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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

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GIVE THESE COLUMNS AN OPPORTUNITY TO ASSIST YOU.

The following replies are awaiting collection :-

Nos. 1366, 1375, 1314, 1320, 1384, 1376 1385, 1342, 1395, 1392 1393,

POSITIONS VACANT

MISCELLANEOUS,

Wanted, a few ship Draughts- Wa have investors interested mon for temporary service. Must have some knowledge of English. Apply Chief Constructor, Naval Yard..

in sound local and rubber- shares Jat. favourable rates, Offers in- vited by telophone C.4630 or in Des Voeux Road."

writing to Small Investors, 10,

NOTICE

It is hereby notified that owing

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1925.

LAMMERT'S

PUBLIC AUCTION.

BY ORDER OF THE

"MORTGAGEE... Lammert Brothers have rocoived instructions to sell

to road improvements at the junction of Stubbs and Bowen Roads. Stubbs Road will be Messrs. closed to all vobicular.traffic from midnight to G. a.m. on, the 21st, October, 1925,

Capt. Supt. of Pollos, Ho gkong: 17th October, 1925,

HONGKONG. JOCKEY CLUB.

The half yearly General Meot- ing of Members will be held on Tuesday, November 3rd 1925 at 530 p.m. in the Jockey Club Room, Hongkong Club Annex...

By Order,

H. GREENWOOD,

Actig Secretary.

By Public Auction,

on THURSDAY, the 22nd day of October 1926, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon at their Salesrooms Duddell Street: Victoria, Hongkong, THE VERY VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTIES situate at Nathan Road Kowloon in the Colony of Hongkong and being: portions of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1405 intended to be registered in the Land Office hs Sections A, B, C, and The Remaining Por tion of Kowloon, Inland Lot No.

AUGHES & HOUGH 1405,

LIMITED.

IN FOUR LOTS. Lot 1, consists of all that por tion of Kowloon Inland Lot: No. 1405 Intended to be regis-

GENERAL AUCTIONEERS. IMPORTEERS, EXPORTERS &tered in the Land Office

GENERAL BROKERS.

09

AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have receiv ed instructions to sell by Publio Auction on

Tuesday, the 20th. Oct, 1925

cominencing at 11 am.

at their ales Room, Duddell Street

7. Sots Stock & Dios 2.Cases Enamelled Ware 2 Bales Yar

1 Keg Green Oxide Powder

1 Piece Towelling

2 Pieces Blue Clothing 1 Piece Clothing

3 Pieces Canvas

also

A Quantity of Woollen Salt Lengths and

(for account of the concerned)

1 Case Alabaster Lunip Shades 2 Cases Brass Chain Terms-Cash on delivery. LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers.

THE ASTROLOGER.

His Powers in the East.

GIANT LIZARD AT 200.

A Monitor From Sumatra.

The arrival at the Zoo, whore Nowhere else in the world por hapa, does the astrologer flourish it has been placed in the Tortoise so well as in India. The help of House, of a very large Varanus. his art is here sought in almost lizard from Sumatra, is a remin- all the affairs of life. His fund-dor that the age of reptiles is not tions are thus quite multifarious, quite over. There are still, left, When a marriage is contemplat-chiefly in the tropics, members of od in a Hindu household, the as-oach of the four groups which, trologer is at once called in to although far short of their extihet pronounce a verdict about its ancestors, are ontitled to be cul- planetary auspiciousness; when led" giants".

a child is expected, he is consult-The Varanus or Monitor lizard ed as regards its probable sex; or of tropical Asia is the largest of again when a lawsuit is pending, living lizards, and the example or a speculation entered into, for which has now reached the Gar- when someone in the family falls dena is between 6. ft. and 7 ft. In sick, the advice of an astrologer longth from the tip of its snout to. is as much an indispensible the end of the whiplike tail. It ministration as say the advice is able to protrude a long," forked of a doctor or lawyer.

