WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 1917.
INTIMATIONS
Hughes & Hough
Dont Worry!
There
AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.
General Auctioneers
Share, Coal and General Produse i
Brokers and Commission agents.
PROPRIETORS
*To-Kwa-Wan Coal Storage.
Godess need
Bentley's
A. & 4th & 5th Editions. A1 Telegraphic Code,
Telegraphic Address *KEILION" EONGKONG.
PUBLIC
AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received in-
structions to sell by Public Auction. (10% account or TÉR CONCERNED),
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TUESDAY,
the 6th March, 1917, commencing at 2.30 p.m., st their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of
Ics hot TREET,
VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND
BLACKWOOD BURNITURE,
&C.
$50. As Follows :—
Upholstered Suites, Arm-chairs and Sofas, Card Tables, Bedroom Furniture, comprising Double and Single Brass- mounted Bedsteads, Twin Bedsteads (Teakwood Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, Tea and Occasional Tables, etc., Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass, Ware, Cooking Stores, Cutlery, Toilet Set, &c. Rath Room Utensils, Roll-top Desks and Writing Tables, etc, Sundry Electro- Plated Waro.
Fiano in good condition. Electric Beading Standard Lamps, Blackwood
KEATING'S
KILLS
BUGS FLEAS MOTHS
BEETLES
★TINS 3o6a1
SITUATION WANTED.
VOUNG AMERICAN, willing and industrinus, good references, seeks employment any capacity, Apply
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Co CHINA MA O Hongkong. Feb 20, 1917..
1515
FOR SALE..
Yacht,
YACHT FOR SALE The Gallus
**THECLA' Available Middle of March. $959 Lieut. Col. A. V. ALENANGER, 74 Punjabis, Kowloon,
Hongkong. Feb. 24, 1917.
MARTIN'S
SEPILLS &
APIOL &STEEL
Startsen 29314 ba 108 Socan, at that on the brot
ma than meteminenŭ kom. Bames MetS suno."
VA ZA MODs per Moved TV AN I
MARTIN'S
APIOL &STERL
1599
NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE
INSURANCE CO
WHICH ARE. VESTID THE KUADES OF
THE CHINA MAIL:
SCOTTISH LETTER.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
LINK WITH score.”
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BUILDING ACTIVITY „AT
SHANGHAI,
The C.M.G. conferred upon Briga- dier Laurence Lockhart Maxwell, Indian Army, has a special interest
Some interesting details are given in a for Scotsmen. The Brigadier is the recent report by the U. 8, Consul-
General Thomas Sammons, concerning | January 10.
grund-nephew at John Gibson Lock the unusual building construction ac hart, the sensin-law and biographer tivities at Shanghai. He states thef VICR-ADMIRAE SIE B. WARRENDER,
of Sir Walter Seett. One of his value of buildings under construction in the International-Fettlement at Shang- The death has cccurred after a short illness of Vier-Admins: Sir brethers is Brigadier Frank Maxwell hai for the first half of 1016 was ap-
proximately 8,400,000. This is who won
the .c. in the South remarkable showing when compared George Warrender, Bart., K.C.B., of]
with the returns for all of 1915, which African War, and another is Majerggregated about 83,100,000 Lochers, East Lothian. He served in avit Lockhart Maxwell, who was figures represent only the International These the Naval Brigade in the Zatu War: through some of the thickest fighting tions are also being carried on in the
Settlement. Extensive building opera acted as Commander-in-Chief of the fin Gallipolt and France,
French Concession, the Chinese nativo East India Station from 1007 to
city, and in the suburbs. The large amount of building work at present carried on in Shanghai, may
be of accounted for in part by the urgent
:F
DEER AND BUCK.
+
need of the structures now being erect
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business.
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CHARACTER. OF BUILDINGS UNDER
CONSTRUCTION.
Nft.
