WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1931.

THE

CHINA

M'AIL.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY HORSE THAT RAN "BUYING BRITISH,”

DRAWNWORK & EMBROIDERIES

WATOW TRADING CO.

Established 1910. MANUFACTURERS OF Swatow Drawn Work

AND

Art Embroideries

ANNOUNCE

GRAND

OPENING SALE

NOW ON

AT NEW BRANCH STORE GLOUCESTER BUILDING

ARCADE.

SWATOW TRADING CO.

HEAD OFFICE:-6 Pedder St. Opposite Hong Kong Hotel 'Phone 23303.

ATTRACTIVE TAILORING

The Latest in Gentlemen's Quilting

AT PRICES TO

SUIT ANY PURSE.

PERFECT FIT

AND

RELIABLE

SUITINGS.

WING HING CO.

Gentlemen's Outfitters

64, Queen's Rd. C. Tel. 21417.

Very Nice Woollen Materials

For

Making Ladies' DRESSES

&

OVERCOATS

Also

FURS &

SILK HOSIERY Expert Tailoring

Department.

LEE MOWHE

Chinese Silk Hosiery Store No. 1, D'Aguilar Street

DENTISTS.

HARRY FONG, Dentist,

1st floor, No... 74, Queen's Road

Central. Tel. 21255.

TANG YUK, Dentist.

Successors to

the inte SIEN TING, 14, D'Agullar Street.

TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.

ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.

W. 8. BAILEY & CO., LTD.,

Kowloon Bay. New Work & Repairs. Call Flag "L"

Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors.

FRUITS.

Now in season CALIFORNIA PEARMAIN APPLES

Just Arrived $9.00'per box.

This is the most famous apple in the Orient. Quality: Crisp, juicy, sweet and highly aromatic. Excellent keeping quality. Try a box.

WING COFFEE CO.

Tel. 25869 139, Des Voeux Road, C

PHOTO-SUPPLIES

Kodaks and Cameras,

Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and

Enlarging..

ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES

Price Moderate.

A Trial Order is Sollefted.

A. SEK & CO.

Tel No. 23459..

26A, Des Voeur Road, C.

LITERATURE.

BOOKS for All

AWAY.

Claim on Follies Girl's

Estate.

Tudor Rose League's Success.

The formation of a new organ- isation to promote the sale of British goods was announced in the House of Commons lust). month by Sir Philip Cunliffe-

LOST OPERA BY MASCAGNI.

Composer's Story of Recovery.

Rome, Oct. 8..

The death in September, 1929, of Miss Cynthia Cambridge--at | Lister.

.A telephone conversation lone time a member of the Zieg Had he paid a visit to the which I have had with Signor feld Follies after being headquarters of the Tudor Rose Mascagni, at Leghorn, the fam- thrown from a horse which ran League of British Employment ous composer of "Cavalleria into a taxicab in Hyde Park, Providers at Buckingham Hall, Rusticana," enables me to give was recalled, at West London Buckingham Gate, S.W. 1, he the full particulars of the vory County Court last month. might have wondered whether human story of the recovery of Mr. John Stuckle, livery stable the new organisation was really the manuscript of "Pinotta," his keeper, of Wilton Crescent necessary, comments the Daily first opera, says the Daily Tele- Mews, S.W., the owner of the Telegraph, and adds that a re-graph's correspondent. horse, unsuccessfully claimed presentative of that paper found When a student of 19 in Milan £100 from the City Bank Farm-a band of voluntary workers, Mascagni ran up a bill of £5 with THE BOOK & BIBLE DEPOT.ers' Trust Company, Ltd., Water- headed by the honorary director, painter in whose house he

Bibles, Pocket Testaments, Prayer Books and Stationery. General Literature Presentation Books

Children's Books a Speciality.

Wyndham Strest.

Next to King's Theatre.

Agents for

British & Foreign Bible Society The Religious Tract Society and The League of Nations' Society,

GENERAL PROVIDERS.

Just

Brrived

A Fine

Selection

of

GENTLEMEN'S AUTUMN HATS. We have alen a very fine range of TIES in all the latest new Autumn

colours and patterns.

WE SOLICIT A TRIAL.

THE CENTRAL CO. 193, Des Voeux Road C. Tel 27623.

HAIR DRESSERS.

LEE YEE,

Ladies and Gentlemen's Hair Dressers & Booksellers,

No. 12, D'Agullar Street. (opposite. Queen's Theatre).

LIANG YOU

LADIES & GENTS' HAIRDRESSERS.

Also

MR. ST. OUEN,

PERMANENT WAVING

gencé.

loo Place, S.W., as administrators Mr. L. St. Clare Grondona, hard lodged. Unable to pay and hav- of Miss Cambridge's estate, for at work replying to the morning's ing been offered a temporary post injury to the animal, or alterna-mail of over 1,000 applications in a touring' company, ho left tively for damages for negli for enrolment as wearers of the behind a trunk containing such

of Tudor rose emblem.

his belongings as he could Mr. B. M. Goodman, for Mr.

