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TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1916.

ENTERTA INKENT

Hughes & Hough

AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.

General Anotioneers

hare, Coal and Geners Produce

Brokers and Commission Agenta.

་་་་་

PROPRIETORS

•To-Xwa»WanTM Coal Storage.'

Codes wed Bentley's

▲ B. & 4th & 5th Editions.

A 1 Thlegraphic Code.

Telegraphic Address

*** MEIRION” – KONGKONG,"

PUBLIC AUCTION.

HE Undersigned have received in-

Trections to sell by Public Auction,

*00,

WEDNESDAY,

the 23rd August, 1916, commencing at 2.30 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No.

Dos Torx Road, Corner of Ice House Street, VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND

BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,

*C4

Ai Follows:-

c..

Persian and Indian Carpets and Rugs Upholstered Suites, Arm-chairs and Sofas, Card Tables, Bedrooms Fumiturs, Double Brass-mounted Bedstead, Twin Dedatenda (Teakwood) Sideboard, Din- mer Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, Tes and Occasional Tables, etc., etc Dinner Service, Crockery, Chass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Sets, de, Bath Room Utensils, Desks and Writing Table, etc..

antity of Electro Plated Ware,

Alsa

PEAK CLUB.

CINEMATOGRAPH

D ENTERTAINMENT will be given at au ră, on THURSDAY, 94TH AUQUAT. (Weather Permitting), "on the Lower Tennis Lawn."

**UNTOLD STORIES OF THE WAR"

A Lecture (with Photographs) will be given by

Ma. Famic Coremi, F.R.G.S.; Commencing at 9.30 F.M, Ex SATURDAY, SETH AUGUST Tickets for both nights can be obtained from the No. 1 Boy at the Club (B9 each)

wait Portion of the proceeds will be given

to War Charitica. ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE.

Hồng kong, tuổi 21, 2018

On behalf of the WAR CHARITIES FUND.

At

"GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

19:20 PM

FRIDAY, August 25th, 1918. FREDERIC

COLEMAN,

yos

F.R.G.S.

AUTHOR OF "From Mons to Ypres with French”

will give an A ILLUSTRATED LECTURE WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES

́IN FRANCE AND FLANDERS.”

A

Mr. COLEMAN is, said by the London Times to have seen more of the actual Lighting on the Great Western Front than any other one man daring the first Fear of the war

"Caille Fortable Motors with Battery ete, complete, 2 Pianos in good condition, Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood and Teakwood Screens, a quantity of Black wood Furniture, Pictures. Engravings, a few Oil Paintings, &c.

And

One Tennis Net and Poles, One- New Bicyck, Typewriters, &c.

(Fall Particulars from Catalogue) TERMS:-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneer's

Hongkong Aug 36, 1378

PUBLIC AUCTION

840

E Undersigned Lave received instruc-

tions to Bell by Public Auction.

(POB LOCOUNT OF THE CONCERILE).

*D

TUESDAY,

the 9th August, 1918, commencing at 2.30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vortur Road, Corner of ICE HOUSE STREET, SPORTING GUNS AND RIFLES, As follows:-

One Mauser Magazine Rifle 318 Bore, One Riffe by Edwinson, Green & Sons,

997/250 Bare+

Alao

Two 18-Borg Double Barrel Hammer Gans, (One by Jeffery & Sons, London and One by Edwinson, Green & Sons).

And

A number of lots of Sporting Ammunti- tion, 12 and 20-Bóre.

Terms-Cash.c

HUGHES & HOUGE,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, Anh 15 1914

FOR SALE

FURB AL-ES

038

THE Undersigned, have received in- structions to sell at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street,

Piano by John Broadwood & Suns

Age (in good condition), Piano Montrio & Co. (in good condition), Cabinet Grand Piano by Sterling Organ, Eleven Stop

Pay by Mason & Hamlin Inspection and particulars by apple- cation to the undersigned.!--

Terms-C

HOCH&HOUGH,

Hongboss. Ang 17,

THE CHINA MAIL.

