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LAMMERT BROS.. E. WARREN & CO., LTD

ANONIONKERM, AFFRAISERS

AND SOXUNTOLA

Poblic Auctions-

THE Undersigned, have receivenLL VALERERO=

on.

MONDAY, 11th August, 1994, commencing at 11 o'clook am at No. 17 Godown, The Chinn Provident, Loan Mortage Co., Ltd., Connaught Road Wost.

(for account of the concerned)

6000 Stoke Flour

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

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Auctioneers.

TUESDAY, 12th August 1921,

commencing at 5.16 p.m.

at their Sales Rooma, Duddell Street.

A Vainable Collection of Postage

Stamps

Catalogues will be issued,

On View from Monday, the 11th. August, 1094,

Ferme-Cash on delivery.....

LAMMERT BROS.; Auctioneers.

Jongkong, th August, 1934.

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MAKING IT COST MOKE.

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The riser. "Sydney" was buil] in Britain in little more than o your, and cost $385,000: The less Meient sistership. *the Adelride" was built-at-Cockatoo Island, in Sydney, and €1,279,789, and took nearly five! years to construct. Something of the gune kind is likely to be re peated, for it is said that the dif ference in the price of the reser

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"be constructed at Cockatoo Isband and that to be built in Bri main will be nearly £2,000,000, The Melbourne Argus" says the differenge will exceed 2000,000-= in other words that one vessel built in Australia will cost as much as. two built in Britain. It adds: The full easufe of the waste of money with which the Common- || wealth is now confrouted can hard. ly estimated. That it will con- siderably excred the £2,000,000 which represents the difference between the British and the Aus! tralian estimates is denr.

There is the low involved in the tardy Completion of the vessel mud the consequent deprivation of her ser vices: there is the loss of that return which might be derived from the expenditure of £2,000,000 upon work as truly reproductive as that of building a cruiser, essential though it be, is unreproductive. Iustdad of spending this huge am upon development work which will bring emulative advantages in trade and commerce, the Govern ment is making ready to show a harvest of cinbarrassment in the employment of men in an under- taking which can at best be tran sitory, and which furnishes, there- fore, apple incentive to costly and aritating delays."

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Now Be cleverest thing 1.quer did, be ment on was to omginate the idea of smoking a 'Twee Castles between the soup and the Fiat

"That usia ged thing to invent, certaini sed Alice what else did you invent 7"..

"Smoking em between the fish and The entree. chuckled the Knight, "and". the.mcking em again between the entres and the pudding" "In fact he went on. "I invent an excuse for smoking Three, Coolies' whenever I car

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some of their folk-lore from The primitive life fed by the in- oblivion." He went on to say labitants of Wallasen Island, in that before he had gone to Ireland the River Crunch, near Burnham, he had paid a long visit to the on-Crouch, Essex, was described at Highlands of Scotland. There a meeting of the Essex. Education also he found much folk-lore in danger of disappearance. But that Flantio Bottomley, who is in Committer at River Plato House, he had rescued them and they E.C. The peninsula (formerly an would be preserved for all time. Purkhurst, Prison, Isle of Wight, and is, it was stated purely Then I began to discover that I serving seven years penal servi-agicultural and contains only a tude for fraud, to which he was few families. sentenced in May 1922, has made request for a medical examina- tion (says a message of July 1), and it is understood that this will be

made it Parkhurst by three doctors-Dr. East. (medi-

was sitting next a very consider- It has no church.able man. Half in joke. I asked i Bread and water are taken once a him: "What are you going to do week from Burnham-on-Crouch.

next?" He replied, with perfect To get about people have to cross gravity, that there was an Indian dykes and ditches.

tribe close to. Sacramento in the State of California who also had Cannibals of Old

some valuable folk-lore: and he The discovery of a pile of human meant to pay them a visit and do cal inspector of prisons), the Park-bones dating from the Neolithic for them what he had already period-and, therefore, at least achieved for the Gaels of Ireland Inist residential doctor, and a 6,000 years old-in a cave near and the Highlands of Scotland. well-known neurologist. Upon the Auch, in the South of France, has And," finally, I discovered that result depends whether Bottomley given rise to the theory that there was beside me the man who will be released immediately or will prehistoric men at that period were had Introduced the knowledge of have to serve the remainder of his undoubtedly cannibals. The bones Sienkiewicz, the greatest of modern sentence.

belonged to a number of in- Polish writers, to the rest of the dividuals, many of them children,world.

