AUCTION
PUBLIC AUCTION,
Mroceived instructions to Sell by TESSKS. HUGHES & HOUGH have PUBLIC AUCTION,
On MONDAY,
the 30th day of October, 1911, at 3 o'clock at their Sales Room, No. 8. Des Voux Road Contral
The Furniture, Fixtures, Fittings Anzels and Effects of the
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13ra, 1911.
A Publican's Licence has for many years been held by the late Proprietor's Nominee and the Present Licence will (subject to the transfer being approved by the Licensing Board) be day of November, 1911. the same until the Licence expires on the 30th transferred to the Purchaser and he can hold
WITH THE ABOVE WILL BE BOLD EDWARD, Licence No. 372, Length 60 ft. 6 in, The Single-Sorew Steam Launch "KING
Breadth 10 ft. 8 in., depth 7 ft. Gross Toansge 27.15
Not Tonunzo 11.39, together with all hor Tackles, Gear and Apparstas, Engines and Bellors as she now lies affost in the Victoris Harbour. This BSteam Lanch was in the
oing Month of May, 1911, thoroughly over-hauled
and
repaired.
WM
POWELL, LTD.
"PHOENIX BRAND"
KING EDWARD HOTEL- and the Goodwill of the businesN AS D
concern, Oqmprising the necessary and Valeable Hotel
business carried
Partlettire and Conditions of Sale may be Pure os by the late Mr. DAUNJEEBHOX DORABJEE NOWROTE obtained from the Undersigned and from
the Auctioneers. under the style of THE KING EDWARD HOTEL together with the benefit of the Loace of Portions of Royal Buildings and Prince's Buildings hereinafter mentioned.
promises occupied by the Hotel and the socommodation is as follows:
The
1. BOYAL EVILDINGS:
Consist of (a) Underground Godowns, ota. (b) Ground Floor (c) Tween Ground Floor and First. Floor (d) Five Upper Floors and (4) Top of Fifth Floor, all disposed un follows :
(a) UNDERGROUND-partitioned off into Two Spacious Godowns one used for Stering- Liquors, Wines, Aerated Waters, Mineral Waters, Cigars and other Bar supplies-and-tho other for Storing Fastangers baggage and also effects belonging to the Hotel of which there is a Large Stook la reserve (ii) a Boom for Storing empty bottles (ill Large Boom for Compra- dore's Office (iv) Two Rooms for Godown coolies-
(V) & Carpenter's Workshop and (vi) on open in which a Salt Water Pump with a Wall
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GROUND FLOOR—is divided into two
Sections, namely, (A) Offices and (B) Bar.
(A) Offices (1) Booking Offee with Counter
premises of the sub-lessens may be obtained from Orders to view the premises excepting the the Undersigned.
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
Prince's Buildings, Hongkong,
Solicitors for the Vendors, Hongkong, 9th October, 1911.
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AS SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND HOUSE OF COMMONS
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OLD VAT
No. 4.
(ii) Manager's Office adjoining (ii) a spacious This rat was started by the late Robert Thorn Hall with Tables and Seats for visiters-all of of Greenock and has been sold as No. 4since 1831 which are in frout while at back two Private
Offices and a Telephone Room.
(B) Bar-contains (1) Ber with counter and
$2.00
English
Silk
SOCKS
IN ALL COLOURS,
(BEMARKABLE VALUE.)
per pair 6 pairs for $11.00
GENTS. OUTFITTERS.
THE PIONEER OF THE OVERLAND I OUTE TO INDIA,
Cash Register, all stted up in first class style, SCOTCH WHISKY, his daitemporaries the daring innovation of
with three Billiard Tables completa (ii) Lava tories and Urinals with Hot and Cold Water
Pipes for Wash Hand Basins, all ap-to-date Fittings
(0) Tween Ground Floor and First Floor- are two Compartments (1) Private Bar and (U) Drying Room
(d) FIRST FLOOR-Comprises (1) Two Large Dining Rooms (il) One Pantry (it) One Carring Room with Heating Range (v) Kitoran th Cooking Range complete (v) Baker's Room and (vi) a space with Bollur for Hot Water.”
