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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20,918

Hughes & Hongh

AUCTIONEERS TO`THE GOVERNMEISET

General Auctioneers Share, Comi and General, Produos Brokers And Commission "Agents.

PROPRIETORS

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WEIRION" HONGKONG,

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

Torby Public Aucrlca THE Undersigned have received in-

(For Account of the Concerned),"

ON

THURSDAY, February 2, 1919, commencing si 1.30 pm, at their Sales Rooms No. & Des Tax Road, Corner of Ice House Street.

· A QUESTETT DF USEFUL HOUSEHOLD LINENS, DRAWN WORK, & EMBROIDERIES,

Comprising ------

HOUSEHOLD LINENS Single and Double Plain end. Hemstitched Sheets, | Pillow Cases, Double White Batin Quilta, Linen Damak Serviettes, Glass Clothe Bath Towels, Face Towels, &c, da

DRAWN WORK ---Bedspreads, Fillow Cases, Tray Cloths &

EMBROIDERIES:---Bedspreads, Tablo

-PUBLIC AUCTIONS Covers, Tea Cloths. Runners 18 by 64 in-

A few lots of Attacks Cases and Bellow Valised.

THE Undersigned have corsivad hostran. (All new goods and small lots to enit

tions to soll by Public Auction, ÉFOR ACCOUNT OF TAS: CONCERNED),

ON

FRIDAY,

February 21, 1919, at 10.30 a,m9,

ab their Sales Rooms, No. 8,

Des Voeux Road, Corner of

Ice House Street,

Valuable Household Furniture,

Curios, Ornaments,

ité.

removed to salerooms for convenience

of sale.

Terme :-Cash.

HUGHES & HOTOS,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, Feb. 17, 1919,

(For Account of the Concerned.)

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THURSDAY, February 27, 1919, commencing at 2,30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street, TEAKWOOD AND BLACK WOOD FURNITURE, BRASS AND BRASS MOUNTED DOUPLE AND TWIN BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS,

&C.

.dc,

Comprising:-

Two Chesterfield Sofas and Arm-chairs fasw), Folding Card and Occasional Tabics, Ono Upholstered Suite, Bedroom Furniture, comprising Teakwood Twin Bodsteads, large and small" Wardrobes, &c. Dressing Tables, Washstands, (fumed Teakwood), Sideboards, Dianer Waggons, Extension Dining Tables Berrices, Dinner And Chairs, &c., Crockery, and good Glass Ware

Cattery, Stoves, Choking

Acc

Bath Room Utensils, Electro-Plated Ware.

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Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood and Teakwood Screens, a quantity of Blackwood Furniture, including 1 large Blackwood Screen Blue scd white Panels, Side Tables, Chairs, Cabinets, Pictures, Tennis Poles and Net, Several Carpets now and second-hand.

Alao

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Treadle Sawing Machine (nearly mor, by Willcox & Gibbs with sil addssories, 1 Piano by Ernest "Kaps. Dresden in very good condition and noe "Reliance" Typewriter (new)

(Fall Particulars from Catalogue).

Terme :-Chab.

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FUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

Hongkong, Feb. 19, 1919.

(FO ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNID},"

na

FRIDAY,

February 28, 1919, at 11 am,

at No. 2 Humphreys Building,

Kowloon.

THE SUNDEF

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

ac.

&c.

FURNITURE, Joy therein contained.

including:

purchasers).

Terms ---Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkong. Feb. 19, 1919.

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NOTICE

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TBE Pass Office will be removed from the Central Police Station to the top floor POST OFFICE BUILDING pa the 18th inat. From that onwards Permits to leave the Colony will be issued from there and nor at the Central Police Station.

ALL PERSONS with the exception of those of Chinese races desiring to leave the Colony should apply in person between the hours of 9 AM. to

3 and 2 FM," to 4 P.M. daily, Applicants we

be required to produce Paasporta or identification papers. All persons, with certain exceptions, who emrin in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register them. selves under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1918. Forms of Registration giving the particulars required may be obtained at the G.P.O." and at all Folice Stations.

