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SATURDAY, DECEMBER

FOR SALE.

SAMLI (Shanghai Fish) Frozen" by A. J. A. Ottosen'« Improved Patented mathod which preserves its origin favour and qualition. Unen sated iwnys sppreciated. Flash firm as fresh flib.

To be obtained only from

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KWONG LOONG, Compradore,

EB, Des Voeux Road C.

.

Tel: 0.1281

Bole agent for Hongkung for THE CHINA REFRIGERATING &

INVESTMENT COMPANY, LTD.

-adalen

from

THE DAIRY FARM ICI & COLD

STORAGE CO., LTD...

JUST ARRIVED

Of the Firest Quality.

Dried Fruits,

Raseins, Apricota Prines, Currants, Dates, Extra Emyrna Fign and in Packets Soft Shell Princess Almonds, Brazil-outs, Bonelest Codfish, Smoked Herring, Brat French Macaroni, Vermicelli, Abella, StarB Crowns, Alphabet and Short. Cat Packed Only

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in lb. $0.95 each.

THE FRENCH STORE

9, Beaconsfeld Arcade.

Tel: Central 704.

NOTICE

THE FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL

MEETING of the Queen's College Old Boys' Association will be held in the Hall of Queen's Collegè at 5.30 p.m., on MONDAY the 15th. December 1924.

By Order of the General Commiilee

H. C. HUNT,

Hoo. Secretary. Hongkong, 8th December, 1924.

NOTICE.

Scrip No. 7896, (100) shares in the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. NoB:--58544/63, 27569/93, 4192/96,

55627/636, 5959/68, 52381/390, 51667/76, 55625/94 in the name of Mr. Ng Cheung,

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

NOTICE 15 bove mentioned Scrip the property of Mr. A.

Lopes, of Alexandra Building, Hongkong Sharebroker has been obtained from him by false pretences and that any person to whom the game is offered for purchase shodid before purchasing the same at once communicate with Mr. A. A. Lopes at his office, Alexandra Building, or at. his

·Residence, No. 3, Pratt Building; Kowloon.

Dated the 27th day of Novem ber, 1924.

TUNG SANG

TAILOR

11A Peel Street

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THE CHINA MAIL.

13, 1924.

ODDS & ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

JEWELLERY

JADE &

PRECIOUS STONES

etc.

Also A Fine Selection

OF

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(British munke.)

obtainable at

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· HIGH CLASS 'BOOTS AND SHOES

Made to order. ROYAL & CO.

No. 1, D'Águlse Street

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

15 WORDS 3 INSEKTIONS, $1. PREPAID.

Every additional ward 4 Conta

for 8 insertions......

TO. LET.

TO LET-Two Gracwns,

or

shops, in DUDDELL STREET For Particulars epply to:-H. Rut tonjee & Son, 16, Queen's Road.

AD

Anatole France's Umbrella.

One of Anatole. France's most cherished possessions waS umbrella which he had purchased many years ago in Rome (romarka the "Daily Chronicle.") Time "and" exposure, though they had faded the cover of it to a dingy brown, seemed powerless.to dam- age its framework.

The thing seemed immortal. In his visita to old bookshops the author would often leave the relic behind him. But he never lost it for more than an hour or two. It always turned up again. Je crois qu'il est fee!" the master would exclaim.

A Barrie Story.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has just published a new book, "Memories and Portraits."" He tells the following story of Sir James Barrle -"Kirriemuir could by no means understand Barrie's success, and looked upon their great son as an inexplicable phenomenon. They were actually aware, however, that tourists were arriving from all parts to see the place on account of Barrie's books. "I suppose you have read them,' I said to the wife of the local hotel "Aye, I've read them, and man. steep, sleep, weary, work it was," said she." Michael Morėkim.

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Mordkin is now the director of

Soviet the

State Theatre of Moscow There is, however, nothing Bolshevik in his dancing. On the contrary, he must be classed with the conventional- school now we are so thoroughly imbued with the revolutionary spirit of the Diaghilef ballet. In Salambo," he is content to dance rather than to give his primary attention to the business of making us realise the utter bewilderment of Matto at seeing the object of his dreams at his feet the mountain, so to speak,

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Cushion and Seat-Cover Manufacturers.

Top Rebuilders

Prompt Service at Moderate Prices. Tires and Accessories for Sale.

Managing Director, C. L. PUN.

JH. TANG,

Secretary.

THE WORLD SUPPLY CO.,

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FANCY PARASOLS IN SILK AND PAPKI.... UMBRELLAS-EXCELLENT FOR SUNSHINE AND RAIN. IT'S STRONG AND LASTS LONG; AND

REASONABLE AFTER ALL. Wholesale price list sent on application.

Agents wanted. Obtainable at The SUN CO., the SINCERE CO., WING ON CO., THE EASTERN TAILORING. 64 Wellington St.

comes to Mahomet, says a writer MAIL WEEK NEWS.

in a Home paper.

A Likely Story!

ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.

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While three Irishmen were.TOW ing on a river, writes à" contributor 10% an American weekly paper,

London County Council Higher their boat upset. Only one of Education Committee have decid- them could swim, and he promptly led to continue the regulation made for the nearest bank, leaving excluding aliens from their county TO LET (fe kurs in Cinta), his companions clinging to the

scholarship scheme, position. Apply Lireleed & bottom of the capsized craft. Davis, Alexancia Buildings.

