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WARDROBE TRUNKS
Full size. American "BAL" brand. Strong & servicenilo.
$75 Usually
$95
BATHING SUITS
"OCEAN" brand. For women. Various colours and sizes.
$5.50 Reduced
from $11,50
TOILET SOAPS
Colgate's Natural Violet and
Lilac Soaps.
3's in a box
50 cts. Box
Usually 75 cts.
NEW STOCK
Ladies' " Alpine'
11
11.
TRAVELLING RUGS
Pare wool. British make. Size 60 by 80
Regularly
$25
$17
HANDKERCHIEFS
Fine white cotton, coloured border.
Were Doz. $2.20
"LOMOND " brand.
$1.40
COLLARS
Soft or stiff. 4 to 6 in a bundle. Sizes 15% to 17%
40 cts. bundle
SHOES
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NEW
STYLES
White Canvas Stran
$5.00
Patent Pumps
$ 9.50
Champagne Pumps
$10 50
$15.00
17
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Champagne Leather
$15.00
Black Kid
++
$ 8,50
White Canvas
11
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$12.50
"Florsheim
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Brown Boots
$22.50
Gent's "Brownbilt" it. Brown Leather
Subject to 30% Discount
EXTRAORDINARY VALUE.
COLOURED SILK LACE WHITE ORGANDY
$1.75 Yd. Usually
$4
THERMOS BOTTLES
"ICY-HOT" Pint size, Efficiency guaranteed, N. P. Corrugated Body
Regularly
$2.40 $4.25
Green Enamelled Body
Regularly
$1.40 $2.60
WHITE HELMETS
British "COMFORT" Brand.
Originally
$4
$2.80
WATERMAN'S PENS
EVERSHARP PENCILS
15% Disct.
50 cts. Yd.
Usually
$1 to $1.95
TYPEWRITERS
"RELIANCE PREMIER"
Size 10 inches
Specially built for economy. Embodies all the features a higher priced machine has. For Sale 5 machines only.
$135 Regularly
$180
STRAW HATS
British Make.
Worth $2.50
$1.25
PORTABLE PHONOGRAPHS
30% Disct.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
The troopship "Karmain" ar- rived in Hong Kong last night bill from Shanghai en route to India; with the two Regiments of the Indian Brigade the Durham Light Infantry and the Gloucestershire Regiment. The "Karmala" leaves Hong Kong to-day at 4 pm.
was
Considerable damage to the North Point Bathing Beach done during the typhoon blow. The enclosure boom was broken' in pieces and thrown ashore, by the force of the gale and the matshed pavilions erected for the con- ventence of spectators were badly damaged.
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On the application of Mr. Leo d'Almada, the sentence of two montis hard labour imposed Ghulam Ali, an Indian warder of the Laichikok Prison, for assault- ing two Chinese women on Wed- nesday last, was commuted by Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday morning to a line of $50, with the alternative of que month's imprisonment in default.
Sentence of two months' hard Inbour was passed yesterday moraing on a shoplifter who was arrusted at the Wing On Campmax ott Monday It was stated that defendant asked to be shown several pairs of expensive silk socks, and when he had look- ed around and thought that he was not being observed, he pushed the goods under his jacket under cover of an umbrella,
The Wembley Stadium is about to change hands, the buyers, it is understood, being a London syndi eate. Mr. James White, chairman and managing director of the Beecham Trust, Ltd., who nequired the Wembley Exhibition grounds, authorised the following statement hefore he died. "There is an agreo-i ment ready for the sale of the Stadium. The price will be between £100,000 and £150,000."
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Yosterday there was a clean of health in the Colony,
The annual prize distribution of the Garrison Children's Schools will take place to-morrow at 3 pm. in the H.K.D. Corps Drill Hall, Garden Rond.
James D. Dole, of Honolulu, and a member of the National Acronautical Association, who announced
offers Lotulling $35,000 to aviators making non- stop flights from the Pacific Coast to Hawai during the twelve months, starting August 16. The first aviator will re ceive $25,000 and the second $10,009.
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An anonymous Dutch Zionist has given to the Jewish National Fund at Amsterdam n sum money with the request that the name of Levine should be incribed in the Golden Book of the Jewish National Fund as the first few to cross the Atlantic by neropiene.
