TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1918.
Hughes & Hough
ŽISORA TO TEM GOVERNMENT,
*General Anettäneurs Jaaro, Deal and General Produce Brokers and Commission
Agenta.
PROPRIETORS
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S. S. "HONGKONG.
THE UNDERSINNED ber to notify the proposed aale by private Tender of the Hull of the above-nsnied Steamer sahe now lies stranded on the East Point of NAUCHAU ISLAND, about. twenty-five miles frein Kwan Chau Waza.
GENERAL CONDITIONS-OF...
TENDER..
The vessel is offered. for sale as she now lies, with ber Engizes Boilers, Anchors and Chains and such, other equipment as may be on board
(but no Cargo is to be considered in the Tender).
(2) The vessel is now guarded by the
French authorities.
(3) All Tenders should reach the Office of the Undersigned on or before Noon, SATURDAY, the 9th Febru- azy, 1015.
(4) A Deposit must accompany.cach Tender, the amount of which may be learned at this Ofliz, said Deposit will be retured in case of non acceptance of Tender.
(5) The Vendors do not bind themselves
to accept the highest or any Tender. Further particulars regarding the kondition of sule, and a list of Athings and fixtures to be sold with the ship, can be obtained on applica "tion, from the Undersigned. For and on account of the Concerned..
HUGHES & HOUGH.
Hongkong: Jan. 9, 1918.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
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THE Undersigned have received in-
ÉFOR LCCOUNT OF THE CONCRINED)
са
FRIDAY,
the 18th dazuny, 1913, commencing at 2.30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Tee House Street,-
A QUANETTY of
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, £20,
Comprising:~~
Teak Twin Bedsteads Sideboards, Dinner Wiggon, Extension/Dining Table and Chairs, Chesterfield Sofas, Arm- thaira, e., Wardrobes and Thilet Tables, Cots, Miscellaneous Furniture, Pictures, Roll-top Deals, Blackwood Ware including Cabinets, Wardrobes Stands, &c., Brass Fenders and Fire few lots Porcelains and Brasses, Curios, &c, Pantry and Kitchen Utensils, Electric Lamps, Enamelled Bach, Carpets and Bugs.
(Full Farticulars from Catalogue). Tax ---Coah. "
'KUGHES & FOUGH,.
Auctioneer
Hongkong, Jan. 11, 1918.
TO LET
TO LET.
32
TURNISHED HOUSE at Mount
FOR SALE
FOR-SALE
USCOLUM Barker Road, 145,
Peak Apply DUNCAN CLARE,
(LANE) ChiWrOED & Co. Hongkong, Jan. 1918,
FOR SALE. «
THE Undersigned have received in "l_structions_to sail at their_Sala Rooms No. 8, Des Vous Road, Cornce
of Ice House Street,
MOTOR YACHT Bait 1916, had very little usage.. Koll
...Teakwood Langth, water-line 99′ 9′′; over all 35 Bent....
T Drait....
HUGHES & HOUGH," Auctioneers.
Hongkong, Jan 9, 1913. -
INTIMATIONS
ALFRED EYNDHAN 43 Wyndham Street -Has-for-sale-
27 M
SCOTTISH LETTER.
[From Our Own Corresponden
THE CHINA MAIL.
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ST. MUNGO AND EAST FIFE by the Jews, hò luid, would be a very kan dalaw process. Centuries of uttle- Scottish days or Scottish nights in mant of Europe had made the Parliament urs few unit for between modern Jew a Turpein in the in the times, but a couple of them physical secse were spent over the Redistributiön.
