TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1917.
AUCTION.
Hughes & Hough
AUCTIONEERS, TO THE GOVERNMENT.
Général Amotioneers
COLONTAL" SECRETARYS.
DEPARTMENT.
NOS 206. It is hereby notified that Share, Goal and General Produce SEALED. Than Demarin dator which should be clearly marked "Tender for Quarries will be received at this Office until Noon on MONDAY, the 3rd day of December, 1917, for the letting of she undermentioned Granite Canics Kowloon, and the Now Territories, for one year from the 1st
18.
Brokers and Commission
Agenta...
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* MEIRION* RONGKONG.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received in- Istructions to sell by Public Auction from ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
Db
WEDNESDAY,
the 28th November, 1917, at fi amy at No. 17, Chatham Road, Kowloon.
LUNDRY
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
contained therein.
(Full Particulars frola Cutalogue).
Cn view from Tuesday 27 that 3 o'clock. Terms ---Cash,
tender must be accompanied by s receipt to the effect that the tenderer has deposited in the Colonial Treasury a sum of 850 as pledge of the band des of bis ofer, which sum aha
shall be forfeited to the Crown if the tenderer refuses to carry oct his tender and comply with the conditions hereinafter contained, should the tender be accepted.
The
Government does not, bind itself to accept the highest or any tender.
Berment tender can be obtained from
the Director of Public Works..
Conditions of letting and plans of the Quarries can be seen on application to the Principal Land Surveyer, P.W.D.. PARTICULARS OF THE QUARRIES,
300 3,200 2,400
Approxi-
Quarry Lot No. mate Aras
in Acres.
Upect Crown
Rent
Teat Tax Mui No. 2
19:00
Shaukiwan Nos.
73:00
3 & 4.
Fok Vs No €
8-44
Mn Tan Tok No. 7.
08*70·
700
De. No.
**60
1,800
Ma Ti No. 9.
194
200
Jordan Road No.10
4.65
BUGHES & HOUGH,,
Auctioneers Hongkong. Nov. 24, 1317-
Yaumati No 11.
2-98
Ngau Tau Kok
2:00
1,000
800
No. 6.
9324
Ngau
Tau
Kok
1-1, 7, 8, 10.
10.12
1,300
16, 93 & 25.
Ngau Tau Kok
9, 11-14
3-00
21 & 93.
Cha Kwo Ling
94*56
2,700
Nos. 1-30.
Sai Tso Wan
Nos. 1-16.
16.53
800
Lyemur Nos. 1-25.
20.44
jag
No. 12.
PUBLIC AUCTION, THE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction, (FCB ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERSID), -..
on
WEDNESDAY,
_the_29th November, 1917, at
5 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,
Des Vœux Road, Corner of
Ice House Street,
A FINE COLLECTION OF RBITISH COLONIAL STAMPS. Comprising:-
Jamaica, New Zealand, Queensland St. Christopher, St. Helena, St, Lucia, St. Vincent, Sarawak, Seychelles, Sieria Leone, Straits Settlements, Selangor and Sungei Ujong-Sudan, Tobago Tonga, Transvaal, Trinidad, Turks Island, Victoris, forming Part II of the Collection."
Every stamp guaranteed perfectly gbusine.
(Particulars from Catalogue).
Un view 27th inst. from 9 pm, and day of sale.
Terms-Caah.
9310
RUGHES & HOCGY,
dustioneers. Hongkong, Nov. 19, 1917.
PUBLIC AUCTION ...
HE. Undersigned bave received in- structions to sell by Public Auction,
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THURSDAY,
the 29th November, 1917, at 2.30 pm- at their 'Sales Rooma, No. 8, Des Vaux Road, Corner of ICE HOUSE STREET,
THE FOLLOWING CHINESE PORCELAINS, PATRIOTICALLY PRESENTED FOR SALE. The proceeds of which are to be paid to the Heather Day Hund.
1 Pair large Light Blue and White Vases,
1 Pair Large Dark Blue -Hawthorne
Vases,
1 'Fair Mirror Black,
1 3-Colcored Vase,
1.
do,
Kanghi,
Yungching,
do.
I Blue and White Ginger Jar, Kangiri, 1 Fakież Pot,
2
Banghi.
