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

*** AUCTIONEIRA-Å PPRAISERS

*"AND SURVEYORS,

-Public Auctions

THE Underalgnod have received in- structions 62 sell by Public Auction

ON

THURSDAY, 30th October, 1994, commeasing at 5.15 p.m.

at their Sales Room, Daddell Strost,

A Vainable Collection'of

Postage Stamps

Catalogues will be issued.

On View from Wednesday, the 29th October, 1994.

Terms”—Casli on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

SANITARY ENGINEERS

MONUMENTALISTS OFFICES 1.

ild, WITHDRAM BE#*# HONGKONG.

TEL. CENTRAL 269**** Estimates Free

for complete Sanitary Installations

Hot Water Systems &c. Specialists in Monumental Work

cut from

Italian Marble-Polished

and/or

Fine Punched Hongkong Granite.

Artificial Wreaths in Stock,

THE CHINA MAIL.

"Three Castles

Cigarettes

speak for themselves

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 100,

HONGKONG HONGKONG HOTELĮ REPULER BAY HOTEL;" PRIE HOTEL'

Telegraphio. Address: “KREMLIN, HONGKONG,” AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALAQE HOTEL) GRAND HOTEL KALEM; MAJESTIC HOTELA, Faladrapklä Address:' "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI."

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In association with' the Grand Hotel Įdas, Hugons Léto, Ltd., Peking.

A SE ME TE DE. 19 DE AN ADD DE BUERUL NU BATUELE LATE DELISMANTE E

Tel, Kowloon

No. 3

Three

PALACE HOTEL

Tel. Addresa

"Palace"

minutes from Kowloon, Ferry Wharf & Railway Station.) Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans Throughout. Every Room with Private Bath,

Lonage Bar & Billinid foams. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal.

supervision of the Proprietor.

Torms moderate. special terms to families on application to

J.-H. OXBERRY, Proprietor.

MOTHER'S LETTERS.

FEARS FOR SON SHE KILLED.

TRAGEDY IN HOTEL

London, September 17-The inquest on Mrs. Lois Brooke, 40, of Wallington, Surrey, and her ten-years-old-son, Digby, who were found dead with their throats cut in a bathroom at the Orchard Hotel, Portman-street, W., on Friday night, was held at Maryleboite Coroner's Court yesterday,

Mrs. Dorothy Money, of 'Wallington, Surrey, said the dead woman was her sister, who lived with her. She was separated from her husband, Mr. Leigh Brooke, but they had been meeting lately iLondom

Mrs. Brooke had an allowance from her husband' of £3 a week; which had recently been increased of £4. Nothing had depressed her recently except her mother's death in the spring She had not fully recovered from three operations.

Two letters to Mrs. Brooke

1 which Mrs. Mooney said were in Mr. Brooke's writing were tead:

One, dated August 4. said:

are

Dear Nan.-Could you meet me at the Grosvenor Hotel on Thurs day or Friday about twelve o'clock noan? I hope you Can be- chuse these two

släck mornings for me and we wili have a talk. I will try and send £29 to your bank to-morrow, or anyhow early next week. I hope that will do. Let me know

FOR SALE

YATES'

PLANT FOOD Perfect Fertilizer,

in one pound tins, sufficient for 30 to 50 POT PLANTS, according to size for one year.

GRACA & CO., Dealers in Garden Seeds, Postage Stamps, Post Cards, Toys, etc.

No. 10, Wyndham Street. P.O. Box 620..

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS,

(Japanese Hand Made) Every kind of Footwear

MADETTO ORDE«

CHERRY & 00.,

6, D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayawally & € Central Np.1481 Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

what other bills come in when you ||Telephone get them. Don't worry but cheer

up.

When you feel down"try to

sing "It ain't going to rain any more." It is a wonderfully inspir ing song.

The other letter, dated August 6, told her not to worry, because if her money did not last to the end of the month she could write and fet him know.

The coroner read a medical certificate that Mr. Brooke, was in bed suffering from heart trouble! and was unfl to attend the inquest.

MORPHINE.

80%

The coroner said that on a piece! of paper found there was written in the dead woman's handwriting:

Oh, goodness, it ja getting.@N Had to do shopping here or Dig would have wondered why we should have come to town. Oh, God, I have fried to kill my darling and morphine didn't act and now salts of lemon. In a letter written on April 9 Mrs. Brooke said:

I feel as if I shall go mad. It is no fault of anyone, nor religion. I have not got the pluck to see my Hittle son struggle on without a mother. ... I have schemed with money, fearing to be short in the future, so there will be money in the post office. My husband has been kind to me lately and tried to help me. I don't want the blame to fall on him. It is just my own "dud" self which has caused me to go dotly. I must go away and do it. It would be so awful for them to have it here. I nearly did it on Tuesday when they went to Croydon... . She must think me heady though I try to hide my feelings.

WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITCASES

When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases ?

They are Cheaper and More Durable.

CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK GO. (Opposits Yasmati Warry, Pesys)

Dr. Spurgeon, divisional surgeon.. said a tube which was found had contained 25 tablets of morphine sulphate. There was a quarter of a grain of morphine in each tablet, and if the whole tube had been taken it would not have-caused. death.

Rudolph Verney said from a letter which he had from Mrs. Brooke recently she was obviously anxious about her hoy's future. In

It she said: "It is difficult to bring

up a boy when one is poor."

The jury returned a verdict that, Mrs. Brooke murdered her son and then committed suicide while of unsound mind.

Comfort for the Aged

Old prople are exaily tired out and weskened by coughing. For them there Es-much-comfort in a bottle of Uhamber. "lain's' Cough Remedy. It stops those weakening, coaghs that compren hon awake nights and wear out their strength; Every one knows it contados na narpatice. More Bottles of It Ara good esdn your then of wor simlar-cough"rbelinine.

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MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Famous Fishery Expert Dead.

The death has occurred at Strathtay, at the age of 72, of Mr. H. W. Johnstone, a noted fishing

expert. He Was the first to

discover that the age of the salmon is ascertainable by its scates. under microscopic ex amination. He was a son of Mr. Robert Johnstone, of Shieldhall Glasgow.

A Glasgow Centenarian.

Mrs. Paul, who at present resides at 16 Riddric Terrace, Glasgow, has reached the advanced age of 100 years. She was born in Stranraer in July, 1824. and has

| been in the Riddrie district for about ten years. Her husband, who was a sea captain, died at sea. In full possession of her faculties, Mrs. Paul can read, write, and knit, and her eyesight is still excellent. Island of Banka.

present average

A Trade Union Veteran.

One of the best known Trade Union officials on the Clydeside, Mr. William Brodie, organising delegate of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, has on bis retirement been the recipient of a highly complimentary message, from the Executive Council of that body. Mr. Brodie has been an official for per a quarter of a century-since long before the Amalgamated Society of Engineers' combined to form the A.E.. and a number of smaller unions

Dolusion About À “Curse.”

་་

Prince and Scots Masons.

The report that the Prince of Wales Is to stay for several days at Holyrood during his December visit has aroused much interest in the capftal. His Royal Highness arranged some time ago to attend a meeting of the Grand Lodge of Scotland to receive

a special Masonic honour.

To Honour Benefactor.

1000

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.

Felegraphic 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 Tiffins and Dinners. Under entirely new Management.

For further particulars apply to

3. M. A. VAZ, Managee.

SOUTH CHINA RESTAURANT

m

CO., LTD.

CHINA BUILDING,

8th.FLOOR

NOW OPEN,

The Finest Restaurant In Town

For Chinese Chow. `

Afternoon Tea With The Finest Chinese Pastries Also Supplied.

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

Telephone 0. 4682,

OPEN DAILY FROM NOON TO MIDNIGHT.

Falkirk Town Council has decided to present Mr. and Mrs. 300.000JaduQO~DÕÕÕÕ¤«ÄDDMƏ Robert Dollar, San Francisco, with an illuminated address and a com- memorative medal in connection Some facts have been ascer

with their coming golden wedding tained at Cairo, in reference to celebrations. A native of Falkirk, the statement contained in an ex-Mr, Dollar, who is a millionaire tract from a letter by the late Mr. Evelyn-White, à lecturer at Leeds University, read out by the coroner at the inquest in Leeds on the 11th inst The statement in question to the effect that there was a curse on the deceased be as the Dollar Park, scripts to Cairo, though he had cause he had taken certain manu- Deffed Tradition,

leave to do so.

was

generous benefactor to the town and shipping magnate, has been à of his birth, his outstanding gift i being the mansion house and grounds of Arnotdale, now known

Young Mr. Michael Wentworth Mr. Evelyn-White stayed in the Beaumont, who a few months-age "ancient" Coptic Monastery of marrier- the Hon: Faith Pease, The correspondent of the Wadinatroun for two months about Lord Gainford's younger daughter, Batavia "Nieuwsblad" writes from two years ago in order to study is to become the Conservative Bandoeng, that in the island of MSS, for the Metropolitan Museum candidate for the Forest of Dean. Banka, there are altogether 270 of Art, New York. He had His choice of parties is against mines, 65 large mines and 209 nothing, to do with their transfer, Į tradition, for four years his own small. The yearly output of tin-ore is about which was apparently effected family and his wife's have been Semeíka Liberal. Miss Faith Pease defied three hundred thousand piculs, after his departure,

Pasha, head of the

She Coptic tradition at her wedding. There are about 20,000 coolies

Museum, in employed on the mines, comprised

agreement with was married on a Friday and had the mostly of Chinese, and a small

Coptic Patriarch, ordered green in the bridal retinue colour the scheme, and for her travelling percentage of natives from Sunda the monks to send all

Above all, her wedding These Sundanese, although quite MSS. to the Coptic Museum be dress. new to the methods of work in the cause several had disappeared day was Leap Year Day.

from Wadinatroun. mines, are giving every satis-

It is hot

Famous Knights. faction. Their labour is cheap unusual for such books to contain and before long it would be at the end the threat, "Cursed be advisable to employ Sundanese he who steals this book!" The labour exclusively. The estimated monks may not have looked nett revenue for this year will be favourably on the transfer, as they about thirty million guilders.

gained a certain revenue from visitors anxious to see the. MSS Cost of Rheumatism.-

and may possibly have impressed upon Mr. Evelyn-White the bad luck awaiting anyone removing them.

