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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1915.

Hughes and Hough

AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.

AND ANEIRALT. «

General Auctioneers

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Share, Coal and

General Brokera,

PROPRIETORS

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COAL STORAGE,

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MEIRION HONGKONG.

PUBLIO AUCTION.

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THE Undersigned haya received instrus-

tion to sell by Public Auction.

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TUESDAY,

the 18th November, 1915, commancing as 5.30 pm at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of

lea House Street,

A QUANTITY OT

VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD. FURNITURE,

BR 85 FENDERS, FIRE BRASSES, CARPETS, ., As Follows:-

Two Upholstered Suitas (one practically bew, Card Tabla, Bedroom Furniture, Large Arm chairs and Sofas, Double and Siögle Brass Bodstende, Sideboarda aud; Chiffonier by Powell, Ltd., Dinnor Wagi gone and Extension Dining Tables And ¦ Chairs, Tea and Side Tables, etc., eta ...........

Bluzor, Tea and Coffee Services, Crockery, Maay and E-P. Ware; 3 Cooking Stores. Catlory, Braza Fenders, Curtain Poles,

tc etc.

Throe

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Planos (in good condition) Electric Reading Lamps and Ona Larga -Fold Bleakwood Seroon, 5-Coloured Pauela, Blackwood Furniture, Ramington Typewriters, Fowling Piece, Stair Carpet, &o.

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(Full Particulars From Catalogue.)

Terms --As Denal

THE CHINA MAIL.

Another of C. & B.'s Delicacies

C. & B. OXFORD SAUSAGES

UNEXCELLED.

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these and all their other table delicacles to be produced under ideal çonditions of cleanliness,

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CONVINCING MEDICAL TESTIMONY WITH EACH BOTTLE "None Genuine without the words Dr. S, Calle Browne's, Chloradyne on the Stances, -Bald by all Chemists...

· Prions in England.

(1/1), 2/9, 4/6.

RED CROSS WORK,

displayed even by men with voices of but whisper-weakress was for the safety of the baggago which had rolled on shoed in an

A SPLENDID SERVICE AT THE A.3.C. An. An orderly sergeant asked

DARDANELLES.

Camaradoria of Sufering.

Sole Manufacturers': J. T. DAVENPORT, LID., Lemien, 9.8.

begao to

COMMERCIAL.

SHARE REPORT.

Mesars. Vernon and, Stayth in thair weekly stars report, dated 13th November, stato:-

Owing to the influence of the two local Bank holidays and the race holidays in Shanghai, there has been very Ettle businam done in the local share market during the past week, but rates on the. whole have rengined fairly s'enty, sad the market closa with some enquiry for that speculative stocks at low rate. Nu buainesa with Indon has transpired dur ing the intergal and we have no material changes in quotations in this section to. report. Standard Tin has advanced. to £182/10/- and plantation Hukter is again higher at the closing quotation of 2/75 pre 1b. firms, Bar Silver is quoted to-day në 24d, Sterling TIT. at 3/10), Shanghai TT at 763. and Singapore TT. LA 787. The Bark's buying rate for! 38/4 bills. on Shanghai in wuchsoged at 77.

Banka-Hongkong and Shanglais haro bova sold in small lots at $327 and 8825, and close with probable boyera as the latter rite..

Marine Insurations Culous are easier with amalillors as $930. Cantons can be placed in all lots at 8425 and Yapglizes at the improvid' quotation of" $260, with Fx: 73 North Chicas are unchanged at $175 nominal..

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Fire Farurances-Chinas are lightly easier with probable sellers at 2155, and Hongkongs are obtainable to a quali extent at $420.

Shipping:-Dongisses bare hean do kad at 897 and 888 Cast, and at 801/899 for January. February delivery, and at those, rama more shares are probably obtainable. Indas have been a drooping market, 'and. elons with sellers at $1834 for the Combined, and at 867 for the Preferred

and 890 for the Deferred saparat oly, there i | being no business to report. Stamboase ara wanted at $19, and Star Furries are on offer at 8881.

