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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER

FIRE-RESISTING FLOORING

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Laid by Our Qwy Workmen on

STEEL, WOOD OR"CUNCRETE.

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Tal, Central 436.

2, Queen's Buildings.

ICY-HOT

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A Useful and Much Appreciated Present for All Occasions.

THE CHINA DISPENSARY

82" QUEEN'S ROAD G

TELEPHONE C. 2598.

Just Arrived by S.S. "PORTHOS”

CAMEMBERT CHEESE

REBLOCHON'S SAVOIE CHEESE

ARGQUEFORT'S SURCHOIX CHEESE

GRUYERES SUISSE EXTRA CHEESE

PRAMEZAN EXTRA CHEESE

SAUCISSON DE LYON (LYON SAUSAGE)

MORTADELLA SAUSAGE IN BLADDERS

FRENCH SMOKED BACON.

SALT ANCHOVIS IN BARREL, BLACK LARGE OLIVES

RISSIAN & HAMBURG Ĉ. F. S. Co. BLAGK OAVIAR IN TINS.

THE FRENCH STORE,

9. Beaconsfeld "Arcade.

Tel. Central 794.

SOMETHING NEW

FOR CHRISTMAS

THE SWATOW LACE CO.

NEW PATTERNS of Swatow Laces and Drawn-Work. BEAUTIFUL Shawls, Capea, Scarfs, Dresses and Underwear. FINE CARVED Ivory, Mother Pearl, Tortoise-Shall and Amber Bands,

Pendente: Bracelets, Brooches, Anh Jong, Lanterns, Lamp Shades and a

GREAT ASSORTMENT

NEW GOODS ARE GOOD"

XMAS PRESENTS.

INSPECTION INVITED

17a, Queen's Road Central.

SOME DISTANCES IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA AND PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

On Sale at

BY CAPT. G. E.. PENNEFÄTHER.

BREWER & Co., Poddar Street,

YE OLDE PRINTERIE, LTD, Queen's Road.

The CITROEN.

The Last Word in Car-Economy

RUNNING COSTS LOWER.

Less Tyres

Less Oil

Winner 3 years running 1920-21-27. Grand Prix for Law: Consumption

Cars for Sale:

LEPACK CO., LTD,

80-52, Queen's Rd. C."

A PAGEANT OF PURPOSE.

GREAT BRITAIN AT HOME"

HER CHILDREN.

REBUILDING THE BANK.

Mr. 9. P. Derbyshire, a stockholder, protested at the Bank of England 'Court. last month, against any interference with BY LENA AIRWELL]

the architect's plans for rebuilding the Bank. He hoped the directors would not Prosperity like charity begins at home. be andaly influenced by efforts" which If a nation's exports are flesh and blood, certain people were making to retain the Lastead of textiles, machinery, food, that outside walls at the sacrifce of space, nition is not prosperous. In other words, comfort, and efficiency, and that they excesiva emigration is bad for any coun would erect a building worthy of the siter If the peugis must leave home in which would be the envy and the ad- under to live, home is in a bad way. Theru miration of the world." is no reason why

people

should not move Mr. Montagu D. Norman, the Gover round, but there is every reason why they nor. said the matter was in the hands of should not give their allegiance to another committee of directors. The plans flag, if they can with an economic originally published provided for the re lu tar case of the small nations of Cen-making any sacrifice of eficiency ar tention of the outside walls without tral Europe there is very little choice, amenability. They emigrate to the United States, or

security remain under their own

W his oppor

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INTIMATIONS

TO LET

Apply to SUNG, TAI,

No. 1. Queen Street.

fo Canada, or...to Australia, and begin the work of learning to be a new people, .to speak a foreign tongue. to assimilato strange ways of life. Their children, own- ing another flag, look upon them as alicu The Englishman, more fortunately placed, proses the illimitable seas" and is still. at

TYHOLE GROUND FLOOR, and BEST. hear His prospects enlarge.

OFFICE ROOMS in 1er FLOOR of tunities willen out, thousands of aniles the House, No. 6, DUDDELL STEKET separate him from his birth-place, but he need not give up his fangunge of his

alle ginner. Ho can satisfy his desire for ad- venture, or becomo, perhaps for the first time in his life prosperons. But the p03- ditions in which he works are not hopeless xfareigu to him. His mother-sangue will be his children's He has

the answer to the question, How cas help Great Britain?" in a practical fashion, In the Canadian West, in the Aästralian bosh, on the South African veldt, eugin- eering in Burma, or irrigating Egypt, he help to solve the probem of Empire.

And ghee in a long time he comes back to Engikut to bdl what he has done; to show what he has acquired in the ovure of his adventures.

