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AUCTION

PUBLIC AUCTION,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11гa, 1911.

A.Publican's Licence has for many years been held by the lato. Proprietor's Nominee and the Present Licence will (subject to the transfor being approved by the Licensing Board) be transferred to the Purchaser and he can hold

MESSRS, Gone the same until the Licones expires on the 30th

received instructions to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,

On MONDAY, the 30th day of Octobör, 1911, at 3 o'clock at their Sales Room, No. 8. Des Voeux Roud Coutral, The Furniture, Fixtures, Fittings Assels and Effects of the

concern,

...

KING EDWARD HOTEL· and the Goodwill of the business as a going Comprising the necessary and Volunble Hotel business carried on by the late Mr. DRUNSEEBHOX DORAILER NOWROJES und or the style of THE KING EDWARD HOTEL together with the benefit of the Leases of Fortions of Royal Buildings and Pringo's Buildings hereinafter mentioned. the premises occupied by the Hotel and the

The

accommodation is as follows: 1. ROYAL 1

"BUILDINGS:

Consist of (6) Underground Godowns, etc. (b) Ground Floor (o) "Tween Ground Floor and First Floor (d) Five Upper Floors and (e) Top of Fifth Fleer, all disposed as follows

(B) UNDERGROUND-partitioned off inte () Two Spacious Godowns one used for Storing Liquors, Wines, Acrated Wators, Mineral Waters, Cigars and other Bar supplies and the other for Storing Passengers' baggage and also affecta belonging to the Hotel of which there is a Large Stuck in reserve (ii) a Bacm for Storing empty hottles (ii) a Large Room for Compra. dore's Office (iv) Two Roome for Godown cooliee (v) a Carpenter's Workshop and (vi) an, open space in which a Salt Water Pump with a Wal is laid.

GROUND FLOOR-is divided into two Sections, namely, (A) Oficos and (B) Bar.

(A). Offices-(1) Booking Office with Counter (i) Manager's Office adjoining (iii) a spacious, Hall with Tables and Beats for visitors-all of which are in front white at back two Private Offices and Teleptone-Room.

(1) Bar-contains (i) Bar with counter and

day of November, 1911,

WITH THE ABOVE WILL BE SOLD EDWAup." Licence No. 372, Longth 60 ft. 5 in.. The Single-Strew Steam Launch “KING

Breadth 10 ft. 8 in., depth 7 ft. Gross Tonnsge 27.15. Net Tonnare 1139, together with all her Tackles, Gear and Apparatas, Engines and Boilers as she now-lies font in the Victoria Harbour. Month of May, 1911, thoroughly over-hauled

This Stoom Launch was in and repaired.

Particulars and Conditions of Sale may be obtained from the Tudersigned and from. the Auctionvers.

the

Orders to view the promises excepting the. premises of the sub-lessees may be obtained from the Undersigned,

JOHNSON, STOKES &'MASTER,

Prince's Buildinga, Hongkong,

Bolottors for the Vendore. Hongkong, 9th October, 1911. [1255

AS SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND HOUSE OF COMMONS

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This rat was started by the late Robert Thorn of Greenock and has been sold as No. 4 since 1831

Cash Regiales, all fitted up in first class style, SCOTCH WHISKY.

with three Billiard Tables complete (ii) Lava- –tories-and-Urinals with Hot and Cold Water Pipes for Wash Hand Basins, all up-to-date Fittings

(e) Tween Ground Floor and First Floor--| are two Compartments—(1) Private Bar and (ii) Drying Room.

(a) FIRST FLOOR-Comprises (1) Two Large Dining Rooms (il) One Pantry (iii) One Carving Room with Heating Range (iv) Kitchen with Cooking Range complete (v) Baker's Room ~~~~and (vi) a space with Boiler for Hot Water.

(8) SECOND FLOOR-bas (1) Beooption Room (ii) Private Dining Room (ii) Writing. Room (iv) One Large Room with two Billiard Tables and other saltable Fittings (v) Tea Room (vi) Cloak Room and a number of Subsidiary Booms as follows :----

One Ladies' Lavatory.

One Gentlemen's-Lavatory..

One Ladies' Bath Room.

One Gentlemen's Bath Room.

Two Spare Rooms for use of servants and for keeping sundries. Rooms I to III and

VII can be used as Bed-Rooms,

No. of

(d) Upper Bed- Lavatories Bath-

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3rd Floor 9

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The Bed Rooms on these Three Floors with suol of the Rooms on the Second Floor DG ATS convertible as Bed Rooms make 43 Bed-Rooms in all, the Billiard Room can also be used as Bed Room.

All the Lavatories aro of the latest pattern and the Bath Rooms are equipped with First- class Atlantic Baths

(4) Top of Fifth Floor are Chinese Kitchen

and Servante. Hall.

