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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."
Prices are unusually moderate this fall.
D. CHELLARAM
ROYAL SILK STORE,
36A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
LOCAL
The postponed race meeting is. to take place on Saturday next.
Messrs. Whiteaway Laidlaw & Co. Ltd.. Issue an attractive catalogue of toys and gifts for the Christmas season.
A new Carnation which it
THE CHINA MAIL.
AND
GENERAL.
The Hongkong A.D.Ci's pro-Thesis. Tande arrived yea duction takes place this evening.terday, from Yokohama, Kobe and Mold with 7,000 tons of
About 50 young coal miners at cargò. Rhos Ehunerchrugog, Denbighshiro," Chung formed a eh for the study of
GAR. This cins, composed en-| direly of working miners, is believed be the only one of ike kiud in is claimed, glows on a dull WinForop. They intend to stab on ter's day, was exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society's Show. It is a bright Clove, and is likely to be christened either "Glow Worm" or "Ruby Glow."
Gk Testament.
A Villa Franen de Xira. (Portugal) a bull fight has taken place in which two bulls were kill- en the orthodox "Spanish! fashion. The Civil Governor of Lisbon has demandeif an explana- Blow from the local authority, and the Portuguese Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has protested?
Mr. William Hounghan, the Scotch singer and actor, was the guest of honour and sang at the
The Brailford Corporation are to experiment with a new kind of rubber roadway. One kind' has already been tried, but the rubber blocks had a tendency to A block of wood. weighing fly out of their positions when 351b used for the hoisting of heavy vehicle passed. In the machinery, fall from a building in new system the rubber blocks are Seacoal-lane. off Farringdon-to be bound together with a street, London. Mr. J. Mullings, reinforcing material which will dance given by the Shang- hal Rotary Club last Saturday, an advertising canvasser, was keep them in place.
Rubber
ab the Majestic Hotel In addi passing
time and roads of ecurse, have many tion to the numbers by Mr. Heug the block fell on his head advantages, especially in minimis-hun, there were several selections But for the protection of ing vibration and keeping by the Majestic Orchestra and his bowler hat he might have down dust; in addition, they following the tiffin there was been killed He sustained in-
dancing. juries, and in the High Court was awarded £1,150 damages against the British Thomson-Houston Company
the
are much more comfortable to fall upon after meeting an incompe- tent motor-car driver.
This
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1925.
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A foreigner had been in Scot- It is thought the most pro- land, and when there had taken a nounced feature of the Textile day off to go for a tramp into
He found himself! Comets are commonplace this Machinery and Accessories Exhi-the country. yeur, the ninth--that first foundbition in Manchester was the very hungry some miles from an by Faye in 1843-having just number of automatic and semi-inn of any kind and was advised been reported by Dr. Bande, of automatic and semi-automatic by a postman he met to call at a
* devices. the Bergedorf Observatory, Ham-labour-saving
nearby farm for a meal He was hurg. Nine comets were also looks as if we have made a little charmed by the Scot's hospitality 1000 found in 1886, and in 1898 ten progress from the good old days" and immensely impressed by the turned up, but, with these excep- when operatives used to come out fact that payment was resolutely But Scotland has pre- tions, there is no other instance on strike against the introduction refused.. of so many comets being found in of mechanical appliances. In ad-sented hiny with a problem. He one year as in 1926, weites "The dition to the Australian artificial knows its reputation for horse- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Daily Chronicle". Astronomical silk machinery there were one or sense, and he is still trying to correspondent: There is every two very interesting exhibits make it square with a remark prospect that this year will set up from Germany, ineluding a new-made in the farm kitchen by. the!
record, as two more periodic type swift. One rather striking ploughman who delivered himself comets are being looked for-the feature illustrates the common colemnly of the following weighty Tempel Swift comet of 1869 and difficulty in cbtaining material at observation: "A've aye noticed the Schorr comet of 1918. In an exhibition for running that it's always jest when eggs addition, two others-the Kopffmachinery; an artificial silk reel aire gettin' awfu' eexpensive thet It Er and Tuttle cometsare due early was using cotton, as the manufac- the hens lay their worst."
next year, and may, if favourably turer had tried in vain to get certainly looks as if either the hen placed, be seen before, the end some artificial silk for demonstra-or the ploughman was pulling
tion purposes.
Homebody's leg.
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Quartermaster and Lieut. J. Renton, DC.M., of the East Yorke Regiment, has been appointed Captain.
