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FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1911.

HUGHES and HOUGH,

AUCTIONEERS

COMMISSION AGENTS.

PUBLIC AUCTION, L

THE Undursigned havoretoived instrua- tion from B. PARER, Esq., to sell by Public Auction an

on

THURSDAY

the 30th March, 1911, at 9.00 x.ar., at his

residance CHATED BUNGALOW (North),

Kowloon,

THE WHOLE OF HIS

VALUABLE NOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE, -

THEREIS CONTAINED.

Including 2 GARDEN SKATS, Ong Croquet

SET and a quantity of SADDLERY,

Catalogas will be issued,

Ou ylor on day of sale.

TEXAS 2-AN Balal..

BUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers

Hongkong. March, 22, 1:11.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

403

THE Undersigned have received instane.

Tous from JF. BOGATON, Eng., to rull by Public Auction,

THURSDAY,

the 27th April, 1911, at 2.30r., at his

reshkence, Farenina" Elaz

144 Magazine Cap—. THE WHOLE OF THE

ETAPLE-

Auctions.

PUBLIC AUOTION,

Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Publio Auction fais, to be hold on MONDAY, the 27th day of March, 1911, at 8 r., at the Offices of the Pablic Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of Crown Land at Kennedy Road, in the Colony of Hongkong,: for term of 20 years, with the option of ronewal at a Crown Real to be fixed by the Sarveyor of His Majesty the Kino, for one farther term of 75 years.

+

No. of Bale

.

Registry No

Particulars of the Lot.

"Locality.

Joundar

Measure

thente

W.

The the

360

THE CHINA MAIL

GEO. P. LAMMERT Men's Pith Sun Topees

AUCTIONEER.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

THE Undersigned has recolved Instructions from W." HUMPHREYS, Esq. to sell by Pabllo Auction,

On

TUESDAY,

the 28th March, 1011, commencing at 2.30 r.a. at his residmes No. 3, The Peak (Quarnden),- minutes walk from the tram terminus on the

mad to the flagstaff,

THE WHOLE OF BE

WHITEAWAY'S

Manufactured from pure Bengal Pith under export European supervision.

The Cawnpore "Toat Club" Pigsticker Topee, covered Spinner

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD Maki Drill, with long chiu strap over crown and cross webs inside crown.

FURNITURE,

Comprisist

Silk Tapestry-Covered Drawing Room Suite, Ton and Occasional Tables, Fing Canton, Blackwood Cabinets, Tables and Janliniera Stauds, Engravings, Vasas, and Ornamenta, etc.

Want Advertisements Tesk Sideboard, Dinnor Winggon, Exton-

PREPAID

$1 per inch.......

$2

"

WANTED

3 insertions.

Ono wook.

AN Intelligent STENOGRAPHER And

TYPIST. Reply stating qualificń="]

X. Y. Z.

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE tions to

Therein. Contained,

Comprising

Hall Furniture and Stands, Upholstered Drawing Room Suite, Curtains, Carpets, Blackwood Ware, Engravings and Pictures Porcelains, Brass Ware, &c. &c., Bed Room Furniture Linen Blanksta y &o, Dining Room Suite, Plate, Cutlery, Glans Wary, &c. &c., Kitchen and Pantry Utensils;

And

A number of Pur of Talis, Plants, &c.:

Ond Lady's - Carrying Chair,

Oa View from the 28th proximo,

Catalogues will be issued.

TERMSA usid.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers,

Hongkong, March 10, 1911.

NOTICE.

ته

c/o ERINA MAIL Office... Hongkong, March 23, 1011.

WANTED.

416

FINGLISH-LADY, experienced in text- tog, desires position as non-resident GOVERNE S Geruan, French, Manic and usual subjects.

Apply

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EDUCATION,

Care of CHINA DAN · UFFICE, Hongkong, March 23, 1911,

WANTED.

435

YOUNG Man (British) desires Position na HOSPITAL DISPENSER of 361 Medicines, or as Assistant in Slingraphy and Electro-Therapy, but willing to take up any other position if capable of doing the duty, willing to proceed to any or almost any part of country..

'C. L' Apply to

c/o CHINA MALE Office. Hongkong, Mazelı 23, 1911.

M versed in litenture, the best stancher to European officials and merchants in this Colony for over ten years.".

