TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16 1017.
Hughes & Hough
AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.
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AUCTION.
HE Undersigned have received in Tractions to sell by Public Auction. (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNAD).
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WEDNESDAY,
the 17th October, 1917, commencing at 230 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of
Ic# HotsX STREET.. TALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE, TWIN BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS, PICTURES,
to,
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As follows:- Upholstered Suites, Arm-chairs and Sofas, Card Tables, Bedroom Furni ture, comprising Double and Single Brass-mounted Bedstends and Twin Bedsteads, Sideboards, Dinner Waggcos, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs Tod Occasional Tables, &c., Dinner
•Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Sets, &c., Bath oom Utensils, Roil-top Desks and Writing Tables, Sundry Flectro-Plated Electric Peading Lamps, Barograph Black wood sad Teak wood Screens, Black- wood Furniture, including Large 5-Fold Bisckwood Screen with Coloured Panels, Blackwood Washstand, Side Tables, &., Engravings, Pictures, &c. ke, Tennis Poles and Net, Iron Safe.
Turkish Bath Sheets, Towels, Single and Double Bed Sheets, Bed Quila, etc, Also
Ware, etc
One Largo Hall Clock.
PIANO by Collard & Collard.
Shiedmayer & Sochne,
Stuttgart.
J. B. Crainer & Co., '
..Liverpool..
Ozie Fair Old Pekinese Brass Lions.
† (Full Partitulars from Catalogue.)
Txxxa:-Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. "Hongkong. Oct. 11, 1917.
G.
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2185
EE Undersigned have received in- structions from the Hongkong Government, to sell by Public Auction,
on
FRIDAY,
the 19th October, 1917, at 11 am, at
Yau-mu-ti,
The Steam Lighter
"S. D. 3,"
HULL-Composite Teakwood Plank-
ay with Steel Frames
Length over all
Beam Extreme
Depth moulded
Depth Holl
70 ft. 9 in.
18f9 in.
Bft. in:
40 Tons Dead Weight Capacity. ENGINES-Compound Tandem non
condensing,
BOILER-Pressure 100-lb. Including Ship's Gear comprising Anchors, about 70 fathoms Cable, Fen- ders, various Lamps, Awnings, Tools, Dock Pump, &c., &c, dc.
Farther Particulars and Inspeeting Orders may be bad from the undersignd. A Launch will leave Black Pier at 10.30 am. the day of sale to convey intending purchasers...
Un view from Monday the 15th Oct. Terms-Cash before delivery.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers to the Governmeni.
Engkong, Oct. 11, 1917.
-2188
PUBLIC AUCTION. THE Undersigned bare received instruc
Ttions to mal by Pahlic, auction,
{FGS ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERN),
on
SATURDAY
the 20th October, 1917, at 10.45 ailing
at the Sales Rooms, No. 8, VOL ROAD, Corner of Tea House. Mrrect,
·D
MISUELLANEOUS GOODS,
Comprising
Lady's Silk Sweaters, Silk Stockings, variety of Drees Materials including Hins and White Serge Good quality Prints, Holland White Linen, Dell, Flannel, Flanus et(2, &c, &c. Counter
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EDINICEGR, Aug 8. SCOTTISTE NATIONAL WAR MUSEUM, Scotland, I understand, is to of strength or nerve-troubles there faessa national war museum. nothing that can equal Sargol for revital- ising the nerve cells and bringing Negotiatione ure in progress with Sir strength and energy to every part of the Alfred Mond, the First Commissioner body. Sargol has increased the strength of delicate ran-down, nervous people of Works; who is in charge of the more than 300 per cent. in many national war museum to be housed you have lost your strength and nerve in London, and it is expected that power from over work, ilmess, or from business worries, Sargol will bring back your old time strength and energy it you give it a fair trial. Is strengthens the system and tortes it up as no other preparation can.
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THE RECENT TYPHOON IN JAPAN.
