EDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1918,
FOR SALE
FOR SALE,
THE CHINA, MAIL.
THE LATE SIR HENRY A NEW SUMPTUARY LAW.
BLAKE.
Commenting on the death of Sir
Hughes & HoughALESEND 108 THE FRAK, Henry Blake the Times of Ceylon saya
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structions front the Liquidators of the Firm of Mosars. FUNCHALD Lowrun & Co, to sell by Public Auction,
on
FRIDAY,
the 5th April, 1018, commencing at I m., at bla-tau-kok,
Kowloon City Road,
A QUANTITY OF
SECOND-HAND CONTRACTORS'
PLANT.
Two 18-ft. Invincible vertical double
crank compound set condensing twin
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DUNCAN CLARK, LANE, CRAWFORD & Co. Hongkong. Mat, 1, 1918.
THE HIGH BOOT FASHION.
The Order by the Hon, authorities 1: Sir Henry Blaka bad received a curious
training for a colonial governorship, limiting the height of Indies' boots is being engaged in the police and macis interesting chiefly because it is the first terial administration in Ireland through attempt. made by the Government to the palmicst day of the Crimes Act regulate dress. Will it and there? asks and up to middle-age. Why an Iriaba contemporary. One van easily think of Resident Magistrate should be deemed
THE HEDJAZ RAILWAY.
EFFECT, ON, ARABIAN POLITICS.
The reports from Palestinė during the} past few days have told us of operationa against the Hadjaz, railway, and readers will doubtless be interested in the follow- ing particulars regarding the line:
one long line of railway ruming from
The war bus, drawn attention to the
USCULUM, Barker Road, 155 Peek. to be specially eut cut for the governor half-a-dozen fashings affected by both Damascus down through the barren ship of a tropical Crown Colony we do acxes which are extravagant and not wastes to the sacred ares, terminating in not know, but when in 1984, at the intrepently unsightly. It is only necesMedina, the zits of the Prophet. Wh age of 44, he was feeling this position,sary to walk along a fashionable shopping the railway was built has always been a he was suddenly appointed to the 195 Bahamas, and with the exception of a
street to be convinced that, apart from matter of conjecture. The ctensible year in Newfoundland. he spert the any peculiar mode, the general desire for object was the service of pilgrims, but rest of his active career in either the smartness of dress is using no a great the real one was exigency of military East or West Indies. When he came to amount of material and labour which at fatrategy. Under the tuition of Germany Ceylon Sir Henry Blake hid
this moment could be employed much the Turks came to see that there would considerable reputation as an ad-more profitably in the national interest. be a sperdy and to their prestige and ministrator, which
how The appeals to economise in clothes have power in Arabia F in the event of a
FOR SALE..
THE Undersigned bave received in
structions to sell at their Salos Rooms, No. 5, Des Vanur Road, Corner of Ien House Street,
MOTOR TACHT
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Built 1918, had very little usage Hall
...Teakwood Length, water-line 29.9"; over all 35′ Beam... Draft...
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Motor "Scripps", Beary duty 14 B. P. Complete with Lavatory, Refrigerator, Suit of Sails, and all Accessories Price and full-particulars may had from the Undersigned.
Terms :-Cash..
HUGHES & HOUGH, Avchomem Haarkong. Jan 9 1918.
TO LET
TO LET.
serica direct acting centrifugal pumping OFFICES in York Building.
engines (one left hand and one right hand) stram cylinders djin. by glin. by 12in. atroke with the necessary Sittings Bad suction and delivery pipes for a lift of about 00 feet.
Two Gates Rock and Ore Breakers. (Allis Chalmers Co.) one No. 6 right angle style and one No. 3 right angle atyla with revolving screens, soncaves tiners and fittings.
One 20. by 10 in. Blake Crusher (Fraser & Chalmers) with manganese jaw.plates.
Two Taylor's patent 1 yard Concrete Mixers with Steel Framing and fittings, various and spare gear.
One Gin. Double Cylinder Manchester Pump by Pearns Tin. and 12in cylinders, 14in. stroke with svetion and delivery pipes about 90 ft.
One It H. P. double cyl. Robey Part- ablo Engine with usual fittings and mountings.
One fin. Bolt-driver. Centrifuge Pump with auction and delivery pipes about 79-80 f.
Also
A quantity of Steel Wire Rope, Old MetalTM &c.
On view from 2nd April. „
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.
Terms --Caah...
Hongkong, Mar. 20, 1918.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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THE Undersigned have received in structions from Mr. Cevro Kosa Po or PERINO, sell by Public Auction,
on
FRIDAY And SATURDAY,
the 5th and 6th April, 1918, at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, ..
Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street,
"A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
VALUABLE CHINESE FORCELAINS, OLD PRINTS, SNUFF BOTTLES, IVORIES, 40. Comprising:-
A variety of B-colored and 3-coloured Vares and Plates, Blue and White Vases and Figures, etc, old Bronzes, including Incense Burners of the Sung and Ming Dynastico, Pekinese Cloisoane, Amber, Jadestone and Agate Vases, and Orga- ments, Beads, et Carved Bamboo Ware," Kakemono and Wall Hangings, Jade- stone Charms, Ivory Carvings, etc., etc,
·and a large mutaber of Old Snuff Bottles. AÏK
Fine JADESTONE INLAID SCREENS, PLAQUES, Etc.
The greater portion of the above stock has recently arrived from Peking and will be sold without reserve and
includes pieces from the Song, Ming. Kanghi, Yangching and Kieliung Periods.
(Full Particulars from talogus). the view from Thursday 4th inst.
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ever, enhanced, despite his contin. ned displayed of some of the essential not found any lodgment in certain social world war they were dependent on the attributes of a Governor of a Crown/strata. Indeed it is no exaggeration to Bed Stu route via Jidda's to the Hedjaz Colony, during his stay in this island. say that in Manchester to-day there mayter the convegance of men and supplies. He is supposed to have been sent to be seen more expensively dressed people The railway scheme was planned ard, Caylon to give the Colony a rest curs after than could be found before the war. the too strenuous pace of the Ridgeway Whether saything will be done to pre-difficulties, carried through to Meding. notwithstanding almcat insurmountable. administration. Whether this is so or rent this waste remains to be seen. The with rapidity by not it is certain that this is the role to govemment have dealt with boots Meissner Fusha and his colleagues laid which both by temperament and incli- nation he was pre-eminently itted at
obviously because a recent fashion was the line up to a point beyond which none the close of a long career. Sir Henry responsible for the extravagant use of a but the Faithfal may pass, that is the border of the sacred territory. From here. Blake was the typical disillusioned, very valuable and scarce material. jaded official who looks askance at sug boot with abnormally high upper
on, the great difficulty was expori- 37 gestions of reform of any kind. Those seems to have resulted from the short Mahomedans, with hands more pious but eaced, since the Turks had to get reforms, such as the establishment of skirt. In the opinion of the best trade far less skilful than those of the the Board of agriculture and the reformas these high boots ware worn merely Christiaze-Armenians, Greeks. Italians, of the Police, which he attempted wer, because they were considered smart; they Slava and Montenegrins-nto had been only half-heartedly carried cut. His would never have come into vogue if the in the employ of the Germans, unpopularity with the European com-skirt had not been shortened; they had The railway is 1.097 miles long, and munity of the island was due entirely to no value if they could not be seen. Many was opened in August, 1809. It crosses this; his equal unpopularity with the thouards of bocks made on this pattern the Jordan valley south of Lake Tiberias, rest of the papaiation was due extirely are being sold in the shops today. Smart Thao, passing through the land of Bashan. to the excessive expectations formed on
women will take no other kind. So that it plunges into Arabia Petroea, and. his appointment. He came from Boogthe Order limiting the height to fin. for skirting the mountains of Moab, runs into Song with the reputation of being leather upper will efeer a considerable the principal station at Maan. Maan is strongly "pro-native." What exactly economy in the use of leather for civilian situated on the berdem of the ancient thus meant we do not know, but if it meant that Sir Henry Blake was inclined
land of Midian and for countless ages has to favour and promote the political aspirations then beginning to ferment in the minds of socce sections of the population, it was quite obvious that bath his training and intense natural conservatism rendered it entirely out of
et Edom" (Nam 21. . It was this the question. If it had not been for the
route by which the gold. frankincense and handicap of this grotesquely incorrect
Arabian products found their way to label, Sir Henry Blake might have been The propesa to limit the height of Byzantium. To Moslems the route has very popular with the permanent sec ladies boots, und the suggestion of rays been sacred since the Prophet, in tion of the inhabitants. His handsome,
restrictions to come in the matter of the early days of his career, had charge. dignified, regul presence, allied with his patience, strong sense of justice and clothing, shadow forth something like of wealthy caravans trading to Syria. also sympathy, when the claims upon a revival of the Sumptuary Laws of Such journey, he confessed, impressed i did not trench upon his innate ancient times and of the Middle Ages. him with the reality and nearness of the conservatism, were such that he seem-
An early example of the enforcement of Supernatural. It was while travelling! ed in every respect to full the Oriental ideal of a-governor. Sir Benry these laws as a war-time measure was thes, surrounded by vas solitudes, that Blake, as becagic & furizer Cadet of the the Oppium Law in Rome. This was, he learned to use "ope of his favourite Irish Constabulary, initiated some of the diututed by the financial stringers phrases, whichever way ye turn, there reforms in the Police administrations of brenght about by the prolonged wars with the island which have been developed the Carthaginians in the
is the Face of Allah." after he left. One of the incidents of his
And in perpetuating the ancient pre- administration was the carters' strike in
It was aimed largely at the Islamic practice of pilgrimage, the Pro- Colombo, which almost assumed the extravagance of women, who were forphet gave evidence of his genius. He proportion of a riot Sir Henry, as bidden to possess more than half an ivaa to be expected of one who had been
knew that the great désert tracks were a through the coercion scenes in Ireland, took the affair very coolly, laughed at the suggestion of the employment of the military, but threatened to gallop the OM.R. through the Pettah, which threat it was not found recessary to carry out.
