1993 and 1994.
The Government Analyst's reports cham- at the quality of the water in satisfac- Lory.
1223
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Jo Kainfall to SINT JEDY 0.310 10 Kla,
H. T. CREABY.
Water Authority
Fublic Works Department.
FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.
The fares prescribed for public vehicles re as follows:-
4-in the island of Hongkong, Caine Road and Lower Levels, and in Howloon, and New Kowloon.
#ive minutes...arties
Ten minutes,
Quarter hour,
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engaged
One hour, monóm #ery Babeoquent hvær, sisemén 1 the jinricksha bo "within the City of Victoria, and be dis
charged outside the Western part of the Day of Victoria after' 9 p.m. or be dis
barged to the Haat of Bay View Police. Stadion on the Eastern side of the City. at Victoria after 9 pm, an astra half Bare shall be chargeable,
For 2 or 3 drivers the fars is double or
śreble respectively.
II-In the Hill District,
en minutes.
Quarter houty.muzamirquessons
Half hour, DANGLEDATEKANANEREAVEME
50
II-In the New TervétoritaTM
By rangement with the props intors.
through the Police.
L-Lower Levels.
With #Bauers, Wich ♬ Bourera.
amlantes, 10 pents
Kaarter hour, Chama-18-
Half bour, air 35-
Wrray: enkaoquent
TI. -H! Durich).
CHERRY & CO.,
6, D'AQUILAR STREET,
Opposite Kayamally & 10 Telephone Central No. 491
Hosgrong, March 20, 1914,
WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITCALES.
When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases?
They are Cheaper and More Durable.
CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK.CO. (Opposita Yaumati Forty, Prays)
ASAHI BEER
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ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS
LOOT.
At the Quai d'Orsay,
The palace of Quai d'Orsay at Paris, France, has been equipped for the first time in its history with two bathrooms" in honour of the official visit of President Masaryk of Czechc-Slovakia, relates the New York World Magazine. The Royal apartments in Quai d'Orsay, which have housed Edward VII, Czar Nicholas, King Albert of
Chelwood.
stands
con:mon
M. Eiffel's Monument.
Chelwood, in Sussex, from
M. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the which place Lord Robert Cecil celebrated French engineer, is has taken his title, lies in dead, at the age of 91, but as long Ashdown Forest, on the top of as the tower which bears his name. the curious ridge of Hastings dominates Paris his name will not ❤ sand which crosses the country be forgotten, Public
opinion from east to west. Lord Robert's especially in the Wembley district, house
nearly 600 feet has prevented anything resembling high, in the centre of a furze and the Eiffel Tower being erected in heather covered
rethe grounds of the British Empire ports the MorningPost.) No other Exhibition, points out the Daily house is within sight. The view Chronicle. Yet such. structure is bounded by Scotch firs, and to might serve a very useful purpose. the south, beyond the Weald, by in England, as it does in France. the long lines of the South Downs. As a wireless station, nearly 1000 feet in height, the Eiffel Tower is R. L. S.
It was of incalculable unique. value during the war, when it was Belgium, and all the other was unmistakably Norseman, used as an anti-aircraft and ob Sovereigns who have been guests writes George Iles, in "Recollec servation post. As a meteorologi of the French Republic since 1900. tions of Robert Louis Stevenson cal station it plays an important never contained a bathroom be-As he rose to greet me in the Baker part in the forecasts of fore, although their tapestries. Cottage at Saranac Lake he was tall weather. sculptures, and furnishings are among the art treasures of Paris. R. L. S. Monuments.
Photographs of two "R. L.S." memorials are finely reproduced
Robert Louis Stevenson, as I first saw him early in November, 1887,
and wasted, his features blanched The Ghost Story.
The Dutch Queen's Limch
local
by years of ill-health. His plenti- Are you one of those superior ful light brown hair thrown behind people who don't belleve in ghosts? his ears; his forehead, high and Then I'm sorry for you, though I wide, lighted by large eyes far envy you a little too. It must be so in the January Blue Peter a hand-apart-all declared the Norse strain canvenient to be able to take a some bronze and granite monu- which has so much enriched the short cut at night through the ment erected by the San Francisco bleod of Scotland. Robert Louis Stevenson Society, and the memorial over his grave in Samoa. At the time of his death no practicable path to the site of the grave existed, but the chief called out 1000 men, who cut a broad path through the bush. The track is now known as "The Road of the Loving Heart" (says the Daily Chronicle), and is kept clear for the use of pilgrims from all over the world.
churchyard, such a churchyard as ours, with a black thunder-cloud of a yew tree that dates from William Substantial sandwiches were Rufus, and Scroogian railed-in taken out almost every day for graves with their stone lids sliding lunch by the Queen of Holland off the oozy brickwork, to right and when she was staying in the Lake left of the path; it must save such country here last summer, says the la lot of money to be able to be Weekly Dispatch. They are made alone in the house at night without by cutting brown-or, better still, turning on all the electric lights in black-bread in thin slices. On all the rooms and leaving them to each slice is placed a mixture of burn till morning ortill the shilling three kinds of cheese and butter in the meter runs out. And yet, Several slices are placed on top of with all your advantages, Iam more each other, and the whole pressed sorry for you than envious; for the down until a cake about three room you sit in is, then, to you a inches thick is formed. It is then room of wood and stone and wall- to my mind, says a London, Even-cut across in slices.
paper, no more. You never catch ing News writer. I remember see-
a likeness to an old crouching ing her, tired out with campaigning, Rebecca West, and America. smilingly yielding a narrow victory. to Dr. Macnamara in Camberwell three years ago-and then going straight on to attend an LCC. Committee..
