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LAMMERT BROS.

AMOYISHWERS, APPRAISIES AND SURVETORE.

-Public Auctions-

THE Untarely and hayo recoveŁA IINEERIN lous be well be Pablin Auction.

on

WEDNESDAY, April 18, 1924, at 3 o'clock p.m.

at No 6 Catchick Street, Kennedy Town

Two Complete Sets Hattan and Cane Splitting Machinery

to be put up in two Inte Lot 1 Machinery consists of 2 Splitters and 4 Shavers complete with Shafting

Pedestals and aud Quantity of Spare Cane Splitting Cutters (New)

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Lot 2 Machinery, consists of 2 Splitters and 6 Shavers with a Quantity of Spare Cane Splitting Cutters

N. B. The Machinery comprising Lot 1 has been in use for

6 months and is in first class and serviceable con- dition.

The items comprising Lot 2 are new and are still in their original cases

For Further Particulars apply to the Undersigned.

Terms-30% of the purchase prion on fall of hammer

LAMMERT BROS, Asetonoom.

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WEDNESDAY, April 18, 1984, commencing at 3 o'clock pim at No. 8 Catchick Street, Kennedy Town,

(for account of the concerned)

18 "Dover" 'Independent Cook-

lug Stoves.

18 Bats of Fire Bricks to suit "Levor" Stover ne above

A iso

84 Grate and Fire Place In-

teriors as follows:-

48 Interiors 20" 38" x 18" Fire 12 Interiors 20" 28" x 16" Fire 12 Tile Register Grates 34" x 36" x

16" Fire

12 Tilo Register Grates 36" x 38" 1

16" Fire

A Good Opportunity for Builders and .Dontractors

Terms: Chah ou delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,,

OH

Auctioneers.

WEDNESDAY, 11th June, 1924

commencing at 3 o'clock p.m.. at the premises of the Hongkong Tramway Co., Ltd., Bowrington Canal Boad East

The Steam Briven Electrio Generating Plant Consisting of :-

Boilers

Two Baboock and Wilcox Boilers (complets) each having approximately 3,654 square feet of heating surface, guaranteed to evaporato under normal conditions 12,000 lbs. of water per hour.

Working pressure. 180 lbs, per quare inch,

Both Boilers fitted with chain grate #takers.

Engines

Two 428 B.Br. Horizontal Com pound condensing steam engines by Moors. Yates & Thom of Blackburn, -coupled direct to two 300 Kilowatt

Direct Current Dick Kerr Generatora.

Volta 550, R.P.M, 100. Complete with steam piping, etc. etc. One 150 B.H.P. Vertical Compound condensing steam engine, by Messrs. Bellisa & Morcom Lid, coupled direct to one 200 Kilowatt Direct Current Dick Kerr Generator.

Volta 550, R.P.M. 250. Complete with steam piping etc., etc,

Auxiliary Plant

Das W. H. Allen Tandem compound engine, coupled direct to a 20 Kilowatt Direct Current Dick Kerr Generator.

Volts 110. R.P.M. 500.

One Dick Kerr Motor Generator Set, Motor 550 Volts. Generator 110:

Volta R.P.M. 500.

One Remington two cylinder crude

ail engine, direct coupled to a 15 Kilo Direct Corrent Chandeyam

Generator.

Volta 125. RP.M. 400.

Switchboard

บ

Bitchboard of highly polished alato completely fitted up for running. Generators and Auxiliary Plant.

Data ogues will be istmed,

For further particulars apply to the Undersigned,

As Customary.

LÁMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers.

DAISY O'KEEFE Qualified Tascher

TROM MISS' BELLE. HANDINOB

ACADEMY, LONDON, PARIS, BRUSSELS, THE HAGUE. - And Madame Judith Repison's Academy of Stage and Oporniës Dancing London.

C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.)

BANITARY ENGINEKUS ·

MONUMENTALISTY

Aloe and Godown,

ma, Wanchal Bond, Flonghong.

Tei. Central No. 3091

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Paros O ATTHIOLINOS. Ammortical Wadavus BROM $ * 10 14 *

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FOR SALE

Catholic Prayer Books,

in English, Portuguese and Spanish,

Crucifixes, Rosaries,

Holy Pictures, Medals, Artistic Coloured Statuettes,

of Saints, &c.

GRACA & CO., Dealers in Religious Articles, Philatelic Goods, Garden Boeds, &c. No. 10, Wyndhan: Street,

P. O. Box No, 620.

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS. Japanese Hand Made)

Every

and of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & 00..

DAGUILAR STRET,

Opposite Kayamally & to

Telephone Central No. 4913

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.

(Opposita Taumati Ferry, Prays)'

Mia O'Keefe gives lossons in the latest Ball Boom dances, insluding 1 !10) The Blues, ld and New Tango, Exhibition Work, Ballet, Ulamic Enrythmics, ete. Candidates pre pared for the London : Technical Syllabus Exams. Cerroot Tashalome taught

Siation Hotel, 10 bar 13 mm/ King Edward Hotel, 3 to 7 pm.

