WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1920.
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Hughes & Hough
AUCTIONEERS TO THICK GOVERNMENT
Gemersi Anciioneers Share, Goal, and Genéral Produce Brokers and Commission Agents.
PROPRIETORS «To-Kwa-Wan" Doal Storage
Bentley's Ama sih à sah Editions.. A 1 Taingraphic Ondo. Balographie Address *KELION HONGKONG.
-PUBLIC AUCTIONS-
THE Federsigned bave received in- structions le seil by Public Auc-
$190,
(FOR LOCOUNT #7: KKS. HONGAANAD),
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THURSDAY,
February 19, 1990; at 10.30 a.. No. 1 Kautafere Terrace, Top Flat,
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Valuablo Household Furnituro, therein contained. comprising: :—
INTIMATIONS.
NEW FRENCH LOAN 5%.
· Price of issue FTs. 100.
Redeemable at Trs: 150 in 60 years by half yearly drawings.
Jater at payable on the 1st of May & 1st of November. -
THE CHINA MAIL.
A NEW RAILROAD ACROSS
· THE ANDES.
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
-83-WORDS-8-INSERTIONS, 81. PREPAID Krok additional 5 words 4 Cents,
AN AMBITIOUS PROGRAMME.
:
TO LET.
WANTED.
BOLIVIAN PROJECT'S
DIFFICULTIES.
Bolivia is now building in her territory a new railway line across Landences in elevation, steep grades and
NOTICES.
THE MOTOR UNION INSURANOM COMPANY, LIMITED. AND THE UNITED BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY. LIMITED. FIRE, MARINË, LIFE and MOTOR ACCIDENT.""" For: Raton and Particulars appply to the General Agents
UNION TRADING CO
Prince's Balding.
Drivings to take place on the 16th WANTED-Position by experienced Apply to The Wongkong Land the Andes, marked by great differ GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LD.
of each your.
1st drawing on the 16th of Septem- ber, 1950. 1st coupon of Frs: 250 to be paid on the lat of November, 1920.
Subscriptions will be reseived ap; to the 10th of March next by the:
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE,
L BERINDOAGUE,
Manager.
NEW FRENCH LOAN 5 PER CENT
1920.
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Under the Guarantee of the French Republic,
THE LOCAL BRANCH of the
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CAINE will receive subscripitons for the New French Loan 5% 1920 from the 19th ixstant to the 10th of March
next.
"The Loan is free of income tax and redeemable is CO Years at 150% by interest hall-yearly drawings, the coupons being payable on lat May and 1st November of each year..
Fully paid subscriptions at par. Partly paid subscriptions at 101 per
purporting:
Fumed Teakwood Hallstand and Dining Room Furniture, Morescocent Leather covered Chesterfield Sofa and Armcoairs, Pictures, Ornaments, and Sundry Blackwood Furniture; large and small Teakwoad Bed
steads, Werdrobes, Dressing Tables, &c., Bedrud Table Linen. Cutlery 1990. and Plated Ware including large Dinner Service complete, New Aluminium Cooking Utensils, Bath Room Utensils,"
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Pot Plants, Electric Fittings, Singer's Sewing Machine, and ene Large Hall Clock.
(Full Farticulare from Catalogue). Teras-Osak
HUCHA & ROUGE, Y
Automatra,
Honghong, February 3, 1958.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE At their Sales Rooms,
Fr. 90-when subscribing,
Fr. So the 1st of April, Fr. 95,-on the 16th of July,"
Fr, 26.- the 1st of August,
M. ROUET DE JOURNEL,
Manager,
Eongkong, February 18, 1929.
MAN WAH
120 De Voz Road
Tel. 2135
TİCOMMERCIAL EMDOSSNO STAL
HONOKONG.
No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner TAIYO & CO..
of Ice House Street,
Two Vertical Steam Electric Light- ing Sets, as follows. Genera:ors, new. Engines in thorough good running order. Output 200 Amps. 400 Volts. 16 Kilowats.
Also
Spare armatures, Switch pancis, and running Gear, Full particulars can be had from the undersigned.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneert.
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SANTAL CAPSULES
PHYSICIANS RECOMMEND THEM. Made in London,
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
PUBLIO AUCTION.
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JARTICULARS and Conditions of the
Pletting by Publis Auction Sale, be behold on MONDAY, the 23rd day of February, 1920, 158.a, at the Offices of the Public, Warks Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Shaukiwen Road, in the Colony of Hongkong, for bersa
75 years, with the option of renewal ata Orown Bont to be fired by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one farther term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Todalitq:
TOUAEAIX
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(JAPANESE)
BOOTS AND SHOES KADE TO ONDER. No, ie, Wyndhara Bi.
