THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1916.
Hughes & Hough
AUCTIONEMERS TO TILE GOVERNMENT,
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Agents.
PROPRIETORS
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PUBLIC
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AUCTION.
Testructions to sell by Public Auction. THE Undersigned bare received in
(FOB ALCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),.
Οτι
FRIDAY,
the 22nd September, 1916, commencing at 2:30 pm, at their Sales Rooms, You 8,
·Des Vieux Roach Corner of
Tex Hotax Synekt, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &c
Comprising:-
Sundry Table Lintu,& few pairs Blankets, Towels, etc., 1 Forsian Carpet (practically cew), Sideboard, Diner
AUCTIONS.
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PUBLIC AUCTION. - THE Undersignedt have received in structions to sell by Public Auction, (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
SATURDAY,
the 23d Septeraber, 1918, at 11 am
at So. 10 Seymour Terrace, (Top Floor):
:
SÜNDIY
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, - £0. contained tharelb.
Comprising
Teak Hall Stand, Overmantels, Dress [ing Table (Cheval Class), Washstands, Large Wardrobe, Double and Single Beds, Shanghai Bath, &c., &c. "
Also
Piano by Rachels & Co., and a number of Pots of Plants. On view from Friday and at 3 pm. Catalogues will be issued. Terms --Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH, ductions.
PRELIMINARY NOTICE. ““
PUBLIC AUCTION
THE CHINA-MAIL.
IN THE BALKAN EXPRESS.impossible for the man in the train to
FROM BERLIN TO CONSTANTINOPLE.
PERSONAL NARRATIVE..
The impressions of a traveller who recently made the journey from Berlin to Constantinople by the Balkenzas are given in the following article which appeared in the Times of August
St- ..
express
which
WOMEN AND PAIN.
seo which way they were going. Noo a Bulgarian older Kane until some time Few en realise that about one woman altar he had been dispatched whither he in four seldom passos a tiny without suffering actual pain. If a man had to had been sent and where he was supposed endure as much pain he would stay at to be fighting.". Shut up with the doors home and let his work take sure of itself. locked the men could not tell in what But there is aubody to do the
Pock of a wife and
mother. direction they were travelling north, wife
In nearly every case her gulfuring 4 went, or sath-east.
a??
INTIMATIONS
AN OLD PROVERB
**Wine and an old friendl
are without price everywhere."
the side pans, loins with finadache, HUNT'S PORTS AND SHERRIES
and
Dr.
marvel for woman, for they impart new energy and interest in life. Dealers sell them Also obtainable, post free, $1.50 a bottle, B, for 6 bottles, From Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 60 Szechuan Road, Shangha
Along the whole line front. Derlia to take the form of backache and pains in Constantinople and even down into Syria breathlessness and a general sense of there are thousands of Belgian railway anfitness. Men, do not suffer thus, and cars. These are easily recognizable, for do not realise how much it means to a
woman They have a healthy ap
appetite they still have the Belgian marks on
Beata not. Her blood is so poor and Twice a week a train of seven cars pulls them. To these the Imperial cipher and Wons often carex little whether she Jato Barlin. It is labelled in foot-high eagle have been added. Troops are thin that it cannot deal with food, and on the more in Bulgaria, as elsewhere. therefore the stomach does not grow letters throughout all ite jangth
but they seem to be mostly away from the But enrich the blood with the special
hungry Balkanzug." This is the much-laudeline of the Balkanzug. There is not the blood builder Dr. Williams' Pink Filk, Berlin-Constantinople
entar Turkish territory. At Adrianople Notice how headaches and backaches conveys military oficers and officials to riskness that is evident immediately one and watch how soon appetite will return. and from the Turkish capital. Is has are signs of great activity. Thence disappear, and be traced up De how tired aboulders been much talked about, and for acne all the troops are evidently moving. Williams Pink Fills for Pale Feople ar time before it was actually running it
wards. That is the significant fact. was held up to the world as another of There has been a great deal written about the wonders of the way as waged by the matement of Turkish troops talo Germany
That it was a wonderful fons to run Austria and even to Germany and the All this is quite Western Front traiz from the "German capital to Condeulous. The Turks could use move stantinople is disputed, but the work of
any of their troops to the west for the preparation for the through run was a stupendou. For short a month following reaspus, among others First after the advertised time of running the and chief, the Turks cantot spate troops train was still lying in the railway yards from the defence of their own territories: secondly, transport and commissariat, to at Berlia. The dihealties in the way of the engineers were very great, and not nothing of mediest stores and equip the least serious of these were the rangement, are lacking. The Turkish troup that had been made on the permanenter kept quite distinct from the Germans. and especially Constantinoph. tere Five strong ofy by the Serbians before they felt their
