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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1925.

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

ACOTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,

Public Auctions ·

THE Undoraigned have recolvod to Ttructions to sell by Public Anedion

(10)

THURSDAY, 18th. June, 1925, commending at 9.30 p.m. at their Enlow Root, Duddall Street, A Quantity of “Valuab'o Household Furniture,

Comprising:-

Teak Batatand with Bevalled Mirror, Chesterfield Couch and Armobaira, Silver Cabinet, Bobk Cases, Fire Brasses, Brass Ornaments, Curtains, Carpets, Rage, Table Covara, Door Mats, Curios, etc., etc.,

Tosk Extension Dining Tablo, Din- ing Chairs, Teak Dinner Waggons, E.P. Ware Table Fase. Ceiling Fans, Electrio Fittings, Dinner Crockery, etc.,

Teak and Irco Bedeteads, Teak Double and Single Wardrobes with -Glass Doors, Linen Cupboard, Dressing Table, Chest of Drawers, Marble Top Wash Stands, Boresas, etc., eta,.

4330

A Belection of Canton Blackwood Ware

including --

Deaks, Bedaioad, Card Table, Chairs, Armobaire, Curio Cabinet, etc., ato,

and

One Reading Standard Motor

Cyclo with Eide Car

One Enamelled Bath

Two Shanghai Baths

One Player Piano by Auto Piano

Company, New York

Two Cabinet Gramophones

Ono Gramophone and Chinese Recorda

Ono Bicycle

Two Remington Typewritera

One Marble Clock

Three Ricakes

One Combination Sale

Catalogues will be issued

"

On View from Wednesday, the 17th

June 1925,

Terme-Cash on delivery,

LAMMERT BROI,

4

UNCLAIMED

Americanart.

TELEGRAMS

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE- GRÁPH COMPANY, LTD.

The following unclaimed telegrams ars-lying at the office of The Great Northern Telegraph Company (Limited):-

Etonmat, from Tokyo.

Teak, from Biarritz,

Tada, from Cai

Brahello, from Shanghai.

Woy Chong, from Manila.

Tina Pit Seng, from Kobe

Kuang Tang Shing, Chang Shing

Chieb, from Tientsin.,

3482, from Chinking.

Ohi Man / Taung Chong. Fee Kwong Tai Loy Eotel, from Shanghai.

Kwong Bang Loong, from Amoy,

Yiu Sin, from Shanghai,

Wing Loong Connaught Road,

Central, from Amoy.

Sho Hong, from Shangbai.

Wai Kiog, Potland ~34), Tanmatî,

from Amoy.

0088, from Shanghai

E. V. JESSEN,

Superintendent.

Congkong Station, 19th June, 1925.

SANITARY ENGINEERS.,

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Head Offon CHINA, BUILDING &Showroom (Facing Queen's Theatre). Tal. C. 200,

Hongkong.

Modern Sanitary Earthenware

and

Bathroom Fittings. Domestic Boilors and Radia.orY.

Hand sad Electrically Driven Pumps,

Instantaneous and Automatic Gat

Water Heaters.

Tiles of avery description,

JUST RECEIVED

BRIGHT & SON'S

A. B. U. DATALOGUE

13th EDITION.

CONTINENT OF EUROPE AND ITS COLONIES. Well Printed. Good Illustrations.. Handy Pocket Size

".

The best chook listă of modern issuçs yot pablished.

GRADA & 00., Dealers in Philatelic Goods, View Portcards, etc. No. 10, Wyndham Street,

P.O. Box B20.

Hongkong

THE CHINA MAIL.

ODDS AND ENDS

The Duchess's Charm.

for or against the system, the East This prophecy was made on May About the Duchess of York. Theynder has never been so well dross-1 by Dr. Charles Chree, super- are still talking in Egypt and Afriend as she is now," he pointed out. intendent of Kew Observatory, who of her grace and charm. The let The East End housewife bus retired on Tuesday after 32 years' ters that are coming to Londou earnt the art of shopping, and bow prove that. I was shown one let- ter to-day (says "A Man abous Town in the London Evening News." It came from a member of Lord Allenby's stal. "I've seen s good dent of the Duchess," ran one phriso. "Sho is as beautiful in nind as she is in face and form Everyone here fell under her spell. I fancy that official life tires her, | but she has many happy little holi- days amidst the working days of Royal Duchess."

