WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1927.
A Man taking pride in his appea rance should wear the genuine,
Borsalino Hat
real Quality and smart Styles
Bersaline
Grand - 1900
Borsalino, Antica Casa
THE
BLE
BLE AT
CO., LTD.
HONG KONG.
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.
ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRASS and IRON FOUNDERS. All work done in this establishment is guaranteed. We have over thirty years experience. We own two Bilpways and canɛ, accommodate" any craft of 200 foot long.a
Town Office: 61, Connaught Road Central, Hongkong,. Tel Central: No. 459. Shipyard: 'Sham-Bul-Po, Kowloon, Hongkong.
Tel. Kowloon No.. 9. Estimates furnished on application. "Hongkong, April 1, 1924, :
SAND-LIME BRICKS.
Best machine made bricks Highest tests and uniform qualities.
For Economy, Quality, Beauty, Durability and
Satisfaction unsurpased.
YEE YICK SAND-LIME BRICK CO...
CHING IU NAM
Manager.
Factory: Canton. Hong Kong Office, 148, Queen's Kond, West, 1st Floor. Telephone No. C.1882.
THE CHINA MAIL
THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.
The Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society, Ltd, of Woolwich,, has purchased nearly nine, acres of Woolwich Dockyard at a figure said to be well over £50,000.
fra. Robinson, who ar said to be Canada's oldest (mgil grant has arrived at Montre and will: Hve with her son at London,, "Ontario,
By order of the Commissioners Mr. Emrys Evans, deputy town administering Poor Law affairs clerk of Wallasey, Cheshire, was in West Ham about a dozen per appointed town clerk of Stoke sons are to be sued for falling to Newington, Ni, at a salary of $1,200, repay relief advanced on loan dur-rising, to $1,500 ing the general strike.
*
3
Hatchett's Restaurant and the|
During October 1,187 men wore White Horse Cellars, which are finally approved for service in the mentioned in Pickwick Papers,erritorial Force, the total strength are included in the sale of a free · of which on November 1 was 6,821 hold site in Piccadilly at the officers and 139,717 other ranks corner of Dover Street.
1.
་་
A seaplane turned over while At their next meeting, the Bat-taking off from Lee-on-Solent, tersea Borough Council will be Hampshire, and the three occupanta recommended to apply to the were thrown into the water, but Electricity Commissioners: for they were rescued by a motor-boat. consent to spend $97,000 on addi- tional electrical installations,
A fire devastated the business quarter of Broussa, a city in Asia Minor, 60 miles south of Constan- tinople, and 200 shops were burnt, the damage amounting to £250,- 000. Several persons were in- jured.
4
Irish Free State barristers have been informed by the Revenue Com- missioners that counsel on giv- ing receipts for fees of 42 and over must affix thereto an ordinary 2d. stamp
Harold Machin Smith, a solicitor, of Derby, found guilty of profes- The
editors of Communistsional misconduct by the Law So newspapers published in Cologne ciety's committee. was ordered to and Aix la Chapelle have been be suspended from practising for sentenced to seven months' im- one year. prisonment for libelling President von Hindenburg in a poem en- | titled "Beware of the Dog.”
*
*
Colonel G Dijl has been ap- pointed Army Instructor at the Im- parial Defence College.
A Charles II plain tankard, weighing 48oz.,, was sold for $545
at Masara, Hurcomb's, Piccadilly,
W
Queensferry's new 40 feet wide toll-free bridge, was opened by Colonel Wilfred Ashley M.P... Minister of Transport.
Owing to an outbreak of foot-and- mouth disease 138 cattle were. slaughtered on a farm at Cippen- ham, near Slough, Buckingham- ahire.
Seven: horses, valued at £500, and a goat, perished in a fire at the premises of Cooper and Sons, coal merchants, Smethwick rear "Bir- mingham.
An Oslo message states-A boat with seven persons on board-com- ing from a steamer lying outside the harbour, near Bodoa: capsized and five were drowned.
Mlls, Bisa del Campillo, as vice- president of the Argentipe Patrio tie League laid a bronze wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey.
24. Ronald Dalrymple Cowl,
Two brothers, Andrew and John butler, who was charged with Carewell, miners, were killed by a maliciously setting fire to How- | fall of earth in a pit at Monkland, While Madame Alba, the Aus-sham Hall, near Malton, Yorkshire, near Glasgow, and a third brother tralian soprano, was helping at alast August, was found not guilty narrowly escapad injury. church bazaar with her husband at York ASKİZ831- the Reverend M. Bloomfield-
The Municipal Corporation of White, their flat in South London Misa Marshall aged 80, who lived Calcutta rejected by 20 votes to 12 was ransacked. Pearls, fur coats alone at Coombe, near Oxford, a motion proposing that an address and a typewriter were stolen. Mr.was burned to death in her bed-of welcome should be presented to Bloomfield-White thinks the room, owing, it is believed, to her the Viceroy on his visit on: thieves were after the bazaar tak- clothes entching fire while she was | December 10. ings, which were elsewhere.
sitting at the fireside..
