SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1911.
We are
THE CHINA MAIL.
Hongkong Steel Foundry Company.
SPECIALISTS
In the Manufacture of
Best Cast
+ = C
Steel
Castings.
Hughes & Hough -
AUCTIONKERS TO THE GOVERNMEN General Auctioneers
AND
Share, Coal and Generálj Brokers.
PROPRIETORR
Kyo Kwa Way Coal Storage
- 28.0. ÁTHA STH EDITION
ALPTILIGRAPHIC GOOK
Zilzapis Aldan “METHION HONGKONGS
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Every Description of Castings for
Shipbuilders, Engineers, Railways,
(“HE F ́adersigned trace received instruc tices to Sell by Public Auction,
POR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERYLE,
THURSDAY,
the 8th June, 1011, at 230 P.M., at their
Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road,
Sal
Corner of Ice House Street.
A LARGE QUANTITY OF
VALUABLE
HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE, Comprising
Silk Tapestry-covered Drawing Room Suite, Overmantels, Hatstands with Be velled Glass, Taakwood Sideboards aud Dinner Waggons, Extension Dinner Table and Chairs, Marble-top Washstand and Bureaus with Eovelled Glasses, Double and Single Brass And Brase-mourted Iron Bedsteads, Wardrobes, Bookcases, quantity of Crockery, Eletro plate and Glass Ware, Carpets, Cooking Stoves, * &c, &c., c.;
diso
A faw good Oil Paintings, Sundry Canton Blackwood Ware, One Cottage Piano Brimamend and Son, London, One Piano
by The Robinson Piano Co., One Pianolia and Records, Ons Large Amerieni Ier Chest and Good Gramophones and Records.
Catalogues will be issued. TERNS ——Ås usual,
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.
Hongkong, June 2, 1311.
0.
R,
PUBLIC AUCTION,
AND
ALL CLASSES OF
Machinery
High-Grade
Castings,
GORDON & Co., General Managers.
For Sale.
FOR SALE
10ES DE DION-BOTTON & Co., suitable
¡NE 5 H.P. MOTOR and DYNAMO
for lighting large house (10 humps) with switch bourd, oil reservoirs, &c., ., complete, in good order and condition,
approximate cost of working per dona,
tharty cents.
For further particulars apply to the Undersigned.
HUGHES & HOUGH. Hongkong, June 1, 1911,
FOR SALE
739
THE Undersigned have received instruc
tions to sell
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Dzy Faur Road, corner of Ice House Street, --- SEVERAL CASES OF
GEO. P. LAMMERT
AUCTIONEER.
וי
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned has received instruc tions to sell by Public Auction,
ON
WEDNESDAY,
the 7th June, 1911, conmmencing at 2.30 P.M., at his Sales Rooms. DUDDELL, STREET,—
À QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE, Comprising
Silk Tapestry Covered Saites, American Oak Library Suité, Teak Overmantels,
Hongkong.
“CALENDAR REFORM"
The Proposed Abolition of the Christian Year.
office, schools, banka, hospitali, custoras" house and all other public buildings: The town was still ablize at the time of the dispatch was sent on Friday afternoon. The lighthouse, temples, polt-cfles, &.. were also devastated at Shiriwantt«m{ukaz Fortunately no ussualties haya, occurred. Grest distros provnils surmgst the | people, burnt out Business at all, the local government offices is suspended owing to the lack of any building in which to traheact it. The dansys is ex- tensive. Telegraphic communication be tween Sapporo and Okappe and Qtake in Kitami province has been interfupad mitiçe Thursday noon. The telegmph office there is resumed to have been burnt down. Over a lion talegraph poles between Otaru and Yobetan in Shiribeshi provinca were destroyed by the fanes. The lighthouse at Sop was reduced to ishes on Wednesday afternoon last.
