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In three months, public recognition of the value of the better Buick 1923 has been so sweeping that to-day one in every four cars sold for $1000: or more is a better BUICK
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A CHINESE NEW YEAR'S EVE:
FANCY DRESS BALL
WILL BE HELD
IN TER
ROOF GARDEN
ON
FRIDAY, 12th FEBRUARY, 1926,
(CHINESE, FANCY OR EVENING DRESS OPTIONAL)
Dancing 8 p.m.12 Midnight.
Table Reservations Should Now Be Made..
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, Ltd.
THE CHINA MAIL.
LOCAL AND
Paken
The return of notifiable dis- for the 48 hours ended Sunday shows three cases of dogs with rubles,
According to the "Journée Industrielle," the French coat out $711 in October amounted toʻ 4.227,810 tons, as against 4,060,067 tons during September.
GENERAL.
A German Hefentist is said to have been successful in ling matal so thin that it is as parent as glasa.
Tho
Russian Cathedral' at Warsaw has been demolished by the Polus.
transt
o
There are now 1,400,000 horsou British farms, 10,000 being under one year old.
The foreign trade of the port of Kobe for the Past ten-day period of December amounted to
The Jupnese Imperial Family Y47,423,000, imports representing Y29,059,000 and exports Y17,784, has been pleased so grunt 10,000 the Imperial Academy for 1000+
txeess of imports of to
scientific research.. The Level Club of New York,
|Y 11,850,000. organisation composed of United Masons, chartered the American Hiner "Reliance" for a fourteen-day cruise to the West
Indies. The vessel was booked to capacity with 400 voyagers:
Christmas gifts were distri- buted among the 1,500 prisoners of Sing Sing Prison by the Mutual Welfare Bougue, composed of een- viets. The expense was met by proceeds of the music show, "Top Hole," presented by inmates.
In connection with the open- ling of the Kauk Lumpur branch of the Oversea Chinese Bank, Ltd. there was an at home from 4 to 5 pm, at 13, High Street. Among Those "present were the Hon'ble. Mr. S. Ga Wong and Dr. S. C. Yin, of Singapore, directors of the bank.
Work on the new. Yokohama Grand Hotel, which, is to replace the old hosteby destroyed in the ⚫earkkuuake, will be started some
time during March or Apill, ac- cording to Mr. H. Morita, secretary so Mr. C Ariyoshi, Mayor of Yokohama. At present the plene are being drawn by the Watanabe architect's affier of Tokyo.
Golf Hlustrated, of November 20, devoter ita centre double "page to eighteen photographs of a drive by Mr. V. S. Maxwel it is head ed "Instruction by Photographs,"" and is one of a series of cinemato-
Ten
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cents per tree is pre- scribed as the tax on each tappable rubber tree under the Rural Board of Singapore.
The following prices have lato- Sraphs of golfers. Mr. Maxwellly been paid in the auction rooms:
£300 An eiching by Whistler.. who is the elder son of Sir George for objects of interest. and Lady Maxwell, is at Magdalen
Painting by Fantin Latour £232 College, Oxford,
16th-century Spanish cab-
inet
£100 Queen Anne silver choco-
£180 late pob
£143
"
A 380-foot freighter was re- cently, built in England for service on the Canadian Great Lakes, but as the locks of the Welland Canal: could not accommodate a ship of] this size the builders, devised h original plan to get it to its destin- ation. The 100-foot centre section
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knocked down and, stowed away in the hulds of the other two sections, which were then joined, The
Vessel thus crossed the Atlantic carrying nearly half of Iidsert in its holds, and, once west or the Welland Canal, It WIB lengthened out to its proper size.
A black lacquer Aereen A William and Mary ward-
roke
TUESDAY, JANUARY
1926.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
BEST PORTLAND CEMENT
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HONGKONG.
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Advances made on Landed Property,
Trustees
£120
183 238.
A Cromwellian table' An Old English clock ....
A rough draft of a proclamation by Napoleon, written during his banishment at St. Helena, so for
£40
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Fizz the
Dr. Alan Richardson, who has been paying.one of his periodical visits to Kobe, has just received the following information from: and: Mu T. H Hayward It has been definitely decided Mr. that the American sailing ship formerly of Kobe, who are operat
Benjamin F. Packard is to be wing the Aloniale Poultry Farm at magitime museum in New York Langford, Victoria, B.C. Harbour, having been purchased recent Government contests the For the purpose by Mr Pa R. Tell, Alandale Poultry Farm broke al wina is very well known in the previous records for Canada and "American physicians who States for his keen interest for the U.S.A. in egg-laying contests with came to Berlin to view clinics have old cHpper ships. Arrangements a total score of 2,640 eggs for for moorings tun birth. A further record"" been regretfully informed by the are being made Mestion Baculty of the University alongside an unused jetty, and was secured by them as they own of Berlin, in which all politicut the long-discussed American Na- two hens that laid 300 eggs during beliefs excepting that of the Com-tonal Nautical Museum is to be ten months-303 and 327 respec- munists are represented, that until installed in her until it grows out tively, an accomplishment which Cuman representatives are again of her accommodation. She is not so far as is known has never been admitte
Internationa particularly historical ship, recorded in any country. Poultry!
