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THURSDAY, MAY 18, "1918,

Hughes & Hough

AUUTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.

General Anetioneers ..

Shara, Coal and General Produce Brokers and Commission Agents.

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PROPRIETORS

Ewa-Wan' Doal Storage.

Codes used Bentley's

4th & 6th Editions

A 1 Telegraphic Coda.

Telegraphic Adress *VETION" BONGKONG,

PUBLIC AUCTION

HE Undersigned have received in- stractions from W. DUSBAR, Esq.,

to sell by Public Auction,

A

FRIDAY,

the 17th May, 1918, commencing at 218 pan., at No. 57 The Peak, Mount Kellet Road.

THE VALUABLE

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &c.,

therein contained. Comprising:-Teakwood Hall Farzi ture, Upholstered Arin-chairs and Sofas.. Elackwood and Cherrywood Table and Chairs, Desk, &e, Old Steel Engravings Water Colours, &c., Reversible Carpets and Rugs, Portiere und Lace Curtains, Tenkwood Sideboard, Dinner Waggon Dining Table and Chairs, Dinner Service, Glass Ware, &c. Brug Twin Bedsteads, Box Mattresses, Dressing Tables, Wardrobes, Washstands, &c. &c., Bath Room, Pantry and Kitchen Utensils, Gas and Electric Fittings. Treadle and Hand Sewing Machine (Hinger's), Oliver Typewriter (New}, Pisno by Cullard & Collard in excellent condition, and a number of Chineso Vasos, Bronzes, &c., ic

On view from 18th inst, at 2.30 pa Catalognes will be issued. TERY-Cath.

HUGHES & HOUGH.

Austioneers.

Hongkong. May 9, 1818.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

403

THE Undersigned have received in This fullby Fabric Auction,

(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED

SATURDAY,

the 18th May, 1918, at 2.15 p.m.,

at their Sales Rooms, No. 3,

Des Voeux Road, Corner of

Tea House Street,-

A LARGA AMIDETUENT OF

VALUABLE OLD CHINESE

PORCELAINS, Etc.,

Comprising:

A variety of 6-coloured and 3-coloured Vanca and Flates, Jars, Bowls, Bio and white Vases and Figures, etc., Jadestone Screens,

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Also

A few Silver Inlaid Vases,

This stock has recently arrived from the North and will be sold mainly with- out reserve and includes pieces from the Sung, Hoo, Yuea, Ming, Kanghi, Yung- ching, and Kielung Periods.

(Full Particulare from Catalogue). On View from Thursday the 16th inst. TenkaCash.

· HUGHES & BONGA,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, May 13, 1918.

FOR SALE

FOR SALE..

50 PEARL THREAD-NECKLACE, and $25 FEARL EARRINGS::|| Apply from 12 to 7 p.m. Room 88. KING EDWARD Borza.

FOR SALE.

(423)

1,800 REAL RUSSIAN PEARLS THREAD NECKLACE. Necessity compels.the Vendor to sell this very cheaply

Apply from is to 7 pm. Room King Edward Hotel

FOR SALE

66,

(417

*

An stack of rheumatism does not guard the patient against a subse- quent attack. On the contrary, s person who has had rheumatism is in e liable to be attacked than one who hus not.

This blood is a condition always present in cheumatism. On the other

CORRESPONDENCE.

SIR ARTHUR PEARSON'S FRESH AIR FUND.

(To the Editor of the Curva Bail")

2.4.

THE CHINA MAIL.

SHANGHAI SPRING RACES.

THIRD DAY'S RESULTS. „

THE GREAT NORTHERN STALIS-Serec

furlongs Mr. John Peel's Bandy

ir Johnstone) Mr. Henry Morriss" Homefield

(Mr. Stewart) Mr. Ezra's Oakfield (Mr. Elina) 3

quarter.

ne

Time: Imin., Beca SIR-The kind sympathy which the readers of your journal showed at year towards the Fresh Air Fund prompts me again to approach you on its behalf. My hope that last season. would be our last war" campaign has, alss, been unfulfilled. Even in peace time the chances of happiness for slum children are woefully small, and the continuance of the war is aiming

The RUBICON PLATE-One wilà and a Messrs. Winsome and Hasty Mr. John Peel's Sans Feur

Swallow........ ..........(Mr. Hall) - 1

(Mr. Johnstone) 9. Mr. Bliza Caudlenat......(Mr. Sleup) 3

Time: 2min., 40 2-secs.

hand, rich, red blood resists rheudendly blow at what little happiness.

which might have been theirs....

matism. Build up the blood and the rheumatic poisons will be driven out.

