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THE 41st ANNUAL

AL FRESCO FETE

OF THE

SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL WILL BE HELD

IN THE COMPOUND OF THE CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL

a

ON!!

SUNDAY, 7th DECEMBER 1924

from 8.30 to 11.30 p.m.

UNDER THE DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR

ADMISSION

$1.00-

Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform Admitted Half Price. Each Ticket of Admission entitles the Holder to a

Souvenir.

In the Afternoon from 2.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. Several STALLS will be open and AMUSEMENTS specially for CHILDREN will be provided. TEA & REFRESH-

MENTS will be obtainable. Admission Free.

The Grounds will be, Brilliantly Illuminated in the Evening..The Band of the East Surreys will play both

in the Afternoon and in the Evening. SOME FEATURES OF THE FETE: SURPRISE CAKE CONTAINING DIAMOND RING, WEDDING RINGS AND OTHER VALUABLE GIFTS, RAFFLE FOR TWO LIVE DONKEYS, CONJURING DISPLAY BY MR. RAPTIS.

"SEVERAL RAFFLES WITH VALUABLE PRIZES including a NEW 1925 BUICK LIGHT SIX 5-SEATER Touring Car WITH BALLOON TYRES.

No Work of

Charity is Foreign to the Society..

COME AND HELP HONGKONG'S POOR.

THEATRE

ROYAL.

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SIX NIGHTS COMMENCING AT NINE O'CLOCK

DECEMBER 12th, 13th, 15th, 17th, 19th and 20th

THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD

BOOKING NOW OPEN AT ANDERSON'S

PRICES: $3.00, $2.00 and $1.00

THE EASTERN GARAGE CO.,

35. DES VOEUX, ROAD. C

Beat cars for hire and sale, clean place for storing cars, and repairs of Motor Cycles undertaken.

EXPERT DRIVERS.

MODERATE CHARGES.

IS YOUR BABY

HAPPY?

Is your Baby contented and Happy? Does he sleep well and is he full of energy? If not, probably his food is ... wrong.

Give your Baby Glaxo, which contains exactly the same nutriment as healthy breast milk. Then you will have the happiness of watching him grow into a strong, straight limbed, happy child and a vigorous en- ergetic inan.

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BUILDS

HAPPY

BABIES

THE CHINA MAIL

LOCAL

The Government has set aside ground adjoining the Stanley Cemetery to be used as a Christian Chinese cemetery.

A superintendent of accounts and correspondence is required by the Government of Hongkong for the Port Development Department

A sum of 3600 is the upset quarterly Grown-rent-for-two granite quarries at Lung Ku Tan to be let for one year from January 1, 1925.

To-day's "Government Gazette gives the Leun Sheung Steamship Co., Ltd, three months in which to show cause why its name should not be struck off the company's register,

Changes in certain Shaukiwan West house numbers are notified in to-day's" Government Gazette." Among the places affected are a soy factory, ayermilion factory, an oil factory and a boatbuilding yard.

AND

GENERAL.

Our advertisement columns announce the A.D.C's production of Bernard Shaw's play, "St. Joan."

A Madrid communiqué reports that the Spanish garrisons at Kala and Buhandun in the Larache sector have retired upon Meserah.

It has been decided that the Seventh Far Eastern Olympic shall take place in Manila next year for nine days beginning on May 15,

The Moscow Government" has authorised the manufacture of brandy, vodka and liqueurs not exceeding a strength of 30 per cent of alcohol, thus revoking the Czar's "dry decree" at the outbreak of

war.!

The

Sportsmen in Chiba prefec- ture, Japan." complain that the naval aviators" scare away the wild ducks, which resort there normally in great numbers, naval station has promised that its planes shall fly higher. Whether this will scare the ducks any the less may be doubted, but it will

Mr.

Readers of the "China Mail ** may be interested to know that |

N. Lazarus, Ophthalmic Optician of 12, Queen's Road, has installed a completely new for modern instruments sight testing equipment with the accurate testing. No expense has been spared in making the new sight testing room one of the most completely equipped in the Far East.

most

Two revolvers from by the Chief officer of the ss. "Talyp Maru" were handed over to the police on the arrival of the vessel in harbour.

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The manager of the Graeco- Egyptian Tobacco Co., of Queen's Road Central,

the reports to police that ap employee sent round to collect money from cus tomers has absconded with a sum of $225.

The gold wrist watch reported as having been stolen from Miss Patterson while she was walking Wellington Street on along

To-day's Government Gazette" formally announces that the King has not been advised to exercise his power of disallowance at least lessen the risk of the avia-Wednesday has been found. It with regard to the bill appropriat tors being shot: ing $2,028,038.03 to the current year's expenditure.

