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In three months, public recognition of the value of the better Buick 1926 has been so sweeping that. to-day one in every four cars sold for $1000 or more is a better BUICK
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HONGKONG HOTEL
A CHINESE NEW YEAR EVE
3
AFTER DINNER
CARNIVAL DANCE
WILL BE HELD
IN THE
ROOF GARDEN
O'N
FRIDAY, 12th FEBRUARY, 1926,
From 9 p.m. to Midnight
FANCY OR EVENING DRESS OPTIONAL.
DINNER
(INCLUDING ADMISSION TO CARNIVAL DANCE) $4. PER READ
7.30 pm to 9.00.p.m.
Table Reservations Should Now Be Made.
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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 Cailler's Obocolates and California Fruits just received for the Festive Season,
Only the best Food and Wines served. Alexandra Building
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3 H.P. MOTOR CYCLE
2 HP. MOTOR CYCLE
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AND
GENERAL.
Framed coples of match After a burglary at a Chelsea According to Covent Garden merchants the Christmas tree is cards showing Jack Hobbs's can-church it was discovered that the through which the as popular as ever. "I personal- [turies in cricket have been hung in window ly, am handling 100,000 trees," nl the boys' schools at Wimbledon burglar had apparently entered was not covered by the insurance said one merchant.
For the tand yene in session policy, At the Palace Hotel, Shang-the officers und crew of the Unitext,
UvA a bai, during Christmas week States lince Leviathan"
The Draeger breathing ap- lifelike presentation of snow Christmas party to 1,000 of Bubth-paratus, manufactured by MessTS, H. and B. Draeger, Luebeck, Ger- man skiing down a bank was the amition's poorest children.
many, has been approved by the admiration of all beholders. Com-
Board of Trade for use at rescue plete in every detail from cup and gauntlets to stick and skis, the
stations and mines. * figure was the work of an artist
Stratford woman, in Bow County Court: "If you have a lot of babies they talk birth control ¡to you, and if you have none they steer and say, What have you done for your country?"
When a woman was summon
When a widow was sued for possession of premises at White- chapel County Court, it was sald that she had lived rent free for nearly eight years by the gen-
A. Chinese arrested during a raidh at No. 12, Hin Fat Street, on Sunday, was charged at the Cen tral Magistracy yesterday with possession of 7 lbs. of raw opium fed at Wildesden for keeping aerosity of the landlord. and five tuels of prepared opium. dog without a licence an Inland He was fined $200. oF two Revenue officer said he was walk- months' imprisonment, or the first ing past a house when the dog flew
$2,000, or eight out and tried to bite him. (count, and
months' imprisonment the asked the owner for the licence
and found she had none. econd count.
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"You shall tell the truth, the The saucer 19 whole truth. cracked, and if you do not tell the truth your soul shall be cracked This was the like the saucer." form of oath administered to four A coolie working on one" of When the Tokyo Stock Ex-Chinamen, at Manchester Assizes. the Sandaka timber camps change closed for the New Year
the The return showing from died recently
the holidays, all records for a single
of fday's overdose
transactions had Jeffects
beeft number of cases of notifiable of w Chinese medicine prescribed broken, the total number of discases which have occurred in for him by a well meaning friend, fahres affected by deals that day the Colony of. Hongkong during A sample was sent to Singapore aggregating 892,260, the greatest st week contains one. (import- for analysis and was found to in-figure in the history of the institu- fed) case of small-pox and four clude among its ingredients such tion. The exchange was founded cases of diphtheria" (twp British
and two Chinese). things as musk, pear, amber, in Tokyo in 1877. frankincense, szechuan musk- ideer,
scorpion and bodies,
centipede
Sir been
It was announced in the The Tokyo theatres started; the New Year well. The Kabukiza "London Gazette" that a receiving theatre began a new series of per order has been made against Sir The Singapore Amateurformances with 5.000 reserved Brodrick Hartwell. Bart. Dramatic Committee contemplate seats already sold, and all the first Brodrick Hartwell has producing, in
the near future, and second class seats reserved up prominent recently in connection another of the populur Gilbert to January 5 The Imperial with whisky running ventures to and Sullivan operas. Since the Theatre opened with a new bill America. In April, last he, an-! Hest production of this nature. The and almost all the seats in the nounced that 30,000 cases from Gondoliers, many newcomers have house were sold up to January 15. Jone cargo had been seized by the arrived in the Colony, and many Many business organisations took American Customs. fold friends have left. The com-great blocks of tickets for their
The Boston Red Sox baseball mittee, therefore, have decided to staff employes, and one block re- follow the procedure they adopted [servation was that of the Woman's team will be some 25,000 the when preparing for the produc-Saffrage Federation at the Im-poorer following a'decision by the tion of the Gondoliers, and ask nperial Theatre on January 14.Board of Tax Appeals that they who are interested in operatic Large and small restaurants like-must pay this additional income work, who have voices, and would wise were booked for many pri- tax on the profits of the sale of like a chance of taking part in the vate dinner parties and they "Babe Ruth, and Carl Mays, two New coming production, to send in expect many more impromptu baseball "giants," to the their
Mr. W. T. Lores.. 10.
The Fumuiro RestaurantYork Yankees. £28,000 was paid Houghton, care of Messrs. Lewis was engaged daily by various for the two men, in three yearly
instalments. and, Peat, Ltd.
parties.until January 15..