(d) SECOND FLOOR-bas (i) Reception Room (ii) Private Dining Room (i) Writing Boom (ir) One Large Room with two Billiard Tables and other suitable Fittings (5) Tea Room (v) Cloak Room and a number of Subsidiary Rooms as follows:
One Ladies' Lavatory.
One Gentlemen's Lavatory.
Que Ladies' Bath Toom.
One Gentlemen's Bath Room.
Two Spare Rooms for use of servants and for keeping sundries. Rooms I to III and V to VII can be used as Bod-Rooms.
No. of
Spare
(d) Upper Bed. Loratories_Bath. —rooms for
Floors rooms
rooms
servants,
do.
3rd Floor 9
1 Ladies 2 Ladies
น
1 Gent's 2 Gant.'s
4th
9
1 Ladies 2 Ladies';
2
14
1 Gent.
2 Goat.'s
Stl
19
1 Ladies' 3 Ladies'
2 Gent. 5 Gent's
The Bed Rooms us theso Thres Floors with sach of the Rooms on the Second Floor as are convertible as Bed Rooms make 43 Bed-Rooma in all, the Billiard Room can also be used as Bed Room
All the Lavatories are of the latest, pattern and the Bath Rooms are equipped with First- olass Atlantic Baths.
(e) Top of Fifth Floor are Chinese Kitoben. and Servants Holl
A Fire Escape runs from the roof right down to the Ground Floor outside.
Esch Floor has a Telophona-Beom. With the above will be sold the benefit of the Original Lease of Portions of Royal Buildings which the above promises are situate dated the 23rd day of October, 1905, for a term of 14 years from the 1st day of September, 1905, and or
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a further term of seven years from the ex- piration of the said term of fourteen years at Monthly Rental of $1,716.67 and texes which amonat to approximately $223.16 per Month. 2. PRINCE'S BUILDINGS.
Consist of (i) Ground Fleer with Underground Godowes now to let to the Medical Hail-and (ii) Three Upper Floors disposed in the following manner:-(1) Ground Floor is divided int Two Section, namely, A and B.. Section A is let to the Bank of Taiwon upon an agreement for Lease which will expire on the 30th day of September 1912, at a Monthly Rental of $600 inclusive of taxes-and Section B is let to Emil Niedhardt carrying on business as The Medical Hal
I upon a sub-lease which will expire on the 30th
day of September, 1917, at a present Monthly Rental of 8500 for the first two years of the said term and the Monthly Rental of 8600 a Month during the succeeding 3 years and at the Monthly Bental of $700 for the remaining 2 years 2 Months and 17 days of the said term exclusive of taxes, Fall particulars of these sub-leases can be supplied by the Undersigned.
(11) No. of Upper Bed. Lavatories Bath. Spare
Floors reque
Booma
Forms
1st Floor 9 1 Gent.
2 Gant,'s
1 Servanis 2 Ladies'
2nd,,
9
1 Ladies 2 Gent's
3
3
1 Servants' 2 Ladies'
9
1 Gent. *2 Gezt. 3
1 Servants 2 Ladies
Of the 27° Bed Rooms on the above Floors certain Rooms are let to MESSES, JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors and Netaries, upon a sub-laase which will expire on the 30th day of September, 1917, at a Monthly Rental of $350.00 exclusive of taxes. Full particulars of the above sub-lease can be supplied by the Undersigned.
On the Second Floor is a Chinese Kitchen for the use of servants while on the Third Floor there la accommodation for the Hotel Walobmen.
With the above will be sold the benefit of the Original Lease of Portions of Prince's Buildings apon which the above premises se situato dated the 12th day of August, 1909, for a term of eight from the 1st day of October, 1909, at a
Monthly Rental of 81750.00 and taxes which amount approximately to $227.50 per Month
The Assets and Effects comprite the Valuable and up-to-date Furniture, Fixtures and Fittings, Callery, Giss and Crockery, Table Ligen and Electric Installation (Lights and Fane) in and upon the above premises and all other pare phernalia now in and upon the said premises used thereon for the carrying on of the nail business, an inventory of which may be inspected i at the Office of the Undersigned.
