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There was a clean hill, of

Approximately £500,000 is to health for the 24 hours ending be spent on harbour improve Wednesday.

ments at Calenta. Between 8,000,000 and 3500.000 tons of The total output of

the goods are handled at the port Kailan Mining Administration's annually. mines for the week ending Octo- ber amounted to 65,182 tons,Į The people of Poland, includ and the sales to 66,749 tons. ing a large number of peasants, intend to purchase an estate and present it to Ladislas Reymont, whose tetralogy of novels, "The Peasants," won the Nobel Prize for 1924.

Two Bres took place at Macao on Wednesday-one in fire cracker factory at Mengha and another in a matshed at Sakong. The latter resulted in the death of a child.

You can't afford to offend customers In these days by asking them for money."Tradesman at Clerkenwell County Court.

The good old stagers among the popular classics are as 'wel- come to-day as ever they were. We played 'Two eyes of grey' and Liddle's 'Abide with me' to an St.audience of twenty-eight thou- sand people at Southsea, and you could have heard a pin drop, says J. H. Squire, the 'cellist.

Penang considers that Gov- ernment should build houses and The kinematograph industry let them to the public at a rental itself is now moving in the matter which would bring in a clear in of doing something to encourage come in return for the capital in- the production of British films. vested of 15 per cent. per annum, The Kinematograph Exhibitors' or else restrain by legislation Association, after an interview rack-renters from charging more with the President of the Board of than. would return them 20 per Trude, have decided to call a concert, on their capital. ference of the three sections- producers, renters, and exhibitors The extraordinary resonance -so as to fix upon a policy, of the famous Amati violins is due to the fact that they were Such a success was last year's stained with line salts, German Poppy Day Collection on violin. makers believe. The Armistice Day-that is brought cause of the remarkable tone of in £2.000 commission in addition the instruments has LTD.

а been to his salary of £800 per annum secret. but it is now claimed to to Captain. W. G. Wilcox, organis come from the salts remaining ing secretary of the Appeals imbedded in the pores of the Department of the British Legion. wood. He receives 2 per cent. on pro crolls over the first £150,000 clear preft, and last November the total collected was £253,000. The Executive hold. and Captain Wilcox agrees with them, that this is too much. and

agreement will be

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For the new fall and Winter Frocks, here are silks more exquisite than any we have ever shown in this Store before. Graceful patterns in both gay and somber tones make up this selection.

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Total passengers leaving New York. Boston and other Atlantic ports for Europe from April to August 1. 1925, was 236,000, compared with 210,000 last year, according to the White Star Line. The increase of 12 per cent. in the total number of passengers was greatly exceeded by the gain in tourist third-cabin travel. This rose from 72,000 in the period of 1924 to 92,000 in 1925, Officials of all lines agree that' the cheaper accommodation now available have been the direct cause for the remarkable increase in ocean travel this year.

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One of the greatest speeches Evolution that made by Huxley in his famous controversy with Bishop Wilberforce-was really the result of an accident! Dancing of rubber soles is It is told in Sir Mountstpart said to give advantages similar to Grant-Duff's Diary that Huxley those of a spring floor. The rub-was actually leaving for the ber sole, of the gripe variety, is country on the morning of the worn inside the dancing shoe, and debate, when he met Robert for those whine feet are not Chambers. the author of "drawn by the rubber, dancing "Vestiges of Creation." Dig- on cushions" is a delightful exer- mayed to think that so good an Crêpe rubber "socks" orally was to be absent from the Inner soles may become popular fray, Chambers told Huxley of for walking, too. Worn on the the battle royal that was to take tread. they are apt to become slip- place, and prevailed on him to pery, and require "roughing.". postpone his holiday, with results

that were epoch-making.

more than doubled our precise.

ceeds, but even so, we cannot pay

him so highly out of money that is raised for charity purposes," said a Legion official.

London, September 15.-By an act of grace of the Wembley exhibition authorities the 10 visitors who gave the exact figure of attendance each received 2

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More thar 100 baby girls are being adopted as the rescit of un article in "The Daily Mail" on July 21 about the demand at the National Children Adoption Asso- were actually entitled. Among ciation, Sloane Street, W., for them were one admiral, one fair-haired, blue-eyed baby girls. clergyman, and one lord. The A doctor is taking one homeless last named is a schoolboy who has child to be a companion to his own announced his intention of spend little girl. She is to have the ing his part of the prize on "wire- same advantages as his child, and less." Males triumphed over will have the same provision made females to the tune of 68 to 34. for her. One woman has settled It is, indeed, a remarkable fact £20,000 on her adopted child, and that from the date the competi- when she dies the girl will have tion started till the end of £200,000. Two school-teachers August the fair sex had only 31 who have just adopted a baby girl

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Ladybirds are to be seen all over París. There has been, thas is a sudden swarm of arti- This is the ficial coccinelles. latest caprice of fashion, and wherever one goes one observes on cloaks, on feminine hats, or feminine jackets, tittle painted, red insects with black spots. In France they are called bête à bon

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were introduced recently and they had multiplied exceedingly. It is an idle fantasy to pin the besticles on one's clothing, but no Parisienne would now consent to be without her

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1925.

