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THE CHINA MAIL.

LAMMERT BROS. NOTICE OF REMOVAL QUALITY S

Awoymamas, AppRAIDERE AND SIRVEYORK.

Public Auctions-

1HP UndervigonŽ SANGTRADYOS (Insider

Tous is all li Pabila asoslan,

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SATURDAY, 31st June, 1924,

at 11 o'clock a.m.

at their Sales Recdia, Daddell Street.

543 lbs. Jobbing Typs

4 Canon Wood Type

35 Tine Deokiu z Compound Lard

1 Chas Morcorised Brocades

20 Pieces Waterproof Talla

ruma Acti Folios Composition

- Drums Anti Virnaive Compeition

AIA

A Quantity of linge,

And

A Lot of Wiscolour car, Inoda

Forms -Carb ou delivery.

LAMMERT BR08,"

Anctionner.

Hongkong 18th June, 1991.-

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WED XD!Y, £5th June, 1924, samenshig at is o clack Ny N

at tī ir Sales Ropa, Buddell Struer

for aesional dhe oqucerned,

1. Printing Magne

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1 Prost Press

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1 Lot Wood Type

Turma --Qach uniolivary.

*LAMMERT BROS..

Kurowear.

"Hongkong, Houdinis, 1934,

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We have this day

removed to

No. 31D, Wyndham St.,

(Opposite The Dairy Farm)

C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

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SANITARY ENGINEERS, &¿

Hongkong, 5th June, 1924.

FOR SALE

A Fine Collection of

69 Transvaal Unsed

Postage Stamps,

1885 to 1901,

Including £5 Stamps

for $50 net

GRACA & CO.,

Deslora iz Postage Stamps, Pictorial"

Post Cards. Garden Seeds, Toys

&c., Se..

No. 10, Wyndham Street,

P. O. Box 2o.

Hongkong.

OFTEN EXPENSIVE

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FRIDAY JUNE 20, 1924.

THE

HO GKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL

PEAK HOTEL.

Talographic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.”.

AND

SHANGHA'

·ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; GRAND HOTEL KALHE; MAJESTIC HOTEL Telographid Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI."

HOTELS,

} LIMITED.

In assosiation with the Grand Hotel

des Wagons Lits, Ltd., Feking.

Tol. Kowloon No. 3

PALACE HOTEL

Tel. Address Palace

(Thren minutes froin Howloon Ferry Wharf & Railway Station.) Entirely under Enlish Bausgement. Hlectric Livbt and Fa Throughout. Every Room with Private Bath.

Lounge Bar & Billiard Rooms, Forivalled Quisine under the personal

supervision of the Proprietor. Torms moderit. specul teras to families on application to

J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor.

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.

Telegraphic kidress "ASTOR"

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

A first class Hotel centrally located, large and airy rooms, completely renovated and refurnished.. New Dining Room "for Meals and la Carte. Excellent Cuisine. Monthly Tickets for Tittins and Dinners. Under entirely new Management..

For further particulars apply to

M. A. VAZ, Manager.

SUPERSTITIONS.

DACK TAR WHO •AME PROM THE LDS.

Almost in, alle aive Pie Superstitions muset, quint, lebig" Bor, protical.

tung round the and sway the zuinds of flows are sail in great waters, writey Pirc Mordaunt in J. P.'s and Gavi, 2 Werkly,

Watersjimai: Jee omne nganded with unch „uperstition, thonga also with four, sexi we rend that the crew (obe carried with him on his fant wege went hearty wild with tend the first dey „encountered thank afterward- "finding, as they rought, an i

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of stones, a home reaching sp juta the clomb.

Presently page began, t tighten and, sitam is though 1-1 crow were "endanding to - Shig the anchor-ithube the excite- } „ment of this after a very long and probably very dry --emon! Still Statuck, and 4 alue the hemis of the gap mused, up in Pla! clonds, was heard a clanGIOUS afgement, which was finally endet by a sullor Kubig dona de jojë

Unfortunately, tia; crowth, in their eagernes this anger rutural Juck Thr, nawaler sa elos round him that he died. İroju sheer Jack of the purs but he was decis tomed to, while after a find his shipnutes ens the able and sailed. away, leaving behind then ther anelior, which sus melted, down 98 n, memento of the event info elusps and hinges for the charch door. Or so the holy fervase said.

All, the ancient believed that storms at sea, anden great winds, and high tides were the work, of evil spirits or desorts,

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and of Footwear, MADE TO ORDER.

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6, D'AQUILAR STREET,

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Ronzkogg, March 20, 1914.,

WHY BUY FOREIGN

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MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

A King Before Birth,

When the King of Spain says to an interviewer that he has been a King since earliest infancy he rather minimises a remarkable fea- ture of his reign. The fact is, of course, that he was a King before his carliest infancy, his father, Alfonso XII, having died of typhoid some months before his birth not long after having, or so the story goes, sat down at a luncheon party of thirteen. I can not remember any other recent instance of a King succeeding to his throne before being born (says an Evening Standard writer) though Gibbon mentions one that occurred in the kingdom of Persia and gives some curious-details-of-the-cere- monies observed;

good

The Prince's Energy.

Оле

Duke of Connaught 74.

