WATSON'S
WHISKY
Blended where it is distilled, and Bottled
where it is blended—In SCOTLAND,
A Skilful blend of the finest matured Highland Whiskies. A happy result of long years of experience in distill- ing and blending; with a fine flavour that cannot fail to assure appreciation from the most discriminating palate.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.- Alexandre Building
Phone. C. 616. ·
Richness
of
Tone
CONSOLETTE
After long experiment, the Victor Company, has created in the Orthophonic Victrola, an instrument whose tone is ideal for the home. There is no blaring, no harshness. The tone of the Orthophonic Victorla is rich, clear and full-the tone of realism. We invite you to call and listen to this wonderful instrument,'
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Victor Distributors.
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for the Folks at Home-·
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5 lb. Box (7 lbs.) $9.50 GUMSIAW BLEND- Catty (7 lbs.) $11.50 HANKOW TEA
Catty (7 lbs.) $12.00
NOTE Xmas mail goes Home about Nov. 13.
Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
TEL 0. 4507
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER
order that our direction shall be wisely-ordored and not haphazard. Scienca is coming to the aid of In- dustry and science and research must similarly come to the aid of man to help him determine bly problems and settlement coin munications and comparable mat- ters. We have to fuce the fact that Britain cannot indefinitely on seeking to monopolise the work
DAY BY DAY.
1926.
I DOUNT IS HARD WORK, STEADILY AND REGULARLY CARRIED ON, EVER YET HURT ANYBODY.-Lord Stanley.
There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday:
The B.I. B. Takliwa, from Amoy, is due here on Thursday afternoon
The steamer Tilawa, which left Singapore on the 29th ult, is due hore at 7 am: on the 4th Instant
Messrs. Linstead, and Davis ad vertise that Mr. H. R. Forsyth will sign the firm's name "per procura
of manufacture and that the Prince, from New York, is expect
The motor vessol Javanese
zenith of Great Britain's career as Led to arrive here to-morrow, the world's workshop has possibly been reached. Other nations are catching us up in that respect manufacturing for themselves. The wool of an. Australian-sheep wili oventually cenie going to Leeds to Be made into cloth for shipment back to Australia because such method is obviously not the best. How long it will be before Britain loses the advantage of the great start it had in the modern indus-
The Empress of Russia, left trial development of the world is
Shanghai this morning and is due difficult to hazard, but in the proat Hongkong on Wednesday mor-,
Mustard & Co., Ltd,ces of losing it she will experience
Incorporated under the Companies. Ordinances Hongkong. Alexandra Buildings, Des Voeux Road Central,
The Telegraph
MONDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1926.
RESOURCES AND.
RESEARCH.
great and pressing problems of redistribution which will be the more easily handled as we of the Empire succeed in viewing that Empire as a unified whole. All of us have a vital interest in this big task of enquiry and researd into the Empire's resources. for they constitute a pool out of which we all share and are going to share even more, intimately as the days go by. It is work worthy of every official encouragement.
tion."
Up to nie o'clock this morning here were 57 vessels In harbour. and eight departures. There were six British arrivals
ning at nine o'clock.
Among those who sailed for Europe in the ss. Kyber on Satur: day were Mr. A. H. Barlow, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Reed and Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Womack
Director of St. Joseph's Institution The Rev. Bro. James, O.B.E., at Penang, is now in Hongkong on a visit. He is staying at St. Joseph's College, Kennedy Road.
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An Indian ex-constable was sentenced to six weeks' hard Kowloon Magistracy this morning labour by Mr. J. H. B. Nibili at the for stealing a quantity of lumber valued at $17 from a carpenter's matshed at Ivy Street, Hungliom.
motor car in Des Voeux Road and seriously injured by a private,
A Chinese was knocked down
Central, near Man Wa Lane, at about 7 p.m. yesterday. He was removed to the Government Civil
Hospital..
WORLD CRUISE.
FIRST BIG VESSEL OF SEASON.
