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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.
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Prices are unusually moderate this fall.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Messrs. Brunner, Mond & Co. have opened a new branch at Moji
For the 48 hours ended Sun- day, one Chinese case of scarlet) fever was notified.
The Glasgow Corporation have decided, by 40 votes to 86, to exclude alcoholic liquors from corporation functions.
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A Nottingham firm has been successful in a world-wide com petition to supply 110 steel coaches each; for the East Indian and the North-Western Railway. The "Black Diamonds," A
The importance of rice in variety troup of which the Indian newspapers speak in appreciative Japan is shown by an announce- The Kobe Amateur Dramatic terme, is announced to visit ment that the Empire consumes Club presented Tilly of Bloons-Shanghai during the coming Wih- 180.697,000 koku, or 408,485,000 on ter. The troup will probably bushels of this food staple an bury, comedy in S acts.
nually. These figures represent come to Hongkong. Thursday and Friday last.
an average for the last five years Tentative plans for un elabor- and include 60,000.000 bushels of About forty, cases of theft from large office buildings, in late observation in 1928 of the rice imported from abroad. Kobe have been reported to the fone hundred and fiftieth anniver-
Alexander W. Weddel), Ameri Sannomiya police during the cur- Esary of the discovery of Hawnił
The thieves take by Capt. Jurnes Cook, the English ican Consul-General of Mexico City, rent month. nothing but cash. The police are navigator. includes a visit to and his wife, have made an offer, the islands by an international which has been noĉapted, to build making inquiries.
feet of Warships and the minting at Richmond, Va., a replica of The Sun Life Assurance Como a special American coin...
[Sulgrave Manor, the ancestynd home. far Englund of the Washingtons. It pany of Canada has held a com-
Unker aur agreement just sips to form part of a Jacobean house, petition for a "House Sign" or crest to be used on literature with the Awek Government and be the home of the society, for and as an outside emblem. The Navarino Silvage Ltd., an English [ museum of all things showing a first prize was twenty guineas, company, has been accorded the ink between the mother coultry and the second five guineas. Mr.nght to explore Marathon, Aghia und Virginis, Mr. and Mrs, Frank Brangwyn, A.RA, the Marina and Sapienza Tshan waters Waddell hope to acquire examples distinguished artist, the for rebusological discoveries, Thu of furniture und fittings of the period ugreement is for seven years" dure for Sulgrave Manor, their iden being judge.
An improvement of Flett- tion, the fovernment agreeing to create in Virginia a building ner's famous rotor ship has been the society 65 per cent of the which will bring to as visitors & constructed by the engineer, value of the uniques discovered.
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Franz Strusina. His vessel is For the first time in Ger-
equipped with two stationary
towers.
true idea of what constituted the home of these early emigrande be-
By means of large air many's radio experience a diverfore they crowed the Atlantic. funnels that can be regulated to has attempted to radiocast from point in ary desired direction, the under water to thousands O vessel is enabled to utilise the wind coming from any point of the compass." whereby Its speed At the is materially enhanced. trial trip the vessel succeeded in attaining a far greater speed than the-Flettner ship.
of What is believed to be the oldest distant hearers. The experiment belt in Europe about to ergo was a complete success. Hamburg, repairs. It is located in the town. 100 miles distant. being able to ste ple of Tanark, in the south of hear distinctly the diver's descrip- Scotland, and bears this inserip- tion of his impressions of the ton bottom of the North Sea. Numerous radio experts andi newspaper men were aboard the diving barge.
Anno, FF00
I did for thrice, three cen- turies hing
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Examples of lengthy English
And unto Lanek City ring. words are given in a London Increased production by The bell rigidly hug in the paper as follows:-There is a cer-workers, greater thrill, better helfry of the old church of St. tain colouring matter which has health and deeper social content Kentigern, Lanark, whence it was the following name Tetrapheny-ment," are America's gains, from removed to the town steeple. Itetraaminodihydroxyparadixan- prohibition. This statement was Kentigern's was an ancient build- thylbenzenecanboxy acetonedicar- made by Sir Josinh Stamp, the well-ing when the Scottish patriot, Sir boxylic anhydride (85 letters).
known British economist, in un William Wallace, worshipped in it, É NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA HALI ANG ON ALL TALENTETTE Tetramethyldiparna idotriphen-
interview published! W the and it is there he is said to have ylcarbinolhydrochloride (fifty-two
"observer." The same interview first met and later married Marion Betters, a coal tar derivative, malachite green) and Benzoylte. Sir Josh says that white Amer-Braidfute. The bell, in spite of its tramethyldiaminoethyldimethyca-icans "luse personal liberty, we lose remarkable age, is in good condi- rbinolhydrochloride (fifty-nine those undoubted: "economic benefits tion, but the bearinge and supports. are badly worn and need replacing.. letters, a local anethetic, alypin), which America is now reaping.
