SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1927.
GRAND CLEARANCE
SALE
Must be cleared to make room for NEW STOCK.
LADIES' DEPT.
RAIN COATS & CAPES $5.00 to $12.00 LADIES' PYJAMAS $1.50 to $2.00 NIGHT GOWNS
$1.50
ENVELOPE CHEMISE
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LADIES' WHITE SHOES. $1.00 per pair. LADIES SUMMER HATS
$4.00
ALSO
Remarkable Reductions in all
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A WEEK'S PAPERS IN ONE.
At last affairs seem to be moving quickly in China, and each day brings some fresh development the import of which can best be brought home to the folks in Great Britain through the "Overland China Mail."
Borodin, the main stalwart of Communism in China, has endeavoured in vain to win over General Chiang Kai-shek, and is now trying to woo the "Christian General.”
Meanwhile, Hankow's main prop-Kiukiang-has fallen from its grasp by the local General and Chiang Kai-shek becom- ing reconciled. The nature of this menace is tersely told in the "Overland China Mail."
All the local happenings of the week, including the typhoon last week-end, will be found in the current issue. Why spend time writing a long letter when you can send all the news in a copy of the "Overland China Mail"?
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Home Mail via Suez closes at 9.30 am. on Saturday.
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THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.
Captain C. S. Howe, master of A seamen's institute costing the Aberdeen Steam Navigation £16,000, built as a memorial to Company's vessel, Aberdonian, sallors who gave their lives in has just completed 50 years' ser- the war, has been opened at vice afloat..
Sunderland,
By 190 votes to 22 the Primi- tive Methodist Conference at Leicester adopted a report in favour of union with Wesleyan Church.
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The State workshops at Walsh Island have secured a contract for the construction of a dredge which will cost approximately £21,000.
Mr. Robert Samuel Thomas, Shelley, Wylde Green, Warwick-binin," the first vessel to be driven The after part of the "Tur- shire, and Southampton, manu by the steam turbine, has been the facturer, left estate of the gross presented to the South Kensing-
value of $226,647.
ton Museum.
The traffic receipts of the Suez At the inquest at Lowestoft on Canal from June 4 to 10 amount-Lieut.-Colonel Edward Holt ed to 3,450,000f, as compared Kendrick, D.S.O., who was found with 9,550,000f. for the corres-shot in his locked room in an ponding period last year.
hotel in that town, a verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind was returned.
One of the largest plants in Britain for the cleaning of blast- furnace gas has just been in-
stalled at the works of the Staveley Coal and Iron Company, Chesterfield,
Showing an increase of £1,043,- 986 over a corresponding period in 1926, the first five months of the current year, from January to May inclusive, registered for the The question arises whether foreign trade of Charleston the the League Council should not greatest increase for a like period reconsider, in the light of yet recorded in the growth of the Moscow's latest deeds, the atti- port. tude of Geneva towards the Government responsible for those deeds.
The premiums collected on industrial policies during 1925 by 18 industrial assurance companies It is anticipated that work will and 181 collecting societies soon be found for about 4,000 amounted to £45,200,000, and miners by the New Upton £9,100,000 accrued as interest on Colliery Company, Yorkshire. investments, states the report of Nearly 500 new houses have al- the Industrial Assurance Com- ready been erected, and it is ex-missioner for 1926. The income pected that the new colliery will from various sources was £700- yield eventually 36,000 tons of 000, making a total of £55,000- coal per week.
000.
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Mr. Justice Eve has made an
order for the compulsory winding up of the Lancashire and Gen- eral Assurance Company on the petition of the Great West En- gineering Company.
The German Government has
sent a nete to the Governments of Great Britain, France and Bel- gium concerning. the completion of the destruction of the East Prussian fortifications, along with the photographs demonstrat- ing the demolition.
The Rector of the University of Paris, M., Charléty, who was the guest of honour of the Anglo- French Luncheon Club, referred to the traditional bond of sym- pathy between the representa- tives of British and French universities. The operations of the British Institute in. Paris would, he said, mark a further important stage in the centuries'-| old educational ties between the two countries.
This third blast widenot
The explosion caused by the setting off of a 240 pound charge of dynamite. the crevasse at Poydras, releasing the flood waters and thus saving the city of New Orleans, Workmen may be seen in the road setting off the charge.
Messrs. Liversidge, Ltd., have
In a luncheon address to Bri- just secured an order from thetish motion picture advertisers, tramways department of the Sir Landon Ronald said he had London County Council for a fur-seen beautiful films ruined by the ther twelve A.-L. "Pontelec" elec-musical accompaniment. He be tric rail grinders. This order lieved that if there were great was placed by the L.C.C. authori- music for a great story, the "run" ties following two years' experi- of that film would be trebled ence with this type of rail and quadrupled: grinder,
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Belief in the work being done by the English-Speaking Union was expressed by the Bishop of London at a luncheon which that organisation gave in his honour. Throughout his 500,000 miles' tour, he said, he endeavoured to enforce the ties of blood, a common flag, a common litera ture, a common religion, and a common interest.
The Lord Chancellor has ap. According to a Geneva report
pointed the Honourable Mr. 1 the International Labour Confer- Justice Hill (chairman), Mr.
When completed the new coke ence discussed the draft conven- Johni Gordon Archibald, Mr. and gas plant in Montreal will tion for health insurance, and Thomas James Barnes, CB.E. have an annual capacity of ap- adopted by 73 votes to 15 the Solicitor to the Board of Trade, proximately 350,000 tons of coke, Mr. Hugh Pattison Macmillan, 6,500,000,000 cubic feet of gas, principle making it obligatory for States that are members of K., and Sir Jame Martin, 3,500,000 gallons of tar, and the International Labour Organ- .B.E., to be a committee to con 10,000,000 lbs. of atrimonium
sider the question whether it is sulphate. isation to introduce compulsory expedient to adopt in England & erected on a 70-acre site, and will The plant will be industrial and
system similar to that of arrest include a by-product plant for the ment upon the dependence in recovery of tar and ammonium Scottish law, and, if so, by what sulphate. method and subject to what safeguards arrestment should be effected.
insurance for commercial workers.
Following on the ratification by the president of the. Argentine Republic of the concession ac- cording the Latecoere Co. the con- cession for the transport of mail by air between Europe and South America the Latecoere Co. is now making arrangements for in- augurating a commercial service between Europe, Dakar and- South America in the early autumn. The Latecoere Line, which hag Toulouse as its Euro- pean terminus, at present run as far as Dakar.
POLAR CAKE
ITS QUALITY
THAT COUNTS
£147,500 is mentioned as the price in connection with arrange- ments which are in progress for the purchase of freehold proper- ty, formerly part of the grounds of the British Empire Exhibition, for the establishment of a great British film studio. It is claimed that it will be the largest film studio in the world, and three big feature films a week is the estimate of the possibla produc- tion.
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