1920-10-19 — Page 3

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1920.

Eughes & Hough

AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.

Gonera! Auctioneers

Share, —Coal...'and General Produce Brokers and Commission Agents.

PROPRIETORS "To-Kwa-Wan" Coal Storage

Gecier masc Festleg's

a. c. 4th & 5th Editions. --

A 1.Telegraphic Code.

Telegraphic Address "MERION* HONG KONG,

-PUBLIC AUCTIONS-

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

23 WORDS & INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID.

Each additional word' & Cants for 3 insertions,"

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LET.

URNISHED HOUSE on the Peak to let; complete with servants, licen etc. for six weeks; available immediately. Apply Box No. 1234 c/o China Mail.

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-TWO LANCASHIRE BOILERS, length 28 feet, diame-

ter Sfeer, diameter of furnaces (two) 3 feet. Working pressure 100 lbs. per ag. inch.

Constructed by Messrs Lindas, Barnet & Co. Goran, Glasgow. In go order and condition. Complete set of £tings with each boiler. Apply THE Cadersigned have received instruc- | BerriaFIELD & SHARE HONGKONG. Tall by Poblic Auction.

· (108 ACCOUNT OF TEK CUNCIRAED),

፣

FRIDAY,

October 1990, at 250 p.m., at their Salon Rooms, No. 8

Des Tax Road, Corner of

Ice House Street,

260 Dozen Theros Blue Flame Stoves, nad 450 Dozen Fuel

cabe for same.

Suitable for all ordinary cooking pur- poses and especially useful for picnic or where to gas or ordinary fire is installedi

Terzo-Cab

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, October 14, 1920.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

OF THE

F. tuable Leasehold Property SITUATE AT

Victoria, Hongkong, and registered in the Land Office 23 Section "B

Marine

Lot No 90, and the Building thereon To be sold by order of the Mortgagees by

PUBLIC AUCTION

од

WEDNESDAY,

the led day of November, 1920, at

.. 12 noon, in One Lot

by

Messrs. HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers,

at their Auction Rooms in Des Voeux Road Central

The Property is situated in the West- | ern District and consists of:-

All that piece or parcel of ground situate at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office se Section "B" Marine Lo: No. 90 and is covered by Premises known 35 2 and 4, Wilmer Street, two Storied Chinese Godowns built of brick with tile roofs, bell for the residue of a term of 000 years created therein by a Crown Lease dated the 24th day of September 1856 and made between Eer late Majesty Queen Victoria of the one part and Adam Scott of the other part,

Area:-3960 square feet or thereabouts. Crown Rent:-23 15 0.,

Vacant possession, will be given of completion.

Particulars and Conditions of sale may he bad from:-

Messrs. DEACON, LOOKER,

DEACON & HAPİSTON,

1. Des Voeux Road Central Vendor' Sclicitors.

or from

Mesars. HUGHES & HOUGE,

The Auctioneer. Hongkong, October 9, 1920.

FOR SALE.

THE Undersigned have received in-

stroctions to sell at their Sales Booms, No. 8. Des Voeux Bosd, Comer of Ice House Stree

The Motor Yacht IRENE” Balt 1916. Had very little usage. Hall

..... Teakwood. Length, water line 29′ 9′′ over all 35ft.

Beam ft.

Draft...Jit

"Mixer Scripps" Heavy Duty 14 HP. Complete with lavatory, refrigera tor, suit of saila and all accessories

Price and fall particulars may be had. from the undersigned.

Terme-Casb.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, October 6, 1920.

-FOR-SALE.

THE Undersigned have received in- structions to sell at their Salce- Rooms No. 8. Des Voeur Road, Corner of Ice House Street

A Private collection of about 250 Chinese Snuff Bottles including msny rare specimen

with cabinet Owner leaving the Colony Particulars from the undersigned “Thoria 5---Chahi

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Anchonews. Hongkong, October 12, 1990.

TO LET.

THE CHINA MAIL.

LET-From NOVEMBER 1st.

new-three-roomed-EUROPEAN FLATS in Kowloon, facing Coronation Road (Nathan Rood Fatension), älteen minutes by rickshaw from Hongkong Ferry, and five minutes walk from Yaumst Ferry This property can be

les as eleven self-contained houses each with nine living rooms and adequate kitchens, baths and servants' rooms, or as separate three roomed fats. The rooms are large and cool, facing east) with an open prospect. Very moderate rental Apply J. CAR CLARK, Architect & Surveyor, 14. Queen's Road Central

XB-Official information has been received that a Government re-- gulated Motor Bus Service will shortly be inaugurated in this district. This service will run to a fixed time table, and will provide speedy and comfortable access from the Ferry to these fats.

H

People prefer the Hupmobile for its unusual power and performance, its unusual economy, its unusually long life, its unusual freedom from repairs, its unusually high second-sale value. They prefer it, not because it excels in any one of these things, but because it excels in combining them all.

