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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1911.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

PRELIMINARY NOTICE..

THE Undersigned have received instruc- tions from Mr. E. JEMEN, to sell by Public Auction,

оп

+45

MONDA Yį,

the 7th November, 1911, commencing at 2.30 PM. within his Residence, 'Hon.

LANDS! Kimberley Road, Kowloon, THE WHOLE OF M

VALUABLE HOUSER1 L ̊D.

FURNITURE,

~Soc., die. &c.

TELAIN COSTAINED.

Particulars will be published later.

TERSA podā).

HUGHES & ROUGH,

Auctioneers, Hongkong November 10, 1911

1430

PCELIO AUCTION.

THE Undersigned havo received instruc Tous to sell by Public Auction,

TUESDAY,

the 21st Noveniber, 1911, at 2.30yat their Sales Rooms, No. 8. Des Voux Road,

corner of Ice Hotez STREIT,

A LARGE QUANTITY OF

AND

ALL CLASSES OF

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Machinery

High-Grade

Castings.

GORDON & Co. General Managers,

Auctions.

AL

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PUBLIO AUCTION.

ARTICULARS AND CONDITIONs of the

hold on MONDAY, the 20th day of Novem ber. 1911, at 3 PM, at the fees of the Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of Public Works Department, by Urder of His Crown Land at Conduit Rond, In the Colony of Bengktes, for a term of 75 yanta, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rant to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the Kina, for one further terms of 76 years.

Petting by Public Auction Sale, to bu

750 of Sale.

Locality,

Registry No.

Conduit Rond.

No. 19

Particulars of the Lot.

Boundary

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x.x. 3. w. s.X

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30713

Bouare feet

S HANDA.

JAPANESE MASSAGIST.

BY HAND 08 ELECTRICITF

2ND FLOO

No. 60, QUEEN'S

ROAD CENTRAL,

HONGKONG

Near the Old "

Post Offec

Hongkong, July 21, 1911.

Contents L

Upset Price

5.6i

יו

TO THE ISLES OF SIN...

1.

Hongkong,

hot climates, where heat, damp, insects, and moths make it impossible for wqman to have her household gods and pretty duds and ends around her without their beccm- ing damaged.

A Lancashire Lady's 20,000-Mile

Quest for Orchids. ....

Smells are better than sounds or sights The convict community on the Andaman

to make the heart-strings crack ;

Islands must be one of the strangest any. They start thone awful voices o' nights where. Out of 473 square miles, 327 are

that whisperOld man, coins back."

more of less occupied or worked upon by It was the swell of the orchids blooming men ple have barely escaped the gallows. at their Tanashiro home that started air In in'ets and harbours where of old Corsair sand mile pilgrimage to the home of this vessels that knit together the different and Mrs Talbot Clifton on a twenty shou-used to bench their bonts are now the aristocrat nf Howers in the scattered island summunities. Cattle graze in the slumps of islands that fringe the coust all fields tended by ex-convicts and ticket-of- the way from the Bay of Bengal to the leave men, who pursue a tranquil rural life Java Sea.

|

GEO. P. LAMMERT

SAUCTIONEER.

PUBLIC AUÖPION.'

Undersigned has received

To Let

TO LET.

NEW & Commodious SHOPS, Narz

Road, Kowloon, Immediate-posses- Cheap Rental.

Apply to:

Ttions from bad. Tror, RA, HUMPEREIS ESTATE & FINANCE

to sell by Public Auction

FRIDAY,

the 17th November, 1911, commencing at

22h, để lửa rexidance BL002

No. 72, The, Peak-

A QUANTITY OF

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE,

And"

POTS PLANTS, (Particulam from Catalogue). **

On View from Thursday, the 18th Nov. Tassash on delivery,

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

„ductioneer. Booztat, November 10, 191ï.

PUBLIC AUCTION

Or

Co., Iso. Hongkong, March 23, 1909.

OFFICES

TO LET.

408.

ou 1st and 2nd Floors, new

in course of erroction, as No. 6, DES VŒUX ROAD to be Int...

Apply to

DAVID SASSOON & Co., Læs Bongkang, September 18, 1911. 1109

TO BE LET.

ON OR ABOUT Is. March, 1919.

CHOPS and OFFICE, in AtarioRA Buildings, adjoining the Hongkong 1450 Dispensary, at present occupied by ears

Wm. Powoll, Litsh.

A. 8. WATSON & Co. In

Alexandre Buildings. Hongkong, August 30, 1911.

