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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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The
notifiable return of disenses for the 24 hours anded Tuesday, shows a clean record.
The official opening of the, "new Y.M.C.A. building in Kow- loon will take place at the latter end of November.
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GENERAL.
Mr. Harry Ore is to give his first piano recital of the season next Tuesday in the City Hall He will be assisted by Mrs. R. Sanger...
At a luncheon given by the Council and members of the Japan Society in honour of Major Abe, Mt. Kawachi and their fight companions,. Colonel the Master of Semp, who headed a British The Cape to Cairo Crossley aviation mission in Japan recent motor expedition, commanded by ly, paid a high tribute to the. Major Court Treatt, reached airmen's courage and skill in find- The silk shipped per as. Nairobi on September 30, having ing a landing-place in a strange "President Madison," which sait-covered 7.800 miles. The journey country, despite dense fog and
was most difficult, otherwise there darkness. was no incident.
ed from Hongkong at 5 p.m. pn September 30, arrived New York at midnight on October 24---hav- ing been 24 calendar days in tran- Nit.
All meals for and after November 2 needed at Fanling should be ordered at Cafe Wise man before 8.30 p.m. on the day before they are required. Rooms should be booked through the Secretary,
A girl costs from 15 to 17 yaks As many as 768 Filipino (oxen) in Kashagaria and the sup labourers have returned from ply of girls is so small that they Hawalian Sugar plantations.durare generally spoken for before ing the third quarter of the year, birth. The father of the pros- compared to 701 during the same pective bride-groom usually takes period last year' During July, an option from the prospective August and September, 608 men, parent of the bride and pays one 72 women and 88 minors, returned yak down before the birth of the as compared with 567 men, 67girl and sometimes even before women and 87 minors during the the birth of the bride-groom. The same period last year Filipino other payments are due annually emigrants to Hawaii last month until completed. totalled 246 men, one woman and
The Shanghai Races begin on November 2, and continue to November 4, with an extra meet-eight miners. ing on November
The "Empress of Canada," sailing from here on October 30 arrives in Shanghai on November 1, allowing race enthusiasts an op- portunity to get settled before the Races, open
of
At a banquet at Parliament House. Melbourne," Mr. Arthur
of the "Calcutta.
speaking on: be- India,
said Mr. announcement that Bruce's domiciled Indian subjects of the King-Emperor would be given full civic rights would be read with pleasure in India. Between India and Australia there was an ever- increasing strategic bond. Both were faced with a common denger and their safety lay in the cohesion of the Empire.."
In the course of proceedings Moore as the Assembly of the League of Statesman,” Nations, Mrs. Mackinnon (Aus- half tralia), in supporting the report dealing with relief for Armenian women and children, made the reimarkable statement that Tonight is the last showing Armenian women, kept in Turkish of "Siegfried" at the Queen's harems, were disfigured, their Theatre. The musical setting is faces being tattoed. "But," she in keeping with this superb pic-, added, it must be to the eternel ture, and a word in praise of Pro-credit of the Armenian men that fessor Gonzalez and his men is they are glad and proud to marry well merited. It is not every day those women, and give them com- that Hongkong gets a whole fortable homex." series of Wagner excerpts at a Sitting. The picture from every point of view is an alloyel delight.
The first championship of the Shek-0 Club is to be played on Sunday. There are thirty entries, which include a number of pro- minent players. Mr. A. H. Feygu- son who captained the Hongkong Interport team against Shanghai
There is a new business ven- ture which seems both interesting and profitable. A man with a liking for anything in the way of soldering tin articles decided to it up a travelling motor-van, and stocked it with ironmongery of every description in carefully fitted shelves, in addition to his soldering outfit. He toured the most Inaccessible, parts of the
Captain K. B. Lowry, com- mander of the round-the-world Dollar liner "President Garfield,” says he encountered an unusund submarine freak in mid-July, while passing the northern end of the Island of Sumatra. He en- countered - a submarine earth- quake, immediately followed by a huge eruption of oil from the ocean bed. The oil eruption. bubbled to the surface like a gigantic geyser and spread for a
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ing over the course last Wednesgular rounds. Then his two sons day he did a 75, which is regarded | took up the same trade, in other as a very creditable achievement. R. Flamebek and Capt. Bloxham are also expected to be well in the running.
new districts. Each now has his own private car and employs a mechanic. Of course, they pay no rates, and only selected taxes.
in circumference.. Captain Lowry said that at the time of the oil eruption a heavy swell was running but the copious quan tities of oil calmed the sen to mill-pond quietness.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr. T. J. Gaisford-S1. Mits. E. en Tweedie, the Lawrence. H.E. the Governor's English author and artiste who has Private Secretary, is a passenger visiting China, left Shanghai for home to-morrow un the for Home, via Canad, by the "Empress of Carinda,"
steuner Empress of Asia.