No member of the Royal Family Nobody who sees the Prince of is more popular than the Duke of Wales and notes his slightness of Connaught, who is now seventy build and his air of being con- four. The Duke does not look his age, and his health is stantly at a high nervous tension But for some years he has can understand how he continues had to winter in the South of to eram so much activity into his France owing to throat trouble. "days. He "may be dancing well His enviable figure he is as slim and upright as a sen half his into the small hours, but that will partly the result of not prevent his being out for rid- age-is vigorous, pre-breakfast physical ing exercise early next morning drill. That the godson of the (says a Daily Chronicle writer, great Doke of Wellington is still Last season, with living is something of a link with brothers he would motor down from of his the past. The Duke of Connaught town, be in the saddle by 8, and owes his name Arthur to the hero, back at St. James's Palace before of Waterloo, and he figures, as a his less energetic friends were tiny baby, in the famous Winter ready for breakfast. halter portrait-group in which his Mr Arnold Bennett.. aged godfather is presenting a casket to Queen Victoria and the There are some characteristic Prince Consort. This was painted Arnold Bennettisms in an uncon- in 1851.

ventional conversation recorded by Miss Sylvia Lynd in The Queen. With remarkably few exceptions writing a novel about country life, Asked if he ever thought about the members of the Government Mr. Bennett said, "I can't write and leaders of Labour, inside and about what I do not know. Trains outside St. Stephen's, are great and restaurants, you can get hold lovers of flowers, writes Cyril of that sort of thing at once. I saw I have one souvenir of the great Harding in the Daily News, the Savoy for the first time at the Duse and of her last visit to Lon. Knowing the love of the beautiful beginning of the 90's, and I got don, last June-the staff, rough in Nature possessed by Labour hold of it at once-at once. But the hewn from a young tree, on which leaders, I ventured to ask a few to country-you would have had to she leaned in" Cosi Sia," the last tell me their favourite flower, and live there when you were a child." play in which she appeared at the why they chose it. The Prime "London is the place for me," he New Oxford Theatre (saysa London Minister.replied: My favourite Evening News writer.) After that is the daffodil, because it comes in performance of "Cosi Sta" Miss the spring, and is so full of life dom of life in the Potteries"

"You can't conceive the bore. Fay Compton came away crying. and dignity. The reply is

Duac's Hands.

Labour Men's Flowers.

added.

Among other Bennettisms are

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MESSES. MOOSA & CO.

16. Wyndham Street.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

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LL ELECTRIC TRANS F Entrance, Eino and

She said she felt she could hardly typical of the character of mr the following face her own audience that night. Ramsay MacDonald. Mr. James "If I could sleep well every In the last act for nearly half the C. Welsh the author of "The night. I could eat the world." period she was on the stage Duse Under-world," and known through-

I hate about three people, sim- crushed behind a pillar in the out the land as "The Miners' ply hate 'em, but most people, I mountain shrine where she had Poet, writes:"My favourite like. gone to die. For many rainutes flower is the rose-all kinds; but 1 like meeting people, I like the audience saw only her why it is a difficult question. talking to people." outstretched bands and heard the But it seems to combine within it

"The man's orignal (speaking device. agony in her voice. Duse has been

an appeal to all the senses of Mr Powys,) "Black Byrony, he called the lady of the beautiful

colour, form, fragrance, and really interested me, and to be hands. They were long, thin, and softness-and is at once an epic of really interested, that is very rare." exquisitely shaped, and came much into play as she arranged the creation and a lyric of surpassing

beauty." The Countess of An Island Home. long "expressive" robes she wore Warwick says:-"It is impossible

their

Twice in less than eight year

Air Beings, bet and col

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in all her parts. Her voice, gentit, to have a favourite flower, because the mansion on Elgg. Sir William pleading, could be mistaken for no one would have to wait months other volce in the world. Her every year without it. I love all Petersen's island home on the stences were more moving than flowers in season, and West Coast of Scotland, has been many competent actresses most everything that grows is full of destroyed by fire. When the then poignant outbursts. She bad the interest in every season."

The Mr. Petersen, the shipowner, of view that no one should act more favourite of Mr. J. H Thomas, the Portland Place, and Heron's Ghyll, than once a week. When she per- Colonial Secretary, is the primrose Sussex, was on his way to take formed at a matines she would go but Mr. Thomas does not tell me possession after purchasing the Agants to her dressing-room beford noon why. The Minister of Transport, Island he was informed by telegram and remain there until her call Mr. Harry Gosling, selects the (says the Star) that the liquse had came. She did that to steep her daisy, because it is the most been burnt down, together with its self in the atmosphere of the thea- democratic and friendly. Mr. priceless contents, which included tre. On the hpitest days she would George Lansbury's reply is also an extensive library pertaining to have the theatre centrally heated to typical of the man. He writes: the Western Islands and the High- tropical warmth.

Ho rebuilt the mansion "My favourite flowers are ylalets. lands. There fa no reason, only that and began collecting another like them."

literature, library of Northern which presumably has been destroyed.

Chamberlains Calio' and

· Diarrhoes ·Remedy

She never could travel in a smok ing.compartment. When last May shi joumexedia Landon she was surprised there was no one part of our Pullman restaurant trains for

· Sir William, who, though a Dane nup-smokers; and sat in an impro-

by birth, is naturalised here and. vised seat in the entrance corridor.. «Chamberlain's Collo; and Djarrhoea { had an Irish mother, has had some Before that, though carrying the Remedy pos-esses one unique character: heavy troubles The death of his highest credentials from our Emand only for the one purpose of immed followed by that of his only son, letic song medicing. It is made solely wife, a Scottish Sinclair, was bassies, she had found that St was

istaly having severe pain fata necessary for her to have a permit ranch and bowels, for intestinal who fell in action, and then one of from the Ministry of Labour to cramps (whatever the cause) callemad his beautiful daughters died, Flora, enable her to land at Folkestone. hiarrhoea. Every family should Keep It! Mrs. Duguld. M'Combis.

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