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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1916.

Hughes & Hough

AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.

General Auctioneers

hare, Goal and Goners Produce

Brokers and Commission Agenta.

PROPRIETORS

Coal Storage,

Codes, used

Bentley'a

ABC. 4th & 5th Editions,

A I Telegraphic Code.

Telegraphic Address *MEIRION” · BONGKONG,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE mig sell by Pubic Auction, HE Undersigned have received in-

(FOR ACCOUNT.OF THE CONGERNAD)

ΟΣΙ

WEDNESDAY",

the 97th September, 1916, at 11 am,

at No. 2 Kimberley Villas,

(Top Flat), Kowloon,

A QUANTITY Or

YALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE.

&c. Comprising:--

AUCTIONS.

G.

PUBLIO PAVOTION.

PARTICULARS and Conditions of the

Public Auction Sale, to be hald on HUNDAY, the 2nd day of October, 1918, at 3 pm at the Odios of the Public Works Department, by Order of Eis Excellency the Governor, of Ons Lob of CROWN LAND st Kowloon, in the Colour of Hongkong for barm of 15 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Hant to be fixed by the Surreyur of His Majesty the King,

for ane further term of 75 years.

Particulars of the Lot

Lonality.

Kagiriay No.

Denndary

(Approximate)

FR

thy

11

130

1068

PUBLIC AUCTION."

THE Ündersigned "have received in- Tactions is so by Public action,

(POR ALCOUNT OF TIR CONCERNED).

On

ri

FRIDAY,

the 9th September, 1016, commencing at 9.30 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 2,

*Des Voeux Road, Corner of

Ice House STERET. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, 30.

Comprising

1 Persian Carpet (practically new), Large Brass and Brass-mounted Bed Sideboards, Dinner Waggon; Dining Tabies steads & quantity of Fumed Teak and Chairs, Chesterfield Sofa Arm-

THE CHINA MAIL.

SURGICAL MIRACLES OF

THE WAR.

'BROKEN MEN MENDED IN THE HOSPITALS.

AMPUTATIONS AVOIDED BY SCIENTIFIC METHODS.

A number of London journalists bare

tion which may have lasted three or four hours," the patiens can be brought round completely enough, to enable him, it ha wishes, to smoke a cigaratta. ›

HAND-BEND THE HEART

Two of the most remarkable operations performed in the London milfagy hoss pitals during the war havo succeeded in. vemoving a bullet from a man's lung in the ons case and a piece of shrapnel froni a man's heart in the other,

In the former casa a young Irishman was shot in the abdomen with a bullet which struck upwards and lodged in the

tung. It was found by the X-rays and. removed, and the man is on the poins of leaving hospital almost quite well.

been conducted over half a dozen typical military hospitals in the Matre pelitan area by Lieut. Col. Woodwark the Assistant Deputy Director of Medical Services for the London district. These severe pain in the ragion of the heart, In the second case the man complained. have seen surgical triomphs so poignant especially when he bent, and he had that the morbid words at Francie Thomp great diffealty in walking. The rays son about mankind boing, under sentence showed a hard substance at the back of

$' ef life and petitioning to have it com.the heart, and the surgeon, in the courna if the operation, had to put his hand muted into death have as last rointed behind the hears and take away the abrap themselves to încia; and they have seennel--which was of the size of a half- other surgical triumphs which have restored to life its colour and movement. Tho cases in which our soldiers has arrived everything, but existence relatively low, and one can even imagine their not being distressing to the rest of the world if the victims had been the real makers of the war Justice, how ever, la not so dramatic, and the buran

fragments saved by the surgeons were

ing of their doomed places in the game of high polities.

penny-with, his fingers.

