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HE. Undersigned have received a
Sola. Manusactures:
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AUCTIONS.
ME. GEO. P. LAMMERT AFCHOYEER
Hughes & Hough structions to sell by Public Auction, BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE
AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.
. Genara! Anotioneers Share, Coal and General Producs Brokers and Commission
Agents.
PROPRIETORS "To-Kwa-Wan Coal Storage,
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BE Undersigned have received in structions to sell by Public Auction. (FOR "ALCOÙNT OF TAX CONCERNED),
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TUESDAY,
the 6th, February, 1917, commencing at 5.30. p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeur Road, Corner of
I ulat STREET,
A MARGE QUANTITY OF
FALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND JUNDRY BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,
&c.
A Follows:-
Upholstered Suites, Arm-chairs and Sadas, Card, Tables, Bedroom Furni bar, Double Bras-mounted Bedstead, Bessa aud: Ttakwood Twin Bedsteads,
Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Exterikler
Dining Tables and Chairs, Tea and
(POE ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNID),
ca
FRIDAY,
PUBLIC AUCTION
07
TALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY
the 9th February, 1917, commer.cing at 2.30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,
Des Voeur Road, Corner of Ice situate at Victoris in the Colony of
Eouse Street,-
Hongkong to be sold by order of the HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, & Mortgagee by Public Auction on
Comprising
Tuakwood Twis" Bedsteads, Carpets and Rugs, Sideboarde, Dinner Waggon, atc-, Dining Table and Chairs, Chesterfield Sofas, Arm-chairs, &o., Wardrobes and Toilet Tables, Double and Single Brasa: mounted Bedsteads, Com, &c., Miscel Furniture, Blickwood WATO &c., including Cabinets, Wardrobes. Brass Fenders and Fire Brasses, a les lots Porcelairs, &c., Pastry, Bath Room and Kitchen Utensils,
lancona
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&.. 11501 A few lots of Turkish Towels, Rath Towels, Bras Vases, Brass Finger Bowls. (Full Farticulars. from Catalogue,) TERMS: Cash,
TUESDAY,
the 6th day of February, 1917
at 3 c'clock P.M..
By
Ma GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer, at his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street.. The Property consists of:-- All that piece or parcel of ground situate at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office as MARINE LOT No. 23 Together with the messunges and premises thereon nowa as Nos. 6 and 7 Praya East and Noa 48 50 52 54, 55, 46 and 60 Queen's Road Last Victoris aforesaid.
The said premises are held for the term of 999 years from-the 8th day of July, 1944 created therein by a Crown Lease of the said Lot dated the 14th day of July 1882 and made between. Her 1456 Late Majesty Queen Victoria, of the one part and Lee Tune Wa of the other part subject to the payment of the Crown Bent and to the observance and per formance of the Lessee's convenants and conditions therein reserved and contained.
HUGHES & BOUGH,
Austioneer.
Kongkong, Jan. 30, 1917.
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ME LI HON:FAN, Cinese gradusta vanuod in literaturs, has been a leacher to Kuropean
Oficials and Kerenants in this Colant for ten year
Lies good method of training Europeans lo paas in tha Ezinem ezitaliation, and la posad of a first rate verdiente as a chinese cozáber. H■ kas also a fool knowledge of Mandarin and Hakks. Thoms who intend learning the Chinnen language are requested to write c/o "China Mait" Office or directie a 180, Weillogton Micoat, snoend flour.
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Ares 27,500 square feet or thereabouts. Annual Crown Rent 8484-84.
For further particulars and conditions of sale apply to
DENNYS & BOWLEY
8 Des Voeux Road Central,
Solicitors for the Vendor.
¿ME:GEO. P. LAMKERT,
Auctioneer, Daddell Street
:.1441 Hongkong, Jan. 23, 1917.
PUBLICATIONS. SILIMPOFON (SEBATTIK)
COAL
\UTAINABLE at the DA » MATA, ? ELE Undersigned having been appointed
Bocasional Tables, etc., str., Dinero, Wyndhara Biroos, Hong Serviuen, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking kong:- Stávez, Cutlery, Toilet Set, &c. Bath
Boom Utensil, Large Roll-top DeĹ HISTORY OF UNION: CHURONS and Writing Tables, etc, Bundry Electro
Fisted: Wars."
