SATURDAY, JULY 28 1917,
AUCTIONS.
PUBLIC
AUCTION.
Hughes & Hough que Undersigned have receivest in-
AUCTIONIVES TO THE GOVERNMENT.
General Anationsers.
Share, Coal and General Produce
Brokers and Commission Agents,
PROPRIETORS
*Te-Kwa-Wan* Coal Storage
Codas used Bentley's
4. 3. c. 4th & 5th Editions. ▲ 1 Tolographic Coda,
Tisgraphie Adidresa MILION HONGKONG,
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
[HE Undersigned have received in- stractions to sell by Public Auction, '(P08. ACCGENT OF, Tar concernan),
or
MONDAY,
the 30th July, 1917, at 2.30 pa,
at No 30m. Nathy Ronal
@ Kowloon, (Top-Plata,
THX"
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
..
Ac.
therein curtained..
Comprising Teakwood Hall.Farniture, Cheste"field
atructifus frog-Madaus GAINS,, to sell by Public Auction,
Da
MONDAY,
the anh July, 1917, commencing at 10.30 am: at Alexandra Buildings (First Floor)
.
THE CHINA MAIL,
WAR-SUPERSTITIONS.
It is no wonder, perhaps, that a way whose inrrors and herois have ran the gamot of all the bun emotions. awakenet
slumbering passions.
he arrives at the date of the end) of the war a little more definitely as January 7th, 2018. Hers is the way "Mr. Fish works it out:
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Stust people.pro naure c» less, familiar and with Bible prophecies, many of which i
And
they
Revelation ül. worshipped the Beast, saying: Who is ke unto the Eount? Who & able' to muks war with him
apoumel the brite instinets in then, should seem to de coming true at this time. To have revived superstition and prophecy Bevelation we find :— along with other primeval propensities and medieval practices. Long-forgotion | ghosts are reported by the credulous as having returned to their old haunts in the halb aga towers of steient. English
(all new stock. French make 44 inches would have laughed at these mystic manj. Ladies Dress Materials in latest shades homes, at these "who, before the war,
wide), Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats, festations are now lending sympathetic a large assortment of French, Flowersers to visions of seers and giving willing and Trimmings, &c., Cloth and Sergetredenco to weird tales of the super Costumes in all colours. Golfing Shirts
TH WRCLE OF HES VALUABLE STOCK IN TRADE. Comprising |--
in Scotch Tweeds and Heather mixture utal. And there are sonic who Puney a large variety of Black Serge Chat they #nd concidenes to the dert minni. (with new full basques), a fine assortment | polation of dates and figures, as is noted of French Ribbons in short lengths. tu i thy Milwauwe • Prve Press — a suit purchasers, Black and Coloured. Among the favourite appeals to the Ribbon Velvets, Ostrich Feathers and Pompous, Wings Aigrettes, Quills and superstitious temper of war-time, nene is Ornaments, Veils. Tulles and Chiffons in all colours.
On view day of Sale... Terms-Cash.
HUGHES HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Houzlong. July 12, 1917.
1974
PUBLIC AUCTION,
direction of the Government off
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Revelation xili. 3-—- Sad power was given tuto him to make war forty and two months,**
· Revelation xiii. 18 me? Here is wis- dunt. Tot him has hath understanding count the number of the Beast; for it is the number of a man; and his gumber is six hundred thire scure and
wix."
Now the number Bet has been regarded as thus of the reincarnated Nero, who in sail to reappear on earth it litervals.
One student of Bibliesel prophesies iten said that "Sik hundred three score uzal apt to be more unique that the prophetis six years is in the age of a tant, bus that combinations of dates and other Signifi-six hundred three wore und six months figgares with which the outine or Bre," and "equal to fifty-five nudi u hail ent of the conflict is variously pointed, Eyeur. ** Every war of unattro tires has produced i such essays at mystical and symbols arithuntic, pad the present struggle is to exception.
A: TH
the these swietling, of those
| Emperor William was. Loen
Jnuary 27th, 1830-271870- Add his age in July, 1015...6 then y
Betanien war.
And Power was given hih po monis
BY Hongkong Messes. HUGHES and appears to have pe American origin; at fors and Law units.
HOUGH ve received instructions to leer, it
pengebed by the Piths.
1 this relees to the present war, it | sell by Public Auction.
burg tiareste." We herewith subunit indientes but the war will end Jantags
MONDAY,
Sofa and Armchairs, Cainers Teak the rath day of August, 1917 as a
at their Sales Room, Lee Flouse Street, Victoria Hongkong. The Following VALUABLE LEASE. HOLD PROPERTY sitante at Victoria Hongkong Via :——
Dining Room Furniture, Ice Chest. Bookcase, Su, Large Wanleube, -- Bed- staal, Dressing - Tables Washstarul. Toilet Sets, ks, Fath Roommand Kitche
Electric Fittings Singer Sewing Machine, Sunblinds, Pulms in Pots. e. (Full Farticulars From Catalogue) On view day of Sale, Teraw. Ch.