tongue, black for the greater part Astrologers are known to have of its extent of 15 in, and fleshy played a great part in history, at the base. The Varanus lizard Humayun was celebrated for his inhabits warm swamps, but

has. skill in the art. The Moghul also climbs trees and Emperors paid great attention to even the reputation of eating the astrology and it is recorded of flesh of dead natives who have Jehangir that he kept a large buen subjected to the Siamese staff of wizards" at his court practice of tree burial. Certainly and never undertook any journey, it is omnivorous in diet, oating or embarked on a mission of any any kind of small mammal reptile consequence, unless his astrolo- or bird which it is able to capture, gical experte told him that the taking ogga from nests, feeding hour and day were propitious for on large grubs and caterpillars, his undertakings, “

and any sort of carrion. Dosoribing the time of It uses its claws and tail as Aurangazob Bernier speaks of weapons, but can also bite Delhi as swarming with Hindu severely. When annoyed it and Mussalman astrologers. Of makes threatening openmouthed Two Undivided Fifth Shares in one of these he has "left a some demonstrations, as if it were. Lot 2, consists of another por-all that piece or parcel of ground what petulant and contemptuous going to attack, or, with its mouth closed, emits a kind of snorting, tion of the said Kowloon Inland situate at Victoria in the Colony impression. He wrote:

"The most ridiculous of these deep-pitched hiss. Although it is Lot No. 1405 intended to be regla of Hongkong and registered in pretenders to divination was a not poisonous, it is loathed and

as the Land Office as Subsection 1 The Undersigned have received tered in the Land Office

from Goa. This fellow sat on a erroneously referred to in Malaya instructions to sell by Public Aug. SECTION "B" OF KOWLOON of Section A. of Inland Lot No. half-caste Portuguese a fugitive feared by the natives. It is often

INLAND LOT NO. 1405 Together 1029, together with all mosuagos | tion,

on' FRIDAY,..

with the messuage thereon now or tenements and other erections Sarpet as gravely as the rost and as the "Iguana", which is a com-known as No. 458 Nathan Road. and buildings theroon and known had many customers notwith. distinct byye of lizard. ON FRIDAY, 16th October, the 23rd October, 1925,

nor write. His only instrumient from 507, The Peak, Fox mencing at 2.45 p.m., at No. 6-Prat The property contains an area of as No. 76, Queon's Road Central, standing he could neither road

by

was an old mariner'a compass, Terrier puppy, 6 months old, black Building (1st Floor), Prat Avenue, 1375 sq. ft, or thereabouts and the proportion of Crown Rent pay-

Messrs. Lammert Brothers, and his Looks of astrology a European fat,

marking. finder Kowloon..

Auctioneers couple of Romish prayer-brooks Wanchai Gap Road, Hong- kindly communicate with Mrs Kowtomily of Valuable Household able is 320 per annum.

in the Portuguese language, the kong. Apply to 32 Kennedy R. Mein Austin, Tel. Poak 64.

pictures of which he pointed out! Road,

as the signs of the European Zodiac:"

PREMISES TO LET.

TOL

OLET.-Dae 6 roomed house three minutes from the forry. Immodiato possession. Apply premises, No. 11, Ashioy Road, Kowloon,

GODOWN TO LET, in Alex-

andre Buildings. Apply Secretary, A. S. Watson & Co., Limited.

Two newly.com

WANTED.

ROOM wanted by a European

in a Chinese or Portuguese family. Rent must be moderato. Apply Box. 1393 c/o Hongkong Telegraph,"

LOST.

HONGKONG REALTY AND TRUST CO., LTD.

LAMMERT'S AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Furniture. Comprising:-

SECTION "A" OF KOWLOON INLAND LOT NO. 1405 Together! with the messuage thereon now known as No. 460 Nathan Road. BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE The property contains an area of

PUBLIC AUCTION:

1440 sq. ft or thereabouts and the proportion of Crown Rent pay-

able is $20 per annum.

