TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 14,.1916.
Hughes & Hough
AVUITONIKAS TO THE GOVERNMENT.
General Auctioneers Bare, Coal and General Prodnoo
Brokers and Commission Agento,
PROPRIETORS
"To-Ewa-Wan" Coal Storage.
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Telegraphic Address' 'MACHION". HONGKONG.
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PUBLIC ACTION
THE
HE Undersigned have received in
MISES.
WITZKa's & Co. to sell by
Public Auction,
Commencing WEDNESDAY,
the 15th November, 1914, at 10.30 a.I., and continuing on MONDAY, 20th inst, ar1030ent at No. 1, Ornaby Terrace, Granville Road, Korleon,
A QUANTITY Or MOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &e, including BLACKWOOD WARE, CROCKERY and GLASS WARE, And
One PLANO.
Catalogues, will be issued.
On view from Tuesday 14th inst Tun: Cash
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers,
Hongkong, Nov. 3, 1910.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
1213
AUCTIONS.
PUBLIO AUCTION.
THE Undarsigned have received instruc
tions to wall by Public Auction," (FOR ACCOUNT OF TAX CONCERNED),
MONDAY,
the "toth November, 1916, at 9.30 p.m., at Messrs. Hughes and Hongh's Coal Godowns at To Kwa Way, THE FIRST AUCTION OF SALVAGED CARGO
cx. S.S. WISLEY » Comprising:-
About Six hundred kegs of Wiro Nails, About Fifty Sewing Machines, and
number of cases of spars parta. //
writers "with Russian characters, ". and cases of Ribbons for AMO
Feli
About Seven hundrel rolls of Roofing About Twenty large rolls of Linoleum. About Forty-ave Cotton Braiding
Machines.
CAPTURES.
THE CHINA MAIL.
BOUNTY OR PRIZE MONEY? when £334,805 was realised from the salo of certain condemned vesels, the ex- penses of sale, which include the ad- DIFFERENT REWARDS FOR SEAvertising, preparation catalogues," and
other expenses, only.
amounted to 23,908. In other words, for every £85 that wout to the fond 22 went out in expenses. That is hardly exorbitant, There are furthermore expenses corrected with the detention of the captured abipe.
HOW THE OLDER NAVY WAS FLEECED.
Two totally different things are renata doak or harbons and the warehousing of the prize ergoes to be met, Tha by the terms Prize Money and Frize approximate amount of all expenses was Bounty, though both'sen used indis 1,000,600, and the balance is, for eriminately by prople whä" eight, to be timate distribution among the officere. and men of the Fleet was therefore some boster instructed, writes Mr. H. C.
£4.830,000. Forraby. They have been so misused in. connection with the distribution of money to the officers and then concerned in the
IN TER OLD DATS
The Prize Court lawyers of to-day can- not fees the innocent seaman as they did a hundred years ago Then a resnel About One hundred Remington Type-inking of coftain German warships.
Prize money
is paid out of the value might be valued at 8,808 orowns, and
enemy and contraband cargo captured and swallowed up in the Prize Court," of memy merchant ships captured, or at all her captors, received whs 1,900 Crowns, The rest had been embezzled
and condemned, by the Prize Court. I in the curt phrase of Lord Cochrane, who relates therefore solely to mercantile exposed a deal of the knavery of the Court in the House of Commons. He Prize bounty is paid out of money provessels were coplated, and the Prize teld of one .casd where thirteen, small vided by Parliament, and goes to the Court Judge, Ending he could ras exact officers and men of British warships the 3,767 crowds in fees that Eo first actually present at the taking or destres naked for, was quite content to accept 268 ing of enemy warships. It has to do crowns, which was all the naval oflear with sets of war only.
would agree to. In another dagraat case the bill was reduced from" £1,024' bo £285.
A quantity of Sole Leather, sundry apare parts for Motor Cars, &c., &c, and several lots of Files, Spanners, Leather Funches, and Old Iron..
Dates and particulars of further auctions will be notified Inter.
Laurch to convey intending par shasers will leave Blake Pier ais p.m.
Terme :—Cash..
Auctioneers.
Hongkong. Nov. 13, 1918
canturea.
TOOLING SYSTEM.、
should
That difference le important, and HUGHES & HOUGH, be clearly grasped, more particularly be cause the Admiralty have arranged thas, 1919 during the war at any rate, no prize)
money shall be paid out at all, every thing resulting from mercantile captures being pooled for division among the whole
FOR SALE
FOR
SALE..
