WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1916.
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MEIBION KONGKONG.
FUBLIC AUCTION,
THE
HE Undersigned hare received Instruc.
-tions, to sell by Public Auction.
{POR, ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNT>},
on
FRIDAY,
the 4th Aug., 1918, nr.
2.30 pm, at their Sules Rooms, No. 10,
Des Yunix Rond, Corner of
"Ion Hover STREET, One inch TRANSIT THEODOLITE by Troughton & Sizams of London in good condition,
-Ons (practically new) ORAMAPHONE with Cabinet and Records. Alid
Oce LEATHER SEWING MACHINE
Terms: Cash.
HUGHES & HOUea.
Auctioneers,
Honprozr. Ang. 1. 1930.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received in structions to sell by. Public Auction,
FRIDAY,
the 4th Aug, 1916, at 3.30 pm, at their Sales Rooms No
Des Voeux Road, Corner of
Ice House Street,
One BLACKWOOD CABINET,
6. BLACKWOOD CHAIRS, SUNDRY SILVER and
Trans-Cash
PLATED WARE
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.
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PUBLIC ECTION.
Undersigned have received instrie-
gul of Public Auction,
(IUS ACCOUNT OF TEZ CONCERNED),
G
FRIDAY,
Hongkong Masars, Hughes and Hough have received instructions to sell by Publin Auction,
On
FRIDAY,
the 11th day of August, 1018, at 3'p.m., at their Suler Room, Ice House
Street, Victoria, Hongkong... The following Valuable Leasehold Property situate at Victoria, Hongkong
viz :---
And
"
ALL THOSE pieces or parcels of ground situate at Victoris aforesaid and known and registered in the Land Office SECTION A OF MARINE LOT No. 101 SECTION B OF MARINE LOT No.101. Together with the messuages erections and building thereon known as No. 7, Queen's Central, Victoria, aforesaid. Term, See years created by a Crown Lease dated the 8th day of April, 1858.
Area in respect of Section A of
Marine Lot No. 101-94-48 Square Fest, Proportion of
*
Annual Crown Rent. 88445 Arce in respect of Section B of
.;t.
Marine Zet No: 101 675 Square Feet, Proportion of
Annual Crown Rent. $6.75 For further particulars and conditions of sale apply to
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER
Prince's Buildings, Ice House
- Strect, Hongkong. Solicitors for the Liquidators of The Deutsch Asiatische Bank,
or to
Meurs HTGHES and "HOUGH.
The Auctioneers. Hongkong, ith-May-1910-
AND
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THE CHINA MAIL.
An important step for the daralopment of British trade was taken by the Govern mant some time ago in setting up the Advisory Council for Salezlife and Industrial Research, under the chairman, ship of S-William M'Cormick.
This coundlf-reflecting in a menanta the consolcas teaching and preaching of Lord Haldane in pre-war days-le working | partly through standing committees of experts in differant, trades--experts on the scientific as well sa, the industrial and commercial side--and one of the sims of hross committees is to encourage research work in this country, and 100 that we get the benefit of any good results.
When the Standing Committee on Engineering held its first meeting recently, Sir A. Selby Bigge, secretary to tho Committee of the Privy Council for contine and Industria Research. sitended, and emphasised the importance attached by the Government to the need for greatly increased activity in research
in connection with industry. ...
Trepresenting bola, the scientific and industrial aides) includes the following members nominated by professida associations s
Institution of Mining Engineer-r
William Garforth, Dr. John Habians, FRS, Dr. RT Moors, and Mr. Wallace Thornaycroft. Instrution of Mining and Metallurgy
Mr. Edward Hooper and Mr. Edgar Taylor &
Iron and Steel Institute Professor H.
Louis
THE INDUSTRIES OF HANKOW.
The Commissioner of Customs" i aukow in his report on the trade of the fort during 1018 (just published) says:
Through the courtesy of lie. Z. T, K. Woo, the Superintendent
of the Hanyang Iron and Steel Works, I am asbled to
South Wales Institute of Engineers-give the following resume of the work
Mr. Gascoynal: Dalziel.
done during 1915. by the Han-feb-Ping Also the following memebers appointed Iron and Coal Company, Limited. The directly by the Advisory Conneil
output of the iron and steel works was
Sir Hugh Ball, B., Mr. Hugh Bram. well, Lient. Col. W. C. Blackett, Mr. Bedford HaNeill, fr. Hugh F. fastor Cadman, Professor Frecheville,
Marriott, Sir Beterton Redwood, B and Mr. O S Rhoden
THE CIRPRICES OF CLIO..
follows matin iron, 14,908 tons:
50,778 tocs mild steel, 16,134 tons. The foundry Iron, 101,886 tons; rail steel,
output of the Taseh Iran mines was
545,819 tons of fron ore, sad that of the
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Sir William Garforth in chairman. The Plagninas Dolliery was 950,000, tousj of (1) The mining of iron, coal and hydrothe year the following additions to the committee is divided into two sections coal and 273,000 tons of coke. During carbons; and (3) the mixing of other plant were completed or in hand: one minerals.