Lot 3, consists of another por: tion of the said Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1405 intended to be regis- Chesterfield Armchairs, Teak

tered in the Land Omee as FOR SALE. Desks, Chairs, Pictures, Curios, SECTION "C" OF KOWLOON No about March 1926 whole

Tientsin Carpet, Brass, Lamp with INLAND LOT NO, 1405 Together"] flat or spacious suite of offcae

TO BE SOLD. A house at the Silk Shade, Teak Screen, Electric with the messuage thereon now "French Building" ex in the

"No. 5

Peak in a convenient' situa-Table Fans, Wall Plates, etc., etc. known as No. 456 Nathan Road. Victoria Building,

Dining Table, Dining Chairs, The property contains an area of Queon's Road Central (between tion, or may be let on long leads.

Hong- Teak Sideboard with Bevelled 1376 sq. ft., or thereabouts and Chartered Bank and Mercantile Apply Box No. 1395 clo

kong Telegraph."

Mirror, Glass Ware, Crockery, the proportion of Crown Rent pay- Bank.)"

Filter, Aluminium Cooking able is $20 per annum. Apply to: Barque de l'Indcabine

Utensils, Refrigerator, etc., etc. Lot 4, consists of another por- Chater Road,

Teak Double Wardrobe with tion of the said Kowloon Intana Bevelled Mirror Door, Teak Dress-Lot Nes 1405 intended to be regis-

In the Land Office ing Table with Bevelled Mirror, tered NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Teak Chest of Drawers, Teak Side THE REMAINING PORTION OF Magazine Gar, Motor Road, that the Second Ordinary Yearly Tubica, Curtains, Curtain Poles, KOWLOON INLAND LOT NO. three Date, three large 100ms Meeting of Shareholders of Hong-Tuwel Racks, Mirrors, etc., etc.

Also anch with kitchen. servants' kong Realty and Trust Company, quarters and bath room, fitted Limited, will be held at the Hong- A Quantity of Rattan and Grass

Furniture. with flush system: Garages kong Hotel, Pedder Street, Hong-

And provided. Immediate possession. kong, on Saturday the 7th day of Apply Sang Kee, New Bank November, 1925, at 12 o'clock Boon, Building.

for the purpose of receiving a State- ment of Accounts and the Reporti of the Board of Directors for the: Year ended the 80th June, 1925, confirming the appointments of Directors, and re-electing. Directora and the Auditors.

To Let

structed European bousos,

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. ·

Draft Programme and Entry Forms for the Seven h Extra Raco Moo ing to be held on

The Transfer Books of the Com- Saturday 7th November 1925 pany will be closed from. Monday, (weather permitting) may be the 2nd day. of November, 1925, obtained at the Race Course, until Saturday, the 7th day of Hongkong Club and Causeway November, 1925, both days inclu- Bay Stablos.

Entries will close at 12 o'clock noon on Saturday 24th Oct., 1995

NOTICE.

THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LIMITED.

Notice to Shareholders.

THE TWENTY-NINTH ORDIN- 'ARY ANNUAL MEETING Of

Bive.

By Order of the Board, C.. E. Y. RIBEIRO, Acting Secretary,

Hongkong, October 15, 1925.

One Schubert 3 Pedals Plano. Catalogues will be issued.

On view from Thursday, October!

22, 1925. Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,.

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, October 17, 1925,

HOLLAND-OOST AZIE LIJN

(HOLLAND-EAST ASIA LINE From AMSTERDAM, ROTTER DAM, HAMBURG, BREMEN

& GFNOA.... "OUDERKFRK (9)" having arrived from the above ports, onsignees of cargo by her are notified that all goods are being lauded at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra- hazardous of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co,. Ltd, Whence and/or from the wharve delivery may be obtain A od. Creditors of the above named

In the Matter of the Companies Ordinances 1911 to 1923

and

Shareholders in the above Company in the Matter of M. Y. San & Co.,

will be held at the Company's Town Office, 2, Lower Albert Road,

Hongkong, on SATURDAY, 24th

Limited (In Liquidation).