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naests for the CWIKHARBOUR- COAL CO., LTD., are propared to quote Caprices for best quality: TIMEZON CUAL trimmed into Bunkomst NEBAT BO TIK or SANDAKAN (British North
.30
Boensc
- SELIM POFOX.COAL comparse favour."
Piano by Challen & Sona, London, in god conditior, Electric Reading Langs NOTES ON WILD LIFE IN ably with the better grade of apsurse
sad: Stávé (New), blackwood and Tak- Food Screens quotity of Black Food Fazaltare, Pictures, Engravings, Carpets and Bags, Clocks, etc.
Tennis Foles and Netting, de, Brass Finger Bowls, and a few loka Table Linen, &
(Full Fardoulars from Catalogue.)
HUGHES & 'HOUGH
Auctioneers
Hangkong, Jan 31, 1917.
2. KONUKONG PAND-BOUTH"
CHINA!(by Bay). G, A, 770 Bagbay
Pars i Mammals and Birds:
Part II-Reptiles, Amy'sible and
Coil and give good results cha very moderate consumption.
Btexmere calling at BREATTIK" or SANDAKAN éxolusively for BILIMPO, 50 FON COAL (either cargo er Bankers)
are exempt from payment of all Port 1 charges:
THE MISSIONE ETRANGERES
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Churches)
71.00 CHINESLI SCHOOL BOOK (4 Sam-Tax - King ♬ ; translate's by E.J. Eite!).
BIR ROBERT HARTS LAN ANT TAXI MEMORANDUM
critici
WASHING BOOKS (for
At Bebalik Bicamers sra berthed along- side the Company's whart where there is a mínimum depth of 27 to 23 feet at low water Spring Tides.
Chart of Sibuka Bay (Sebattik Har bour). Prices and all; other Information concerning the Port" can be hon application to the Ageuta,
OPEN BOATS.
THE STORY OF THE "CLAN MACFARLANE."
JAY ALFRED NOTzs.]
pastor's boat was carried away. Ele then minde fast astain of the second officer's bear.
***
At 5.00 the wind and sea had increased
so 'ninch that the master was forced to
INTIMATIONS
but go. Ho dos a renied jib; and at day. A WORLD-WIDE REPUTATION for
light on the 4th, there was no sign of him. Ap 2 p.m. he was sighted, again. sailing to the westward. Hawley 'sed sail Two telegrams begin this winter's and tried to follow him; but he had she tale:-The first, to C. in C.E. Indies, second officer's boat attached and could Have you any news of the s.s. Clanot get up to him. The last they saw of the muster's boat was, at sunset on the Mactariano, passed Malta on December 4th, making about W.S.W. and foally 17th, bound for Fors Sald The second, vanishing into the evening light.
***Clan Mac- from C. in CE. Indies..
Sails were stewed and the boats lay to. The sea anchor was used that night; and farlane has not yet arrived in Egypt.
at daybreak Bawley attached a bucket to The Clan Macfarlane," of the Port
the ses anchor to increase its weight. of Glasgow, was a steacher at some 4,000
At'l am, on the 5th it was decided to ters, built of steal at Sunderland. She abandon No. beat, add transfer the had a crew of 78 hands, a general cargo, second officer, fifth engineer, and doven and left Birkenhead on December 18th,atives, with their food and water, to Howley's boat. This was a perilous task in a wind and sen as boisterous, and during the process the raddes of Hawley‘a boat was broken, and unshipped. He then need an qar, with a goom-winged jib t a jigger, to keep head to sea.
1014.
On December 30th at 0.15 p.m. she was steaming at full speed, making an average at 10 knots There was a lookout in the crow's best and two look-outs were on the forecastle bead, The weather was fine and clear. The wind was in the west, blowing moderately, with a slight sen.
During the forenoon the wind increased to a gule, with a high increasing sea. The Boat aboared heavily and shipped water, and heavy spraya burst continually over the men sa they baled. Dil was used and the baling went on without a break...
