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THE HONGKONG DAILY

MOTHERS OF PEARLS. BABIES FOUND IN A

MINIATUREIFRAME

Pearls, seisin a ministure, which "bred" to such purpose that numbers of new baby pearls were discovered dis porting themselves under the glass, and the latest and most startling phaan of the "breeding penci " story-

Utter disbelief in the theory that pearls can possibly either add to their numbers

WEDNESDAY, VAROH

1920.

SUBLIĄ APLJONI.

BY APPOINTMENT. HIGHES-AND HOUGH. RAUSBAULIKA JA FLU, SATKEMEENT" AND General Audiointer

chate Doel and General Produce Brokera

The Undersigned bave received instrag

or grow in siso after they have once betons, to wall by Public1Andtion, a 25

come detached from the oyster is express

ed still by the natural history authori, ties at South Kensington” Museam and

(For Account of the Concerned), MARSSTOSDAY (WEDNESDAY

March 4th, 1921, 14, 2.30 2m, (Edencourt) No. 29, Cameron Road, Kowloon,

sader and thereby contamed.o

consisting of:

experts at Hatton garden, but the pub VALUABLEHOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, licity given by, the Dasty Azpress to the extraordinary story of the prolife pearls in the possession of Sir Imeat Birch, K.C.M.G., had produced a mass of highly interesting evidence on the ambject of pearls that have bred."

OTHER * MEKOERS.** Alleged breeding pearls" reported to the "Daily Express include the following In addition to those of Bir Ernest Birch," which, according to the observation - of Lady Birch and ber daughters, have both increased in number and become much larger :-

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The breeding pearl of Paul Pot- ter, the Dutch painter, who died in lesa,, This pear is in the possesilon of Ma. F. W. Goodbody, wife of & West End physician.

The Singapore pearls belonging to a Treasury official there. These were the subject of inquiry some tenor eleven years ago.

The Fernk pearls brought back from the Straits Settlements by the late Hon

'Mrs. Charles Plunkat.

-Masrive Tesk Marble top Sideboard, Din- with Leaves, Teakwood Overmantels, Book ner Wagyon, Large Extension Dining Table .. case, Hallstand, E. & large. Dinner and Tes Crockery, Ee, Teak Ward-

quantity robes, Three Single Beds, Three. Marble-top Washstands and Bureaus, Shanghai Batha and Commodes, Dover A Stove in good -condition

AND

About 300 Pots Palets and Flants. On view from Tuesday, Atul inati Catalogued will be issued.

BUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

The Undersigned have received instruc tions to mall by Public Auction,

Aflos Account of the Concerned), March 19th, 1920-10.30, at their ORRIDAY,

art's Balan Room No E Des Van Boad

Corner of Ice House Street,

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD. FURNITURE.

(RIMSTED TO HALIS ROOMS FOR CON- LONGUY, WESTENCE 09 FREE) make t including

The Malama pearls bred by Cor poral F. B. de Bours as a boy In the Straits Settlements twenty years ago.

The Chinese pearls known to Hong- kong reader of the Daily Express, whe spent thirty years...” in “Oking and toy free Bag Lime Juice, and one

Brass Twin Bedsteads Teakwood Twin Gramaphone and Records, Glass Ware and

•Bedsteads, Desk and Bookcase combined, Crockery, and a number of lots of new Farsi tare made by Meats. WmPowell & Co, 300 yards new Damak Table Cloth, two pieces Khaki Velvet Cord (now

is now in London. The Chinese-of Canton, the Maconese, the Siamese, and the Tonkingese according to this cor respondent, all broad pearls from seed, by placing pearls of opposite sex in cotton wool. No rico ia mentioned.

NOT FROM OYSTERS |

A significant feature of these stories of pear breeding is that in practic ally every instance the "pearls credited with the faculty of reproducing their species have been obtained in the neigh bourhood of the Straits Settlements. One correspondent states that they are no tathed frdu oysters.

