WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1918.
AUCTIONS.
Hughes & Hough.
AUCHIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.
General Anctionsara
hare, Coal and Genera Produce
Brokers and Commission
Agenta.
PROPRIETORS
fant Coal Storage.
Codes used
Bentley's
A. 3. & 4th & 5th Editions.
A Telegraphic Code.
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Telegraphic Addres KIIBION* HONGKONG.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
E2 Undersigned have received in- stractions to sell by Public Auction. (FO ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
On
FRIDAY,
the 29th September, 1916, commencing at 8.30 pm, at their Sales Fooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of
ICE HOUSE STREKT, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,&c. Comprising →
1 Persian Carpet (practically new), Sideboards, Dinner Waggon, Dining Tabies and Chairs, 2 Chosterfeld Sofas, Arm chairs, &c., Wardrobes and Toilet Tables, Double and Singlo Bramand Brass-mounted Bedsteads, &c., Miscellaneous Furnitate, several lots of Blackwood Wars, 2 Pianos, a lew fota Porcelaina, &c., Pantry, Bath Room and Kitchen Utensils,
A selection of Brass Jardinieres, Vases, Finger Bowls, etc.
Full Particular from Catalogne.) Terms:--Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
ductioneers.
Hongkong, Sept. 23, 1916.
PUBLIO AUCTION.
1025
THE Undersigned have received instruc.
tions to sell by Publie auction,
(TOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNEŃ),
on
SATURDAY,
the 30th September, 1916, -
at 10.30 am, nt theirSales Rooms, No. 8,
De-Feat Pond, Corner of Ice sea
House Street
A
A MISCELLANEOUS STOOK
Comprising
Gent's Shirts, Woollen Singlets, Punta Dressing Gowns, Bath Robes, a number of Pairs of Boots and Shoes, Toilet Soaps, Bath and Face Towels, Hosiery, &o, &c. Blankets, Table Cloths, Counterpanes,
a quantity of White Alpaca, a few Lots
PUBLIO AUCTION,
SCOTTISH LETTER.
(From Our Oson Correspondent.)
EDINBURGH, August 70.. THE DEER OF SUTHERLAND'S OUT.
THE CHINA MAIL.
PARTICULARS and Conditions of the
Though its precise locality is not letting by Public Auction Bale, held on MUNDAY, the stud day of October stated, the 13,000 acres presented to
happy times, when the life of many amount of wood is already down and possessed a larger leisureliness. They dressed. The boys have undertaken say that the gravity of the problema by agreement to complete a month of the futura will kill out this and at the camp, and some of them will many other of our sports and amuse extend their stay by two weeks niente. But although it is possible Whether the scheme will be a com that much of the land devoted to martial subgena it is too soon to say. grouss and to deer will be reclaimed, The Timber Committee, apart from there will reruin a vast acreage that initial outlays, are prepared to supply cannot be devoted to better purposes. A certain amount for running
when the experiment is useful and
INTIMATIONS
AN OLD PROVERB
Wine and an old friend
are without price everywhere."
1916, 433 pm, to the Cities of the the the nation by the Duke of Sutherland alhoting, at a time of the yarn and oxpenses; but eran if there is a sli HUNT'S PORTS AND SHERRIES
term of 75
No. of BRÍ.
jorality
the
Boundary
(approximate.).
..
W
Works Department, by Order of His for the settlement of ex-sailors and wearled bodies and mists call for beneficial. The value of i should por Excellency the Governor of Dex-soldiers is understood to he be open air and relaxation, is too deeply be entirely measured by the amount
CROWN LAND Kowloon the Colony of Hongkong, for a
years, with the option tween Tongue Bay and Torrisdale rooted in our natures to be killed out of wood which is cut. -În u wider newal at a Crown Rent to be fired by Bay. It a map is consulted, it will even by au irruption of the Huns sense in a sense that should not be the Surveyor of His Majesty, the King be found at the top of Scotland.were that, many be, in the mean lost sight of at the present moment, for one farther term of 75 years.
time the sport of the moors is not sa-the scheme has a distinct value in on the north shore of Sutherland-muor a private indulgence as the way of making manly self-reliant Partibulars of the Lab.
