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TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1927.

K. M. A.

CERAMIC & REFRACTORY PRODUCTS

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A'number of Welsh collieries pra adopting summer prices of 25s. a ton at the pithead, representing a reduction of 58. A ton,

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For failing to take precautions against spreading small-box a youth who went to work, while, suffering from the disease was fined £t Sheffield.

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HONGKONG'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER

No. 5, Wyndham Street.

Telephone C.22.

The Treaty of Conciliation be- tween Italy and Chile has been, signed by Signior Mussolini and the Chilean Minister in Rome,

Bianchi, Senator Leonardo Professor of Pathology in the University of Naples and a lead- ing exponent of eugenics, has died suddenly.

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When Sir Thomas Beecham conducted a performance of The Programmes Committee of Isolde at the the Wireless League are to ask the Tristan and Hungarian Royal Opera House in B.B.C. to broadenst Sunday's reli- Budapest he was warmly ap-gious service at an earlier hour, Mr. John Bell, Fellow, tutor, and plauded by a crowded house. and 6 p.m. is suggested. Dean of Queen's College, Oxford, has been appointed High Master of Women members are to be ad- St. Paul's School, Hammer-mitted to the Anglican Synod of smith, W..

British Columbia, provided that At Poole, Dorset, a new public at least 50 per cent. of the elect bridge, costing about £70,000, willed representatives of each parish obviate a six-miles journey for consists of male communicants.-- vehicles travelling between Poole and Hamworthy.

Mr. T. B. Strong, Londoner, aged 66, has been appointed Diree tor of Education in New Zealand, where he has lecu Chief Inspector of primary schools,

The Archbishop of Canterbury. officiated at a memorial service for the late Dr. Walter Lenf, chairman of the Westminster Bank. at Marylebone parish church.

A consignment of 700,000 bad eggs has been seized in Madrid and fines amounting to 7,000 pesetas, about £200, were imposed on the importing firms and their Madrid agents. The eggs came from Hamburg."

According to the final figures for the new census of Bulgaria the population is now 5,484,143 an increase of 637,172 since Dec. eniber 31, 1920. The division of The performance of "The Creathe sexes is males 2,747,983 (an tion" (Haydn) by the Royal Choral increase of 327,199), females Society announced for Saturday. 2,786,160 (an increase of March 26. was postponed until 909,973). Saturday, May 7, at 2.30 p.m.

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A man told the Greenwich magis trafe that he borrowed £133 from a moneylender in 1923 and though he had repaid 2231 the bailiffs had been put in for a balance of £66.

With the object of finding the owners there is on view at Fad- dington Green, W., Police Station a mixed collection of articles be- Hieved to have been stolen during the past 12 months.

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Panel doctors are doing so well now that they have country houses and bungalows and go for a breath of fresh air at the sea from Satur- day till Monday-Dr. Waldo, the City of London coroner.

Holbeach, Messra. William Egar. John Har- Lincolnshire, rop, and Frederick White have com- pleted 50 years' membership of the local lodge of Oddfellows.

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The new service of steamers be- tween Canada and the West Indies

under the control of the Canadian Government will be managed by the Canadian National Railways.

aged between 55 and 60, oft, sin. in The body of an unknown woman height, and dressed in a long brown

raincoat, black skirt, and black hat, was found in Brighton Cemetery.

Dr. Dawson Turner, of Highdown Heath, Godalming, Surrey, who was X-ray and radium expert at Edin- has lost another finger owing to burgh Royal Infirmary for 30 years, X-ray dermatitis.

Sheffleld automatic telephone ex- change-stated to be the biggest conversion its kind yet carried Sir Alan G. Anderson, acting out in Britain-came into operation chairman of the International at midnight, 11,000 subscribers, Chamber of Commerce, has re-renting 15,000 telephones, being turned from Budapest. His jour-affected. ney was connected with prepara- tions for the world conference voung girls, one of whom was rid- which is to be arranged by the Ing in an omnibus and the other International Chamber of Com-looking into shop, William Alfred merce at Geneva.

A committee representing the public services has written to the Australian Government urging an immediate statement of the allowances to be made to public servants transferred to Canberra, where it is estimated that rent alone will be 20 per cent. higher

than in Melbourne,

In aid of various charities the Exchange Dramatic and Operatic Mr. Robert Ritchie has made a Society gave the first of five per-donation of £10,000 to the Univer- formances at the Scala Theatre, sity of Melbourne as a memorial Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, W.,

to his son, Captain Ritchie, who of Sir J, M. Barrie's comedy, "Dear was killed in the war. He wishes Brutas."

£30,000 to be used to endow a Chair of Economics and the re- mainder to be added to the Trinity College funds.