PRINCE OF WALES'S FUND. hat been relieved through the benevolent

REQEIPTS, 45,900,000; RELIEF GRANTED,- 63,300,000.

HOW I WORES.

People are again complaining of the lack of information about the working of the Prince of Wales, a Fund, saya • home paper of recent, date,

They way that in the cas of a great national fund such as this they have a right to a more detailed knowledge of its administration than is contained in the bald'statements

Ingymniyatinisë, aktaihod to the particulac f profession. Is had to be recognlved - that all nular learned professicos had not suffered equally. Among thos hanlost hit were artists, architects, surveyora, and those civil and sanitary engineers who worked månly in consultation with local antiorizios..

So Bis 24,200 far been granted to the Piplensional. Class Solid Fand, bet many grants bare hoen made" to "the professional societies, which would other wild have had to draw on that fund. In all over £35,000 has been granted - for such relief.

And are you will getting the demand

is ved" occasionally, that the fund totala | for relief you originally had? 10, much, and that so much has been No. Taking the country as a whole, paid pat.

there is very little civil distress.

They say that they have heard that Employamas has never been so good, and 11:50,000 has been paid our to soldiers" | practically the only wress in which there dependente, and that no more is to be is real distress among the civil population stranced in this way, and they want are the East Coub towns and other s to know! whak" is balag done with the aids resorts, and particularly the Tale of

meder.

3. In these places" - lodging-bouss The question was brought into greater keepers have entered and are suffering prominence by the meeting of the Pro-seistely. That is where the bulk of our fessional Class Relief Fund. That fund expenditure ou dirii relief is going as the la urgently in need of help, and "It is present time.

sand -why- docs sob the national - fund,

started for the molind 'cquoivil distress, tome to its aid with some of the money It now has in hand.

On June 22nd an Evening Standard representative interviewed an official at the headquarters of the Prince of Walesin Funzi, with a view to obtaining an answer to these questions.

TRADE AFTER WAR.

METHODS BY WHICH INDUSTRY MAY BE AIDED

HAVE YOU A

BAD LEG

with wyunde hat docheres se, achorwin, phon (wbar yok prvon your lapse as the bakland vany -

You may have attended visitor hoogdening and book) Bold your me he barndon, OF METILNÍ TO BEDALIE UT

wo ampantion, “ Þar da, pall: Tyr; the: Gasshoppe

GRASSHOPPER" OINTHENT AND PILLS. Proizmi by Abuel,

Blowna Peclagsins | Sans, London; › Kaghi Primli Maglód=141) and. 175 pyar bak"

A. H. Wilson & Co.; Id.

Hongkong.

SLAPTON LET;

FROAT DEVON TO GERMAN MAST AFRICA.

On the day on which the fall of Tanga www, announced, The Times received a soppet from a member of the British Forces in German Est frien

It opened as follows: Marching on Tanga, marching the

-parched plain.

The direction in which Goperamand The lack of information was first dealtaation might be taken to assist the with Anything we publish, said our sub-committee of the Board of Trade's

On Commercial of watering spear-grass past Fangsui Informant, is necessarily rather in a blue Advisory Committed

Intelligence, to securo trade after the river, book form. Wai iste a half-yearly report sontaining a full statement of the work.war, is indicated in a report just issued England came to e-me who kid sivaju

to'er ngs of the find. That repora is presented by the Board.

Stress is laid on the need for the pro-Bas never given before-England, alie Parliament is on safe and ition of scientific research in relation giver, cifinalsted. There is no question of noucealment. If any, "abneriber writes to go for information, we do our best to zive te.

RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE,

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to industry and or the importance of In a vision of three poplar trees that technical schools. It is admitted that shiver employers, had not properly appreciated the value of techileal education, and that difienity · wsa experienced in inducia; employees to avail themselves of the opportunities afforded them of increasing their technical knowledge.

