.
TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1927.
KAIPING COAL
FOR HOME, FACTORY & POWER HOUSE
HOME,
FACTORY
AND
BUNKERS
For Price Apply to
POWER
HOUSE,
TUGS &
LOCOS.
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.
DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents, Hongkong.
SAND-LIME BRICKS.
Best machine made bricks Highest tests and uniform qualities.
For Economy, Quality, Beauty, Durability and
Satisfaction unяurposed.
YEE YICK SAND-LIME BRICK CO.,
CHING IU NAM
Manager.
Factory: Canton. Hong Kong Office, 148, Queen's Road, West, 1st Floor. Telephone No. C.3882.
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO, LTD.
ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRASS and IRON FOUNDERS. All work done in this establishment is guaranteed. We own two Slipways and can We have over thirty years' experience. accommodate any craft of 200 feet long.
Town Ollice: 61, Connaught Road Central, Hongkong, Tel. Central No. 459. Shipyard: Sham-Sul-Pu, Kowloon, Hongkung.
Tel. Kowloon No. 9.
Estimates furnished an application.
"
Hongkong, April 1, 1924.
FOR THE BEST SERVICE.
Whether it be developing your negatives,
printing or enlarging— AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS should go to
LEE FONG.
Tel. C. 4028. No. 7, Wyndham St.
WE HAVE THE BIGGEST AND MOST UNIQUE COLLECTION OF LOCAL AND CHINESE SCENES. Moderate rales, Punctuality and Excellent Quality.
ATTRACTIVE
ADVERTISING
LET US SHOW YOU OUR FREE
ILLUSTRATIONS.
UP-TO-DATE DESIGNS FOR EVERY
LINE OF BUSINESS.
"The China Mail"
HONGKONG'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER
No. 5, Wyndham Street.
CHI WAH. TAILORING,
Once known as Chison. Perfect fit guaranteed. 9, Wyndham Street.
Telephone C.22.
TANG YUK, DENTIST
Successor to
the late SIEN TING, 16, D'Agullar Street.
TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free,
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.
Germany has made a demand for a reduction in the number of Allied troops on the Rhine.
.
+
Admiral of the Fleet Lord Walter Kerr died at Melbourne Hall, Derby.
•
Mr. Gray, stationmaster, At Dundalk Harbour Board the Hawthornden, has been appoint-receipts on dues and shipping for ed to the post of stationmaster April were £759 and payments
£428. at Newburgh, L.N.E.R.
The total tonnage was 10,203 tons.
A boy farmer, Glen Campbell, who took his cow, Elapses Lid, to the Brandon (Manitoba) Fair, walked away with £196 in his pocket-a record price for an animal of its type.
+
Harry Green (55), a cóiner so expert that his counterfeit half- crowns had to be sent to the Mint to be proved false, was sentenced to three years' penal servitude at Manchester Assizes.
•
"Steel Helmet" Day in Berlin passed off without untoward in cident. Between 70,000 and 80,000 members of the Stahlhelm organisation took part in the parade and demonstration.
For the first time since his peace declaration during the gen. eral strike a year ago, the Prime Minister spoke from 2 LO on May 24, when he gave an Empire Day message to the nation.
•
·
A Cardiff meeting of Trade Unionists passed a resolution thanking the Government for the Trade Disputes Bill, which will protect them against the tremists and safeguard their benefit funds."
ex-
The Rev. Father Richard Wilson, of St. Augustine's Church, Stepney, died aged 70. He was known as "the hoppers' parson" on account of the great interest he showed in hop-pickers for more than forty years..
•
•
The three days' sale of the famous Whawell collection of arms and armour, conducted by Messrs. Sothebys, London, con- cluded on May 5, when a total of over £83,500 was recorded. The third day's sale produced £13,350.
A Grimsby telegram says the trawler "Moravia," belonging to the Grimsby and East Coast Steam Fishing Company, has been fined 12,500 kroner (appro |ximately £700) for alleged illegal fishing off Iceland. Her gear was confiscated.
