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Intimation.

Powell's

GRAND

XMAS BAZAAR

OPEN TILL:6 P.M. DAILY.

TOYS

INNUMERABLE

From 20 cents to $50 each.

Tea Sets, Kitchen Sets, Pianos, Doll's Houses, Doll's Furniture, Doll's Perambulators, Soldiers, Foot. balls, Air Guns, Trumpets, Boats, Trains, Carts, Swings, Noah's Arks, Cricket Eets, Booking Horses, Hobby Horses, &c., &c.

DOLLS

From 50 cents to $30 each. Dressed Dolls. Undressed Dolls, Rubber Dolls, Woollen Dolls, Saucy Dolls, Walking Dolls, Squeaking Dolla, Rag Dolls, and all sorts of Dolls.

ANIMALS

A Regular "Ménagerie.". BARNUM and BAILEY are nowhere in it. Elephants, Camels, Lions, Tiera, Leopards, Bears, Rhinosri, Wolves, Foxes, Cows, Pigs, Sheep, Goats, Monkeys, Goril- las, Squirrels, Cats, Pug Dogs, Setters, Pointers, Greyhounds, Bloodhounds, Short Dogs, Long Doga, Big Dogs, Little Dogs.

GAMES

Pip-Pip, Spring Heelod Jack, Pluck- ed Roosters, Fuzzy Wuzzy, Min- nows-in-Wells, Piggeries, Tivoli Board, Frog Skittles, Hooker,

&0.

&0.

&o.. 'Many of which are enough to make a CAT LAUGH,

Thousands of

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY DECEMBER 15, 1966.

To Let. TO LET.

No. 8, D'AGUILAR STREET;

suitable for

SHOP AND DWELLING

HOUSE,

at present occupied

by

Messrs. K. A. J. CHOTIR-

MALL & CO.,

who will shortly remove

to

No. 64, QUEEN'S Road

Apply to-

CENTRAL.

Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION

A MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF

JAPANESE ART CURIOS AND SILK

EMBROIDERIES,

TO BE HELD AT.

Mr. GEO, P: LAMMERT'S AUCTION ROOMS, DUDDELL STREET,

ON!!!

WEDNESDAY,

the 19th DECEMBER, 1906, AND.

THURSDAY,

the zoth DECEMBER, 1906, commencing each day at 2:30 PM.

FINE Collection of GOLD DAMASGENE WORKS OF ART made by the best known A makers, this lot comprises CABINET TOXES, NECKLACES (with Jade), BRACE.

LETS, BUCKLES, HAT PINS, CHATELAINES, CIGAR, CIGARETTE and CARD CASES, LINKS, UMBRELLA HANDLES, &c.

A Selection of SILVER WARE, compring-VASES, JEWEL BOXES, CIGAR and CIGARETTE CASES, HAIR PINS, &c, &t

Fine Old SATSUMA WARE, including "LATES, BOWLS, INCENSE BURNERS, VASES, &c., &c.

Handsome BRONZES made at the Tokio Att School,

Fine OLD GOLD LACQUER, comprising SCREENS, PANELS, INROS, JEWEL BOXES, &c, &c.

OLD WOOD CARVINGS (Ramma), CARVED CHAIRS, OLD PRINTS, &c, &c. CUT VELVET HANGINGS, PICTURES, CUSHION COVERS, &c, &c.;·.

AL'O

A CHOICE COLLECTION OF SILK EMBROIDERIES,

such as TEMPLE HANGINGS, ART PICTURES, CUSHION COVERS, SCREENS, COURT KIMONOS, BEDSPREADS, and MANTEL DRAPERIES, &c., &c.

TERMSA usual.

Catalogues will be issued.

1:

On view from Monday, the 17th December, 1906.

GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.

Hongkong, th December, 1906.

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(530

PUBLIC AUCTION.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

K. A. J. CHOTIRMALL & 00. Hongkong, 12th November, 1906.

N

64

TO LET.