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

M. Elsley Zeitlyn Barrister-al- law returned to the Colony yester day on "President McKintey" from visit to Shanghai. Mr. J. H. Brister was a passenger on the same ship.

Mr. W. A. Rawnsley, who has been the representative of Cooper And Company, Ltd., in Tokyo, and who has been active in sports et the Yokohama Country Club, has been transferred to the firm's Osaka office.

Mr. C. B. Shank returned to the Colony on Wednesday by the "President Wilson."

Mr. Nathaniel B. Stewart, United States' Consul-General in Tokyo, has received official notice from the Department of State of his assignment as Consul-General at Constantinople...

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American Service cables, the death of U.S. Senator J. H. Ralston.

Senator Ralston was a native of California. He practiced law since 1878. He was specially interested in Philippine, affairs and. in 1899, before the insurrec tion against the United States was counsel for Felipe Agoncillo, General Aguinaldo's representa- tive in the United States.]

Among the arrivals by the & O. s.s. "Mantua" yesterday afternoon Wag Rear-Admiral Rexton, Kent County, New Cameron, who has come out from Brunswick, the birth-place of Hongkong, residents on the paHome to take over the Yangtze Andrew Bonar Law, one-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.. arrived yesterday afternoon, in

is the site of a monument to the clude Mrs Aris, Mr. W. G. Get-|-

Professor Edmund Blunden, memory of the British statesmart, Írard, Mr. Alian Keith, Mrs. Ma

creff, Mrs. H. Ross and M. noted English poet, and professor which was unveiled on September J. 1. Ewing.

of English language and literature 17 The unveiling was perform at Tokyo Imperial University;ed by Richard Law, his youngest The forthcoming weddings are addressed the Tokyo Women's son, who came from Scotland. announced of Mr. Joseph George Club and spoke on John Clare, his Plant for the ceremony included Meyer, of Empress Lodge, Kow. life and poetry, and also gave the presence of the Prime Minis- loon, to Miss Dorothy Beard, who selections from his own writings.ter of Canada, W. L. Mackenzie King, Arthur Meighen, leader of arrives in the Colony by the ..

the Conservative Opposition In Patroclue; Mr. F. X. L. de Faria,

Mr. Roy Howard, a well-known the federal House of Commons: of No. 24, Robinson Road, to Miss American journalist, spent a day Lieutenant-Governor Todd of M. M. Tam, of St. Joseph's Build- here on his way to Manila by the New Brunswick, and many other ing.

8. "President Wilson," leaving leaders in Canadian public life. this afternoon. In the course of a Among the passengers depart his trip to the Far East he has To the Master, Fellows, and ing by the R.M.S. "Empress of already Interviewed several pro-Scholars of Trinity College, Cam- Asia" yesterday were Mr. and minent inen, among them bieng bridge, such of the contents of KAM | Mys. J. H. Taggart for Shanghai: Marshal Chang Teo-lin, Mr. his residence as they may destro. Mr. C. S. Gubbay, the Shanghai Howard is Charman of the Unit. This unusual "Help Yourself" Interport Bowls Team; Mr. A. Jed Press Association... Edyar, who came from Shanghai

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to attend the races here; and Mrs.

B. A. Wilson, wife of the manager The Prime Minister's activity

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Legacy appears in the will of Mr. Walter William Rouse Ball, of

who has left 235,058 To Fanny Elmalde, Grange Road, Cam- bridge, & famous mathematician,

af Singapore., en route to Vig. detectives who were looking after Maris Parson, in his employ; he His safety at Aix les Bains leaves: £400 and 3100 a year, and

Petit Parisien, in an article on Mr. Baldwin's day, says Mr. to his maid, Bilen Elizza Watts, Baldwin rises at 7 am takes his 300 and £40 a year breakfast and asks for his morn. tram these and a few other per the papers, which are read to him onal legacies, the whole of the for University and by Mrs Baldwin The Frime Minister then prepares for his horning walk. He does fiat play golf, but only ukes walking exar

80 kilometres (125% of

Upon his arrival in the Colony by the s.Mantua yesterday afternoon, Hia Excellency Colonel Main Magalhaes the newly pa pointed Governor of the Port zuese Colony of Macao, was met Senor A. L. C. de Albuquerq Portuguese Consul General, Hongkong, Admiral": charge of the part of Comman

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