Ladies in the House.

This pretty incident of Mrs. Churbill and the children waving to father before he began his Bud get oration is a reminder how times have changed in the House (observes a "Star" writer.) In the eighteenth century, for instance, ladies could peer into the House through a hold in the ceiling of a oft. But that was all. And it is not so many years since the old grille was abolished. There is re- cord of ladies frequenting the Strangora' Gallery disguised as men. The Duchess of Gordon is said to have invaded the gallery in auch attire. And the story goes that the beautiful Mr. Brinsley Sheridan also denned the breeches to hear a speech by her husband,

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to get the best value for her monoy, service there. Atmospheric elec- She brings in her list together with tricity, to which with terrestrial er club check, and for business magnotisni I lave devoted my life, like methods she frequently beats prosents tremendous problems, said the wealthier shopper. She-is-Dr-Chres. The atmosphere is, of rarely impatient, and retains her course, charged with electricity. good humour when she has to wait About a yard from the earth's sur her turn during the rush hours,” face the charge is no less than 300 A Two-ton Carpet.

volts, for example. A great deal of electricity which might be profit- { ♣♦ Spring cleaning a Windsorbly harnessed runs to waste in a Castle a Herculeur task. The thunderstorm. It may not be pos special dread of the Royal, spring

able to state the time, when,' or cleaners is beating the two ton the theans by which this ynst reser- carpet which covers the foor of the oir will be at the service of man, Waterloo Chambers Royal din but research is at present being con- ing-on during Abcot wook, when centrated on the perfection of suit- the King and Queen make Windsor ble devices.- Taily Chronicle," their headquarters (says & Star Comets. writer.) 34, takes 50 men to entry this massive "rug" downstairs to the lawns. Eighty feet long and 40 feet wide, it is the wonderful carpet which took the prisoners of Agra seven long years to weave, Snail Harvest...

During this month there are three comets in the heavéus. They bear the names of their discoverers, the astronomers Reid, Orkis, and Schuin. They are strangers in the sky, and at present it is impossible to my whether they will ever ap The harvest of the mecblent staalpear again. A great deal of of the cultivate species for no mystery has always surrounded pean consumption has begun in these heavenly bodies. It is known Hwitzerland and France, and that Jupiter and sometimes Saturn thousands of men and women will are able to deflect them from their be busy throughout the summer in paths. and this, or a kindred in- this cirions industry writes H.thestice, may account for occasional Patrick Devitt from eno to the mysterious disappearances. There Silk Stocking Clubs.

"Daily Express." The annual pro-was Biela's comet, for instance, dinction in hoth countries is about which was discovered in 1772. Sik stocking clubs have become three million pounds, but as the When it came back after its firat an important factor in the feminine demand is far greater than the sup visit it was separated into two Hife of East London, and have ply the devices of the adulterator masses, and in 1852 was described taken the place of the famous supplement nulure, and pieces of as two comets. The separation, as SHOEMAKERS Feather clubs which flourished meat, generally veal, are intro in the case of the Siamese twins, when' ostrich feathers were in their dured into the empty shells. The proved fatal, for Biola has never (Japanese Hand Made)

prime (says a "Star" writer.) large fieids which are prepared for been seen again. Halley's comet, Every Kind of Footwear ven in the poorest parts of the the propagation of the shail gen- on the other hand, a comet with

MADE TO ORDER.

East End to wear cotton stockings rally lie at the edge of a wood or a pedigree dating back to 240 years to-day means a distinct loss of forest, sheltered from the sun. The before the Christian era, has been caste.

In order to prevent the soil of the form is well sanded and a regular visitor ever since and may the East End flapper" puts six-lined, and round it is built a wall confidently he looked for every pence a week into one of the stock- two or three feet high, thoroughly seventy-six years or thereabouts. ing clubs which have sprung up washed with vitriol to prevent the It caused a panic in the East in 87 in many of the workrooms and stock escaping into other pastures. B., and another factories employing girl labour. During their short lives cultivated visit. Curiously enough, to the The girl whose turn it is to draw snails are supplied daily with lasting satisfaction of those who the total amount invested is in this vegetables and greens in plenty, regura comete na portents, Halley's way provided with a sam sufficient: A snail has thousands of liny teeth. | visits have been coincident with to keep her in artificial silk hose These are arranged in one hundred vitul periods of history.