Al was pumped info the man'a fangs taken to keep him alive during this tough- throughout, and all other precautions were

and-go process. Fortunately there was Ino spurt of blood when the shrapnel wer removed, and, the operation having been performed in March, the man is now perfectly well. The lang operation be, longs to the Royal Herbert Hospital and the heart operation the Queen Alexan dra, Hospital as Mall Banke

HAVE YOU A

BAD LEG

will sunade that Bocharry or achegarian In azrounded, wik MÄNNERIOR MAL: when you gesi yore lager on the bitte you, bara pulavi, which leder til the semmine Full bare tre Fechaps your kosNE FOR KONČÍNA, Ankles, round whlah the akin may be disssionrwy ww-boticon, will deptiva you of the pup, vt bơ v Just Bold your man in bogulan, se nërhad 12 OLD IN amputation, but do pată. Ty the Gestopper

• TACONE, which it a morgnik (even in chen në

.

GRASSHOPPER OINTMENT. AND PILLS. Percent by Alben,

Hawn, Prezligina" Street, Locks, Raghak

Agenta A. & Watson & Co" Id.

Henglong

DECIMAL COINAGE.

N

THE CASE FOR ADOPTION BY BRITAIN

The following abstract is from

phiet tud by the Decional Associa tion dealing with the simplification of the British monetary system and syetem of measures and weights-

No more complex method of calculation could be conceived by a commercial nation than is represented by our In at least two of the hospitals visited monetary and measures and weights the happy schoolboys of the playing field» only a summer or two ago, never dream-and it was impracticabis to see all the systems, which not only entail serious

children departments of all of them-the journal-loss of time for our

at school its found stiff joints being treated by but constitute a very seribus, draw back special exercises and training, and foreign nations which have long since development of our trade with to the It would be indecent to describe the age and electricity. There-ware-station-adopted the decimal system. The sim

systeme at this critica! meat calamitaus of these cases, and one bicycles for the ankles and the knees. Nohkestion of those:

sa apparatus for giving the same kind junctare, when renewing our efforts peed.only pause over them to repeat one of exercise that is giving by rowing a

regain what we have lost

loan to Continental. competitors who accomodated them- word

of reassurance and comfort. hout, and a grailuated wrist and grip selves to the customs of the country Instances of mutilations of the worst kind machine. In one brapital, the Hammer whose trade they sought, is advocated among the living are bound to be few, smith, there was the can courante bath, by the Chambers of Commerce throught- ar as it is sometimes called, the whirl-out the country, as also by our. Colories, who only await the adoption of, the because wounds which work havoc on's

to adopt themselves.

Bedroom Furniture in good condition-chairs, &c., Wardrobes and Toilet Tablos, man's body generally kill him; and the pool bath-which is said to have been decimal system by the Mother Country

Toilet Sets, &c, Arm-chats, Large Dochie and Single Brass and Brass-mounted exceptions remind the bereaved that it is Teakwood Setters, Long Bluckwool Bedsteads, &o, Miscellaneous Furniture, fatter all possible to sacrifice more than Marble inlaid Side Table Large 4-fold several lots of Blackwood Ware, 2 Pianos, life for one's country. Blackwood Screen, Hall Staud, Pictures, faw lots Porcelains & Pantry, Bath

Reem and Kitchen Utensils, o, Electric Fittings, Curtain Poles,

Arut

Pneumatic Tyred Ricksha (Full Particulars from Catalogue) TARMS-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, Sept. 21, 1916. → 1060

PUBLIC AUCTION, HE Undersigned bare received instruc. THE Undersigned is a 70 received in

(FOX ACCOUNT OF CONCENLU),

од

WEDNESDAY,

the 27th September, 1918, at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Rooms No..8,

Des Voeux Houd, Corner of Ice House Street,

SUNDRY SHIP CHANDLER'S STORES, Consisting of Lamps (Masthead, Port and Star -board, Ruby, etc) Glass: Ground, Red, and Green, &e), Brushes. Crockery and

Baloon Ware,

Also

a large quantity of Ship's Rubber Tiling, And a number of White Blankets Tegan (—Cush

FRELIMINARY NOTICE

Also

...

