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SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1921.

Hughes & Hough

AUCTIONEERS TO TER GOTEKICKEDET

General Auctioneers, Share, Coal and fieneral Produce Brokers and Commizzien agenta,

PROPRIETORS

«To-XW*•Wan" Coal Storage.

Dades med Bentley's

A 4th & 5th Editions. A-1 Telegraphis Dode

Telegrapŏic Address ** SUFUZONG, -

-PUBLIC AUCTIONS-

Undersigned have received fust `tions to sell by Publlo Anction, (FOR-ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERTD),"

OD

TUESDAY,

April 12, 1981, commencing at 1.30 p.m., a their Sales Booma, No. 8, Der Verex Road, Carace of

Ice House Stree

WANT "ÅDVERTISEMENTS

15 WORDS & INSERTIONS,

$1. PREPAID. Every additional word & Cents

for 3 insertions.

TO LET.

(YQMHODIOUS OFFICE, in Alexan O and possess Apply to-LSSTEAD & DAVIS, Aletanda Bldgs.

TO LET-From 1st April, HOUSE

in No. 10, Nathan Road and No. 4. Rose Terrace, Kowloon. Apply to TONG WAR BUNNG AT. No. 43. Queen's Road, East

FOR SALE.

THE UNDERSIGNED HAS 10 Shares of THE RONPIBON TIN NO LIABILITY LTD, which ta is willing to sell at the market quotations..

For full particulars please apply to

S. C. TEO..

81, Des Vienx Road Central

INTIMATIONS.

TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNE REPULSE BAY HOTEL TORE, BRASS AND TEAKWOOD TREY

BEDSTRADS, CARPETS,

comprising:-- Dizing Suites, Mirror back Side- board, Dining Table, Chairs, to.. Charfield olas, Armchairs (DW)} Card and Occasional Tabine, One Upholstered Suite Bedroom Furniture comprising Teakwood Twin Bristesda, Wardrobes, mail and Large Draedar Tables, and Chairs Wash-

stands to famed Teakwood), Side-

CABARET DINNER DANCE.

TO-DAY

SATURDAY, 9th April

SIGNOR ANTONIO MULINARI The Milanese Tenor Assisted by

SIGNOR MOLINARÍ

Soprano

15

INTIMATIONS.

BILLIARD CHAMPIONSHIP OF-

THE COLONY

to be played at the VICTORIA REORRATION-CLUB

TO-NIGHT. SATURDAY, the 9th inst A. J. ÖSMUND

.T.

P. YVANOVICH (Holder) 1,000-pin two sessions cominencing at 6 and 9 pm. Adratsson -

Mambers, Sailors & Soldiers 50 cts. Non-members Reserved Seats -

$1.00 $0.00

R. C. WITCHELL,

Hon. Secretary Hongkong, April 7, 1921 ́§ ̧

COMMISSION TO ENQUIRE INTO THE INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT

OF CHILDREN.

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE QUEST OF MOHAMMED'S SACRED SLIPPER SERIES.

II. THE FIGHT FOR

SAFE

BY SALE ROHMER.

(Continued from yesterday.)

(COPYRKIST, 1916.)

THE" Mr. Cavanagh, it's "uncamy "

Prof Deeping famous Orientalist, atole Mohammed's slipper and took it to England, thereby bringing down on himself and all others who had anything to do with it the wrath of the Hashle bin, a Moslem sock that guarded the relics of the Prophet Deeping was mysteriously killed, and the key to the safe containing the slipper was left in the custody of Cavanagh, Read story of the meeting with Hamen ai Aleppo, his ecni encounter with tho girl of the vialet eyes, and his barrow- ing experience in the moonlighs in the room Where Deeping was killed.

said Bristol. I can understand that- one of these Hashishin could easily have got up behind the man on 'ditry out in the open but unless they possess the power to render them selves invisible, it's ra evident how they can have got behind West while he sat at the table, with Marien acty ally watching him !**