AS A GOING CONCERN. FIRST CLASS FRIVATE HOTEL Acontaining
19 Bed Rooms,
23 Bath Rooms,
(JÕE-ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, "ectric
Halls, Lounges Reception Room Private Dining Room, Self contained suites of apartments with Bath Rooms
Dining Room with accom attached. modation for
100 persona. Store Rooms, Library Servants
Hot and cold water laid en throughout, quarters, etc., etc, etc Approximate value of Furniture, etc. HE Undersigned have received in
about $30,000. stractions to sen by Public Auction, Crockery all new and high class recently A large stock of extra Linen and
from England The is centrally located being
Hot throughout only a few minutes from the leading Banks, Post OfEce, Ferry, &c.
....
THURSDAY,
ke 18th November, 1918, at 2.20 p.
at No. E, Nathan Road, (First Floor),
THE WHOLE OF THE
YALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
x. 20..
contained therein.
Coosiating of :-*
FUMED TEAKWOOD Sideboard, Dinner Waggon, Extension Dining Table add Chairs, Chesterfield Sofa and Arm
To be sold as a going concern with good will.
Further particulars may be obtained from the Undersigned.
HUGHES & HOUGE,
Hongkong. Oct 19, 1916.
Auctioneers.
FOR SALE
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Fleet later on. The renkon for this is
In one instanco Cobrane found him.
self 600 crowns in debt for fees to the court for condemning a ship that he had captured!
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BRITISH FLYING MEN'S CLEAR SUPREMACY.
SQUADRONS TACKLED BY SINGLE
MACHINES.
A correspondent at the front writes t The weather has been dull, with rain al to-day is guarded. The Prize Deposit saroplane, work would seem hardly prac Against that sort of thing the Navy of intervals, and the clouds so low that Fund will not be raided in the interests table. But it is an aspiring thing to of lawyers. One could wish, however,
believed to be that whereas only a car with the service in this matter, and bad below the clouds or among them, passing that the Admiralty bad dealt more frankly see our airmen, through wird and rain paratively few ships are actually eon. cerned in the capture of trading ships and or openly stated the very reasonsbis and repassing overhead, always patrol. cargom, it is the work of the whole Fleetunda on which it was decided to delaying the whole line of the battle frock. that makes those captures possible.
the paying out of prize money. A great Our Aying men continue to dominate the deal of misconception would have been
Priza bounty, on the other hand, jaaroided and a lot of ill-advised, azitation is in a way, which., ie, we know, very
being paid out during the war, and wome quite useful little sums of money will rome into the hands of various officers.
and man..
It has been a matter of some cominent
in disaffected quarters would have been Heotched.
discouraging to the German troops and must be intensely humiliating to Ger. man airmen. A German might well be alrsid even to build a castle in the sit
that wheress Commander Max E. Hor. HOUSE TO HOUSE LOÀN CANYASS, nowadaya.
ton, of E9, receives £157 9s. 8d. for his
members of the crew of the light cruiser sharn in certain operations, thera nro
to
The following Sidelight frame Ger.
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Xew and again-especially after a few dull days when our men have been pre- verited from doing their worst-the enemy airmen pluck up courage and try to become aggressive. Thus, on September
Amazing efforts are being made to gather in money for the war loan. The we are told in the official reports German Government eran uggesta (there had been more or less rain on the systematic canvass of the whole nation three preceding days the enemy's fur house to house and from persoactivity was considerably above the aver to person." Dr. Helferich, formerly Minister of Finance, now finister of the age. Several of his machines attempted Interior, has made as urgent appeal in to cross the lines for a short distance." this sense to the representatives of the One of them was brought down Gorman merchants, manufacturers and agriculturists at a conference which is reported a considerable length.
** Cleopatra" vso only receive Be 8d. Į many appeared in a London" papar each as their share for sinking the Ger- early in October:- man destroyer G194. There is nothing unfair to this, if all the circumstances are born in mind. The crew of E numbered about twenty, and the amount, awarded them for bounty was £1,400. The crew of the Cleopatra zumbers at least 300, Bub the bounty payable to them only amounted to £465.. There was therefore, much less to be distributed among many more people. If there was
And this activity above the average any inequality in was in the circumstances and nos in the system, since the basis
1959 at a time when every day our men on which prize bounty is issued is the
For the first time that dreaded phrase wore flying over every point of import- same in every case £5 for each arm. Stato repudiation of debt was officially ance within 30 miles of the front and of the destroyed or mentioned. After the war, declared the sometimes reaching places 70 miles away. Minister, there could be so possibility of They were dropping bombs on railway The way the bounty is divided up any breach of the promise to pay," or lines and depose and ammunition stores among officers, and men is etrictly in other words, the proclamation of State lated. Boys receive one share esch, bankruptey: The mere fact that such as and columns of transport on the road: able seamen receive five, warrant officers assurance was necessary shows that the They dipped down low to receive twelve, lieutenants receive idea of repadiation must be very wide-machine-guns on marching troops. They twenty, and thus up the scale to certain spread in Germany. Any Government captains who receive, eighty. Bolure and Farliament responsible for the can attacked and destroyed the enemy's these shares are calculated, one-thirtieth duct of State affairs and legislation, he observation balloons. They even slid out of the total wum due is deducted for the asserted. will always feel it their pars of the clouds and audacity could go no admirala share in admiral is entitled meent daty to keep the promise to repay further engaged and routed the anti-air.
ber of the crew.
