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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

TO BE LET.

TO LET A nicely furnished room with board and every con- venience, middle level, suitable for married couple-Apply Box No 581 c/o Hongkong Telegraph.”

TO LET-Large Godown at Wapchsi (known

Mody Godown). Apply Lee Hy San & Co., 02 Quaen's Road Central.

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NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPR. SATURDAY JULY 9, 1921.

Particulars and Conditions of the losting by Public Auction: Sale, to be held on Mouday. the 11th day of July, 1921, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor. of

Lot of Crowi Land ar Sbaukiwani in the Colony of Hongkong. for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor TO LET Bahar Lodge," No.of His Majesty the KINO, for one

TO LET. Godown at Yau mati. For par iculars apply 10 the Hongkong Land Reclamation Co., Ltd.

* Peak Road, Peak, 5 rooms,

further term of 75 years.

lately renovated, Apply to Ribeiro, PARTICULARS OF THE LOT, San & Co. P. D. Box 501.

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-A complete dis- pensary with glass stoppered gold label bottles, furniture and fittings &c., Suitable for a medi- cal practitioner.-Apply Bar No. 580 c/o Hongkong Telegraph."

NOTICE.

If Carmen Badaraco, who was residing at Macao last year, will communicate with the undersign- ed, she will hear of something to her advantage. -

LEO. D'ALYADA E CASTRO.

Solicitor,

14. Des Voeux Road Central,

Hongkong...

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

We have removed our Office to No. 61 Des Voeux Road Central second floor, (abore The Mercury Garage).

MOW FUNG & CO. LIMITER)

Hongkong. 8th July 1921.

THE COWIE HARBOUR COAL COMPANY LIMITED.

SILIMPOPON COAL

The undersigned are prepared to quote prices for best quality freshly mined SILIMPOPON COAL, trimmed into Bunkers at SEBATTIK Or SANDAKAN (British North Borneo) or to contract for regular Bunker Sup plies for 6 or 12 months at favour- able rates.

Steamers calling at SEBATTIK or SANDAKAN exclusively for Bonkers are exempt from pay- ment of ordinary Port Charges. The minimum draft of water alongside the Company's Whari at Sebattik is 25 feet at low water Spring Tides. Charts of Cowie Bay (Sebattik Harbour) and any required information concerving the port can be had on applica. tion to

BRADLEY & CO. LTD.

Acents,

The COWIE HARBOUR COAL

CO. LTD.

THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE.

S.S.

TEIRESIAS".

Will be despatched for Shang- hai, Kobe and Yokohama at noon on Monday 11th July.

Excellent first class passenger accommodation.

For further particulars apply to BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

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THEUndersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on

Monday, the 11th. July, 1921

commencing at 11 8.m. at No. 1 Godown of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd., West Point.

85 cases Antimony 40 cases Antimony Ore Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers.

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THEUndersigned have received

instructions to sell by Public Auction on

Thursday, the 14th July 1921 commencing at 2.30 p.m.

at their tales Rooms, Duddell Street

A Very Fine and Superior Selection of Genuine Old Curios | (just arrived from the North)

Comprising:-

Porcelain Vases, Ginger jars, Beakers, Bowls, Wine cups. Josses, Wallplates. Inlaid panels.) Flower pots of Kanghi to Tow kwong Periods.

Enamelled and cloisonne Plates; od Vases, Bronze vases `and) incense burners. Crystal, Agate; and Jade Figures and Ornaments,

Also

One Yellow Vase - Kanghi Four Jade inlaid Placques Kienlung

And

A few pinges of Souchow Red wood-ware

On view from Wednesday the 13th July, 1921.

Catalogue will be issued. Terms Cash no delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers

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"HEUndersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on

Saturday the oth July 1921 commencing at 11 am.

at their Sales Rooms, Duddel! Street

A Quaritity of Office and Household Furniture

Also

1 Indian Motor Bicycle

Terms: Cash on delivery

LAMMERT BROS. Auctioneers,

JOACHIMESESEEKERS

BRITISH PIANOS

for tone, charm and durability.

BROADWOOD, CHALLEN, COLLARD & COLLARD, BELL. Baby Grands and Uprights.

uality is the thing in a British piano that puts it in a class by itself. No matter how high the price-the quality of a fine piano so overshadows its cost, that this quality is treasured long after the price is forgotten.

Their beautiful rich tone, their sympathetic response, make these pianos an endur- ing source of inspiration whether you are playing or listening to others. With these pianos go the endur- ing qualities to which every piano purchaser in the Far East is entitled.

We shall be pleased to show you these fine models.

Anderson Music Company,

THE BOOKSHELF.