Alator investigation puts the daungu nt Wakkanai in the neighbourhood of three million yen. Fifty bags of rice, thirty sute of bedding, six toutaanda quantity of foodstud have been transported there from Otaru for the relief of the sufferers. Fires are also | mging in the vicinity of Hakodate and over sixty house were gutted at Morimura The fires in this direction are nevertheless gradually suleiding. The fire in the direc
In the chargo delivered by the Arch:tion of Ofara row seems to have burnt dacon of Bath at Bath Abbey, serenitaalf out. Disastrous scenes are witnessed interesting criticisms were made on the in the neighbourhood of 5 pporo, Mashige, Calendar Reform Bill recently introduced Abashiri and Kamikawa, where the fames into the House of Commons. This Bill, caught the buildings in the towns. Asmall) which is intended as the basis of discussion town named Tsukauchi presents a scene of
Intimations.
The Beer That's Brewed to Suit The Climate
0. B. BEER
"Just Try It"
LANTERNS and CANDLES.
SPECIALLY MADE FOR THE CORONATION CELEBRATIONS.
The Cornestion Committes for sale of RED JAPANESE LANTERNS.
THE under-mentioned Firms has Boer specially recommended by the Chairman of
at the coming international conference attor rain. The townspeople are all ren-It armang d by the Swiss Government, pro-dured homeless and are suffering from pores to divide the year into four synd dearth of food. Over 70 houses in the coast quarters of D1 days each, leaving the.extra towns in Kitami province shared the day as a dies nun, which, for business disaster. purposes, will be ignored. Each quarter would contain 13 complete weeks, and the first two months in each would contain 30 days, the other months of the quarter being
The Yabari coal mines were also threat-
The pits were: ened with destruction. closed are the best possible efforts made to avert the catastroplic. Luckily "the wind)
changed and the mines, as well the town
Brass Fenders, Engravings, Lace Curtains, of 31 daga. Under this pina the first day of the same time, were saved. ~Tho damage
Carpets, &c., &c.
RED JAPANESE LANTERNS,
Extension Dining Table, Sideboarda with Suitable for the Coronation Celebrations. Bevelled Mirrors, Bookcases, Writing Table, Dinner Wagons Leather Covered Particulars, &c, may be had on applian-Suite, Glassware, Crockery, Cutlery, Table
and Household Linen, &e,, &c. HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.
tion.
Hongkong, May 18, 1911.
津水汽力廸士
HOME-MADE MINERAL”
WATERS.
Teak Wardrobes with Bevelled Mirrors, Marble-top Washstands, Dressing Tables 670 Chest-of-Drawers, Unstained Teak and Ashwood Bedroom Suites, Bens-mounted Bedsteads, &c., &c., &c.,
BETTER THAN FACTORY-MADE.
Why continue purchas- ing factory.mada.Mineral Water? Make your own Mineral Waters at home at a cost of 90 cents a dozen Syphons. Then you KNOW the water is pure, and contains no disease germs. With the
*PRANA'
SPARKLET SYPHON and a dozen Bulbs you CAN make A dozan Syphons of
delicious
11:30
to the mines is roughly estimated at abou: 110,000 yes.
of every quarter would fall on's Mouday.
The convenienes of this arrangenient to the business world would not reem to be
According to a telegram reaching Tokyo very considerable, and, from the point of
a fre has also broken out in Kurafato, view of Church people, it would apparent. The soldiers of the garrison have been ly destroy once and for all the Christien entled out to render asistatica in checking
enr," just as the short-lived systemy de the spread of the dames. rised during the French Revolution was
Although it is impossible to forma an intended to de. Though there would be no idea from the meagre telegraphic dispatches change in the date of Christmas Day, the reaching Tokyo as to the extent of the One Japanese Rickshaw with Pneumatic plas fixes Monday sa the day of the week damage sustained up to date, a certain Tyres,
on which Christmas Day must always fall.expert puts it at nine figures. It is stated One Pekiness Pug.
