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BRITISH FIRM IN MANILA.
CELEBRATES CENTENARY OF
FOUNDATION.
Messrs. Ker and Company, the "well-known arm of exporters, im-
portera and insurance agents, of Manila, have just celebrated the centenary of the foundation of their firm in the Philippines.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1927.
OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
The Arm, which is one of the.. oldest-established in the Far East, commenced operations, in Manila in 1827, as the result of the gradual expansion and develop- ment.of a business' which was al- ready flourishing in Singapore and Java. The foundation of this basiness dates from 1823, when Mr. Hugh Syme, of the firm of
and Murray, Syme
Company, Liverpool, arrived in Singapore from England, aud commenced to 6 Made threefold. trade under the name of Syme and 11 To enlist. Company. Steamships and the 13 Pertaining to a region. Suez Canal were as yet undream-15 Tar.
17 To devour, ed of at that time, and Mr. Syme 18 Behold. had to travel by a small sailing
19 Oral vessel vin the Cape of Good Hope. 21 Gol up. It is recorded that his voyage last-
1 Rodents.
Across.
Down
1 Regardful.
ed five months. In the year 1826 23 Exclamation of inquiry.
25 Swift. Mr. Syme joined in partnership 27 Tidy.
with Mr. J. K. Pitcairn, and estab-28 Eccentric wheel. lithed at Batavia, in Java, the firm 30. Even.
of Pitcairn. Syme and Company. 32 Evening preceding a holiday. ++Branches of this, firm were sub-133 Street car.
57 Half an em.
sequently opened at Sourabaya 36 Lenf division of the calyx. and Samarang, Java, while a138 Not as many. branch of Syme and Company was 40 Braided thong
You established at Bangkok, Siam.)
and ne 42 13 To knock lightly. The style of the firm of Murray, 45 Term of holding. Syme and Company has, owing to 47 Detests.
the death or retirement of the 49 To restrain. partners, undergone changes at in-50 Connected by kinship. tervals during the past hundred 61 Hardens. years.first to Sholfield, Doering
and Company, later to Shofield, Bolton and Company, and still. later to Kor, Bolton and Company, under which name business is at
the name
CINEMA NOTES,
QUEEN'S.
An unusual and appealing film
2 Collection of facts,
3 To cause ta stumble.
Pertaining to the sun.
"Sun
god.,
7 Before,
8 To curry burdens.
Classical language.
10 Deity,
the eve
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bird.
12 Pertaining to the space between
eyes and the bill of
14 Contestants.
16 Lariats.
18 To
30
deport.
12
20 Organ which secretes bile.
22 To
observe.
241 Rabbits.
at Railway station.
26
29 Craw.
31 Crippled."
34 Iron.
36
Alles's.
39
Polynesian chestnut.
41 Fear-shaped atringed instru
ment.
44 House cat.
146 To soak- fax, '
47 Masculine pronoun.
48 Point of compasɛ..
U.S. PACIFIC LINES.
SHIPPING BOARD ORDERS' SALE.
Washington, Nov. 29,
present carried on at the firm's "ALIAS THE DEACON" "AT THE principal offices in London and Glasgow. The Philippine branch of the firm was established in Manila in November, 1827, under to be seen at the Queen's Theatre Accepting the recommendations of Ker Murray and to-day in "Alias the Deacon," a of its sub-committee, the Shipping Company, the designation being simple story of a picturesque Board today ordered, the sale of eltanged in 1846 to its present character.
its three Pacific lines under two form, Ker and Company. The
"Alias the Deacon" proved a methods of bidding. firmi are represented also by trententious success
as a stage! Branches in Iloilo and Cebu.
Under one form of bidding the play in London and New York.! With Jean Hersholt, one of the lines will be offered for 25 per on the cent. cash and the balance in 10 most celebrated actors
of the equal annual installments, with screen, In the rich role gambler who covers his real the present routes to be maintain- occupation under the henign ex-o for five years. The other plan terior of a deacor, it is even bet calls for an initial payment of 10 per cent. and the balance in 10 or In addition to the character star, 15 annual payments, with the the cast of the picture includes lines to be maintained for at least Ralph Graves, June Marlowe, three years. The best bid will be Myrtle Stedman, Lincoln Plem accepted irrespective or whether mer, Ned Sparks, Maurice Murphy, it is under one or the other plan. Tom Kennedy and others.
LETTER GOLF.
HERE'S A NEAT, FOUR.ter as a film.
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If you're COLD it isn't hard to get WARM Just a twist of the Beneil. Par is four strokes, which could be beaten, maybe.
COLD
WARM
1-The idea of letter golf is to change one word to another and to it in par, a given number of strokes. Thus to change COW TO HEN, in three' strokes, COW, HOW, HEW. HEN.
2-You can change only, one letter at a time.
8-You must have a complete word, of common usage. for each jump" Slang words and abbreviations don't count.
4-The order of letters can- not be changed.
One solution is" printed on nother page of this issue.
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The lines to be sold are the American. Australian and Orient, the Oregon Oriental and the American Oriental Mali.
The Black Pirnte.".. Described as the wonder film of the year in which it was pro ducel, The Black Pirate" is being screened again in Hongkong, be-
Among passengers returning to ing the feature attraction at the World Theatre from today to the Colony by s.s. Morea due here Saturday. The picture has been on Thursday are Mr. and Mrs. shown in the Cotong before, but Chysh, Mr. and Mrs. R. Hancock, it is sure to draw crowded houses | Colonel and Mrs. McLaren, Sir during its present run, because Henry and Lady Pollock, Mr. and local cinema-goers will not have a Mrs. J. Ralston; Mr. and Mrs. farther opportunity of seeing it P. W. Ramsey, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. in the Colony. The hero of "The Thompson, and Mr. TSheyan. Black Pirate" is Bouglas Fair-
banks, moving easily and lithely
through a series of amazing and love of a good man is more pre- thrilling adventurea against a
The cious than expensive jewellery and
picturesque background. picture is in full natural colour,
**Manhandled.”
gorgeous furs.
Preparing for the part Gloria Swanson spent several strenuous days learning how shop girls in "Manhandled," Gloria Swanson's New York live. She worked for a Paramount pleture, which comes day in one of New York's largest to the Star. Theatre to-day and to departments, rade in the subway, was produced by Allanato her meals-in a boarding House Dwan from Arthur Stringer's and went through the general story of the same name.
routine the average shop girl- Miss Swanson has the role of a follows during the day. shop girl in a department store, whose desire for beautiful clothe
morrow
An excellent cast surrounds
and a so-called good time leads Gorgeous Gloria. Tom Moore her into free and easy contact with gives an excellent portrayal of the so many men that her reputation poor mechanic, for whom Gloria is tarnished. She learns that the renounces all worldly pleasures.
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