O. 1, WEST END TERRACE, Shameen,

Canton. Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 10th December, 1906.

TO LET.

ANFURLY," CONDUIT ROAD,‹

RANFURLY

(1183

OFFICES in KING'S BUILDING and

YORK BUILDING:

• GODOWNS on PRAVA EAST.

"A HOUSE in CLIFTON GARDENS, COD-

dait Kond.

A HOUSE in Ripon TERRACE.

A HOUSE in WONG-NEI-CHONG Road, FLATS in MORETON TERRACE.

Apply 10-

-THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

MENT & AGENCY CO., LÏ.. Hongkong, 14th December, 1906.

A

TO LET.

172.

HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE.

KOWLOON. Apply 10-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 31st July, 1906.

[739

TO LET

NOS. 8 and 16. LEIGHTON HILL ROAD,

No. 5.

WONG-NEI-CHUNG ROADA

Apply 10~

HONGKONG & KOWLOON LAND & LOAN CO., LTD.,

No. 8, Queen's Road West.

“HOLOCAUST.

"Out of the 'stress' of the night,'' *Of the storm, the wind, and the raing

f dragged in beat up thewand Wondering, there in the night Was it worth the troubla and pain? Would shipwreck have been more grand?

The exit ofthe stinging near Has clung to the battered prow -- The sails are sodden and wet. Ahsafe on the marsby lens, .......

I am sheltered and calmer.now From a frenzy I must forget.

But once when the wind raged most, A ront in the stormy skien

Showed me the naked moon:, Her face was that of a ghost, Her beauty yours, and your eyes,

1 struggled to shore too soon!

Out of the gloom of the night,

The red fire lesps and glows,

In the glare the dark waves gloat: For whether is wrong or right,

No more sailing scan she 'goes: Tonight l'have burot my boat ?

***Pall· Mall· Ganstis,

POISONED BY CHICAGO MEAT.

Intimations.

FOUNDED IN HONOUR.

No doubt you have seen in the paparisäch adnouncements as this--concerning jome medicins or other If, on trial, you writhat this medicine has done you no good wwill refund your money.”—Now, we have nevad rison to, speak in that way concerninte remedy named in this article. In a te exteading throughout the world, nobodja over complained that our medicine has f or asked for the return of his baby. públic never grumbles at honestly and skillk made bread, or at a medicins which really actually does what it was, made to do. foundations of

WAMPOLE'S-FREPARATION

are laid in sincerity and honour, the knowled of which on the part of the people explains popularity and success. There is nothing disguise or conceal." It was not dreamed ou or discovered by accident it was studied ou on the solid principles of applied medica science. It is palatable as honey and contains all the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh, cod livars, combined with the Compound Syrop of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. This romedy is praised by all who have employad it in any of the diseases it is recommended to relieve and cure, and is effective from the first dose. Ip Anemia, Scrofula, Nervous and General Debility, In- fluenza, La Grippe, and Throat and Lung Troubles, it is a specific.. It is precisely what it is said to be, and has won the confidence of Seven persons, the members of a family the public on that basis. You may resort to it named McMurray, residing in the Maryhill with a faith and hope that arise from the history; district of Glasgow, have suffered through prof what it has done for others. Dr. Thos. Hun- taking of American tinned meat.

Stucky says: "The continued use of it în my on Saturday night last month the mother practice, convinces me that it is the most bought a tin of roast beef,'and-about two hours palatable, least nauseating, and best prepara- after the meal the youngest child became ill;tion now on the market" One bottle proves

"You cannot be dis parents, showed symptoms of poisoning. A appointed in it." Sold by chemists throughout doctor who was sent for informed the police of the world. the affair, and the police surgeon examined the family and found them to be suffering from the effects of ptomaine poisoning."

FAMILY OF SEVEŃ ILL THROUGH, EATING "ROAST BEEY."