Parish priests and other Church workers that the previous big forest fres in the are not likely to welcome this change, with Hokkaido un record Terms-Cash on dalivary.
its conscquent congestion of work and occurred in 1904, which burned for nearly endent difficulties. The new calendar fixes two mouths, and these which decurred, two Easter Day mu Sunday, April 14, *37 pd
years later when about 167,500 acres of dates this touchice the
forest were devastated. In either case the Lent, Whitsuntide, As.ersiontido ami
fires were more or less localized, whetes" Trinity Sanday. The Oburck haa in the present case it covers a more exten" from the first endeavoured to link the sive tract of farest land, so that the colebration of Easter with the keeping of damage in believed to be much larger than
occasions..
And
On View from Tuesday, the 6th June. GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
Hongkong, June 1, 1911,
MILNERS'
of
SAFES the Passover. Eater Day," according on the previous
AS SUPPLIED TO THE
Mineral Water and the PRINCIPAL BANKS
cout less than if you buy factory-made Mineral Water. All Chemists
and Storos sell 'Prian Sparkiet Syphons and Bulbs.
Price of Syphone...... 82.00 each.
...Buba 0.90 per box.
Wholesale Price Syphon per dor...
..$16,20 f.o.b. Bulbs per dez. bozes............§. 8.09 f.o.b.
"/KWONG SANG HONG, LTD.,
WHOLESALE AGENTS,
744
246 and 248, Des Vieux Road Central, HONGKONG.;
THE Undersigned have received instrue tions to suit by Public Auction,
do
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY,
the 14th and 15th June, 1911, at 10 AM. coct day, at E. M. NAVAR YARD, ---
·OLD AND SURPLUS NAVAL VICTUALLING STORES, Comprising:-
OLD AND SURPLUS NAVAL Srours :-- Ash Hoist and Vertical Engines, Drilling Machine, Screwing Machine, Hoses, Lampa and Lanterna, Tools, Old. Iron and Metal, Electric Cables, Vices, Switches, Hydraulic Jack, Coal Sacks, Canvas, Rags Old Flugs, ́Old India-Rubber, Old Leathers, Carpets Mattings, Old Boats, Furniture, Rope, áky &c.
.....
OLD AND SURPLUS VICTUALLING Stones Trovisions, Somen's Clothing, Blankets, Ufcera Mesa Traps, (A quality of Electro-plated Articles and Table Linen), Implements, Svanen's Mom Utensils, Chik Stives, &çu, &c. ̧*
TERMS OF SALE dutailos in the Catalogue
HUGHES & HOUGH,
By Appointment Auctioneers to tho
Admiralty Hobgkang June 2, 1991.
748
行發糖
団公限有行生廣港香 Hongkong. March 1, 1911.
JAPANESE MAKERS.
03
901
Footwear
MADE
~ AND
to the rule of the Prayer book, "is always the Brst Sunday after the full, moon which happens upon, or next after, the twenty- first day of March; and if the full moon
Are those which
A SAFE REMEDY
·FOR ALL
Hyou suffer from any disease due to an in. Pure state of the Blood, Fox WEAZETEK GAUER izistaa, you should test the Talde of Clarka'si Blood Mitars, he world-famed Blood Pacifer and Restorer. This medicine har 40 yezu? reputation, and is to-day more popular” then ver, the rason of this being undoubted y becass this wonderful, remedy does what is
happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day in the SKIN AND BLOOD DISEASES BUSINESS HOUSES. Sunday after." The formula la not quité correct, but a chronological relation coes exist between Easter and the Passover. By the new calendar this link would be ruth lessly and arbitrarily severed. For example, in 1913 Easter would be kept three weeks 630, after the Passover date. Such a separation would weaken the force and beauty of the liturgy appointed for the day. A fired Easter would be a gain both for
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Agent, Hongkong, May 20, 1811.
SWATOW WARRONG & CO., Church and Boate were it possible to
13. "QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG.
MANETÁCTURERS OF
Swatow Hand-made Drawn Work and Canton Embroidery, sta GENERAL EXPORTERS.
