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ASSORTED CASES OF CHOICE WINES AND SPIRITS,

FOR

CHRISTMAS.

$85.00 Each containing $40.00 1 dozen assorted

Case No. 1

Case No. 2.

Case No. 8

bottles..

$50.00

CHRISTMAS HAMPERS OF CHOICE WINES & SPIRITS. in beautifully made and serviceable Baskets.

No. 1-$10.00, No. 2-$12.09, No. 3-$13.50 each containing three assorted bottles

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTE.

Phone No. 616.

Powell

Phone : 3478.

We are offering the

whole of

our

stock

of

FURS

AT

Ltd

HALF PRICE.

DURING XMAS WEEK OUR STORE WILL REMAIN OPEN UNTIL 6 P. M.

Use COLGATES-Ribbon Dental Creum and Handy Grip Shaving Sticks.

SOLE AGENTS:

The Hongkong Trading Co. Ltd.

HONGKONG.

SALE

21 days only from 10th inst. GREAT REDUCTION

At Cost or under Cost од CAMERAS - lenses - BINOCULARS Photogra phic Accessories, &c.

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Ladies' & Gent's wrist watches; Amber Necklaces; Cigar and Cigarette holders; Clocks). and thermos bottles.

Torch lights and Game's. Manicure sets. All goods are suitable for

Xmas Gifts

Do not Miss This Chance

HALL, LAW & Co., Ltd.

Tel. 3217. 30-32, Dos Vmax Rd. C.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Let us send you A Victrola for Christmas

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Hongkong, Saturday, Dec. 19, 1923,

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sant may be the bhtward Midw and faurroundings. An active mind, for a time, is able to bear the etrain, but take away the oppor- tunities for the right functioning) fof the mind, and trouble may en-

SATURDAY DECEMBER 19, 1925.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

According to the glance this information in typu

sue, The Filice Department now T-Wim publisher, "A Book three inches high at the head of UN

fintaina at least two Europeans

in each of these outstations.

Thus the need of fellowship s

* TWIST. of Wine" contain: outdo column--CHIM! THIS IS ups of the prio-||(31EAF, SAYS WOOL KING met. If the men at these out it wine districts, index, biblio HOME FROM WILDS, Where Taas the democratic English- stations are given periodic leave Eraphy and blank pages,"

of absence can, that leave be only reasonable to suppose that mun on a similar queat would increased? What is the usual the blank pages are where the probably term of service for those out author becomes intoxicated with his from side" men? Can it be reasonably subject shortened without Impairing the efficiency of the foree? Ace uny means provided to engage the minds, and fill up the time of the officers who are doing just as good work as if they were stationed

***Women: un Inquiry," about time, too!

go all the Way Mornington Ormenit to Elephant and Caste bafora be fonid the following ¡riasure buried' And in the insignificant masses of the Court Circular: "Mr. And Mrs. Marmaduke, Woolly have returnUMË We hoping that That their town residence after a Or again, in Hongkong Are they sent to Foundations of Golf" will explain it to the country,

the belligerent. American hangøring the New Territories and the adming which hus puzzled u jacent Islands like so much mer-for some time: why we invariato stretch his lungs, once more to the tune of The Star-Spangled chandise?. Has each station auchss the ball and hit the foBannor-in which exercise he was

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things as books or á gramophone tens

so premurely interrupted in 1918- even? Does a medical officer pay

may be gratified by this six-inch - periodic visits of inspection to The "publication of a work en

WETH stawient; ----WAR.

30- these outstations? And is the fitted Miringe Mode" AND SO INEVITABLE-without utmest done to see that the dread geats that modern society might do roubling to lower his busy and scourge of fever-or its possibili-worse than get back to the days of patriotic eye to this tiresome post ties are kept down to the minimum? The whole question

script in the smallest possible lol- ahould be carefully considered.

tering is the opinion of the Mayor We owe a duty to our police

Two-stroke Motor Cycles.of Minxville,"

The officers and should spare no pains Let us hope that the third stroke World," by Stelis. Benson, to discharge it,

will affectually silence the wrekhed things.

THEY SAY THAT—

A headuche is naturo's aluTTI | bell.Mr. Clement Jeffery.

The root rice of our age is self assertion.-Rishap al Winchester:

It takes a great many before we find the right one.-Mrs. Wilfrid Ashley

"Marriage & Ja Woad."

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Let's schile

Little

They tell the Marshall. Ha, following story about - E. fer's Smitz. mcke the world look] Marshall Hall who led the pro

very fair.

