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WATSON'S

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WHISKY

Blended where it is distilled, and Bottled where it is blended-in 8COTLAND,

A Skilful blend of the finest matured Highland Whiskies.. A happy result of long years of ex perience in distilling and blending; with a fine flavour that cannot fail to assure appreciation from the most discriminating palate.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

Phone C. 616,

Alexandra Building.

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JADE JEWELLERY

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GOLD AND SILVER SMITH

SECOND HAND JEWELLERY

HONG KONG HOTEL BUILDING

Queen's Road, Central.

HONG KONG.

Telephone C. 3337.

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THE ALEXANDRA CAFE

SPECIAL

COLD TIFFIN

PRICE 75. CENTS

NEW CONSIGNMENTS CONDITION PERFECT

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Melek Ambre Gold,

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Elmas Plain

Elmas Gold

SIMON ARZT.

Simon Arzt No. 70 P Simon Arzt No. 70 P Simon Arzt No. 40 P Simon Arzt No. 40 Pm Extra Fine

Sole Agents:

50's $2.25 100's 4.25 20's. 1.00 ∙100's 4.50

100's $3.00

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50's 1.50 50's 1.35 50's 1.45 (Straw Tipped) 50's 1.75

GRÆCO EGYPTIAN TOBACCO STORE LTD.

12, Queen's Road C.

TRADE MARK

PARROT

Tel. C. 2801.

NAM WAH

BRAND.

NEW SEASON GINGER.

Well Preserved. Colour and Mellowness Guaranteed.

Nam Wah Preserved Ginger Manufacturers

Office

No. 52 Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 5689.

SAND-LIME BRICKS.

Best machine made bricks

Highest tests and uniform qualition.

For Economy, Quality, Beauty, Durability and

Satisfaction unsurpased.js

YEE YICK SAND-LIME BRICK CO...

CHING IU NAM

Factory:Canton.

Manager

Hong Kong Office,

148, Queen's Road, West, 1st Floor.

Telephone No. C.3882.

CHI WAH.

TAILORING

Once known as Chiaon.” Perfect it guaranteed. 9, Wyndham Street.

TANG YUR DENTI

Successor to

the late BIEN TING, ***** 14, D'Agular Street

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Consultation:

THE CHINA MAIL.

More than an instrument ...a comrade for your fireside

A SPARKLING entertainer for friends that drop in ... a sympathetic companion for your hours alone.

or a full orchestra for your dance?' parties this versatile instrument is always ready. Whatever the music you like, it is reproduced for you exactly as played originally. Come in—let u

demonstrate-soon!

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P. P. C.

MR. D. O. DE SILVA bids all his friends Good-bye

on his departure for

Chin-chin,

England.

DEATHS.

SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1927.

ASSOCIATION WITH LANE, CRAWFORD'S.

FAMILY LINK BROKEN.

WILBUR PLAYERS.

LAST NIGHT'S FURTHER ⠀⠀⠀

SUCCESS

MATINEE THIS AFTERNOON.

Playing to a large house in the

bur Players achieved another

locally for the entertainment of MR. W. A. EUSTACE. the four or five thousand extra troops which have been stationed here merits the high praise which|67| Major Bone bestowed on them in speaking on behalf of both Ser- vices. Having regard to the difficulty of finding local talent for concerts that have taken place his retirement from the position Star Theatre last night, the Wil of co-managing director of Lane, in the past, it is truly amazing Crawford Ltd. has acted as notable success with "Cappy Ricks," how each week witnesses two or director, leaves the Colony on delightful play woven round the three entertainments in which Tuesday on the

"President famous novel character of that name. The players again acquitted the fare provided is of an excced-

Harrison."

themselves with credit, and it needs Mr. Eustace has seen 25 years hardly to be said that the audience ingly high standard and variety. service with the Company, and enjoyed itself immensely.

Mr. W. A. "Eustace, who since

It is to be hoped that there will an even longer association be- This afternoon the Wilbur. be no falling off in this en-tween the family and the firm Players are giving n

matinee at is broken by his departure in 5 o'clock, the plece being "The thusiasm as the weeks pass into that it was in 1878 that his Family Upstairs." Service men in months and the months into uncle, Mr. F. O. Eustace, joined uniform will be admitted at half years. The troops are here for the firm here in Hong Kong. price.

