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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1818.

Hughes & Hough

ADOZIONISARN TO THE GOVERNMENT.

General Anotioneers Share, Coal and General Produce Brokers Ɛand: Commission Agents.

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PROPRIETORS wa-Wan" Cos! Storage.

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Telegraphic Address

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KONGKONG,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received instrão- tions to sell by Public Auction, Croa ACCOUNT OF THE CONCRRARD);

DD

MONDAY,

the 7th January, 1918, commencing at 9.30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,

Des Voux Boad, Corner of

Ico. House Street,

A Lazer ABSORTMENT OF

CHINESE PORCELAINS, KAKEMONOS, CURIOS, &c, &ci,

Comprising:-

AUCTIONS.

· PUBLIC. AUCTION. THE

THE Undersigned have received in structions to sell by Public Anction (FOR ACCOUNT OF TER CONCERNED

оп

THURSDAY,

the 3rd January, 1919, at £30 pamoj at their Sales Rooms, No. 8 Des Your Road, Corner of

Ice House Street, A.QUANTITY OF

VALUABLE

EC

HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE,

Comprising:- Blackwood Furniture, Large Plain Sideboard, Cabinets suitable for glass

THE CHINA MAIL.

CONTROLLED PRICES.

WHEN LORDŰRHONDDA HIS *1CHIEVED. 644་ཀྭ*གར ༄

aggravated in certain distriata by storage of bear, Lord Rhondda ham idyläech" "tha"}

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THE COLOUR OF WAR.

OUNTED":"BY-LING

GAMOUFLADE.

| Barrelage of 352 · par “nent, permitted | during the summer months to the amguing quarter, and the Cubinet ha va aslanted "ta

John Blunt writes in the "Daily Ex- Mr. G. N. Barnes, M.P., who is the this proposat. Provision will be made to

*** pross 2 The days are gone when poeta Labour member of the War Cabinet, has secure that only beer of sa adequate used to write about the glory, and issued a report on the steps taken to meet gravity is designated as Government ale, pageantry of war. Glory there certainly the recommendations of the Commis. and to Ex prices for Government ale andis but the pageantry of war is dead. It sonora of Inquiry into Industrial Uness,boer of lower gravitica sold in public died by degrees, starting from the time when our soldiers gave up the old red surge 'so far sa they relate to the control of bar.

tunics in which they used to go to war. essential foodstuffs. In his summer

In regard to the above report, one mayIta death was brought nearer when our faat July of the reports of the eight som point out that bread alone shows a roduc- ships of war gave up their black hulls, missions Mr. Barnes said that all these tion of price at the expense of the with white deck work and yellow put in the fore-front as the leading caumo

National Exchequer, Butchers meal is funnels, and by the time the South of unrest the facts that the cost of living aheaper, and will become cheaper still, African war was over it was dying fast.

disproportionately to the

but bacon and milk and cheese (except The early days of this world-war killed

it outright. advance in wages and that the distribution the American and Canadian Cheese bought Pageantry of war was, after all, noth by the Government) are dearer, and willing bat colour. Horrors were smothered In the gaily-coloured uniforms, the soon be dearer still. The Food Controller flashing bras and the tossing manes of may, however, claim that he has pu

cavalry chargers; the blasta from the limit to the effects of short supples Biering was trumpets drowned the

crying o of the

increased

Whe

or silver, Chairs, Overmantles, &c. of food supplies was unequal. The conse

White Enamelled Twin Beristendsquent recommendation Wardrobes, Washstands, Chests of Drawers, to. Dinner Service

immediate reduction in price, the Crockery Ware, Pantry and Kitchen increased price of food being borne to Utensils, including Large American Ies some extent by the Government, and a'i

and

these commodities. Potatoes are much the dying. Warinhand the, from OF Chest, and Two White Enzmälled Baths. better system of distribution is required. Cheaper than at the end of last on a pageant of colour an any Dastora |

The above Furniture, &c. has been removed to the Sale Booms for con- venience of Sala.