Soon, however, the swimmer ra turned, and one by ore rescued his imperilled friends When they were all safe on the bank one of the men inquired of the rescuer "Mullaney, why didn't ye take wan of us the first trip ye made to shore 'stead "o" goin', empty-

10 LET-Flur lige forms, excellently situated for ffices on the 3rd Floor of "St. George'e' Building facing Ice House Street and

For Chater Road.

and particulars apply to Hengkeng harded?" and Territèril Estates Limited, "St. George's" Building,

W

lerma

TO BE LET."

TO BE LET-For ex menite frem 1st June, 1925, a 5rcrmed House. Furnished. Mountain View, The Feak, Apply Box 323 do "Chira Mil."

FOR SALE.

FCR SALE -Kellen Maner being No. 185. 3he Peak. Fortession next May, H. Percy Smith, No. 6, Des Voeux Road Central.

While at the beginning of 1923 Sierra Leone, West Coast of, Africa, had a Cicwn agent's over- drait of £69,000, by the same year end it was £83,000. in credit..

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Night-teat policemen' returning to Brixton, SW Police Station "Sure, an" didn't I have to save me own life first?" Newman, a few yards from the found the window of Messrs. S. A. demanded the acute Mullaney.

station, had beet smashed and A New Lady in Waiting. W

about £250 worth of clothing There is likely to be consider stolen. able heartburning until the Queen

selects her new Lady in Waiting in succession to the late Lady Elizabeth Dawson, since this is one of the most desirable appoint- rents about the Court (remarks the "Star.") It is necessary for this appointment to be the daughter of a Peer, and a Lady in

The number of pegions recorded on October 20'on the registers of Employment Exchanges in Great Britain was 1,204,000-6,201 fewer than in the previous week. There are 1,500 more women unemployed.

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One of the best known of Lon Waiting serves, for a fortnight at dou's magistrates, Mr. Forbes accompanies Her Majesty upon 20th year, is to retire at the end of a time. One of these attendants Lankester, K.C... who is in his all occasions, and assists her with January, He has been at West her correspondence and the con- London Police Court since 1922 duct of her affairs generally. Each and was previously at Thames FOR SALE One 6 Cylinder Lady in Walting receives from Court.

3 seater Studebaker Car with the Queen a handsome miniature Dicky seat Tires in good condi-of herself set in diamonds. tion. Car in good running order. Price $900.co or nearest offer. Apply Box 327 c/o "China Mail."

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NOTICE.

Woman Doctor's Success.

Still in her twenties Dr. S. G. Overton, M.B., B.5., M.R.C.S. LR.C.P., D.P.H., has been appoint ed to one of the most coveted posts in the medical profession, that of H.M. Medical Inspector of Fac tories. Miss Overton, who tock up her duties at the Home Office THE PAINTERS OF HONG KONG at the end of October, is the only THE

hereby give notice that owing woman doctor in the department to the hundred fold rise in the cost of Tall, slim, and of athletic appear Irving they must ask for an increase ancey; Dr. Overton looks even of wages to the extent of Fifty

per cent.

Working hours and conditions to remain as heretofore.

Employers of painting labour will be notified by letter and this an nouncement is for public information. Ris considered that Fifty per cent the lowest required to give a living wage.

THE PAINTERS' GUILD,

No. 21, New Street. Hongkong, December 12th, 1924,

NOTICE

STORAGE space on Marine Lots with Godowas and Chinese House to Let from, 31st December..

W.'S BAILEY CO., LTD.,

Kowloon Bay. Hongkong, November 3, 1924

HIMROD'S

Give instant režlef from Aathm. Ca. turk, Coldaj and ordinary Coughs. *** THE STANDARDTM ASTHMA REMEDY FOR

#XXARS CURE

Recent acquisitions by the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, Include a Fin whale skull weighing about 6 tons given largest olivine crystal ever found, by Lord Leverhulme, and the from St. John Island, Red Sea.",

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Sentence of ten years' imprison: ment was passed on George Purse, attempting to murder his step- a labourer, at Cambridge for daughter, aged 24, by cutting her throat with a razor. It was alleged that the attack was the outcome of Purse's jealousy of a blacksmith.

younger than her age, but the amount of work she has" put in during the six years since she

German was heard more than qualified would be a credit to any- one twice her years (says the any other foreign language at the Daily News" Two years ago opening of the London fur auctions Miss Overton was appointed at College hill, E.C., where there Assistant School Medical Officer was a sale of 326,000 Australian to the London County Counc, skins, mostly opossums. There and was drafted to the East End were also wallaby, kangaroo, red of London, where she has had fox, and even house cat skins. charge of the medical inspection of 24,000 school children. Sweetheart Banned.

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Wearing academic gowns over their dresses, women filled St. Paul's Cathedral for a Thanks-

For sending a letter threatening! giving Sevice to celebrate the to murder Dorothy Bower, Noah jubilee of the London (Royal Free Leamy, 31, shop assistant, won Hospital) School of Medicine for bound over at and had Balloy. Women. Princess Beatrice and Counsel explained that Leamy Princess Arthur of Connaught was engaged to Misa Bower, but were among the few women in the marriage was stopped by his ordinary dress." brother, because he was not in

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