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UALITY SILKS
For the new fall and Winter Frocks, here are silks more exquisite than any we have ever shown in this Store before. Graceful patterns in both gay and somber tones make up this selection.
Prices are unusually moderate this fall.
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136A QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
THE CHINA MAIL.
LOCAL
The Chinese authorities have forbidden cock-fighting, &.practice which is now prevalent in Chapel.
According to the Chinese Press, a Japanese census shows that there are 4.227 Japanese families In Shanghai and 20,800 residents. -
T'ever.
AND
GENERAL.
It is proposed to open the Happy Valley Golf course and the Club house on Sunday next. There will ¡be ice and drinks...
The Vienna University has the published an appeal to civilised world to help in bringing about Austro-German fusion..
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During, the week ended September 17 the Straits Settle- ments drew 77,000 sovereigns from the Bank of England.
Kobe
They do things properly in This from a recent issue
Of the eighteen holes of the golf links of the Country Club.in. Ibaraki-mura, near Osaka, which is known as the biggest in the Orient, nine have been completed)
The Four cases of infectious "The Russian budget for next some time and are in use, disease were reported to the year is estimated: at 3,560,000,000 remainder have also now been Medical Officer of Houlth on rubles, about 75 per cent. of the finished and came into use from The inauguration Tuesday.. These were one Eng-value of the pre-war budget. This the 1st inst. lish imported case of diphtheria represents an increase of ap- ceremony of the links is, how- and three Chinese of enteric proximately 1,000,000,000 rubles ever, to take place in June next as compared with the budget for year, on account of the growth of the current year. At the same the turf and other circumstances. The Great Northern Tele-time the Finance Commissarist graph Co., has decided to employ announces its intention to sub- a large number of Portuguese stitute bronze for copper in mint
of the "Japan Chronicle :”- Buds.
Ten Portuguese, youths, ing small coins.
Owners have been found for between the ages of 18 and 17. left Hongkong on the "Mantua" A parlimentary Investigatión some hats, one stick, one camera, fon Saturday for Shanghai where of a case of wrongful arrest has one camera case and several they will be apprenticed as tele-resulted in a severe official con- other small items left at the graphists for the Great Northern demnation of certain police Shioya Club last Sunday after the The result Gala, but the Club still has on Telegraph Co. After a period of methods in London. six months' training in Shanghai seems to be an excess of caution hand another camera case and eight of them will later be employ and politeness on the part of the some hats, and would be obliged awners would apply for in the Hongkong office of the police, judging from the follow-if the Company. The other two lading report of a case where a them. Fire insurance will not be any conditions, and will be stationed at Amoyas motorist was stopped for reckless effected on telegraphists.
driving. A police inspector testi- demurrage will be charged after fed that he asked the defendant, seventy-two hours, Londoners are wondering "Have you any objection, Sir, to who are the Scrooges whose com- giving me your occupation, or
The anthology of Japanese plints regarding whistling and profession Defendant replied: poetry which has been presented Pincing brought about an order You mind your own business. It to Eton College library by the foridding the practice by con- has nothing to do with you Prince Regent of Japan has ductors on omnibuses An official "So I said to the constable, added explanatory notes In English at- ban posted in the company's the inspector, "put down Gentle-tached to each of the thousand garage says: "Conductors are in- man."
volumes, so that there will be no structed to refrain from whistling
danger of any of them being mis- was a certain and singing while on duty. Com- Work is in hand with the understood, as plaints have been received from coject of linking up Shanghai and Persian volume a long time ago. the public that the practice is on Tientsin by telephone. Important The mother of a boy at Eton was the increase, especially among theas such a scheme is, it does not by being shown round the library,. newer staff. It is, to say the any means convey a full idea of and as an especial favour a won least. annoying." Much indigna- the ambitious nature of the enter-derfal Koran was put into her Fion is expressed by bus patrons prise, for not only will there be hands. "But," she said, "here is over the order, as it is said that telephonic communication carried a picture of a man on a horse! I happy conductors make happy by wire, but also wireless tele- thought that, no images of that trips for everybody and relieve phony between the most distant sort were allowed in the Koran the tedium of traffic jams. Some and subsidiary points, and fur-Whereupon it was whispered to in the thermore wireless on the express her that the volume was really a Brighter London Movement trains between Tientsin and collection of fairy tales, but hav- favour letting conductors sing. Shanghai. It is understood that ing been accepted by some high and arge passengers to join in the a sum of $2,000,000 is being college personage (who knew leas chorus. Then, it is said, it will-all. devoted to the project, and that it Persian than was generally, sup- be fair weather despite London's, will be in operation, in less than posed) as a Koran was ever thus
described, fog and rain.
fa year's time.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Music-lovers-and others, should' note that the Italian Grand Opera Co. open a season of grand opera at the Theatre Royal on Saturday,. October 21.