shiro, half way between Thurso, and national service. The guna are youths. The open air conditions and Cape Wrath. It lies to the west of speaking everywhere, cot always surroundings it in with the imagina
dron the shoulders of sportsmen protive side of the boys.naturce, and the famous birch-alad Strath Navar
perly so-called, to keep down the behind it is the inspiring thought that and it adjoins the land in possess on stock of birds and to provide the food they are doing something for their of the Congested Districts Board. market. It is pleasant to record that country in the rest orisis of the
Some 5,000 acres are set apart for inost of the bags never find their way world. afforestation, and it is proposed to straight from the moors to furnish the to private houses, they are sent
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE QUESTION.. plant 800 acres a year, so as to give tables of those who have done their
Since the beginning of the war the employment not only to the new bit, who are lying in the hospitals drink traffic has come in for a good settlers, of whom there will be at and sanitariums that som er the deal of abuse, as a factor taking the cutset" not more than 30, but Jength and breadth of the land. against us in our chances of vistory. Reports to hand state that birds are A distiller with whom I had a chat also to the men occupying the adjoin-fairly numerous, and that little or no the other day put the other side of ing small holdings. The land is disease is found. In some districts the question. He pointed out how regarded by experts as very suitable the severe winter and the very wet important alcohol was in the manu- weather during the nesting season facture of munitions, and added-- "If that this State forestry experiment size of the coveys. for timber, and there are good hopes had the effect of greatly reducing the this had been a teetotal country and we had had no distilleries the war would have been finished in a few weeks against us."
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2015136
PUBLIC. AUOTION.
1068
THE Undersigned have received in structions to sell by Public Auction, (TOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCHANAD)...‚'
on
AN EARLY DATE. The following LIGHTHOUSE GEAR
dc.'&c. viz:-
One occaiting apparatus complete. Circalur wick lamps.
Spare burners."
· Cylinders and wicks.
in Scotland, will meet with success. The size of the 20 small holdings to bo created has not been determined, but good arable land will be set apart to supply the men with the neces sities of life and enable them to live
in confort.
The Duke of Sutherland's gift Incandescent Petrol Lamps, and marks a complete change from the appurtenances
And
A quantity of gear pertaining to the Mooring Buoys,
Also
A number of Locomotive wheels and
Axles.
from the undersigned.
other particulars may be obtained Terms:-19 usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers,
・
Họng Đã dug 4, 1916
KEATINGS LOZENGES
cure the worst Cough
F:0 R
SALE.
Sutherland
GIRL GARDENERS.
In the gardens and nurseries round Edinburgh women are at present largely employed, and at the close of the war it is probable that most of them will continue in their new occupation. The supervisor of one of the departments in a large nursery was previously an assistant in a large Princes Street shop, and she is firm
counter shall see her no more.
SCOTTISH SPORT.
The cricket season is drawing to a close, and last week's matches were without special feature. In the two leading games, West of Scotland drew with Poloc, and Greenock with Drumpollies.
Association football starts Saturday. The conditions will be
policy of the past. Ever since the in her determination that a shop the same as last season, when neither? unhappy days of what are known as Another girl who had been engaged cup ties nor mid-week matches were
clearances;'*---
in an Edinburgh office was also quite played. Certain clubs will not be which were partly due to the econo- clear that she would not return to favourably placed, as the military mic conditions of the Napolennic the desk and the pen and ink except authorities have called up a number wars-strained relations have exist. under compulsion. The healthfulness of the outstanding players."
No
ea between many of the Highland of the out-door work is the chief doubt they will all procure teams, but ottraction. The girls' faces and aring the League as a competition will lairds and their tenants. In Suther-are olive-tinted. by the sun, and as suffer, as the clubs are not equally Landshire, the home of the old High they said, they have a fine "bloom." afected.
A PROUD MAN.
land Land League, the memory of The improvement in their appearance. 064 the evictions bred traditional bos-is so marked thas where a girl has A Scots padre tells how he stopped tilty to the owners of the great some time there is certain to be land Light Infantry in one of our been employed in the gardens for at the bed af a soldier cf the High- setates. But evidently brighter days applications from her companions in hospitals. As the conversation went am dawning, and the present Duke the city to be taken on. The work on, the soldier began to feel at his bids fair to be remembered as one of done by the girls includes potting ease, and at last he said, "I am a the best friends of the crofters. The pruning, weeding, and watering, and proud man the day.""How, '* Duke, reared in his beautiful High seems to be congenial and interesting asked the padre. "Here am I, and land home, has from his earliest from restraint, with an opportunity sons, and I charged with one on each from its variety. There is a freedom I was in the trenches with my two years been greatly attached to the for the exercise of intelligence and side of me, and we We all people of Sutherlandshire, and since initiative which contrasts favourably wounded. This sucoession is the family estates with some of the more monotonous he has done much to wipe out an- and confining occupations to which 'cient grievances. As a candidate for tions and conventions are easily
they have been accustomed. Trad Parliamentary honours he gained a surrendered in these days, and further knowledge of the aspirations nowhere more easily than in the of the humble folk. He has already gardens. Some of the girls found done much to mest
themselves hampered by their skirts," them. And it is evident that the cry to repeople altire; one of them, indeed, appears and they have now adopted male
generations has not been made to quite a smart military appearance.. him in vain
SCHOOLBOYS AND TIMBER CUTTING.
