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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
The closing down of diamond-cutting
the
NOTICE.
MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1923.
BILLIARD CHAMPIONSHIP
OF THE COLONY.
factory at HELD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
THE VICTORIA RECREATION Brighton marks the end of a pro- ject designed to bein the British er-Service man and to increase]
It is therefore British trade.
The regretted.
doubly to be
factory was established by the iate Sir Bernard Oppenheimer in 1917 and following Fear.
opened
in the Though the
CLI'B. THE CHALLENGE ROUND. P.A. YVANOVICH (holder)
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AJ OSMUND Admission Non-membars 8.1 directors have taken the beat Members 30 eta, will take placa advice. prosperity has evaded on Monday the 5th March. them. The business is said to have been
conceived on too) extravagant a scale, and to have! ben killed by overbeat charges There is and general experse no suggestion that the failure of due to the works the inefficiency of the workinen. It is entirely due to the misconcep tion of the possibilities of a great cutting factory in Britain.
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THE PEAK HOTEL STORE will be opened on Monday 5th March, when provisions, as the undernoted supplied by Companies, may be obtain :-
Messrs. The Dairy Farm, Ice
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Sir Napier Shaw, F. R. So ba, given the Buss Ballot Medal for his contributions to meteoro
The science.
medal, logical which was fourded in 1888 to commemorate the famous mal. eorologist of the Netherlands, is awarded ever! tenth year to
12.30 5,19. the person judged to have doce
4. pm. most for meteorology. Professor
2 p.m. in the Royal College of Science.j
10. A.ID. Sir Napier Shaw was formerly
8 am. Director of the Meteorological
lce obtained at this Branch Office. Though he would never. admit it himself, being possessed will be charged at the rate of 1
true cents per lb. by the modesty of the scientist, he probably knows all that is to be known at present of this particular branch of learning. Those who think of & "Clerk of the Weather" as an over-assured can, not to be chastened by the
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WEATHER REPORT.
Mar. 3d. 19h. 20m.-Pressurs bas decressed slightly to mode- rately at the mojority ot report- ing stations.
The anticyclone appears to be north of Hokkaido.
Moderate monsoon may be ex- pected along the SE coast of China sadover the China Sea
Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 bours ending at 10 am. to-day. 1.00 inch. Total since January 1st. 0.52 inches, against Average of 3.41 inches,
FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.
District.
! Former Channel
of
Forecas:
China between N.E. winds. 2 Bouth coast
H.K. & Lawocks. moderate;
3 Hongkong to fine to
cloudy. Gap Rock..
4 South coast of China between A.K. & Hainan.
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T. F. CLAXTON, Director. .. Observatory, Mar. 5, 1923.
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