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THURSDAY JUNE 26, 1924.
INTIMATIONS.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
LIMITED.,
TICKETS will be issued for
Round Trips during the months of July to September, from Hongkong to Foochow (Pagoda : Anchorage) and return, calling at Swatow and Amoy on both the upward and downward Voyage, by the Company's new, fast, well appointed steamer "Hai Ning" at the reduced rate of $80 for the round Voyage, including Meals
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while the steamer is in port.
These Special Tickets will be available for return only by this steamer, either by the Voyage for
which it is Issued or by her following sailing from Foochow
Duration of stay at Foochow 48 hours.
The Trip occupies 8 to 9 days
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The Company's Steam Launch will conver passengers 'from Pagoda Anchorage to Fonchow Eity, if required.
For further particulars and dates of Sailing-
Apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO. General Managers. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO. Ld. Hongkong, June 17, 1924.
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São por este meio convidados todos os membros da Comunidade Portuguesa de Hongkong a parecer no dia 26 do corrente pelas 6 horas de tarde na Sala "Luiz de Camões" de Club Lusitano am de tratar dos festejos em honra dos heroicos aviadores Portugueses Majores Brito. Paes, Sarmento de Beires e Tenente Gouveia,
CERVEIRA DE ALBUQUERQUE. Consul Geral de Portugal. Hongkong, 25 de Junho de 1924,
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Hongkong, 20th June, 1924.
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NEAR.
According to news received at Brindisi, Italy, a military revolt is Imminent in Albania,
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Since Parliament niet on January 15. 117 public Bills have been passed or are in progress.
Knutsford (Cheshire) Urban District Council has refused to allow tenants to erect wireless aerials on council houses.
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FIRST COURT.
WINE WITH KING.
MRS. PATRICK GAMPBELL'S
BUCKINGHAM PALACE
'SPLENDOUR.....
OVER 1,000 GUESTS.
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GREEN CIGAR,"
Mr. Cosmo Hamilton's "B written, History" butelison,
"SWEEP" LETTERS.
CONFISCATED BY POST OFFICE.
All letters addressed to
18.) is, as it claims to be, a cheery, Olley. Yorkshire, Conservative,
about relebrities
much public interest been aroused written by a well-known novelist Club on the club's Derby swee
by a Royal Court as was manifest-
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stake were confiscated by the Pr
ed in that held by the King and fund playwright. Thờ Queen at Buckingham Palace-theers to have been formato fran Office. Members of the club co first of the season and the first the start,
Charles Frohman-mittee were interviewed by #: ever held in England with a vited him to write a play and, police superintendent from Wake Lalour Government in power. when asked why he had taken suel field. Hours before there, could be any. risk, id; thing to see beyond the ordinary comings and goings of every day
at the Palace when the King and
I liked your and your darnel Letters in connection, with the independence, and when I asked sweepstake have been received The Greek Minister of Instruc. Queen are in residence, a crowd if you'd do the jos, something lately at the gate of 3,000 to 4,00
A day with money to the amount had comrienced to gather round us into your face that told tion is to oppose the proposal to the gates, and their numbers can you'd burst before you let me down of 2000 a day. This is greatly im send in the United States on loan tinued to be augmented every.
Frohma, Mr. Hamilton in excess of the amount last year, the statue of Hernes by Praxitelessment, until when the Grst identally remarks, knew less when 280,000 was the total carriages drove up at half-past about plays, than any nur 1 have mount received, the first prize The entire equipment of the eight the press of people was very
being £31,517. ever met." West Ham Boys' Naval Unit
The secretary and members of The author gives a quaint since the club conimittee have been Kreat, |valued at £250, has been, stolen The guests, who numbered about or Mrs. Patrick Campbell's supper warned by the police that they
from the unit's headquarters,1,000, were drawn mainly from the parties:
diplomatic and official circles, as is
would carry on the sweep at their Discarding always the case at the first Courtattire of the modert woman, and
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A sports. park is to be laid out of the season, with the addition of the enormous hat for which she mail followed the confiscation of
a small number from the sterne af had so great a fondness, she always circle. In addition to Ministers of
at Verdtin, says the Paris Eche des Sports, in connection with London's scheme for the adoption of the ruined city.
