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SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1927.

Silk Fancy TIES

That Men Like.

The most attractive neckwear you 'ever' saw at the price.

1 Tie: 1 Batswing: 1 Handkerchief

Put up in Fancy Box.

Prices $3.70 to $5.25 each.

Also many other ties and bows sold separately ·

with handkerchiefs to match.

Early Selection Advised.

THE SINCERE CO., LTD.

KAIPING HOUSEHOLD COAL

NOTE REDUCTION IN

In Lots of not

less than 1/2-ton:- Delivered to Peak District (above Bowen Bond), $24.00 per ton.

Delivered to Bowen Boad and Lower Lersia, $22.00

per ton. Delivered

Kowloon,

$20.00

per ton.

to

Orders shouls

be sent in wry

ing at least 24

hours before

Coal

the

required.

国

All orders must

be accompanied by Oash, Cheque, or Compradore Order payable to "The Kailan Mining Ad ministration."

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.

Head Office:--TIENTSIN.

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

FIRE PROTECTION

" TOTAL

WILL NOT EVAPORATE OR DETERIORATE. APPARATUS and CONTENTS

WILL LAST for YEARS

NO UPKEEP COST.

NO REFILLING.

THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER THAT NEVER FAILS.

AGENT, JOHN S. SMITH.

6th Floor, China Building.

LAMOI BEER

"Tasist 01 having it because it is the BEST”

Sole Importers

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Mr. R. H. Carpenter has been The King and Queen are to openi Croydon General Hospital exten-appointed vestry clark of All sion on June 25.

Saints, Weston, Bath, for the 63rd Consecutive year.

Herbert Shepherd, aged 50, a flagman, was run over and killed at Trent Bridge, Nottingham; by a steam roller, which he was preceding.

At Grimsby Docks a motor fire pump, which was being backed in darkness on to a jetty, ran back- wards into the dock, but the driver jumped clear.

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An inrush of water at Montagu Colliery, Scotswood, Newcastle resulted in David Armstrong, a married collier, being drowned. Ton of his mates had narrow

escapes.

The new diocese of Derby will hu formally constituted on July 7, and the hallowing of All Saints' Church as the cathedral will take place on October 28.

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During March 8,084 recruits were approved for service in the Territorial Army, the strength of which on April 1 was 6,578 offi- cers and 138,059 other ranks.

Mr. E. Crutchley, the young architect who was injured by a fall from the second floor of new premises at the corner of Jermyn Street, Piccadilly, died in hospital,

The general election in the Irish Free State will take place on June 8:

Col.-L. H. R. Pope-Hennessy has been appointed military at- taché at Washington.

An "explosion due to gas in a coal mine at King's Bay, Spitz- bergen, resulted in the death of four miners.

The 1927 season for cricket, lawn tennis (grass courts), and putting at L.C.C. parks and' open spaces has begun.

Bandits forced the staff of a Toronto bank into the vaults at the point of the revolver and escaped with £4,000.

The 'Council of the British Mr. W. B. Walker, who has In Bedford Police Court a big, Medical Association recommend been re-elected chairman of powerful prisoner; although that Sir Ewen Maclean be elected Bootle, Cumberland, Board of handcuffed fought three police-president of the association for Guardians, has been a member of men at once, while the court look-1928-29. the board since 1863, and chair-ed on, but eventually he was over- man since 1986.

The body of Mr. Herbert Harry Price, who was drowned at Walton when the taxicab,he was driving plunged into the Thèmes, was found in the river at Hamp- ton, about four miles distant:

Dock workers numbering 180 and five pitwood boats were held up at Port Talbot, Glamorgan, through a strike of pitwood work. ers arising out of a dispute over payment for the recent holidays.

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Burglars who tried to steal a safe from the house of Mr. J. Aarons, 112, Brixton Road, S.W.,

were disturbed by the arrival of Mrs, Aarons, and escaped, taking some jewellery from a bedroom..

A contract to build a 20,000- tons Hiner for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., London, has been received by Messrs. Alexander Stephen and Sons, Ltd., Linthouse Ship- yard, Govan, Glasgow.

powered.

JENNY MILLEN, WASH, A. G.

It is semi-officially reported in Madrid that the Spanish forces in Morocco are continuing to zain ground without meeting with much resistance.

THE

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There

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J. H. WITCHELL, Manager.

When a motoromnious crashed EMPRESS HOTEL,

into a tramway standard In Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, eight workmen were injured and the omnibus was wrecked.