A selection of Brass Jardinieres, Vases, Finger Bowls, étc."

Full Particulars from Catalogua.) Terms --Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers,” Hongkong, Sept. 23, 1916.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

on

10rs

But the outstanding lesson of the) military hospitals ie that the ravages off... war are being more successfully combated than ever before. Limbs are being saved i which formerly would have had to come." off for gangrene, and cripples are being uncrippled who formerly would have become crippies for life. The X-rays and the new antiseptic treatments have Iresulted in miracles.

I-DAY WONDERs.

ارچه

The Royal Herbers Hospital at Wool- Undersigned have received instruc-wich which has one of the finest X-ray tions to sell by Public Auction, (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED), equipments in the country, and has already stated since the beginning of the war over 20,000 valuable X-ray photo graphs taken by the staff had recantly **"old cantidad-kenamestizomix the Steg. The X-ray showed the two bones of

SATURDAY,

the 30th-Baptak benta la

at 19.30 am, at their Sales Rooms,

1.

Des Voeux Road" Corner of Ice":

Blouse Street,

A MISCELLANEOUS STOOK

Comprising:

Gent's Shirts, Woollen Singlets, Pants, Dressing Gowns Bath Robes, a number of Pairs of Boots and Shoes, Toilet Soaps, Bath and Face Towels, Hosiery, &c., &c. Blankets, Table Clothe, Counterpanes, a quantity of White. Alpaca, a few Lota of Gries Cloths, Rain Coats, de, Holdalls and Suit Cases, &c.

very succreatul in France."

The work of other hospitals will be dealt with ina subsequent article.-

Daily Chronšale."

WOMEN AT WORK.

SOME MINOR WAR INDUSTRIES.

(BE A CORRESPONDENT IN THE TIMEL)

Within a mile radius in the East-end of Loudon, in unpretentious buildings with no sonring chimneys ar roaring engines hundreds tarning out articles

I have

are lately watched girls and woner in of war in thousands..

THE SIMPLICITY OF TENS... The simplest method of calculation is by tens and the decimal system" is merely the extension of this method so as to express fractional parts in plain numbers by the use of a decimal point, as for instance

9876 35 B whole number. 987.6 as a 1/10th of 9976. 98.76 as a 1/100th of 9876. 9.876 as a 1/100th of $875 but to add these numbers and fractions it is necessary to have regard to the position of the decimal point, placing the figures thus

1876

987.8

08.76"

9.876

10,972.230

Here is a courtyard lined with bales of flannelette, and on the far side the two storeyed building is full of girls making gas helmets. There are 180 girls and By this means we can add, subtract, sach makes 100 helmets a week. They multiply and divide without having sit at machines, guiding the material recourse to vulgar fractions and we are under needles that go or clicking, click enabled to do away with the compound log as a furious rate, impelled by invisi- rules of money and weights and measures, ble electric power. It seemed odd that whilst calculations for engineering, etc., these bell-shaped pieces of daanelette can be rapidly worked to a thousandth the fracture to overlap.no less than tin, could be helmets of any kind; but from crten-thousandth part sad the fracture was eight steeks old. something which a foreman showed me The surgeons, cutting away only an I could gues their efficacy against extension to two decimal places only,

one

Germen brutality.

As applied to money, however, it is considered expendient to confine the

eighth of an inch of the two bones, form of four minutes expressing hundredths or cents, for ins

And

to make

brought them together perfectly, as shown to m again by the X-rays, and fixed them in position with a steel plate, which remains ‡ of i screwed on the bone. The man, will be able to walk as well as ever.

