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MONDAY, MAY 1, 1911.

HUGHES and HOUGH, Want' Advertisements

AUCTIONEERS

AND

̈COMMISSION AGENTS":

„PUBLIO AUCTION.

THE Undersigned hare received instruo

tion to well by Public Anction, FOR ACCOUNT. OF THE CONCERNED

TUESDAY,

the 2nd May, 1911, at 11 ... at their Bakes Room No. 8, Des Voeux Road, corner of Tcs House Start,—

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE

including One Plano by the Robinson Fiand Coy, and One Pianolla and Recordia.

Tu-Ausual,

UUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, April 29, 1911,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

584

HE Undersigned have received instrue

tions to soll by Public Auction,

· FOR ACCOUNT OF TRX_CONCERNED..

TUESDAY,

the 2nd May, 1911, at 443v.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Das Vaux ROLD, Corner of Ice House Strout,-

A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF POSTAGE STAMPS

́in small lots to suit purchasers. „ Particulars from Catalogue.

TEENS !—ÁS usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, April 25, 1911.

For Sale.

FOR SALE

.564

†N SHAMEEN, Barrish CONCRASION,

I CANTON, TWO VALUABLE GROUND

Lom, Middle Avenue,

For Particulars, apply to

HERBERT DENT & 00.

Chatan.

Canton, March 2, 1811, 118

→

HANG TẠI CO., No. 38, Praya East.

-

FOR SALE.

ARGE Stocks of AMERICAN PINE,

Kinds of HARDWOOD, &=.

LOHINA PINE, TEAK, and, Various

TIMBER YARD AT PRAYA EAST.

Inspection Solicite:1

PRICES MOST REASONABLE

CHỦ CHUNG HER

Manager.

Mongkong, May 1, 1910

WEEKLY NEWS

158

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MEMORANDUM,

Reprinted, from the China MT

PREPAID

To Let

TO LET

ORMBBY VILLAS, Kowloon,

| #1 per inch,aus insertionsnd No. 3, ORMSEY TERRACE.

'romecasions. One week.

LA

WANTED.

FFICE PREMISES Ground Floor

casential. Must be fairly central Apply

*PREMISES,'

Care of 'Cura Man" Offoe. Hongkong. March 17, 19117-

MR

NOTICE.

R. LI HON FAN, a Chinos gradusta tarsed in litaratare, has been a teacher to European officials and merchants in this Colony for over tou yours.

He has a good method of training Euro ponus to pass in the Chinese examination, and is possessed of a first rate certificats as a Chinese teacher. He has also a good know? } ledge of Mandarin.

Thows who intand learning the Chinose Language are requested to write care of China Mail office or direct to 37, Holly. wood Rand, Ist foor.

1663

Hongkong, Decemour 24, 1910,

FOR SALE.

ONE FULL SIZE

Burroughs and Watts

BILLIARD TABLE

WITH ACCESSORIES,

Apply to

GEO. P LAMMERT. Hongkong, June 7, 1910.

724.

PATELL & CO.,

Exporters & Importers

For further particules apply to

SPANISH DOMINICAN

PROCURATION. S

Hariglong, April 29, 1811.

TO BE LET

-389

TO. 34, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE BEST VALUE

No Shop apports the Post Offers SUPERIOR FOUR POST

No. 2A, D'AGUILAR STREET, multable fur Godown, &c.

All of which aro at prosent occupied by Vienna Cafo & Co, Ltd.

17

e

For particulara ato., apply to

YEE SANG FAT, Sama Address,~ Hongkong, February 23, 1911.

TO LET

BEDS.

Lath Mattress Brass Head and Foot Rat 1 inch Pillars Identical to sketch.

2c8

Size 1 by 33 Price $25,50

61

#

41

26.50 28.50

ARGE BED-SIPTING ROOM, addi- tional Sleeping-room and Bathroom attached: fine Verandah; magnificent out Look; Electric Light; Tennis. Lawn. Ideal apartments for TWO GENTLEMEN, Eritishers preferred. Terms reasonable.