Among "This emblem." explained Mr. spare.

these was Stuckle, said that on September Grondona, "proclaims, constant- "Pinotta," for which he had 10, 1929, Miss Cambridge went ly and automatically, that its failed to find a producer. The to Mr. Stuckle's riding school to wearer on entering a shop painter died, and Signor Mas- buy a horse, stating that she was wishes to be shown home or cagni forgot his address.

good rider and wanted a keen overseas Empire goods first.. Traced by a Friend. animal. A grey mare was the There is also a shop-window Recently, however, a friend subject of the claim.

adge which announces that a arrived with a mysterious parcel The following day Mr. shopkeeper makes a practice of under his arm and opened it in Stuckle took four horses, to offering such goods first,

Signor Mascagni's presence. At Albert Gate, but the grey mare

started "The lengue

very first indifferent, he suddenly was not among them. Miss Cam- quietly ten weeks ago, and there recognised some musical scores bridge mounted a horse called are now over 20,000 wearers of which it contained. Ginger and rode him up and the Tudor rose.

"This is mine," he exclaimed. down. Mr. Stuckle noticed that On the committee are Sir It proved. to be a study for the she was riding the horse hard Gilbert. Vyle, formerly chair-prelude to "Ratcliff," produced in

She said that man of the Associated and hitting him.

British Milan in 1895, together with the Ginger was not keen enough. Chambers of Commerce, and Sir complete score of "Pinotta." While they were talking a Mrs. Benjamin Morgan, vice-president The maestro, who is now aged Andrews went past, riding the of the British Empire Producers' 68, laughed heartily at first, and jkrey mare.

then broke down and wept. His friend had scoured Milan for the forgotten address, and had finally discovered the children of the painter. In their house the More Light on Questions That trunk was carefully preserved in

Cannot Be Settled.

a cupboard.

"Isn't that the horse I saw last night in your yard?" asked Miss Cambridge, adding, "That' seems a better horse. I would like to ride it."

Crash Into Taxi,

Organisation.

THE AIM OF PHILOSOPHY.

Upon learning to whom it be- Mrs. Andrews made no objec-

Professor Gilbert Murray de-longed they at once handed it tion to Miss Cambridge riding livered a public lecture on "The over. As to the £5 long due to

it, and when Miss Cambridge beginnings of philosophy" in the their late father, they were will was mounting it Mr. Stuckle Assembly Hall of the University ing to forgo it. Signor Mag- said to her: "This is a much

Ex-cagni, however, insisted on pay- keener horse. You must not hit College, Hull, recently.

plaining the position of the ing his bill with interest, and photograph with a philosopher, Professor Murray added

it as you did Ginger." After

to go

STANDARD TIMES.

Sunrise and Sunset in Colony.

a little while Miss Cambridge said that in the "Golden Journey grateful dedication. hit. the mare with the whip.

to Samarcand" the Pilgrims ex- The mare broke into a sharp canter. "As far as we know "plained that they mean said Mr. Goodman, "Miss Cam-always a little farther" because bridge lost her head, the horse it might be that somewhere be- ran away, and crashed into a the next stretch of sea,

yond the next range of hills or taxi, and Miss Cambridge receiv- ed a fractured skull, from which she died. After the accident the animal became restive and use- less for Mr. Stuckle's purpose,

introductory Price $20. Cambridge left a large estate.

and was sold for £10. Miss

White on a throne or guard-

ed in a cave,

There lives a prophet who

can understand Why men were born.

Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong for November, 1931, Stan- dard time of the 120th Meridian, fol-

Bre да So the philosopher groped and East of Greenwich, The defendants denied that explored in the hope of getting lows:--

King's Theatre Bldg Tel. 20315.Miss Cambridge failed to take further into the heart of things

Ground Floor.

£60

LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S HAIR DRESSING SALOON.

ON LOK

(AH HING)

10. Wyndham Street, 1st Floor, Entrance On Lan St. Tel. 22317.

OPTICIANS.

THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY,

'Phone 22232.

proper care of the mare, or that and understanding ultimate pro-

blems. Almost every student 12 she rode it negligently. They urged that Mr. Stuckle had full who felt the philosophic impulse 13 knowledge of the nature of the driving him on into strange coun- 14 mare, which, they alleged, was try must wonder why, at Oxford, 15 he was nut set face to face with 16 nervous and restive and pre-

the great problems themselves 17 disposed to shy and bolt.

Judge Hargreaves said that instead of having to learn what 18 he was not satisfied that Miss various people in the distant past 15 Cambridge was warned not to hit had thought about them.