1 Red and Gold Vase with Earrings,
5-coloured,
1 Pair Rice Bowls,
Small Blue and White Taers and
...another,
1 Flat Vase pale green and gold,
1 Coffee coloured Vase,
Ewangtung Vase;"
1 Modern 5-coloured Vase,
1 Blue and White small Vase,
1 Japanese Kaga Vase,
1 Salmon and White Vase,
TIRMA Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
"Auctioneers. Hongkong, Nov. 24, 1917.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Undersigned bare received instruc
dudes by Pablle Auction, tóc khác OF THE WOROLLWI
SATURDAY
the 1st December, 1917, at 10.49 m.),
at their Bales Rooms No. 6,
Des Voeux Road, Corner of Bad Ide House Street, MISCELLANEOUS GOODS,
Comprising
Blankets Counterpanes. Sheets, do, Dress Materials including Bino and White Berge (good quality) Printa, Holland, White Linen, Long Cloth, Drill, Flannelette ko., Handkerchiefs, Gent.'s Bilk Socks toys Buita. Towels, Toiles paus White Lace Curtains de
Sanp, Perfumery, KOL
Over coat tugths, a number of
af Gents Boots and Stoce, compr Black and Tan Boots and Bhoes, Kid Rubber Soled Fhoes, Dress:
Fuk Tson Heung-
1.
THE CHINA MAIL.
WHAT BOLOISM
MEANS.
ARREST OF THE ALLEGED CHIEF GERMAN SPY,
Folo Pasta was recently pas under arreus in Paris and accommodated at the Grand Hotel, but was later lodged in the infirmary prison as Fresnes, the informa tion which led to this action being
cablegram from the New York police announcing the discovery of a payment of 1820,000-made tɔ him in 1916 by the Deutsche Bank
SCOTTISH LETTER.
† From Our Dun Correspontant)
tuse and earthenware jaus will be completely superseded. A stout cardboard pot is being made, and as) far as things have gone it has proved. successful. From the hydrometrical EDINBURGH; Ocober 9. point of view it is claimed that it bas HOUSING REFORM IN SCOTLAND. stood all the tests. The cost is much The long-delayed Report of the smaller than for any other kind of! Royal Commission, on Housing in pot, and the large outlays involřed Scotland is issued, nourly five years in "returned empties" will be after the Commission's appointment. bristed, as the carboard pots may It is a terrible document. We alt be thrown away after use. The know that Scotland occupied a bad sua scarcity has resulted in another eminence in the matter of housing;
departure at Dundee, Keillers having but very few dreamt that things were large quantities of fruit:' fire build- pulped and preserved in barrels verg so desperate as the report disclones.. Overcrowding, it says, is practicallyings in the city are filled from floor universul in the one-room and two to ceiling and the finished artichs room houses. It more than two per. can be manufactured, as cension sons per room, is taken as the standarises, of course for the Aziny...... The papers are unanimous in the vieward of overcrowding, there are living that holo Pasha, who received his tie in this condition in Scotland no less from the dethroned Khedive, would than 45 per cent. of the population.
When Bolo Pasha was transferred from the Grand Howl:w the prison great crowds assembled in the boulevard, and cried,Death to the spy !**
appear to be incontestably one of the chiefs of the enemy spy and propaganda organisation in France.
At the beginning of the year the atten- tion of the anti-spy service in France was
PREPARING FOR A PUSU.
In all the accounts of the last push there is reference to careful prepara-
missioners say
To our amazement," the Com- tion and Staff work. The word "pres 'an found that even pamation" includes many things, and
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if we take overcrowding to means sidelight on them is thrown by a more than three persons per room. Royal Scot-ot Edinburgh, the we should, to serurs even this mode-Lathians Regiment-and his descrip~} directed to. Hoio by reason of the frequensrate standard for Scotland, have to tion of the preliminaries to the attack
journeys he made in the course of the preceding yours to Switzerland, Italy, and po special police then watched him and darandished the fact that Boto had just been spending in various enter prises over. mauition francs. This
"
1,000 liberality breed all the are curicus seping the investigation showed that Lolo, at the mucment when war was declared, had no tortuno beyond securities bringing 3,000 & Year, all of which were 500brought in by his wife at the time of his
INTIMATIONS
inarclage.
FOUNTAIN OF WELLTO.
1
"We
displace some 284,000 of the popula tion. But this is not all. conclude that at least 50 per cent. of the one-room houses at 15 per
on Hurgicourt to the north-west of St. Julien Minor show though it was. be writes, the attack was pre- tised two or three times a dag for
cent. of the two-room houses ought ten days before it chnie, and over to be replaced by new houses."*. (In { facsimile tronches cut from aeroplane brief, merely to relieve existing over-photogmple Evory detail of the crowding and replace Houses that terrain, formation, and barrage Ws should be demolished, some 121,000 known to every man going over," houses are required.
