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CHAPEI SENSATION.
COLLAPSE OF CINEMA BUILDING.
135 FATALITIES..
Shanghai, Saturday.
GEORGE ROBEY.
COMES BACK WITH A BATTLE-AXE,-
MADE A KAFFIR CHIEF.
THE CHINA MAIL,
London, Sept. 26. A meeting of 600 Chinese filature workers, who had congre don to-day from South Africa, George Robey came back to Lon- gated in a cinema in Chapei this bearing as emblems of his triumphs afternoon for the 'purpose of in- a battle-axe and a parrot. The augurating a new Labour Union, parrot he calls Rebeccs, and she had a disastrous termination swears, at present, only in Portu when the building collapsed as P. & O. BUILDING.--Commodious the audience stood up to applaud guear. Offices TO LET, for particulars the election of officers.
"I kept her in my cable," George told a "Star" representative, "and apply to:Mackinnon, Mackenzie
The fatalities number 135 she kept on murmuring things at & Co.
women and children, whilst about me. I'll have to get an interpreter 200 are seriously injured.
or teach her English.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE-Chefao Stamps. used. Set of six stamps: 2, 15, 20 and 25 cents: Frica $2
Box No. 500,
Bet-apply. "China Mail."
5,
Chinese military surrounded
I
The entire third floor, on which
"The battle-axe was a present the meeting was being hold, col from richa boys in. Durban. Un-lapsed and dropped to the second used to go out and talk to them and 10, noor, which gave way, followed by do funny things, and take them to per the walls, burying the entire the Kaffir market and treat them to c/o crowd in the debris of brick, Kaffir beer-two quarts for 3d.
plasters, tiles, and splintered Two per cent, alcohol, you know. timbers.
"Result Was that whenever I FOR SALE. One brass "Hung the area and assisted the Police ort of free fight for the honour of showed myself there used to be a Ming" pan of the Chinese Han in extricating the bodies of those carting me about, and it would Dynasty with automatic springs. Price $1.000.00 Apply Box No. 487, killed and the people injured.
finish up with me First aid was brought, to the
sitting proudly c/o "China Mail."
scene, the injured being rushed erect in a ricsha with an escort of to hospitals where doctors oper-about twenty others trailing behind ated on the more serious cases me.
"They used to great me with a immediately.
As far as is at present known royal salute Inkoon Haba," or Hsin, n local Labour leader; who very fine and encouraging. Well, was assisting in the ceremonies. before I came away, they sent to -Reuter.
their kraal, In Zululand, for this battle-axe as a souvenir. Nice ornament, isn't it?
MISCELLANEOUS.
YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly And promptly printed. "China Mail Office, No. G. Wyndham St., Telephone Central 22.
HOME TUITION.
TESTOVER STEVENAGE.
W within an hour from London.
In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL
for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A
the only man killed was Yen something like that, which, sounded
KING'S COLLEGE.
Jew Boarders received in the House £80,000 ON RESTAURANT HALLS
of the Principal. Individual care and attention. For Particulars apply to:
MISS RUTH CULLEY
(Camb. Higher Local). (Camb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER
(National Frodel Higher
Certificate).
LAMMERT BROS.
'-AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
AND SURVEYORS,
AND GALLERIES.
A Kaffir Ceremony.
"I was also made a chief. Oh, I yes! I forget what they called me, I think I was a trifle nervous at the time. The
Look place at a Kaffir dance, and the chief presented me with an assegal and a white abfeld.
ceremony
London, Sept. 26.
"I was overwhelmed, and to show Drastic alterations are contem-my appreciation, I started to do a plated at King's College, Strand.little song and dance to an all-
The buildings
over.
It is proposed to add another storey dience of 6,000 and a few odd ones by removing 7,000 square feet of roof.
Immediately the compound erected manager, were
or whatever they call about a century ago. The archi- him, rushed up and aald: For tect was forced to design his Heaven's sake don't do that. In scheme to suit the Thames fron-another minute you would have got tage of Somerset House adjoining them all going, and soon they would Work on the interior has begun.be frenzied. I don't remember
can be served is
noon and asked, 'Is it true that you were a colour-sergeant at the battle of Waterloo7′′
Audience's All-night Walt, "It was all a very great success. I was told when I got to Kimberley that the theatre had been sold out and the money received at the heid once three weeks before, and that the queue was so big at the ad- vance booking office that the man-
agor oponed the theatre all night to shelter the crowd and served them with breakfast!