That's accution in the Haylay, Morris.ense": fimile and laugh and cruck af On one occasion a friend wont

court to beery joke. The smile upon your into

the speak to lips won't finger there, but navel opponent of Marshall Half, who

wiftly to snd-hearted folk. 1

jaat it he that momkins holidayshrightens up their sky of dull drab concluding a hended controversy '

hud, more potent even than the mays with the Judge: "Seeing me oles. A smile! who knows how speaking to his opponent, Halt mid Inud, tones, much to it is the before its course in unintentionally of happiness be, mur?

For Heaven's sake stop talking Let's langh, although our skies it's bad enough to have to deal wibli look grey and we are Reting soge that deaf old man on the Bench !** depressed, and then before the close There was a burst of laughter, of day, "we'll fool, I'm sure, fresh which wag muneword when the Hile and west. Let's" laughtaway Judge, putting up his hand for the gloomy face. Let's show we silence, said "Hush, please, I musT

We're get.. Chat on my notes." have no onward's heart.

No the artist can do anything without adhering to Nature. Mr. Charles Jagger.

I am not in the least tired of life but would like to live to 100.--Mr. T. P. O'Connor.

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ings, the progress it is making or the difficulties it is encountering. This advice: belit-noted, fell from the lips, not of a Socialist leader, but of a Conservative: Prime Minister. Nor was it in any sense an appeal for half measures. Our great captains of industry no longer take the view that Labour necessary evil. They no

The evidence of statistics is that not frown nor scowl nor weep; nor For longer look upon an industry they chili ho to day will ye fived each day with dready fear. have in their keeping as an in-Sir Kingsley Wood.

years longer than his grandfather we had all by long sleep-and

aughter, then, we shall not, heur, dividual possession to do with as

Honses which are hot fit for heroes to live in are not the places for children to be born in-Mr. There must for a littio space, we Neville Chamberlain.

might with joy fulfill our part.

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Life is fasting The birds are laughing 'nent the THE MOTOR CAR."and the rood- The nation will have to full backres; the risen haughing flows

WHY upon the old party of Willum along What flower is there tha!

Clearly shows us what we are; Ewart Gladstone to puk in right-fulles er grieges; the heart of Na-ust thou art to dust all turning Mr. Lloyd Gorge.

ture's always strong, let's mugh,

Aartementa

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they will They realize that - Never" treat your pilietis as if Capital and Labour have every. they were fools some are, but the thing to guin by working hand iners great majority are nofi.--BARUCAN meant to be read inf

Herbert Waterhouse.

hand; that the one is essential to the welfare of the other in equal measure. They no longer see an industry as a private affair only they see it now as one of the ution's assets which must be fostered as much in the national

The average preaching to day is less thoughtful, less painstaking thon in

Jalhor! days Adbishop of Canterbury,

Becaus in all the big things we children to the very end, we are always clamouring to be told as in the individual good. They what we should do-Mr. Stacy have. In short, grasped the idea | Aumonier,

essentials.

slow. Both sides are

THE LATEST!

FUR KNEE CAPS WITH HIGH BOOTS.

Sure was spoken of the car.

Passing motors all remind a

We may make our pace sublime,. And departing leave behind us

Chondy stench and dusty grime.. Pudy grime which perhaps may

Smother Some poor waveller on the road; PAPUS. one minute by people|A mad, snoozing blinded brother,

who hare only two]

Crying loudly", "You be blowed!" minutes of leisure during the day carts to smarth and tyres to borrow and spend them in an elevator onl

Are our destined end and way the way to the office. They have are we worn or well, to-morrow to atone for their garrulity by anj extreme concentation of snappy

Let's go faster than to-day, news on their outer pages. For inlet us then be up and doing- stance, the democratic Amerlean, Trops or any other fate wishing to know which of his social Troken downt, pursued, puraning, stiperiors is in town, can master at Tearn toʻsoorch and learn to wait.

ONE LAKE IN MOONLIGHT.

·ISTATY

of co-operation. The shipping in- The #mmunist party must be SHIPPING INDUSTRY.

dustry has not been immune to highly quified at the publicity ́Although we have Mr. Stanley these influences and the spirit of which they have recently been get Baldwin's assurance that Britain's co-operation is making itself felt.ting from opposing oracles.-Mr.

re-Viviin Phillipps. industrial outlook is improving in Naturally progress in this

it plays on the warm furniture of One bright evening in in many directions there is unfor: | spect, is

September. Let out, after dinner Fa dining-room; but as I tunately as yet little improvement prone to be cautious; to go less

fr Kilehurn, to get a series of Kilchurn thep, purple or blue wern than half way. Once they reach in the shipping industry. The par-

observations on moonlight colour by no means its pervading colours. for I had studied Kilchurn closely The sky, which was intensely deep lous state of the shipping indus- 'footing of the fullest and frank-

enough, to remember the ordinary and clear, was of a blue gray, but try calls for the most carefullest co-operation as Mr. Baldwin

daytight colour of every part of it. the castle was all subdued pale handling. There is a great na-urged, not merely for shipping,

Tha Dugald and Thursday rowed, for greens and gray gold. tional asset at stake, and every but for every industry, "employer

the water was like glass. Gradually shadows wore without detail, and effort must be exerted to protect and employee will be able, work-

the exquisite littla island of soft in cutline; the detail, where. that asset.. America has showning together in the common

Frach lan grow larger and visible, seemed more mysterious and us the folly of attempting to build interest, to pilot the nation's ship- For kids caps are the intest idealurger, and then detached itself unintelligible than in daylight, but

from its twin sister island, and not less abundant. up or maintain a national mercan ping through the present period for women.