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his, he left in a natire hoat for Corscor. After a few days' delay he proceeded to Jeddah, distance of 600 miles from S. During the journey The City Press (London) say: Mr. Henniker Waghorn produced his pistol, and threatened to some of the Arab crow matiniel, whereupon Heater, the Pioneer of Imperial Ponny Postage, shoot the first man who persisted in his refusal Lus presented to the Lord Mayor an autograph to proceed. After considerable delay at Jedish letter written over seventy-eight years ago by be found that the Enterprise was not expected Lieutenant Thomes Waghorn, N., the Pioneer of the Overland Route to Indis. In this way bis taken up by the East India Company's ornleer Lordship is linked with two great English monThette, and by her landed at Bombay. There he so again he embarked in a native boat, but was
whose names will ever be prominently associated oblained an answer to his letter, and at once with Imperial Postage, and who may be said to stand at each extremity of the reform movement. land route, delivering a reply within the stipu returned to London by his now initiated over- That which seemed to Lleut. Waghorn and inted time. earrying a latter from England to India for 58. set in motion an evolutionary process that has reduced the price to the modest sum of 1d The letter presente le the Lord Mayor is a
London, 39, Cornbili.
8th January, 1833. Messrs. William and Thomas Raiken,
Gentlemen, I write to inform you and other Merchants interested with India that I lease London on the 5th, and Falmouth on the 8th, of February by the Malte Steam Packet for Malta. On my arrival there (leavangain forth. with for Alexandria; from there by laud to Suez; then sail down the Red Bea wind is fair), and cross the Ben to Bombay, where I expect to arrive in seventy days from England. On this occasion I shall carry as many single letters can get at fvo shillings cooh. Any letters your firm or your friends wish to send by this quick opportunity I shall be glad to take, I shait be in England again in Noren Lor next, and, in all probability go (shoulda steam commy not be established between England and India) in February by this rouls, so – that once year we may be certain of a quick commn. with Indis. I remain, Gentlemen, Your
for several years travelled backwards and for After the pioneer journey overland Wagborn wards between England and India. He laboured at Mehemet All for some years, and entered the service of the Fasha Knowing that communication could not be carried on without at least, the tolerance of the Arab tribos, ha lived in their tents for. two or three years, teaching them to respect the security of orer. land transit. of caravans across Egypt, built eight halting He established a regular service places in the desert between Cairo and Stez, and made what had been a dangerous path-
Berrant,
bumbie
THOMAS WASHORN. N.B.-I am to be found at No. 39, Cornhill till I leave London on the 5th of February, and shall be happy to wait on you if you
wish it.
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set with robbers a secure highway. He con vered the overland mail between the years 1831 and 1834, and to that period belongs the letter quoted at the beginning of this article-a lotter which sufficiently indicates his mode of opera tion.
Before he left Egypt in 1841 Wagborn had instead of camels, to convey travellers across a service of English carriages, vans, and horses; the desert. He had also placed wall steamers on the Nile and the Canal of Alexandria: in fact, all his means were spent in providing more and more facilities Nothing was granted-by- the British Government, or by the East Indis Company, and, though his enterprise in working the overland mail was a national bon,-it-rv- salted in but little or no privato gain to big. In 1837 be organised shipping business in London in concert with Mr. George Wheat lay, who also took many journeys in and working alternative routes to Egypt. plug tually, ander the title of "George W. Wheat- Behind this business letter lies the romantic loy
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Mr. Wheatley continued the ship. bistory of the opening up of the overland route ping business, and farther consolidated the many from Europe to India, and Lient. Weghorn Eastern ramifications originated by Waghorn. was the bare of the romance. He was born The latter died in January, 1850, at the age of as Chatham on June 20, 1800, and the centenary 49-s disappointed man in that he had been of his birth was gratefully celebrated eleven neglected by the authorities.