SNORDERY OR PROVINCIALISÉ the matters discussed, wore
Snobbery was the theme of a mspi nes exciting, at least they were some ing speech at the mesting of the what amusing Glasgow had General Council of Glasgow, Univer futter all to itself over the proposalsity. It arose out of suggestions for that the Central Division should the establishment of a Faculty of receive the more resounding title of Commerce. and Mrs. D. R. Claric St Mungo, after the founder and made a cutber cnel and unfair attack patron Saint of the City; and the old
per our Public Schools Commer ballad was quoted:
Sanes Mungo was a jolly enot,
And aft he stained his vestments whita, And dearly lo'ed gude gill
dribbling a tho still."--
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Eusaunen, Nov. 19 THE SCOTS IN PRUSSIA Has Mackersen a strain of Scottish blood in his vein The question is a Religate ons at the present moment; but a good few people assert that he belongso the Cha Mackenzie, and in all probability descends from Thomas
cat men of the best class, to re- Mackenzie of Dundee, who became a
marked, instead of sonding-their-sona- burgoss of Danzig in 1623 under the
to Glasgow High School and then to name of Makkenin, wristeri later d
Glasgow Univerity, as they used to Mackensien and Mackenzen. This
do, were now so snobbish that they Thomas Mackenzie was most likely a
sent them to Fettes, Merchiston, merchant or trader, the calling of
Glenalmond, Loretto, when the toys came under the influence of Company on boxes and crates of quality merchandise în porta - most of the Scots emigrants to Easter The Secretary for Scotland took the English graduates. The result was and Wester Prussia. Fighting med sensible view that if the citizens that the boys after rds went to the world over. For more than fifteen years we have exported to Motor "Scripp^", Ecavy duty 14 E. Pero also among them; but as a rula wanted the name of St. Mungo they Glasgow University Theanob cox sumers and merchants in nearly every corner of the globe,
Oxford or Cambridge instead of to Complete with Laratory, Refrigerator the Scot went to the Baltic to make could have it, and there the matter bish idea," said Mr. Clark, that a Suit of Sails, and all Accessories.
money by the wand rather than los. Price and full particulars may had the sword: The majority of the
man was a little better socially by Owing to the rapid growth of our business in the Far East, Then lir. "Asquith scored the only attending a school in the East of from the Undersigned..
Terms --Cash..
emigrants were from Aberdeenshire, success of the debates by securing Scotland and an Engliah University and the greatly increased demand for our Catalogue wa bst Dundee, Fife and the East Coast that ha enlarged constituency should should be done away with. As keep a supply of our latest issue at the following Office : generally contributed. They belong not be called St. Andrews but retain reply to this tinde was published in to all classer of the community, the name of East Fife. It was amu dale," who discovered in the action the Edinburgh press by Anzan- even the highest-there w for ing to see the late Prime Ministero Glasgow citizens not snobbishness instance, George last Earl Munchuting the steam hammer of his debat but a true instinet, realisation of and his more famous brother, Fielding powers to the cracking of this the true purpose of education, and Marshal James Keith. The ancestor put. He had an armful of doen-mute protest against self-sufficiency of the present Lord Sempill was a menta, and, alike in length and und no doubt that the great Baltic seaport merchant prince; and our, his speech exceeded some ofjected to the baneful influence of majority of those who have been subr the money which bought the state thong he has delivered on the Euro English graduates at school and of Tumerbaik in Aberdeenshire was penn situation. The Secretary for English docs as college come back handsome Catalogue, illustrating Thousands of Articles left to the first Turner einer by a Scotland was very nice about it, con- to Glasgow and elsewhere with a kiparan who had acquired wealth as
fessitig that he would he as relticfant more capable spirit of true Scottish a inerchant in Poland.
patriotismi than they would otherwise Most of to change the name of East Fife, so have had. That monstrosity, the then, however, were poor, and not long associated with a distinguished "Anglified Scot is becoming a few were wastrels. Perhaps the statestaan, as to charge the name of arity, and in his place is rising in hater number came of the town Mid-Lothian or West Birmingham. ever-increasing numbers the type of man who steadfastly refuses to part trading and county farming classes, with a sprickling of sons of the
THE PILL BOX V.C:
with bis nationality.. but who Temap Captain Henry Reynolds, poisessed the enormous advantage of 9275 smaller landowners. Few of them MC, the Royal Scots, awarded the knowing a first hand how other nturned to their native land. They V.C. for conspicuous bravery, is people view life. The writer closes married German wives, and by the Northamptonshire man. On his second or third yezemtion their mother's side be is descended from milies wem completely Prussian father's side there are Irish ancestors. the Black Douglases, and on his DAIRY FARM NEWS. Not thousands, but tens of On the outbreak of war he rejoined thousands of the soldiers now fighting the Yeomanry, in which he held the against the Allies must have Scottish rank of sergeant, and through the in- blood.