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Mrs. Harriss, wife of Dr. Charles Harriss, the Canadian musician who is to conduct Empire concerts. at Wembley, died at Ottawa a few hours after her husband's arrival from London.
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A German field gun at Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, is to be dispos ed of if the War Trophies Com mitter will not remove it, the trophy being objected to, it is said, by people who lost relatives in the
The tontiscation of the incoming the club's outward mail on twe
the Crown and their ladies and appeared on those ocasions days. members of the Diplomatic Cort, one-piece melancholy robe, 'which many foreigners of distinction might have come from the dus
ing-room of Daute's Beatrice, and were present.
The three entrances to the with a face most pinakily devoid of Palace were used, the Grand en-make-up aut her abundant hair in
trance for the main body of the Rossetti's guests, the Ambassadors entrance in Buckingham Palace-road for those having the entrée, and the Garden entrance for such mem- bers of the Royal family as do
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It is understood that then about 700 books of tickets and hundreds of letters having single ticke were lost to the club.
It is estimated that the ma disarray.
which has been confiscated might through supper in order to enjoy a have contained $1,000, as the money is just beginning to arrive een cigar. Mr. Hamilton and the hotion of in big amounts. dining at Windsor in the days of A letter was sent by the club recently, to the 1,500 affiliated reside in the Palace. Mounted King Edward :
Dinner was in the Quadrangle was the King's
not served at clubs asking them to hold back all Guard of the 2nd Battalion long inple but at a mber of tickets and money until further Grenadier Guards, with their small ones in the dining hall, Snotice, "The draw will be held band, and the latter. rendered a that it looked like a restaurut. just the same, and the address for programme of music while the for the age and heauty of the room, letters and cash will be sent to you guests were assembling the music and, at the "moment whest the almost immediately," the letter Their Majesties held a State within the building being pro royal party entered, all the lights adds., Ball, the first since that given invided by a string band of the flashed up and made the gold plate: In the House of Commons re 1921 in connection with the King Irish Guards, stationed in the and Queen of Roumania. A distinguished company was invited fo meet the Royal visitors.
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One thousand one hundred and sixty-six fresh cases of measles were notified in Manchester with 36 deaths, making the total since the outbreak of the epidemic four weeks ago 4.534. cases, including 99 deaths.
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Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, celebrated the 30th janniversary of the date on which he became a priest, and religions services were held throughout Belgium in recognition of the anniversa:y
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The hearing was continued for the twelfth day of the libel action brought by Sir Michael O'Dwyer, formerly Lieut-Governor of the Punjab, against Sir Sankaran Nair, at one time a member of the Executive Council of the Viceroy of India. It is alleged that 'Sir Sankarau Nair in his book Gandhi and Anarchy" said that the Lieut-Governor was guilty of terrorism and was responsible for atrocities in the Punjab.
Lieut-Colonel Henry Smith; became civil surgeon-in-charge at Amritsar Knowles, Ltd., one of the biggest during the disturbances there in firms of fireclay manufacturers in April 1919, said his evidence' be-East Lancashire. fore the Hunter Committee was misreported.
Mr. Thomas Knowles, who died at Darwen aged 82, started as a lumber-hoy on the railway, and
head of
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Musicians Gallery of the Ball listen on the screens, thecently Mr. Foot (Lib., Bodmin); Roo, ander the baton of Lleuwiddle of dinner the cent asked the Home Secretary whe tenant Hassell, Director of Music. custom took place of drinking whether he had received representa- Inside the Palace the guests, with the King, a somewhat nervations from a number of residents other than members of the Royal and disconcerting custom which at Otley protesting against the organisation a large public | circle, were conducted by way of kejt one on eldgo«T
the Grand Staircase, which was
There is a story of Adnia weepstake by the Otley Conserva- decorated with choice specimens Masse which is not corrective Club, and what action he pro-
posed to lake. of
Mr. Henderson: The question of taking proceedings in, respect to this sweepstake is now under con- sideration.
