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G. FALCONER & CO. (HONGKONG) LTD, WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS

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DINERS $3.00 -

MON-DINERS-$1.00 ADMISSION

THE PUBLIC OF HONG KONG WILL REJOICE. TO SEE. DURING THEIR MEAL HOURS THE CELEBRATED DANCERS,

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GRAND CHEAP SALE

for the benefit of purchasers

of

XMAS GIFTS

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is the time to remember your friends and relatives at Home for Xmas Gifts.

We have just unpacked a special consignment for the Xmas Season.

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FOR THE SEASONABLE GIFT

give our Store a visit where, there are a thousand and one different articles suitable for the purpose.

Crepe de Chine, Palace Crepe, Satin Crepe, Houri Coats, Coolie Coats, leno Coats, Kimonos, Scarves, Dress Lengths hand painted in. Georgette, Crepe-de-Chine, Spun Crepe and Fuji by yard and pieces in fashionable shades..

Embroidered Shaded Kimonos, Opera Coats, Night Gowns, Princess-Petticoats and Crystal Beads.

Canton Embroidered Shawls, Mandarin Coats, in great variety. Silk Stockings and socks "a speciality...

Ladies' and 'Gents" Pyjamas in different designs and shades.

ALSO

A magnificent selection of New Embroideries in charming array.

BOMBAY SILK STORE

No. 2, D'Aguilar Street.

CHY LOONG.

New Season. Preserved Ginger.

Best quality Prompt attention to Exportera.

Offre -211, Queen's Road Central; 2nd floor. Tel. Centrul 2530. Factory: 500-504. Canton Road, Yaumati, Tel. K. 869.

Unless-

you have visited our Dennison Department you cannot realise the wonderful variety of beautiful and useful articles that you can quickly learn, to make of paper rope, crepe paper and sealing was, at an almost unbelieveably low cost for materials..

You are invited-

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to attend the 'classes in Dennison arts given every day in our store. Commencing 15th November, 1926

Free instructions are given in~~

Rope Weaving

Costume Making

Sealing Wax Art

Children too-

Flower Making.

Novelties.

Decorations

and Favours

are invited to attend the classes. It is great training for the youngsters. They are given an opportunity for the expression of their creative and constructive instincts while. making many pretty and interesting things of Dennison's inexpensive materiais.

DER A. WING & CO. (1923), LTD.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

"LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The annual Bazaar for charity at the Italian Convent, Chine Road, begina to-day and will continue tu- morrow.

At the Holona May Instituie on Friday, November 19, at 6^p.m.. Chief Yeoman of Signal Murphy wil give te talk to "elldron on "Flags"---Advt.

A story of a street musician's Cabled greetings were receiv widow, aged 82, who dyed her hair bed by the Easma on Armistice black because she did not like it Day from the Penang Branch. white, was toldi at an inquest int Stepney..

Toheran, October 29-A Boy decree for the enforcement of com pulsory military service has been proclaimed Recruiting will take effect on November 7.

Big economie and financi..l articles in the American Pross As the result of a bomb out comment unfavourably on Mrage at Dusserah on October 26, Mellon's declarations to maintal the total casualties to date number protectionjam. The papers point ed. 60 wounded and ning jout the contradiction" existing De Police enquiries continue, includimur

tween the payment of debts and the the searches of six houses. policy of protectionism.

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The health returns for the 24 hours ended yesterday, show one Chinese case of diphtheria in Old and New Kowloon

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A new dance orchestra, of seven pieces, the "Eureka," has been formed and makes a pleasing the and welcome addition to Colony's dance" orchestras.

A huge poreclain flower-pot. weighing about 60 lbs., which stood at the entrance of the King Dr. Alfred Salter, MP., con- | Edward Hotel is believed to have been stolen during Thursday night:

"suppose that 95 per ceur, oftends that travelling facilities in un do the same thing, and general South East London are so bad, and de it successfully, but it does not the daily rush-hour scrimmages for accord with safety fest" remask, 'báses and trams are 30 nevere Dr. Edwin Smith, the Mackney that the situation is manufactur. coroners in recording a verdict of ing Bolsheviks right and left." accidental death in the ease of a man who stambled and was fatally- Injured while alighting from tramear befor it had stopped.