The Penalty for zon compliance is a fine act exceeding $50.

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FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.

CHAIRS.

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15

THE CHINA MAIL.

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

25 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS,: $1 PREPAID,

| Evory additional 5 words 4 Centa.

FOR SALE.

THOR SALE-LAND and HOUSES

st the Peak Hongkong sad Kow loon. Apply Box No. 106 c/o "China Mail"

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TO LET.

"O LET-No. 4. The Post (Bahar Lodge) Fully FURNISHED. Apply to —–—– HL. 4. LAMMEET, -

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TO LET.

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ON SHIP'S NAMES.

BRIEH RUBBER ESTATE.

The tenth ordinary general meet Ing of the Brich Rubber Estate. Limited, was held at London, Mr. E. E. Moreau (chairman of the company) presiding,

The practice adopted-by-our-great Shipping Companies of naming some of their vessels after foreign countries and places, with many of which they

The Chairman said: Gentlemen, are not and never can be connected

the directors' report and, accounts its last In trade, is a conceit of "the coamo of the

company for politanism to which we, almost alone financial year having been circulated among the nations, are addicted. Its to all share holders, you will doubtless inconvenience became apparent when allow me to take them as read. The actual audited accounts of the com the war broke out and the foreign pany are submitted in full detail as country became an enemy country, usual, but the abreviated report and As Index Expurgatorius had to be the omission of much that share- holders have been accustomed to is set up, as it was obviously, improper accounted for by the necessity of that there should be a 'Galicia," a conserving paper and reducing, ex- "Carinthia,' and Elbe," a "Danube, apenditure. Referring to the balance Teutonic or a German adoat sheet, you will find our capital unaltered; but our, estate deve under the. Blue or the Red Ensign.lopment reserve is increased to No vessel is allowed to go to sea £10,500 by the addition thereto

NUTICES.

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THE MOTOR UNION INSURANCE CO., LTD.

"(Theorporated in England.)

Being Agents for the above COMPANY, we are prepared to issu POLIUTES against FIRE, MARINE LIFE and MOTOR ACCIDENTS #: current rates.

For furiber particulars, please apply to “

UNION TRADING COMPANY, Prisco's Building.

General Agents.

CARS on FIRE

Experienced Ohauffeurs

and

Expert Mechanics.

A Large Number of

under an alias. Her name cannot be of the £1,500 allocated from New and Comfortable Cara

changed by the stroke of a clerk's the previous year's profits; and, as pen, but must adhere to it until the our capital expenditure account now SHOP in Nathan Bond, Kowloon.

proposed alteration has been publicly stands at £55,431 11s. 4d, we have advertised and sanctioned by the £4,353 89. 8d. of this £10,500 st Apply to

Board of Trade. During the autumn available for upkeep of our immature) SUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANOS of 1914 and the following winter not area and further extension. Our

00. LTD.

a few ships were thus permitted to liquid assers amounted to #13,514 73. Alexandra Buildings, shed their names and to re-appear 2d, against outside abilities of Hongkong, Jan. 22, 1919.

upon the undulating ocean under £4,353 4s. 10d, so our financial posi-: appellations more appropriate to the tion was sound. Turning to the flag which they flew.

proft and loss account, you will find reflected rather acutely therein the parlous times we have been through, as. on a production of 175,641 Ibs. of rubber, we could only secure a profit of £3,347 35.. 7d, as compared with a profit of £7,919' 18s. 8d. in the

LOST.

PUPPY:

BLACK SPANIEL A BITCH) aged about 8-montas. White patch on chest. A reward will D. J.LEWIS, Lauristen."

Subject to this inconvenience a ship may suitably take her name from an alien country to which she usually carries passengers or with which she usually trades; but, to name ship

be given on finder returning same after an inland kingdom and a pro previous year, on a production of

NOTICES.

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN tha

vice of Italy which has no

Always in Readiness.

MERCURY GARAGE CO.,

50-61 Dei Vazz Bond Central.