"And I had to promise to go back in two year's time. I'll go with pleasure. The South African Theatres Company had vellous system of looking after us and of seeing that we got every- where all right. You see, I am a
young man yet.
Л mar-
"That reminds me, I had a birthday on the boat coming home, and about 60 messages came pour ing in from all directions. I was 68, but you can take it from me I don't feel 58 or anything like it.
"Am I glad to be back? I dunno. Fortunately, the sun was have said I brought it back with shining when I arrived people moor I might have been sorry.
"No, I am not going to have a rest. I open with my 'Bits and Pieces' company at Bradford on
CHINESE BANNED.
· 54 · STOWAWAYS IN A STEAMER.
CAPTAIN FINED £5,000.
COLONY'S WATER.
SUPPLIES DOWN AND CON.
SUMPTION INCREASES.
NOVEMBER 1 RETURN.
LADIES' HAIR DRESSERS.
Its the way you
have your HAIR. done that makes it fattractive.
Our barbers are
The supply of water in the local experts in Bobbing, Perth, W. Australia, Saturday, reservoirs is slightly below that of shingling and Wav "Almskerk" has been fined £5,000 statistics shewing the storage
The captain of the steamer last year, according to
Ing.
for having prohibited immigrants November 1.
on board his vessel-Reuter.
EARLIER MESSAGES.
officials on
CAMPBELL MOORE 19, Queen's Road C. Tel. G. 151-
The storage in Hong Kong re- servoirs was 1,944.27 million gal lons, as compared with 2,024.28 last year and that in Kowloon with 452.49 million gallons last 428.56 million gallons as compared UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS year.
Fremantle, October 21.
kerk" has arrived with 54 Chin- The Dutch steamer. "Alms-
Consumption in Hong Kong has ese atowaways who were found increased from an average of 29.6 unconscious in a ballast tank gallons per head per day to that They are believed to have hoarded of 23.6 gallons. In Kowloon it bas the ship at Port Said.
Increased from 16.1 gallons to 20 Sydney, October 21. gallons. The Customs authorities at There was a full supply in all Fremantle have been ordered to districts both this year and last prosecute the master of the "Almskerk" for allowing pro- tralia. The Chinese are to be de hibited immigrants to enter Aus ported immediately.-Reuter,
POSTE RESTANTE.
CORRESPONDENCE, ETC., AWAITING.
Monday, and after a run in the £7,000,000 PICTURES FOR £7.Saturday gave the following in-i country we are coming to the West- end on Christmas Eve.
PALACE BURNED.
RESIDENCE OF THE COUNTS OF EGMONT IN BRUSSELS.
Brussels, Sept. 25. The Palais d'Egmont was almost entirely destroyed by pre yester. day evening. The palace was built in the Sixteenth Century and was the residence of the Counts whose name it bore, the most cele brated of whom, Lamoral d'Eg mont, Wis beheaded with the Comte de Hornea, under the Spanish domination. Dukes of Arenberg, acquired the In 1753 the German Princes, the property, which they held until 1918. At the Armistice the Palace WIS placed under sequestration, becoming the property of the City | of Brussels, which installed there numerous institutions, such as the Royal Geographical Society, the International Institute of Com-
&c.
A wonderful new restaurant where rousing an audience quite as quick-merce, the Maison des Etudiants, 1960 luncheons
now ready.
ly as that Most remarkable of all are, two floors which have been built in to
-Public Auctions-the top of the entrance hall, where Bits and Pieces, and I have
Undersigned have received.
ON
Auction
TUESDAY, 8th November, 1927, commencing at 2.30 p.m.
few months ago there lefty ceiling.
commodate 160 students. On the
the
Beven
DRAWN BY THE LATE MR. JAMES WHITE,
A Post Office Notice, dated on
formation as to correspondence, etc., awaiting claimanta:
Letters:-Madm. Benuville, C. W. Bone, R. E. Bluhm, S. J. Burton, Chang Heiang Cigarette Go., D. H. Clarke, London, Sept. 24.
