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QUALITY 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. D. CHELLARAM ROYAL SILK STORE. 36A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The return of notifiable diseases for the 48 hours ended Sunday, shows one Chinese case of enteric fever.
The Hongkong Philharmonic Society is to produce "Toluntha?" on December 11 to 19, at the Thea- tre Royal, in aid of local charities,
A small girl of seventeen with babbed hair and w short skirt, who gave evidence against a man at Tottenham Police Court, was mis taken by the magistrate for a child, and He ordered the court to be cleared
The following telegram dated Gober 21 has been received from His Highness the Tuan Muda of Sarawak :-
Despite vigliance of the A law has been passed in Slam to establish the use of sur-Tokyo Police Board, adherents of names. It has met with no op birth control are increasing position in the country districts, Several leading persons, both men and, women, recently have declar- although novel to them.
Led publicly that Japan's. Hope lies fin adoption of the scheme gen- erally. The newspapers SPECUL late whether the birth control law can be enforced, and, if so, wher ther it can be applied to persons voicing public approval of the system...
Objection has been raised in Brisbane to using salt-water for street watering on the ground that it causes heavy damage not only to motor vehicles but also to the tramway lines.ph
Another guess has been made at the result of the census on October 1 In so far as Tokyo is concerned. This puts the popu lation at 1,080,000, which is over 100,000 less than it was before the earthquake. This would make it appear that Tokyo has not come back as much as thought, but the figures are hardly dependable.
The Japanese population of the province of Davao, Mindanao, which at one, time was well oyer 30,000 and which was reduced to shout 2,000 following the huge slump in hemp prices in Manila in 1921, is again rising rapidly. An unusual number of Japanese have entered the Philippines at the port of Zamboanga during the Tast "Can Sarawak Government be of any assistance to Hong- The theme of the Japanese three months, all of them headed kong Chinese by offering your Imperial poems for the coming New for Davao. There are now estim Year has been announced by the fated to be about 18,000 Japanese Government amall loan? £100,000 would be vacceptable Imperial Poetry Bureau. It is in Duvac.. am prepared to recommend to "kasui,kiyoshi," which means lim Rajah due here early next pid river water. The competi High school girls in Chester. month, to make definite, offerion is limited to one poem from America, are starving them and would suggest same terme each competitor, which must reach halves" in an effort to maintain as new Malaya loan to Hong- the Bureau pot later than Decem-stylish silhouette figures" until they are "dangerously under kong."
ber 15,
weight," officials of the Delaware.
"Warmest thanks
to
If
His Excellency, the Governor A proposal to shorten the County Tuberculosis Association **Evoyage between Japan and declared upon a completion of a has replied as follows:-
Formoss is being considered by survey. Dr. Harry Schulman, Your the Formosan Government, secretary of the association, said Highness for your offer but we N.Y.K and OSK At present that underweight among boys and have made satisfactory arthe voyage takes four days, but girls was about the same until the rangements with His Majesty's the desire is to shorten it to three. girls reach fifteen, "the. dapper Government."
On this mission Mr. Ikuno, Direc- Age." Then, he said, the girls tor of the Bureau of Communica-begin the "starving process of tions, Fermore, visited the two reducing Eating pickles and ice shipping companies head offices cream, he declared was one of the in Tokyo and Osaka, and left Moji methods. for Keeting on the 9th inst.
Ni
The port of the English Society for the Fravention of Cruelty to Animals says that ther ie still too much of a tendency or
"The lust, of Mrs. Cheyney." the part of magistrates to admonish
The cost of living in Italy has the latest London play, including guilty persona and then ay, "You ure lucky. not to be sent to prison been on the increase constantly as it does Gerald du Maurier, for this, but adda that the action since 1914 and is still mounting, Gladys Cooper, Ellis Jeffreys, and of the press in printing letters from recently published statistics show. Ronald Squire in the cast, is Heleon readers expressing indignation at Taking 100 as an index figure indescribed as a brave experiment; auch mild treatment of cruelty is 14, the cost of living has reach the weekly costs are estimated at Fed 498:20 A table of prime £1.800 in a theatre which holds Baving an excellent effect in tighten-necessities of life, including bread, little more than £2,200, when The Ethel Barrymore ing matters up. The society is now spaghetti, rice, beef, bacon, milk, packed conducting a campaign against the potatoes and olive oil, shows an pratice of keeping dogs chained up average rate compared with the for long periods and of confining index figure of 432.98 in Decem-doned at the last moment because birds in cages too small for the pro-ber, 1923, 492.29 in December, the costs were £1,200, leaving out
the star's salary. 1924, and 198.22 in June, 1925. per exercise of their wings.
