TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1011.
HUGHES and HOUGH,
AUCTIONEERS
AND
• COMMISSION - AGENTS.
PUBLIC AUOTIONE
HE Undersigned have received idsteo-
Tone to sell by Fabile A tellim
FOR ACCOUNT OF TUR-QÚNORRNED."
WEDNESDAY,
Anotions.
PUBLIC XUCTION.- THE Undersigned has received inatrus
trons tell by Public Auction
WEDNESDAY,
DUDDELL STAENT,--
A QUANTITA OF WINTER COSTUMES, COTTON DRESSES, LACE AND EMBROIDERED the 11th January, 1011, at 9.30 pm, at | BLOUSES, TIUMMED HATS, &c., &c.
their Salos Boonin, No. 6. Des
Yox Road, Car på
Ice House Firest
A QUANTITY OF
REVIEWA,
The Love Hand
THE CHINA MAIL.
Would it be gambling to put one's money. on horse which muil win! In his un- Acertainty Mr Mynts approaches his Vios, The Christmas number of The Lone wall-connected young claris, who Hast magazine is redolent of Australia from cover to cover. The short stories and akoteles all deal with Australian life, while
confesson that he is hanged if he knows?” and determines to consult his sister," the Duchess of Mold, wife of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Asa result of his capacity
Intimations.
J.T. SHAW,
Mir Abbott writon a delightful article fer dreaming the future, the harmlow little nilor & Gutfitter,
the 11th January, 1911, commencing at justifying the Australian's propensity to clerk is thus brought to the notis of the
2.30 r... at his Salu's Room,
"brag "whanover he gets on to the topic governing classes. He becomes the mai of his own country. He has bunny things Block of opposing factions. First hin to brag about, hat, as Mr.Abbott Loribly which creates a mild somation by correctly services are procured by daily newspaper,
points out, the possession of such a wondet foreciating the results of football matches ful and wealthy wountry also involves [and races. Thon ho is seduced againat his (responsibilities and it is up to Australia | will by a financially,mizded low, who makes to develop a perfect system of military and use of his capture in his operationa naval defence,
on the Stock Exebange. Next his becomes an "International Asset" and is clanioured for by the diplomatic representatives of two leading countries, as well as by the British Secret Service, on behalf of their
Satalogues un day of Salò. Terain :—Cash on delivery,
GEO, P. LAMBERT,
Auctioneer.
VALUABLE. HOUSEHOLD Hongkong, Jamunty 9, 1911.
FURNITURE,
Comprising
Silk Tapestry.covered Drawing Roomi Ente, Overmantels, Hatstands with levell
ed Glass, Torkwood Sideboards and Dinner
Warons, Extension Dining Table And
Chairs, Marble-top Washstand and Bereaus with Bovelled Glasses, Doublo and Single. Brass and Brase-mounted Iron Bedsteads, -Wardrobes, Bockenser, a quantity of
NOTICE
39
JONEY LENT at a reasonable interest
MN security for short as long
periode.
Write to B. & JOSEPH
butis). Business hours 4 to 6.... Hongkong, January 9, 1911.
Jubilee St, Hongkong, Strictly cond
The __Fonderful_ Bishop, by MORLEY Reseats, Landon, Geo. Bell and
Sone.
Mr Morley Roberts' latest collection of respective Governments. Wo will not short stories are mostly broadly farcicat, farther divulge the story mye to my that and the humour at times grows perilously Chin. He draws a picture of a muscular Bishop who gets himself into a serious
moss by interfering in a stmet fight: the
Crockery, F. Paul Glass Wars, Cap CHEONG HING. to take on the Heged-henryweight
„Cooking Stoves, &a., dr., dej
Alao1
Sundry Blackwood Ware, a few pieces of Old Chinese Porcelain
And
One Americas Billiard Table and One Piano by the Robinson Piano Coy.
Catalogites will be isced.
TERMS *—Âs usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, January 8, 1011.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
50
HE Undersigned have received fastrac-
tions to Sell by Public Auction, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNEE,
FRIDAY
the 13th January, 1911, at 11 A.K.,
Sales Rooms; No. 8, Des Vezur Road,
Corner of Ice House Street,
AN ASSORTMENT" OF ENGLISH JEWELLERY,
Comprising:
Diamonding, Brooches, Bracelets, Pins, Gold Chains, Lockets, &c., à fow Gold Watcher by Benson, and other will- known makers, Cutlery, Fancy Goods, ¿e.; Alsa
·A-Valuable Collection of Soldiers' and Bailors' War Modals dating back to the time of Nelson, including a few Foreign Orders, &c.