A. VALUABLE. COLLECTION OF CHINESE. AND JAPANESE.

PORCELAIN PLATES.

TO LET.

TYPHOON SIGNALS,

STORM-WARNINGS ISSUED

FROM THE HONGKONG OBSERVATORY.

The following Typhoon signals ANG haisted on the Masthead on. Signal Eill, Kowloou, the Harbour Omos; the

| Kowloon Godowns, H.M. S. Teman, and

| Green Island "sigual mask.

A CONE

-point upwards

A CONE peial upwards and DRUM balaw

A DRUM

1110

THE Undersigned will sell by Public No. 34. QUEEN'S ROAD. DENTRAL

Auction,

MONDAY,

the 20th November, 1911, commencing at 3., in the store in the Hongkong Hotel Building next to Graca & Co.- A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATES, de

in the villages. Coconut and coffee plan.corated in Five Colour, Three Colour and

(Shop) opposite The Old Post Office, No. S D'AQUILAR STREET suitable for godown, etc.. lately occupied by Viensa Cafe Co. For Particulara înd etc.-

Apply to CHANG FAT,

c/o YEE SANG FAT & CO.

Same AddreSA.

Hongkong, June 29, 1911.

TO LET

À CONE paint down- wards and DRUK below

A CONE

" point down-

驺

tatious are worked hy convicts and owned Blue and White from the Ming Dynasty GOWN No. 5, DUDDELL

by free peasants, themselves often the descendants of a bygone generation of male- factors.

There are hospitals and workt shops, there is marriage and giving in marriage and there are gaols, of which the warders are all comvieta, who "have pude good,” ----·

MURDERENS AS NURSE, " X All the same, it is apt to make the soft- nurtured wonder that a nurse wheeling about one of the children of a Europeaz official should be a murderess. In charge

The Wanderlust has in it time core some queer things for those whom it had bitten, I laid ita hand on Lafcadio 'Hearn, and after drifting him half-acress the world brought him back again to shore, him at last as a ratumlised citizen of Japan. It ught up Stavanson-built if over a was for the cabarets of the Latin quarter. and trailing him over the sous cust, him up on the "Ultimate Isles" where he now lies buried. Is it, then, so very surprising that it should have seized on the lady who wrote this book, and draws her 1469 from her quiet home cros salt of a wee English girl of about two was

leigues and unclaimed "waste to throw her into the company of Thugs and thieves, amid shark-haunted waters and monstrous forests, in a quest with her husband for the lordly exotic that grows in- such profusion at the Isles of Penance and beyond 7

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A-DREATH OF SIN.

Surprising or not, that is, in fact, what the wander spirit did fix Mr Talbot Clif ton, and in a well-get-up book, onlivened with plenty of photographs, she tells the story of her adventure after her favourite dower. In one respect Mira Clifton dues both her book and us an injustice. She chose the title Pilgrims to the Isles of Penance" because she thought that "while this reader would probably not care for a book the title of which breathed of Bowers, he would undoubted "favour it did the title breathe of sin."

Hindu woman who had served a term of lifteen years for killing an Indian female child. "She was the best purst in the settlement.".

ten years.

upwards,

Abo SOME RARE OLD JAPANESE PORCELAIN. PLATES.

*

On View from Wednesday, the 15th Nor. Catalogue will be issued. Terms --Cash on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer," Hongkong, November 9, 1911.

1447

STREET.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENGT Cái, La, Hongkong, November 1, 1911.

TO"LET.

YOGA CONE

point down

wards and BALL below

700

▲ BALL

(ODOWN No. 4, NEW PRATA,

Kennedy Town.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENT Co., Ls.

SWATOW WARRONG & CO., Hongkong. November 1, 1911.

12, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,

HONGKONG.

MANUFACTURERS or Swatow Hand-made Drawn Work and Canton Embroidery, etc. 3ENERAL EXPORTERS,

Saturday is the day, when the marrings market is held and Mrd, Clifton aroseG aver to the main-island to be present at one of these tragic betrothals Women convicts are eligible fer marriage after five years good baviour in prison men after are allowed to go to the jil, and stand in a

These eligible gentlenen row-before-the-women-whe period of probation has expired. Ther man_pointalto. the one he wants, asks a few questio

questious as to her caste, eta, and on receiving a d hor to the end of the verandah, where they. CIGARS. from the lady of his choice goes off with aquat down and talk things ovur.

The alternative to wedlock is frequently fifteen years' further penal servitude for remain unmarried, "isMiraClifton's Eardonic the woman. "Many of them elect to comment

THE GREAT TRAIL.

