TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1919.
NEARTLA
Hughes & Hough
APOTIONEIRA TO THE GOVERNMENT,
General Anctionsare
Share, Coal and General Producs Brokers and Commission .Agent.
PROPRIETORS
«To-Kwa-Wan Coal Storage.
Ondes wood
Bentley's
4th & sth Editions.
A Telegraphic Code.
Telegraphia Address MILLIONT HONGKONG.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
A Undersigned have received in- stractions to sell by Public Auction,
TH
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCIAXED)
on
FRIDAY
the 16th April 1918, at 10.30 a.m., at their Salas Rooms, No. 5,
De Vaux ROAD, Corner of
Ien Huts Street,
Raincoats, Alpaen Jackets, Cotton Szita, Jackets, Trousera, c. several Tweed Suita, Boots and Shoes, tc., &c... Bundries,
Abo
A number of GENT'S STRAW HATS. (all new goods).
Tx-Cask.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, April 22, 1915
346
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE
TIRE Undersigned have received in- structions from, the Administrator
of the Estate of "WILLIAM CHARLES PENCHARD decessed to sell by Public Auction,
on
MONDAY,
the 9th day of April, 1918, at 128 Noon, at their Salea Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street,
THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTIES
Situate at Ma-tau-kok, Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Offee as Kowloon Inland
No. 1100.
[
Fretful Babies.
THE CHINA MAIL.
OUR LONDON LETTER Since 101, the Government has been COMPANY REPORTS.
Ce Que Chen, Corespondat.)
¡LONDON) Feb, 29.
DEMOCRATIC TENDENCIES,
naying $3,000 a year rent for the bouse.
ROYAL HOSPITALITY..
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Mrs. John M. Weaver, Blissfeld, N.B writes:-"I can speakirery highly of Baby's Own Tablets. I have used them
There is no rush to accept the The 4366 port of the Shanghai Gas toe my children and and they are tho
Co; Lith, shows that the profta" on best medicine a mother can give bar
King's offer of part of Buckingham working account amounted to Tis little ones. I would strongly recom
The unition making and pro Palace for official purposes, but his 330,394.20 for the year ended Decem mend them to all others who have fretful babies Baby's Own Tablets, the fiteering are bringing out azow offer of Balmoral Castle my ber $1st, 1917, as compared with Th Canadian children's remedy, regulate. the bowels and stomach; break up colds monist class, and to balance matters, accepted for the benefit of wounded 92,153, 4 for 1915, an increase of The | and simple fovers; expel vorme; curs the aristocries are almost all at soldiers. It is a comparatively new 38,740.78. The net profit for the year
vomiting and indigestion and make teething easy. They are sold by medicine work. The science of numbers can building, having been completed in was Ts. 250,298.13 against The dealers, or by mail at 60 cents a vial scarcely count the new Government | 1801. Queen Victoria fell in love 243,579.44, an increase of Tla. 36, 424.69 from the Dr. Williams Medicins Co departments and even the new ones with Balmoral at first sight, and left over the previous year. 96 Szecbaes Road, Shanghai.."
make a show of clinging to the ok it in tears at the close of her first The balance at credit of profit and truditions of Whitehall-perhaps the visit in 1849.The house, she loss account, including the sum of Tha. most enuservative place on the globe wrote, when her Highland bome was 30,010.63, carried forward after appro and the centre of the most entrench at length ready, is charming, the priation of the profits of 1916, and el trade anion--wamely, officiallyin. rooms delightful, thy furniture payment of bonus to foreign a But even there the changing condi- papers, everything perfection." I amounts to Tis 310,798.78, of which tions are to be seen. These depart was, of course, a Scots who first the Directora recommend appro-
follows:- THE Undersigned have received instructs wadays address every Com-directed the Queen's attention to the pristion as foll
tons in voll by Public Auction, moner Esquire." So in that perfection of Balmoral," which is free To pay a Dividend for the
respect at least democracy has shat-, from. the humidity commonly tered the tradition that an Esquire associated with the Highlands, owing should be a person with freebold pro-to & belt of hills that intercepts the
AUCTIONS.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
(FOR LOCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
Z
"WEDNESDAY,
the 24th April, 1918, commencing st
*
Tia.
year 1917 on 24,000- sharea at per cent. Tie To write of for depreciation
2.50 per share...60,000.00
of land and building
3.30 p.m... at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, perty worth £250 a year. I believe rainclouds from the sea. The peop! To write off for depreciation
Des Voeux Road, Corner of
Too House Street,
Plain
And
AN ASSORTMENT OF HOUSEHOLD LINENS, dic... Comprising - Single and Double Hemstitched Sheets, Pillow Cases, Bed Quilts, Table Cloths, Pure Linen Damak Serviettes, Bath Sheets, Bath Towels, Torkish Towels, Blankets,
ác.. TEMA:-Cash.