?
FOREIGN STUDENTS AT GERMÁN “TECHNICAL__HIGH_SCHOOLS.
of Grass Cloths, Rain Coota, &c, Hoklaits NEW broad carriage TFFING the glens which has come down the in knickers and puttoes, and presents eagerly discussed; it has 1
and Suit Cases, &c.,
Also
A number of Suit Longtba, Bina Serge. Tweed, Vicuna, Flannell, &c., &c.
TermsCash,
HUGHES & BOUGE,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, Sept. 25, 1916.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
MACHINE for sale.
Price $70.00 or less
Please apply to TC
*CHINA MAIL Bongkong, Sept. 25, 1918.
107
O MARTIN'S
APIOL&STE
THE Undersigned have received in Mesars WITEKE & Co, to sell by Public Anétion,
ст
WEDNESDAY,
the 4th October, 1816, commencing
at 10.30 am on their promises, No. 1 Ningo Street, Taumati
VALUABLE PLANT, MACHINERY, TOOLS, &c. including Cast Iron Scrap and Metaly Ai follow-
One Electric Lighting Set, consisting of Highspeed Vertical Steam Engine: ze, &c. complete. with Mountings and Switchboard, Marine Multitubular Boiler with Furance, Boiler, complete with all Mountings and Feed Pump One Horizontal Compound Non-Condensing Steam Engine with Pipe Connection Valves and Storage Tanks Several
Gearod, Borew Cutting
and
"Youble Tatbes, Shears-of varying
TANG YUK, DENTIST, successor
the late STEN TING,
14 D'AGUILAR STREET:
TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation frec
lengths, Planing Machine.com-"CHINA MAIL"
1073
PUBLICATIONS
to
labour and foreign students is being In Germany the question of foreign
a been suggested to tax the former, or rather the em- Of late years the whole croiting In previous latters I have written higher the tax), and no doubt the sta
ployer, according to a sliding scale (the more years the employment lasts, the problem has been changed by the of the scarcity of wood in Scotland dents will also be dealt with in due course. distinct advance made in the methods and the efforts made to mobilise the During the summer tam of 1914 there of intensive culture. The experi boys attending our public schools as were no less than 7,235 foreign students, mertal oroits under the care of the workers in timber-cutting comps. at German high schools, constituting Narsh of Scotland Agricultural Col Old Watsonians will be pleased to of students at the universities and
7.70 per cent
of the aggregate humber lege of Aberdeen revealed now learn that their school has turned out $0.7 per cent at the torical high possibilities, and many crofters have a particularly strong contingent, and schools. This state of finite has re- now model holdings. The growth of that splendid work is being done in
serious appre Parliament, and in the Fress.
