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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1928.
POLICE WEDDING.
PRESENTS TO MR. AND MRS. T. MURPHY
GIFT FROM CANTON CHIEF.
Among those who gave presents
LORD DARLING.
HEAD OF QUALITY: COMMITTEE.”
NEW TRADE MARK
TILE CHINA MAIL,
MYSTERY THRILLER SHADOWS BEFORE.
LON CHANEY FILM AT QUEEN'S COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
TO-MORROW.
"LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT!".
Strange and uncanny happenings that chill the blood and grip the imagination ecur in a old haust- ed English castle during the course
The "Evening Nowa" learns that at the wedding last week of Mr. T. the Government has appointed the following Committee to supervise Murphy (Assistant Superintendent the carrying out of the National of Police and acting Assistant Mark scheme for the identification of an amazing series of adventures Director of Criminal Intelligence) of British foodstuffs. and Miss May Colbert was Mr. Ng Kwok-ying, head of the C.I.D. in Canton, who is a constant visitor to Hong Kong on official business. The Photos appear on page 7. full list of thore who sent gifts appears below:-
The Hon. Mr. M. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G, and Mrs. Wolfe: cut glass fruit bowl.
Mr. and Mrs. R. &. Lindseli: silver cake dish.
pots.
DICHIAR IN THE MAIL
Today Queen's Chang.
Today World. Theatre Birth of a Nation"
To-day World Theatre: Third Degree."
Beetings.
September 24-Kowloon Football Club annual meeting, 6 p.m.
October 11-Chamber Concert at in Lon Chaney's latest mystery Helena May Institute, 5.80 p.m." thriller, "London After Midnight". Land Sale Lord Darling (Chairman); Sir F. A. Jones, K.B.E., C.B. which, according to a special un September 24-At P.W.D. Offcea, (Lagal Adviser to the Ministry of nouncement in this issue, will be one lot of Crown land at Shamshul- screened at the Queen's Theatro
po, 8 p.m. Agriculture); and
Str. W H. Peat, K.B.E., the from to-morrow to Tuesday next. Chaney, "the man of a thousand. eminent accountant.
"The Committee will have power faces," is the central figure in a
September 25-Meeting of Council to authorise the use of marks pre-thrilling story of ghosts, weird ap-
the Agricultural paritions, tricks of spirit mediums of the Hong Kong Football Associa Produce Grading and Marking Act, and baffling murder mystery tion at Chaplain's Hut, Scandal scribed under which has just come into force, and brilliant supporting cast has bean Polat, 5.80 p.m.
includes Marceline Day, the beauti to suepend or revoke the right to use assembled for the production and it it in individual cases, if necessary.
Lord Darling, who is 78, and his ful heroine of "Rookies," Conrad colleagues will watch the general Nagel, a well known performer with working of the scheme and advise many screen successes to his credit, ffenry B. Walthall, of "Birth of a the Government as to any changes Nation" fame, Polly Moran and that experience may prove to be:
Claude King, necessary.
A Big Reform... A trade committee has been set O.B.E.; silver up to deal with applications, and
Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, C.I.E., and Mr. Wodehouse: allver condiment Bir. and Mrs. Somerset Fitzroy: .silver cigar case.
Mr. and Mrs. D. Burlingham: cut glass fruit bowl.
Mr. C. G. Perdue: silver enke dish Mr. W. R. Scott: cut glass frult bowl
Mr. L. H. C. Calthrop: pair of silver
Jah trays.
Mr. W. Schofield: blackwood silver tray.
Major C. Willaon
calendar.
Mr. J. W. Franks:
dish.
and
held its first sitting recently.
TO-DAY'S FILMS.
silver butter The National Mark system in- THE JUNGLE PICTURE AT THE
Bir. and Mrs. W. Kent: silver cake dish.
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Clarke: stainless knives and forks.
troduces one of the most far- reaching reforms of modern times
in the marketing of English-grown produce.
QUEEN'S
"Chang," the marvellous jungle Alm which has thrilled Queen's audiences since Monday, will be
Mr. Leo Wing-chuen: silvor urn. The mark will be a map of Eng. Chinese Staff of the Criminal In- vestigation Department, Hong Kong: land with a circle enclosing a Union shown at that theatre to-day for the
a last Where it appears on Jack,
silver cup.
of
Mr. Wong Kai: natique flower vase. package it will be a guarantee of "Chang" have caught with the
of the quality Dr. Na Kwok ying (chien Canton C.D.): silver epergne.
