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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

ADVERTISEMENTS.

WANTED.

[["ANTED-Board Residence

with Private family (En- glish plee white Box No. 1007 clo. Hon song Telegraph.

EUROPEAN lady would like

to share small flat in good locality with another European lady. Apply Box No. Honek ng Telegraph.

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WASTER--General Assi

tant. Must have good knowledge of both English and Chinese. Good salary and pro -pect for suitable an Apply. stating salary wanted, R. H. Kotewall. P. D. Bux 252.

ANTED-We

have

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Vacancy for a rapable representative. Apply by letter. giving evidence of good

char-

acter and previous success, to the Mager. 15, Queen's Road,

THE SUN LIFE! Central ASSURANCE CO, OF CANADA.

WANTED to REST-in Ilong-

keag or Kowloon, three er by four-roomed at or house married European couple without No children. Reliable tenants. furniturs. Reply to Box 1009, elo Hongkong Telegraph.

TO BE LET.

TO LET One good-sized go-

down in Pakhinhok., Heaan Canton. Apply to Kwong-Yuew 60. Bonham Strand W. Hongkong.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1923.

FORTHCOMING AUCTION

SALES.

SIMPLICITY OF ENGLISH.

Bros. HUGHES & HOUGH But Difficulty in the

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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ONE NIGHT ONLY MONDAY, October 29th.

GRAND VIOLIN RECITAL

by

JASCHA

HEIFETZ

The World-renowned Violinist Booking opens at Montries on Monday October 15th.

Prices Stalls & Circle $6.00 $3.00 Unreserved: $100 and

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HONGKONG TECHNICAL

THE

INSTITUTE

THE Book-keeping Class will

meet in future on Tuesdays! at 5.30 p.m..

NAVY LEAGUE BALL.

THE Undersigned have receiv

ed instructions to sell be Public Auction on

Friday the 19th. Oct. 1923

at $ p.. at their Sales Room, Duddəl Street.

(for account of the concerned) The Steam Launch "Peggy" as she now hi- in she Har bnt of Hongkong. Length 60 feet Breadth 1 fee: 5 feet Depth

For further particulars apply to the Undersigned

Terme--As customary

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers.

THE Undersigned have receiv

ed instructions to sell by Public Auction on

Friday, the 19th. Oct. 1923.

commencing at 11 a...

at Messte. Lapicque & Coripany's offices, Queen's Building (for account of the concerned) A Quantity of Office Furniture comprising:- Desk Chairs. Bookcases, Fil- ling Cabinets, Showcases. Coun-

Electric Tables,

Fans. ters, Typewriters. Copying Press, etc..

etc.

also

One Safe Terms: Cash on Delivery,

also

To sell by Public Auction on Saturday the 20th. October, 1023 .az their Sales Room

at noon

AUCTIONEERS GENERAL

AND BROKERS.

The Undersigned have instructions to se by Auction.

Spelling.

TREASURES IN CHURCHES.

Money Needed, but No

Power to Sell.

HOUSEFLY'S FOOTPRINTS.

Microbes Discovered By A Scientist,

Quietly hiddea away in The mysterious death of four churches in many parts of the children in a Liverpool family is country are beautiful pieces of attributed to the lies which in- fold furniture and valuable brass fested the house.

was

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Mr. Frank James, the lecturer) lat the City of London Vacation Course in Education, writes to the Dude Chronicle:

It is astonishing how common and silver, says a Home journal. A scientist caught three flies receives |

Some of these churches are so They were not special flies, but Publir is the belief that English is a

difficult language. Over and over poor that they would be glad to he happened to be a man with a

purpose. He again I have been assured by have, for parochial development special 25 THURSDAY, the 18th October, 1928, commencing people who have not even a and necessary repairs, the money scientist, and wanted to know how at 2.50 p.m. at their Sales Rooms nodding acquaintance with any which the sale of these objects much truth there might be in the One fly was caught in a living- No. 3. Des Vœux Road, Corner other language that it is the most would bring. There is, however, idea that flies carry disease.

icult the world has ever a natural disinclination to sell

One was caught out of Ice House Street. Valuable Teakwood and Blackwoodknown. I suppose it is the result furniture or plate which has beenroom.

of the Englishman's fatal fond-in ecclesiastical use for centuries, doors. The third one was trap- Such a position has arisen at ped in the household refuse can. Furniture and Household-

ness for a paradox.

