MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1918.
Hughes & Hough
AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOYKENMENT
General Auctioneers Share Coul and General Produos Brokers, and Commission Agents.
PROPRIETORS
**To-Kwa-Wan Coal Storage,
Coder used
Bentley's.
A... 4th 6th Editions, A 1 Tolographic Code Telegraphie Addre 'ACKIRION " HONGKONG.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
(For account of the concerned.) IN
TUESDAY, the. 17th Doo., 1818,
commencing at 9.30 p.m.,
at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Dos Vaar Road, Corner of Ice House Street, TEAKWOOD. AND BLACK WOOD, FURNITURE, BRABS AND BRASS MOUNTED DOUBLE AND TWIN BEDSTEADS CURTAINS, "CARPETS,
300., &c.,
AND AN ASBOBIMELIST OF
USEFUL HOUSEHOLD GOODS, As follows:- Chesterfield Sofas and Arm-chairs (now), Folding Card and Docasional Tables, Upholstered Suites, &c, Bedroom Furni ture, comprising Brass Twin Bedstoads, Eideboards, Dinnor Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, Tas Tohis &o., Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Catlary, Toilet
-PUBLIC AUCTIONS Bots, do, Bath Room Utensils, Sundry
Electro-Plated Waro.
Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood
THE Undersigned have received Inserna. Bhd Tookwood, Screens, a quantity of
teas to sell by Public Auction, (FOR ACCOUNT OF TAR CONCERNED),
ON
TUESDAY,
the 17th December, 1918, commencing at 2.30 p.m.,st their Sales Rooms, No. B, Des Voeux Road, Corner of
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Ice House Street, À QUANTITY OF USEFUL HOUSEHOLD LINENS, DRAWN WORK, & EMBROIDERIES,
Comprising -
HOUSEHOLD LINENS:-Single and Double Plain and Hemstitched Sheets, Pillow Cases, Docble White Satin Quilts. Linen Damsak Sarviettes, Glass Cloths, Bath Towels, Face Towels, &a, &c.
DRAWN WORK-Berspreads, Pillow Cases, Tray Cloths &c. &e.
EMBROIDERIES:--Bedspreads Table Covers, Tea Cloths, Runners 18 by 54in.
Also...
A low lots of Attache Cases and Bellow Valises.
(All new goods and small lots to suit
purchasere)
Terms --Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, Dec. 11, 1818.
(For Account of the Copcorned),
сп
WEDNESDAY,
the 18th December, 1918, at 2.30 p.m., at No. 5, Moreton Terrace, (top floor),
Causeway Bay,
BUNDRY
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE, &c.
therein contained.
including:
Famed Teak largo, Double Wardrobo and Dressing Table,
Alto
A Singer's Bawing Machine. Catalogdes will be issued.
On view from Tuesday the 17th inst, at 2.30 p.m.
Terms: Cash,
BUGHES & HOCGH,
Auctioneers: *. Hongkong, 9th December, 1918:
(For Account of the Concerned),
on
SATURDAY,
the 31st December, 1918, st.10.30 am., at their Sales Rooms, No. 9, Des Veer Road, Corner of Ice House Street,
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF TOYS, &o, 20. Terms: Chub.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, 11th December, 1918.
FOR SALE
FOR SALE.
THE Undersigned have received la
strictions to sell
(TOR 1000 CAT OF THE CONCREED),
At their Sale Rooms, No. 8, Des Yeux Bond, Corner of Ice Horas Street,
AEOLIAN ORCHESTRELLA
(Eighteen Stops) 1
With Sixty-ong Rolls of Music.
Ia very good condition. Inspecting
orders and further particulars from the undersigned.
Techs-Cealt
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, Nov. 18, 1918.
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FOR SALE YALESEND, 100 Tho Frak, Six Rooms Grass Tennis Court, im- mejiate poalession.
Apply
Hoogkom
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C. H. GALE, Public Works Department.
