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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1916.
INTIMATIONS
DIOCESAN GIRLS SCHOOL.
Hughes and Hough WORK recommence on
AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT AND ADMIRALTY.
General Auctioneers
AND
Shere, Coal and
General Brokera.
PROPRIETONS.
TO-KWA-WAN
COAL STORAGE.
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A.B.CATE & 5TH EDITIONS. A1. TELIGEIPRI CODE.
Telegraphic Addresa MEIRION HONGKONG. -
PUBLIC AUCTION,
THE Undersigned have received instras
tions to soll by Toblic Auction, (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
on
FRIDAY,
the 25th February, 191ò, commencing
9.30 p.m., at their Sales floome, No. 8,
Des Freux Road, Corier.
of Ice Houso. Street,—
AS ASSORTMENT OF
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
Comprising:
"Sideboards, Dinner Waggon. Dining Tables and Chairs, Chesterfield Sofas, Aem-chairs, K., Wardrobes and Toilet Tables, Doabis and Single Bedstenda, &c., Miscellaneous Furuitate, several lots of Blackwood Wars, 2 Carpets, Two Pianos. few lots of Pekinese Cloisonne, Porco- lains,&a, &c., and a number of Small Folding Chairs,
(Fall Particulars from Catalogue.) TIMS:-Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGE, Auctioneers.
Hongkong, Feb 19, 1816,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
HE "Undersigned hars received instruc-
THE
(PON ACCUEST OF THE CONCERTED),
DA
TUESDAY,
the 20th Febíumy, 1918, at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Rooms, No. 8. Des Vœux Road, Corner of Ies Hoorz ST 11AM.
ONE BURE HAMMERLESS
FOWLING PIECE BY THE "
A. H. FOX COY. PRACTICALLY NEW.
TEEM:--- usual.
HUGHES & HOUGE,
Auctionet
~Hongkong, Feb, 18, 1916.
PUBLIC
137
AUCTION."
TE Undersigned have received instroo- tious to sell by Pablia Auction,
פמין
I
от
TUESDAY,
the 29th February, 1918, commencing ab 2.50 p., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeur Road, Corner of
Iss Hores Street,
A LABOR QUANTITY OF VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND BLACK WOOD FURNITURE, BRASS FENDERS, EIRE BRASSES, CULTAIN POLES, CARPETS, BUGS, &,
As Follows:-
Upholstered Suites, Arm-chairs and Bolae, Card Taule, Bedroom Furniture, Twin Bras Bedstead, Double and Singlo Brase mounted Bodsteads, Sideboard, Dinner Waggt, Extension Dining Tables --and Chain, Tổ"and; Uccasional Tables, etc., etc, Dinner, Tea and Coffee Services, Crockery, Glass and E.-P. Ware, 21 Cooking Stores, Cutlery, "Brass Fenders, Curtain Poles, Toilet Bets and Bath Room Itensils, etc., ota,
Also
Two Fiance (in good condition), Electric Reading Lampe. Two 4-Fold Blackwood
✪ MONDAY, Rohruary 29th at 9 ́a. 1.
Hongkong Ft 2, 1918.
NOTICE TO REMOVALL
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WE HAVE This Day BEMOVED our Wiers to the First Flour, Prince's Buildia,s. Chater Road (latoly occupied by The Nippon Yusen Kaisha),
BRADLEY & CO., LTD. Hongkong. Feb. 91, 1918,
THE CHINA. PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE COMPANY
THE CHINA MAIL.
TRADE AFTER THE WAR.
AN ANTI GERMAN ALLIANCE
In the current issue of Rally Alonthly
Trade Review," a strong appeal is made for
DUTY ON ENEMY GOODS,
Mr Rapcinian's «povuk, in t'o florse of i Commons on the prevention of another; economie war' waged by Germany, guinst
the Allies after the termination
SCOTTISH HOUSEKEEPER'S CLAIM,
»ROMANTIC STORY.
