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SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1919.

Hughes & Hough

AUCTION SEES TO. THE GOVERNMENT.

General Abationeers. Share, Qual and General Produce Brokers and Commission Agente.

PROPRIETORS »Kwa+Wan® Coal Sterage.):

Oodes sed Bentley's

A a 4th & 8th Editions. A. 1 Telegraphic. Code.

Filographie Ašeres

■ MERION"

RONGXONG,

-PUBLIC AUCTIONS-

THE Undersigned have received Tetonsko cell by Public Auction, (For Account of the Concerned),

DJ

TUESDAY,

May 7, 1919, commencing at 2.30 p.m., at the Sales Hooms, No. 8, Des Faux Road, Corner of

Ies House Street,

A QUANTITY OF USEFUL HOUSEHOLD LEVENS, DRAWN WORK, & EMBROIDERIES,

Comprising:-

HOUSEHOLD LINENS:-Single and Double Plain and Hemstitched Sboots, Pillow Cases, Double White Satin Quilts, Linen Damask Servietten, Glass Cloths, Bath Towels, Face Towels, &a, &c.

DRAWN WORK:-Bedspreads, Pillow Cases, Tray Cloths, &c. &c.

E:MERÓIDERIES:-Bedspreads, Table Curers. Tes Cloths, Runners. 18 by 5410. Also

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

95 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, #1. PREPAID.

Knob additional 5 words 4. Conta..

LOST.

THE CHINA MAIL.

LONDON'S WHITE MANTLE.

**SUMMER TIME."

horses attached to the heavily laden vehicles were quite unable to pull their loads through. The animals slipped at every attempt to move, and soon there was a jumble of fallen horses and vans. As a consequence the tram services, through this tho. roughfare were considerably interfer-

On March 31 London papers said:ed with. Officially "summer time" came

In the City the street cleansing TO LET.

into operation in the early hours of had ploughs and sweepers and ar department got early to work, and TO LET No. 109 The Peak, 6 Sunday, but very early on Saturday, army of shovellers at work, so that To

BOOMED HOUSE at the Pak, as if to take revenge for artificial the main thoroughfares were fairly Leather cars. If flader brings back Apply to Paxgy SMITH, SETK & tinkering with the clock, time leaped clear even for the early morning

OF BINOCULARS in

to "China. Mail" Office, he will be rewarded.

WANTED.

ENGINEER FOR LOCAL WORKS.

Thorough shop training in mechanical engineering and experience in charge of steam plant essential. Apply Box No. 1119 o "CHINA MAIL"

WANTED. AT ONCE, A CLERS with some knowledge of Book. keeping. Must have first class credan- tials Apply in writing to BRITON, c/o China Mail"

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FLEMING.

LER-A FLẬT in Nathan Road, Kowloon

A Four-roomed HOUSE in Gordon Terrace, Kowloon.

Apply to «HUMPHREYS' ESTATE & FINANCE

00. EZD. Alexandra Buildings.. Hongkong, May 30, 1919.

TO LET.

TO LET NEW HOUSES in Nathan Road, Kowloon,

No. 14

Second Floor & Ground Floor.. Light and Airy, Electric Light & Bell installation, excellent sanitary it tings and arrangements including 7 ANTED.For The CHINESE

Water Ciorata. Ensmelled ENGLISH SCHOOL of JAVA,

Baths (European Style.). TWO KESIDENTIAL MASTERS. Salary (Senior Local). 110 guilders rising

TERMS MODERATE. 15 annually Free quarters, food, ere! Apply to -LAI HIN MAN, Free passage. Applicants must be

Manager. Cbinase, and accustomed to Sports. Students who have just. Anished their

Tong Wa Building agency.. education preferred. Apply with No. 434 Queen's Road East, Hongkong, testimonials up-to-date to TUAN GORUco "CHINA MAIL"

THE LIVERPOOL & LONDON &

GLOBE INSURANCE CO., LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that,

owing to the Undersigned pro- ceeding bome on leave, MR. RIGBY II. P. KEWLEY, will take charge of the Company's Hongkong Branch a3 Acting (All new goods and small lots to suit Local Manager as from 21st inst. purchasers)..

