WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1927.
GOING HOME?
If you are returning to Europe or America, 'WHY NOT GET THE BEST ACCOMMODATIONS While travelling, by ALLOWING US to protect, your reservations?
THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC., are official agents for steamship and railroad Hines throughout the world and issue all tickets at, tariff rates.
AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELLERS' CHEQUES 'In GOLD DOLLARS, STERLING OR FRANCS provide security against loss - theft and are the most convenient method of carrying money. THESE CHEQUES HAVE STOOD THE TEST OF TRAVEL and all banks cash them readily. After banking hours, as at other times, hotels, shops and restaurants accept them in' payment.
For large sums of money, it is convenient to carry
arry AMERICAN EXPRESS LETTERS OF CREDIT. Their use among travellers the world over has been established by their unquestioned reliability and ready recognition. An added feature is that drafts under our Letters are exchangeable for AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELLERS CHE- QUES at our branches at a charge 4 of 1 per cent.
Complete Information can be. obtained on application to THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC., 4-A, Des Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong.
Phone C, 4625.
PHONE C. 416.
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Chair of Music..
Dr. P. C. Buck, King Edward VII. Professor of Music at Lon- don University, has been appont ed to the new Chair of Music at Sheffield University.
Three men were injured at a paint and varnish works in Dalling Road, London W., when spirits they were mixing with paint caught fire and a small explosion occurred.
Mr. Charles Rhys has been appointed Parliamentary private secretary to the Prime Minister during the absenca through India- position of Captain Sidney Herbert,
M.P.
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Bus in a Gorge:
A motor omnibus between Bel grade and Valjevo fell 300 feet into a gorge, and the driver and seven passengers were killed and three people injured.
Mr. Henry T. Wright, aged about 60, manager and' secretary of the Nineteenth Century Building So- ciety, Cannon-street, EC.. was found dead with his throat, cut at
his office.
At the funeral of the 'Earl of Erroll, who was buried at South Ascot Parish Church after crema- tion at Woking, the cortege was led by a piper in full dress who played. "The Flowers of the Forest."
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Tramway's Loss.
A loss of £18,000 on the last Anancial year's working reported by the Portsmouth Tramways Committee is attributed chiefly to the competition of privately owned omnibuses.
The party of South African farmers now in Britain, visit- ed Cambridge University School of Agriculture on July 12.
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The Grimsby trawler "Robina"] has reported picking up two mines in her trawl 60 miles off Spurn Head.
William Carroll, 42, a bricklayer, who in 1906 was sentenced to° 14} years' penal servitude, received sen- tence of 12 years' penal servitude at Birmingham Assizes Zor, wounding James Connell with intent to mur
To promote the cause of Liberal- lam Is the object of a new company, The Duke of Connaught, patron "The Garmoyle Institute Limited, of the Surrey County area of the with offices at 6, Fenwick Street, British Legion, attended a county Liverpool, and a nominal capital of 1 rally of ex-Service men and women $2,000.
at Ranmore Commen, Dorking, on|der. July 16.
Viscount Burnham presented Dame Henrietta Barnett with a por- trait of herself at the Institute, Hampstead Garden Suburb, N.W., in recognition of the services she has rendered to the garden suburb.
At Windsor Town Hall, on July 13, the Mayor' (Sir William Carter) unveiled a memorial tablet to the late Mr. Frederic. Rainer, the ori-! ginator of the Police Court Mission] and a native of Windsor.
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Canadian Flowers.
Albert Killicost, a motor en- A fire which broke out on Julygineer, was killed instantly near 18 in Brown's Buildings, Chal- Adelaide through the car he was mers Street, Sydney, near the driving being struck by a rail car Central Railway Station, com- at a level crossing. "pletely destroyed the block, doing. damage to the extent of $100,000.
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New London University.
A grant of £212,500 to the new, London University in Bloomsbury, W.C. (of which £126,000 is in respect of the site), is the main item in a supple-
mentary Civil Estimate of £249,-
Nearly 25,000 peonies in 230 cases, sent by the Canadian | 080. Government as gifts to people in Britain to demonstrate the flower-growing capacity of the Dominion were unloaded at Liver- pool from the liner "Albertic.”
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Rallway statistics for April, published by the Ministry of Trans- port, show that the total tonnage of freight conveyed (excluding free-hauled traffic) was 27,018,276, a decrease of 1,049,043, or 3.7 per
The Dean of Grahamstown, South Africa, the very Rev. Bernard Williams, has been ap- pointed vicar of Fortamouth, in succession to the Neville Lovett, Bishop-Designate Venerable of Portsmouth.
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Mr. Bingley, the West London magistrate, in advising a man to consult an oculist, said: "I lost thei sight of one eye through a blow and the injury to the sight did not appear until some months after- wards."
Sophia Hannah Jenny Florence Abrahams, of Alvington Crescent, Dalston, E., was granted a decree nisi against her husband, Mr. Godfrey Moss Abrahams.
In the Divorce Division Mrs.
