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In three months, publie recognition of the value of the better Buick 1926 has. been so sweeping that to-day one in every four cars sold for G$1000; or more is a better BUICK

SOLE AGENTS.-

HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD. 33 & 35, DES VOEUX ROAD C

TELEPHONE C. 1036.-

QUALITY SILKS

200000

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.

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LOCAL

THE CHINA MAIL.

AND GENERAL.

At

new

6. o'clock

Peking Gates new open at] yesterday The Stewards of the Shang-|-.

at five in the morning, and close at hai Race Club have donated morning the temperature $3,500 to the Portuguese Ladies' Shanghai was 28 degrees, whilst nine at night according to

regulations. Benevolent Society and a similar at Hongkong it was 55. sum to the Shanghai. Riesha Mission.

From Wuhu it is reported. The total amount of rubber |exported from the F.M.S. in that two women bandita captured 12.885.27 tona: by the troops were publicly ,Spain has put the ban on the November was preaching by school teachers of 164.30 tons of rubber latex was executed at the gates of the city.

and anti-social

anti-patriotic also exported. doctrines inside or outside class- rooms.

The

The rights to Bernard The Director of Education in Shaw's Saint Joan have been Official Gazette publishes a Government order to Java has notifel that from July sought by Joan S. Robertson for this effect.. The order was in-t, 1926, three girls schools will motion picture production, but spired by sintilar "action on the be started at Batavia, Semarang according to report have been re- part of the French Government, and Soerabya for the Dutch fused by the famous author. although it is said that there have education of Chinese girls. been few cases of propaganda work discovered in Spain.

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Feeling hungry, the giant Somewhat belated, owing to boa-constrictor in the Hamburg the difficulties of getting the Zoo found,the end of his tail and The number of privately material together, n Hans Chris-began to swallow it. Finally he Anderson exhibition has was choked in the process and owned American vessels engaged tian in overse trade increased from been opened in the dignified was found dead lying in a circle: 117 to 14 during the quarter building of the Prussian State The snake symbol of eternity. from July 1 to October 1, the Library, Unter den Linden, in

Treasury notes for £181 and Shipping Board's -Bureau of Re-honour of this year's fiftieth an

It is a slip of paper bearing the words, The Govern-niversary of his death.

with pay. search announces, men-owned fleet. October 1 in- an exquisite little colleciton of in-"Returned parish

things gathered from many thanks," have been received eluded 1.186 steum and motor timate vehicles of 7.770,071 gross tons, Danish and German friends, be-by the Poole relieving officer. approximately 80 per cent of sides editions of Anderson from They were enclosed in a home- the earliest dute to the present made brown paper bag. Efforts which was in active service.

sumptuous German "Luxuse to trace the sender have been

unsuccessful. « Ausgaben."

While the prospects of the discovery of oil in commercial

The sight of a young woman When sailing for Europe quantities in Australia are gen-

with from New York, on November 18, rally unfavourable, indientions eating a chocolate eclair in the Roma district of Queens- great relish outside his glass Mr. Hudson Maxim, the famous the fan and the Kimberly distries of cage cutsed Albert Welly, a pro-inventor, said that one of Western Australia justify the re- fessional faster to go violently chief reasons for his first trip commendation that further de-, insane. After gazing fixedly at abroad for 26 years was to get tailed geological mapping should the last disappearing dainty in some ale and stout. The aged in- be undertaken and trail boring, the girl's fingers, Wally suddenly ventor said: "We will have to conducted, says a report of the rose, seized his hair and smash-invent a new human race if pro- federal joint committee of public ed the glass in an effort to reach hibition is to be enforced, and accounts on oil exploration in the food. He was taken to a that new race will have to be hospital, raving. The faster was aided and abetted by the Anti- Australiu and Papua.

on the twelfth of his scheduled Saloon League. Drinking races. thirty foodless and sleepless days have always dominated the world. and had been an attraction in a land always will do go. The en- busy Paris thoroughfare, where forcement of prohibition is the his cage was installed in a large enforcement of a crime.”