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The chief officer, Frederick James Hawley, had just been called, as he was to go on duty at 4 o'clock, when he felt and heard a violent explosion. He ran At noon on the 5th they' sighted the on deck and found the upper hatches of smoke of a steamer on the SF., but she No. 5 held and the tarpaulins blown out drew no nearer and the stroke died away..... bot position. They had been battened All this time, it must be remembered, the down on leaving Liverpool. He gavo men were soaked from head to foot by orders # one to lower the boats below the wintry weas. On January 6th at 6 the level of the harbour deck, and this o'clock the second cook died Isam was done. He then adunded So. 5 hole exposure, and the blus frozen body wan and found Id inches of water. Fic also dropped overboard. Half an hour later saw the cargo breaking up and flosting the officer's boy died, and at 9 o'clock on out of the teamer's side. She had been the same bleak morning a fireman died. atruck on the starboard side, st No. The burial of these dead, the heave and hatch, below the water-line.
brief plunge of the bodies they Hawley then personally searched the lightened the boat; were the only inter- forecastles to make sure that nobody wasruptions to the long monotony of the in them. Ha conferred with the master, bating
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and they decided to abandon the ship. At 10 o'clock the wind and sea mode- as she was beginning to settle by the stern rated a little. Hawley set a reefed lug nad it was growing dark.
anil: und, having decided to make for At about 5.15 all hands left the steamer Alexandria, though it was about 250 miles in six boats and rowed aleay. About 6 distant, he steered E.S.E. Ab 4.13 that' jo'clock a submarize appeared from the afternoon another native died and was
southward and fired six shots into the "buried."
steamer on the port side forward. At They sailed all night. At 5 am, on 6.15 all the beata were made last, astern January 7th the wind shifted to N.W. of the master'a bost, to keep them and freshened, and the sea increased together during the night. A few ministes again. At 6 o'clock the captain's boy died letes the submarine came alongside, asked (having fought hard for life all through
fer particulars of the steamer, and then the night), and his burial left the boat steered to the eastward. After this maste | still lighter.
were stepped. sails broken out. and a At 7.30 am. they put a second reel course set for Crete, which was thought in the lug-anil and steered S. E. ·A: 8 a.m. to be 55 or 60 miles away. They sailed all night.
they sighted a steamer on the port.bow, only about three miles distant. Cries In the early boars of New Year's morn broke from their blackened lips, and they ing it fell colm
The boats were made signals of distress by waving some separated and the men rowed till 10 a.m., of the dead men's clothing, a coat and A when a light northerly wind sprang up, shirt on a stick. They set sail and continued till 5 p... when the boats were all made fast again astern of the master's boat. They sailed all night.
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On January 2nd, at 8 o'clock in the morning, they made the north-east end of Crete: but the wind and ses increased
What the steamer sighted the boatu abe headed for them, at once; and sigrilled by blowing her whistle. 8. they were alongside the steamer, The Crown of Arragon), and by 9 o'clock the diminished crews were taken aboard. They were all at the point of "exhaustion.
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and the bosts were blown to the south. On the Crown of Arragon brandy and the fare (which was about 50-candis
treat, along the cost. It was only three or four miles distant; but the heavy see made it imposible to land.
hot coffey and dry clothes were given to power) must have been seen. In thesis them. But on the way, Malta two more waters, however, at night a large steamer men died from the effects of their long is apt to suspect the tricks of the boat At 10 o'clock, that night the third exposure,
in any unusual signals, and cannot take officer's boat parted the tow-rope. The The rest was told in a few telegrams too many risks. second gunner's boat was attached to this reporting the case, and asking that search
Eventually they encountered the green!
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MROD'S
one: and they were both swallowed up in should be made for the missing boats, light of one of our heroic little Brixham CURE for the darkness. The master's boas cast of They were never found. Civilization and went in search of them. Hawley's is very big and busy; and one
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trawlers; and heard the reassuring shoatar one telegram | "All right.**
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Ecat lay to with the others all night in reply stated No ships available."' The ses waa 60 rough, however, that it waiting.