It is to be applied, at the outset, Mr. Lai Sui: Chineso curios Messra Hung Lee: pair of silver to fruit, beginning with apples and pears. It will be extended to eggs next January, and later on to other forms of English farm produce.
vanen.
Mr. Wong Lau: Chinese toilet case Mr. Shek Tui: silver cruet stand. Mr. P. Murphy: silver tea servico. Mr. Ip Yuk-lun: Pipes and gold; bracelet.
Tracing Complaints. The mark will be accompanied Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Clarke: cut glass by a number of other indications of Mr. R. Dormer: silver dessert forks, the identity of the user, so that a Mr. and Mrs. W. Stone: silver ash complaint can be followed up.
vase.
tray.
producers time. The camera a nerve tingling story in which nature in her farcest mood, wild beasts, of the jungle, brave men and women, are the untrained actors. Few scenes depicted on the screen have been more exciting than the stampede of a horde of elephants numbering over four hun- dred who trample down an entire Siamese village in their mad rush, "Chang" is something new in screen
The scheme is a voluntary one, art and by far the most unusual pic--
Mr. and Mrs. W. Thorpe: fish knives but if the contents of a package ture yet seen in Hong Kong. and forks..
Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Elton: silver should not conform with the grade! dessert forks.
standard specified-the purchaser "THE BIRTH OF A NATION."
and forks.
spoons and forks.
Mr. and Mrs. Carey: dessert spoons will be entitled, under the Act, to
D. W. Griffith's stupendous pro- Mr. and Mrs. Augas; aliver dessert recover damages for breach of duction, "The Birth of Nation,"
warranty or breach of contract. Mrs. Ramsay: silver nutcrackers. The final penalty will be the with-will be presented for the last time Staff of the Criminal Investigation drawal of the right to use the mark. Donartment: Canteen of cutlery and
Packing stations are being created liqueur set,
to do the grading and machinery set up to ensure that it is effective.
Chinese Staff of the Criminal In vestigation Department, Kowloon: pait of silver loving cuns.
The Sun Co. Ltd.: silver toilet set. Bir. and Mrs. C. F. Alexander.
silver sniad, servers.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. West: cut glas jug.
Mossra, Ko Lo Ken: pair of silver photo framer, 2016
Very soon London will be buying packages of apples measured to the inch for size, and graded also in colour.
No Misleading.
For instance, all red apples will Bic. and Mrs. J. Cargill: pair of have to be red for 50 per cent. of silver sweet dishes.
Interpreters of the Criminal Investi. their total surface to pass the teat.
gation Department: pair of silver The "extra fancy" dessert appla photo frames.
will have to have a minimum
tu-day at the World Theatre. Many spectacular and magnificent scenes are to seen in this picture, which is played by Lillian Gish, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, and Miriam Cooper. There are only three per- formances and, those commence promptly at 2.80 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. The orchestra plays at 9.15 p.m.
"THE THIRD DEGREE.”
Presenting some new and arrest- ing tricks of the camera and screen technique, "The Third Degree" will
Mr. Wong Chee: lacquer trinkel diameter of 24 inches, and the be shown for the last time to-day
boxes,
Mr. Le Hylap: silver vase,
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. W. Dorling: pair of silver vares.
Bir, and Mrs. W. Ford: pair of silver
photo frames.
Bir. and Mrs. D. Davies: silver sweet
cooking apple of 24 inches.
at the Star Theatre. The heroine One effect of the label will be to of the film, Dolores Costello, in a ensure that apples shall not be sold series of thrilling incidents, estab with an alias. Even Londoners lishes the innocence of the man she without agricultural experience are loves. Others in the cast include dish.
aware that any sort of green apple Jason Hobards, Louise Dresser and Mr. Ho Piu: pair of silver, photo is not a Newtown and that there is Rockliffe Fellowes. frames.
Mr. and Mrs. Chan Shi: silver fruit a distinction between the Worces Bowl.
ter Pearmain and the Ribstor
Mr. and Mrs. D. McDonald: sliver Pippin, butter dish.
Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Lane: silver cocktail set.
The Australian Government has informed the German Government
Similarly, William pears will be William pears and not others al-that it does not intend to exercise
Mr. Lau Man-cho: electric iron.. leged to "smell as sweet and taste Mr. and Mrs. E. Bloor: silver tenns good."
poona.
dish.