JR. LI HON FAN, a Chinese ginto

He has a good method of training Euro persis to pass in the Chinese examination, and in possessed of a-inst rate certifients as a Chinese teachers. He is also a good know ledge of Mandarin.

Thor who intend learning the Chinese Inguage are requested to write care of thing Mail officu or direct to 37, Holly. wood Road, 2nd floor,

Hougkong, December 24, 1910-1563

THE BIRD IN

THE HAND

(A BIRD IN THE BAND 18 WORTH TWO IN THE BUSA).

THE bied in the band to the

merchant is the asstomer within

Las atore. It requires nome sort of; attraction in the first place to got the customer thare-about the bus at traction is a real, livó advertisement something good that will catch the ye that was been carefully writtos, artis- tically compiled and strikingly set up. Advertisements in the Chama Mall and Overland Chins Mail read the best, lock the best and give the best essoles,

Hongkong, April 12, 1910.

JAPANESE MAKERS.

417

WANTED.. UHINESE CLERK Give references

and state salary required. Apply to".. *A. B.,'

Care of China Mala Oteó Hongkong, March 29, 1911.

OFFICE

A

WANTED.

sion Dining Table, Chairs, Carpets, Rugs, Curtains, Glas, Cutlery and Crockery. Ware, eto.

Double and Single Brass and Brass. mounted Bedsteads, Wardrobes with Glass Doors, Washstands, Dressing Tables, Toilet Crockery, etc., etc.

Bathroom and Pantry Requisites;

THE

PRICE $2.95.

BENGALUR

Fith Toped covered khaki drill lined red satin crown green under brim with or without puggarie.

THE

PRICE $5,95.

IMPROVED

CLUB"

Pith Topces covered fawn silk alpacs lined red satin crown green under brim silk puggarie.

PRICE $4.50 BACH.

THE TRAVELLER

Pith Topee Similar to Above Sketch but Govered with a Special Nonactinic cover.

Price $4.50

THE 'I.C.S. TOPEE

COVERED BEST GREY FELT,

lined non-actinic satin, with grey pugree. Very smart.

Price: $5.95

The "Gymkhama Topee.

Real Sola Pith Covered Best Grey Fur Fet,

lined non actinic satin with smart silk pugre

Price $7.95.

A Quantity of Mauty (Perms, Roker, ote Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ld., 25, Des Vœux Road.

On View from Moedag, the 27th Mar,

1981,"

Catalogues on application. TensCash on delivery.

THE

PHE Undersigned bas received instruc-

ticos from. W. Kaso, Esq., to sell: by Fublic Auction,

at

WEDNESDAY, the 29th March, 1911, commencing

2.45 r.M. at his Residence No. 1,... Magdalon Terrace, Magazine Gap,

THE WHOLE OF AIS VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE,

Comprising

Upholstered Arm-chairs, Hatstand, En- gravings, Teak Overmantela Carpota Bugs, &o, &c.

Primeval Race in New Guinea.

BACK TO THE STONE AGE. Dr. Lorentz thon showed his willingness to

stay, and this restored their friendliness L They took an especial fancy for one of the young Djaks who wore long hair. They aridently believed him to be a woman and began an logjediste firtation with him,

Bofore the Royal Geographical Society

in that thestre" in Burlington-Gardens

Intimations.

to Watch all the greatest explorers of the Afterwards, this was the sound of great Make no Mistake

world come to tell their adventures-embarrasement, for they wanted to keep fascinating narrative was recently given by him as a bosinge. Dr. H. A. Lorentz,

That night; however, there was a great This Dutch scientiat bas lately come back ceremony. The travellers were all invited from an expedition to the snow-mountains to take a seat near a big fire, in which the of Now Gaines, in which region a British Papusns heated a mass of stones. Next expedition u der Captain Rawlings, who two hogs were shot through the heart with has made many remarkable discoveries, in-arrows, and the blood, sopped up with tow, cluding a new tacs of pigtales, aro_now was scared on the foreheads of the guests; pushing their way.

while long incantations were made. The Extension Dining Table and Chairs, Teak

Dr. Lorentz himself had many wonderful Papuana present, including women and Sideboard, Dinner Waggon, Bookcaso, Cant expériences, and suffered torrible hardships: children now, were treated in the same Table, Writing Desks, Worcester Dinner The great prize ha-won was the ascent of way, and in this way, says the explorer, a Set, Le.

