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WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 19276

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SUCCESSORS

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15 Connaught Road Central,-HONG KONG

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CONTRACTORS

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Ship-Chandlers, Provisión Merchants, Sail-Makers

AND

GENERAL STOREKEEPERS.

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Telephone No. C. 5338.

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-Town Offcs: 64, Connaught Rosé Central, Hongkong, Tal. Cantral No. 459.

Abipyard: Sham-Bul-Po, Kowloon, Hongkong.

Tel. Kowlvan No. 3. Extimates furnished on application.

Hongkong, April 1, 1926.

60 Cigarettes:

THE CHINA MAIL

THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

Hot-house strawberries were ⠀ Ear! Jellicoe opened the new on sale last month in London at British Legion Club at Hove, from 20s, to 408, a 'lbộ

The Irish Free State has to "The cocktail habit among meet a deficit of 22,014,750 on girls is becoming a national | the financial year just ended. menace." The Hon. Mrs. Forrester Paton, at Glasgow.

Lord Inchcape has given £5,000 towards the endowment fund which is being created by the newly-formed Company of Mas- ter Mariners.

Lord Birkenhead will address a mass meeting of Conservatives in the Epsom Racecourse pad- dock on June 22,

An American Naval Squadron will visit Cork on June 4.

After spending 57 years in Broadmoor. Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Frederick Peter Knight, first committed for manslaughter in 1864, and later for another crime, has died there, aged 83.

William Michael, who was wounded in the Mons Retreat, In memory of John Howard, died on board the Union Castle the prison reformer, a tablet hasliner, Kenilworth Castle," been unveiled in the Central Hall while coming to England for an operation which might have saved his life.

Regulations to make petrol | of the Old Bailey. pumps subject to the provisions of the Weights and Measures 'Act are being prepared by the Board of Trade.

Defective hearing, according to a Blue Book, is chiefly reapon- sible for the comparatively large number of cases of invaliding from the British Army.

Sir Amos Nelson, the Lanca shire cotton manufacturer, who

Chang Tsong, 36, a Chinese,

is touring Australia and New auccessfully appealed at the Lon- Zealand, announced at Wellingdon Sessions againat a convic- ton that his firm was arranging tion by Marlborough Street for the erection of two cotton Police on March 2, when He was mills In Australia, ›

sentenced to six weeks Im- prisonment and recommended. for deportation as a rogue and vagabond.

About 1,000 London boys and girls took part in a cocoon hunt Mr. John Taylor, of. Green in Hyde Park and Kensington Street Green, near Orpington, Gardens on Bank Holiday or- has celebrated his 103rd birth-ganised by the College of Pesto- day during the week-end: His logy to reduce the number of wife is five months younger.

caterpillars in the park,

The King has approved the appointment of Sir Ronald Macleay as British Minister at Prague, Sir Ronald was British Minister in Peking from 1922 to 1926.

Gainsborough's portrait of Master Heathcote, which was bought for 44,000 guineas at the Michelham sale in November by Captain J. Cohen, has been pur- chased by Mr. Alvan T. Fuller, the Governor of Massachusetts.

"Well Wisher" has sent Mr. Churchill £1,000 Four per Cent. Schemes by which those who War Stock for cancellation as a seek to avoid taxation by living gift to the nation, for which the for part of the year in another Chancellor of the Exchequer ex-country may be defeated are being discussed by an interna- presses his thanks.

tional committee of the League of Nations, which meets daily in Somerset House.

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The dispersal of the Britwell Court Library, which was begun 15 years ago, has ended at Sotheby's: A total sum of £643,234 was realised-a world's

record for such a sale...

Trent.

now

H.M.S. "Ambuscade," handed over to the Admiralty by Megars. Yarrow and Co., Glas gow, is the first post-war des troyer to enter the Royal Navy The trials proved that the con- tract speed of 37 knots could easily be obtained.

Before its prorogation after an all-night sitting, the Mani- toba Legislature passed a Bill providing for a referendum on the question of extending the public sale of liquors. Voting will be held concurrently with the Provincial general election at mid-summer.

Pians have been passed for an open air swimming bath at Rugby School 200ft. longby 50ft. wide which will be laid out House in The Crescent. The in the grounds of Southfield

Coat will be about £9,000, and towards this the governors have promised £1,000.

Within the next few weeks the Japanese Imperial Household Department will announce the coming of a second child to the Emperor and Empress. Prayers that the child will be a boy are the Emperor's first child having being offered in the churches, been a girl.

