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FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1917 ».

WHAT WOMEN IN THEIR

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AJOTIONKERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.

General Auctioneers Share, Coal and General Produos Brokers and Commission

Agents.

PROPRIETORS" *To-Xwa-Wan*. Coal Storage,

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Telegraphic d'adress

KRINION" HONGKONG.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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THE Undersigned have received in- structions from The Hon. The Director of Public Works, to sell hy Public Auction,

CO

SATURDAY,

the 28th May, 1917, coramencing

at 10.20 .m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner, of

Tee House Street,

A. Few Lots of BRASS FITTINGS, &

Comprising:

Brass Fan Light Catches;

Brus Casement Easteners, Bras Spring Latchum,

Indicators for Switch Boaf,

l'othes for

dos

&E.

Cast Iron Sockets for Gutterings.

&a

&c., Termos :-Cash.

HUGHES & HODGE,

Anctiongers. Hongkong May 23, 1917.

THE

PUBLIC AUCTION,

"FORTIES" NEED

THE CHINA MAIL.

SCOTTISH LETTER.

(From Our Own Correspondent.),

11

April It.

beautiful isles of Greece Full many a bard hath songs;

the isles I love best is far in the

THE INEX OF MIST.

But

WeHD.

Where men weak the Gaelic tongue, Ithaca, Cyprus, and lihodew

ANY women approach the critical changing period of their lives that copos between the ages of forty and fifty unimindful of its tremendous impostaner to their future health and happiness.

Not unalorstanding the functional changes taking pince in their bodies, they work beyond their strength, often break down, become nervous wrecks, their bodies suffering with fatigue and their weakened nerves trembling at every stop. Often in their Áre names to the ioses dear;. weakened condition capillary hemorrhat sweeter still doch leohtukill agu becomes excessive, this added drin

Full on a Scotsman's ear. compelling tham to take to their beds

Pet them sing of the sinny South, from nervous exhaustion.

Where the blue Argman stiles, 1st give to me the Sepitish seas

Thot break round the Western Isles !

elemen

strain.

known to modern chemistry.

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What these women twee is something that will instantly relieve the pressure on the overworked nerve centors and girs them the vitality to stand up under the grueling

Wonderfully effective reunits are given in such en bas it that when one of the conditions by the simple use of Sargul Macleods of Skye wad uning his Tablets, a skillful combination of air of descent from Arm, he was asked the best nerve and strength vitalizing what position his ancestors held in These little tablets contain no dangerous Nosh's urk, and he proudly replied habic-forming drugs and are entire that the MagLeods bud, a bent of build up and strengthen the entire their own." It was therefore in the harmless in their action but they quickly nervous system by feeding directly toerend fitness of things that, when the tired devitalized nerve cells, in

rtificial form, the very necessary all the other parts of the Highlands elements of which naturs is deprivingmite in one ghidebook for the them.

Thousands of women could testify visitors to the grest Highland Feill. that Nargal Tablets strengthen the jaded that is, fair, the Islesiner should news, revive the tired brain and pat the energy and courage into your body wefuse to be included are write a that enables you to stand up under the look of their own. And they have unasted strain of the changing period.

good book fu!! All the leading chemists in Hongkong Published a hare Sargol Tablets for sale..

fenthusiasm for the Isle of the Mist, Don't warty take Sargil."

found of thing loend patriotistu sung by

the tute Professor Nicolson,

AUCTIONS.

G.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

** Permajer, Athos, und live,.

2 would sew them beiore I die:

THE scortau PORK TAHOO.

It

spoon and asked the to get him to take what was in it. But "the" Scot

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go upon, and in bronił Aberdeenshire The appeal issued by the Board of Baxt, Faur are 3, frav, tout Agriculture with regard to pig rear And a voler, strangely far away. ing Evolves more than the suspen-replied. Fene Aberdeen, of course, four ther? "You're a lordon, son of certain sanitary laws. strikus also at ʼn very ancient and aren't you." "Of coorsa; fat else wad I 587 The orderly, gave me li interesting prejudice pesius pige prevaleht in my parts of Soot. In ziel. Dr. Samuel Jolinson WOR astonisher, during his famous tour began to try to drink insteads of through the Hebrides, to And supping. So I said to him. "It's a that the islanders abhorred the speen at it's nae a bottle." pig and all pork. The only pig he"," said again that far-off voice. with a touch of fur in it, but maybe saw in Skye was at Dunvegan No great chunge has taken place size imir accustomed to a bottle?" his day. During my Hatine,"