Brass-mounted Belsteady, Ashwood Bed-Wilhelinina Peak-the highest mountain kind of kinship was contracted. A great

on the globe after the Himalayas-through feast of hogs' ficat lasted for hours, a primeval tropical forest where no European foot had over disturbed the great silence, up Audip to the first snow mountains 13,000ft. above the plain, and then to the grim white peak which locks down upon the world. The expedition cost the lives of three brave men, and Dr. Lorentz him, self narrowly cacapod. death in a fall over precipice in which be broke a rib

room Suito, Dressing Tables Wasistanda, Brass Fire-irons, &c., dú

Bathrooms, Pantry & Kitchen Requisites;

die

ONE BILLIARD TABLE 6"x40" with BALLS & LUES Complete And

A Quantity of PALMS & PLANTS

in Pola. Tents --Cash on delivery On View from Tumby, the 28th March, 4071911.

FFICE PREMISES. Ground Floor essential. Must be fairly central. Apply

*PREMISES.'

Care of CHINA Maiz' Ofice. Fongkong. March 17, 1911,

WANTED.

d

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

FOR SALE.

365ONE FULL

Young EUROPEAN BOY, orphan,

wants work in some Ofici în order: to support younger brotlier and sister. Has learnt compering.

Apply to

C. V.,'

Care of Cars Max Office, Hongkong March 13, 1911.

WANTED,

JUNIOR EUROPEAN CLERK.

Apply by letter to

484

· CLERK,' Care of Cora Mazz' Ofiles, Hongkorg, March 11, 1911

9%8

LESSONS IN FRENCH

EVERY KIND CONVERSATIONAL FRENCH taught

OF

in-

SIZED ENGLISH

BILLIARD TABLE (complete) by Heilg Bros., For Particulara, apply to

GEO, P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer

For Sale.

HANG TAI CO.,

No. 38, Praya East

FOR SALE.

ARRIN PINE, TEAR, and Various ARGE Stocks of AMERICAN PINE, structor) entirely in French, without Kinds of HARDWOOD, & translation, even for mere beginners. Footwear Fluency acquired in a short time: A

MADE

ΤΟ

ORDER

CHERRY & GO12

86, WELLINGTON: STREET.“

Hongkong, Mar 5.1910.

078

THE TYPHOON

MAP.

trial lesson free of charge. Terms very TIMBER YARD AT PRAYA EAST.

moderate.

Apply to

___C/o : CHINA. MAI' Ofice, ** Hongkong, March 7, 1911

BONGKUNG CLUB

NOTICE

Inspection Solicite1

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PRIORS MOST REASONABLE.

OHU CHUNG HER,

Manager." zlongkong, fisy 6, 1910.2

*158.

LET, from the 1st February, 1911,. TWO ROOMS in the Ground Floor A

P

of the ANNEXE, sužábio for Offices. Fur further particulars apply to the Under- migned.

JAMES CRAIK,

Setary∙E. Hongkong, January 18, 1911,

FOR SALE.

ONE-FULL SIZE

MOUNTED ON CARDBOARD AND Burroughs and Watts

TAPED FOR HANGING.

EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE ITS

Price Ten Cents.

From the Cuina Flat Oflo

Vivapaauk, Jena 27, 1910.

ទេ

BILLIARD TABLE

WITH ACCESSORIES;

Apply to

GEO P LAMMERT ngkong, June 7 1910,

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JEYES FLUID

The party consisted of the Doctor, Lieu tenant Habbems, and thirty-three Dyal, After a long period of careful preparation the expedition started on August 15, 1909, and after a fortnight's royngs in the birouzo ship Eagle landed in East Bay, went into the interior of the mountainous isladd.....

For about two mouths they made their way forward, arrested by torrential rains, by swollen rivate, and by dense impere- trable formats. Always they were sur- rounded by the gigantic trees, and the tangled tropical undergrowth of these primeval woods which were sombre and majestic, Few flowers were seant because the sunboxing could not pierce through the

thick foliage; only an ocasional orchid.

beautiful and delicately coloured, was fuand. The tree trunks and their braucher were covered with mose, and were like

gigante candelabra.

Bero and there the explorers found traces of a woodland people hat made of hark, and traps for rate sad mics hat the human beings themselves did not-fat Appear

IN THE ATONE AGE.