to this effect:
Queen Victoria commanded that he should give his well-know initation of her angust
spring and early summer flowers, to the State Apartments, in which also great masses of flowers were arranged. The Ball Room was used only for the actual presentations. The members of watched him put a handkerchief on the Royal circle were conducted his head, sink his viin and low where the Royal procession was lone, "We are not amusest," and the White Drawing Room, out his cheeks, said in her iciest formed.
left him worse than deal,
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The offender, was not Admiral Maxse but someone, less celebrited.
MIXED DRINKS.
NEW RECIPES FROM AMERICA.
LIFE AS
A MAN.
SECRET REVEALED BY DEATH.
THE QUEEN'S DRESS.
The guests having assembled, j the King and Queen, with the Lord Chamberlain and other officials, bearing their white wands
A remarkable case of male in- Messrs. of office, walking backwards before them, led the Royal
personation by a woman was re- vealed on the death at West- procession through the whole
minster Infirmary, Fulham-road, range of State apartments to the ball room. His A refreshing publication in our S-W., of a 24-years-old patient At the funeral service at Newton
was' wearing
known as "Ernest Wood." the newly arrived warm weather in. Majesty Sir W. Schwabe, K. (for Sir Abbot, Devonshire, of Rear artform of the Colonel-in-Chief of one that has the title
Nine-years-ago-Wood-was- Sankaran Nair); But you had the Admiral Sir John Hext, the evidence sent to you for correc- Admiral's favourite terrier trotted
the Coldstream Guards, with the "Drinks" (Stay in. 3 od if çagaged as a boy help by MT., tion Yes, but with instructions up to the chancel steps, and was
Order of the Garter prominent It is by Paur E powe and is" Brugzie, of the Astoria Restau
hls decorations, while published in wristpörter mit among not to alter it. (Laughter.).
ram. Greek-street, W. The sup- Lieut.-Colonel Frank Johnson, difficulty.
dragged out of the church with Queen Mary" wore a wonderful It comes with the "anquali-posed boy was brought by his elder
creation of gold tissue embroider fed retired, told of the steps he took to
some brother, who produced as a refer- restore order, at Lahore in 1919,
a school-leaving certificate The Norwegian steamer "Bessa" ed in gold and diamanté. Her of the greatest experts.in America." ence when he was in military command. (7,797 tons) went aground in the Majesty's train was of emerald-i And it contains "over 350 formulas from Wigan, which made no men-
green and gold Indian kincob, the for mixing individual drinks."
tion of sex. "He" was good at There must be, a wide, untrodden" "his" work and became a waiter. colour scheme being continued in diamonds and her emerald and formulas. Twenty-two drinks have her coronet of emeralds, and field of adventure in testing these
Mr. Broggio said:---. diamond ornaments. Prominent a brandy basis, 21 in, and 18carry trays, and do a man's work. Wood used to roll barrels about, among her jewels was a carved winsky. Indian emerald, and her Majesty The titles of some of these all the time. He was fond of also wore the Order of the Garter compositions are "Stone Fence,oking, and chaffed the women
"White Lion," and Khedive" members of the staff. The "King Edward High-Ball" suspected "him" to be a womaR is a subtle blend of rye whisky, for an instant.
