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Summer Pyjamas.

Plain white Nainsook very cool and absorbent. Short or long styles.

$3.75. $4.00 per suit. Plain whits Aertex" Cellular in long style. Wash and wear splendidly.

$7.00 per suit White check with coloured stripes in long style Vary cual

$6.00 per scit.

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Plain white or Coloured Boisette in ather Long ar Short styles.

$4.00 $5.00 per suit.

All cut an full free lines that ensure parfect comfort.

MACKINTOSH

& CO, LTD.

Men's Wear Specialists.

16, Des Voeux Road.

Evaporated

Cream

Libby Neill & Libby

Chicago

EARLIER TELEGRAMS..

Telephone 29.

Libby's

Cream

Pure, Rich, Always Ready. Makes Your Cooking Easier And Better. SOLD BY LEADING GROCERS. CONNELL BROS, COMPANY

[Rauler's Service to the China Mail.)

TIN SHARE SENSATION.

„MELBOÇENT, Äugust 8th A sensation Eas been caused as the Mel-

bourne Stock Exchange, owing to the coz tiano heavy fall on adverse reporte the share of the Badak iin-mining property in the Malay Peninsula.

Early this year the £10 shares rose to £2,000, when a phenomenal find of tin at Badal was reported.

CHINESE COAL FOR DENMARK.

SOLE AGENT

HONGKONG YARN MARKET.

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Messrs. Polishwalla and Kotwall in their Hongkong yarn report dated August 7 state-Since our last re- port on the 17th ult. by ss. "Dil

wara," there has been a marked fav ourable change in our yarn market cwing to brisk demand from Chinese buyers, which has greatly improved the rates. Business has passed to the extent of over 5,000 bales mostly

SECRET DEVICE ON

WARSHIPS

THE CHINA MAIL.

SIK PARCY SCOTT'S CLAIM AGAINST VICKERS

CANTON FUNDS.

میش

SINCERE CO.'S ATTITUDE,

THE GOLDEN STAIRS.

IMPRESSIVE SCENES IN ANCIENT BOXE.

The Sincere Company does not OWE On the far side of the wide Piazza A claim by Admiral Sir Percy Scott Government any money, according to St. John Lateran, stands an unpre Dr. Wu Ting-fang or the Military San Giovanni, opposite the church of #geinst Messrs. Vickers, Ltd., came the statement of a member of the local tentions, almost shabby, building. belore Mr. Justice Coleridge in the department store who was recently But it contains one of the most pre King's Bench Division.

interviewed by a Canton Times re-clous, relics in Christendom, and Sir E. Carson said plaintiff had de porter, relative to a vernacular pres throughout the day long queues of vored a great deal of his time to make report that Mr. Chan Hsin, a depar- the devont extend far into the Piazza ing inventions in relation to gunneryment chief of the Ministry of Financ, to await their turn to worship. and particularly as to sighting at is going after the company there for rangements, which had been adopted the $300,000 alleged to be due to the throughout the ships of his Majesty's Ministry. Navy and in any ships belonging to other countries.

One of the inventions in question, made in 1903, was called the Hero sight, because it was first used in a stip called the "Hero." There was

The Company in Canon says that

Mr. Wong Kok Shun, manager of the Heung On Insurance Company and director of the Sincere Company in Hongkong, may have individually con tracted a loan with Dr. Wu, but this

correspondent in an exchange, that It is in this building, writes a

you, may see the actual steps which formed part of the palace of Pontius

Pilate in Jerusalem, the actual steps which Christ ascended and descended

His Passion.

These Holy Stairs came to Rome

TURIDÃÝ AUGUST 18

NOTICES.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

New shipment of FROZEN SMOKED FISH

60 cts. per lb.

Selected Fillets Finnan Haddocks 50 Selected Kippers 40

an agreement entered into regarding has nothing to do with the Sincere the mother of Constantine the Great Red Herrings

this by which plaintiff was to be paid 20 per cent. of the selling price > any of these inventions, manufactured by Vickers.

Company at Capron at all.

