TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1916.
Hughes and Hough
AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT
AND ADMIRALTY.
General Auctioneers
AND
Share, Goal and
General Brokers,
PROPRIETORS TO-KWA-WAN
COAL STORAGE,
Codés used
A.B.C. TH & 8TH EDITIONS,
Al. Tezzdrapes. Conr.
Tolographie Address MEIRION HONGKONG."
1916
Overland
TRADE.
Electrío Lights Electric Starter
THE CHINA MAIL
Model 75 Touring Car)
Roadster
Max. $2,200.
INTIMATIONS
TO-DAY'S
Mr. Ackerman's. Kant's Watson's Schweppe's Ayala'a.
Bucharan's
.. Reynell s
Cunliffs. Dobson's
Sonska's
STARTERS.
Dry Royal >awfoundland No. 10 Fplit
Champs gue Black & White Hirano
Vinrouge
Extras
Foster's
Bugieale
Gordon's
Crawford's
Alexander's.
Other Half Redator Squash:
R.cde.
Extra Diy
Haig's. Kaur'.****
Teacher's
McEwan'
Mounie's
Walker's
Perfect Fint Highland Cream Scotch Al Brandies
Sma Peter.
DONNELLY & WHYTË.
WINE MERCHANTS.”
PUBLIC AUCTION,
THE avere Auction,
Undersigned have received, Jontrad
[FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED)},
от
FRIDAY,
the 25th February, 1916, commoncise
at 2.30 p.m., at their Sales Rooras, No. 8,
Der Teux Road, Corner
of Ice Housa Strnet,-
AS AMORTMENT OF
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Comprising:-
Sideboards, Dinner Wagon, Lizing Tables And Chairs, Chesterfield Sofas, Arm-chaus, &c Wardrobes and Toilet) Tables, Double and Single Bedstends, to, Miscellaneous Furniture, several lots of Blackwood Ware, 2 Carpets, Two Faso, a few lot of Pekineso Cloisonne, Porto- "lains, &c., &c., and a number of Small
Folding Chair,
(Full, Particulars from Catalogus.) TREM :-Cash
HUGEES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, Feb 19,-1516.
PUBLIC
AUCTION."
Every Advantage You Want
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In this car you will fad everything that makes it up-to-date. Point for point it compares with many, curs costing considerably more money.
It has all the advantages that come with light weight, real quality and sturdiness of construction.
It has been built to give the greatest service at the lowest posable operating eds.
The motor is a fenr. cylinder, long stroke, small bore, en bloe type of the latest design. It has a eurplus of power ulwaga in reservo "for the long, hard poll. And it is exceedingly economical în operation.
The long wheelbase gires ample room for a handsome, Comfort- able, Eve passenger body. Yet the car weighs pel7 2160 pounds.
Long Stroke Motor Cast En Bioc Electric Starter-Electric Lights Electric witches on steering colum Right hand drive-center levers 11trument Board of Coal Tash Cantilever Rear Springs
Deep, Sof Epholstery, Hugh Back Senty Wheelbase 104 inches (2612 tem.)
The body bar that long and low, appearance that everybody likes. And it is brautifully finished.
+
Cantilever er springs-be ensiess riding springs ever designed -give a degree of riding comfort remarkable is small curs.
You will be delighteI wien you see this Overland. When you' ride in it you will find it has every practical alvantage you want in an automobilu.
Specifications.
Deraonatable, detachable rima-one retra Rear Axle, Boating type
Large, powerful brakes Thermo-Syphon cooling
Streamline body with concealed dove hinges Rain-vision. Widhield, ventilating tyre,
144
Large tyres 1 by & inches non-skid oa recr
Cronined fenders. Lastrous black foily
Complete Information on Request.
Nickel and polished aluminum trimmings Electric engine starter and generator, with *head, traz sand dish lamps and headlight dimmers. storage battery.
One man tolnir hoed with dust.cover, magartic. speedometer electric horn, combination "War Bght out license bracket; hinged rug rail: fost rest; tyre carrier in rear: full set of tools tyre rapoit kit, jack and pun
Economy.
With LEA & PERRINS' Sauce,
a few drops only are necessary to give a delicious and appetizing flavour to the pläinest, dish.
A far larger quantity of a cheaper sauce-fails-to-give-the-
same
Облетте
satisfaction.
De riquatur.
kiria pro
Lea Gerring
across the red ladek on my bottle.
The original and genuine Worcestershire.
THE
THE Undersigned have received instruc
(POL ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
TUESDAY,
the 9th February, 1316, at 2.30 p.m.,
at their Sales Rooms, No. 8..