- of Esator.—But walay 4 Government Department, without Es word of apology or ecplanation. calruly issuing deeree that the
Japan papers to hand by to-day's mail shooting of grouse shall begin on the contain details of the destruction sixth of August instead of The
caused by the typhoon which swept the Twelfth. After, this it shall not country on the night of September 30th. astonish us if the Bogad & Agricul.De. Okuda, President of the Central ture is found shifting the Autumnal Meteorlogical Obervatory at Tokyo Equinox under the powers of the issued the following statement regarding
the storm - Defence of the Realm Act.
MASONIC.
At the Quarterly Communication
these will shortly conclude with the of Grand Lodge of Scottish Erve formation of a separate museum for sonry, intimation was made that Scotland. The locale of this national the chatter of Lodge Cebu, Cebu, memorial has not been deuided upon, Philippine Islands, No. 10, which but Edinburgh, as the capital, bas was chartered on 1st August, the unrivalled claints, and there is little had been returned, that course being doubt that it will be given the honour found necessary on acepurt of the
depleted membership of the Lodge.
TENTA IN KRAKI. "
"The typhoon of yesterday (Sunday Monday) was the greatest over axpeti. enced in the Tokyo vicinity, and those of 1872 and 1909, which were thought to be the biggest in the anasis of this country, have proved weak in comparison withthe present one At 3 pm on September 30th, the centre of the typhoon was at a hendland of Vahia, in Wakayama profes point over thirty ri southward off the cure: then, making its way north-cast- ward and landing between Hamantsu and Shizuoka on the midnight of the same day it passed near Mount Fuji: and at 3.30am. yesterday (October 1st)
of Fukushima, passing north of Tokyo. This city was fortunately out of the cer Auxiliary Corpe, and, the hudiestre of the movement of the typhoon." proudly claim, whether, the War
MARIOUS DAMAGE IN YOKOHAMA Othe agrees withvit or not, that they
According to observations in Toko- are sperialists attached to the Royal hams, the typhoon, says a Yokohama contemporary,bled the typhoon. Engineers. One of the ladies is giv-"of July, 1011, in its destructive force, in A regineștal colour of the old 73rding her experiences to the Scots that not merely was the strength of the ant her aricles,are marked by wind itself ful; but, as in the typhoon of Highland Regiment, raised as second battalion of the 12t High charming spirit of brave cheerful-wind were such fores that it permet buiking or obstruction must wilt landers (the Black Watch), and after Less. She tells how We are liv-before it. In period of separation again reunited ing a ral Tommies life, and, like the
it is prescribed so freely by physicians of preserving on behalf of the nation for those whose strength in below normal. If you are wondering if Sargol the relies of the struggle that are would actually benefit you, why not do particularly assoemted with Scotland. -give Sargul trial and with your
the one thing which can convince you The museum, I gather, will contain! A number of Bilinburgh tele.lt pashed on in the direction of the city
nerves begging you for help, and your not only the fighting material used friends worrying about your condition, by the Scottish troops, but wil why not do this soon!
include photographs, literature," re- cords and modals.
Sargol is sold and recommended in England by uch high-class firms Boots Cash Chemists, Harrods, Sel- fridges, Taylor's Drug Storen, Lewis & Burrows, and We Whiteley's.
S.
Sargol is sold here in Hongkong by ruch well known chemists as Watson & Co. Lul, The Victoria Dispensary. The Pharmacy. Queens Dispensary. The Edward Dispensary. and by other leading dealers every
where
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AUCTION.
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AN OLD BLACK WATCH COLOUR,
tan escort af
graphists have joined the Women's
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two or three busts or gusts of
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every
The appalling effects of the storm nay be seen on any of the houses that were
to the old regiment, was presented, boys, we keep smiling all the time on somewhat of an eminence on the for preservation. tu. SL Giles' We have discovered, too, the reasonstorm line.
The godowns of many foreign firms Cathedral, Edlitbargh, st the for the stile-it banishes wrinkles! were fooded.