Goods not cleared by the 26th, October, 1925, at noon, for the Company are requested on or before Oct., 1925 will be subject to rent Al. broken, chafed and damag purpose of presenting the Report of the 80th day of November, 1925, to

the Directors and Statement of end their names and addresses and ed, packages are to be left in the Accounts to 31st July, 1926.

particulars of their debts or claims godowns, whe e they will be ex THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the and the names and addresses of amined on the 24th Oc., 1925 ai Company will be CLOSED from the their Solicitors (if any) to the 10 am by Messrs Goddard &

Douglas..

Claims against the steamer- 15th to the 24th October, 1925, registored office of the said Com-

pany at No. 98, Queen's Road must be presented in writing both days inclusive.

By Order;

Central, Vistoria, Hongkong; and within ten days after arrival of further, if so required by.notice in steamer otherwise they will not writing, personally or by their be recognized...

M. MANUK,

Secretary, Hongkong, October 8, 1925.

MARTIN'S

Solleitors or Representatives to No Fire Insurance will be come in and prove their sald debts offested by the un foraigned in or claims at such time and place any caso whatever.

Ble of Lading will be counter is shall be specified In such notice. And notice is hereby given that in signed by, default thereof, such creditors will

stribution before sach debta or claims are provad.

PILLS 50 excluded from the benefit of any APIOL & STEEL, Sureandcertain for all Female complaints.Every lady should keep a box in the house,

Chemists and Stores sell them throughout the world. Coole Proprietors

MARTIN, Chemist, Southampton, England

Dated the 6th day of October, 1925.

LAU YUK WAN, WONG SUI LEUNG,

NG WEI CHEE,

Liquidators.

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LINE

General Agents.

MASSAGE

Mr. N. AKAJI,

Mro. E, AWAJI.

Graduate of Tokyo Aage School. No. 23, WYNDHAM STREET;

HONGKONG. TEL, CA35

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1405 Together with the messunge thereon now known as No. 454 Nathan Road. The property con- tains an area of 1458 sq. ft, or thereabouts and the proportion of Crown Rent payable is $20 per

annum.

A plan of the said premises may be inspected at and farther parti-: culars and Conditions of Sale may be obtained from

"

MESSRS. DEACONS, Vendor's Solicitors,

1, Des Voeux Road, Central

a'id also from MESSRS. LAMMERT BROTHERS

The Auctioneers.

:

OF

at their Salesrooms

No. 5, Duddell Street, Hoogkoong.

on

(

WEDNESDAY, the 28th. Day of

October, 1925

at 3 o'clock p.m. For further Particulars and Conditions of Sale apply to

Messrs. Deacons,

Mortgagees Bolicitors, Prince's Building

or to

Mesars. Lammert Bros..

The Auctioneers,

No. 5 Duddell Street, Hongkong.

that

THE THUNDERER.”

44,000th Issue.

The London Times, familiarly ILL-FATED PREDICTIONS. known as The Thunderer," cole- History is replete with ill-fated brated its forty four thousandth number by recounting some of the astrological predictions either proved false or brought mileposts along its journey ruin on great houses. It is prob through the years since it first ably for this reason, that Indian appeared on the first day of 1785, astrologers who used to ply an The Times runka bigh on the extensive business in Rome were roster of newspaper renown, ruthlessly expelled by the Em- and yet so recent is the newspaper perer Nero. One striking erlas an institution that those 140 ample of fatal faith in astrology years cover, about all its greater is the tragedy that befel! the history...

When the Times started it had Raja of Nadiya in the year 1920 A.D. When the invader Khilji four small pages and was publish- marched on the city in that year, ed to turn some standing.type. the Raja was advised by his as into a little cash that the publis trologer to postpone his defensive her believed could be teased from operations by nine hours to await the pubile pocket by the sight of un auspicious turn of the planets, something in print. For almost Meanwhile, the invader rode into a half century it limped along the city, and finding it too late to with small pages and slow print- affer resistanco, the Haja had to ing and then the rotary press ap- abandon everything and fly for peared with steam-power appli

ances; and as if by magic the his very life.

With all this it is difficult to great change came that has made bellove that astrology as a science the newspaper the outstanding If you have anything you would is a hoax. Untrustworthy in the feature of our demororatic ago.

