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LAMMERT BROS.

LUZUIGENERA, APPRAISNES and SunerTORS

Public Auctiona

HE Undaraigned have recev}, {SHIMOK

tons to soll by Public Auction

WEDNESDAY, 25th June, 1924, commencing at 12 oclook SOON. at their Fales Room. Duddeil Street

(for account of the concerned)

1 Printing Machine

1 Card Machine

1 Preat Frees

I Lot Wood Type

་་

Terma-Cash on delivery.

LAMMER BROS.,

Austenders.

Hongkong, 19th June, 1994. A

THE Cndersigned have received instruc

the Special Manager

to sell by Public Anction

Κατε

SATURDAY, 28th Jano, 1824.

at

commencing

11 ..

Alexandra Buildings, the promises

of The Chinese Merchants Bank, Ltd.. A Quantity of

Valuable Office Furniture Comprising:→→

Teak Deaks, Filing Cabinet, Chairs, Tables, Typewriting Tables, Copping Prems, Clocks, Large Mirrors, and a few pinces of Blackwood Furniture, etc., etc."

Remington, Yost and Royal Type- writera, Underwned (pewriter long carriage) Torroughs Adding Machine, "Bandstand Adding Machine. stam- ping Machine, Check Writer, Ceiling Fans, Electric Fittinge Table Faus, etc, etc..

1 Milner's S

Also

1 Herring Hall Marvin Sale

1 Large Sale by Cary Safe Co,"

Bem Syrisgraph

And

One Fiuo Tenk Counter with Brass

Raile and Tak and Glass

Partitions.

Catalogues will be issued.

On View from Friday the 271b., Jane

3024.

K

larri-Cash on delivery."

LAMMERT BROS.

Hongkong, 2nd June, 192

1924

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE PUBLIC ALCTION

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY

situate at AUSTIN. AVENUE KOWLOON and known as Nos. 1,2,3,4 5,6,7 & 8. Aimal Villa's

TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION on

MONDAY

the 7th day of July, 1924, at 12 o'clock noon

IN ONE LOT

by

MESSRS. LAMMERT BROS.. Auctioneers. At their Auction Rooms in Duddell Street.

The Property consists of:-

ALL THOSE pieces or parcels of ground situate at Kowloon in the Colony of Hongkong and respective ly registered in the Land Office as KOWLOON INLAND LOTS NOS. 1171 and 1172 together with the messuages or tenements erections and buildings thereon.

Particulars and

Conditions

Sale may be obtained either from

or from

Messrs. DEACONS,

G. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

BANITARY ENGINEZUS

MONUMENTALIST" Oo: mikor Street. The Duly Parwy Tal. Central No. 39.

JUST RECEIVED

A NEW STOCK OF "IDEAL" BOILERS.

ESTIMATES

FREE FOR HEATING, HOT & COLD WATER SYSTEMS, & ALL SANITARY INSTALLATIONS.

MONUMENTALISTS IN ITALIAN MARBLE AND HONGKONG GRANITE,

TO OWN OR SELECTED DESIGN.

FOR SALE

Macao Complete Collection of 258

usued and unused

Postage Stamps, from first Crown issue. 1884

to present issue, per $175 net.

GRACA & Co., Dealors in Postage Stamps, Pictorial Post Cards, Garden Beode, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Stress,

P. 0."Bex €20.

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

Japanese Band Mada)

Every and of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO..

V; D'AQUILAN STREET, - -

Oppuste Hayamaliy to

Telephone Central No. 21)

Hangrong, March 20, 3914.

WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITCASES

When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases?

They are Cheaper. and Mor: Durable.

CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO.^ (Opposito Yanmatí Forry, Praya)

of

ASAHI BEER

1 Des Voeux Road Central,

Hongkong,

the Vendor's Solicitors,

Messrs. LAMMERT BROS.,

fe Auctioneers.

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS

+

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELÉ GRAPH COMPANY, LTD.

The following unclaimed telegrams are lying at the office

of

The

Great Northom Telegraph Company (Lkulted):---

Yuen Wah, from Amoy.