In the optic cases here one can witness the vary process of limbs being saved from amputation by the intense injection into the affected wound of peroxide of

heimet takes

In the lower room. I say 70 thicknesses fandletterbted)

which, being first through

paper in wavy were turned by a single-application of an electric catter into 280 helmets. Up- stairs the scaming process was equally quick, Machines in row upon row keep whirring for 94 hours a day, and no wonder, that girls of 15 are earning £38. week and older girls as much as £3.

|-

STATIONERY Tics.

stance 293.76(ninety-eight dollars 76

cents)." THE FLORT AB UNIT.

Our principal coin, the sovereign, is of too high a value for subdivision on this footing as a 100th part would be 32/6th pence or nearly 3-much too large for the coin of the lowest denomi nation.

Our florin, howover, farmishes the solution, for whilst being the 10th part ofa Covereign, its 100th part approxi mates very closely to our farthing

we

It is accordingly proposed that should adopt the form the unit of our monetary system, and that it be subdivided into 100 parts or cents, in which case it would be possible to retain the sovereign as the 10 Borin piece.

following coins

“HUGHES & HOUGH,.

Arictionser. A number of Suit Lengths, Blue Serge, hydrogen or a stessly draining of the Hongkong, Sept. 29, 1916, 1065 Tweed, Vicuna, Flannel, &c.,

wound by enline, the injured part being

My next visit was, to a queer. Hittle caged in muslin, so that it is reached by Terms: Cash.'

the Altered air. The war, has produced industry. From vas: masses of ann elette: I passed to bits of green string. many cases of complicated fracture. It and snippets of tin. This is where the 6 common thing for a man to be Government's stationery tags are made brought into hospital with both arms. Fifty little girls were punching. round broken. The old-fashioned splints would tags

and ist

tags. Tin, ·by, s to huciform sizes, falls into a groova in The sovereign as the 5 forin piece, be an aggravation of the injury in sich the machine, and the girls clamp in and The forin as the unit or 100 s case, and the special splints associated string together by jerking forward and pine shilling, as the forin or 50 cent with the name of Mr. Jones, of Liverpool, iron palay, once for each end of a tag The

FUBLIC AUCTION.

Undersigned have received in

Tstructions Loun the Liquidators of

Messrs. Wirzxe & Co., to sell by Public Auction on their premises,

No. 1 Ningpo Street, Yaumati

A Labge QUÁNZTETY OF VALUABLE PLANT, MACHINERY, TOOLS, &c., including Cast Iron Scrap and Metals,

As follows

Length

Late

with Fulley?

Machine

I

com-

“HUGHES & HOUGH.

Auctioneer Hongkong, Sept. 25, 1916. --

1074

PUBLIC ADOTION..

is

cept

INTIMATIONS

AN OLD PROVERB

and an old friend aro, without price everywhere.”

HUNT'S PORTS AND SHERRIES

TEL 430

ARE NOT THE CHEAPEST.

BUT THEY ARE THE-

BEST.

Vino de Pasta Manzanilla, Maclure, Old White, Very Old Tanay, Invalid. Newfoundland, at

DONNELLY & WHYTE,

SOLE AGENTS,

Queen's Build

A Double Safeguard.

When buying Worcestershire Sauce, always look for the signature in White

Lea

on the Red label, and see also that the name LEA & PERRINS is embossed in raised letters on the glass bottle,

LEA & PERRINS' label and bottle are copied to such an extent that these precautions are recessary, in order to make

sure that you are being supplied with the original. and, genuine. Verastershire and not one of its mady Imitations.

HORLICK'S

MALTED MILK

is made from Wheat, Barley and Milk and is therefore rich in musele and bene-making. qualities, and is the ideal Food-Drink.ior_the_ East. It helps nature to restore lowered kitality and is invaluable in the case of -the convalescent.-:

Order Hariick's from your Stores and judge its recuperative powers 'for yourself cooking add water only,

Of all Chamints and Stoess

in 3 dzas: 1/6, 2/6 & 11/- (in England).

view to providing a coin practically identical in value to the penny.

#IMPLE FÓR GERAN; BRITAIN.

The decimal monetary system is al

no

HORLICKS

MALTED MILK

.POSERS.

