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Xmas, Wedding and Christening cakes ~ to order.

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

Only the best Food and Wines served. Alexandra Building Telephone C 2336

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Proprietor.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

LOCAL AND

One Chinese ense of pantys phoid fever was reported in the Colony or Sunday, A dog was

Found to be suffering From anbies.

The "Yingehow" with the mai) from the United Kingdom She via, Siberia is due to-day. enrries 23 bags from London via this route.

GENERAL.

Soup has load its prestige on the English menu, jazz having helped to make it unpopular, be enise dancers demand foodstuffs of a more solid nature.

The tour ontput of the Kale Mining Administration's, mines for the week ending December 20, 1925, mounted 4 73,789 tons and

EDIH FORM Ure sales during the period to

There are

said to be 2:322 Americans, soldiers, public men and others, who received the Legion of Honour from France.

Beauty specialists in Tokyo, numbering more than 89 have an association to organised co-operate in the development of their trade. This organisation is styled the Tokyo Beauty Parlour Association.

There have been 619 mar-

New kennels have recently been built for the Shangha Hounds, on a plot of ground

About 500 girl students in kindly lent by Mr. A. W. Burkill, just behind the site of the old Tokyo have held a meeting at the ringes between non-commissioned kennels on Great Western Road. Okuma Memorial Hail. Waseda, to officers and men of the British The new premises, which are com-launch another movement to ask Army on the Rhine with Garmans

from the beginning of the occu modious and airy, are built in the Government to increase the nation up to the end of June, 1925,

number of colleges and higher said Captain King in educational facilities for girls.

Esemi-fanciful Chinese style.

Dr. Sawayanagi, president of thementary answer.

a Parlia-

Imperial Educational Association, Florida's suicide rate since

A determined effort is being. made to put opera on- a sound and several other leading educa basis in England. It is proposed | vignalists spoke at the meeting, to form a Sational Opera, Trust, with n capital of £500,000; "to.

Mere than Y1,000,000 of the save apera" the promoters syYokohama municipal fund for from perishing in this country." buying up perpetual leases held by foreigners on property in that city has already been spent and the authorities hope that it will be

mutter excuse the in

of only few

before

The Lord Chamberlain begs, in

alluding to legs, To adduce as report

That our ballets are wrong, for

the dances are long And the skirts of the dancers

are short...

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"He thinks it a sign for young

women to spin

Curves,

raore

months

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the recent prosperity boom start- ed has increased 28 per cent. over that existing 8 years ago while at rate showed a 25 per cent. im- the same time the general death

provement during the same period.

An Italian merchant living in Munich recently won the equiva

they can Lurn their attention lens of $125,000 in a lottery. selling the

which After receiving news of his win- property. they intended to do only when the ning he committed suicide. When entire Y3,000,000 fund has beren he bought the lottery ticket he signed a statement that in case he used.

should win he would give half the prize to the Society of Munich Chimney Sweeps and the rest of it to the breweries,

Seme 300 students of

TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1926.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.

BEST PORTLAND CEMENT

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General Managori:

HONGKONG.

CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE COMPANY, LTD.

Advances made on Landed Property, Goods, etc.

Trustees of Estates, Executors ·

Wills, etc..

Warehousing of

Goods of all

Description.

For terma and particulars

Apply at the Head-Offee,

Telephone C.. 781.

แ

St. George's" Building.

Telegraphic address “RELYAT.”

During the past year, consider-10000000000XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX able development has occurved in x regurd to the employment in mercantile shipbuilding of Special Quality Steel, having a higher limit of elasticity than that of ordinary mild steel. - Messrs. Alfré Holt & Co., of Liverpool, decided to adopt the new material

THE HONGKONG TUG & LIGHTER Co., LTD.

In such bold pirouetting and Borough-road Training College for Teachers, at Isleworth, held a And the sight of a dance, whe-mock marriage ceremony. The ther here or in France. centracting parties were Sir Is too much for the Chamber Percy de Syihabus" and "Lady

Jain's nerves.!

Maggie Hygiene. In costume the students marched to Peers" A week or two ago the Birming-Fountain, singing a school song,

Girl ham licensing authorities insisted"The Sweetest

Have that Pavlova must wear tights for Known," There the Rev. Cupid her dances. They have now fullen. Clarkus conducted the cere- foul of George Robey. After hemony by placing a dog collar had sung in a, dance akis the song. round the neck of the bridegroom in the construction of the motor- 1 Stopped, I Looked, and 1 and tying him to the bride's ship "Prometheus," being built to | Listened," which he has been per apron-strings: After that the their order by Messrs. Scolist forming for over ten years with students. drew the bridal partyShipbuilding and Engineering out complaint, Robey was told back to the college recreation Co., Ltd., at Greenock, under the that he must not do it again-atruom, where a reception was held, Society's survey with a view to least, not within earshot for eye- provided as the result of a raid on being elussed in Lloyd's Register shot) of Birmingham!

:Book, the tuck shop.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dr. J. R. Mott was received in audience by the Prince Regent of Japan on December 19.

Hi Exelleney the Governor Bad Endy Clementi

ace giving a gardere party at Government House For the 26th instant.

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Subscriptions to the Over-Seas League are due on January Feath year. Local members may pay their subscriptions to Mr. G. R. Edwards, of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd.

The engagement is announced of Mademoiselle Marie Claurel, On January 11, members of the daughter of the French Am- the Shanghai French community Claudel, to Mr. Christian Bonumy, bassador to Japan und Madame produced play: by Sucha Guitry, "Une Nouvelle Etoile," at attaché to the French Foreign the Cercle Sportif. Madame Office, son of a prominert surgeon attached to the Gouin Hospital, Grosbois is taking one of the

Paris. rôles.