Nor. 12, 1918.
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Blackwood Furniture, including large Blackwood Screen, Side Tables, Chairs, Cabinets, E., Engravings, Pictures, Brass Vases, &, &c, Tennis Polos and Hot Soveral Carpeta new and serend hand.
Also
One Reflex plate Camera by Watson & Son London, fitted with! special aid Restiliner Lons in good condition (rost 10 guineas) Pim and Place Curriers.
Aud
One 12-Nores Hammer Gan by Army and Navy Store, Tandon, in good condition, Laly's Bicyèle (new).
(Fall Particulars from Catalogue). Tens:-Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH,.
Auctioneers
Hongheuer Dec. 11, 1918. -
PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
PUBLIC AUCTION
THE Undersigned have received in. structions from Mesars. D. MAC-
DONALD & Co. to sell by Pablo. Auction
at thoir premises Hung-hom,
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BOOKS AS GARDENS OF WEEDS.
Planta that flourish in books have been studia by Dr. Pierre See, who hai re cently told the Paris Academy of Sciences of his discovation. The plants aro varic- tion of mold-tungi of a low. ordor. When crowded together they produce spots and blemishes on the Inves, which show the characteristio colour of the tungt. The fact that those spots are due to microa copic vegetation, was discovered "more than thirty years ago by a Hungarion botanist, Jules Schaerschmidt, who seraped the surface of old paper moray, Kid, transferring the deposit into a drop! of water under a inieroscopo, was able wa establish tho presctice of plant growth. We quota from descriptive article cou tributed to The Scientisa Aerican"
"Dv. Sea Is not been content" with" sc superficial a glance, lu observing | charly, under high magnification, encl sp of an old book or of a more recent vole which has been sojourning in a damp pince, these are seen to be coni- nosed of two parts rather dark central nucleus, generally made up of the vegetative member-technically known ja the mycelium, and lighter peripheral rone of more or less rounded contour, coloured by the secretions of the fungus and odianrily, through diffusion of the pigment, visible on both sides of the sheet. Likewise the molds are found in stages of vegetation varying widely-nc- cording to the circumstances under which they have been living.
Here, for example, is a book printed in 1918 and left for several months near a wet wall. If we turn the leaves, wo obscrvé in certain places on page 28 u greenish-yellow discolouration dua to par fectly developed "Chetomium." The spots ou page 20 came from contact with the proceding ones when the book was closed. Continuing our indoor botanical expedi tion, we discover, upon certain pages, some rose-coloured spots caused by Fusarium, while the tiny points acat- tered about the surface of the paper represent Alternaria reduced to a
$5 a ticket. On sale at all Banks, Clubs, Hotels & Stores. form of encysted preservation. Other
species of book like Stachy botrys, give spores whics reveal thym:
selves in the form of a black powder! when the paper is torn. All these germs do not proceed from a late infection, but exist in the raw fibres of the paper. making material; for when we examino- Trably manufactured paper," either by a
The whole of Valuable Plant GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LD.eet light or by looking through it, we
40., 20.
contained thereon.;
Largo Galvanized from Build.
ings, Stock and Machine Tools, comprising -
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Lather, Planing Machine, Scrow- ing Machine, Shaping Machine, Mill ing Machine, Blotting Machine, Drill. ing Machines, Cold Sawing Machine. Weighing Machines, Punching and Shearing Machines, Blower, Tast Pumpe, Engines and shafting, Sundry Pumps, Assorted Chain Blocks, Screw Jacks, Stratching Screws, Tools, Twist Drills, Stock and Dies, Steam Ham- mer, Blacksmith's Tools, Bandry Wooden Patterns, Band and Circular! Save, Pipe Beading Blocks, Pipa Vios, Coppersmith's Toale, Emet- gency Cupola, Water tanks and fitt inge, Winches, Boilera, Diving Pumps; Belmete and dresses (Now and second hand), a quantity of Steel Products including Steel Plates, Augler, Bare Rolled Steel, Jaists, galvanized Steal Elates, wrought and gilrunized Iron Piping and Fittings, Brase and Con- per Tubes, Muntz & Yellow Metal Sheathing, Metal and Copper Tacks,|
Also
etc.