It appears (according to the Archives of Medical Hydrology) that in England and Wales alone there are more than 370,000 indus- trial workers seeking relief for | rheumatic affections, exclusive of acute rheumatism. These figures, | of course, take no account of the professional and wealthier classes, who are responsible for their own

ANOTHER MOTHER'S · TRIBUTE TO BABY'S OWN: TABLETS.

Sir William Bull, M.P.. the Principal of the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor, has completed new edition of his. "Knightage," which contains a complete list of the existing recipients of the honour of knighthood, including those who figured in the last- Birthday Honours list. There is, In addition, a list of Knights Bachelor in order of precedence from which it would appear that Sir William Forwood, who received the honour in 1883, is now the sentor holder of the dignity. Other survivors of the eighties are Sir George Chubb, Sir Henry Mance, Sir James Crichton Browne, Sir John Edge, Sir Edward Clarke,

is heavily burdened with rheucine than that contained in le brier Magnus, Sic Eugene Leclezio, Sir Sir John Somers Vine, Sir Philip matle troubles, including (in the statement of Mra, Frod Rose, South Bay, Howard Grubh, Sir John Turney, soft tissues) fibrosītis, lumbago, Ontario, Canada, who writes: Loel and Sir Willism Grundall, Sir sciatica, and perineuritis, and (in | that Baby's Own Tablets saved the life of William Bull states that at recent the joints and bones) periarthritis our babylon has had cholera infantum meeting of the Council of the and osteoarthritis. It also signifies

Society it was decided to Unlike most other medicines, Baby's compile a list of 100 of the most Tablets are ploossas in taste and distinguished members of the burden of rheumatic invalidity: involving Anancial charge for are absolutely pure, and so can be freely sickness and disablement benefiigivon evon to the youngest and most in the “Knightage." The names of ol probably £1,800,000 sterling.per Belicas infant in arms with perfect con Bacon, Granville, Drake, Sidney, annum. The serious incidence Adenos in their anfety and gooda Raleigh Hawkins, and Frobisher upon health and upon Industry of stomach and bowels, which they gently

The Art Botion of the Tabletes this most crippling group of stimulate to healthy sopion; they check diseases le beginning to be realis- "diarrhoea, empol worms, rellove colle, ed, not only in England, but inerczip and colds, soothe the pervsi, In- other countries.” It is about to form duce postefal health giving sleep by ithe subject of a speciali inguirs.

removing the causes of sleeplessness in a■

Your chemist (saila

treatment. This official return Says They Saved Her Baby's Life. clearly signifies that the State: Insured population of adult workers

|

No higher eulogy could be paid a modi.

MOTOR TRUCKING Our Fleet of Fast, New and Up-to-date Lorries assure you a rapid and efficient service at Minimum Rates. 1-ton Speed Wagons 8-ton Lorries

@ $4.50 per hour. @ $8.50

Waiting at Half Rates ESTIMATES GIVEN

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CHINA RATTAN PRODUCTS CO., LTD.

General Import & Export Merchanta

Specialising in the Export

of all Borts of

Battan, Seagrass, Bamboo Products and Rattan Furnitures.

208 & 213, Don Voens Road, Central, P. O. Box 222. Phone 0, 3314, 1,

KING EDWARD HOTEL DENTRAL LOCATION

EL ELMOTRIC TEAMS Pano Zalmnden, Aloe- tzte Kišta, Fear and Lighting, Europe

And airy film, Hom ook Bystem Soronghe Best of Food and Tell Talegraphió Addrese VICTORI_

Bortion.

3. WITJIMAX, Manager

MASSAGE

1

Mr. SHIMIDZU

Mrs. HONDA No. 24, Wyndham Street.

G. FALCONER & CO. (HONGKONG) LTD |

C.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS

DIAMOND MERCHANTS;

UNION BUILDING (OPPOSITE G.P.O.)

that there is a corresponding | Ogore the Nttle ones like them. They degree, and this list is published || Agents for:---ADMIRALTY CHARTS;

中

on the

in Holland. Perhaps the people of northerly countries, with their Tablets be pass free, 50 cents the vial, damp, cold climates, are especially from Dr. Williama

Bangs Road,

MITFUL BUBBAND FABRIC Rffected in this matter.ATON

tians, whlie the more recent men appear among the earliest trea

of note in the list = Include. Sis William Harcourt, Sir Frederick Leighton, Sir Henry Bessemer, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Sir Iaac Pliman.

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· High Class English Jewellery,

Sir Henry Irving, Sir Willem LONG HING & CO., Crookes, Sir Laurence Alma Tadema, Sir William Orchardson, and Sir Ernest Shackleton..

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