lovers may be interested in the scientific, associations the Ameri-having been built in 1883. and
score for ten months, which was cans cannot be admitted to the although she has made some smart elinies. This method of using re- voyages she is known principally as follows:-Pen 1, 264; (2) 288; prisals to raise the boycott is not for her service as a prison snip for expreted in non-German sekakifie
refractory packers on the Alaskun circles to encourage good relations. service.
دانه
7 289; (4) 808; (5) 216; (5) 266; ( 206; (8) 239; (9) 227) (10), 258.- Each pen contained ten, birda..
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
The marriage of Mr. Bruce de Burgh-Thomas and Miss Angel Ellen Walker will take place at the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, on Saturday, January 30.
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Linut-Colonel Robert J. Morris, Recent statements of Mussolini D.8.0., who took part in the Somme attribute much praise to Willian
Sorel and x Georges offensive and other battles of the James, war, has been appointed curata of Nietzsche as the master minds. Fenny Stratford, Bucka. He was Sorel, the master of Syndicalism, trained under the Service Can-has been the greatest contributing gave force in the conception of dis- Mr. V. E. Hendershot the head-didates' Movement, which
power und: energy. master of the Malaysian Union 1,600 ex-officers and men an oppor-cipline, Seminary, of 359, Upper Serangoon tunity to enter the ministry of the Nietzsche, Mussolini declared, was Road Singapore, in leaving early Church of England, Under this the most potent influence of his But from William James in February on furlough in the scheme, a dozen ex-colonels and youth.
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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.
Only the best Food and Wines served. Alexandra Building Telephone C 2336
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M. N. Frith Prew left the Colony on Sunday for Amerien by the "Keren Maru." Mr. Prew having obained his B.A. degree at the University, rejoins his parents and will engage in accountancy.
at least two Gerferala took holy the convictions of maturity were orders.
formed. For a long time Musso-
lin political mentor Was Machiavelli, the notorious: Floren-- tine statesman.
The first foreign media woman to qualify at Leads University Medical School Miss Soo, Burmese student, who has not The former Kaiser in his "exile found the work too easy, and is,
at Doorn still makes a monarchi therefore, very delighted with hereal mesture play St. Nicholas at There is to be a Masonic Service [succeYN. Instead of returning Christmas for all Doorn wùlows. in St. John's Cathedral on Sunday immediately to Burma, Mi Soo On Christmas eve personal gifts next at 6 pm. Masonic clergy intends to study for a while and a load of firewood from the will conduct the service, and the London and then to seek experi, former Kaiser were left at every Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Victoria-ence in big cities in the provinces, widow's door steps. He himself himself a Mason-will preach so that she will be fully equipped worked at chopping and lead- when she returns to work amonging the wood. The Dutch in-
Leede Medical
former At the Presbyterian Church, her own people.
gratefully compare the Singapore, the Rev. G. H. Douglas School has always been very gen Kainer's Santa Claus gesture with, officiating. Mias Stella Leicester,erous to its women students, whom repeated attempts to avert paying
exactly the same
at the last tax eldest daughter of. Mr. and Mrs.it necepts on
taxes, which, R. E. Leicester, of Rangoon Road,terms as men.
collection led to his house being Wax married to Mr. Gordon
posted. Kriekenbeck, of the Burneo Co. Dr. Frederick Axham, who was After the marriage, the newly removed from the medical register married couple boarded the nearly 15 years ago for haying "Dutch" mail ateamer 20 proceed, acted лё anesthetist to. Sir to Samarang.
Herbert Barker, still declined to admit that he did any wrong. In statement regarding the report that the decision not to restore his qualification was due to his application not having contained such an idmissión, Dr. Axham said: "I took my stand on the grounds of conscience and convic- tion, and from that position, I could not move." "
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Sir Herbert Barker lenited carnest appeal "at this season of peace and good will" for Dr. "Axham's retustatement.
All those who know him look up to him and love him for his aplendid character, his loyalty. and devotion, and bis kindly dis- position," said Sir Herbert "and the record of his life, now rapidly drawing to a close, should be an example and inspiration to all.",
FIFTY YEARS OF SERVICE.
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ante, snap- ned the walked along Fifth avenas, New York, was on a tour of the shops wedding? buying, tw--and, trousing for hat ported engagɑ- ment to Albert H. Br. J. O
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