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TUESDAY DECEMBER 18 1817.

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(From Our Com Corresponciant;}

EDINBukan, October '80,

CHAIRMAN OF LABOUR PARTY,

land. The "Dictionary of National valmost all done before 1780, and thero Biography" states that Sir Richard is not much "ium' of any kind in was the son of Lord Hartford's wife; "Tam o'-Shanteras Maria Fagnani; but Lord Bedendale

What, then, was Burna politicak places it on record that, ou authority standpoint in his great years? Pro ho knew to te beyond doubt, Wallace fessor Ker, in the current number of was the illegitimate son of Lord the Sedth Historical, Review," Hartford himself (when Lord Yar green with Sir Walter Scott that is the new Chairman of the Parlis-mouth) by a Scots girl of low birth.he was a great Pittite down to a Haibeath Dunfermline, 54 years ago, Some years afterwards Lady Hertford come when the genius of Charles mentary Labour Party. Born in Agnes Wallace, afterwards Jackson certain period. The time was to

Air. Adamson, M.P. for West File,

be began working ins coal mine when heard of the boy, and deemed it her he was 11 years of age.

He is now duty to take charge of him

SVEN HEDIY AT SINIA.

Share, Coal and General Produos W morning did you bound from bed WHEN the alarm clock rang this wide awake, bright eyed, clear minded and whistle while you dressed! Did you go to breakfast with the appetite of a horse and leave for work feeling it, brimful of ideas

ready energy.

the Sectamry of the Fife, Clack-rasponded to her care with the your work with

and Kinross Miners heartiest, affection, and made himself Not if you're

're the average citizen. You stretched and gaped and said, "another Association having been officially of the utmost value to her and ta ber day and you are slowly feeling vague connected with the organisation in ly despondent and uneasy and not a

son-quite indispensable, indeed. rested. The day's taska were a thing to one capacity or another for nearly dread. Something nasty had crawled 30 Years.. A strongman and in your mouth and slept there all night straightforward, it says much for his Sir Bruce Setch continues his

on had no appetite your work was mechanical and

got in the rat finally and pulled by the mine-owners in his district. Germany in India before the war, and purpose. True character that he is widely respected exposures of the machinations of through

after a fashion, but you weren't and you realized it. You lacked He entered Parliament in 1910, and in one of his articles in the Glasgow ambition, energy, vim, nerve force and is a warm supporter of our Imperial Herald he gives an interesting you couldn't concentrate. There, was no

He account of the impression that Sven Boy or happiness in the day's work of interests in the present war the reward it brought you.

demands that there shall be no Hedin made on society at Simla Such symptoms don't necessarily prove that you are ill, but they are incomplete peace, and that Prus-The cult of the foreigner varied in certain indications of weakened norve sianism shall be completely and diferent Simla seasons, he says. It force and evidence that your nerve cells

Mr. Adamson probably depended to some extent on THE Undersigned have received in are not being properly nourished and finally crushed.

by Public Auction, strengthened,

metal and physical is below par and succeeds to an office which has the presence of people who could you are only 50 per cent. efficient-just always been held by a Scotsman,speak foreign languages. Lord Kit

Talsgraphic Address:

"MEIRION* HONGKONG.

AUCTION.

PUBLIC AUCTIO

FOR_ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),

FRIDAY,

the 21st December, 1917, at 10 am,

at that Bales Roots, No. 8,

Des Vævz Roan, Corner of Ice. Hoare zroek. 11

SUNDRY DRAWING AND DINING®

ROOM GOODS AND BED ROOM. LINENS. Comprising

For DRAWING ROOM-Bras Bowls, Brass Vases, Incense Burners, Kinkoean Vasce, Jardinieres with Stands, fapanese Photo Frames, Flower Vases, &c., &c.

For DINING ROOM-An assortment of Table Glass comprising, Soda Tam blers, Tumblers, Sherry Glasses, Fort and Liqueur Class, Champagne Tumblers, Class and Brass Finger Bowls, Decaters Ice Cream Plates and a few lots of Damask Table Clothes, &, &c.