HUGHES & HOUHn, Auctioneer
Hongkong July 21, 1917.
1978
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE
THE Undersigned have received in- structions from MADAME GAINs, to sell by Puble Auction,
TUESDAY,
the 31st July, 1917, commenting at 10.30 a.m., at Alexandri Raiklings (First Floor),
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▲ Valuable Astorthest or
SHOWCASES, OFFICE
FITTINGS, ..
'ollows-
Large Glass-fronted Teakwood Show- ence made by Wm. Powell. Counters with Class-top made by War Powell | Bevelled Mirrors (various sizes). Ceiling and Desk Fans, One Large Mezzanine Floor, Brass Rails, Wooden Partitions and Swing Doors, Shanghai Sunblinds, flat and Costume Suurla, Sewing Machines, de, &c., &c.
Un view from Saturday, 28th inst. Terms:-Cush.
HUGHES & HOUGH
„A SAGRÍORVEGI»,
Bongbong, July 10, 1917.
PUBLIQ AUCTION.
,1975
*HE Undersigned, have received in- structices to sell by Public Auction. (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
on
TUESDAY,
the 31st July, 1917, commencing
112.30 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,
Des Voeux Road, Corner of [cx-Box SHEET,
VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE, "BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, PICTURES,
Sc
As follows:- Upholstered Suites, Arm-chairs and Bofas, Card Tables, Bedroom Furniture, comprising. Double and Single Brass- mounted Pedsteads and Twin Bed, steads, Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, Tea and Occasional Tables, etc., Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Seta, &c.
Bath Room Utensils, Roll-top Desks and Writing. Table, Enamelled Twin Beds, Bundry Electro Plated Ware, etc.
- Pianos in good condition, Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood and Teak- wood Screens, Sundry Blackwood Furniture, including Large Overmantel, Engravings, Pictures, etc., etc.
*Also
D
Tennis Poles and Netting, Carpata (New and second hand), &e, "de
ind
für gå our remer as an exuuple of clovenį 27th, 1918 (kaiser's-birthdays, and forty. mathenistical patag that y well jiwa mugithis frean she beginning of the Mislead the superstitionen
ALL THOSE pisces or parcels of ground sinnate at Victoria aforesaid and known and registered in the Land Ofice i AS SECTION A OF MARINE LOT NO FO and SECTION "R" OF MARINE LOT NO. 101 Together with. the messages erections and buildings, thereon, known as No 7. Queen's Road Central, Victoria aforesaid. Tern: 869)
years ercated by a Crown Lease dated] the 8th day of April 1856.
Ares in respect of Section. "A" ĐỀ Marine Lot No. 101-8113 sq. ft.) Proportion of Annual Crown Rent $34,40,
· Prisiderat, Wilson was dora
touch office ...... has been in office hu Evd
1018
$vary 01 years
الجملة
1010
Ring of Reglund wai buru... 19
toweled thn.ne his reigned Jus lived
0804
war.
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·Ralph Shirley, na Baglisis erectist, has wondo an stegesting veloution of widen propheeches, lays Mr. Fish, who tells 17: story of "174# (lipse's Prophecy (*) as - fitting, veily well with the two previous divinations:
It seems that in 1849 the. Kaiser's | years grandfather, Pritice Williams of Inissia. 32 years
was wand ring incognito though sense of He was at the previnees of the Blues that time very unpojanlar, owing to his attitude toward the Telia revolution of Year112, urab therefore land little chrurgies of
ever insting to the theme,
1913
President of France was born 1928
truk ether... has been in adive lins fives!
Area in respect of Section "B" of King of Italy was born ..... Marine Lot. No. 101-675sq. ft. Proportion of Annual Crown Rent $75. For further particulars and conditions of sale apply tomu
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, |"
Prince's Buildings,
Ice House Street, Hongkong. Solicitors for the Liquidator of. THE DEFTSCH ASIATISCHE BANK
or to
Messrs. HUGHES and BOUGH
The Auctioneers. longkong May 9, 1917
Dont WorrY In here
uspended throIRS ^«»*•••• bas reigned................... Tets lived!......
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17 years
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At Mayene a gripey-woman offered fo Tell bis lortune, al addres him us
Not Emperini Mujasty.11.
Ha Eaungid. Bg Prince asked, "Ftuperial 48 years | Majesty and of what empire, prny 7** Or the new Tierman Empire." was the reply. He inquired. Whet this empire to be fornited ?**
The pipey tok #
pisze në paper nodi years wrote on it the gen?" 1949, . Then she placed the same figures +ጻ a lump
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King of Felgium was born cynded throne......