From the early thirties down. like to sell, oxchange or advertise hands of quacks and bunglers! send it to the CHINA AUCTION | proficients in the field have yet to the present hour "The Thun- ROOM.:

achieved some marvels. There derer" has illustrated another have been remarkable cases of journalistic mystery by maintain- correct prediction, even accord-ing a distinctive and influential ing to the testimony of European personality which seemed to be witnesses.: When Europeans a thing apart from the averal. succeeded Hindus and Muslims transformations of ownership and

Hongkong, 14th October, 1925,

CHINA AUCTION

ROOMS.

4, Duddel Street.

E. V, M. R. DE SOUSA, Auctioneer.

HONGKONG WOMEN'S GUILD in political power, at least some control through which. It has

AND

MINISTERING CHILDREN'S LEAGUE

Annual Fete & Sale of Work

Government Huuse Grounds

(By kind permission of H.E. The Governor)

Saturday, October 24th.

at 2.30 p.m.

Admission:-Adults 20 cents. Children 10 cents. Sailors and Soldiers in uniform free.

Come and see our stalls filled with the most attractivo and useful articlos for Obristmas Gifts.

Wonderful and thrilling sideshows comprising

Lucky Lip For Little Darlings. Lucky Wheel For Lovely Women, Clock Golf For Carefree Gentlemen.

NAVAL CHUTE GOLD FISH POND, BRAN PIE, ROLL, HOWL OR PITCH, ICE CREAM CART, SILK, WORMS EXHIBIT, Etc.

TEA GARDEN -TICKETS 50 cts. Miss V. Capill will give a Children's Dancing Display in the Ball Room frorn 4.45 to 5.30 pm. Tickets 50 cents, Children half price and

THE IMPERIAL CONCERT PARTY

in their wonderful entertainment from 6 to 7.30pm.

Front seats $1.00. Back seats and children 50 cents.

of them gradually fell into the passed. It original spirit moy indigenous tradition of consult have flared and spluttered a bit ing astrologers. William Crooks under the Northcliffe regime, and tells the story of Mr. Hodges, a since the Astor riches went to the civilian, to whom an astrologer rescue it has not always seemed predicted that he would become to reflect its ancient vigor. But the Governor of Bombay. The in spite of all changes of control prediction was fulfilled, and Mr. and the progress of the times, Hodges invariably sought the this newspaper remains, as for advice of this astrologer ever after almost a century past, the premier institution of daily reading for about all that he didi

Coming down to the present the influential middle class of the day the case of Mr. Justice English people.. Ramasam of the Madras High From four small pages to the Court must be mentioned as one large manifold edition of to-day, of the most extraordinarily un- and from trivial comment without iquo and truthful astrological news to the voluminous dispat predictions heard of in recent chos, and special articles from times. It is almost a matter of everywhere and about everything public knowledge in the city that under the sun marks the course overy incident connooted with of "The Thunderer as of the his life including the time and newspapers all over the world date of his elevation to the High during the past seven to ten Court Bench was long ago fore decades.. told, and that so far, no dotail of the prediction has proved to be false. 8.S. in Times of India.

The controversy that has raged for several weeks over the exhibi- tion of the monument to Deuts A notable addition has been che Wein at Coblence has been made to the library of Bart's in Bottled by compromise. The the form of a folle copy of one of municipal authorities forbade this the earliest, anatomical atlases, exhibition of the statuary group It is Rommelin's "Catoptrum on the grounds that some of the Microcosmlum," published injures were indocent. The 1639 by one Johannis Gorlinisculptor declined to altor his The covors are lacking, but other work, and a deadlock was reach wise the book is in a fairly good ed. The monument, is now, un condition. Thero is, so far as is exhibition, but if has been our known, only one copy of the work rounded by dondo shrubs in boxes of earlier date. That posscesos so that those who would satisfy only two super-imposed plates, their ouriosity must first thread whereas the copy presented to the intricacies of a miniatures/ Bartholomews has throomazen