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon I had heart nothing farther from Brist›l." but I did not doubt that he would advise me of his arrangements in good time. I sought, by hard work, ro for get for a time the extraordinary busi- ness of the stolen" slipper; but it per- sistently intruded upon

my mind. Particularly my thoughts turned to the night of Prol. Deeping's murder -and to the bewitchingly pretty woman who had warned me of the impending tragedy. She had bound ne to secrecy-2.secrecy which had proved irksome. For it had since appeared to me that she must have! "They were siming sell you been an accomplice of Hassan of THE COMMISSION will be glad to when Marden thought heard a pan. Aleppo. At the time I had been at bear evidence or to receive sugous sort of noise frons the gate a loss to define her peculiar_accent; gestions from any person who may be West appeared to have heint nothing now it seemed evidently enough to interested in the Industrial Employ but I have no doubt that 11 was the have been Oriental. ment of Children. Communications sound of the constable's fall: West's-I threw down my pen in "despair, should be addressed to-.

pipe had gone out, and he struck for work was impossible, went down THE SECRETARY TO THE match, to relight it. As he did so, stairs and walked out under the arch

COMMISSION, Marden saw him drop the match.inro Fleet street. Quite mechanic Secretariat of Chinese Affairs, clench both fists, and with eyes glasally I turned to the left, and still

Hongkong.

ing in the moonlight and his teeth engaged with idle, conjectures, stoll- coming together with a snap, droped westward. from his chair!

Passing the entrance to one of the Marden says that he was half up big hotels, I was abruptly recalled to from his seat when something struck the realities by'a woman's voice, him on the back of the head with fear-

"Wait for me, here, came, music-

k

By Order of the Commission. Hongkong, April 7, 1991.

AY

HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.

ful force.. He...remembered nothing]ally, to my ears. more until he awoke, with the dawn I stopped and turned. A woman in NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN weeping into the fore, and land white. who had just quitted a taxi- that an EXTRAORDINARY West grazing somewhere beside him. as, was entering the hotel. A few GENERAL MEETING of Members They both had badly damaged skulls steps upward she paused and glanced will be held in the Pavilion of the with great braises behind the ear.back. I had a view of a Greek pro- Club on THURSDAY the 14th of it is instructive to note that their file, and, for one magnetic instant, April, 1921, at 530 p.m., for the wounds corresponded almost to a looked into the eyes of the deepest

boards, Dianer Waggons, Extension Din-GEMS FROM POPULAR MASTER- purpose of submitting the following fraction of an inch. They had been and most wonderful violet.

ing Tables and Chairs, &c, Dinner Services, Crockery, and Giser Ware Cooking Storos, Catlery, &c., Bath Room Utensils, lectro-Plated

WELT.

་་

Electric Beading Lamps, Screens, Sendry Blackwood Furniture, Side Tabice, Chairs, Cabinets, Pictures, &c. Also

Une Piano in good condition. (Fall Particulars from Catalogue). » Yertps:-Cast.

HUGHES & HOUGE.

Auctioneers. Heong, April 6, 1991.

(ACCOCYT OF THE CONCREÏED),

Ox

TUESDAY,

April 12, 1921, commencing at 230 .. their Bales Rooms, No, & Des Faux Road, Corner of

Ice Home Street,

AN ASSORTMENT OF Household Linen), 20.

Comprising

Pillow Cases, Fine quality Blankets, White Satia Quilts, Beri Valances, Damask Table Cloths, Tarkish Towels, Bath Towels, Bath Sheets, Double Bed Shesta, Drawn work Bedspreads, Table Covers, Crochet and Drawawork Deilies, Linen Damask Serviettes,

4180

A few lots of Bellow Valises and

Suit Cesen

and

Three Faire Bicoculars, &c. (Fall Particulars from Catalogue). Terms Carb..

HUGHES & FOUGE

Auctioneers. Hongkong, April 6, 1921.

(For account

of the concerned) at an early date

AT GLENILSA No. 9, THE PEAK.

THE

PIECES SUNG

IN ITALIAN AND ENGLISH.

'SUNDAY" AFTERNOON, SEMI-SACRED CONCERT.

HONGKONG DOG, CAT, POULTRY

AND PIGEON SHOW,

A MEETING of the interested in the above will be held in the BOARD ROOM OF Messrs. JARDINE MATHESON & CO'S OFFICE OF MUN- DAY next, 11th instant, at 5.30 B., to elect a working Committee for the Show and any other business.