A STEVENSON STORY. saya att islander, “I hava sượn only two pigs in Barra they had been washed ashore from a week, and were promptly ding into the sem again." In Cacile lore the devil is the big black pig. It is still possible to met wie haters not mily in the Western Isles but alsof certain districts in the North and East of Scotland. Many people absolutely refuse to eat any part of a

well known Gaelic, story in

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Mr. James Patrick has made a life-long study of Robert Louis Stevenson, and tells story which has not been published. A nuber of years ago the late Mr. Johnston, R.S.A... was painting a watercolou of the cottage of John Tod. “The Bearing Shepherd," when up eme aw, lanky looking chop." te quote Mr. Jonson's emp words,

and peeped over my shoulder. I was not particularly anxious to show Sutherland refers to the nu ** whe

my sketch, in its unfinished state, so tornited last year's pir." He was a

1 held it to my breast" To my given on astonishment the lanky-looking chup farm servent, and was Now. Year's morning fain and eggs stepped in front of the and, storing

· for "breakfast... On the next New me in the fur, said 'Shun, is it as, Year's morning he was offered friet bad as that?and, turning on his pork and eggs. He refused to check walked away. When he was pork, wal when he was told that out of sight, I askyil an "old plough;

For Ed rather not see any one it the lurs he had eaten twelve months Iman Who is that cheeky fellow?

Three.

o Thai he exiled for ever trom, pikyo 5* However rich anal full life may be in the Lowlands or beyond the "gs, Themal Highlander never loses time

betoge was also pig, he went outside and vomited. When a Sutherland. shite man, phyrefore tams tap au ale grievance, he is said to bë““ voniting last year's pig." The Momy Firth:

and he replied, 'That's young Louis Stoskusmi; tak' two hood what he says; he's half-duft?“

MISCELLANEA-

DARTICULARS and Conditions of the lamour of the glens, ind Madlenn Esierten have superstitious notions (the Glasgow Sunday Post, spent the

Letting by Public Auction Sale, to be Watt, one of our finest poetic writers, held on TUESDAY, the 20th day of May.attributes to this Skyn hk of the 1917, at 3M, at the Otheen of the Publie 1485 Works Depertinent, by Order of His Feill na address to his old" home in

Excellency the Governor, of Two Lots of the North. CROW LAND at Chaseway Bay, in the Colory of Hangkong, for a term of 26 years, with themption of renewal At a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 56 years.

HE Undersignen have received in- atructions to sellby Public Auction. (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERN ED)

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SATURDAY,

the 28th May, 1917, at

11 ani, at their Sales Boons, No. A,

De Vieux Road, Corner of ..

Tom Hops STAZKT

A number of Books dealing with the

study of the Chinese language and text kuoka in connection."

-As usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, May 1, 1917.

PUBLIC

AUCTION.

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BE Undersigned have received in Trucions to sell by Public Auction. (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),

00

TUESDAY,

the 20th May, 1917, commencing at 230 pm, at their Sales Booms, No. 5,

Des Verax Rodd, Corner of

los Hov STRIZI, VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND. BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,

*C.,

Liti

Comprising:

Upholstered Suites, Arm-chairs and

· Particulars" of the Lots.

Leality.

Causeway Ba

Boundary Hesmites.enia. {Approximate)

gila 16.sep

de ploa

lout

PUBLIC AUCTION.