A sum of over £4,000 was realised at a British Empire Bazaar in Manchester, the articles sold including a bottle of Bass brewed by King Edward

Mrs. Walsh and Mrs. Johnson, when he visited Burton-on- Three young men were found Labour leaders who were arrest

the wives of the Australian selling the

French Royalist ed in 1925, have qued the paper, the Action Francaise," Folkestone magistrates have outside Meaux Cathedral. The damages each in connection with Federal Government for £5,000 fined: Doris Phillipa McFarlane, paper was recently banned by the arrest of their husbands. of East Wellington, South Aus-the Pope. The Achbishop of Mrs, Johnson was awarded £60 tralia, £94, treble value and duty Meaux came out on to the steps by the jury and a similar judg on silk dresses and silk under- of the Cathedral, and with full ment was then entered by con- wear which she failed to declare ceremonial excommunicated the sant in the case of Mrs. Walsh: on landing.

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Susan Duchess of Somerset has closed her special-1s, collect- fon in aid of the building fund for the British Hospital for Mothera and Babies, Samuel Street; S. E. 18, and has handed a cheque for $1,000 to the hon. secretary, Miss Alice S. Gregory, at Moncorvo House, Ennismore- gardens. An anonymous gift of £1,000 has also been sent for the fund to complete the building.

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Anyone else in court willing to take £60 for losing a piece of a finger? No! No one except the solicitors who advised this young man.” ' That was. the comment of Judge Cluer Wat Shoreditch County Court on hearing that a youth had agreed to accept £50 compensation for the loss of the first joint of the middle finger of his right hand. The Judge refused to agree to the settlement.

A goatherd was recently at tacked and killed by a wolf as he was passing through a wood called "The Wood' of the Dead" on his way home from work to the village of Mercogliano, 25 miles from Naples. The body was found by two peasants, father and son, who, in turn were attacked by the wolf. The son was badly mauled but his father succeeded in killing the wolf with a hatchet.

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Oh, Mr. Johns!" exclaimed Miss Gush, "I heard you talking to pa about plants and I do so want to talk to you for, you know, I am very interested in botany. 1 like | all kinds of plants and flowers, as, of course, you do, too, Mr. Johns; But what varieties of plants are you particularly interested in?LAN The plants which I am most in- terested in,replied Mr. Johns,

re machinery plants.

Miss Gush looked mystified for a moment, but soon brightened

UP romarki:

I have! got so far as, that yet."

SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONG KONG FOR MAY 1927)

Time of the 120th East of Greenwich);

Sunset

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAR HOTEL... Telegraphic Address: “KREMLIN HONGKONG.

SHANGHAI S

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL, FALACE HOTEL,

DEEN MAJESTIC HOTEL Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL.”

HOTELS

LIMITED

association with the Grand Hotel

des Wagons Lits, Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

Rooms will not be available for the Public also Lounge and Dining Room, till after the 14th day of June: There is a special lounge at the back of the Bar for the Public." Phone C. 873

J. H. WITCHELL, Cables Victoria," Hong Kong. Manager

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. 6384, C. 5385, C. 5386, C. 5887, 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.

Tel C.5505.

EMPRESS LODGE.

Tel, C.5506.

Tel-Kowloon 296. Tel. Add. “Empresloge."

2 Mods Boad, Kowloon,

Private Hotel, best focation in Kowloon, convenient to ferry, Bata

of 2 or 3 rooms, also bed-sitting-rooms, daily or monthly rates. - Exxcellent

culaizio, special rates for families. For information apply to

MR. E.. OWEN MURPHY,

Proprietress.

ST. GEORGE & CLERMONT HOTEL'S HONG KONG & KOWIDON

ST. GEORGE HOTEL

24, 1, Kennedy Road, Hong Kong, Eight minutes walk from Blake Mer, Beautifully sikiated averlooking Botanical Gardens, Hong Kong Harbour,

xcredince.

alpress. First Class for HT, Jumlahod rugs specloza termetaba Hodami.

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60, Nathan Road, Kowloon.

respectfully request the favour of your Patronage. English Meals prepared under Ideal condition. 50 CENTS NO EXTRAS:

HE QUALITY CLEANLINESS CIVILITY. English Management. Open from 8.á.m. till midnight.

NO TIPS.

ADELPHI HOTEL.

SINGAPORE.

The ONLY HOTEL in Singapore fitted throughout with

MODERN SANITATION TEA DANCES

EVERY TUESDAY

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