It appears that Mr. Wong Kark Shun contracted a loan from Dr. Wu nearly a year ago, giving some stock INDEFINITE ARRANGEMENTS. certificates and other documents 2 Various other inventions and im- security and that the Military Govern provements were handed over to the men now claims that the loan made delendents on an agreement that they was from the funds of the Govern should have the sole right to manic-ment, then it the hands of Dr. Vir. facture electric range clocks, range the Minister of Finance in Canton at transmitters and receivers, and a blow that time, and that the loan, when du, our for guns, which was the invention should be payable to the Ministry ard that came chiefly imo this case not to Dr. W'n. The Military Govers director of Bring gear that was an ex- ment has succeeded in getting an tersion of the original Hero sighting order from the Carzon District Court This enabled one, through the mecha-directing the Sincere Company to re- rical' contrivances of the invention, deem the, loan with the Ministry of practically to fight all the guns in a Finance, now in charge of Dr. Chen ship at one time by reason of the Chin-tao, instead of with Dr. Wu. way in which the sighting could be arranged.

Plaintif contended that" all these inventions came under the original contract. Matters seemed to have beer arranged in a very informal way, There was, in fact, no contract pro- duced except the original one bearing date 1903, and the matter had beer

going on in a very indefinite way for many years.

What the plaintiff claimed now was an account from defendants of all the sales of these different apparatus: in

the various inventions were allowed struments, and devices. As a rule"

to be raken out in the name of Vickers or of Sir Trevo Dawson who was the managing director. The director ffiring gear was taken out in the join:

of Sir Trevor Dawson and Ad-

miral Sir Percy Scott.

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THE DIRGE OF THE

UNWORLDLY MAN.

The sweetest song springs from

broken heart,

The

a

truest song from hears that sor-

Tow shatters.

But all these songs are difficult to

start,

These songs of cast-off lives, of last

year's tart-

Sing me a song of wine, for nothing

JJ

matters!

Love were a theme to make the poet

To

weep

see the unappreciated pearls he

scatters.

And so were songs of Chloe and her

sheep.

Of how the shepherd plays and lamb- Sing me a song of wine, for nothing

Ains Iesp

The Pub. is open to the warmth

within

Comes one who thinks you lovers mad

as hatters:

in No. 10s and 12s, at an advance of $10 to 15 per bale, while the very

A QUESTION OF PERCENTAGE. The points in dispute between the firm tone of the market in India LONDON, August 7th,

has further strengthened the sellers seem to object in an account, hul parties were these. Defendars did The Coal Association says that the Danish State Bailways order for Chinese and has helped them to part with said Erst: You are not entitled to cos; and the forthcoming delivery at Mar- their stock at higher prices. As re soilies of 100,000 tons of Chinese coal mark ported in our last circular, the of 20 per cent, on the selling price

the account on the basis you allege +matters! the opening of a fresh epoch in the his- tinued abnormal demand of No. 214 tors of the world's coal industry. The yarn in India has resulted in the re

of your Inventious. reduced English cusput has given China shipping of 1,000 more bales of this erited, up to a subsequent date to Your are only a chance.

ace. Few people realize the enor mous extent of China's mineral resources. particular count there, and owing to 10 per cent., of the profits on the The important part which China may play good inquiry by the Chinese and the sales." That said counsel, made Greets Gertrude in the raproom with *3 z coal-producing nation has been scarcity of this yar, prices have very great difference. Sir Edward realized in Germany. The technical Ger- advanced $15 to 20 per bate. The thought that was the main question Cries to pis gathered cronies Come,

a-grin. man papers, during the last few months, recent sudden rise in exchange has that had to be discussed. bave been paying great attention to this

counteracted upon the lively tone of Another question arose in relation

hegin. matter.

LONDON. August 7th.

our market, which has remained quier j-to one of the inventions-the blow out It is reported at the castle Exchange during the latter part of the interval for guns. Defendants defied that they that Chinose coal companies are competing Sales, 5,000 bales; Unold stock, 6,000 for European business. The Danish State bales; Bargains, 16,000 bales. Railways have parchet cargoes of Chin Arrivals-From Bombay going we moal for immediate shipment.

ALLEGED INTERNATIONAL

ANARCHIST.

CHICAGO, August 6th.

bales.

Shanghai-With an improvement of Tis. 4 to 5 per bale, a good busi ness has been done in all counts.

Japanese Yarn 20s-After a long period of dull and drooping market,

supplied to anybody this invention.

Course did not know exactly what they meant hý that, because his in- structions were that this was a very important invention.

PROTCHING GUN CREWS.

By this contrivances instead of the gas being blown back with disastrous resis to the crews, it was let off.