1 Kgo, when big business successore-Mossrs. George W. Wheatley & Co., of Upper Thames Street-published a sketch of big life. From this we learn that at the age of twelve young Way horn became a midshipman on board H.M. frig
24716, si served on the Home and West India Stations. At the age of seventeen he passed his examination for Lieutenant in the Royal Navy Later he was employed as pilot to the service of the East India Company in Bengal. He was attached to the flotilla of the Arracan division of 1,800 man, which left Chittagong in 1994; and after serving in that expedition in various departments, was appoint ed to command the Matchless cutter on a suryay,
It remained for later generations fully to appreciate what Lientonant Waghorn had done primarily for his
own country, and secondly for the travelling world at larve. Although his immediate aim was the prompt conveyance of letters and pack ages, he paved the way for one the greatest travelling routes in the world. In course of time camel and caravan were supersed ed by railway across the deart in connection with regular steamboat lines from England to Alexandria and from Suez to Bombay, and finally came the cutting of the Suez Canal. No one bad a higher appreciation of Waghorn'a pioneer labours than Count Ferdinand de Les
in which service he received the commendatioba sops, who inscribed this tritte beneath a busi
of the Naval and Milltary authorities. During of his English forerunner at the Suez entrance
In
bomsge to the memory of 10
generous, though unfortunate, man who alone, without any balp, by a long series of labours and horole offoria. prastically demonstrated and deformined the adoption of the portal route through Egypt, and the communication between the East and West of the World, and thus was the origina tar and pioneer of the great Egyptian marititne commerce completed by the canal of the two seas."
Somewhat more tardily, though none the less sincerely, Lieut. Waghorn's own countrymen gave tangible expression to their gratituds by erecting a statue to his memory at Chatham in 1888 and it is interesting to remember that the fund for that purpose was raised as the out- come of a mesting held at the Mansion House.
the war he was appointed to not at all polate to the wonderful waterway where peculiar dangers and difdenities demanded the presence of rare courage and enterprise. He planfod the first gun on a hitherto inaccessible rock at the mouth of the Afrucan Liver by belating a twelve pounder from the deck of his ship to a perpendicular height of 220 feet, and it still serves as a land- mark for ships entering the river.
Waghorn remained at the scene of action when nearly ail tte other officers had been compelled to return invalided, so that he became eventually the senior naval officer, and was left in command of the coast from Chittagong to Sandoway, some 300 miles, with a force of 3,000 men under him. In 1827 Weghorn turned his siten tion to steam communication. At first be, like Kany others advocated the route via the Cape of Good Hope, but he became convinced ere long of the practicability of regular communication vid the Red Sea. The Hugh Lindsay, a stoomer-of-411-tons and 80- horse-power, and drawing only 113 feet of water, For a long time, says a Scottish financial had made the voyage of 3,000 miles from Bombay journal, "the sweet simplicity of the thres per to Buez,coaling at Aden. The time occupied, with cente," had an attraction which made Contols oslls at Mocha and Jeddah, was 32 days, A route at that rate of interest the favourite medium of vid Coneer, was used in the early port of the į investment where security and a fair return in nineteenth century,
the East India Company's interest wore esential, but wide fluctuations in cruisere ruaning between that portand Bombay, price have shown that a gilt edged security may Despatches were thus transmitted to Cosseer, the be no safer in protecting capital than many less
der of the route to them being made on remalader
pretentious issues, and even at quotations which ramels, and thence to Alexandria by the Nile ensure thres per cent. Consols are at present Weghorn's scheme was considered impracticable out of favour. At 78 they yield 3-1/5 per cent. because it was said that coal cost £20 ton at Even small investors, however, are now awere Suez, He, however, got over this difficulty by that many colonial and foreign stocks are as taking coal to Baez on camel back at £4 38. 6d.
for capital as Consols, while, owing to the
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