"And an and, the troops were as familiar with improved standard is adopted, us we the "lic of the German trenches recommend, the total number of new as with their own Lothian fields. For houses required would approach the attack we had the support of the 236,000. The provision of these travelling circus," the popular The source of considerable suis scat-houses would cost at least 82 miljon name "fer the peripatetic artillery 3,000 tered shout by Bolo becoming wore and pounds, and the Cominissioners are which moves from **stunt." to 1,200 more suspicious, it war derand their duty of opinion that at the present time it along the Front A-new by the Freach criminal authorities to must be assumed that at least one- form of barrige was employed with | prefer a charge against him of communi-third of the cost will be uneconomic great results. This consisted of the ordinary creeping barrage of the artil- cating with the enemy, but Bolo energeti-and that that proportion must belery, reinforced by battery upon cally defended himself. "He made the contributed by the State in one form battery of machine guns playing on following decisration:-
or another:
the German lines well ahead of the The percentage of new Long before the war I made invest-houses required is highess. for the shell-fire. It was an unqualified mens in Ameries. These investments Outer Hebrides-90 per cent. This success, and, thanks largely to its aid, 14 Gurrean counter attack was have accumulated since that time, and means that in these islands very posible until the work of consolida to-day I am in possession of a forume of nearly the whole population live in tion was well advanced.
discusse-breeding hovels. The crofter population on the mainland come second in requiring 20 per cent of now houses. Next stand the mmers with 18.68 percent.; and the indus-, Captain Bouchardon, to whom was trial population in the landward parts entrusted the duty of inquiring into the with 15.77 per cent. Lalo ca, sent commissions of ¡inquiry
SIR AUCKLAND GEDDES, into Switzerland, Italy, and the Faited
States. The first results of these com-
Edinburgh gave a cordial welcome missions into Italy appeared to be negato Sir Auckland freddes on the occu- tive. In Switzerland numerous daliculsion of his first speech an Minister of ties, not even yet removed, were encoun-National Service. His old friends tered. In the United States, however. were pleased to see that. Ive has
to exert thema-changed very little since his Edin N. Tova, M.C., Black Watch the authorities promised belyes to the utmost to throw light on the burgh University days, that he has CENU. The enlighteninens was made developed no official high kniffishness. manifest recently in the shape of a cable In his younger years. Sir Auckland
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
CORNED BEEF
AND
CORNED PORK.
PUT UP IN K203 and Babroa
TOR
EXPORT OF STEAMKEK: "USE
68
METALS
of all kinds, capecially for shipbuilding and engineering works. Largest and best assorted stock in the Colony.
several million franes, all of which is deposited in American banks. But I bave never bandied money dither jai Italy or'in Switzerland."
SINGON & CO. addressed to the Quai d'Orsay "(the was an enthusiastic Rugby player; be
(ESTABLISHED A.D. -1880).
HING LUNG ST.
PHOZ $18.
MASSAGE.
MR. HONDA Trained male Masseur. Ten years experience. Formerly of Tokyo Military Hospital
WILL VIBIT PATIENTS"? RESIDENCES IF PREFERRED No. 218, Queen's Road East.
2154
THE ANDERSON®
MUSIC CO., LTD.
HIGH CLASS
PIANOS
SALE OF
HIRE.
CASH OR
CREDIT.
FOR
TUNING & REPAIRING-
A SPECIALITY."
∙16, Des Vorz Bosi,,
SAVARESSES
SANTAL CAPSULES
:
"
THE WOODEN CROSS.
A broken obelisk, a chiselled heart, Shreds of a dead convention, once
part
Of life, But now a
it
common dross.
A broken tree, a shattered home; Symbols of man-matic Kultury
Eate and strife.
God if it be my lot to lie Under an alien tented sky,
Let me but share the soldier's shrine,
A wooden cross.
CIVILISED TO DEATH.
French Foreign Office) by the Americas captained Watson's College XV.; Foreign Ofice. This cable states- later he found a place in the Watson- From inquiries conducted by the fan and Edinburgh University tenmiş.
The annual report issued by the Colo- American police in the banks whose An excellent singer, he was thenial Office as to the Gilbert and Ellice names follow (then comes a list of New
life of many a student function. Lands is extremely interesting. It York and other Américan banks) it is established that various sums exceeding especially those connected with the points out that the wearing of European in ul; 19,000,000 francs (£400,000) were | University Volunteer Company. Cresa by the natives..and their consequent failure to oil their bodies as a protection there deposited in the course of 2016 Indeed one of the great disappoint the ecld westerly winds and heavy in the home, of Paul Bolo, then stayingments of his life was that the state rains, have produced a deadly epidemic. in Paris, by the Deutsche Bank, Berlin,
Staten.
