.~TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1918,
Hughes & Hough
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General Auctioneers Share, Coni and General Prednos Brokers and Commission
Agenta.
PROPRIETORS
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**MEIRION" HONGKONG,
PUBLIO AUCTION.
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HE Cadoraigned have received instruc Txons to sell by Public Auction.
(FOB ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED},
011
WEDNESDAY,
the 3rd April 1918, commencing at 9.30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 2, Des Your Road, Corner of
Ice House Street,
AN AMATMENT OF
HOUSEHOLD LINENS, ..
Comprising:-
and
Single and Deable Pisin Bem-stitched Sheets, Pillow Cases, Bed Quilts, Table Cloths, Pure Linen Damask Serviettes, Bath Sheets, Bath Towels, Turkish Towels,
ki. Tras-Cash.
oc
: HUGHES & FOUGH
Auctioneers. Hongkong Mar. 27, 1016.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
1
AUCTION.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
THE Undersigned, have received, instruc- tions to sell by Public Auction,
(YOM LOCOUNT OF THE CONCERTID),
an
WEDNESDAY,
the 3rd April 1915, at 1:30 p.m., at their Sales Rocas, No. 8,
Des
rear Road, Corner of
Joe House Street,
SCOTTISH LETTER
(From Gur Own Correspondant)
EDINBURGH, JAN. 21.
THE TANK IN SCOTLAND.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Wat the aggregate resources at its special fund in Dumbarton for neces inhabitants, in spite of increased cout sitous cases of dependents of local
of living, must have been largely soldiers and sailors. augmented. As it however,
REWARD OF RESEARCH.
T
Glasgow' totut is more than double The honour of Knight of the Birmingham's, the city which pre-British Empire is conferred upon
The Tank Bank arrived in Scot-viously topped the list, and the Robert Robertson, Superintending: land at the top of the boom; we had combined total of Glasgow and Chemist at the Research Department the benefit of several weeks
It is not at Woolwich Arsenal, of Elinburgh exceed by over three!
million pound the combined aggre generally known, how much the coun gates of Manchester, Bradford, Newry owes to this native of Cupar-Fife- castle. Liverpool, and Sheffield,
and graduate of St. Andrew's Univer- Fourteen million pounds is a pretty sity. I think it may now be stated beary war insurance premium, but that the teclinique of the many- according to disclosures minde about
facture of trinitro-toluol (T.N.T.) was a year ago, it was the intention of the worked out under his direction. It
strenuous advertising; that no doubt accounts for much of the success achieved. Edinburgh was the first One Hand Painted Dresden Tea Service,sity attacked in peaceful penetration
Vases; tc.
by the Tank, officially numbered 113. and familiarly known as "Julian." One Set of Venetian Glassware, large Its receipt of custom was at the foot
Cutglass Bowls, Jugs, Dishes, &c.
Ivory Carvings and Ornaments Terms-as usual.
HUGHES & ROUGE,
Auctioneers,
Hongkong, Mar. 98, 1919.
FOR SALE
181
FOR SALE.
YALESEND. 109 THE PEAK,
6 Rooms.
Apply C: EL GALE
P. W. D.
Hongkong, Mar. 23, 1919.
FOR SALE
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of the Mound, the most centmi spot" Germans to requisition 2,000 millions
in the city. Close by a large number from Glasgow alone.
of banks and investment companies
is also due to the researches of Sir Robert and bis Department that the country is able to use the produce of the Scottish distilleries in the manu- facture of explosives.
VAN APT QUOTATION. Congratulations to recipients of Honours in the recent list took various formu. One of the most Where the sun shines bright on St.piquant was a telegram addressed to
Mungu,
By yon bonnis Tenir dood in you George's
Square,
Caith I had my true love moun gladly
our share
THE TANK OF ST. MUNGO. have their headquarters; and it goes (On the visit of the Taifk Bank to without saying that they did their Glasgow, with apologies, no doubt, part in leading off with big subscrip- to the Bonnie, bonnie banks of tions. But, as Mr. A. J. Balfour Loch Lomond,“) remarked in a speech to the citizens, the great feature of Edinburgh's efors was the numerous suns sub- suribed by the working classes. More than a quarter of a million was nude up of war savings certificates alone. In order to appreciate this fact pro- perly, it is to be remembered that, unlike mang centres in Englund and Scotland. Edinburgh has made little It is also a residential city with an 11- usually large proportion of profes sional people. And it my alhost be 193 said that it is poorer than at the outbreak of hostilities. Yet the populuer, the artisan. the working women and the children turned out
TUSCULUM, Barker Road, 155 Peak, of Loney out of the war.