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ASAHI BEER

NIPPON

PLSENER. BEEK

DRAND PRIZES

ASAH

BEER

BAN

LAGER BEER

SPECIALLY BREWED EXPORT.

COMPAN

THE CHINA MAIL.

." ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Ashore of Afloat?

This is a story with a moral. A Seattle tongshoreman recently met with an accident, being caught in the seat of his pants by a cargo hook attached to a steamer's boom. Hoisted high in the air, the pants tore, but the hook caught in the man's leather belt. The belt gave way and the unfortunate man fell to the deck of the steamer and was seriously injured. He claimed under the State industrial insurance regulations, which cover longshoremen, but was disburred owing to the injury having been sustained, after he had left the deck," and he was directed to file suit in the Admiralty Court against the owners of the steamer, And the moral? It is this: Don't get hooked in the pants! Changing Beauty.

house-fly. It lays a muggot on the difference, the little" something" soft part of the locust's neck, and which is lacking in the eternal though the insect lives for some feminine? The Victorians sald days it eventually succumbs: The that a successful man always had The fly also seek out for the little tubes a good woman behind him. of eggs which the locust lays in cynic says that a successful, woman the ground, and deposits a 'waggot usually has a bad man behind her. alongside them, so that when the In the case where the woman fills eggs hatch out the young locusts, the outstanding position of import- or voetgangers as they are called ance, she is nearly always advised when in the crawling stuge, are and supported by able and faithful also attacked with fatal effects. It men. Nevertheless, granting all is recalled that in 1902-which was this, man is still, as it wore, the the worst locust year before the last court of appeal, the Daniel present one-the, brummer fly come to judgment. stamped out the locust plague so thoroughly that for many years there was no sign of locusts of any description.

Kilts and Bagpipes.

So until we create the "super- woman," the average man will in some strange and inexplicable way turn the scales when weighed with the average woman.-From My

of the existence of caves penetrat ing the side of the mountain. He gained an entry through a vent in the rock and after dragging [37] lis stomach- a stagn- himself

TUESDAY APRIL 1924

HOTELS & CAFES.

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEKK HOTEL, Tolographie Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG." AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALAGE HOTEL: GRAND HOTEL KALEE ; MAJESTIO HOTEL. Telegraphis Addrea?' "GENTRAL," SHINGHAT:"

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lita, rád., Poklog.

PALACE HOTEL

Tel. Addre * Palace'

No. 3

(Three minutes from Kowloon Ferry Wharf & Railway Station.) Entirely under English Management, Electric Light and Fass Throughout. Every Room with Private Bath. ounge Bar & Billiard. Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisse ander the personal

supervision of the Proprietor. Termos moderate. special torme to families on application to

J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor.

A London paper has discovered Wanderings and Memories by at the kit and the bagpipes were | LADY NORAH BENTINCK.

us. in Comwall about the time Big Caværns, that Rabert Bance re-stablished What are claimed to be the most Be independence of Seothand at the battle of Bannockban. The magnificent caverns in England

harity for the assertion is derives have been discovered in the south Tel. Kowloon from carved benchends dating back West slopes of Ingleborough Mr. H. G. Riviere, in the discus to the 14th century in a church on Mountain, Lancaster, by Mr. C. F. sion on the changes in feminine the Balmin moors. The carvings, V. Long. Mr. Long was attracted beauty invoked by the picture of depit Cornishment wearing the kit by the structure of the slopes and the limestone plateau above White the composite bobbed-haired gra- and one of them playing Scar and believed it was evidence duate, suggests that the greatest The fact that the bagpiper change that has come over the known in Cornwall will occasion "beauty" is our generation is in surprise, for these instruments were the development of the large mouth first introduced into the British Isles from the terrible Victorian rosebudig the Reumas, and it was from (says the Evening Standard.) But I England that the bagpipes spread think a greater change is that offer the Caledonis ut, iter to thousand feet, through the shoulders, For a century or behind. In England their seant water, reached a beautiful more weak, sloping shoulders were mickly died out, but in Setland cavern. The whole floor consisted admired, but nowadays almost parts of rest, particularly the of the waters of a swiftly-flowing every young woman; and certainly former, they took rm root and river, which thundered into a great everyone who is counted a beauty hally become identified with the basin before disappearing from has straight, smare, and rather long life of the people. But the view in the shadows beyond. On spare shoulders.. The odd thing is diural existence of the hiltonisid either hand the winding walls that shoulders are no longer

the Highlands is a new discovery were decked with the purest white discussed" point," as they were he Comish variety is depicted as draperies of crystal, falling from when conscientious Thackerayan ing pleated in fim as well as the roof to the water. The roof mammas would say "Don't stoop" behind, if the enrings rally do was hung with a profusion of to their debutante daughters, in or represent Cornishmen, the Duchy stalactities, the reflections of which der to draw attention to their wine as an arguable case for clairing met the eye at every turn. The bottle-shaped shoulders. Now that the modern kilt is of Cenish explorations are by no means com- that wonien's shoulders are really origin, as the ancient Highland kill pleted. The river, which has been handsome, and dress shows their inrs to have been tlust put of traced for a mile, gives place to a outline very frankly, nobody talks

lake, the extent of which is un- about shoulders at all! The Locust Scourge.