À MONEY PHƠM ENEMY HOUĘCE,
CAN YOU THREAD A. NEEDLE
A great part of this money has already of his eye-sight debarred him from a of tuberculosis, Shirts and trousers been remitted to Paul Bolo by transfers military career, and afterwards also for men, and the long, sweeping garments on a French back, Details will follow. disqualified him for the RA.M.C. for women," says the White paper, ** aro the outward signs of Christianity. Iris We may say already that the American It was characteristic of Sir Auckland practically only among pagana and in the inquiries show that the money intended" for Holo Pasha was deposited succes that, when accepting the Professor Government gaols that the sensible cativa sively in nine banks in the United ship of Anatomy in Montreal, he dress may now be seen.
reserved to himself the right to retum to Great Britain in the event of o The above-mentioned cable was, suth big war. In his youth be visited ciently explicit, and no doubts any longor Germany, became convinced that a exist that the millions at Polo's disposal war with this country was contem come from an enemy source, and had been plated, and expressed bis views about confided to his possession in the midst of. war by Germany for a purpose about which no equívocation is permissible, ⠀⠀
According to the slin," the Amdri- can police inquiry will enable the publicu tion of a full list of persons in America to whom cheques were addressed by the Deutsche Bank, Germany, for payment to certain secret German agents operating In France.
LOSING WEIGHT BY THE POUND
*Under Weight," a condition of 10-health, shows your assimi ilative powers are decreasing.
WATERCURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND
the German menace in the course of a Vázsity debate.
* JAM AND JUTEOPOLIS..
Holding The Thread in Inch From The End? Not To Be Able To Do This Is A Sign Of An Over wrought Nervous Condition
INTIMATIONS
Quality.
With LEA & PERRINS' SAUCE, few drops sprinkled over the meat, fish or cheese, &c. are all that is required to impart the most delicious piquancy and flavour.
The QUALITY and concentration of its ingredients make a little of this sauce go a long way.
Lea Perrins
The Original and Gemsize WORCESTERSHIRE
THE EVER POPULAR
HOUSEHOLD REMEDY
Which has now borne the Stamp of Public Approval for
OVER FORTY YEARS.
ENO'S
FRUIT SALT
ין
PLEASANT TO TAKE,
REFRESHING AND INVIGORATING.
IT IS VERY BENEFICIAL IN ALL CASES
OF
Biliousness, Sick Headache, Constipation, Errors in Dlet-Eating or Drinking, Thirst, Giddiness, Rheumatic or Gouty Polson, Foverish Cold, with High Temperature and Quick Pulse, and Feverish Conditions generally. It is everything you could wish as a simple and Natural th-giving
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Prepared only by
J. C. ENO, Ltd., Fruit Salt Works, London, England
· SOLD BY CHEMISTS AND STORES, EVERYWHERE.:
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ORIENTAL PRODUCE
EXPORTERS,
SILK MERCHANTS, COMMISSION AGENTS,
Agencies in
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Branches
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THERE is only que way to correct
this. You must reach the cause of JAPANESE MAKERS the trouble. Just because your hand trembles it does not follow that the brouble lies directly in the nerver of the
Jam plays a great part in the com missariat of the British Array. The inan at the Front may grouse over
plum and apple
or apple und plum, but all the same he demands jam and plenty of it, and if it is not forthcoming somebody suffers. Of the eight great firms who provide the jam, the Messrs. Keille take a pro minent place they have made Dundee the City of Marmalade us well us Juteopolis. It is no un usual thing for this one firm to deal with 100 milhon oranges and a kitids of fruit on a similar Gargantuan lowering of the general bealth I
The body is full of what is known sympathetic nerves. Many persons are not aware that such nerves, exist They do not know that nothing goes on sny part of the body that every other part docanot instantly, mow of The closeness of this sympathy is
thy is familiarly illustrated by headacher, indigestion, heumatism, neuralgin, etc, when the part that burts may not be the seat of the trouble at all. Almost every case cf Meeplessness, nervousness, even dyspep- and all is, a sympathetic.
1 strike", by brain, nerves, and stomach, induced by the
tale. Their weekly supply of jam tike, if the tins were set end on end would stand 40 miles high. At one "period of the war,
supply of bing
but
of this kind nothing in more grateful than the hein and strengthening pow
power of a remartable discovery called ar Sargal Tablets are careful com tion of valuable nerve and feeding elements that
Atren
Bvery kind of Footwear
MADE
TOL
LESSONS" IN CHINESE, MELI HON FAN, UDSM grade Pared in 1 literaire, has been a Lancher to Kurapean. Oficials and Merokaate in pale Calons for a Yang
He had a good method of training Europeane to gare la the Dielbaum erumination, andi la poses we l of a frat rate certsdiante ne a Clinary tanoner, Ha has also a good knowtadasof Mandarin and HERKEN, Those who intend lasing the Chinese LzKUD Þ'kek'enquested to wrile als “Chinh Mya” “OMOS ST
MARECE LO Now Zaż,, Walllegton street, Art Ssar.
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