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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1817.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Underaigned have received in-

structions to sell by Public Auction, (308, ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),

по

FRIDAY,

the 21st December, 1917, at 10 a

at the Sales Rooms, No. 8, DES VEUT Road, Corner of

Ice House Scrver,

SUNDRY DRAWING AND DINING ROOM "GOODS AND BED ROOM LINENS, Comprising

For DRAWING ROOM-Brass Bowls, Brass Vases, Incenso Barners, Kinkosan Vases, Jardinieres with stands, Japaneso Photo Frames, Flower Vases, de, da.

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

For BED ROOM-Single and Double Bed Sheets, Bath Towely, Face Towola, Sheetings, Pillow Cases, Satin Quilts, Counterpames,

Abo

A few Buit Cases and Sundries. Terma :-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers,

Hongkong, Deo. 14, 1917.

PUBLIC AUCTION,

9393

HE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction,

(FOB ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),

DO

SATURDAY,

the 22nd December, 1917, at 10.30) KM.,

at thair Bales Rooms, No. 8,

Des Voeux Road, Corner of

Ice House Street,

A LARGE CONSIGNMENT. OF

JEWELLERY,

"As follows:-

Diamond, Half-hoop, Marquise and Posy Rings Gold Brooches and Scarf Pins, Gold, Silver and Rolled-gold Watches by Benson and other well-} known makers, Gold Watch Bracelets, Bangles anri Charme, (French Bracelet 18kt gold, set with £2 Diamonds and 17 Sapphires), Silver Chronometer Watches, Altitude Barometer, etc, etc, etc.

Fair Binoculars, Old Roman Coin War Modals, talk lot unset Stones, Cameras, etc., etc, etc.

* And

A Lady's Hair Fastener. "Star and

· Crescent * set with 49 Brilliants.

HUGHES & ROUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, Dec. 10, 1817

PUBLIC AUCTION.

2380

THE by Public Auction.

HE Undersigned have received instrac-

(JUK ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),

.on

MONDAY

she 31st December, 1917, commencing st

5 pm, at their Bales Rooms, No.8.

Der Yaux Boal, Corner of

TE HOUSE STREET,

A. Frika OsztBGSUN OT

BRITISH COLONIAL: STAMPS,

Comprising

Great Britain, Aztal, South Australia, Tasmania Transvaal, Rhodesia, Victoria Western Australia, Zanzibar, Zululand, New South Wales, Canada, aga ka (INCLUDED IN THIS SALE ARE 20 BARE CORNERED CAPE

OF GOOD HOPE

Thasa sre the finest lot ever" offered

this Colony.OR stamp guaranteed perfectly

C/o *Chora Mam' Offion. Hongkong, Dec. 18, 1917.

$190

ALFRED HYNDHAN'

43 Wyndham Street. Has for sale

CARBON PAPER at $1.00 per dozen

abeeta RIBBONS at $1,80 each,

NDERTAKES to clean and repair Typowntern st $19.007 per machine For particulars apply to the above

Hongkong. Nov. 7. 1817.

per annum.

address.

9273

SHOW THE ENTIRE IS A PRODUCT OF MONARCHY.

FIFTEEN MILLION TONS

PRODIGIOUS WORK OF BRITISH

MERCANTILE MARINE.

After three years of war, and in spite

That, says the Daily Chronicle, is the

PLACE NAMES IN THEds, who bere that name, and who was Tors off the Island in 1616. Now turn to

the Southern- ing colocles in these seas, but yet there is abutalano exidence of.

of Dutch discovery and "navigation. New Holland, ie Aus- Aralia in called on the old maps; Ner Zealand; Tasmania, called after the great the piracy of German U-boat Dutch explorar, Taumen; Van Diemen's whether normal or intensive," the Land, the old name of Tania called million toas of ocean-going shipping

United Kingdons still possesses orar 18

In the cures of an interesting lectures Leeuwin-the Lioness-the famous salient fact of an examination of the

after & Initch governor of the East India, to the Royal Colonial Institute, south-west caps of Australia; all beargures dealing with the mercantile mar Charion Lucas said

the sad the multifarious duties in which is engaged. They come from a source which may be regarded as wholly reliable on the United Kingdom register re- Before the war the ocean-going vesels presented betweek 17 and 18 million tons but of these about 2,400,000 tone were engaged abroad. Fifty percent. of these our urgent needs. As regards home acr ahipa have been brought home to supply vice, the position may be put thus and th

wines to Dutch exploration and entar. Apart from Christian names of kingsprise, South Africs, of course, toems and queens, the British Empire is dotted with, Dutch zames. I take only one with Kingstowns, or Kingstons, and instance to illustrate to what extent place hacenstown. In England, for example, names are guide-posta ta, history. In the we have in Surrey Kingston-on-Thames; infancy of Natal, both the Dutch and Eng fin Yorkshire, Kingston-on-Hull-so called fish tried to secure it. The Dutch came when King Edward I took Hull into his in from inland over the mountains in the own hands, to make a great port on the course of the Great Trek: the English Humber; Kingstown is the port of DAIRY FARM NEWS.][Dublin; Queenstown the pork, of Cork; Kingston is the Capital of Jamalen; it is a leuding city in Ontario; the Queenstowa Heights, crowned by the Brock ou mant, overlook the gorge of Niagara (the sune of a great fight in the second Amort cun War of 1812). We bave Queenstowns in Now Zealand, in the Cape Province, in Britiah Guiana; Queensland is very tamiliar to all of us.

