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THE CHINA MAIL.

LAMMERT BROS. C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD. WATCH YOUR

AVDFIGURERS," "ÅFPRAIZNES

AND SURVETOKS,

Public Auctions-

THE alle auction.

BE Ur designed save received instrue.

OR

TUESDAY, May 27, 1924, coinu ending at 2,48 pint.

at No. b, Aimai Villas, Kimberley Rom

Kowloon

Quantity of Valuable House

hold Furniture

Comprising Touk Hat Stand, Chesterfield Couth ao Chair, Dverisental, Tek Ex- tension Dining Table, Teal Chaire, Sideboard, Glass Cabinet, les Lhest, Carpet, Curtains, Gasaware, Crockery, Brass Ornaments. "Water Colour, Fiaturee, cl, alb.

Double and Single Teak Bedsteads, Iron Bedatande, Toni: Wardrobe with. Gas Door, Tak Chest of Drivers, Dressing Table, Wash Staar Table,

elc; ate.

Aiko

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One Cuttago Pinto (Now) by Moútria One Amorina Oil Cooking Stove (Now)

v One Completo Set of The Encycle-

VolurDOR)

Catalogues will be'isoned.

GANITARY ENDINEKRA

MONUMENTALIST=

Osteen, and Chadows,

Ma, Wanchal Road, Hongkong

a. Central No. 200+

Aaa Kumi On Branne EWERTER Er barock.

Sen Vars

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JUST RECEIVED

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FOR SALE

French Colonies Packets'

CAPSTAN

NOTICE THE ABSENCE OF SPLUTTER.

THE SLOW BURNING

„WHAT A DELIGHTFULLY

COOL SMOKE IT 15....

MANUFACTURED

FRIDAY MAY 28′′ 1924.

HOTELS & CAFES.

. THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTF'.: PEHOTEL Telegraphic Adda, “KREMLIN, HONGKONG.“ 'AND

SHANGHAL

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL: PALACE HOTEL; GRAND HOTEL KALBE, MAJESTIO HOTEL Telegraphic · Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL”

Tal. Kowloon- No. 3

HOTELS,

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel”

dos -Wagons` Lite, -Ltd., - Peking.

PALACE HOTEL

Tel. Address "Palace"

(Three minutes from Kowloon Forry Wharf & Railway Station.) ". Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans Throughout. Every Room with Private Bath, Lounge Bar & Billiard Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal aupervision of the Proprietor. Terms moderate. epcolal terms to families on application to

J. B. OXBERRY, Proprietor.

pedia Britannica 11th

Edition (20

30 Stamps all different, $ 0.30 100 do

do.

0.70

100% do.

do.

1.80

IN ENGLAND

H..

200 do.

do.

3.00

300-lo.

do.

7.50

do.

15.00

1000 do:"

do.

00.00

O View from Monday the 25th May, 1924.

Terme-Cast on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS... Auctioneers.

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WEDNESDAY, 11th June, 1824 Commencing at 3 o'clock pm. at the promises of the Rongkong Tratoway, Co. Ltd., Bowringtcn Cazal Road East

The Steam Driven Electria Generating Plant

Cousisting of

Boilers

Two Babcock andi Wilcox Boilers (complete) each having approximately 3,064 square feet or heating surface, guaranteed to evaporate under normal conditions 12,000 lbs. of water par tour.

Working pressUTE 100 Ita per

quare inch.

Both Bollers fitted with chain grote stakers.

Fuginos

Two 428 B.I.P. Horizonts! Com- pound condensing eteam engines by Mesere, Yates & Thom of Blackbum, coupled dirre to two 300 Eilowatt Direct Current Dick Kerr Goseratora.

Volts 500. R..M, 100. Complete with steam piping, etc., etc., One 150 B.d.P. Vertical Compound "condensing steam engine, by Meyers. Bellies & Morom Ltd curpled direct to on 200 Kilowatt Direct Current

Dick Kery Generator.

Via 550, RPM, 250. Complete with steam piping etc., et

Auxiliary Plant

One W. u. Allen Tandem compound engine, coupled direct to a 20 Kilowatt Direct Current Dick Kerr Generator:

Volta 110. R.P.M. 500. One Dick Kerr Motor Generator Set. Moter 650 Volts. flenera:or 110 Volia. R.P.M. 500.

One Remingta two cylinder crude ail engine, direct coupled to a 15 Kilo wasti Direct Carrent Chandeyeon Generator.

Volta 195. R. P.M. 400.

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

Catalogues will be issued. For further particulars apply to the į Undersigned.

LAMMEET BROS. Анскодева,

Pongkong, Apr 10. 1994.

CHEN WAYAN SUPPLY.