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MY D. A. Goodwin is a passen- ger on the "President Jefferson" which left yesterday for Manila.
In celebration of the birthday of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, the "Consul General for Japan in His Excellency the Governer Hongkong will receive members of attended by the Official Members the foreign community at the of the Executive and Legislative ongkong Hotel on Saturday be Councils were entertained at thetween 0.20 to 10.30 am. Hongkong Club yesterday at tiffn by the Unofficial Members of both Councils. A handsome silver loving cup was presented to the Governor as a token of their esteen and regard.
Mr. D. M. Goodall playing over the Deep Water Bay course last week did the eighth, 120 yards, with his tee shot. Mr. J. M. Walker has been credited with a similar achievmeent at Manila.
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Ambyste," a dance is to be held if Under the auspices of H.M.S.
R.N. Canteen Theatre, to morrow evening. The ship's com- any of the "Ambrose have aged a carrival dance to take place on Noveniber 6.
Capt. R. Bennett, M... of the Middlesex Regiment, has been promoted to the rank of Major.
Katherine Wynne, a maid to Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, who served in the same capacity with Mrs. Warren G. Harding and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, has just ap- peared in Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and an- nounced that she wanted to become an American citizen. She said she came to the. United States from Ireland in 1906, and still was a British subject.
The public has only 9 years more in which to hear Mr. John McCormack singing for personal profit. The great terior has de- cided at 40% to give this unusual- ly long notice possibly to obviate the numerous last appearances Miss L. Sebeen, an artiste from which have become singer's Hollant, who has been travelling tradition: Fifty seems an early round the world, painting its met age to choose, a well-trained and picturesque places and people, is at carefully used voice, as Santley Surgn. Commander N. S.resent in Shanghai and hopes to and Jean de Reszke showed, last- Meiklejohn has been appointed to arrange for an exhibition of her oiling almost as long as life itself. paintings in the near future. But opera makes enormous demands on both voice and vitality. Mr. McCormack will very likely appear in Hongkong.
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Mr. Stirling Fessenden has con senger on the President Jeffer-sented to open the new camp for son" which left for Manila yester-the Shanghai Boy Sets Associa day.
tion on the Hangjao Reut or A large collection of recently Command Orders stul thut Armistice Tay at 2.30 pan The acquired souvenira awaits the Cuptain J. M. Hunt, 6/2nd Punjab annual Jamboree will be held on the inspection of the Prince of Wales Regimens, has returned from India. same afternoon and the President on his return to St. James's of the Roly Club will present the Palace. Every place visited dur- For girl typists, of the Foreign Ratury Shield to the winning Trooping his lengthy tour has brought Office, have been selected to accom-nt the conclusion of the competition. forth a host of gifts, which are pany Japan's delegates to the Mr S. Barton will prevent the packed up at regular intervals Customs Conference in Pelong. Fraser Shild to the Wolf Cnbs
and dispatched to London in large wooden boxes. In all probability the number of "tokens of esteem" bestowed upon the Prince. соп stitutes a record even for a Royal tour. In many cases the gifts. Japanese girls will attend un Inter Scotland specially for the pur intent, and riding whips and have been made with practical national conference as typists.
They are, Miss Fumiko Snegnsa. Miss Yasko Tomita, Mise Kiyoko
One of the most interested Shibata, and her sister, Miss Oriye spectators of the army manevrea Shibata. This in the first time that has been Prince Chichibu of Japan, who has returned from
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The marriage of Mia Margaret Japaness infantry regiment, and Irene McMuray and Mr. Harold has, of course, a very thorough Tresize, both of Yokohama, will be knowledge of modern military Ever since Mrs. Nina Bang éolemnized on October 31. The tactics. The prospect of seeing became the first woman Danish marriage will walte place in them directly applled, and watch- Minister, and as such also the ing the results, was one that ap head of the Board of Education, pelled to him greatly, and it is she has done the unexpected. At the Palace of His Lordelup safe to say that no part of First the singing of the national
har Bishop Joné da Costa Nunes last his stay.
given him anthem was banned, which she Saturday, a large assembly gathered greater pleasure than the four claimed was too warlike to benefit. to witness the conferring of the days' mimic warfare in the the public good. And when, Insights of the Commander of the south. The Prince. has, however, despite her prohibition, the greatly enjoyed the Scottish anthem was inadvertently sung in Order of St-Grügery she Great upon--
Sengon at Javermoriston, and hung a theat Mr. Francisco Anacleto da Silva, been a popular figure at many of to be, the Minister remained seat-
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