Dr Williams' Pink Pills begin at i once to send purer, richer blood to

and nourish and Roothe

orbe avery fesele every ligament and attamed joint || high covering. Our new book, "Building Up the Blood is free on request..

Dr. Williams' Pink Fills are sold by all chemists, or sent postpaid, ons bottle for $1,50, six for 88, by the

Dr. Williams' Medicine Company,

96 Szechuan Road, Shanghai.

TO LET

TO LET.

ATO. I CARNARVON ROAD, Kowloon, Nwell-built Two-Storey Europein House, good Locality.

fJ

Apply to

THE PAY" OF THE NAVY ON THE CHINA, STATION.

The Navy League Journal contains the text of the communication made by the Admiralty to the Commander-in-Chief-un the China Station ru the subject of the revised rates of pay, as follows ----

4th December, 1017.

t

The Commander-in-Chief

H.M. Ships and Vessels,

Chica.

Their Lordships having had under their consideration the question of the conver. sion lata local surrency of the pag and

allowances of Naval officers and niên and

A Pesannet on Shore,

of the (£7) · Seventy-five percent. total thus arrived at, up to a maximum of a year, to be converted into dollars at the maine rate of exchange, siz 2. to the dollar,

THE PARI-METEL STARZ-o mile of civilian personnel in the China Station

and a half.

in connection with the existing high Messrs. Winsome and Hasty's The exchange value of the dollar, I am to BallBach (Mr. Bill)eptain: you that they have been pleased. Mr. Gibbings' Standard Dahlia...

Mr. Rowe) 20 pprove of the following arrangements, Mr. MacGregor's Upwood Park...... ;; to saku rfect from the 1st November,

(Mr. Commons) a There has been a great deal written Time: 2min, 11 R-Usecs.

said with regarà to the Tax RACING STAKE-One mile..

(1) Lóval, «lowinges to be Leonverted : wages paid. is the Mother Mr. G. D. Coutts" Richmond

(Mr Dalzleishint sterling at a rate of 28. for the dollar Country: but these wages are not Mr. Cire's Persian Light (late Persian and added to the pay

Cat...... being paid to the parents of the

* Mc. Elias; ``1 Mr. R. Macgregor's The Globe children of the very poor, who are

(Mr. Commons; in all cases, unskilled, and in many cases

Time: 3min. 3 1-Baets, 17 practically unemployable. In many THE YANGTZE Cur. - One mile and three

quarters. instances, also, the children whom wo Mr. Henry Morriss' Wakefield benefitted last year are the children of men who have made the

aupreme sacrifice. Ilo, indeed, wish that I could report to your readers a need to pause in the work which the Fresh Air Fund bss undertaken during the past twenty- six years: but the figures to hand from our workers show that the grey slums of the United Kingdom are still peopled with wistful little ones.

Most of us have willingly curtailed our holidays since the war, but what of YU KAM RING, C/o Messrs. Jousson, STOKES & these to whom it is always town and

always has been ? Hongkong, April 30, 1818.

MASTER.

TO LET

388

1

*Mr. Stewart) I' (EIT). Where the total of pay and Messrs.. Winsome and Hasty's The allowances arrived 'at, as in (1), exceeds Capercailzie (Mr. Arnhold) $800 a year, to alloy conversion, as in Mr. Bozar's Battle Dawn... (Me. Hill, 53 (16), for" (4:00), and for one-half of the

Time: 3min., 49 2-secs.

excess over £00; and for the other half

quarter.

a

THE CONSOLATION CUP.-One mile and Mr. Ezra's Triamphit. E) Messrs. Toeg and Speelman's Sir

Lamerock ............(Mr. Beard) 2 Mr. R. Macgregor's Upwood Park

(Mr. Commons) "3 Time: Smin., 30 3-Jices. THE PAPER HUNTERS' HANDICAP-OF

milwand a quarter.

Ir. Ezra's Iron Duke (Mr. Ezra) 1 Mr. P. D. P. Beith's Wild Gambia

Mr. Blogger's Wild Night

Time: Zuid) 3secs.

quarters

(Br. J. I. Ezra) 2

(Mr. Meller)

I feel sure that no one would wish to deprive the little wails of the slums of THE MANCHU STAKES.-One mile and s their brief respite from their unhealthy v. M. and C.R.B.'s Over There surroundings, and apart altogether from

(Mr. Burkill) sentimental reasons, it is imperativer. Carlyle's Eight ...(Mr. Moller) 3

Mr. Wybes's Rochester Mr. Slexp}

Time: min., 41 3-5aces.