E. Colmer, Rev. E. H. Four pictures in plain silver Clayton (Wayland Academy), Miss photograpli frames were sold at J. . M. Dean, Misa D. Dickinson, H. Mesars. Knight, Frank, and Donaldson, E. Dubrovey, Miss D. Rutley's salerooms for £7 178. Gd. Drake, Col. H. S. Eliot, yesterday.
Faravel, R. Geitenberger, H. One of the pictures alone was Th. Heyting, Dr. J. V. Horst, D; E. once worth £3,160,000, while the Hawkins, Houlder, Black & Co., original value of another was 334d. C. G. Hynes, G. E. Houx, H. P. A third was worth $2,549,872, and Postal Service), Leddel!, Bros: & the fourth £1,625,582.
Janes, C. J.-M. Legendre (Chinese)
pur-
Mr.
Now they are of no value at all, Co., J. L. Lynam. Clifford Morrison, except sentimentally,
Madame S. Masalskaja, H. K The pictures were four cheques Middleton, M. R. Montgomery, made out by the late Mr. James W. M. Muench, C. Matthews, vately, and the name of the White. They were bought pri F. H. La. Methe (Eli Lily & Co.), Mro. E. Macdonald, Mrs. Eric chaser was not disclosed.
Moller, H. R. Meyer, Mrs. J. J. Wal- Paterson, R. Schaffn, Shaw, lace & Co., Miss A. G. Sanderson, W. Shakespeare, Mrs. F. C. Stewart, B. Sanagal, E. F. R. Sample, Dr. R. Wrenshall, Dr. M. E. Wallace, Mess Yanks (News) Agents). Agent).
NO BRITISH EMBASSY.
Parliamentary Vote Needed for New Premises.
Mosers. Ynnka (News
Unpaid Correspondence: R. "Well, it has been a great trip. o'clock in the evening in the upper Ambassador to Brazil, and his staff Miss B. M. Lewis (H.K. Hotel), G.
The fire started about
London, Sept. 29. Sir Beilby Alston, the British Sin, H. C. Hardy (H.K. Hotel), Bigazzi (H.K. Hotel), Chan Ah went out in June with my show,
part of the central building, the flames rising to a great height in have no Embassy, and have had Mack, Munn Wor Yung, T. P was atravelled 15,000 miles and played to
60,000 people, which is a record, I tragic beautyfined by the to the recent Inter-Parliamentary Aldegner, Astatic Steam Nav. Co.. sky. It was a spectacle of none for the past two months.
Members of the British delegation
(8.8. Jarden), Harold M. Zink, One of the rooms is to be used am told. And while I was making wind the fire reacted the left wing Commercial Conference held in Rio Peter Broekhoff, T. Ballet, A. G. Registered Articles.-J. Del C. Instructious to sell by Public as a lecture hail, and it will ac farewell speech in Johannesburg of the building, while the roof of de Janeiro have complained of the Coppin (H.K. Hotel), M. Cherpino,|
master Max himself directed the undignified condition of the British Mrs. R. Gay Cuming, Mrs. B. M. the centro collapsed. Burgo- efforts of the firemen to save the Embassy in that city. building, but it was only at 11
Hegamin, Mra. M. Katzinger, M. L. Sir Beilby lives in a hotel, while Lowrance, o'clock that the fire was got under the chancery are housed in a mean General & Mutual Life
Y. Lura Lee, Marine control. The causes
Ass. of the
fire side-street. The diplomatic repre- Society, Northern S.S. Co. Port are unknown. One of the firemen sentatives of other nations have land & Asiatic S.3. Co., B. Sanngul, fell from the top of a ladder and commodious embassies.
Questions Wu Kai Hung c/o Ching Let & will be asked in Parliament. was seriously injured,
Co.), Yuong Suey Sing (Wong Lun The damage
at is estimated many millions of
"The lease of our old embassy Kai). francs. The expired two months ago," great hall, which is considered an official said to a "Daily Express Y. C. Ling.
