SPECIFY
S. K. F. BALL BEARINGS
ON ALL MACHINES YOU ORDER.
We cath supply Bearings for all kinds of Machines.
POWER SAVING. NO HOT BEARINGS.
SELF ALIGNING. REQUIRE LESS ATTENTION.
ik
THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.
15
Tel. Central 236.
Sole Agents for Hong Kong.
Address: 2; Queen's Buildings.
G FALCONER & CO., (HONG KONG) LTD
WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS DIAMOND MERCHANTS." Union Building (Opposite G.P.0.)
Apesits for ADMIRALTY CHARTS," ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery.
Unless
you have visited our Dennison Department you cannot realise the wonderful variety of beautiful and useful articles: that you can quickly learn to make of paper rope, crepe paper and sealing wax, ab an almost unbelieveably low, cost for materials..
You are invited-
to attend the classes in Dennison arts given every day in our store.
Free instructions are given in—
Rope Weaving
Costume Making
Sealing Wax Art
Children too-
||
Flower Making
Noveltics.
Decorations
and Favours.
1
are invited to attend the classes. It is great training for the youngsters. They are given an opportunity for the expression of their creative and constructive instincts while making many pretty and interesting things of Dennison's inexpensive materials.
DER A. WING & CO. (1923)," LTD.
60, Des Voeux Road, Central
Keep BLOOD POISON Out!
THEN skin is broken, as in cuts, braises,
When kid seade, millions of dangerous microbes are waiting to invade the tissues.
Don't lose a moment in smearing that injury with Zam-Buk. This grand antiseptic balm kills all dangerous germs and brings quick clean healing. Where festering or blood-poisoning is suspected, Zam-Buk is equally valuable. It soon rids the wound or sore of poison and corruption and covers the place with new healthy skin.
A box of this precious herbal Zam-Buk should be always at hand. It takes the pain and the peril out of daily mishaps and provides you with a reliable healer for a hundred and one skin troubles,
All dispensarios coll Zam-Buk in Hong Kong and shroughout China, Always ure Lam-Buk for the speedy soothing rure of Kosama, Itah, Prickly Koas, ADECRES, Log Floors, Piles, Ringworm. to. And fer quion clean bessing bi Chiya, Braisse, deravenos, Burns, Boride, eta, Bab 12in somnuque chas and paina
£2, 170·
7am-Buk
fustantly Soothing & Highly Antiseptic
リ
Moura, A. B. Moulder & Co., Ltd., Queen's Rd, Central, Hong Kong
THE CHINA MAIL.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS,
A London message of Dec. į The Italian, Opera Company. 29 states that Indarin, the big-which is doing good business in gest and best-loved elephant in Manila, 18 coming to Hong Kong the London Zoo, has died of shortly. blood-polsoning.
Excellent calendars advertising Allsopp's British Pilsoner Book; Simonds Pale Ale and Simonds' Mk Stout have, baun received by Incal the "China Mall" from the agents for these famous products, Messrs. Caldbeck Macgregor and Co., Ltd.
The Hong Kong Philharmonie- Society will begin rehearsals or HMS. Pinafore" on Monday next. In the chores are a few vacancies tor all voices. Those wishing to take part should attend St. John's Cathedral Hall at 5:30 p.m. on Mehdays and 8.45 p.m. on Thurs- days.
rl
Out of hearly 5,000 employers b Shanghai general goods shops, fodly 600 are still out, the rest having accepted the stale of in ferenses offered by their employers. About two hundred of the strikers have been paid off by the stop- keepers who found they could manage without them.
The superintendent of the lunt- tic asylum at Clermont-sur-Clse has been informed officially that one of his patients, a widow named Dedier, aged 49, is the winner of the prize of 1,000,000 fra les as the result of the last Credit National bond-drawing. He communcinted the news to her, but it had no effect, As she belteves herself to be im mensely rich and engaged to marry a prince of the Bourbon family.
1
נן
A Musicale will be held at the Helena May Instituto on Thursday, 20th January, at 5.80 p.m. Tickets including ten 30 cents each, must be booked at the Secretary's office. Tuipo Bridge in the Newbefore noon on the 19th inst.- Territories, will be open to trafic. Advt. each day from night,c'cfock in the morning to one o'clock at night.
Chief Ye. Kidney, of the Glacier National Park, with his magic weasel tail wand is a pro- minent participant in all the Blackfoot tribal gatherings.
CONTROL OF THE WEATHER.
controlling
I
During a fog in Paris which is described as being equal to Lon- don'a yorst fogs, the bidetric light falled, and people stood grouped in the utter darkness. The Bourse was disorganised, and closed in chaos. Banka iceked up the cash in drawers. A number of robberies were reported.