the co-operative movement, also, hasa wood af Bladnoch in
Wigton Expoor by Gor; }
opened up lines of development. Of course the boys volunteered with The foreign students, of whom a large And the great afforestation scheme, enthusiasm, the prospect of days in proportion camefrom Russia, had a way of promoted by authorities on the stb the greenwood and nights under rather crowding together at certain hig
schools and showed but little
with the
indolation
or to
ject like Sir John Stirling-Maxwöllenvase was alluring, but it was and moda ost
and Lord Lovat, will realise hopes of backed by the more compelling call fall in with their the re-peopling of the glens to of patriotism, a call to which Eving Steps were by degroen taken by degree which even the Highland Watson's has never turned a deaf the different German States to regulate. Land League ney thought possible. catr
if not collateraet, this foreigners Lark
THE TWELFTH
admission was made
The boys are divided into seven read to pass an entrance In seems a Landry to the time working parties, each is noted a fees u
feos and their ad to pay the high when, on the eve of the Twelfth section and is in charge of an orderly. dependent
apon German students London orrespondents used to send Over all, on the practical side, is an fra being accommodated. This
enler did not apply to the tec us long accounts of the great Buahxpert timber-cutter. The wood is to the North, as it was called an extensive dne, including fir, larch, 20 question of lack of accommodation, They told us how Euston and King's our; ash, and Birch, and a starf has bat souly to
the universities These
short Cross and Bt. Pancras overdowed been made with the dah. Of course restrictions only took elect with sportsmen and their servante tions supplied by the Timber Cory before new measures
work is done to the official specifics before the war brok
their infuence had to be with dogs and run cases and pics
raittee of the Board of Agnoulture, nor were the
sutinnifies concerni
gf luggage. Then the Scottish and the trees are felled and clit nito all of oue mind as to the reast of journalists took up the tale, and gaye
us graphic desariptions of the scenes pit prope scaffolds,alsepers, and many foreigners frequenting derm st Perth station, where the West telegraph poleg Coast and the East Coast and the To the lay eye, the boys are work Midland expresses discharged, theng with surprisin ladda and the streams of traffic met sidering the and surged together furiously. This The holiday. year, for the third time, the Twelfth Office Wyndiam Street, Honglife or gaiety of spirit. The nations! har come and gone without stir of
cong Co
CL preoccupation is with more serious
plete with Pulleys, &c. 1 Shaping. Machine complete with Shaft, Blotting Machine complete, 1 power and band-driven Screwing Machine Sh Miscellancong Assortment of Dies, fical Bonbla. Geared Drilling Machi complate, One Double Pillar-Geared Vertical Drilling Machine (equivalent, to two minchines) by Appleysni Hallg England
One Double-Column-B
UTAINABL at the
n-Stean Hstumer HISTORY OF UNION-CHURCH
(1891-1903)
complete with all connections, One Belt-
Dranght Blower for Blacksmith
Shop complete with connections, One HONGKONG'S MUSICAL Org Washing Tank with agitating Gear HISTORY
Shafting, & om det
WE NOTES ́OS WIL LIFE
Palloys, assorted Bolting, a large
of Miscellaneous Material Tubes and Piping Steel Bars, Iron, Stoel and Cast Iron
arge and varied assortment
Brags
and Corks, Brass Bods, Machine
Copper apes, Copper Flaton
And
-SOUTH-
concerns than the opening of the Festival of St Grouse Very-little reminds us of the great Highland season, of the famous holiday among the hills and the moors and the heather The men behind the guns, Rs many of them as survive, are still behind the But they are *
engaged in deadlier sport then follow- Mammals and Birdering lapogus Scoticus, the Heptiles, Amy nibla and groppo, or a toto tetrix) b
150grolled. Their bags are not talked over with chaffing?
Banbury
SUNDRY OFFICE FURNITURE & CHINESE SOR
* (Fall Particulars from. Catalogue:
On view from Monday 2nd Octobe
b
at the end 64
beaters mer Wor
at
not being
high school zame bald that these foreign students on their return home would prove dearabis apostles in the Cón-cauro pt the ever-lauded Germaniam and the task. German goods, but the way has probably disillusivoised the people holding such ent it play view The advantages thersiale, me astonishing very doubtful, but not so the draw bacios. At the technical high schools the foreign mediniai, students" learnt: Khings, methods #DE"}]
drtofwart machinery and apparatus, which enhed improve the
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čments being made with
Jerman
TIL 838
ARE NOT THE CHEAPEST BUT THEY ARE THE
BEST.
Vino de Pasto, Manzanilla, Maduro, etc.
Old White Very Old Tawny, Invalid Newfoundland etc.
DONNELLY & WHYTE,
SOLE AGENTS
Queen's Building
Variety of Uses.
The uses to which LEA & PERRINST SAUCE can be put are innumerable.
At Luncheon, Dinner or Supper, it is the ideal sauce for Roast Meats," Fish, Game, Cheese, Salad, etc.
In the Kitchen, it is indispensable to the cook for flavouring Soups, Stens,” Gravits, Minced Meat; etc.
In India, a favourite "Pick-me-up” is Len'-& Perrine' Sauce with Soda-winter,
Lea Perrins.
The Original" and Gearing
WORCESTERSHIRE
HORLICK'S
MALTED
MILK
is made from Wheat Barley and Milk and is therefore rich in muscle and bonovmaking qualities, and is the ideal Food-Drink tos the East. It helps nature to restore lowered istritality and is invaluable in the case of
the convalescent.
JOHN
Order Horlick's from your Stores and judge. its recuperative powers for yourself -- na cooking-add water only. * 7-
Of all. Chafists and Staros
da. 3^ulada, 1/5, 2/6-§ 11}%
WAR NEWS OFFICIAL BRITISH ARMY STILL GOING STRONG
HORLI MALTCOMILA