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A few Shells are procurable "at *£7-porhaps a little less would be I accepted for a small parcel. Ural Caspians

Langkats cless in request in the North at Taro sochanged at 376 nominal, and

Tls SûE.

packed with stretchers. Then the shore lasts were uncat,and to the compani ment of a little chorus of such cries as

Good luck! Speedy recovery Never Repair-China Sugars have advanced i my name and rank as wo passed out of them to !” and the like, a tugboat hospital bounds with about as much expres- anort a hawser twanged taut, and the big to 8129 at which rate the market doses sion in his votes as you might expect from black barge, with her ghastly yet splendid quiet Luzes are featureless "at $37) a tallyman checking the shipment of frozen orgo, wont wallowing with slow curtasys nominal. sheep.

away from the shelter of the pier. - "KOOL FOR FEMONIES,

One of Renter's war correspondents.at The distance from the alearing station de the Dardanelles who was invalided home to the little embarkation jetty akilially has written an account of his experiences.improvised by the Royal Engineers was about two-thirds of a mic. Before we He was taken to a clearing station on had covered half the distance I found Lahore, and his story continues :-

HUGHES & HOUGE,

Auctioneer

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Hongkong, Nor. 12, 1815.

PUBLIC AUCTION. THE Underigned have received instruc-

tions to sell by Públic Auction. (ros Account ozF THE CONCERNED),

OII

SATURDAY,

the 20th November, 1915, commending at 2.45 pm at No. 12, 8taulay Terrace, Quarry Bay, ALUABLE HOGSEHOLD

FURNITURE

&

Ar follows

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yeolf wanting to apologise to the panting

-who carried me, with the xt etcher.. hands keeping op squeaking tension spoi their should ars, and was positively relieved when they let me down with little bump, to takes rost.

COSTLY PLUM PUDDING.

Hansewives' Hit Using Plain Ingredjante.

4. Mining-Raubs have' been besikecî ̧ub $3.40 and $3.50, but otherwise there is no bu ines to report in this rection.

1 Docks, Whares and Godorens :—Bong- kong and Whampos Decks are in quest ́at 8844, and còn sloo be placed as 897 for "I would like to pause and pay tribute

January delivery. "Kowloon Whartes are wanted at the reduced quotation of 870 to that casualty clearing station as a marvel

cash, and are also in request at equivalent of what devotion and resource can accom-

Plura puddings will be expansive luxuries rates forward. In the North there in a this Christmas or else they will be con plish. Vader the stres of war it had been forced into development far beyond water was plasbing noisily against the to be deserring of another name.

When presently wo arrived at where the coctions so plain and unappetising demand for Shaoghal and Hoogkaw The Wharves at Tla 90, The quotation for its designed role, and was really a busy boulders of the miniaturo mole, I saw that explanation given Daly Chronicle Shanghai Ducks being unchanged at Tls 60, little field hospital. Tet its staff had never something unravel was natir,

Soldiers representative by Mr Kibble, buyer for nominal New Enginesings hara aðranced with aloped rides and been increased, nor its equipment added appeared to be culdering around some difficulty of transporting Ingredients to to Tis et males.

Sxed buycneta Harrod's grocery, department, is the te. The great base hospital wanted nearly control spot, varrowing the sandy read to England.

track through hib it was only possible

Lands, Hotels and Buildings:-Hongkong all that came along. And, so this for the stretchers to be carried in single

There is great difficulty ĭo fila... doctor, closing in to my side. Nearly Tarkish prisoners exclaimed the 600-of them have feat boen handed here. A good many of them wounded, I can see more work for us! What a Thank God

outpost of salvation did its untiring best upon what it could get, achieving so very much upon ao Title to work with. The lieutenant colonel in charga had, at his own expense, provided troatlen to convert stretchers into regular camp beds,, and

ing fien.

Spatial fruits, aid Mr. Krable, wing Lande are estes with sellars at 8108.

which, to pack the fruite, and the imparta bayers of Hongkong Hotala at 8108, in that country cannot get wooden boxes in at 87 and are still cotainable. There are so the scarcity of wood in Spain. Dealer. Hamphreys Estates have agala been booked

tion of wood is a slow process." Then there the difonity of shipment from various countries. All tala, meane that the cost of at 872.

to Cotton Mür: Hongkonga are unchanged the tocertain, conditions in Grees can

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Kory and find a 40, and Walk Polis Wm. POWELL Ltd.

moonito curtains to keep out the session they all seem to have on their į raisine is likely, to be doubled. i40 sellers with buyers offering Pt.

not get our usual supplies of saltades, which at 30.40

will be very deas. We have plenty of Latest advices from the North report an which housewives will probably be glad to closing rates being-Ewo Tin 1821, carrantin stock, and supplies of muscarels, all sound improvement in Cottons, the try for their

paddings Already I endor-

atation the place was perfectly adequate brief pause; I was

again lift made their cost will be very high.”