19909
Ens rried... has lived
42 years
1777 | Emperor of Jajai was born.. 1879
nseendet shrane,
KEATING'S
KILLS
BUGS FLEAS MOTHS
BEETLES
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SKEPILLS
A Fruwa Kamanskog bore al), 1pampalasetang
ADANA MÍA AL COMMON ARE MADE MALI MA
MARTIN'T PIOL & STEEL LEDPILLS
A few lots of Turkish Bath Sheets DAIRY FARM NEWS.
Towels, Kingle and Double Bed Shorts,
Ped Quilta, etc, äts-,
(Full, Paruosters from Catalogan.)
HUGHTS & HOUGE,
Auctioneers,
Hongkong, July 25, 1917
PUBLIC AUCTION.
1980
THE Undersigned have received instruc
tions todell
(POR ACCOUNT DE TER QOVURANEN},"
at their als Rooms, No: 8
Des Voux Road, Corner of
Ice House Street,
ONE 16 FORE HAMMERLESS GUN
BY
BLAND
"Good Condition
HUGHES &.HOUGH”
Auctioneers
Bongkong: July 215/10172/
CORNED BEEF
AND
CORNED PORK.
PUT UP IN KEGE AND BARKELA
FOR
EXPORT OF STEAS
USE
FRENCH LESSONS
#GAMOUSSION.
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bus reigned
has lived
| King of Servia was born .............
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King of Montenegro was born 1881
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King of Humania was born ... 18455
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bus reigned
"ham lived
1914
years
52 years
+1592
It might seen that the equal sum thus
3871
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The sum obtained being the beginning of the empire.
* How lounge ma E torile over this emping?" asked a Prikane.
The gipay repeated the mathematical operation gain taking the number 1871 and adding the same fizores ly column. :—'
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The result twing the time of his death. Then the Prince asked, How long is this empire to last?
And the gipsy, taking the figures 1882, yielded, by adding the principal statistics and repeating the same, operation":
shont the presidents and monarchs engaged in the war against the Centrul Powers, was startling and significant enough. But, the wonder is heightened win we are told that this sum chart be.
divided," because two hemisphere are represented by these rulers, and that one. half of 334 is 10177.
The prediction based upon these figures may be anticipated: It in that the war.
1888 .1
obtaining the result: 1918.
Time has proved the first two eluures of
this strange prophecy to be true as to the third-well, the war begna in earnest in 1914, and may that year not have been will come to an end during the prosent the beginning of the end of the Hoben-
zollern empire?
year.
A J... Fab, in the Los Angeles, An old prophecy of a Japanese dating Times Magazine, very cleverly juggles, back to „178 is" recalled. It reads
When men fly like birds, in great
with the data of the Kaiser's birth, and,
by combining it with some Scriptural kizus will so to war arast, the other prophecies which he thinks are applicable and the aalverse will be under arms.", to the case of the Emperor and he
The Paris Figaro recently printed undoubtedly will find many of his view the following prediction whose sources
imknown
HIMROD'S
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A MIRACLE IN FRANCE..
G. 1
RESTORING TREES THE ENEN Y
LEPT AS BEAD,
Thanks to the ginians of the, French mce and its indomitable industry it is hapel that a large number of the fruit
39,
REWARD.
Sole Manufacturera ? -J. T. DAVENPORT, LIG...,
London, S.E..
TOLEN In the premises. of
fam the night of 10th July, 1917.
AUCTIONS.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
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1
mone from the Liquidators of Messrs
MOMIDEEN & Co., Jewellers. No.THE Cd hired instruc
wen's Bad, Central Hongkong mesin ursinner of an order He Sample Watches, several Jewellery of the ongkong Government to sell by cases containing Diamond and Ruby Fublic Adictia at 12 o'clock (Noon) on' Rings, Gold and Platinum Necklets with Assorted Stones, Gold Buttons Gold Assorted Stones Id Bracelets set with TUESDAY, Coins, Gold Silver and Nickel Wat bes, Gold Dragon Kings, Pasinun: Claws, Gold Brooches set with Jadestones, unset Gold Rings, and Wallets containing
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the 31st day of July, 1917, at his Sales, Roonis, DESDELL STEKET,
trees which the Germans did their best to destroy, and in many cases succeeded in destroying my be saved. Mr. Henry Wood the special correspondent of the United Tress of America with the French Armies, tells in a dispatch, how this "miracle" has been wrought. He says:
What has really happened is that. Frecious Stones. the French soldiers, working under the direction of French Generals who know undersigned to any person or persons PROPERTY situate at The
reward of $500 will be paid by the other things tannery military opera who will give information which will Hongkong, and being, Rural Building tions, huse fund the means of saving lead to the recovery of the stolen thousands of them.
