THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1911.
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41RE. Driesiges khavannnedived instruc martians from £5 Wash Bag to coll
by Public Auction,
013
TUESDAY,
the 7th March, 1911, at 2.30 .., at his Residenos, No. 7, Stewart Terrace,
The Peak,-
THE WHOLE OF THR
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.
There'n Contained,
Comprising :-
Upholstered Drawing Room Suite, Car pets, Curtains, Pictures, Blackwood Ware, Teakwood Dining Room Suite, Glass and Crockery Ware, Cataphorwood and Teak. wood Bedroom Suites, Tinoud-lined Up. holstered Setics, Toilet Sets, Kitchen and Pantry Utenvils,
c.,
..
&c.;
One Pinuo by The Robinson Piano Coy,
Alao
And
A number of Plants in Pata.
TERMS:-As usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH.
Auctioneers,
Hongkong, February 27, 1911.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
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AND
ALL CLASSES OF
Machinery
High-Grade
Castinga.
GORDON & Co. General Managers,
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Auctions.
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PUBLIO AUCTION,
Particulars and Conditions of the latting by Public Auction Sale, to be held en MONDAY the 6tb-dap-of-Maevi WH~***** at the Offices the Pablio. Works Department,
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of One Lot of Orown Land at Eegnedy Road, in the Colony of Hongkong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rant to be fixed; by the Surveyor of His Majesty the Kiko, for one further term of 15 years,
Registry No
Lot No. 196
· Particulars of the Lot...
Locality
BOURDATY Mesire
int
Bq. Ft.
RUBLIC AUCTION.
Upact Price,
Azzual Fed!,
317
A Quantity of JUTE (originally com
prising shipment of 081 bales), JUTE CUTTINGS (originally 200 bales), COTTON (originally 21 bales) and GUN NIES (originally
71 bales) fauded damaged
by Fire and/or Water ex Kumsang will be ald by Public Aurtion at SAIGON on 10th March, for the benefit of the Concom Mesara SPEIDEL E Co., Saigon, or to
THE Undersigned have received instrased. For further particulars apply to
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tions from H. M. NAVAL STORE Omicen, to sell by Fublic Auction,
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WEDNESDAY,
the 8th March, 1910, at 11 A., at their SALES ROOM, No. 8. Des Vaux Read, Comer of lee House Street,- SUNDRY GOODS,
Comprising
Wood Cases, Crates and Casks, Electric,
Cables on Drun, Old Iron Chain Cable,
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Ltr.,
General Manager, INDO-CHINA 8.N. Co., I. Hongkong, February 27, 1911.
For Sale..
200
FOR SALE.
SHAMEEN, BRITISH CONCERBIOX,
Low, Middle Avenuo.
Old Wrought Iron, Funnels, Cuttings, &CANTON, TWO VALUABLE GROUIL Steel Hawsers and Wire Rops and Galva-
** mised Iron Chain,
Inspecting Orders can be oplaited from
the Auctioneers.
---TERMS —As usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
By Appointment Auctioneers to the
Admiralty.
Hongkong. Fehranry 28, 1911-
PUBLIC AUCTION,
For Particalars, apply to
ABERBERT DENT & CO
"Canton, ——** Canton, March 2, 1911.
1163
ا مطلع
To Let.
TO LET,"
ATO. 7, ORMSBY TERRACE, Kowloon, No
SPANISH DOMINICAN
Apply to
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Hongkong
ENGINEERING NEWS.
With regard to Router's statement as to the contract with the Marcoal Company for wireless installations linking Calette with Simla vit Allahabad, stondy progress is being made with the necessary buildings various stations.
manufacturing gas from sawdust s consists in the main of a vertical cylinder In which the gas is generated and which has a capacity of eight sacks of sawdusk sfter fring the contents from, bolów, the gas formed passes through a series of piper into the scrubber or cleansing, chamber containing blast furnace coke. The gas then travels through a final obamder in which sawdust is contained, and thence to Che engine. The installs lon-at-Boshani Harbour is for a fifty, horse power, gas, sagino, and the proprietor believes that his gas bill will be halved if his hopes, are realised. This type of plant abould prose particularly valuablo in lumber yards nad Joinery works, as not only cat the sawdust be utilised "and shavings and email pieces of wood ground up for the generator, thus a good doxl of refase disposed of, but by-products are obtained of fius's divided charcoal and tar.