THE Undersigned have received instruction THE Undersigned have received instructions and at intervals the others, including the its intrinsic value.

tu sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

.. оп

MONDAY,

the 17th December, 1906, al, I AM, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road,

corner of ice House Street,

A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF WINES AND SPIRITS,

Comprising

CLARET, SAUTERNES, BEER, LI QUEUR, HOCK, BURGUNDIES, VER- MOUTH, SHERRY, RUM, BRANDY, WHISKY, CHAMPAGNE, &c., &c., &c.'

TERMS:-As usual.

HUGHES & HÔUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, 15th December, 1906.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received instructions

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION, [

ON

TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY,

the 18th and 19th December, 1906, at 10 A.M. each day, at

H. M. NAVAL YARD, 'SUNDRY NAVAL, VICTUALLING, OBSOLETE AND CONDEMNED STORES,

Comprising:- LATHE, TURNTABLE, BOATS, OLD' CABLE CHAIN, ELECTRIC CABLE, IN- CLINED HAND LAMPS for SEARCH- LIGHT PROJECTORS, OLD METAL. IRON, PAPER-STUFF, CANVAS, FURNI TURE, MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS, BLANKETS, WINTER CLOTHING and MATERIALS,

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

оп

MONDAY,

the 17th December, 1906, at 2.30 r.st., at

The five children were removed to the in-

4.

XMASI XMAS!! XMAS!!}

their Sales Rooms, No Set Road firmary, but the parents declined to go there, Do not make your Xmas Purchase before

corner of House Street, CHINESE CURIOS.

Catalogues will be issued

TERMS -As usual,

as they were not so ill. Another son took a small quantity of the meat without any ill- effect,

The tin weighed one pound, was bought HUGHES & HOUGH, -Auctioneers

from a local grocer, and bore the label, "Inter [1199 State Packing Company, Chicago: Superior

·Hongkong, 14th December, 1906.

Roast Beef. The police surgeon has no doubt, that the promaine poison came from the tinned

PUBLIC AUCTION,

to sell by

THE Undersigned have received instructions PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

on

TUESDAY,

the 18th December, 1906, at 4 PM, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road,

corner of Ice House Street,

A LARGE QUANTITY OF TOYS AND FANCY GOOD'S.

TERMSAs usual

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HUGHES & HOUGH, AuctioneerL Hongkong, 14th December, 19nő

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE. PUBLIC AUCTION:

R. GEO. F. LAMMERT'bas received Μ'

instructions to sell at his Sales Rooms, in Duddell Street, ON

THURSDAY,

the 27th day of December, 1906, at 3 P.M, The ONE-SIXTH share and interest of the

meat.

SUICIDA'S DIAMOND SHARES.

· ALMOST VALUELESS, DUT NOW WORTH OVER £500,000.

There was tragedy-grim, underlying tragedy in an auction sale in London on Thursday, says the Daily Mail of Nov. 17.

0

A

you see

CHAZALON & CO.,

6, Queen's Road Central. Who have just received the Fincht Als sortment of ENGLISH and FRENCH CONFECTIONERY from the best makers of London and Paris;

ALSO

A Large Variety of LIQUORS, BOR.. DEAUX PORT, SHERRY, WHISKY, &c., &c,, from the most renowned houses in France and other foreign countries,

Hongkong, 10th December, 1906,

NEW TRAVELLER'S HOTEL

EMOVED from 61 10 70, QUEEN'S ROAD,

Corner Pottinger Street, Hongkong, 12th December, 1906. [1190

Think of it I la February last a well-known RE

London man, confronted on every side by financial stress, committed suicide. He held in que company shares which are to day worth between half and three-quarters of a million of money.

These were intes in the Vaal River diamond Company.. When the desperate financier took his life the shares were of comparatively little value. On Thursday a £1- Founders' share was sold for no less than £6,500. A lot of aix letched £26,950.