For BED ROOM-Single and Double Bed Sheets, Bath Towels, Face Towels, Sheetings, Fillow Cases, Satin Quilts, Counterpanes.

Also

A few Suit Cases and Sundries. Terms --Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers

Hongkong, Dec. 14, 1917.

system-

half your real self. In uch a condition his predecessors in the Chairmanship chener, who spoke French Huently, you can do nothing better or get quicker having been Mr. Keir Hardy, Mr. action than by taking a few weeks' trutment of the wonderful called Sargol.

This able pr back the

remerly

Mr. Henderson..

is the most remarks, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, and presero old

ever found for putting pep it folks who are chronically tired, devitalized or run down The chief reason for its successTM

is that it contains some of the most im-.

LORD FAIRFAX A LIBERAL, One of the most interesting facts

portant clements of active living nerve in connection with the recent election

acts quickly. It gets Sargol

force.

frequently entertained them, and was himself their guest. At one of the large polyglos parties which used to be given by, Count ron Quadt the notorious Sven Hedin was a guest he was on his way to Central Asia. Even then, with all the glamour of

James Fox xa to have its influence upon Burns, but he began life, under the fascination of Chatham, and William Pitt the Younger lus hia

We

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regard partly for his father's sake HE ONLY FIRM

and partly for his own courage and bis resistants to the coalition of Fox and North, which Burns could not

stand because it was meanness and attention to Burns wide knowledge Insvers Professor Ker draws

of the contemporary history of his country, which is not politically Scotland, but Great Britain and claims: that the poet showed an

extraordinary talent for history." He clearly takes delight in the suggestion of Burns the Topy, though he is too good a historian to use the phüse, for Pitt, in those days, was, no Tory. He is, perhaps, too much stress on the rather super- fluous changes of the last yeary of Burns" life when he speaks of him as having forgotten his earlier studies and interests. The poet who wrote in 1995 the famous song for the Dumfries Volunteers was the same

straightway into your nerve cells and of Lord Fairfax-who until recently his reputation as a great explorer, poet who had pleaded that retrench-!

will power and real vital yin and does

Simla people. His conceit was

blood and freshens and brightens you was an American citizen-to be this individual failed to go down with right up. It gives you ambition, courage, Scottish Representative Peer, is that not contain a single habit forming drug, he is the first Liberal to obtain the colossal, and he was very offensive It is always safe. casy, pleasant and

theignty Watson E. Co., Ltd, frags of their Lordships for in his comments on the refusal of The Victoris Dispensary, The Pharmazy, several generations. Presumably he the Government of India to uliow im

The Edward Dis Queen's, Dispensary,

was able to satisfy his electors that to follow the route he had selected where sell it-40 tablets to a package pensary and leading chernista every

his views were not of tee advanced through Tibet. The Government

A few years ago Sargol was awarded gold medal and diploma of honor st Brussels, Belgium.

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ALFRED HYNDMAN 43 Wyndham Street Has for sala

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2393 CARBON PAPER at 1.00 per dosen

sheets RIBBONS at $1.80 each.

PUBLIC AUCTION,

THE Undersigned have received in- by Public Auction,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCILXED).

02

SATURDAY,

the 2nd December, 1917, at 10.30a.m.,

at their Sales Rooma, No. 8,

Des Voeux Roach, Corner of

Lee House Street,

A LARGE CONSIGNMENT OF

JEWELLERT,

&c

•

Sc

As follows:- Diamond, Half-hoop, Marquise and Posy Rings Gold Erooches and Scarf Pins, Gold, Silver, and Rolled-geld Watches by Benson and other well- koown makers, Gold Watch Bracelets, Bangles and Charms, (French Bracelet 15-kt. gold, set with 22 Diamonds and 17 Sapphires) Silver Chronometer Watches, Altitude Barometer, etc., etc, etc.

Pair Binoculars, Old Roman Coin War Medals, mall lot naset Stones,

· Cameras, etc, etc., éte.