Chung Lung 28 Wing Bhing Brook

2nd Floor, from Shanghai

Taodashataro, from Basebo.

Grifsilna, from Yokohama.

Pattern Whart, from Shanghai,

9120, Loa Chefoo.

Lee You Yee 10 Wanchri, from

Bhanghai

Baglin, from Shanghai.

2889 3293, from A107.

2:

Hagh King Edward Hotel, from

slanghai.

Tohyatel, from Osaka.

E. V. JESSEN,

Raperinfer dept.

Hongkong, 22nd May, 1824.

ASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL

ABIA & ORINA TELEGRAPH CO.

P

Lay of minitand telegrami lying la **E-Felograps Office, Hongkong.

Baurgiad Company Loo Taipeh. Mise Macfarlane Fassenger Karmala fo Peninsular, from Glasgow.

......

T. Tamshire c/o Bwato.Hotel, from Manila

William Grant Care American Consul from-Baltimorend

EX. AIBET,

Buperistandens.

Barkong 19th June, 1964.

NIPPON

PILSENER BEER

GRAND PRIZES

ASAHI

BEER

LAGER BEER

"SPECIALLY BREWED FOR EXPORT.

COMPANY

OKYO

THE CHINA MAIL.

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY NOISSORS LOOT.

English Beauties.

ROMANCE OF RUBBER.

THE PLAYTHING OF SAVAGES.

about

WELSH WEEK..

FESTIVAL, BY CHÒIR OF 30,000 VOICES.

A Wesh Phoir of 10,000 voices ie ngladed in the programme for Welsh week at Wembley in August,

The Prince of Wales is taking a keen, personal interest in the project and has expressed the hope that every cluir in Wales will be represented at the Stadium.

TUESDAY, JUNE 24. 1924

THE

HONGKONG'

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL;

PEAK HOTEL, Tafographic Address: ""KREMLIN, HONGKONG," AND SHANGHAI

Tel.. Kowloon No. 3

"Who is the most beautifuly woman you have painted?" Mr.

If there is romance in industry, M'Evoy was asked the other day surely an eventful chapter has He was diplomatically cautious, but

been contributed by rubber, which, said, "Miss Zita Youngman, whom Ilave just painted, is an exceed having its first commercial start in a restricted use in America during ingly beautiful girl, and the Mar-Civil War days, has now advanced chioness de Casa Maity, who was to a position where the great before her marriage Miss Paula automotive industry is, because of Gellibrandis another lovely type. its tire requirements, quite de Sir Walford Davies, who is one "Three beautifid types of English- pendent on it, says a Home paper of the leading spirits behind the women," he added, "were Vis- writer

campaign, bus explained that the Nor is its commercial rise the Welsh unusical festival week would geuntess Curzon, Lady Diana Duff Cooper, and Miss Lois Sturt."only interesting thing

rubber, for it may have been inne opportunity for Wales The Evening Standard..

They use in very ancient times, and, in speak her musicnf mind. A Duke to the Rescue,

In one of Mrs. Cariyle's recently any event, was certainly not made would be making music at Wem-

known to western civilization by bley for thousands of hearers. "published letters there is a refer Christopher Columbus, as is the It was really an honour for

ehre to the beautiful old trees general impression

Wales, hi said, to be singled out which adorned the glass house of Just how Columbus came to be and invited through lier Nationa the Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde credited with have found the Council of Music

to give the Park says id Daily Chronicle) natives, using nibber in Haiti, festival. was a clince for The builders wanted to eat them about 1493, is one of the few things Wales to find herself musically. down, but...a publie outery pre-about this product, other than its vented this. Their survival nearly synthetic possibilities, that so far Her effort to give of her best to the led to disaster, for a host of apar has never been satisfactorily ex-up would bring her to her best, As a matter of fact, It was going to be a purely rows lived in the branches, and plained. consequently exhibitors refused to civilization, from the Occidental Welsh musical, festival for the

standpoint, did discover rubber in Empire. display their more delicate goods. the hands of American natives at "Imagine the effect of a great Queen Victoria in this emergency, play, but this discovery was made Welsh choir of thirty thousand sent for the Duke of Wellington. by the Spaniards in the course of singing parts of the 'Messiah' and who suggested sparrow-hawks, and their invasion of Mexico in 1521 their own. folk melodies." Sir Her Majesty is said to have On one of their excursions these

