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WEDNESDAY, MAY 8; 1913.

Hughes & Hough

AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.

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Telegraphic Addre "MEIRION" HONGKONG.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE by a pecivation TEE Undersigned bava received in (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED},

on

FRIDAY,

the 10th May, 1918, at 12 o'clock Noon,

THE

INTIMATIONS

LONDON LETTER.

(From Our Om Correspondent.)

YOUR EYES

SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTE1}

At the first symptom of eye strain you should consult us. We test

Co

@LARK & CO

*K BLOGS.

OPTICIANS CHATER

RO,

HONGKONG

HONGKONG & MANILA,

LONDON, March 13,

WOMEN TO THE FORK,

CHINA MAIL.

to-day that this territory belonged to sume he has many times proved an Germany:

acceptable comedian, for good causes in Naval, Military and Itoyúl vireles. JOHN REDMOND

There has been, huny» signs, besides that, of the Empresa notivity.

The death at Mr. Jahn Redmond. The war her frierda sey, hus hadfa the great Trish Nationalist leader, reviving effect upon her. She is old, removes from the House of Commons How far wonen have" progressed bent, and walks with a stics, but she another demonstration of the way sinco the war began is one more sees more people, writes and receive public men are supported by their wives. 'Mrs. Gludstone was always. demonstrated by the recognition more letters aml laughs much more in attendance on grout occasions in shown by the Government to the thun for many years." Showho used Parliament, und similarly Mrs. Red abilities of Lady Emmott. After to set the fashions is no larger rond was so constantly in affee- tionató association with her husband being the only woman member of a fastidious about her dress, but her that a seat in the Ladies Gallery was commission that inquired into the faculties are ce keen as ever, and invariably given to her by coultery. control of war charity funds, she has black eyes are brilliant still. All her It must be some consolation to ber now been invited to a seat on the old associates of the time of her to hear men of every party and class Advisory Council of the Ministry of grandeur are dead, but she declares now admitting the truth of the asser tion that her husband was one of the she will live until the Germans have greatest Farliamentarians of his time, Reconstruction.

boon made to disgorgy their stolen and one of the most single-minded of

patriots. gains from France.

This is all the mors notable because Lady Emmott is far from being of the type usually described as a "new"

hundred.

RATIOKING & SUCCESS.

Yet the

By the way, there was a dramatic [hour while the Irish leader's body bay eyes scientifically and fitoren." Her methods are quiet) Three weeks or more of rationing before the altar in the chapel of the glasses to individual re. and she has attained raiddle age with ment in London have proved suc- Holy Souls in Westminster Cathedral,

gmcefulness. Few Women quirements

dress cess on the whole, and there are no watched by the kneeling figures of dre carefully: her jewellery is fine, longer any queues. The butchers, nuns from a neighbouring convent. in excellent taste, and sets of attrac-too. are doing their business once vigil was broken by the sound of a In the depth of the night their solemn tively her natural duintinese. Before more with open doors, for all their heavy barrage from the guns of the war he was a popular hostess, customers are registered Until London's defences, and by the boom and her friends are numbered by the rationing came in there was a sur- of exploding combs dropped by raid-

reptitiousness, bout the butcher'sing enemy aeroplanes. Her husband, Lord Emmott, was methods in the time of shortage that kneeling sisters showed by no sign that they heard the clun.ours of the formerly a Liberal M.F. for a led to at least one amusing incident.

war overbeal. Tancashire division, and he is an Serie children were sent to the on the premise of the Hongkong and THE CHINESE OPTICAL CO. authority on commercial matters, butcher's shop usually patronised by

who has rendered, quiet but effective

their family, laut they came home Mrs. Lena, Guilbert" Ford, a song sprice in respect to the regulation with a purchase made at another writer from the Southern States of of wor trade,

shop. They explained that they saw America, who wrote sich estehing Another wernan who has been several people go into their usual melodice us Keep the Home Fires active in the past week is Lady shop, the blinds of which were drawn,

When God gave You Herrning to Me and We are coming. Drogheda, who sold war savings curti- !

hut none came out. We thoughtMother England -two of which fautes in Trafalgar Square, in con- they added that it would be better were on all lips in the early days of ution with Business Men's Tark to go somewhere else. Evidently the nr. with her died & crippled Werk, and also flew over the town in the customers were passed out at a son, but her aged mother was saved.

large battle plane, scattering lent side door, but the youthful mind was lets on the populace exhorting them suspicious that they were being

turned into marketable produce.

Kowloon Wharf and Sedown

Co., Ld, Bowlucu,

TWO MOTOR CARS

MOMLETTES 1917 MODELS (thasged). Electric self-starter, and Electric, lamps, Also.