14
2, dc.
HUGHES & FOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, April 17, 1918.
PUBLIC AUCTION
THE
337
HE Undersigned have received in- atructions to sell by Public Auction (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCALVMD),.~
WEDNESDAY, the 24th April, 1918, commencing st 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,
Des Voeux Road, Corner of ICE HOUSE STREET, TEAKWOOD AND BLACK WOOD FURNITURE, BRASS
TEAK AND TWIN BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS, 'ae, &c.,
AND AN ASHORTKINT OF
USEFUL HOUSEHOLD GOODS,
As follow Arm-chairs and Chesterfield Sofas, Card
in the neighbourhood of the castle. who often received informal visits from the Queen, grew courtier-like in their conversation, one of them telk
death at Balmoral when she went.
South again. | |-
..
of manufacturing and distributing plant...
To write off for depreciation of furniture.......... To transfer to renewals and Cepreciation account
To carry forward to дет
account.
4,076.35
INTIMATIONS
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there was also an old ruling that a Mister should have £100 a year un eagned income, but of course that wens by the bourd long ago.
But there is a widespread slumping her Majesty that "it was just like
the in Norman blood" and ceste of Vere de Vere. When dis But if Buckingham Palace remains tinguished men like Sir Edward exclusively a royal residence, the Clarke, KC-the son of a watch. King does not intend it to lack log- pitality for the fighting men. Last. maker and Lord Rhondda-the ecc year he gave a series of musical enter. of a retail grocer-beast of their taiments to wounded soldiers in the humble origin, people are asking how stables of the palace. They were a soon it will be the fashion to pro- The stables" does not scurl too * great success and are to be repeated.
claim a connection with trade and inviting, but this case they afford commerce. With all its evils, war really admirable accommodation for bas "glorified til work. The more the purpose and the soldiers enjoy the entertainments imniensely, for ordinary and undignified the work, the Royal Family make them quite the more women especially appear at home. to enjoy it. The selon of an ancient There are others who view these 8799,323.56, and the Directora récologue and place a trial order. We absolutely guarantee safe family said to me recently, pitalitice sequire a measure of con- shareholders of 35 per cent. out of this
events with cagerness, for these hos-mend the payment of a dividend to delivery.
account and to place a further sum of MONTGOMERY WARD AND COMPANY, $200,000 to the credit of the Investment an Exchange Reserve. Find account will then stand as follows:-
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all the aristocrats will be working The only indolent people will be the funiles of the war profiteers. He himself is now a merchant and dong
well.
siderable scint importance because of the "commands issued to certain Indies to assist in attending to the invited guests. They are greedily
Loretel and the names canvasad in every drawing-tcoin in London. The The other afternoon, at Chating marked way in which some of the Cross Station, after the wounded most advertised and socially pro soldiers Bad been despatched to the various hospitals, the daughter of a peer was observed, with her sleeves tucked up, a rough apron over her
Lot No. 1694 and Kowloon Inluad Let Tables, Upholstered Suites, &c., Bedform, scrubbing away at the wood room Furniture, comprising Double work of the soldiers' buffet as if the Brass and Brass-moanted Bedsteads, safety of Okl England depended on Teak Twin Bedsteads, Sideboards, the thoroughness of her work. When Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, Tes and Occasional congratulated on the job she said, Tables, &c., Dinner Services, Crockery, I should be ashamed if I didn't do Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, it well. I do it better than those who Toilet Sets, Bath Room Fittings have been as it all their lives. Sandry Electro-Plated Ware.
The Properties consist of
Lot 1-All that piece or parcel of ground situate at Ma-tau-kok in the Dependency of Kowloon and Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office as Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1094
Thin Lot has an area of 150,000 Bq. ft. or held for the unexpired residue of
thereabouts and is
the term of seventy-five years (renewable) created therein by an Indenture of Crown Lease dated the 16th day of November, 1901 subject to an amual Crown rent of 3880.
Lot 2-All that piece or parcel of
ground situate at Matan-kok afore aud and registered in the Land Office as Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1109.