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and they nearly all bore marks of Such was the history of my To anyone with the slightest teeth, and apparently form the friend Jeremiah Curtin, the son of trace of imagination in his make remains of some gigantic cannibal an Irish washer woman or dreas- up I think that the news from Crete Feast-

maker, of Milwaukee. He paid me must convey a lesson in hum!Hty.

a visit afterwards every time be came to Just think what it means-proof

London-he that splendid buildings, bridges. Pathetic in the extreme is a

in professor the Smithsonian roads and inns were built there letter of Charlotte Bronte's, offered

Institute in Washington, and they long before the erection of Stone at the same sale. In writing to paid for his various expeditions henge. Compare that civilization thank a friend for sending her with the state of England only a some books, she says "You will He always had some new marvel few hundred

In perhaps think that I am, a slow to tell me. One day, after a long returned from Northern Siberia. knew nothing of sanitation, our is a country housewife, and has He had gone there to make comparatively recent times we reader, but remember, Carrer Bell absence, he told me he had just roads were merely dirt tracks, sundry, little matters connected we had no pictures But in with the needle and the kitchen to acquaintance with an ancient tribe that still maintained the holocaust Crete, contemporaneous with the attend to which take up half the sacrifice of animals, after the great civilized states of Egypt, day-especially now, when, alas! and Assyria, was a community there is but one pair of hands fashion of the ancients; they still burned horses alive as a tribute to with fie sanitation, bridges, where once there were three. buildings and accommodation for did not mean to touch that chord the cruel gods in whom they be

Heved. travellers. These excavations its sound is too sad. I try to write

I asked him, half again in joke, prove that much of the Homeric now and then. The effort was a poem, which for centuries have hard one at first. It renewed the if he had studied Chinese. "Yes," || been regarded as pure action. terrible loss of last December he said. "I dipped into most of

Dipped A Worse than useless the Chinese classics." were founded on fact. They have strangely. discovered there statuettes of did it seem to attempt to write into the Chinese classics! I was Water Women in dresses closely re- when there no longer lived an staggered, and repeated to him sembling those of to-day. News Ellis Bell to read. These few what I had often heard about the of these discoveries has come with pregnant sentences, fraught with Chinese language: that after seven in a few weeks of Mr. Hedges the power of genius, makes up feel years you thought you had learned announcement that he had found the loneliness of the woman de-t, after fourteen you discovered ruins of great prehistoric cities prived of her sister Emily, by how little you knew, and after in Central America. And still we death, and her sister Anne, by twenty-one you began reply to

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Will Hellovi Musher's Feara qualities, but the canker of aristo-language, cracy wants to be cut out-and After a few minutes my neigh- A pando of: Learnelios: inother, whan something, God knows, wants to our broke his illence and began sudden and savers cossips agdsizing be cut out of us all except to lament to me that the folk-lore intos Inst pating and weakening diserboar perhaps you" Which implies an of Ireland was being so negiceted: pri le soms ons of the family. Keep berlain'a Colla and Diarchoes estimation of Leigh Him He had just come from certain Randy in the horns ad such em chamcter that is much at variance: Irish-speaking districts of Ireland organs need were neithe fear nor with Charles Dickens cruelly "And I'm glad to say he added, warm conan pada alimost instantly. sathic caricature in "Bleak House, that I have been able to rescue Bold everywhore,

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