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An innovation in methods "for the
supply" of railway tickets to prospective passengers says the Ratlicay Times has just been introduced in the offices of the -Southern Pacifie-Railroad at San Francisco,
The principal objects sought to be gained are the avoidance of people waiting at the counters of the city ticket office, the f1 utdisation of the services of clerks on du' by removing the liability of interruption when making out tickets, and the diminu tion 'n the risk of orrors which are likely * 301
to result from such interruptions. In this __________ It in-wisted that the. French State rail- method an attendant; asalsta tha intending waya have placed an order for seventy larger talent his route with-bhonid- Pacific locomotives with a Glasgow firm. | of a large map. The attendant then inakes
PROCURATION, Hongkong, March 1, 1911,
DOWN No. 4 NEW PRATA Kennedy Town.
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Each ouging will weigh with toader 150 memorandum of the monoy, by in cans tons, and delivery is required acxt Day, despatches it, with the money, meanE This is the first order for bermotives giren of a paeumatic tubo, to a lower room, to Great Britain by the French Govers.ghero clerks are engaged in filling in the necessary indications to cover the route ment for twenty-seven years.
and the conditions applying to the ticket contract. The decreased liability to error: A salvage award of £10,500 has been made in tickets made out under these conditions Sole Agents ; - for services rendered by the steamer Low has, the Times states, rendered it possil le ther Rango, belonging to Mesara Furness, to use a single small card instead of the Withy, and Co., of West. Hartlepool, number of coupons hitherto employed in a the Austrian-Lloyd passenger stenmerket for a transcontinental journey. Trieste in June last. The naners of the Lowther Range receive £7.250, Captain Matthews £1,000, and the officers, engiu 274cera, and crow £2,250 between them.
WWO NEW SEMI-detached Six-rcomed
TWO European Residences on BOWEN ROAD, now nearing completion, with gardens attached. Splendid view of the Harbour. Possession from about 16th proximo.
Apply to
A. M. ESSABHOY, 78, Zotland Street. Hongkong, February 24, 1911.
TO LET FURNISHED.
Fon SIX MONTHS FROM IST May.
Britain's naval airship No. 1, which has been under construction for more than twelve months at Cavendish Dock, Barrow
--
Mr H. V. Kramer, of Birmingham, has invented an apparatus for wireless tale phony on railways for which it is claimed that it enables messages to be sent to and team a train, whether it is standing still ". travelling at any rate of speed, and that, by automatically establishing communica
BUDLEIGH, No. 6, MACDONNELL in Furness, in understood to be ready furation betw en two trains on the same lines,
Apply to
M. S. NORTHCOTE. » Hongkong, Fobruincy 0, 1011.
TO BE LET.
105
[-0.34, QUEEN'S-ROAD CENTRAL (Shop) opposite the Post Offico. | No. 2a, D'ÁGUILAR STREET, suitablo
for Godown, &o.
All of which are at present occupied by Vion Cafe & Co., Ltd.
For particulars, etc., apply to
YEE SANG FAT, Same Address, Honghong, February 23, 1911.
TO LET.
launching. In all probability the airship it minimises or cutirely removes the danger | will not be roady to begin her trials until of collision, next month, and if these prove satis factory she will take part in the summer naval manzurres, and will also go to Spithead to join the Home and Atlasti. Fleets for the Coronation Review,
-DISTRICT. PRISONS.
vabavo heard a good deal lataly about the improvement of Chlacse prisons and The Royal Automobile Club-Journal gire there is no doubt but that in the provincia! some particulars of a rather Interesting cities, and probably in soms of the Irgur motor cruiser designed by Mr Linton Hopetowns inland, some reforms have been effect. for oror-een work. This boat-the Cachaloted, and a better stato of thing oxists than which has been built st Measts Rennie's obtained in past days. We have before us, 2E8 yard at-Greenwich to the order of Mr N. however, an indictment of the magistrate W. M. Bell, is of steel, 50ft. over all who reigns at Yingtak, and the charue con. lough, 10ft. benm, and drawe 3ft, Sin. cerns his indifference towards the man who She is to have twin screws, each driven 1y are incatenated in his prison.-It report. d a 60-hp Maudslay engine, and these will that he pays little or no attention to the give her a speed of cloven knots, while for men who have been arrested. Those who auxiliary power she will be anugly rigged as are known to be guilty and those who are katch. The Cachalot, which is most com- merely suspected are thrown together in fortably fitted, is intended for Mombasa,“ gaol. He does not further poncern himself bout them; innocent and guilty are left to Massa Palmer's Shipbuilding and Iron herd together in a way that shocks even the Company, Limited, Jarrow, baro com- Chinese mind. It is said that there are -pleted negotiations to take over the Heh-more than a hundred man now in jail, and
TURNISHED FLAT at Kowloon, for
6 months or longer, Piano, Telo pliono, &c.