Parcels:-Miss Leung Shit Ying, architectural jewel and contains representative yesterday. 48 were many manuscripts many old Masters, was destroyed, scientific collections.
and
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street,
A Very Valuable Collection of Curios
higher of the two floors there is to on, the Saturday night, a man lean be a botany and zoology labora-jed over. from the gallery and tory.
shouted: George, you have given In the rooms facing the court- us more than you have taken! yard between the Strand and the That, I think, was putting it very Embankment galleries have been neatly, and I shall always remem- built, and one of theac overlook the ber it. famous library Dr. Skeat d
These alterations have cost
(just arrived from Pekin) comprising:-
Seralls
Hand Paintings, £80,000. and Five-coloured Vases, Bowls, Flower Pots, Ivory, Coral and Amber Ware, Carved Lacquer Vases and Screens, Old Bronze, etc,, etc.
AND
A Few Pieces of Blackwood Cabinets and Screens, etc.
Catalogues will be issued..
On View from Monday, the 7th November, 1927,
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 3rd November, 1927.
ON
WEDNESDAY, 9th November, 1927, commencing at 11 am.
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.
3 Wall Clocks,
2 Cases Wall Clocks.
8 Cases Blue Balls.
I Case Toys.
43 Kegs Paint;
1 Drum Paint.
45 Bags Sulphate of Ammonia.
1 Piece Deep Sea Lead.
1 Keg Red Lead.
Bundle Iron Ware.
6 Kege Nails.
13 Cases Shoes.
4 Cases Serge,
2 Cases Novels.
Cases Socks.
2 Cases Jackets,
1 Case Satin.
Dr. Furnivall, over which Pro- "And how the people remembered fessor Sir Israel Gollancz presides, me: At Cape Town everybody who over came to shake hands with me said, "George, I saw you 40 years ago. A huge bridge is to connect the up to me I began to get it in first. Other work is going forward. After a bit whenever a man came college with the vacant site by the I would say, 'Don't tell me you saw Aldwych tube station.
Here a me 40 years ago,' and ten to one
The right wing of the palace was other building will shortly be started to house the arts students, he'd reply, 'Well, it must be 391
saved. In the gardens attached to "At length I made a gag of it the statue of Peter Pan, present- this part is a fine reproduction of which ran this way: 'Do you know, ed by London children to the chil- a man came up to me this after-dren of Brassels.
INTOXICATED ON - TEA.
EXPERT TASTES 400 SAMPLES IN A MORNING..
London, Sept. 23. Many deft-fingered counter ex- perts in white coats were engaged in a whirl-wind of activities in the grocery competitions at the Grocers' Exhibition at the Royal Agricul tural Hall, Islington, yesterday.
Mr. J. C. Coke, who in forty years as a ten expert has tasted hundreds
of thousands of ten samples, was
busy judging in the competition for
the tea-blending cup.
"I have tasted 400 different teas
in a morning," said Mr. Coko, "and
after forty years of it my hand is
still as steady as a rock.
It haa
had no effect on my nerves, and I know tea-tasters eighty years of age who are in splendid health.
"Sometimes I have been so busy. that I have had my coat, waistcoat, and collar off, and then walked down the saleroom reeling, almost
1 Care Ladies' Hats, Cotton Lace intoxicated with teu."
.and. Collars.
1 Cane Baby's Hats.
1 Case Blouses,
1 Case Overcoatings.
2 Casos Needles.
1 Case Cotton Cloth.
1 Bale White Cloth.
1 Caso Carpets.
1 Case Fancy Woollen.
5 Pieces Striped Awning..
.
AND
A Quantity of
MISCELLANEOUS GOODS.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.)
LAMMERT BROS..
Auctioneers.
Window-dressing, sugar weighing and stacking, cheese 'judging, and even business-letter writing and examinationa on trade matters were among the competitions.
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"We agree that the premises MANCHESTER "TUBE” which are now being used are in- adequate, but they are only a tem porary expedient, until suitable pre- mises can be found,
ADOPTION OF SCHEME UNLIKELY.
may take time. We hope that Par- "It is a question of money, which liament will vote the necessary Manchester City Council, which was The Special Committee of the
money without delay,"
appointed some three or four years ago to consider the construction of an underground tube railway for the city, is said to be on the point of reporting. No official document, however, has yet appeared. The scheme is interesting, but, there le no outside quarters that determine policy in Manchester affairs.