A Chinese employee of the Yuet Tung Boarding House at 151 Conmught Road, Central. was kill- ed as a result of a fisticuff en- counter with another foki yester. day evening. His alleged assail- ant escaped before the arrival of the Police who found the injured man in a dying condition.
Mrs. Stanley. Baldwin, pre- siding at a lecture, on "Keeping Children Well," at Cnxton Hill in connection with Westminster Hos- pital Week, said that when she was a young mother she relled on common sense. "My rule," she said. "was bed for the naughty and nervy child, and as spon na they were old enough I taught all my children to gurgle. "I Am A great, bellever hr gargling."
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Acting on a wireless message from Nagasaki, the police, arrest- ed N. Jimeji (believed to be a member of a well-known gang of smugglers) whilst trying to run morphia ashore from the 2.8. "Kagaanki Maru," the drug being hidden
in two barrela bean-paste. Later, M. tida, many times previously convicted 35 a contraband-trafficker, and his wife were arrested in a house in Hain- ing Road. lida subsequently was sentenced. to 20 days' imprison-| ment, his wife being released. Jimeji has been sent to Nagasaki.
Commenting that no steps had been taken to guard the tools and materials lying in the vicinity, Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Magistracy yesterday discharged with cau liona twd Chinese who were churged with stealing a number of spanners and a quantity of coal from an isolated matshed on clamation ground near the Elec- tric Company's workshop at North Complainants were the Point. Netherlands Harbour Works. third Chinese who
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A successful claim for a total of $400 in wagen was contested at A verdict of death through the Kowloon Magistracy yester riadventure was returned at an day by twenty-one employees of inquest yesterday on a coolie a laundry recently started by a employed on Morrison Hill removal young Portuguese named Noronha,
De and reclamation. It was stated of No. 17 Granville Road. that the coolic was filling trucks fendant stated his financial dim- with earth and sending them down. culties were due to the with- with stealing sixteen pounds the hillside. He working holding of money due for washing cement from the same Company to three months about half way up at the base of dune for the soldiers at Shamshuipo was sentenced
Defendant hard labour. The theft in this a boulder and his operations ap-military encampment. parently dislodged the rock which admitted that the money was with-instance took place from a godown crashed on top of him. The jury held owing to the military having where there were two watchinen
Defendant had
pre- employed. added a rider that there should be accused the laundry of losing
Ivious convictions against him. hetter supervision by the foreman. number of garments.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Dr. John A. Snell has just re- Mr. T. R. Scanlon turned to Shanghai after six weeks Shanghai on the str. in Hankow, where he was engaged
in Red Cress work for the wound- Madison." ed soldiers.
returned to "President
Colonel Carpenter has been pro-
The Right Hon. Stanley Baldwin, moted in command of the Royal M.P., was elected a trustee of thei
British Museum at a meeting of Marine Battalion in China, the Electing Trustees. The Prime Minister fills the vacancy caused by the resignation of the Duke of Bedford.
Mr. D. W. Crawford has left hosptal in Shanghai after a week's stay due to a riding accident. Is pony had just finished exercise when it fell with its rider on the race track. Mr. Crawford suffered a broken rib and a collar-hone fractured in three places.
At the last meeting of the Coun- j cil of the Rayal Colonial Institute, the following were among the Fellows elected:-Messra. John H. Bottomley and Alan Reid, of Hong Kong, and Messra, Wm. C. Foster, S. Cameron Potter and Albert C. Townsend, all of Shanghai.
M. R. d'Auxion de Ruffe has returned to Shanghai after a short holiday in France, where he has been lecturing on Chinese matters
before many important French bodies. During his stay at home he was elected a member of the Société -d'Etudes Economiques, of which the president ia famous economist, M. Yves Guyout, former premier of France.
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A remarkable and romantic per sonality has passed away in the person of Mrs. Kate Josephine le Mesurier. widow of Colonel Andrew
Mesurlar of Jersey, who has died at Weymouth, at the age of 80. She was taken to Australia as a child, her parents being among an carly batch of colonists. She was married to an officer in the Indian army at the age of 17, was widowed six months hter. and adopted baby boy. Afterwards she married Colonel ie Mesurier and had nine children. She was the grand-daughter of Devonshire admiral.