PORTUGUESE, profciant in Reclamation Ltd. Reporta, Imporis, Correspondance, Typing, etc. Speaks Chinese fluently Outpert no "objsation. Apply Post Oct Box 650.
FOR SALE.
Kowloon.
TOLETA SHOP in Nathan Road, Apply so. Humphreys. Estato & Finance Co., Ltd., Alexandre Buildings.
The
frequent horseshoe curves. last-named feature enables the road
to avoid the "switchbacks." used by
many of the South American roads in crossing high mountain ranges. The new line is described and -lustrated in an article contributed
FOR SALE-Several lots of FURSO LET ROOMED FLAT, top of to the Railway Review (Chicago, Prince Building, fully furnished, October 18) by Carlos Tejada Owner has no further need for them. In good condition. Apply Baxmil 1st to October 31st 1923. Sorzano, an associate member of the For full particulars apply do. Ginaan ✯ American Society of Civil Engineers. 1172 c/o CNA MAIL"
Co., LIS.
Mr. Surzano tells us that all the Bolivian railways of recent construc- tion have the character of mountain lines, and have presented difficulties due to the broken configuration of the country. But none approaches In these respects that now being constructed for the government be. tween La Paz and the rich agricultur- al district of Yungas. We read-
WANTED.
WANTED AN INSURANCE MAN for Fit
man
Loss Adjuster's Office in. Shanghai, one with hour experience preferred, good prospects for the right Communications treated as strictly confidental. Apply stating experience and salary expected.
To L. MOORE & Co., LTD.
Fire Loss Adjusters,
SHANGHAI,
HONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION.
MARATHON RACE.
MOTORISTS are urgently requested not to use the Route
over which this Race is being run between 3 p.m. and 4.30 p.m. on SATURDAY NEXT, the 21st inst.
Model F-4 and 1-4 Mesinani Duty
MILLER ENGINES Stock arriving shortly.
Manufacturers' Representative
UNION ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
OFFICES and SHOWROOM: 13, Chater Road.
CROSSLEY
CROSSLEY
OIL ENGINES
are remarkable for their high economy combined with great simplicity and reliability. The new type engine will start from cold without s lamp, and has no water injection. The fuel pump and atomiser are so efficient that the lowest grades of crude and residual oils can be used, yet the engine is so free from complicated mechanism and delicate parts, and so strongly constructed that it does not require highly skilled labour to run it.
The Crossley Oil Engine has earned the reputation of beinga
THE HIGHEST GRADE OIL ENGINE IN THE WORLD
CROSSLEY BROTHERS, LTD.,
MANCHESTER,
SOLE AGENTS FOR CHINA
ENGLAND.
ALEX, ROSS & CO.,
Des Voeux Road, HONG KONG.
"This line, like all the Bolivian lines, is metre gauge and is destined. to connect the railways of the high tablelands with the warm. valleys of the Yangas co the eastern slope of the Andes, a region the name of which is known all over the world as the place whence comes the famous. Yungas coffee.
"The principal difficulties which this line has to meet arise from the marked differences in elevation, in surmounting which it is necessary to Cross Qarrow valleys that in many places have the character of imposing canyons, in which it is impossible to find sufficient room for the roadbed without constructing expensive works that would greatly increase the total cost of the undertaking.
"An idea may be bad of these differences in elevation when I g known that the line on leaving the city of La Paz, the altitude of which is 11,811.6 feet above sea level must ascend and pierce the principal ridge of the Andes, passing through a gap the height of which is 15,223.8 feet above sea level. This difference in level is surmounted by means of a fine only 16 miles long, which gives an average gradient of approximately 4 per cent. The line therefore will be one of the highest in the world and is the second built in South America to cross the grand Cordil lera. It will be much higher than the already existing one between Les Andes and Mendoza, the height of which does not exceed 13,124. feet"
The highest point on the line is Abra de Huacuyo. From this pass it descends to the lower level of a steep slope through a deep but rela tively wide valley and thence through the bottom of Unduavi pass. All this descent is made with a gradient of 6 per cent and an idea may be had of its difficulties when it is known that between the summit at Huacuyo and the point called Pongo there are 2 rot more than two or three miles of straight track, there beiar a differ ence of altitude of 3,937.2 feet. The writer goes on
"Switchbacks which are so fre quently encountered on other moun. tain lines and which present so many inconveniences when it comes to operation are avoided and the descent is accomplished by many horseshoe bends, the radius of the curves being reduced to 196 86 feet. A continuous line is thus followed which it will be possible to operate without difficulty, using American engines.
"The work on this descent presents very interesting features, due to the imposing height of many of the cuts. most of them in rock, and because of the conformation of the rock, for the most part slate.
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