Particulars on writing to : :

ALBION

CONVERTIBLE FOUR

POST BEDS

French Bed with Diamond Spring Mattress and Detachable Mosquito Poats and Frame-

Care of CHINA Mamy Ofon, 10 by 35 thi Price. $32.50 Hongkong. April 12, 1911.

518 0

Price. 45.00

TO LET.

།-

LODOWNS, 9500, PRAYA EAST.

0

Because for Cash

MOSQUITO NETS.

16

The Protector" Nets.

Wo have just received a Shipment of this strong Netting

at a most favourable price. Calico roof no opening. Cannot be repeated at this low price.

Siza Gfect long 3 feet wide feet high Price 6.25-Each

6,50

6.75

7.23

CHATER & MODY Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ld., 25, Des Voeux Road.

Apply

Hongkong, December 6, 1910.

TO LET.

ODOWN No. 4 NEW PRAYA,

Kennedy Town.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST,

MENT & AGENCY Co., Le. Hongkong. May 1, 1911,

TO LET.

1052

ECOND FLOOR of No. SA, DES SVOEUX ROAD CENTRAL, newly completed with Lift and Lavatories.

FIRST FLOOR of No. 4, Des Vaux

ROAD CENTRAL, *:*

Apply to

DAVID SASSOON & Co., ID. Hongkong, April 22, 1011.

TO LET

LARGE HOUSE, known as Dethick

No. 83, Robinson Road; electric General Merchants light and gas laid on large tennis courts vegetable garden and stable; with fall harbour view.

and

Commission Agents.

Apply to LI PO LEUNG, c/o Brothers, Alexandra Buildings, Hongkong, April 17, 1911. · ·

532

"NIGHT IN AN ENGLISH CHINATOWN.

LIVERPOOL.

wave of heat us from an oven greated me. From ten to fifteen · Chinese were gathered aboat the room, some sitting an bores, some standing, some hunchedi op, collier fashion, with thoir backs against the walls. Their eyes turned on me of one It is a dark and forbidding street at best, brief instant and then were averted quickly. but it seemed darker and mare forbidding. A little table stood in the middle of the- than most so lato at night. The tall,shop. On it within a few lacher of a dour-faced houses on either side, over the staffiness of the place, was a gramo lamp whose smoke was contributing to shadowed ite narrow span of cobbles and phone. Wild Chinese music on an En what out what little light the sky bad toglish gramophone East meeting Wast give. Nor were the famos of the street at last, truly. Round and round it ting shriek after shriek of lamps, wido apart, any more than a thin strangling line of wäitenes thing of listened,

sing; and like Subinxen they

But little rail, against the great shadow their faces yellow and inscrutable, the of this streat, the 'all-enfolding shadow lamplight shooting sparks into their black, | which ever hangs and hangs till the sun | liquid eyes"

Thus came my first glance of Liverpool's Chinatown, its people, and their pleasures.. No sign so far of the anhallowed Eastern joys my inquiries in the city earlier in the day had led me to expect. My hon, harked back in a ruminating sort of way tu

558 is overhead once more. No help was forth. The shopman was curtados. No, he did coming from the windows of the houses, not keep Chinese gramaphore records to

selt. He was solly"; and with a slight | Lights there were here and there, but theirs bow be half turned his back and busied his was the foggy glow of lamp and candle long slim fingers about the paedle of the rather than the brightness of gas. And instrument Not gul of that Eastera even then cloth screens across the windows, group poko nor so much as looked my

way again. at least their lower halves, saw to it that not a ray escaped downwards to the pivements. Shadows on the ceilings, his blotchy and treinsious-them were the anly things the lights seemed good for.

It is a solemn strest at best, but it seemed more solemn than most so lato se this. Even by day its people walk with a quist heel-lcas tread. At night those that New and Commodious SHOPS, NATAN go abroad Isto just glide along and there, ROAD, Kowloon, Immediate possessive only the faint hissing sound made by Cheap Rentals. Apply to HUMPHREYS' ESTATE & FINANCE

Co., LTD. Hongkong, March 23, 1800, 408

TO LET.

OUR and Fire-Roomed HOUSES,

Hongkong and won.

Canton.

JAPANESE MAKERS.

uaker

EVERY KIND

of

Footwear

MADE

TO..

