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More Women drive Buicks than any other car because of the striking appearance of this famous motor car. Then comes Buick dependability. A woman knows when she starts out with her Buick that she will "get there and back." Other reasons are the comfort in driving a Buick-the velvet clutch action, easy steering; then, the power and quietness of Buick's Valve-in-Head engine and the safety of Bulok mechanical four-wheel brukes.

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GRILLE

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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The Hongkong Jockey Club

A Malay run amok in the The Irish Free State Gov- advertises that the last extra vicinity of the Tramway Station,ernment have declared their de- Race Meeting of the season will Powai, and cut three persons with cision to have a separate Mediodi be held on November 28 next a scythe blade. The Police even Register for Ireland. This will dis- instead of December 5 as pre-tally captured the num after quality for any public post in Great viously announced.

shooting him in the leg.

Britan any gradante of any medical school in the Free State except Crowds last nighs In the At a nimber of the eating Trinity College, which has a spe

The Irish schoola Queen's Theatre roared at the shops in Bangkok may be seen acil position. anties of Johnny Hines in Con-waden framework fitted ither with quality about 150 medical men ductor 1492, and a repetition will mosquito netting or glass, designed yearly, and Irskind can employ be the order this evening. Johnny o potset the food exposed for sale about twerty of them. Hines must be considered a from contamiantion. The sani-cision will nied some explanations serious competitor to

their rounds Haroldtary inspectors on Lloyd.

The

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The de-

recounted eating stop proprietors The Jake Lord Leverhulmie's that this is a good thing to do, and private collection of wild animals The return of notifiable dis- although the inspectors have no from Rivington Park, near Bolton, eases in the Colony for the week ver lo enforce their recommends which wow offered to Bolton Cor- ended on October 3rd shows 2ou, the number of shopkeepers ponition and declined, has been cases of diphtheria, (1 American who have adopted the idea is bought for the pleasure gardens at The and 1 Chinese) and 2 cases of noticeable, says the Bangkok Belle Vue, Manchester.

animals, which are in excellent enteric fever (1 Indian and 1 Times."

condition.include Norwegian, imported). The re

Que pair of turn for the 24 hours ended on Major Tryon, the Minister of lamas one emu, eighteen red and October 5 shows 1 Chinese case of Pensions, is considering whether fallow deer, one pair zebras, one Indian cow, and Eve he should adopt a new name for his zebu or enteric fever.

Department, in view of the passage wallabies. There are also three Communist into law of the Widows Pensioners, eight old English sheep. a Russian

There is bound to be black swan, and a pair of pea-fowl. Party, according to the latest Mesure. figures. now includes 875,666 confusion between the Ministry of members and candidates, or ap Widows Pensions, and Major Hearth, which is to administer the

The Ministry of Health has plicants for membership who are still in a probationary stage. The yon's Department, which is con-issued regulations giving specie League of Communist Youth, themed solely with ex-Service men powers to local authorities for the

and their dependants. than likely that in future his Deof infiction by tuberculous persona It is more purpose of preventing the spread' partment will be known as the through the medium of milk. No Ministry of War Pensions. This person who is aware that he is is almost the only Department that suffering from tuberculosis of the since the war stopped operations how a substantial reduction in respicatory tract shall enter upon sif. for this has diminished from employment or occupation in con- on its building, the Park Lane 32000 14.000 to-day and further nection with a dairy which would Hotel in Piccadilly is again re-reductions are now being contem involves the milking of cows, the sounding to the clatter of work-

plazed. men. The new hotel is.to be most

treatment of milk, or the handling of vessels used for or containing complete. It is to have mine There should be a better intare milk. atories and 400 rooms, each with far the motor vehicle in Japan a its own bath and telephone.e result of the recent decision of There is to be a ballroom which the Japanese Home Office that aims at being the finest in London. also Turkish baths. Land has been acquired behind the hotel, on which a garage is to be built with sleeping accommodation for 100 chauffeurs and kennels are to be provided for visitors' dogs.

junior organization of the party has 1.861,881 members 143,880 candidates.

and

After standing derelict ever

A book shortly to be published under the title of The Immortul 150,000,000 yen must be spent on Dickens' has had a peculiar his improving 3.000 miles of roads 10 tory-so peculiar indeed that the make them fit to take motor traffic, owners of the manuscripts com. Of the estimated cost the National, prising it, although they actually Treasury will contribute one-third, had them in their possession, did and the work is to be finished by not know until comparatively re- the fiscal year 1935-36. Main cently that there were any sch roads in the varions provinces are papers in existence.

