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Prices are unusually moderate this fall.
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The Empress of Russia". disenses for the 24 hours ended which left Yokohama at 8 o'clock Wednesday shows. one Chinese yesterday morning is due in case of diphtheriu.
Hopgkeng on November 5.
The Hongkong A.D.C. will present "A Little Bit of Fluff," e screaming furce, on December 2can 9, 4 and 5. ht 9.30 p.m. Plans will be open at Anderson's from Monday, November 2.
The "Bulletin of the Ameri Chamber of Commerce in London reports that the master an American vessel recently expressed astonishment at the many outlandish places which his
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A record run of 97 days. 22. hours, from Liverpool to Mel- bourne-roughly 11,000 miles was made by the Blue Funnel cargo s.s. "Autolycus," 7,718 tons; which arrived recently Hobson's Bay.
An interesting wanted" advertisement has been seen, Wanted, fieldsman for a motor sales
agency." This, presumably, customers out if successful he, no doubt, becomes a long-stop.
The usual Armistice night crew demanded to visit, when is the gentleman who catches the
the ship WIX in aBitish earnival dance will be held at the
He finally discover- Hongkong Hotel next month. port. This popular event will doubtless. ed that each man wanted to visit as on provicus occasions, attract the spot which was the original
home of his ancestors.. a large company. Evening or fancy dress is optional...
the
No more tricky task falls to the lot of the working journalist than framing those few crisp At a meeting in Glasgow of descriptive lines which go beneath
illustration. When According to present arthe Scots National League it was rangements, H.M.S. "Carliele" stated that the league would prob-journalist to whom this duty will leave the Dockyard during ably put forward candidates afell, in preparing for press the the next few days, to carry out the next general election, and that last number of a certain trade. practices in Mirs Bay, on com these candidates would be pledgpaper, set out to epitomise the pletion of which she will proceeded, if returned, not to go to West Bank of England in a few snappy minster and not to take their lines his effort was a praise- to sea on or about November 91
seats in the British Parliament worthy one. It touched on its sitting in London. The claims of historic significance, its import- Scotland to have a Parliament of ance in the financial scheme of its own were strongly urged. It things, and mentioned its re- was remarked that during the building, but unfortunately-it present year only two days, cr was a photograph of the Royal about 16 hours in all, had been Exchange. devoted to Scottish affairs. Scot- land, it was urged, would be much better off industrially, and econo- mically if allowed to manage its own affairs.
Messrs. Cammell Laird the Birkenhead shipbuilders, are to spend £250,000 on extending and rebuilding their old slipways These slips are to be used
to accommodate vessels building up This will bo 500-ft. in length... mean increased work for more than 2,000 men.
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A Melbourne man found him- self in the courts over some The Canton Commissioner
trifling business losses. Asked by the solicitor for the other side Hoodog for Foreign Affairs notities:-
how it was, if, as he said, he hadj Martial Law has been declared in
The Free State possesses in no means to pay his debts, he Boca Tigris. where mines have been faid and all vessels, on enter the Abbey Theatre what is beljev could go golfing every day. he ing this Port, will be subject to ed to be the first and only state said a friend had paid his golf examination and obtain a pilot endowed theatre, in any English-club subscription and that other The Free friends lent him their golf clubs. from the Fumoon Fort Comman-speaking country. der so as to avoid danger.
State has granted it an annual He also admitted he had done subsidy of $3,500. William some shooting. but the gun het "A red, blue, and white train Butler Yeats, the poet and Nobel used belonged to a brother, to is to be added to each of the four prize winner, hopes that America whom also belonged the new suit leading English railway com-will follow the example, thus he was wearing. Pressed fur- panies' systems in November. It imitated in the Free State, since ther, he said that the motor car Was his is to be an exhibition train which theatres are an important part of he sometimes drove
The only possessions 36A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. joanqueada-------------------...ooong will make a year's tour through national education and where not cousin's.
the country and visit 70 or 80 endowed may have to lower their the debtor seemed disposed to towns on market days in order to quality through the struggle for admit were his own, and not sup- EN SAMAN 1411) 1835 MULAI MEMBERS 14393294 introduce British-made goods. existence. Mr. Yeats says thereplied by obliging relatives and a wife and eight Each train will consist of three is no European country where the friends, were
And he mentioned carriages from 56 to 70 feet long.plays produced in the Abbey children. Stalls will be arranged down the Theatre have not been performed, these with an air that suggested corridors, and an expert demon- and some of them have even that the hard-hearted creditor strator will be in change of each been translated into Oriental could have the lot if he wanted
languages.
them. section.
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The forthcoming wedding is Kings and commoners, princes announced of Mr. James Gray Marshall of No. 29, Morrison Hill Road. to Miss Alice Ricarda Barretto, of Bowrington Road.