A good many people, according to

Spring Holidays in the pleasant task of digging miniature trenches and ramoning them with rows of khaki- coloured potatées.

aluut pigs. If one of the meets pig on going to his bout in the morn Ling, he will return be and set put again. No raention of a pig must be katunde in a Bshing bout at sen. It A speaker" at a lunge prohibition can be referred to gnly as "the cald | mesting in Edinburgh said he "was iron, beast. Mention, of u „aninister glad to see on the platforms that night. is similarly forbidden. He is the men whose names had never before uyer the hills can blowing and beeld trum gentleman." Evidently been associated with temperance." tolls now it muuto din dreuttis and these superstitions are of Pagan | Quite true perhaps, but very unkind -

· Whisper among the braclion, ant

to the lion and the heather That still my heart is their,"

Again, wind from the West out

mentaries,

"And I thought that I see in iuyr

the wild the growing,

origin. In the opinion of Doruild A. Mackenzie, the Slotfish pork taboo

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The war has abered our point of

And the scent of the sweet bog nardes de rigs of the Neolithic agricul view in regard to many things. A puists, who must läve effected an, prófessorud ur querying a spado filled guy heart

intellectual conquest of their con- now attracts much less attention than uerors and the fact that it still a brother iwyer, say, shouldgring à Persists in the remoter Highlands bag of gilf clubs. The other day u kang with certain itamemorial mates lorry kaided with potatoes saved out- thought is of oxevesling interest to safe at grevin-grocer's shop in Eline mtbiopologists.

burgh. People passing, along the pavement stopped to icok at the fransund sight." Sothe of theth were

but satisfied till they head stopped fors- ward and grippett the tunes through the bag

It is a praiseworthy book the Skye then have issues, it deserves to live bestand the pissing bear for which it wa written, and thus pressing need lur which it was sold to provide comforts for thgrawn of the Highland Brygade And throughout it there car tributes to the men of Skye wha have fallen in the Great War, the descemiants of the race of whom it was raid, ** they" went out to battle, 1813 and they always fell."

12,371

THE HIGHLANDERS IN FRASCE. The interest which the people of the French towns and villages show

Y direction of the Government ofed at the beginning of the war in the

B Hongkong Mesars, HUGHES and Scottish sokliers has not abated, says HOUGH have received instructions to rell by Public Auction,

on

MONDAY",

Victoria, Hongkong.

a better four the front. The piper are the great centre of interest, and the wild flourish of the drunk thrills

i

|

Suites of

SIM PRICES.

Sexudatiavians are blond for the high current prices in the United our relant vessels, writes the correspondent of a Clyde side | Journal, « To some extent the statement is true. Ametienn prices are very high, and the phucing of con bracts by Norwegians has been a large cause of their rise. How high they in some recent tenders to are rung fie judged Irom the fact that

" Con-

timental firm, the lowest quoted pries.

as almost exactly double that estimated on the watre spécification.

Sofas, Card Tables, Bedroom Furniture, the 13th day of August, 1917 at 3 r..the crowd. In big towns just as mounted Bedsteads, Twin be comprising Double and Single Brass at their Sules Room, Tee House Street, much as in' sleepy humilets the excite y a British firm which could not, i (Tesicwood), Sideboards, Dinner guns Extension Dining Tables and Claire, Tea and Occasional Tables, etc., Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Sets, &c. Bath Room Utensils, Roll-top Desks and

Tables, Sundry Writing

Electro-Plated Ware, etc.

*

The Following VALUABLE LEASE HOLD PROPERTY situate at Victória Hongkong Viz —.

ALL THOSE pieces or parcels of ground situate at Victoria aforesaid and

ін

closed. I remember what a

The Edinburgh "Dispatch" prints: the following "skip": --

So you're ill, Kaiser Bilg And you're looking such a mualds-

coloured green,

And

Do yourrealise, at În st

That your plories are all pest, your "dian was just a never-

bould-inive-been?

INTIMATIONS

Economy.

With LEA & PERRINS' Sadiče, a few drops only are necessary to give A delicious and appetizing flavour to the plainest dish.

A far larger quantity of cheaper sauce fails to give the same satisfaction.

Observe

the sigrasture.

Pu

Lea Ferrins

acrontiered inbet on every belle.

The original and genuine Worcestershire.

THE EVER POPULAR

·HOUSEHOLD" REMEDY

Which has now bome" the Stanip of Public Approval ter

OVER FORTY YEARS.

ENO'S FRUIT SALT

PLEASANT TO TAKE,

REFRESHING AND INVIGORATING.