Partieniars from Oatalogue. Terzos poena usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, Dec. 94, 1917.

INTIMATIONS

# FOR

SALE.

2419-

Mr. Barnes shows what progress has been made in carrying out this recommenda- tion. When he reports that prices of English cheese ara being" adjusted" he means that they are being increased. He.

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Bread. The price of the 4lb. loal for cash over the younter is Dd. and of the 2lb. loal 44d. In some districts these loaves are being sold for less. A quartern of four costs Sid. This means a reduc tion of 20 to 25 per cent. on the prices previously charged. It will cost the

the grower keeps them as an artificially but the price of £3 per ton guaranteed to

high value.

Some articles are not as cheap as they would appear from the official quotations. This remark applies to butter, ar to whigh Mr. Barney shows a noticeable reticence, and to tea. Thirty per cent of the tea supply ought to be retailed at 25, 4d, bu for reasons which may be gone into spother time there is not, as a matter of fact, that proportion of the cheapest tes in the shops. Again, the the order per

er

NO. 43, ROBINSON ROAD, Hong Exchequer at least £40,000,000, andmits of the 3. 8d. tea being sold at 39

kong. (7 Apply to-

G. PIERCY,

At the above Address. Bongroog, Dec. 28, 1917.'

8429

METALS

A Large variety of 5-coloured and 3-coloured Vases "and Plates, Blue and White Vases and Figures, &c, Old Bronzes, including Incense Burzen of the Sung and Ming Dynastics, Pekinese Cloisonne (Aniber and Jadestone), Carved Bamboo Ware, Old Soocho Lacquer Bares, Kakemonos and Wall of all kinds, especially for shipbuilding Hangings, Jadestone and Ivory Car and engineering works. Largest and rings, etc., etc., etc.

best assorted stock in the Colony.

The great portion of the above stock has recently arrived from the North and includes pieces from the Ming, Kaoghi, Yangching, Kienlung, Kaiching...and Towkwong Periods

. (Fall Particulars from Catalogue).

On view from Friday, st 2 p.m. Terms-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Bongkong, Jan. 2, 1918.

PUBLIC

AUCTION.

.1430

Ttructions to sell by Public Auction.

HE' Codersigned have received in-

(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED},

OS:

WEDNESDAY

the 9th January, 1918, commencing ut

2.30 pm, at their Sales Booms, No. 8,

Des Voeux Road, Corner of

Ics Hotex STRIFE,

SINGON

possibly more.

and the Ds. ten at Bs. 43. nder certain circumstances, and those circumstances are found to apply virtually everywhere outside London. The test of control is not an order, but the supply and price

Meat.The prices to be paid for live eattle have been fixed on a descending scale so as to show an ultimate reduction of 20 to 25 per cent. Butchers profits are limited to 21d. per pound, or 20 pr of the controlled articles in the shops. cent, on their fortnightly turnover, which-

..

ever is less. These measure should ultimately secure an average reduction in the retail price of meat equivalent to the reduction in the purchase price of cattle. As 'compared with last July, the whole-

& CO. ale price of British beef has faller 17

(Estantiniam A.D. 1880). HING LUNG ST.

Pro

per cent. and the wholesale price of 616. mutton 19 per cent. This fall is already reflected in retail prices, but some time must elapse before its influence can be fully ascertained..

JAPANESE MAKERS,

Every kind, of Footwear

MADE

TO

SHRAPNEL-PROOF COATS FOR

SOLDIERS.

COATS FOR

MODERN FORMS OF MEDIEVAL ARMOUR.