Throughout the entire district deras Enter by the Germans there were thou- sands of trees that the close pursuit of the French kept the Germans from having time completely to cut dowri. Instent, the kultured tree killers.cus of!
a ciel of the trunk which, I
THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
Peak
the thief or thieves, property the arrest and conviction of Lot No. 15.
IN ONE LOT This reward holds good for twelve The property consists of :--- months from this date.
·C. Mc I. MESSER, Captain Superintendent
öf Police.
1988
with few exposure to the sun, Central Police Station, sould be sufficient to kill peach, plain, Hongkong, th July, 1917.
and cherry trees that had apple, apricot, a been half a century attaining their iten: actual productiveness.
These trees presented the easiest profitems. The wounds were merely bonnd up like the words of a sedier. Thus ands of Army surgeons and Red Cross ambulance drivers and strutcher carriers
RONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY
'LIMITED.
incorporated in the United Kingdom.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the
INTERIM DIVIDEND at the
The piece or parcel of ground and premises known as "Lysbolt, 104 The Peak, situate near Mount Gough in the Colony of Hongkong, with an area of 14039 square feet and registered in th Land Office as Eural Building Lot. Yo
19.
The lot is held for the unexpired residue of a term of 3 years created terein by an indenture of Crown Lease dated the 23rd day of April 1896.
The Annual Crown Rent is 885.00. For farther particulars and conditions
assisted to in this work. The circle where thrk had been ent away was first covered with a apeial grafting rate of 0 per cent for the year ending of sale apply to Mesars. Wilkinson & cement, and the entire wound then "care fecember 1917 has been declared. fully,
bandage
upften with the same The dividend will be payable on and Grist, Solicitors for the Liquidators, E handages that had been prepared for after WEDNESDAY the 15th day of to the undersigned." human limbs.
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer Hongkong, April 30, 1917.
of
"So erat was the number of trees August 1917 to Shareholders on the
Eegister on SATURDAY the 4th day that had to be dressed in this way that August 1917, an will be paid to
share- the entire available supply of grafting holders on the Colonial (Hongkong) preparation was quickly exhausted. Tar Register at exchange of 2/4 per dollar. was then used as a substitute and finally
By Order of the Board,
W. E ROBERTS,
Secretary, Hongkong, July 23, 1517..
in
even a loamy clay. Substitutes for rur Kical bandages also land to be found, and the the end it was discovered that moss twisted and tied about the dressed wound was as effective as anything else. "Where the trees had actually been cat down, the lumps protruding caually two or three lost from the ground were first trimmed off so as to conserve the sap and prevent the death of the roots. This stump was then treated with the krafting, paste and quefully bandaged till the cot-down tree lying at the side budded from the sap and life that re: mained in it after
being cut down. Branches that showed great numbers of
slump.
W
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RUSSIAN 5% INTERNAL LIBERTY LOAN 1917.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
4,
THE BUBBO - ASIATIO BANK.
EONGKONG, IS READY TO RECEIVE lity were thon cut off and finally
into the carefully prepared FURTHER SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE "To-day those grafts are in full lenf ABOVE LOAN UP TO THE 28th And blossom. The roots appear to have JULY, 1917. been entirely saved by this process. Years have been saved in restoring the cat-down orchards of France.
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PUBLIO AUCTION
179
THE Undersigned has received in- THE
structions from the Liquidator of Messrs. WITZKE & Co. in pursuance of
Order
of the Hongkong Government to sell by Public Auction, at 19 o'clock (Neon)
010
MONDAY,
the 27th day of August, 1917. at his Sales Rooms
DEDDELL STERAT, Hongkong
ALL the piece of ground cituate at RUSSO-ASIATIC BANK. Yaumati, Kowloon, in the Colony of 1940 Hongkong and registered in the Land Office as KOWLOON INLAND LUE NO.
Hongkong July 8, 1917.
TANG YUE DENTIST, sirvessor of
the late SLEN 3ING, 14. D'AGUTLAR STISET.
TERMS VERY MODERATE
Comeitation free-
THE NEW EXENOM REMEDY,
THERAPION No.1
THERAPION NO.2
¿CORIN BLOOD MUUD VALL'IMUN, NEIL SKUPTION:
In One Lot
The property consists of piece of ground abutting on Battery treet and Fourth Street (near the Prays) in Kow bon and contains an area of 4500 Square Flot!
The Lot is held for the drexpired re sidue of a term of 75 years created therein by an Indenture of Crown Leuse rated the 4th day of May 1888.
The Annual Crown Bent is 800, For further particulars and cond of sale apply to Medus HASTI
THERAPION NO HASTINGS, Solicitors for the
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