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WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1927.

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SAND-LIME BRICKS.

Best machine made bricks Highest tests and uniform qualities.

For Economy, Quality, Beauty, Durability and

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Factory:-Canton. Hong Kong Office, 148. Queen's Road, West, 1st Floor. Telephone No. C.3882.

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.|

ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRASS and IRON FOUNDERS. All work done in this establishment la guaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience. We own two Slipways "and"can areommodate any craft of 200 feet long.

Town Oflea: 64. Connaugh! Road Central, Hongkong. Tel, Central No. 459. Tel. Kowloon No. 9. Shipyard: Bham-Sui-Po, Kowloon, Hongkong.

Estimates furnished on application.

Hongkong, April 1, 1924.

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When shovelling refuse into the destructor fire at Buxton, Darbyshire, workmen discovered a live 8.in. shell.

Because his team had been beaten in the match for the cham- plonship of France, a young French Rugby player shot him- self at Lezingnan.

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The building of Messrs. J. E. Morse & Co., ten merchants, Halifax, N.5, was destroyed by fire, the estimated loss being £170,000, including damage to tea valued at £40,000.

Samuel Palmer's water-colour, "Carting the Wheat," which is on view at the Cotswold Gallery, Frith Street, Soho, has been pur- chased by the Felton Bequest for the National Gallery,, Melbourne.

Fire gutted the assembly works and finishing shops at the Douglas Motor Works, Kingswood, Bris- tol. Four thousand completed machines were destroyed, and the damage is estimated at ear ly £200,000.

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A memorial was presented to Mr. Churchill on behalf of the clubs of the country praying for a reduction in the Beer Duty, which now stands at £4 per stan- dard barrel, compared with 78. 9d. in pre-war days.

Financial secretary of the Yorkshire Miners' Association, Mr. Joseph Hall appealed at Doncaster for loyalty, stating that only 50 per cent. of York- shire miners were now paying into the funds of the Association.

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It is claimed that Lieut. Demougeot, of the French Navy, beat the world's altitude re- cord for seaplanes. Leaving Sartrouvilla at 1.21 in the after- noon, Lieut. Demougeot came down at 3.84 p.m., having reach- ed a height of over nine thou sand metres (29,527_feet.)

Andrew Carney, who was committed at Carlisle for break- ing and stealing, criticised the Borstal where he had been sent, and said that the treatment was all that could be desired, but it was not reforming, 28 the atmosphere reeked with crime in its formed and unformed state.

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Three fox cubs, a week old, were found in the Carrock Fells, the first litter reported in Lake land,

A black tom cat has killed 100 chickens out of 10 belonging to Mr. J. B. Calvert, of Owston- ferry, Doncaster.

Cambridge won the inter- University golf match by 9 games to 6.

Listening-in is to be allowed in elementary Schools every Friday the London County Council from three p.m.

The plague of moles in Baden is so great that the Local Au- thorities are paying 15 pfennings (1d.) for each dead mole pro-

Rescued more dead than alive from a Scarborough fire, a cat was subjected to artificial reduced to them. spiration by one of the firemen and recovered.

Mr. Justice Eve, in the Chan cery Division.-A man with an artistic temperament is the worst kind of business man- except a musical gentleman.

- Mr. Roy A. Haynes, who has been serving as liaison officer between the prohibition unit and reform organisations, has been appointed "acting prohibition commissioner," in charge of the newly created Bureau of Prohibi- tion. Haynes' appointment was unexpected, there having been a strong fight made against it. The appointment, however, is re- garded as a victory for the Anti- Saloon League.

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The police of Gulladuff Station, South Londonderry, discovered in Mayogall graveyard a poteen distillery apparatus. The owners escaped- but the apparatus тая seized.

In the present state of the country's finances, Mr. Baldwin said in the House of Commons it was impossible to entertain any suggestion for the establishment of a national opera house.

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A fourteen-seater Handley. Page Napier air liner of Imperial Airways was converted into an aerial ambulance to carry a woman suffering from a spinal complaint from Paris to London.

Miss Fay Marbe, the American actress, was awarded by the jury £3,100 damages in her action against G. Edwardes (Daly's Theatre) Ltd.-£3,000 for injury to her reputation through not be- ing allowed to act in "Yvonne" at Daly's Theatre, and £100 in respect of libel. Judgment was reserved until certain points of law are argued at a future date.

British film production has re- ceived an unexpected and signi-} ficant recruit in Mr. Gordon) Craig, the famous son of Miss Ellen Terry. Mr. Craig in June next will open a film studio at Genoa, and wil: install himself there with a little family of film players and technicians in order to realise in screen form a num- ber of striking dramatic concep- tions, the nature of which re- mains a secret.

Mr. Justice Greer relieved from further service a London architect who was a member of the jury before whom a building | trade dispute is being tried. That there was something unfair in the architect being on the jury would be the last idea that would occur to any reasonable person, the judge said, but persons engaged in litigation were not always as reasonable as they should be.

...In connection with the total eclipse of the sun the first visible in Britain for 200 years, the London and North- Eastern Railway have issued a booklet founded upon information supplied by the British Astrono mical Association giving details of the eclipse and the area across Northern England where obscura- tion will be complete. The book- let includes an interesting map in colours, and can be obtained post free on application at any L.N.E.R. enquiry office.

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EMPRESS HOTEL, LTD.

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