Ttructions to sell
HE Undersigned have received in captured warship.
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE 'CONCIÈNED), One Two-Seater
12
✨ chairs, BLACKWOOD Carved Folding Card Table, Curio Cabinet, Flower Stands and Chairs, Large Dinner Service (white), Glassware and Crockery, Eschings and Water Colours, &c. &c, BEDROOM FURNITURE, FUMED TEAK, Large Wardrobe, (Bovelled Mirror) Teakwood the undersigned. Twin Beds, Dressing Table, Toilet Ware,TA” usuaÏ.
TRUMBULL MOTOR CAR recently, overhauled and in good running order,
Cooking Stove and Cooking Utensils.
NB-Chesterfield Sofa, Arm-chairs,
ad Twin Beds, are by Messrs. Wa Powell & Co., Ld.
Catalognas wil be iarned,
On view from Wednesday, 15th inst. THEME --Car
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, Nov. 9, 1916,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
HE
Full particulars may be obtained from
BUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers: Hongkong, Nov. 19 1918
to bounty by the fact that he was pre- 1933 sent at the destruction of the enemy
ships.
EUROPEAN AGENCY.
WHOLESALE Tadents promptly arscuted at lowest cash prices 123 for all British and Continental goods,
sluding:
structions to sell by Public Auction,
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SATURDAY,
the 18th November, 1916, at 11 deməyə at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,
Des Voix Road, Corner of
loa Hora SrRIET,
ONE MOTOR BICYCLE
4 EP. Wolf, J.A.P. Engine, with all accessories.
Has been in use for about One Year, in good running order. zaman Further particulars and inspecting erders may be had from the undersigned.
T-As süal
HUGHES & HOUGH,
"Arictioneers." Hongkong, Nov. 10, 1916.
Books and Stationery, Boots, Shoes and Leather, Chemicals and Drugyleta! Bundries, China, Earthenware and Glassware, Cycles, Motor Cars and Accessories, Despary, Millinery and Place Goods
BASELESS STORIES.
The present system is much more equitable than that which obtained in the olden days, when if was possible, as in the capture of Havans in 1752, for the season and marines only received the admiral to receive £122,657, while
43 14%. Od each.
the creditors of the State, among whom craft guns themselves!
are millions of economically weak per
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use their
TACKLED BY BINOLE MACHINES....
The rest of the address was mere sz
As for the way in which they bully the hortation on the model of Hindenburg's enemy's machines when they can get at manifesto. Hore again stress was laid them, a few specific examples wil ilus- of the necessity for a personal carese, trate it. On September 1 Lieutenant. Anyone who has any friends; must encountered a formation of 12 so us to make the war loan a success, gut away as fast as he could. Dié he bring all his energy to bear upon them, Rolands." Naturally. Lieutenant even going from mansion to mansion, Read this It is sometimes alleged that half the from house to house, and from person to great pooled fund or prize money disperson, canvassing for subscriptions." . tinct from prize bounty has been paid! away in lawyers' faes, and that the Navy is consequently being "* robbed.”, I have never been able to discover any evidence to suppore this beller, The Prize Do- posit Account has been properly audited by the Exchequer and Audit Depart ment, and the figures made public. ir.
HANYANG IRON AND
WORKE
STEEL
Variety of Uses.
The uses to which LEA & PERRINS' 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, Stews, Gravies, Minced Meaty, stb.
*In India, a favourite : “ Pick-me-u Perins' Sauce with Soda-widder.
is Lea &
Lea Perrins
The Original and Genuine WORCESTERSHIRE
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15, Morrison Hill Road.
20 rounds at it. The pilot turned and He dived in amongst them, Aring one got ander the tail, and Lidateniant A drum. The formation, was broken up. also turned and fired another 20 rounds Lieutenant then got under the door into it, after which it was seen to dive est machine and fired ons drum at-15 vertically out of control and to turn on yards under the pilot's seat, causing the its back. The remaining hostile machines machine to plunge to earth south-east of dispersed, and were seen to land west of Bapadme Shortly afterwarde some more Cambrai,
On another occasion one of our hostile scriplanes camshop:information. Mr Francis A. Carl, the Commissioner Lieutenant attacked one, which machlace was attacked by four of the JAPANESE MAKERS, of Customs at Hankow, in his report for 1916 states that Through the courtesy went down and landed la a gap between ademy, but turning sharply, emptied Special Quotations on Demand.