With the exception of the great sports area and Adam Restaurent all the public rooma are found on the one deck. There are two garden lounges, a large writing room with, on the opposite side, a card room of equal size. On the On or about December 8th, or 9th same deck is the circulating Hongkong will be visited by the library stocked with travel books, first big round-the-world cruise and 1,000 current novels, Imme liber, this being the Cunarder diately opposite it is the Chocolate Carinthia. This liner is making Shop her second 85,000 miles crata
But the pride of the ship is re around the world.
served for the smoking room... New York on October 14th, and house of the eminent Spanish The cruise commenced fro Based on certain elements in the during her long voyage the artist, El Greco, this wonderful Carinthia will call at no fewer room has commanded the admira- than 21 countries and Colonies, tion of thousands of Atlantic and end, 60 Towns, and places of cruise travellers during the, paat interest.
two years. Havana,, Colon. Balboa, Los
In addition to her magnificent Angeles, San Francisco, Hilo, ataterooms, over 80 of which con- Honolulu, Yokohama, Hongkous, nect with, a private bath, the Manila, Zamboanga, Port Moresby Carinthia has several luxurious. Auckland, Wellington, Milford private sultes and en suite apart- Sound, Hobart Sydney, Melments. bourne, Fremantle, Batavia, Sin gapore, Colombo, Bombay, Suz for Cairo and Alexandria, Athens, Pace has been taken up by a Naples, Monte Carlo, Gibraltar magnificent sports arena consist and Cherbourg. She will returng of swimming pool, gymnasium, to England during the early whilst in the open a magnificent cicetric bathy squash racket, court, Spring
sun deck gives every facility for Before leaving Liverpool, most deck tennis and other games. elaborate arrangements were Provision has also been made for made *for the Cruise: The an open-air swimming bath. Carinthia received a most com- The Local agents for the ship plete spring cleaning from the are Mesars, Butterfield and Swire. top decc to, the store rooma lower
down, while huge quantities of stores, wines and spirits wera placed on board."
8,000 square feet of the ship's
Probate has been granted in: the
Embodying in her construction respect of the property of "the latest devices which make late Mr. Cecil Hynes Lyson, late for safe navigation and personal of Shatin, New Territories, a well- comfort on the high acas, "the known local solicitor of Hongkong. Carinthia, is specially fitted for Mr. Lyson left $22,000 not, und world cruising and her public letters of administration of the rooms and staterooms do not only estate have been granted to the tinctive innovations in ship archi-M. K. Lo and Mr. He Loung, have typify the latest and most dis- widow. The two executors, Mr. tecture, but are also unusually renounced all their rights and title wide and commodious.
to the property.
The Very Idea!
We "remember reading some months ago a lecture delivered by Lord Balfour in which he lament-
An Appeal to Britishers. ed that industry in Britain did not make the fullest possible use British people in Hongkong to con- We again make an appeal to of science and research, and we tribute, according to their means, are reminded of the burden of his to the Wanhsien Fund, the pro- argument by the British Wireless ceeds from which will go to the de- pendents of those who lost their report which came to hand on lives under circumstances of the Saturday detailing the work of the utmost bravery, In Shanghai,. the
Lane Crawfords advertise that various research sub-committees Fund is securing considerable sup their store will remain open till port, and, in order to bring its 6 pm. each evening and 1. p.m. on of the Imperial Conference now claims before the public, one re- Saturdays for the purpose of giv
If France had decided upon the No matter how bad you have hit sitting in London. Lord Balfour's sident has gone so far as to pay for ing their patrone of outlying dis- projected series of stamps show the reverse, remember, old fellow, main contention was that the a full-page advertisement in the tricts a better opportunity for leing some of the beauties of the it might be much worse. Com- future into which we are looking North China Daily News, the textured shopping during the "Gift country it would only have been parfson's really a mighty good
of the appeal being given in our Month."
