TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 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
& COMBINATIONS 50 cents
LADIES' WHITE, SHOES $1.00 per pair. LADIES' SUMMER HATS $4.00 ALSO
Remarkable Reductions in all Departments.
YEE SANG FAT CO.
| SAND-LIME BRICKS.
Best machine made bricks Highest tests and uniform qualities..
For Economy, Quality, Beauty, Durability and
Satisfaction unsurpased.
YEE YICK SAND-LIME BRICK CO.,
CHING IU NAM
Manager.
Factory:-Canton. Hong Kong Office, 148, Queen's Road, Weat, 1st Floor. Telephone No. C.3882.
CHY LOONG.
New Season. Preserved Ginger.
Best quality-Prompt attention to Exporters.
Office:~231, Queen's Road Central, 2nd floor. Tel.. Central 2530. Factory:---500-504, Canton Road, Yaumati, Tel. K. 869.
NEW AT
PIONEER
UNDERWEAR
BORDER STRIPED AND PRINTED
CREEPS
· FOR
SUMMER FROCKS.
Mr.
THE CHINA MAIL
THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.
Lewis Spokes Richards, Jesus College regained the head- Edgbaston, Birmingham, who left abip of the river in the Cambridge estate of the gross value of Mays. $260,370," "made large bequests to hospitals.
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The tenth Baron and first Vis count Ellbank left, in addition to real estate, unsettled personal state In Great Britain valued for probate at £37,871.
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The new school chapel, erected at Charterhouse School at a cost of 258,000 a memorial to the 700 Old Carthusinns who fell in the warf is the most conspicuous of all the achuol buildings.
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Richmond Horse Show opened Ruccessfully, the exhibits proving that the quality and merit of the nation's equine stocka continue to
improve.. The King's stud of Cleveland bay horses at Bucking ham Palace provided two prize winners among the many classes of horses and ponies judged.
Delegates to the, conference of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows devoted considerable time to the discussion of a scheme to raise a central fund by which to enable deficiency lodges to provide benefits under National Health Insurance. The scheme, which was put for ward as necessary, since the Unity is not valued as a whole, adopted.
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Mrs. Woodhull Martin, well known for many years as 0 humanitarian writer, has died in her 80th year.
At the inquest on Lord Abinger, who died suddenly while walking in the grounds of his Surrey natural causes was returned.. estate, a verdict of death from
The treasurer of Guy's Hospital states that that institution is deeply in debt,
The Archdeacon of Surrey con- aiders that the time is coming to an end when bishops must be ap- pointed by the Prime Minister.
Challapin travelled from Vienna to sing in connection with the Convention of the Federation of British Music Industries Folkestone.
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At a special general meeting Conscription of men and property in time of war and German coloni- of the Royal Yacht Squadron Sir sation in Tanganyika were among Richard Williams-Bulkeley was the matters discussed at the re-elected Commodore, in succession aumed sitting of the Elennial Con- to the late Duke of Leeds, ference of the British Service.
Great concern is expressed by colitery owners and miners' officials regarding the situation created by the decree for the licensing of coal imports into France, which now comes into operation, though to some extent coal will be exported from Britain by permission.
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The Queen recently laid the foundation stone of the new chapel at Stowe school. Before going to the school her Majesty visited Buckingham, where she was received by the Mayor and Corporation, from whom she accepted an address of welcome.
Brigadier-General
Ninety-six South African far- Groves has accepted the appoint-mers who are making a tour ment of Secretary-Genera! to the of Britain and the Continent to Air League of the British Empire, study markets and agricultural will enter upon his
duties. methods have arrived in London. British aeronautical cir-The visitors, accompanied by cles the appointment is confidently their wives, were received by the expected to inaugurate increased Prince of Wales at St. James's activity and greater usefulness of
Palace, the League, which has been ham- pered by small membership.
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Viscount Lee of Fareham, at the annual meeting of the National Art Collections Fund, said he saw no reason why the subsidy to the National Gallery should not be raised from the present pitiable
figure to at least £25,000 a year. The only way to grapple with the jever-growing American competition was for the great galleries and museums to furnish funds such as theirs with lists of the treasures they wished to secure.