!

Concern for the ways of these captive

LAU

WHOLESALE & BALL. LADIES TAILORS.

PING KEE CO. CIGARETTES, TOBACCOS.

USED POSTAGE STAMPS AND

CHINESE CURIOS & PORCELAIN. PICTORIAL POST CARDS...

KWONG CHEONG.

TO LET.

indicates a Typhoon

to the North of the Colony.

indicatos a Typhos to the North-Era – the Colony,

Typhost

Indiosios

to the East of the

Colony

indicates Typhicon to the South-Emst o the Colony,

indicatos a Typhoo to the South of the Calony.

indicatos a Typhoon to the South-West the Colony;

indesten Typhoon Colony

to the Wart..ad

indicates a Typha

A CONE

point upwards

and BALL

to the North-West the Colony.

1059

balow

Bed Signals indicate that the centre

(0.57, PRATA GRANDE, MACAO. believed to be more than 300 miles away NO. 57,

from the Colony. BEACONSFIELD"

No. BEACONSFIELD AROÄDE (Shop)

KELLETT CREST, No. 68, Poak ROGATE, near the King's Park, Kow.... Joon.

MERION, No. 9, the Peak, 6 Rooms; with use Tennis Court.

LABANGOUR,' No. 72. Pork. „Broomed Bungalow with Tennis Court From 16th

December, Rent $195.00 and Taxm.

Black Signals indica a that the contra" believed to be less than 300 miles away from the Coleay.

-The-sboro signals will, as heretofors, de hoisted only when typhoons exist in Book" positions or are moving in ruch directions FOR SALE, TOR CHEST, at Fok, that information-roarding them loo commanding magnificent view of the Harsidered to be of importance to the Colons bour and adjacent islanda,

Apply to

or to shipping leaving the harbour.

-URGENT. SIGMATE,”

JAINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandra Buildings, Hongkong, Ang. * 19.

Register.

Well, we own to as interest in the 935 account of the convict settlement in the citizens was not allowed to swallow up the GOLD AND MONEY CHANGER BIChina Coast Meteorological,

Andaman Tolaadis, and gossip about the Ardour of orchids, and search was maintain- goings-on at the outposts of the empire is ed from Viper Inland to Rutland Talaud. No. 18, Queen's Road “Central, always welcome to us homestaying folk.gh nangrove swamps and the tropical But we protest that the train isotives of da to be taken up again at the Nicoba Mra Talbot Clifton's odyssey are to the Point, Malaya, hipelago, on to Y

the Mergui.

PATELL & CO.

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD Exporters & Importers

FURNITURE

including Drawing Room Suite (upholster

el in Silk Tapestry) - One Dining Room Suite, One Bronwood'

Piano,

+

δε

Farther Particulara from Catalogue. TEE-As usual.

KUCHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, November 10, 1911.

PEAK TRAMWAYS

LEITEL.

TIME TABLE.

WEEK DAYE.

COMPANY

7.00a.m. to 8.00 a.m...Every 15 minutes 8.00a.m. to 10.00 a.m...Every 10 minutes 10.00a.m. to 11.00a.m...Every 15 minuter. 11:30a.m. to 19.40 p.m...Every 15 minutes. 12.45 p.m. to 1.16 p.m...Every 10 minutes

full-ne-entertaining to us as its cross currents, and that as the search for orchids gota nearer to its quarry our keenness in the results rises accordingly.

Thu

Grand Tars lowers-apart-there-seems-where been enough And to space of excitement on the trail, with fishing and hunting and Lathing wit

without formal bathing dress). But always thers remains the lure of Mr and Mrs Clifton started from Eng the orchid, like that of the edelweiss, land in February, 1909, duly reached Cal-drawing ite punuers to face "the bright cutta, and loetlittle time in getting to Ran- eyes of

nra bir change," until a sufficient store of is obtained and the travellers are ensconced once again on the home going steamer,

General Merchants, the bed. of operations.

and

Commission agents.

HONGKONG, CANTON,

SHANGHAI AND

HANKOW,

The

authurruss is not so obsessed by her axotics that she has no eye left for the "human biped, and her account of the work among the lepers at Burma is a bracing reminder that if the gods are dead the goddesses are not.

י-

... FIA DOLOROSA,

1.16 p.m. to 1.45 p.m.. Every 16 minuter CHEN KWONG & CO., LD. given to the Andaman. Convict Islands,

1.45p.m. to 2.15 p.m...Every 10 minuter 2.10 p.m. to 3.00p.m...Evory 15 minutes 5.00p.m. to 8.10....Every 10 minutes

NIGHT GAIN.