'FLATTERER,' Apply
to CHINA MAIL' Office. Hongkong, February 23, 1911.
200
TEL: 909,"
OWEN B. WILKS & CO.,
1st FLOOR, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
TELEG.: WANDFROOS, CANTON AGENT H. LEE, VICTORIA HOTEL.
ASSISTANT:
H. CRADDOCK, 38, PEAYA EAST.
Hongkong, December 1, 1910.
Make no Mistake
about it!
WATSON'S
(NID
barn establishment of Messrs Robert many of them have not yet even been of the best from
HANG. TAI CO., ROAD, PRAX, from April 15th next Stephenson and Company, Limited. It is examined. Seeing that the warmer and
THE Undersigned have received instrac-No. 38, Praya East.
tions from ROBERT SHEWAN, Esj.,
to sell by Public Auction
...
MONDAY,
the 20th March, 1911, commencing at 2 r...
at his residenco 'INVEBUSIE,
Peak Road,-
THE WHOLE OF THE
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE, THEREIN CONTAINED,
Comprising
Hall Stands and Cabinets by Waginge, London, Silk Tapestry Drawing Room Suite and Curtains by Warings, Loudon, Etchings, Engravings and Paintings, Aze trian and Axminster Carpets, Blackwood Ware, Bras nad Bronze Ware, &, &c.
Dining
FOR SALE.
TO LET FURNISHED.
EWKNOR No. 116, PLANTATION
Apply M. W. SLADE,
Prince's Buildings. Hongkong, January 23, 1911.
Anticipated that building operations, will dampor weather is upon us, the condition 117 be commenced forthwith at Hebburn, the of theas wretches will be miserable in the firm having several vessels in hand. By extremo. It is believed that they die daily, taking over the Hebburn Dock the Palmer and no notice is taken of th's terrible
mortality. Company enter into possession of the only graving dock on the north coast capable of accommodating a Drandnought battleship, thus adding yet further to their facilities for handling large warships for the British Government.
TO LET.
YOUR and Five Roomed HOUSES,
Kowloon. New nad Commodious SHOPS, NATRIX ARGE Stocks of AMERICAN PINERN Rom, Immediate possession,
Chenp
Rentals. Apply to HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
Hongkong, March 23, 1993,
CHINA PINE, TEAK, and Various Kinds of HARD FOUD, &
TIMBRI YARD AT PRAYA EAST,
Inspection Sollcited.
PRICES MOST REASONABLY.
CHỦ CHỨNG EBE,
Manajer. Hongkong, May 5. Inin. Room Suite, Morocco-covered Marinburk, Arm Chairs and Bookenses Cutlery, Glass and Crockery Ware, c., &c. Bras Bedsteads and Bed Room Suites of Italian Werkmanship, Chesterfield Sofa and Chaira, Silk and Lace Curtains, &c.. &c., Enamelled Bath Tub with Fittings.
One American Ice Chert, a large number of Paline, Ferus, &c. in Pots 7.
And
ų
One Grad Piano by Newhamn, Hanı- burg, and One Large Fire Resisting Safe by Milners.
Catalogues will be issued. Tasin :—As trus?,
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.
Hongkong, March 1, 1311.
JAPANESE MAKERS.
207
EVERT KIND
07
To Let
TO LET.
YODOWNS, 161 to 155, Prava EAST.
TO LET.
408
The Royal Yacht Squadron hare with drawn their opposition to the breakwater shame of the Cowes Harbour Board Cam missionure, which is the subject of a Beard ARGE HOUSE, known as Dethick, Trado inquiry to be held on February 1,
No. 3 Robinson Road; electric light and gas lald on: Iarge tennis court, The Squadron have hitherto strengly vegetable garden and stable with fulfobjected to the scheme on the grounde 158 harbour views.
that it would prejudicially affect the an
A HOUSE in WoxG-NEL.CRONG ROAD:"" SEMI-EUROPEAN FLATS, Moxlerto Renta, PRAYA EAN-Corner of Obser- vation Place. The Time stop at the door. Also now 'EUROPEAN FLATS adjoining the new Seaman's Instituto, Prayn Enst.