Some of the great Welsh chairs exclaimed, in her gratitude, "The conquerors saw a national game of" dear Duke has saved us again."

ball played in a circus-like in- closure. The object of the game have already offered their services, In Chelsea To-day

appears to have been to keep a and it is expected that as lively ball, made of some strange arrangements proceed every town material, flying through the air and village in North and South...... until it was driven through a hole Wales will send their contribution in a circular stone.

11

It

Walford added.

the

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL: GRAND HOTEL HALES; MAJESTIO HOTEL, Tolographio Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI:"

HOTELS',

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel day Wagons Lits, Ltd., Peking.

HOME B PALACE HOTEL

Tel. Addrem "Falace"

Throughout.

(Three minutes from Kowloon Forry Wharf & Railway Station.) Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and F

Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge Bar & Billiard Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine ander the personal supervision of the Proprioter. Terais moder to." special terms to families on application to

JB OXBERRY, Proprietor.

200233e

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 renovated, and refurnished. New Dining Room for Meals and la Carte. Excellent Cuisine. Monthly Tickets for Tifins aud Dinnera. Under entirely new Management.

For further particulars apply to

M: A. VAZ, Manager.

L.

The visitor to Chelsea, strolling from Sloane Square to World's End, would be tempted in his arst impressions to ask where the artistic world of Bohemia had fed The velvet coat, the flowing tle, and the wide capo

of pre Raphaelite times hate almost, though not entirely, disappeared, and except for an occasional lay by painting them with the strangpatent was granted to W. H.

for the Welsh invasion of Tonton, | MU ME HLE MEELELAH BENABLE DEALER OUR E

The Spaniards seem to have given little further attention to the incident; but they learned to protect their clothes against rain In

which the natives substance

Goodyear's "Discovery.

the meantime, 1845, 2

rubber came into considerable use

figure in one, of the windows Dear the Town Hall there is gathered in liquid form from the Thomson, an". Englishman, cover- In 1536, however, ing what might be termed, the little antward indication in King's hevea tree.

Portuguese missionaries, first pneumatic tire. It was a Road that Art sull has her sume headquarters firmly established penetrating the Amazon, regions, rubber tube inclosed in a leather there. But in the roads branch- found the inhabitants using what ing off it to right and left you we now know as crude rubber for casing. This project was not de- might easily lose yourself among making shoes, bottles, and other veloped and nothing further done the rabbit-warren of studios. Big vessels; yet they were so little along this Hine for nearly 40 and little, and in the twists and interested that nearly 200 years years, although boots and shoes in

some Lisbon

some quantity, were being imano- turns of the riverside ways there clapsed before

awakened to the comfactured.

There is also a record are acres that are unchanged traders since Rossetti, Swinburne, and mercial possibilities of these rub- George Meredith were keeping ber articles and commenced to of some rubber paving laid in house together in Cheyne Walk and trade in them in a sinall way for England about 1840, but it proved a" failure. With the Civil War Carlyle was hard at work in Cheyre the European market. Row. In the gardens of Chelsea old-fashioned flowers still bloom, and ir spring, and summer the pink blossoms of the almond tree. and white stars of jessamine, and the drooping amethyst clusters of wistaria cause visitors-to-peer wistfully through the railings at in use, or rubber have been found was made-and-12-years later-this the historic houses where so many practicable for their manufacture, invention was revived when a if Charles Goodyear, in 1839, had London cab company equipped great and illustrious people have