The London man in question was Mr. Ernest Schwabacher. He was fifty-six years

CASK STAVES: KNEE/late TANG YUK CHUEN of and in the pieces of of age when he was found shot in his bed in:

BOOTS, PROVISIONS, OFFICERS' MESS TRAPS, TOBACCO, &c., &c., &c.

Catalogues may he had on application. TERMS OF SALE AS customary.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Government Auctioneers.

11168 Hongkong, 5th December, 1906.

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES.

received instructions to sell by

''PUBLIC AUCTION,"

Hongkong, 7th November, 1906. [1073 MESSRS HUGHES AND HOUGH have

TO LET.

A Hongkong Bank, suitable for Offices. FLAT and THREE ROOMS, near the Moderate rental.

Apply to-

X. Y. Z.- Clo~Hongkong-Telegraph.-

Hongkong, 17th October, 1906.

TO LET.

[1013

OUR-ROOMED HOUSE on PRAYA

EAST, near East Point, 'Apply 10-

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.

[1342 Hongkong, 26th November, 1906.

TO LET.

NE GOLOWN, at EAST POINT, close to

XMAS TREE Obe Water, suitable for the storage of any

ON THURSDAY,

the 20th day of December, 1906, at Noon, at their Sales Rooms, 8, Des Voeux Road Central.

THE FOLLOWING

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY, IN ONE LOT.

Bround registered in the Land Office as

KOWLOON MARINE LOT No. 50, KOWLOON INLAND LOTS Nos, 629, 630, 631 and 1, and of sod in all the messuages and buildings. thereon respectively,

AND ALSO

All the right share and interest of the said TANG YUR CHUEN of and in the piece of ground registered in the Land Office as

"KOWLOON MARINE LOT No. 43,"

AND ALSO

The ONE-SIXTH share and interest of the late TANG YUK CHUEN of and in-the business of the MAN LUNG SHOP, No. 127, Des Vieux Road West, and of and in the MAN LUNG GINGER FACTORY, at,Yaumati, on Kowloon Inland Lots Nos, 629, 630, 631 and I,LES.

·

Conduit street last February. At the inquest it was stated that, except financial trouble, be had nothing to worry him,

The late Mr.. Echwabacher's total indebted- gess to his creditors was about £100,000. Dis shares were only held by bim nominally at the time of his death, as his creditors bad a lien op them. When he died the Vnal £1 shares were worth 255, 10-day they stand at 82, and have been as high as 12.

THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.

BARRETTO & Cni,

General Agents, Hangknav.

WHISKIES.

SCOTCH.

The auction sale on Thursday, which ried in its train so tragic a life siny, took place at the Mari, Tokenhouse-yard · The six

bidding was animated, and this is what the Black's Fine Old shares were put up in six separate lots. The lots realised:

