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Prices are unusually moderate this fall.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
One use of dikharin and onel case of anterie, both Chinese, were reported on Friday
Ninety per cent of the tatal
A scheme, which it la stated cargo: tonnugs in the foreign will make the London terminal commerce of the United States aerodromes the finest commercial during 1924 was carried in station in the world, and which Wyndham Street beat's a really American and British ships, the will coat nearly a quarter of a festive appearance, for thor is on
other 10 per cent. being dis-million pounds, has, now "been Much work. view a large supply of the familistributed among vessels of 10 begun in earnest.
other nations.
will have to be done before the **Christions Preo,'
nerodrome is complete. Trees and hedges are being removed and as a roud diverted in order to take in an adjoining stretch of land. When this additional ground be- comes available the air expresses will have a clear, unobstructed space of between two and three. miles upon which to take off and alight.
The 9.9.
Seang Wo"" is to be The population of the prin- launched 14 Kowloon Pork "cipal Japanese, cities is
follows:- Wednesday. She is twin marw besh yil [or the Indo-China
Populations. 2.114,809 1,996,803 769,560 679,976
The trial of Mr. Jantes Edward Atherley, formerly manager ́ of Getz Bros, (of the Orient), Ltd.. who appears on two indictments, covering charges of embezzlement and conversion of the company's funds to his own account, has been
lay,
a
Cities, Osaka
Tokyo
Nagoya
Kyoto
Kobe
644,211
Yokohama
405,888
Nagasaki
180.071
The German Artists' Union
the
proper
regular income from their works. Why has nobody thought of that before? asks the "Japan Chronicle.""
Mr. J. H. Reynolds, the Secretary of the Permanent Committee оп Geographical Names (a body consisting of fixed to take place next Wednes-of 2,000 painters proposes to representatives from Govern
ment Offices and the Royal institute a system of renting Geographical Society) definitely,
that pictures so The Danish Supreme Court people many enjoy the best insettles the question as to whether has reversed a lower court's de-art and provide the artists with the spelling of the place should be cision which had ruled that the
has decided that Tokyo is the Tokyo or Tokio. The Committee Russian Church in Copenhagen belonged to the Soviet State. The
correct spelling, on the ground Supreme Court disallowed the
that the Japanese spell the name claim of the Bolshevist envoy to
thus in their official maps, etc... possession of the church and its
published in Roman characters, adjoining private dwellings.
Rheims among the few The P.C.G.N. has published its The dispute has long been agitat-cities in France with empty First General List of Asiatic ing the distinguished colony of
Names, deciding points of the Tsarist refugees in Copenhagen.
kind, and the Committee hopes that the Press and the public will follow the lead of the Govern- ment Offices in adopting the standardised spellings.
war.
apartments and a slumping in- dustrial real estate market. The return of the population has not Messrs. Yermön & Suyth in restoration, as there
kept pace with rebuilding, and are only Their weekly shuure repeat, say (- 75,000 inhabitants as compared
business by die Lewat Share with 117,000 before the Mackob For: Blue werk ending BecomLand which at Armistice time ber 16 have been negligible there sold for 10 to 20 francs the being very little mmpairy "forsany The market rentins ver much as it was last week but chews a weaker tone with one exception, the buginess which has been negolitfed during the period i
with
square melle, when it WIS thought that the city would be itself again in a short time, is now offered at from 5 to 10 francs.
has been closed as redard notes, mandate commission, Mr. Suge Japan's representative on the
other quotations remain unaltered,'|
metra, following a session of that
........................ ̈*•---**---99900 | sellers "bolding of in an endeavour body showed a fim to the mem-exchange.
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King Hire|cham Rare. Shanghai, –
to secum batter prices moficially,bers. depicting Scenes in the The Shanghai Market again South Pacific islands over which Japan holds a mandate, so that and "Back" not receiving much the commission might see things enquiry, “Robbers are firm but as they exist and appreciate the tiff business passing work accomplished there. The film showed the native customs, being verbsiderably reduced.
dances. Japanese During the weak the Sing industries,
schools, hospitals, wireless instal Market has shown besivylation and road making Japan, particularly im tha **Rubber***
whose interest in the work of the Mention, prices of blui more spala League of Nations, continues to tva omputers are considerably tower, grow, has organised an exchange There has been a certain amount of of letters between children all pavait taking and buyers are holding over the world in order to deve it for lower prices. The Raw op the spirit of brotherhood and Material has remained steady an exhibition of these letters was Hiroughout,
hed in Tokyo in October.
SOCIAL
Mr. D. C. Miller of the Canadian.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 21,
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Single packages and small consignments received and delivered by Motor Lighter. Lighterage of any description undertaken. Tugs and Lighters may be obtained at all hours.