845 p.m. and Sp.m. 0.45 p.m. to 11.3 p.m. every 15 minutes. SUNDAYS

8.00 a.u, tb 10.30a.m...Every 15 minutes 10.30a.m. to 11.00a.m...Every 10 minutes 11.45a.m. to 12 Noon....Every 15 minutes 12.00Noonto” 1.00 p..., Every 10 minutor 1.00p.m. to 5.00 p.m...Every 15 minutes 5.00 p.m. to 8.00 in...Every 10 minutes 6.00p.m. to 7:00 p....Every 15 minato. 7.00p.m. to. 8.10 p.m...Every 10 minutes,

7.30a.m. (Sunday).

NIGHT CARS on Work Days

SATURDAYK,

Extra Cern at 11.45 p.m. " SPECIAL CARS by arrangement at the Company's DEco, ALEXANDRA Botsonas. Deo VixRoad Central.

GENERAL IMPORT & EXPORT.

CANTON'S LARGE, WHOLESALE & RETAIL STORE:

TURNITURE, Draperies, Groceries,

Euct and Shoes, Makers of Jowellery, Lacqueres,

Crockery Was

Ware..

This is a very unsettling book, alling one with unaccustomed lungings for the path.

ways and the unclaimed wilds. Resd ing it, ons hears the East a calling as the authoress and her husband heard it, that February night in 1900 when the winds brawled about their house and the orchide whispered their strange, secret message. Manchester Ispatch.

At Mandalay some orchids were brought in by coclins from the interior but though they arrived homo safely, mest of then were but ordinary dendrobiums," |which develop only leisurely after much tmxel. Up the Irrawaddy and back again |to Rangoon, and then the little expedition turns its head in the direction of the "Isles of Sin." Such is the picturesque title

which lie 300 knots west of Rangoon →→

Either are sent the worst criminals of India and Burina; men and women with life sentences are exiled there, most of them being persons who have merited capital punishment, but who hare, for some ronson, been exempled from the extremie rigout of the law. Fince Lord Mayo | Revenue Fire Branch... was assassinated there, during visit 带手 of inspection no Viceroy has boon Other Receipts....... allowed to go to these Isles of Sin.

NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE ́ INSURANCE CO." WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO.

TOTAL FORES AT 3182 DECEMBER, 1910.,

£21,252,603.

Mrs Clifton's fellow-passenger word mainly convicts voyaging to the isles to serva their various sentences, "They all Foreign Clothes for gentlemen made to wore leg ironis, and the sound of these

Ira-mongery, Wine and Spirits.

order by our own tailors.

Large assortmsdb of Chinese Silks and Foreign Goods of every description

All goods sold at reasonable Prices. The Cheapest and Beat place in Cantonite

bay Chinese and Foreign Goodus-

SUP PAT POO STRƑMI.!

QANTON.

•

*

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers.

Tel. No. 1406.

Canton, August 1, 1971

SINGON & CO. E C. WILKS,

AD. 1880

TRON, STEEL, METAL and HARD

"MI" MECH","E AMN,AS”

clanking up the companion way will always haunt me with its dreary rhythm of captivity" So auob will the orchid de for who will listen to its' noge of sorcury in a Lancashire house of a winter night....

THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN. D

Authorised Capital £8,000,000 Subscribed Capital £3,814,845 Paid-up Capital £1,607,997 50. (I-Fire Funds..

3,842,215 49 III-Life & Annuity Funds 15,645,125 9

Sinking Fund Account

97.36518 8

£21,202,603 17 3

2,373,260 17 7 Life & Annuity 1,904.6319 2

Branchen......

643,314 10 8

£4,071,215 17 The Accumulated Funds of the Fire and Life Departments are from from liability in rospect of unch other.

A

Our authoress's experiences on the 479 iands left, her with a new sense of

admiration for the work of her fellow R countrymen in ti East

NONFULTING ENGINEER AND BUIL VEYOR for Construction, Value

When I observe how usually just and bugunt babe or present, or pemunsion E these countrymen of our are, how a young. mau going Fast and boing put in authority will take up his new power as to the manner born, as though each one wore

LABE and Betsil Ironmongers, Eigion and Stussal pa-or- Pazuditor

MERCHANTS Wholesale | and Aasomane for the purchase, er sale, of naturally a raler, then I feel that we have

Foundry Coke Importars. General Store. korpors and Skipahandlers. Non, and

of END Long Bearer, (2nd Street, Wost

87. Central Market) Telephetie No. 615.

Hongkong. September 4, 19062

reason for pride in que flag and nationally,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO

AgentÃ

HEYES FLUID

SOLE AGENTS,

D

HONGKONG. ·

Hongkong, May 27, 1911.