J

And

TINDERTAKES to clean sad repille Pypenters at 312.00 per machine

per annum.

addrama,

For particulars apply to the above

-Hongkong. Nov. 7. 1917.

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DAIRY FARM NEWS.

CORNED BEEF.

AND

CORNED PORK.

PUT UP I Krʊs and BarzKIS

FON

EXPORT OR STEAMREM ÜSL

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METALS

of all kinds, especially for shipbuilding

best assorted stock in the Colony.

A lady's Bair Fastener "Star and and engineering works. Largest and Crescent" set with 2 Brilliants.

kind

AN ADMIRAL AS LORD RECTOR..

Three years ago the late Earl Kitchener was elected Lord Rector of Edinburgh University; and the triennial election falls due next incath. It is announced that the borour has been offered to and accepted by Admiral

Sir David Beatty. No contest is expected

ANTICIPATING THE WAR.

ment should not affect the Navy, But, God sake, let pa saving fit Abridge your boanie barges

An' boats this day,

WHO'S WHO IN THE CASUALTIES.

Lieut. Duncan Mackinnon, Scots were perfectly right in withholding Guards (killed), was ou years of age, permission to him or any other Euro-and the third and last surviving son pear to enter what was for political of Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Mackinnon reasons regarded as a closed country. of Loup and Balinakill, Clachan, But Sven. Hedin regarded it as an afront to his country, and perhaps and Oxford, and was a leading ours- Kintyre. He was educated at Rugby

the rememberanco" of this mayman. In 1010 be was elected Presi explain, though it does not justify dent of the O.C.B.C. He rowed his the extraordinary anti-British fervour third and last race against Cambridge exhibited in his later writings on the in 1911, and made a great **** behind Bourne, who stroke Oxford to victory for the third time, und set up a new record by completing the Putney to Mortlake course in 18 mins. 28 sec.

present war.

A further proof of Germany's pre-

THE POLITICS OF BURNS. paredness for war with Great Britain The politicul opinions of poets do was produced at the Lazarkshire not, as a rule, interest their readers Military Appeal Tribunal. A young very much. But with Burns, as warehouseman appealed for exemp Professor W. B. Ker points out, it is Lieut. Col. Dudley R. Turnbull, tion; he explained that he was on different, because "in every current |D.S.O.. Gordons, uttached Man- boliday in Germany on July 28th, opinion about him he is taken for a chester Regiment, killed in action, 1914, and before he was allowed to representative man, speaking for biswas an Anglo-Scot, the only surviving leave he had to sign a declaration nation, or for the rink he belongs to. son of Colonel und Mrs. Turnbull, of that he would not fight against Geror for soihe new reviving spirit of Whiteways, near Farnham, Surrey- many in the event of war with liberty, or for these two together, as

He joined the 1st Gordons in 1012, and accompanied them to Frunce at Britain. The penalty for non-com- Jacobin-Jacobite." Of these two

He fought at pliance was death. The appellant creeds, Jacobitism and Jacobinie the outbreak of wer. submitted a copy of the bond, and the first was less deeply rooted than Mons and Cambrai and took part in said that if sent to join the Briksh

five officers and about 125 men left. the retreat, the battalion having only Army in France, and was captured by the Germans, he would be shot.'

MODERATOR OF THE KIRK

the second, but it had a greates influence upour his best work. “I imagine his Jucchitism, like my own, belonged rather tô the fancy than tÔ the reasch," Wrote Sir Walter Scots about him, and the remark night

It is semi-officially stated that the Rev. Dr. J. N. Ogilvy, New Gres apply to all, or almost all, literary his maxim guri when the detachment

friars, Edinburgh, will be recom- mended as Moderator of next year's General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. He has been in Edin burgh for 12 years, was previously a Chaplain in India, and is Convener of the Foreign Missions Committee. At Greyfriars he has made special appeal to Scottish Presbyterian sympathies by establishing "Coven-