"
Y
بعد
A poignant tragedy occurred at Chelmsford, Basex. Mrs. Chapman und her son cycled into the town to buy a wreath for, the grave of her daughter, who was to be buried the same day. When, the mother was returning home a motor aar knocked her down and killed her before the eyes of her son, who was behind.] carrying the wreath.
Lucknow's new railway station, which is said to be the best in India, was opened by His Excellency Sir William Marris on December 13. The scheme cost Rs, 73 lakhs. A feature of the new station is the comfort- uble accommodation for third- class passengers, who have been provided with a large waiting. hall for use in the monsoon, During the ceremony it was stated similar stations would be erected at Alahabad and Cawn- pore.
'Chanauterizing the statements made in a letter as an extremely wicked libel in every way, and de- Shroffs had called repeatedly,
ylaring that from the bvidence 'be- land to po avail. The youthful
fore him the plaintiff was a per- Shanghailander was an adept at
fectly honest man and Mrs. Spencer the gentle art of postponement and
The possibility of
a perfectly moral woman, Judge the creditor Arm were beginning to get "fed up." Consequently they weather conditions, at least partly. Peter Grain rendered judgment in! A lung was announced as a future possi-favour of the plaintiff, L.M.J. sent round a foreigner. discussion ensued, at the conclubility by Prof. Ellsworth Hunting Cohse, against the defendant W. H. alon of which the would-be coffee-on of Yale University, Hartford. Spencer in H.M. Supreme Court. article.Shanghai and awarded the plaintiff tor said, wearily: "Very Well then, Comm. U.S.A., in a recent
100:000 the full amount of the damages am to tell the firm you will pro-to pointed out that over
The de- in the claimed, namely. 31,000.. bably pay up at the end of the people perish each year month. The delinquent puckered United States alone because of fluc-fendant was also ordered not to This brow thoughtfully. Then: "Oh tuating weather conditions. There repeat the libet and an injunction say, I should hardly go as far as a doubt, he says, that eventual-was made restraining him from that if I were you. Not probably, ly the secret that will give mastery taking the allegations made in the
bel to any other Court. of the weather will be learned. say possibly.
London,
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, the play- Dec. 31-Miss Betty Balfour, the English Alm star, is re-wright, who underwent a serious ported to be virtually out of danger, operation, a steadily improving in after a serious illness of pneumonia health. in Paris.
Mr. G. U. Farrant, who was for many years head of Fraser and Co.. the Singapore, and who married eldest daughter of Sir John Ander son the former Governor, has taken up farming in Somerset, having bought Millgan Hall, Bishop'e Hull, near Taunton.
7
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Dennys, and Master Dennys returned to the Colony yesterday by the N.Y.K. "Hakusan Maru" from London. Mr. Dennys is a sohcitor, partner in the firm of Messrs. Hastings, Dennys & Bowley.
24
Mr. H.. P. Wilkinson, son of the late Sir Hiram Wilkinson, and until recently a Judge of H. M. High Court at Weihaiwai, was called to the Bar in the Belfast Appeal Court on November 25.
Sir Francis Lucey, formerly secretary of the M.C.C., was mar ried quietly in London on December
11
to Mrs. Marshal Campbell Walker, an enthusiastic follower of cricket and daughter of an, Austra- The King is considering the pro-lian Mr. W. Findlay, Sir Francis motion of the Prince of Wales to the Lacey's successor at the M.C.C For about six years tutor to the ranks of Rear-Adafirul in the Navy was best, man, ex-Emperor of China. Mr. R. Fund Major-General in the Army. Johnston, C.B.E., arrived in the and there is a possibility that this will be done shortly. His Royal Colony during the week-end on board the N.Y.K. H.A. "Makosan Maru" He has been in London in connection with the Boxer Indem- inity question and is bound for
Tientsin.
Queen Mary had a stand-up snack" lunch the other day, for the first time. when visiting one of the many philanthropic Institu- tions in which she takes such I keen interest (gaya the "Sunday Chronicle." Her Majesty very much; enjoyed the meal, which con- sisted of brend and cheese and tea.
There is no more fascinating study than the study of coincidence. Why, for example, should Mr. Harold Spender have chosen as the' title of his reminiscences "The Fire of Life" (just published by Hodder and Stoughton at 158), using as superscription these words from Walter Savage Landor:-
"I warmed both hands before the
Are of Life,
it sinks and I am ready to de-
part."
Within a short time after finishing his book he was dead. The "Me- thodist Times" asks: Could he have
had an inkling of departure time?
LORD READING
London, Dec. 30.-In conse quence of the resignation of Vis- count Allenby, the Marquess of Reading has been appointed to the captaincy of Deal Castle.