So in the fairy-tales did the three sons

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of the king come back to relate the tests Members "British. Chamber of Commerce and trials they had been through in their (Shanghai) Mr. T. W. BOWERN, Fellow of efforts to prove their mettle. They come the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, Incor back bearing gifte strange and magical toporated by Royal Charter, London the eyes of those who had stared at home, BriaMenir AcHnts and BrieROLEAS. speaking with a great flourish and assur ance of the sights they had aren. Eyes and ears and months oprned wide to their tales. Competition in the adventure of living was stimulated by their retuza. ·

No need to force the allegory. The sons of the king are all coming back next April to relate their adventures, to distribute their gifts. The Mother Country will be "At Home" at Wembley Park at home on a most splendid cake to her sons and daughters to their friends and new rela tions-in-law, and to many pilgrims besides. But the children of the Empire will be

For the Purchase, Sale and Charter of Versals of any Tonnage, Pasmonicer and/or Cargs, New and/or Old, with delivery China sử Vày Low Fricsa,

SALVAGE OPERATORS, MAKINE SURVEYORS 2 AUCTIONEERS, COAL MERCHANTS,

FREIGHT BROKERs, Merax MezchANTS, Machinery For Sale, New and Old in First Clam Condition. Imports and Expozzzm, BhaLJ-ĒBOKERI

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At Home" equally hosts dud gursts at the same time, co-operating with the Mother Country to make this Empire Rr- mion the most brilliant and impressive Pageant of Purpose that has ever been held. The great British Empire Exhibi- tion which is to open next April is a serious effurt establish and revitalise the prosperity of Great Britain after the drain of war, with the ultimate purpose of ip- fecting the Empire, with a wholesome optimism and

That way lies

the health of the world Th

The purpose is a serious one, but it will s be gaily presented The ponderous old ideas that one must be bored and exhaus-

Sota Aursts' POR UMINAI

GREEN'S PATENT ANCHORS. SAMUEL WARREN & Co., Ian. (Sheffield), High-Class Steel Manufacturer (Tan) Brand)

Catalogues and Price Lista on application;}

*Anquiren Welcomed

CARLE

COKESS: bowman, Shanghai. Bentley's, Boott's, Á BA 3th Edition and Inneove

ted in order to demonstrate mental im-0. E. WARREN

provement" have vanished. The eye must be, amused and charged, the ear pleased. the

without physical fatigue, if the mind is to be stimulated

body

conveyed

and interest maintained.

A glimpse of the astonishing compass of

the conning wonder-city now in the course

CO., LTD

SANITARY ENGINEERS, MONUMENTALISTS, &

of construction at Wembley is afforded even OFFICES & 98A, Wanchai Boad

from a train window, and a. visit to the GODOWNS.

grounds

curiously exciting. To know how suggest is the great art of

TEL. No. 369. ... HONGKONG. teaching," said a a wine man. Thero is only a suggestion here as ret of the power and variety of the Empire's enormous

but there is enough to fire the mination, to end one on a travelling carres over the seas and continents of the world.

India, Hongkong, The Dominions, Pro- tectorates, Colonics each has staked out its claim, and by October many buildings will be sufficiently advanced to be re- rognisable by characteristic architecture or mtent. The dreamy dignity of the Indian Pavilion, the

gorgeous hippogriffs that guard the ratrance to Burns, the Chinese] street which will transport one to the heart of the Célestial Kingdom, the scientific triumph of the colul Palace of Machin- ery, the suggestion of Greek prowess in. athleties aroused by the impressive beauty of the vast Stadium enclosing a jewel- green playing field all these stir the mind. while the place is given over to solitude but for the workmen.

JUST RECEIVED A NEW SUPPLY OF "8" & "P" TRAP OLOŞETS.

All kinds of Builders' Requisites in Stock for immediate delivery.

Estimates Free for all kinds of Sanitary Werk - Meuamental Works in Italian Marble and Hongkong Granite

A New Stock of Artificial Wreaths Just Arrived From 18" to 8" Diameter.

"GENERAL REPAIRS PROMPTLY

ATTENDED TO,

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"BRIAR PIPES

How much more will the mind be excited when the dreams of architects and ungin- suru have taken full material shape and delight the eye in their completed strength; And when the sons of the king are back from their adventures, bearing the gifts in all Shapes, ranging from $1.50 each

and telling the tales of their new and adopted countries a new Arabian Nights will begin six months long. Only the talo told will he of industry and reward, of struggle and enquest, of adventure and succes and prosperity at hand for he seeking.

Far-reaching results universal

benefit cannot fail to follow Great Britain's com prehensive, generous, and hospitable, “ At Home when all the world and his wife find the way to Wensley, sext Spring

HONGKONG SHARE MARKET CLOSING QUOTATIONS

NOVEMBER 6TH, 1023.1 Hongkong and Shanghai

Banks

$1,035 1. Canton Insurances. ...... ..$630 b. Union Insuraruan 1224 h, 233/234 20. Steamboats....... 745 h. Star Ferries 67 China Supar......219. b. Kowloon Wlurves

Shangh

Docks

|| Douk-

Lands

Humphreys Extates.

Ceurent

Hongkong Bapes

Waterboats

Watsons porn

Hongkong Electrics

Hongkong Trams.

·k-buyers: 1-

15h. 15 b.

$872

b. 21 sa..

Call and See them."

HONGKONG CICAR STORE, LTD

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