friction betweenginese R cotry, Every bridge of any pretensions that one wonder how the German regime was blown up, One or more spons were stands at al: 15 is only die,
to the fact German missing, and the
military that the Germans are thera in such engiäders had a difficult task in repairing numbers and supply und organizing abifits and the backboar that the Turks lack that There are two great wireless static is in they have been castled to hold on at all. Constantinople, almost side by side. One is supposed to be the joint station of the otomas and the German Gernments, As a matter of fact the Germans manage everything with regard to it and the
THE Undersigned are sected in
structions from the Liquidators Messrs; WITZKE & Co., to sell by Public Auction on their premises.
No
Ningpo Street, Taumati,
·A Laxon: QUANTITY OF VALUABLE PLANT, MACHINERY, TOOLS, &c.,
.
including Cast Iron Serap and Metals,
As follows:
these.
-Tu Berlin cnly a few weeks ago one was impressed with the great change in the tone of the people. Extravagant elation is Do longer manifest, and certainty of victory is gone. Fear of espionage,
Own reapon bax exaggerated-their recoiled upon them se
▸, tremendous degree.
The obtaining of permit..travel.on.
thorough examination, provided with dificulty- Every passenger, aber a
AMERICAN CABLES.
[FROM FREMANTLA CARLENEW",""]
PASSENGER STEAMER BURNED
AT SEA.
ASSENGERS SAVEDAMAT
SAN FRANCISCo, Sept. 13.- Only scanty details have been received here of the os of the steamship which was burned at sea yesterday Contras of the Pacific Coast Company,
according to the latest advices received here were 231 passengers on bout and here, all were saved,
Messages indicate that the passengers were saved just in the nick of time, the thumes breaking through the decks of the been transferred to vessels
steamer
Turks, are casters of it in faey enly board hamedistely after those on
Waggon, Dining Tables and - Chairs, --tal Compound Non-Condensing the Balkan express is a matter of extrem. The other station is--frankly Garmin. I standing. Hank 30 miles out of Coo
Chesterfold
Sofas, Ann-chairs, &..
several lots of Blackwood Ware,.2 Piano, a few lets Porcelains, &c., Fantry and Kitchen Utensils,
·
The
One Electric Lighting Set, consisting of Highspeed Vertical Steam Engine &c. &e, complete with Mountings and Switchboard, Marine Multitubular Boiler with
Furnace, Boiler complete with all and Feed Pump One
4 worked by Germans and guarded by Wardrobes and Toilet Tabian, Doable Stout and Stomge Tanks, Several Engine with Pipe Connection
cure. And, no Bay, Washington. That the passengers them with the urgost and Single Brass and Brass-mounted
Geared Double
due solely to the prompt succour given red Screw. Cutting and
Ther
are Germans everywhere by vessels which raced to the scene of Bedsteads, A., Miscelkacous Furniture Surfacing Lathes,, Bhears of varying train ticket like a passport, which in fact Tarkish subject is allowed near and crew of the steamor were not lost.is)
lengths Planing Machine com it really is. It bears the portrait of the
Constantinople. There are German the buming ship, summoned by wireless plete with Pulleys tc 1 Shaping traveller and all partiears of que to the soldiers and German sailors. The latter calls
The Congress was a steamer of 7,000 Machine complete with Shaft, Slotting Blaching complete power and police and the military. These parti are from the Gouben and the Breslau. tens gross and was operated between hand-driven Screwing Machine Shaft, culars arewatten in German and which are now lying up a side basin of San Francisco and Seattle by the Pacific
fiscellaneous Assortment of Dies Ler Turkish for the train is supposedly owned the Bosphorus. It is evident that the Coast Company. tical Double Geared. Drilling Maching and run by the two countries... Aylattor has finished her career. Her stern. Oras Double Hr Geared matter of fact this is the cause of a great all built up with masonry and concrete, complete (Full Particulars from Catalogue. Vertical Drilling Machine (equivalent deal of friation between the two Govern and this has shaken loose, for, the Terms: Cash
o two machines) by Appleyard & Co.,
ments. The true state of the affair is Halifax, England. HUGHES & HOUGE,
Auctioneers
One Double Column Steam Hammer that the train is a Turkish train when it optimistic Tarks took her to say, and the vibration played havce with the mortar. complete with all connections, One Belts in Ottoman lorrátory," but immediately 1042 driven Draught Blower for Blacksmith
gigantic tooth, done very badly, and then Shop completa with connections, One is leaves it becomes a German train, Ke, repair look like the stopping" el 'a
re Washing Tank with agitating Gear the train attendants are Germany.