It appears that home-made The Federation of British liquors do not come under the ban Industries has requested Afr of the "bone-dry" prohibition law Chamberlain to appoint representa in America A Baltimore telegram

"A revision of the Pro- tives of industrial Interests on the states: Committee shortly to be establish-hibition Commissioners' policies ed to decide the method of allocat- and regulations will probably be ing the Boxer Indemnity.

necessitated by a decision of the United States Court that the ones Efforts are being made to half of one per cent clause of the arrange Interport football matches Volstead Law does not apply to this season, but owing to political home-made and home-consumed conditions in the north and with beverages. The case arose on the Hongkong so far away, it is feared trial of a man named John Hill who that Shanghai may not be able to created a sensation by distributing send a team, says a Shanghai con home-made wine to hundreds of

his neighbours." temporary.

In the Hiroshima locality The Jesselton, British North (Japan) a hurricane began early Borneo,

Yoshiura to Ionoshima.

communication

proved to be a mistake on the part of this lady in assuming that the She watch was on her person, I had left it on a table at the Helena May Institate.

TO

Ata Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on November 18. it was decided to elevate the Japanese Legation in Peking to the rank of an Em hassy, and the Ministry budgeted $9,000 to bring about the scheme in the coming financial year. As an understanding with the Cabinet has been already obtained as to the establishment of Embassies in Turkey and Russia, the Foreign Office is in a position to ask for the estimates at any time as soon as diplomatic relations with Russia Powers restored and the

their embassies in

are

establish Turkey,

correspendent of the on the morning of November 21. "Singapore Free Press" writes. Early the same afternoon the to that paper as follows:-We

A report that America is about "Habu-maru" of the Arita Kisen

were one of the first in the field Kaisha was overtaken by it near with the automatic telephone ex- to lend $200,000,000 to China and Nikata, in the western part of the change, now an established and recognise the new Government in Inland Sea, on her way from presumably efficient

Peking is published in the "Osaka Jiji" as confirmed information." ."In but it is highly incredible. what form the loan will be made is not clear, but America's expression of her intention is serious in view of the existence of the Consortium and Washington Conference deci- sion," says the Japanese paper whose informant has apparently heard the talk of a" Dawes plan" "for China and imagined the rest.

of means Nearly

Sandakan.. In all the passengers were thrown Personally we rather favour the overboard into the sea and six of old way of ringing up the ex- them were missing. No report change and telling the operator has yet been brought regarding we want Mr. Jones and to ring their fate although immediate help every number on his exchange was dispatched from Hiroshima. board until he gets him. You The place where the mishap can't do this with an intricate mass occurred is the most dangerous of coils and switches which will spot in the chart, says the Japanese only produce Mr. Jones by

paper.

soulless and automatic means.

SOCIAL AND

The name of the French Am- bassador to Moscow was incorrect- ly telegraphed. It is, Jean Herbette.

Mrs. Neel, the woman traveller who recently visited Lhasa in dis guise, travelled as a beggar-pilgrim visiting the shrines in Tibet, and her disguise was so good that it was never detected, even during her two months residence in Lhasa.

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PERSONAL.

Mr. Ho Sui-po has been appoint- ed a forest officer in succession to Mr. Li Kam-fuk, retired.

The Hon. Bertrand Russell, who was taken ill with a severe chill in a polling booth at Chelsea on October 29, is now much better.

Mr. F. W. Baker, for several years connected with the printing department of the British American Tobacco Company but for the past. five years a resident of Victoria, B.C., has returned to Shanghai.

Mr. W. Tweedy, of Stamford Brook, W... late superintendent engineer of the Eastern Telegraph Co, left property of the gross value of £5.505.

Mr. U. G. Frondorf, vice-presi- dent and general manager of the Ault and Wiborg China Company has returned to Shanghai after several months business trip in the United States.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1924.

OUR GREATEST SALE!

STILL GOING ON I

and

Don't fail to come investigate our BARGAINS in every Department.

All seasonable goods mark- ed down to lowest values.

YEE SANG FAT CO.

Phone C. 1855

84 Queen's Bosú

PASSENGERS

FOR

CENTRAL AND EASTERN

UNITED STATES POINTS

should avail themselves of the opportunity to see CANADA, Same rail fares apply as from American Puget Sound Ports.

CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS

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THE HONGKONG GARAGE CO. 15 & 17, Queen's Road East (Opposite Daibutsu's) NEW CARS FOR SALE & HIRE Telephone C. 4006. Expert Repairers, Painters and Overhaulers...

Cushion and Beat-Cover Manufacturers.

