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FRIDAY, JUNE 23 1916.

Hughes & Hough

AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.

General Auctioneers

Broker and Commisstan

Agents.

AUCTIONS.

PUBLIQ AUCTION

DARTICULARS and Conditions of the tecting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MUNDAY, the 20th day of June, Share, Coal and General Produce 1916, st 3. p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of Hi Eresllenoy the Governor of Cue Lot of CROWN LAND at Kennedy: Town in the Colony of Hengking, for term of 75 years, with the option of renowal at a Crown Rant to be fired by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King for one farther term of 75 yaĽA.

Particulars of the Zol. --

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"KINION" KONGKONG.

PUBLIC AUCTION, HE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by PublicAuction,

on

WEDNESDAY, the 28th June, 1918, commencing, af 2.40 p.m. at their Sales Rooms. So. 8, Des Vœux Boad, Corner of Tep House Street,

A QUANTITY OF

VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,

"&C.

As Follows.

Upholstered Suites, Arm-chairs and Sofas, Card Tables, Bedroom Furniture, Twin Bedstead Teakwood Box Mattresses- Double Brass-mounted Bedstead, Side- board, Dinner Waggons Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, Tea and Occasional Tables, etc, etc, Large Dinner Services, Crockery, GlassWare including Cut glass, Cooking Stoves, Catlery, Tollet Seta, Ice Chests, etc, Bath Room Utensils, etc., a quantity of Good Electro Fixte.

Ona "Caille Fortable Motor with Bastery, étc., complete, 2 Pianos in good cendition. Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood and Teakwood-Screens, quantity of Blackwood Furniture, Pictures, Engravings, a few Oil Faint- ings, Bath Tubs, a number of Indian Carpet and Rugs, a number of Rolls of Kartingos, etc. (New), and a quantity of Brass Ware.

And

A Choice Selection of Brau Jardinieres, Yases, Ivory Figures, Japanese Tea Sets

·Also

A few lots of Bentwood Chairs (New), Bark Towels, etc

(Fall Particulars from Catalogue.) TsCash.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

Hongkong, June 22, 1016.

PUBLIC AUCTION:

768

HE Undersigned have received in THE

structions from Mr. Ton CHONO

K to sell by Public Auction.

on "

MONDAY,

the 96th June, 1010, at,

2.30 pm at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,

Des Yeux Road, Corner of

ICE HOUSE STEKET

A Laser ABORTHEIT OF CHINESE PORCELAINS, BRONZES, PICTURES, JADESTONE WARE SNUFF BOTTLES,

Sim &c. Recently arrived from Shanghai and the North,

A follow.

B-Fold Chiness Screen (Towkwong and Kienlung. Panels),5-Coloured, -2-Öbloured and Blue and White Vases, Jars, etc, Old Cicisónns Ware, Brunzes, ets: a number of Old Coloured Wall Flates, Ginger Jars, etc, Chinese hand- painted Wall Hangings, Embroideries, Table Screena, Ornaments, etc., etc. **The above include a zumber of good specimens from the Kanghi to Towkwong "Perioda

(Fall Particulars from Catalogue) On view Saturday p.m. Torms

Cisk.

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the fangea's mother could not ander- stand a worth of it, an interpreter was aummoned, who translated tho missive in the presence of all the family. Jim claspeth his betrothed 's slender fingers the while, seeking to enlighten her in the best French he could muster concerting the beauties of his beloved Scotland and of the romantic banks of the Clyde

that one point of the High Street of a manufacturing town was erased by 25 Tüllway lines, one to each mill, while Swith a little pinning, one lius, could have served the whole lot. A year ago this month the Til But interest in towo-planning is beginning to show itself. The Battalion of the Royal Scots, the Government are taking the mutter Leith Territorials, suffered a great up, and the educated natives are also disaster on the railway at Gretna, on taking part in it, s the Scottish side of Carlisle. The

The old fashioned houses of India. Puede noëllege the Grasshopper Treatment, whisk in a portalu gaan, la prona në is Professor Geddes opinion, are very Battalion had been impatiently wait-picturesque. There is much finestrone for For