1909; and hug commanded a Cruiser, The interest of most folk in the Squadron and Battle Squadron recent Order regarding the slaying Only a few weeks ago he resigned the deer and rabbits is contined to theed. The coat of building is in general question whether it will cheapen as per cent higher than ordinarily, and position of Commander-in-Chist tell as increase, our foedd supply, will not be reduced to the normal for
thu belief is that these higher figur Portsmouth owing to ill-health. The Duke of Argyll, of his own many months to come. The loss in the extra cost of building, however, will in Sir Georg. Warrender_thefaccend, sotne little time ago gave most cases be offset by bigger profits. Admiral Comunending the British orders for "the shooting of a large resulting from large rentals and increased Squadron-that-visited-Kiel-a-week reember-of-deer-on-his-estates-and (or two before the outbreak of war. that the tension should be sold in His flagship on that recusion was the Inverury at 5d. por lb. But we do
The buildings under construction in King George V., and at the very in not all live in Inveraray, and when the international Settlement in Shang hai may be classifled thus: Native re- when dhe Archdake Francis Ferdin-game reaches the market, the sidences and shops, semi-foreign shops, venison will be snapped up by the semi-foreign residences, foreign :resid- and was murdered in Senjoru, Si: well-to-do-it is rather an expensive. The largest number of building opera
offices and
and shops... George was"'entertaining the Kaiser¦ food to cook, requiring a lot of "kit-tions comes under native residences and om bear the King George V. As a chen.only the rabbits will be left abops. The usual native residence mea- sures 12 ft. in width by as to 24 feet in commonalty. natter of fact, the Raiser, as an to the
Curiously depth. They are built with £t.. space honorary Admiral of the British ecough there is a
prejudice against back lean-to serving as a kitchen, over
between the
house and an main Navy, "hetually, flew his tag at the ribbits in some circles, and such which is a sun deck, the main house head of the British squadron which prejudices are always hard to fight only having an upper floor. There is also an è ft. walled front yard. The fa ̈week or two later cleared for action against.
shop differs froto the residence only by (against the German dest in the " I had a chat the other day with the front of the main house being on the the elimination of the front yard, the
mouse-hole
of Kie!
head keeper, of u large deer, forest, road line, The account of the proceedings at who gave it as his opinion that with a foreign front, are these are be Semi-foreign shops are native shops Kick nakes, strange reading in view (uhnost every "forest" in Scotland!
coming general on the principal streets, of after events. Large crowds of conkl spare., from 200 to 400 head of road line. Semi-foreign residences are of the same size as the native residences, Germans engerly waited the British deer, and would be much the better having somewhat better finish and a tars on shore leave, and watched for the thinning.
Almost every-foreign front in the shape of a veranda and are supplied with foreign doors and their holiday mol with interest. where the deer or too numerous windows. They are generally occupied The inurnerable cales and restau- little shooting having been done since by Japanese and the foreign poor. The foreign residences, offices, and shops runt along the waterside and neigh the outbreak of war.
constitute the bulk of the expensive bouring streets hung out Union Jäcks
buildings and are generally substantial and well-constructed. in honour of the guests where are those banners, row?"-and-immense plackards in English announced that the British sailors were greatly armed with a long gun containing a welcome."
[heavy charge, and they would bring
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Winter shooting of wild ducks and wil geese has been put a stop to by the Admiralty. The sportsmen were in the habit of going to sea in punts
and Teakwood Screens, a quantity of THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE Corporations of the larger towns of punters followed them to their new Blackwood Furniture, Engravings, etc.
Also
Teuris Polos and Netting, &c. &c. Brass Finger Bowls, Carpets (New and second hand), Child's Cots, etc.
(Full Particulars from Catalogus.). Tax-Cash.
.
HUGHES & HOUGH; Auctioneers
Hongkong, Feb. 21; 1917,
FOR SALE:
at-their-Sales-Rooms, No. 8.
Des Yeux Road, Corner of
Joe House Street,
COMPANY, LTD.... apd
THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS
ASSURANCE CO.
TOTAL
1519
SECOND HAND CONTRACTORS
PLANT,
THEODOLITE AND LEVEL.
madersigned.
Terms-as usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH
Auctioneer
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that the
matter
coasts.
WHERE'S MY CLOVES?
MATKTIALS USED IN BUILDING NATIVE HOUSES.
The native houses are all frame. The prigats are usually native round fr poles, 6 to 8 in. in diameter at the base. Division wally between houses are of 3 in. brick Joists carrying the floor and roof are round fir poles The Looring is pine, lap jointed or tongued-and-grooved.
glazed with fourth quality glass. The Doors sm of pine, made of thin boards nailed to frame Windows are
me work at the top and bottom, form stiles of doors and windows, fet into the hinge bars upon which they move. No hardware is used. Ironwork entering into the construction consist only of rain pipes from the roof and nails for the flooring
FOREIGN ZEIDENCES.
stone.