-knocked loose again. The German svar &ex
THE MARK OF THE TELTON.
ها محمد
"A selection of Brass Jardinieres, Vases, Finger Bowls, etc.
Hongkong, Sept. 16/1916.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
HE Undersigned have received in structions to sell by Public Auction, (FOR LOCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED)...
14 -on
TUESDAY
the 28th September, 1918, commencing t2.30 p.m., of their Sales Booms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street, VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,
ko,
As Follows
Several Carpets and Rugs Upholstered Suites, Arm-chairs and Sofas, Card Tables, Bedroom Furniture, comprising Double Brass-mounted Bedstead, Twin Beristeads (Tealwood), Sideboard, Dinner. Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, Tea and Occasional Tables, etc, etc., Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Sets, de, Bath Room Utensils, Large Foli-top Desks and Writing Table, eto, aquantity of Electro Plated Ware,
Also
1 Large Wall Clock" London make,” 1 Collection of Butterflies in Cabinet, *Caille" Portable Motors, with Battery, etc., complete, 1 Piano in good condition, Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood and Teakwood Screens, a quantity of Black- wood Furniture Pictures, Engravings,
Ant
One New Gent's Bicycle, 2 Typewriters A special selection of Brass Jardin jeres, Vases Finger Bowls, etc..
(Full Particulara from Catalogue). TERMS: Casb
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Hongkong, Sept. 13, 2016.
3061
PUBLIO AUOTION,
THE Undersigned have received in strictions to sail by Public Auction,
(FOR ACCOUNT. OV. TEX CONGENINKO).
ל
AN EARLY DATE.
The following LIGHTHOUSE GEAR éal koj› viz b
One occulting apparatus, complete...
Circular wick lamps.
Spare burners.
Cylinders and wicke Incandescent Petrol ppurtenances.
Hind
A quantity of gear pertaining qoring Buoys, :
number of Locomotive wheels and
igner
HUGHES & HOUGH;
Audionure:
Ore
Shafting $200
Встар
A negu varied assortment of Braas Valves and Corks, Brass Rods, Machine Screws, Copper Fipes, Copper Plates,
And
..THE
"OPEN DOOR IN CHINA.
JAPAN'S ASSURANCE TO AMERICA:
WASTANprox, Sept
Ambassador Guthrie, the representative
THE GREAT LABOUR STRIKE IN NEW YORK.
men are mostly quartered on a Hamburg of the United States at Tokyo. has in Pulleys Assorted Belting, & largo. With characteristic thoroughness the American liner tying by the Galats formed the State Department that "the quantity of Miscellaneous Material, Teuton has effaced all the notices that Tridge.: Sho is wwad as a store ship and Japanese Government has formally noti Tools, E., Tubes and Piping Steel Bars, were printed is English or French This a base depot for the naval ratings of the fed him that there is no danger to the Wapen doet in the action now being Wrought Iron, Steel and Cast Iron has been carried out in a manner that is Goeben and the Bresist.
