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MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1925.

LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONTIES, APPRAISSES

AND SURVEYORS,

Public Auctions

THE

THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public

Auction

On

WEDNESDAY, the 19th August, commencing at 11 a.m.

at their Sales Room, Duddell St. 94 Belgian Iron Single Bedsteads

with Spring Mattresses.

46 Bags White Sugar

14 Bags Wax,

4 Bags Mushrooms.

4 Bags White Sheeting.

also

2 Cases German Glass Ware.

and

(For Account of the Concerned.)

11 Pieces White Shirting-more

or less damaged.

1 Case Talcum Powder.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 16th August, 1925..

FOR SALE.

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NOTICE.

Hongkong.

The undersigned begs to an- nounce to their customers that they are now able to handle repairs to boots and shoes.

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STEAMBETT LINES

WHY LET RHEUMATISM

·RACK YOU When Core la Withis. Rosch By Tonic Treatment Through The

Blood 7

How Thousanda Hava Found It In DR. WILLIAMS' PINK FILLS.

Why are there so many failures in the treatment of rheumatism? Why are so many sufferers resigned to a life of pain. despairing of a permanent cura? The reason is because thouwstiam deßes iny treatment that does not parity and 4t the same time build up the blood. The poisona of rheumatism are in the blood and it is only through the blood that the disease can unecesifal y be fought.

Unlem the blood is week and im pars rheumatism cannot get flot bold, Whea is door

the thin and impure blood

set it on

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enough to over

THE CHINA MAIL.

PENSIONS DEBATE

LADY, ASTOR'S LIVELY. DUELS.

SEAFIELD TITLE.

SCHOOLMASTER CEAIMS SCOTS EARLDOM.

PROBLEM OF PARENTAGE.

Out of the welter of talk in the sixteen and a half hours, sitting of the Commons, which ended at

On the result of an action which 7.15 am. on July 2, only two is pending in the Scottish Courts changes were made in the first depends the title of the Countess of clause of the Pensiona Bill. Both Seafield, the beautiful 19-year-old werb concessions made by Mr. girl who was presented at Court Neville Chamberlain, the Minister, last year, and who will inherit a of Health.

vast fortune,

One was to give the orphans' The action is being brought by allowance in respect, of all children Mr. Alexander Grant, a retired to the age of 14 and to children schooolmaster, who is now living in at whole-time school up to the age. London with one of his daughters. of 16. The other was to make the He is over 70 years of uge, and children's allowance a flat rate claims to be the son of the seventh one of 78. ed. a week instead of Earl of Seufield and bis wife 78, 6d, to the eldest child and 58. Caroline. to each consequent child.

Mr. Grant declares that he was come the poiso0%

Two of the women members legitimised by the subsequent mar-1 loce, and then stayed throughout the sitting ringe of the Earl and the Counters, the muscles KTO W

Ellen und that he is the righful heir to more and more Lady Astor and Miss painful, the jintsWilkinson, whose knees were piled the Seafield fortune. become at and with papers as they followed the

wollen, lumbago

amendments relating to women Faettles

and children. hack, in many cases the sufferer la sor fin ed to bod, feverish and in agony, hardly daring to move, for days, weeks, even meatby, as a time.

in

To panfy and at the As time strengthen the blood Dr. Williams' Pink Pilla are the test medisine you can take. Thoy make new blood at every dose and promptly check further progress of th disonsa.

They make the blood so pare મળશે. strong that not the lost trse of heumatisme remains. Dr. Wild.com Play Pills for Pale People have been been wo Id-renowned as a blood and nerve touis for over five-and-thirty years and are the blood's greatest aid in over coming not only rheumatism, but als Acaemia, nervous debility and indiges tion. They are of the utmost value to women suffering from the special ail- ments of their sex. Of chemists every where, or post free. $1.00 per bottle, $3 for six hoitia from the Dr. Wil liams Medicine Co., 63 Bisogne Road Shaoghai.

INTIMATIONS.

THE BANK OF BAST ASIA,

LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an interim dividend of $3.00 per share has been declared for the HALF YEAR ending 80th June, 1925.

The Dividend will be payable on and after MONDAY, the 14th September, 1925, at the offices of the Company, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.

The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Company will be closed from MONDAY, the 7th Septem- ber, 1925, to SATURDAY, the 12th September, 1925 (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can registered.

By Order of the Board of

Directors,

KAN TONG PO.

Chief Manager. Hongkong, 25th July,, 1925.

DECEASED.

be

It was not much later than mid- night when M.Ps began to dis- cover that they were becoming confused and that a atrange habit

Carolina Countess of Seafield died in 1911 uffer being for. 36 years the owner of the family estutes of over 300,000 acres.

said

Good Morning!