But grimly as this crew was thinned was after midnight when they were hauled
They searched the ses It was a terrible night. There were a out, that of the Whitgift fared even worse. aboard. good many natives of India in the boat's The only evidence of the attack on this thoroughly as possible in that wild weath arews; and they suffered groudly from the ship is that of a Japanese, one of the ther; but the other boat with her crew of exposure. One by one in the dim light crew, who sent a post-card to the owners 12 Greek" sesinen was zover sera again, of the lanterns, pathetically as children. (Messrs. Parker, Hamilton, and Co.) from a much for the German tenderness they gave up the fight for life and, slipped a prison camp in Germans All the reat towards the kingdom of Greece? into the water, that swilled about their of the crew were lost. The post-card rạn Copyright 1916, by Alfred Noyes. feet. The wild eyes, always aloof from a fellows
DUR own, Agahod liko tho eye of To Miggia, Pakel, Hamilton, and Co., frightened, forest creatures, and their lipe 17.6.15. murmured deliriously of their distant
Dear Sira, I have written you once
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THE STATE OF TOGOLAND..
Est. Five of them died in Haway's from Hemeln, but did not receive any boat, and were litted, dripping from the answer. I am now in Lager Holzminden, EXPANSION UNDER BRITISH HULE.. water that had been shipped, and slipped Barrack 4. On the 2.4.18 our ship hea
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over the side into the dark sea. A sixth been torpedoed by a German U boat, and 1. Sir Walter Rayleigh, Frofessor of Eng
now I am prisoner. If it is possible Ilish Literature at Oxford, delivered
died in the second officer's boot,
- At, daybreak (ong January 3rd the would be very grateful to you if you brilliant lecture before the Royal Colotish master's boot was sighted, a black dot would send from time to time a parcel institute on the 12th December on The among the distant white-caps: and, at and money, because all my things are loat;!!
Ordeal, of Empire, with East Selbourne about 8 o'clock, ho rejoined thom. He and I cannot write to Japan. Your in the chair. The speakers forwards VÁ Irenato Skauno incinded Sir Hugh Cliffcrdy who spoke of The waves of the wan break on every the conquest of Tegoland at the beginning
told item, that he had bem unable to
and that threa
Ende missing boots also died coast in the world, and the sound of them of the war, and of two visits which he
natives in his ow
1 bost during the night,
washed over every continent, bringing paid to that stuntry. The first was just
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At 4 o'clock ca the afterson of this sorrow to the remotest ends of the earth. over two year ago, and the second day they decided to abandes No. 1 bost, In the early days of the war I met an old recently, In that period, the mes of land tracsferring the fourth engineer, (who was gardener on the count of Maine. Es war under cultivation by the zatives, had in charge of it) with air natives to a Scot by birth, but had been an Ameri, increased by one-third Hề
personally Hawley's boat, and two natives to the can citizen for over half a story. My snqured from them the cause, and Idam master boat. The wind and season went back to Scotland," he told me, that under the Germina, the natives had inclessed, and, at 4.30; the rudder' flse }*** to $90,000e of my folks at home, and got the made so. 66. to Biold formed so far as they could: from the rail- sook up minesweeping. Ed was wayɔ and drowned just of Aberdeen, where I was labour. Now they were daltirating the born.
Art and longaida, the facilitia," sad the THE WEEKLY EDITION OF THE But it is almost equally dangerous for time and cost thos saved in transit to the market centres enabled them to cultivate neutral seamen, to engage in the human adition We stated. The Governos work of bringing food to Belgiam. The
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Greek steamer Embinace was taking of the Gold Coast confined fumélt to a cargo of maize for the Belgian Relief brief statement of vary felling fade, #hich Committee, when she was nunk by a was grell received by a large audience.. submarine, in the channel. The crew
were put into open beats at nightlall, though the weather was vary : starinyi. with a wild rain, and the ses ran: moun- tains
BEWARE OF COLDS. high The Greek captain (John Palaocrasts)
CHILDREN are much more likely to lose sight of the second boss (there were contract the contagious diseases only two as they were going betors the when they have colds. Whooping cough, scarlet fever and consumption
wind and see. He tried to go back and that
colds. Fororities beware of
are often contracted find them, but found it impossible, and when the child is a cold. That is why weas on his way burning, parafin fores: all medical
cure of colds you They saw the tank of the Lizard Tight will find, nothing better tine Chamber arrow flan tumult of the storm and lan's Courth Fontedy. It can always bo steamer presed selo, like great depended upon and is besprit and safe hotal with lights out. The mom to juks For sale by all Chemists and shouted, the captain blew his white, and Storekeepers.
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