Des Voeux Road. Corner of Ice Hochz STILET,
ONE 12 BORE HAMMERLESS FOWLING PIECE BY THE
A. H. FOX COT." PRACTICALLY ‘NEW,
TERMAN usual,
HUGHES & EQUGE.
Auctioneers. Hongkong, Fab.. 18, 1915,
PUBLIC
137
AUCTION,
THE Codoraigned have received 'lostruc- tions la sell by Public Auction,
A
TUESDAY,
the 23th February, 1916, commencing at 2.30 p.m., ai their Sales Rocms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of
Ice House Street,
A LARGE QUANTITY OF VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE, BRASS FENDERS, FIRE BRASSES,.
CURTAIN POLES, CARPETS,"
„RUGS, &
As Follows:-
SOLE DISTRIBUTORS FOÅ SOUTH CHINA AND MACAO
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO. 26, DES VOEUX ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG, TEL. 482
The Willys-Overland Company, Toledo, Ohio,
İNTIMATIONS
THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE COMPANY-
LIMITED.
"..
THE NINETEENTE ORDINARY
TANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE HOLDERS in the Company will be held At the Offices of the Company, St. George's Building No. 6, Connaught Road, on FRIDAY: the 25th February, 1918, at 11.90A.M., for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year ending 31st December, 1917; and electing & Consulting Committee and Auditaru.
INTIMATIONS
DIOCRSAN SCHOOL & ORPHANAGE. CHOOL Duties will be mamed on STRUESDAY morning 24th instant.
For Terms for Boarders or Day Scholars apply to
The HEADMASTER.
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Hongkong, Fab. 19, 1916..
NOTICE TO REMOVAL..
"BROKE.".
TOD SLOAN'S DOWNFALL/ An American paper is responsible for the following -
Tod Sican returned to Arterien a few wreks ago, an outout from the adopted land almost pupetical in his homeland 141 forgotten by the majority of those who know him in his days of glyonknown almost by the present generation.
17E HAVE This Day REMOVED our
Woffices to the First Floor, Prince's
U.S.A.
NEW ENTERPRISES IN JAPAN.
this work some 110,000 tons of itruetural ́ ateal
waro required, sad of this a little more than. e-fourth had been
Io a review of the trade of Japan ordered as home the only steel works pablished in the "Glasgow Herald," Dr-Imperial Steel Foundry at Wakamates, in svaliable for the purpose. three of the
F. P. Parvis and Dr. S. Terano write as Rishiu. Forly if of the amount follows.
required was under rder fra abroad, in any country. At that time also mix to while the rewinder had not been placed.
"Fer some years prst Japanese ship builders bays boen grintly exercised owing to the lack of cargo ships built wit in the M
sevenths Breded to obtain Ten years or a ago Hary Payne Whit country; while their friends in offict I and material from abroad. The price of struc Dey engaged Sloan to come from England other posilias have fu ing the a time tural teel from Wakamba win you in ride one, f his barses in the Futurity: heen in cinse coniere ea with them as to tuyen 10 per ton No doubt the difficul He paid Sican $15,000 for that one day the causes and prasible remedies. Ship fie ander the beads have been greatly work and paid his passage both ways across building subsidies have, it is true, the Atlantic. Sloan actived amid pomp the cost of freight and Cust me duties o
increased since the da'e mentioned, but c..supplied
this inorraso das not prevented the ship- and grandeur on the Friday night before imported materials; and preferance towards ping ander order from advancing from the race, went at once le Whitney's stable, the home-built ship in ruber ways has paid, 250, 00 to 310,000 tona. boked over the horses and chose to ride the dearer labour bill in the construction tabl thought Sloan's decisi was an but these aide have not enabled builden co Ballybos Bey. The trainers in Waitary's of passenger steamers for subsidised rou error. They pointed out that the two preduce ordinary cargo ships at a pricu low other Whitney entries were faster horsea.
"'ll ride Ballyhoo Bey-and twin He has bad to purchase abroad pew ships, enough to tempt the ordinary tramp owner. with him" end- Sloan."
SLAN'S STAR SEIS.
routes,
FRENCH OF YPRES
SOME MOUS" PRECEDENTS.
Sloan's life story is a story that reads like
fiction: a story of meteoric rise from
it may be, but in most casse, ships, which obacurity to fame, and than a dorcent from
have done some years of service. the height almost as rapid se was his
-A olaso exɩmination of the catises in- Her-de Ballyhoo Eey in the Futurity volved has shows that the Japanese ascent.
