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1927.

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S. C. LAY & CO.

Alexandra Building.

Telephone Central 763.

Wilkinson, Heywood & Clark

SHANGHAL

HONG KONG.

THE CHINA MAIL.

FASHIONS AND

FANCIES

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL,

Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.”

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL.

Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL”

HOTELS,

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel 'des Wagons Lits, Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

Rooms available for the public.

Highest degree of comfort and taste.

Renovations and lavish decors- tions just completed; every modern convenience; entering de luxe; best food and liquors.

Each room has hot and cold water, private phone, box mattress &e.; spacious publie facilities; attention and service.

Manager, J. H. Witchell *** Phone C. 373, Cables "Victoría,” Hong Kong.

KAIPING COAL

FOR HOME, FACTORY & POWER "HOUSE

HOME,

FACTORY

AND

TUNKERS

For Price Apply to

POWER

HOUSE,

TUGS &

LOCOS.

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.

DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents, Hongkong.

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 Slipways and can accommodate any craft of 200 feet long.

Town Ofice: 54, Connaught Road Central. Hongkong. Tel. Central No. 459. Tel. Kowloon No. 9. Shipyard: Sham-Sul-Po, Kowloon, Hongkong,

Estimates furnished on application.

Hongkong. April 1, 1924.

CHY LOONG.

New Season Preserved Ginger.

Best quality Prompt attention to Exporters.

Office:-231, Queen's Road Central, 2nd floor. Tel. Central 2530. Factory:-500-504, Canton Road, Yaumati. Tel. K. 869.

ATTRACTIVE

ADVERTISING

LET US SHOW YOU OUR FREE

ILLUSTRATIONS.

UP-TO-DATE DESIGNS FOR EVERÝ

LINE OF BUSINESS.

"The China Mail”

HONGKONG'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER

No. 5, Wyndham Street.. Telephone C.22.

the

new

The very new and very snug hatations to pronounce it

Flowers make their appearances that have come to add a new note Spring chapeau. A narrow ripupon many of the new hats. Even to the mode show tendencies to re- pled brim is still seen. The crown main with us well throughout the that accompanies it must be quite Spring:

high and moulded in the back. The combination of grosgrain and silk is especially smart for the early hats and is frequently used in the ruffled brim type of hat.

The small helmet shape or avia- tor's cap has taken hold of Paris eyes and in many startling versions of the original shape appears in both chiffon felts and silks in all ! the shades favoured for Spring- time.

the various versions of the skull caps find themselves frequently beautified by a single flower in soft outline or a group of flowers placed at one side of the loop that comes over the car.

The slightly higher crown, mould- The large hat apparently will be (ed to fit the head in the back, with seen only occasionally. There are the curving narrow brita, are the hats of gracefully drooping linee subtleties that distinguish this wen-that-are-sometimes seen in all son's hats. All felt or felt and gros- grain make a very chic early Spring hat.

fabrics and accompany certain cos- tumes with extreme chic, but they are in the minority.

It is essential in selecting those close fitting hats to have one that follows the silhouette of the colf- fure. This is the ultimate note in ehlc. They may or may not be pointed in the back to suggest the élosely cropped head. In the front they frequently rise to a peak or possess some decoration that gives a hornlike effect. Flaps that ap pear on both sides are also seen and amartly. One side may droop slightly, as a hairline suggestion and rise to reveal a smooth fore-grosgrains for variety or the intro-ing lines of the now season to ob-

head, exactly where the hair is parted. These hats of scull cap- lines are perhaps the hardest to wear of any that have been recently introduced and should be chosen with the utmost taste and skill. They are so severe that they should be worn only when assured they do not blur one's good points merely for the sake of chic.

The small felt hat is still smart. It is seen in lines reminiscent of last season with just a few varia-

Straw hats are already appearing where the mode is closely followed. They ton, are apt to be close fitting and follow lines becoming to the closely cropped hair. Crowns are apt to reneh smart hoights, too, in the straw hat, and are trimmed with bows or bands of

The draped turban of lustrous silks, satins and lames will take its usual place in the formal scenes. of stones are Gay decorations found a smart trimming for the turban hat. frequently Crocheted straws are again in yogue and follow all the interest- tain smartness. Coloured in both straws, grosgrains and felts are exceedingly beautiful and are very varied. All the abades of blue for the Spring, beige, green, black, rose tinta and grey are smartly used for the newest hats,

duction of colour. The brimless hat in the straw is extremely in- teresting. Tucks, leaf shapes in grosgrain and other novelties are introduced in this type of hat.

Ballibunt straw is again seen. It usually appears in hats which express their smartness in interest- ing brims of a slightly larger out- line. Grosgrain ribbon again makes itself important in these hats as a smart trimming: for a band around the hat.

The popular combination of black and white has been used by Alice White for a becoming little turned-up brim type of hat that she wears in a scene from her First National film. "The Sea Tiger."

THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

The Mediterranean Fleet visit- ed the French naval base at Toulon.

Death from Natural Causes was the verdict at a Marylebone inquest on Miss Kitty Loftus, the

actress.

When told to read the oath in Shoreditch County Court, a mas- ter builder, aged 68, was unable to do so.

Excavating in a gravel pit at Moor Farm, near Pershore, Wor- cestershire, workmen unearthed the skeleton of a man.

The Prince of Wales opened the new West Wing of the Belgrave Hospital for Children, Clapham Road, S.W.

of

The State apartments Kensington Palace will be open to the public on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, beginning on April 2,

"An orator always says more than he means, and a diplomat never says all he means."Siz

Mr. Churchill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said in Parlia- ment that the revenue from the Betting Tax during February was £92,700.