A few lots of Suit Cases and Attache Cases.

(Fall Farticulars from Catalogue).

Terms: Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

Hongkong, May 21, 1919.

(Bor Account of the Concerned.)

ON

TUESDAY,

May 9, 1919, commencing

at 2.30 p.m., at their Sale Room, No. 8, Des Vaux Road, Corner of Ice House Strest,

&c.

JOHN DE B.. LANCASTER,

Acting Local Manager. Hongkong, May 19, 1919.

SIEMENS CHINA ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING COMPANY, (HONGKONG) LIMITED. SIEMENS CHINA CO., FRANZ EMIL AUGUST EHRHARDT.

BERLIN

REDITORS are required to sead in their claims against the above to the undersigned Alexandra Build- ings. Des Voeux Road, on or before SATURDAY, the 31st May, 1918.

C. BERNARD BROWN,

Liquidator. Hongkong, May 20, 1919.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

TUK Undersigned have received instruc-

tions to sell by Public Auction,

A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF TEAKWOOD · AND BLACK WOOD BRASS- FURNITURE, BRASS ANTO MOUNTED

TWIN DOUELE AND BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS,

&c., Comprising - Chesterfield Bolas, Arm-chairs (new) Folding Card and Occasional Tables, One Upholstered Saite, Bedroom Furniture, comprising Teakwood Twin Bedsteads, large and small Wardrobes, Dressing Tables, Washstands, aca (famed Toak wood), Eldeboards, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, &c, Dinner Berriece, Crockery, and good Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, o. Beth Room Utensils, Valuable Electro Plated Ware,

(FOR 100OUNT OF THE CONCERTED),

Co

THURSDAY, May 29, 1919, at 2,30 p.m., at No. 7 Knutsford Terrace,

&

Kowloon,

THE SUNDRY

Household Furniture,

&c.

therein contained. Electric Reading Lamps, Black.

including :- wood and Teakwood Bercens, a

Large Extension Dining Table and quantity

Blackwood Famitero, ol

Chairs, Mahogany Sideboard, inely Blackwood Fire Screen, Side Tables,"

carved Blackwood Settee, Stands, Pic- Chairs, Cabinets, Pictures & Of

ture, o large and small Bristends Paintings, Several Carpets new and Hair Mattress), Wardrobes, Toilet

Tables, &e.

second-hand.

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Also

Large Ice Chest, Pantry, Kitchen Collard & Collard Fiano (good tone) and Bathroom Utensile. and Croquet Set, &c.

(Full Particulars from Catalogue). Terms.Casiz..

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HUGHES & HOUGH Auctioneers.

Hongkong, May 11, 1919.

{for account of THE CONCERNED),

ON

THURSDAY, May 29, 1919, at 10.30 am.,

at No. 8, Mountain View, The Peak, THE SUNDRY

Valuable Household Furniture,

C

&C.

therein contained.

Comprising:-

&c.

Large Teakwood Hallstard, Morocco Leather covered Sofa and Arm-chairs by Lace, Crawford & Co., Carpets, Teakwood Cabinets, Sideboard, Dining Table and Chaire, Mirrors, &c., and a quantity of SUPERICE TABLE GLASS-large Bedsteads and Cots, Wardrobes, Washstande, Toilet Tables, Akc

Also

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Electric Fans, Enamelled Bathe, Filter, Ice Cheat, Ships Lavatory, Wine Cabinet, and a number of lots of Fot Pianta

(Full Particulars from Catalogue). On view day of sale. Terme-Cash.

RUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, May 21, 1919.

Also

or

No. 10 Nathan Road, Kowloon.

INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG POLO CLUB.

EMPIRE DAY.

WEATHER

PERMITTING, POLO CLUB GYMKHANA will be held at the RACE COURSE Happy Valley (by kind permission of the Stewards, Hongkong Jockey Club) on SATURDAY next, May 24th, at

p

Admission 81.00 (including Tea) Children under twelve balf price.

Frogramme includes:-Tent Pegg ing, "Brain-Fever Race, Combat, &c. &0.

Blounted

Cash Sweeps.