"BL FROST,

Hon. Secretary. Hongkong- April 7, 1921

HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY, LIMITED. (Incorporated in the United Kingdom) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

GENERAL the ORDINARY MEETING of the Boogkong Tramway Campany. Limited, will be held at the Offices of Meers. Jardine, Matheson & Company Limited, Pedder Street, Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the 13 day of April, 1921, at 12 o'clock Noos, to transact the ordinary business of the Company.

By Order of the Board,

W.E. ROBERTS,

Secretary. Hongkong, February 4, 1921.

resolutions:

1.-That the present Hongkong Cricket Club be wound up, and the committee be authorised to take all necessary steps for that purpose.

2That the committee be authoris ed to register a Company Limited by guarantee not exceeding $100 per member, on the terms of the Merno- modum and Articles of Association which will be submitted to the meet ing

3-That the committee be author

ised to assign and hand over to the new Company, when registered, all the assets of the Club.

stunned by some one who thorough- Then, shaking off inaction, I ran understood his business, and with up the steps and overtook the lady in A few white as a porter swung open the some heavy, blunt weapon.

We entered co minutes later came the man to relieve door to admit her. the constable: and the constable was gether.

***Madame," I said in a low tone." found to have been treated in exactly the same way!"

I must detain you for a moment. There is something I have to ask. "

But if Marden's account is true?" "West, as he lost consciousness,

saw Marden. go in exactly the same way."

And the constable?"..

Ste turned, exhibiting the most per- fact composure: lowered her lashes and raised them again, the gaze of the violet eyes sweeping me from bead to foot, with a sort of frigid scorn.

Her voice betrayed no trace of any foreign accent!'

The constable can give us no clue, He was struck suddenly down, as the

"I fear you have made a mistake, others were. I examined the safe. of course, but didn't touch it, according air. We have never met before!”- Should the proposed resolutions be to instructions. Some one had been passed at this meeting a subsequent j at work on the lock, but it had defied I'm fully expecting. confirmatory meeting will be called. their efforts.

though, that they'll be back to night. But, "I began, and paused.

what construction mod realized be there."

Could you arrange that I join my presence there, and foresaw that forcible and ignominious ejection must “I could, but you can see the dan-be my lot il 1 failed to establish my

right to address her. ger for yourself."

Copies of the proposed Memoran, be seen by members at the Pavilion.

By Order of the Committee.

L. S. GREENHILL,

Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, April 7, 1891.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

-

ARTICULARS and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to

PAR

be held on MOSDAY, the 11th day

of April, 1021, at 3 p., at the

So02"

-

***It is extraordinarily mysterious."

OLD PAN.

MIGHTY OL INS.

--

(To be continued.)

Satsuma in those days was a mighty clan. So was Chosu. At the call of those two Daimyo ten thousand sword scabbards, lacquered and reverenced, glittered in the morning sun. The mountain passes scintillated nights with the flaring torches if the clan runners, two-sworded and panting, carrying the message of war and Japan, despite her modern Dread-blood to the smaller lords and head- noughts, hez railways, and her woman men of the villages. Day and night

FEUD THAT AFFECTS ITS PRINCE

TO-DAY.

Office of the Public Works Department, suffrage, is still Old Japan beneath the bodies of Samurai, armed to the teeth

by Order of His Excellency the Governor, surface, writes D.I.B. ina home paper. in their crab-like, lacquered steel; of CROWN LAND The old, old rivalry between those two swarmed to the castles of their lords.

Extension Boad

of

ROYAL ARTILLERY ATHLETIC SPORTS.

VDG Les at Lugard

in

THE ROYAL ARTILLERY are holding their Annual Regi mental Sports on THURSDAY, April 14, 1921, at the United Services Recreation Club Ground, Kowloon, commenting at 2 pm. Lieut-Colonel W. Loring, CMG., D.S.O., and Officers, Royal Artillery will be AT HOME and hope their friends will

Hongkong, April 8, 1921-

„Vainable Household Furniture, accept this as an invitation.

&c,

som

therein contained. - Comprising :---

Steel Safe, Hall tand, Dining room anita, upholstered sofa and armchairs, plate cutlery, Dinner service and glass-

vire

Bedroom Suites, wardrobes, mirrors, curtains, kitchen utensils, Pot Plants, &e., &c.

And

Piano by Collard & Collard. (Fall particolara from catalogue) On view day before sale.