Miss Julia Ladow, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ladow of Shanghai, was married on Decem- ber 24 to Captain Richard Hughes at St. Joseph's Church, Shanghai, A wedding reception was held after the service at the Majestic Hotel Winter Garden.

Mr. S. Yamanouchi, former Consul-General at Harbin, has been appointed Counsellor of the Japanese Embassy to France.

Prince Chichibu and Ambas- sador Matau are to be guests of honour, at the annual banquet of the Japan Society on January 28.

Consul in charge at Kobe, has Mr. Erie R. Dickover, American cabled to the Department of State at Washington, DC., requesting financial assistance to send the three Bobbies stranded in Kobe back to their homes in the United

Single packages and small consignments received and delivered by Motor Lighter. Lighterage of any description undertaken. Tugs and Lighters may be obtained at all hours.

Motor Boat and Launches available for conveying Passengers and Baggage to and from Steamers in Harbour.

for terms and particulare apply at the

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HONGKONG & TERRITORIAL ESTATES, LTD. (Property Owners, Estate Agents, Land Valuers, etc.)

WILL UNDERTAKE THE

Development and Improvement of Landed Property and attend to all Branches of Real Estate Business.

Tel. C. 781,

For terms and particulars

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Telegraphic address "ESTATES"

Mr. Harold' Van Buren States. MaGonigle, the New York archi- tect commissioned by the United We regret to record the death States Government to study the of Madre Hedwiges de Conceicao, surroundings and draw up plans the Superioress of the Canosian for the new American Embassy Institute at Malacca, states the to be built in Renenzaka, has left Straits Times," which occurred for America after a month and at the Singapore branch of the half in Tokyo.

institute on Saturday morning, ■ January 2, 1926, and in response : XXXXXXXXDDDO to the wish of her Malacca colleagues and pupils, the body was ruiled down to Malacca in the evening, for burial. The deceased lady was born in Macao, and was 57 years old. She took the veil in 1894 at the Hongkong Noviciate, und before coming here spent some years in Macao and Timor Dilly, and about 15 years ago came out to Malacca Superioress. She had been in failing health for some time back:'

Mr. M. O, Springfield, the

At the request of the Empress Master of the Shanghai Hounds, of Japan, girls of the Peeresses' has left for Home on leave by the School conducted another parade, s.s. "Antenor." As Master, for carrying flags and motion pictures the past five years, of the Shang-were taken, to be presented to the hai Hounds, Mr. Springfield has Empress. The first parade was worked up much enthusiasm held by the girls of the naming of among sportsmen for both drag the Imperial grandchild and the and foot hunting.

Empress was greatly pleased with the sight.

Mr. and Mrs. George Russell, well-known members of the Kobe |foreign community, will leave soon for Singapore, where Mr. Russell has been transferred, by the Dunlop Rubber Company with. whom he has been affiliated in Kobe. Mr. Russell has captained the K.R., and A.C. rugger team for two successive seasons. Mrs.. Russell is the daughter of the former British. Consul-General in Kobe, Mr. R. G. E. Forster.

The prize-winners at the masked Cinderella fancy dress dance held under the auspices of the Royal Navul Dockyard Ladies' Club at the Seamen's Institute on Saturday right were as uider:-The bust, dressed: Mise Hardpage, d ul) Bary Victoria; Mr. Prendiam, 'aa 1. Russia Offer, The most original costumo : Mbs, Rogers, us Mah Jongg Mr. Jones, un a saga, Unikajed Ex The data we aluja pükste teristic. Miss Stuart, as Jounof Are, Mr. Price, us Pre-Historic Mam The judging was carried out by Mian Loya, H.E. Vice Admiral Sir Edwyn, Alexander Bioclair K.Q.B., M.V.0") (Commander in Chief of the China Station), add Commodore A. B. Surling. The prizes were presented to the win [neon by Miss. Leys.

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For the seti "time" Mian "Grace"

· Vanderbilt daughter, of Brigader":

· General and Mrs. Cornelius Vandóré it of New York, is reported engag Jede Her Gadon! mareng said to be "Abut I By Jy son of a socisty

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The King of Sweden has. recent- ly awarded to Mr. K. I Nordmark of the Swedish firm Gadelius and Co., Ltd., Tokyo, his gold medal "For Praiseworthy Deed" in consequence of Mr. Nordmark's brave, conduct' at Taukiji during the great, disaster in 1923, when, regardless of his own danger, he saved many people, from being barnt to death by the approaching fire. The medal, was handed over to Mr. Nordmark by Mr. Wennerberg, the Swedish Charge d'Affaires, at the annual meeting of the Swedish Socfety of Japun at the Imperial Hotel on December 18: Nearly all the members had come together for this occasion. Amongst those pre- sent were: Mr. Gadelius Pre- sident of the Society, and Mrs. *Gadelius; Consul, and Mrs.

Gerdtr Mrand Mrs. Aval Mrs and Mrs. Ekman, Mr. and Mrs. de Essen and Mr. and Mrs. Hartog

LINGERING COUGHS. Bronobiti Raavek a bad cough, dose infilanssn. And la trippe, but these hard, lingering-sought, yield:

for troubles

SPECIAL NOTICE.

All new firms and all firms who

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have not already sent in their applications for insertion in the DOLLAR DIRECTORY for 1926, are kindly requested to do so as soon as possible.

THE HONGKONG DOLLAR

DIRECTORY

Wyndham Street,

HONGKONG,