WHOLESALE & RETAIL, LADIES' TAILORS-
LAU PING KEE CO.
EVERY KIND CIGARS, CIGARETTES, TOBACCOS.}
USED POSTAGE STAMPS AND PICTORIAL FOST CARDS.
KWONG CHEONG. GOLD AND MONEY CHANGER. No. 18, Queen's Road Central, HONGKONG. Hongkong, May 7, 1911
ORDER
CHERRY: 200, "35, WELLINGTON STREET. Longkong, May 5 1910.
578
·713
ÜARESTE ATTENTION. TO ÁLL. ORDERS |AND ENQUIRIES FOR LADIES' & CHILDREN'
HATS, GLOVES, EMBROIDERY,
BLOUSES, SHOES, HABERDASHERY,
WE GIVE THE BEST VALUZ
NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE THE DRAPERY EMPORIUM,
INSURANCE CO.
WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED. THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO.
E. C. WILKS, TOTAL FUNDS AT 31 DECKER, 1902.
MI. MECH, E. A.M.NA
"JONSULTING ENGINEER AND SUR-
YEYOR for Construction, Values
£19,876,367.
I-Authorised Capital £6,000,000
Suburibed Capital £3, 275,000 -
Paid-up Capital £1,212,500.00
-Fire Fund 3,188,138 6 7
38, WELLINGTON STREET,
Near D'Aguilar St..
TELEPHONE, No, 957. Hongkong, April 18, 1911.
know the exact year and day of the original Easter, hat auch, absolute knowledge is impossible, and the change is, therefore, one which demands profound eflcotion from all Church people.
The Prices are as follows:
9 inches in diamanter...
2. 36 Candles to suit sune-and to burn 4 hours, at 22
Do.
3 hours..at $1,50
Par 100.
100..
15
is advisable to Order early to avoid disappointment.
We have also in stock Small Lanterns (8 inches in diameter) cost -84.00 per 100.
-DOBASHI & CO., Opposita Clock Tower & opposite City Hall.
NAEAZAWA 4 7, D'Aguilar Street.
DALBUTSU & CO., 2, Queen's Road East,
Hongkong, June 1, 1911.
KELLY &
The Unknown Oud. by B. L.
Putnam Weals
The Downfall of the Gods, by Sir
Hugh Cliford........ Brazen hand the Great, by Maurice
Haslett
The Land of Promises, hy.
Byatt
John Veracy. by H. Vachell
WALSH, LTD.
$1.75
1.75
"The Bock at the Coronation.
Coloured Plates and Numerous Blue
2.80
The Portrait Book of Our Kings and
1.75
8. P
1.2
The Book of Cricket, by P. F.
Warter
Queens 1066-2011. 48 Coloured Plates
Tile Reign of the Saints, by J.-The Golden Land. The True Story
Trevens...
The Pinfold. by J. S. Fletcher The Green Wave of Destiny, by P. The Genom Phan, by E. Candies.
Bridges
4.50
British Settlers in Candle, by A. E. Capping Life of Lord Goschen 1831-1907, by
The Hon. A. D. Elliot, 2 You. 20:
1.75
1.75
1,73
Li
1.75
Creativo Evolution, by LL. Bergson,
Translated by A. Mitchell
9.01
Tea. 2.75
... 10.00
Australia: The Making of A Nation,
by J. F. Fraser
An Eastert. Miscellany, by Earl of
Stounidshay
and Belief, by Sir Oliver Lodge
80
Reason
.80.
The Lonl of Labour, by Ges. Griffith Joan of the Tower, by W. Deeping 1.75 Radom Reminiscences, by C. Brook
feld Poultry Culture for Proft, by Rev. Comfort in Small Craft. A Practical
TW. Sturges.
Handbook of Sailing and Cookery, Stanley Gibbons' Stamp Catalogue
by S. J. Housley
Parts L&...