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A romantic story by dumaratia seri in the alleged vest, miering to an economic assesment amongst the Alliestion, says the Daily Telegraph, lenda particu- her emplager was dod last taoth in the the only affective method of ebenkmeting iar interest to the action recently taken by Scottish Court of Sesion, Monarch. The woman, Mary Russell, er Mackenzis.. Germany Commuraial ambitions, and this the textile trails section of the Lord sight a dedaretion of the Court that depriving her of the means for further Chamber of Commerce. In November last aggression' against her neighbou It is
thy late Thengas
Mera unh
just as necessary, it is pointed out, to defent a special committee was appointed to deat she was married to Germany in the market place as on the with the question of trading with the Markenie, of Lailice, Cushie. Her The action is detended by the trustees battlefield.
**It is by trade and commerce that enemy after the war, and a "questionnairegter is Mr. Mackenzie's heiress,
theextare. Germany has been able to provide the was issued to the member of the nation sinews of war, and therefore by destroying, inviting expressions of opinion on a num hampering, and imprisoning har trade | ber of polâts.
Ir be taking the most effective means to 147 cripple her future ighting power. If
take nu stapa to prohibit formsn trada in the world markets of the Allies, we shall casblo Germany to regain her former pasi tion, to begin anew her policy of world domination in trade, and in a few year time to thresten afresh the peace of Europe.
LIMITED. NINETEENTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE-
THE
No fewer than 300 firms replied, and their views aro ambedied in a report by the special committee, which has now been. submitted to a meeting of the section. The outstanding lestureck the replice is that the majority of the members, comprising mer. German manufacturers and merchanta are trustfully awaiting the end of the war, of all shades of politics, are in favour of mestima piling up hage quantities of the imposition of a duty of from 25 to 37 merchandise of all kinds, in
In the agreeable
INTIMATIONS
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The petition, who is 40 years old. suid she wRE H domestic Dailuaia when Mrs. Mackenzie wire alive. "Mr. Mackenzie died in 1890, Sous time afterwards Mr. Markenele po fessed an attachment for her and spoke of marriage. He continued his attentions
in December, 2011, she went to Abenteer, where a male child was bern.
The child died.
The petitioner said she lived with him
| HOLDERS in the Company will be held hope that once again, when markets are in per cent, on all rosaufaakurad snemy goods.. Erons til, his death, in fir ! ful swing, they will be permitted to stop. They do not, however, approve the taxștinesion of housekeeper, under the name of
st the Otters of the Company, St. George' Building, X. E. Conasaght Road on FRIDAY, the 25th February, 1918, at 11.30 4.3. for the purpose of receiving Statement of Accounts and the Raport of the General Managers for the year ending 31st December. 1913, and electing Consulting Committes and Auditors.
in on the old British Free-Trada polior of raw materials from enemy sources, Mee Ramselt. A daughter was fou r busin, and grab the lion's share of adrant partially of manufactured goods which 1905,
es so dearly bought by their rivale.
is signed, the Allies mu frame and orect
1 we only take immediate action have to be finished off in this country, towards the preparation of a combined plan
Opinions were divided on the questi mul to eperate as rem the very day pence the pmhibition of enemy goods entirely, ut tariff wall which the Central Empires for a pericul of genes after tlla war. thoso The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Comexapot surmount,
Without wealth Ger- in favour of limited prohibition suggesting pary will by CLOSED from MONDAY.many's langs will be drawn, for without an averags of 34 years. - the 21st February, 1916 until FRIDAY huge foreign trade she can mo accumulate the 25th February, 1916, both days vast wealth, and it is now in the Allied
interest ta kaap her poor inc'usive.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
'General Managers. Hongkong. Feb. «LL," 1915,
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To the effective development of the Allies the exclusion of Germany je beolutely imperative; for in the arrange ments which are to ease it must not be forgotten that each country of the Allied Powers, the units of the quintuple entente, specialines in production, and that must be the basis of the subsequent superstructu e. We do not maintain that it is in aur power
Mr. Mackenzie registonal the|
child, giving himself as the fath
Mr. Fann tihlertson. solicitar, sahi
will.
his firm had grapara Mr. Mack.cazia's To going over Mr. Mackenzie's as the witness, feùnd 'ar vealed f schich stated this is to ventily that w Bassell is my wife.",
The hearing was adjourned,
A BOTTLE FAMINE.