RESIDENTIAL FLAT in Prince's that they should be given at least a

Building.

Apply to-

THE BONGKONG LAND INVEST

MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD. Hongkong, April 8, 1918.

339

No.:

TOLET.

10. 57 THE PRAY, "LUSTLEIGH."

HOUSES on Shamçen, Canton.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY. Co., La.

TO LET.

glimpse of batter things. They are the future manhood and womanhood of the nation, and during the present, upheaval of our pational life, they must be shown that there is something better worth dying for than a British slum

THE CHAMPION SWEETSTAxs-One mile

and a quarter. Mr. Ezra'a Castlewood

Oriole..

...(Mr.)

of the excess to allow convention at the 1urrent rate of exchange. Thus, if an

officer's, emoluments amount to gano he will receive 2.230 dollars in currency and 73 in sterling, while H, His fatal emolu. dients, uże, 1400 he will reefvu 2,250

plus $50 in sterling, dellars, plus 3 dollara in currency, and

(B) Personnel Allot

1. Fifty per cent. of pay and allowances throughout to be converted into dollars

to the dollar. *

2. I of course, understood that separation allowances or ullotments aperi- fically intended for payment to the families of dependents of own at home are not to be included in the above sal cylation.

3. For the present their lordships are unable to sanction the extension of this privilege to Weihaiwe, where the local (Mr. J.I. Eara) k Governfinent has" pot yet found it neces Mir. Henry Morriss' Castlefield aesars. Winsome and Hasty The

(Mr. Stewart)sary to projme similar concessions.

45 This authority will hold good for the Mr. Exra's Rosewood...(Mr. Eztu)arried of the War and six mouths after

• Dead beat. Time: 9min., 3secs. (record). THE BANKOW PLATE-Three quarters of

a mile. Mr Robson's Niblick...(Mr. Dalgleish Mr. Henry Morriss Homefield

(Mr. Stewart) -2

At the risk of repeating some detail with which your readers may be sequainted, I should like to emphasiso the fact that the Fresh Air Fund is based on charity as wide as the sun, and has nothing to do with any denominee Fash's Wynone(Me. Bill) tion or sect. Poverty, neglect, and Time: 2min, 29 4-5ecs. helplessness. are the patsports needed Tax NIL DESFERANDUM Ctr.-Threa for its good offices. All the expesses Mr. W. S. Jackson's Buttleplane

quaters of a mile. of management are borne by the pro-

(Mr. Dalgleish) : I moters; every penny received in sub Mr. Dem's Modesty (Mr. E)

G.'S. and L.'s Macattiel scriptions is spent on the children.. i

(Dir. Schoch) 3 Last season 102,310 children badh Time: Imin., 31 4-5secs.

TMMEDIATE ENTRY, four very

desirable SHOPS situated in Ice day in the country and 4,107 of the Houso Street, oppoeite the Grand Hotel, I wore needy enjoyed fresh air and good recently reconstructed.

food for a fortnight, either at the sea or

For rent and other particulars apply to the Manager, Hongkong Toe Co, nd 18 Connaught Road Central.

Bongkong, August 2, 1917.

TO LET.

in the country. At the end of twenty: six years the F.A.F. has to its credit 2003 3,802,953 day outings and 43,115

taightly holidays.

MULTI-MILLIONAIRES.

wards

By Command of their Lordships.

(Signed) R. It. Scort.

.. INCIDENT OFF PERIM.

CHINESE CREW MURDERED BY GERMANS

Captain A. W. Pearse, who was. Red Crosa Commissioner in Egypt, made wa interesting statement at Sydney con- cerning the reinter fol. He said "On the way from Egypt to Australia last year on board a British India In England, says a writer in the steamer we were very close one night to Manchester Guardhan, na have come to the Gersion cruises Wolf. We received regard the multi-millionairs as es wireless to say she ind boar aighted sentially an American institution, and that day. On arrival ab Aden we heirl we have not been wanting encourage that the Turritella had laid minus at. went from various directions in coltiva Colombe, Bounty and Arlen. She was luging vines off reria, at the entmnea ting this delusion for delusion it is to the Red See, when the British gun- and Tess. Americans themselves boat Orice came in sight The Germnes are not hesitated to spread the myth got into their boats and blew up the

Even during the present period of inflated prices the cost of the outings is still ridiculously low when the amount FIAT in Nathan Road, Kowloon.of health and happiness given is con- famongst us. But from a comparison of touch Chinese were in the A

Four roomed houses in Kowloon.. sidered; fifteen pense pay for cue child the 1916 income tax returns for the stolekuld, and engine room. The fin United Kingdom and the United Bombay they were in prison, and, were

capturet

the Clemans, and when I left to bave a day in the country, 13 States (and using the almighty dollar" being tried for marder. Apply tom RUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCH, defrays, the cost of a complete party as the basis of estimation in both cages) While at Colombo, the British censor

CO., LTD. Alexandra Buildings, Elongkrong, August 22, 1917.