Herose from the unknown caas to fame other Whitney entries were not in the object of doing the aximum of work upon the next day and won casily. The shipyards were originally laid out with the rose from comparative poverty "to the
On the wealth beyond his wildest Siunn Failed again for England. A short patented articles. This was rendered neces proprietary and 147 of stable boy to a place where his friends renewal of his jockas license on the Bri; engineering accessories cumul not be got it General Wellesley, when rewarded for bix
eary by the fact that
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com-Buildin,s, Chater Road lately occupied by as the greatest jockey in the world; he more Monday following the Futurity ship, purchasing from ovtside sources will take as the tale of hat. perage
pany will be CLOSED from MONDAY. The Nippon Tusen Kaisha).. the 21st February, 1916 antil FRIDAY
the 25th. February, 1916, both days inclusive.
SHEWAN, TÓMEJ & CO,
General Managers. Hongkong, Feb. 11, 1918,
BLUE CROSS FUND.
HORSES IN WAR. TIME.
TO
Upholstered Saites, Arm-chairs and The Hongkong Amatour Dramistic Club
Botas, Card Taula, Bedroom Furriture,
presenta
Twin Brass Ecdstend, Double and Single THE ANGEL
Brass mounted Bedsteads, Sideboard,
Dinner Waggon, Extension Dining Tables
and Chairs, Tos and Occasional Tables;
IN THE HOUSE
atc., etc., Dinner, Tea and Coffee Services,
Crockery, Glass and E.-P. Ware," 2 A Comedy in 3 Acts by B. MacDONALD "Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Bass Fenders, HASTINGS and EDEN PHILLPOTTS.
Cartalo Potes, Tollet Sets and Bath Boom Utensils, eto, eta
Last Year's great London Success
Also Two Pianos (in good condition), Electric Reading Tampa Two 4-Fold Blackwood Screens, a quantity of Blastwood Furni ture, atc., etc., etc.
"(Fall Particulars from Catalogus.); Teams Cash
HUGHES & HOUGH,
AuctionnerL
Heegxong, Feb. 18, 1918.
138.
FRENCH LESSONS
MOUSSION.
15, Morrison HII Kazd.
"ALEXANDRA CABE
YSTEPS:
Th, Fried Badon Hallraka, Kipp
or
SATURDAY, 4th MARCH, MONDAY, 6tb MARCH,
at 9.30 p.m. BOOKING at Montrics frota Friday, February 25th at 1a.m.
Prices-$4.00, $3.00, 82 00.
BLUE CROSS FUND.
SAVARESSE'S SANTAL CAPSULES
PHYSICIANS RECOMMEND THEM U #MADE IN LONDON FOR ALL CHEMISTS
BRADLEY & CO., LTD. Hongkong, Feb. 21, 1915.
possession of
only
In materials and
The anouncement that Sir John French Viscount Freach of Torre is quite in
Lord
All applications for debentures must be Eugiand as an undesirable citizen; and, dwindle. From hundreds of thousand Periencing serious difficultion with regard tn Bir Fr-carick Sturdes will have no difonlty,
ship was sought by the sporting aristocracytish tracks and was stunned when it was other than by Imp stailes or by con Bamo Douro of Wellesley and Viscount of two cantinents. And no climax to be refused. Sloan turned his face to Amoric struction within the gatos-this litter
Perritus in the Peninsula, obore to become wonderful career, he married one of the but it was in rain. He fou d the bara had involving Large capital outlay and in Nelson of the Nile, and after his death THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA the most beautiful and most winsome girls been raised against him there too.
Wellington of Talavera Nelson was Bamm DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
on the American-stage
And then Stan's descent from fame and high cecah shment charges Again his brother w created Viscount Merton From those heights Tod loca has fallen: glory and riches bogan. Unable to pursue work to band. With the large capit!! SHAREHOLDERS desirous of making from riches be bar descended again to bis profersion, he aint about for work of outlay there must be sancial ad lower Roberta anda bera Nel-oo. Issue should apply to the Company's slipped down to near obscurity from the way. He felt that sooner or later a jackey return upon the capital laid out..
inquiries in respect of the Debenture comparative poverty; from face he hather kind, but always in a half-hearted efficiency of labour, involving more time in Roberta of Kandahar and Fretoria and Office in Hongkong.
position as society's pampered pet he had license would be granted to him. But t
construction, and Darqueally lower Lord Kitebener of Khartoum are modern instances. Baronet, as well as peers. skidded fos point where he is regarded in rover was. His store of funds began to
Shipbuilders and others aru will ex- it murt tako territorial title, and Admiral strange as it may sorta his plight provokes they dropped to tans of thousands and then rendered the sore acute, by the refusal il ritorial addition is not so impressive in structural steel. These, difficulties. 318 in finding one in the Falklanda. The ter but little sympathy. forgot the Golden Rules" be ignored"
Tod Slosu in the bey day of his career name disappeared from the papers, it s the Imperial Steel Foundry to hour anyone cases-log initance, Sir James 1,1111 } with almost an upturned, doss the chumasonger was on the lips of the sportinis more orders for private shipyarda for, the though it might have been Thrums), or Sir Matthew Barris, of Adelphiterrace Lime eing. Plates have antil quite Tod Sloan's recently be a obtained chiefly from the John Eroadbent, of Brook street, W. Man United States; and when special machina
nent in before the 29th February, 1916. Forma may be had on spplication.