This Lot adjoins Lot 1, has an area of €3,000 sq. ft. or thereabouts and is held for the expired residue of the term of seventy-five years. (senewable) created therein by an Indenture of Crown Lease dated the 20th day of November 1901 sabject to an annual Crown rent of $138.00.
Messrs. WILKINSON I GRIST,
Bolicitors,
DE TO
9, Queen's Bond Central
Mesars. HUGHES & HOUGH
ductionors
a, Des Voeux Road.
Hongkong, April 16, 1918.
que
PUBLIC AUOTION
330
THE Undersigned have received in
atructions from T. K. DIALY, Esq.,
to sell by Public Auction,
03
-MONDAY,
the 5th May, 1918, commencing at 10.30 a., at their Bales Rooma, No. 8,
Des Your Boid, Corner of
Ice House Swoon.
A IMEON QUANTITY-OF
VALUABLE BOOKS
Including Books on
Shakespeare,
Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood
minent ladies of note are excluired proves how carefully Queen Mary intends to exercise Court influence
only to patronise those who are never gosiped about.
FEMININE ACTIVITIES,
The report of this Association states that, after transferring a further $250,000 to the credit of Investment and Exchange Reserve Fund, thera Femains a balance at credit of 1916 and former year working account of
Dividend of 23 per cent.
The
(-15 per share)... 8180,000.00 To investment and ex-
change resarta fand 200,000.00 Balance carried forward 419,323.56
&c.
TO LET
She.
3 PLANOS, (Full Particulars from Catalogue). Tano-Cash,
TO LET.
$799,323.56
In addition to our large freight shipments, we export more. than five hundred Parcel Post packages every day.
No matter where you live, it will pay you to get our cata-
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The net premia earned during 1917, The Queen has decidedly put on after deducting return premia, RiInsur
premis, etc..
to amount weight and grown a trifle more portly a during, her holiday in Norfolk. She 84,999,063.99, against $3,766,165.29 is also Imppier over the recent during 1916, and the account shows a improvement in health of her two balance at credit of $36, Sole distributors of
The Directors recommend the payment delicate sons.
of a special dividend of 5 per cent. $3 The Speaker Luas decided that per share, to be paid to shareholders out of interest earned, which will absorb women may once more be allowed to 235,000, and to carry forward the enter the outer lobby unescorted balance of $3,150,480.07. The divid One by one the houses of the great. They less that privilege when the ends will be paid in trels at exchange and Toakwood Screens, Blackwood are being used for national purposes. suffrage disturbances were at thei: 73. 81% per share at exchange 73 - Tla
including large Black- Furniture, wood Screen with & Coloured Panelsome, like those of Lord Leverhulme height, but the granting of the vote 13.14 per share. Side Tables, Chairs, Cabinets, &c., &c., and the Duke of Westminster, are in hae removed the necessity for vigi- Engravings, Pictures, Kinkosan and Brass Fases, & des Teunis Poles and temporary occupation by officialdom, lance. The Benchers of the Middle Temple, however, have denied the Net, Iron Safe, Several Carpets, den others, like those of the Duke of application of Miss Helena Norman-
Bierleuch and the Duchess of Marlton to practice as a barrister
..the hough, will remain in Government and her friends proclaim this, hands for permanent uses. The Duke fight has only now begun and they will break down all barriers. Finally. of Bucelench's London residence, Alien Christabel Pankhurst hum Montigu House, Whitehall, is aw, declared war on the Socialists ·and, the femporary home of the Ministry Pacifists, and she says the women of of Labour. It will be put to other the country will never allow these uses after Parliament has sanctioned agitators to bring upon the country
the shame of a premature pence! the payment of £40,000 for the re- maining 36 years of the Duke's lease. Some iden of the difference in London
Allied and neutral correspondents land values to-day compared with: 150 have been visiting, the hipyard of America. They saw destroyers equipped years ago may be gleaned from the with all kinds of new devices; being fact that when the Duke of Buccleuch targed out faster than Germany is able to build samarines, and also 100-ton obtained from the Crown u 50 years submarine-chasers not even baing 'bailt on slips bat being manufactured along. leuse of the present site of Montagunde the railway and lowered into the House, he only paid £200 down, and water by a travelling crane. The great an anuum rent of £28. Even in 1808, construction of warships is not inter ing with the building of merchant- wisen the Duke of Buccleuch secured men, which is well ahead of the TO. 3 CANTON VILLAS, Kowlong. a new lease, he only paid a rent of programme.