4.50
The Strand Musical Portfolio Vol. 3 1.50 The Studio Year Book of Decorative
Arti EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN
4.50
יזי
3.30 Discases of the Skin, by J. D.
Sequeim...
The Experimental Chemotherapy £
Spirillants, by Ehrich and Rita.. 10.ch. The Treatment of Syphile with
O...
Salversan, by Dr W Wechselmann 17.00 Mode Sailing Yachts. Blas........ Plant Life on Innd, by F. O. Bower.
istory of the English Biblit, by J. Brown Maternity
CHINA, by H. B. Graybill 2.00 Barbour
+
A. HP
SHIPOWNERS COMPOSITIONS,
GREYFOLYONS,
BRAND
professes: Le do- CURR EN AND BLOOD ANTIFOULING PAINTS,
ISSZARES - PREMANEATLY.
Clarke's Blood Mixture
SOLE AGENTS
OWEN B. WILKS & Co.,
1st Floor, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
PHONE 909. Teleg WANDEROOS.
Owing to the non-reckoned day at the IS THE FINEST BLOOD FURIFIER GP. SPECIAL ANTIFOULING FOR YACHTS.
beginning of each year, thero wou'd be seven days between the last Sunday of one year and the first of the next, but the Bill contains a still greater defect, as it places Sunday on the seventh day of the week.
EVER DISCOVERED.
This becomes plain when it is remembered. BOURVY,
Is is warrantari to cleanse the blood from sil impurities, to whatever cause arising. For
SOROKULA.
BAD LEGS. BLOTCHES, SPOTS, BLACKHEADS, PIMPLES, Lud SORES OF ALL
BOZEMA that Easter Day, in to fall on April 14, and that April begin a new quarter,
BLOOD POISON, Nothing could be more contrary to the ULUPES practice of the Church in all as than BEIN & BLOOD
DISEASES, to change the day of the weak on wirich
Christianity it was on the first day of the
*- KINDS
25 safe and Permanani Ramady.
It take only real - rpocido for Gout and Thematic Patus, for it removes the case from the Blood and Bones.
NOTE, This item is plasest to the belo
day kept. From the days of week that Christians assembled for public worship and for participation in the Holy Communion. To appoint the seventh day sa that of public worship, and rest în zo plange us back in o a kind of Erastiano rO THE MORT DELICATE, CONSTITUTION of slíkar sex, from infancy to old' age, saẻ thứ Judaism. It would only be possible to any Proprietors solicit sufferers to give it a brizi to
test its valua affed by it.
of Sunday: “This is the day the reformed
calendar hath made." Esen for people
who are not Christians the existing.calendar is full of instructive and educational asso- ciations which would be at once obliberated under the suggested system.
THE FOREST FIRES IN THE HOKKAIDO,
Great Destraation.
Telegrniņa to Japanoso paper show tlab the forest fires in the Hokkaido were not confined to the central part of the island
AND WARRANTED FARE FROM ANYTHING.
Thomsands of wonderful cures have been
TRIED MANT· THINGS WITHOUT -
BENEFIT UNTIL I TOOK CLARKE'S BLOOD MIXTURE.
• Mr=#==&=>Lan36, 48, Bridge: Street Bom, Checker, 'writes post Just a line in favour of * Clarke's : Blood Mixiure," I had simama fox. | suvan, mas, kha," and teled mmary, things with bozadi mil 1. took your remedy, nádlar tim nigth: Bottle I was quite well, again... - Piakan. socupă this latias ma a köken, of graillude to your "wonderful at Clarko's Blood Mixtare." "mỹ nam,
13, 1800,
and Assessor for the purchase, for sale, of III-Life & Annuity Funds 16,080,33210 ON WO & CO., LD, but pred over to the Boys Strait on the tighly setboated, since i sense and divers the
Steamships or Launches......
ALEXANDRA „BUILDINGS,
2ND FLOUR.
Hongkong, May 9, 1911.