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The real point of the multiplicity of the Kingstowns and Queenstowns, as well as of the Georgetowns and Victorias, and sgain of the Prince towns, the Prince of Wales' Islands, the Windsors, and so forth, which are to be found Overseas, is that, all the world over, they beat witness, in the first plaze, that the British Empire is the product of a monarchy, nad, in the second place, that the peoples

On import trade... On war service o

Total-

July, 1914. July 1917.. Tops Tons 18,000, 00-7,500,000

bil

0,50031.00

15,080,000 14,000,000

A further million tres of the total is being used on war service on the out journey, but is available for imports.

came in by sox and began s settlement ob the coast. The two chief town in Natal at the present day are the port of Durban and the inland town, which is the local capital, of Pietermaritzburg. The port is called after the English Governor of the Cape Colony at the time. Sir Benjamin Durban: the inland town, after two Boer

Some of the speediest and most leaders, Pieter Ratief and Gerris Maritz. eficient vessels are suxihary cruisers

You will notice that nearly all the others are floating hospitala. Many names which I have given by way of inports. A who e feet is engaged And supplies to the Navy: A very substantial nu

number is assigned to the Allies for the carriage of munitions and essential foodstuffs, and there is the constant carriage of supplies to our armies at the various fronta

TIONED.

illustration are names of places in the West and South, not in the East. There is a Victoria in Hongkong, is I have said; and in the Island of Labuan; and I

Bave mentioned Port Edward in Weihaiwei, Penang used to be called Prince of Wales Island: and other instances could be given. But they are few and far between.

The reason is obvious: the East was an old world and had all its names already. Think, how great Robert Clive was in the history of India, yet I

other bond, take James Cook, the explore and navigator. His name perpetually in evidence in the Southern Seas: you have Mount Cook, Cooktown. Cook Straits, and a river called after his ship. The Endeavour. In fadis there was Fort

I

villian it Calents and Fort St. George

at Aladess, but these names have died out.. I can only think of one interesting case of place name in India telling of a great Englishman-that is Jacobsdad, on the frontier of Sindh which was called into existence in the desert by the famous

John Jacely; and you will notice that this border leader of Sindh Horse General

name has been half Indiarised. Ceylor has been in the hands of the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the English. There is & Point Pedro which sounds Portuguesa otherwise I do not know of any name is Ceylon, unless it be Adam's Peak, which would tell of European connection.

Are

coal

ALL 89TS

engaged in distant waters on work which With the exception of a few veseels

chartered to Frasen and Italy, the British is vital to British Colonies, and of vessels Government has requisitioned about 97 per cent of the ocean soing tramps on the register. All British liners have been requisitioned, and in both cases the onders receive

at Government rates, and the profita derived from private freight go to the Government, and not to the shipowner. Moreover the coastal traffic of the for the purpose of being subjected to

to a searching "of withd

is

work, and of bringing about a limitation which can be utilised for of rates wherever possible.

One of the results of these measures value of neatral ships is double that of is that t

at present the current market. British ships.

effects of the derangement of with pre-war conditions may be thus shipping on last year's trade compared

summarised

Before the war we were importing, at the rate of about 50,000 on tone a year. In 1916 our imports fell to about 63,000 tons, sed in the present year tit will bo considerably less. Of the 500,000 tons, foodstuffs were rather

than a quarter. The rest was prae tically all employed or consumed in pro

all our supplies from aversess consisted moting the industries and commerce of peice. In 1916, however, two-thirds of of foodatufis, munitions of war, and the material for the manufacture of a greatly reduced total of productive industrils.

