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Who, with all ta heart-burning Hon. Blr Henry. E.. Pollock, K.C.
omissions. and heart-warming in- Mrs. J. H. HUNTclusions has just been issued from Hon. Secretary. the house of A. and C. Black; Ltd., and its safe to assume that many moistened mayoral, thumbs are at this very moment norvously flicking its pages in search for the fateful entry.
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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ANNUAL OR- DINARY GENERAL MEETING of APARTMENTS TO LET SHAREHOLDERS in this COM PANY will be held at the Hong FAMILY HOTEL-Victoria Gur-Kong Hotel Hong Kong, dens. Quiet APARTMENTS and SATURDAY, the 12th "February, SUITES of rooms. Full board from 1927, at 11 am, for the purpose of $96, 3110, $130 monthly, large com receiving the Report of the Direc- modious rooms, also, dally rates: ora together with a Statement of five minutes from ferry, next new Accounts for the year ended 91st Hotel Hankow Road. Kowloon. Tel.December, 1926, No. K.367.
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Yet, in spite of this, "Who's Who" for 1927. with ita 8870 pages, is an oven more ponderous and portly volume than any of its ancestora,
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A DRESS-DESIGNER'S BIG SALARY.
SEQUEL IN COURT.'
A salary of £1,500 a year, plus
ON THE "EMPRESS."
CHATTY NOTES ABOUT THE VISITORS.
TOURISTS. IN HONG KONG,
To pass the "Empress of Scot. commission; holidays four times land through the Suez Canal, year (including six weeks in the tolle aggregating $26.242.84 were summer): $15 158. expenses daily for fashionable race meetings; ax-disbursed, an average of $1.39 for penees for four visita to Paris year each of her 18,202 net tons.. y, each extending over a week; and net ton is a hundred cubic feet of six gowns a year at an average carrying space, cost of 225 each), were adong the terms on which Paquins, Ltd., the
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West End dress-makers, engaged, Of the 400 passengers, 61 per As dress designer Mre. Fox-Fitt in cent. belong to the fair
Thoir average age is 49.98 years, The engagement, however, was the youngest being 9 and the cancelled at a moment's notice in eldest 77. Though 68 per cent. 1925, the directors of Paquias al- od five apprentices a premium of and a bulk of the remainder Bri- leging that she had secretly charg.of the personnel are Americans £20, in addition to £30 each, which tish subjects, there are also citi the firm had charged.
zens of Mexico, Denmark, Swit-
Mra. Fox-Pitt asserts that the fzerland, Sweden, Holland and directors assented to her charging|Chile aboard. There are sixteen the extra £20 for distribution among less than 20 years of age and 82. supervisors in order to induce them in their twenties, while there are to teach apprentices thoroughly.
112 in their fifties and 104 in "To a woman a new hat is a their sixties.. renaure, a triumph, a tonic," said the bachelor judge, Mr. Justice Me- Cardie, during the hearing.
Allowing, at a very conserative estimate, 10 names to a page, there ure now some 43.000 distinguished persons in the British Empire, Aaopinion." the total population of the Em- pire has been estimated at 480 mil Bons, he is driven to the rather di tressing conclusion that only one
"distinguished" in the true sense of the word.
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Clarence J. Wetmore of Oak- Mr. Bevan, Paquin's counsel, land, California, bought 110 ivory who is married. alvly rotorted elephants when he was in Delhi, would rather have the husband's
one for each member of the June graduating class of Mills College, Mrs. Fox-Pitt denied accusing Paquin's French manager of sell which is situated in Oakland. He ing "rotten hats," but confessed is sponsor and the only honorary that she Was "a rotten business-and masculine member of the
class. It Several apprentices gave evidence i that they fully understood that £20 Mr. Albert M. Platt of Dencer, out of the 250 premium was shared, Hearing of the case Was દર્શન
84 Colorado, bought
ebony journed;
elephants of varying dimensione in Colombo, one for each member of the Denver Kiwanis Club, to which he belongs
LAMMERT BROS. THE HONG KONG & KOWLOON person in 13,800 can be classed as woman."
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THEANNUAL
THE FORTIETH ORDINARY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the 0thod of Mesars. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd...on THURS BAY, February 24th, 1027 AT NOON. For the purpose of receiv. ing the Report of the Directors und the Statement of Accounts for the rear ended December 31st, 1926..
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HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
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that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at City Hall, Hong Kong, on SATUR;} DAY, the 26th February, 1927, at Soon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with #1 Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December. 1926.
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By Order of the Court of Directors.
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Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 7th February, 1987.
