SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1927.
NOTICE
Our Store will be Closed
for the
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Chinese New Year Holidays
FROM FEBRUARY 2ND TO 5TH
To ensure "prompt delivery, customers are kindly requested to send "their monthly orders for provisions.
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On or before February 1st
THE SINCERE CO., LTD
THE
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FIRE PROTECTION
TOTAL"
WILL NOT EVAPORATE OR DETERIORATE.
TOYA APPARATUS and CONTENTS
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WILL LAST for YEARS
NO UPKEEP COST,
NO REFILLING.
THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER THAT NEVER FAILS.
AGENT, JOHN B. SMITH.
6th Floor, China Building.
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 wax, at an almost unbelieveably low coat for materials.
You are invited-
to attend the classes In Dennison arts given every day in our store,
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Free Instructions are given in-
Rope Weaving
Costume Making
Seafing 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 materials.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.
no despatches of: The "Rudens" of Plautus, pro- There were A record subscription of 319,. 085 was announced at the 71st letters or parcels to the Continentduced by the Rev. H. Kenneth anniversary festival of the Pop-by air on Christmas Day and Luce, Master of King's Scholars, was performed by the boys of lar Hospital for Accidents, E., Boxing Day.
Westminster School held at the Savoy Hotel,
M. Caclamanos, the Greek Minister in London, saya thut no preservative or colouring matter is used incurrants' sent from Greece to Britain,
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France's trade balance for the first 11 months of 1026 shows an excess of imports over exports of little more than £2,000,000, reckoning the rate of exchange at 125 francs to the £
At the wedding at Christchurch of Mr. J. Dashfield, a widower. and Mrs. Hayward, a widow, the officiating clergyman, the best man, and the bride's father were all remarried widowers,
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list of new a pair each as Christmas presentscestershire magistrates includes "Mrs. Downing, of Ivy House, to the 5 women M.P.s.
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A large number of boys and girls home for the holidays went to see Charley's Aunt," back in London for Christmas, at the St. James's Theatre.
A runaway horse in Grimsby stumbled and, striking its head on. an electric light standard, receiv ed injuries from which it died, while the driver stood by in tears,
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Mr. C. K. M. Douglas, B.A., has been awarded the Buchan Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society for 1927 for papers contributed to the quarterly journal of the, So- In a total of £23,450 obtainedciety during the years 1922-25. at a sale of jewels nt Messrs. Christie's a pearl necklace com Councillor Miss Hudson, who posed of 72, well-matched and was elected Mayor of Eastbourne graduated pearls, with brilliant and is the town's first woman three-stone snap. fetched 23,200. mayor, wore a robe and cooked hat similar to those worn by men mayors.
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The Carnarvon, Boroughs Unionist Association chose Mr. Bowen Davies, K.C. Derlwyn, inear Carmarthen, to oppose Mr. Lloyd George at the next election.
Viscount Tredegar, this year's president, has given 500, guineaя to the funds of the Royal Agricultural Show, which will be held in his own park at Newport (Mon.)
Two panels of Mortlake tapes. try, woven with nymphs with landscape background, two simi- lar smaller panels, and ten border pieces, woven with flowers and fruit realised £997 10s.. at Messrs. Christie's.
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Frederick William King, one of An unrecorded copy of Williım
six men who, with a woman, are Blake's Songs of Innocence (1789-
Richmond, Surrey, was plung- charged with conspiring to steal 1794), containing the 54 plates proper to the combined editioned into darkness for 10 minutes and receive 36 motor-ears, was
tem nequitted at Derby when the property of Mr. Alfred Gin mail week owing to a Gray-realised £1.350 at Messrs.porary failure of the electric light prosecution intimated that later
caused by a fauit at the Lots The would be called as a witness. Sotheby's.
Road Power Station, S.W.
At the Hotel Cecil, Strand, a Geneva part that the Inter-small gi hering in the nature of autional Apreciation of Journal"}
a famiy party celebrated the its intends to resume the Inter-tee of the Anglo-Argentine national Congresses, interrupted Tramways Company, while in by the war Lucerne will be the Buenos Aires 11,000 employees over the next meeting place.
were making merry event..
Mr. F. L. Freeman, senior techniert officer and general assistant to the Director of Education at Leeds, has been up pointed secretary
to the South- ampton Education Committee at a salary of £800 a year.