Chesterfield Sofas, Arm-chairse with But the congestion caused by the incessantly, and deposited alongside spare covers, practically new by Powell, furious fighting prevented the clearing

aring Highlander, who nerer once Blackwood Cabinet Stands, France, etc., of the sick and wounded who should have

from being promptly carried out, and many eyes and cossiously moaned very softly

want half a dozen stretchers for Hand-painted Chinese and Japanese Vasse merely passed through were obliged to damaged prisoners, who can't walk another Water Colours and Pictures, large Em

stop, ealda sand-plastered captain. braidarod Boreans, Axminster Carpets and

There is something pathetic about the RAM.O.. swinging himself down on to froummary bred of the nanociation of sick the rail of the lighter. Any of you leal raderie of suffering in wartime is immediate pital ship traditio and profound.

,remain..

1

in

Rugs (pratically now, Solid Brass and wounded men in hospital. The cams.t to sit up outil you get out to the box will-ba viser to make the padding 382 There are sellers of Dairy Farms at

Fenders, Scuttle, Fire Braasas, Bed and Table Linen, Cushions, Curtains, &c., &c,

disc

THE CASUAL AKROKANT.

HOMEWARD BOUND.

The stretcher-bearers pushed on post the The little Royal, Army Medical Corps long tramping column and set me down One Femed Teak Dining Baits come went short of ail but the bat bot pier. Alegside, a low benny lighter perilously near to the edge of the loosely rations to well slender supplies *of medical prising Sideboard, Extension Table and

for a bumped ponderously in the wash of the Comforts. Let it not be supposed logart, hall der iron interior already covered stand; that many of our ́enstomers irg Internationa's Tis 84, Kang Yiki. Tl- 141. "Chairs, Dinner Waggers Overmantle, etc,instant that

by Win. Powell: Silk Tapestry covered Loog Mows 27,

am suggesting any reproach

ingredients, but gelow simple puddings Tis 394, and Suy Chora Tha 45, all buyere,

· Miscellaneous : — Cements after milen at his expert cook told. The Daily Chronicle $10 bars advanced, with rales at representative that a padding made of very intermediate rates to buying quotation of plain ingredients would not keep it long 810.80 for Cash and 11.10 for January unless packed at once in an airtight tin, delivery. China, Providents are wanted a s It is the rich fruite which help to preserve 89.80, China Bomb at $10. Ropos at padding, and I these have to be omitted. 8341, Pank Trams at 394, and Watsongel

se near Christmas as possible. Where In Se, and of Hongkong - Trams" at Bản, gradients, can be obtained, they are being Steam Laundries have been booket it bought up eagerly lest prices, ahould rise 204 or a demandag I did, for one, and crawled to the mide still higher, but thesa izpite are mostly laat "Mama;-Settlement day; for 1915 ; Nor: of the craft, propping myself in a sitting

'JORT'

26th and. Dec. 2 d. which may serve as a legitimate comfort to fears and men did likewise, and we all I am berupted to dwell upon anything posture against her bulwark Several those at home who have heard that sons of laughed at our own infirmities, but in A brothers or sweethearts have been stricken subdued way, for there was too much down and ansiously wonder how they may suffering upon that boat for merriment. be faring; the case tempted because of the Onderlies quickly gathered up the racated many rumeurs whics have gained currency stretchers, Losing as the brown blanketa that all is not wall with our hospital arrange left upon them, and dissppeared. atments in the Darstellen. It would ba I If you're all ready, sir." broke in the faithlem on my park to protend, that, say, beach-aat moet robustions LAYA Ave months ago this misgiving might not lieutenant in pinbald whlins-"I'l be glad have been justified.

if you'll get your load away, as I want thje of personal gratitude. I can write the word of wounded.” splendid as the most fitting epitaphie.com. However, we were not sil ready just pat mary of all my memories, and, izpressions for there still remained about a score more of the Army Medical Service. The doctors of one prostrate soldiers to get inboard, are splendid. The stralcher benzara are well as the Turkish injured prisoners I bave splendid. The aathing hospital workers already referred to. By this time the pla are splendid. And the women, who ace-form space of the lighter was tolerably well ed biosformed fato ungals by donning the symbol of the Red Cross, are more than epiendid.

Cottako Piano by Moatris practically new Large Easmelled Bath, ee Electric Fittings, Sun Blinde (new), and a quantity of Silver Ware, including Süver Tes Barrica, Hot Water Jag. Kettles, Tray Silverand Pearl Dessert Service Afternoon Tea Knivoa, etc., ote.

(Fall Particulars from Catalogne.) On view from Friday, 18th inst, 4.50 pic

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