WTHE
CHINA MAIL
Washing Books,
800
Sinkding Account
$85.388-2 C
£19,875,366-19:8:
Ravenan Fire Branch 4,252,096. 17.10. Talo Anmaly1897,630 163 Marine Department 209,921 TB Other Receipts.
35,204 81
£4,496,806 7 10 The Acommulated Funda of the Fire and Lale Departmenta are fron from liability in
each others
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.
1 Apentr
GOLD & SILVER JEWELLER
MADE TO ORDER.
K Goods, Chinese Embroidery and
Grass Cloth, Bilk and Liurg Dress Pieces, Ivory, and
Jadentone
87 URENS ROAD CENTRAL Longkong, January 19 921.
Hongkong, December 1. 1910..:
PRIZE
MEDAL
AGEST CANTON, H. LEE.
"PHILADELPHIA
ITION-
18769
OAKEY & SONS EMERY & BLACK LEAD MILLS LONDON
JOHN
WELLINGTON
PRIZES IN THE 31400. We have kasis of letters from all sorte su i coud-tiora of pople, in which the writers acknowledge the “banell thay barn zooefend froni Clarke's Blood": Tinture, which an a eurasiva agent cannot be too
north and to the nurtii-enstern point of conditon, This is a good testmonial | from all, imposition, and radiarod ́ik, të lir” Nemaro, társ embracing a larger portion of from the Family Doctor the popular the foland. Official telegrams Tasching i medical weskiye, which coas on further to my c the Central Governtsent state that vinced skill have brought to lights and wa 147233e cortaluly, the duash blood pickle thak the 10th instant the fans have spread can with the aim at coudeste ammond to to the town of Wakkanai la Kitami our subscribers and publie generally, bet pa province The fire was once brought
Sold by all Chemists and: Patent
edleine Vendors throughout
the World.
under contro
on the 17th and fan south wind, destroyed Downlo Ainougat 700 Louis bilocal court-house absflon, post, and
CLARKE'S BLOOD MIXTURE
EMERY EMERY GLASS BLACK CLOTH PAPER LEAD WELLINGTON KNIFE POLISH
OHN "DAXEY & SONS-LIMITED, """ WELLINGTON Mick"-Lospos
LIFE WITHOUT HEALTH IS LIVING DEATH.-
VETARZOBAIN AND
skais reizarkable compound, the latest discovery of modern times. is without equal in all cases, of decodiÍTE Nézve and braku, pawen whether induced by worry; overwork, dissipation, or other infurmons Bleeplessors, paigitation, defective creziation, nervous dyspepalaŭtie or:sieuralgia, Som aplasta, mentää and bodily prostration, wast of confidenes, general debility, premature decay „ar defesency of the vital forces, loss, of witality, harassing dresini, restlessness that can settle
“nothing, irritability of tensper;: Cemile complainta, bratelia, bickiche, bearing down seomatics, wwwicfog, diseases, consumption, night sweats, muddy, high coloured water, di, avo all so many ("diferent phases of brain and, nezya
the cause of by the greater potions of the leery, ill-health, and despondency by wlaka we are contrattled of every mind, - Can only be encorafully combated by the use of this wonderful and dighly scientiña peepman2i01. Haciag pp the system generally, 15 gives toge to the exhausted: DevAE, KITesta ali wekkeening. wasting discharges, restores the Telling energier, and'imparia new ills and vigour tó jhose who kad sa goizmily, metused played out, wand aand valan.ca: BLUE STICO. 35
WITHOUT PURE BLOOD HEALTH 18 IMPOSSIBLE
BLOOD
VETARZO MEDICINE
han Never before was there anything the it, bar cúa hii inarvežions properties men or equtler) la fall cases of poorem, impurity, or alter imperfection of the blood from Whaleyes, chase artslag. No sooner is it fubiter into the system that, it, pernsealed and penetrates to the minutest/expli Jacken, uvercoming and expelling disease) wärmsorver sodiu whatsoever form met with; umoring
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