INTIMATIONS
Special Food for Starved Nerves.
SANAPHOS
MY WALLËS
THE IDEAL RECONSTRUCTIVE NERVE FOOD
A VALUABLE RESTORATIVE' IN NELİRASTHENIA, NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA AND ANEMIA
*Sanaphos." supplies the element; Moreover "Sanaphos" contains which is needed. by our nerves and other food elements which at once- brain and which is not supplied in are assimilated to make tissue and aufficient quantity by our ordinary energy. It is wholly digestible, i food. Thus it is an ideat food for fact which distinguishes it from nourishing and strengthening the earlier and less highly perfected narves, and for correcting all the products. The Chairman of the many ills which result from weakness Company making Sanaphos is of those nerves which govern all the Sir William Taylor, M.D., Surgeon- working of the body.
General of the Forces.
"Sanaphon" is sold by all Chemists, Sicola ere bald be and requiem for mimpiai" should be: indaiwssed in p-Flatskar & Co., ne The Queen's Dlapenakry, Hong Kong,
Wholesale Diabatera for India and. Par Fists-Dakis Rascom, LAR, IGLämst Bank,.
THE EVER POPULAR HOUSEHOLD. ROMEDY
Which has bow borne the Stamp of Public Approval for OVER FORTY YEARS.
ENO'S FRUIT SALT
PLEASANT TO TAKE, REFRESHING AND INVIGORATING.
IT IS VERY BENEFICIAL IN ALL CASES
OF.
Ellousness, Sick Headache, Constipation, Errors in Dist-Eating ör Drinking, Thirst, Giddiness, Rheumatic or Gouty Poison, Feverish Cold, with High Temperature and Quick Pulse, and Feverish Conditions generally. It is everything you could wish as a simple and Natural Health-giving Agent.
Prepared only by.
J. C. ENO, Ltd., 'Fruit Salt Works. London, England.
SOLD BY CHEMISTS AND STORES EVERYWHERE
A STRONG RESOLUTION ON "PROHIBITION.down a score or more of birds at d single shot. When the birds were A conference representing the
cleured out of one Arth or leeli, the Scotland-Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dur-retreat. Sportsmen who used only dee, Aberieen Leith, and Paisley.rifies, and from the shore, we wont has passed a strong resolution into complain of the devastation regard to prohibition. The proceed wrought by these furters, and in ings were plivate, but it is under some localities of late years, the Fonda AT 31AT DEczkaz, 1914, stood that the subject was approach ducks were reported as very scarce.
£23,970,367,
ed entirely from the point of view Nowadays, as a result of the war offices, shops, and goxlowns are generally The walls of the foreign residences -Aathorised Capital £8,000,000
of war recessities. Such a relative restrictions, the birds are again of solid brick, although fronts are some Babecribed Capital £4,500,000 Paid-op. Capital£2,437,500 matter as the granting or withholding plentiful all round the Scottish times constructed of granite, stone, or -Fire Foods.......................................... 3,837,047
Constructional timber is M-Life & Annuity Funds 17,567,590 of compensation, to license-bolders
Oregon pine, floors in some Sinking Fand Account................... 128,230 was not entered upon. The Glasgow
cases being Oregon pine, but usually Singapore red wood. This wood, 223,970,367 representatives (five Balles were
A sidelight on the peculiar work-rearmbles the Lasan (Philippine)
family p well specially urgent for the need of some ing of the human mind under sudden makes a good floor and shows up Revenue Fire Branch.
£2,381,468
when coated with native varnish known Life and Annuity 1
emergency measure, and other speak-excitement is afforded by an incident as "Ningpo varnish.” 2,141,593
Singapore red Bracchese!
erk remarked that the Glasgow told of a passenger in the Edinburgh wood is also extensively used for Revenue Marine Department.. 337.289
cabinet work,
good quality of Other Receipta £78,940 Magistrates spoke from direct ob-train which suffered so severely in lock sets are used, usually of British
£5,839,228 servation.
After an hour's discus-the late collision at Ratho. There manufacture. The use of reinforced sion it was unanimously resolved was a lady in one of the carriages. now being extensively employed in concrete has grown rapidly and it is The Accumulative Funds of the various
Eke- Brooches are separately invested, and, by that the conference, while recognis- The passengers were thrown from offer, shop, and Exetory blocks.
i metal, wire mesh, and reinforce- Act of Parliament, are set aside to meeting
panded one their adats, and the luggage was ment bars of every description is Full particulars may be had from the the claims under the respective Depart for Government action, is of opinion tumbled down from the racks. When great demand, although at high prices. Gr. 12. in ments of the Company's Business.