10 1680 16 de Drug Aliens, for a bar, uf ing orders to go to the Front, these curving, both in wood and stone, ordars had at last arrived, and the about them. But the old handicrafts GRASSHOPPER OINTMENT officers and men, in high hope and are dying out, and the people are AND PILLS Propaced by Albuch arious, were travelling to Liverpool, only getting a bare subsistence under modern industrial conditions. The from thence to take ship for Gallipoli, tragic side of the industrial age is The first half of the Battalion set out becoming more conspicuous. As to at a quarter to four in the moming the now education scheme, the of May 2, and two hours afterwards Professor, said that bore was an old it had ceased to exist. By a criminalsystem of home education in India, and he did not feel enthusiastic about blunder committed in a railway the introduction of our Western signal bor, three trains came crashing into each other, and in an instant that galians fellowship of the Royal Scots lay crushed and dying and

Professor Geddes expressed him self in favour of the mud houses of dead.

Out of 15 officers and 401 the ordinary Indian people. Mud is men who started, only 7 officers, and not at all bad material; when it dries 58 nen, shattered by the shock, were it makes good walls. It is cooler able to proceed to Liverpool for than brick er stone, and is very much eheuper. The mast important work ambarkation. And even these men he had in band was to sketch out petrels of the Clyde munition a had to be sent back as unfit for plans for the new University at while waiting his trial in & Gingow reign service. The whole country Benares, for which three-fourths of prison, wrote to the Easter Monday ware aghast at the tragedy, but a million had been collected. His Conference of the LLP, that it was rally the horror struck deepest advice was to build that great new because he was confined to his in the town of Laith and the University lainly of mud, replacing room that he could not be with it by stone or marble afterwords as them at Newcastle. It is a valuable surrounding district. When the first funds permit. He had also becis and instructive experience, and every shock was past, and provision mado collaborating in phins for Baroda, the one should have at least ten days of for the relatives of those who lost capital of the well-known Gackwur:it per annuin for the good both of and was preparing a report on the his houlth and of his immortal soul," their lives, it was resolved that some town-planning of Bombay.

Perhaps by the time he has served permanent memorial should

Professor Geddes has accepted anthe twelve months imprisonment to in Rosebank Cemetery, invitation to bring his town-plumming which he is sentenced the experience de erected between Edinburgh and Leith, where exhibition to the Paris Exposition may have lost ita attractiveness.

at the City Reconstitute Much UNDER'S PIRLEY PIG." most of the men were interred. This will have to be done in Franco to One of Dundee's municipal relics memorial huu now, been erected; it rebuild the towns and villages figures pieminently at the Exhibition POWDER takes the form of a Celtic Cross after destroyed by the war. Ever since of British Heraldie Art at the the style of St. Martin's Cross in the battle of the Marne the Quakers Burlington Fine Arts Club. It is the have been busy rebuilding the farms furious pewter money-box known as Ions; and it bears on a series of and villages between the Marne and the pirley pig." used in old times panels the names of the officers.the Aisne, and are helping the to hold the fines paid by the Town hon-commissioned, officers, and men farmers to restock. The Quakers, Councillors for non-attendance: The. lying around-214 parces in all. The memorial was unveiled by Lont Rosebery in the presence of a large company of mourners and friends, ncluding a number of survivors of theGretna accident and wounded men of the Battalion from Gallipoli,

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nexepted modal of prominent en la depan, Mr Kurita is a skilful editor and has tons

his work well,

said Professor Ceddes, are doing excellent work, and were making an which will be suggestive far beyond object lesson in regional development its present limits.

"THE PLEASURES OF RETIREMENT,, James Maxton, one of the storag

organisers of the Exhibition evilently regard it as an object of uncommon from the many valuable articles in Interest, for they have singled it cut.

the collection, and included it among a few selected objects specially worthy of notice.

FOOTBALL AND CRICKET.