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S: E GRIMSTONE

Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, May 19, 1918.

back to snowy winter-time and took traffic.

everybody completely by surprise. Little or no delay was caused in At midnight on Friday there was no the arrival of supplies at Convent- indication of the trick about to bel garden. In the early morning, All played, for a cold drizzle so charsc- the goods sent by rail reached the teristic of a March that has had a market at the usual hour, and only most unenviable reputation, chilled the green stuffs and other goods sent and depressed the late wayfarers. by road from farms in Middlesex Suddenly the temperature dropped, and Surrey arrived a little later than and by two o'clock the roadways usual. The week-end, supplies of and housetops were mantled in fruit and vegetables were in no way white. Nature delights in silent) affected.

operations, and she set herself with Travellers from Essex suffered dramatic effect on this occasion to some slight delay in reaching town. smother City and country in snow as The fast trains from Southend auffer

By sired most, but though the fall was the white as bleached wool. o'clock a picture of the most intense deepest experienced this winter, the whiteness was complete. Snow, which trains were sharper to time than on had fallen with gossamer lightness, many occasions when hard frosts had lay everywhere to a depth of about followed on rainfall during the night, half a foot. So still had the morning causing little grip on the rails. been that the surface of the white A Brighton Correspondent saya covering was unruffled. It clung to that the fall of snow in that district. everything it touched, transforming was heavier than at any time during gardens and open paces where it the winter. He adds, that the found trees or bushes into veritable conditions continued very wintry, bits of fairyland. Intense whiteness snow-squalls, alternating with spells pervaded everything-fences were of sunshine.

coated, hedges were smothered, wire Over the north of Scotland' the. became ropes of spotless fluff, trees storm was severe. In Caithness, an stood in the early morning light like exposed county, snowdrifts were ghost sentinels, motionless.

south-going as aand numerous. The painted picture.

midnight train was blocked two miles south of Altnabreas, and the morn ing train for the north did not leave Wick..

FRAGILE AND TRANSIENT,

It was a wonder'ul aight, perfect in its beauty as it was perfect in its virgin whiteness. But it was far too fragile and delicate a transformation

to last. It was a thing of a transient PREVENT DISEASE hour. When a slight breath of wind ||

stirred on the broadening of day FLY REGURGITATING ON SUGAR... its perfection vanished-like the snowflake on the river, "a moment seen, then gone for ever" And semblance of warmth it dealt out when the sunlight caught some

destruction to the fair scene. The snow Went almost as quickly and as quietly as it had come, though in the more ex posed parts it disappeared reluctantly. It may be mentioned that at then the sad of its probase is a drop nasriy as Carnegie Library, Hemne hill, there was a depth of over a foot of snow in the early morning. This is pro- bably a record for the metropolis at so late a date.

So even was the snowfall that, despite its depth, traffic was but little impeded in London and over the South of England generally. Some delay was caused in the running of the trains on the London and South- Western electric service in the early morning in consequence of the snow interfering with the free working of the points. City workers arriving by train were agreeably surprised to find they had been delayed by no more than about fifteen minutes in the majority of cases.. The tram services, too, were run LL PERSONS with the exception with commendable precision. The. A of those of Chinese races desiring troutes were first cleared by plough, Leave the Colony should apply in

NOTICE,

person between the hours of 1. to but it was not until nine o'clock that 1 P.M. and 1 g.au to 4 P.x. daily at the all the points were sufficiently clear PASS OFFICE, Post Office Building. to admit of the running of trallers.

Applicants will be required to produce Fassports or identification papers. All persons, with certain exceptions, who remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register them selves under the BEGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1910. Forms of Registration giving the particulars required may be obtained at the GP.O. and at all Police Stations.

no not exceeding $50.

The Penalty for non compliance is a

PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.

Piano by Robinson Plano Co, Elee- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that tric Fittings and Fans,

And

A number of Pot Planta

(Full Particulars from Catalogus). On view day of sale. Terms: Cash...

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, May 24, 1919.

(FOR LOCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED).

00

FRIDAY,..

Blay 30, 1910, at 2.30 p.œ.,

at No. 23 New Humphreys Buildings, Kowloon, THE

Vainable Household Furniture, £0.

ko. therein contained.