He allowed each of the three Sundries, &c. &c, &c.

In the same way I have been Downton (Wiltshire), in whose! Comprising:

informed that a man weighs no parish church is an ancient silver flies to walk over a sheet of At the Dining Suites, Chesterfield Sofas.mare (whole-hoggers say less)[flagon which the virar recently specially-prepared sterilized jelly, Arm-chairs new). Tea Tables, after a hearty meal, and that two found among the Communion which was incubated. Teakwood Twin Bedsteads, large people can live in affluence on an plate. It is dated 1624, and has end of the fourth day each germ deposited on the jelly had grown and small Wardrobes, Dressing income that spells poverty for been valued at over £200.

The Church Council of Down-into a little mass or "colony of Tables and Chairs, Washstands, one. The "credo quia impos- etc., Sideboards, Dinner Waggons.sibile" of the early philosopher ton is to decide at its next meet microbes, visible to the naked Crockery and Glass Ware. Cutlery, is till the faith of the average ing what is to be done with the eye, and could be counted and

flagea.

identified. An architect teld Carpets and Rugs, Staircase Cat-Englishman.

And yet when we come to pets, Electro-plated Ware. Electric Reading Lamps, Teakwood Screens,detail English has many claims representative that there Teapars. Marble-top to the title of the world's easiest many "treasures Blackwood Flower Stands, Side Tables and language. One of the most im-churches of England.

portant phenomena in language is that language is always tend-carved oak Cabinets, etc., etc., etc.

면 means of tables, and ing to improve as

Alsa One Piano by Challen & Son, London.

(Full Particulars from Catalogae)

Hongkong, 10th Oct. 1923.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

HUGHES & HOUGH

Auctioneers.

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SIMPLE VERB TO LOVE.

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in the

The indoor dy yielded twenty- Press

are five colonies of bacteria and six old colonies of fungi.

"I have seen magnificent six colonies of bacteria and seven

The outdoor fly produced forty-

chests, credenca of fungi. pieces of vestry

most

While the fly from the refuse expression. This it does both by furniture which would certainly bin gave no fewer than 116 colo- curtailment and by extension. bring in very large sums if soldaies of bacteria and ten of fungi. bacteria were Among the Useless distinctions disappear:a: auction or privately,” he said.

Judging in some instances by germs of several intestinal dis- new ideas or more accurate con- captions create their own vocabu-the care taken of these objects Ijeases, of tuberculosis, several imagine that neither the clergy kinds which cause suppuration of lars.

In the 15th century father did nor the churchwardens are aware the eyes, ears, nose and other not merely carve. A chicken was of their value. Churches may parts of the body. The microbe frusshed, a rabbit unlaced. a goes reach the position of great houses which causes milk to go sour was reared, a swan lifted. a peacock whose owners have had to part present, and so were the spores salmon chined, a with many treasured possessions which make bread, jam, fruit and disfigured, haddock sidled, sole loined to meet the increased cost of leather go mouldy.

LIKE HYPODERMIC SEEDLE. These words have disappeared modern living.” NOTICE.

At the headquarters of the While the fly's mode of life because they were not wanted.

National Assembly of the Church may be perfectly satisfactory Particulars and Conditions of the

of England the pressman was from the fly's point of view, from unfortunate. In one respect English stands informed that & Church Council ours it is Sale by Public Auction to be OLET: tadown ut Kennedy Under the Patronage of Admiral The Steam Launch "Tonkinois held on Monday, the 22nd day practically alone, and that is in has no power to sell any article of It lays its eggs in manure, filth. of October, 1923. at 3 p.m. at its natural gender. That value without a faculty from the decaying meat and vegetables, 1 Tan. Apply H.

and things of that sort-sub- As she now lies in the Harbou:

the Offices of the Public Works males should be masculine, all chancellor of the diocese. Sir Arthug Leveson K. C. B.

of Hongkong.