Good progress has been made, with the work of convert-DOGO ing the present telephone system to the automatic, and the new Holborn exchange is expected to come into use. next year, to be followed in: due course by Bishops-gate, Sloane, and West-
published giving some idea of en. Stupendous figures are
the work involved in the new These show that there are 5,500 miles of wire in- side the building.. 10,000,000 soldered connections, and 140,000 relays and 8,500 switches, while the post has reached about $250,000. Attached to this main "Director" exchange is a mel chanical tandem automatio change, that will be a sort of clearing house for the smaller exchanges which have not yet become automatic. It has been XXX found necessary in the city to house, the cables in miniature six-foot tube tunnels which will carry 300 cables and leave room for any mechanic's work to be done on them.
ex-
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Departures by the President Taft
W. Parker.
Mr. H. J. O. 1icks of Tientsin
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G. FALCONER&CO. (HONGKONG) LTD. Tarific Steamship Co. and Mrs. on Suttley included Mr. and Mrs. has retired from the Custom
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Xmas, Wedding and Christening cakes to order.
A large consignment of Cailler's Chocolates and California Fruits just received for the Festive Season,
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Miller, arrived in the Colony by the "Empress, of" Canada."
Emile Daeschner. French Am- bassader to the United States, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Goldsmith presented Bishop William T. of the P.W.D., left by the "Em-Manning a large Sèvres vase as Press of Canada" for Marila to the gift of France to the cathe dral of St. John the Divine. spend a short holiday at Baguio. The vase was made in the Gov-
ernment factory at Sèvres. st
Mr. and Mrs. J. Nicholas and daughter arrived by the "Empress of Canada" Mr. Nicholas has een transferred to the Hongkong office of Mesrs. Trollope and Colla
Mr. Arthur E. Kerridge, of the Eastern Engineering Works, Tientsin, and Miss Elizabeth Amy Cox, just arrived from England, were married in All Saints' Church. Tientsin, on November 28, the Rev. S. G. Teakle perform- It is announced in a London in the ceremony. The bride was riven away by Mr. James Turner paper that the marriage arranged and Mr. Bronk was best man. The between Mr. V. G. Smyth and bridesmaids were the Misses Elsie Miss Joyce Creagh-Osborne will and Dorothy Polkinghorn and take place at Hongkong early in Miss Joyce Pennell, March, 1926.
Mra. G. E. Costello, and Mr. and Mrs. F. 8. Harrison left for Manila in the Empress of Canada."
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Dr. and Mrs. J. Fenton and their son, Mr. Y. Fenton, expecting to leave for South Africa on January 20, 1926.
God's in His heaven All's right with the world.
-Browning
Mrs. Stariley Baldwin, quoted this couplet from Browning's "Pippa Passes at a Salvation Array gathering, and added that she ventured to critivise it very humbly "To my mind' said, "that explains what IR wrong to-day. If you keep God away from you, in heaven, and not here on earth, that is what causes wrong i- the world." /
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Among the passengers who left Sir George Gibb, Chairman of Shanghai by the P. & Q, S., the Chine and Japan Telephone Morea" were Mr. Eric Ross, who "Co. Ltd., died in Londen is taking a trip home for the sake the 17th instant. The spirit of of his health, and Mr. H. Wallace, The obituary notices of the courtesy and goodwill exhibited by of the Chartered Bank. The late Henry Lee Warnór gave Sir George Gibb in the negotiations latter, who has been connected some interesting glimpses into with Mr. J.-H. Taggart" enabled with the Shanghai Scottish, the method of educating kings. many difficulties in connection with S.V.C., since his arrival in Shang-Lee Warner was one of the the transfer of the old to a new hai and has been for the past three carefully-chosen undergraduates: company to be surmounted, and years one of the unit's officers, associated with King Edward in before Sir George loft the Colmyway the guest of honour at a din- his Cambridge days. It is told in January lust on his return to her when a presentation was made how the Prince rode over thrice Enghind a provisional agreement had been reached which the Lon de hareholders later confirmed
to him.
week to the house of Charles Kingsley in Cambridge, where an Dr. William Montgomery two days of the week the eleven McGovern is reported in a dis- chosen undergraduates joined him patoh received in Japan to be in listening to the professor'a lec Those who contributed to the missing. Dr. McGovern, who is tures, while each Saturday was programme of an excellent con- well known in Japan, where he devoted by Kingsley to a cert at the Stephen's Girls' College resided for some years in his capitulation of the week's
Saturday were K.G. Phyllia early youth, Atarted in May last, for the Prince alone Gillingham; Mr Lee Helen with ne companion, to explore did not hesitate to speak Chang; Elsie Ma Caroline the upper reaches of the Amazon, of former roy Brag the Senior School in convirtually uncharted country certed songs; the Junior School which has never been crossed by ndid in. & cradle song: the Faiflex an explorer. He hoped to get other students in a Chinese play, and right across the continent and the following rsery-reach Bes
Engures, a play in two-parla
Caroline Braga
Olga Lohr
Lo
Thomas Janie Welle
Phi Chi Procendusver for St. position was ispla
Cathedral organ fund and ago when he pe
Issions to
in disguise.
lecture
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