Early and favourable action by the Shipping Board on the re- commendation of General Dalton that the five passenger-cargo vessels of the American Merchant Line be consolidated with the United States Line seems as- sured,
New states a message
*
I
York
•
Mr. James Wm. Worthing Huddleston, of Wallasey, marine insurance broker, left estate of the gross value of £36,415, with net personalty £35,617.
The death has occurred at New York of Mr. Duncan Ewen Cameron, only surviving son of the late Sir Roderick Cameron,
the Canadian shipowner.
I
Developments at St. John, N.B., are increasing its importance as
The Chancellor of Liverpool" a grain port, the total amount handled in the 1926-27 season University, Lord Derby, unveiled
bushels, being 21,000,000
the University war memorial, million bushels above the pre-which is placed in a very con- vious highest figure.
spicuous position, close to the main entrance.
L
Д
The Rev. L. H. Marner Smythe,
benefice of
the
The new battleship "Nelson" of Barrow-in-Furness, was in- left Plymouth for an extended stituted by the Bishop to series of trials, in the course of St. Augustine's, which she will call at Plymouth Shaw Street, Liverpool, which had been vacant since the death, and the Tyne. She is not expect- ed to be at Portsmouth again un- upwards of twelve months ago, oftil August. the Rev. W. J. Adams.
•
It was intimated at a meeting Major Bailey, Imperial Air- of the University Court of Glas- ways, Ltd., is now at Cherbourg, gow that Lord and Lady Maclay where he is discussing the estab-had presented an
organ and screen, costing over lishment of a seaplane station in carved the outer harbour near the Fore £5,000, for the new Memorial des Flamands for the use of com- Chapel of the University. mercial aircraft engaged in Southampton-Cherbourg service,
the
*
*
THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL;
PEAK HOTEL,
Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG,”
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL.
Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL”
HOTELS,
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking.
11
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms, newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.
All Trams pass in front of Hotel.
Most Moderate Rates in the Colony. Hotel Launch meets all steamers.
The Lounge and Dining Room is now open to the Public.
Tel. Add: "Victoria."
J, H. WITCHELL, Telephone No. C. 378. ·
Manager.
The "Board of Trade Journal" nual report that German ships EMPRESS HOTEL, LTD.
gives the coal output of Great Britain for the week ended April 30 as 5,500,100 tons and the of wage-earners as number 1,028,700. For the previous week the output was 3,640,600 tons and the number of wage- earners 1,025,200.
The National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers number of furnaces in blast at the end of April was 189, a net increase of eleven since the beginning of the month. At the end of April, 1926, 147 furnaces were in blast. The production of pig iron in April amounted to 680,000 tons, compared with 671,800 tons in March and 589,100 tons last April.
that the report
WHY TORTURE THE CHILD and yourself by forcing it to take The Northern Ireland Minis- castor oil or other ill-tasting laxative try of Commerce has given sanc- medicine? Baby's Own Tablets are the tion to the proposal of the L.M.S. modern substitute for ouch nauseous doses. They are the very medicine the Railway Co. running passenger child requires, and in such form that trains over the Belfast Harbour to administer it is as simple as giving tramways from Donegal Quay to a drink of water. They are specific for York Road Station, to facilitate those minor allments of infancy and tourist traffic arriving by cross- with drastic remedies.
childhood which were formerly treated channel steamers.
•
The engine works department
of Sir W. G. Armstrong Whit-
worth and Co., Ltd., have received
Baby's Own
Tablets.
The Medical Officer for the Port of Sunderland declares in his an- are the cleanest and most sanitary in the world, and that Spanish vessels are the most insanitary, while those of Italy and Greece are little better.
A
Large catches of tope (blue dogfish) have been made off the Kentish coast. They were so numerous in the vicinity of the Goodwin Sands that for a week. Deal fishermen have returned with their boats loaded almost to sinking point.