Cha view from 19h instant. Tema :—An uncal.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, January 7, 1011.
R
"PUBLIC" AUCTION,
22
HE Undersigned will tell by Publie
ction
on
FRIDAY,
Ma 13th January, 1911, at 3 P.M., D
the spot,—
The Several Lots Numbered 1 to 19 on
Plan to be seen at the Auctionecta' Ofice, for erection of
** BOOTHS AND MATSHEDS,
on the Government Ground adjoining the Race Course, North of the Grand
Stand Enclosure.
Terina :--Cash.
For Plan and Conditions of Sale, spply
HUGHES & HOUGH.
Government Auctionet,
Hongkong, January 3, 1911.
PUBLIC AUCTION
THE Undersigned have received instruc-
tions to sell by Public Auction,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
MONDAY,
the 16th January, 1911, at 13 ..," their SALES Roous, No. 8, Des Voix
Road, Comer of Ice House Street, A MISCELLANEOUS STOCK,
-Comprising
Violins, Banjoen, Flates, Callos, Grims phone Records, Billiard Balls, Drawing
H"
+
AS ALWAYS ON HAND
▲ Lækur. AmOR/HEST OF OCRIUS, PORCELAIN, JADESTONE AND SILK EMBRO:DERIES.
INSPECTION SOLICITED,
HONGKONG, No. 77. QUEEN's
ROAD CENTRAL Hongkong, October 13, 1910,
MARTIN'S
SAPIOL & STEEL ASPILLS
Bishop, by the way, being a adapt, hoxor,
champion of the London police to get him self out of the quandary. Then wo have a ludicrous account of a woman of Hameless
life and of the narrowest Philistine habits'
HONGKONG HOTEL, Que's Road,
WINTER
SUITINGS
„LARGE STOCK” OF
the distressed little man is handied about HIGH-CLASS MATERIALS from Germany to America, that the ques tion of his possession precipitatos au in- OF SELECT DESIGNS IN ternational crisis, and that ultimately the erottamente in settled by the oporation Fancy Tweeds, Worsted. of natural laws. It is a racily-told story, and for light, harmloss reading wild be Also Overcoatings. found entertaining and amusing.
12
JUST OPENED OUT.
and we will submit them for favour of kind inspection.
TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION." More prominence than usual is given to of thought being inveigled into going to a European Travel in the December Travel Come fancy dress ball at Covent Garden in the and Exploration, and readable and inform company of men whom she had nover acinative articien describing travel experiences before. Another story ennoerns the strange in Britiany, Portugal and Italy ara a pro 1258 likeness between an English author and minent feature. The exploration article is Russian secret polica offeer, which lande particularly opportuno at the prosent the former nearly to death at the hands of juncture, as Mr Herbert Sykes incidentally Russian Nihilists. The last story of all describes the route which the proposed takes ni into the country, where the two trunk railway to India is intended | lovely daughters of a parson suddenly hava their desires in regard to meeting a mar- ringeable man realised. The humour of the situations thus created is not of the highest
A PRO Remedy foraii IrregalariNGS.
·Zhoumadi, or lation always koop a bit of MAMAK VIR in the bocan, so that on the Enc Bags of Bay terngularity of the Tysness a Mmely dans may be sministered. Thow whe 42 tas kam zaommend them, benzo Kharangj
yone said, all themaja sad stores FREE LOVIN
MARTIN'S
APIOL & STEEL SPILLS
THE BIRD IN
THE HAND
(A BIRD IN THE HAND · IS
WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH
is customer
TIKE bird in the" hand to the
the store. It requires some sort of attraction la the first place to get the customer there about the best at- traction fas real, live advertisement; something good that will catch the sys that has been carefully written, artis- deally compiled and strikingly set up, Advertisements in the China Mall and Overland China Mall read the best; look the best and give the best results.
Hongkong, April 12, 1910.
JAPANESE MAKERS,
484
EVERY KIND
Good Value
Intimations,
WING ON Co..
TAILORS AND OUTFITTERS. EXPORT AND IMPORT MERCHANTS,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED NEW SHIPMENTS OF 5)~
Drapery, Grocery, Ironmongery, Crockery, Glass and China Ware, Furniture, Watches & Clocks, The Cheapness and quality of their Goods have no equal. 209-213, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL,
107 108, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL, (Trams pass the Door
Mr Tolephone. 189. Hongkong, August 15, 1910
Make no Mistake
about it!