TIJ.

Station.

DRAGON CYCLE

DEPOT.

MOTOR CARS

ON HIRE

TYPEWRITERS

ON AIRE.

November 18.—AT. AM.

Vlostock Nemuro.... Hakodate...

Moor;"

Barometer.

Wind.

Humidity!

Direction.

7x30.25 42 38 RE

30.38

15

30.40

77

30.31

..30.23

Tokin Kochi. Nagasaki... Kagoshima Oshims Naha Ishi'jima... Bonin Is... Cheloo...) 6.

Waihniwai . 40 16 Hankow 6.

NNW)

Kiukiang...

*z[Q4A}

In addition to the above, whos It to expected that the wind may incgaman be fall typhoon force as any moment," the following Urgent Signals will be made the Water Police Station, and repeatad

at the Harbour Office -- *

"THREE"KEPLOSIVE BOMEN AT INTERVILI

OF TEN SECONDS.

A. Black Cross will be hosted at the zame tirao, superior to the other shapes.

NIGHT BIOKALA.

The following Night Signals will be holsted from the Flagstaff en the roof of Water Police Station at Kowloon, the the Harbour Office Flagstaff, and H.MS. Tamar.

L Three Lights Vertical, Green, Green Groen, indicates that a typhoon is believed to be situated more than 300 miles from

Shanghai 9.0.22 54 160 -1 or the Colony.

Gutzlaff...... 30.20 BR 100

Sharp PE 30.14 79

omr

b

Amoy

8.30.19 7020 838 STATOT * 15

5.30.00

30.10

ง

30.00

30.03

Taihoku

Taichu

Tainan ....

Kashur

Pescatoris. 20.08

Chaton".... 9.-

Hongkong 30.0.11 78

Repairs to Typewriters...m

Phone 482.

Hongkong, January 18, 1911.

11

30.10

$20,01

Macao Wachow95, Haihow 17 Pakaoi Phulicn... 8, 30,09 73 Tourano.... 30.08 0.St. James 8214

"Aparri ... 6 n. 30.01

BLADH Logaspi..... Bx. 29,96) Bacolul 9

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123

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all that interests them, they yet live for 600 pakrs, more or less obearfully, in fervoly

RANK BUILDINGS, Hongkong, May 18, 1808 -

THX CHINA MA Law,

5. Wyndham Best

29.83

WEEDENZEM

F..G.. Fico, Director. Hongkong Observatory, Nov. 12, 1911.

BAROMETER, duced to a degress Fahresbelts. or the leval, of the sea in inches, tenths and ha dredthe

24 TEMPERATURx, in theshade, in degrees Fahren, balk

Sentry, is parcentage of maturation, the humidity of air saturated with moisturebeing 300.

4. DIRECTIONTOY WIND, to two phintama

FORCE OF WIND, Recording to Beaufort Seals, 4. STAZK OF WEATHER; b bina Kaya datadine cloud ́t drizzling rain, ♬ fɔg, a gloomy, & Eat, I lightning, e OTEZORE, pamlsy aliówien, göqually, 7 vain, 2 SDET

thunder, #vizibility, so daw (wata dia en mendA 6.- HATH in inclias, tantas and hundredths “p*{

IL Three Lights Vertical, Green, Red Groan, Indicates that a typhoon is believed to be aitasted loss than 300 miles (pom the Colony,

IL Three Lights Vertical, Red, Green Rod, Indiestes that the wind may bạ expected to increase to fall typhoon, forre at any moment,

No. III Signal will be accompanied by the Explosive Bombs, as above, In the erant of the information conveyed by this signs) being first published by night.

The Night Signals will be substituted for the Day Signals at suɑs'), 'and 'will, 'when' nosossary, be altered during the night.

SUPPLEMENTARY WARNINGS. ·

For the benefit of Native Oralt and passing Goran Vossels, Cone will be exhibited at each of the following stations during the time that any of the above Day Signals are holated in the Harbour,

Gap Rock

Waglan,

Stanley

Cape Collinson,

Aberdeen Ban Hi Wan, Sal Kang, Bha Tax Fol, Tai Pi

This will indicate that thers is a depres

don somewhere in the China- Ses, and that a Storm Warning is holated in the

FOLOWS NATURE'S PLAN.AS

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