Department. by Order of His females feminine, and all things "If it were a case of selling stances where the germs of dis- Particulars

Excellency the Governor, of one withou: life neuter would appear hassock. Du"one would object," ease abound. The eggs change (In aid of War Charities)

Length 32 feet. Breadth 10 feet Let of Crown Land at Pokfelamat first sight the most stural the authority stated. "but a into maggots which bury them. 2 inches. Depth 5 feet 5 inches Read in the Colony of Hongkongthing in the world. And yet in faculty would have to be obtained selves in the filth, in ten days or years English alone of the great lang for any important article. The so become chrysalids, and ultim Gross tonnage 19.83 tens. Sett for tonnage 13.22 on, last surver with the option of renewal uages of the world does this hold faculties are not given readily.ately hatch as flies. The Lys acd the poorness or the richness first journey is over the filth in April 1923 valid for 6 months, at a Crown Rent to be fixed by

good.

it hatches. It next Moreover, English has no use of a parish is not a determining which licensed to carry 64 persons with the Surveyor of His Majesty the

into Straight less genders. In most languages factor in che saccess of the flies in Harbout limits. Completely KING, for one further term of overhauled 1921. Ang error in 75 years.

adjectives are quite uselessly in-

house and alights on the milk application.

Ten years ago in the Midlands jug, the sugar. the bread or Tickets $-each, Oainable these particulars shall not vitiate PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. flicted for gender: in Russian

even the verbs. Another point a silver chalice was found in ea the meat: sometimes in the dust Ladies Committet, a sale made in pursuance there: fl from the

on which English scores is the obscure comer of a church. It bin: sometimes on Moutrie's Anderson's and The or entitle the Purchaser to com-

simplicity of its verbal system.could not be proved that it had sometimes on the face of the Engineer's Institute.

To write out all the forms of a been used for ecclesiastical pur-sleeping baby.

Nemzee, Prince's Bulle,

TO LET

M. H.

Modern European House, with Garden at No. 5. Peace Avenue Homuntin, can be accupied immediately. For parti- cular. Apply Box 995 "Hong- kong Telegraph."

TOLET

High-class BE- SIDENCES (East View Buildings) oppresite "Sal Fee Ternice." Nathan Road. Kov loon three-pomed Bats. well ventilated. with bath. water closet, kitchen and servants quat- ters Fic particulars apply to Mr. Lai Chak, No. 14, Queen's) Road Central.

TO BE LET.

BOARD RESin. EXCE, No. 1 Vite Char-

TET

dans. Hankow 1. Kowloon,

next Kowloon Hive.

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comthet. Woil furnie, en moed

abu site rules.

forg from $400

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Proprions

FOR SAL).

the den, med in Flagano sand-marie derlaste the sale will be tinued during the work at M. No. 264, Houckong Hotel

JOR SALE:-27. L. EL 5 pass tazer Buick Touring Car

(23 miles per gallon) Guaranteed i in perfect running order. 5 wire battery recently wheels -new installed-winner of

consump tion test and holder of fastest time record on acceleration" test Hongkong, Motor Trials. De. monstration by arrangement with Box No. 1006. co. Hongkong | Telegraph."

LOST.

OST-Yale Key, Will finder please return to this office.

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safety last!

Will be held at THE CITY HALL,

03

FRIDAY, 2nd. November 1923 at 9.30 pts.

NAVY 1.EAGUE

NOTICE

BALL

THE List of the Ladies Com mitter can be obtained from M. IN LEWIS, Telephone Peak No. 126.