The Japan Chronicle" of the 6th anniversary""war" "service Captain! You can't "frown or grumble if you inst says:It appears that repairs to the Filmour,» M.P., carried the colours, keep smiling, so we are agreed to be damaged milway over the Hakone moun and was neesmpanied by pipers and sunshiny all the time. We are roulains were completed much more speedily
the Black Watch Tomenics or should I say Jocks see [Colonel P. J. Q. Livingston, who ing we are Scots and wear--well, you commanded the 2nd battalion of the know, just a lengthened kilt of Bluek Waseb from 1908 1911, said PARTICULARS and Conditions of the that, on behalf of Miss O'Connell, khaki Lefering to their work, the lady says, We Edinburgh girls have letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 2nd day of whose ancestor. Sir Maurice O'Con-i October, 1917, at 3 pm, at the Offices of rel, donarded the 73rd Regiment not found is at all difficile. But His Excellency the Gorernor, of Une Lot in the Kandy War in 1815-16, he bud she adds, " What a lot of." Recokla of ROWN LAND at Nathan Road, the honour to present this regimental the military want; they make one Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong, for
PUBLIC ACOTION.
the Public Works Department, by Order of
further tarm of 73 years.
Particulars of the Lot.
Bondary
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than was generally expieter, as the railway authorities now announce the resumption of traffic on the Tokaido line east of Kyota on the regular schedule The water on part of the inundated section from Osaka to Suite has subsided, and traffic over a single line for this part was resumed yesterday, though passeu- gers still have to be ferried across one section. It is stated that during Wed nesday and Thursday 23,000 people were carried over the fooded part by the 1.6.R. ferry-boats. cast of Tokaido provinces have been Quite a number of villages on the sea practically wiped out by the wind and the typhoon in Tokyo and vicinity may tidal waves. The tremendous furce of be imagined when it is mentioned that the maximum velocity reached 13 yards was the maximum in Kobe. It is said second as against $4.8 yards which that such a violent typhoon is unpre cedented in the capital since the estab
a term of 75 years, with the option of coicur to St. Gils Cathedral. It sigh for the simple life. The finest renewal at a Crown Ren: to be axed by the was "originally presented to alyte is struck in this passage, "Pur Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one O'Connell at Waterford in 1825, and haps some of vi women in khaki who had been presented to the 73rd High are now in France for our King and lind Regiment, then the 2nd batta Cause, may have the high privilege in of the Black Watch, in 1807, of winning what E. W. Hornung, the by Lieutenant-General Harris.. There' was one unique feature about this of a simnie Wooden Cross, for helishment of the Central Ulmervatory. colour: it was. one of the few, says You cannot die a failure if you instances of what was not exactly a win a Cross in France'; and one of success being honoured on the my dearest friends has won that Final, Flonour, and I am here in his colours. It bore the nume Mang
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“DAMAGE TO MORRISON LIBRARY.
It is reported that the warehouse at hbrary (which recently arrived in Fakagaws in which Dr. Morrison's Tokyo), was deposited, had been flooded by the typhoon and that more tha 10,000 volumes had been damaged by
water.
According to rapurts received at the
This regiment had gained place to lay great credit at the siege of Mangalore,. where 300 men of the regiment and Wherever go-and I go long Home Office from various prefectures up 1,400 Sepoys kept Tippoo Enhib's journeys up and down the lines-770 people had been killed in typhoon army at bay for nine months; and insee battalions of Scots (writes Philip January," "1785, 160 "Highlanders and Gibbs in the Glasgow Herald in an 646 Sepoys marched out with all the article on the last three years of bonour of war.............