TMMEDIATE ENTRY, four very desirable SHOPS situated in Ice House Street, opposite the Grand Hotel, recently reconstructed.
For rent and other particulars apply to the Manager, Hongkong Ice Co., Ltd. 16 Connaught Road Central.
Bongkong, August 2, 1917.
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FLAT in Nathan Road, Kowloon.
Four roomed houses in Kowloon.
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. The Order, it will be noticed, only probeer an important stage in the great, hibits the manufacture of high boots after caravan route from Arabia to Syriz. It 1st January. It does not prevent the sale was here where the Israelities cause ** by or the wearing of such boots made before way of the Red Sea to compass the Juad
that date.
Hannibal
PRECEDENTS.
time of
een ounce of gold, to wear dresses of different part of the romance of religion. Although lours, or to ride in carriages in the the silent wastes were uninhabited by city or within a mile of is except on man, they were peopled by beings of occasions of public religions ceremonies.the unseen world. To the pilgrim the The Sumptuary Laws of Rome were not craggy heights were the homes of the however, entirely conceived with a view magic working genii who controlled the to limiting the vanities of women. Men smoen and mirage. Every deep ralley of gluttonous and bibulous tendencies! was associated with the rac egg of the considered themselves aggrieved by the
laws of Fannius, passed B.C. 161, for Arabian Nights of mur childhood.
Iintmediately Abdul Hamid saw the the purpose of limiting the expenses of need for the line he blew the lead banquets; and the fops and popinjags of trumpet of Pan-Islamism. There was the time of Tiberius deplored, the bad
to
upon silks for me. In Greece similar nothing that could cover his real sim
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infuerce Laws, especially by the Spartans, y Mohamedens everywhere to subscribe to have been imposed 98 inch in the the cost of the railway. Th his capacity internets of the physical and mental Mr. James J. Rafferty, director of the
as Caliph of Islam, Abdul Hamid gave a TAKASHIMA, OCHI MUTARE Bureau of Commerce and Industry in fitness of the citizen and soldier as for large anbreciption himself, and issued an
KISHIDARE YOSHINOTANI, the Philippice Talande, has been appoint economic reasons. In the fiddle Agea HOJO, NAMAZUTA, SAYO KANADA ed Rice Dictator for the Philippine Sumptuary Laws were imposed alike in appeal to his co-religioniste in all parts of the world. The scheine was red with. BHIKNEW, KAMIYAMADA, BIBA Chinese merchants, who had previously surnamed the Wise, had the courage to were linked up with the great Europest Islands by Governor-General Harrison. Middle Europe and in the western cour great religious enthusiasm, the money. Through the magnanimity of the tries. Charles the Fifth of France, was rapidly subscribed, and the holy cities controlled the local rice market, Rafferty is placed in full control of the forbid the wearing of the extravagant cities of industry and education. importation. ale and distribution of long-pointed shoes of his day, against
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But the Arabs were opposed to the line rice with full authority to fix the price. which Pope and cardinal had fulminated from its inception. They felt that its His first step after assuming bis new in vain. About the same time the Parlin coming would strengthen the links of daties was to fix the price of rice in the Manila market at P0.10 a cavan for the ent of Edward the Third, is Fuglsud, bondage, to rulers who to them were favourite merk and Pans for the other passed laws to restrain extravagance and barbariars, usurpers, armed tax collectors. marks. This is reduction of from 20 to regulate the dress of the several classes an ething more. This being so, lone to 25 centavos from the prevailing price. of people. In 1488 the Parliament of before the present war began, the stations. Edward the Fourth passed an Ast which
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