LIGHTING

W

# shall be pimusend the Subunit designs Se ang sperial Work.

DESIGNS

ARCHITECTS CARRIED OUT IN DETAIL

FITTINGS FOR EVERT IN STOCK PURPOSE

ELECTRICAL DEPT:

pensation.

Permits to view may be obtain jed on application to the Under-

signed.

A deposit of 20 per cent must be paid on the fall of the Hammer also

One King Motorear. 50 N. P.; Cylinders

Inspection on application to the tidersigned

THE

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers.

HE Undersigned have receiv

of instructions to sell, be Public Auction in

Sat. the 20th Det. 1923.

at Messis. Po King Tails que

Praga No. 24 & 25 Kennel Town

for account of the concernés Ath Bars Tonkin White Eign Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS..

Auctioneers,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

ELLERMAN LINE.

From UNITED KINGDOM &

CONTINENT.

The Steamship

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DO NOT MISS-

ROCHA'S

POPULAR -AUCTION SALES Every Tuesday Thursday

& Saturday At 2.30 p.me Specialist is the Valuation of Household and Office Furniture DA ROCHA'S MART

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

The Steamship

"PFALZ"

our

manure or

Latin verb would take possibly poses, and permission was given The fly's body is covered with 20 minutes, a Greek verb longer for it to to be sold. It brought in bristly hairseach leg and foot still to English the only forms about £2,000.

of the verb "to love are love, loves, loved. loving and lovest.

Latin has! Similarly with couns. six cases. Russian six, moderni English but two.

canner .. other languages are Erlish in this respect.

WOMAN DRIVER

FINED,

Pursued Across London

After Collision.

Was

being so clad. These hairs catch up and deposit the germs.

The fly, too, has a strange ha- bit. It sucks up food into its crop, holds it there temporarily: and then regurgitates it. Sup- posing after a meal on manure the regurgitation is on your bread loaf That is what "y-spots' consist of chiefly.

One of the most persistenti arguments of those who find difficulty in English is that in many cases a word has several

The stable fly is in some ways. different me inions. The difficulty) of the Frenchman with the wordl

An exciting story of a street different from the house-fly. It "nog" has been made the subject)

motori-jean pierve the skin with its mouth The chase after a woman 1.5 a emir recitation.

recently. when nic needle. and thus can actually ambiguity of the journalistic was told at the Mansion House parts, which are like a hypoder headline ductor the war The Police r

Carstairs of introduce disease into the blood. Parks", Marian Barbara

The house-fly canner "bite" but Stocking of Private

denied. But many Mulberry-walk, Chelse.

worse than fined £30 for dancerous driving deposits its discharge un the sur- face. If the surfare happens to and for failing to stop.

Her license was suspended for be a wound or scrape, no matter how mail, or a mucous surface, two years. THE GREAT DIFFICULTY.

Carstairs, it was said, collided the microbes deposited may gain Perhaps in no respect has ourj language simplified more than in with a taxi-cab in the White-a foothold and cause disease.

It is just as well to know the the substitution of the use of -uch chapel-road, but drove on.

The tax-cab driver followed in science of these things.-E.. A. D'Aguilar St. Phone 031 | words ak auxiliary verbs, preposi-

tions, and conjunctions for inflec- pursuit, shouting. "Stop" and the tion. The English preposition is chase continued as far as Fen- simplicity itself; the English church-street, where two cyclists PUTTING IT BLANKLY. subjunctive is for all practical narrowir escaped being knocked

off their machines, purposes dead and gone.