Princess Mary visited the Young-Women's Christian Asso- ciation Club at Hunslet, Leeds, in support of an effort to liquidate the debt on the premises.

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A piece of Chinese sculpture, a figure of a horse in. green marble, T'Ang Dynasty 1618-906 A.D., has been acquired by the Victoria Albert Museum, South and: Kensington.

London City Corporation has decided to make the rates for the ensuing half-year 5s. in the £ an increase of 4d. in the £.

Valentine Smith, who still pursues a gypsy life on the out- skirts of Tipton, Staffordshire, has reached his 102nd birthday.

Miss Agnes Russell, the donor of the clinic opened at Paisley by Princess Mary, left estate valued at £123,422, more than £7,000 going to charity.

The body of a woman found at the foot of cliffs at Hastings has been identified as that of Miss 14zabeth Holewell, aged 41, of Mount Road, Hastings..--

A public lecture is to be given in the Queen's Hall; Langham Place, W., on June 16 by Dr. Voronoff, the celebrated surgeon and gland transplantation expert,

Mr. H. W. Walker, chairman of Whitehaven Colliery Co., Cum- berland, has given £10,000 to the Wesleyan Methodist Church for extensions in the Whitehaven

A NIGHT ALARM! John Goodwin, Governor-Design-awakened in the middle of the night by

What more distressing than to bo circuit. ate of Queensland.

A Bill to set up a register of qualified architects has been in troduced in the House of Com-

the cries of a sick baby or little child!

You are startled and hardly know how On a charge of embezzlement, to act. The hour is too late to summon the amount involved being about the doctor. What are you to do until £5 15s., P.C. George Henry Holden morning, when he can be called if still was at Coleford, Forest of Dean, required? mons by Sir C. Kinloch-Cooke The answer is simple: Baby's Own fined £12 or two months impri-

(Cons, East Cardiff).

Tablets most probably are all that is sonment.. needed. These little Tablets are plen-

For the fourth day in successant and tasteless, osally administered alon traders who erected stalls in because they crush at alight pressure to St. Ann's Road, Tottenham, N.,

against Tottenham Urban Dis Baby's Own

trict Council's orders had themi ], removed in the counell's dust carts.

Tablets

Flooded kitchens, sculleries, and bath rooms due to defective joints will, it is claimed,... be largely overcome by an invention shown at an exhibition at the Science Museum, South Kensing- ton.

Sir Charles Walston, fellow

a powder; quickly allay faver or teeth. ing pains, relleve colle, indigestion, Arrested in Duke Street, croup; check diarrhoea; quiet the nerves, send the child back to calm Adelphi, W.C., at 11 p.m. on a filthy storing sleep in a natural way and lecturer of King's College; charge of being drunk and in simply by removing the emise of It Cambridge, and an authority on capable, George James Whittaker, trouble. Guaranteed harmless even to art and archeology, has died 64, homeless, was found dead in the newly-born infant, chemists sell from pneumonia while on a them, or post free, 60 cents the val the cells at Bow Street a few from Dr. Willams Medline Co 60 cruise in the Mediterranean, aged hours later.

Blange Road, Shanghal

EMPRESS HOTEL, LTD.

Newly opened on 12th April.

We are famous for our CHINESE DELICACIES and our liquors.

Private telephones and hot and cold baths with every room. Luxuriously furnished with the best Chinese Furni- ture. Every modern convenience.

159-161, Connaught Road Central. Phones: C. 5384, C.5385, C: 5386, C. 5387, C. 5388.· Cable address: "Emphotel."

TUNG SHAN HOTEL.

IS NOW OPEN.

EVERY MODERN CONVENIENCE. Private telephone, hot and cold water basin and European baths. Lavishly furnished. Chinese and European dishes can be served.

Facing the harbour.

37-39 Connaught Road West.

ST. GEORGE & CLERMONT HOTELS

VONG KONI E. KOWLOOX

ST. GEORGE HOTEL 24,2 4, Kennedy Road, Hong Kong.

Sight milites walk from Blake 19er. Boautifully situated overlooking Antasient Gardens, Hong Kong Iarbour. Large, newly furnished rootné spacious veranciais., Maderni convenience Viral Links Cuisine and altoridance

Telegenis-Sudean.

Phone 0. $707

CLERMONT HOTEL

9, 10, 11, 12, Ubathata Bam!, Kowtour.

Splendid nilon in best part of Kowloon. Full view at Hong Kong and Harbour, Large, owly furnished well ventilated rugnis and verandahs, Alf modern Guarentencom Catering of the best under Zuropean susporslalon.

Telegrama-Nudeam

Tou K. 810.

For terms and Information staburro Hotele apply:-

Mrs. F. E. CAMERON Proprieta

EMPRESS LODGE.

Tel. Kowloon 286.

Tel. Add. "Emprealoge.". 2-12, Mady Kood Kowloon. Private Hotel, best location in Kowloon, convenient to ferry, Bats of 2 or 3 rooms, also bed-sitting-rooms, dally or monthly ratas. Excellent cuisine, special rates for families. For information apply to

MRS. E. OWEN MURPHY,

Proprietress.

A KWAI & CO

SUCCESSORS M

WING YUEN HONG

15 Connaught Road Central,-HONG KONG.

"NAVAL CONTRACTORS”

Ship-Chandlers, Provision Merchants, Sail-Makers

AND ⚫

GENERAL STOREKEEPERS.

Telephone No. C. 5336.

Cable Add: "Wianer"

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.

MASSAGE

Mr. SHIMIDZU Mrs. HONDA. No. 24, Wyndham Street,

MASSAGE NAKAMURA

23, Stanley Etreet, 2nd floor & BRA