A Fire Escapo ruas from the roof right down

to the Ground Floor outside.

Enob Floor has a Telephone-Room

With the above will be sold the benefit of the Original Lease of Portions of Royal Buildings- upon which the above promises are situzte dated the 2311l day of October, 1905, for a term of 14 yaara from the lat day of September, 1905, and for a further terms of seven years from the ex- piration of the said term of fourteen years at a Monthly Rental of $1,716.67 and taxes which amount to approximately $223.16 per Month, 2. PRINCE'S BUILDINGS,

Consist of (i) Ground Floor with Underground Godowns now to let to the Medical Hall-and (ii) Three Upper Floors disposed in the following manner-(1)

(1) Ground Floor is divided into Two Sections, namely, A and B. Section A is let to the Bank of Taiwan upon an agreement for Lease which will expire on the 30th day of September 1912, at a Monthly Rental of $600 inclusive of taxes-and Section B is let to Emil Niedhardt carrying on business as The Medical Hall upon a sub-lease which will expire on the 30th day of September, 1917, at a present Monthly Rental of $500 for the first two years of the said terns and the Monthly Rental of 8600 & Mouth during the succeeding 3 years and at the Monthly Rental of 9700 for the remaining 2 years 2 Months and 17 days of the said term exclusive of tares. Full particolars of these sub-leasER can be supplied By the Undersigned.

(11) No. of

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Of the 27 Bed Rooms ou the above FloorTS perlain Rooms are leat to MESES. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors and Notaries, upon a sub-leese which will expire on the 30th- day of September, 1917, at a Monthly Rental of $35.00 exclusive of tazes. Fall particulars of the above sub-lease can be supplied by the Undersigned.

On the Second Floor is a Chinese Kitchen for the use of servants while on the Third Floor there is accommodation for the Hotel Watchmen.

With the above will be sold the benefit of the Original Lease of Portions of Friace's Buildings upon which the above premises are situate dated the 12th day of August, 1909, for a term of eight October, 1909, a from 1st Monthly Rental of 81-750.00 Bud toe which amount approximately

ately to $227.50 per Month The Arts and Effects comprise the Vainable and-up-to-date Furniture, Fixtures and Fitting Callery, Glass and Crockery, Table Linen and Electrio Installation (Lights and Fans) in and upon the above premises and all other pars phernalia now in and upon the said premises used thereon for the carrying on of the said business, an inventory of which may be inspected at the Office of the Undersigned,

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UNDERGROUND JERUSALEM that the expedition has morificed both a great

deal of money and a great deal of skilled effort to Chop STORY OF THE EXCAVATIONS. to the clearing up of difficulties in Biblical

archeology and topography..... It will be remembered that early in May last out that Mf, Clermont Cannaan has suggested

I may point Pu Kuk great excitement was created in Turkey and cortain results of the bighest interest and value Long throughout the Mahomedan world by a rumour! which might be expected from a systematic ex- that the Mosque of Omar had been violated. A ploration of the subterranean workingsta Mount Par Wa party of English archaeologists, it was said, bad Ophet, especially in the region of the southern entered the sacred prooinets in-search of the loop of the great aqueduct between the Virgin's Tin Tong Wai regalis of Solomon and the Ark of the Covenant, Well and the Pool of Siloam, But the expo- the tables of the Law, treasure worth a hundred dition of 1909-11 preferred to attack first sheh Ku million pounds Tarkiah, or whatever else the the varions subsidiary problems connected with flamboyant imagination of the Crient might the aqueduct itself, to investigate its northern suggest. The leader of the party explained inloop, deine the secret passage mentioned by The Time of May 8 what its real Warren, and to pay particular attention to the objests were. He and his friends were south-eastern portion of the mount. looking for the tombs of David and

THE VIRGIN'S WELL Solomon, and they had, in connection with that! The amphlet then goes on to describe at search, cleaned out and carefully investigated length the construction known as the Virgin's the so-called Virgin's Well and the tunnel that Well, and the maze of tunnels and chambers con- rans from it to the Pool of Siloam. They had nected with it. The "well" itself consists of a also definitely necertaine the site of David's first flight of steps sinking downwards at an Jerusalem, and of the Jobusite city which pre-angle beneath a vault of masonry, a spacious ceded it, and obtained oridence of Jobucito osin landing, with a second and narrower staircase, pation for 2,000 years before David's conquest. quite out of the square, sinking still further A fuller Eccount of the objects, methods, and down into an artificial cavern in the rook. The soo results of the explorers was antrusted to a wall end stairway ends in vacancy at a distance of 294 known member of the Ecole Biblique st Arch inches from the irregularly formed entrance to sologique in Jerusalem, and will be published the water obamber, but it is quite easy to step: by Mr. Horace Cox on October 14, aimeltanously across from the last step on to the

rorky en- with an English (slightly abridged) translation. trance of the cavern. Immediately behind the Meanwhile a shorter version of this account entrance, to the west, an oval cavity, with very will appear in the Field,

irregularly shaped sides, dips for 63 inches below the surface in the shape of a funnel, and at the very bottom of this may be seen the point from which the spring emerges,

