THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1916.
Hughes and Hough!
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AND ADMIRALTY.
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AND
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(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNRP),
од
FRIDAY..
the 10th March, 1916, commoneist
at 2,30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, 3o. 8,
Des Viaz Road, Corner
of. In House Streub,~
AS ASORTMENT OF
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
Comprising
Sideboards, Dinner, Wargen, Dining
Tables and Claies, Chasterfield Sofas,
Arm-chain; dio, Wardrobes and Toilet
AUCTIONS.
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ON
FRIDAY,
the 10th March, 1910,
at 3 p... a thoir Sales Rooms. No. 8, Des Toraz Kosd, Corner of Iem
Eonso Streat
NINE TYPEWRITERS
NEW.
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Bengkong, March 7, 1918.
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Miscellaneous Furniture.. several lots of
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lots of Fokineso Cloisonne, Porce-
ains, de.. &c., ind a number of Small Folding Chaire. ''
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Hongkong, March 4, 2015.
PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
"PUBLIC AUCTION."
200
TEE Undersigned are received instrur. tions from Mrs. Haver, Ridge House, Brondrood Road,, ta sell" "by Public Auction,
DE
WEDNESDAY,
the 15th March, 1916, commencing
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THE WHOLE OF THE
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
&o... &C..
(Further particulars will be
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THURSDAY,
23 March, 1918, at 11am, at the Army Service Corps Barracks Dept. Eaclobars, opposito H.M.S." Dockyard Oats. Queen's Road, SUNDRY MESS FURNITURE,
Cousisting of
Writing Tables, Waékstands, Arm chairs, Cupboards, Mest Sufer, etc, etc.
Alas
BILLIARD TABLE
EX THURSTON & Co, And
TWO PIANOS..
On view from the 22nd inst.
For further information apply to the undersigned.
Terms.—A Dual,
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Bangkong, March 4, 1918.
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young count was stationed.
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MAKING THE BEST OF IT. igrimi although new laid eges, ara Xia unel sud buitar in 1s 104, Thà incremas ir LONDON CLUB LIFE IN WAR TIME, wagon is not a complots explanation of the woneral randiness to pay at lonet 384. * toi for com), and thorou hly bad coal at bhat. They have said that the best sol mas go elsewhere, en of course we must de without Mr Asquith makes series peeches which combine perfect, bazion of expression and form with eqanil perfect abeenes of fact or axplanating Every one applaada. Lovel-headed chap. quibh-made up his mind not to give things away Mr Asquith in fact is another form of "They." After the war it will see almost impossible to sxist without being reminded very half-hour than you must nuà do what you most particularly feng to do, because they forbid it.
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993 BRITISH VESSELS BUNK IN FIFTEEN MONTHS.
The Board of Tredu publishes details of the number and tonn-ga at British m chant atuamers and fishing vessels sunk destr yed by nets if war between August * ID li, a "Outaber 91, 1915..
A correspondent write to the Rangoon Cazetta": When I first resobed England The Matin (says the Daily Tele-it was rury maddening to stroll into the graph") prints a strange and tragic every club with a friend at about tea-time and from an Austrian prisoner. Conut Sails discover that I was förbidden to stand him of an ancient Austrian family met at the say drink stronger thes tes. It is now, front in the Carpathians wyoung Austrian however, much more middenizg, to stroll arahduchess. They lived together, and into the club alone at the time and parted when the count was zamored to a discover that am not allowed tis stand different post. But the archduchom pined, myself a drink that is idrick. The only and with considerable ingennity managed hours in which one can quench oua'a thint to join him again. She became a Rudare between 12 o'clock and 280 and Cras morso in a hospital train 'which 6.30 to 930. To is as good as a curiedy travelled in precisely the district where the to sit in the cint sindting-room at 6-25 of an aveaing. A hundred oyen ro Unhappily for the lovers, the Austrian urned to the clock, which, "fore the weste Chief of Staf, Gamoral von Hoetsendorf, nes of clocks, becomes abated at becoming happened to be on the platform at the the centre of so much interest and stands precise moment nhan the archduchess and still for good ball hour at least only the count slighted from the train together. going on again to pretend that but four Von Hoetzandart called the couns bofura minutes have passed, when the stering eyes
that watch it relax with the strain. The following particulars appear:748 his and reprimanded the young afficer.
