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AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received instructions

to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, on SATURDAY, the 28th day of APRIL 1983, at 11 o'croce, A.M., at their Sales Room. LEE HOUSE STREET, VICTORIA, HONGKONG,

INTIMATIONS

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SALE OF H.M.S. * MERLIN,”

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1929.

ENDERS are invited up to the 30th MAY, 1923, for the Farenast of the above at Victor, adoresaid and registered in the Lana named Venuel WITH ENGINES & BOILERS

the

Valuable

Office B INLAND LOT NO. 163, together with the buildings themon, consisting of Seven Desirable Dwelling Hauss now known as Nos 43.15, 47, 48, 61, 63 and 55, WYNDBAM STREET, Victoris, aforesaid, in Dan Let. THE PROPERTY CONSISTS OF:-

All that Piece or Parcel of Ground situato at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, and registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot No. 969, together with the musetages or tenements and other actions and building thereon. at the date hereof known sa Nor

and 48, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53 and 55, Wyndham Street, Victoria aforesaid, held for the term of 999 s. from the 15th day of June, 1843, created years.

hercia by m

Lease date the 9th day of September.

24 made between His Majesty is the other part, subject to the George V. of the ous part, and

rayment of

of the sanul Crown Bent of $129. payable by half-yearly payments on the 25th day of December and the 25th day of June, in each and every year, during the asid term. and to the observance and performance of the Leased's coarenauts and conditions therein reserved and contained.

the

owners of

For further particulars apply to

M. LEO. D'ALMADA È CASTRO,

Solicitor for the Owners

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or to

Mzana. HUGHES & HOUGE, Auctioneers.

PARTICULARS of

VALUABLES LEASEHOLD; PROPERTY

Situate

No. 13, WING HING STREET, VICTORIA, HONGKONG,"

To be Bold by Order of the Mortgages

By

PUBLIC AUCTION,!

IN ONE LOT

От

MONDAY,

The 14TH Day of May, 1929, at 3 coLock Pac Messrs. LAMMERT BROTHERS AT THEIR OFFICE, DUDDELL STAKÚT, THE Property consists of First ALL THAT parce or parcel of ground situsta at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office an SECTION INLAND LOT No. 2168 together with

or buildings t

theroon Street and Wing 1. now Lown as Secondly ALL THAT strip of land at the rear of the said Section A of Inland Lot No.

2168

A of

the mezuages erections or t

a sentenging lane. of which pre- mises are held for the residue of the term

75 years from the 18th day of May, 1918, -created by the Crown Lease thereof together with the valuable machinery now situata in

1 or upon the mid premises al at No. Gordon Street.

Particulars and Conditions of aslo may be obtained from

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Hessrs. HASTINGS & HASTINGS

Solicitors,

8, Don Van Road Central.

Land 1M0837

LAMMERT BROTHERS

Auctioneera

TO LET

ERY ON BOARD.

Fall particulars of the Vessel and Conditions of Sale and Permits to view may be obtained on application to the Undersigned, and Teader Forms will be issued. on payment of a deposit of $100, retumable when decistan on the

tenders has been reached,

The vessel will be on view at H.M. Dockyard, Hongkong from the 20th March, 1923.

PARTICULARS OF H.MLS. MERLIN

A twin screw steel steamer of 1,400 H.P. —–—–—– Length between perpendiculare ...185′0′′ Breadth extreme

3335*** Depth (at Keel to Upper Deck).13'7;* Nominal Displacement about 1,070 tons Present Mean Draft -

Built

Where....Sheerness

.1903

When By whom... ...Dockyani Bunker capacity (col).........303 Toas Fresh Water capacity.... ...17.5 Heserve feed water capacity...

9.8" Economical speed 10 Knots Coal Consumption (economical speed).......

12 Toas per 24 hours MATERIALS OF CONSTRUCTION.

Steel Framing, O. B. Plating, Upper and Lower Decks, Forecastle and Poop Stringers, Bulkheads, úc Irou......Darits, Stanchionn, ke

GREATEST GOLD MINE IN THE WORLD.

A PENNLLESS PROSPECTOR'S LUCKY STRIKE,

treasure

HAPPY-GO-LUCKY PIONEERS.

the

ex-

THE MEN WHO BOUGHT THE CLAIMS.

aims were the two Timmins brothers, two The five partiters who bought Hollinger's MeMartin brothers (now dead), and D. A. Dunlap. They had sprung into wealth no Cobalt "silver farming it was derisirely called by experienced miners, but they had not enough ready cash to develop Holling

So they er.

