SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1916.
Hughes & Hough
AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.
General Auctioneers
Share, Coal and General Produce
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Brokers and Commission
Agents.
PROPRIETORS
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"MEIRION" TONGKONG
PUBLIC AUCTION.
HE Undersigned have received in- stractions to sell by Public Auction,
on
TUESDAY,
the 4th June, 1918, commencing at
Su
4.30p.m., at their Sales Room
Des Vane toad, Corner of...
Tee House Street.
A QUANTITY OF
VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND
BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,"
KOM
As Follows:- Upholstered Suites, Army-cluirs and Sofas, Carl Tables, Bedroom Furniture, Twin Brass Bedsteads, Double and Single Brass-mounted Bedsteads Sideboard, Dinner Waggons. Extension Dining! Tables and Chairs Tea and Occasional Tables, etc, etc. Ditmer. Tea and Coffee Services, Crockery, Glass Ware including Cut-glass, Cooking, Steves, Cutlery, Toilet Sets, Ice Chests, etc., Bath Room Utensils, atc, & quantity of Good Elèctru Plate.
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One-Coill Portable Moto with Battery, etc.. 3 anos, Electric Reting Lampe Blackwood und Tenkwood Screens, a quantity of Blackwood Furniture Pictures, Engravings, a few Oil Paintings, Bath Tube, a number of lydian Carpet and Rugs, Tiger" and· Leopard Skin Rugs, anunther of Rolls of Mattings, etc. (New), and a gauntity of Bruss-Ware.
dre
A Choice Selection of
Bras Jardinieres, Vases, Ivory Figures, Japanese Tea Sets.
Also
A few lots of Bentwood Chairs (New), Bath Towels, etc.
(Full Particulars from Catalogue.)
Terms-Cast.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers,
Hoogkong, June 16, 1916.
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THE KAILAN MINING
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KAIPING
COAL
Now well-known throughout the East for
COMPULSORY SLACKERS.
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Er, "Hughes apt dengription of the porsqunel of the Grand Fleet. And thes zuuntry's opinion of its Navy could net have been embodied in a happier phrase. Like all ethers who have seen tham on their job," Mr. Hughes was impressed by the pink-of-condition. readysterinnything appearance of Admiral Fellicoe's metai. Well pay their country
be proud of them, for a long period of nover-slackening training has made then, intu she wúna vrient ship's companists chat over, manned a dest This is no bombast, only a simple, all-important truta.
Some may thick the waiting game th cary one to play. Dat the Grand Fleet kws differently. They find no easy - Lestures in itgh. Aboard all ships the day's work begins early. Hamare roumöd: st 3.3 m. by the ship's corporals, who on along the most decks calling the mea to rise and shine.Out tumble the sailors, who after stowing away their hammocks have encor smeyed out to them,
the scrubbing stown begins There are people, who believe that... » Maejacket spends a lot of his time clean- ing brightwork, As a matter of last, *** spát 'sud polish" no longer holds swaj in the Navy. Serupulous cleanliness will always remain a tradition of the sevice, „bum Flis Majesty's ships are now, grey, grim, and daisiesslike from track to keelsout. One finds in them to gleaming] brass or polished gun nuzzles to catch (the light and thus help an enemy |
**spotters."
Entil becaketin time ( am she sailors are kept husy cleaning np: various [ parts of the ship, and, of course, there')
xre officers locking after them..
When
they sentry on the half-deck strikes weren hells in the morning watch (7.30 am) the midshipmen mail other junior officers to drill. This may be small-era exercise under the instructional gunners affeer or thasstie truning under the 'direction of the physical waiting
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instrelor-otherwise - "the india-rubber. Man.** When eight o'clock arrives the colours are hoisted with whng would seem quite a pretty little ceremony TO landsman, although to naval zen it is only a part of the day's routine. As the ensign is run up on the jackstaff the band plays the National Anthem, while ever officer, and man turus sit and salutes the colours."
The following taken from a London contemporary shows that even in these times a man apparently is too old
For breaklast three quarters of an bour At 13."
·Sir-Last week my newsagent's is allowed. Mess-decks! fats, and the sun came for his weekly acconutke are then cleared up, nad si mine young
fo'clock the sup's company goes to be came in place of his 17-year division. Here they are inspected by sister. who has for years collected the the officers is large of the various divisions. After their officers have ade their reports to the captain the ship's company musters on the quarter-dock fut * On caps," says the cour prayers.
STEAM HAISING, FORGING, STEEL MAKING, SHIPS BUNKERS AND money. Your sister is not ill, I hopel
HIGHEST
750
HE Undersigned have received in: Tetiers to sell by Public Auction, (TOS ADOQUNT OF TAM CONCIRNID}
WEDNESDAY,
the 91st June, 1916, at 2.30 pm 19
at No. 9, Knutsford Terrace, Kowloon, Ground Floor,
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
Kiny
therein contained,
Full Particulars from Catalogue.)"