Highness has long passed the age when these ranka wore conferred that upon the Heir-Aparent to the A Singapore paper saya
Throne in the past, but it is under- among those who expect to go on holiday early this year are the fol-stood that this delay has been at lowing The Hion, the Chief Secre. the desire of the Prince himself. tary and Mrs. Peel, the Hon. Mr. Ritchie, the Hon. Mr. J., H. Rich,
Mr. Grant, Mackle, the Hon. Mr.
茴
", GOING EAST.
The French pianist. Mme. Ger- maine Schnitzer, who has left Lon- den for New York, following a tour of the provinces, told me (says a "Daily Newa" writer) that the finest thing, she, saw in underrated Great Britain was Edinburgh. " was en- thralled" she said, "by its beauty! and majesty, by its unspoilt, up- touched history. Edinburgh is the loveliest city I have visited."
an-
The following deaths were nounced in mull week: Dr. Samuel Noble, who covered an extensive Lakeland district on horseback, and athough nearly 80 volunteered for" service in the Great War and work- ed 16 hours a day examining mili-| tary recruits) at Kendal, in his 90th your. The Rov, Albert E. Raw, who entered the Wesleyan Methodist Ministry. in 1886, and for 22 years Mr. Army Chaplain. T: W. B. Faulkner, who for many years held various foreign Vice- Consularships, at Cowes, Isle of Wight, aged 66.
an
Mr. Walter Runcimun has left) London for a few days' stay in Elgg, the picturesque and historic island in the Hebrides, which he owns. I was looking at a series. of handsome photographs of his island home which Mr. Runciman has taken (says a "Dally Newa" writer.). There is romance in the notion of owning an laland and th Elgg there is apparently nothing to destroy the glamour "of noble scenery, the everchanging seascape, Gaelic names, old superstitions-- and such enchanting visions In the dim distance as the Coolfn Hills of
Chon Kia-peng and Mra; Choo Kin-.
The Ranes of Sarawak has left Skye or the rugged contours of peny, Mrs. R. W. Blair, .Mr. and Mrs.) Stamford Raffles, Mrs. J. A. Brown, Eagland with her eldest daughter Rum. One of the carious features Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Daly, Mrs. Keer, to join the Rajah in Borneo. Mr. and Mrs. Vivien Mackie, Mr. Ranee is the daughter of Lord and and Mrs. Hilton Ross, Mr. H. R. Lady Esher, and is a successful Joynt, Mr. and Mrs. Joachim, M. novelfat. Her eldest daughter was and Mrs. Warren Hastings, the known to the natives as Princess Rev. and Mrs. B. C, Roberta, Mr. Gold, but that was before the days and Mrs. CA Mathews, Birs. when she and her sisters were bob Sydney Morgan, and Mr. CB. bed. Her official title is the
Dayang Leonora of Sarawak. Alexander.
The of the isle is that strange formation cf basalt known as the Scuir öf Elgg. This towering height, which looks like a monolith erected by some forgotten race to an unknown; god, is believed to be the product of the the lava flow from the great volcanic upheavals which threw up neighbouring fula of Rum.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1927.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
M
BEST PORTLAND
CEMENT
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers
י
* HONGKONG,
KING EDWARD HOTEL
TEA DANCES
WILL BE
HELD EVERY
}
MONDAY
WEDNESDAY
FRIDAY
From 4.30-7 p.m.
Dance Music by
The Titania's Melodians.
SAND-LIME BRICKS.
Beat machine, made bricka Highest tests and uniform qualities. For Econonty, Quality, Beauty, Durability 'and.. Satisfaction unsurpased,
YEE YICK SAND-LIME BRICK CO.
CHING IU NAM
Manager.
Factory: Canton. Hong Kong Office, 148, Queen's Road, West, 1st Floor. Telophone No. C.2882.
WE ARE STILL GOING STRONG. LAST WEEK
OF
LAST WEEK
ISAKO'S CIRCUS
AT KOWLOON
TO-NIGHT
TO-NIGHT COME, SEE AND JUDGE
OUR THIRD CHANGE OF PROGRAMME Among others the following
New items will be presented: WILHELM TELL
MODERN DANCE
By Circus Baller
Great Comical Entertainment by well-known Clowns FRANZ FERRY And KOKO
WASKA (KOREAN PONY)
Circus Sherlock Holmes
i will be introduced in liberty by Mr. BLJAHER
M
"
Do not miss the opportunity to see
THE GREAT FLYING ACT
Of the
FOUR ARKOS
FAREWELL MATINEES
Saturday & Sunday, 15th & 18th Jan.
Children Hurry
CANDY
"at 3 p.m.
Children Hurry
SHOWERS
To Participate in
On both Farewell matines; every kiddie will receive some candy-
BOOKING AT ANDERSON'S
16"
"