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JULY-DECEMBER ISSUE.
THE BUSY MAN'S STAND-BY
Arranged in Numerical Order.
Specimen Page:
Central-22. The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd., 5, Wyndham St. Central-22 "China Mail" (Newspaper), 5, Wyndham St. Central-22 The Dollar Directory Co., 5, Wyndham St. Central 22 Telephone Hand Book, 5, Wyndham St. Central-22 "Hongkong Sunday Herald," 5, Wyndham St.
Peak--22 Bellamy, L. C. F., Res., 358, The Peak. Peak 22 H.K. Tramways, Ltd., General Manager's Res.,
368, The Peak.
Kowloon-22 Green Island Cement Co., Ltd., Cement Works,
Hok-un.
Central-23 Aubrey, Dr., office, Alexandra Bldg. Central-28 Macgown, Dr. J. Č., Office, Alexandra Bldg. Central-28 Anderson, Dr. J. W., Office, Alexandra Bldg.
Peak-28 Knight, C. C., Res., 184, The Peak.
Peak--28 Butterfield & Swire, Mr. C. C. Knight, Res.,
184; The Peak.
Peak-23 Little, J. H., Res., 188, The Peak Peak-28 Butterfield & Swire, Little, J. H., Res.,
183, The Peak..
Kowloon-29 Ye Fong Chan, 186, Temple St., Yaumati.
Central 24 Tak Shun Bank, 155, Queen's Road C."
Peak-24 Stewart, Rev., A, D., Res., 112, The Peak, Kowloon-24 Dixon, HL, Res., 4, Lyeemoon Villas, Chatham Rd. Central-26 Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Aberdeen Dock,
Aberdeen.
Peak-26 Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co.,, Chief Manager'a
Res., 508, Magazine Gap, The Peak Peak-25 Dyer, R. M., Res., Magazine Gap, 608, The Peak. Kowloon 25 Eastern Store, 314, Nathan Road. Se
Central 26 Alice Memorial Hospital, 72, Hollywood Rd.
Peak 26 Matilda Hospital, 187-189, The Peak Peak 26 Sanders, Dr. J. Herbert, 187-189, The Peak.. Kowloon-26 Tiu Chan, 91, Alpin St.
Central 27 Ross, Alex. & Co., (China), Ltd., Prince's Bldg. Kowloon-27 Bond, C., Res., 108, Kowloon Tong,
Central-28 Police Station, Shaukiwan.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.
Goted by Prize Bull,
Mr. G. P. Perredes, former secretary of Jersey Farmers' Union, was gored by his son's prize 'bull and had four ribs broken.
Two people dropped dead at Mrs. Gertrude Weymouth Slingsby, of Dublin Crescent, Bristol, and Mr. George Witts, aged 73, a Weymouth mason.
A Poet's Centenary.
The centenary of the death of William Blake, the poet, was celebrated by a service at his grave in Bunhill Fields, City Road, E.C., attended by members of the Blake Society.
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Thieves who used a motor-car stole furs and other articles valued at £200 from the shop of Mr. A. Anderson, in High Road, Chiswick, W., of which they smashed the window,
At an average speed of 161 miles an hour, an Imperial Air- ways 8-seater machine flew from
Regulations amending the Hamble, Southampton Water, to Public Health (Dried Milk) Re- Croydon (70 miles) in 26 min-gulations, 1923, so far, as they relate to the labelling of dried Minister of Health.. milk have been drafted by the
utes,
Leicester tramwaymen who fought in the war are indignant at the fact that the Tramways Committee have purchased flasks use which bear the for their stamp "Made in Germany."
While travelling in a motor-car at, Northampton Mra, Martha Ware, aged 64, a widow who lived at Shepshed, near Loughbo- rough, Leicestershire, died suddenly.
Dog Smuggler Fined."
Dover magistrates fined Mrs. Keziah Lucie Kerr, a widow, giving her address as the Stafford Hotel, St. James's Place, | Westminster, S.W., £5 for smug- gling a Pekingese dog from Calais.
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When carrying a glass tumbler at Broadstairs British Legion sports meeting Mr. Charles Alderton fell and was fatally in- jured by a plece of the glass which cut his throat.
Miss Rene Porter, aged 18, of High Garrett, near Braintree, Essex, died from injuries when a motorcycle on which she was pillion riding crashed through a hedge near Witham, Essex.