The coun; let his hand, replied insolent. 8.20 band is outstretched for the bell, atehere, "displacing 129,5 ton dave ly to the geaenl. and aven, threatened him and, finger on the button, a turn or been sunk by warships other than sub with his wed. The count was randon more to the clock. that wasterpiece of mariner, 171, displacing 348,800 tons, have mission to Switzerland, where he thought applied staticises, 29.40, 29.50, 20 g heen wank by submarines: 37, disp'agir be was safe, and at Zurich met the archit will be the half-hour before the boy has $1,501 tons, have been destroyed by mines
Yat no one frumos Awn, displacing 3.507 tona, has been duebers again Bus Houtzendorf, on his taken the order.
and the protests of the liquer interests destroyed by mines or submarines. part, used other influences.
An olshort plat was aid, with the have fallen on dent sus. Things have. ho'p of the Austrian Minister at Berne, indeed, changed in England whan the wal Yon Gagen. A suite of apartments was of the pablican fail to elicit an Auswer ranted at Luonne, in the very same hoteling tour from the eyo at his patron of 7,168, have been destroyed by other
We are becoming Prussianised perhape-monos smployed by the enemy. whore Prince von Butow had put up.
Siz sailing v-sela, with a tontage of An English friend of Cent Setlern, a backboneless victions of clunkion who professur, was in cuntly drawn into the plot, and advised the count to scrapt the hospitality at the Lucerne hotel. He had been told that all armngements had been made for the count and the archduchess to Amigrate together to America.
t Zarich, shualders The Englishman, whila received a telegram from the astm Hungarian Legution to come to Lucerne at ence. At the station he was met by officials of the Legation, who took him to the hotel, conducted him upstairs, oponed the door, and ushered him in. Du the bed lay the dead hide ist Count Seilern. The implication is that the court had been murdered by order of the Ametre Hungarian Lagation in Switzerland.
There are two other murders in the story,
When the count was put under arrest by
Foetzendori he was guarded by swa sentries. both of whom were found dead que mora. ing, stabbed through he heart while the count had escaped,
HOW THE ADMIRALTY CHOOSES. SHIPS.
Three stem re, displacing 4.743 tons, have been destroyed by the Turkish wilitary authority, and fire, with a tornare
want to do everything by the numbers of 5.505, have been sunk by warships, and 13 a reeriting sergeant. Not a his of it-en-Bailing vowels, with a toppage of 8,514. sense, you say, but do you know, I am not have been suck by submarines. fortable sad consoling quite sure. There is something very of m sons and responsibilities token off one's
in having all
daci
The military authorities who
THE
run the board of quarantal have LONDON DIRECTORY. decreed that no drinks must be served a within consin hours that you can only bay spirit from your grocer during 24 hours tive days of the week and not at all on Saterdays or Sundaya. All right, way. if those who know say it's necessary it in necessary-and we obey with an occasional grumibie and a bad joke or two to the
barmaid.
The habit of believing that others know
bent is growing most insidiously and it is
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Got too fantastion to think that after the war it will be long before we recover the with the Goods they ship, and the Colonial custom of deciding things for ourselves and Foreign Markets they supply;
They the mysterious" they know..
STEAMSHIP LINES best the censor must be right ia doling out information is reluctant scrape. In Barma ona gets a far more connected account of what le happening than ong dees is England, unless it is pesible to supple ment the newspapers with political which though often fals in itself is any always a cine to the truth. The Secretary of State's talegram to the Viceroy is is safest guide to follow that I have come
In giving the number of vessels across. Is it are pieced together things that only come out separately and at intervals in England. A few weeks ago there did seem sigue that tho.censor and his department were in for serious trouble. but the agitation has died away.
HAIL DRESSING SALOON. Electric Facial Mag wich
Mae Cream, Perfumo, requisitioned by the Admiralty from eleren firma in London, Cardit, Glasgow By.
And the North of England, Macuaman, Finaccial Secretary to the Admiralty stated that it must be clearly understood that in
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