OHIREY & 00,

35, WELLINGTON STREET, "Longkong, May 5 *1910.

5778

TO LET.

ODOWN No. 5, DUDDELL

T STREET.

Apply to

כו קרנן

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

MENT & AGENCY Co, L. Hongkong, May 1, 1911,

FOR SALE on TO LET.

·TO LET

T09

the bulky document in ing beast pocket

document as full of unspeakable herrors sa ever bemuirched the fingers of a printer. It was one of the few copies that exist of held a few years back by the Liverpool the evidence given before the commission City Council as to the behaviour of the Chinese in that city. No wonder they keep a tight hand on its pablication. For therein are retailed, in full, foul sirens- stance, stories of vice before which such things as opium

smoking and gambling shift their very colour and become an white virtues before enormities black Erebus. Fage after page, witness after witness, it fort go on, almost quralieved, in one draught, one giant gulp of grunsomeness. Nor were Chinese people, nor even grown- up people, alone the actors in this tragedy of filth, as set out in that document. Surely it could not be true! But this much, ap parently, was tras, and commission did not hesitate to afirmo it as proven and of vital

their tralling alippers to assure you that they thomaelea Ars anything more than the shadow tenants of a shadow. Wish one of them "Good-night." He will hun the wall still more closely and pase on with out a sign of having heard. The click of a

atch, a glint of light for one moment acro. a short, slim figure, drcased perhaps in bize cotton, a yellow face, and hair of raven Blackness one glimpse of these things and be is gone-darted to earth through one of the innumerable doors of his native warren.importance to the English population of the

A STREET OF MYSTERY.

city, and to give it fall prominence in the report they finally issued that the Chinero #willa

A mysterious”skrest, truly, 1 Yes, but of Liverpool have “frequent” trafio

white women," though the blame is not

always the men's. Further, that there

appears to be a class of young girl, of re spectable parentage in many cases, who, as result of acquaintance with Chinamer. bas allowed herself to drift into" state which in a grown women is sad enough bar is a child unspeakable.

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Intimations.

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JALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co., Hongkong.

Make no Mistake about it!

WATSON'S

No10

TI

SCOTCH WHISKY Dundee Demande.ft.

Agents for Hongkong: F. BLACKHEAD & Co.

ORDER KLIS, 74, The PEAK; Seven only one of many such. A mysterious Rooms; Large Verandahs; American wayfarer, too! Yes, but he, like the street, heating apparatus installed, making the house dry and comfortable throughout the is no more than one of many. His neigh Fear; Vegetable and Flower Gardens, bouze are like him; short and yellow, black Croquet Lawn. 15 minutes walk from tram, and allont. A street of some, city of the

minutes by rickshaw. One of the best. situations at the Peak, cool in summer East you ask: Hongkong, perhaps, or warm in winter.

Shanghai; or may be of the West San Apyly to

. My mind had turned to these things, I HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & Francisco or New York! No, none of theep,

AGENCY Co., Izpi

Merely a typical street and a typical way say, as I walked again through the allent Hongkong, May 1, 1911, --. 108 farer in an English "Chinatown," one of the streets of Chinatown before turning city- everal fast-growing Chinese colonies that wards. Fortunately, things were, better дож The authority with whom I had are to be found in this country, Pitt strout, discussed the subject earlier had admitted for the best from Liverpool, It is, to bo precise, and you have as much, and he was a mere pessimist to only to go there towards midnight to see is add-as he had done, But they're far enough from being bearable Yes, be pretty much as I saw it and write of it bete. was pessimistic said I mere "croaker. ** For an hour or more I had stood watching If these thick screened windows and the dwindling life of the place. These shuttered shops harboured nothing worse that, the simple sujoyment of a gloomy streets of Liverpool's Chinatowa little East in music or eren a Bitle wild have a certain grim fascination ad their duttaring at fantan, perhaps, or one own. I had watched ill-lighted, half-emity might go far as to say ile opium

smoking, surely them was nothing no shop windows one by ons effaced by shat

fully

mias! And I walked on, thinking ers-though the stocks of some of them. Then I became conscious of someone behind seemed to consist of nothing beyond themost-so's footfall and a little, breathless incovetable odds and ends. I had watched laugh I stopped, while the lamplight was sexrost. A grost, dark-skinned creature, many passers-by, all silent and short and with shining eyes and fleshy face, lurched

* Good night," salop, man, yellow; but few of them were purchasery. Ust

toxications She stumbled later, I noticed shop opposite and been eitling for so kant -unts one of these flight-blinded houses. 2

ON WO & CO., LD.