Apply-
DUNCAN CLARK, LANE CRAWrozɔ & Co. Bangkong. Mar. 2, 1918.
FOR SALE.
THE Undersigned have received in structions to sell at their Bales Rocms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner 276 of Ice House Street,
THE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction, (JUM ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
on
WEDNESDAY,
the 3rd April, 1918, commencing at 2.30 p.m., at their Sules Rooms, No. 8, Des Vaux Road, Corner of
I HOUSE STREET,
BLACK WOOD FURNITURE, BRASS AND TEAK TWIN BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS, PICTURES, &c., AND AN ASSORTMENT OF USEFUL BOUSEBOLD GOODS, As follows:-
TEAKWOOD AND
MOTOR YACHT -Built 1916, bad very little usage, Hell
...Teakwood Length, water-line 29′ 9′′; over all 35′ Peam... Draft...
14
L
Motor "Scripps", Beavy duty 14 H. F
Complete with Lavatory, Refrigerator, Suit of Sails, and all Accessories. Price and full particulars may had from the Undersigned.
Terms: Cash,
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneeri. Hongkong, Jan. 9 1919..
in large numbers to put their humble savings at the service of the country. And there was the spectacle of people in quenes a furlong in length, waiting patiently for hours on a bitterly cold January day. The weather, indeed, was the most wintry experienced for many years.
GLASGOW BREAKS TANK RECORDS.
where
one of the new Knights, a gentleman prominent in shipbuilding and skip-
To the bonnie, bonne Tank of St.ping on the Clyde.
Munyo.
The
O. ye'll tak'. Certificates and I'll tak
Bone War. Bonds,
Buy all that ye can I implore ye, For you anal your true love will never
meet again,
Sie
bonale, bousie Tank in St. Mungo,
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+
wild flowers are dead and the wee
birdies ded,
And in snowstorms we're haudin' our |
meetin".
14.
But the Glesen man kens that he main
be "gie gle
fie victory he wants to be greetin'.
O, yell tak Certificates, etc.
Glasgow. Bulletin."
follows:
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It was a
"See Paraphrase 63, third For the benefit of those who have not a Psalter handy I quote the prophetic lines:-
High is the rank we now possess,
But higher we shall rise; Though what we shall bereafter be
Is bid from-mortal eyes.
THE W.A.A.C.'8.
The praises of the W.AA.C.'s are ung by Mrs. Helen Still, a' member of the Women's Corps stationed at Fert Matilda on the Forth. She tells low, in the old days:-
WAR HONOURS FOR FAR EAST. Captain Douglas Dwar Robertson, M.D., RA.M.C.. who receives the But in our present times,— Military Cross, is the third son of the Ber. J. D. Robertson, Leith, and missionary of the United Free Church in Manchuris. The official
The warriors poured from moer and glen, Brave lads they were in plaid and plume;
Not tartan plaids, but 'khaki frocks
Swing gay through the crowded street, And khaki hats on curly locks
Match khaki hose on dainty feet.
Our maidein soldiets play their part
As theirs.on kilted lads of yore;
As light their step, as high their heart,
Er women of the Army Corps.
MARRIAGES.
In Glasgow, which Was next visited, the weather was worse than in Edinburgh, a thick fog added itse record is, “Although slightly gassed. discomforts to an Aretic cold. The on the evening before an attack. Tauk opened the proceedings by a 'carried on throughout the whole "of visit to the Green,
it the following day and night, attenti. negotiated trenches, levelled wire ing to the wounded in the open, under entanglements, and, guve other dis heavy shell fire with a splendid dis- plays of its powers. Then it moved "regard of personal danger," although
At Merstham. Surrey, C. B. T. off to George Square, sitting down nearly all his stretcher bearers were Sangster, of Ceylon, set of the late opposite the Municipal Buildings, killed or wounded around him. Two c. F. A. Sunster, Hongkong Ciril Not once during the week was it days later he helped to dig out a man Service to Margaret Macülister, favoured with good weather; when who had been buried by a shell, third daughter of the late Andrew the frost gave way the endless queue working the whole time under heavy Walker of Merstlam House, Mers of depositors had to chum their way shell fire: He was slightly wounded, tham. The marriage was a quiet Tables and Chair, Tea and Occasional TBE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. along chocolate-coloured paths from but remained with bis battalion."
present.
Bingle Brass and Brass-mounted BedFFICES in York Building
TO LET
Arm-chairs and Chesterfield Sofas, Card Tables, Upholstered Suites, &c., Bed- room Furniture, comprising Double and
TO LET.
steads, and Twin Bedsteuis, Sideboards,
Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining
Tables, &c., thinner Services, Crockery,
Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery,
Toilet Sets, &c., Bath Room Utensils,
Sundry Electro-flated Ware
wood Screen with 6-Coloured Panela Side Tables, &, Engravings, Pictures, &c., &c, Teunis Feles and Net, Iron Safe, Beveral Carpets, & du
HOUSES on Shameen, Canton.