following well-established prece salve. Be thankful, at least, for must be moulded by scientific issue of Saturday. So far, the res
donts. There was the beautiful whatever you have. knowledge that there must be ponse to the local appeal has not
At the Marine Court this me series issued by Bosnia in 1906, been at all good-a circumstance ping, before Lieut. Cummdr. Hole, a credit alike to designor and en- take it from me who think's There's always the fellow-just closer mingling of the technical which is all the more regrettable the master of two junks were each graver, showing some of the beau- you're as lucky as lucky can be. and scientific man with the com- when we bear in mind the fact that fined $25, or three weeks, for ties of the country, to which was Well, maybe he's right. If his mercial. Looking at the British Hongkong is the headquarters of leaving port at night, without a added a series of newspaper hunch makes you glad, perhaps, What we permit. For failing to exhibit re- stamps in 1913 with the head of after all, things aren't really so Empire's 'resources from that the China Station.
the masters f angle, one very readily sees what initiated for the securing of more three junks were fined $15 each or Newfoundland issued very fine The real fun in life is in wishing
should like to see is a big campaign gulated lights,
a very beautiful Bosnia girl, bad. a vast scope there is for cb funds. This could be done, in ad- two weeks.
sets in 1897, and again in 1910, for things. It peps you to work ordinated work, and we find at the dition to appeals for personal con-
The following vessels are expec- the scenery. Tasmania did the look on the blue side. That just many of which gave some views for whatever work brings. Don't tributions, by the holding of a Imperial Conference, encouraging street collection, the granting of ed to be in wireless communication same in 1900, Jamaica following makes you sore. By just keeping evidence that the problem is in sums by the St George's and St. with Hongkong to-day Empress suit with one of the most beauti- trying, you get that much more. the very forefront. There is al- Andrew's Societies, and the can of Russia, President Grant, Kar- ful sets of stamps, ever issued dur
vassing of officers and men of the mala, Khyber, Anking, Limehow, ing the years 1920 and 1021. ready an Imperial Agriculture Re- mercantile marine, for it should Coblenz Sefstan, City of Cairo, search Committee which is hold-not be forgotten that the Wanhsien Yuki Maru, Kashima Máru,, Foo- ing a big conference in the early heroes lest their lives whilst rescu-sang, Japan, Rhexener, Tilawn,
ing the officers of merchant vessels, Sinklang and Tanda. autumn of next year, at which all Possibly if the officials of the Navy the Dominions will be present. League, the two Societies” nomed
EXCHANGE RATES.
Fears regarding the safety of a
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Tucked away between Berkeley Square and Bruton Streets stands the smallest shop in London. It consists of one room, 3 yards long, 4 feet 9 inches high and 3 feet 2
He bought a Rock, of
chickens.
"I'll have fine fresh eggs,"
ho said.
Oh heavens, but he was
ignorant.
The chickens crowed, in-
stond.
shoes.
A newspaper reporter, conduct Ing a survey in Boston recently, The threepenny-bit, scorned at discovered that the so-called.
There is fishery research, as well and the China Coast Marine Gulids junk which disappeared from the inches, broad. There is just room as a Research. Committee of the got together, a well-organised cam company of a launch sent out to for a cobbler, to sit and mend paigh could be mapped out. What attend to defects occurring in à important Empire Marketing ever the means to be adopted, telegraph cable between Lantau Board. The scientific study of Hongkong should see to it that this Island and Macao, have been dis- tropleal agriculture and the work Colony is not behind in assisting sipated by the return of the craft, home, seems to find appreciation "menial jobs pay better than
such a fine cause, support for which with all her tackle intact. It ap in West Africa. A recent travel white-collar occupations. of the Imperial Bureau of En- would display appreciation of the pears from information obtained tomology were referred to in the work of our naval men and at the from the police this morning, that lengthy report to hand, and if all same time aid those who have lost the junk drifted out of her bear their bread-winners, In the meanings, but was later located with this work is being prosecuted with tinic, individual contributions sent out much difficulty. the vigor it deserves then the peq to Mr. A. J. Bird, of the Chartered ples of the Empire are fortunate Bank, would be welcomed. in the possession of wise directors. More and more the peoples of the Empire must look upon them- selves as members of one great nation-split into families, and
Paris must view these problems as a Brussels
Ameterdam whole. Great Britain is over-
Berlin crowded and highly industrialised Copenhagen
Vienna and the tendency must be in the
Helsingfors direction of peopling the wide Lisbon
Buenos Aires empty spaces of the Dominions Shanghai with suitable folk from the Old You
Now York Country. And for that eventual Geneva
Milan trend, there is much preparation Stockholm- necessary. The best places and Oslo methods for the production of our Madrid Prague peccialties must be discovered; wa Blo
Bombay want to know tha
Empire's re- Hongking sources in fleh and land-raised Silver (forward.)