Do you like getting up in the morning Y No doubt you fad it. nicer to stay in bed. And how do you feel when you are out of bed? | Are you, brini fat of health and vigour and glad to be alive? If not there's something wrong" -and that "something" is your firer,

What you need is a little daily dose of Kruschen Salts--s moel as will cover a ten rentijace taken in your breakfast cup of tea. There are six salta of Nature in every dose,

and your body needs every one of them.

Tuke Krusehen every day, it will keep your system elear of all waste matter, restore your liver and kidneys to healthy activity, and will tone up the whole body until you feel the pulsations of bounding. vitality and joyous energy in every That is the nerve mid nusele. Kruschen feeling-get it-te-day from a bottle of Krwehen Salty.

Kruschen Salts

GOOD HEALTH FOR A CENT A DAY.

detiktasblo trom all steenkete koud stea

Trade Enquiries: A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD., HONGKONG.

"For, the past 50 ycare,|| Mr. Alexander Grunt to a Weekly Dispatch" representative. "I have of head-shaking had developed. been trying at intervals to clear up Because of this desire to aban- the problem of my parentage. don confused ideas and have fresh. It was not until 1812 that I became minds, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald Possessed of certain information moved to adjourn the discussion. Which left no doubt in my mind that M.P.s were discussing at that I am the rightful Earl of Senfield.

"Among eight parties whom I moment Miss Ellen Wilkinson's have called in the action is Lord amendment to extend widows' Strathspey, who, I understand, con- OPENING pensions to insured widows of templates laying a claim to the uninsured men, They had been earldom on the grounds that the title discussing that for two hours and should only have developed through a half when it occurred, to the the female line in default of male Labour leader to cut it short, beirs. But that is no concern

His reason for doing so was that the debate had drifted away from the widows to the conundrum: "When is a man insured and when is he not"?

mine.

of

I was born in Scotland, and put in the charge of foster parents. I was sent to college and afterwarde to Aberdeen University. The Earl "It is now twenty minutes to and Countess paid for my education;

Thomas one," Mr.

explained and I had a liberal allowance. extenuatingly, "and we are all getting a bit thick-headed."

We are perfectly wide-awake on this side," Mr. Walter Raine, the Unionist member for Sunder. land, expostulated.

Mr. Lansbury's Silk Hat.

During these early years of mý | life I was set upon discovering whó my real parents were, but I never seemed to get at the real bottom of things.

"DRAMATIC MEETING "When I left the University a So at half-past one Mr. Ramsay solicitor-who. I believe, was in

the furstam MacDonald again took up the passion of all thread of the actual argument on mysteriously disappeared, and I Miss Wilkinson's amendment ive never heard of him since.

Tenntinned my studies, and itself.

That took quite a new turn, for eventually accepted the headmaster- Mr. Thurtle waxed eloquent about, shin of Clowyn Bay College. I re- "the potential widows of coaters," tired some little time ago from active who apparently will get none of work.

in London."

......

HOURS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

DEPOT & KOWLOON.

Butchery Department :

7 a.m. to 9 a.m.

7 a.m. to 9 a.m.

10:30 am to 12.80. pim.

2.p.m. to: 4 p.ui.. SATURDAYS.

&

10.80 am to 12.80 p.m.

SUNDAYS.

7 a.m. to 9,B.II.“

Dairy Department :

7 a.m. to 9`R.M.

7 a.m. to 9 'a.m.

7 am to 9' a.m.

8 a.m, to 12 noon.

10.30 a.m. to 12,80 p.m..

2 p.m. to 4 p.m. SATURDAYS,

10.30 a.m. to 12.30. p.m.

2 p.m. to 4 p.m. SUNDAYS.

2.p.m. to 8 p.m...

Peak Branch:

2 p.m. to 4 p.mi.

SATURDAYS. 8.a.m. fo 12.30 p.m.

SUNDAYS."

8 am to 10 a.m.

Ice Depot (Week Days).

6 am. to 8.30 a.m.

10 am to 12:80 p.m.

2.80. p.m. to 5 p.m. The Dairy Farm, Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd.

ACROSS AUSTRALIA.

5,000 MILES BY MOTOR CAR.

party passed through Central M Stewart, where, in 1860, Stewart had placed the British flag for the first time. Around here there wer thousands of miles of beautiful A fine word picture of a trip pastoral country. Further north across Australia by motor car was the country, although not so good painted by Captain S. A Whyte, for pastoral purposes, was very rich of South Australia, before the in minerals.

these pensions. Yet these wives I saw my mother, the Countess are very worthy citizens," parti- Caroline, face to face in 1906. I cularly those of the costers of need hardly say that the meeting! Hoxton, "who are the best costers was a dramatic one.