Better For All..
te treaty right to seize properties
of German nationals in Australla
in the event of a voluntary default:
by Germany in her treaty obliga-
Mr. and Mrs. T. Hynen: silver cake "Everybody will benefit by the Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Marks: silver new scheme, anid an official of the tions.
National Farmers' Union to the
salad bowl.
проста.
Mr. and Mrs. Everest: silver to "Evening News," "and there are 'gna already that growers are wel- coming the plan.
Mr. and Mrs. Simon Tao Yan: allver hors d'oeuvres dish.
Mr. and Mr. Brooks: silver toast Tack.
Mr. P. Grant: stainless knives forks.
and
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Holdman:
cut
glass fruit bowl.
Mr. and Mrs. Hunt: tea cloth.
Mr. Dixon: silver usoaragno dish.
"Quite a number of the more progressive of them have set up machines for grading apples,
"The apple passes through a slot according to its weight.
"Growers may please themselves
Mr. and Mrs. J. McLeod: supper whether they come into it, but the
cloth,
Mr. Kerr: silver coffee spoons,
Mrs. Lau Yin-gan: silk.
Mr. Chu Sui: pot plants.
Mr. In Chak: palms in pots.
signs are promising, for at the first meeting of the trade committee there were applications from 12 of the largest growers in Kent and
Bir. Lang Kit-sang: allver calendar. Essex for the right to have the
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. G. Taylor: silver National Mark.
dessert spoons and forke.
Mr. and Mrs: S. J. Clarke: silver
cafea pot.
Mr. Ches An: gold photo frame..
Mr. Lau Yee-miu: silver pagoda and
silver incense burner,.
Mr. C. Pain: blackwood whoto frame.
TENNIS PLAYER'S VOYAGE.
g
Buenos Aires. The newspaper.
Mr. Shekwong Ho Chinese silk "La Nacion" has received news
from St. Vincent that Alain Ger
Police Waterfront staff: silver kettle, bault, the French lawn tennis play Mr. Lo Fuk-taeung: pair of button who is sailing alone round the Vasca.
Bir. She Siu-taol: hand-omboidered world in his 82ft cutter "Fire pictura:
Crast, has left the Cape Verde Mr. Fun Tat-hang: sliver fish Islands for, Brest via the Azores Enives and forka
M. Garbault started from Cannes Inspector Ng Muk pair of silver
In April, 1923, and sailed across the
Inspectors Nawab Khan and Mohinder Western Ocean for New York,
"Birich:"silver vnson, “An
whence he proceeded via the
Staff of Messrs. Russ, & Co.: silver Panama Canal across the Pacific to
centia dish. A
Afr. She Tat-chnent: aliver vase the Cape
Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Booker: bolster
pillow.
Mr. Chan Wan; cinics and väse,
The Peking administrati
2,000 sub
Calcutta possesses two of four of the
tớ thể
the surge
in the world without the
young men with rupts reflec taken monthly
September 28-Annual meeting of the Kowloon Cricket Club in Club House, 5.30. p.m.
Committee meeting at Headquar October 1-HK.V.D.C. Sports ters, 6 p.m.
Sports.. To-day-South China Commatid aquatic sporte at Victoria Rearea- tion Club, 2 p.m.
To-day Chinese Recreation Club "At Home."
October 6-American tournament, Ladies' Recreation Club Peak-road, at 2.80 p.m. (postponed from Sept. 22).
October 18.-E.K.V.D.C. Annual Club ground, 2.30 p.m. Athletic Sports on Kowloon Cricket
October 14 Tenth extra race! meeting of the IR.R.C., Macao.
M
NOTICE.
NOTICE.
THE REEL CLUB.
TEMBERS of the Reel Club are reminded that the First Prac- tice of this Season commences WEDNESDAY, 26th September, at the Helena May Institute from 5.30 p.m.-7.30 p.m.-
(Sgd.) R. O. SUTHERLAND, Hon. Secretary. Hong Kong, 22nd Sept, 1928.
TO BE SHOWN AGAIN!
A SUPERB FILM OF TREASURE INDIANS AND ALL THE THRILLS OF FAIRYLAND! Sir James Barrie's
PETER PAN
The ever delightful story of the boy who wouldn't
grow up!
COMING TO THE
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TO-MORROW TO TUESDAY.
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The Man of a Thousand Faces in a Great Mystery Thriller!
WHO killed Roger Balfour? For five years grim everyone Failed to solve this ̈ ́? secret And then began the quest which led to an amazing climax!
Exciting? -You won't be able to sit HIILE Never such a part for Chancy. Never auch
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