The Translator's Preface reminds us that in Jure, 1880, there was accidentally discovered un ancient inscription cut upon the rocky wall of the ancient conduit, or subterranean passage,

which had been cat through the southern spur the hill on which he Mosque of Omar stands, in order to bring water from the Virgin's Well on the eastern side of Jera salem to the Fool of Siloam on the south. Of the discovery Professor Bayes said—

To the east of the threshold a basin, 65 inében deep, is cut out under the modern stairway. Further to the east again, beyond the basin, excavation revealed a thick and extremely solid concrete; this being broken through, there was discovered a new conduit, deeply cut into the Hving rack to a depth of about 71 inches, and penetrating

beneath the stairway to a fairly small carera. This was blocked up with débris, mud, potcherds, and fragments of jars and other pottery of fairly large size; but not a potsherd show a trace of pat

modern

Underground Jerusalem has been as yet bat little explored; and if we may and a secord of the kind in a spot which is easily accessible, and has been not infrequently visited, what die coveries may we not expect to make hereafter, when the Temple area can be thoroughly intern, not one of the pieces was complete enough to vestigated and the subterranean water-courses of the capital of the Jewish monarchy laid open to-view P

It is with the discovery of some of the most important of these subterranean works that the forthcoming pamphlet will chiefly deal.

The natural precautions taken by the expedi tion against mere curiosity, the constant work ing of KILDER of men sot only by day, but in relays by

through the night, the

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bowels of the earth-sil this combined at one with a kind of glaze on the concare walls to time to produce exaggerated and erroneous mark the inside of the vessels, sometimes show- impressions Unfortunately, the villagers ing those characteristically unequal zones of erade suspicious of the explerer moives imperfect baking-which betray the novice whe LEEDS FORGE CO., LD., LEEDS

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reached the early part of 1911 a higher level does not know how to harden the walls of society, and for some days the Press of of his vessel right through in all directiona Europe and America was filled with alarmist in his oven. A fer fragments of handles rumours of desecration and other futile impos. patterned borders are the only pieces of any real albilition. As will be seen later, the explorers significance. Yet

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rather erred on the side of superfinous cantion may be conaldas light as these fragments. than of reckless zeal. The true secret of the Hill Ophel bas never yet so nearly been revealed as by the expedition whose work down to April 15, 1911, has been described in the forthcoming pamphlet

The extracts which follow are from the pamphlet itself.

In August, 1909, great interest was aroused

Specialists in the Manufacture of RAILWAY ROLLING STUCK of every description.

Pioneers in the design oud-manufacture of

ocrtain proof of Israelitish origin. Some may PRESSED STEEL UNDERFRAMES and BOGIES and ALL-STEEL perhaps, be attributed to Canaanitish potters, but not one can be dated as late as the ninth century before Christ,

The various layers exposed show no regularity

of date (or succession of dates) whatever. The thick, heavy, baked handles of Israelite pottery

RAILWAY WAGONS.

were sometimes found above the far more elegant The Undersigned have been appointed Sole Agents in Hongkong and China.

in the environs of Jerusalem by the visible fragments of Judson-Hellenic work. The prob evidence that an exploring party was beginning lem was rather darkened than otherwise by the Excavations on the anater slope of Mount discovery (about 30 inches abere bedrock) of Ophel. The point selected was the old shaft an Israelite lamp in almost-perfect condi opened up in 186

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in 1867 by Warren, who tried to find tion, and certainly as old as the eleventh ENGINEERING CO. OF HONGKONG LD. here ambterranean passage leading to century before-Christ Quite close to it, Virgin's Well. The explorers were accompani- beneath the well at the point where the canal ed by two offoials of the Turkish Government of masonry had been stopped up, were found sent from Constantinople... The first thres some fragments of Jewish pottery certainly "months' campaign produced results of high value three or four centuries Tess ancient than the to arelmological research, but the new problems lamp. Other fragments of pottery, which had it suggested were even more important, and been pushed into the points of the nusorry.ka in August 1910, the expedition returned. This order to give it greater coherence, were care

examized; instead of being broken off the

time they brought expensive and perfect heavy water jara, they were pieces of light

machinery with them, and trained and experi- enced engineers to work it, and they gavespanial attention to the tunnels round the Virgin's Well

When the publication of the omplete work of the expedition has in good time appeared, it will be abundantly evident that, co for from ignorant sacrilege or iconoclastic pillage baving Lean their objects, these explorers have done their work not only with the racet correion Lione thoroughnere, but with scholarly scruples that

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