"When the Countess died she. Mr. Lansbury did not see Mr. bequeathed her fortune in such a Chamberlain rise to do so, and way that the present young wanted to challenge the Deputy Countess cannot completely benefit Chairman's acceptance of it. For by it until she reaches the age of 40. a minute or two he called in vain. "If I succeed in my action I shall, Ancient tradition says that a point of course, live at the ancestral of order cannot be raised during bome, Cullen House. The people the taking of a division unless the are anxious to have a chief, and as member remains seated and has long as I live I shall endeavour to

fulfil his honourable office." his head uncovered.

Lord Strathspey said that he had There was a rub. Mr. Lans- bury never wears a hat in the seen some of the evidence which Mr.

Grant was putting forward. House. Few members do nowa. I can say nothing, he stated, JOSEPH & FEATHERSTON, days. It so happened that Sir but. Mr. Grant's claim is not the

Gerald Strickland, the Unionist only one. There is a woman in Royal Society of Queensland, the WASTE OF MONRY.

At Newcastle Waters there were who has the distinction of being America who also hopes to establish Queensland branch of the Royal an M.P. in both the British Parlia- her position if the right of the Geographical Society of Australia to be seen quite a number of wind ment and the Malta Parliament, female line is maintained. and the Ornithological Society of mills which had been transported had a well-polished silk topper," She calls herself Lady Senfeld Australia recently The lecturer there at tremendous cost, but thes which he wore with his dinner- over there already," he added with used over 200 slides to illustrate hud never drawn a pint of water jacket.

his story, to which he added spice Indeed, on all sides, there were In an unobtrusive way that hat To establish my own claim by narrating many humorous in- evidences of 'appalling waste of found its passage to Mr. Lans would. I am told, cost £50,000 to cidents which had come to his money. The plains were studded

with wild flowers, and STO bury's head. So there sat the carry the thing through-and I knowledge during the trip.

Captain Whyte

carried bis Darwin the country was heavily mutton-chop whiskered "member haven't got the money,

bearers from Adelaide to Oodna timbered. Mar detta, Alice Springs, and then After deibing the termit them to Camoowest, touching the abundance, id entering a strong railheads in Queensland, including plea for the protection of the for Cloncurry, then over the border and fauna found in the Territory into New South Wales, so Mt the lecturer went on to may be wa Gambier, and back to Adelaide. firmly of the opinion that the He pointed out that the trip was tropical belt of the Northern I the greatest ever accomplished by ritory would never be developed motor cars in the world. Three only by alive labour

All persons having any claims against the estate of the above deceased, formerly of Kingsclere, Kowloon, are requested to send the same to the undersigned by not later than Wednesday next, the 19th instant.

Dated this 15th day of August, 1925.

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a smile.

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for Poplar," as he is usually called, Lady Seafield inherited the title raising his sonorous voice above 10 years ago, when her father, the

the deputy-chairman's ruling. Labour Members and Lady Astor. After the closure had been. carried by a majority of 99 and They gave yer 'h' sack from

th: pub for nothing," "bhag Miss Wilkinson's amendment reyes, an' after doin' 'em a good Jected by 91, Mr. Lansbury die-turn 1: warned Jem there was a covered his error and amply purple and yeller snake among the apologised to Mr. Chamberlain, which the Health Minister with equal grace accepted.

Mr. Dalton moved an amend ment to increase the widow's 108. pension to 201

glasses

cars made the journey, and covered more it would never go aber 5,560 miles without any serious long as it was so far away breakdown, and without a single the seat of Government. puncture More remarkable still could they expect to deve Well, I am the only one here, was the fact that three of the tubes country properly with Lady Astor remarked, as the in the tyres brought back contain Had the Government Mr. Duncan Graham was parti- House collapsed in aughter. ed the air that was pumped into not been so idiotos cularly vahemant on behalf of the Bir Godfrey Collins, the Liberal them when the party started out. the land grant sy working, class. His statement Whip moved an amendment ex- The lecturer described the class the opinion that the that "we represent the men who cluding from benefit childless of country through which the party had a silway constra

netruction, and had really won the war drow cries of widows and widows who are fifty passed, its geological protest from Lady Astor, to years of age when their husbandste valgs from a pastoral and min in the Ter he gave back the reply," "The

shing point of view, lady has nobody lying in

would not fagna, and the type

I have, and you give me and it is ny capital It costs from week to maintain

people en, Sir Matthew

emark-sided, sizi;

found from