The total proceeds nf.sale of ships and of Mr Z. T. K. Woo, the Superintendent two woods. Baverzl'oiler machines were drum into the nearest at 20 yards; Sample Onses from £10 wyszarda, cargoes, to the beginning of Mey last was of the Hanyang Iron, and Steel Works he sugged with indecisive results, and, range, when the enemy turned on his Dannigaments
́of Produce Bild on Accouné," | ́£6,850,000+%. It must be remembered,' is enabled":
"to give the following risumé MAWILLIAM WILSON & SONS
·Gooda and Parfumery, Hardware, Machinery and Motala, Jewellery, Flate and Watches, Photographic and Optical Goods, Provisions and Oilman'a Stores,
Peta, etc.
Commission, 27% to 5%. Trade Discounts allowed o
-- (ESTAMASHED 1814),
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PUBLIO AUCTION.
THE-Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction, (FOR ACCOURT OF THE COMUM),
AN EARLY DATE The following LIGHTHOUSE GEAR
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another machine 'which was just above however, that large quimtitice of cargo of the work done during 1915 by the having expended all his ammunition, side and fell. The pilot then attacked condered of perishable goods that had to Han Yeh Fing Ibo and Coal Co., Ltd. Lieutenant returned.
The
It was enrelese of Lieutenant not him, firing a drum and a half at close be sold before the courtahad. decided was as follows: matin iron,234,900 'tamil toclavo zones amnunition about him: Ange.” The Roland turned a complete whether they were lawful! prize or pot foundry, In many cases they were not, sad con 50,775 tons, mild 2001, 106,894 Fall
101,634 tons rall: steel, but what is one to say of a man like this, cartsheet on its right wing tip, and tell
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of the iron and steel works
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DAILY INCIDENTS:
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sequat the momey realised, had to be output of the Tayah-iron mines was who spends a happy day in tackling: Ent out of control refunded to the owners..
046,819 the Plan And that of {12 atomy machines and then ** several !! | Then skin the suctioneers who sell tons of coal and
more diving into them like a bank into The little exploits are only incidenta 372,000 5 tons of fight of pigots and simply shooing in the regular daily, work of our dying in pride ships and cargoes are not phila coke During the year, the following them all ofer the aky men. Their most important job is spot thropists. Their feed here to be paid, additions to the plaat vero, completed and that same evening another lieuten ting enemy gun positions and other thing PUBLICATIONS but these appear to be very low, because 150 tons per diena, night. Babock and ant took a hand in the game, of futter so that our own guns may get on to them
or in one blast
Turbo bez obal-chimney one in Volicisme. The evray which he ran on one day 11g fargets are this death
blower planti for. and stone and loading pig and steel into had only eight birde. He picked out with Us another, day our men go products mechanically on the wharves: one doubtless the old cock, though the bombing an aerodrome and they see tha machinery for removing pig iron from report does not "any so which wont knemy wheeling all their machines out of the casting, bed and pig, bresking; open down in a spin (you know how a bird the sheds which they know will be bomb. beartar Turnance of 70 tons; and, in the does i sometimes)" falling Bohodno our men drop a líta lower and UHERBY & 00.. dolomite mill four calcining cupolas and Espsame."
grinder. An improved water system
neighbourhood of bomo the machines in the open. Another
BTAINABLE at the ¦ CanaA. MAI:
Office, & Wyndham - Street, » How-
HISTORY OF UNION CHURCя
(1891-1903)an "green"," BONGKONG'S. HUBICAL
COUGHING INTO:
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CONSUMPTION Tentang
One ceculting apparatus, completa. Carettar wick lamps. Spare burners.
Hinders and wicks. IncandescentPowral Lamps,
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A quantity of goar pertaining to Mooring Buoya
"Enumber of Locomotivel wheels und
Farther particuler front the und
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to utilise water from the rivers for Bapaume stems to have been fairly time they go for a factory and a big which, tha pocesary; settling beta and sprinkled with damaged enemy aeroplanes explosion cocum." Then it is a railway water channele bare been also completed that day,ch was para amorapan sución, which "la.hit in several pla During the year there was a rise in Another day two officers" encountered Or they come down and use 100 per cent in steel structural material then follows pantalized for massaði shoutré pilie
sixerony machines near Cambrai," machine-gune on the woldfor wor
→ value of 2 per cent in pig iron and over
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