Dr. Lorentz enya. the Fapaans are la people still back in the Stone Age, yot with some accomplishments Although going naked, they adorn themselves round the wrists and neck with shells, and have learnt the art of kindling fires. They also grow tobacco, and use a kind of pipe. They handle their stone azse with great skill, and nse them for bunting and chopping. This chief article of food is sweet potato, which they grow in their gardens, Dr. Lorentz does not believe they are cannibals in the strict sense of the word.

2:

That there exist ceremonies at which the heart and brain are consumed," he says. "I can readily ballere, but I do not consider that manibalism."

After loving the people of the valley. the explorers climbed higher. Tropical vegetation ceased, They travelled to the heights of grim and barran rocks. At 13,000 ft. they roached the mew. They

thousand feet higher they mised the fing of

about it!

WATSON'S

NÓI

SCOTCH WHISKY

of the best from Dundee. Demand it. Agents for Hongkong F. BLACKHEAD & Co.

Weismann, Limited.

Holand on the peak, which is henceforth Bakers, Confectioners,

called after the Datch Queen.

On the way back disaster met them. Dr. Laconte having fallen down a stayice and broken's rib, had to be carried on the long descent. Their food gave out until they were reduced to one ounce of tice a day for each man. Thecold was intense. Two Dyski died of exhaustion. A native soldier Ing BACE, "OP"BROWN PUOPLE. "

for 14 days without food, and when found After much travelling, and hewing their by a rescue party was still alive. But the way through the densest forest that D poor lising skeleton died when he was an altitude of 9,500ft. Two days' climbing absence of 68 days, the explorers resched Lorentz had ever seen, the party emerged at carried towards camp. At last, after an

Restauranteurs.

Caterers,

14, DES VŒUX ROAD CENTRAL.

Hongkong, July 20, 1910.

Regal Boots

AND

Shoes

of the rocky shouiders of the mountaine alkmaar, where they found food and good brought them to 's vast and fertilo Talley beds.

topishmont, they found a race of brown- ruouing cast and west, and here, to their

kinned people the Papusns of the great and adventurous expedition to the great FOR SALE

This briefly is the story of the romantic

forests. · The valley was filled with their snow mountains, and to people who in huts, but the people seemed to be in the twentieth century, still belong to the biding er away on some huuting expedition. Stone Age and rein the ailince of primeval They saw a Blimps of one piling wood, forests,

but he disappeared among the trees as soon

tho

sho mw the strangers. As they marched THE BRAVEST DEID OF 1910. forward they beard human cries about them, sad were filled with sence of uncanny emotion. Then, when they got

The Stanhope Gold Medal, which further up the slope of the valiny, samal awarded annually by the Royal Homann band of the Papuans appenrod fruta furcat

Society

for the bravest deed of the glade, untirely naked and no brown sa the year, hins beun conferred on Frank mus of the forest in which they lived, Fraser, clifet engineer of the steam-teawloz they made pescablu gestures, and after Danside, of Aberdeen, for maring his much, hesitation came close, and offered brother's Ufo in circumstances of graat toasted yams to the exploraes, in sign of DOSCO. They seemed tunded at

douger and dificulty, sight of men in civilised clothing and made

After midnight on August 97 the Don sinculations of astonishment when they side was on the Viking Bank, some 225 miles from Aberdeen, the night being pitch The explorers obeyed their sign to follow dark and a henry go running. Hearing thers, but were put without anxiety, as the ory "miss overboard," the chief en- the men carried bows and arrows and gincer, Frank Fraser, rushed up from be stone axes. They went along bosten low sad at once plunging after him voc pach neross gardens and endlosses in couded in reaching the man, who was bis 10 which they kept lidgo, some of which were own brother, both then drifting stern. spotted and utterly unlike the wild boars These being a light in the after rig,ing the of the forest. In the camp the party warmer could be faintly soon, and a rope was zecalved by a long-chans-from- other brown

thrown, which Fraser managed to grasp,

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HAT THE URINA MAIL OFpics.

FROM LORDON TU PAZING

LONOSS BIBED IN 1903,

sothoed their shoes.

men. But everywhere through cravows in the little hate bright ayas locked out upon but his hands being grey with oil from the strangers,

the engine, he had the utmost difficulty in

The chiefs of these people held a long retaining his hold, and it was only after 15 palaror, and when the traxallarw tried to dilonter strenuous exertion that they wers. Core them their attitude hovome mornading) -gon of Board

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