the play extruding below the belt and war, therefore, umplen test. The Super-Woman

It is not that they cannot size up character-for their intuition is their greatest protection, and God's special gift to them; that they are not full of ideas,quick at carrying out a business "coup," and able to lead and command to an incredible extent. But-and it is an important but the time will always come when women will turn to men for help. Is this, then, perhaps the

The South African farmer has been almost overwhelmed with locusts in the last few months. Spraying the swarms with poison (arsenite of soda), beating them to death with flails, stampeding herds of cattle over the swarnis when they come to rest are some of the methods that have 'been employed against the pest. The farmer has derived great assistance too from "the locust birds "-storks, cranes, glareolas from Asia, and 2 But the scale. host of others.

turned finally

his in favour when parasitic started to spread death amongst

was

4

fly

Take With Sweetened Water Svas the babies. holpe the growl-up", comforts elderly people that's Chunber lain's Colic and Diserhoes Remedy. Usel fo infantile cholera sudden pain,

the flying swarms of locusts. The in atom-ch, griping trama, manson with"] brummer fly, as it is called, is prostrating divcboca. For "sale" esory. abost twice the size of the ordinary whore.

GENUINE

known. The entrance to the caves is being enlarged to allow the entrance of material necessary for the completion of the investiga tion.

HOP SING & CO.,

TYPEWRITER DEALERS & REPAIRERS, Supplies and Ribbons for all Makes

of Machines

22. Pottinger Street. Tel. 0.3212. BRANCH OFFICE:

139, Tak Hing Kai, CANTON.

SALE

OM.

REAL

OF

BARGAINS.

AT

SINCERE'S

We are also offering our entire stock of NEW SEASON GOODS at Bargain Prices!

NOW IS YOUR CHANCE to obtain your

SPRING outfit.

SPRING AT IT! JUMP AT IT !!

TAKE IT !!}

COME EARLY.

HOTEL

'ASIA”

-WEST BUND, CANTON,

Leading Hotel in South China.

First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans a Elevators. Roof Garden. Hairdressing Salco...

Views

and Pearl of City

River. Splendid Excellent Cuisine.

Moderate Rates

Under the Management of the SUN

00., LTD.,JANTON.

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.

Telegraphic address “ASTOR”

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

C

*

A first-class Hotel centrally located, large and airy rooms, completely renovated and refurnished. New Dining Room for Meals and is Carte. Excellent Cuisine.. Monthly Tickets. for Tiffing 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 very home comfort, Very large well famished double sad, single recens. One minste roza shazobra, Personal supervision. Terms from 34 per day-

KING EDWARD - HOTEL

A

OKETHAL LOCATION

LL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pass Entrusos, Elsa-

trie Li, Face and Lighting, European Bath and Banbury Vittings, Hof and Cald Water Systems Lärougheste Best of Food and Berries, TEL CHALL. 17 Telegraphio kódzam S—FFICEORIA 3. WETCJDELL, Manager.

MASSAGE

"Mr. N. 4. KAJI & Mrs. E. AKAJI.

Graduate

No.

Tokio Massage School, Queen's Road, U 05

Telephone No. C,

MRS. STEWART OGILVIE,

Proprietres.

TANG YUK, Dawgst,

Aucoser 16

the late SIEN TINⱭ,

14, D'águllar Barock.

TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation From.

MASSAGE.

Mr. HONDA, Mrs. KINAK! #d R. SHIMIDZU,

No. 24, Wybrz Street, (opposite to fix China Mal!”)

G. FALCONER & CO. (HONGKONG)LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS DIAMOND MERUHANTS

UNION BUILDING (OPPOSITE G.P.O.) –

|Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, 2. KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers.

High Class English Jewellery,

THE EASTERN GARAGE CO.,

DES. VOBUX ROAD. C.

Best cars for hire and sale, clean place for storing cars, and repairs of Motor Oycles undertaken. -

EXPERT DEIVERS. MODERATE CHARGES.

PHOTO "BUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO., Kotak odak Půlms, čia. 84.

DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPRUTALITY.

No. 174, Quoor's ROAD CHITIAL, Hawakong,

PIANOS för SALE or Hire THÁNG 100K PIANO CO.,

Tal 2127.

HA. Wambal Eosd.

MIYBUT HUSBAN KAISHA.