THEATRE

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INTIMATIONS

ROYAL

T. DANIEL FRAWLEYTM

PRESENTS

THE FRAWLEY COMPANY

IN A SERIES OF NEW AND CURRENT SUCCESSES.

SATURDAY, May 18th. MONDAY.

May 20th. TUESDAY,

May 21st.. WEDNESDAY, May 22nd THURSDAY, May 23rd. FRIDAY,

May 24th. ́SATURDAY, -May-25th,

Prices

COMMENCING

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"KICK IN"

1STE CHAIR"

"THE HOUSE OF GLASS”

"THE BOOMERANG”

"TIGER ROSE"

"SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE"

$3, $2 & $1.

Curtain

Booking st MOUTRIE'S

9.15 p.m. sharp. (

PHILIP CARLTON. Manager

JOHNNIN WALKER WAR CATIONS No k

Wiha will be a traitor kenweð. Whe can fill anward's gravet Wha sae have as be a slave? Les him turn and fier!

Lay the proud usurpers low! Tvrants lait irt every Toe? * !iberty's in every blow! fa Let us do or die!

Bunny

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Agents General, CALDBECK MACGREGOR & CO.

JOHN WALKEY & SONS; Lin, Scorest Wunker DistILYEN KÕLMARNOCR, SCOTLAND,

MITSUBISHI SHOJI

KAISHA, LTD. (Mitsubishi Trading Co.)

of two hundred little onea with we are forced to the belief that if we told me that the evidence of the "hinese the necessary sadults in attendance, would seek modern Croesus in large who were saved was that the Wolf waS and Aftesi shillings is the cost per sbild quantities we need but look around us at a very fant vessel. She bed a telescopic for a fortnight's holiday. Donora of home-in our very midat, indeed. For fonne, a fast stroor launch and a bydro- where the United States can produce plane on board. When the Chinese were 213 can have the day known by only ten plti-millionaires with 125 captured their officers were put uboard the Wolf... They had a large number of Whatever name they may chocas. ¡ million dollars cach to their credit, we mines on board. They pat, pot over 22 COAL, GENERAL IMPORTS and cau boast of seventy-nine! And where wines in all, some at "Colombe, two of In these days of a thousand calls, the America has merely nine waxing well which sunk the liner Forcestershire and little ones must not be overlooked on 100 milion dollara, Great Britain Holt liner in sight of the port. Others Down in the slams the children are

were dropped hear Bombay, which, no doobt, accounted for the P. and: 0. waiting, and their disappointment will

steamer Mongolia and the C'sleet, and THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LIMITED be terrible if there is no holiday for

still others at Aden.”

BANK

(TAIWAN GINKO).

INCORPORATED UT SPECIAL IMPERIAL CHARTER, 1898.

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

5,690,000

-HEAD OFFICE TAIPEE, FORMOSA.

MAMA.'

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Interest, allowed on. Current Af junt, Fixed Deposits, and SaviagaTM D. Josita atates - which will be quoted, an

YANAQTTA

END 109 THE PEAK Application.

HONUKONG BEANO 443, Des Vaux Boad

themi

bas sixty-eight; while in the 75 million to 100 million region we win again with forty-fire to fourteen. Un the more poverty stricken scale of the6ity millions and just under, our lead is not so Subscriptions and donations, however comfortable; nevertheless the old coun. small, will be gratefully received by Mr.ry comes in first by aineteen After this pentrial zone is reached we are Ernest Kossell, Hon. Sec. F. A. F, 226 quite willing to fall out of the running, Gt. Portland St., London, W.I., England, and America has ninety seven indivi deals to our eighty-three with com Yours etc.

petencies of between 20 and 37 millich dollara ARTHUR PEARSON.

The Man Who Gets There

Is the man who has blood real rich red blood and...

plenty of His body.

WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER:OIL COMPOUND makes blood....lot giving brai

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