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TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1927.

KAIPING HOUSEHOLD COAI NOTE REDUCTION IN PRICE.

In Lots of not.

Less than

1,2-bon- Delivated Peak District (above Bowen Bond) 884.0.

por bou. Delivered bo Bowen Road And Lower Larols, $22.00 por box. Delivered to. Kowloon,

$20:00

per ton..

Orders shauku be sent in wTİV- ing at least 24 hours before- the Coal As required.

All orders must. be becompanied by Ush Cheque, or Ompradore Order payable: *to* The Kailan dising A đi ministration.".

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.

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THE WAT THE WORLD WAGS.

Only one favourite was succes8- ful at Haydock Park race meet- ing,

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As the year advances whole- sale and retail food prices are sxpected by the Food Council to fall. It is stated by the secretary of the National Association of Master Rakers that the price of the loaf may soon be reduced generally to ninepence.

A rearrangement of date has averted a clashing in Am can and British open golf champion ships.

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A proposal that London's mounted police should carry lights when they patrol at night is considered unnecessary by the officer in charge of the mounted police at Scotland Yard,

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Guy's Hospital defeated a Royal Air Force Rugby team by five points to three.

Major-General H. Isacke will succeed Major-General Sir G. P. T. Feilding in the command of the 56th (1st London) Divi- sion, Territorial Army.

Opening the, inquest at Birmingham on the eight vic Mr. W. Clarke Hall, the metro-tims of a city fire, the coroner politan magistrate, said in an uttered a warning against "spite address to the Child Study Soful rumours' concerning things ciety that it was more difficult to which, according to the evidence deal with the delinquent girl than before him, he said could not to be given to military common-the delinquent boy, and that one have happened. Charles "Padley, ders, both at home and at for- "girl often caused him far more who lost his wife and six chil

A considerable extension of co-operation between the Army and Navy is to be made in this xear's training. Facilities are

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Left to right, Mrs. Alvin T. Hort, vice-chairman of the Republican National Committee; Mrs. Coolidge, President. Coolidge, and former Senator William M. Butler, of Massachusetts, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, surrounded by leading women of the Republican Party, assembled for conferenceljin Washington, who called at the White Hose to pay their respeëta.

eign stations. for practising embarkation in hoats and beach tandings on the sea-coast.

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trouble and anxiety than ten boys. If in the beginning there had been a certain disappoint- ment about the work of the Borstal institution, there was no cause for any such feeling.

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dren, described the discovery the outbreak.

In his presidential address to On the motion of Mr R.

the Incorporated Association of Gurner (King Edward's School,

Headmasters Mr. R. F. Cholme- Sheffield), the Conference of the

ley, headmaster of Owen's School, Incorporated Association. ot Lieut.-Colonel J. T. C. Moores discussed the evils. arising from Headmasters at Guildhall ur-Brabazon has resigned his office the exploitation of children by animously adopted a resolution as Parliamentary Secretary to cinema interests. The ccmer condemning "the increasing ten- the Ministry of Transport in cial cinema, the programm that dency to regard secondary order to take up the chairman-paid, depended, he said, upon the schools as centres for the pur- ship of a company. It is not in- ability to attract the largest pos poses of advertisement and pro- tended to appoint a successor. sible number of the silliest people in their silliest moments; and the paganda." At one of the houses of a school at which he was rel Sir A. H. Dyke' Acland, Bt., chief victims of the industry cently a master, Mr. Gurner said former Minister for Education, were the children of the West there was a constant stream of, left by his will £10,000 to enable and the minds, some immature young super-Communist-Bolshe-selected men and women between and some dangerously precocious, viks being turned out, and the ages of 20 and 30 to go of what were called the "inferior, found that "an ultra Die-hard abroad to study any development races." It seemed to him that master had been utilising half deemed by trustees to be of in- the cinema was typical of all that the divinity period in propagandterest and importance to the Co- deserved their vigilant hostility Ling anti-Bolshevism.

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300-Year-Old Chessmen

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we have been trying to get it for. two years," said a member of the firm which has acquired it. "An not a antique so perfect, with piece missing, is very unusual." Lunar Rainbows. the A West Drayton corresp ndent writer to the "Morning Post":"1 have seen many rainbows from my old home in Sleat, Skye. It fre quently rained heavily over the high mountains of Knoydart, across the Sound, while it war briliantly

Once a week the tin whistler A chess set made of amber has :comes beneath my city window. just reached Bond-street. The have never seen him, but he can chess board; dated about 1850, is play a tin whistle: yes. He has reputed to have been made for the been a musician who counted once relaxation of a Moslem emperor this whistler of to-day says a during one of his wars, and "Daily Chronicle" writer.)

Ho chessmen ara carved to represent plays all the very modern stuff: "I the soldiers of the two opposing don't care what you used to be," armies. Both men and board are and the worst efforts of the Savoy made entirely of amber, the squares Orphan boys. I don't like his being of clear and cloud, amber modern. tuff but 1 can work alternately, and for further dis- through it even when my triolets tinctiveness the clear amber clear in the comparatively low lying are refusing to trip properly. But aquares are delicately chased with there is one item in his reper gold. The chess set has reached tory which cannot work through. as only this week from noble- He reserves it to the end-"Robin man's family in Poland, although „Adair.”: Oh, yes ok, out-médied, hackneyed, & million times murs idered I know. But my minstrel plays his soul into that air. All the frustrations of this, turtal life, all the lost dreams, the broken. faiths, the fulls fruin earth into the Slough of Despond-all these things are in that old song played on' a tin whistle by an elderly musician. It could not be done in jazz--mes enfants.

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Ancient Hunting Ground.

Many interesting things about Hyde Parke and Kensington Gar- dens were told to un audience largely composed of young people at the Hall of the Royal Society of Arts by Mr. Keith Rice-Oxley, on the occasion of the an

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Bleat, "I never saw any colours unless, perhaps, in a very bright one there may have been a tinge of violet but I de not think this can "really have been possible. The arc was of a pale green, a very ghostly effect... A Cloughton, Scarborough, reader, however, clares that he saw the phenomenon twice last year, and that the colours, though not vivid, werd clear and distinguishable.' It is reported that several readers confuse the rainbow with the halo. The rain- bow is only visible when the moon Is behind the spettator, while the halo appears around the moon. itself.

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