QUANTITIES AND VALUR.

of the Empire have been at pains tode not personally know of any single place advertise" the fact. It cannot be too much in Indis that bears his name. On the emphasised, I think, especially at the time when everybody is throwing up his hat for republic, that the Crown is very great asset to our Empire--probably the greatest of all our connecting links. The more widely spread an empire is, the more important it is to personity tho whole in one central figure-in que sovereign. Those who have been among the advanced democracies beyond the Seus must have been struck by the way in which the King is, so to spent, saken T. 1322 for granted is the indispensable per sonality, embodying and representing the British State the British Empire; and in the case of india, when they ara feudatory princes of long descent, there could never conceivably be the same loyalty to the changing head of a republie or to s house of commens athere is to aking emperor. Monarchy seems to me

In 1913 our total imports were valued to be specially valuable es latroducing-a

At 769 millions sterling, of which about Thus you will notice how these place $4 millions are from the countries with personal, a human element into the State names indicate a cardinal feature in the which we are now at war. In 1916 our as opposed to the machine which is a story of the Empire. In the West and sterling The great rise in prices imports were, valued at 940 millions much in evidence in a republic. The the South the British people were making phenomenon of an increase in value

accounts for

a large part of the King stands for the British race and for new homes, eslled by their own names with a decline in bulk, but o on the

bent the traditions of the British race; he or by the names of their old homes. In estimate that can be made it would represents the epatinuity of the Empire. the East, they were trading among the 43 million tons of goods which

appear that 歷 in 1916 we had imported Louis XIV used the phrase, L'état, darainating, rung, long-established obtained from the same cou c'est moi." This phrase must be reversed peoples with

civilisations and before the

the same porportion, as before the war, they would LATE cost us in the crew of our Monarchy and run, old centres of population, doing a rather less than ECG milion pounds. Wo Hoi, c'est l'état "I, the King, stand wholly different class of work. Babies raid, therefore in the year 1918 1.50 milion pounds more than our importa for the State-sland for the British race are christened; given names, as soon would have cost us if we had continued and Empire. This truth can well be possible after they have been born and from the same sources as before, the to buy the same class of commodities brought home by reference to the place into the world. There was little or no war names of the Empire, and, personally, I christening in the East, for, from the ruthlessly, the needs of industry and We have therefore not only sacrificed should always add the comment that point of view of history, the East was commerce, ws have in addition paid s far higher price for the unproductive have compelled us to substitute.

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in

We

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ORDER by any British subject has seen and not in childhood, but in much more material of war which circumstances

CHERRY & 00.

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Bongsong, March 20, 1914-

AUCTION.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Lous to all by Public Anotion, THE Undersigned have received instruc

SATURDAY,

the 32nd December, 1917, at 12 Noop, at their Sales Booms. No. & Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street,

FOUR E. P. MOTOR CYCLE

WOLF FRAME, JA P. ENGINE

SPEEDOMETER and BINKS CARBURATOE

in Fortest Honning

Guarante

knows no much of the Empire na our venerable age than the peoples of Western present hing himself.

Europe, including ourselves. Note, Loo,

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A WARNING

I have referred to the Louises and the how, all the world over, native names ponsessions acquired from France. Of tend to hold their own against imported PALE LIPS ARE course, place names usually indicata who names. I have instanced Fort William were the previous European owners of at Calcutta and Fort St. George at Madras the land, if they were not British from which have died out. Penang has custed the, first. For instance, the names Port, the name of Prince of Wales Island. of Spain, the capital of Trinidad, and Canada has taken the plecs of New Spanish Tows, the old capital of Jamaica, France, possibly for political reasons. tell us that those Issads once belonged Toronto was recheistened Yark after the

The Brst place where anemia, or thin blood, shows is in the liga and gums and the membranes that line the eye lids. You may be naturally pale and still be healthy, but when those membranes les their bright red colour your

blood deficient in quantity or colour disease. As the organisms of the blood "Thin blood is a danzer, it invites

to Spain. But let us take raïnes 'indics then Duke of Yorkin or about 1792, but have to anal diartse germa, thin blood

York gave placo sguir to Toronto.

have New Zealand Maori names stand side by blood is this and weak

ing Dutch origin, to show what a clue place names give to history: 1 referred to Part Touls in Mauritius. We b took Mauritius from the French not from

means less power to do thie For In instance when you cut youself, the

Wound

does not heat so quickly if your

build up the blood there is one for generationE.

side with English, in a much stronger

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proportion than the Msoris ara to the time been & household word 20 the Dutch: the Island is fuil of French English-Taranaki, Wanganui, and many pills for pale peania/ilism Diril palla tome names, and, as far as the white popula others. Ever in Australia, where the up the entire system, make the blood Lion goos, is pre-eminently French, But, natives were always sparse and of very increase the appetite, put

mich and reci, st engthen the nerves. olour the se a matter of loot", the Island originally low grade, native place names ara pianti. Į cheeks and lips, and drive way, that belonged to the Datch, who left 1,upon ful

kan unnaturak Eired, feeling":"Good, whole? rumbidgee and Wallarcos are some fab and fresh air will do the xcati

PACERS Begia Dr Willies pisky of native origin they are

to days You can get them from chemists every whert, also from ¿be, Wiliams? Medi cine Co., 96 Szachden Road, Shanghai, one bottle for $550, six for 887 post froek

which the French came in. The French presum called it Ile de France; but, when we certainly not English. took it long afterwards, wa revived the

old Dutch name, called after the great Stadtholds of Holland Count Maurice of Massu. If it were not for the same we abould probs. 31066 sight altogether of the Dutcir connection

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