Miss Susan Lawrence.
Two occasions in the strenuous life of Miss Susan Lawrence come
Then, not long after, I was with her Just before the officers came to take her, with the other Poplar Councillors, to prison for refusing to pay the precepts of the central authorities
Miss Lawrence, as the procession to Holloway Jail began, turned, still calm outwardly, and begged a cigarette to keep her nerves steady, and thus went through the streets Ito jali smöking.
I am surprised to hear that woman in the armchair opposite Rebecca West intends to make your own. The all-observant clock America her home, writes Sewell has no face for you, no expression Stokes in T.P. and Cassell's Weekly, that changes as its hands move After what she has told the reporters round. The forafture does not there about English novelists, per- shift imperceptibly but definitely haps she is afraid to return. All behind your back; the looking ber friends, with the exception of glass never shows you any May Sinclair, came in for severe features, any figure, but your criticism. Naturally Miss West is own; and your heart beating entitled to her opinions, but many is your heart beating, and never, of her facts are quite wrong. But not oven. at midnight, a knock at her comments, unpleasant as they the dobr! In a word, you do not are, will supply our." literary know what dusk, is. Yet to enter parties with food for fresh con- into dusk is to enter into a new versation. So they are a blessing country, It's a horrible country, of course, and ghost stories ought not In disguise.
to be allowed, or at any rate for Alpina Accidents.
left about where, children can got Sir William Bragg is one of the Alpine history records many hold of them; but a fascinating most popular lecturers with the avalanches far worse than those country none the less, a grey land, now troubling the a blind land, peopled by untouch young people the Royal Institu- which are tion has ever had (says the Morning visitors to Switzerland (relates the able terrors, by witches and war- Post) We heard a little gitt Gay Morning Post); One very grim locks, and wurricoes, and evil to her escort after the first lecture: story is told of an avalanche spirits, and things that go bump in. What a splendid Father Cholat which feikin 1768, on the village the night," a land that is perhaps mas he'd make getting, Dice of Bergamoletto, in Italy. Three peculiarly fascinating to writers things out of nothing all the women, on that occasion, were because they can bring back from time * The compliment was buried alive in a stable. For it the best stories in the world if a bit cryptic, perhaps. Not so the tunately, however, the stable only they have the courage. Ie saying of a boy scientist, who walis, or a portion of them, there any thrill, after all, from the thus explained the relation he withstood the shock, and a milk swing of a lift of the lift of a dying tween the atom and electrons: goat was interned together with machine, or the winning of the "It's like a scrum, don't you see the women. On the milk of that Derby, or a house going up in
The Child Scientist.
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Under the Management of the
CANTON. LTD., SUN 00.,
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.
Telegraphic address "ASTOR"
Telephone Centrel 170. 19, Queen's Road Central.
A first class Hotel centrally located, large and airy rooms, completely renuvated and refurnished. New Dining Room for Meals and la Carte. Excellent Cuisine. Monthly Ticketa for Tins 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 RESIDENCE Every home comfort, Fery large weil furnished double and single rouma. One mineta frem steamer, Partonal suporelaion Born From $4 per day.
MRS. STEWART OGILVIE,
Proprietreat.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
A
CENTRAL 10DATION CANA
LI XLECTRIC TRAMS Tam EnSTADES, 2300-
IYO LATA, WA and Lighting, Karopean Baths and Sanitary Fittings Hot and Col Water Bytom throughout. Best of Youd sal Bervice. TA: Canti, Telegmohle AdiPHO 3* VICTORIA
7. WITCBELL, Manager,
MASSAGE
Mr. N. AKAJI & Mrs. E. AKAJI Graduate of Tokio frago ecnool, No. 8, Queen's Road, C. Telephone No. C. 4395.
TANG TUK, Dærtist.
B
the late SIEN TING.
14, D'Agullar Btreet.
TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.
MASSAGE.
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THE INBERNATIONAL SHIRT CO.
Head Office: 79 Wyndham treet, Fad Floor, (Opposite Central Police Station.) Tel; Central 4168.
Dealers in all kinds of High-alse Bill Shirts, Collars, Neckties and Pyjamas for Gentlemen AND ALSO
kirts, Wraptors, Scarfs, Vails, and Night gowns for Ladies
- ALSO HADE TO ORDER MODERATE FRICE * PROMPT DELIVERY Manager: EMILIO LAU.
They're an atom when they're conf they actually contrived to dames, to compare with the thall LONG HING & CO., as, Kodas Alma
shoving, and electrons when they live for period of five weeks, ar of a good ghost story? break up and rush off down the the end of which they were CLEMENCE DANE, In
reacved from their lying tomb,
Good He
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