STANDARD EQUIPMENT.

5-seater Touring or 2-seater

"Roadster body. Speedometer

Flectric starter.

Head, tail and dash board,

lights

Rain-vision windscreen.

Fuel gauge.

Oil pressure, gauze. Electric born.

Ammeter.

Foot and rug rails.

Tyre carrier-Extra rim.

Side corming-door curtain

Carriers.

Tonneau carpet.

Hood (black or khaki). Grease

Pump, jack, fall set of tools.

ALEX ROSS & COMPANY,

HONGKONG, CHINA.

SHANGHAI GARAGE COMPANY,

SHANGHAI, CHINA.

Hupmobile

Now Ready For Distribution

1980-1821

GROCERY LIST

AND

CATALOG OF

WINTER CLOTHING

For free copy of this catalog

ALSO

GENERAL CATALOG for 1920

. No. 92"

apply to

MONTGOMERY WARD & CO.

NATIONAL Y. M..C. A. BLDG.

20 Museum Boad,

SHANGHAI

Wholesale.

Retall

行洋華茂

魏卄路院物博海上

MONTGOMERT WARD & CO.

Manžastarem and Expertars of General Mrvehandise

·Chicago, U. 5.2.

MASSAGE. TAIYO & CO.

Mr. HONDA and Méx. HONDA.

Trained male Massouras

13 years' experience. Formerly of Tokyo kilitary Hospital

WILL AVERI PATARITE A RESIDENCES IP PREFERRED Bo. 24. Wyndham Street. {Oppoššia, to the China Mal},

· BOOTS AND SHOES MARK TO OBDES-

INTIMATIONS.

WISEMAN, LTD.

TEA DANCES

TO-DAY TUESDAY, October 19th,

and

THURSDAY, October 21st.

DINNER DANCE

оп

SATURDAY, October 23rd.

Ticket for Tea Dance $1.00 Ticket for Dinner Dance $1.50

The above charges do not include

ments and refreshments

D. M. GOODALL, Manager.

St. John's Cathedral MONDAY, Oct. 25th.

at

9.15 p.m.

ORGAN RECITAL

FOCALIST:

Mrs. BELL.

"RHYMES

OF HONGKONG"

By E. D. S.

FOR SALE

AT.

75 cents each copy

AT

KELLY & WALSH, Ltd., BREWER & Co.

AND

"CHINA MAIL.”

HITCHING BURNING RASH ON ARM

Neck and Head. Hair Fell Out Badly. Cuticura Heals.

I had an itching and burning on. my arms and neck, and also on some parts of my head. When a rash ap *peared which caused my hair to fall put badly. I was tressed, but could get no relief. After this I tried Cat- cata Soap and Hament I found great relief in a short time, and now (am Lealed." (Signed) Misa Nom Woolley, Chapel Street, Marple, Cheshire, England.

"

Prereen these distressing skintrons-} Les becoming serious by making Cini- care Soap, and no other, your every. daytoilet soep,asalsted by littletouches of Centiem Ointudent Jiew and then. Soap to cleanse, Ointment to heal.” Somp 1x Oistent 34 34. and 21.62 Sold throughout the UK P

Ben Londen. And for mall orders with price. PopCatinca. Sono share wichinat mong

SUNSHINE AND COMMON SENSE.

ONT doctor your blood for rheuma-

}

WHERE BILL SIKES, DIED.

A DICKENS LINK.

DEMOLITION OF JACOB'S ISLAND.

mame.

The London County Council have a scheme for the demolition of Jacob's Island, Bermondsey. Like so many other islands in London and else where, it is no longer true to_ïts]

Brooks get covered over when they are too foul even to trickle in the sunlight, and rivers · dre grudged their ancient privilege of making muddy creeks along their course. So Jacob's hland has ceased to be an island, and the mill-streams which once supplied its ancient tanneries with water have vanished out of sight. Apparently, it was a pleasure resort once, in times long `since out of mind, but it is a forlorn

and desolate place now, and the only visitors it receives from the outer world are the Dickensians, who are drawn to Jacob's Island because it was there that Bill Sikes tet his dreadful end, while seeking escape from the angry crowd "which bad bunted him down. Dickers described Jacob's Island as "the filthiest, strangest, and most traordinary of the mary localities that are hidden in London, wholly unknown even by name to the great mass of the inhabitants." A muddy: ditch, six or eight feet deep and from fifteen to twenty feet wide, when the tide was in, was known in Dickens's day as Folly Ditch, and it could be filled at high water by opening the sluices of the Lead Mills, from which it took its old name of Mill Pond Crazy wooden galleries, common to the backs of half a dozen houses, with holes from which to look upon the slime beneath; windows broken and patched, with poles thrust out on which to dry the lizen that is never there: rooms so small, so filthy, so confined that the air would seem too tainted even for the dirt and squalor which they shelter; wooden chambers thrusting themselves out above the mud and threatening to fall into it, as some have done; dirt-besmeared walls and decaying foundations; every repulsive lineament of poverty, every foachsome indication of filth, rot, and garbage all these ornament the banks of Felly Ditch." There must have been many a clean-up since Dickens penned that vivid description lyin 1850, which led an astonished

NOTICES

XMAS SALE

Come Early

i

For another 15 days only.