A majority expressed themselves 'io' Favout pf the passing of the Registration: of Firms Bill or a similar measure, and deñaitely, supported the suggestion_that_ after the war every manufacturer of cosmy HORTAGE OF GLASS” IN FRANCE. origin resilient in an enemy country thould be compelled to take out a license before. being allowed to trade in this contry, an that also he should pay a segar te licence
Pottle makers and the tranden depen. dent upon glassware for putting on
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in respect of each representativa or cum-delivering their products are almost i
to aanidilste German commercial commercial traveller employed to visit the petition, but it is possible effectively United Kingdom.
resist and limit ber agression, and to escape from the economic subjection Germany has threatened es imposo upen the world. But there must be no more "Ini sex-faire" policy, unvrupatition of a lethargic toleration of Germany scooping the pool.'
LITTLE TEAR OF RETALIATION,
THE GREAT ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF CHINA,
Attention has been drama in the Time,
In our home markets Germany had com. mandeered trade to the annual valco ci £80,000, and in our overseas marketa she had seized trade to the extent of India, £5,000,000; Egypt, £2,000,000: South to the fact that Mr Wilfred Marton leat to
··Kussia
Belgiorre
France
£38,000,000
volume containing two sectioad at the
daggers desen owing to the bottle samle
that as agiar in Franes,
Miegral water manufacturers, brewery why bottle their beer, Al kind indus tries dealing in liquids "ang sort are ware or less at a staubtill fr want of bettles. Seand-hand hurtles, fetch we mach as a hundred" but they fall for short of making good the deficiency.
Most of the French glass works the. in the invaded wea; the others have dear but ohi mun lelt to carry on with. They have tried foreign lalar, but des
mat other natives from French Africa huve been used as an experiment: they are, however, a poor sort of makeshist.
£2.900,00; 4 pat ralia. £4,330,000; the London Library for a few weeks clare that it is of little account. Arabe Cannia 52,100,000; British West Africa, Садята £73,000. IE we extend our survey' to foreign markats we find that Gersany famous Chinesa Encyclopaedia, which le traded in the Allied countries and others had picked up for a small suma in the shop
Well over three hundred millions of to the following extent:
of a London firm of backsellers. The volume, which had been bound by Mircles, are wanted in France every year" for trade purposes. The deinan "İyer) Katharine Adams, of the Eadburghalen oft with the war, but even then it Bindery, Broadway, Worcestershire, com-exceeds the present supply by für over a prised ectivas nineteen, thousand eight million bottles. Makara aver tiekt besigļus hundred and sixty-six of the work, sad the aut of labour they are deprived of dealt chiedy with the subject of bamboes many essential requisities in'raw Boaterial, As pointed out by Professor H. Aand they site the case of potash, which "s Giles in the Nineteenth Century for 1901. only to be gut abroad, cannot be counted the complete work comprises twenty-two
Italy
24,700,000
34,500,000
90,000,000
Јарад
6,000,000
Denmark
12,700,0:0
Netherlands
30,400,000
Norway
7,500,000
6,600,000
10,000,000 26,000,000
35,000,000
Roumania.
Svedec
Switzerland
United States Brazil Chile..........
EUROPEAN AGENCY,
WHOLESALE Indents peupl
exocated at. Inwest cash prices for all British and Coati ental goods, including
Books and Stationery.
thousand eight hundred and seventy seven upon for delivery, and tests exactly five 9,000,000 5,600,000
separate sections, bound up into cleven times the price prevailing before the war, thousand one hundred volumes, each half-Coal is another great stumbling Bock. Here is £300,000,000, to say nothing of an inch in thickness- so that were all the Customers who are clamouring for the other Earopean countries and China, volumes laid dat one upon another, the attles "report that the makers are not and the remaining South American States." column thus formed would reach a height of
It in added that there need be little fear four tundred and sixty-two feet of afty. only not trying to overcome the difficulty of German retaliation, since Germany's eight for higher than the top of St Pauls of the moment. but that they have imports are chiefly raw materials, essential This great Encyclopaedia of Chine, the adopted a degin-the-ranger policy; and to her industrio.Germany has been an Yung Lo To Ten, produced at Nanking will not all foreign-made glassware to enormous importer of raw materials, and in 1408, easily ranks as the biggest literary wter the country. the increase therein hag been raflected in undertaking in the world, over two thou similar degree in her exporte of sand scholars having been engaged in it manufactured goods.