Spare Wheel for each Car

Tyres 28 by 34.

Fermission to view may be obtained from the Undersigned..

Terms: Cash.

4.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, May 3, 1918.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

398

Undersigned received instruc Lions to sell by Public Auction. (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),

021

SATURDAY,

the 11th May, 1918, at 10,30 a...

at their Bales Booms, No. 8,

Des Youx Road, Corner of

Tee House Street-

MISCELLANEOUS GOODS,

As follows:--

A consignment of Gent.'s Straw Hats, quantity of Dress Material White Blankets Counterpanes, Ladies and Gent's Handkerchiefs,"

Gent.'s Raincoats,

&

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Also

Ladies

ATHE

&c.

A NUMBER or Lors or

GULD and SILVER JEWELLERY, &c., DAMASCENE WARE &c.

Terms:-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers,

Hongkong, May 6, 1918,

TO LET

TO LET.

291

HONGKONG BRANCH

67 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

OPTICIA

The only OPTICAL HOUSE in Far East

Awarded an Efficiency Diplous

At Farama-Pacific

International Exposition.

SCIENTIFIC EYE EXAMINATION

All sorts of

to submeribe to their last shekel.

Her fight viod in interest with those of the pigeon post, which was effectively used as an aid to attract ing war savings,

The way the restaurants are pro- fiteering has led to a great public outery and also to a change in the habita of hundreds of people, especially those living in climbers and sell apartments. Formerly It would be interesting to know these people used to dine out wat Tady Drogheda now thinks of regularly, but now domestic science the Crown Prince of Germany, for is no longer a discounted at, und so she used to meet him a good deal,these male and female bachelors are doing their own cooking and living

Frames, Lenses, and Protection glasses and was more than once his dancing very much more economically.

MARTIN'S SAPIOL & STEEL GadgPILLS

A French Remas y for mil izrednissizism, I houvarute of Label always komɔ a box, of Mart's Pills in the huniam'en t'us on the int BIO, DÍ, My ineguany at the Systema, a Kaely may be adininımcıma. Túime -ko comunad, clean. Unaze chique #17004 SUS A5 Göminlə and Silures mil triam Lào Wald or post bed _B`-- MARTIN, Chemist, excepto Eng

MARTIN'S

APIOL & STEEL

PILLS

FOR SALE

FOR

SALE.

70.1 CARNARVON ROAD Kowloon,100 PEARL THREAD NECK NOI CARNARVON ROA, Europeut

House, good Locality.

Apply to

YU KAM HING, Clo Messrs. JoиSON, STOKES &

MASTER Bongkong, April 30, 1918. 308

TO LET..

TURNISHED HOUSE No. 41 The

Feat, for the Summer months.

Apply

C. McL, MESSER

Police Office. Hongkong, April 18, 1912.

TO LET.

344

RESIDENTIAL FLAT in Prince's

Building.

Apply to

THE BONGKONG LAND INVEST.

MENT &AGENCY CO, LTD.

Hongkong, April 8, 1918.

TO LET.

SUR

TO. 67 The Prax, “LUSTLEIGH",

No

HOUSES on Shameen, Cantor.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

MENT & AGENCY Co., Lau.

TO LET.

TMMEDIATE ENTRY, four very dearable BHOFB sitasted. In Ios House Street, opposite the Grand Hotel, recently reconstructed

For rent and other particulars apply to the Wihager. Hangkong Ice Co, Ltd.

48 Connaught Road Central.

Bongsong, August 2/1917. 4

VTO LET.

LACE and 8-PEARL EAR RINGS, Very cheap Sale is necessity. Apply from 12 to 7 pm. Room 68, King Edward Hotel, (388

"G"

FOR SALE

YALESEND." 100 THE PEAK,

6 Rooms.

Apply C. H. GALE,

P. W. D. "Hongkong, Mar. 28, 1918

BANK

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partner. She is doing her best, ut. The converts to vegeterianism are any rate, to defeat his ambitions as so numerous that there is some dan

ger of it becoming a rashly-adopted | a work monarch.

fashion for the multitude, and experts As Miss Kathleen Pelham Burs, ke Berard Shaw and Eustace Miles she was a well-known figure in Scot a warning the public of the pitfalls tish Society and also in London, and for the beginner in vegetatían adven- was one of the belles of that northerntures. Shaw declares that such an section of British Society which adventurer who abaixions meat and then goes on eating vegetables until celebrated at the Oban Bulls. After he feels he has had enough, will her inarringe to the sailor Earl, she surely burst, and he solemnly re soon established herself as a social minds the public that thes-quarters lender in London. Her 'wonderful of a pound of lentils are equal to a 4 pound of meut. Professor Keith has colour effects in dress and house also been lecturing on the subject. decoration-she initiated the black, He declares that the English fuce dining room with Futurist frieze-bas become long and sorrow owing to made her a personage in the artistic a generous diet, and be predicts that a limited diet will produce a wider wet in Mayfair and Belgravian.

