1918-01-22 — Page 3

TUERDAY, JANUARY 28

Hughes & Hough

SUCTIONEERS TO THE GOYKENKEN.

Gäneral áùctioneers Share, Coal and. General Prodnos Brokers and Commission Agents.

PROPRIETORS

Cwá-Wan" Coal Storage.

Codes wid Bentley's

a. 4th & 5th Editions A1 Telegraphis Code.

Telegraphic Addres *MEILION" BONGKONO.

8.8. "HONGKONG."

THE UNDERSIGNED beg to notify. the proposed sale by private Tender of the Hull of the abore named Stoomer she now lies stranded on the East Point of NAUCHAU-ISLAND, about twenty-Ava miles from Kwan Chau Wan

GENERAL CONDITIONS OF TENDER

(1) The vessel is offered for sale as she now lies, with ber Engines, Boilers, Anchors and Chains and such other equipment as may be on board, (but, no Cargo is to be considered in the Tender).

(2) The vessel is now guarded by the

French authorities.

“INTIMATIONS

MOTOR CAR TRIPS IN KOWLOON AND NEW TERRITORY,

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE ART AND MONUMENTS OF CHINA.

THEIR PRESERTATION.

MINISTER.

octs, Loreign to the ershentration of the Worth. Even the faint scho For those splendours conveyed in the musia st the prosont Confucian bere manies with the intention-cla majer, followed by a wury of many-coloured

value to the modern musician. But then

THE HONOKONG & KOWLOON AN ADDRESS BY THE AMERICAN, would have suggestions of great on

WHARF & GODOWN CO, LTD. undertake the conveyanca of MOTOR CARS (at owners' risk) between Hong- kong and Kowloon in their special erano lighter. Cradles for Blotor Cars provided

o paid Fares each trip #8. per car, to be j

to lighterman. Lighter will leave daily as under:

Praya st Pottinger Street, Hongkong.

9.00 M 3.00 M

Praya north of

Public Pier,

Kowloon,

1.00 P.M.

5.00 J

Hongkong, Jan. 18, 1918.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

CORNED BEEF

CORNED PORK, PUT UP IN. KEos and Bazrais

KR

KXPORT OF STEAKERS WEL

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THE ANDERSON

MUSIC CO., LTD.

1.

(3) All Tenders should rescl: the Office SOLE DISTRIBUTORS

the Undersigned on or before Noon, SATURDAY, the 9th Febru

af

axy,

1918

14) A Deposit must accompany each

Tender, the amount of which may

be learned at this Office, said Deposit

will be returned in case of non-

of Tender.

accndors do not bind themselves į

4) The Vend

FOR

COLUMBIA

sa secept the highest or any Tonder. GRAFONOLAS Further particulars regarding the sonditions of sale, and a list of Ettings and fixtures to be sold with the ship, can be obtained on applica sien from the Undersigned.

For and on account of the Concerned.

HUGHES & HOUGE. Hongkong, Jan. 9, 1918.

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AND

RECORDS.

THE "PERING " KEFZOATI

A CARGO SALVED.

Some six months ago the Swedish. Enob. Į

Company Steamer Poking." bomeward trip from the Eart, got in the Suse Cana, and capaised.

ard of Chinese clasical music is now The ship was left lying on her side with very nearly Ireb, although it might to several feet of water over-all. The The following paragraphs are extracta

whose mivaga steamer Protector" has from on address on the Preservation of possible to resurrect it. It is no longer Sitzer Salvage CoLopezy, Cepenhagen, the Traditional Art and Monuments of living tradition embodied in the train for some years post boen stationed in the Chins, by Dr. Paol 8, Reinsch, Anteri-ing and abilities of living people, but it vicinity of the place where the scaldant happened, contracted with the insurance can blinistor, at the Peking Language has become dead. School, assembled last week""at the