GOLD & HILVER JEWELLERY,

MADE TO ORDER,

YO. 1, PRAYA GRANDE, MACAO, No. 23, BELILIOS TERRACE" Ko. 21 & 25, SHELLEY STREET. No. 11, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE (Shop).

--- BEACONSFIELD from 1st June, 1911. The ETRIE, No. 13, PEAK, newly

SILK Goods Chinese Embroidery and painted and colourwashed.

"

Grass Cloth, Silk and Linen

Drem Pieces Ivory and Jadestone Curios.

37, QUEENS BOLD - CENTRAL Hongkong, January 19, 1911.

FOÀN YOU FIND

A BETTER OFFER

THAN THIS?

· 1. Government sosd. Mimidji Chiruntow' For the ultimate repayment of principal, në Toast at par.

• Foamblity of Premizma, the malest Miondlag mayda latarast on your publay, the Target constituting & Portas,

2. Payment of the man you wish to lavish by may instalmenta, human me

PREMIUM BONDS Biên give you these syportunities-

WHAT ARE THESE BONDET: - Thờy Kan high-claam zid “absolutely: DATEŠLIŠE, PATible, to beszar, Jeetod frithe Geselpas Governments and Xunicipaition ed "Joupe; they son audeamable, al portocioná dryingw, alien ylih: Cash Prankuma vory- Dog frais 240 kn 140 (23), or at the way lokale

ZASY PAYMENTE, PAM ima bon de viuala or în:

Pifone of the most advantageen CEAS,

MELVILLE, OLTIT & Co. Baskı

98

FOR SALE, TOR CREST, at Poak, commanding magnificont view of the Har bour and adjaomé islands. AA

Apply to

LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alezinārs Buildings. -Hongkong, April 12, 1907–

TO TANT

GODOWNS, 151 to 155, Praya Bars,

WELLINGTON KNIFE POLISH

The Cainmate to the cigarete-and-oake leespered in the hath dias coqunter of WELLINGTON SILVERSMITHS

1 carved Buddha this counter young English girl opened the door for htt before he found a costomes, and that Basil Clare: The Dody Med only myself. Boon br, lon, give up for

the night rad alosed his shop. The shut

SEMI-EUROPEAN FLATS, Moderate

The per Japanese Trosty of Commerce. Rente PAY&B Corner of Ch vation Place. The Trams stop at the door. loss of fitt Street one by one went up my Sheffield journali gives us i Also new EUROPEAN FLATS; adjoining But the shape did not go isto deckness, sva generous-ally could be expected to +the new Sosman's Institute, Fraya Kaste

ihich could offer Light through the fanlights over the doors a tres imporálng nation, AD OFFICE on 1st Floor, 18, Dr and abadows on the ceilings told of life stall : nothing in retum save the barren promise Vaux ROAD CESILASAN

OFFICES In KINGS BUILDINGStirring within, It seemed, in fact, from to admit free in future, so now, Japancas thene shadows that a time went on the works of art, plazed wath and rape-seed

4th Floor

9 MACDONNELL ROAD, from 1st shops were better off for occupants than oll. To Sbetfeld the Treaty must come sa Mays

No. 10, MACDONNELL ROAD,

=) CREGGAN ! 39, "The PEAK./

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. *MENT & AGENCY Co., Lax Hongkong, May 1, 1911

ST

when the shutters were down. But anyone who had entered had certainly not entered by the front doors. An odd thing, sure

Tired of idle speculation) turned to go, when endd

there

Word pojme that stopped ma

Lag

great disappointment. On no other torn did the proposals of the Japanese general tariff throw so haavy & borden, and that bunder the treaty fails to lighten Cutlery table book, steels, special steels, astings and Brious plate remain under the Only crashing Tarina froposed inst pig-iron and in-plate," înaberifila, oberis any reductiora

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