Captain Charles Lindbergh,
the moat feted man in the world.
Mr. J. K. Wzientak arrived yesterday by the "Kame Maru" from Singapore. Mr. Waientak is the personal representative of the famous violinist Josef Borlasoff.
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Mr. John F. Malley, of Spring- field, Mass., was elected Grand Ex- alted Ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, by a vote of 1,290, Mr. Lee Meriwether, of St. Louis, Mo., had 229 votes.
Major-General Sadno Araki, head of the first section of the Japanese General Staff, Colonel Katsura Hayashi, aseistart chief of the the Military Affairs Bureau of War Department, and Mr. Musa- yuki Tani, section head of the Asiatic Affairs Bureau of the For- eign Office, have left Tokyo on an Inspection tour in Shantung and North China.
The Right Honourable the "Ear!
of Gosford has resigned his con-
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1927.
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LAST FEW DAYS HERE.
ISAKO'S CIRCUS
nection with the British-American NEW RECLAMATION GROUND
Tobacco Co. (China), Ltd, having completed nearly seven years with that company, of which he was appointed a director in March, 1920. Lord Gosford joined the British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd., London, on July 14, 1919, and soon afterwards left for China,
Mrs. Winston Churchill, wife of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was injured as a result of a motor accident in Brompton Road, S.W. She received a number of bruises and suffered from shock, but inquiry at her home in London was learned later in the day it
that she was progressing satisfac- torily.
Information was received
PRAYA EAST, WANCHAI
We will be leaving on the 29th instant, so come and see our show now, before we go. 9.15 p.m.-TO-NIGHT-9.15 p.m.
GRAND GALA
PERFORMANCE COME AND SEE
by telephone at a bazaar at Ching- THE CIRCUS POST CARRIER PIGEONS
ford that Mrs. Churchill was un- able to full her engagement to be that she was more present, and concerned at not being able to open the bazaar than about her, injuries.
News has been received that Mr. Louis Drakeford, son of Mr. L
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News has been received from
Drakeford, foreign district the Belgian Congo of the death at H. the age of about 80, of Captain inspector of the Southern Szechuan of Inspectorate of the Salt Revenue, Joubert, one of the pioneers civilisation and lay missionary has passed the final examination work in mary parts of the African of the University of London for interior, and one of the most the degree of B. Sc. (Engineering). Mr. G. A. V. Hall, a brother of strenuous campaigners against Mr. Drakeford, Jr., was born in Mr. William Hall (architect) and slave-raiding. Of Breton origin, | Shanghal, and was a student of Messrs. Alfred and James Hall he began his career as a Pontifical Wel-hai-wet School, which he left (solicitors), has qualified as an Zouave, but was one of the first in 1920 to enter Felsted School. architect. He was born in Ilong volunteers to respond to the ap- Essex. Working in the Army and Kong and was prominent in local sport. A few years ago he went to peal of the late Cardinal Lavigerle Engineering Department, he passed England to study architecture at for assistance in the rescue of the the Matriculation Examination at continued at African tribes from the depreda-the age of 15, but Liverpool University, whence good tions of the slave-hunters, He Felated until the summer of 1924, afterwards served the Couro State incidentally obtaining the Oxford terday his brother was advised cable that George has passed for in the days of independence, with and Cambridge Higher School Cer- his bachelorship of architecture headquarters at Beaudoinville; but tificate. In 1924, he entered King's aad has been admitted as an helped to bring it into line with the College, London, as an engineering Associate of the Royal Institute of rest of the European Colonial pro-student, sud is now a student Messri. C. A. British Architects, He will join vinees. Some years ago he married apprentice with his brother, of Messrs. Abdoolrahim a native convert, by whom he had Parson & Co, of Newcastle-on-
several sona.
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In commemoration of the visit of ISAKO'S CIRCUS to Hong Kong, free prizes will be given way. 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 80 cts. up.
MATINEE
Wednesday,
EVERY Saturday
at 4 p.m.
& Sunday
Children Half Price.
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