The distress in the city is terrible, taken by Japan in China, really childish. For instance, the notices as to hot air for the beaters which hitherto The widows and children of the men who were printed in English, French, and have been killed are starving." "bey women were given, à pittance as German, have been altered, the English receive no sid from the Government.
NEW YORK, Sept. 14. and a Turkish translation added.
All long hair men were alive, but wher,
An addition to the number of strikers through the train there are motives warn their husbands were killed the pension, in the travellers as to talking of military if it can be called soch. reused This is this city of 10,000 labour union mem matters and suggesting that spies are the only official notification of death hers is possible on Saturday, for this overywhere. They are plastered in every that wires ges of the loss of husbands number have soted' in' favour of action The currency becomes more and mofein sympathy with the street-car employes. Carriage and in all the corridors.
Paper his 31eanwhile all Mayor Mitchel's efforts to addition they are on all the stations until embarrassing every Cay [1049 one becomes almost sick of the sight of declined fully 40 per cent. in value, and persuade the surface transportation com is still rapidly depreciating. All the panies and their employees to arbitrato
SUNDRY OFFICE FURNITURE,
(Full Particulars from Catalogue.) Time and date of Sale will be published later.
TERMS Cash:
HUGHES & HOUGH
Auctioneers, Hongkong, Sept. 18/1916.
TANG YUK, DENTIST, Success
the late SIEN TING,
D'AGUILAR STREET.
TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation free.
FRENCH LESSONS
G. MOUSSION.'
them..
In
1
FOREST FIRES IN CALIFORNIA.""
As the train passes through the various mocetary transactions are in the bands have failed. countries along, the route the populace is of the Jews, who make enormous prost immensely interested. The stops ara fin.changing gold into paper money or short, pone, longer than 20 minutes; so vice seroid into. Breaden-only seven minutes are allowed.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14. Thousands of persons are engaged in fighting fores; fires which are sweepin wide sections of the state.
PRUSSIANS IN COSTRUŽ
ans have recently installed. Passengers may not leave the station, but The Germans Are expected to keep to the platform. For several Prussians in the Government the most part the travellers are German departments of the Porte. Tae Under and Austrian officers and officials, but a Secretaries of the Ministries, of Agricul few Turks use the train for journeys, as ture and Post and Telegraphs are beta the fire will be enormous.. far even as Berlin, where now the tarbush Germans. The former has immense may be seen in the streets
power, which he can and does Running through Serbia the most undoubtedly make use of for his real impressive signs of the German occupation roasters He has charge of all the wero the encampments of the troops Agricultural Bank moneys, and na
The damage to timber destroyed
PRESIDENT WILSON AT HIS SISTER'S BEDSIDE.
"NEW LONDON, Conn. Sept. 14.
alongside the permanent way. There are Turkey has been raising a great deal of President Wilson remains in this city! huge notices up at all stations warning the her revenue from the land, much difuntil the outcome of his sister's illness inhabitants to keep away from the rail-Phamaly did, it is useful to the Germans. is known. The President's sister is way. No and legallowed on the platform Turkey, started a campaign for the Mrs. Annie. Fowe, who is in a hospital Because the whole country is still infected restoration of the Turkish language for hete enfering from an attack of peri- with typhus, and there has to be the most general use in the Olfaraan dominions tonitis.
315, Merrison Hill Road rigorous, supervision for this reason. An All signs other than those in Turkish
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along the line may be seen the trenches were to be taken down. This was done. and the rusty bacbed. wire entanglements but it was impossible for her to carry on that tall of the fighting months ago. At the reform completely. The "German each little fortified excampment German would not allow it, and now there reg scidlers have planted vegetable gardéné mora German signs than ever in the over which may be read the legend, streets of Stambul. There are the usual Kriegszoker's War Garden There spy notices, and it addition prory mani festo that has been published is displayed
UNITED STATES CONSULAR REPORT.