Hold limited block of stock But the members of the at 83.50 a share. original syndicate or, in the case of the Maartins, their families still hold 70 per out of the total capitalisation, and are drawing dividends at the rate of 80.000 a day. A share of stock which was sold at 83.50 is now worth about $0.00.

lake stock in the company they were going to form as part payment of the $330,000 They were prepared to offer 50,000 shares of stock, which was a one-twelfth interest, at some cash. But Beny proferred all enah. Fifty thucsand shares in the The Torvato correspondant of Manchester Guardian Bays when Beamy original company at today's prices would. Holinger stated the claim that after be worth about two and a half millions. warla became the nucleus of the Hollinger Beauy never had any regrets or recrimina. Gold Mines in the Porcupine area infiona: "I suppose I might have made Northern Ontario he was surely out of mere," he used to say, "but they treated his teens, and had little previous ex-square, all right.” perence as a prospector. Furthermore, he was penniless. In view of subsequent events the story of his discovery takes its place among the foremost romances of treasure seeking, either real or fancied. A few weeks in the bush and a lucky stroke of the pick netted him $165,000, in itself a substantial sum, but utterly insignificant when regarded in the light of what deve loped later. Hollinger's stroke of the pick opened a treasure chest whose richness far exceeds the dreams of any Midas. It is a chest from which more than 850.000.000 in gold has already been tracted. A million, a month is the present What did Benny Hottinger do with his Fate of production. Roughly half the $330,000 cold cash The first thing was total production is profit. So that if the to give half of it to MeMahon. The next profits could be passed around, the Holthing was to look after those he loved linger Mice, as it is run at this moment, Boany was born at Point Alexander, would be capable of producing a new post cffice on the upper reaches of the

River. Pembroke, lis annual Otlawa

twenty-five millionaire every two months. profits are greater than those of any miles away, was the nearest important bank or firkineni wmpany in Canada. town. No doubt in childhood days it re- To presented the comforts of civilisation. Penibreke, therefore, with his $163,000 Wood...Sheathing For

Forecastie, Poop, How long will the stream of gold last Hollinger bied himself. Hither he brought Upp Hold

and Lower Decks "sid | Officially the management reports that his father and mother from Point som 8-10,000,000 worth of cre, about three Alexander. And there he married Nellia ..Sheathing. Wood Sheathing years' supply, has been charted out, and Hill zui established his home. But min. Fastenings, Stem, Sterspost, therfore entitled to be classed as knowing continued to be Hollingor's real busi- Radder, Shaft Brackets.

reserve. But that figure, which has ross, though he never repented his one big mained the same for a long time despiteatrite. He was almost immediately on the Lower, Upper, Forecastle. Boat Deck and current prxluction, menus little in estimat prospector's trail again.

ing the ultimate possibilities of the mi It merely represents the distanco the

A few miles from his great discovery he management has decided to keep ahead of immediate requirements, An inkling of found some faims that seemed to him to what is expected by General Manager have a similar frmation. So he bought Brigham (who came to Northern Ontario them from the discoverers and organised a from the South African Band) was company of his own, which he called the a quartz gold divulged in an address he recently deliver- Hollingor Reserve. But ed to the Ontario Mining Association, property requires a lot of money, as even He suggested a valuation of $150,000 a

the purchasers of Hollinger's first stri Foot for 3.000 feet-a ctal of $450.000,000, fund, out, Arxi by the time Hollinger's that is at the present rate of prodaction personally conducted stock sales campaign enough to last for 35 to 40 years.

fell dat bis resources were becoming When Benny Hollings stumbled on this depleted. Eventually the Hollinger Re Main criculating anal suxiliary pumps Nehalf-billion dollar property he was 21 and serve property was disposed of by sherif's troke." The persistent rumours in 1909 talo. And who bought it in None other Electric light engines with dynamos... 3 No. Fan, force draught, for boiler rooms. No. of gold discoveries in an outlandish district than Benny's old frienth Barney Me-

No. called Porcupine had reached him at Cobalt naney, for whom Brany had staked

elaim on his original trip. Barney had No. Silver Camp, al he thought he would go in a hurry to sell his claim, although No. Prospecting. He put his proposal up to Steering engine.

No. his friend Jack McMahon. This was in it was doubtful if he had much idea of Steam winch and windlass......

1 No. the days before prohibition, and MoMinhen it real value. It was well loeaved, how- Evaporating Plant with Distiller &

was a bartender. After some persuasion ever, and Barney had many offers. Even Evaporating Pumps, Capacity.12.2 Sets. McMahon advanced agnih stake of tually he sold. While what was to become tona per 24 hours.

875 (one version says it was only 855) for the world's greatest goldmine brought transportation, grub, and equipment. In $330,000, of which Hollinger got $165,000, return for his 975 Melahan was to get a Barney is said to have received $500.000 half-interest in anything Benny found for the claim that was a gift from Hul- Hellingey had scarely departed before linger. Someone asked Hollinger about PARTICULARS OF IMPORTANT ART sicMahon, began to get "cold feet? So it. I am an gind as Barney he replied. he made a deal with his brother-in-law, It was not unfitting that it should be Jim Labine, under which Lahine paid him Enaner that bought in from the sheriff. $75 and get half of his interest. Thus Hollinger's ill-starred second venture. MoMahon retained a quarter interest in Shortly afterwards MeEnaney died. Hollinger's prospretive staking and had fut all his money back.

Metal

DICES.

EXGINES

Flats in

Poop, Vertical Triple Expansion, surface conden

sing total H.P. 1,400 at 200 cpm. Cylinder 1; 18; dismeters x

itroke.

Steam pressors 210 lbs. per Sq. in Bores.