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Imported goods will no longer be able to be sold in the United Kingdom under a British name or trade mark. This is the effect of the putting into operation of the first part of the Merchandise Marks Act, 1926,
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The Bishop of London, wel comed home by the Mothers' Union, said he had never realised how absolutely appalling was the loneliness and isolation of num- bera of British women in differ- ent parts of the Empire until he saw it for himself.
The school-leaving age, and the value of music in education were the principal subjects discussed at the annual meeting of the Associa- tion of Educational Committees. A resolution was carried in favour of raising the age of obligation to attend school to afteen years.
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At the convention of Rotary In- ternational the spreading
of
The Association of Education | Rotarian ideas through work among Committees decided to invite or the boys of two score nations was xanisationa representing educa-considered. Melbourne (Australia) tional authorities and teachers to Club won the trophy for attendance appoint representatives to confer, at the Convention; ten of the 145 with a view to inculcating the members of the club had travelled principles of the League of Nations 12,527 miles to Ostend. into the minds of scholars and of students in training colleges.
Mrs. Ellen Ferguson Pullar, London and the Home Counties Dunbarney, Bridge of Earn, were represented at a conference Perthshire, left unsettled per of the Association of Conservative sonal estate in Great Britain Clubs, at which Sir Herbert Nield, valued at £143,466. Her husband K.C., M.P., who presided, expressed pre-deceased her by a few weeks, the hope that before long their and left personal estate valued at privilegea as clubmen would be re- | £520,609. stored to them.
A resolution was
Delegates to the third biennial conference of the British Empire Service League were, at Bucking-carried urging upon the Prime ham Palace, presented to the King Minister the necessity of the recon-Brabazon, M.P., formerly Parlia Lieut. Colonel J. T. C. Moore- by Field-Marshal Earl Haig, On Mr. T. F: Lister, who has retire sideration of the Defence of the mentary Secretary to the Minis
from the chairmanship of the League and has become vice-prosi- dent, the King conferred the C.B.E., and Captain Dyett, of the Return- ed Soldiers' and Sailors Associa- tion of Australia, received the C.M.G. When the conference of the League was resumed it was an- nounced that, in addition to Sir Abe Bailey's gift of land in Rhodesia, an offer of more than 1,000 acres of land in Alberta, Canada, had been made to the League.
Realm Act and the restoration of| the clubs' privileges.
POLAR CAKE
ITS QUALITY THAT COUNTS
try of Transport, was fined 60s. at Bromley for exceeding the twenty miles speed limit on Sidney by-pass road. In a letter to the Bench he said he was stopped for doing thirty-four miles an hour-the speed alleged against him-along one of the newest and broadest roads in the 'country, and he contended that such
almost charges were frivolous.
THE
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AND
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7.30 to 9.
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Newly opened on 12th April.
We are famous for our CHINESE DELICACIES and our liquors.
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IS NOW OPEN,
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Facing the harbour. 37-39 Connaught Road West.
EMPRESS LODGE.
Tel. C.5505.
Tel Kowloon 294.
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MBA. E' OWEN MURPHY,
Proprietress.
ST. GEORGE & CLERMONT HOTELS
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HONG KONG & KOWLOON
ST. GEORGE HOTEL
24, 244, Kennedy Road, Uong Kong.
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Telegrams-Nudean,
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Phone 4797
CLERMONT HOTEL
9, 20, 11, 12, Chatham Road, Kowloon.
Splendid location in best part of Kowloon. Full view at Hong Kong and Harborg. Large newly furnished well ventilated rooms and verandahe. All modern Convenience. Catering of the bait ander Kurupsen unpervision,
Telegram-Nuscan
Phone K. 819,
For term and information at above Hotels apply:
Mrs. F. E. CAMERON
Proprieto
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Tel Kowloon No. 9,
Estimates Furalcked on application.
Hongkong. April 1, 1924.
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printing or enlarging-
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHENS should go to
LEE FONG.
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