Silver (spot)
foods we want to study the miner- clogy of the Empire to discover the most suitable location for in- dustrial plants we want to know all that is possible to know in procuration.
ler in the Hinterlanu (says a cor- Barbers were found who were spondent) found the coin the making $5,000 a year, taxicab only acceptable currency. The drivers averaging $50 or more a natives are civilised enough to week, waitresses getting $85 to $40 carry money, but they carry it on a week, and porters to whom $35 . The formal celebration of the
their backs, and resolutely refuse a week was no strange gure. birthday of the Emperor of Japan thoughtful Government therefore ors, clorks and book-keopers tip to carry a weight of pennies. A Many meagerly paid stenograph- (born August 31, 1879) took place yesterday, and local Japanese resi provides threepenny-bits, and barbers, waitresses and porters. dents loyally observed the day. Ja everything is priced in multiples because they feel sorry for panese ships in harbour were ready cash, the traveller induced covered that the feeling was ou
of threepence. Running short of them The Boston reporter dis- "dressed:" The Japanese Consul Rugby, Oct. 31.
held on "At Home" in the morning European store in one of the tual that those in the "mèníal” 153 34,844 whilst in the afternoon there were villages to change a cheque and positions also felt sorry for the 12.12 sports on the Sookunpon ground, received 220 in threepenny-bits. white-collar folk. 20.87% largely attended. School children 84.241%
also a football match. Mr. Kino 2.17/32 ahita, head of the Hongkong office 48.13/16 of the N. Y. K, gave away the
2/4% prizes at the close.
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A High Mass in the early morn ..1184 |ing, and a procession in the after- 18.144 noon, constituted the observances
19.
There is a strange psychology. it rather extravagant to be who fing the waltens dos it comes Mother: Willie, don't you think about tipping. The stenographer, butter and jam on your bread at times through pity, sometimes the same time? ··
through. timidity, sometimes to put Willlo; No, It's economy,
You
upa front At any rate, the see, the same piece of bread does "mental folk are cashing in on for both.
- Say, man, when you think you' He was owner and manager of at the Roman Catholic Cathedral, are down on your luck, and shy on the big contracting concern- by In Hongkong yesterday of the the thing that's referred to as reason of his money rather than .31.99 6:49/04. Fenst of Jesus Christ, which, by a pluck, and stop in your pathway his brains. However, he, was al- 1/627/32 | decrco from Pope Pius XI, has and think you are stuck, you're ways kind and considerato with his 1/10% boén Inaugurated to fall on the just giving in to the life you must employees. He had set a fresh 24.18/10
latit Sunday in October of each bucket fresh young collego onginrer to work on 24.0/10
year. At both ceremonies, ap- The thought that will oft help a a design. British Wirelers.
propriate music was sung, while fellow come through, is thinking "May I uso calculus, in solving the sermon at the afternoon sor- of people much worse off than you, this problem?" naked the youth. vice was given by Fr. Riganti They suffer their setbacks and “Certainty, use anything | you Bishop Valtorto, nusisted by Frs. ncer, but an eye, Run that wish. And if you don't have en Noval and Rossi, led large con through your mind and you're ough, I'll send out and buy you gregations in the celebrations. aitting right high. Ge
Mr. E. F. Autott has been a thorised to sign for Mesars Jar
inc. Matheson & Co., Ltd. per