LADIES
One of the record entries in point of length is that of Mr. Berriedale Keith, the great auther-,
Gertrudo Ederle, the. first woman to swim the English Channel, vien
has become an enthusiast of the thrilling sport of aquaplaning. Photo shows Miss Ederle an her sister, Helen, having their first- ride "Trudy" is on Ernia Judd's shoulders and her sister, Helan, is carried by Steven Patrick.
HONOLULU CATHEDRAL
Honolulu, Jan. 12. Plans for the construction of a
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The largest elephant is in the custody of Mrs. Marjorie Cooper, of Barnes, England. It is of ebony, 23 inches high and 28 inches long, and requires two men to lift it. It is sharing her state- room on shipboard. having "brought" its own trunk.
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In the Round-the-World Golf Club on board are 37 players who are playing on their various: golf golf courses in the sports of call To date they have played at Nice on the French Riviera, Naples, Cairo, Bombay, Colombo, Batavia, Java and Singapore.
WATER SUPPLY.
Lovel and Storage of water in Reservoirs on January 1, 1927: CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL,
1926 1027 Tytam
35 7 B. 18'18 B. Tytam Byewash.... 224 B. 26 473. Tytam Intermediata 0′ 4′′B. Level Tytam Tuk
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H. G. Wells and Annie Besant with purchase here of the old and E District in millions and de- You will be inter have 70 and 68 lines respectively. Hackfeld home at Lunalilo and December: cated in OWL BRI Morley Roberts, the author, has 68 Emerson Streets for $85,000. BAR Female Suplimes; into the first 20 of them are Other land in the vicinity is to Consumption
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dolars, tricts up to the 8th December and Metropolitan Are,
But by far and away the largest dral of nearly a million P. O. Maspeth, NY. Send far free booklet entry in the whole volume belongs The downtown property on Fort, Intermittent Supply in all Rider Main to Sir Wallis Budge, the keeper of Baretania, and Bishop Streets, now Districts from 9th to 31st December Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities used for the church plant, will be 1925. Full Supply in all Rider Main at the British Museum The list thrown open to business, although Districts during December, 1920 with 10. of his degrees and publications on the church will retain ownership of the exception of the districts West. of 11. Direction. Egyptology occupies 151 Ines, or the Tand. The present cathedral Eastern Street where an Intermitten very nearly two columns.
on Fort Strest will be retained as Supply was given from 4th to 31st 18. Thus.
December, 1928. The enormous number of his a parish church.
KOWLOON WATER WORKS. books defies imagination-and this The contemplated cathedral of
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29. Edition (abbrev.) of gallons.
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hempen cord. In all this enormous list it is thor, asserts that his recreations Morris Seventh Day Adventist
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Consumption of water in Kowloon 30. A genus of rodent quadruped,” in millions, and decimale of gallone dur. A lifting machine,... Claude Folkiner, from Yokohama. that Sir Wallis Budge must still be Another recreation-thle time ing the month of December 1998 48. A girl's name.
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1925. The recreations of the great are singer and composer le given as Consumption-
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entries. in "Who's Who.". Travel, grim as a pleasant" pastime.
per day (gallons) 14.4 15.8 47. Church of England (abbrev.) E. V. JESSEN, golf, and fishing seem to predomin Still another method of passing. Full Supply, in all districts during 48 6th, note in scale.
50. Like this, December 1925 and 1025. Superintendent. ate; and it is curious to note that the time is given as "arguing."
the bicycle, though we are accus-
The Government Annlyst's reports 51 Her (no.), Mr. Bruce and Mr. Coates tiss tomed to regard it these days as an with a modest entry of 18 lines show that the quality of the water is 53. Begin almost extinct species, is still ap each; but they may be comforted satisfactory.N parently the chosen vehicle or the by the reflection that Mr. Stanley 87.58 December 31, 1928, 100,78,
Total rainfall to December 31, 1925, great.
Baldwin himself has no more. Mr. Bernard Shaw, with a charac-Ganerai Hertzog can only mustar teristic grasp at even such publicity 12 lines of description; but Mr. as may be offered through, these Mackenzie King with the majes- iolemn columns defines his tic total of 71, puta all other creation ES"anything except Dominion members of the Imperial sport."
Conferença entirely in the shade. The Ayrshire parish of Ochilog Mr. Oliver Baldwin, son of the Hain fact, nearly six times as tree boasts of its inhabitants lon- 69 Hell; stop: (Inter).) List of Unclaimed Telegrama Prime Minister (whose education famous as Mr Baldwin-and-by revity
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