.,

Comprising:-

Well made Teakwood Dining Room Suite, large Dinner Service, Glass Ware, &c.

Teakwood Twin Bedsteads, large and small Wardrobes, Toilet Tables, &c.

Binger Sewing Machine, Electric Fittings, Fot Plants, &c.

(Fall Particulars from Catalogue). On view day of sale. Terms: Cosh.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Suellement

· Hongkang, May 23, 1019;

ANNUAL

"Of course," said one official, "we have had luck in obtaining the services of men only too willing to have an hour or two at snow clearing. At four o'clock in the morning many men presented themselves for work, and we were glad to have their assistance. By 730 most of the main thoroughfares were cleared,

When resting, the Ny can often be obsarred to irven gitate ita erop contents, until Where in naspetil-

as its haul. This did is draw in and out with

gusto so lang na the fɔ b undisturbed, but a drop- ped it alarni koude fa hay, fieht. (A sroplet il fæcal duld may thus be deposit zu on the surface of

food ready for human cansumption, and the deposit

| may analj poprala 3,009_eníeric baclili or diner

Intestinni infective organisms.

Well fed house-Claudiofæcula about once every Ere maint

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"INSECTOX

SUPPRESSES FLIES, MOSQUITOS & OTHER INSECT DISEASE CARRIERS. OUTFITS $ Ras $1.30

On sale at Messrs. A. 6. Watson & Co. Hongkong & Kowloon Eskilly Co., Hongkong, and leading stores.

FRANK SMITH & Co. Sale Agents.

KING TAI.

THE BEST WORKMANSHIP

Blackwood Furniture Stors.

All classes of Furniture made to order and Facked for shipment. Gold and Silver Ware, Jace Stone, Chinese Curice and Embroideries. INSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED. No. 10 & 12, Pedder Street, (Opponite to Hexekong BOTEL}, HONGKONG.

thanks to the army of demobilised TATYO & CO.

soldiers anxious to work."

A STREET SCENE, Between six and seven o'clock Gray's Inn-road presented an extra- ordinary appearance. A very large number of railway vans use this thoroughfare to convey foodstuffs

(JAPANESE)

BOOTS AND SHOES MADE TO ORDER

No. Ja, Wyndham St.

"For the Blood is the Life."

from the two great railway termini, ORDINARY King's cross and St. Pancras, and the. GENERAL MEETING of Shareholders of the above Company will be held at the HONGKONG HOTEL, Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the 29th May, 1913, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the. Report of the Directors together with a Statement Accounts for the year ending 30th April, 1910.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 26th instant to the 31st instant both days inclusive.

T

PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD.,

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers. Hongkong, May 19, 1919.

LLOYD'S REGISTER" OF

SHIPPING.

NOTICE.

مصرية

HE Undersigned JOHN LANDERT SHIP and ENGINEER SURVEYOR

to the above Society being transferred to Europe, the surveying duties will in the future be attended to by Mr. J. S. GARDINER, MLN.A., Ship Surveyor and Mr. T. S., MORRISON, Ship and Engineer Surveyor appointed from New York to this port.

(8gd) JOHN LAMBERT,

Lloyd's Register of Shipping, Alexandra Bandings,

Hongkong.

May 23, 1910.

YOUR

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Blotches, Spota, Pimples,

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IF YOU have that constant bening YOU are in the grip of Rhon

Cout,

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Clarke's Blood Mixture

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NOTICES.

THE MOTOR UNION INSURANCB CO., LTD.

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Dolog Apmači" for the above COMPANT, we are prepared to

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UNION TRADING COMPANY,

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CARS (1 HIRE

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Experienced

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A Large Number of New and Comfortable Cars

Always in Readiness.

MERCURY GARAGE CO.,

35-81 Das Vax Bond Caméral.

Phons 977 & 25080

Arrangements ·

for Special

Occasions

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LD.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casks of 375 lbs. not.

In Bage of 250 lbs./net

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

GENERAL MANAGERS

SOMETHING new.

WISEMAN'S TEA.

Our own packing and blending from the Choicest Ceylon and China Teas.

1-lb. tins

Try It

80 cents.

* WITHOUT PURE BLOOD HEALTH IS IMPOSSIBLE.

BLOOD

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