Terms-Cash,

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers,

Hongkong, April 7, 1921.

FOR SALE

THE

THE Underrigned bare received in structi a- to sell at their Sales Rooms, Nr. 8 Des Voeux Road, Corner of Lee House freek,

One full size HILLIARD TABLE by

Barroughs & Soos, with all accessories,

(rood as Dewlett

-NOTICE.

7E beg to notify that the co WE OPERATE NAME of the FIm

is changed from "THE AULT & WIBORG CO." "THE AULT & WIBORG CHINA CO."

Signed by J. B. HAWLEY,

Becretary.... Hongkong, April 8; 1921.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN."

the Culoby of Ecogkong, for great claus-Satsuma and Chosu- Processions of them thronged the the has broken out again, this time over, Tokaido and the Kisokaido-the great. 3 term of 15 years, with option of renewal at a Crown Rant to be the engagement of his Imperial High-highways of Japan; processions head- Szed by the Surveyor of His Majesty theness Hirohito, Crown Prince of Japan, ed by fierce swordsmen, iron war fans to the Princess Nagako, daughter of at their sides, clearing the way with their shouts of Shita no no! Shita King, for one further term of 15 years.

Prince Kuniyoshi

Pretty, eighteen-year-old Nagako noire"-" Bow down! Bow down!" for none save the Samurai might is a daughter of Satsuma blood. stand when the great ones swept Naturally it behoved the great ones by..

Registry No.:

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PUBLIC AUCTION...

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be held on MONDAY, the 11th day of

af Choen, headed by Prince Yamagata,

A

the

word of command,, and to lodge their protest. Strengthen column halts at the castle gates. A Satsuma with a royal marriage?

gong sounds, harsh and reverberating. Never 1 The bones of a thousand long on all sides the gate guards appear. dead Chen Samurai would turn is their hands the long pikes shoot "their graves.

out menacing, challenging

WONDZE SWORDS.

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By appointment

HOT GES

Established 1742.

Every Blend of

WHITE HORSE

WHISKY

is analysed before bottling a guarantee of quality.

· MACKIE & CO. DISTILLERS LTD. Island of Islay. London. Glasgow.

B.L.

"Rexine

For want of a.. better description *Rexine" is termed a substitute for. - leather.

- It is more than that. It has all the appearance of leather but it is better in every way: wears better and is im pervious to stains or grease.

For the sphotering of lacuitars, motor cars, etc: for the shoe sad slipper trades: for bookbinding, wod for bags, anache ce, and the fancy goods, made it in pected. Resine" Brand Leather- cloth has stood the test of time and is in ise all over the world.

REXINE LTD., Hyde, Manchester, “England,+--

Agent-

Probst, Hanbury & Co., Ltd, Shanghai.

Twyford & Co., Tientsin.

TRIALS SOLICITED

JAMES STEER

BY

THE CHRONOMETER - AND WATCH MAKRE (Contractor to HL. M. Naval Yard,) # Los HODER STE, HONGKONG.

PRIZE

MMEDAL

JOHN

WELLINGTON

FMILADELPHIA

EXHIBITION

1970

SONS

OAKEY & EMERY EMERY GLASS BLACK CLOTH PAPER LEAD WELLINGTON KNIFE POLISH

EMERY & BLACK LEAD MILLS LONDON --

JOHN OAKEY & SONS, LIMITED, "WELLINGTON MILLS, LONDON.

EX-MP SPY.

TREBITSCH LINCOLN'S PLOTS.

ATTEMPTS TO RESTORE KAISERISK.

Wanted by the police of many Euro.

Admiral Horthy (the Regent] to or ganise a great uprising in Central Europe of the old Royalist forces.

"Our plan was to begin by sudden- ly overwhelming Czecho-Slovakis, fol lowing up by an attack on Poland, in: which we should have been helped by: Czarist forces from Russia. The ulti---

A certain Bayarian?"

All of which is very interesting and The Tanks of the procession break typically Japanese Yamagata's pro-apart, and the Karo, or counsellor, test has been quashed; the overbear of the lord makes known his master's ing Chosu leader will resign from the presence.