Mr. W. McCormack, Premier and Treasurer of Queensland, who arrived at Plymouth on his first visit to England, will, it is understood, negotiate the floating of a State loan in London and New York.

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Picked up in a trawler's nets, a ship's funnel landed at Grimsby was identified as part of the

steamer Grimsby

"Rebono," blown up in the North Sea by striking a German mine in September 1914,

The Cadiz Court has sentenced one man to 14 years' and another to 8 years' imprisonment for an attack last. August on Mrs. Lowes, of Newcastle, an Englishwoman, Edgar A. G. Prochnik, Minister who, with her husband, was stay- from Austria to the United States,ing at Campamente.

The sleeping car express from

About 50 of the King's Own Scottish Borderers' Old Com- rades' Association, who assembled on the Horse Guards Parade at

Brig. Gen. Sir S. H. Child has Edinburgh to London had to be Whitehall to place a wreath of remembrance on the Cenotaph been appointed a gentleman usher stopped at Hitchin Station owing were commanded by Colonel S. to the King in place of Brig.-to a mechanical defect in a sleep Gen. M. G. Wilkinson, who has ing carriage, which was taken Terry, aged 85.

been appointed an extra gentle-off and the passengers transfer-

red to another carriage. man usher.

Marie Guinar, aged 6, who says she was accompanied from Lon- don to Rosslare by her aunt and left in charge of the guard of the train to Cork, is in care of the civil guard, who are trying to find her grandmother, who was to

have met her there.

Empire-grown tobaccos are gaining the popularity and an opportunity of seeing the differ- ent qualities imported from the Dominions and Colonies is to be afforded to visitors to the Tobacco Trades Exhibition, which opens at Olympia, Kensington, W.

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A portrait by Romney of Mr. While playing near Manton James Wilson, a Kendal, West- Brook, Stamford, Lincolnshire, morland, councillor in 1765, is to aged 7, and be sold at Messrs. Sotheby's Vera Jackson, Richard Edwards, aged 11, both along with the original receipt of Manton, fell into the water and for £8 88..for the painting of the|

portrait. were drowned.

Major Miller, who is flying a The Military Cross has been Moth aeroplane from Capetown awarded to Lieut. Hugh M. to Pretoria (via Durban), and Curteis, Highland L.I., for valu arrived at Johannesburg, states able and distinguished services in that in conjunction with Sir operations in the Penjwin area of Alan Cobham he is negotiating Iraq in June and July last year. with the Government the es- tablishment of a regular air mail service.

At Gateshead at 10.30 am, a man was found by a woman steal- ing money from a shelf, in her In a race to various lofts in house, and before noon he had Sussex, 500 pigeons, sent by mem-been arrested, charged, and sent bers of Brighton Flying Club and other clubs co-operating in the to prison for three months. race, were liberated by Sir Cooper

A Departmental Committee has been appointed to inquire and report on the arrangements for the examination of students attending part-time schools, with particular reference to the place

Rawson, M.P., and Lieut.-Co). It is expected that a first con- and value of examinations as an A. H. Gaman at the House of tribution of £50,000 will be col-element in training for indua Commons quadrangle on Satur-lected by the Shakespearean trial, commercial, and profes

foundation of America towards sional activity: rebuilding the Shakespeare Mem- orial Theatre, at Stratford-on- Avon.

day.

"People over 30 years of age

Mr. George Edward Brown has should be examined by their

been elected chairman of Ampt- doctors twice each year because

hill, Bedfordshire, Board of they are then entering the cancer A Gothenburg message states Guardians and Rural District frequency period,” said Professor ; that the Rev. Charles Baldwin, Council for the 30th year in suc- W. Blair Bell, director of the the English chaplain and vice-cassion, and Mr. John William Liverpool Medical Research Or-consul and one of the best-known Crisp has been appointed chair- ganisation, who addressed grad- Englishmen in Sweden, has ac-man of Ampthill Urban District

at Manchester cepted the living of Chedburgh, Council for the 21st time in suc

Suffolk.

cession

uate nurses University.

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ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAFERS, BRASS 25 IRON FOUNDERS All work done in this satablishment le guaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience. We own two Slipwaya and ca dccommodate any craft of 150 feet long.

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rkung, April 1, 1914.

MASSAGE Mr SHIMIDZU

HONDA

MASSAGE NAKAMURA

No. 28, Stanley Street