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Old-time custom and seasonable Pentiment alike welcome the Christmas carol singers when amand thes came in genuine guise fron church or chapel or Salvation Army, with the old familiar r.T..Shanghai carols that open the heart tal IT. Singapore almsgiving for laudable charities. Japan But carol singing seems to have, amand India run wild just now, when doorsteps: T/T. S. Francison and Yı
Fork are infested night after night by groups of children making night, Java ......
↑ T. Marks hideous by a pretence of singing, P. T. Frades which is mere shouting and baw-mand, Paris ling words that are sacred to
many, says a
London paper.
IT, India
Then comes the knocking at the door and request for munerish Lio which is really begging. The Inuisance has become so general that many think it ought to be suppressed, if only in the interests of the children themselves.
So longer need the threepenny bit blush for its modesty beside the lordly half-crown in the offertory bag The Official Year Book of the Church of England for 1924 records a rapid increase
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On Saigon
On Bangkok
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9.31
BUTING
Gold leaf per Tasl
5040
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2015/16 2:51/15 / D/P.
2:51 Syday and Melbourne 2:51
34 1/15
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New York/Lon la
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SUBSIDIARY COINS.
Bangkong 50 cent places @
Ossian anh, coins Gold loo
Boarions February 15_1923,
POST OFFICE NOTICES. INWARD MAILS.
From
Per Chakianz
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15th Feb
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OUTWARD MAILS.
Per
Protemal was
in the use of weekly envelopes. Shanghai whereby a regular weekly sub-hanghai scription is maintained. Someth churches have thus added thou-Emape via Neppatim Letters & Paporn.
Londax 17 Jan. sands a year to their receipts. Australis & Mazsim dispensing with the potter of USA Janan & Shanghai bazaars and whist drives. One of strat
1.4.3. Canada 3-pin & shanghai. the great points about the system's Jan & Shanghai is that if you 1314s a service or take a week-end holiday you pus in the neglected envelopes on vour return, just as rent is paid for a house during holidays. Most denominations have tried it with advantage.
Japan.
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Canada CS... O + 3. America Europe via Fictoria BC.
Baiyboos Just on the eve of the award of Hobow Quinbon & Tourans the Edward Bok hundred thous Bankok and dollar world peace prize be- Bates, Samarang & Swarab ing announced, details are issued Form
Masia of an offer by another American citizen-a"retired manufacturers.kck of the Middle West-of a prize Bgkok of 25,000 dollars (approximately
Fort £5,000) for the best education plan calculated 30 produce world concord. It will be
a world-wide contest, and will
be conducted under the auspices
For chow
Date.
3rd Mar
Parcele 15h 5 p.m.
2.5. 16 inst
Reistration 7:15 am
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of the "World Federation Sharpbai Par of Education Associations." Onbeds,
was constituted at San
Arica which Francisco last July. What is desired from competitors is a plan of education which would! ultimately bring about world! amity. The plan. according tol the conditions of the contest,) fon » does not call for legislative action unless necessary to back up new seatou "amy & F con and fundamental processes.
is the conviction of the giver oft
the prize and of the federation) that universal peace must have
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universal application and must Hoodia & San Francisco begin with unprejudiced child- hood.
The American passion for statistics has found scope lately in investigating what proportion of various wares is purchased by Women and what by inet According to a "survey in which Columbia University pro- fessors took part, women bug 48 per cent. ciall drugs, 96 per cent. of all dry goods. 87 per cent of taw and market foods, 48 per cent. of hardware and furni- shings. and 50" pel cent.
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Registration 415 pm
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5pm.
Sat, 15 met Registration $15 p.m.
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Fri 2.1. O7.
WEATHER REPORT.
Feb. 15d. 10h. 43m.-Pressure has increased considerably at Chefon. Changes at other re- porting stations are slight.
Another anticyclone is forming over S.E. Mongolia.
of all the automobiles sold. T. W. Bundy and child. Mr. and Wives buy 11 per cent. of Mrs. M. Corbett. Mrs. C. Claxton the husbands' clothing. Men buy and child. Mrs. M. Churchward. 90 per cent of the silk stockings Miss M. Churchward, Miss A.
Moderate monsoon may be ex- worn by women, 50 per cent. of Carson, Mr. 2. Hino, Mr. K. Mai- the boxed candy, 36 per cent. of ima. Mr. Kwan Ching Paw, Mr. pected along the S.E. coast of the newspapers, 28 per cent. of L. Powell, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Chins and over the N. China Sea. Hongkong rainfall for the 24 pedigreed dogs. 24 per cent. of Powell, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Parsons. phonographs, and 20 per cent, of liss M. Ross, Mr. S. Kumage, Me.hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day, electric and other wiring fixtures. P. I. Annan. Mr. D. Cox, Miss A.0.17 inch. Total since January 1st, 3.49 inches, against an average The purchase of candy by men, it Cox, Miss E. D. Hardie, Mrs. C. Telegraphic Address "VICTORIA "
is suggested, indicates that the Koike, Mr., S. Tanikawa. Mr. T. of 2.29 inches. traditional methods of courtship Behan, Miss V. Behan, Miss C. W. still persist. while silk stockings Benan, Capt. M. Kitahara. Mr. Z. serve the secondary function of Kosuge, Mr. T. Igaki, Father. E. repairing rifts in the family lute. Mageure, Mr. and Mrs. M. A.)