3

the old timer wOS AL red by Oscar

dramatised and

to battle the one with the other, fighting In those days when fights went out Recbe or the late Sir Herbert Tree.

as gentlemen fought, the scaryse of their nothing hideous about war. There were women folk on their sleeves there was no fearsome-loaring men wearing masks, emel and monstrous looking there were

το Flammenwerfera spitting fire and foul-heated winds to bar their way. No giant guns roared out shell or belched out black smoke to darken the

Mindscape

DO dying men dropped ex plosives ou them from the sky. They fought man to man, and the strangest arm and the stoutest-heart won the day

his

A man might wear in those times what he fancied, & shield of crimson and belmet plumes of purple, puce trappings" to his charger, and a jewelled bile to sword, and no one would say him nay. Men who went out to fight went to find There was no need for concealment or to be found. Camouflage, the only colour which war has taken for her use to-day, was unheard of

MUD AND KHAKI

Can one imagine the Black Prince going to do battle with, the knights of Crecy in a helmet daubed with mud

a breastplate bes- and red and green

pattered with sack yellow, and his charger covered with would be ridiculous. So in this war should we think it absurd for. our Tommies (who, nevertheless, bear the spirit of that Black Prince under their Pimlico jackets) to wear the guy colours in which the knights of old went

・out to battle. acima. "Discover your

To-day the

Mad scd Khage, and his con-|

enemy and keep yourself under cover, Some interesting details of the most bands play no more out of England, the and so the colours have gone, the cavalry

recent protective invention for soldiers drums of war-exist only in the roaring

and crashes and rumblings which we Potatoes. As a result of the Prime

were given by "Dr, C. W. Saleeby in 1

England bear as from afar, knowing Minister's guarantee to growers of f

lecture at the Royal Institute of Public them to be the heralds of

Bother King ton, the acreage ander potatoes has been

Health Many of Des Saleeby's sugges morts, M

reign. Our Tom tions as to the shape, and so on, of the mies are the colour of the shell tore considerably increased and there is, an abundant crop. The retail price is co-dopted by the Government, and besides enemy may not

steel helmet now worn by our army were ground over which they fight; our fly:

ing

machines are pathem out from

painted, so that the trolled, and will, as a rule, be about describing the latest improvements in the looking, or fat and impudent, are

lean and hungry belabel, Dr. Salceby gave the first account as n November day.

though it of a new shrapnel-proof jacket, which heThe Navy, too; is colourless,

| may bet picturesque than our

our armies thinks meets all the requirements for ashore. The black sliding hull of a destroyer with a bone in her teeth may body armour.

make a pretty picture, the grey shape of dreadnought looming up in the North

ORDER per pound. It may be mora in some dis

TEAKWOOD AND BLACK WOOD CHERRY & CO.,

FURNITURE BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS, PICTURES, &C, and a Lazoz AmoRF-

ENT OF USEFUL HOUSEHOLD,

GOODS,

BRASS AND · TWIN

As follows:-- Upholstered Suites, Arin-chain and Chesterfield Sufas, Card Tables, de, Bed: room Furniture, comprising Double and Single Erna and Brass-mounted Bed. stands, and Twin Bedsteads, Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, Tes and Occasional Tables, &c., Dinner Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Sera, & Bath, Room: Utecaila loll-top Desks and Writing Tables, Sundry Electro-Plated Ware

Electric Reading Lampe, Blackwood and Teakwood Screen, Blackwood » Furniture, including Large 4-Fold Black- wood Screen with 6-Coloured Panels, Side Tables, &, Engravings, Pictures, ke, &c, Tenis Poles and Net, Iron Bale,

"A few lots Turkish Bath Sheets, Towels, Single and Double Bed Sheets, Bed Quilts, &c

A number of lots of

DAMASCENE JEWELLERY,

Also

Carpets, Brass Fenders, fow, lots

Fire Brizon, &c. P

Two FIANOS.

(Full Particular from Catalogn)..

Tras-Cast,

"HUGHES & HOUGA, Auctioneers.

Hongkong, Jan. 2:19]A

2449;

EE Undersigned have received in-

stractions to sell at their Bales

PEDDER STREET, Upposite Hongkong Hotel. Telephone No. 491.-

Hongkong, March 20, 1914

LESSONS IN CHINESE.