Apply to-
MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.
TO LET.
the various Tank Bank offices to the 'Five days later. Captain Hobertson/pe, only immediate relatives being Tank itself, where they received the was seriously wounded, und lie has At Marylebone Presbyterian much-corcted stamp.. At special been in hospital sines August 23rd.
Church, Lieut. Coromander Normun hours crocodiles of children gave Mr. H. F. Rankin, who is made an Wilkinson, R.N.V.R... younger son Electric Reading Lampe, Blackwood 4ad Teakwood Screens, Blackwood ROM 1st May next. No. 1. ATIAL Their mite, and at other times con-Offeer of the Order of the British of the late Charles T. Wilkinson, to
VILLAS, corner of Kimberley and Farniture, including large 6-Fold Black Austin Bood, Kowloon. One six-roomed tingents of men in khaki, accom Empire, is
21 butive
Fort- of
Evelyn, youngest daughter of the House, with separate bath-rooms and panied by pipers, marched up and William, and was educated at Moray late Rev. W. R. Garden Blaikie, kitchens. Apply to
invested substantial.. Bums in House Training College and Edin D.D., New College, Edinburgh.
Julian's hourd. No one seemed burgh University, where he was a 286 to bother about the cold, the snow, i
medillist in agricultural field work. or the alsh. Bruziers glowed in 1915 he came home to do war through the haze, but had only the work tion: China, where he spent look not the reality of warmth.
for Little Ones curly 20 years as Principal of the Just the Thing 1916 he acted as Inspector of Schools Anglo-Chinese College, Amoy. In
Allo
2 PIANOS and 1 RUBBER TYRED RICKSHA,
Full Particulars from Catalogue)., Trans-Cash,
HUGHES & HOUGH.
Auchonser
Hongkong, Mar. 27, 1818.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
>
PATELL & CO., King's Buildings, Top Floor: Hongkong, Mar. 22, 1918.
TO LET.
IMMEDIATE ENTRY, four very
desizable SHOPS sitanted in To And one of the most popular bits in 276 House Street, opposite the Grand Hotel, the ceremony," as it was called,
recently reconstructed.
TE have Liquidatory of the Firm of Messrs. Funchard Low & Co., to sell by Public Auction,
TU2 Undersigned have received in-
от
FRIDAY,
the 8th April, 1818, commencing at
11 am, at Ma-tao-kok,
Kowloon City Road, A
A QUANTITY OF
2.
SECOND-HAND CONTRACTORS"
PLANT,
Two 15-ft Invincible vertical double
For rent and other particulars apply was the presence of the Tramway to the Manager. Hongkong Ice Co., Ltd, girls, who disposed of the tiny flags 48 Connaught Road Central
that denoted investments; they had Hongkong, August 2, 1917.
A
Foar
TO LET.
"
2003
FLAT in Nathan Road, Kowloon.
roomed houses in Kowlcon. Apply to HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
CO.. LTD. Alexandra Huldings. Hongkong, August £2, 1917.
CHINA MAIL”.
PUBLICATIONS,
crank 'compound set condensing twin series direct acting centrifugal pumping engines (one left hand and one right hand) steam cylinders in, by 2lin, by 19in stroke with the necessary fittings and suction and delivery pipes for a lift of scout 60 feet and
Two Cates Rock and Ore Breakers kong:- (Allis Chalmers Co.) one No. 6 right
OBTAINABLE
at the UNA Man
under the Scottish Education Depart ment, and he has been in the Minis
a smile, and a cheery word, for each of Food during the whole of 1617. He is now in charge of the work of purchaser.
the Butter and Cheese Import Com mittee. His home is in 30, Mostyn
Glasgow set out with the resolver"
CHINA
IN FRANCE.
It is as beavy, a snowstorm as I
to break all previous totals, and ale Terrace, Edinburgh. did so. In raising the magnificent sum of £14,171,760, which it believed, when. certain delayed. returns are made, will be increased have seen since the winter of 1914 to nearly £15,000,000, she demons-in France; writes Mr. Philip Gibbs trated at the ume time her in a despatch to the Glasgow Herald. patriotism and her prosperity. The wind is sweeping the surface of Nowhere probably, except in London, the snowfields with invisible brooms, will there be found a greater aggress thought white witches were dancing gation of wealth than on the Clyde, there and raising a whirl of flakes in
Office, a Wyndham Street, Ecos. enjoyed such exceptional prosperity
angle style and one No. 3right angle HISTORY OF
screens, GÜRCAVES
stylp with rEYOND GEN
tiners and fittings.