R.M. DYER, ..Chief Manage
Hongkong, Dec. 30, 1916.
COLUMBIA
Double Disc:
RECORDS
$1.50.
Fit your Machine.
ASK TO HEAR THE LATEST.
to thousande. His wife divorced him, his
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and anfamous years. Those were friends and so Tod Sloan, once the king is obtained from the British Government, of his boyhood, the friends of his earlier star had set to continente. Tod Sloan's and companions who were good enough socke when Tod was just an ordinary jockey, but jockeys, once the worshipped, once the bars and angles suitable for ship construc they failed to measure up to Tod's new
fionour guest of the aristocracy of two con- tion are ordered from Great Britain For tinents, once a millionaira, and the rác ng standard. And so be ignored them and semantin of the world is to-diy--just for some reason or other (possibly with a view their friendship toward him turned to Slan, an outcast from the land he called at have uw stopped the exportation of
Lo higher prices) the United States Steel! enmity and it has lasted through the years home for many years, unsung and almost all steel material, and thus another handicap
BLDAN WAX THIS GREĄTIST VOCERY.
forgotten in his homeland, almost penile is added to those basating the Bloan will rank as the greatest jockey and almost friendless.
the Japanese the turf has known. His RCASE WAS
shipbuilder in carrying out Flexoneral. Time and again he mounted
programme, **pluga, pitted them against a fold of thoroughbreda-and brought them home in front No max could oatride binds no. map could outgeneral him; hh judgment and his courage mere marvellous, sit
He was the most sought after jockey in the world. American home owners offered bim fabulous eams to ride their ponies exclusively, but after he had achieved nation-wide fima flora turced his back on America It wasn't aristocratic enough for him and he went to Europe where his “succem continued end his fama inurasandi
During his creur as a jockey. Sloan surned close to $2,00,000. During 008 senson in England his carnings are sald have totalled £800,000. Ha Considered. is por season when hiel estamga did not reach in the righbourhood of 8400,000"
Eloan originated the monkey crouch rystem of riding which eventall ý revola.
time the lockay's alwayu sah woll Back on the bersa permitting their weight to centra in the horse', hasz. Bloen sild far forward
THE ANDERSON nied the racing game. Beforu Sloan'a
MUSIC CO LTD, alavat on the horse's neck,
taking the weight from the back, and put Ang if ou the neck Toneho poohpeubel Voix Bord 2 Taza 1329, his method at feat Istigadopted it and it
is now the univecial riding malhadaye.
LOSING WEIGHT
BY THE POUND
Under Weight," a condition of fil-hezlth, abows your assim, Fative powers are decreiding,
WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED. COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND
Sappie Lid blood with the wanted xpurmblog and healthy Besh difiz materitio. Very
palat
already mentioned, these consider ations have weighed heavily upon many in Japan for years paat, but the present wer bae giren an opportunity for action lacking hitherto, and advantage is being taken to promete allied industries, such as the production of steel enstings, of anchors and cable of auxiliazy machinery of various. kinds, of ship fit tinge large and small. B Lhese and other means. (including simplification of design and suras approach to standardisation) air hoped to advanta the interests of the country in a permanent way and prap to it for supplying In own needs in the matter of tramp as well as of pagsangsteamers. Certainly prosent prospects are good, and just nɩw 10 nów Loamers of 910,000 tons are under Construction within the 10 principal prívate shipyards throughout the country.
It is true that his large programme is due partly to the impossibility of purchasing
JAPANESE MAKERS,
Every kind of Footwear
MADE
ORDER
tonnage: abroad, eiber at price or delivery OBERRY & 00,
approaching" normal conditions ; but It, is hoped that experience obtained in oirryle
t-out will do neb little to imprar com ditions and advance, the posibility of
FERNISTS
25 and 37 26.
srom wore then, under constractions For Hongkon
PEDDERSTREET.
Opparts Hongkong Hotel
permanent gaio. Potures made last, May wephora No 49
howed that stenpera of "220,000 tona