Phone

977 & 2589:

"Arrangementa

for

Special

Occasions

as was done in the case of two of the 161.904 lbs, although our working GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LD.

earlier fast Atlantic liners, the "Ser via and the 'Umbria, is paradox

cal. Other examples in the past or

present Cunard fleet are the ill-fated Lusitania, the Mauretania, and the Aurania. Lusitania is poeti cal for Portugal, but neither Maure tania' nor Aurania' can be found in hte atlas. The Cunard Company

standardises its ship names to the

identical as to the all-in cost per charges for both years were almost: pound of our production. The whole explanation of our reduced profit lies in the reduction of Sid. per lb. in the price we were able to realise fot our rubber,"

LETTER FROM MR. F. KINGDON WARD,

the ORDINARY YEARLY MEET extent that they must all be nouns ING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this with the classical caudal appendage Corporation will be held at the CITY-ia: and the longer the word the

A letter has been received by a HALL, Hongkong on SATURDAY, the more does it seem to suit the fancy send day of February, 1919 at NOON, for of travellers by sea, who prefer a ship resident of Shanghai from Lieut. F the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with bearing a sonorously polysyllabic Kingden Ward, of the 116th Mah- name, and who would not be so rattas, stationed in Bagdad, Mes- statement of Accounts for the year readily Inclined to take their passage opotamia. Lieut. Ward (who was ending December 31, 1918.

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED from MONDAY, February 10, to SAT. URDAY, February 22, 1919, (both days inclusive), during which period to transfer of shares can be registered.

By Order of the Court of Directors,

N. J. STABB,

Chief Manager. Hongkong, February 4, 19197

a

on one of equal tonnage, speed and formerly in Shanghai and contributed comfort, but having the homely series of articles to the "Mercury") British word 'Liverpool, *Newcastle' or Bath "in brass letters on her bows and stern.

As the Cunard Company insists upon the use of nouns for the nomenclature of its fleet; so likewise does the White Star Company insist upon adjectives, and these must all end in ic. To this tail is attached a miscellaneous assortment of mytholo- THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO.,gical, ethnological, geographical and

LIMITED.

J

NOTICE IS

I always like to answer letters such as yours personally, and thereby strengthen the bonds which bind our Empire together. It was very kind of you to send the cigarettes though I don't smoke at all myself. I am the only officer in the mess who doesn't.

"i think we English, after the U.S.A. came in, realised what the reasons for delay had been, and though we said nondescript prefixes. There was a quite a lot in the first years of the Titanic, there is a Majestic, a war, we fully appreciate America's Coptic, an Adriatic, and even a attitude now we know what her 'Bovic, but there is not yet an difficulties were..

Hippie, an Avic, or a "Piscir, A

HEREBY GIVEN En EXTRAORDINARY

"I am writing this on the steamer, GENERAL MEETING of the above 1-In Pictoria with treo Bearers.

Company will be held at the REGIS story, which is not true is at least ben we are just off on leave, having come trovato, is told that an official of the down to Bagdad by train. I have been Quarter hour.

...10 cents. TERED OFFICE of the Company Company was heard complaining that 16 months in the country and am half hour,......

Pedder Street, Victoria in the Colony the fleet was increasing so rapidly looking forward to six weeks in One hour,...

of Hongkong, on FRIDAY, the 28th Three hours,

day of February, 1919, at Now, when that it was difficult to find ic names India. the subjoined resolution which was for three new ships about to be passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the EIGHTH day of February, 1915, will be subraitted for confirmation as Special Resolution:---

Six hours, 20

Day (88.20. to 8 pm.), 1.00

If the trip is extended beyond Victoria,

half fare extra.

6

Between the hours of 8.30 pm, and am the above lares shall be increased by 50 per centum.

Hoar

Beyond Fictoria, with four Beaters, ......0.60 centa.

$1.00

Three hours. Six bours.... Day (8am to 6 pm), 2.00 111-In the Hill District

With Bearern With & Bearers.

'80.30 Half bour, ...

*** 0.20

́0.30 ·

Quarter bear.......$0.15

B

That the Articles of Association be "altered in manner following

1 viz — "In Article 82 the word "five" shall be substituted for the word

13

The effect of this resolution will be to increase the maximum number of Directors from four to five.