*
A Bary, M.D., Chairman of the Russian Benevolent Society, Shanghai, acknowledges with grateful thanks the receipt of Mex. $1,500 contributed by the Stewards of the Shanghai Race Club towards the Russian Bene volent Society from proceeds de- rived from Race Meetings on the Shanghai Race Course during the second half of 1926. ..
|
A
The Turkish Assembly hás pro- Victor Chapman, who was sen-longed for one year the state slege tenced for the murder of Ralph Hill in Eastern Anatolia, on the ground at Nottingham in 1911, has been that the feudal regime le still un- released and returned to: hia broken and that administrative re- mother who is aged 30, and forms are incomplete. his sister, at Burton Jopce, near Nottingham.
*
*
Willie Courtney, aged 2, was) rescued by Mrs. L. Goldstone, a With some other decorations, the tenant in the saine house, from a Victoria Croas awarded Quarter-burning room at Ansdell Road, master Charles Wooden (a Gar-] Nunhead, S.E., just as the elder man), of the 17th Lancers, one of down on his bed had caught fire: the Light Brigade in the Balaclava Charge in the Crimean war, was The last survivor of the Chal- sold at Messrs. Glendinning's for lenger World Exploration Expedi- tion of 1872," Mr. F. Gordon Pearsey is retiring from the When four young men were re-¿ Curatorship of Zoology at Bristol manded at Wigan charged with Museum. stealing a motorcar, the chief con- stable said the police found in the William Thomas Marks, car two loaded revolvers which | Crimean veteran, who was award- were evidently intended to be used ed the Crimean, Baltic, and Tur- against anyone who interfered with kish medals with the Sebastopol the men when they were stealing clasp, has died at Worthing aged
ninety-five..
"There's no country within the Empire offering better prospects than New Zealand for the man with small capital," declared Six | 4125. James. Parr, High Commissioner for New Zealand, at the Imperial Industries Association luncheon, He urged New Zealand farmers to give their attention to the export of pork to Britain. He said that Denmark, where similar condi- tions to those in New Zealand existed, profitably exported more pork than dairy produce.·
the car..
*
יד
*
THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL:
PEAK HOTEL." : Telegraphic. Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG,
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJERTIC HOTEL
· Telegraphle--Address: “ CENTRAL, SHANGHAL”
HOTELS,
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel dos Wagons Lits, Peking.,
Tel Adil "Clermont" CLERMONT HOTEL.
Phone E:810.
11, Chatham Road, Kowloon Choloent Location in the Calory in European section Facing Harbour, and Unobstructed View of Hongkong, and Chips, entering and leaving the Fort Only 5 minutes from Wharf and Ferry Large Airy. Rooms, with spaniona. Verandahs, all Newly Furnished and Equipped with Blmmon's Beds, Elwatela Fans, White Enamelled Batha, Hot. Water Geysers, Final Tolleta. First Class Dining Room, Open to the Public Catering Department, under. European Supervision.. Steamer met by our representative. For terms and Information
Address:--MANAGEMENT."
EMPRESS HOTEL.
Teli Kowloon 294.
Tel. Add. "Empresloge," 2-18, Mody Road; Kowloon. Private Hotel, best location in: Kowloon, convenient to ferry, fata of 2 or 3 rooms, also bed-sitting-rooms, dally or monthly rates. Excellent cuisine, apecial rates for families For information apply to
MRS. E OWEN MURPHY,
Proprietress.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
"GENTEAL." LOCATION ® ... LTRIC TRAMI PAM Batranos, Kozala and Busty MULLETT and and Daki Water Oysters
out. Barb of Food and Barrios..
Ladies and Gov's Hairdressing Baloon, Bed:Bicos:)'
a Cand. Telegraphic Aderas Va
WITURELL... Mans 247.
MASSAGE
Mr. SHIMIDZU Mrs. HONDA. No. 24, Wyndham Street.
Tel: C. 4945..
ADELPHI HOTEL.
SINGAPORE.
A Few Reasons why it is so Popular:
THE ONLY HOTEL in SINGAPORE with MODERN SANITATION Service and Cuisine. Second to None
Ferfect Ball Room Floor
Best Dance Music in Singapore
TEA DANCES
EVERY TUESDAY
AFTER DINNER DANCES
EVERY WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY
ROOF GARDEN CINEMA
Cables: Adelphi.
EVERY SUNDAY -
ADELPHI HOTEL, LTD., HARRY H. WILLIES,
Managing Director.
. FOR THE BEST SERVICE.
Whether it be developing your negatives,
printing or enlarging
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS should go to
LEE FONG.
No. 7. Wyndham St.
Tel. C. 4028.
WE HAVE THE BIGGEST AND MOST UNIQUE
COLLECTION OF LOCAL AND CHINESE SCENES. Moderate rates, Punctuality and Excellent Quality.
4
ASAHI
Sole
Agents:
BEER
MITSUI
BUSSAN
KAISHA.
The Cigarette of Duality
THREE CASTLES
THE
LAST
FEW
WEEKS
THE HONG KONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY will soon go to press. Those Firms and Clubs and Associations and Government Offices that have not yet sent in parti- culars for our 1927 issue should do so at once. Don't be left out it doesn't pay..
LADIES
Don't forget to send particulare for the Residential and Ladies Sections.
DO IT NOW
No Firm, Club etc., or Resident can afford to be left out of THE HONG KONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY,
Please
all informati
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.