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At the funeral at Northampton The Ministry of Agriculture of Mr. Robert Henry Hall for states that the sweetness of sugar many years 'connected with Dr. beet appears to have an especial Barnardo's Homes, it was an- attraction for the rat, and "pronnounced that Mr. Hall in his will that he is attracted is very up-had requested that persons at-sages for all nominated single parent in and around the beet tending the funeral should not clamps and heaps, in the Easter remove the hat at the grave- Counties."
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Sir Worthington-Eyane, Secretary for War, stated in the House of Commons that the dent and dumb man suffering from loss of memory in a Rosterdam hospital, who was supposed to be a British ex-soldier is not British citizen..
The Royal Society of British Sculptors gold medal "for dis- tinguished services to sculpture" has been unanimously awarded to Mr, Alfred Gilbers, whose works include the Shaftesbury Fountain at Piccadilly Cirens and the Duke of Clarence Memorial in Albert Chapel, Windsor.
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YOUR. ILL-HUMQUR may be due to interrupted intestinal Ennation. Pinkettes, the mild, sure laxative, used when required, apeil
the way to cheerfulness and health. Keep them at hand. They are ever
PINKETTES
women under 40, and reduces the fare for single men from £13-15. to £11.
Presumed to have been kett afloat, although unconscious, by a large loose mantle she was wearing, a muddle-aged woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Foster, of West End. Esher, Surrey, was rescued from the River Mole and later revived.
Senior Under Officer FH. W.. Barnett, an old Etonian, has been promptly helpful when you feel awarded the sword of honour at verish. bilious, headachy, "blue." the Royal Military College, Sand- Your chemist sells them, or posthurst, where for the third suc- free. 60 cents the "vial, from The "cessive term No. 5 Company of Dr. Williams Medicine Co.. 60. Cadets have been the champion company and custodians of the Kiangse Road, Shangbai. PINKETTES KEEP YOU WELL. King George V. banner.
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(1) 6231) Ja use as in the time of Bxinam the Prophet.
The Peking cart, a very popular moda of conveyance.
13) The expel-vær of India, oldest taxi'ef alk.
44) The world-famous Jinrinkabs of Japan.
marize our modern cities without rickshas are also used on the lower little grey donkey, with a string of taxis or worse still without a speed levels of the city, but the sedan clear ringing bells. This is a small limit. One is accustomed to step into, chairs are used on the hills.
compact two-wheeled springless con-
a taxi and reach a destination many. The inricksha of Japan, ie the trivanca covered in blue and it ta sometimes drawn by mules arrayed in blocks or miles away in the space of nearest approach to a taxi, for this silvor harnesses. A similar conveyance a few moments, yet within a speed thing that at timos nearly bowls one is also favoured by the Japanese who
rit or all would be chaotic confusion over, is the man-tart of the East, the
call it a "ando”. with taxis running wild through the rubber-tired, brass lamped, white Valtion. Taxin and speed are two words cushioned velelo.
The camel-ear of India is about the synonymous in the United States and elsewhere. There are, however, many
Possibly Peking has the greatest oddest looking taxi of them all, and it never breaks the speed limit. Cumul-. Countries, capocily in the immu- collection of strange foreign texia back, too, is a very popular mods of mortal Eastwhich use conveyances of any city. Through the Chien Man transportation and not too bad for anering the same purposes for the front door of Peking, came short distances. The native women which no speed Hit is needed, they strings of double-humped, long-haired move along in the leisurely way of the Bactrian canals from the Gool lap, play the part of tanda in india. Orient, and yet meet the require Desert, bringing the vary breath of salt cases on their backs and starting. and the sight of them strapping large- ments of people in those ancient the deserts with them and all the of top Lotels at a fair rate of spoed Landa yayareinshine mystery of the Mongolia
The sedan chair, said to be named The next vahicis that is just one of the unusual things which Jon Pau Canadian Pacifo from Bedan, France, where it was Chin Menthe mouthte passenger on
Brst made or used, if tied extensively fabled dragon whowe wym are two or thing imprses of Bootland will ses, o in China. It is made for carrying the other nine gate, and whose body the Reund the World Cruise this single Demon and is usmelly bornes the breathing city siself, latke winter which leave New York on on poles by two men. In Hong Kong Paling cart," This is drawn by a December 2 and returns on April 12.
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