The Police hare arrested a man named a lively inquiry has come out during Almost every ship of his Majesty's John Alexander, alias Lagranch, alleged to this interval and fairly large transac be an international anarchist and a member tions had been put through, at

of the German Communist Party on a substantial rise of $20 per bale.. charge of evading draft. The Police da clare that be, had been distrubuting German propaganda in America, while the Federal authorities consider that the arrest is the, most important arrest made since the war,

RESCUED FROM THE ICE.

AN ADVENTURE IN THE

AKCSIC.

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The rescue is reported of the crew of the "Solovei." which had be n drifting in the Kara Sea, in the Arctic Ocean. The icebreaker "Svatogor” which went to the rescue encountered masses of old polar ice" in the Kara Sea and steamed to the north-west to find new and more penetrable ice. The icebreaker reached the," Solovei” by running into the pack ice, with full steam raised in all of her ten boilers. Sametimes she was beaten back buť" she attacked again and again though at times she was obliged to make a dozen efforts as the ice was 20 feet thick in places. Finally, the "Svatogor" brought the Solovei" with 87 persons aboard safely to Archangel.

Beginning August 15, *WALLA WALLA" BOATS will call on all Ships flying the call flag "ZED."

ORGAN RECITAL,

POPULAR PROGRAMME.

YOCAL CONTRIBUTIONS.

Navy had been supplied by Messrs.

Sing me a song of wine, for notting

marter.

Leave Tyres to bands, and leave his

pipes to Pan

While music in the trees the monkey

chanters:

Sing me a song of nobler stuff than

Man.

O Grapes, created are his reign be-

gan-

Sing me a song of Wine, for nothing

"matters:

KEITH WEST Hongkong, August 9. 1920.

CONSUL THREATENEQ.

4

BANGKOK CASE..

Vickers with this invention, and evi- dence to that effect would bé tendered. The defendants, he understood, de- nied that the blowout for guns' Unt they supplied to the Navy was plain- tiff's invention. The defendants said) that on February 9. 1005, by a letter from Sir Trevor Dawson, and one in reply Brom Sir Percy Scour, it was agreed that plaintiff would accept

12.000 in settlement of all royal- GRANT COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. fis on sighting arrangements due to him down to January 2, 1905. That Mr. Denman Fuller will give al was om to include inventions in con- In the case in which Mr. C. Grant. recital with a "popular" programme section with telescopes, clocks, and on Monday evening next in St transmitters. The sum of £12,000, by the police for threatening H.B.M. a mining engineer, is being prosecuted John's Cathedral at 9.15, when please defendants said, was paid. The Consul-General at Bangkok and with of an entirely popular nature, such plainti's invention the director of doing wilful damage by breaking as the Intermezzo frora Cavallerin Ering gear-was still secret and could Rusticana, Lemare's famous An- dantino and Widor's Toccata in F will be played.

Mr.E. T. Crocker will sing Hander's Why do the Nations" from the Messiah and Mr. Howard Freeborn

not be more particularly described

Alluding to the question of the per- cage, counsel said the difference

east thousands of pounds.

Sir J. Simen said the defendant's

typewriter at the British Consulate, proceedings were continued in the Borispah Court.

in AD. 326, brought by St. Helena, after that monarch had been con- by the rest of his family. On their verted to Christianity, to followed arrival in Rome, they were re-erected to the right of the portico of the old Lateran Palace; but, in 1589, Pope Sixtus V. removed them to their present position in the chapel of the Sancta Sanctorum, a building in charge of the Passionists.

IMPRESSIVE SPECTACLE. view of the stairs and the pilgrims We were able to gain an excellent from the fact that the queue was well kept, and there was ample room to enter the doorway on either side. The entrance hall is small and un- pretentious, a couple of fine sacred statues being the only adoraments. The stairs themselves, 28 in number, are about 12ft. wide, of pure white marble, rising through an archway to the door of the chapel above.