The total receipts up to the end of fuas 17th amount to something over £5,000,000.

this approximately

DR. JAIN'S CANAL SYSTEM, lit $450,000 hoe gece to what we call civil

Begarding transport facilities, complaint relief, that is relief of distress, among the civil population owing to arvmploy has been made et preferential treatment meat caused by the war." It does not of foreign goods by British railway.com include grants made to the widows and † panics, and it la suggested that the system wives, and dependents of sailors and of rating should be altered so as to favour M. COLEMAN was attached to the diers. Those grata come under the, the home instead of the foreign man Headquarters of General Sir Jos FRENCH and General Bratvora DE LISLE head of military relief generally, on facturer. respectively as a member of the Royal which approximately £2,750,000 has been Automobile Club Corps, and, as Official spen:. These two expenditures include Photographer of the 1st Cavalry Division, all the money we have distributed. took hundreds of unique photographs. Book Early at MÕUTRIE'S as the number of Available Scata is limited.

Friday Night, August 35th. Hongkong, Aug. 21, 1916

and

On still evenings of summer, after rain, By Slapton Lay, where' seed-beds itsit

and quiver When scarce a ripple moves the upland

grain.

Mr. Eden Phillpotts, the well known novelist, sent, by way of comment, the following description of Slapton Ley. ↑ Your poeb. marching on Tanga, German East Africa, has cooled his eyes with a vision of a West County "reed-rond, and for these who welcome his thought of England, the giver a longer glimpse Representatives of various

of Slapton Ley and its many beautics trides attached importance to the develop. ment and modernisation" of Britain may be welcome. It is a place, indeed,

that gives much. in summer time. canal system. It we urged that this

The little lake, nigh Start Point, les.. In the main the expenditure has so far reford would be of immense advantage been in the relief of military distress to export, trade, and relieve the railways! separated from the ten by a beach of bright shingle, upon one side of which le dealing with this we have three of much low traffic.. principal agencies-the Soldiers Refer of the banking systems on grow sea-holly and horn popoles and Sailors' Families Association, which looks-Ciernan lines, and the formation of trust convolvulus, while the other gleams with after the families and deals with the companies to sell goods for groups of purple drifte of the viper'a bugloss and $49 dependents of serving soldiers and sailors: manufakturers were among the suggest wormwood, just breaking into, the Soldiers and Sailors Help Society, tions made under the head of financial legon-coloured bloom Rare. Tianta which looks after the man himself while infance! There was a fairly generat nestle round about also, for almost within ho is on sick furlough or when he expression of opinion to the fact that the reach of the tides the purple surge discharged: and the Royal Patriotic Fund in granting loans to foreign countries wraggies with ruddy fingers while beside Corporation, which makes grants to the should, make it condition that some of the fresh water of the ley that maute widows and dependent relatives on the money raised should be spent la and infrequent herb, tie atrapart recurring grant.......

Britsin: Bad smo vitesses proposed dwells. Litterells is in the marsh with Grants have also been made to special that British Industries should receive water gladiolas, and the hound's tongue. institutions which are in need of funds, preferential treatment in comoction with stands ashore beside black henbane-thas such as St. Dunstan's and the Quesi money raised for focal, loans or by maligned but ces malignant beauty. Her pale, mazs-coloured blossoms are retted in each dass of goods. Besides being Mary Hospital for saulors and soldiers taxation. completa commercial guide to London and who have lost s lich. But the bulk of The value of the trade exhibition with purple traceries round the gloomy its suburbs, the Directory contains lists of the two and three-quarter million has organised by the Board of Trado was fully centre of mach blossom; ber seen, so

"EXPORT MERCHANTS

gone in supplementing separation allow recognised, and it was suggested that strange her foliage so exquisite, her three future exhibitions should be on a larger power to tremendous, win admiration and with the Goods they ship, and the Colonialances, and in grants to the

organisations mentioned above.

scale and be better advertised, both at respect. Here the dreamea crestura ad Färvige Markete they upply:

And this figurs of £50,000 for soldiers home and abroad, and that only real apart, plant of mystery, holding the dependente, and the atatement that no manufacturers should be allowed to keys of sleep and desth more will be sivanced in that way the exhibit. The stablishment of a great representative asked

LONDON DIRECTORY. (PUBLISHED AKNAEST) TINABLES traders throughout the World to communicata direct with English MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS

- STEAMSHIP LINES arranged under the Parte to which they sil; and indiating the approsinats deilings. PROVINCIAŁ TRADE NOMIⱭEA

their trade car tisements from £3.