I haven't and thirty-five transverse rows on comes was in the sky in 1066 when tall the year round. Fold & pair of cotton stockings for the tongue and we there are a William the Norman came to a very long tine," said a draper many as one hundred and five in change our destiny. Ito visit in. big East End business, each row, it follows that an over-1456 witnessed the most critical "The demand is all for artificial illage sul possesses over 14,000 stago in the history of Henry VI stockings, and we sell these from teeth. The price of snaila in re- after the first battle at St. Albans 1. 33. to de. 111. a pair. In skuurants varies according to the in the Wars of the Roses, and in☀

CHERRY & CO.,

6. D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamalis & Co. |Telephone-Contral-Na-4917 Hongkong, March 20, 1914

with

on its second

TUNG SANG by very instance the customer, anson and the "crop," "but the 1531 it saw Henry VIII become

TAILOR

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ASIA & OHINA TELEGRAPH (0.

List of nasisimed telegrams lying in

E. E Telegraph Ofoe, Hongkong.

Cindonavig, from Heiphong,

Corks Solicitor, from Daidif.

Ioliky, from Saigon.

Luor, from Bangkok.

Manalo, from Manila.

Meredith of Nemazee Prinos's Build-

ing, from Sydney.

E. A. LEGGATT,

Superintendent.

Hongkong, 11th June, 1925.

1000

Sole

Agents:

MITSUI

BUSSAN

KAISHA.

SERVICE.

MRS. MOTONO.

ELECTRIC MASSAGE

Ma, Wyndham St., 2nd Moor..

ASAHI

BEER

It came

buys them on the check or club' average tariff is 1 to 1s. 6d. a "head of the Church." system. A girl will come in, and dozen, and generally light wine is again when Parliament refused to buy two or three pairs of stockings, faken with the dish.

allow King James to unite England | and then go into the other depart, Electricity in the Atmosphere.

and Scotland, and in 1682 it was ments and buy other clothing to

hailed as a good omen for Mon- the value of the money remaining, Trains and other means of mouth's ill-starred march through] on the check. The sum available locomotion will one day derive England. 1900, its last appear- varies from 10s. to £5, nccording their power from the atmosphere, ance, was the year of Mr. Lloyd the weekly amount paid into and housewives will cook and hake George's famous super-tax Budget. the club. "Whatever may be said without fear of the electricity bill. I—"Daily Express,'

to

More Castles!

* Cleart His

" ENTHUSIASM”.

MANY SMOKERS LIGHT UP FROM FORCE OP 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

Cigarettes

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ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.

Telegraphic Address: "ASTOR.". Telephone Central 178. 13, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

A Erst clane Hotel centrally located, large and stry room. completely renovated and refurnished. New Dining Room Em Mouls and la Carle. Excellent Calaine. Monthly Tickets for Tam and Dinners. Under entirely now Manageme

For further particulars apply to

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SOUTH CHINA RESTAURANT, LTD.

TOP FLOOR, CHINA BUILDING,

Commencing June 1st a Jazz Orchestra will play between 1 p.m. and 2.80 p.m. and 7 pm and 9 p.m.

Patrons may indulge in open air dancing on the roof which is exceptionally cool during the summer months.

The best Chinese meals are served at all times.

An additional charge of 50 cents-each, will be made for dancing

Telephone U. 4682.

ADELPHI HOTEL.

SINGAPORE.

This distinguished Hotel in the heart of Singapore's social life, with its commanding position facing the beautiful. Cathedral Grounds and Sea, offers you complete hospitality and comfort in a refined atmosphere.

Unsurpassed for Meals. Excellent Wines.

Orchestra Daily during

and After Dinner.

The ONLY HOTEL IN SINGAPORE

fitted throughout with Modern Sanitation.

Cables: Adelphi

Phone: 937, 038

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