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ALBERTA
LORD ROONEY FEEDING HIS PIGS IN SASKATCHEWAN, CONKUR Western Canada is becoming very popular with to meet. Now they are not only successfully ronding lords and Indies of high-rank From Eng- their own large farm, but friends in the noburty of *fand, from France, from Denmark, and from England have sent out their promising sons to train under Lord Rodney before they, too, buy their own. Hungary, to say nothing of Russian nobles, they are ranches Lord Montague, son of the Daks of Man- drifting to the prairies, of "Alberin, and Baskatchewan chester, is a pupil on Lord Rodney's: ranch." The son to prosper on farme or ranchas,
of Lady Farquhar, of, London, England, is another Everyone knows, of course, that the Prince of Lady Rodney a little sun, John, although only Wales has large ranch in Alberta, stocked with eight years of age, helps his father round the farm thoroughbred cattle, sheep and pigs. But everyone and bids fair to being an experienced farmer before does not know that along the shores of the Saakathe in out of his teens...
www.
chewan River at Fort Saskatchewan a twelve rooms One of France's wealthiest noblemen, the band- house of graceful architecture and modern throughout some Duc de Nemoura, who attended the annual ride. has been built on a ranch covering thousand of the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies this
· fascinated, with the country round acres where Lord and Lady Rodney, with their summer," was
family, have decided to spend the rest of their Banff and the Yoho Valley that he is reported to lives, with occasional trips, of course, back to Eng- have bought some property and Intends to return land to visit their friends and relatives. Before again next summer. Prince Eric of Denmark, whose undertaking to run the ranch, however, both of them marriage to one of Canada's best known society "bired out as farm hands on poighboring ranch girls was an event mach heralded, has expressed until they felt that they knew something of condi- la intention of Zollowing the ́example of the Prince tions, which hamesteaders on the prairies are obliged of Wales,
Alderman Bowie, the chairman, states that the Special Committee will report that engineering experts have advised that there is no in- superable difficulty in boring the mainly red sandstone geological formation which underlies. Manches- ter for the construction of a tube railway, and that such a railway, at a depth of from 30ft. to 40 ft. below the surface of Manchester, could be built at a cost of from £250,000 to £300,000 a mile. For a scheme of six or seven lines, radiat ing to the principal suburbs from the centre and Inked by inner and outer circle tubes, the total cost of construction and equipment is put by Mr. Bowie, at £20,000,000.. Even Mr. Bowie admits that any such expenditure is totally beyond pric- tical politics, in Manchester to-day.
It is certain that the City Coun cil, as at present constituted, would not look at such a scheme. -Even an initial scheme, linking the three principal raway stations together and with an outlet to Withington, the chief suburb of Manchester, would be strongly opposedon financial grounds.
The
FAR EAST HEALTH.
health return for. Far Eastern ports hotines the following Hacidence of disease:
Plague: 5 deaths at Rangoon
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UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
the E. E., Telegraph Company's Unclaimed telegrams are lying in local office for
Savoy, from Macao.
Comandante Carmona,
Hotel
Chunwagles, from Cakutta, Dandeloin, from Seattle, Georgle, King Edward Hotel, from Shanghai..
Jubilant, from Shanghal Quinnell, Kowloon Hotel, from Shanghai.
Sabeltak, from London. Lianhun, from Los Angeles. from Shanghai,
Mr. Wah C. Moy, Empresa Hotel,
E. A. LEGGATT,
Superintendent. Hong Kong, 3rd November, 1927.
THE GREAT NORTHERN": TELEGRAPH CO., LTD. OF DENMARK.
The following unclaimed tele- Cholera:-22 deaths at Calcutta, grams are lying at the office of the 1 at Rangoon and 7 at Tuticorin.. Great Northern Telegraph Com-
Small-pox:-2 cases at Bombay pany (Limited) of Denmark:-
(1 death), B at Madras (1 death).
Imakodiad, from Osaka. Quinnell, Kowloon, from Shang-
Wilvincit, from Bradford
1 at Moulmela, 1 at Rangoon (1 death), 2 at Tuticorin, 14.at Band- haf. jermasin, 14 at Samarinda (4 deaths), 7 at Kuching and 2 at Kuching (Sarawak), 1 at Mukden and 1 at Dairen.
EV. JESSEN,
Superintendent... Hong Kong, 3rd November, 1927.