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LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS.
HONGKONG:
Repulse Bay Hotel.
Hongkong Hotel,
Peak Hotel,
SHANGHAI:
Astor House Hotel,
Palace Hotel,
Grand Hotel Kalee.
PEKING:
Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits.
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.
In conjunction with
The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.
and
The Grand Hotel des Wagons-Lits, Ltd.
KING EDWARD
HOTEL
CENTRAL LOCATION,
ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING,
MOTEL
TELEPHONE ON EACH · FLOOR.
LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS.
Teinerobic Address: "VICTOR'A “
Tel Central 379
JAWITCHELL.
Manager.
THE EUROPE HOTEL.
SINGAPORE.
DANCING AFTER DINNER. EVERY
MONDAY WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY.
TEA DANCES
TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS.
The Hotel Orchestra under the Direction of
Mr. F. R. Martens.
Telephones in every Room.
Telegraphic Address: EUROPE, SINGAPORE”
Telephone No. 2740 (9 lines).
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THE EUROPE HOTEL, LTD.
ARTHUR E UDELL, Manag
HOTEL
KNUTSFORD HOTEL
MID-LEVEL KOWLOON
SACHSE, LENNOX & Co. General Agents
Are resident Managers,
PALACE HOTEL, KOWLOON.
Tel Na Kowloon 3,
Tel ådd. · Paison."
Two minates from Farry and Bailway Station, Five minutes by Ferry from Hongkong
& fret si Eatal in every respect and under English management,
Chains under personal supervixion of the Proprietor.
Long Bar and Billard Boom.
Terms fodz.
Speale mangematte for families on application te
ASTOR
HOUSE
Tisgraphic address "ASTOR "
N. EL OXBERBY,
Proprietor.
HOTEL.
Telephone Central 179.] 13, Queen's Road Central.
Arcass Hotel centrally located in the shopping and business districts, latga Bad rooms, completely renovated and rafarnished. Dining Room and Lounge fat speed. Entirely under new management.
For tarust apply to the Manager. "
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1923.
NOTICE.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
PERCOLATERS BOILING RINGS
TOASTERS
IMMERSION HEATERS BREAKFAST COOKERS 'VIBRATORS
AUTO-ENGINE HEATERS.
KETTLES
TEAPOTS
CURLING IRONS HAIR DRYERS WAFFLE TRONS CHAFING DISHES HEATING PADS PANS
RADIATORS FLAT IRONS SOLDERING IRONS STERILIZERS SHAVING MUOS IN FACT
EVERYTHING
LECTRICAL
THE HONGKONG HOTEL.
Company Limited. Electrical Dept.
Brunswick
Let Brunswick Entertain
When visitors come then Brunswick Records bring the greatest artists to sing and pay.
Owners of Brunswick Phono- graphs remark how its sweet tone_taraptures all who hear it The secret is in the oral tone chamber, an exclusive Brunswick feature. Come in -see and hear for yourself.
An old and pleasing custom of St. David's Day; which seems to have fallen into antire desuetude in recent years, was that of a number of loyal Welsh families sending a silver leak to the Sovereign : on the anniversary of their national saint. The custom survived until the reign of Et ward VII., one of the vary Inst— probably the very last-to observe it being Mrs. Herbert of Llagover, the mother of Lord Treowan.
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Among the various celebrations of the bicentenary of Sir Christo- pher Wren was an attempt by several combined societies to visualize the Great Fire. Thin attempt was made by visiting the City and description. How far it succeeded can only be answered by each ofthe pilgrims for himself. But even when it failed it was justified as a reminder of what! the Lordon of to-day awes to, Wren. The Great Fire destroyed one City, and he created another in its place. He was not, indeed, allowed to accomplish all be wanted. If he had been allowed, the City would be better- With its dying breath, for it has planned district than it is. But now lost its separate identity | the flashing image called up, the under the "grouping " scheme, | world over, by the name of Loo the South Eastern Railway bas inj don was the creation of Wren. a "most good-humoured fashion. The inscription which tells us to confessed that historic jokes about| “look around" for bis monument that once notoriously inefficient is too narrowly construed. The line spurred it on to betterthings. | advice should apply not only to The joker has his uses after all | St. Paul's but to London itself. and it hardly needed the kindly tribute of the S. E. and C. R.. chairman to remind us that hum.! our is a potent force in reform. Dickens was more effective for reform in his humorous passages than when he became bitter, and the smiling enthusiast does more good in the world than the grim. faced fanatic.