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wear during

The periodical sales, one of which has just been held by direction of the Port of London Authority, are really oloasal hall.

No tight of the jumble sales. imagination would he too great in forecasting what might come un- der the auctioneer's hammer: pine quills, u tih box containing a naval officer's sword and uniform. perambulators, an iron ship's lifeboat.. Perhaps this last, which fetched twenty-five shil lings, was the same one which, at a previous sale fetched one shit- ling and was not taken away, For who would have expected to have a whole boat knocked down to him for a shilling. All these thousand and one different articles have been left unelaimed in the dock warehouses and are sold to recover to some extent the charges due on them.

Plans are under way

and A recent arrival from near completion at the Pickford- Tsinanfu considers that things Fairbanks studio for blowing up have changed in Shanghai since at sea of a full-rigged seventeenth he departed from that city about century galleon. The craft is to scene in O the first day's be destroyed for a five years ago. stroll down Nanking Road to see Douglas Fairbanks' new picture, the "improvements," as he called "The Black Pirate," and is them, he narrowly miessd being promised as one of the most be run over by a bolting horse. spectacular feats ever attempted Almost" within the next Sew for pictures. The vessel to minutes he found himself being blown up is the wrecked lumber screamed at by an infuriated schooner Muriel, virtually a dere- She is lodged foreign chauffeur for standing in lict until Fairbanks rebuilt her to. the place where most people for the photoplay. eventually get it in the back if on the bar at the entrance

The Balboa Harbour, on the Cali- are facing West. they Tinanfu-ite says he is sight-see- tornia Coast, and has been de- ing from a tramcar next time he clured a menace to commerce by

the Government. tackles the length of the "faloo.

SOCIAL AND

PERSONAL.

G.FALCONER & CO. (HONGKONG) LTD. Jardine, Matheson and Co., in at the University of Hongkong on Kobe last spring on home leave

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS

DIAMOND MERCHANTS Union Building (Opposite G.P.O.J

Agents for:- ADMIRALTY CHARTS ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturera, High Class English Jewellery,

THE RITZ

Meals à la Carte at all hours from 8 A.M. to 12 Midnight

Xmas, Wedding and Christening cakes. -to order,.

A

large consignment" of Calller's Chocolates and California Fruits just received for the Festive Season.

Only the best Food and Wines served. Alexandra Building

Nowell B. White

Proprietor.

Telephone C 2336.

3 H.P. MOTOR CYCLE

2 HP. MOTOR CYCLE...

Sold on Easy Terins.

$425

$290

LEYSECO CHINA CO. LTD.

Phone C. 1221

Voeux Road C

Bank of Canton Building

Mr. J. H. M. Andrew of Kobe expects to leave Kobe soon for Hongkong where he is being transferred.

A Congregation will be held Tuesday, January 12, for the conferring of degrees. Tea will be served at 4 p.m. and the degree ceremony will take place at 5 p.m.

Passengers due to arrive this week by the P. & 0.6, }

mmand Orders announce "Khyber" include Mr. and Mrs. CB. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. that on Boxing Day and on New H. J. Year's Eve, social evenings have Buchanan, Mr. and Mrs.

specially arranged for Paterson, Mr. W. Russell and been Miss Russell, Comdr. W. S. Gray, Naval and Military members by Instr., Lieut. J. R. Wilson Mr the C.E. Society. Union Church W. Wood, Mrs. Murdoch, Mrs. Hall, Kennedy Road. J. S. King, Mrs. W. Bower and the Misses Bower, Mr. J. F. Arber, Miss C. K. Morrison and Mr. J. Fleming..

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Mr. Charles Biddle, who left after being a member of the staff of the International Banking. Corporation in that city for about three years, has arrived in Shang- hai where he will be connected with the International Banking Corporation.