*(1891-1903)
UNION CHURCH
One 20'n. by 10 in. Blake Crusher BONGKONG'S MUSICAL.
(Fraser & Chalmera) with manganese
Jaw plater
www.
HISTORY::
Two Taylor's patert 1 yard Concrete. NOTES ON WILD LIFE IN
Bilkers with Steul Framing and fittings, vations and spare gear and
Ono Bin Double Cylinder Manchester Pump by Pearns in, and 12ia cylinders. Lun stroke with auction and delivery Pea about 90 fs
One H. F. double cyl. Lobey Port- ableEngine with usual fittings and mountings.
One Sin. Belt driver Centrifugal Pump with section and delivery pipes about 78-80 ft
Alio
HONGKONG AND SOUTH
CHINA (by Ray, -0. Bezbury, MA)
Part 1-Mammala and Birde Fart -Reptiles, Amraibi and.
Fished.
THE MISSIONS. ETRANGERES
History of the Eastery Obarches)
ORINESE BOHOOL BOOK
A quantity of Steel Wire Rope cold-Tas King, translatei
•Metal &c.
On view from 2nd Apri
Terme xisb
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Baby E. J. Hitel) nema ann 29
MR ROBERT BARTS LANI
TAX MEMORANDUM
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and during the three and a half years their mad mazurka. A lonely cip. of war Glasgow's industries have I passed was like a scene in Northern Chins, or what I should imagine it to be, and among the snow-covered sheds number of Chinese labourera who by the oddest treak of fate have come to the edge of this Western war-were standing about. snow-clad above their over-alls and
The Man Who
Gets There
Is the man who bar blood- real rich red blood and plenty of als body. WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND makes blood-lots of Hia giving, brain nourhhing, strength replenishing blood.
OF ALL CHEMISTS
Baby's Own Tablets the Canadian children's remedy, are the best medicine
swerten the regulate the bowels; a mother can give her little ones. They constipation and stomach; banish indigestion; relieve colds and simple fevers and make teething easy. Con- cerning them Mr. Flerbert Johnston Maymont, Sackatchewan, writes:-I have used Baby's Own Tablets for the past four years and find them just the thing for bahics and young children." They are sold by medicine dealer, or Williams Medicine Co, 98: Sreebren by mail at 60 cents a vial from the Dr. Road, Shanghai.
YOUR EYES
blankets, smiling in their sphinxlike SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTI way into the face of the blizzard.
GIFTS FROM CHINA. Colonel John M. Denny, CB, Dunbarton, has handed over to
At the first symptom fof eye strain you should consult us. We test
Trincess Louise's Scottish Hospital eyes scientifically and Et for Limbless-Stilors and Soldiers at glasses to individual re Erakino two handsome donations quirements. from Dumbarton men in China. The Hongkong men, through airs, DA M'Murray sent 402 fa. and he Shanghai en through Mer M'Murro and Mr. Malcolm MPhail
EBOThe Shanghar men have also int the sun of 188 128., 84 for
CLARK &
Co
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HONGKONG & MANILA
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Quality.
With LEA & PERRINS' SAUCE
a few drops sprinkled over the meat, fish or cheese, &c., are, all that is required to impart the most delicious piqualicy and Havour.
The QUALITY and concentration of its ingredients make a little of this sauce go a long way.
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For Nerves and Brain
-To restore your physical fitness.
-To restore poise of the nerve system
--To repair the results of weariness and overwork
take a glass of Sanaphos on rising, at mid-morning, mid afternoon, and on going to bed.
You will feel distinctly the beginning of the undeniable benefit that Sanaphos gives you.
within ten minutes.
Sanaphos
Any time when you can't sleep, when you wake up tired, when you can think, when you feet exhausted, when your general physical health is deranged. take Sanapins, and note the results. You will be convinced at once...
Yet Sanaphoa is not to be confused with the harmful stimulants or drugs which only make masters, worse. It is net a stimulant; not a drug, il is simply as energising food which al most instantly, begins to ga new
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In convalescence and servons SI- hudtion Sanaphos works wonders.
If your chemist las moi Sanschen write for a free sample mentioning his name, and
trial packade will be amas to son free and post-paid. Sirpplies can be obtained from any of the fallowing Wholesa's Aganti : Fimteber & Co., Hong Kong: The Queen's Dispensary,
Wholesale Dituíbutors for india, and Par Exits Street, London, England.
in Brothers, Lid, Middlesex
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OVER FORTY YEARS.
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