Scotch £5,000 £6,500

Neil McLian, Old

~~~~~~~Scoreir

PARTICULARS. Kowloon Marine Lot No. 5o. Area. 80,6001. square feet Annual Crown Rent $83.

2.

Kowloon loland Lo! No. 629. Area 47,250 | 3 square feet. Angual Crown Rent $216,

Kowloon Inland Lot No. 630. Área 23,100 square feet. Annual Crown Rent $106.

Kowloon luland Lot No. 631. Area 23,100 square feet. Annual Crown Rent $106,

Area 2,250 Kowloon Toland Lot Na, 1,111.

All that PIECE or PARCEL OF GROUND with frontages to Carnarvon, Granville and Kimberley Roads, registered in the Land Office an KOWLOON INI AND LOT No. 540, held for the residue of a term of 75 years created by square feet, Annual Crown Rent $30. the Crown Lease thereof dated 3rd October, Kowloon Marine Lot No. 43. Area 99,948 1888, together with the messuages or dwelling square feet. Annual Crown Keot $940, houses, known as Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, For further particulars, and conditions of Ormsby Terrace, and 1, 2, 3 and 4, Ormsby sale, apply to- Villas.

Annual Crown Rent $566. -.. —Area-123,aga sq. ft.

Particular and Conditions of sale may be obtained from

Messi, EWENS & HARSTON, Vendor's Solicitors,

The Auctioneer.

6

or from

Cargo.

ORNAMENTS.

Floor Area 6,100 square feet.

Apply to-

Hongkong, 5th December, 1905,

&C.,

&c., &c.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Hongkong, 15th October, 1906.

TO LET.

POWELL'S

BAZAAR.

[1009

NOTICE

[1167

NOS and WRECKAGE Do in is hereby given that the SALVED the Custody of The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, a Kowloon, will be sold by Public Auction by

+

Messrs. EWENS & HARSTON, Solicitors for the Mortgagee,

or to

Mr. GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

Hongkong, rath December, 1906.

Notice of Firm.

NOTICE.

£3,250

43,100 6.

·44:00

15:00

Total.......£16,950.

די

There was another notable feature of this strange se. By clever mandeurre opt Ronald Renniy buyer made a profit of £3,000 in half an hour. Seeing the enhanced prices which the final lois rend, the purchaser of the first lot com mission the auctioneer to put up his Int again on behalf of himself, le had paid £3,ago for it; he sold it tar 6,350, the nur chaser ling the buyer in whom the other five lots bad bet knocked down,

88.00 Per Dozen Casc.

10.00

Greci Seat 12.00 Glen Alva * * 13.00 Neil McLean, Finest

Liqueur. Ronald Kennic, Per-

fection. 14:00

13.00

A new-laid egg averages zjoz, ip weight, of Malrosé...................................... 16.00 (1195 | which shell and skin weigh about for

THE

HE Undersigned has RESIGNED, the Agency of the PORTLAND FLOURING MILLS CO.

A. H, RENNIE Hongkong, toth December, 1906.

Insurance.

A LUNAR day is 24 hours gaminutes. The tides rise and fall twice in this space of time,

The first way medal issued to the British Army seems to have been by Charles I., in 1643.

Our National Debt originated in the reign of William III, whose first loan was obtained in 1694

[180 William III

ERODOWNS (uitable for Dry Goods Messrs. HUGHES & HOUGH at the Godowns NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUH-

•UROPEAN SHOPS, OFFICES, and Storage) at No, 14; Des Voeux Road Central, (formerly occupied by Messrs, Shewan, Tomes

Apply 10

& Co.

HỌ TUNG Compradore Department,

Jardino, Matheson & Co.

·Epen

agih December, ig06,472 (41)||| Hongkong, aóth Sáptember, 1995)5

at Kowloon, on. SATURDAY, the, 22nd December, 1906, at 13 A.M., unless the same ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG, are claimed and taken delivery of and the

charges due in respect thereof paid before thatHE Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company are prepared to accept First - Full particulars of the said, Goods, and Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RÍSKS at Wreckage can be, obtained from the POLICE CURRENT. Rares, Kid HUDHES & HOUGH.

Hongkong, 13th December, 1906: - [2194)

T1DES are perceptible in the Mediterranean, but not in the Black Sea, and barely so, la the Baltic.

'A TURKISH, bookseller, if a strict Moham medan, will refuse to sell printed copies of the Koran

requires foth, of tallow cradles to give the same amount of light'as de given by 1,000 ft of [58*" coal gas

SIEMSSEN & Ca

Hongkong sich May, 1895

Ronald Rennie,

Finest Liqueur... 16.00 Melrose. (12

Years Old)

IRISH.

$9.00 Pet Doz Case.

Mitchell's Old, Green

Label Mitchell's Liqueur,

White Label 4 15.00

BARRETTO & Co.,

los,,23 &.14, Bank Buildings,

Queen's Road Central

kong, 12th December, 1905,