The art of architectures, is also companies for salvage. The terms agrood British Legation,

threatened. The decay of religious feel to, says Engineering," ware that the The historis sense of China is turned ing makes the construction oven the salvage company was to hare 50 per cent, of the cargo and ship. The cargo con- entirely upon the past.. As the Chinese xaintenance of artistic temple buildings stating of 8.000 tons of copra, was dis families have their records, covering more and more diffent. In important aayed by removing some plates from Generations and centuries, so indeed the new structures, unfortunately, the ten the ship's side and dried on shore, realis annals of national life are also treasured.dency is to adopt some of the uglina Ing on ane some £111,000. After being But they aro treasured rather as forms of Western architecture. It is to the lightened the hull was again made Within a month the best had been con glorious memory of a perfection to which be welcomed that the buildings of the good, and the salvage proper commenced. the actual no longer corresponds, than a Chinn Medical Board for instance, asrayed to water deep enough to allow of a basis for present institutions and futuro well as collegiate structures in other her being righted. Showse than pamped policy and action. The republican and parts of Chinsy are being planned by dry and taken to Sues, where the neces Įdemocratic movement in Chins would be architects whose effort, is to maintain theory repairs can be undertaken. after which the Poking" will probably be greatly strengthened if, instead of relying essential feature of Chinese architecture, worth some £360,000, so that the Sitter mainly upon theories and forms developed adapting it to modern uses

Company may expecs to receive upwagika elnowhere, it should treat Chinese historie

of £20,000. traditions as the point of departure. In Chinese custom, practice, and philosophy, there is found a sufficient basis for development of representative institu. tions. Though some attention has been paid to this by reformers, I believe that institutions might well be directly based

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Throughout the fold of Chinese are the grastest danger lies not only in the los of ability to do, but of the eppadity to

beritand. Art expertship is dying out," the knowledge of what constitutes the true nature of higher excellencies), and The effect of qualities is growing rare. Chinese s and iter significance are

HEALTH, IN THE TRENCHES.

Dr. Woods Hutchinson, speaking in the present London recently, said war was the least deadly ever fought.

At one time

upon these Chiness elements with only dependent upon an intimate symbolism The total mortality from all causes was Buchference to foreign practice as will which pervades all its manifestations, and less than 3 per cent. pet annum of the total strength engaged. An Aring used point the way to further development, · which. deepens the enjoyment derived

to be a hot-bed of epidernica, and what What I have said about present politi-from artistio.objects. There is not only killed most men was bugs" not bal- the swords. Leal thought is a symptom of the danger the more specific symbolism of shape and lets streptococcus, Dob

in which China finds herself. The form, such as the attributing of certain Mortality used to be in the ratio of from technical efficiency of the Western nations emblems to characters qiten portrayed, five to seven from disease to one from is so great that in a desire to emulate but the broader symbolism of space and wounds, but now that ratio was three times the tavorse, and 20 died from Simple there is a danger that the treasures of colour. The Chinese builders have been wounds to one from disease. Chinese tradition may be under-valued, past-masters in the art of observing the household or domestic rules were to a and it be forgotten that the Western relations between their structures among large extent responsible for this. The nations are strong dos because, they have themselves and with the natural sor-Germans and Italians were not so well. certain methods and institutions, bateandings. The most remarkable example. perpared with vaccine as this country, and at the beginning these nations had to because these methods and institutions of this is seen in the disposition of the deal with outbreaks of fever, but alter are a natural outgrowth of historic forces mausoles in the great imperial tomb nine months things righted themselves, at work within these nations, and that enclosures, "Every one of the Ming and eventually it was wiped out. The the greatest strength of the nations les tombs has for its gusadieu and monument of disease in the British, French, and Italian trencies was actually less in the continuity of their national spirit,pent a mountain peak. A great many than the average atacag troops in bar. by which all their methods and actions elements enter into Chinese symbolism racks in time of peace.

Houry traditions of form, exemplified bymenstes caused a great deal of disability are itfarmed.

As the most active men in the nation the bronzes of the Shan and Chow among the troops, and it was curious 16, Des Tax Road. Tel 1899 are Baturally desirous for development dynasties, emliteris and designs associated that this should have manifested itself towards modern methods of strength, the, with Twoism and Buddhism, allusions to mainly among Canadiane, Australians, danger is that only those who have little historic events, especially of the time of and the troops from the North-West Islands in Scotland, and that these THE Undersigned have received in- KING EDWARD HOTEL originality will be left for cultivate tradi-the six kingdoms and the dynastic children's diseases attacked troops cous tional art, and that it may be looked upon immediately before and after. Themed at the tallest, and biggest men. structions to sell by Public Auction,

symbolism of a pure, natura worship lies Although the armies had been out in the as purely antiquarian lore. from ACCOUNT OF THS COMUZENID).

