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uestion: Why do you hear)BUICK mentioned favourably in every motor-car conversation?

An BUICK'S twenty-one years

nswer:

are

of invariable quality and outstanding reliability common knowledge. BUICK beauty captures the eye on every highway. BUICK owners are insistent in their praise of this famous motor car.

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The return of notifiable dis Fuses for the B4 hours ended Phurs

day shows beses (Clinked case, of j slagtherin.

JAPE

This nutes of passages to ar fitam. Hongkong per s.8. "Sat An as follows:

Saloon or First, dass

Second class or Intermecides Phurd Class

Pick, for natives only

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A dog tax is the latest scheme seized upon, by the Tupan of Shantung to enhance his coffers. In this case it may be said that his bark is as worse as his bite.

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Mary had been sent out to buy a jar of honey. "And be sure," said her mistress, who is an ardent supporter of "Buy British Goods," that it is British." Mary returned; however, without the "Couldn't you get it?"

The 0.31.S-the Organisa-honey. tion for the Maintenance of asked her mistress. No, mum," $4.00 Supplies, have been inundated was the reply, "they hadn't any 2 with letters containing offers of British-only English and New

60 support in response to their recen: Zealand." 6.30 appeal. The letters come from

Behind grey walls, the Bank

all parts of England; and although

Workmen come and go A skyscraper twenty stories large staff is hard at work deal-of England is being rebuilt in tall in the middle of the campus at ing with the mass of correspon-secret. Yale was mentioned by Dean, dence it will be two or three days Frederick S. Jones as a possibility before replies to each letter can for a solution to the problems of be dispatched. the.. future expansion of the school. A skyscraper, Dean Jones said, would relieve the congestion which forces Yale to house a large part of its students in separate

houses for lack of dormitories.

once

and

"The billiard battles between

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Advances made on Landed Property, Goods, etc.

Trustees of Estates, Executors

Wills, etc.

of Goods Description.

Warehousing The plodding

from the little enclosed "city" in the heart of London, but as they leave the walls they leave all in- formation concerning their tasks behind them. Only these and a There is more political activity few officials know how far the in Japan to-day than at any pre-work has progressed since it was vious time in its history, due to first begun about six months ago. the recent grant of universal There is an official ban on all such manhood suffrage, which will be details, being made.public. applied for the first time goon. Japanese newspapers

The chief manifestation is the civic associations have launched a campaign with the slogan. "Eat formation of many new parties.

The 9,000,000 men who will vote Newman and Smith rarely fail to Less Rice," For high and low. rice is the staple food in Japan, for the first time in the next provide interess and incident, and and rice grows in Japan is general election come mainly from their present match is no excep Imuch more popular than any for the working classes, the right totion to the rule.

the fact that both these past eign variety The rest has been vote previously having been based amateur may find consolation in masters of their art have serious The that, with the increase in popula-upon the amount of taxes paid

faults of style that is, according tion, the demand has exceeded the property qualification.

to the text books. Newman supply, and prices have risen attempt to organise the new voters into parties is being made chiefly

arm accordingly. At least

into his side, while Smith, when year there is a serious rice short- by labour leaders and Buddhist tucks the elbow of his cue

taking aim, keeps the cue well uge. This new movement is de- priests.

away from the ball. These, how- ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄Ò ̄¤¤ ̄ ̄¤000000 simed to educate the people to ent

Information from one of the lever, are the eccentricities of barley in place of rice, thus

gramophone companies will inter-genius. eliminating such erises.

est many others besides gramo

The company in In some Fuctions of the phone users.

A satisfactory future of the Mississippi delta, where the cotter question had the happy thought of|

German automobile industry is stimulate interest in erop is larger and better than in trying to several years, pickers have been contemporary poetry by issuing a forecast by Dr. Gustav Blum, pro- imported and fancy wages offer series of records of present-day mined industrial authority of our best known Frankfurt, now that the German ed. Efforts have been made to verse. One of induce some of the thousands of poets was asked to choose poems, automobile tariff has been accept. Heed. In Germany, said Dr. Elum, negroes in the cities of the North and artists to recite them.. to return to engage in field work, rejected all the names of famous the motor truck business has con- special excursion rates having actors and actresses which were tinued to be of unaltered excel- selected lence, but he admitted a marked been offered by several railroads, submitted to him, and but with small degree of success. reciters who are at present urdiniinuation in the private motor Hundreds of Mexicans have been known, saying that no one on the car business. This he attributed 1 106 AAN MO NA SAU SA HONG SAL, DER HANNA 1919 CONGO imported from Texas, and many stage to-day had any idea how to to the fact that the travelling more are coming, and they are deal with modern poetry. It will season is in full swing, when all proving satisfactory. Their rail- be instructive to discover whether prospective buyers have made road fares are paid and enough he is right, and, if so, what is their purchases, and to the "exist- work will be available to keep wrong with the stage in this ping tightness of the money.

market. respect. them busy for several months.