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"It is stated that the Liverpool) Tramways Committee has a wait. ing list containing 10,000 names of conductory. Hundreds of applica- ren applying for positions us triam

tion ecme in every week. said any

The Staveley Coal and Iron Co. near Sheffield, oticially state 1

they have secured an £80,000 condici traet for the manufacture of iron

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In returning a verdict of nc-Pipes for the Caire main drainage

The famous. "Rose Diamond, scheme. There Was eidental death, at the Inquest an William Pearson, agod 83, of Storch,tinental competition. The firm wirestinisted to be worth £100,000 bo resume full time as soon as porelles of historic interest, have boun and other valuable fore the war, Westmorland who fell off a tree in his orchard whih gathering in hisle. fruit harvest and broke his lon the coroner remarked that it looked rather like "asking for trouble" for a man of his age to climb a tree. especially stice, exactly twelve months before, he had fallen off tree while similarly engaged andThe suggestion before Government had broken the sume leg:

stolen from the Château de Condé at Chantilly, which is yed as a It is rumoured that the Ceylonmuseum. The diamond was left by Government intends reconsidering the late Duc d'Aumale, son of King the age limits in respect of volun-Louis Philippe, to the Institut de tapy and compulsory retirements France, and dates from the "Grand of officers from the Public Service, Condé."

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Some inconvenience was caused

the management of a drapery

is, said to be that voluntary retire ment should be permissible no the At Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on lage of 50 prach and that 55 years October, 30% a Soo Line train per- should be the age limit for com-store in Colombo Street Kandy, on formed what is termed locally as npulsory retirement. "Soodarean" operation.on a CUW. 4

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October 24, when one of two strangers, well dressed ladies, whoj called at the shop not only orden-i A herd of prize Guernsey cows.. A Paris cable to the Times a ich saries, but changed into broke through a prature fence and of Ceylon reported on Qeto-them in the shop Itself while order. wandered on to the tracks at Madi-er 26-Hurricanes on the norting other costly apparel. etc.. to son stations the train killing fourn and western coast of France about the value of Rs 700, of the animals. One cow was all have up-rooted trees, carried of the appeared before the District Judge most cut in two in such a manner roofs of houses and dislocated tele next day at the instance of the that her anborn half was uninjured. graph posts. Severe cold is being Police, and was committed to tira The owner took the calf home and experienced in mountainous die-House of Observation. will gaise it on a bottle.

tricts notably in Haute Savole, where tha temperature is seven be- fove zero.

A remarkable sequel to the Breakdown of the waterworks

Tsim Hi-tong a partner of the Wai. Loung firm of com-

is the auit by' SirTejbahadur Sapra.. A London cable of October 26 pradores, was charged before Mr. in Court subordinate judge, for ante the "Times of Ceylon" reported: J. H. B. Nihill at the Kowloon order to compet the Allabahad'As it to emphasise the coal short- Magistracy yesterday with receiv Municipality to supply him with arge winter has descended earlying three cases of "Daisy" butter, been sufficient quantity of pure water. There have been cold winds and knowing same to have Sir Tejahadur Sapru, giving evi-rains, for the past fortnight auestolen. from the, Dairy Farm, Tee dence, declared that the breakdown reeded by a snowfall all over the and Cold Storage Co., Ltd. Mr. for applied was the result of the culpable country, last night. Toboggans S. H. Loseby

week's formal incom-were requisitioned in the Northa negligence

remand, And gross

fixed at $500. petence of the Municipal Coun- Country, while the lawrs in Lon-baik being cillors, who. would give them on and the suburbs wore carpeted Mr. J. D. Thomson (acting secre Swaraj but starve them to death. with an inch of snow which soon tary) appeared on behalf of the The order was reserved.

Dairy Farm Co.

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. Li Yau-tsun to be a Justice of the Peace.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed. Dr. Hermann Balean to be a member of the Ad- visory Committee of the Peak Hospital, during the absence on leave of Dr. Wilfred Vincent Mil ler Koch, or until further notice.

Mrs. Ges. Whyte Crawford has: returned to Malaya from Home.

Mr. and Mr. W. A. J. Wallace ave returned to Taiping, F.M.S... after eight months' leave.

Mr. George Litton, Mr. and Mra. U. J. Velasco were on the "Pre- sident Grant" which arrived here] yesterday from Manila.