One large galvanized Iron Building (wood framing) -
Cao small galvanized Iron Shod (Bleel framing)
One Meter Best 22 by 5' 9" by 3 fest fitted with 15/20 H.P. heavy duty Kelvin Kerosene Motor,
One 8 B.H.P. Bolinder Crude Oil. Engine direct coppled to dynamo il lustrated on page 25 of Bolidder's catalogue.
(Fall Particalars from Catalogue). Date of Sale will be published later."
· Terms :---Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneara.
Hongkong, December 11th, 1918.
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PORTLAND CEMENT.
In Casks of 375 lbs. not.
In Bags of 250 the net.
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here, too, spots of different forms, hich are sometimes even sersible to the touch.
When found upon antient volumes i dating saveral centuries back the lower fungi are and hnd desiccated; they may then be differentiated by eimple examina tion only in case it is a matter of Chato- miam or of Aerostalagmis.." both of which leave a permanent characteris-
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THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING Go., Lt.
Established 1883 MANUFACTURERS OF
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STRAND " to 16" ÜLÜGTH!ERENCE,
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Prize, samples and full particulars will be forwarded on application to
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A
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Large Number of New and Comfortable Cars
Always in Readiness,
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recent volumica one will there discover MACARONI, PASTE STARS, EGG NOODLES,
mycelium elements still living and cap able of developing into considerable
areas.
LL
VERMICELLI,
AND ALL KINDS OF SOUP STUFFS.
our Pastes bear, the "Booster label and are made from Flour of the Bart Quality containing a large percentage of Glatan. Starch and Gluten are the principal components of Flour, Gluten le easier to digest and contains more nutriment than Starch Manufactured under the most sanitary conditions.
Large quantities have been exported to various importantcities in the World.
Terma moderate, especially for Agencies. Orders executed promptly
HING WAH PASTE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD Head Office: No, 47:and 48, Connaught Road, Central, Hongkong; Telephone 1929 Principal Factory: No. 77, North Soochow Food, Shanghai, China; Telephone $385, Branch Factory Wing Hing Street, Causeway Bay, Hongkong. Cable address: "HINOWAB..
Bo Dr. Seo, & gardener of a naw art, bas systematically cultivated myce llam collected from various sources. It is necessary to have his seeds
sa ascp- tio sa possible, under pain of seeing his amall beds overrun by all sorts of {' weedu * -. - common molds. For his
culturen he uses various media-carrotsE
potatoes, licorice, gelatin, paper, er wood; and he keeps them in tubes, in casAnd in other antall greenhouses of glass. Frequently he employs licorice tools, with the corky burk peeled of 40 Joy-bare the yellow softwood, whose tissues contain glycyrrhizin, a awest sub- elance very favorable to moldy growth. Before planting he hoûts the culture in an autoclave to 120 degrees, maintain. ing this temparature for an hour, la order to the parasitic spares."
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LLOYD GEORGE FILM.
Muel interest has been aroused over a film of Mr. Lloyd George's life, which f just being completed. The career of the Prim Minster lends itself admirably to pluture purpose, for it is full of drama jual area romance. The story, which has been written by Sir Sidney Leis, fectures un imperial and Colonial history, King'e College, University of London, and modé into a film by the well-known producer;' Mr. Maurice Elvey, has been worked out with minuto acetragy, and will form not chly a highly attractive, picture drama, but permbaent record of the Prime Minister. It is calculated that sa máng. sa 54,000 people appear in the filan, which has been made by the Ideal Fila Rent- og Co., Ltd., 70-78, Wardour street,
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