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Mrs. V. Arnold-Jones and child left the Colony yesterday on the "Hector." "
Colonel W. F. L. Gorden has been elected President and Mr. The forthcoming wedding is R, G. MacDonald, Vice-President, announced of Mr. William Harri-of the Shanghai St. Andrew's
Hudspeth. missionary of Society. Yunnan, to Miss Maurne Ankers. of Liverpool.
son
Signor Milanest; Italian Vice- Consul in Shanghai, has been The ship's company of. H.M.S.awarded the Order of Chevalier cf "Carlisle" held their last dance of the Crown of Italy, according to of the Commission at the Royal advices received at the Italian
Consulate-General. Naval Canteen Theatre last night. The "Carlisle's" jazz band provid ed the dance music and there was a good attendance.
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The first regalia dance of the season under the auspices of the 'R.A.0.B. is to be held this evening at the Royal Naval Canteen Theatre. The function has been DONGGOBOJOO¤¤ocoñogo arranged by the R.A.O.B. Enter-
tainment Committee:
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Mr. W. H. de Roos, Assistant Interpreter at the Netherlanda Consulate in Kobe and a well
The Shanghai St. Andrew's Society last year spent $6.277 on charity, practically twice as much! as in the previous year,
Mrs. Dora Beale is the happy possessor of a letter from Mr. Bernard Shaw as a result of her impersonation of "Saint Joan.”
Reuter announces the death of Baron Ribblesdale. Baron Ribbies- dale was a retired captain of rifle brigade, and a lord-in-waiting to Queen Victoria in 1880-1886 and master of Her Majesty's buck hounds 1892-1895.
The Rev. W. J. Oldfield, D.D., known Japanese scholar, is report- Canon of Lincoln, in a sermon at modern domestic ed to be translating the "Taketor! Walworth on Monogatari," the oldest Japanese unhappiness, said: "Just as a classic, into Dutch. Mr. de Roos kicking hunter's tail is decorated is said to be meditating transla-with a bunch of ribbons, so a bad- tions of other Japanese classics. tempered girl should be compelled to wear tartan stockings, to warn unsuspicious suitors."
Owing to the unavoidable A farewell reception was held absence of Mrs. Luard from the at the Customs Club, Shanghai, in Colony, Mrs. Russell Brown has
Shanghai is also to have "A honour of Mr. L. A. Lyall, Com kindly consented to open the fête Little Bit of Fluff" offered to it. missioner of Customs, who has organised by the Hongkong Mrs. H. Peyton Griffin, formerly spent 40 years in the Chinese Women's Guild and Ministering of Hongkong, is taking the part Customs service. The Chinese Children's League which will be of Aunt Hannah. The play will held at Government House
be produced at the Lyceum Thea- grounds on Saturday. H.E. the tre an October 29, 30 and 81. Governor is expected to be pre- The play is being produced by Mrs. H. Jory, chairman of the sent.
|B.W.A. dramatic section, and bids fair to be among the most popular of the pieces produced by this talented group.
staff of the service were hosts.
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The engagement is announced in Tokyo of Miss Dorothy W. Calvert of Detroit, Michigan, to Mr.
The annual report of the Eugene Dooman of the American! Embassy, who is will known in associacao Portuguesa de Socor- Kobe. The wedding will probably ros Mutuos has just been issued. be held on November 13 at the It is another record of progress home of Mr. and Mra Edwin and good work done in the sphere
of beneficence among the Portu- The atmosphere of Deeside is Neville, No. 27 Tansu-machi The guese community in Hongkong, still impregnated with Queen Rev. H. W. Myers, pastor of Kobe During the twelve years of its Victoria and stories about her. Union Church, is to conduct the existence the Society has accumu. The most curious quoted by ceremony.. Miss Calvert was lated funds amounting to Almeric FitzRoy is the prayer of a formerly on the faculty of the $58,770.26, with an income for Scottish minister, who officiated Keen School; in, Tientsin,
'the past financial year of at Crathie, Church in 1898, and $6,749.62. The amount expended who, in the royal presence, peti- Mr. David Hood who expects to in benefits for the same period lationed the Almighty that "as the come to Shanghai to give lessons: $19,625. The Society has a total Queen became an auld woman she in golf during, this winter was membership.enrolment of 267..
might put on the new man, and born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His
in all righteous causes stand
father and three brothers are also The Secretary of the Royal before her people like a hegoat professionals. He has been teach! Hongkong Golf Chali has received upon the mountains.
ing for 28 years, and laid out over from one of the northern ports an
20 golf courses in New Zealand, anonymous letter enclosing England Ireland, the Philippines draft with the explanation that wins, and Japan, including the Taraki thelazit
course near Osaka,
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