"We very much appreciate all that launched, and that a sarcastic person, is done for us by private enterprise who no doubt bad suffered from mal by people working for the Red Cross. de mer and other discomforts of the We are so well found out here that Atlantic voyage, protested that the it is difficult to say what we want. I difficulty was imaginary. "Why not believe the men appreciate warni call your three new ships the woollen pyjamas and socks as much

Dyspeptic."the Rheumatic

and as anything. The winters are very the Emetic?"

cold and we are always short of There does not seem to be any socks. good reason why ship names should be "I was very interested to hear you drawn from two parts of speech only, were in China. I know Shanghai

or why adverbs or even prepositions well, also Canton and Hongkong, but should not be impressed into the I know Yunnan best of all-I was a service. For an Atlantic liner mak naturalist in the mountainous region

Tated the Fourteenth day of Februing her round trip to New York of Western China before the War

0,40

One bour,

0.60

Two bours

0,80

Three hours 0.70

ary, 1919."

1.00

Bix Briars

1.00

1.50

By Order of the Board,

Day (6am. tcs pr.)1,50

9.00

RICKSHAË

J, H. TAGGART, . Secretary and Manager.

Hongkong, Feb. 14, 1919,

within a fortnight, To and Fro' and hope to go back there as soon as would be an appropriate name; while peace is declared. I am very fond of the humble tramp" steaming on no the mountain, Chinese and of the customary track, but nosing for cargo Tibetans and frontier tribes. No wherever it was to be found, might greater contrast to them can be be aptly named 'Here and There." imagined than the miserable Arab The aristocratic P and O Company, tribes of Mesoptamia, nor to the the chief shuttle in the loom of scenery of Yunnan than these parch- Empire, for many years refrained ed bare flat deserts. I am looking from fancy nomenclature, but-named forward to seeing forests and mount- 5 cents NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that its ships with especial regard to the ains again in India.”

the

ORDINARY YEARLY places with which it traded. Thus MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS the Delta' and the Massilia' marked it this Company will be held at the the period before the Suez Canal was Company's Hotel, Hongkong, on FRI opened, and when the mails were DAY, 28th February, 1919, at 12.15 carried from Marseilles to Alex

In the Island of Hongkong, if engage i

in. Victoria.

Ten minutes, .....

Quarter hour,

Half hour, concour One bour, Á Every Subsequent bour;

10

15

20

•

20

20

HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD,

IF SLEEP DOES NOT REFRESH YOU,

Large Chesterfield Sofa and Arm within the City of Victoria, and bear, for the purpose of receiving the landria and then to Suez by the People who are tired out, who arise in

shairs (English maks), a few pieces of Blackwood Furniture, ete.

Large Brass Bedstead, Wardrobes, Toilet Table, Wasbatand,

ko.. &c., Electric Fittings and Sunblinds... On view day of sale. Txum ---Caal.,

&c.

HUGHES & ROUGHL

Auctioneers. Hongkong, February 18, 1913,

THE Undersigned have received in

stractions to sell

At their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road,, Corner of

Ice House Street,

One Upright cottage Piano arpecially made for the climate by Francis Bacon, New York,

(Practically new) |

Ons Boudoir Grand Piano by Collard Collard in good condition.

Particulars from the undersigned, Teras-Cash B

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Hongkong, Feb. U, 1919.

20

Quarter hour,.................. 6 centa, "Half hour,............................................... 15

Hour, Bvory subocquent hour, 10. "

III—Taipo Road.,

Twenty cents shall be added for each extra hour or pars of an hour if the hirer canses thu journey to take longer tban

TO

TRANSFER of SHARES can be REGISTERED. yn wannada

By Order of the Board of Directors, hame for a ship carrying mails and intense anxiety of veno