The death occurred at her re- sidence in Badulla on Cctober: 25| It is rumoured that Mr. F. B. of Miss Dulcie Brenda Lisk, daugh- Scwell, the popular President of theter of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Lisk, at Malacca Club and Swimming Club the age of 18 years. (of which he is the founder), is shortly proceeding to Singapore. "

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Louis Philippe Robert, Duke of Orleand, who died at Palermo in London cable of October 26 March last, has left unsettled pro- An excellent and varied pro-stated:-It is offeially announced perty in England of the gross value

that Brigadier-General F. Ifammond has been appointed to the Archduchess Marie Dorothée D. of $150,490. The will directed that investigate the condition of the Iraq should get nothing from the estate...

gramme was submitted at St. John's Cathedral Hall last night by the pupils of Mr. Frederick Mason, A.R.CO., E.T.C.L. the Hall being filled with an apprecia tive audience. The programme included piano solos by Misz May Ung, Miss Phyllis Gillingham, Miss Ada Leung and Miss W. Robinson, and songs by Miss M. Gaubert, Mr. C. W. Liddon Cole, Mrs. R. A. Rodgers and Miss Elsie

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railways. It is expected that he will arrive in Baghdad about"] November Gr

On October 26 at the Prosby- terian Church, Singapore, the mar- riage of James Alexander' Wattie, Mr. H. P. Waterlow, C.B.Eof the Dutch East Indies, son of British Minister, to Siam in the lato Alexander Wattie, Kintral to Kathleen Meldrum February, 1926, with Mrs. Waterlow Elgin, Fassed through Kuala Lumpur r cantly on the way to Penang Mr. and Mrs. Waterlow were the guests of the Chief Secretary "und Mra Peal for luncheon.

MacQueen, second daughter of Mr. A. MacQueen, Legierait, Perthshire, was solemnised.

Mrs. Austin, wife of Mr. H. L.

The following message will be Austin, assistant, Messrs. Ken-

cabled to-day by the E.A.S.M.. of nedy, Burkill and Co., formerly of Lord and Lady Irwin completed Hong Kong, to Earl Haig, in re- Penang, died under tragic circum- a successful tour of the Malakand cognition of his magnificent ser- stances on the 1st inst. as a re-area before returning to Peshawar vices during the Great War and sult, it is believed, of an overdose on October 27. Their Excellencies since: Ex-Active Service Men's of aspirin. The late Mrs. Austin inspected the headworks of the Association of Hong Kong ex- was well known in Penang. She tunnel through the Upper Swat presses, appreciation of your went to Ipoh three years ago Canal, received Jirgah Khan Khel, magnificent work on behalf of when her husband was appointed interviewed Nawab Dir and Miangul Lads of Great War." to Messrs, Kennedy, Burkill and Swat, and visited the Guides mess Co. Mr. Austin was previously assistant accountant of Messrs. Harrisons and Barker.

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at Chakdara Fort and had tea, with The 60th anniversary of the the Central India Horse at Risalpur. late Dr. Sun, Yat-sen, "Father of "the: Chinese Revolution," fell In addition to particulars a yesterday. Observances in Hong The two plays given by the ready given of assistance render-Kong were not on a large scale Grupo Dramatico de Amadores ated by helpers in Hong Kong and but a few guilds took a holiday, the Club Lusitano last night were Kowloon during Poppy Day, the fin Canton the feature of the well received by a big audience, successful efforts should be men-activities was a mass, meeting The pieces were cleverly inter- tioned of organise in connection yesterday, preceded by a grand proted by a cast of amateur Portu with the Civil Service Club which Canton procession on Thursday guese players. In "A Hos-body raised $206,60. This was night, many prominent officials pedaria do To Anastacio" under the direction of Mrs. B. E. taking part. the roles were taken by Maughan, in charge of Happy Miss

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Xavier, Messrs. Valley district. The collectors Mr. M. N, Mace, who has been A. de Almeida, C. Ribeiro, A. were Mrs. Wood, the Misses seconded for service from the Bri- Eca, G. Aquino, while those tak. Muriel Smith, Dolly Murphy,tish Government for service in ing part in the second play, "O, Kathleen Clarke, Christine Skel- Siam as Adviser to the Customs, Juiz Eleito," were Mrs. C. de ton, Alleon McKay, Marie Clarke, has arrived in Bangkok. Mr. Almeida, the Misses B. Xavier Beatrice Taylor and Mary Taylor. Norman Maxwell, the previous V Silva, H. Alvares and Sea Scout Reggie Wood and Adviser, has left, and looking THE HK. DOLLAR DIRECTORY CO. Messra B. Aquino, P. N. da Silva Scouts Douglas Mckay, Douglas forward to settling down to work S de Pinna, J. Gonsalves, Taylor and Raymond White gave at Home, MrMace is the atth Ozorio, A. de Almeida, 1. de valuable assistance. The gate Briton in succession to be Adviser Almeida and F. Fernandes. The receipts from The Servicony. The to the Customs, and before there Orquestra Sociedade Filarmonica Rest football match totalled were Advisers the Commissioners was in attendance,

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