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HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioniers. Boaxkong, April 17, 1918.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
336
Teicns to all by Fublic Auction,
THE Vadersigned have received instruo
(OM ACCOUNT OF THE DOTCHKK3D),
ماشالله ..
FRIDAY,
the 26th April, 1918, at 1.30 p.m
at 58 Nathan Road, Kowloon, (Top and End Floor), BUNDRY
YALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
&
therein contained.
On view from Thursday, at 9.30 p.m.
•Catalogues will be issued. Trz-Cash."
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, April 1, 1918.
PUBLIC - AVOTION.
Transactions of the New Buskespeare THE Undersigned have received in- xtractions from the Administrator Bociety, Tissot's illustrated Life of
Christ, the Works of Swinburne, of the Estate of WILLIAM CHAZLES Tennyson, Fater, Dowden, William PUNCHARD, deceased, to sell by Public Morris Edwin Arnold, Dicken, Auction,
Meredith, &c. &c., de, many French Authors including Works by Hogo, Georges Band, Lamartine, Maupassant, Zola, Faladan, Lemaitre, Theuritt, Buzin, Regnier, Francis Jammer, dy deg
& K &C. Works on Genaral Constitutional and Legal History Books on Mathematics. Science miscellaneous collection of Latin and Greek Classics, sere
several known Dictionaries (French, Italian, Fortuguese, Greck), Books by nothorita tive writers on Rossin, Egypt and Palestine,
One LAROE BOOK "CASE. Cataloguse will be found, t
from Baturday, 40 May..
"RUGHES & BOUGER
MONDAY,
he 29th April, 1918, at 12 o'clock Noon,
at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,
Das Vasux Road, Corner of:
Tee House Street
One ALVANIZED IRON SHED,
À. QUARZITY OF, CALVANIZED, IRON ROOFING;;
aituste at. Afa-tau-kok, Kowloon. On view Now
HUGHES & HOUGH
Hongkong, April 32, 1918,
475 for the first twelve years. About
00 years ago the Duke built the exist ing fansion at a cost of £120,000, the lease of which would have revert ed to the Crown in 1961. The pre- sent ground rent, together, with the land. tax, amounts to over £1,000
LOSING WEIGHT BY THE POUND
Under Weght," a condition of Lealth, shows your asslins. lative powers are decreasing.
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Sapplies the blood with the wanted nourishing and healthy flesh hailding materials Very palatable.
BAN OF (ALL CHEMETS,
PRICE 31.25 250+$2.95
FOR SALE
FOR SALE
(FALESEND. 10 THE PEAK,
100 Apply C. IL GALE
P.W.DA Hongkong, Mar. 28, 1973.
FOR SALE...
Thaize have received in Rooms, No. 8. Des Vaux Road, Come of Lee Bouse Birncti
MOTOR YACHT
Epût 1916, had very little usage, Hull
Teakwood Length water-line 20, 2; over all Est
Motor Scripps
Complete with
Howry duty 14H.P. rator,
* Suit of Soils, and sil
Price and foll from the Under
an sy hind
HUGHES THOUGH.
Jan 1918
URNISHED, HOUSE. No. 41 Thu.
Feak, for the Sumuner months,
Apply
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TUESDAY,
the 14th day of May, 1918, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon at his Sales Hoom in Duddell Street, Victorin, Hongkong
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Situate in Barker Road at The Peak LONDON - DIRECTORY. and comprising those pieces or parcele of ground registered in the Land Office
RURAL BUILDING LOT NUM BEH: 70 and GARDEN LOT NUM BER 24 together with the attractive residential house thereon known es
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MMEDIATE ENTEY, four very desirable SHOPS situated in Ice House Street, opposite the Grand Hotel, attached recently reconstructed.
and garden and tennis court thereto
DIN ONE LOT CA
For rent and other particulara apply Rural Building Lot No. 70 contains an to the Manager. Hongkong Ice Co, Ltd.ars of 28,730 square feet and is held
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Hongkong, August 2, 2017.
TO. LET
FLAT in Nathan Boad, Ko
Four roomed bouses in
Apply tow
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19203
ander a Crown Lease for 75 years
Garden Lot No. 94.contains an area of 7,800 aquare, fest and is held under Orown Lease for 1 years.
For further particulars and conditions #pply to pay Messrs. DEACON, LOOKER
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The Auctioneer,
Hongkong, April 22nd, ¡Era
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