Mr. C. Saru (P.W.D.) and· Mrs. Sari, left London for Hong- kong on November 20. by the "Khyber Mr. W. Russell is also a passenger in this steamer
The Rey, Father R. A. Lane, of the Maryknoll Mission" and Direc tor of the St. Louis Industrial School has been appointed to Manchuria and will leave by the "President Jackson" on December 11.
PERSONAL.
The St. George's. Society of Hongkong has decided that the annual ball shall not be held in January.
A Frontiersman now on leave in London from, India has just purchased 400 new gramophone records, which, carefully arranged: in programmes, will give him a Mr. R.. J. Mules, who from July new entertainment, every night 1921, to September, 1924, was for several months. His nearest Civil Engineer at Hongkong Dock- friend is at the other end of a yard, has been appointed Acting day's journey-the next white 100 miles. away, Superintending Civil Engineer, man" is lower grade, in the Civil Engineer. "The gramophone has helped to in-Chief's Department, Admiralty. keep me sane" is his tribute to
the instrument.
Commander W. S. Gruy, who is coming out to China to join the T. Nishida, a fifty-two-year-old flagship "Hawkins" As Fleet priest of an Osaka Shinto tem- Gunnery Officer, a post which ple, has just been, relieved of a Commander L. G. Ingham has held bullet which he had carried in his for two years, was promoted in chest since the Russo-Japanese News, was brought by yester-June, 1922. after being gunnery War, twenty-one years ago. day's mail to the effect that Mrs.officer and second in command of Nishida took part under General Belllios made excellent progress the cruiser "Colombo," also in Nogi in the attack upon Port Doc. after her recent operation, and has China. He has since served in the Arthur, where he was shot. been able to leave the nursing Gunnery Division of the Naval tors who probed for the bullet home for Southover Hall, Bur-Staff. wash. Sussex.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Davidson, Mr. Fand Mrs. T. Percy, Mr. J. Booth Harston, Mrs. J. H. Donnithorne. Mr. A. Pittendrigh, and Mr. and Mrs. W. Bang returned to the
KAOTADO-ODO-DO-BUÄDÄNDADODDBODOCHODBOR Colony yesterday by the. "Emprem
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The Rt. Rev. Bishop Hind of Fuhkien, Comdr. G. B. Hartford and Mrs. Hurtford. Mr. D. Blair, Mr. and Mes. J. A. Jupp, and the Rev. G. J. Nightingale, of Foochow are among the passengers coming. out in the Macedonia, which left London on November 6.
The engagement is announced at Home of Capt, R. F. Waiker, M.C., |- R.A.M.C., and Hope Dorothy, second daughter of Mr. E. Irving, fate Director of Education, Hong- kong. and Mrs. Irving, Redbrook House, Woodchurch, Kont. Capt.
IT'S OUR OWN | | | | 2 MERE DIL SE DO TEAMLEGATE DALLO ESRI TOMLING | "Walker mailed for Home yesterday
SHEP MOTOR CYCLE
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Amongst the passengers retur
IRENE CAJTYE
Irene Castle McLaughlin, har gena to hospital for a long rent following tims dancer say it will be some time An operation. Friends of the one before she is ablo to leave the hospital,
ed to Hongkong by the F. and 0.
Stella Benson, in her last book, liner Macedonia, which left London on November are gives the following glimpse of the following:-Mr. and Mrs. S. herself as a teacher in Hongkong Baker, Mrs. A. Dyer Ball, Mrto a class of boys ranging from
ten to twenty-three- and Mra Cousins, Mr. and Mr. "I treated them exactly like a F. A. Joseph, and Mrs." H. C. kindergarten, A. lesson in by- Macnamara
Kiene, for instance, would be accompanied and, I firmly main- tuin, enlivened by sketches on the blackboard representing such subjects as a microbe in a face- tious, top-hat-carrying a little portmanteu labelled Typhold, tripping up over a Smell called Parmanganate of Potash History and Scripture ateo lent themselves
A pleading ceremony took place on Tuesday in the Secretary's Office of the Dairy Farm Ice und Cold Storage Co., Ltd., when the man- ager, Mr. A. Stevenson, in the name of the staff, presented Mr B M. Hanlon of the Tast Folf Tee
works with a marble time prece de llustration. I am sure that
a wedding giff, Mr. Hanlon, who there twopence-coloured lessons.
is being married on Friday to Miss dwelt in inat
F: Dodwell, of Bigby, who arrived minds more.
bye Butori Manu yesterday, peny plain anitably replied.
more bxperienced
hinese
the
could not find it, and he recovered. He carried the bullet without dis- confort for more than twenty years, but a few weeks ago ex- perienced a severe pain in the chest.
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