WATSON'S
N 10
of the best
1351
to tako. Another article which might WITH SATISFACTION IS ASSURED.
the head of Bongkang, November 1, 199. perhape come under exploration is the one os "Old" { and New China," while under tie title of
Blair's Ken, by Coo-Esc. London, Geo."To Lhasa and Back" a great deal of
Boll and Sons.
NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE
DAN INSURANCE CO..
WTIME WǹICH is INCORPORATED THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE 00.
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TOTAL FUNDS at $1ST DECEMBER, 1909
£19,875,357,. I-Authorised Capital £6,000,000
Subscribed Capital £3,275,000 - Paid-up Capital .21,212,500-00 II-Fire Funda....... 3,188,138 & T
Life & Aninity Funds 15,087,332 10 11 Sinking Fund Account 85,388·20
£12,878,366 JD S Revenue Fire Branch -2,352,096 17 20
„Life & Annuity
1,807,635 34 3 menes...) Marine Department | 200,121 7 35,2628-
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information under the guise of a review On the whole this is a disappointing of Sir Francis Younghusband's important book. The author never seems to get at work, India and Tibet," is afforded by grips with his story: it is loose-jointed and one, who writes with authority. Mr. at tiada incolprent. A laid in the Western Frederie 0. Stanley, has hit upon a new Highlands is supposed to have dipped the topic in his vivid and pleasantly written ancestral estato so deeply that there is description of a banana plantations in nothing for it but. to clear out. Now he South America, In Armchair Travel camos of a race which is dominated by two an unusually large number of important influences, the sinister in the guise of a were tavel books are restewed at considerablo wolf, the attractive by a mild-eyed hart, longth, including India and Tibet, which can only be seen as wraiths in
DOW by Sir. F. Youngbualand a time of stress by tha hard of the chin, edition of F. B. Bradley Birt's Chota So far the werewolf has been predominent. Young Blair shakes the dust of Scotland Nagport, Sir Clement Markham's Incas of Other Receipts........... from his feet and gets down to Gippsland. Peru, Recollections of an Old Mountaineer Elora, he marries, but after the birth of a by. Walter Lardon, Thred Years in Trizon son, his wife dies and Bisir, now known as da Cunha, and a new edition of the World Life Departments are free from liability in Holt, becomes one of the leading financiors, of To-day by d R. Rope Moncrief, and respect of each other. prospectors and developers of Australia. Artistic Photography by, A. J. Anderson. His little son passes out of his life al Sporting Traval contains some contribu together, a waif thrown upon the world to tions of great interest, including sonie struggle along as best he can. Another graceful verses describing St. Andrews son of Blair's, the result of a connection Golf Links by Maxwell Gray, and an with one of the village anidena in |his old-home, had been similarly amusing skit on big game shooting by
left to the chances of fato, and it is not tall Oven Seaman
both are grown men that Blair syddenly
begins to make search for them. He goes
memorable evening was spent o
about the task in a most extraordinary way 16th pit by the London staff of, the
£4,495,866 20
The Adéumulatód Funds of the Fire and
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Agents.
PATELL & CO.,
Exporters & Importers
in the course of which many strange Hongkong and Shanghai Banking, Jorpora- General Merchants
adventures befal., The end of it all is tion and their numerous guests, the reached on a lonely shore of north-western ccasion being the fourth annual disner el Anstralia when Blair,, the master of the bank. millions, disappears mysteriously and in the place where he was last en is found the corpse of a gigantio wolf. `
Footwear whiters and Soda, by FRANK RICHARDSOS London, Mesra G. Bill and Sons
KADE
TO
Ltd
A large aid, enthusiastic company, which included a number of the foreign staff, wat down to the banquet in the Empire Rooms of the Trosadomo, Restaurant. Mr D. H. Mackintosh » (of }
Tientain) presided, supported on his right by Sir Walter Hillier, K.C.M.G. C.
and on his left by Mr J. S. Bradbury,"
To the reader of the lighter class of CR, and in the course of the usual tonat modern novels Dr Frank Richardson list which included "The Bask" and needs no introduction, By- his subtle
ORDER wit and his unconventional methods of "The Sin at Home and Abroad," applying it he has made for himmelf Interesting speeches were made by the position peculiarly his own. In some Chairman, the Rev. Geo. Owen, Mr A. M respects ha may be compared with Mr Townsend, Sir W. Hillier, Mr G." W,
CHERRY & co..