All is quiet. The prayers of the long line of pilgrims are silent ones All are kneeling, and as they conclude

for another of the waiting string to one prayer they ascend still on their knees to the next step, making way

take the vacant place. The ascent minutes. clapses before the worshipper reaches Probably more than half an hour

he is on his knees-an ordeal scarcely the landing, and during all that time

tried it, and scarcely possible to any appreciated by those who have not

but those filled with deep devotion.

necessarily takes many

the vast majority of those devoted Yet women and children formed

people, and though I watched them

the

for some time, not even those nearest top-most step showed the slightest sign of failing. The priest who accompanied me assured me that such collapses were very rare, afterwards though many felt the results for days

case, and through this glass can be About half-way up the stairs part of the surface is covered with a glass

said to have been caused by the seen stains on the marble stains

was brought before Pilate. As they bleeding feet of the Saviour when He

and reverently kiss the glass. reach this case the worshippers pause

each of the 28 steps may be obtained An indulgezice of nine years for

by those who ascend on their knees. in 1100 by Pope Paschal II. This in- according to an indulgence granted

VIL in 1817 as applicable to souls in dulgence was confirmed by Pope Pius

Purgatory, and to be obtained only by those who pray or meditate on the Passion with a contrite heart.

The Sancta Sanctorum, which you can see through a grating from the

landing, was the only part of the Lateran which escaped the great fire, and was the private oratory of the early Popes. In the foundations of this building have been discovered many precious relics, including the beads of St. Peter and St. Paul-now in St. John's Lateran-and the head of St. Agues, which was found only 20 years ago.

SACRED PICTURE.

In the chapel itself is the celebrated

and completed by the angels. Only picture of the Saviour, which tradi tion says was outlined by St. Luke,

the face is exposed to-day, one of the mediaeval Popes having covered the on cedar, with silver plates. rest of the picture, which is painted

"In. Native, Worth" from Haden Fecounts were not settled, as the one morning the accused came into the i fervently the whole time.

"The Creation." In addition these Admiralty and they had not yet agreed two gentlemen will sing the duet what was to be paid. "For So Hath the Lord" out of St

the faithful gaze reverently at the Through the grating of the chapel picture, but it is only a fleeting glimpse they get. The grating is small, and there are so many waiting The first witness callad was Mr.

their turn Then they pass, along B. C. Neah, chief desk at the British the passage, and descend by other Legation, who stated that at 9 o'clock stairs. Some even make the descent on their knees egais, praying office. The first thing he did was to speak to Mr. Hendricks, witness' but it is of especial interest in reveal- It is a tiny bit of Rome, this chapel, assistant, and he at once took up a ing the devotion of the people. Every typewriter from its table, threw it on one is absolutely sincere and absolu- As it is so rarely possible to give ARE YOU GOING ON A JOURNEY the Roor and told witness to go and tely absorbed. Oratorio here these fine selections HAMBERLAIN'S Colic and Diarrh The typewriter was & Smith Premier, ship at first. It seemed sacrilegious We felt a triße inform Mr. Lyle what he had done. ashamed of intruding on their wor will no doubt be appreciated, especes Remedy should be packed in in good condition. cially as the powers of both vocalists your band luggage when going on are well known.

jurney. Change of water, diet and

ito gaze as mere sightseers upon what Accused cross-examined the wit- they regarded so sacredly. But they The organ solos will also include temperature tend to produce bawelness, wanting to know how long the were not resentful; they were not Elgar's Majestic Imperial Marchable, and this medicine cannot be typewriter had been in use and other even aware of our presence. Their and an Idyll entitled "The Shepherds may save much sufering and incon- minor maners, but the Court decided thoughts were superior to worldly

secured on board the train or tearship. and the Mocking Bird" by an Ame veni-ocs if you have it landy. For sale to commit him for trial in the Inter vanities, worldly rican composer.

trifles. by all Chemists and Storckwepers..

Their national Criminal Court.

thoughts were of their Faith."

Paul

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THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE Co., Ltd.

WHITEAWAY'S

GREAT

SUMMER SALE

COMMENCE ON

TUESDAY,

Aug. 3rd.

FOR ONE MONTH.

ENTIRE

STOCK

INCLUDED

The reductions at this. GREAT SALE are genuine and as a lot of the goods we are offering were bought under favourable conditions the prices at which we are selling them are in many instances LESS THAN MANUFACTURERS' COST TO-DAY.

BUY NOW & SAVE MONEY.

BARGAINS

IN ALL

DEPARTMENTS.

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.

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INCERE'S UMMER ALE

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Now on for 20

DAYS only.

GREAT REDUCTIONS!!

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THE HONGKONG EMPORIUM"

Telephone 1967/8.

JJ

MUSTARD & CO.

Connaught Ed. (Central

Telephone No. 1186.

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