"The answer to this question 21

the mare with a whip, or that

BARKING'S CHARTER.

The Royel Visit.

Bank

Sunrise Sunset |

a.m, p.m.

6.33

5.41

6.34

5,41

6.85 6.41 6.95

5.40 4.36 5.40 6.37 5.40 6,87 5.39 6.38 6.39

20

6.38

5.39

0.39

5.89

6.40

5.38

6.10

5.38

6.41 6.42

6.88

5.38

6.43 5.38

6.43

5.33

0.44

5.38

6.46

5.8B

6.46 5.38

is two-fold," Professor. Murray 22 she struck the mare. He gave said. "In the first place, the 23 judgment for the City

main questions of philosophy are 24 Farmers' Trust Co., Ltd.

Inot for the most part meant to 25 be settled: they are meant to be 26 understood. Science is different. 27 Science can ask a definite ques- 28 tion and answer it. But there is 29 ino complete answer to Buch 30 Over 500,000 coloured electric questions as "Why men were lights illuminated Barking born," or "How we know things,"| during the ten days' Charter or "What is the difference be- It may be that if we advised peo- celebrations, which began on Oc-tween right and wrong?" just ple accustomed to the rhythm of tober 1 with the informal open-as there is no precise answer to modern life to withdraw into A ing of the industrial exhibition the question "What is the value quiet corner and do some con- and amusement fair in Barking of the ode to the nightingale or centrated thinking, it would be just Park. The Charter Mayor, Col. the tragedy of Hamlet?" You as ludicrous as it would be to take A. E. Martin, presided at a can get more and more light on gold fish out of a bowl and spread Black or Brown luncheon.

(such questions, you can see deep-them on the dining-room table to Bhoes from $6.00. Ninety per cent. of the ex-er and deeper into them, and give them a rest-Miss A. G. Philip. Black or Brownhibits were products of Barking (you can definitely reject various Boots from $8.00. industries, and the exhibition false and disastrous answers, Shoes from $2.00. building was built in fourteen But your real hope is to under- days by a firm of Barking con- stand more, not to settle the

53, Queen's Road Central.

SHOES.

Pair

Children's Boots or

Best styles, most complete stock

of all sizes. Repairing a speciality.tractors. During the afternoon question. Consequently, it fa COASTWISE

Phone 21474.

WONG SIU WOON 21, Pottinger St.

SPORTING GOODS.

ATHLETIC

GOODS

AT

by

"ALGIE" BENNETT.

An interesting book of Cartoons depicting "Happenings" on the China Coast

a procession of decorated private not much good looking up the and commercial cars was watch-last text-book and seeing the ed by thousands.

answers there given. The only The chief event of the festi-(method is to go through the pro- vities was the visit of Prince cess of thinking the questions George, who brought the Royal [over more and more closely, with Charter proclaiming Barking a the help of the greatest minds municipal borough, '

who have thought about them The Prince also opened the in- before." dustrial exhibition and the his- The second reason, was quite torical pageant of the history of different. It was that, in order the town for many centuries. to see the problems clearly we

The Vicar of Barking, the must, as far as we could, try to BREWERS Rev. H. C. Robins, filled the role get outside the thick atmosphere Now on sale at,

PRICE $1.00.

of William the Conqueror in the of tradition and convention in WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW pageant, and the Hymn to the which all our thought was wrap- EXCELSIOR BOOK STORE,

We must get out of our and at the Publishers Virgin, composed by the nuns of ped..

THE LIANG YOU CO. Barking Abbey in the 7th cen- British twentieth-century blink-

tury, was sung for the first time ers and see freely, and we could The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd. since the dissolution of monas-get out of them by going to thei Chinia Mall Building. Iteries in 1539.

Greeks.

70, Queen's Road Central.

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THE MOST DISCRIMINATING PALATE.

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"

By Appointment Wine and Spirit Merchants

To H.M. The King.

SOLE AGENTS:---

GILMAN & CO., LTD.

NOW

ON SALE

The

CHINA YEAR BOOK

1931

EDITED BY

H. G. W. WOODHEAD, O.B.E.

"A Mentor Superb..... It is not an exaggeration to say that the "China Year Book" is one of the most remarkable produc- tions of its kind in the world..... No-one who pretends to desire to discuss or study affairs in China can afford to do with- out this book."-North-China Daily News.

The "China Your Book" as it is presented to-day, is a volume that no newspaper, commercial, government, in fact any office

can do without.”---China Press,"

"There is no single work containing such a mass of varied and most unaful information on things Chinese as the "China Year Book." Similar publications exist in many other countries, but few can compare with, and nontoxcels, the latest jeane of this work."-Finance & Commerce.

On Sale at

Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd.,

Chater Road,

HONG KONG

and

Commercial Press, Ltd.,

CANTON.

PRICE $20.00 net.

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