It appears

Lew

We understand, says "Polo to be treated, and also those roads this quit, a number of years ago Monthly, it in due course a marked out as sites for railways to a series of prefaces were prepared challenge will be issued to Oxford be laid in the future but where by George Gising for a and Cambridge by those American cautemction will not be started edition of Dickens, which, the gen Universities at which polo is play-for the next ten years.. The Home eral munderstanding was, provided ed. At present the ideu is only in Office had before it an alternative certain additions, information re- embryo, but at Yale, Harvard, and plan providing for the building, or garding the novelist's character other Universities in the Unitedinther improving, of 5.000 miles of and habits. For some reason, States the game is making such good roads, but decided that the adopted however, they were never publish- progress that such a challenge could scheme was ambitions enough as aed, hot lay hidden and forgotten in be mude even now with a reasonable start. Better roads will mean a the files of the concern which had prospect of success. There are heter itansport service, and should intended to bring out the new obvious difficulties to be surmount-mean a material development of the edition. Now they have found the ed, with the pony question: the most industrial resources of the Japanese light of day, though is said that

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important of all. But we can state provinces, which is what the one was mene surprised at their HONGKONG & TERRITORIAL ESTATES, LTD.

that the idea is being seriously contrasters of the road making scheme discovery than the present heads of sidered in the right quarters on the aim at. And a branch of Ford's is the firm which originally paid for other side of the Atlantic.

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SOCIAL

AND PERSONAL.

Mr. Leroy Weber, American i Major A. R. Stamford, D.S.O.. Consul at Amoy, and Mrs. Weber, R.A.OC., is granted leave on pri- are staying in Manila for a few vate affairs from October 6 to 19. days.

The forthcoming wedding is The leave granted to Captain announced of Mr. Michael G. A. Clements R.A., on March Howard Turner. of Messrs. 27, has been extended to October Deacons, to Miss Daisy Main- 6. waring Lockett Fair of Hamp-

tead, London,

Captain E. Hall. C.M.A., has returned from inspection duty in North China per s.s. "Taiyo

His Excellency the General Officer Commanding (Major- Maru.". General C. C. Luard, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.0.) is shortly due to depart

The Government of Macao despatched a telegram to His Excellency Benhor Толо de Bianchi. the new Portuguese Minister at Peking, congratulat- ing him on his appointment and welcoming him to China. His Excellency replied.

"Llanystumdwy is engraved on close by that I learnt tonic solfa my heart. It was in the chapel

and I once won a prize for sign ing, but they only gave me a 3d.. book and I gave up the job.", This

from the Colony for Home OR An extract from the "London was one of the reminiscences of leave. Major-General Luard sails Gazette," published in Command Mr. Lloyd George, who spoke in on the P. & O. s.s. "Mulwa" on the Orders, states that Second- the institute at Llanystumdwy, 11th inst., and will be away from Lieutenants D. A. Searle and the village where he spent his boy- the Colony for a few months.

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The annual general meeting of the Ladies' Section of the Royal Hongkong Golf Club is to take place a tthe Helena May Institute on Friday, October 16, at 10.80' In connection with the Ladies' Section, a competition has been arranged to take place at Fanling on Tuesday, October 20.

a.m.

Two dances organised to Naval ships' companies took place last night. One, under the auspices of H.M.S."Hormes," was held at the Seamen's Institute, where the dance music was supplied by the jazz band of the "Hermes." The other function was staged in the Royal Naval Canteen Theatre and was organised by the dance com- mittea of H.M.S. "Carlisle." The "Carlisle's" Syncopated Five band was in attendance for this dance,

The Prince of Wales has visit ed six continents in six years, viz:

Canada. August December, 1919,

D. H. V. Buckle, of the East moted Reutenants from August Surrey Regiment, have been pro-

30, 1925. [

Mr. Henry Alaley, the actor manager, who was the guest of honour of the City of London Teachers Vacation Course at luncheon at the Holborn Restaur ant, said:

hood.

An exhibition of etchings exe cuted by Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort eighty to eighty-five years ago were recently on view for the first time, and were the Buz prise of the art wenson. That the great Queen was an amateur artist' was kept a court secret, and though it was commen luowledge that, she embarked on, authorship, as in My education cost £12 a year, Leaves Trom a Highland Diary" and I am not "stook oop." as her art propensities are only now we say in Yorkshire. I am being revealed. The etchings show. "one of us," for I come from aed both enthusiasm and skill, family of teachers. My father though in no way to threaten to had a class on Sundays, and usurp for the Queen a position my mother also taught, at a among the masters. Landseer was Sunday school I come amonger tutor and his influence is easily you, therefore, as a musculine ticed. The subjects are chiefly ot Highland scenes, dogs and borë- Cinderella.

By groups. Some of them pri done with the Prince Consort in pol Speaking of the history of the abortion. In some cheen one, lid stage, he said that one, Roscius, a Roman in the days of the the drawing the other the etching. Roman Republle made as much as on the whole, the Prince was the better workman: There are about 231 a performance, which he thirty etchings, which have been observed, is more than I or Ben alowly gathered up by a London Nares get to-day." He added

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