They are made of the same fur the two dropped gently astern like Landing under the koop, I walk, of stress. Cooperation and cans tile marine by subsidy. The ship-

as the coat or collar and cuffs on islands in a panorama. Then comed to a little distance from the ping industry, like every other dour-those are the two great cloth coat and are used to cover panics of white miste in pilar like north-east angle, and ent down there to watch the changes in the aspect Once they are conthe unsightly gap between the now shapes, about as tall us human industry, must pay its own way. When it finds it is not doing this, ceded by both sides in any indus-high boots, which end just below beinge, glided over the smooth floor of the castle, as a pure, white misk it must take stock of the position; try the future can be faced with the knee, and the skirts of to-day of water like a procession of ghosts from the River Orchay became It must cut its coat to fit its cloth.a new confidence that is bound to which finish just above. They also When we got to Kilobum, and had gradually derer. A little nepen

keep the know VIÊM.

me camo will fairy-like de safely passed the bar at the entrance her This fact has been largely grasp bring success.

Sometimes the caps are a cour of the bay, wo fonfed quietly out eacy against the sky, and con ed by the shipowner and the em-

tinuation in fur of the leather boot, into the midst, and Kilchurn stood trusted well with the massive No detail ployee alike. That is a big step

Fashion has ordained a golden before us in the full, mellow light breadth of the koop.

whatever of masonry was visible. in the right direction. Full and

winter. Quite shartling in the sun of the moon. light is the new tailor-made and frank co-operation is essential.

A shallow "mist had flooded the now-only a sort of gray roughness. The jury which enquired into gilt leather skirt hat and jerkin broad pustures by the Orchay barrack windows (from the inside, The moon shone through all the Once a footing of real give-and-

the sad death of Sergeant Black-ul to match.

Gradually it crept across the Day. take is reached and both sides put man has recommended that when are worn with black velvet sails. It was not above a foot deep, but for there was no roof), and car all their curds on the table the officers are posted to lonely These are long and plain cut, with all the reflections turnde pale sud responding spots of light by in shipping industry will have reach-stations they should pass "some high neck and fustemed all the ed a position where, unity being sort of medical examination to way down with gold buttons joined danly. Even the stars themselves their places in the great shadow

became ruefully wan down there in determine their standard of by gold cords,

the water, and the mountains were the west end receded hike phan strength, it can face its troubles physical fitness., Presumably it The goldfish shoe is just becom

toms into vacancy. The whole », castle now became a palë, mighty with a new determination to win is suggested that the fitness in the rage at the dancing clubs.mere ghosts of mountains,

The stones of the masonry wore phantom, and certainly I never saw through. Not very long ago Mr. necessary to service in the outer A plain shape in soft matin, the Stanley Baldwin appealed to the

districts of the Colony, should be shade is a golden orange and is worn all distinctly visible in the keep of it under a zapre poetic aspect. something different from that with every kind of frock.

Kilchurn, and the colour just a Londoners are familiar bough with Industrial leaders of the country which operates in Hongkong and

various as in daylight, only every pleats of fog but rows of hideous, tint was mixed with moon gray brick houses... do not take kom which

THOSE OUTSTATIONS.

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Gold fissus blouses

under the north side. Samo trees:

to take their employees more into Kowloon Folice Officers are gen- His Excellency the Governor has

time had erally accepted as models of been pleased to appoint Lieutenant The grace at the foot was of a that hold on the imagin their confidence. Th

physical fitness and the Govern- passed, he said, when employees ment's Medical Departinent exer Colonel Samivel Boylan Smith could be treated as mere ware diaga ilta benclicant ald, whrampur D.8.0.10.B.

carmers. They should be invited it is wanted,» Perhaps the test

to share the responsibilities of an should be more mental than mell Industry, if not to the actual point matter how "it" he may be--- call. It is not, every man of profit sharing, at least be the can put up with the continual

vite work- of isolation, no ma

grayish green, glistening with dew. I confess Kilchin conquered over to be There was very little purple or blue. when I mu ber silent

sature of that seene migh

bluish by contract with

if hun

ffrost with the eun

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