į blast furnace, capacity 250 tons per diem; eight Babcock Wilcox, boilers; one steel chimney, one Turbo blowerz plans for unloading ore sad stone and Fooding pis mad steel products, mechanically on the (wharves ; machinery for removing pig iron. from the casting bed and pig-breaking: There are it is said, two sides to every open-hearth fyrnaestol 70, tons; and, in question. Most, however, have many the dolomite mill, fra enleining cupolas more. A question resensoles a plane and grinder An. Improred water sys igure bounded by at least three straight ten to utilise water from the river, for lines." that is, three opposing views which the recessary settling beds and which, however far produced can never water channels have brou also completed. coincide. History, however preseries During the gene there was a rise in value but one side in many cases, and that is, of V per cent. in pig iron and ovar, 100 Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice. in his opening statement, is chairmas, referred to several too often incomplete. Just as we have per cent. In steel structural materials. important aspects of the Government handed down to us the bead of cnu The present star comprises 17 Chinese scheme, issued in July 1915, in particulae Aphrodite, whose nose is broken, and man, oue foreign chemist, 2 generat
Grees Apollo and the boot of another, one engineers. 10 foreign engiorem and fore- TONIGHT! the importance of British industriesnother without as ear, and from these staf, 2,000 skilled workmen, and 1,500 getting as large a share as possible of the full value of resuita of successful remains we are able to form an idea of labourers." researches, and retaining at least the whats the whole once was, so, in the As to the other les industries, the initial advantages derived from them,
same way, history has given us a partial Wachnag Cotton Milly seem to have had and mutilated view of her characters, good year, and a profit of 700,000 tuels by which we must guang and perchance is reported to have been made. Owing arrive at the vision of be true mesi to the strained relations betweco China
fathom, we have left to us a fost deal grew up big demand for local cotton For some reason, too deep for us to and Japan-in the spring of 1913, there
about the ancient Greeks and Romans, raza, and more orders were received than and hardly word on the subject of the could be executed. The output of yarn former inhabitants of Timbuktos or Fiji.is unid to have been 40,000 bries of 800 Many of us could have dispensed with catties csch. Four qualities of
shirtings Liry's History of Rome, but how in were manufacturel, beaider canvas and feresting would be Professor Bobo's cutton duck. 1,500 pieces is the caily chronicles of the Great War between the cutpat. A part of thrills is now under inhabitants of Hawaii and Kiantchon in repair and when completed it is exti the year 9675 BC. Then again, we mated the daily output of piece goods will know nothing of the heroes who must amount to 2,000 pieces «The zilk factory. have lived in ancient Babylon, and run in conjunction with the cotton mills, Assyria, while all ages (il the next chat also a prosperous year, o brisk Hongkong, 1st. August, 1676. food) will read the pagan Achilles, demand having urison for will products
On the same date, FRIDAY, the 11th August, 1916. after sale of the property above des eribed, a sala by PUBLIC AUCTION. will be commenced within the Building, No. 7 Queen's Road Central, formerly the
TO MEET THE COMMON ENEMY. premises of the. Deutsch Asiatische
Applications for aid in research, he said; Bank, of the Valuable Office Furniture, I must be cest with or a broad lines as Electric Fittings, Etc. Ele contained possible, withons red-tape and with on the Ground Floor and Basement of the said premises,
constant regard to the ultimate object of Ax fullows:-
the Government scheme, which is to help Four Large Fire Proof Safes, Combina the industrial community of the Empire zion Cabinet Safes. Large and Small in the contest with the common trade Desks Bookcases, Teakwood Seats and enemy. Applicants should make it clear Stools Leather-covered Upholstered whether results, if obtained, were to be Desk and Arm-chaire Sofas and Settees,
Clocks Typowriters, aplicators garded as confidential, for, in arranging Copying Press Filing Cabinets, Book experimental work, the Committee mans etc. etc. Ceiling Fans, Electric avoid conditions calculated to help foreign Brackets, very powerful Electric Ceiling competitors. Lights, Reading and Desk Lampa etc., etc.
(Full Particulars from Catalogue.)
FORSALE.
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come
Itin
the 4th Angust, 1916, commencing STEAM ROCK" DRILL completed combined efforts were ceded to very severe. at King John, a coniem. With one hour's"read ai zoon! - second)
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An extremely exciting story of American Diplommer, in which a Hydroplane aares the situation.
