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THE HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.
AFTER DINNER DANCE
at'
LEE GARDENS (Coolest dancing hall in town)
June 28th, 8.30 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. Every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday,
By kind permission of Com F. Ratsey, RN, HMS. "Titania's" Melodians
will be in attendance.
Prof. C. THERESES
and
Miss MARGUERITE SENOUR
The world famous exhibition dancers will appear as usual By special request and convenience to the public the time for dancing has been changed to 8.30 p.m., commencing Tuesday, June 98th, ADMISSION:Gentleman #1 with one lady free; extra
» lady .50 cents, light refreshments included.
THE CHINA MAIL.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
A 15-year-old Chinese boy was yesterday taken to the Gov- ernment Civil Hospital suffering from injuries received when a gas stove burst at No 159 Queen's Road East.
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Found sleeping on the plot of grass near the Cenotaph on Saturday night, a ricsha coolie was this morning charged before Major C. Willson and fined $6.
Messra. Lammert Bros, an- The Chinese giri who was nounce an auction at their knocked down on Saturday Duddell Street sales room for by motor car No. 642 driven by June 29 at which cylinders anti- Dr. C. Y. Wang of the Hong fouling composition, printing Kong University, was not material and other sundries will seriously injured as was at first be offered. reported. She received only some slight bruises and was able! to go home after treatment.
Two cases of enteric fever, one Dutch and the other Chinese, were notified during the week- end, also one case of diphtheria, Indian, all three cases were re- ported from the Victoria district.
The first picnic of the, sen- son arranged by the Ex-Active Service Men's Association took place yesterday when over A hundred made the journey by launch to Shek O and the Island Bay beach. Notwithstanding The orchestra at Lane, the closing of Stonecutters to the Crawford's 'restaurant has been public this year, the E.A.S.M.A. revived for the purpose of even-officials have arranged a regular ing playing, and on Saturday programme of picnics to other night inaugurated the restricted beaches during the summer and summer service. The orchestra these will take place every sum- plays with distinction and its mer.. music will prove an added attrac- tion to this popular cafe,
Bouquets will return to favour again for this year's Courts. "Already we have receiv. ed 60 per cent. more orders than we had for the whole of last year's Courts," a leading Court
St. Peter's Church. Young florist told a reporter.. "The day
Men's Club will celebrate St. of the stunt bouquet-made to demand attention but not design-Captain Lindbergh if he care, to
A fortune of £200,000 awaits Wednesday, with a lunch picnic Peter's Day, which falls on ed to match the dress is over. take it. One cinema firm has to Repulse Bay (and not Island Almost without exception this offered him £100,000 for his ap-morrow, starting at 8 pm. from Bay as previously stated) to year's bouquet will be made to pearance on stage and film; an- match the dress of the débutante." other seeks to tempt him with there will be Holy Communion Queen's Pier, On Wednesday £20,000 for a week's appearance in the Church at 7.15 a.m. and on the Western circuit. have £5,000 for a week's perform at 6.30 p.m.
He can festal evensong and procession ance in a New York picture
The Rev. F. Free- man, M.A., of H.M.S. "Hermes" will preich.
An amah employed by Mrs, Ritchie at the Peak has reported to the police that while she was walking along Magazine Gap theatre. yesterday she was attacked by two men who sprang out from
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the bushes near a telephone cable. The London "Star" statea house. She was knocked down that the suite usually occupied by at Happy Valley yesterday a During the baseball game by one of the highwaymen who the Heir Apparent's consort was held her by the throat while the omitted during the preparation pickpocket climbed up from be other relieved her of gold of Marlborough-House for the hind the stand and attempted to mounted rattan bangles and Prince of Wales' occupation. It extract a Gold $10 note from the a pair of earrings. They also is expected to be ready by Christ pocket of an American Naval searched her and took a $1 note.
mas. It was originally interided Officer who was there watching
the game. 200 rooms. The King thought it officer looked round and caught to renovate the whole interior of
Feeling a tug the
too expensive and cut down half the thief red-handed. A hard The official celebrations of the ably habitable after the long pocket over the back of the stand enabling them to be made reason-, punch on the nose sent the pick- centenary of the Romantic move periods without a tenant, while where he lay with his ment in France are to be crowned
The robbers ran away in the
direction of Wanchai.