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The weird story of the ministre which began to throw off baby pearls is well- known in the Plunket family, and is told to the Daily Bxpress by Miss Violet 2 Planket, granddaughter of the third Lord Plunketa met the

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was greatly interested in reading about Sir Ernest Biroh's pearls, writes Miss Plunket to the Daily Express. "Every one seems so sceptical on the sub ject that I would like to add a little out side evidence. My parents lived out in the East for many years, my father hav Hing had a great deal to do with the qual

ling of the Perak ontbreak

We have known from the time we were children that there was a certain kind. of small pearl that grew bigges and multiplied My mother brought back from the East four or five of these pearls as curiosities. They were always kept with a few grains of rice, and certainly one of the pearls did start growing was something like this [a figure 8 wil the top portion much smaller than the bottom part], and no doubt in time the little knot would have fallen off and: be- come a zeparate pearl."

LOST.

Miss Plunket is afraid that this par

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RA, HA CHUGHES & HOUGH.

Auctioneera....

The Undersigned have received Instrac tious to well by Public Auction,

(For Account of the Concerned), BAYON TUESDAY,

March 30th, 1930, at 11. A. at No. 8, Ham barua phreys Arane, Kowloon, VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

therein

DEURNITURE,

-consisting of softn Waggons Overmantel, Rattan Furniture and Teakwood-mail Bideboard and Dinner

two Teakwood Wardrobes (Bevelled Mirrors), Matting, Clay Ware Crockery and Pictures two single and one double Beds, Shanghai Bath, Ice Chest, Mest Safe, Cooking Stove,

One Fiano by Challen & Son, London, in first class condition.

Catalognes will be issued.

HUGHES & HOUGH, "Auctioneers.

----FOR SALE,

The Undersigned have received instruc tions to sell

(For Account of the Concerned),

The Macht" "ERIN

as the Dowies off Ah King's Slipway Further particulars and inspecting orders, may be obtained from the undersigned..

TERMS Cash

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers

"PUBLIC"AUCTION

ticular pearl is now lost, and although VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

her sisters still possess the remaining

PROPERTY,

pearls brought back by their mother, the to be sold in one lot by Public Auction, on Hon. Mrs. Charles Plunket, who died in

TUESDAY,

1914, she is ander the impression that the 6th day of April, 1910 at 3 o'clock.P.X., none of them has proved to be a breed

pearl aut

I know," adds Miss Plunket, the my mother never had any doubt that thred breeding pearle did exist, and she often told us of some one she knew who had a miniature set with some of these breed ing pearls without knowing it, and that after some years whole lot of little pearls. were found under the glass of the miniature

The Parak pearls had an exceedingly good, lustre, but they were small, the tize being estimated by Miss Plunket at about that of a quarter of a grain of rion

Is was it. Malacca, in the Straits Set- tlements where he was born, that Cor- poral F. E de Sonia (No. 7 Casualty Clearing Station, France), whose home is HALF A CENTURY REPUTATIONS in Bournemouth, came across the mysteri:

DLECLERG'S

FILLE FOR THE

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his Sales Rooms at No. 6, Duddell Street Victoria, Hongkong af by M GEORGE P. TAMMERT, Auctioneer.

The Property consists of a

All that piece or parcel of ground situate at Victoria Hongkong, registered in the Land Office as SECTION D. or INLAND LOT No: 983 together with all the messuage and premises thereon known as No.65 Wyndham

For further particulars and conditions of ale Apply to

ous breeding pearls

17 had Malay boys se pla

in my LIVER & Mand we used to have pearls the size of

school dayswrites Corporal de Souz Invainable locking these important Gray Pains the Back Gout, Fagerhatian, Anpinheads, not one, but dozens of "them Paca BBJ) kooding Chemiela" de yout free. Takkay which was bred in matchboxes in which GERBE HID, LO, BAVIEROOK BOAD KW. cottonwool LONDON, EBOLA - Depota Parity12%80%

was placed shavin LA "I myself had a..pearl box of my ow Davrazion; New York, PO-PAM Bramer but, of course, youngsters grow tired of Turonio, LTWAL Jrn Australia, Ezzy Es, a hobby roamed about a great deal Sydney and Frisians: NEW ZEALAND. Das Cowith the native boys out there, and learne Come Arrland: Christchurch Dudu, Walling-ed from them many things which appeas ton: Lurking B, K. Paup & On, Celestia

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