35, WELLINGTON STREET. Hongkong, May 6 1910,
TH.E.
and
ommission Agents.
N Hongkong and Canton.
A HISTORY OF UNION CHURCH.
2 thờ The G H FONDFIELD
W. W. Jacobs and with Mr Endyard Moore, Mr A. G. Stephen, Mr A. D. Brent DYER BALL, M.R.AS
Kipling. He, however, works in a wholly and Mr. W. W. Dickinson. They were: different fold, but whatever he touches generally marked by note of happy he wakes to sparkle, and scintillate with ptimism, those of the members of the bank real, limpid humor. Whiskers staff specially by their esprit de corps," Soda is the add title which he has given and several by the high hopes sxpressed
to over a Moore of short stories and sketches
the
57 told in his most happy style. So briniful of the future of Chinn an of the Hongkong
Bank. The oratory was pleasantly varied. are they of insinuating wit that we defy the most miserable and dejected exile 27 programme of music, and altogether.
entertainment proved a great succe from Honiu to digont a couple of these
the social and every point of view,
FAREWELL PRESENTATION TO LADY MAY.
-Instrumenta, Binoculars, Sextaule, Talon- CHINA MAIL'S' erpes, Clocks, Barometers, Raincoats, ILLUSTRATED SOUVENIR Overcoats, Ente, Cope, Umbrellas, Dressing Casca, &c., c.;
Bundry Gold and Saver Jewellery, cluding One Valuable Diamond Ring
Tax-Á usual
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong January 7, 1911
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received instrue tions to sell by Publis Auction, (FOB ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
WEDNESDAY,
the 18th - January, 1010, at 2.30min., at
their SALE Rooka, No. 8, Dz# „Vauz
Rox, Corner of Iso House Street,
DONA QUANTITY OF
CHINESE FORCELAINS,
#7
DA, BRASS WARE, CHINESE SILK EMBROIDERIES,
400
OLD WOOD CARVINGE,"
›
Vlow on Tanday, 17th instant,
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Audionters Bongkong, January 6, 1910,
of the British Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Containing Photographio filtrations of the magnificent scenery through which the fins runs, a brief history of the project, vatline of the work accomplished, ela., utc
JUST THE THING TO SEND HUME.
PRIE 10 CENTS BACIL Hongkong, Bopt. 28, 1910..
1197
lover little extravaganzas and to still retain forlorn countance. They ars
immune. Ainong thơ best, are “ Durby" |Day," "The Best Aga to Diest," "Rohunt Hesith," "How I Diservered the Enat
Pole" and "Why Wear Whiskers?" view of Tady May's long residence in Everybody the look-out for something the Colony, and of the personal interest "which" she has always taken in all that funny sad art should investigate the corelates to its wellar, it is imposed to tenta of this latest book of Mr Hizliardson's.. present to hur, price to her departure on The 21st inst, mnie „suitable token of the respect and esteem in which sho in The Man Who Dreamed Right, by Weld by the whole community.
HOLT-WHITE, London, Musers G. Bell and Sons, Ltd.......
The author has gone off the heaten track in, this far-fetched story. He has woven his tale around Mr Harry Myuma, a very common-place Tottenham clerk, whose age.
The
semary consent of Lite Secretary of State. for the Colonies lins been obtained, and a Committee of ladief has been formed.
Contributions which, at Lady. May's quest, ar limited to one dollar, should by ment'iu na sobrinos, fiskallale to MrP. 5. Jauneson, of Mosers Jardinó, Blithenous and,
chas Humrary Treasurers.
THE TYPHOON might be anywhere from 30 to 60 years. Conany, whit lave kindly consented to
MAP
MOUNTED ON Cardboard and TAPED FOR HANGING,
We are first introduced to him as a com
Au alphabetical list of Contelbutory will municant at a little barban church, who, company the gilt. nevertheless, secs nuthing wrong In discussing the politics of the dongkong, January 7, 1911.
juvar 'a glaw -of beer at the King George public-house, Here he comra lato contact with a few sporting friends". wine chief amp in life seats to lie in
SAVARESSES
weighing up the merits of racing "SANTAL NI
EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE IT. Mr Bjuma, however, is above gambling"
Price Ten Cents,
From the Oursa" Marz Odee, Hongkong, Juss 29, 1910,
fils mutal code done, such peruit,
Then he discovers that whenever he girar. his thoughts to an impending race and re- tires to sisep hecan correctly dream the panse of the winner! How comers power:
CAPSULES
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