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A George I. toilet service, formerly the property of the Emperor Alexander I. of Russia, who began his reiga in 1801, was included in the late Mr. Asber Wertheimer's collection, sold asi {Christie's. It consists of twenty- nine pieces, weighing nearly 7000L.. by Davil Willaume, The memorial chapel to Lord 1725, and is engraved with the Kitchener in St. Paul's Cathedral, crowned cipher of M., probably for which a chamber on the that of Princess Mary Feodo ground floor of the north-west rovan of Wurtemberg, mother of tower has been given to the com. Alexander "I. of Russia. It is mittee by the Dean and Chapter finely chased with female masks will not be completed before May and small busts surrounded by of next year. It will be known and strapwork, caryatid figures, birds, used
"Lord Kitchener's and baskets of fruit, Chapel," and is to contain a re-chasing being in low relief cumbent marble statue of the on a matted background. The great soldier, a marble altar, sur-service, the modern history of mounted by a carved "Pieta," and which has not been made known,
life-sized two
statues of St.
Was purchased by Messrs. Michael and St.George. In a niche Carrington and Co., of Regent- enclosed in a wrought iron grilla street, for £3,700. The Werthei- is to be placed the roll of honour mer silver, fifty-two lots, produced containing the Dames of Lord a total of £4,417, while the Kitchener and some 20,000 of his decorative furniture, porcelain comrades in the Royal Engineers&a, brought £6,637,
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IN
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Lots of Fus.
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THE KING'S CLOCKS.
The most precious of the clocks Very Interesting Collection.
which the King keeps at Windsor It is not generally known that is a little timepiece i ten inches the King's clocks are among the high by four deep, that Henry most interesting and valuable in VIII. gave to Anne Boleyn on her the country, says a writer in a wedding day. The weights are fame paper. There are nearly beautifully engraved with true 250 in Windsor Castle and more lovers' knota. It used to belong than 160 in Buckingham Palace.to Horace Walpole, on whose
One of the most curious time-death it was sold to Queen Vic pieces in Buckingham Palace istoria.
the French Negress Head clock In the Van Dyck Room is a dating from the days of Louis Louis XIV. bubl clock, valued at a XV. It is in ormolu, 2fs. 6in, | £5,000. In the footmen's room #7 high. The hours are shown in one of the queer "Act of Parlia- one of the negrass's eyes.and thement locks," of which a crop minutes in the other.
sprang up when Pitt taxed wat Then there is Brequet's Sympa- ches, and ppor meu, în "conse- thetic Clock. Ita dial is the gold quence, gave up wearing them. watch that was made for, and Most publicans installed in "Act used by, King George IV., with of Parliament Clock" in their thechain and watch-key attached, window. The dial was black- Below, in a glass-panelled mabo-painted wood, with gilt numerals, gany case, is Brequet's apparatus and had no glass face. This parti by which at the stroke, of 12 cular example has been repainted Tues., 24 inst.. 930 m.sboots up a steel meedle through white,
100, 24 inst.. 9.30 a.. a hole in the rim of the watcb- One of the King's clocks, kept ...Tum., 24 inst., 10 sum.
case automatically adjusting the in William IIL's State bedroom, ...Tums.. 24 inst., 10 x m:
minute hand if it should be fast at Hampton Court Flace, has been Tue, 24 int..
For slow.
200 years in the same place. It Registration 9.46 a.m. In the bousehold corridor of the goes for a year without winding.
Letters 10 30 Palace is a big Brequet clock 7ft, The tallest Royal timepiece is (Das Thursday 11. 6th May } Herona M. ...Tuen, 24 inat, 10 30 a. m.
high for which King George IV. 9ft. 10 inches, and stands in the Haiching
Tses, 24 inst., noon. gave a thousand guineas. (A Grand Corridor of Buckingham Tyndarens.Toes., 24 inst. noon. Bister clock is in the Winter Palace.
(Das Victoria About 18th May.) Hinnang.... Tamm, 24 fast, 1 p.m.
...Tues.. 24 inst. 2pm Bolsheviks bave stolen it.) For Tues., 24 inst., 230 p.m. the Cumming clock King George ...T., 24 inst., 2.30 p.m. 111. paid the maker £2,000-and PASSENGERS DEPARTED.
Tues., 24 inst., 2.30 p..a retainer of £200 per annum to
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Bogistration
Letter (Due San Francisco 17th May.)
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Palace at Petrograd, unless the
look after it.
ANNE BOLEYN'S WEDDING CLOCK.
'There are so many clocks in Per B. I. 8.8. TAKADA-Mr. Windsor Castle that the mere in- F. C. Hare, Mrs. Catbert, Mr. D. ventory of them fills two large M. Kable, Mr. & Mrs. Roelli, Mi ledgers in the Lord Chambersin's F. Wuethrick, Mr. D. Timmins, office. They contain a photograph Mr. & Mra, P. G. Smith, Mise Registration 845 .. of every clock, a detailed descrip- Georgian Ess, Miss Antheris,
(Dre Marsillan Zirth May.)
Mation of it, and a note of its where- Maria Cruz, Mr. S. Malkin.
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