The London Directory Co, Ltd.,

Archeach Lane, London, EC.

That figure represents the amount

annual trade' fale in London was recoza-

..1.

monded:

FOREIGN-MADE ARTICLES.

TAH › RELE-SONDE..

The lake and the shore, separated by a of leading Manufacturers, Varonante, etc.,

straight white road, bipod into a compiste In the principal; pruvindal towns and issued to the Royal Patriotic Fund industrial centres of the Calzed Kingdom Corporation, was the answer. A grant of

Representatives of practically all the picture,The blue su sweeps to the A copy of the current edition will be £5 is made the widow and of £1 for industries urged the necessity, in the horizon; the lagoon extends all rippled

with light and wind to its winding bank- forwarded, freight paid, en receipt of each child, ja respect of Casualties interest of British trade, of amending the of elm trees and nodulsäng lands Postal Order for 20%.

occurring up to the end of the presenta relating to copyright, patents, and whitening to harvest shove them. Green Dealers seeking Agencies can advertise month. After that we aball advance no trade marks, and also the Merchandise reeds wave in long, true lines squibes the

<£1, or larger advermore. From July 1st that liability will Marks Act It was contended that

every be transferred to the Statutory Committee uicle made in Germany, or Avetria ater and where the wind is still images of the upland are refected and bine. appointed under the Naval and Military Hungary (or every foreign-zaade article) Beneath the reads lie acres of brighter War Pension Ab

imported into the United Kingdom should bear a mark showing the country of great, facked with surahine, floating in crigin. The merk should be conspicuous medley and lifting their rims and and indelible, and its removal, covering pattines in lustfulness of life. Anid ver, or defecament should be punishable their foliage white water lilies star the by Imprisonment of the cffender and twinkle in queries upon the to the ordinary machinery of confiscation of the goods. Even small green Government Committee accordingly articles, such as sings, could be so appointed & Professional Classes Seth Most of the witnemes expressed the Committee," and "grants from the fund post of wire mensen and the

“CHINA - MAIL. "

PUBLICATIONS

BTAINABLE at the CHISA MAL

Ofits, B. Wyndhai Street, Hour. kong:-

HISTOFT OF UNION CHURCH

(1891-1903) HONGKONG'S "MUSICAL"

HISTORY in moram, NOTES ON WILD" LIFE" IN

·HONGKONG" AND SOUTH:~ CHINA (by Berk GA Banbury, MA), un man pa Part Tr-Marnstable and Birdetto. "Part II-Reptiles, Ang alt

THE MISSIONS PIRK

Charchon)

CHINESE

by J

SIR" KÖBERT HARTE LAND TEAUXAS-MEMUKĄKBUM FU

WARNING BOOKS (lu men)

FIORIRBÍÓÑAL RELIEF,"

Then with regard to the ralief granted to the professional classes. This presented special problems, and was difficult to deal with through

were made on the recommendation of this -

marketi

committee to-benevolent societies and seeded after the war It British industry similar associations where membership is wat to be protected against unfair com drawn from the professional olssses. It Petition, especially from Germany.-? was found, however, that there were cases outside the scope of these benevolent sociation, and a Professional Classes Special Ald. Bociety was appointed, "to dadli darecily" with them. Generally speaking thertord, professicusi, distrosi

COUGHING CONSUMPTION

| Oply a Cough, but you stop

It while it is ONLY a cough.

WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED CÖD LIVER COMPOUND

JAPAN AND THE ILLIES.