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Sanaphos,
Cheen's Bulkings
Immediate
ment for Overworked, Underfed
Nerves and Brain
Within ten minutes you
bu will feel distinctly the beginning of the undeniabl: benefit that Sanaphos gives you. Yet it is. not to be corfised with härmful stimulants, which only make matters worse. It is not a stimulant, not a drug; it is an energising food, which almost instantly begins to give new strength to your nerves and to your body.
Sanaphos
To restore your physical fitness ; to restore poise of the nerve sys- iento repair the results of weari ness and overwerk;-take a glass of, Sanaphor on rising, at mid-morning, mid-afternoon, and oe going to
bed.
For Sleeplessness, irritability. De
pression, Derangement of Health, Antilles Overstrained or Unders Ted Nerves, Sanaphor is unequalled. Thousands of Doctors, Nurses. and laymer testify to superiority, Your own experience will prove that it does all that weasky-it- does.
free sample, mentioning his name, and a if your chemist has not Sanaphon wrże for. tral package will be sent to you free and post-aid. Supplies can be obtained from any of 1 following Wbolsalg Agania: Firebare & Co., Hong Kong: The Queen's Dispensery, "Ilone Kong.
Whalele tributors for louts and Far East: Daian. Brothers, ~Lsčiu, Muddiquez Sweet, London, Englanzi,
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When buying Worcestershire Sauce, always look for the signature in White
Lee Kuring
on the Red label, and see also that the name LEA & PERRINS is embossed in raised letters on the glass bottle... →→ LEA & PERRINS label and bottle are copied to such ru extent that these precautions are necessary, in order to make sure that you are being supplied with the original and genuine Woradershire and not one of the many imitationsG
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The latest dicprery of modern times, in without equalis all cases of defective serve and braÍN POWER A whether induced by worer, oreswork, dissipation, or other kunnences, deepiestess, palpitation, detective circulados, nervous dysepsia; did or neuralgia low splata, mental and bodly prostration, the vital forces, form of vitsilty, apt of comndence, general debunty, prematurs Geesy or deficiency of 2.1. Stacarandatg«MERIE/TEStesendes that camí settle to
( DORNERIPCION, BIEŽť HOCɛts, inddy' high-autosted) Water Accy are bikses metry diferent phaser of beaks and nerve wreckage and by the of this salatine, the case of by far the cuffer portion of thermal and desponden which we em confronted on very hand that can only be
Dyk, backache, DESTIE COwa sensaños, sedang walablity of tauper, female coquotsinte,
were no signs of their having planted: German on the walls and lamp posus | writes that in the laws, governing insur-wonderful said libghly scientist preparations: Bracing up the system generally; it givestose to the:
wheat or grain
Through Berbis hearly all the bridges This has irritated the Turke rasenselyance in Japan, despite the fact that theebated preste all things witting discharge commerthealing coupon and of any size had been destroyed, at lenat It lias shown them in asil Way, just legal system of Japan is modelled on the partially Often whole spans had been how much they are under the Prussian systems of continental Europe, the ta- blown out. In many cases the Germans thurib.
with
had replaced these,, moving them bodily great pains to their old positions. In some of the other bridges, where the girders and way were so badly imaged Be to dely repair temporary widges on wooden trestles had bean bulty These structures may serve during the summer genson, but they could not stand eTED O moderate food. The work, therefore, still, goes op, and in time the old bridges will be reconstructed.
ELINDFOLD FELÜLETANI,
A whole day is spent in the journey through Bulgaria, Thare one 60s. Jine after lino of tallway carriages, all with their windows, whitewashed. Germans and Bulgarians" state openly for this decorative work.
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body.
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surance regulations were carefully drawn up to embody the practices and usages of
„Englab precedenta England and followed in the fadrnaté docstions ? fen- dered by the courts: No insurance business has been undertaken by the State, but iz October, 1916, the Co emmout is to inagurate at kystem of cheap insurance for the boating classes The Brst instance company Japan was formed in 1870 Frith capital accumulated by 40
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and the influential connections Atockholder this concert me mocem să to encouragé thể": Damerous other companies accident, as well as mari these's courpenies"
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