ME LI MUN FAX, Cal desta versed in

tricts where transport charges are large and less in others where they are small

Sugar. Complaints have centered on distribution rather than prices, and the

schema

of sugar distribution is designed to secure that such supplies as are available shall be distributed without

new

suspicion of favour. It safeguards the position of the resident householder whether he be rich or poor. The retail price, though not fixed by statutory order, is controlled by the Sugar Commission in such a way as to leave & reasonable margin only to all desiera concerned..

Milk-It has been necessary to sane tion an increase in the price of milk in accordance with a pledge given by the

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the

grey

The helmet now in use was modelled on the one adopted by the French in 1915,'| mists, the little white ribbon on the with important improvements in the kind surface of the water which the fishermes manning our quine-sweepers will tell you It is manganese steel, betrays the submarine-all aro fine sights, of steel used. extremely hard, tough, and unsplinter for eyes to see, but there is no colour in

them.

Serican Farragut Nelson and the American able, with a low pitch of curvature in

fought

their ships in the days when war the crown for the purpose of deflecting was thing of outward beauty as well as bullets. The weight is properly distri- of horror, but Baig, in dull khaki fighte in the Flanders mud whero Napoleon. buted round the lead, and the lining is fought in white silk breeches with padded with india-rubber to kill the force cockade in his bat of a bow. Dr. Salceby placed a soldier's helmet on his head and struck himsel

a violent blow with a heavy sheet of steel & NEW LEGAL POINT FOR AUSTRIA

Literature, has been a teacher to KumaPORA Officials and Merchants in thia Colony for tam yaary,

He save a good method of Gaining Karupe 6 Government last spring, with a view to without having to pause for a second in pars in the Chinese «zamisation, and in poremeć

of & Brat rate captinesta mea Chinese tascher. He securing an adequate supply during the his lecture,

basso a nod knowledge of Mandaria and Hakka..

are

Chatni Mail* Qfps ar

:

the

The brothers Caproni inventors of the Thor who latent Learning the Chie lour Lage winter. Prices are, however, fixed at all. The most recent improvement of the Italian aeroplanes which have bataly direct bo No. 152, Wellington Street, frat Koor. stages. Further, local food control.com-bendreds of thousands, are por la ne in barboursville English and Italian, shipe is the chuin visor, of which bombarded the Austrian ships at Pais

effectively that a left 11251mittees are empowered to make their France This is a piece of steel chain shelled the Austrisas froth the Gulf of own arrangements for distribution, and mall which falls over the eyes like a veil Trieste, are Irredenti. They were borns

Arco in the increased cost of production will not as far as the bridge of the nose, and is authorities are naturally annoyed at the the Austrian Frenting, SAVARESSES be allowed to interfere with the supply tied on behind. Its purpose is to guard want of loyalty shown by thas inven- the eyes from fragments of sand, rock, or tora. They have issued accordingly, an at reasonable prices to young children metal splinters striking from below, which edict accusing the Capronis

defaulters SANTAL

and invalide.

are the cause of nine out of ten cases of Austrian territory, falling which they

and commanding them to return- Te-The present retail prices of tea blindness in the army. In the daytime will be treated a deserters and their CAPSULES

Lalling under the control scheme range the soldier can see perfectly well through goods sold at anction Now the Ca from 20. 4d. to 3s. per pound. A certain the viser, and if necessary half of it can promis maintain that, although they left

bo pat saide so as to uncover one efer their soroplanes paid frequent visits Austria before the was, they have amount of tep is not under control. The visor does not seem to be very the Trenta, to Laibach, and to Fole Arrangements are being made to purchase. popular with the soldiers at present, as The epoirt now raised is whether the the

PHYLICIANE KODUMAAND THEM. "Of all Choiento - Mada'in Lendan

TO LET

TO LET.

OFFICES in Yor

TFICES in York Building.