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Loveland Storage of wato? in reservoirs

on the le: May 1974-

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and Hill District In millions and decimals

of gallons during the month of April

Genrangkah

Demeriton per head

STAA.

17407 281,83 380,780

zen.,00

33.0

ratione

Entertaltient Supply in all Rider Main

districts during April 1823.

Constant apply in all distriots during April 10

KOWLOON WATER WɖLES LETEL

993! Mertson @ravilan ( 25ft. Dim, Below 15%, dim. Below

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onection WICHTEN IN KILLING, LET DIOCESE OF GARDEN

1974. 161,23

Consumption on, water in autoon in, stillons and decimale of gallons daring the month of April,

Сирени мунунии

14.

119 000 14,200

Bestriction in all districts from 4th)

April 1923.

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Fall Supply to all districts during

April 1996

The fovernment analyst's repoštë shem But the quality of the water le matinfo

GRACA & 00., X

Dealors in Postage Stamps, Religious Goods. Pictorial Four Cards, Gardon Seeds, Toys, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street,

P. O. Box No. 620.

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

·Japanese Hand Made)

4.

Every and of Yootwear. MADE TO ORDER,

CHERRY & 00%,

6, D'AGUILAB STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & to

Telophone Central No. 4811

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. (Oppoelta Yazmat Farry, Prays)

ASAHI BEER

PULSENER BEER!

OPAND PRIZES

ASAHI

BEER

TOKYO JAPAN A

COMPANY

&

SOLD EVERYWHERE

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 renuvoted 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, Manuyor:

The police, who forced their way into As to my scholastic caliber, I his house, but he opened such a hot was ejected from the Honolulu firy in them at his bed-vousn door school. I am now masticating and that they held back long grough for will make a motion as soon as I him, escape by way of the win- perceive the business of life a little dow, running the gainties of fire | Taxly. From the other police below. H I am of lofty and original lineage then took a neighbouring wood. and independent income, and where, in spite of police guarde post hoping that having debated pre- all wind it and searches curried position in your girl's, mind, you on with hounds, he ded capture, will concur daintily, corroborated He even sunyvoded in stealing out of in espousing Sarah progeny to my the wed by night and returning tender bosom, and thereby acquir. with vitals siden fnm the town. ing me into your friedship circle:

As your faithful,

on one ever saw bim

Sir

JOHN ALI GIN.

Sterndale

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY BOISSORS LOOT.

Should Dresses Be Cri icised?

Madame Colette, one bf the foremost writers in France, recent ly deplored that women's dresses were not subjected to criticism in the same way as plays and pictures. This view

suggested the question as to whether the robe as turned cut by Paris dressmakers was a work of art and

After he had leën besieged in the -- therefore open to criticisni. In wed for three dev's be again eluded, order to obtain a reply to this the police Series and steeled The Musician's Aisle, question' it was necessary to get lumeel in the Bolles nse while the views of the dressmakers the owners were cut, with the in Westminster Abbey, where the themselves. This has been done, tention of avenging what he peasider late Sir Charles Stanford was laid Without exception they agree that | ell the slight that had been but upon to rest last week, is the burial the robe is a work of art and that him, and perhaps making his loved place of the first great English It can be criticised like any other one a widow. When the Bolles re- composer, Henry Purcell, who thing that is submitted to the tuned the Arab find uren them died in 1595 (says the Morning public for its approval, only there fnm his hiding place in a dark corPost) He was the organist of the are decided opinions as to the new,,wooling the husband this Abbey when only twenty-two qualifications of the persons to time, but he was back in the wood years of age, and lies in the whom this criticism is entrusted, jain before the alarm was raised. Musicians' Aisle (the north aisle They insist that the work should: For some daca the police who of the choir) ; Other musicians be done in good faith and that womhed the wood wear ozensional who are buried or commemorated there should be nothing in the ty and apoy, but they never saw in the aisle are Jobp Blow, master criticism calculated to harm their Molamiul Ir was only after months of 'Purcell and Croft, Michael trade, for, after all, they are of grarching all over France that he William Balfe. Dr. Charles Burney business people as well as artists. was traced to Brussis. His own and

William In their view the critic of robes story of the affair is that he fired Bennett. should be a person of tried taste, encli, time through fright. The of undoubted. authority. One pile of Arrontoul, he said, took A Familiar Prayer. couturier has doubts as to whether him for a dangerous handit, andi

No form of prayer is more farni- any good would come of criticising were making war upon him. His ar than the childish quatrain, robes. The argument he puts heart, apparently, still herds for forward is one that cannot be Madame Belle, for when she appear known in the popular hymnology -of-pearly every Country, “Now I ignored. The dressmakers work in the witnessed the brake lay me down to sleep, I pray the for women, he says and, after all, down and wept copiensly into a large Lord my soul to keep. If I should they have their personal im- multi-coloured handkerchief, "until pressions and have an idea of what the coise of the judge sentencing die before I wake, I pray the Lord suits them. Another dressmaker him te five years imprisonment my soul to take." The origin of takes an entirely different view, banished the lover's despair for this verse has been the source of He would welcome free criticism sterner sentiments..

much curious literary speculation. of his models, and would not mind A Korean Literature.