The Family Upstairs" will be longer than many of us at first Mr. Eustace's uncle, who sub-!

sequently went. to Shanghai and given again to-night at 9.15 and imagined, and if there is no Yokohama, opening Lane, Craw- to-morrow. On Monday and Tues- diminution of the hospitable ford's first premises there, is day, "Able's Irish Ruse" will be given each evening at 9.15 p.m. efforts being made by the many still enjoying his retirement in Thia play holds the record for un- lady and other helpers at various

England.

broken performances in New York, Mr. W. A. Eustace, after his having played for six years depots, then the 16th Infantry early association with the men's Broadway without a break, Battalion will have reason to re- outfitting department and the | member with gratitude the period ladies outfitting department, of service in Hong Kong as we partner in the firm in 1919, and which he founded, became a shall retain pleasant recollections of their cheerfulness and appre- clation of efforts made on their behalf.

POST RESTANTE.

LETTERS AND PARCELS UNCLAIMED.

was appointed a managing direc tor three years later when the firm was turned into a limited liability company.

On

BANK DEFENCES.

VAULTS FLOODED AT TEN

MILES RANGE,

Mr. Eustace was at one time' Remarkable and elaborate de- Hon. Secretary of the now de- fences are being included in the funct Wigwam Tennis Club. In rebuilding of the Bank of Eng- his early days here he was a land, which is now in progress. member of the Volunteers and It will be possible, in case of in- during the war held the rank of vasion or other emergency, to Inspector in the Police Reserve flood the vaults from three points Force. He has taken a keen in one in the Bank, one elsewhere terest and prominent part in the in London, and one ten miles out local Masonic movement and has of London.

A post office notice, dated May been an active officer of the The walls are constructed of

21, gives the following post res-Hong Kong and South China reinforced concrete blocks. six tante information as to correspon- Masonic Benevolent Society.

dence, etc. awaiting:--

Letters: R. Allix, F. Ame. (8.8.

"West Calera"), Miss K. M. Banks,

G. Bonavita, G. Brash. B. L. Brind

Davies (8.8. "War Pathan"), W.

Mr. D. O. de Silva.

feet long by two feet wide by two feet thick. The reinforce- ment is made from old steel-wire ships' cables, which are separated

These steel wires are interlaced

feminine attire may be compared (8.8. "Aeneas"), A. Bunch (3), Capt. Mr. D. O. de Silva, F.R.G.S., into single strands.

A. G. Bury, Chan Kai-pool (8.8. F.R.S.A., of the Sun Life Assur- with the Grecian period in which "Benalear), Mr. Chow the "Silverance Company of Canada, left into panels six feet by two feet, the beauty of human form reach-pine"), Geo. C. Clark (s.s. "West- by the s.s, "Kashima Maru" this and placed in the mould, one of ed it's highest expression. But It meer"), H. L. Clements (4.8, morning for London, for six top of the other, until the mould

"Cuprum"), L. Cluney (8.8. "Weat- months' holiday..

is full of steel wire matting. Mr. de Silve is none the less true that if the moor), Mrs. Crocket, Damg Yang may join the London Office of Liquid concrete is then poured in tendency of modern times con- (8.8. "Cuprum"), Capt. A. D. the Company,

the mould, and the whole is tinues in the direction of-to use Duffield, A. Emmanuel, E. Feneck of Dutch parents in Ceylon, in jevery crack and corner.

Mr. de Silva, who was born shaken to work the concrete into an euphemism-"economy," the (a.s.. "Darrdale'), L. Finke (3), R. his capacity of a Government"keys" at each end to interlock All these concrete blocks have comparison of the age may be Foisberg (3:5. "Indianic") Miss Sara Surveyor there, surveyed many them when in position. carried with a certain amount of Gevan"), R. W. Gledson

Funderburk, A. Geddes (8.8. "Thay

thousands of acres of land for are also semi-circular grooves at There justification by its critics even "Westmoor"), G. Le. Grange, Miss rubber plantations in the early the ends of the blocks. Two further back than Grecian times. L. Groves, P. C. Gunningham, E. days of the boom.