Last year's figures for the
noge
by the transfer of the body of Queen Alexandra was at Sand-bleeding. He was later taken to Victor Hugo from the crypt of the ringham.
the police station. Pantheon to a more worthy rest. ing-place under the great dome. For nearly twenty years there has population of France give the Thomas, M.P., speaking at Port The Right Hon. J. H. been an agitation among the grant total number of inhabitants as Talbot said, referring to the poet's admirera for the honour! which is now to be rendered to him. 40,745,000, which is an increase Leader of the Labour party: "In M. Gustave Simon, the executor of of 135,000 over the figures for speaking in the constituency of Hugo's will, who has led the 1925. Births to the number of our leader, I am glad to say that agitation, said in an interview 766,225, and deaths amounting all the alarming statements about that he and the members of the to 713,458, give a surplus of the Mr. MacDonald's health poet's family considered that it former over the latter of some- greatly exaggerated. was almost an insult to his memory thing under 53,000.
We are have allowed him to be buried in
In 1925 looking forward in the course of
to
are
the crypt, which is visited chiefly there were 3,000 more births and the next ten days to welcoming on account of its echo by foreign 4,000 fewer deaths. The num- him back and showing the affec- tourists, who used Hugo's tomb as ber of marriages which took tion in which we all hold him. a handy place on which to strike place last year-346,126 was Lot me say, too, that there are no their matches. The descendants 7,000 below-that-of-1925. Com-competitors for this job. All the
of the great romantic poet had, in pared with 1913, last year shows talk about this section and that fact, determined that unless his a considerable increase in respect section, and this leader and that remains were transferred to a more of marriages, while in the birth ftader competing for his position, distinguished tomb they would de
there is little arises from the imagination of mand their interment in the public and death rate cemetery of Pere Lachaise.
change.
our opponents."
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
According to a Reuter cable
Passengers aboard the P, and from Ragaz, Switzerland the O. s.s. "Mantau," from Shanghai, Prince Consort of the Nether- included Mr. N. S. Brown and lands has arrived there to take Mrs. B, D. F. Beith. the cure.
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Passengers arrived at Hong The office of the Chief Detec- Kong per 3.3. "Fulda" were Mr. tive Inspector Reynolds at Cen- J. Macdonald, Mr. A. Butt, and tral Police Station has been Mr. J. Moon, and Mr. and Mrs. removed to the ground floor of F. L. McPherson departed by the the Married Quarters, on the same vessel.
east side of the police compound.
The weekly open air whist drive of the Police Recreation Club will be held on the club lawn on Thursday night, com- mencing at 8.80 o'clock.
Inspector Donald MacDonald has taken over duties as Divi- sional Inspector in charge of the Eastern District vice Divisional Inspector W. F. Blackman who The Police Branch of the Min-
went. Home, on retirement by the istering Children's League is
The incursion of foreign royal-s.s. "Mantua" on Saturday. ties into Britain has already holding a whist drive in aid of the League Fund at the Helena begun. Prince. Paul of Serbia May Instituta
and his beautiful on Thursday daughter of Nicholas of Greece, afternoon next.
wife, the
MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1927.
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ISAKO'S CIRCUS
The death has occurred at the NEW RECLAMATION GROUND
have just taken over Lady age of 84, at Walmer Place, It is stated that
Ednam's house in Chelsea and Walmer, Kent, of Mrs. Marke in all probability at the close of her
were present at the Duchess of Wood, well known in Kent and studies at Leyden University Prince Paul was at Oxford before She gave £25,000 for the high. Marlborough's small dance. Liverpool for her benevolence.
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PRAYA EAST, WANCHAI
Princess Julians, the heiress to the war and returned just aftar altar in the Liverpool Cathedral COMMENCING TO-DAY
the throne, will pay a visit to the it. A graduate of Balliol College, in memory of her husband and Dutch East Indies, possibly
accompanied by Queen Wilhel-he is dark and quite the most mina herself. The latter possi. English looking of all the Balkan bility is provided for in a Temt-
princes., porary Regency Law passed as
recently as 1922.