At the Birmingham Assizes was glad to be able to congratu Mr. Justice McCardie said that he
late one of the great cities of the world on its almost complete im- After pleading guilty, at Fly-munity from the graver forms of mouth quarter sessions, to two crime. charges of housebreaking, John Hawkey, aged 29, a labourer, ap- Accidental Death was recorded at plied for a dock brief and as the an Inquest at Chichester on James only barrister present was pro Arthur Pink, aged 15, son of Chichester councillor, who was kill-secuting the recorder allowed a ed when he fell on to the railway solicitor (the Plymouth borough line after opening the carriage coroner) to act for Hawkey.
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Greek vases, part" of the col- lections at Dorchester House, Park, Lane, London, W., which belonged to the late Sir George Holford, were offered at Messrs. Sotheby's, £500 being paid for a black-figured hydria of the late 6th century BC.
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Arsenal "Beanfeast."
on July 9 when the workers held Woolwich Arsenal was deserted
their annual "beanfeast," which, according to tradition, owes its
origin to an incognito visit to the Arsenal by George III, when the King dined with labourers on beans and bacon.
French, Belgian, Italian, Portu- guese, and Roumanian delegates to the International Press Con- ference were present on July 9 when a wreath was laid at the base of the Cenotaph by the secretary of the International Association of Journalists.
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Mr. Arthur Quick, a Lambeth borough councillor, has been adopted prospective Conservative candidate for North Southwark -the seat recently won for the Liberal Party by Mr. E. A. Strauss,
In a case at Glamorgan Assizes at Swansea, where David Joseph,; a steel worker, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for the manslaughter under great pro- vocation of William Williams, 28, labourer, at Trebanos, the jury visited the scene of the tragedy..
New passenger stations were opened on July 10 on the South- ern Railway, "West Weybridge," between Weybridge and Byfleet on the West Main Line and "Sunnymeads," between Wrays- bury and Datchet on the Staines to Windsor branch.
Army Officer's Suicide.
Suicide while of Urisound Mind was recorded at an inquest on July 9 on Lt. Col. Thomas Samuel Beauchamp Williams, aged 50, formerly Labour M.P. for the Kennington Division of Lambeth, who was found gassed at his home in Cursitor Street, London, W.C.
At York Assizes George Wilcox, 42, an ex-police officer, was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude for shooting, with intent to do grievous bodily harm, at Police-Superintendent W. E. Flynn, at Richmond, York- shire..
While re-roofing a foundry at Braintree, Essex, two brothers, George and Clifford Stimson, of Bedford, fell 60 feet. George was instantly killed, and Clifford, who fell on his father working below, was seriously injured.
The Chancellor of the Diocese of London (Mr. F. H. L. Erring- ton) on July 9 refused a faculty for the transfer of part of St. Andrew's Gardens, Gray's Inn. Road; W.Cha dinised burial ground, to the Royal Free Hos- pital for extension of the Istitu tion.
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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 pasa 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. THE KING EDWARD HOTEL BAND will play as under:
TIFFIN HOURS
1 to 2
Tel. Add: "Victoria." Telephone No. C. 373.
DINNER HOURS
7.30 to 9.
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EMPRESS HOTEL, LTD.
Roof Garden Now Open.
We are famous for our CHINESE DELICACIES and our Liquors. Private telephones, European Baths in every coom.. Special display of a grotesque dwarf in the Roof'
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Modern convenience.
· 159–161, Connaught Road Central. Phones: C. 6384, C. 5385, C. 5386, C. 5387, C. 5888. 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,
Tal Kowloon 290.
Tel. C.5506.
-Tal. Add. "Empresloga." 2-12, Mody Eoad, Kowloon. Privata Hotel, best location in Kowloon, convenient to fans, fam of 2 or à rooms, also bed-sitting-rooms, daily or monthly rates. Expellunch. cuisine, special rates for families. For information apply to
MES, K. OWEN MURPHY,
Proprietress:
ST. GEORGE & CLERMONT HOTELS
HONG KONG & KOWLOON DE
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ST. GEORGE HOTEL
fa, Kennedy Bond, Hong Kong.
Eight minute walk from Blake Pier. Beautifully situated overlooking Boingical flardaan, Hong Kong & Harbour. Large, newly famisked tooma, spaciena verandaha, Modern conveniences. First Class Calulné anil altefdance,
Tologiam--Nadeau,
Phone 04797
CLERMONT HOTEL
2,38, 11, 12, Chathair Boad, Kowloom.
Aplendid location In bast part of Kowloon Full view at Hong Kong and Harbour. Largo, zwly, farulhod well ventilated rooms and verandafie. All modern Conranianose. Catering of the best under European supery litur,
Telaxcams Nudican
Phone K810.
For forme and fuformation at aboro Hotels apply:
Mrs, F, E. CAMERON
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ADELPHI HOTEL.
SINGAPORE.
The ONLY HOTEL in Singapore fitted throughout with
MODERN SANITATION TEA DANCES
EVERY TUESDAY,
AFTER DINNER DANCES
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EVERY WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY
ROOF GARDEN CINEMA
EVERY SUNDAY EVENING....,
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265 Managing Director.
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priating or enlarging.
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