An OFFICE on 1st Floor, 16, Des VIEUX ROAD CESTRAL.
OFFICES in. KINGS BUILDINGS, 4th Floor.
9, MACDONNELL ROAD, from, Iat May:
Apply to THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT &AGENCY Co., Lo.
Footwear Hongkong, March 1, 1911.
MADE
TU
TO LET.
23
MACSO
TO. 57, PRAYA GRANDE, MA
No
No. 2, BELILIOS TERRACE,
ORDER No. 21 & 25, SHELLEY STREET
CHERRY & · CO,,,· 35, WELLINGTON STREET.
May 5 1910,
(Figs)
THE old, old story, told times without
THE SAME OLD STORY,
is
SCOTCH WHISKY Dundee. Demand it.
Agents for Hongkong -F. BLACKHEAD & Co.
Regal Boots
AND,
Shoes
A
Gunther, and repeated over and over again for the last 37 years, but it is always. a welcome story to those in search of health cucgis and colds an quickly as Climber..
There is nothing in the world-that-cures FOR SALE- hin's Cough Remedy. For sale by all AT REASONABLE Chemists and Storektuperr.
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NOTICE
Elave This Day authorized Mew:
WTHEOF. HANSEN and CONRAD HAESLOOP to sign our Firm per Fro-
F. BLACKHEAD & CO. Hongkong, March 1, 1911.
LI PO LUNG, Apply to c/o Li Brothers, Alexandra Buildings.chorage in Cowes Roode, increase the force
of the tide running out at the "nore3.cumtion... Hongkong, February 11, 1911. 206
entrance, to the barbour, and mar the Artistic amunities of Cowes. The com missioners' decision to carry the breakwator 900 ft. across the Shrape lank instead of the full extent of 1,500 Ft., a originally proposed, has probably weighed with the Squadron.
TO LET. LoboWN No. D, DUDDELL U STREET.
Apply to THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- -MENT & AGENCY Co., In
Hongkong, March 1, 1911,
TO LET.
709
The new white metal alloy exiled: "Atherium," has some remarkable proper tias. In the frat place, it is lighter than, CHODOWNS, 95, 93 and 97, PRAYA | alumínium. The specific gravity is 2'4 10
T EAST.
Apply
OHATER & MODY. Hongkong, December 8, 1910..
TO LET
1474
957 according to the mixtum. Combined with this remarkable lightness the alloy lies tonsile strength of 18'68 tons to the square Inch. A text made by Mr R. B. Harry Stanger, of Westminster, on a test picco 0'628 inch in diameter showed an elsatio ARGE FLAT, itable for Office or limit of 33,712 lbs. per aquara iach, and 60
Show Rams.
ultimate strength of 41,799 The per jusre Apply
HONGKONG ICE Co., IÆn... inch. The extension on a 2 inch measure Hongkong, December 1, 1916,
FOR SALE on TO LET.
· 145P | length was 173 per cent., and the reduction of area was 39'1 per cent. The alloy has the saloable properties of making good sound
11, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE ENLIS, 764, The PEAK: Seven chatings and works well in rolling and
BEACONSFIELD from Lat June, 1914. KYRIE No. 13. PEAK, newly painted and colourwaabef. ||
FOR SALE, TOR CREST, at Pulk, commanding magnificent view of the Far |bour and adjacent inlande.
Apply to
"LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandra Buildings.
Rooms; Large Verandahs; Americas turning. Clean ecrew threade man be cut, outputs installed making the and it can aler be soldered, forged and house dry and comfortable throughout the welded. It does not tarnish or corrode, your Vegetable and Flower Gardens,
uutes by rickshaw. One of the best The conductivity is about 60'1. Cirquet Lawn. 15 minutes walk from tram, and withstands the action of sas valor vitnations at the Penk, nool in summer
warm in winter.
Hours Crossley Brothers, Limited, the HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & well-known Manchester engineer, have,
Apyly to
AGENCY CO., LTD..
07 Irish Builder, Jumb provided at Lodjeshem Harbour Bar Mills for
REMOVAL NOTICE.
300
ROM MARCH 157, the Offices of this Company will be located in the KING'S BUILDING, Connaught Road. :
ORIENTAL BREWERY, LTD. Hongrong, Fahrusty, 27, 1911 ' 283
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