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At the foot of Lake Cliffs, near Sandown, Isle of Wight, the body was found of Edward Dallow, alias Allum, who disappeared when a woman was seriously wounded at Oakfield, near Ryde,
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Swerving to avoid a dog in Battersea Road, .S.W., Mr. Adol- phus Aldridge, aged 47, of 70, Dawes Road, Walham Green, S.W., lost control of his motor- car, which overturned, and he received injuries from which he died,
OLD ENGINES.
TRIBUTE TO EARLY..
ENGINEERS.
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Rescued Her Canary.
When a fire broke out at the Fox and Hounds Hotel, at the corner of Putney High Street and Upper Richmond Road, Putney, S.W., a barmald stayed behind to rescue a canary.
Soldiers helped to fight forest fires which broke out in the Esterel mountains, France.
The Admiralty Whitley Coun 'cil met at the Admiralty to dis- cuss the threatened discharge of established men from dockyards.
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Fourteen days' notice has been given to 3,000 men and boys at Ryhope Colliery, Durham, where the management are pressing for a reduction of plece rates. Mr. W. Batis, a guard in the
Although she celebrated her G.W.R. Worcester-London ex-hundredth birthday last month, press,when passing through the Mrs. Susannah Crane, the oldest brake-van outside Oxford was inmate of Edmonton (Middlesex). bitten by a dog and at Oxford Workhouse, rises at five every
to the Ratcliff was sent
morning. Infirmary.
A Big Catch.
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With an ordinary trout fly Evan Macdonald, boatman in the Dochfour Pools, in the River Ness, nar Inverness, landed a 10lb. sea trout, said to be the heaviest ever caught in the river.
Unlucky Workman.
When an explosion occurred in the new Mersey tunnel one of two workmen who were injured was a man who had twice been involved in accidents during the building of the tunnel.
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Bournemouth regatta had to An Aldershot Command order be postponed owing to heavy states that severe disciplinary ac- rain, this being the sixth time in tion will be taken against in-eight years that it has been post- dividuals responsible for live or poned or marred owing to the blank ammunition being found weather. in packages supposed to contain empty cases only.
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As substitute alternately for the Chairman and Deputy-Chair- man of the London Sessions, Mr. George Cecil Whiteley, K.C., will during the Long Vacation sit at the Court. House, Newington,
The Rev. H. R. L. Sheppard, who last year had to leave St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, on account of ill-health, has returned from Switzerland S.E. and is likely to take part in the services again as much as his health permits.
Maid of Orleans.
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A record was created at Forthenwi, Glamorgan, by Miss Valerie Davies, a 15-year-old | Cardiff girl, who.
the women's diving championship of Wales and also the 500 yards women's swimming champion- ship.
The city of Rouen plans to reconstruct the market-place where Joan of Arc was burned, The spot where the firewood was piled by the English and the ground where once stood the At Grand Rapids, Mich., on tribunal are known and will be September 15, Elbridge L. Hawk, marked in a way that will help of Sacramento, Cal., was elected | to visualize the story.. Sketches commander in chief of the of the proposed restoration show. Grand Army of the Republic, quaint old peak-roofed buildings Civil War veterans. This is the with overhanging balconies and first time that a man from the wide arcades that open into mar-Pacific coast has held that office. kets such as the Maid of Orleans The next encampment will be must have seen.
held in Denver.
fitted and both cranks replaced by others of steel.
It was a second-motion shaft which failed in the case of the other old engine, which was of the McNaughten beam type.
fracture
in occurred
The
U.S. CONGRESS.
EXTRĄ SESSION NOW· UNLIKELY.
As in the through consideration of Missis-
Macaulay, in a passage quoted
Washington, Sept. 9, in an address by Rankine, com-
Probability of an extra session of mented on the notable fact that a journal 9 in. in diameter Congress before the regular session painted barbarians who had never and 13 in. long, and sub in December is considered exceed- examination showingly and increasingly slight. A heard of the parallelogram of sequent forces, yet know enough to pile ed that the crack had start recent statement of Senator Curtis, up Stonehenge, of which, it may ed at the fillet. Sulphur prints Republican of Kansas and majority be added, the inner stones appear showed certain defects in the leader of the Senate, that he seen to have been brought from metal, which was iron, but the no reason for the convening of Pembrokeshire, whilst others, shaft had nevertheless made 400 Congress prior to the regular 855- though local stones, are about 20 million revolutions before it gave aion, is echoed in other quarters.