For the weet ended February 26 the coal output from British mines was 5,371,400 tons, and the wage earners numbered 1,012,700,

com- pared with 6,366,900 tons output e and. 1,010,500 wage earners of the preceding week,

There

CHILD WELFARE. --

The provisional committee of the

is nothing that marks the Air League of India has elected Sir great advance in social organisation Montagu Webb, a former member more than the attention that is nows- of the Legislative Assembly, as legislation to insure adequate school- days bestowed upon child welfare- chairman, and has decided to forming, laws prescribing the conditions at Karachi a light aeroplane club, the first in India.

Among wills recently proved in England was that of Mr. William Rawlinson, of Patricroft, Eccles, Lancashire, described as a brick- layer, who left estate of the gross value of £5,078, with net personalty £4,956, Probate of the will was granted to his sons, William, hafr dresser, and John, bricklayer, and son-in-law, Mr. Charles Goodwin, stonemason. The testator left. all

under which children may labour, and a host of other safeguards.

Conservation of the child's health is no small itera in the children's welfare campaign. In the ailments of the very young, particularly those illness aris- ing

from derangement of stomach and intestinal functions, Baby's Own Tublots are virtually indispensable.

They allay the pains of teething almost

as if

and

by magie, cool feverishnaus, re- lieve croup and colds, expel worms, are cusy to administer

guaranteed free of oplates and all roxious drugs: Of chomists everywhere, or at 60 cents his property to his children in equal | the vial from The Dr. Williams' Medi- shares.

cine Co., 60 Kiangse Road, Shanghai.

The last link in the Canadian creased owing to the fact that sig

Pacific Telegraph system across nals: formerly Carriod direct from Sudbury to Fort William, will now

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For cutting off the hair of two

Wright 32, a homeless labourer, was sentenced to six months' hard la bour at North London.

Student suicides continue almost

because

daily in the United States, where two high school pupils, aged 15 and 10 shot themselves, one he had been reproved by his teach- er, and the other shouting. "I'm going straight to hell."

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General Machado, the Presi- dent of Cuba, has signed a decree limiting sugar production from Cuba to the coming crop in 4,500,000 tons, states an "Ex- change Telegraph" message from

Havana.

Telegrams were exchanged be- tween President Hindenburg and President Coolidge over the now. 'submarine cable which gives Ger- many her first independent munication with the United States since the German cables were dea- troyed during the war.

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The body of Gen. Sir Walter Con- greve, late Governor of Malta, was taken on board H.S. sloop "Chrysan- themum" and buried at sea, as he had requested. Lady Congreve- witnessed the procession from point on the Maltese coast where her husband used to sit..

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Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Ramsay Mac- "backers" of Mr. Gosling's Bill to Donald, and Mr. Lloyd George aro

give the Imperial War Graves Com- mission powers to erect at Trinity-

square, Great Tower Hill, E.C., a memorial to officers and men of the Mercantile Marine who fell in the

war.

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spening: John Meitillan, ・general Manager at infographi Centre Battery of'minchliknin "now - telegraph atsiloa. Lowers

·New CF3, repmiuz siation st .... While River,"

the continent, to conform with the strengthened and repeated at the new station here,\" most advanced developments of tale White River, the hal-way point. It.Through the introduction of auto graphie selenon, was completed rs-was pointed out to the press by Mr. matic printers and the possibilitie

McMillan that the overland service of still greater advames in the cently, when a new telegraph Te will be increased in spoed and flax science of telegraphy, it was found peater station was formally opened bility, thus affording additional ser pecessary to establlah the new item at White River, Ontario." The maisi vice. The present approximate dis- tion. Starting from Bedbury, the switch, cutting the new up-to-date tance betwem stations of this na- Canadian Pacific now have reposter, station into the circuit, was closed ture operated by the Canadian Pa-stations at White River, Fort WI- by Mrs. 3, E. Depew, who had been effie in 800 miles. A few years ago lam, Winnipeg, Movie, Jew," Cal- closely connected with Canadian dialances between repeating sta|gary, Revelstoke and Vancouver, on Pacific developments at White River tions were fully double, the distance the overland trunk lies in tele since...construction days. Many now accepted na the best praction graph service across the continent prominent officials of the Company For example, H., McMillan pointed the Canadian Pacifte have installed were present at the official opening out, the Canadian Pacific overland all-copper wires, and the best equip January, 29, Including;,J. MoMillan, wires were stretched from Montrealment obtainable is provided÷lu all: general manager afer Telegraphs, to Vancouver with the first repenter their repeater stations from. East to Montreal; E. J. Humphrey, general station at Fort William, & ditance West, making the servico fast and auperintendents North Bay, and from Montreal of about 2,000. malink: reliable" la

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