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SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1916,

Hughes and Hough

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General Brokers,

PROPELTORS

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Telegraphis. Address METRION HONGKONG.

PUBLIO

AUCTION.

HE Undersigned have received Instrue-

dons to all by Fubile Auction,

TUESDAY,

the 4th April, 1818, commencing ab

1.30 p.m.. at their Balos Rooms, No. 8,

Dee Yaux Road, Corner of

Ice House Street,

A Labge QUANTITY OF ».

VALUABLE- TEAKWOOD AND

BLACKWOOD FURNITURE, FIRE BRASSES, &c. CARPETS, RUGJ, &c,

As Follows:-

Upholstered, Suites, Arm-chairs and Bofas, Card Table, Bedroom Furnitors, Ernes Ecdstonda, Deable and Single Brass-mounted Bedsteads, Sideboard, Dinner Waggda, Extension Dining Tablos and Chairs Terand Occasional Tables, - etc., etc., Dinner, Tea and Coffee Services, Erockory, Glass and E-P.. Wire, 1 Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Bets, etc.,

disc

Te Pianos. (Osé Collard & Collard), Electric Reading Lampe, 1 Largo 4-Fold Blackwood Screen, a quantity of Blackwood Furniture, One American Oak Dining Table.

(Fall Particulars from Catalogus.) Terms -Cashe

HUGHES & HOUGE, Auctioneers

Botgrong, March 30, 1916.

PUBLIC AUCTION

487

IFE Undersigned have received lestrar-

Till by Public Auctions

(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED},

от

THURSDAY, the 8th April, 1916, at 11a.m., at their Sales Booms, No. 8, Des Vent Road; Comer of les Home STREET,

Two Electric Ceiling Fans in good conditione.

Una 3-Light Mectrolier, Fittings, etc......... Tennis Net and Polta with Sperm Notting

One Set of Saddlery completo practically

261,

One Belose Rife,

Two Field Service Tents.

▲ quantity of Tinned Provisions Including Italian Sausages, Artichokes, Mushrooms, Lemmonade Fruit Powder,

ste, etc..

Terma :---Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH," Aschtonara," Hongkong, March 31, 1926.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Underigned have received instrus-

Hons to sell by Public Auction,

"(POR"ACCOUNT OF TAY-CONCIEREC),

THURSDAY,

the Eth April, 1916, commencing: #11 a.m., - at their Bales Rooma, No. 8;

Den Var Bond, Corner of

lee House Street,

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE

Removed from "Ridge House,” Broadwood Road, for Convenienos of tales,

Comprising -

Teakwood Digner Waggon, Chesterfield

Bals, Backwood Cabinets, Teakwood

THE CHINA MAIL.

Another of C. & B.'s Delicacies.

C. & B. OXFORD SAUSAGES

UNEXCELLED.

Crosse & Blackwell guarantee

:

and all their other table delicacies to be produced "under Meal conditions of cleanliness,

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THE GERMAN TRADE

OF SINGAPORE

"The Singapore Frer Press mayne -

We must confess to having experienced. Tasting of some astonishment, when reading the Hon'bla. Mr Darbishira's speech aà tho Chamber of Commerce, to see that what

* now be turmed. “enemy” trade hulks 16 Mary Nightly in the total overturn of the Colony. There are probably faw people who realised that the German and Austrian. trade was if not.negligible, of mach small proportions, as hardly to be considered. Barubazul in one of his books haa referred. to the Straita Settlements and although for: the moment we are unable to turo up the mference the mouse was a conviction of the rend power wfolded by German firma. kere, and the "bugs" haainess -they did, get on immination that proves as the Chairman of the Chamber of Commer has said to be only any eftisth of the imports and age twentieth of the exports, It is not of course posible to say axactly what other proportion of German or Austriano trade" tume in here frain: saurcom ather than thoas countries themselves, bat the amount in any case would not be large and it may be accepted that two per cent of import and fire per cent of exports practically reproasted enemy trade with 1- This Colony "during the last pro-wie yere Damely 1919. A study goneral ¿ında

| figures over a wide period in conjano |tion with these figures for 1913 on en us to wonder where are all the triumphs of German unde about which we told Coursires for io y many “yes s. Tha |German. Sima here made a great, whiom p their mathods of attracting native cus om, the cheapness of their goods and their painstaking ways of introducing th as gloda were antically" being köpt bef-re naby thom—mainly it would appaar by ourselves and it is reasonable to question whether for a grant many your past we havo not lwen Ailigo y self-hypnotishig enzselves. When socount is takon of the abnormal turta of Garman trade for a great number of VRATA past to capture the markets (e result extraordinarily anal. That is speaking of merchandises enly, for the shipping position. is pathes different, Est Poving Lack uror Is series of "gents it is intervaling to find } how remarkably - British, tale-has_pro- grossed. Wherers in the United Was- dom the proportion of Foreign to Imperial trads his exried but little in in fiqures of about 75 co. 225 s totally diff rent tale is told as regards our own Colony. It is not possible in the compANA STRIKING STATEMENT BY HANG'S of these columns to deal in detail with the

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HOW ANGLO-DANISH GOODS AGREEMENT WORES.