The demand will in all probability that it is in the interest of national they pulled themselves together, this greatly increase, Cement is being con- SHEWAN, TOMES & CO..
Agents.
economy and eficiency that the sale indy demanded to know where herein increasing quantities, thesupply
being met from mills in or near China. of ardent spirits be prohibited dur gloves were, and vigorously asserted Before the war Belgium was practical ing the war and the period of de that some one in the carriage hady the only source of supply for window. mobilisation," and it was suggested
Now it is obtained from Japan glass. to the various Town Councils that it too much concerned with their own
stolen them. The passengers were and Amerien. was desirable to take this expression plight to pay any attention to the of opinion into immediate considera charge; but the lady, in the midst tion with a view to an early decision of all the dead, and wounded, kept
According to a report by the Canadian CAPTAIN HARRY RANKEN, V.C. up a loud complaint about her miss-
Trade Commissioner at Shanghai, pub. lished in the issue of 13th November of A memon to the late Captain ing gloves.
the Weekly Bulletin of the Canadian For the eighteenth, consecutive year There are some curious blends in the Syren and Shipping publishes the Department of Trade and Commerce st the British Armory. I hear of annual table showing British fleets of Ottawa, the development of the cotton Colonial whose father is a Swede and over: 50,000 tons. The 61 companies spinning and weaving industry in Ching which figure in the list own between his mother a Basque; he was born them over 2,000 vessels, representing a is worthy of careful study....
The West Rand interests of Bir Joseph Scarcely more than thirty years $50 Robinson, the multi-millionaire baronet, Lloyd's tonnage of 12,000,000 tons gross. in Canada and is a most patriotic Register gives the total tonnage of the not a single cotton spinning or weaving be remembered, did brilliant research British subject. He has been twice British Mercantile Marine, 818,825,360 mill fitted with an up-to-date plant and have been bought out by M: Solly Joel' work in the Soudan in connection
tons gross. Bat of even greater interest operating on modera, lines could be this ranking as the biggest deal of its wounded, and, is waiting for the call is the fact that for the first time in the found in China. By carcfol inquiries kind in South Africa sincer Cecil with the investigation and treatment
resume stuffing the Boche, history of the world one management it has been ascertained that thirty-seven Rhodes consolidated the diamond in of sleeping sickness, was at home on
then Now that a start has been made, that Mr Joel is paying a sum of lion tons of British shipping; of"in" leave when war broke out, and at Another curious curse to a cordialene controls over one and a half mil-such mills have been established since terests et Kimberley in 1888 It is stated It is expected that the new control of once volunteered for service at the Highlander, who came North to see other words, a twelfth of the British more rapid and extensive develop millions in cash.
Mercantile Maripe. To Lord Inchcapement in this branch of industry front, The Cross of the Legion of how we kept the New Year. He is a due the enterprise which has brought in the future may confidently be the Robinson group will mean a tremen Honour and the Victoria Cross were native of Frince Edward Island, the about the fusion of interests of the Perpected. Of the thirty seven cotton dous difference in the prospects of the
bai while the rest are scattered auriferous areas in the world Federal Companies whose fleets throughout the conferred for gallant conduct during grandson of a Highlander who and O. B. L, and the New Zealand mills, twenty-one are situated in Shang, West Rand, one of the most notable four provinces of The previous record deal was the crea operations, in France. While attend. emigrated in the forties. He spoke dividually consist of a Sianger, Chekiang, Hupoh, and. Hunan. tion of the De Beers Consolidated Mines,
Tessals, of 493,991 tons; BI14
143 Bisels Most of the larger and more ing to wounded under beavy fire, a the Gaelic, and was greatly dis-1 of 693,320 tons; New-Zoniam Bhipp mille at Shenghal have been rising Ltd., of which Mr Solly Joel is a director."
Hongkong Feb. 1917.
LESSONS IN CHINESE.........