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IT IS VERY BENEFICIAL IN ALL CASES OF

Biliousness, Sick Headache, Constipation, Errors in Diet-Eating or Drinking, "Thirst, Giddiness, Rheumatic or Gouty Polson, Feverish Cold, with High Temperatura and Quick Pulse, and Feverish Conditions generally. It is everything you could wish as a simple and Natural Health-giving Agent.

Prepared only by

J. CENO, Ltd., 'Fruit Salt' Works, London, England

SOLD BY CHEMISTS AND STORES EVERYWHERE

AUCTION.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersized has received instrue Gots from the Liquidators of Messrs. Jax & Co. in pursuance of an order, Fublic Auction at 12 o'clock (Noon) on of the Bangkong Government to sell by

TUESDAY,

the 31st day of July, 1917, at bis Sales Rooms, DUDDELL STREET,

of course, take the job at any price. CONDITIONS AT VLADIYOSTOCK ngut is great when in the evening Norwegian contracts also, no doubt, the Kilted fellows swing down to the

COMPLETE ORDER PREVAILS, account for the high Canadian prices, square to play the "Retreat with for Dominion builders, chicly on the which the day of i Highland corps Paine Coust, were pet lang ago person. Embassy, received through the An official communique from the Bus

of foreign work. But they cannot be the Japanese press articles have been Reading Lamps, Blackwood and Teak as SECTION & OF MARINE LOT our men in one place. "Duro said to be responsible for the Japan-published containing false information Piano is good condition, Electric known and registered in the Land Office opolitan mob athered around atted to su censiderable amount Rokumi News Agency, states: initely it Wood Screens, & quantity of Blackwood NO. 101 and SECTION “B” OF Indians of every kind, some Algerians Furniture, Engravings, Pictares, etc., eta

These articles spike about unsettled Also

MARINE LOT NO. 101 Together with Nigerians, and all sorts of French prices, which are just as high about the situation in Vladivostock. Tennis Feles and Netting, Porcelain thereon known a No. 7 Queen's Road

the messunges erections and buildings soldiers, as well as the representative as those of the United States. In conditions, existing in the town, which

THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD Cigar Cabinet, Large Bath, Brass Finger Bowls, Carpets (New and second hand), Central, Victoria aforesaid. Term sua classes of the place, formed a great all probability prices would have been were said to endanger the safety of the Child's Cots, Perambulators, etc, etc years created by a Crown Lease dated circle, and load was the applause just about where they are even if the card landed there. Such inforamtion PROPERTY situate at The Peak,

(Fall Particular from Catalogue.) | thẻ 8th day of April 1896.

which greeted the performance Scandanavians had never "ordered my mislead the public by creating Hongkong, and being Rural Building

erronemis impression that it is not safe Lot No. 19.

IN ONE LOT Teams :-Cash..

Area in respect of Section "A" of The pipers played the well-known to outside their own mountries. It end goods vis Vladivostock.". HUGHES & HOUGE, Marine Lot No. 101-8445 84. treh founded on the melody known is not fashionable in these days to be

The Rosian local authorities deny the The property consists of tem Auctioneers

Proportion of Annual Crown Bent $84.45.

to Highlanders The chuan a optimistic about anything, but it abovw.mautioned rumours, which are Hongkong, May 23, 1917.

Area in respect of Section "B" of chuir eagal air clannu nan. Gaides to me that, provided ble pieta order reigns in Vladivestock, and

declared to be absolutely fatse. Com Marine No. Proportion of Annual Urown Bent $6.75. heul that is, The suu's putting to maintain its speed of production, For further particulars and conditions tear on the sons of the Gael," or the the British slúpbuilding industry of sale apply to

JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, fear which is the awe that springe should do pretty well after the war.

اللارد

1835

in-

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received

structions to soll by Public Auction, (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCRETED), Un

FRIDAY,

the lat June, 101, commencing at 2.00p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner

of Ice House Street, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &c.,

- Comprising Teak Twin Bedsteads, Sideboards, Dis ner Waggon, uto., Extension Dining Tables and Chain, Chesterfield Sofas, Argo-chair, dc., Wardiphos Toilet Tables, Cote, &c., Siscellaneous Faraiture, Pictures, c. Ball-top Dunk, Binckwood Wars, including Cabina Wardrobes, Stands, de, Biam Fauders and Fire Brasses, fe lute, Fosceline and Carios, &c., T'antry and Kitchen Transile, Electric Lampy, Fans, Riminelled Baths, Carpets and, Hugar

Full Particulare from Catalogus.)