CA SCOTTISH 'v.c.
ta 2 o'clock_an Thursday (4th instant). and foods, i 300 injured, and 974 missing A's to damage • tu hunde property 2,147 dwellings and other buildings were demolished, washed away or badly damaged, while 204, others were flooded. Altogusher 2119 craft of all. kinds were lost or damaged.
war). Through the white dust of aun-baked roads there are High Sec.-Lieut. John Manson Craig innders on the march, their kilts Royal Scots Fusiliers, awarded the swinging above knees as brown as Victoria Cross, is the second son of their khaki apfens, or as the gas, bags the late John Craig, of Craigdarroch, which they wear as sporrans. Their that and the fine simplicity of their New Crimmock, and Innergedie, pipes are playing at the head of long valour which makes them uncons Comrie, the well-known agriculturist, winding, columns, or in fields behind clous of their own heroism, so that Fient. Craig was born at Incergeldie. French farin-houses and barns where they never brag of their deeds, but 21 years ago, and was educated at these men are billeted between their do them as part of the days job, and Morrison's Academy, Creift. He spells in the trenches or between then pass on to the next ordeal. joined the Costurers as a privats, their battles. The music of the pipes They, are good friends with the pur took his commission, and was trans is now as much a part of the great sants of France, whom they help in ferred to the Fusiliers. He was on orchestra of this war as the incessant the farm yards and the fields when board the Ivernia when she was rumbling of distant guns. In all they come behind the lines, and us long as history lasts the spirit of sorts of odd nooks, and niners of the France will palute the memory of the torpedoed.
wur zone one hears the music of the kilted boys and of all the Lowland,
GROUSE AND DEER.
The British Resolution is making Pipes, stirring even an Englishman Scots who have gone into the furnace old baunting fires of this war to the music of the, like nyself with. progress. "In old-time Britain no
of pipes, and have fallen in heups upon ber Belds. A thousand years lience, festival was half eo sacrosanct as The Theories, and giving a cense Twelfth. To an important part of Tornance to a war which is a very when the wind blows scfsly across the the population the year revolved upon grim and foul business." And where ground where they lought the old it, and many a time the Mother of there are pipes there are Sconen. Scottish tunes will sound faintly Parliaments hastened ber steps most Sets are everywhere on the sea in the ears of then who remember unbecomingly in order to participate to St. Quentin; in old French market the past, and all this country will be
gallant mens de in its revels. The legislator of those towns; among the booths and the haunted with the ghosts of Scotland's days would no more have thought pigs and the poultry and the old of taking liberties with The Festival broadest of Scots and in Flemish from the Front. I want two women, whom they chaff in the
A Scots Chaplain brings this story of St. Grouse than the Archbishop of Canterbury would altered the villages, where these big, brawny Argylla to help me through with a Jocks, very terrible in battle, play job I've got," said, an Engineer officer, us gently as the goodwives at home as he put his head into a dug-out. with the bairns; and in campe behind Sorry, sir, was the reply" but this isn't the Argyle this in the the fighting linex not beyond the Blankshires. Oh, then I want reach of long-ruuge shells, and up in eight men and an F.CO, for, a the trenches,, wherever there is any futique nafty,
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dirty work on land-the dirty work - A joke in one of the reques staged which is the soldier's phrake for hard at the Front that never fails to bring down the bouse by ie the serve fighting
train like the American deg? Be In his closing paragraph "Phili?)' cause it is all stars and stripes. Of Gibber writes thus of the Jocks, They course it is the rank and file that does fight with more passion than English the laughing
I met this story the Kayht soldiers, and luve a grin and sub-is an old story, but it is new
mer born way with them when things are and it is worth repeating, for sita at their wont. The fighting instinct Andrew Fairservies favour. The is in their bones and blood, and Rev. Dr. Robertson was truenlafod belongs to their ancestry, so that they from Mains Parish Church to Glas athedral,” His beadle, Wattie, gow are very fierce men when they get went through to Glasgow to see him among the enemy. To men, bating shortly after the induction How Mains, war and all its bloody business, it is does this church compare with
Walter asked the Doctor We the spint of endurance and the hero
was the ply Iceanna was t Telf ascribe of these Scots most wonderful and most splendid, itg gew sair faste
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