The primary reason for the extra ft. long and weigh 30 tons each. way. The new shaft is of steel, session would be the Mississippi Whether Macaulay was correct and the journal diameter has been flood rehabilitation and control or not in his premises, the ability increased to 10 in.
measures, but Hoover's report made of these early engineers may well Another second-motion shaft no request for an extra session and excite wonder, and
not which failed was of steel. In this Senator Curtis and others bolleve dissimilar emotion is arous case, the useful life was 786 that the matter may be attended to
study of
the million revolutions. pioneering works of the previous instance, the failure was sippl problems by the Senate Com- mechanical engineers of the past in the journal. The metal in this mittee on Commerce and the House century. These know nothing of case gave satisfactory sulphur Committee on Rivers and Harbours micrography, little of segregation, prints, but micrographic exam- and Flood Control to the regular and their knowledge of mathema-ination showed that the steel had session, to enable advance prepara tics seems seldom to have extend been kept at a high temperature tion of specific recommendations:
Senator Robinson, Democrat of for an unnecessarily long period, ed much beyond the rule of three with the result that the grain Arkansas, who is minority leader Moreover, very few of the materials they employed were size was excessive. in spite of of the Senate and who wished the subjected to mechanical tests, yet ed gradually, and final rupture has announced that he will present this, however, the failure develop carly autumn session which now appears to have gone glimmering, they constructed engines and mechanical tests, yet
did not occur until the crack had a Mississippi flood relief and con- they
extended over more than three-trol bill at the next Congress, Im- constructed engines and machines, many
fourths of the cross-section-portant features will be: of which
Engineering,
(1) The government of the are still working quite ef
United States will assume respon- fectively, though, no doubt,
sibility for construction of public with a somewhat low effl-
works affording relief and rehabili ciency as reckoned by modern
tation from dangers and Injuries standards. The excellence of
due to the floods in the Mississippi their work receives yearly a testi-
Look about you and observe the valley during the year 1927 and monial, implied rather than ex-number of women for whom maternity also undertake works for future pressed, in the reports on power- has meant the loss, and in some in- | protection. plant failures, issued by the stances the sacrifice, of health. Nature (2) The national government British Engine Boiler and Elec. provided that this should be a simple will refund or Day when due the
attended process, trical Insurance Company, Limit-
by no disastrous indebtedness of local districts of aftermath. Human society decreed ed. In this year's report, two differently; and the heritage of can the Mississippi incurred in public engines, dating from 1860, make turies of artificial modes of living has work against flood damage, viny their appearance in the casualty made many women dread that which(8) Jurisdiction of the Missis liat. In the one case, a cast-iron they should anticipate with joy sippi River Commissoin is extended To adopt a simple yet sure means of to enable additional measures and crank, which was both shrunk offsetting the adverse consequences of expenditures for flood control and keyed, on kits shaft, broke maternity, to strengthen the potential (4) Appropriations of $100,000, through the boss Sulphur prints as well, as the prospective mother, ia taken after the accident showed the dictate of common sense. Them- 000 annually would be authorised
selves aware:
aware of what they have sufere in surveying and executing) plans that the metal was porous in theed, mothers may basily spars thefe for food control made by the Mis neighbourhood of the fracture, daughters that aufering, Strength is stäsippi River Commission and but as the crank
some | acquired by reinforcing (1
the ystem approved by the Secretary of War. the with
Natures vikal organs redit: blood, buildin on the engine builders. The con- making
Ing for
| 500, million "revo
course or its 68
accident reflects
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that
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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:
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DINNER HOURS -1 to 2.
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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 room.
Special display of a grotesque dwarf in the
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Modern Convenience.
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TUNG SHAN HOTEL
IS NOW OPEN.
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Tel. C.5605.
Facing the harbour. 87-39 Connaught Road West,
EMPRESS LODGE.
Tel. C.5506.
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ST. GEORGE HOTEL
24, 2 & 4, Kennedy, Road, Hong Kong,
Eight mloutes walk from Blake Pior. Beautifully situated overlocking Botanical Gardana, Hong Kong 4 Harbour. Large, newly furnished rooms, agacions verandahs. Modern PORTKLE. Final Class Culaine and ačtandanes.
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