GAUGEES & HOUGH,

Prince's Buildings,

Ice House Street, Hongkong. Bolicitors forthe, Liquidator of TRE DEUTH AMatisone BanK.

of to

"Messri. HUGHES and ROUGH,

„The Auctioneerst. dongkong, May 9, 1917.

177.7

HIMROD'S

Dives. Instant Rollof

what your respiratóry organs may be mallaring wron—better BASTHMA, INFLUENZA, HAZAL DÄTARRN, OPA ORDINARY: ODUGH.C you will död Is this ££moui,xwidy #restorative power that As" - slang ly

LEKWARE OF

CURE FOR

LASTHMA

"

>

OAIM RUMOUÉ. One day an English orderly said u Scottish Army Chaplair, "There's a Scotsman here with a

from the sorrow of parting. As it ring through that square, waking echoes among the tall houses of ato foreign land, one could not help thinking of the grief in the glons und Pore head wound, practically incon through the islands away across the

agious, and we can't get anything Whiters, when one rutetabered that

either out of him er into I would. there ial scarcely a home in Sestland- that does not mise for ever on earth you speak to him? The Scot lud the footfall and the voice of a beloved Gordon kilt below the bed, so that, one And it means for us, they the Chaplain, gave me a kint to

ildren of the Gael, something

| which is more than for other folks. It means the thinning out of an ancient ruce, the fading awty of one of the old languages of Europe; and

CROUP

I disease is so dirigerous and so rapid in its development that every mother of young children should be a great unbridged gap in the course prepared for it. It is very rinky to whit This wur? menna until the attack of croup appear and of a generation

then sand for medicine and let the child something for us as swift and sudden suffer antil it can be obtained. Cham- as the blowing out of a crudin or the berlain's tough Remedy is prompt and drawing of a curtain, for many wide effectual and has never been known to fai) in any cups Always have a bottle districts, indeed, the end of an old in the home For sale by all Obemists

and otorekeepers Bong,

the general situation in the port, afar

The piece or parcel of ground and Peak, situate near Mount Clough in the premises known as "Lysholt," 104 The

[ARTIN'S.

MEPH

MARK MARTIN'S

AFIOLS

"CHINA MAIL

PUBLICATIONS.

at the

Colony of Bongkong with an art of TAINABL a Street, Hons.

as the movements of cargo are concerned; 124032 square feet and registered in the has been greatly improved since the Land Offes as Rural Building Lat. No. recent political events.

COUGHING INTO CONSUMPTION

"Only a Cough but you stop

it while it Is ONLY a cough.

WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED: COD LIVER OIL, COMPOUND

The Roest preparation mada for combating Devere cough CURES any cougnbat it baly 2

Very palatable

OF ALL CHEMIS75””

RICES: 126 and 32.25

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HISTORE OF UNION CHURCH

(1801-1803)

BISTORY...

The lot in hold for the apexpired. residue of a term of 75 years created therein by an indentare of Crown Lease HONGKONG'S MUSICAL dated the 2ird day of April 1898. 1

The Annual Crown Rent is $96.00. For further particulars and conditions of sale apply to Messra Wilkinson & Grist, Solicitors for the Liquidators, er to the undersigned.

GEO, P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer. Hongkong, April 30, 1317.

1748

TANG YUK DETIs, enccessor to the late FLEN JING,

14 D'AGUILAR STEITIA

TERMS VERY MODERATE.

Consultation free.

NOTES ON WILD LIFE L

HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA (by Bér. 6. Bunbury, M. A.) Part-I-Mainmals and Birds Part II-Reptiles, Ams

THE MISSIONS ETRANGERES (History of the Eastern Churches) ***

CHINESE 80HOOL BOOKS as The King.", krutilated": by E. J. Eital)

JIK ROBERT HARTS LANTE

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