425,000 for the choir. She also gave £5,000 to purchase the site on which the Deal and Walmer War Memorial Hospital stands, and recently gave £2,000 to pur- The following left for Home chase the public recreation by the . "Mantau" on Satur- ground for Walmer, and £5,000 to Prince Humbert. the Crown day: Mr. W. F. Blackman, St. Dunstans. Besides being a Prince of Italy, is about to be en- Miss M. Blackman, gaged, according to information Bromfield and Infant, Mrs. H. R. musician, and one of her composi
Mrs. gifted painter, Mrs. Wood was a from Court circles, His fiancée.
it is stated, will be Princess Marta Cleland, Paym. Comdr. W. H. tions was played at her funeral Adelaide of Savoy, his third cousin, Coomber, R.N., Mrs. E. R. at Liverpool Cathedral. who is the fifth child of the Duke Dovey, Miss M. Dovey, Lieut. of Genoa and Princess Isabel of Comdr. W. K. D. Dowding, R.N., Bavaria. Princesa Isabel died in Lieut, A. H. Drake, R.N., Mr. J. Rome three years ago. The Crown McKelvie, Pay Sub-Lieut. W. A. Prince and Princess Maria Rhind, RN, Mr. H. Le F. Adelaide were both born in 1904. Richards, Mr. A. E. Saunderson, She la five months his elder. The Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Warren, Mr. other children of the Duke of A, J. Wheeldon, Genos are all boys except Princess Bona, who in 1921 married Prince Conrad of Bavaria.
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It is understood (says the London "Evening News") that: Captain Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, V.C., R.N., who com- manded the "Vindictive" in the attack on Zeebrugge on April 28, 1918, is to be married soon in The Dowager Lady Airlie ia one London. He is engaged to Mrs. Few peers have written detec- of the very few surviving "great Hilda Margaret Allson Johnson, tive atories. Lord Gorell, how-figure, white hair piled up Into a
ladies." She has a magnificant of Draycott Place, Chelsea. ever, has created a 1927 Sherlock wonderful coiffure, a soft speaking Captain Carpenter accompanied Holmes in a novel entitled voice and a graciousness that no Mrs. Johnson to a West End "Venturers AH," to be published modern young woman seems likely register office when she next month. It has, it is true, to achieve. She wears the digni- applied for a licence, and it is only one murder and is not as fed fashions of a past era, and yet expected that the wedding will lurid as most thrillers. Neverthe-
can unbend and show' complete dis- take place at less, it is a distinct change from ago, at a dance given to
regard of ceremony. Three years
the register "Babes in the African Wood," a by Lord and Lady Strathmore so 36, has been married twice pre-
office. the tenants
Mrs. Johnson, who is book of poems which first that they might meet the Duke of viously. Captain Carpenter since brought him into the literary York, Lady Airlie's shoe slipped the war has had various Naval limelight. Lord Gorell, who is 48, off. I was not
time, says & London educational reforms. He was, "eightsome reel by stepping to Britain. He is 46. He was writer, that rather than apoll the lecturer both in America and In has made his mark as a popular oddly enough, educated both at replace the shoe, she continued rst married in 1908, but has Winchester and Harrow before until the end of the figure, hold been a widower for four years. going on to Ballioh
Ing it In one band;
has been associated with various heard at there myself, but positions sahore and afloat, and
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THE CIRCUS POST CARRIER PIGEONS
In commemoration of the visit of ISAKO'S CIRCUS to Hong Kong, free prizes will be given away. At every performance, our carrier pigeons will be let off in the centre of the ring and the persons on whom they alight will be the recipients of the following gifts :--|
GOLD WATCHES, RINGS, BRACELETS
AND MANY OTHER VALUABLE AND USEFUL ARTICLES.
Cut and bring this slip to the circus ticket office and you will obtain your ticket at a special rate from 30 cts.