Jacobitisma. Dr. Johnson tried hard

to reconcile his shrewd and clear. sighted intellect with his prejudices for What he used to call the old family," but he never succeeded Jacobitism, too, was a pose with the Ettrick Shepherd und Lady Nairne was the wife of a soldier of King George.

the reformed battalion he was placed in charge of the machine gun section, and was awarded the D.S.O. for conspicuous gallantry in serving were all wounded, until he also was wounded in two places and his gun damaged by a shell. He was sent home wounded: returned to duty was again invalided; but in a short. time was back in France, this time with the 2nd Gordons. Promoted Captain, he served or the Staff until he was recalled to his battalion, Burns Jacobitiam was in part a

which was heavily engagedy a few family tradition and in part anminutes after arriving at their posi influence derived from human tion he was informed that the C.O. syropathy and the romance of a lost had been killed, and he assumed the cause. Under ita inspiration becommend of the battalion, which he In his new and posthumous book,rote some things which must always held for some.

one mentis. After service Further Memories," the first Lord be treasured for the poetry that is with the Devon and Border Regi- Redesdale gives an explanation of the in them; but his serious opinion is ments, he was appointed to, the mystery that surrounds the parentage expressed in the well-known letter Manchester Begiment, and was killed of Sir Richard Wallace, the donor of

SINGON & CO, ant Sunday," to celebrate annually the signing of the Solemn League and

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HUGHES & HOUGË,

Auctioneers, Hongkong, Dec. 10, 1917.

2280

HING LUNG BT.

PUBLIO AUCTION,

Tations to sell by Public Auction.

HE Undersigned have received instruc

(FOR ADCOUNT OF ZAR.CONCERNED),

MONDA TE

the alat December, 1917, commencing st 5pmit their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Your Road, Corner of Iar HOUSE BTAKET,

A FINE COLLECTION OF BRITISH COLONIAL STAMPS,

Comprising

Great Britain, Natal, Bouth Australis, Tasmania, Transvaal, Rhodesia, Victoria, Western Australia, Zanzibar, Zufaland, "New South Wales, Canada,

INCLUDED IN THIS SALE ARE

RABE 3-CORNERED CAPE

"OF GOOD BOPE)," These are the finest lot ever offered for sale in this Colony.

stamp “iguaranteed perfectly

Farticulars from Catalogus)

(EXTABLISHED A.D. 1880).

PHONE

AUCTION.

PUBLIO AUCTION.

515,

I'DE Undersigned have received in-

stractions to sell by Public Auction, is (ROM ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERELD),

THURSDAY,

;

the 30th December, 1917, commencing st 10.30a.m., and continuing at 2.30 pm at their Bales Room, No. 8, Des Yeux Hout, Corner of Ice House Street,

LA LARGE ASSORTMENT OF

TOYS Comprising Esquimeaux Dolls, Teddy Bears and other Animala-Dolls (large and amil), Traine, Biotor Cars, Cricket Sote, Foldiers, Forte, Gun Emplacements, &c. Footballs, Ekaing Gloves, Tea Seta, | Furniture Sets, Games, Small Param

bulators Beous, Xman Trees, Air Guns and Water Pistols, Fire Works, Crackers,

Od view from Wednesday, at £p.m.

Covenant.

WHO, WAS SIE RICHARD WALLACE?.

the art collection at Hertford House o"the" Stor" which he say while his men were holding & difficult

that to the glorious Revolution" position. Lieut. Col. Turnbull was a London. It is on the lines of a story we owe no less than our liberties, keen Rugby football player, and that has long been current in Scot

and then be before the war was a member of the urgos a plea for a merciful judgment London Scottish. upon the House of Stuart. Not the

COUGHING INTO CONSUMPTION "Only a Cough but you stop I while. It is ONLY a cough, be

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civil andre

religious,

least remarkable and characteristic

note in this letter is the assertion that PATELL & CO.

"the American Congress of 1778 will be allowed to have been usable and enlightened as the English Convere tion was in 1689, and that their posterity will celebrate the centenary of their deliverance from us as duly and ely as we do ours from the pressive measures of the wrong-

House of

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