The gates open, pean countries, including Britain, mate aim would have been a restors- Germany, and Hungary, Trebitsch tion in victorious Germany. Just when Council of Elders; Satsuma and and the long procession winds Lincoln, ex-M:P. lo Darlington, ex- all was ready for the outbreak of arm- Choeu will see pestefully in their in, to the hies of indrawn breath of the curete in charge of a Kentish parish, ed action under the most favourable beds. The word of the Tenno (whom bowing guards the Samurai's salute and ex-apy, was arrested, by the auspices, the Hungarians alleged I was a.Jew. It is impossible," said "ty Europeans will call the Mikado) has Did Japan.

Vienna police on a charge of fraud,

For the fast five weeks Lincoln has enemies, for us to restore the Ger gone forth. The heavenborn has spoken. The marriage will take place.

Ah! Those far-off days, when been living in the Park Hotel, Hiet an Erapire with the part of Bismarc

"It was accordingly decided to DARTICULARS and Conditions of the And-there you are.

hame of Lawrence: He possessed PA Public Auctions Sale, to

Now take a glance back over the Satsuma fought Chon; when fathering, a suburb of Vienna, under the played by a jew.' lay dying on his son's breast, and the official papers made out in that name assassinate me." April 1991, at 3 pm, at the Office years. Forget that Japan ever owned fest blood in all Yamato dimmed the and in several others, such as Lam- major wrote to Porni, one of the beads: of the Public Works Department, by Onder of His Excellency the Governor of One a Dreadnought. Dismiss thoughts of Lot of OROWN LAND at Kowloon, Shakespearian plays in Tokyo-look, blades of those wonder swords, the brecht, Lang, Lakkatooch, all begin of the militarist movement in Hun in the Colony of Hongkong for in fact, on Tokyo as it was in the days Katans of the Samurai; forged as noning with the felter L. In these docu-gary, advising him to have me re- #tarra af 75 years with the option when Yedo was its name and Samurai Europesa smith could ever forge, ments he is described as of no nation moved Porni, who is a friend of of rooms at Urin Rant to be fixed

Today those swords rest that his English naturalisation was crossed the frontier into Austeis sworded and proud. NLESS the above be cleared within by thi Sutrayor of His Majesty the King, swashbuckled down her streets, two-sharp and true and glittering,ality which he explains by the fact mine, showed me the letter, and 15

peaceful in their scabbards. The rescinded after the war began where I have since remained. UN

len daye the Undersigned will sell for one further terms of 15 year

glass cases of the museums of Tokyo Lincoln has been denounced to the Lincoln complains that he was given by PUBLIC AUCTION on 18th April,

honse of the blades of Saigo Takamon, Viennese police by the Czecho-Sio- an unfair deal in the division between the hery of Satsums, and Minamoto vakian Government on the grounds themselves by various leaders of the Yoritomo, the first Shogun of Japan that documents he sold to them were militarist movement of some £30,000 Yamagata of Choza wears modern forgeries. The price paid is said to collected for propaganda purposes. at all in the politics of the nation. tailored clothes to day. At the word have been 500,000 crowns [nominally

HELP FIOM, ČZAKÍST, PORCASB Wet during the fruit out be That function devolved on the Shogun of the Tenno, Satsuma is silent; Chosa £20,000, now about (300). - -

For months, he says, I have sure to keep hott of Chamberlain's been working in secret in Bavaria with Colic and Dianthos lie indy at hand Colonel Bader the leader of the Get To may save a life eald-by-

milfitrists waand-in Hungary with Chemists and Storekeeperz

He 6 anos Stooks and Dies.

1921, at 11 am the above to cover the storage.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Fall particulars from the undersigned. MASSAGE.

HUGHES & HOUGE,

1921,

ME. HONDA and Mrs. HUNDA.

(Opposite to the Chian Mat

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PARTICULARS

OF THE LOT.

Liscality,

#

LORD OF FRINGE,

The Emperor in those days was never seen by any save the Kuge (Court nobles), and then only through a bamboo screen. He entered not

the virtual ruler of Japan, and it was bows consent.

to the Shogun the lord of all the

feadal princes-the

Chester would.com

bad Fougat

they

Tedo is no more.

Where the sun flashed on helm and breastplate but fifty years ago the trams now chang ther way.

THE FRUIT SEASON, DOWEL complaint is de to ve preva