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(By Librarian.";

LIMITED.

written both prose and poetry, it is worth remembering this but have not embodied this more when looking through catalogues durable element in their prose of second-band books. In studying Much of the prose of Matthew these catalogues-"the true text- Arnold, Dr. Noyes thinks, is prac-books of literature." to quote tically dead, while many of his again from Mr. Birrell-it. is not lyrics speak with a living voice to a bad plan to look out for second contemporary thinkers:

editions. To an author, the With aching bands and bleed second edition of bis book must

ing feet

usually be an agreeable spectacle; We bear the burden and the heat to a collector it has, "so far 05 Of the long day and wish most books are concerned, the

"tware done.

merit of comparative cheapness.

Not till the hours of light|

return

All we have boilt do we discern.

OBITUARY.

Mr. Daniel Jaffe, A.M.I.C.E.

THEATRE

ROYAL

Return Visit of the

H. B. WARING CO.

Last Night

TO-NIGHT at 9.15 p.m.

"THE PURSE STRINGS."

Prices...

Booking at MOUTRIE'S.

..$4, $2, and $1.

THE UNITED MOTOR CO. LTD.

33 & 35 DES VOLUK ROAD.

WE HAVE JUST THE CAR YOU WANT TO HIRE

AT OUR REDUCED RATES.

5-PASSENGER CAR... WAITING TIME

7 PASSENGER CAR.

WAITING TIME

$5.00 per Hour.

$1.00 per Hour.

.$7.00 per Hour.

$1.50 per Hour.

RING UP 1036 FOR HONGKONG

OR K417 FOR KOWLOON.

WHY NOT BRING YOUR CAR TROUBLES

TO US!

OUR MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT CAN HANDLE ANY REPAIR ON ANY MAKE OF CAR.

ALL WORK UNDER EXPERT EUROPEAN.

SUPERVISION.

USED CARS FOR SALE!!

SPECIAL OFFERS.

Dodge. 5 sealers.

Elgin, 5 seaters..

.51 600 and $2,000. ..$1,600 and $1,700.

Overland, Model 90. 5 sealer, Willys Knight, 5 seater, Willys Knight, 7 seater. Hudson, 7 seater.. Hudson, 7 seater,

Chandler, 7 sealer.

$1,700.

$2.000.

$3,000.

$3,000.

$4,000.

.$3,500.

All these cars are in excellent ranning order, most of them have been newly painted and overhauled. Suitable for private use or garage service,

THE DRACON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

24. Des Vœux Road, Central. AGENTS FOR

TELEPHONE 482 & 3552

Locomobile, Mercer. Chandler, Cleveland, Hudson, Essex and Dodge cars.

POETRY AND MODERN LIFE. It is a curious fact that while poetry is always regarded, even more than painting, sculpture, or music, as a kind of artistic luxury, and sometimes a very unnecess ary one to the contemporary life, it is neverthelesa quietly ac: epled! As our chief legacy in literature: from the past. People like to pretend that it is only a very Mr. Edmand Gosse has reprint- small part of this legacy, and yeted his literary causeries noder says Dr. Alfred Noyes, we come the le Books on the Table to see that it is almost the only They are admirable essays, ja

The many old colleagues and thing left to us from paat civiliza- which one of the most distinguish-i friends in the Colony of Mr tions. More and more clearly ed of living critics gives freely to Daniel Jale. A.M.1.C.E.. formerly Homer, Eschylus, and Sophocles the public out of the rich stores of the Hongkong Civil Service, w}}}| emerge from the ruins of ancient of his learning. It is not everyone regret to learn of birth and will Greece. More and more clearly who will agree with all Mr. sympathise with birs, Jaffe and ber do Lucretius, Virgil, and Horace Gosse's judgments. But Mr.two boys in their heavy bereave- dwarf all the Cesars of Rome. Gosse expresses them with an ment. The statement of Carlyle, that urbane firmness that commands Shakespeare was of more value to the attention. He is sure enough in 1919 on a well-earned leave Whes Mr. Jaffe left Hongkong England than the Indian Empire of his own judgment to withstand he was suffering from aprue and may have seemed very ridiculous the mere fashions of literarydammation of the liver. He to some of the famous politicians enthusiasm. He is always discreet had hopes of recovering and of re- of his day who are already forgot in his praise, indeed, as when in ten: but no one who witnessed an appreciative note on George but owing to continued ill health burning to his work in the Colony, that amazing tribut to Shakes Wyndham he adds: "He did not be retired, oo peare's memory in America dur realise how much strength and following year (1919). Latterly. pensica the (Full particulars from catalogue) ing the Tercepten ry celebrations body were added to a man's work he has spent a considerable time in

could doubt that Carlyle's state- by its being firmly based on moral the Eversley Hospital for Tropical TELEPHONE ment was in accord with the principles. He was a fairy born Diseases, bis complaint then being plainest of fact. Throughout the before the Christian era." Mr. length and breadth of a continent, Gosse is probably the first eminent place on the 11th Juce and the

pernicious Anaemia.