The writer of the

Office Window

HE Undersigned havo received in which give the arms to easy position and The machines work sd quickly that a plot pence as the florin or 25 cent ready in uss in practically all the citi column in the Daily Chronicle

structions to sell by Public Auction, (The ACCOUNT OFEEL CONCERNED),

.:.OR

AN EARLY DATE: The following LIGHTHOUSE GEAR

Due occulting apparatus, complete Circular wick lamps.

Spare burners.

Cylinders and wick Incandescent Petrol Lamps, appurtenances

and

no

The

allow of a certain amount of play, have child can curve 15,000 tags a day.

Elsewhere what was once s shop is

is piece proved & boon which cannot be:

The crown and four shilling piece ars a factory for the machining of exaggerated.

khaki-coloured handaliera. Here 80 girls not now waxed and the half-crown and SEVERED VIRVES.

were turning out 64,000 bandoliers a 3d piece might well be withdrawn also. week, and some of them are earning sa Three of the proposed additional coins Narva-injuries in all these hospitals much as 108 a day. Esoir strand is out- represented in outline below, correspond

with five ponones for cartridge, wel

elcsely to the existing farthing, afford interesting examples both offlined with

penny and penny and the 10 cent surgery and electrical treatment. Some sad machinists were busy sewing these times simple umasage will remove the far I had hate in com piece will be much appreciated coin of

veen what

sire than the 3d local-muscular paralysis. In such cases considered light fork, suitable for piece.

wedThe new coins would if not, the electrical treatment is given women and girls. My fourth visit showed

chance. When everything else has what women can achieve in replacing A 10 cent piece in nickel (Approximat failed, the man is operated on, All may was a factory where shirts are made for 45 cent piece in nickal

men at heavy manual labour. The scene ing to the value of 24d) boʻput right simply by freeing, the nerve a Serbians and for British soldiers. Owinging to the value of 1d.).

chauffeures v

One Electric Lighting Set, consisting of Highspeed Vertical Steam Engine, &c. &cs complete with Mountings and Switchboard, Marine Multi tubular Boiler with Furnace, Boiler complete with all Mountings

and Feed Pump One Horizontal Compound Non-Condensing Stenuit Engine with Pipe Connection Valves and Storage: Tanks Several Double

A quantity of gear pertaining to Geared

Cutting and Screw

fry the track of a bullet, and often it to the war, women are doing. All the 4 cent piece i in bronze (Approximat Bhears of

Mooring Buoja, varying

la possible to join together the two ends work here. They act is overseers, uting to the piece in bronze (Approxima

the value of 14.) До & Shaping. A number of Locomotive wheels and of Bevered Derve and thus restore itikers, as hanters as dispatchers and

Here "word canvas Ing to the value of ida) pano complete with Shaft, Slotting Arles NEVER

bronze (Approximat eels and ronductivity. Or the surgeon may find covered packages measuring some ft. by A1 cent piece i Machine complete, 1 power and

Further particulars may be obtained that piece of the nerve has been 4ft, and I learned that three women ing to the value of day hand driven Screwing Machine Shaft, from the undersigned.

destroyed, and then, of course, he is in

stitch these Con

the rate parcels at the

of The difference being that there are 98. Miscellaneous Amortigent of Dies;

Terms: ad usual

dilemma, 100 an hon? Ext the stitching is by no farthings in the Florit, where as there

means all. When the packages are ready, would be 100 centa. One resourceful surgeon found four woman hoist them into a car and

The cent piece is proposed with a Inates of a nerve in an arm gone. He woman drives theroul to the War Office. telephoned to the other London hospitals less cheering sight met me at yet to loquire its amputation in pot-bags in hundreds lying piled in a another factory. Here yere soldiers specs, and learned that, man was to corner of the building Why were they have his leg of that siternoon.