A passage from Dr. Fstrumentality of Mr. Henry Bawson, Schmidt's "History of Western torial Force Association, who knew department of Scottish literature
Chairman of the Edinburgh Terri Prussia does not make pleasant Sergeant Reynord a sterling qualitics Mr. David Caloch, his Doodle reading for super patriots, A very as a soldier, he obtained a commis-Clink" attracted considerable at characteristic element of the populasion in service battalion of the tention last year, and he is now again tion of German towns in Eastern and Royal Scots. Captain Reynolds has challenging the public with "The Western Frussia," he enys, "is fighting at the Front, in May last was force and vigour, and the priceless. been through much of the hears Swinging Tub." He writes with formed by the descendants of Scots awarded the Military Cross, and advantage of personal experience, of men, who settled in the towns, and escaped injury until the action in the adventurous breed of men who married daughters of the citizens: which he received the V.C. He then go down to the sea in stokehole, In The increase in strength and indus-received a bullet wound through the his first book he describes his bero's trial capacity which this Scottish arm, but continued to lead his com.aukening in a Rangoon hospital, admixture instilled into the German
and it can scarcely be doubted thu was of the very highest importance
the peculiar compound of stub. bornness and shrewdness which characterises the small towns of
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expressed which can only be hen in University Councils new described as selfcentred and nar owly provincial.”
A NEW SCOTS WRITER.. One of the coming men in a unique
and his emotions when he learned that his boat was going to sail with- out him." This is based upon an incident that happened to Mr. M'Cuf- loch himself on his seventeenth birth- LORETTO MEMORIAL.
day when he was stranded st Over one hundred old boys of Ringoon. A year later Mr. M'Cul- Eastern Prussia has its root in the Loretto School have fallen in this loch was beating it in the States, war, including several "captains of and narrowly escaped a term in Sing- natural disposition of the Scots." that famous scholastic institution and Sing, through his wish to sample new The Erst of the Mackensens, what-nursery of athletes. It bas been experiences. With two shipmates be ever his calling may have been, was decided to extend the school playing called at the nan recruiting office a member of the classes, and by fields and ereut a gate of honour asin New York and offered for the nobility of birth is attested by the memorial to the dead; ground has American Navy, A brief cross- vost-of-arms borne by his descend-where Loretto plugs its home that the three were deserters from been acquired adjoining Newfield examination brought out the lact ant, which shows the lion rampant match in the Scottish Schools a British ship, the police were called of Scotland as a creat. Among others Championships in Rugby and cricket, in, and they were escorted back to of the ** noble " emigrants wis Peter THE JEWS AND PALESTINE the custody of their own skipper. Barclay, who became a burges of I asked a Jewish friend what be staying, experiences do not fail to Esen in Glasgow, where he is now Rostock in 1657; he was a silk merthought of the idea of Jews taking discover him. While working with chant; and his eldest son was known possession of Palestine alter the war. Barclay Curle as a mechanic, he tap- af Joannes Barclay de Tolli. In all He abrugged his shoulders. Will pened to be perched on the main bikelihood the great dier Barclay you go back?" I asked "No, cer shift in the works, about 40 feet from de Telly (1781-1818), who added Fin-inly not," he replied emphatically the floor, doing some repairs during I could not live there because the meal hour, and someone suddenly land to the Russian Empire, cor: have not been acclimitised." He ceived and carried out the Fabian knew of several Jews who had tried saping by a minele with his life. policy which led to Napoleon's retreat to settle in Palestine, and al had to And today the spirit of adventure from Moscow, and who commanded return to Europe, because they sufis still strong within him, for he has the Russian army at Leipsic, was a
fered so greatly from malaria and the drifted into journalism, and is making descendant of Peter and John Bar
heat. The repeopling of Palestine a specialty of football. clay Barclay de Tolly was born in Germany, and to this fact, is attri- buted his slow proinotion in the
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