Destb took 482 & 3552. in cities as far apart as Leadon ritic to disparage "The Young news was received in the Colony from Petrograd, vast throngs as. Visiters" He even believes that sembled to listen to "the words of Sir James Barrie must regret

yesterday.

Born on the 2od. September, the great poet:

having sponsored that "appeal to This precious stone, set in the the imbecility of the imitative 1875. Mr Jaffe received his techai

silver sea.

public." Whoever theory we may cal education at the City sad Guild's This blessed plot, this realm. hold of the composition of "The Institute, of which be held the dip. this earth this England. Young Visiters," the fact remains locos. He was trained as a civil When Matthew Arnold, in 1880, that it is funny. Among Mr.engineer under the late Sir James

F.R.S.. on Mansbergh, made his remarkable prophecy Gosse's other essays is one

8 'past that in poetry, as time went on, Landor, in which he refers to President of the, Institute of Civil our race would come to find an the latter as the most cynically Engineers Bod B well known ever surer and surer stay, he neglected of all our great national consulting engineer on waterworks. based it upon certain statements writers." and calls for a full Mr Jate was admitted to the LAMMERT BROS..

Institute and elected an Associate which, though they were the sub- biography, Auctioneers.ject of much contention in bis

Member in 1902, just prior to own day, have come to be regard- Why do people buy first editions coming to Hongkong. He was en. as platitudes by ourselves. dear when they can buy last aged on the Birmingham Corpora There is not a creed," he said in editions cheap? asks a writer in tian water works in North Wales. 1880, "which is not shaken, not a London journal. Some of those Mr Jaže arrived in the Coluny in received tradition which does not who have noticed the prices to June 1902 as assistant engineer threaten to dissolve. Our religion which first editions of M. of the Publio Works Department. bas placed its faith in the fact, Conrad's early novels have now He became acting executive" and now the fact is failing it. But so red must have repeated to engineer two years later and for poetry the idea is everything themselves this question with a promoted to the substantive The idea is the fact: The rest is added wooderment. "The whole rank in 1906. Hip knowledge waterworks brought about a world of illusion. The strongest thing," says Mr. Birre 1, who has of

де appointment part of our religion to-day is its discussed the problem in one of bis

*pecial unconscious poetry. The func-bis essage," in but a hobby-bot roginear of the Tytamtuk scheme, tion of poetry, in other words, was a paragraph in one chapter of the second section, in 1912. to set the temporal in relation to vast,bas most agreeable, history of principal works with which he wax the eternal.

buman folly. Yet who would not connected in Hongkong were the of one of the largest dans East public brd the greatest confidebre. This, consciously or uncon-like to possess a favourite book construction of the first sectionof, of Buez and which will be a Quiet and unobtrusive in his ways sciously, bas been the theory and in the form in which its author the Tytam water works schem. lasting monument to his memory, be woo, soil retained the esteem of all with whom be; came into practice of all the great creative saw it? Chesterfield may have involving the building of the in this Colony-

The late Mr. Jaffe was omset His' death at the dom artists, and it is this eternal ele-been right when he told his son intermediate dam below Istam,

at most capable and conserentious paratirely early ngs of 16 will be ment in great poetry which gives that the best boks the the harbour refuge works

second official, elwaja cou1tequs and most keenly fell by his old colleagues it a perennial appeal. This is commonast, and the last ditions Mongkokisui and sometimes curiously illustrated are always the best, if que ation of the Tytamtuk scheme obliging and a public servant and large circle of friends in the works of those who have leditors ate pot blockheads," and which included the construction whom the Government and the and sequaintanced in the Colony.

THE Undersigned have received

instructions to sell by Public Auction on

Monday the 11th July, 1921 commencing at 3 p.m.

at Holt's Wharf, Kowloon

59 coile Galvanized Wire Short, Terms: Cash on delivery

THE Endersigned have received instructions to sell by Public

Auction on

Monday the rath, July, 1971

commencing at 11.30 am. at their Sales Rooms, Daddell

Street,

1 bale Khaki Prosfed Canvas 1 case Hair Clippers

10 cases Padlocks

THE Undersigned have received 1 case Kerosene 0.1 Stoves

13 cases Azes

instructions to sell by Public Aaction on

cases Screws

2

cases Saws

cas Hand Vises

I esse Eagle Drawer Locks

Monday, the 11th. July, 1921 commencing at. 3. p..

at Holt's Wharf, Kowloon 520 coils Steel Hoops Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Anctioneers.

2 cases Key Rings,

1 case Scissors

Terms: Cash on delivery

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers.

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