Ideal Summer UNDERWEAR and SHIRTS Ooolest and most Comfortable to wear during
AND
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SOCIAL
Mr. D. Arnkie, formerly of Hongkong, is the compiler of "Guide to Shanghai Rubber Com- panies," on sale at Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, Ltd:
Senor Rouillon, the focal Consul for Peru, is shortly leaving the Colony. In his absence Senor Salvador Barrios Seyer will con- duct the affairs of the Consulate, Mr. R. W. Barnett, formerly sub-editor of the "Torbay Herald now. amalgamated with the "Torbay Express" at Torquay, has accepted a journalistic appoint
ment in Hongkong.
season of "Declasse, planned for the Lyric next month, was aban
AND PERSONAL.
Mischa Levitzki, who performed so brilliantly in Hongkong, was compelled to cancel his recitals in severe Shanghai owing attack of malarial fever.
to
Joseph Birch, a Portsmouth
Practice dances in connection. with St. Andrew's Ball are to be held in the City Hall on Tuesdays, November 17 and 24, from 5.30 to 7 p.m.
labourer, was in bed suffering The ban on ultra modern styles from influenza when he heard a of dress worn by women has ex- woman shout: Can any one save tended to Chile. Monsignor this child?" Birch sprang from Errazuriz, Archbishop of San- his bed, ran downstairs.and to the tiago, has censured the dress in to the harbour nearby, plunged into the Chile and Buenos Aires and re- water, and brought. William commended admission Charles Paige aged, eighteen churches be refused to women months, to the shore. Birch then improperly attired. "Unashamed collapsed, A doctor made a vain of their immodest dress," said the
effort to revive the hoy,
letter, the Chilean women, whose manners formerly were an exame ple to all Christian families, go so far as to have themselves.
photographed in these creations. Not satisfied with this, they send their pictures to the newspapers, thus making a public spectacle of themselves."
all kinds
Messrs. Moutrie & Co., Ltd., have received cable advice that
For those who have been wait of Fancy Goods.
steamer with the members of the ing for the information, a leading Italian Opera is delayed and that authority in the French dress. THE CHINESE BAZAAR, Irovatare will be cancelled making world has declared: "We The opening date will be Monday,nced not expect any marked CHINA BUILDING.
November 2 with Cavalleria changes in women's shape this *JO¤¤¤¢Ä¤Ã¤andaanuupääOOD Rusticana and Pagliacci.
winter." The women of Paris will persist in keeping to the The Prince of Wales has a straight and slender line so be- A quaint ceremony which has number of public engagements to coming to the figure. But as Budget through on his return to Eng some change, must be made, the been performed every twenty-one Among these, the most dressmakers have hit upon the years for 400 years was held late- G. FALCONER & CO. (HONGKONG) LTD. imposing function will be a ban- expedient of triating the backsly at Chedzoy, a small English village. On these twenty-one- quet at the Guildhall, where the of dresses--which is quite op- WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS
Lord Mayor and the Corporation posite to what they did last year occasions the "church acre" DIAMOND MERCHANTS
will present an address of wel season. All sorts of designs will at the village is sold for a further be embroidered on the backs of twenty-one years by a quaint deremony known as by fall of gowns. Strange as it may ecem candle. Villagers gathered in Prof. R. K. M. Simpson whose silk mittens are coming back into the Manor House Inn, where the lecture on Bernard Shaw receiv-fashion again.
vicar, the Rev. G. R. Mullens, lit ed such an ovation from his large
a half-inch of candle placed on 8, piece of tin. The last bidder
Unten Building (Opposite G.P.0.)
Morris for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS.
ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES,
KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS,
ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers.
High Class English Jewellery.
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audience some two weeks ago,
will by special request deliver Davy Stephens, well known to another address on "Bernard every Epsom racegosu, is dead before the candle burns out be Shaw" and his Works on He was 70 years of age and re-comes the owner of the acre for Wednesday at 8.30 p.ru in the tired about a year ago from con- the next twenty-one years. Bids! University Union Assembly Hall. ducting his business as a news came quickly until £50 was rench- The public are welcome:
agent at Kingstown. For years ed. The candle is burning time he welcomed every visitor of note is being cried the auctioneer,
Bidding came to a lull at 272 the candle began to flicker guttering” cried the
The Netherland Consul Gen- coming of the boat from Holy- eral for South China In Hong-head. He made an annual kong has remitted to the Foreign pilgrimage to London to see the Office in the Hague, the sum of Derby for more tha $1,025 or Guilders 1,49123 for re- Hr blade the
let amongst the sufferers from every the cyclone which destroyed his es) Borculo and other places in the the Netherlands on August 10 let, when To all contributors he expresses:
Secr
leman. A woman then,
the candle went out. that the candle thi
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