HOUSES on Shameen, Canton

Apply to THE HONGKONG LÁND INVEST-

HMENT & AGENCY Co In

TO SLEL

IMMEDIATE ENTRY,

desirable SHOPS kituated in

potes, No. 8, Dea Vieux Bord, Corner of House Street, opposite the Grand Hotel,

House Street,

MOTORYACHT

Beam

12 feet 4 inches

feet

H

Motors

„from the Ender

recently, reconstructed.

For rent and other particulars apply to the Manager, Hoogkong Ice Co.

Connaught Road ContiKE

Hongkong August

191

2009;

limits. It it certain]–34ald territor

on behalf of the Government, the whole the chain mait tends to cause abrasions air can be considered supplies needed Los England, and so to of the nose. The men also think that it

interferes with seeing in bayonet fighting order only requires the presence of the defended, and as the Austrian extend control over all tea. The test and they have prejudice,gainst it del ulters with Austrian bounds the plea purchased will be taken home in requis because it makes them look like guys of the accused ought to have a certain tioned ships at appreciably reduced rates It is laid that at the Bathla of Arras men, weight in law, although one fears it is

Anatrian livers the sympathete con

of freight, and there will be a substantial wearing a visor went into action with hardly likely that it will go from the

reduction in retail prices. A temporary

forlage of tea is probably inevitable, hat adequate supplies will be forthcoming

Aster,

the helmet turned front to back, sad itsid xation soch a moral technical point is probable that some lost their sight in deserves. consequence.

Dr. Saleeby did not overlook the thi tary prejudice against the adoption of anything that suggested courardice, but he thought that the success of the belmet was DGR Converting, our sadiers to the common-sense view about armour

Cheese ported American and Canadian cheese of good quality is sold price of 1d.per zetail at pound. The prices of English cheese are

Discussing vazione forma of protective being adjusted for the purpose

Armour for the front, Dr. Salteby said encouraging farmers to make more. that at present the problem of protecting"

Butti -Importation Is. boing

the body against machine-gun and bullets appeared to be insoluble, but over by the Gover

Pric

problem of unding an efficient prote profits are fixed pro ionally ab al

against abraphet and rev Bacon Hams Lard, The pport. In his of these articles has been, or is being, proof

over by the ernment, and prices

will be fixed at all stages £8 BOOT, 19

pgasible Here #gin/lowi

Fshortag

and to increased ari

shortage of

COUGHING INTO CONSUMPTION

Only a Cough" but you, stop while it is ONLY a cough.

INTIMATIONS

WAR NEWS. OFFICIALS BRITISH ARMY STILL GOING STRONG

JOHNNIE WALKER "Sull going strong"; that's

slogan. It's been mine since ‘1826a JOHNNIE WALKER "White Label, 6 years old, JOHNNIE WALKER "Red Tabel. 10 years ed. JOHNNIE WALKER "Black Label." 12 years old. Guaranteed same quality throughout the world.

Agents General, CALDBECK," MACGREGOR & CO. JOHN WALKER & SONS, LID. Source Wisky, Distiglans, Kilmarnost, SQOVLAKI.

1814 FOTO YEARS 1914

ESTABLISHED 10.0

JOHN

HADDON

"AND CO

Export and Import Agents

For ONE HUNDRED YEARS in the CITY OF LONDON we have acted as Buying and Selllog Agents for Traders,Storekeepers, Growers of Colonial Produce. Are you requiring the services of London Agents to promote your interests? We shall be pleased to enter into correspand- ence with a view to arra ferms toś muka); advanta

BANK CREDITS-ARRANGED. || ADVANCED" AGAINST

JOHN

HADDON

AND CO

Colonial Merchants and Produce Agents,

SALISBURY SQUARE, LONDON, EC.

Variety of Uses.

The uses to which LEA & PERRINSE SAUCE can be put are innumerable.

Luncheon, Dinner or Supper.) ideal sauce for Rous Mea Game Cheese, Salad

In the Kitchen, it is indis cook for flavouring Soups, Manced bitat, de

Lea

nin

that industrial untest