Sir Robert James Black, Bt.. of Midgham Park. Berks, chair- man of the Mercantile Bank of French Textile Company, Ltd., India,Limited, and the Anglo- and a director of the Shell Trans. port and Trading Company, Ltd.. and of other companies, who died on September 28, 1925, left un- settled property of the gross value of £535,471, with net personalty Alliance Assurance Company, £483,205. He appointed the Limited, as sole executor.

Mr. Ralph H. Norris head of the passenger department of the Dollar and Admiral Oriental Among the passengers depart. Steamship Lines office in Kobe, ing by the P & O. s.s. Kashgar" has tendered his resignation on Saturday will be Capt. effective January 1. Mr. Norris C. H. D. O'Callaghan, 5/2nd expects to return to the United

Mr. H. E. Cole, formerly Punjab Regiment (singles tennis States to represent several com- champion of the Colony), who panies in Japan. He will remain general manager of the Standard leaves for India; Mr. W. J.in Japan for several weeks after Oil Company of New York for Carrie (of the Colonial Serre his resignation is effective before Japan and well known in Tokyo Mr. and Yokohama, announced his tary's Office) and Mrs. Carrie, departing for the States.

for Home! and Lieut. General Sir Norris was formerly in the Yoko-engagement to Mrs. Dorothy Charles and Lady Dobell and hama office of the Admiral Carruthers of New York at a Mice Dobell, who recently arrived Oriental and Dollar Lines before dinner at the Tor Hotel, Kobe. in the Colony by the R.M.S. "Em-coming to Kobe, press of Canada" and have book- ed for Singapore.

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The dinner was given by Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Ensworth, general manager of the Standard'. Oil It is interesting to note that Dr. Company for Japan and Kobe, The following appears in "The William Montgomery McGovern, and 25 guests were present, Monthly Agency Review" for the famous explorer who is now Mrs. Carruthers is travelling in November, the organ of the Sun reported missing in the interior the Orient with Mrs. J A. Life Assurance Co. Mr. B. W. of Brazil, near the head waters Daugherty, of Portland. The wed- Tape will be associated with Mr. of the Amazon had his first ding will probably take place in Wallace, at Hongkong, in the employment with "The Japan the spring. Mr. Cole is now. a The mother and vice-president of the Standard capacity of Resident Secretary. Advertiser."

SOCRATES SAID

Such pessimistic philosophy was perhaps forgivable in those ancient days, but now with Pin- system-clean and haulthy no one eod kotten to keep the liver active and the

man Are you dopremet, ill-tempered, livertah ? If so take a littlé of Pinketten t to-night and you will ever so much brighter and better

glooms-view-AL

Mr. Tape has behind him a long son arrived in Japan from Manila Oil Company with offices in New record of success in the Life As where his father, who had been York City,

He was surance field, He was formerly a journalist, had died. Resident Secretary, and more rent that time a youth 19 years of cently General Agent at Hong- age and did stenographie work that nobody could be called happy kong with the China Mutual, and Following this he took up work before his death. on that Company's business beat the Box of Curios at Yoke Ling taken over by the Sun Life, hama. He afterwards became a he continued to act as our Repre-priest at the Nishi Honganji sentative, with marked success Temple at Kyate and was quite His appointment will be popular prominent at the time of the amongst his large circle of coronation ceremonies, in inter-bilious, friends, both Chinese and Euro-preting to the foreign diplomats deep pean, by whom he is held in great who attended that historical in the morning. These dainty little esteem, and his intimate know event. He was the first foreigner laxatives dispel constipation ensure ledge of the Chinese language and to become a priest of that parti dally regularity, keep the skin clear of our business will be of great cular sect. After spending two and the breath sweet quickly relieve. Piles. Of chemists everywhere, or post Assistance in ensuring a smooth years in Kyoto he left for China,free 60 cents the hip from Dr and enclent organization direct He fa the author of a work on Williams Medicines

Loed, Shangha Japan.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 19257

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