WHEN GREECE WAS READY TO JOIN.

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Another sentence of the Declaration In a long letter to the Temps Court of the Chamber of Commarco st | Prince Nicholas, of, Greece (brother of stamping to export British goods to Greete has remained neutral she has prov Germany was promulgated lass month.

Tha frm of Otto Madian has to pay never declared that he would never at 134,400 kroner, or about £3,000... for any price depart from her neutrality. The breach of the home consumption" clause contrary is proved, he deserts, by several in respect of a parcel of 750 sacks of coffee. proposals made during the war to the

The preamble of the sentence accentuaten

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subi et per can seeust be taken of all the special cirrostanem affecting the returna such as the dollar fluctuations in the yea's past, the artificial position of the opium mda, the fixing of the currency and othe

trade" conditionis, hat general műkvay proves boybod drubt that pot anis han inbility of that development continuing foreign trade relative': divinished and unsrested. imperial trade there grown but there haste been a remarkabledevelopment is trade with Mr.Alina Bakar, in a lestec.to_the back over ten to fifteen yeafy it will be Mr Darbisbire's rolerence is bis speech to sthar: Colonies and Dominions. Looking Straits Times vigorously criticisan the Hen

the

the fact that although the affort to export/Entente Powers, proposala well known to found that whores - bemaling-with-the enemy-after-the-war,

kapt order in his offiony

be

with imports frame Foreign countries, ss 82 spodnout in last night's China Mail to 70 in the 1835-1890 period is 1913, the BB writes

I ask you, sie what. eneluxions can guren wars 283, 26 106, cx- emplete drawn by the thoughtful and patriotic Similarly with regard in sports whilst the public statements made by a responsible tursoror of the balance against the Empire.merabers of the general public. from such figaten to the 1888 to 1890-period were 43 Carson, such as is or should be the 16 73 in 1913 they were 913 to 175. "An President of the Bingapore Chamber of

the returns further show Commates. examination that the great increase has been in our

(3.) Are we after our enormosa expendi- trade with other British Colonies. Thus ture of blood and money, to allow car in imports this has grown from 38 millions

enough, .our

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***18*}*/*NFLUENZA, „MARAL DATAREN¬AE BOBBINARY QOUCHE Lulyos will fad` le: thía, tummen renady -a-restorativa - poran..that, la, sloupky.

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BARVANK OF

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the coffee mada: by one of the tire Chancelleries of Europe Empire into the Colmy were employees of the Srm. Without Mr Madsen's Gounaris, the former Promier, only asked personal knowledge, this cannot free him that the territorial, integrity of the of the responsibility, as he should hars kingdom should be respected, during the Neither does the fact that the effort tower and until peace was concluded by sxport the goods was not crowned with those same Powers on the side of whom success make any differares in the decision. Greece conlared herself ready to fight. But this condition was not accepted, auch The National Tidende" contains" a

a promise being considered at the time talagram from Hjarring that the merchant as likely to allemace Bulgaria. Joergen Storm, who Was recently santanced to considerable fos on account It was, therefore, not Greece's fault so 235 millions and exports from 12. dastardly, alions that have every obligation and treaty to the of a similar offense declarus that it is now that the negotiations failed. The country millions to 121 millions. Consideration winds for their own diabolically selfish utterly impossibis for him to get goods consequently has remained neutral despite of the figures of the Foreign trade show ends, to re-establish their trade, and system I NORTH BRITISH. & MERCANTILE from America. The firms to whom he has variotis appeals of the two opposing groups the father, interesting facts that whilst of undercutting in the markets of our

German

INSURANCH CUS sold the expected goods will therefore aue of Powers, but there are two currents of a very impid development in our business

trade has increase, there has been Empire 1 pe bim for not fulfilling bis engagementa:

To look at the maifer from the meat org whilst It appears from & Reuter message that opinion, the ons saxicus to enter the with French Colonial prosessions confidential clerk of Madson's bought. 750 struggle on the side of the Entente, the lately the expansion in Italian trade has sordid point of view. surely it not THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANUS

matter "of whether the stoppage of the sacks of coffee and signed the ascaf declars other in favour of neutrality. No ones shows unthing like the slasticity of not If the business is so triffing as the been notable. Obriously the foreign ɓguren enemy trade will demage" ner pockets or tion for the Merchants' Guild, bat, trans- ferred the coffee to a third party, who tried Greece her ever expressed the opinion the Imperial figures and a wide review of President of the Chamber of Commerce to re-szport it. The fine was double the that the country should take part in the the statistics can leave no other impression points out, no harm would be done, to the vaine of the coffee plus 3,400 kronor. war on the side of the Central Empires. than that whilst German trade had be trade in Singapore if it were cut out

Stilt another merchant whe tried to well Prince Nicholas energetically protests come an appreciable factor in our bani EO canica of cocoa to Germany has berasgainst the doubts which the Anglo-ness it bad not shown that terrifying altogether. We ha a nation, are oud to we had in our mindst from prevent the

MOTAL FUNDS at: 57ar Decenas, 1914, tendancy towards swampin'z of Imperial prey becoming fred 19,168 kraner, By the Exchange.

French Fress has cast upon the trade which appeared at one time to be the Empire and our Allies are b

our test again. Que

£23,370,387, Public opinion in Denmark highly approves faith and sincerity of the King and Greek general impression. Tre these heary penalties.

1-Authorised Capital £5,000,000 whether

in required by the buying hibited, says & Stockholm telegram.

Paid-up Capital sander-mi- Greek people towards the Allied troops, that be accomplished by a prohibition more pahlia of our alliad nations. It is unthink Storm exported 16 tons of coffee to Thase suspicions, he says, are unjust and or less complete of direct ents of enemy able that we belars the oceans of blood-Fire Fand Hamborg, and was fined £2,380.]

goods hers after the war or whether it be ceased to run, cap calmly consider whether I-Life & Abunny Fonds. very painful to Greece, and might have the result of the repressive infoesces of it would be inconvenient for us to stop Sinking Fund Anxori

influence on the sincere friendship Allied tariff ruuations will add slightly to enemy good reaching our shores when which the Greek people and its King the business done here by our Allies,wa bays crushed the enemy than throw wish always to preserve for the nations business which will always be welcomed the world into the furnace Revenue Fire Branchensmid which, ablated in the regeneration of and beartily encouraged, but the roel The 7 per cent. Imports and development has been in the direction of the 5 per cent export surely cannot be Greece and to whom all Greece wishes Imperial business and there seis proof wach value to British firms Fere, then Revenue Matins Departament

Sad Branching prosperous and glorious foture.

the enemy: firms are deleted from the Other Receipts market, a to make it worth weighing in the balance with our great and operative Imperial needs. Enemy goods, enemy ships, enemy abiecte mush and shall be kept from cor parts and from our markets. If we came in our own and allied countries, produce the goods hitherto got from our enemies, which" werns to me & ridionions ides, we have no option i Britans, bat to do without them, as has been done for years by some of the patiote countrymen and woman of our race. The amall needs of individual. Erms in all parta of our Kispir", must be made to come into line with the Imperial :: needs of that Empire, and Lelastion should not be required to guide us along the splendid highway of Imperialism.

The export of coffee from Sweden is pro Government sid.upon the feelings of the German an Austrian bg out of theraw material and gold auticians, to supply Sphecribed Capital £5,000,000;

FREE DRINK BY LEGACY.

A JOVIAL BEQUEST TO THE BAVAGE OLUB.

In the Chancery Division on February, before Mr Justion Nuvilla, a SUNMODE WAS tried to detormin: the ralidity of a boquest to the Benevolent Fund of the Savage Club to provide drinks free to members.

The testator, David Louis by his will, after appointing executors, and after bequeathing certain chattels to bis friends. in accordance with a memorandum attrahed to and forming part of his will, bequeathed £850 to the trustees for the time being of the Benevolent Fund of the Barage Clube

to the intent that the lacome shall be devoted to the purposes set out in the second memorandam which will be found with this my will, but which is not to form pirt thereof, and I request that much memoriadam, be entered on the minutes of the said Baneraient Fund The tatator then proceeded to give pecuniary lecacies to pameroun-chuzitics, two of which were the Salvation Army and the Ticar of St. James'e, Piccadily: The will astused raidory bequest, but the personalty was insufficient to pay the pecuniary legreier in fail.

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I have frequently, noticed gloomy TAY 1522 looks dispelled by the simple expresion Have a drink, old chap. Now I should like to be able to way this to some brother Savages for rot, and therefore I hare directed in my will that to yali twenty six pounds's your be placed at the disposal of the Benevolent Fund for that purposes

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