*
*
=
News has reached Jamaica to the effect that the Central Ameri- can banana area was devastated by a severe storm on April 29. Several million stems of bananas were blown down. Many planta- tions were destroyed, and the owners are faced with ruin.
•
Three Stockton children had a narrow escape from death. They were playing on an untenanted building formerly known 18 Bolton House Inn, which has been marked down for demoli- tion. It was unsafe, and the children were called away by a young woman passing.
Hardly had they left the spot when the walls fell in with a crash, and the whole building collapsed in ruins.
•
The steamer "Ballarat," which left Tilbury for Australia, had on board 931 emigrants who are pro- ceeding to the Commonwealth un- der the assisted passage schemes. This is the largest number to go to Australia by any one vessel since the inauguration of the assisted migration schemes under the Empire Settlement Act. The party includes 110 families, com- prising 462 persons; 171 women for domestic work, farm workers, and farm learners.
An artist who was a portrait painter for more than 30 years, but who had been latterly a house painter and decorator, was one of a contract from the London and accomplish all that castor oil can do the insolvent debtors appearing North-Eastern Railway to take where the digestive tract is deranged at Leeds Bankruptcy Court. The George Edward out and repair the three pairs of more in fact, since they do not leave debtor, Mr. 90ft. entrance lock gates at the child exhausted with the struggle Boyes, stated that one of his por- against taking medicine. Invaluable in Immingham Dock.
The gates relleving teething pains, though guar-traits, that of an eminent surgeon, will be floated out and towed up anteed to contain no narcotics. Of was now hanging in Leeds Art the Humber, about 9 miles, to enormous assistance in the treatment Gallery. Other portraits were the slipway at the Dockyard, of worms. Of chemists everywhere, or
those of previous Lord Mayors of post free, 60 cents the vial, from Dr. Hull, where the repairs will be williams Medicine Co., 60 Kiangse Bradford and many presentation carried out.
Road, Shanghai.
portraits.
AT THE STAR.
AT THE QUEEN'S.
"PONY EXPRESS" TO-DAY AND "THUNDERING HERD" TO-DAY
TO-MORROW.
K
AND TO-MORROW.
WORLD THEATRE.
"THIS WOMAN" TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW.
is the synopsis. Jack Wes- This is probably the best Zane The story deals with one of the ton, a debonair gambler and a dead Grey picture that Paramount has most unique situations ever con- shot, has been condemned to die be- yet put on the screen. It contain ceived. Carol Drayton, a student a real story, combined with romantic cause of his anti-slavery orations developments, splendid scenery and of music, alone, discouraged, poor, great is compelled to sing 'on the street by Senator, Glen, who leads the thrills galore. There is a
scene where scores of covered wag- to earn Bome Southern cause in California; but he gons dash across a frozen stream
money. Baptiste escapes and
goes to Julesburg, to the rescue of a little band sur- Stratini, the musical impressario rounded by Indians. There is a of the day, and the wealthy Stur- where he becomes a Pony. Express buffalo stampede and the Indians devant's in front of whose home figuring in the story are as real as
rider.
His rival for the hand of Molly the camera and nature can make she is singing, call her into
the
Stevens is Slade, superintendent them. There is a fight in a gam- house, and a strange business ar of the Overland' Stage Company, hling house. Noah Beery is the rangement comes into existence. a notorious "bad man" who tries bad man; Lois Wilson is the beau-
to discredit Weston in the eyes of tiful girl held captive by him; Jack Carol is incorporated. Molly and who later makes an un- Holt is the hard riding_cowboy, Having faith in her ability, the successful attempt on his life. while in support are Raymond group agree to finance her musical Slade has arranged with Glen to Hatton, Charles Ogle, Eulalie education. The dividends on the suppress the news of Lincoln's Jensen, Stephen Carr, Lillian Leigh-stock are to be paid out of her sub- election in order that California ton, and Colonel T. J. McCoy. It is sequent earnings. That is just may be awung over to the South- a great picture.
the beginning of the plot, ern side, this state being an Im-
Many more strange things hap portant factor in the fight against
pen, and the story winds up with slavery.
romance that distinguished the an unexpected romance. The story tells of the defeat of West of former daya.