On view day of Sale.
Terms --Cash.
HUGHES" & HOUGE,"
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, June 14, 1915.'
JAPANESE MAKERS
Every kind of Footwear
MADE
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Compates, with the best quality English Coks for FOUNDRY, SMELTING AND HOUSEHÖLD FURPOS
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Tetting by Pablic Auction Sala, to be MONDAY, the ch day of June, beld 1916, at 3pm, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of Excallangy the Governor, One Lot of CROWN LAND at Kennedy Town
the Dolany of Hongkong for term of 8 years, with the option of renowal at Crown Bent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King for ons farther term of 10 years.
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was my greeting. "Oh no, sir," was his proud reply. I am doing the newspaper round now because my sister has secured work in a Government office.ler when prayers are over, whereupon
the men replace their caps and face for caiet petty her acts in this capacity, And she is getting 355. a week" ward. The band strikes up a lively tune In the Navy, the hoy Decote man si considered this
brother's proud and to the scumpaniment of this, officers eighteen and is rated ordinary seaman exaggeration, but on going to the father and men double" briskly round the A few special boys reach officia for my "Lloyd's" on Sunday I learned decks, aually, with the commander at mårhood at seventeen and a half, today from him that the news was trus. The their head. Donble is" Navy for "Bluejackets have to keep their band work was a little bard, he informed men, a modern worship may in
st many things, and the day's routine
Deur 50 yours wroʻthe Shy? Live Bescumadeid testimi to the benefits be received from/HIMROD'S CURE, and every pest brốn ga
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and the hours long; but 318. 6d. he anything up to two hundred made in must be varied so to give practice in CURE for weeks, with 38. 6d. overtime, was not to length, the crew cover quite a respectable all these.. fostead of guntery, and other be sacered at these hard times. NA
It started me thinking Here am Listunes during their tt round her cocks. artinezt drill the forenoon may n
an able-bodied man of 45 years, and, of Cambridge education, who since the
SETOOLS ON BILLED...
devoted to exercising statinas. Savalr
On the quarter deck they come to a organisation has become si fine art, Only
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amanship in the forenoon changing supation with those who were engaged
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war began have not curned 10s per halt again and are then told off to various those familiar with the complexity of week. With wife and family, appear duties. Soine go to gunnery instruction, warship to know how skillally matters number of ances to keep up, rent and taxes to pay, others to torpedo drill, and so on, while are arranged and what a I have to draw upon my rapidly diethe boys go to school, or rather, half of intricate Little Items of mechanism must appearing savings, all the time hoping them do: the other half are at parsl be devised to make the machine work for something to com along and peace training. In the afternoon there is a smoothly. Every possible contingency
I have been "turned down" by change rotind, so that the boys have both provided against, and there are "stations": "pen something else. In this way the whoe get an all-round training. There munitions as being too old; my name book learning and sea cre drilled into for each cue. By means of these soch
are in a warship's complement and qualifications have been posted at them in the course of the day. offer and man gets taught his place special ratings who do their own work the Labour Exchanges for many
The modern bluejacket must be his job whatever emergency may only, but there may be considered months; I am on the books at the wall edented man particularly it be arise, and as soon as the necessity comes apart from the general run of the crow. Post Office, Press Bureau, County Council, and a dozen or more other want to obtain fromotion, and in the far he goes straight to his post. This At 4 p.m. comes physical drill, which places, and I an wanted nowhere, and course of his Service life he may have explains why it is that our bluejackets ends in another doubu round thio yet we are told there is plenty of work to acquire something more than a aber auch admirable self-control and decks, and when this is over tea-time has
certain coolness who disaster overtakes" "their abcut. Where I am but one of nodding acquaintance with
Should hers not be much to do after hundreds who to-day would do anything sciences. In order that he may have ship. for a living now that our regular calling educational opportunities the Admiraty Aboard a warship there are actientes, the watch is called; in other words,
hit by the war."
has lately arranged for all first-class lips stations, fire stations, collision the watch on duty remain at work but
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to be supplied with schoolmasters. Where stations, and stations for “spandon the remainder of the crow stand easy Do school-master is bone qualifieding ship (which wars taking to the Tf the ship berat sex there will probably London, SE, May 1, 1916.
boots when the ship is inkingbe evening evolutions ordered by the Practising these comes in the day's work. Faimiral and the nature of which he will Being innstaly uservative, despite, in decide. Night duty varios. Then She progressiveness in matters that are ship is in harbour the major of the essential, the Navy adseres to old customs
eres can turn in, but where those do not militate, gains there is not much rest för efficiency Thus everyone in a ship unceasing vigilance is salutes the quarter-dock as his steps on customary time for
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have a bakery, and a staf
cooks
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prepares Jack's meals inst besis being left in the unskilled hands, of. thecook of the mesa Bot the men still choose their ow deciding this chatter
such
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some service subject
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