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MELI HON FAX, & Chades Kindaste vereed to Herature, bar bean a tencber to RuroJKAU cials and Merebante in thla Colony far sem geary He ha
of tridning Europears to mass in the Chiness aramination, AD in ponnesso
method
of a fent rate certifonte na a Chinenu teacher, lie
has sino a good i
d knowledgeci Mandarin 1 at Hukka,
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"Under Weight," a condition of in health, shows your asnius ilative powers are decreasing,
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"OF ALL CHEMISTS ALREA
Prima: $125 and 19,25,
Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, was formally unveiled in Irvine Parish Church by the Countess of Eglinton. Captain Ranken, it will
to
A BLEND.
BIG SHIPOWNING.
0... 59
CHINA COTTON SPINNING AND
WEAVING INDUSTRY,
established
capitalised and operated under the direc tion of the Government. There are alto gether 419,318 spindles and 216 weaving. machines working in the outport milia.
BIG GOLD DEAL IN BOUTH AFRICA
MR. SOLLY JOEL'S COUP.
of two
It is officially announced that Mr Joel, shell almost severed one of his legs appointed that the old language was Company, 16, vessels, of 144,140 tons
sed the Federal Steam Navigati n Com- and are working under foreign direction on behalf of the Johannesburg Con- solidated Investment Company, Limited, from his body. He gave instruc- not heard in the streets of our yazy, 22 vesseln, of 185,372 tons, giving according to a Chinese Dress British has acquired the whole of Sir J. B. Bo- tions regarding his work and got Scottish cities.
a gross total of 1,598,893 tons. But the there are five Japanese, seven
combatant officers to bind his own
wounds, after which he lay where be
fell during the whole of the follow
ing night. Next day the ground over IF YOU FEEL
tead
dency to amalgamate does not stop and nine Chinese mills in Shanghai, the binson's intersets in the Randfontein here: The million tan mark is raised latter including two in the course of Estates Gold Mining Company, the by the Ellerman Lines, Ltd whose total being established. One of the British Randfontein Central Gold Mining Com-
Mining Company-Beuter is a vessels, of 1,310,362 tons. Included mille, having 72,254 spindles and 68 pany and the Langlangte Estate and in these Sgures is Sir John Ellerman's the Nissuid wall (Japanese), operating
wearing machines, the largest latest acquisition-the
Lint of Bull, whose
Boot
consists of total: Yeasels, of 17.524 tons; the Elerman and Bucknall Steamship
which he was carried was so rough A COLD APPROACHING 80
Wilson
and
of 10,000 spindles, is the smallest mill. The number of spindles in the twenty- one mills at
at Shanghai is estimated to be
and muddy that he was twice tum- a hot bath at bedtime and a dose el pani 28 vessels of 142, 244-tone * 342,804, and the number Weaving
bled out of the stretcher. His Pinkettes, the little gentle as nature Line: 43 vesselt, of 275,131 tons; the chines to he.3.204 including those of remarks were characteristic. He lazatives, form the best preventative.
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said, Never mind, boys, I know
you are doing your best. When he reached the dressing station he would
PINKETTES
not allow his own case to be attended dispel Constipation Elliotsnest, torpid deliver, tick headaches and clear the to before others. His leg, was am- complexion Of Chemists, or to cents putated, but he gradually sanks and the pizial from Dr. Williams Modicine
Co., 03 Sayohan Road, Shanghai
ded.
BEWARE OF C
COLDS.
HILDEEN are much more likely
• contract the contacious diseases. Ellerman Ball Line, and others. Just the two Chinese mills not yet working
regards the sixteen cotton-mills at when they have colds. Whooping cough, under the million mark are the the outports, all of them, owned by Chi-diphtheria, scarlet fever and consumption Lines, with 200 wessels of 060,494 tons. which include the Prince Litle Beet of the Tetung mill (old) at Tungchoware diseases that are often contracted 39 yessels, of 181 211 tons Big shipawn with serior, and the Turigbut all medical authorities say, beware of sc,000 spindles is the largest of its when the chikiban a cold. That is why ing this for if we bracket
the 1
three amalgamations,
a of at Chehkiang, operat For the of mastoid art totaling 12,000 spindles, is the malle. Of will find nobling better than Chamber about 18 per cent or very nearly one these fixteso cotton milling are estab. Jain's Cough Remedy. It can always be
hahed in Kindesu me at Changte intended upon and it th of the total British Mercantile Squar, and much at Wichang and to take. For sale by all Chemists and Marme under the control of thres man Hankow in Uupel the last two being Storukes
#agement).