Mrs. D. H. Cameron, wife of the General Manager of the Standard Oil Company in Hong- kong, and daughter arrived in the Colony on the s.s. "President Lincoln from America yesterday.
The Rev. P.
Makoto Hagiwara, for 30 years and princesses of nine royal superintendent of the Japanese houses, and hundreds of subjects. Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, of the Italian Crown, joined in San Francisco, died last month at rejoicing over the marriage of the age of 71. Mr. Hagiwara Princess Mafalda, daughter of the was nationally known as a land- King and Prince Philip of Hesse.scape architect and had laid out many Japanese gardene in Mr. A. W. Hay has been ap-America. pointed to act as an extra assist- ant
Protector of Chinese, Mr. Richard F. Stephen, manä- Singapore, in addition to his own ger of the Kobe office of W. M. duties. 43 Officiating Second Strachan and Company,
com-
B. Clayton, Assistant Director of Educationmitted suicide at his residence at His Chinese Schools, Straits No. 3 Kitanocho, 1-chome. founder of Toc H., left Penang for
relatives attribute his act to momentary insanity due to busi Kikuji Tahijima, an employee ofness worries which followed the the Ogawa Printing Shop at fature of several trusted and imi Tatamicho, Kyobashi, has been portant clients. given first prize for his essay
for Colombo by the Japanese Settlements. steamer "Suva Maru" and was seen off by his brother Mr.. R. J. B. Clayton, D.O., of Teluk "Anson, and a number of other friends. At the meeting, in Penang Mr. Clayton said that he hoped that Toc H. would be start- ed there.
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on thrift and postal savings which Mr. Wallace Wilson, familiariz was submitted to the Postal Sav-known as "Woody" Wilson, for ings Bureau. His essay was merly in the Shanghai office of the selected out of more than 1,300 Pacific Mail Steamship Company, returned to Shanghai from articles submitted.
America and assumed the position Company of New York who-pass- Praise for Japan and theas secretary of the American Club, ed through Hongkong during the Japanese people featured the fare. He succeeds Mr. O. H. Smith, ANHA DO early days of the strike, and his well luncheon to Nathaniel B. who with Mrs. Smith, intends to
accompanist, Mr. Emil Zoller, Stewart, American Consul-Gen-return to the States.
BORDADÃCOUGARDED000000 the Metropolitan Grand Opera Mr. Edward Johnson, tenor of
G. FALCONER & CO. (HONGKONG) LTD. | have completed their world tour eral, who is leaving Tokyo, for an
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host.
While cruising along the coast
of Tawitawi island, Philippines,
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A woman correspondent writes
"little season" that she and her friends are hop ing to spend the " in the Cornish Riviera their object being to get plumper.A tactful inquiry brought the in- formation that winter fashions On. the sacred heights of Koya demand more curves and fullness on the 8th inst. on the motorboat San, where the Buddhist Saint-and cream is to be the means. "Dos Amigos," Lieutenant J. A.Kobo Daishi founded the Kongobu Certainly fashion is responsible Bond, of the. U.S. Coast and temple and monastery more than Geodetic Survey, was attacked by 11,000 years ago, the ashes of the for more than meets the eye."
Elizabeth Ai a crocodile. He sustained a com- Honorable Mrs. pound fracture and a badly Gordon have been laid to rest. facerated wound on the left leg. Mrs. Gordon, a British subject, His life was saved by the coolness died in Kyoto on June 27 last, and quick action of a Con leaving directions that half of her stabulary soldier who acted as his ashes should be buried on Koya San and half in the Diamond guide.
Mountains, Korea. Since, how ever, no burials whatever are per mitted at the latter place, they were all interred on Koya San.
The popular belief that all possible jokes about woman and her inability to understand the mysteries of a checking account at the bunk had been already told has just been discovered in Lon don to be untrue. The higher The farewell address delivered
education of women, flavoured by His Excellency the Acting
with a dash of Darwin, seems to be to blame this time. It appears Governor, Mr. Cecil Clementi, at
that a London matron, Mre the meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society is sufficient indication of Robert Taylor, African prince, Brown, had just been provided. the lose which philological study and son of the late paramount with a bank account. On the In the Island has sustained owing chief or king of the Mendi tribe, first occasion when she went to to the fact that his official duties is working as a labourer in the make a deposit, she came to the did not permit: Mr. Clementi the employ of the Corporation of word specie" on the deposit slip, leisure to take up the task of the Corporation of Sunderland. She considered for a mome learning Sinhalese, days the Taylor would now have been then entered against
Times of Ceylon, Mr. Clement king had he remained in his
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