A. Hallaru, E. Harris, Miss On being transferred to the blocks together form to those of the fig-leaf era. Harry (2), H. Hesford (2), W. Fiji Civil Service in October, electric wires. Any attempt to groove up and down which pass Hogsden (s.s. Herminius"), T. 1910, he continued to work as displace a block breaks these

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dealer), Mr. Lam. Lt. R. N. Lane

a circular

AIRWOMAN'S AMBITION.

It is doubtful, however, if even neyands (British Sultan Hos-registered surveyor and in his wires and an alarm is immediata

nital), S. Ibrahim (8.8. "Clan spare time undertook mission ly sounded. the opposers of the motion at the Machin"), V. P. Jepsen, Capt. J.work among the Solomon recent debate would advocate a M. Johnston (s.s. "Keng Yuan"). Islanders. return to Victorian fashions, hav- Abdul Kagon Khan. J. H. Klukkert, interested in mission work and Kadir Kahn, J. B. Kemp, I. Key, Mr. de Silva has always been! ing regard to the fact that J. Knoth. L. Kornitzer (Diamond the relief of poverty and he is modern attire is certainly more. "Furious"), G. G. Lavalle, hoping in his spare time in hygienic and certainly not less at J. O. Leary (8.8, "Modesta"), Mrs. London to do social work among DESIRE TO PILOT A FIGHTING

*PLANE. tractive. In this connection, it is Leggatt. Dr. J. Leon. Mr. Loan (8.8. the poorer classes and give lec- significant that it is not recorded "Cuprum"), N. G. Majer, S. Mancy has delivered locally at the clares that she is not only an

(s.s. tures along the lines of those he;

A young Frenchwoman, who de of the defenders of Victorian (8.8. "Alnmoor") G. H. Mansley, Theosophical Society, the Helena air pilot, but an experienced para- modes of dress that they address-Capt. E. W. Matthews, Sir J. R. May Institute and the Univer-chutist," has asked the Minister of ed the meeting in the garb which McDonald, P. K. Menon (4). J. M. aity.

War to allow her to join the French Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Morden, Mr. Silva's association with Air Force. they so stoutly defended. If they H. Newman. L. Ogly, M. H. Pear Hong Kong began in 1919, when She is Mlle. Denyse Collin, and are really concerned over the son, Miss N. Petroff, S. E. Pheli- he joined the Sun Life as an in her letter to M. Painleve she "lack of propriety of modern moor"), (3), Capt. Ritchie (as agent, winning the Company's Bays

"Under the new law organising fashions they may, according to "Kam Wa") (3), G. Robert gold medal for six years in sue-

"Caravellas"); M. F. Mainea

penko. H. Richardson (a.a. “West-

the latest indications of the shaw, B. A. Rogers, J. M. C. cession and becoming a vice the nation for time of war I shall Rousse. Salvation Army, J. Shields president for the period 1923-24 be mobilised with all the other fashion prophets, take heart from (2), F. Silvestri (Entomology of the Company's Macaulay women and given the work that I MONRO-On April 25, 1927, at the fact that there are already Explorer), E. Skilton (s.s. "Her Club, membership of which is am most suited to do. I therefore,

Kobe, Japan, David Thomson Monro, of Aberdeen, Scotland, signs of a reaction, which is as minius"). A. Thorbeck (e.s. restricted to agents who produce request that I be enrolled as a re- serve military aviator and given Han-tan "Cuprum"), Tio late Chief Engineer s.a. sin inevitable in extremes of attire "Remphius"), V. Vladimízeku. Miss yearly.

(a.s. over G.$100,000 new business permission to practise flying at the In 1926 he won the military aerodromes. Klangteen," C. M. S. N. Co. KOTHE. On May 14, 1927, at as it is in extremes of thought or Warren. Wee Bing On

(Company's gold watch for five "Silverpine"). J. White

"I prefer to drive a fighting air- Shanghai, Vera

Borisovna Government. If this is not "Cuprum") (9), Mr. Whitfield (s.s. the Club.

(8.8. years successive membership of plane but if that is refused I shall Kothe, wife of W. Kothe, aged, enough to case their minds of the "Nagasak!"),

take an ambulance airplane." Widwindt (8.8. 27. years.

Mr. Silva has taken a keen in- Mlle. Collin, who served as an ав forebodings IRVINE. On May 15, 1927, at gloomy

to "Vulcann") and E. Zeitlyn (3).

terest in the Kowloon Residents' Army nurse during the war, learn- Papers: G. Brack (2), A. Bunch Glasgow, Margaret Tait art, the morality of the age, (3).