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Sir Mathew Nathan who has Mr. S. W. Barnaby, naval The Prince Regent of Japan wh
and. 800 of been a
Government architect.
Sir gazetted a colonel in the aiżny and guest яг House leaves for the North by Nathaniel Barnaby, Director of a captain in the navy on the
Naval Construction, 1870-85, has Tenchiosetsu; Cetober 31. the s.s. Talamba" to-day.
died.
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Mr. Jas. Oxberry, of the Falace Hotel, Kowloon, who has been 10¤ ̄à¤à ̄ ̄ ̄ð very critically ill in the French
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Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS. ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery.
Those who remember Mr. Norman Peterkin will be interested to hear Hospital for sometime, is now well he has added to his numerous on the road to recovery and is ex-compositions, a song setting of pected to be able to leave the Padraic Colum's "O Men from the hospital shortly.
Fields" Messrs. Enoch and Sons, L. are the publishers.
Mr. J. A. Urquhart, for over 30 years a resident of Shanghal, is severing his connection with the Far East on retirement. He sails in the P. & O. S. "Kalyan" to-day for Hongkong, on his way to New Zealand..
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Stanley Baldwin's recent ad- mission that he did not read. the newspapers during his last holi- day was successfully explained by Mrs. Baldwin at West Bromwich. "Why should he," she said, "when 1 was with him?" Mrs. Baldwin accompanies the Prime Minister on tours, and her presence is often. Captain T. J. S. Lyne, the only help to him. A popular officer in modern times to reach "movie" film now on exhibition post-captain's rank from the shows her at one of his lower deck, was appointed a Com-political meetings distributing panion of the Order of the Bath boutonnières to scores of children on giving up command of the from a presentation bouquet. The boys' training ship, "Impregn- story is current.that she even re- able."
lieved B strained situation at Paris during the Poincaré nego- thations by going shopping with Madame Poincaré.
Colonel T. H. Chapman, who was for many years Director of
Mr. J. L. Grabum was elected Public Works in Ceylon, is being retained as consultant on road president of St. Andrew's Society matters to Rubber Roadways, of Yokoliama and Tokyo" for the Ltd. His long technical expert-coming year at the arum election ence should prove extremely valu just held at the Yokohama United able to the company.
Club. Mr. Tumes Crichton was named vice-president and the fol- Mlle. Butsova, the English ballowing committee was chosen : let dancer born at Nottingham, Major D. Hill, Mr. S. A. Grey, who was one of Mme. Pavlova's Mr D. McRae, Dr. J. D, Grahame ablest lieutenants during the Stewart, Mr. J. Walker, Mr. famous dancer's Hongkong season A. L. Thompson and Mr. Alan has lately been married in Mexico Reid
to an American impresario. Mile. Butsova was. formerly a sweet-
Travelling half round the globe. seller. She came under Mme. dressed in a Sussex smock frock, Pavlova's notice through being Mr. W. W. Grantham, a well- the possessor of a wonderful known K.C. has just returned to: voice. Proving as expert a London, having undertaken the dancer her rise to fame was rapid. pilgrimage to popularise the an- She wishes to keep the name of cient game, of toolball. During her husband a secret for the the voyage matched were played time being.
for the first time in history in Peking. Tokio, Vladivostok, and even by the side of the track of the Trans-Siberian railway dur- ing the frequent stops He arrived back at Victoria Station mistaken for a
Among those seen and heard at the dinner in New York in honour of the perhaps cautious, but certainly pushing adventurers who have just finished sailing in his black smock frock. Across across the United States in a Siberia he w motorboat, was the third mem- Chief Rabbi.
her of the triumvirate, Spy. a
The following marriages are
brated the arrival in New York announced to take place at Tien
Scotch terrier. The dinner çele
of John Edwin Hoag and Frank tein:
Mr
S. Wilton from Astoria, Ore., Kerridge, engineer
after an eighty-six-day trip made Engineering Work entirely by water except for the Miss Eli
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portage across the Rockies, and England Spy sat at the table and graced Young, kitczuidh minime distipelion: Br Facetted himself with all the Hithalance and most of the de- corum of the most practised guest, his, one, aborration being that of entering to wholly into the spirit on the occasion that he dran the water in the spea He got this honours a litt
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