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SINGAPORE.
DANCING AFTER DINNER,
EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY," TEA DANCES
TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS.
The Hotel Orchestra under the Direction of
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ENTERTAINMENTS
HEREAFTER
when you speak of THRILLS you will think of
"THUNDERING DAWN"
Universal'a
Super Jewel
in seven reels with J. WARREN KERRIGAN
and
ANNA Q. NILSSON
SHOWING
TODAY till SATURDAY at 12.15, 2.30, 5.15, 7.15, 9.15
AT·
ERE IS ALWAYS A GOOD SHOW A
THERED
THE STAR
Lonight at 5:30 and 9.15
DOUGLAS MCLEAN
IN
THE FARCICAL COMEDY "ONE A MINUTE "
Tomorrow at 9.15 p.m. KOWLOON DOCK A.D.C.
present
THE RAJAH OF RAJAHPORE
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THE AT RE Des Voeux Road Central
Wednesday to Saturday 13th to 16th. February
Mrs. WALLACE REID
IN
"HUMAN WRECKAGE"
8 REELS
Admission:-
9.15 p.m.-$1.50 & $1:00 5.15 p.m.-$1.00 & 70 ets.
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE.
Walter, Miss. E. Alvarez,-Mr: Chée 1 Formosa Chacuel! 31odern astronomy. which is Quin. Mr. Lee Wan, Mr. D. Morgan,
of achieving such startling results. Mr. Sio Kwong, Mr. San Koy. Mr.2 South coast
China is aided by a variety of wonderful Ya Yen, Mr. R. B. Daryabaci, Mrs.,
between N.E. winds. new and improved instruments, Y. Araki, Mrs. R. Arikawa, Mr. E. H.K. & Lamocks i moderate: by accumulations of photographic Fumhoto. Mrs. T. Tashiro, Mr. J
overcast, and other records for comparison Tomozawa. Mr. Y. Suwa, Mr. T3 H'kong to Gap fog, drizzle. with new observations, and in no Tsuda, Me. T. Mori, Mr. Y. Fuji-| Rock. small degree by work in the clear moto. Mr. H. Marazume and Mr. E. air of elevated stations. The new Nakanishi. 26-inch, refractor for the Union Observatory of Johannesburg, to be located at an altitude of 5,925 feet in south latitude 26.11; will complete a half-dozen
PRINCE OF WALES, STORY. young man, a nephew of a cer astronomical observatories ati Per s.s. President Taft.--Mr.)
tain English dignitary, who had heights of more than a mile above W. S. Allen, Mr. C. W. Cumming.
A good Prince" story is go had just a little too much to sea-level The others are the Mr. G. B. Caballero, Mrs. C. E. Arequipa Observatory of Harvard Coltman, Mr. & Mrs. R. Chicker Zabriskie, Mr. E. J. Mackie, Mring the rounds just now. It ap drink, was continually breaking College, with an elevation of 8,041 ing. Mr. Geo. Graham, Mr. Jose D. Waugh, Mr. & Mrs. E. Epears that on a former visit to into conversation with, I won- feet; Kodaikaral, Cashmere, 7,688 Herrero, Mrs. D. Johnston. Mr. T. Barnes, Mr. A. Binning, Mr. Geo. Canada our popular Ambassador der, gentemen, if you are aware fest, Tacubaya, Mexico. 7,619 Kawata, Mr. & Mrs. J.T. Kinney, Brown, Mr. R. Delacra, Mrs. Ada was entertained by the prominent that I am a nephew of Lord-15 feet: Flagstaff, Arizona, 7.250 Mr. & Mrs. M. W. Lo, Mr. M. Fitzpatrick, Rev. & Mrs. Gilmore, men of a certain town, and, after The Prince stood it as long as feet; and Mount Wilson, Cal, Lipman, Mrs. N. A. Lorenzen. Mr. Co. D. C. Home, Mrs. D. Chuncheon, he was chatting with he could, and then turned to him. 5,900 feet. The Hooker telescope Mr. D. Mackenzie, Master W. P. Home, Mr. N. P. Lambert, Mr. & the company in his informal "It's quite all right, bid man, h 150 inches in diameter, is located Mackenzie, Mr. Jack Mason, Mrs. Otto Liebe, Miss Liebe, Mr- manner in the smoke-room. One said "I shan't tell him!". at Mount Wilson. The Lick Capt. Miguel Morales, Mr. & Mrs. D. T. Mc Shane, Miss F. E. Observatory, with its 36-inch LE Me Michael, Mrs. J. H. Richardson, Mr. Gao. Ritter, Mr. refractor, is 4,343 feet above sea-Me Michael, Mr. & Mrs. M. Blanche Ritter, Miss Mary Ritter, level, on the summit of Mount Simon, Mr. & Mrs. S. G. Sinclair, Miss Mary L. Stephenson, Mr. Hamilton, Cal
Miss Bumi Tanaka, Mrs. C. B. Otto Vorster
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