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

AUCTIONEERS, "APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS,

Public Auctions

RE Undersigned have received in

Tstructions to poll by Fubileuotion.

SATURDAY, 11th October, 1994,

commencing at.11: a.m.

at No. 49 Godown, The Hongkong &. Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Lúd.. ·

Kowloon

(for account of the concerned)

A Quantity of

Miscellaneous Goods

Comprising:-

Old Nawapapar, Flat Fiab, Flour. Sardines, Bunea, Sardines, etc., stc., etc.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers..

Hongkong, 4th Oct. 1924.

ELOPED TO LONDON.

MOTOR DRIVER GETS HIS

DESERTS.

Little appreciation was shown by James Walter Butes, 27, a motori

Albert-stroet, driver. living in Camden Town, for being given another chanen by the North Lon- dun magistrate. The result was that Bates was sentenced to twoi maths" land labour for failing toị observe the conditions of ni probs- tion order made in July last. Prosome was driginally charged with larceny and obtaining money by, labai pretences." On that oc-

casion he was slated to have stained mosty from the secretary- sed the Stoke Newington Couser- vative and Buionist Association by grepresenting that he wanted to buy driving firmen. He stale two Fereipt books from the offices, and afterwards collected money in North Bucknes on behalf of the ! association.

Bates WON Fiest

Canesten until a your later, when ! the ruggetrate bogi hita over to g him a chance to retin' to his i work as conductor-bus-lriger at Bckpool. He returned to Black pout, and the next heurd of him Sas from his landlady, who wrote te the court missionary stating that Balée, who is married, had gone to London" with her 21-year-old deughter. Whơn neegsod, tundë' a" casual fall at the court to see the HİSSİDEBİY detective arrested

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Hongkong,

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese Hood Mado) Ivory kind of Footwear

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CHERRY & 00.

6, D'AQUILAR STREET, '

Opposite Kayamally à t

Telephone Osten! Noi 491

Hongkong. March 20, 1914.

him. The lady missionary then weit to the address given by pri

WHY BUY FOREIGN somer and there found the missing

MADE SUITUALES Blackpool girl. She Ind been ining in one room with prisoner.

When we sell Shanghai Most of her jewellery and some of her-clothes-had-en-pawned-Manufactured Sulténnen. 2........

Her fare done was paid, and she was stifoły restored to her parents-!| In passing sentence, the tangis late. Mr. Samuel Pope, told pri- soner he had had his chance to go back to work, but had busied him- "self in less desirable ways,

VICAR AND WARDEN,

QUARREL IS CHURCH,

The dismissat of a suomunis for “assault, bringh" by Sir ThờiDS Lennard, of Kingswear Court, S. Devon, against the Rev. Frank Mielmel Dowland-Ryan, M.C., the viear of Kingswear, was upplauded by a nuusber of parishimitërs Brixham Police Court.

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The assault was alleged to have taken place in Kingswear Church on a Sunday afternoon.

Sir Thomus, who is purist> warden, said that a notice he posted at the request of the Archdeacon of Toines was taken down,

The vicar, when he went to see hint, called him a fool, and Sir Thomas replied, “You are a cad.” The viene struck him forcibly on the chest, and the blow glanced to his chin, sending him staggering backwards. The vicar's introduc tion of the Mass, confessional, and incense in the church bad caused. the trouble.

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Mr. Dowland-Ryan said he did not call-Bir Thomas a fool, but after Sir Thoms had called him a cad in a very irute manner he might Javo pushed him against the door.

The air at Kingswear-was elec trie through cortain parishioners trying to deprive him of his living

BORN IN AUSTRALIA. &

The viur. Mr. Dowland-Ryan, was born in Australia and spent: many yours in Chanda. Heguiled before the tinst and was a gold miner in the Yukon. Het wea ardained in Canada in 1912, YEM Corning to England in 1911 Ke was appointed Eluplain to the 19th Division of the British Forces and" won the Military, GromS When the Big, parli, raturist in 1918 he resigned his chaplaincy and enlisted as a private in the Tang of Fourt Officers Truping Corus

They are Cheaper and Mor Durable.

CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO.

(Opposite Ysamatá Werry, Praya)

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COMPANY

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Free Castles

Cigarettes

THE CHINA MAIL.

ODDS & ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Bequest to Father.

"ENTHUSIASM

MANY SMOKERS LIGHT UP FROM FORCE OF HABIT – THEY SMOKE WITH MORE OR LESS ENJOYMENT AS A MATTER OF COURSE WITH THE Three Castles SMOKER

IT IS DIFFERENT. —-

HE IS AN ENTHUSIAST.

Three Castles

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Cigarettes

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IN ENGLAND

Race for Life.

Several workmen had a narrow

death from

the Senghorydd, South Wales, colllery and one of their number, Ebenezer Jones, of Abertridwr, was badly the injured. Jones and his comrades were terrified by a loud noise resembling an explosion, and all dashed for safety. Jones, however, was caught by "journey" of runaway trams which had dashed through a high ventilation door. Friends of the Queen.

Daughter of Lord Joicay, North country coal owner, the Hon. Marguerlie de Fontaine Drever Joicey, left personal estate valued at £253,150. The death duties amount to £55,819. She leaves colliery shares to her

Among those who are expected father, and after bequests to to visit the King and Queen at ||friends the residue of her estate Balmoral presently are the Duke goes to her brothers, the Hon. and Duchess of Roxburglic (says James Arthur Joicey and the Hon. the London "Evening News.” Hugh Edward Joicey.