DECISION TO SHARE IN TRADE POLICY.

Tokyo, August 12.

ley

INTIMATIONS

AN OLD PROVERB

Wine and an old friend...

are without price everywhere."

HUNTS PORTS AND SHERRIES

1836.

ARE NOT THE CHEAPEST

BUT THÊY ARE THE

BEST

Vino de Pasto, Manzinilla, Maduro, etę.

Old White, Vary Old Taway,

Invalid, Newfoundland: sts.

DONNELLY & WHYTE,

SOLE AGENTS,

Queen's Buildings.

“AMUSEMENT WITHOUT DISCOMFORT.”

SEL

PALISADE

THE

OUT-OF-DOOR-PICTURES

LOCATION NEAR "POST" OFFICE, TOWLOON.

HERBERT, RAWLINSON,

(CUNIVERSAL

TO-NIGHT I

THE

POCKET

WIRELESS

in Parts

ard Episode of the Great Mystery ferial

"THE

BLACK

BOX"

BY EDULLIS OFFENHEIM-

THE LIFE OF GEORGI CARPENTIER

3. Parte

Sporting Drama featuring Georgi Carpentier, the Great French Boxer," and showing all his big fights, training, etc.

arunde, the great reed, nes grandlyO here and each spaer shaped blade rabs against its neighbour mutil the whole gurid makes silly alooyy music, and husbes the hour to silence" Above them a grey- haze fosts, like a little cloud. It movea not, for it is woven of last year's naked Bower-stalks, and its place will soon be yielded up to the purple panicies of autumn and another, harvest.

Once, of old-time, before Tand drainage the read ronds of the West Comm covered miles, and were of worth The culma wers used for thatching and are still coupled-better than wheat straw ju

The joint Chambers of Comments of many districts. Earlier yes, Brando wee Japan, which were attended by the employed spen, but presed luta disuse presidents of the chambers of all the when the goose-quil took its place. Your BRITTAMAA NAS Dawed a muscanions" "resolu

tidas to airport the decisions of the Economic Conference at Paris.

M. Nakano, faddressing the mecting, the advantages of the Russo 'dwelt

Tabli made su

alated: the

to support t

post for sway who loves the reeds may think of Marlin writing his verses with them, or Gildna, father of British history, scourging the Sazon invader with his

brown

Kiving reto of?

ITALIAN CAVALRY (Interesting) GUZZLE THE GOLFER (Keystone Comic).. BUSTER BROWN ON GOATS (Edison Comic). THE BORDER RANGER (Essangy Drama)-

Variety of Uses.

The uses to which LEAR PERRINS' SAUCE can be put are innumerable

At Luncheon, Dinner or Supper, it the ideal sauce for Roast Meats, Fish Game Cheese, Salad, etc.

In the Kitchen, it is indispensable to the cook for flavouring Soups, Stews, Gravies, Minced Meal, etc.

edia, & favourite "Pick-me-up" F&

ince with As

Lea

THE SUEZ CANAL.

12,053,464 tons in 1913, 12,910,278 tonel

in 191411856 06

19175

During the same period the zite Paper just fenur

German vessels decreed rpm 8252 297 the shipping and tonnage in 1913, 7,116, 910 tons in 1914, and nal, the net tonnage for disappeared entirely in 1915.

shows¦¦'s": "deortman of centage of Dnitial vessela 4.143,840 Come cumpared with 1914 tonnage in 1310 was 73.8 and 168 resp

tively, against 64.1 and 66.5 in 1974 58 and 60:2 in 1910.

with that

8:25 per ton The number of troops carried tarotig

with the the canal.ank your was 119,812

had

gunte

zeir

22248 858 in 1914 and

There was

FOR SALE.

OR CAR and; MOTOR CYCLE:

TIRES

Firestone and Kelly-Springfield.

ALL

BİZES

Copper Quena Belting

frda 1 inch to 50 inches.

EWING TAL

Hongkang Ang 7,7ime

SAVARESSE

SANTALO CAPSULES