There aft, of course, also economie at the base of it all. Extremely low most inclement weather and on soil most forces at work which are unfavourable to Chinese are able to give accurate informa.likely to produce beumatism, yet then-

conspicuous by ita absence. the continued development of Chinese art. tion on these symboliu expressions with matism, comparatively speaking, I was Throughout the world the artistic handi- all their delicate overtones. In order to craits have been destroyed or reduced to get a safe and adequate basis for the very small propertions through macbiut critical classification of the collection in processes, against the cheapness of which the Reking Museum it would be necessary handicrafts cannot compete. However, to gather together a great many experts China is in this matter in a rather more in order that the judgment of one might favourable situation than were the Euro-be corrected by others. In judging any pean countries, and India, for instance. Chinese work of art, the estimate of A large demand has subsisted for artistic any one man will searly ever contain manofactures of the highest quality. The the whole truth. There are so many general increase in wealth affords support.angles from which even a monochrome China of present still bas the inestimablese may be regarded that the anthorita treasure of trained workmanship, partitiva artistic judgment will be the result eularly in the manufacture of porcelain of many individual opinions. This of and of silks. If these art industries could itself indicates the complexity and rich-

PUBLIC AUOTION.

FRIDAY.

the 25th January, 1918, at 10.30 1.10., at their Sales Rooms, No. 2, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Toe House Street-

23 Dozens Tennis Balls (1917),

A number of pairs of Gent's Boots and

Shoes,

Two Motor Bicycles (in good running

order)

Four "Remington" Typewriters;

Ons Cabinet Gramophone,

Several Collapsible Perambulators, One "Fairbanks" Weighing Machine, Household Furniture, &c., &c.

Bare-Cab

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctiomers. Hongkong, Jan. 21, 1918.

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TO LET

TO LET.

10. 6, MOUNTAIN VIEW-8 rooms,

Nnfurnished.

DENNYS & BOWLEY.

Hongkong, Jan 18, 1918.

E

TO LET.

YURNISHED HOUSE at Mount

Davis, Fokfulam Road, for Febru ary, March and April Reat moderste.

Apply...

H. E GOLDSMITH, P. W. D." Banking, Jea. 14, 1918,

TO LET.

OFFICES in York Building

HOUSES on Shameen, Canton.

:、 Apply to

THE BONGKONG LAND INVEST.

MENT & AGEXOY DO, Ian.

TO "LET

Central Locatioz.

LI KLECTRIC TRAMS Pass Entrance, A Electric Lifts, Fans and Lighting European Haths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water System throughout Best of Food and Service.

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MADE

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ORDER haid ou, if their products could be nese of Chinese art.

made available in the West through

Wo need only look at Chinese painting afficient methods of distribution, they from the Sunga down to the eighteenth would receive & continued and increasing century to realize that an art expression support strong enough to assure their has hers been created which has not only permanence.

THE ARTS OF MUSIC AND ARCHITECTURE.

At present the art which is most in

been great in the past but may lead to atili more wonderful, achievements in the future. The essential structure of lands cape has been, analyzed by the Sung painters and their followers in a manner

CHERRY &'007 danger of being lost is music. Anyone not equalled in the West, and approached

PEDDER STREET, Opposite Bangkong Hotel Telephone No. 491..

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

FOR SALE

ALE. · USCULUM, Barker Boad, 155,

Lpply DUNCAN CLARK,

LANE, CRAWFORD & Co. Harkoog, Jan. 2. Ina

FOR SALE

IMMEDIATE ENTRY four veryTHE Undersigned have received in

desirable SHOPS sitosted in Too House Street opposite the Grand Hotel

cently recnustricted.

For rent and other particulars appy

to the Manager: Hougkong loo Ca

Connaught Road Central Hongkong. Atist. 1917.

stractions to sell at their Bales Rooms, No. 8. Des Vanz Road, Corner

of Ice House Street,

MOTOR TACHT Railt 1916, ha vory little usage,

who has examined the musical insten only by such recent artists as Van Gogh ments at the Conféuian Temple at Chufu and Cazin. The cubist form of analyzing Ar here in Peking, and who has heard landscapes was anticipated by the Sung even the presant performancer thereon, painters in one of their incidental which by the testimony of the Chinese ethods; similarly the most advanced are utterly defective, will recognize that technique of impression is found in many Chinese music, when these Instrumente ancient Chinese pictures, Chinese port aur their use. were perfect, mun avraiture has received but little attention: been fall of marvellous and beautiful neverthelous in simplicity, of outline and clearness of characterization Chinese portraits recall the best work of Holbein, and other early European painters. Upen the traditions et Chiness painting there mayundoubtedly be built, without departing from its essential spirit, a grest and expressive modern art.

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