face. I wonder if he ever saw. German fer, and witnessed the

It was in the Coronation year that

The real land of plenty is Ireland; There they lacking after them. selves with party abandon, plentifu supplies of bread, bacon, meat and butter being at their disposal.

her out at the great bull given by Milvent, Duchess of Sutherland, at Stafford House, for special attention. He danced several wultzes with her and trade no secret of his admiration.

LORDA IN WALKING. Since aviation became

Another sign of the times is the her

steady decreases in the number of enthusiasm, Lady Drogheda has tuxis. Now there are appens to slown over Dublin "as well as "London, those who use then; to resort to taxis and hus organised Aeronautical, that still peruanbulute the streets ns Exhibitions on both sides of the seldom as possible, so na to save water, with great advantage to the petro. The suggestion does not appeal to wonen, who for the most part dislike walking, "but the men are doing more pavement exercise than

service.

TRE EX-EMPRESS KCOÉNIE. Nobody in the world is following any time in this generation. When the House of Lords rose in peace the trend of the war more closely times, for example, Palice Yurd"was THE

THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LIMITED the ex-Empress Engene f full of private vehicles. Now the

(TAIWAN GINZO).

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Capital Subscribed... Yen 20,000,000 Capital Paid-up

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toux Roads

Frince. Only the other day 31.aristocratic legislators may be see Pichon, the French Foreign Minister, footing their way home through the paid a tribute to her delicate parks regardless of the hour or the

weather. thought if transmitting the original letter sent to her in 1870 by Wilhelm 1. of Germany in reference to Alsace Lorraine. This letter enabled the French Government emphatically to dispose of the German contention

COUGHING INTO CONSUMPTION *Duly a Cough" but you stop. it while it is ONLY a cough.

WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED

COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND

The finest preparation made for com CURES any

only

SONG WRITER KILLED

In that raid one of the victims was

Dont Worry!

KEATING'S

KILLS

BUGS FLEAS MOTHS BEETLES

TINS 361.

METEOR GARAGES

Bole distributers of

MAXWELL CARS.

Automobiles for Hire and for Bale

at reasonable Price

Phone 2500.

165 Des Voeux Road-

Central.

AUCTION.

PCBLIC AUCTION,

(333

R. GEO P. LAMMERT has received Mistractions to sell Anction,

TUESDAY,

Public

A ROYAL COMEDIAM. Following the abandonment by Royal personages in this country of the 14th day of May, 1918, at 3 o'clock titles having a German savour they in the afternoon at his Fales Room in are cosaing out in the full panoply of Duddell Bureet, Victoria, Hongkong, British rank. The Marquis of Curis THE VERY VALUABLE brooke, who has, just taken his sent LEASEHOLD PROPERTY. in the House of Lords, was know

us: Prince, Alexander of Battenberg. Situata in Barker Road at The Peak He was. A courtesy Fringe, and an and comprising those pieces or parcels such was not entitled to a place in of ground registered in the Land Office the Peerage, but King George Areas RUBAL BUILDING LOT NUM arrangement of their rank and stats RER 70 and GARDEN LOT NUM BER 24 together, with the attractive hus altered that

The Marquis has, spelt neatly all residential house thereon, known as bis life in the Navy and in the

TUSCULUMAY Grenadier Guards. He has quite a and garden and tennis court thereto novel destination for, anember of the attached

way to t CIF ONE LOT Royal Family, for under a stage

Bural Building Lot No. 70 contaics an aren of 29,700 square feet and a beld under & Crown Lenee får 18 years,

Garden Lot No. 24 contains at Bren of 7,800 square feet and is hell andega Crown Lees for 21 years

GROUP

THIS disease is so dangerous and so rapid in its development that every mother of young children should be prepared for it. Il very risky to wait until the lack of eroso appears and then sand for inedicins

betin' Congh Remedy efectual

of

For further particulars and condicions

sale apply to

Mesars DEACON LOOKER

DEACON & HAR

Fold

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CHEQUE

BOOK

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is to be in control of POWER. The Man Behind the Cheque Book is as essential to victory as The Man Behind the Gun.

Use your power and your Cheque Book to HELP The Man Behind the Gun.

Buy St. George's HONGKONG WAR BOND TICKETS and you will HELP him automatically.

For sale at Banks, Clubs, Hotels- and Leading Stores.

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1914

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