From 16th to 31st inst.

EVERY THING SUITABLE FOR XMAS PRESENT-

Great Reduction -

Don't Miss the Opportunity! SWATOW DRAWN WORK CO., 14, Des Voeux Road, Cantral.

Power Durability. Reliability Economy

Phone No. 2650.

FWD

AGENTS FOR SOUTH CHINA VASQUEZ CORREAS & CO. REPRESENTED BY

3. MOW FUNG, ..

60 Des Voeux Road Central

TRIALS SOLICITED

JAMES STEER

BY

THE CHRONOMETER AND WATCH: MAKER >>(Contractor to E. M. Naval Yard,)

Ic Hour STREET, HONGKONUL

Alderman to deny its existence, but LONG HING & CO., Kodak and Kodas Pa

the London County Council have decided that it is time an end was made of it, and so "Bill Sikes's House," as it is called, will come to its appointed term, for it is hardly the sort of place that even the most ecthusiastic Dickensian would desire to be kept in being. Bill Sikes, it will be remembered, after the murder of poor Nancy in Spitalfelds, tramped restlessly to Islington, High- Rate, Hendon, and even as far as Hatfield, before slinking back for refuge to Jacob's Island. When he saw and heard the "crowd below, he went to the parapet of the house and fastened a rope round the chimney- stack, so that he might drop down into the ditch. He was drawing the loop over his head to slip it beneath his armpits when he stumbled, and, look ing behind him, saw the reproachful eyes of his murdered victim, and fell over the parapet for five-and-thirty feet, banged by the neck, with the open knife "clenched in his stiffening hand."

"This is one of the. Dickens scenes that is fixed in the memory for ever by the few lines which close the chapter, and" which show the murderer's dog faithful still—to the master who had tried to drown it, leap for the dead man's shoulders and, missing its aim, fall into the ditch and dash its head against a stone. The house still stands, and is occupied as stables by a firm of } cartage contractors. Doubtless, be- fore the pickaxes get to work, many a pilgrimage will be made to the site, in Metcalf-court, at the back of a house in Eckett-street, beyond Dockhead, in the Borough' of South. wark"-Daily Telegraph.

DIPHTHERIA-HOW IT. MAY BE

AVOIDED.

DIPHTHERIA Y cold. The

IPETHERIA is usually contracted

cold prepares the child's system for the reception and development of the dipb- tberia germs. When there are cases of diphtheris in the neighbourhood children that have colds should be kept at home and off the street outal recovered. Gira

DONT your boss application socha Chamberlain's Cough Remedy

of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. Ium fac days it will get you up and out into the sunshine, then Nature will restore the red blood to your veins and soon rid the system of this troublesome disease.

and they will not have to remain at home long. It also clemas out the culture beds, which form in a child's throat when it has a cold, sat minimizes the risk of contracting infectious diseases.

For sale by all Chemists-and-Store † For sale by all Chemists and Store keepers

keepers

REMOVAL

CLEARANCE SALE

EXCEPTIONAL BARGAINS.

D. CHELLARAM

SILK STORE

38-40, Queen's Road Central.

PHOTO SUPPLIES, DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

No. 171, QUEEN'S ROAD. CESTRAL, HONGKONG.

As the whiffletree....re- gulates the strain for a

double horse texto, 50

the Shirely President distributes and regulates the strain to the body as each member of the person in movement calls for additional use.

The extreme comfort is given by the metal tubes mounted on adjust-

alle swivels every extra strain automatically supplied by the ad justability of this wonderful brace construction. When you buy lock for "Shirley President" on the buckles--this is your guarantee,

For Sale By Good Dealers Everywhere.

PRESIDENT SUSPENDER COMPANY.

Shirley, Mass., U. S. A.

Established in 1870.

·Cable Address PRESIDENT Western Unim, A.B.C.-Fifth Edition and Bentley's Code.

BATTERIES!

A complete shipment of the famous

“KWIKLITE” BATTERIES

for pocket Torches ha just been received.

'KWIKLITE” TORCHES

yles and

ALEX-ROSS &Q

25-DE

Security

STEEL

OFFICE FURNITURE

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Vertical Bill

Files

Legal

Letter

Document Files

Cabinets

Vertical Combination

Transfer Cases

Card Drawers

Bectional Cabinets Waste Paper Baskets:

-MUSTARD & COMPANY.

17 Connaught Road Centríð