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr. "N. F. Prew, B.A., leaves.
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EDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1926,
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
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for America, on Sunday next. Charles Edward Ducal Penny-fessor of Entomology, who died HONGKONG & TERRITORIAL ESTATES,LTD.
where he will rejoin his parents.
Members of the Shanghai Short Story Club met is the McTyeire
The death is announced of Mrs. Professor H. M. Lefroy, Pro cuick, widow of the former Post-during investigations into the master-General and Director of gases for the destruction of
insects, left £1,268. Telegraphs, Ceylon.
School, 1. Edinburgh Road. The paying-off ball of H.M.S.
Mr. Aldous Huxley, the writer, Stories by Mr. Adamson and Mrs.Hawkins". will take place on remains an inveterate traveller. Cressey were
read and every board this evening, commencing He is now in the Far cast and has member was asked to bring at 8.30 p.m. The officers' ball
recently spent some weeks newspaper clipping which might has been arranged for the follow-India. It is not yet certain if he suggest a plot for a short story.
fing evening.
will come to Hongkong.
Sir Charles Eliot, the British Ambassador, was entertained by the British communities
Tokyo and Yokohama on Decem- ber 22, 1925 at a reception at the
Hoken Seimei
Kyokai in Marunouchi All British sidents were invited to attend to say good-bye to his Excellency.
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Mr. E. F. O'Connor, the newly
in
The Eastern Welcome Club held appointed manager for the Tokyo of
office of the Dollar Steamship line, its monthly luncheon at the Great was a passenger on, the hydro-Eastern Hotel on December 1, plane which carried the papers of and it was voted an unqualified the "President McKinley" from success, the arrangements reflect- Kobe to Yokohama on Decembering credit on the Club's indefatig- 31. 1925, on the breakdown of able secretary, Mr. Sidney Morris. the railway service. It was the Mr. Walter Lomax presided over intention to drop the papers on a large attendance and among As in previous years, a deputa-board. if the "McKinley had those from abroad were Messrs. tion of ex-Service men, drawn on started, but he was found wat-C. Dyas and Granger (from this occasion from six differenting outside the breakwater, and Singapore) and Scott (a 48 years' departments at Hend Office of the the papers were transferred to resident of Calcutta).. B.A.T. Co., bore our floral offering her from the hydroplane by a to the Cenotaph, says the B.A.T. launch, just fifteen minutes before:
Mr. and Mrs W. H. L. the vessel was timed to leave. Warrener, formerly of Hongkong, "Bulletin."
The deputation consisted of the Mr. O'Connor describes the trip and their two children returned following:-
as a delightful experience. It to Kobe on the steamer "Mace- vas accomplished in two hours donia" from England where, they Mesgras F. Wakefield, 1914-15 and twenty minutes. The plane have been on holiday. Mr. Star, War, Victory and M.S. left Yokohama on the return trip Warrener's return to Kobe will be Medals (Registration Depart-
inst., Mr. A. Cespecially welcomed by the mem- ment), A. G. Eves, War and Vic-Thompson of the Yokohama office bera of the Kobe Amateur tory Medals (Insurance Depart of the Dollar line being ment), S. J. Quin, War," Victory.
passenger. and MS. Medals (Legal Depart ment), H S. Howell, War and Victory Medals (Leaf Depart ment), A. G Betteridge, 1914-15 Star, War, Victory and Serbian Gold Medal (Supply Depart- ment), and J. O. Johnston, War and Victory Medals (Accounting Department).
Funeral services for Mrs. H. E. Martin of Yokohama, who died just before midnight on New Year's Eve, December 31, after a long fight against consumption, were held at Christ Church, Rev. C. Hodges officiating. Mrs. Martin, whose husband is con- nected with Butterfield and Swire
on the 5th
of Yokohama, came to Japan a BEGINNING THE DAY: WITH
year ago. She died at the age of
28 and is only survived by her
A SMILE
Dramatic society as he has assist-
ed in the production of and held leading roles in many A.D.C. shows at Kobe.
Jack Dempsey, heavy-weight champion of the world, and Estelle Taylor, his wife, the popu Iar cinema star, deny the rumours that their married life has been. anything but a happy one. "I am still fond of fighting," says the champion, "and my wife, contrary to general belief, is proud of my achievements. My wife has re- dedicated herself to a career on the films, and I do not mind this In the least. My greatest am- bition is to meet Harry Willa."
News of the death of Mr. H. S. Hutchinson, of General Motors
on December 16 has just been re-
husband. She had attended an largely a matter of habit the babic Export Corporation, in Manila amateur performance which hadweeping the system clean and in been given in Yokohama the night regular working If your ver Leived in Tokyo. My Hutchinson of December 29 and had left the plusriah, or you are cronted with who had just been assigned show in a serious condition which intestinal inactivity Pinkettes are your Japan and who was to have called nood. As gently as nature these dainty. ended in her death Pall bearera little regulators dispo constipation, from Manila on December 16, was At the funeral were M. H. W stimulate the liver banlah headaches vaken with an attack of acute ap Kent and Mr. J. T. Towns of and billous attacks, clear the skin,pendicitis on December 15 He Butterfield and Swire Captain purify the breath. They also quickly was reifioved to the hospital and
relievo
Properated on immediately, but died Shaw commander of the Blue
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