With all a man's habits except sloe gin, raspberry syrup, lemon juice, cream, and an egg
smoking, and a man's appearance except for no hair on the face,
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In his opinion the declaration of Scheldt, where sandbanks have martial law in the Punjab saved recently caused a number of TUNG SANG the province, and possibly a large accidents, but was refloated at part of India, from another mutiny, high tide and proceeded to Ant-
Questioned concerning fristanees werp. when, as a military mander, he disagreed with Sir
The directors Michael O'Dwyer, Col. Johnson Chamber of Commerce resolved to of Manchester said that on one occasion during ask the Prime Minister to the existence of martial law Six
new representations to the Michael told him he proposed to Serbian Government to cancel go into Lahore, He (the colonel) the law under which five-sixths told him he would not be permitted of the pre-war business debts of to go. I think Sir Michael was its people are repudiated. the most surprised man in Asia,"
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Within the ball room the curtains which normally conceal the throne alcove had been withdrawn, and here, on a low dais, their Majesties took their stand in front of the twin thrones. The members of Abstainers are not neglected. the Royal circle present were There is expert advice on beef tea which I attributed to a weak chest grouped around, but slightly be- and, even such an old-fashioned and lack of development, Wood added Col. Johnson. "He asked Mr. W. E. Jones, of Wrexham.hind the King and Queen, and a beverage as toast-water, and there shared the every-day life of the me what I should do if he insisted an undergraduate at Selwyn and I replied that with regret College, was drowned at Cam-
detachment of his Majesty's is a list of "wholesome beverages other men, sleeping in a dormitory should have to arrest him and put bridge through falling from a
Gentlemen-at-Arms were on duty for the sick.".
with eight others. him in the guard-room like any-pant into the River Grants. To round the dais. body else who disobeyed orders."
officers of the Royal Engineers Sir W. Schwabe: You were a dived into the water in a vain sort of king in Lahore?-I would effort to rescue Jones, who could not put it so high as that.
It was a one-man government, and that man was you?-You might
emperor.
not swim.
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Their Majesties' appearance was greeted by the playing of the National Anthem by the bands within and without the Palace, and then Sir John Hanbury Williams and the doyen of the Diplomatic The inquest on Dr. John Dickey, Corps advanced and made his say it was more like being a Mogul a practitioner at Senghenydd, near
bow, afterwards standing aside Cardiff, was adjourned for the Is it your view that a one-man third time, the coroner saying that
and presenting other members The of the Diplomatic circle. autocracy was the best way of he had only that day received the ruling India? It is not my view. report from the Home Office official circle followed, and then That was the view conveyed to me analyst as to the examination of guest as his or her name was on came the general circle, each by dozens of Indians in various some parts of the body.
nounced advancing with a bow ora trades in Lahore,
Col. Johnson admitted that some Sir Aston Webb, R.A., who was
curtsey, repeating obeisance when persons were whipped under his Injured in a motor car smash was
in front of the thrones, and then order prohibiting the adulteration unable to attend an exhibition of again before passing on to supper of milk, and added, "My idea was modern Swedish architecture at at one of the buffets which were to try to improve the morality of the Royal Institute of British arranged in each of the smaller
Stats apartments.
The last of the presentations
the milk-selling industry.”
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Architects to receive the diploma
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the brilliant function was at an end.
A proclamation by Col. Johnson from the Swedish Royal Academy made, the King and Queen with- was read. It related to the prices nominating him a member, and drew their departure being an- of vegetables and other necessities the diploma was handed to bis sounounced by the two bands again of life. It was explained that he by the Swedish Minister, had talks with the sellers at the
new playing the National Anthem, and market regarding costs of produc
Answering Lord Lamington, tion and profits, and gave them Lord Arnold made a statement three-days-to-reduco-the-prices on the present position of affairs- At the end of three days, the in Persia. As to the Persian Gulf, prices not having been reduced, our position was absolutely un he fixed them himself and let it be assaltable, and, fo regard to known that anyone selling above Parsin itself, our desire was that Chamberlain's Colfo and Diarrhoea the fixed price would be Hrhile to there should be a stable form of Remedy poemes one unlgse character be flogged.
Government there, and that its istie among medialnes. It is made solely Mr. Justice McCardle remarked, financial position should be placed and only for the one purpose of immed amid laughter, that it was a pity on as sound a basis as possible. italy molioring were pain in the the colonel was not in the countryDuring the past two years great cramps (whatever the case) onlle and stomach and bowels, for intestinal during the war to regulate prices.
progress had been made in both tarrhoea. Every family should keep it these directions.
daudy. For salo overywhere.
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