lying there, useless Because the con tract for the cords had been placed-in Ireland, and rebellion in Ireland meant (among many other thingy that these

tical Double Geared Drilling Machine complete One Double Pillar Geared Veriscal Drilling Machine: (equivalent to two machines) by Appleyard & Cou

·Halifax, England an

blum Steam Hammer One Double Column complete with all econections, Ons Belt- driven Draught Blower for Blacksmith. Shop Complete with connections, One Ore Washing Tank with agitating Gear Shafting, de, den die, pot

Also

Pulleys, asserted Pelting, a large uantity of Miscellaneous Material Tools, &c., Tubes and Fiping, Steel Bark, Iron, Steel and Cast Iron

A large varied assortment of Brass Valvia and forks Brass Rods, Machine. Screws, Copper Pipoy, Copper Plates,

SUNDRY OFFICE FURNITURE (Full Particulars fram. Catalo Time and date of Bal

"HUGI

BOUGE,

Hongkong

BUGHTS & HOOGH,

Auctioneers 34.1918

FOR SALE

He asked that the limbs healthy one, should be put at once in à vaime bath

NEW broad carriage TTFING and brought to him by tax He had bla cords) were delayed in deliv A MACHINE for sale.

Price $70.00 or less

Please apply

Hongkong, Sept. 27, 1910,

TANG YUK DETE

the gate BTEN, TEN

#14" D'AQUILAE STREET.

RODERATES

patient ready under a sosthetic on the episode set me thinking on the intimate urtival of the limb, still blood-farm, and connection of war and industry, and on

"and to promptly trasferred four inches of nerve the many questions of tox from the amputated leg to the arm of the OTO with which the things I had

Been were closely linked 1073 patient with the best romulte tak Patients are disappol

the

Trepai

CHRONIC DIARRHOEA

The Man Who Gets There

Is the man who has blood- reat deh red blood rand plenty

body.

WATERBURY'S. METABOLIZED:

COM

OUND

responsible for the following

Things we see but don't notice ware

lized countries of the world except Great Britain.

Canada bas adopted it and the Austra har Commueryealth is now moving for under discussion at the club luncheon its adoption by the Mother Country and table, some one asked who had seen that the Colonies generally, thus supporting morning's issue of a newspaper which a the efforts of the

the Decimal Association blushing modesty prevents my mentioning

home ETH Z

countries had considerable by name. Most of the lunchers had teem difficulties to overcome in the adjust it. Had they noticed slight innovation. ment of their coinage to the decimal in its contents? As it happened to system, but with Great Britain the had this was the opportunit change as exemplified would be impli

city itself as it would not involve any member who took pride in his superlativ alteration in

in the valus

use expression of

silver coins now in of the gold and powers of observation. sterling in Borins and cents or uses neres,

By this theme the

TOBY

aat ght thus

be done. 2876-FI 8760 or 878,000 centa 2673 1966d- FL. 6753:25. TEN 257 98. 114-FL 874.99. Florins and d canta in sterlingr

Taking from his note-case. I criter one-pound note he laid if our plate and offered. Its equivalent, to every

at the fable who could answer cor the following airple every day questions 1. On looking at the face of a perny with. the-dated side towards you and the

crats or F1-837 062815. id. at the bottom, does the head of the 83.796 cats The decimal system is just as readily on the coin face towards your lef

to weights and mesures, ns in applied

perfectly demonstrated by the metric or towards your right system, and the Decimal Association ribs are there strongly advocates the use of this all umbrella? 8. In embring system (which was legalized in rings, bre in this country by the Act of 1807) by

tradespeople and other antil the times his profile only it

ripe for the substitution of the metric of the kinga la wystem as the Imperial weight and angis, in the measures.

howarder the atam: The one pound

In the meantime, it is deerneci advise ables to petition Parliament to decimalize our present, currency, so that the poet

the Pechod

The British soldier, syan against

in bug notic

brains but could aat to their

tha

ack

tion freek