Much time and money had been spent on research in the works of individual On view fror Friday, 4th Augus purpose far exceeded the sume at the swift of foot and the Christian Sex from abroad, Shercoeconi, used.
firma, whose aggregate expenditure for the until day of sale." 非
Terais --Cash.
disposal of the Committee of Council, and genot. O'Leary who killed nine Germans principally, from Jenyangchow and Han JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER from the industrial side such work by single handed (This, we are told, does chwanhsien in Hupeh, province, The
Solicitors
firms appealed to him as the post hopeful not constitute a record. Some Years Wuchen-Mills have since the beginning A83 for the Liquidator of the
arrangement. But the Government, had before, one Samson killed forty Philis. 1910 added, a-hemp factor to the 12 Deutsch Asiatische Bank made a decided step forward by showing times with the jaw bone of an ass other, undertakings, JJ Will, manufact HUGHES & HOUGH,
their interest in industrial research and Our recorda sta zot only incomplete, į kura, ironi a mixture of hemp, xlk, and Auctioneeri
though he expected much more from tho they are also misleading. The particular cotton, a fancy cloth or gauze, which is Hongkong. July 28, 1916.
scheme, the gain would be great if the Pharuch with whom Moses chanced too much worn by the Chinese only result were the training of research fall out, was probably not quite so hard expected that there will be a big demand T
But research and experimental work in him. Neither way Moses always to illa for the three above concerns is .cr of heart as the chronicler has portrayed for this cloth from all the provinces. The total number of empinges of the cotton themselves would not win back industries "moukest of men," if we may recall on 6,000-males and serde 1,000 females. The that should never have left an, or even incident in his career. There are other working hours are from 6 am: till 7 p.m.. 11 retain those we still possessed. Individual people, too, on whom the histories ara secure that the products of this country porary chroniclet says: Hel, foul acotton, with a capital of 4,000,000 should find their way to those who need it is, is defled by the fouler presence of teals, is shortly to be established on the them at home and abroad, and to see that John. And yet John was only a cruel, echang share, opposite the British Con what is wanted is supplied by our cowardly and lustful mad, and that might emion Representativen have already. industries. He hoped it would be possible well have been said about the majority one to Shanghai for the purchase of the to co-operats with our fellow countrymen of his contemporaries, After all, the machinery and plant. beyond the seas in carrying out many historian, though a Churchmen, was but useful investigations." :
mortal, and as John had robbed him of his lands and living, we may divide his
are the truth. And, in the same way, we may all said to be 400 reams. The Hupeh pro- Chinese newspapers. The daily output suffer ab, the hands of history · Most of Institution of Civil Enginears-Sirus, no doubt, Clio will pass over without incial paper mills at: Wachang zemained
Maurice Fitzmaurice, C.M.G.
so much as a mod. If she does deign to considerable talk of shifting end com- closed throughout the yea Thera, is Institution of Electrical Engineers. Dotice us at all, it may be in this wise.bining it with the Seven Mile Creek mill.
Mr. J. 8 Highfield.
In the Heips to the Study of the The Yangtze Engineering Works, here
at 230 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No: 8,
Des Voeux Road, Corner
of Ice House Street,--
A NUMBER OF LOTS OF HOUSKHOLD FURNITURE, ..
Comprising —
Seretal Carpets and Ruga, Sideboards, Dinner Waggon, Dining Tables and Chair, 2 Chesterfield Sofas, Arm-chai, do., Wardrobes and Toilet Tables; Double and Single Brass and Brase-mounted Bedsteads, &c., Miscellaneous Furniture, weyoral lots of Blackwood Waro, Pianos, a few lots Porcelains, &c., &c., Ico.Chests Also
Tea Sets, etc. And
A number of Lots of Matting, don &c, Gaille Motor, Complete, fient's Bicycles, &c..
(Full Particulars from Catalogue.) TERMY:-Cath.
HUGRES & HOUGH, Austianeers'
· Hongkong," July 27, 2010,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received in
structions from the Liquidators of -Cha. J. GAUrr & Co. to sell by Public
Auction
SATURDAY and MONDAY,, the 12th & 14th August, 1916, commencing each day at 10:30 am, at their Premise's Alexansira Buildings, Chater Rouil, VALUABLE STOOK IN TRADE
Comprising Gold and Gem Jewellery English, American and Swiss 18ct and 14c. Watches Silver and Nickel Watches; Diamonde Pearls; Marine Chrono- moters, Láquid Steering Compases; Log Rotators; Dinkers; Thomson Compaas Cards Board of Trade and Standard Mercuria Burometers Megaphones Arsemometers, Squares Set Squares;
SE 3) ins. NEW TYPE-TAPPET-
with numerous spares, also ONE STEEL VERTICAL CROSS TUBE BOILER with all fittings working pressure 80 lbs. per square inch mounted on trolley.
Apply GILMAN & Co., For full particulars. Hongkong, July 12, 1916.
830
THE Undersigned have received in
structions to sell-
(FOS ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED), nt. their Sales Rcoins, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice HousD STREET, One GRAND PIANO by Brinsmead, in perfect order, cost £150.
And One ORGAN by Mason & Hamlin, Eleven Stops, in good order. Further Particulars and inspection may be made an application to the Undersigned.
Terms as usual.
BUGEES & HUUCH,
Auctioneers,
Hongkong, July 15, 1918,
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