discovered the secret of vehicles with these tires. Similiar lived, and died. There are old not people, too, who remember Carlyle vulcanization. After many years' tires for bicycles came into use and Rossetti as familiar figures, and experimentation with compounds about this date; they were not and solvents, developed by conducive to comfortable riding, can talk of them without any of the chemists of five different nations, but they paved the way for the awe that lingers round the un- known. On foggy nights when the Goodyear, one winter's night, acci- pneumatic type, Introduced in opposite bank is blotted out and dently spilled some rubber com-1880. John B. Dunlop of Belfast the river between Albert and Bat-pound on the hot stove in his room. originated the idea of this tire. The result was a sudden change His plan called for a thin tube for ters Bridges is grey and shroud- from a soft, plastic material to air, protected by a jacket of linen; ed in mist with the moon dropping what looked like charred leather the pertfected pneumatic tire was handfuls of silver on its wide breast,

Eight years later, and when the arches of the bridges He eventually named the perfected invented in 1890 by P. W. Tilling. are black in the gloom, it is as much process vulcanization, after Vulcan, hast.

automobile came into quite general Whistler's river as it was in the Fad of fire.

Despite Goodyear's realization use and it was then that tire days when he watched from his windows in Cheyne Walk.-Kath that rubber satisfactory for com- manufacture received its great leen M. Barrow in. Goed House-mercial manufacturing purposes impulse, as did the production and keeping.

was now a certainty, there was use of rubber generally..

Although tires and tire acces- The Effect of Colour.

little activity in the industry until

This marked the first business for military purposes.: raincoats, transaction in a commodity which knapsacks, waterproof, blaakets, to-day composes wholly, or in large and other articles being made of it. In 1868 the first solid tira part, nearly 30,000 different articles. But none of these things might be

the

The good or bad effect of colour an impetus was given by the Civil sorles account for two-thirds of all on abnormal or nervous people War, development of the railroad, the rubber used in the world, the was gone into very thoroughly and the manifold uses of elec- remaining one-third makes more during the late war. It was early tricity. But almost at once the than 25,000 different articles com- discovered that certain cases were problem of supply presented posed wholly or principally of restless, and made poor progress Itself.

Not that there Was

rubber. Motor vehicle batteries

SOUTH CHINA RESTAURANT CO., LTD.

CHINA BUILDING,

Si FLOOR

NOW OPEN.

The Finest Restaurant In Town

For Chinese Ohow.

Afternoon Tea With The Finest Chinese Pastries Also Supplied.

Cold Drinks Of Every Description ubtainable At All Times. Clubs Supplied At Short Notice.

Telephone 0.4832.

OPEN DAILY FROM NOON TO MIDNIGHT.

THE HONGKONG GARAGE CO. 15 & 17, Queen's Road East (Opposite Daibutsu's)

NEW CARS FOR SALE & HIRE Telephone C. 4006. Expert Repairers, Painters and Overhaulers.

Cushion and Seat Cover Manufacturers.

Top Rebuilders

Prompt Service at Moderate Prices. Tires and Accessories for Sale,

Managing Director, C. L. FUN.

J. H. TANG,

Secretary.

COMBINATION FILM SALES

DISTRIBUTORS OF HIGH GRADE PHOTOPLAYS,

IMPORTERS & EXPORTER 3 No. 2, Queen's Road Central (Top Floor) HONGKONG.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

ONWEERAL LOCATION

LL ELECTRIC TEAMS Pam Entrance, Risc

telo Lim Fans and Lightang, Karoppont Walks and Homitasy Wittner, Hot and Col System thuonghest. Best of

CHILL #

when in rooms of a certain colour.shortage of raw material; unfold are a very large single item'in the On removal to another ward with quantities were in the jungles hard rubber world, while me- different coloured walls, they waiting the hand of the pioneer; chanical rubber, goods, such as showed marked improvement. but then as to-day, the Amazon belting, bulk large in soft rubber These cases were brought to the valley was practically inaccessible. goods. Mats, tiling and flooring, attention of leading psychologists If rubber manufacture was to pro-erasers, heels and soles, balloons, and artists. Tests were made with gress, rubber trees must be grown dirigibles and airplane parts, and far-reaching results. Schemes elsewhere than in South America, goll balls are also important soft and charts were worked Seeing these difficulties, an rubber staples. Much rubber now ant and wards were painted Englishman, Thomas Hancock, is being used in the manufacture with quiet, cheery colours to suit recommended the possibility of of radio instruments, and, of the state of convalescence, and cultivating rubber trees in the course, it has always been a neces- some really marvellous cures were East Indies, a country in about the sity in manufacturing telephones effected by these simple and samo latitude as the Amazon valley and other electrical goods.