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For the new fall and Winter Frocki, 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.

Prices are unusually moderate this fall.

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The Craigengower Cricket Club will hold their second subscrip- tion dance of the season at 9.15 p.m. to-night.

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PERSONAL.

H.E. the Governor and Mrs.

Clementi donated Rs. 150 to the Colombo "The Not Forgotten Fund."

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They are now seeking in Lon- don & hall suitable for Tahra Bey: the Egyptian "fakir," who is com- ing to London on November 30 to give ten exhibitions. Albert de

Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Parker are! Courville is paying him £350 a

011 the "President performance, the first of which passengers will take place in the presence of Jefferson" which left Hongkong hundreds of doctors. At Deau-on Thursday. ville, Tahra Bey was the wonder

Dr. Charles Macpherson, the Associated Examiner for the Board of Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music, will arrive in Ceylon on November 11.

uf the season: he is now crowding Mr. George S. Pinchin. of St. Mr. 3. A. E. da Silva is en-a theatre in the Champés Elysées. James-court, S.W., whose estate is deavouring to persuade the where he is being paid £1,800 for valued at £142,125. left 21000′′to/ "Stop him! Thomas M. Carter, of Canton Italian Grand Opera Co. at present fourteen shows. shewing in Hongkong to present Stop him!" That is what women Street, E., "as a small return for some of their productions in shout when they see pins stuck in his loyalty to me."

the Egyptian after he has thrown himself into a trance..

Macao.

During the week end the Rev. Father Pagee of the districti Seminary of Penang paid a visit to Macao when he was the guest of His Lordship the Bishop of Macao,

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Sir Arthur Wheeler, Bart., the of millionaire stockbroker

The Earl of Balfour is the Leicester, has purchased Brown- Parliamentary Chief responsible sea Island, Poole Harbour, as a for Government research work,place of retreat from the rush and The island, He attended a conference the worry of the world. other day at which various which is five miles in circum- scientific men spoke at length.ference, and has cost £150,000, is

·H.E the Governor, Mr. He lounged in his chair, with his described by its new owner as a Cecil Clementi, C.M.G.,. has been eyes half-closed, apparently farlittle paradise. Here he intends pleased to accept the office of away in his thoughts, and paying in the summer to live the life of a Patron of the Hongkong and no attention to the extreme com- hermit, and have a quiet and rekt- China District of the St. Johnplicated arguments of the men of ful time.. One of its main attrac Ambulance Brigade and also that science. To their auxprise, tions, says Sir Arthur, is that it G, FALCONER & CO. (HONGKONG) LTD. of President of the Local Centre towards the end of the conference has no police and no tramears,

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of the St. John Ambulance he opened his eyes and com- and motor, cars and charabanes Sir Arthur, who Association.

menced to ask certain leading are unknown. questions and put certain points started as a junior clerk in the As dinner an excitable lady told in a way that proved that he had office of an estate agent, was one the late Lord Kitchener in alarm not missed any part of the argu- of the principals in the purchase that she believed she had seen ment, and that he was able to add of the Beecham estates. German soldiers in a train. his own special knowledge, in "K"Emiled, and said: "Perhaps order that the discussion might they were Russians!" This have a fruitful result,

obiter dicta was at once, given t

wide currency in illustrious social circles, and soon swept the king-

dom

At a meeting of the Com- mittee of the Macão Club it was proposed by Mr. J. A. E. da Silva to raise funds for the many poor Chinese who were rendered hone less by the recent fire which des troyed so many of the little bovels that exist behind the ruins of St Paul's Church Mr. Loo Hing Chang president, of the Chinese Hospital, was invited to express his views on the subject.

Mrs. Wilson, who has stayed in the Bartholomi Secheron Villa, just beyond the Palace of the Nations at Geneva, has had two wornen friends with her. This villa, on the lake, surrounded by gardens and flowering trees is in an ideal spot. Beyond there are. publie gardens planted with palms, yews, and all kinds of rare trees and plants, the gift of s philanthropist to the city of Geneva Upon her arrival a com- mittee representing the city pre gented Mrs. Wilson with a banket of flowers, accompanied by the

note: following gracious Madame On offering you these. few humble flowers allow us to present with our good wishes We join the expression spectful mage to Presidents

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