POETS AND SUCIAL REFORMERS- Corporal Joe Lee, of the Black Watch, who has made quite a reputa tion for himself by his ballads from the front, has always keenly Celtic defeated Partick Thistle by interested himself in social reforza. goals to 0 in the final of the One of his journalistic feats when Glasgow Charity Cup, and Heart of investigating the doss-nouse problema Mid-Lothian beat Hibernian by 4 in Dundee was to dress himself up goals to in the final of the Rosebery He used to swagger down the streets In cricket,, Glasgow University Do Savvy and mix with amps. Cup. so disguised that various people he beat Cartha, and West of Scotland knew stopped all the pavement to let and Poloc played a drawn game. him pass. As Joe put it, Man,

MISCELLANEL He sat This year the finest inland course! cooked his own meals, and listened authority, is the one that yields most they shrunk from me. among the patrons of the doss-bouse, in the country, says a golfing to their talk One incident that huy to the Army Forage Department. specially interested him was a Only one man of the 4th Royal rehearsal by a tipsy couple of the Scots was in Edinburgh on the night hymns they were to sing on their of the Zeppelin raid, and he met hin Sunday morning round.

death by u shell. It is said that he Another Scottish poet who had is the first Scotsman who has been time from Japan! The reader is apt as equally great opportunity for the similar adventures, not so much for killed in his native country by an Brst to regard it as a curiosity, an à dign that the East liss now become Western spread of Christian literature. It the ease of social experiment as on enemy for at least two hundred years. practically almab to the last detall, i had been truly said that Chian would account of temporary necessities his Biblical texts are largely employed-

Who In Japan in far more than curlónity

is is very sound and nodfall turn in one of three directions: the misfortunes were due chiefly to by the Conscientions Objectors (they reference book. It is printed in Ringlish would either turn towards Chris-bad healthis William Alexander are getting the Lonour of capital and contaion brief biographies, on "the

M'henzio, whose song of Shon letters) but they are sometimes well tianity, or towards some revived Campbell Went to College is countered. The other day Mr patriotic form of her own old religion, deservedly famous, and has a place Donald M'Lean, M.P. was born or towards Agnosticism. It is stated in most of our student song books. harded in Court with a number of that from a financial point of view For a time he lived in Rawton House, passages from the Bible against ware the mission has not aufered during London, and his bitter experiences He waited till the appellant had e average income having here are enshrined in a volimme of finished, and then replied, "Look up the year, the average.

Verao entitled "Rowton House | Numbers XXXII. dad 0, and you will been greater than in ordinary years.

Rhymee

na dana 19th, find these words, 'Shall your brethren TOWN. FLANNING IN INDIA.

M'Kenzie afterwards went to go to war, and shall ye ait ber? ****? Professor Geddes, of University Brittany, and lived for several years. Man, your Lordship, I've heard BRS, College, Dundee, has just returned to in a windmill. And at one time he sae much releegion since comin' here that the time, coks like twenty Scotland after a visit of seven or was editor of Black and White"

minutes instead of two hours, said, eight months

where he bas to India,

M. Maurice Decobra, of the staff an aged country woman who had been engaged in town planning of the Paris Journal, has returned travelled into Glasgow to appeal for schemes. › „In an interview he stated from a short tour among the British exemption for an only son. This was that he had organised an exhibition troops in Arixis and Flanders. It din reply to an expression of in Calcutta, and had prepared a goes without saying, he writes, that regret by Sherif Lee that she should. report on the planning of Dacca, the flirtations apting up between the have had to walt so long for the try maidens: Sometimes the result spiritual entertainment was provided was also a scheme for a new milways warrige M. Decobra reters to by the Sherif and a number of town outside Calcutta, with garden a certain Jim from Glasgow, who erbose and argumentative. Con- villages instead of the present coolie recently wrote to his parents to scientious Objectors.

Although orators, like other people, lince, and various other improve announce his betrothal to an adorable

girl, met with near Bethune Jime grow old was surprised to ments "The vant population of

notice that Lor Rosebery bas mother, answered the latter but Bengal was largely, agricultural but naturally it was in

And, as

entered on his seventieth year And | yet it is i Findustria conditions were developing,

long time since Browning was challenged on the occasion of and it is desired that the new districte

Lord Rosebery's marriage, to write and towns should be laid out to the

four Imes which should thymie the best advantage, Bengal, he said, is

names of bride, and bridegroom the land of jute, and jute is thres

Browning snowed his ingenuity in Calcutta

out-of-the way rhyming, thus bus, sen froth's "Child"

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