J. H. TAGGART, Manager. Hongkong, Fob. 15, 1919.

Hota.If the ricksha be engaged

Report of the Board of Director overland route. Of late years, the morning feeling that sleep hus rot charged outside the Western part of the together with a Statement of Accounts however, it has adopted what may refreshed them, ara in a state of nervous City of Victoris after 8 pm or be dis charged, to the East of Eay View Folics for the year ending 31st. Droomber be termed to borrow a metaphor exhaustion that borders on the condi Station on the Eastern side of the City 1918.

from the Recruiting Office-a Group tion that doctors call reurasthenia. Tho of Victoria after 9 p.m. an extra half THE REGISTER of SHARES for Class system. An ̧ *M* group cases are varied. Continuous work, Bare shall be chargeable.

tha Company will be CLOSED from and also an"N" group were launch-mental or physical, without proper attention to diet and exercise, also worry 11-In Kowloon.......

FRIDAY, 21st February to FRIDAY, ed each of which was composed of aree the struggle for success, are the 28th February, 1913, (both days in vessels built about the same time on it common causes. Excesses of almost clusive) during which period and for particular services. In the any kind may produce it. Sometimes same group with a Mooltan was a diseases like influenza will cause nouras- Majcla. Mooltan' is an appropriate thezia. Go also will severe shosi,

The symptoms are passengers to Hindustan but irritability, a disposition to worry over

Majela'a pass in Switzerland over trifles, headache possibly nausea.

The treatmed in cases like this is one which a few travellers and Alpinista struggle in the difficult heights of of nutrition of the nerve cells requiring &non-alcoholic tonic. As the nerves get the iced mounted air," is the absolute their nourishment from the bio d the antithesis of an ocean liner. Similar treatment must be directed toward ly, in order to fill up the "N" group building up the blood. Dr. Williams a Walloon city was violently wrench pink pills act directly on the blood and, ed from the land and made flotsam with proper regulation of the diet, have upon the Bay of Bengal, when the Proved of the greatest benefit ip may cases of neurasthenis. A tendency to Namur on her maiden voyage asemin er blog lessness, shown by most steamed, away from Madras with her neurasthenic patients, is also corrected course set to the mouth of the Hugli. by these tonic pills, Gara

The first large ships of the British Twa psefal book, "Diseases of the Nervous System and What to Eat Navy to be lost in the present war and How to: Eat will be sent fro by were the Cressy, the 'Hogue' and the Dr. Williams Medicine Co.. Su Szer the Aboukir. It would seem that shuen Road, Shanghai, f you mention Nemecis had ordained that ships this paper. Dr. Williams' pink pills are bearing the dames of Victories over noid by all chemists, or can be obtained our present Ally, across the Channel at 31.60 per bottle, six for 88, post, freo

from the above address. must take no part in it. (Ex)-

To ith mile-

single......

To centa....I hour,." -return $1.00 hours. Beyond 4th to 6th raile-

hours single $1.2

resura

Beyond 4th to 8th mile- Eingle 175. return......$2.00

Beyond 2th to 11th milo

single $2,00 return......$2.50

Fares for journeys beyond the 17th mile to be a matter of previous arrange- ment in each case.

The fares here not out to apply to one. rickiba with three coolies from Trim Sis Taui

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY,

THERAPION NO. 1 THERAPION NⱭ.2. THERAPION NËS

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WORD "THEMATIUN IS ON BET, GOTT. STAMY AFFIXED TO GENUINE PACKET

WINCARNIS

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Caks of 375 lbs, net

In Baza of 250

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

GENERAL MANAGERS

BIG CLEARANCE SALE

FOR

20 DAYS ONLY

Beginning on the 20th inst.

Miss No Opportunity.

THE SINCERE CO.,

TEL. 1967 & 1968.

LTD.

JAMES STEER.

9/1DE HOUSE" STREET WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER.

CHRONOMETERS, CLOCKS, WATCHES AND NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS REPAILED UNDER MY PERSONAL SUPERVISION.

Tel: 2877.

Tel. 2877

ROSE'S

LIME JUICE

Delicious, Wholesome, Refreshing.

Prepared from the pure juice of the

finest

West Indian LimeFruit grown

on our estates in Dominica, West ladies.

Insist on having ROSE'S.