At this time, with a standing Water If but with far superior growing, hitherto unthought-of means. colour has this effect on abnormal labour, and shipping facilities. A prize of $25,000 offered by the persons, it is bound to influence few years later Sir Joseph Hooker, British Rubber Association for the normal people to some extent, director of Kew Gardens, London, best idea for the use of rubber, Some time ago I had tea, in com- sent collectors, to Brazil for seed absorbing the greatest, amount of pany with three fellow-artists at with the idea of propagating it at the material, a great, aumber of the apartment of a person well the garden, forcing houses and new uses for it are being develop- Rabber paving is getting attention. In Colombo, known in Paris society. The salon sending the seedlings to the Malay ed. was beautifully hung with black Peninsula. In this way the present wide "Felvet curtains; there were red vast plantations, totalling over Ceylon, the municipality has laid lacquer panels in the wails, a black, 300,000,000 trees had their start; a rumber of city streets with use for this soft carpet, and great divans of those few seeds were the nucleus ruber, and from this experiment deep purple velvet with scarlet of an industry, which, from planta a more general cushions. Here and there stoodtion to finished goods, employs purpose is looked for. Rubber a precious vase from the East, more than 1,000,000 individuals glass is another product coming to the whole subdued by soft and indirectly gives employment be well known; it is transparent, and said to be more durable than lights. Altogether it was the to a million more..

Isinglass.

The most recent discovery or development is the manufacture The first attempt to commer. of rubberized or "water-proofed

most evil-looking place. I had aver been in. It is Impossible

to convey the sinister atmosphere.

History of Rubber Tires.

...

Telegraphlo Address :—" VICTORIA

J. WITCHELL. MARAYS?,

D. M. ADERIES.

馬鹿

MASSAGE

Mr. SHIMIDZU Mrs. HONDA No. 24, Wyndham Street

G. FALCONER & CO. (HONGKONG) LTD

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS DIAMOND MERCHANTS

UNION BUILDING (OPPOSITE G.P.O.)

Agosts for ;--ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S - NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Mannfacturers, High Class English Jewellery,

A room like that could not have "cialize manufactured rubber waspaper. This will mean the direct good influence on any living crea: made before Goodyear's discovery importation of quid latex from ture, and the four of us took a of vulcanization, however, for the plantations, something never deep breath when we got into the good fresh air again. Neverthe about 1833 one Dietz was granted a heretofore attempted to any extent LONG HING & CO., Kodeks All Rodak P

patent which covered the applica- It is claimed to have been proved

Jess, it is difficult to generalise.on:

Gnka soothing and cheery Influence.

the effect of colour. For instance, ton of solid rubber-band-or that mixing rabber latex with red has an exciting effect on the custon to an ordinary fron tire. paper pulp, not only will mean No serious attempt appears to conservation of dwindling paper j brało, but certain tones have quite have been made to develop this supplies, but will even chaupen Blue is the sanio; certain of the invention. Vulcanization came production, improving quality as deeper tobes give one a distinct In 1839 and a few years later, well. Such paper may be required shock. There are certain yellows 1847 rubber company was or by law in the future, the laventor that almost nauseate one,ganised at Colchester, Cong, to claims, for wrapping food supplies, Webster Murry in the Royal manufacture rubber boots and vulle it may be conceived of as Magazine 20

shoes uitler the Goodyear patent, replacing leather in some articles

PHOTO SUPPLI 3. DEVELOFING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 17. Qur's BOAD UITHAL, Honarono.

PIANOS for SALE or Hire

TSANG FOOK PIANO CO.,

Tel. 2127.

84A. Wanchal Road.