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Prompt Service at Moderate Prices, Tires and Accessories for -Bale. Managing Director, C. L. PUN.

J. H. TANG,

Secretary.

GOLD WRIST WATCHES

M. Camile Gorge, who has been recently appointed Legal Advisor

Among recent departures from to the Japanese Foreign Offee in

Kobe that of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. succession to Dr. Ray who returned

Keating is generally regretted, The death took place at Ayt, on especially as the cause is Mr. | SAGÐADDDDDDODDÜTÜMÜHLALABZDÜEDADORJUUNIONY (AN to France in August last, has arrived in Tokyo. M. Gorge is a November 2, of Mr. John Gibson, Keating's ill-health. Mr. Keating graduate of Leipzig and Geneva one of the pioneers of the rubber served throughout the wat, and Universities. He was formerly planting industry in Ceylon and went to Kobe soon after it was Malay States. finished. He suffered consider- Legal Adviser to the French the Federated

After retiring from the planting ably during his service, however, Foreign Office.'

side in 1912, Mr. Gibson joined and the war left him as it has left The Empress of Japan has been the Boards of a number of rubber so many others, to carry on a long struggle against ill-bealth. Un- pleased to grant Y500,000 for the and tea companies. purpose of establishing dispen-

fortunately, he has had to give in Hongkong is shortly to hear a for a time, and go for a long saries for the poor, to be opened

singer, Signor Guillo holiday and treatment. Both Mr. about the middle of this month. new These

will dispensaries

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hope to see them back some day.

be Ronconi, an Italian baritone who and Mrs. Keating were much liked established at Honjyo, Saruecho in comes with good repute. He has by their numerous friends, who Fukagawa, Nippori, Mikawashima sung in all the big capitals of the and Samagahashi in Yotsuya. Five world, but this is his first visit to of the court physicians have offered Hongkong, en route from America. to India. His repertoire fincludes their services for the dispensaries.

many of the opera gems.

Cardinal Logue, Primate of Ireland, whose death took place on November 22, was a strong Atthe British Consulate, Kobe,

Mr. Heary Jones Ford LLD., advocate for the freedom of on November 23 before Mr. R.G.E. American University Professor, Ireland, though he contended that the Irish should try to. gafn "their Forster Consul General, Mr. E. J. chronicling his observations on"a Cordery, of the "Japan Chronicle," round-the-world tour, says: "Dirt just rights without violence," and in W35 married to Mies M. F. and neglect are just as marked in that spirit he took an equally strong Alibuary, who had arrived the Chinese temples as cleanliness stand against crimes which is 1920 same morning by the Hakozaki and care. are in Japanese temples, brought Ireland to the verge of Maru.' A reception was held Japanese institutions are experienc civil war. He exhorted the people afterwards at the house of Mr. and sing a renaissance. Chinese Insituto pray and to avoid all associa Mrs. Morgan Young,. Ninomiya-tions are in their dotage, and tions leading to crime and disaster, cho. The newly-married pair after- nobody seems to care."

at the same time charging that the activities of the British wards départed for Nera for the honeymoon.

being military authorities carried into districts which hitherto have been considered peaceful. He denounced the attempt on the life of Viscount French in 1919 and said that the shooting of the plain murder." Bom police was

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I The Chinese Charge d'Affaires and Madame Chu gave a luncheon Mr. Hermann Bela, who is in on October 29 at the Legation, Japan to teach the art of dancing, in Portland Place, London, in has during his short stay in Kobe honour of Dr. Alfred Sze, Chinese received the hearty co-operation of Minister in Washington, who is the foreign community as well as going to attend the International of Japanese ladies. Several classes Opium Conference in Geneva, and in 1840, he during his college days for Tango and Ballet have been Madame Sze. Those present showed such scholarship that he formed, and the Ballet to be pre-were-Sir John and Lady Joras, was appointed to the professorship sented by the Children's Minister- Mrs. S. P. Waterlow, Prof, of theology and delles lettres in the ing League at Christmas promises Willoughby, Mr. and Mrs. H. H.Itish College at Paris. In 1879, at to be most artistic le method Fox, Dr. and Mrs G-Douglas the age of 38, he was consecrated of instructing a Foxtrot and Gray, Sir Denison Ross, Madame Bishop, and in 1893 the Pope European ball-room and parlour Lord, Sir James Cantlle, Mr. W. elevated him to the Cardinalate, a dances has also proved most F. Collins, Mr. C. A. V. Bowra, dignity that had never before been popular, and many new steps may Dr. R. P. Scott, and Dr. W. C. attained by any of the great

Primates of Ireland. be expected in the coming season, Chon,

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