Water tubo Belleville type

it.

Sets

Steazu pressure, max. 260 x, per Sq.

is. reducing to 210 lbs, at engiten., 4 No. AUSILIARY MACHINERY,

Engine air compressing for boiler tube

sweeping

Fire and

Feed Pad bilge plan Starting engine.......

ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

9

1 Na

2

...... 1 No.

Fitted with interual electric lighting at

20 volta.

CLES ON BOARD TO BE SOLD

WITH THE VESSEL.

.

HOLLINGER'A DEATH..

Later in, with two partners, Hollinger engaged in opening up the Barry-Hollinger properties, in which he hold a controlling interest, at Boston Creek, a neighbouring

One other incident illustrates the spirit those happy-go-lucky pioneers. Holling er had another friend, Barney MeEnaney. camp. To McEnaney he made a promise, which

Then one morning in the fall of 1919,

AROM about APRIL 1st, Two OFFICES Ventilators, Hand and Guard Rail sockets, must have had the approval of McMahon, just after he had returned from his annuali

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No. and one smalt iron Force paap, A large quantity of valuable METAL such as Fairleais, Masbroom Top deck plates, illuminator, guards and Stan chicas to Skylights, cl pis, hak plates, fremain, Toige pipes, delphia, to band steering gear nad Attinga to bridge. Also considerable quantity of spare boiler genom

junction boxes, tabe joints,“ FFICES in UNION BUILDING-Fourts, mnd drama d'or elbows, des, in

condition, which are stored in the Dock Tenders will be received in the Office of the Naval Store Officer, H. Dockyard, Hong kong, up to Noox on MONDAY, the 7th MAY, 1993.

A. W. GR UNDY,

Naval Store Officer. Hongkong, March, 1927.

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his grub-staker, that if he found anything deer hunt in the woods Hellinger was he would also take a claim for Barney, sitting at the breakfast table in Hollinger kept this promise and ng events attractive home at Pembroke with his wife chapter to the history of Porcupine Comp. dropped forward and he was dead. He proved thereby added another interesting and three children. His head suddeny"

had had no illness, no premonition.

OUR CUSTOMERS.

THE TREASURE DISCLOSED. Hollinger fell in with another young ed together for company. They roamed prospector, Alex Gillies, and they remain. around looking at claims that had been staked and chatting with the owners. One of the latter, Bill Davidson, a.veteran of British Columbia mining camps, told them there was some good ground open near two or three of his claims some miles back, where he was then working he obviously thought was better, but the locality be suggested might be worth a chance, and rest of the British Empire, for the years) ho actually described to them where they 1913, 1921, and 1992: would find quartz veins.

Sir P. Lloyd-Greame, replying to Mr. Grattan Doyle in the House of Commons last month, said that the following is the amount per head of population of our tatal exports and our exports of mana- factures, respectively, to foreign countries, to self-governing Dominions, and to the

DESTINATION OF EXPORTE

r.

Hollingor and Gillies took the tip

1013. 1921. 1927. thankfully. They found the quarta veins,

£d. £d Råd almost lost in low-lying spruce swamps, Foreign countries 04 10.0 8 00.6 5 the feature which had probably die Self-gov. Dominions 4 8 4 17 13 11 7 couraged the veterans. They staked twelve British India 04 0 0 0 10 0 5 9 claims. They were working as companions, Rest of Empire 0 15 6 1 1 60 18 0 not as partners, so to decide ownership

The values per head of the population of they tossed a coin, Hellinger took the six Western claims and Gillies the six eastern. the importing countries have been calcolat- Eventually the Gillies claims wore ed on the basis of the latest census returns, orporated in the holdings of the Hol and of the best estimates available in casey where no recent census has been taken. linger Company.

When Hollinger began to uncover and They are, of necessity, approximate only, trace some of his quartz outcroppings, in but are as accurate as the circumstances

permit. accordance with the assessment require. ments of the Mining Department," he en

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CLOSING QUOTATIONE.

countered a sight which must have in HONGKONG SHARE MABKET. pressed oren his note toy experienced eyca. It needed so assay to reveal the yellow gold sticking out all over the white quartz The big discovery was of

Lot 26d Concession, Hollinger Township, and the records state that Hollinger stakul it, on October 6th, 1909. It is said the remains of a prospector's forge with some weed- party showing that someone had been three years before Hollinger.

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When the snow came Hollinger réturzed to Cobalt arki Haileybury, taking with him. of course, all the samples he could carry. News of these samples caused the real stampede to Porcupine. Hollinger shortly encountered Alphonse Pare, proe pector and mining" engineer, a nephew of The Timmins brothers, former country storekeepers, who had made a moderate fortune digging silver out of Cobalt. When Pare saw Hollinger's samples he fairly dragged the young prospector over wintor trails back to Porcupine to see the placa they came from. Unseasonable ruing had melted the snow and Pare saw. Thon and there Pare, acting on behalf of the Timmins-MeMartin Donlap Syndicate, made a deal with Hollinger, $2,000 cab for the right to hok in," and a total price of $230,000 if at the end of the brief

option, period they wished to close the deal.

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