The cast, headed by Irene Rich, Slade's plans by Weston's, wit and Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, includes Ricardo Cortez, Loulse daring. Weston assists in the de- Ernest Torrence "and Wallace Fazenda, Frank Elliott, Creighton fense of Julesburg against a band Beery are featured in the cast of Hale, Marc McDermott, Helen
of Indians led by a half-breed in the production. The story is by Dunbar, Clara Bow, and Otto Hoff league with Slade. Weston wins Henry James Formosa and Walter man. the girl and is later elected to poll-]·Woods.
Phil Rosen, director of The tical office.
The biggest thing Cruze has done Life of Abraham Lincoln," and This is a story combining his yet is what Paramount claims of "Being Respectable," has made an- torical fact with the eleme of "The Pony Express."
other success of "This Woman,"
Newly opened on 12th April.
We are famous for our CHINESE DELICACIES and our liquors.
Private telephones and hot and cold baths with every room. Luxuriously furnished with the best Chinese Furni- ture. Every modern convenience.
159-161, Connaught Road Central. Phones: C. 5384. C. 5385, C. 5386, C. 5387, C. 5388, Cable address: "Emphotel."
TUNG SHAN HOTEL.
IS NOW OPEN.
EVERY MODERN CONVENIENCE. Private telephone, hot and cold water basin and European baths. Lavishly furnished. Chinese and European dishes can he served.
:
Tel. C.5505.
Facing the harbour. 37-39 Connaught Road West.
EMPRESS LODGE.
Tel. C.5506.
Tel. Kowloon 290,
Tel. Add. "Empresloge.” 2-12, Mody Road, Kowloon. Private Hotel, best location In Kowloon, convenient to ferry, data of 2 or 3 rooms, also bed-sitting-rooms, daily or monthly rates. Excellent cuisine, special rates for families. For information apply to-
MRS. E. OWEN MURPHY,
Proprietress.
ST. GEORGE & CLERMONT HOTELS HONG KONJ E KOWLOON
ST. GEORGE HOTEL 24,2 & 4, Kennedy Hond, Elong Kong.
Kight kulantes walk from Blake Pier. Beautifully altuated overlooking Botanical Garden, Hong Kong & Harbour. Large, newly farmliked rooms spacious verandaho. Moderi conventences. First Class Oulufne and attendance.
Telegram-Nudcan,
Phone C. 4797
CLERMONT HOTEL
9, 10, 11, 12, Chatham Itoad, Kowloon, Splendid location in best part of Kowloon. Full view at Hong Kong and Barbour, Large newly furnished well ventilated rooms and verandaha, All modern Conveniences. Catering of the best under Kurupena supervision,
Talogins-Nodcan
Phone H, $10,
For terms and Information at abore Hotels apply:
Mrs. P.E, CAMERON
Proprietsead
A KWAI & CO
SUCCESSORS
WING YUEN HONG
15, Connaught Road Central,-HONG KONG.
"NAVAL CONTRACTORS"
Ship-Chandlers, Provision Merchants, Sail-Makers
AND
GENERAL STOREKEEPERS.
Cable Add: "Winner"
Telephone No. C. 5338.
# **
廠 I
玉 YU HSIN HOSIERY COMPANY.
Manufacturers, of
SHANTUNG SILK & LINEN HOSIERY.
Excellent Workmanship and Durability assured. Prompt attention given to both large and small Orders. Agent:-TAK YUEN CHEONG. LEE YUEN CHEONG & CO.,
No. 70, Ko Shing Street.
MASSAGE
Mr. SHIMIDZU Mrs. HONDA.
No. 24. Wyndham Street, Tel C. 4945,
MASSAGE NAKAMURA
No. 23, Stanley Street, 2nd floor.