compilation, and it contained a total of We must diverten these raw materials as far as possible to our nine hundred and seventeen thousand four Allied shores, for this reason That the hundred and eighty page, and three more of our raw materials we allow her to hundred and sixty-six million pige hundred buy the lear of our manufactures we are and ninety-two thousand chase'crs, able to sell to her nad pursuing the same few years ago, there still exinted in lice, the more we starve her of raw manuscript a copy of this encyclopedia, products the mors we cripple her manufac which, on account of the enormous expense turing power and rest her commercial involved, was never printed A complete importance. In tariff war, (quipped with copy was made in 1567, and aterad in the really working tarif we must win. Haulin College in Peking, until destroyed because we take from our rivals so much by fire in 1900 Only about one hand ed
by volumes of this copy are known to have been mors than they take from us."
saved, of whics sixty are in the Library of the Ministry of Public Instruction at Poking. Our British Museum has fire, and the Bodisin revan, none of them curculive. Aiscugst the seventeen thousand volumes of Chineas literature presanted to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, by Mr E. Beck
t house, Professor of Chinese at King's Col
volumes lege, London, are several encyclopaedias, or parts of thera, including socie of the above-mention 'd work. (os, is a reprint from an encyclopaedis, which was ic ve thousand and twenty volumes. This bandier edition. executed, in Shanghai Twenty-five years ago, is in one thousand six hundred and twenty volumes.—Cham/ ers Journal
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A NOVEL COUGH REMEDY.
Many an incipient cough has been cared to the writer's knowledge, by the procedare mentioned below.—
A doctor connected with a institution where there are many children writes *Then nothing more irritable to s BOOKING at Mouches from Friday, cough than a cough. Ter some time I had February 26th at 9am
teen so fully scared of this that determined for one minute at least to lessen the numer of coughs heard in
·certsja ward in a hospital of the institu tion. By the promise of rewards arxi punishments, I succeeded in indicing them to simply bald their breath when tempted to cough, and in a li tie while I was coach rarprised to are how some of the children entirely recovered from the ditease..
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Constant coughing is precisely like #cratching woand, on the outside of the body! So long as it is done the wound will not hesl Lot a person, when tempted to cough, draw s long breath and hold it
and Houstons & othed every air cell,
some benefit will sona be received from
which is this process. The zitrogen reford act" ko'acodyne to the macous
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Boots, hoes and Laher.
Chemicals and Drug ists: Sundries, China, Earthenware and Glugar, Cycles, Motor Cars and Accessories. Drapery, Millinery and Piece Goods, Fancy Goods and Perfumery. Hardware, Machinery and Met is, Jewellery, Plate and Watches, Photographio and Optical Goods, Provisions and Olmen's Stores,
etc. etc. Commision 23% to 6% Trade Dixerunts allowed.
Special Quotations on Demand. Fasiple Cases from £10 upwards Consignments of Produce 3 id oxAccoun), WILLIAM WILSON & SONS (ESTAREISRED 18)
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Screens, a quantity of Elachwood Furni Foundry Coke Importers. General Store will aid stare in her effort to recuperate." 18 400 have that constant itching YOU are in the grip of Theu-
(Fali Particulara from Catalogue.)
ture, etc., eta, eta
TERME -Osh
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hougtong, Feb. 18, 1918,
.ive
PONIES PONIES FONIES!
PUBLIC ROUP.
PHE. Undersigned have received Isatrud
tions to sell by Public Roup.
WEDNESDAY telah Birch, 1918, at 9 p.m, at the Fountain, opporite the City Hall. A LARGE NUMBER OF WELL-KNOWN RACE PONIES. (Full Particulars from Catalogue.) Torms-Chah
HUGHES & HOUON,
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keepers and. Shipchandlers N. 36 and- 37, "Erve Loona Staært, (2nd Street, weat of Central Mariat) Telephone No. 618,
Rangkong, September 4, 1913.
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