TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1915,
Hughes and Hough
AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT
AND ADMIRALTY,
General Avotioneers'
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Share, Coal and
General Brokers.
PROPRIETORS
"TO-KWA-WAN
GOAL STORAGE.
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A.B.C. 4TH & Fen EDITIONS,
AI. TELEORMI? CODE,
Telegraphia Address
MEIRION HONGKONG.
FOR
SALE.
TBE Cadenigned are received instruc tions to sell at their Sale Rooms. No. 8. Des Vuruz Road, Corner of Ice House Streat..
One Piano by Brostrood & Sons good
condition).
One by Collard, Collard, good
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carditior,
by Brinsment Sen, good
condition.
by Merington & Weston, good
condition.
Two Boudoir Grand Pianos by, Brand word & Son
Piano by Koch & Schne,
Piano by Weindonala fe.
Apply to the Undersigned.
Teru:-Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH, auctioneers,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
HE Undersigned have received instruc
sell by Fubile Auction,
(OR ACCOUNT OF'CHL. CONCERNED)
THURSDAY,
tha 30th December, 1915. commencing
at 2.30 p.m., ab thoit Sales Rooms, No. 9,
Des Voeux Road, Corner
of Ice House Street,
A QUANTITY OF
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
Comprising:
Sideboards, Dinner Waggon, Dining Tables and Chairs, Pa Cigsterfield Safas, Arm-chaira, &c., Wardrobes and Toilet Tables, Double and Sing'e Bedsteads, and miscellaneous Furniture, esveral lots of Blackwood Ware, One Bet Saddlery (completo), 2 Carpets and Four Pianos, etc., etc.
(Full Particulars from Catalogus.) TIRNA-Czab.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers..
Hongkong. Dec. 24, 1915,
G.
AUCTIONS.
PUBLIO AUCTION.
1597
ARTICULARS and Conditions of the
held on MONDAY, the 3rd day of Janusty, 1916, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the Publis Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of Two Lots of OROWN LAND abers Kennedy Road and South of L. 1216, Robinson Road. respectively, in the Colony of Hongkong.
for a term of 75 years, with the
of renewal at Crown Rents to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for
one further term af 75 years,
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is he knew them, were only willing to push Wm.
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-foreign-gorda-which-in-exx impossible for Germany to supply. Their sense of ipst riotism in trade was strong. Therefore, though the Germans might soit as for the Mr T. M. Ainscough, the British Trade sime being as distributors of cur products. Commissioner, who recently returned from they would only eratinue to serve or so China, gave an address on 12th ult as long as Manchester remained predominant the rooms of the Manchester Chamber in the cotton industry and the Germans Commerce on British Trade with China." could not manufacture. the products Me Aiseogh said that the mission succes fully themeslte. There was which had just bean conoladed on behalf great opportunity for the British houses in the Board of Trade differed from all Cains to prove during the premene lull in missions in that it was primarily competitive trade that they were competent directed to the interior of China. In the to handle the distribati a of these goods, last eighteen months the speaker had and he taped ib. if they made the visited eighteen the provinces. He bad attempt, they would be met with a spirit of beea struck by the small amount of pene co ove sifon and goodwili from this side. tration affected by British Brms; and herother thing against us was that we had found in almost every province signs had not got that bold on the *xport trada of activity by our competitors, particularly of China that our competiton had. The our German competitors. They had had a practical monopoly of two enormons linesermans and one two ther Continental nations bid monopolized the export trade of trade which had provided them with the in Chinese products. They had their means of extending their organisation-the trade in arms and munitions, and the trade anis tions in the country for collecting the products, and at the same time, they nobtrusively pushed the sale of their own commissions earned on these two lines t had been enabled to stand the expense of Britain could do more
develop the Agencies in the
town - at, any. principal tow rate in the capital town of the provinces export trade of China, and if Landon could take products of the entry now handled ant to push their other lines of trade. This, on the Continent, it would have a very pplied, perhaps, more to enginearing than beneficial effect upon cur impert trade into to the cotton trade. It was noteworthy
China. that, with one exception, the Germans bad
[åt près ni,” Mr Ainscough "zaid, the efected this penetration through the whole question of trade in Chiay was dom
archant Arms, with the close co-operationicated by the political situation. What of the manufacturer.
would be the effect of the "-récent There had been some discussion lately Constitutional crisis? Having seen, some as to whether it was possible for the of the work of Tan Shih-kai, and bis manufacturer to do direct business in Government during the last few ybare, Chine. r Aineenogh did not say it be held more hopefat views than most impossible; Indeed, he knew of some people. The last, three years had been Accorful schemes of distribution by the
steady orntralisation of manufacturers 2- but he thought that in marked by general trade the ideal method was to work Karament in Peking There had so taken place the redemption of the through the merchant. The trouble had greater postion of theirredeemable." been that merchants had had their hands note issues of the revolution. fall and had not felt justifed in bearing the currency was still in a somewhat chaotic whole expense of trade extension schemes stato, but the improvement in the stability Our wosknees was a lack of co-operation of the Chinese dollar was most marked.
in apulina dues and indion. With the 33 I moods. He was convinced that if Great
| between oaz: "industrial (kand mere-ntile effort. The Germans had a system of close co-ordination of their financial organization, their industrial organisation, and their merebante.
Manchester owed, a great dent to the German merchants, who had pushed British goode in the interior, and the argument was often put forward * If a foreign house is willing to push British goods, why should up mind His answer to that argument was that the German firms in China, só får
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After dinner," Mr Donaldson opened a debate on the subject **A system of technical education is befter for the welfare of a ration than one of classical education,” advocating s.system that would condere to national efficiency.
Mr. Kan took the advisable to have a system of education that developed man's higher nature.
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