Bartlett, in his early editions of “Familiar Quotations" ascribed t if the critic wrote "The robes of--

to the New England Primer." are extremely ugly this year." This would not amuse him, but it

Watts has often been suggested would not make him withdraw his

as the author of it, but William S. advertising contracts. If his

Walsh, in his "Book of Literary. Curiosities states that Watts's dresses were adversely criticised

hymn of two verses 18 merely a he would insist on his right to

It is with faltering penmanship paraphrase of a medieval Latin reply to the critic and at so much per line.

A lady who is at the that I communicate with you, about hymn which was known as the head of a big dressmaking the prospective condition of our White Patemoster" of which the familiar quatrain of modern days establishment is so keen about house-girl Sarah. robes being criticised that she goes

For remote time past, secret is a surviving fragment.........Atransla-' the length of suggesting that the passion has been firing my bosom tion of the "White Paternoster' couturiers should decide not to internally with loving your girl is given in Ady's "Candle in the give advertisements to those news Sarah. I have travelled all the Dark, a book printed in 1655, in papers which did not make a channels in the magnitude of my the following farm feature of dress criticism.

extensive jurisdiction, cruelly to smother the growing love knot that An Arab Don Juan,

is being constructed within my in- Mohamed Ben "Ahmed”, en Arab side Don Juan, has fallen upon evil days But the timid lamp of my affec- tough trying to introdden the tion, trimmed by Cupid's produc- dashing methods of layers of other tive hands, still nourishes my Lines into the respectable Paris lovesick breast. Needless would subarb of Argentouil. In February it be for me to numerically extem- last year Mohamed fell in love with porlas the great confagration that Madame Bolle, of Argenteuil, but the has generated in my head and fact that her husband was still alive hoort.

"A kind friend sends us the following, copied literatim from "a letter written by a Korean youth to lady. in Honolulu, says the Atlantic Monthly: Dear Mrs. F

Matthew, Mark, Luke and

John

Bless the bed that I lye on, And blessed guardian

angel keep. " Me safe from danger while,

I sleep.

I lay me down to_rest me And pray the Lord to

bless me,

If I should-sleep, no mpre

>to wako,..

I pray the Lord my soul to

take.

placed an obstacle in the path of his During the reign of nightness affections. He therefore resolved my intellectually cranium has been' on the picturesque, downright m entangled in thoughtful attitude of by those adopted by his ancestors and my beloved consort. Nocturnal

The "White Paternoster," dating other lovers of more adventurous slumberlessness has been the back to the Middle Ages, was days. One morning, when the bus infirmity which has besieged my probably taught to the children as band had left home. Mohrmed call now generated condition an easily remembered form of od tron Madame Bolle and sammonMy educational abilities have prayer suitable for the 'ddrsery, eder either to follow him for be abandoned, and now I ding to, and jo nouns of time it becamo shot. On being repulsed ho fired these lovely stresses of your much crystallisede in the more stoiplo and wounded ber. Early nest mon coveted girl. Hke a mariner ship form in which it is now remember ing he was roused from his bed by wrecked on the rocks of love, 14.

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HANKOW ROAD, KOWLOON, NEXT DOOR TO,

NEW KOWLOON HOTEL BOARD and RESIDENCE Ivary home ecmfort, Very large wall furnished double and single mo Oze minsta from steamer, Pomonal supervision. Tarma kom $4 per day

MRS, STEWART OGILVIE;

за

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL - LOCATION

EL ELECTRIU TRANS Fame Entrando, žled, trio Litt, Fans and Lighting, Caropene Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Ifet and Gold- Tater System throughout,Best of Food and SCITION Tal. Conti. XY Telegraphlo Actress — Voronza J. WITCHELL, Manager,

MASSAGE

Mr. N. KAJI & Mrs. E. AKAJI, Graduate Tokio Massaga School,'

No. Queen's Road, Telephone No. C. 95

Proprieta

“TANG YUK, Dartare.

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the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Agaliar Stroot

TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Proc.

MASSAGE

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MODERATE CHARGES;

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THE PHOTO ~ SUPPLIES,

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the

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