The Duchess is one of the very few American women on intimate Signing The Pact.

Commemorating a Proposal!

Guests visiting Balmoral for the first time are apt to be astonished. by the number of memorial cairns scattered about the Royal estate. Queen Victoria had a great Uking for memorialising friends and events in this way (says the "Daily News") The first cairn, was erect- ed to commemorate the purchase of the estate and was followed by a huge pile of loose granite slabs in memory of the Prince Consort, and another to mark the sport where the Marquis of Lorne_pro- posed.to Princess Louise. Other cairns memorialise Princess Alice, the Duke of Albany, the Duke of Clarence; and Prince Henry of Battenberg, while all over the grounds are incribed tablets, scats, etc., to the memory of the great Queen's friends and even to some of her pets.

Before "Charley's Aunt" was

Written.

that Brandon Thomas, whose im

It is not generally known mortal farce, "Charley's Aunt," is in process of transformation into celluloid started life as a journalist (says the Morning Post.") His son, Mr. Jevon Brandon Thomas, recalling the other day his father's

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The London agreement for the terms with Her Majesty. Prior to execution of the Dawes plan was her marriage she was Miss Ogden signed by diplomatie represents. Goelei: The Duke and Duchess tives of the States concerned at the King and Queen on their tour of of Roxburghe accompanied the Foreign Office yesterday. (August the Empire on the Ophir. For 30) The final scene was laid, not some time they have been hoping in the Foreign Secretary's room, to entertain the King and Queen at as was expected. but in the more their beautiful Scottish home of ornate Ambassadors' Room. Two Floors Castle, but no opportunity tables were set, and the main has yet presented itself. documents, with the annexes, were Lord Grey's Bonfire. placed in order. The Ambassadors, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, who brief newspaper career, said that and Charges d'Affaires went along these in single filc, using a has retired from the leadership of the late playwright was a reporter

a Liverpool" paper, separate pen for each document the Liberal party in the House of

the signed. There were four docu. Lords, will now be able to carry "Courier," he believed. Ordered ments for signature. The three out a little scheme he planned to report the speech of a city first were signed by all the Allies, many years ago (points out the dignitary at some civic function, the Germans, and the Overseas Morning Post.") In replying to a Brandon Thomas thought he had British Dominions. Sir Eyre toast he referred to the day when done a good stroke of business Crowe signed for Great Britain. he would shake the dust of West- when he got set up in type a draft Then came the High Commis minster from his feet. The first of the speech before it was sioners of various parts of the thing he would do, he said, when delivered, and cut the engagement. British Empire. The Allies and that happy time arrived, was to Unfortunately the orator scrapped German délegates signed make a huge bonfire of his political his speech at the last moment, and alphabetical order. In the room, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, talked without notes, and Brandon besides the representatives of the blue books, and Hansards, "I think Thomas was given leave to sever pations named, were Mr. Kellog, of the splendid time. I shall have his connection with the paper as a United States Ambassador, and "How I shall stir the are, and how

when making that bonfire," he said. result, DA1 a number of Foreign Office.

Sixpenny Medals. secretaries. The whole of the I will mutch my rose trees with proceedings did not last more than the ashes!" three-quarters of an hour.

State Insurance.

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Fatal Fall!

Whilst some employees of the Ministry of Agriculture

and

Mention was made during the

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course of a meeting of the Manches. KING EDWARD HOTEL ter War Pensions Committee that war medals were being offered for sale at sixpence each by a local.

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It is proposed, by a Bill recently Fisheries. Whitehall, were ea pawnbroker. The opinion was laid on the table of the French joying a merry conversation in a expressed by members that this life die den Shiny branká Chamber of Deputies, to Institute room on the sixth floor, one of kind of thing ought not to be a State monopoly of all insurance them made a remark which evok possible. The pawnbroker, it was business whether life, ccine, ed much laughter. When the stated, could not have advanced or fire. This Bill is supported by laughter had subsided it was more than 3d., or 4d. on each approximately 50 deputies, and noticed that one of their number, medal, and men wanting food had proposes that the State shall im Miss Alberta Blackman, S2, no need to pawn their medals for Imediately institute this Insurance superintendent, was missing. No such a small sum. The committee, monopoly, having a period of 15 one, had seen her go, and as she remarked the "chairman, could years in which to pay off the had been standing leaning against always give temporary asilitance, capital at par value invested by a window there was sudden alarm: and he expressed the fear that shareholders In Insurance com It was soon discovered that her money raised by pawning medals panies, subject to a rate of interest body lay on the pavement in the was not well spent. The most dis not higher than 6 per cent. It also street below. She was removed quieting feature of this haphazard proposes that the State shall take to Charing Cross Hospital, where dispoest of war medals was, in the over bodily, the staffs and am later she died from her injuries. view of the committee, that men ployees of the companies, together Whether Miss Blackman fell or not entitled to wear them could with their statistical bureaux, which jumped out of the window is at easily obtain possession of them are of great value. No compensa presenta complete mystery, and, posing as wärbertés, victinise don, however, should, according to Deceased, who lived with her the public litavatel londo the terms of this Bill, be awarded mother ath Wavertree-road to the directors. A committee of Streatham Hill, S. Wawasuthe do fence has been formed by recipient of a letter hafore she left. certain, high officials and loading, for businets on the day of her espitalists of the different French death, Sho left her home, soon Ansurance companies with a vie, niter reading the letter, and then

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