It was said that Carstairs con-Chairman Talks to New Another point on which English

Inspector. having arrived from Bremen scores is absence of complication tinued to drive about 30 miles en Hamburg via ports on October in respect of accent and musical hour along Lombard-street. The

Inspector James Evans, of the 16 cpnsignees are hereby notified pitch. In Russian the accent is constable on point duty. hearing that their cargo is being landed so shifting that in books written the shouting. called upon her to Ministry of Health, had a recap- CITY OF KARACHI,"

at their risk into the hazardous for Russian children it has to be stop. She took no notice, but action which was more candid than having arrived. Consignees

Godowns of Holt's Wharf, and marked. In Chinese the intrica-celerated. The constable said be cordial on his first official visit to Cargo by her are informed that stored at consignees risk.

cies of "tone" are so incompre- had to jump aside to avoid being the Pwllheli Board of Guardians

recently. all Goods are being landed at All broken, chafed and damaged hensible to 3 European that knocked down

The tax-cab driver was then The chairman (Mr. J. T. Jozes. their risk into the hazardous cargo is to be left in the Godowns missionaries of long residence in and for extra-hazardous Godowns until Monday, October 22nd, at the country often make judicrous close behing the car, and the con- 82 years old, who has presided RADIO MAGNAVOX Loud of Holt's Wharf, whence delivery 10 am. when they will be ex-mistakes through giving a word stable jumped into the cab and over the board 50 years) said he

joined in the pursuit.

and his colleagues welcomed the amined by Messrs. Carmichael & the wrong tone. Speakers and Amplifiers.hay be obtained.

A second constable, near the inspector. But they did not care No Claims will be admitted Clarke. Batteries, Insulators,

Claims will not be accepted' Crystals, Aerial Wires, after the Goods have left the and all other parts. Godowns, and all Goods remain unless the cargo is so examined one respect English is perhaps Mansion House Station, who tried much for officialdom, and possibly ing undelivered after 22nd. Oct. by said Surveyors prior to thathe most difficult language in the to stop the car, also had a narrow they know as much, if not more world-viz., in its spelling. But escape. The car turned into about Poor Law administration

and then into than inspectors. (Laughter.) DE SOUSA & CO., LTD.,

for this it would have no com-Cannon-street

Inspector Evans politely asked sight on the other side of South-whether he should address the of the world language.

warkbridge. petitor in the race for the position Queen-street, and was then lost to

guardians in English or Welsh., The defendant said she was The Chairman: You mus hot, tired and frightfully annoyed speak in Welsh, or go back to All broken, chafed and damag after the goods have left the

The name of the Commonwealth and did not wish to be involved London. (Loud laughter.) ed Goods are to be left in the godowns. All goods remaining Government Line is to be chang-in a brawl in the White-chapel Godowns, where they will be after 4 p.m. Monday, October,

the Australian Com road as the taxi-driver swore at

STAGE COACH RIDES IN CITY. examined on any Tuesdays or 22nd, will be subject to sept.

A special stage coach servic Fridays, between the hours of No fire insurance. whatever monwealth Steamers, The well-her. She could have stopped known fast passenger and cargo instantly if she had seen any!

danger.

between the railway stations an the Agricultural Hall during th Consignees are requested to steamers will continue to run

week of the Confectioners Ex WORTH THE PRICE. No Fire Insurance has been sedd in their Bills of Lading for regularly from London, while the present cargo sailings from the counter-signature.

It is urged upon humanity by hibition, September 8 to 14, w Bills of Lading will be counter- NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,East and West. United Kingdom

ports, as well as the Continental an essayist that every other kiss run by Messrs. John Mackintos signed by

THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.

service, will be maintained as brings a man nearer the grave, sud Sons, manufacturers AGENTS.

before.

Bat isn't the scenery beautiful, Mackintosh's Toffee-de-Luxe Hongkong, October 17th, 1923.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY LIMITED.

St George's Bldg, 2nd Floor. Tel. No. Central 1264.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casks of 375 lbs, net.

f.

In Bags of 250 lbs.net.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO, General Managers Hongkong

1923 will be subject to reat.

All Claims against the Steamer

above date.

All claims must be presented must be presented to the Under- within a month of the steamer's signed on or before 29th. October arrival here, after which they 1923. or they will not be re- will not be recognized. cognized.

No claims will be admitted

10.45 a.m. and Noon, within the will be effected. free storage period of one week.

effected."

THE BANK LINE LTD.

General Agents. Hongkong, 17th October, 1923.

It must be confessed that in

AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING LINE.

ed to