Association, .the Kowloon ed to fly in 1922, and after obtain- in her eighth year, only daugh they may rest assured in the Portcard: C. Hansen.

Cricket Club, and the Craigen- ing a pilot's licence, practised ter of James G. and Elizabeth Irvine, of Renfrew, the result thought that seven members of Unpaid Correspondence: F. W. gower Cricket Club and during parachute Jumping, narrowly escap- Eddo, Mr his eight years in the Colony ing death on more than one secà- of being knocked down by the audience shared their con- D. Keith, L. J. Rogers (American was responsible for the enter sion. motor bus.

cern--and was it not recorded of Consul) and Rupert & John Suttontainment of several parties of out in Syria and Marecco she When the insurrections broke round the world cyclists, walkers volunteered to drive a military alr Abraham that had he found (B.R. "West Cajoot").

Registered covers: J. Chaney and motorists. seven faithful men and true in (care

American

plane or an ambulance. machine-

·Consul), In 1925, he was elected a type badly needed for carrying the cities

C. P. Daswani, Aram Emmanuel L Fellow of the Royal Geographi- wounded soldiers long distances to of Sodom and

Finke, J. M. Gutierrez, Rev. Ncal Society and in 1926 was the base hospitals. Gomorrah, they would have been Mustalo. Olivier Co., Capt. 0. V. made a Fellow of the Royal But the matter was a complicated spared from destruction!

Prasaloff (8.6. "Phranang"),

one. Not only were the questions Before taking up his position of discipline, suitable rations, pro- in London, Mr. Silva will spend per lodgings and uniform Involved. several months touring England Should she wear D skirt or and the Continent in which he trousera? the heads of the air ser- will be joined by Mr. el Arculli, vice wondered. Would she accept who has already left on Home lors, and what effect would she the discipline of her men, super- leave.

Hong Kong, Saturday, May 21, 1927.

A SATURDAY CAUSERIE.

Although clothes do not make

J, Cone. E.

of

Rousse-Lacordaire and Teang Ping. Society of Arts.

Unclaimed parcels: Sam Leo Lung and Mrs. G. C. Thomson.

VACCINATION,

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

·BRIGADE'S WORK.

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WHEN EXERCISE FAILS

a man or a woman, they are The British Tommy, in spite of often an indication of character his official designation, has any- or mental outlook. This is not thing but a "Private" life, as was less true of an age or generation emphasised on Thursday night by than it is in its personal applica- Major Bone, R.E., in replying to

have on the discipline in general? tion. As the silks and ruffles of the toast of The Services at the

What would hennan to her flying the Stuart period were the out-European Y.M.C.A.

nerves if she fell in love with on It is here ward expression of a somewhat that the Y.M.C.A. during the War

The Wa Ministry. In free of ostentatious age, so were the was able in the various rest

The number of Chinese vac- to ensure regularity of the daily these problems, refused her offer. crinoline and whalebone symbolic camps to introduce an atmosphere members of the St. John Ambul-use a laxative if you are to be the colours. In time of war has cinated free of charge-by function It becomes necessary to but the new law calling maman to of the formality which charac- of homeliness by the provision of ance Brigade, up to and including spared the aftermath of a clogged changed the situation.

EN terised the Victorian era. No age reading and recreation rooms in Thursday, May 19, is has witnessed auch far-reaching, which it was possible to withdraw Chinese YMCA Division 26,657 ideal laxative, mild yet certain in reforms in the emancipation of for a moment from the somewhat Railway Division

King's College Division 12,141 action, promptly efficient in 4,702 womanhood as the present, and monotonous soldiering existence Indian, Division there is a striking expression of and enjoy the benefits of ordin. Kowloon Division this greater freedom in the ten- ary citizenship. The need for Shaukiwan Division,

Mongkok Division dency of modern feminine attire. this humanising influence is not Un Long

It is true, as was stressed at less great in peace than in war St, Joseph's College Divi. Tuesday's debate at St. Peter's time where large bodies of soldalon, suit,media.

Victoria Nursing Division Young Men's Club, that in the diers are stationed, and the greaters freedom allowed, modern efficiency of the arrangements Total.

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