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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 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

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with handkerchiefs to match.

Early Selection Advised,

THE SINCERE CO., LTD.

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO., LTD.

ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER HAFERS, BRASS and IRON FOUNDERS. All work done in this establishmeat is guaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience, We own two Slipways and can accommodate any craft of 200 feet long,

Town Office: 64, 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.

MASSAGE Mr. SHIMIDZU Mrs.-HONDA.

Ne. 24, Wyndham Street, Tel. C. 4945.

MASSAGE NAKAMURA

No. 23, Stanley Street, 2nd floor.

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

"I did it on the spur of the moment"-Man of 68, charged at Nottingham with bigamy.

Mrs. Rowcroft, of Torquay re- cently made a gift of over £100,- 000 to the new Torbay Hospital,

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An Order in Council notifies the resignation of the Bishop of New- castle, owing to ill-health, on August 1.

A petition of the Institution of Structural Engineers, praying for the grant of a charter of in- corporation, has been presented to the Privy Council.

The English women's hockey team has left for a tour of Aus- tralia. In addition to club and State matches, the team will play

three

tests, at Adelaide, Mel- bourne and Sydney,

The National Laboratory of Psychical Research on April 28 received a sealed box, stated to be Johanna Southcott's box, to be opened only in time of dire national need and in the presence of a number of Bishops. Mr. Harry Price, secretary of the laboratory, says the box will be opened shortly, but in the mean- time it will be psychometrised by mediums and also X-rayed.

The picture, "Morning," by Mrs. Dod Proctor, which has aroused widespread admiration at the Royal Academy, and has been acclaimed by many of the critics as the picture of the year, has been purchased by the "Daily Mail. It is the intention of the "Daily Mail," after the present exhibition at Burlington House, to lend the picture to a number of provincial art galleries before presenting it to the nation.

Signor Majorana, Professor of Physics at the University of Bologna has written to the Reale Academia dei Lincei, Rome, claiming to have dis covered રી system of wire less telephony in which in- visible ultra-violet rays with a very long wave length are em ployed, says Reuter. In experi- ments made between Bologna and a place 16 kilometres distant, conversations were, it is said, carried on with great clearness and in perfect secrecy.

Arrangements are now in hand- in preparation for greyhound racing at the White City, London,

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A rich lode of tin has been found on Hingston Down,' near Kit Hill, a famous landmark in East Cornwalt.

Mr. Lloyd George will preside at a debate on "The Impossibility of Socialism" at the Guildhouse, Eccleston Square, S.W. 1.

Research work is being begun at Otago University; New Zea- land, on the effect of storage on the vitamin content of butter.

The preparation of 145, Piccadilly as the new London home of the Duke and Duchess of York has been almost completed.

Mrs. Winston Churchill states that the announcements that her eldest daughter, Diana, is to be presented this summer are un- founded. The event takes place in the autumn.

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Dr. Serge Voronoff, "monkey giand" specialist, is to deliver his first public lecture. In London at the Queen's Hall on June 16.

The British trawler "Gabriella," with alcohol on board of the estimated value of £240,000, hna been seized in New York harbour. The crew of 13 have been arrest- ed.

An offer to Mr. Charles Chap- lin, the film comedian, of £750 a week for twenty weeks to appear on the London stage, was sent to him at Hollywood by Col., Harry Day, M.P.

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The London Society voted £50 towards the £2,250 needed to save Princes Square, Kennington, S.E., a small open space in a densely populated neighbourhood, as a playground for children.

At Potters Bar, Middlesex, railway station, thieves with a coal hammer smashed the fronts of three automatic cigarette and chocolate machines on the plat- form and stole money and stock.

Mrs. Watson, wife of a car- riage cleaner employed on the Southern

Railway, living in Folkestone Gardens, Trundleys Road, Deptford, has given birth to four children, three boys and a girl.

The coal output at British mines in the week ended April 16 (Easter) amounted to 4,683,100 tons, and the wage earners num- bered 1,028,300, compared with 5,294,400 tons and the same num- ber of wage-earners in the pre- vious week.

Contentment comes, not through the acquisition of worldly posses- It was announced at the annual sions, but from the harmonious meeting of the Association of working of the physical functions. Retired Naval Officers, Empire To ensure this harmony the first House, 175, Piccadilly, W., that casential is daily evacuation of the as a result of negotiations the body's waste, and when regularity Association would be able to place in this has ceased, there is nothing two or three members as Con- that will more speedily and effee-servative political agents each tively restore it than Pinkettes.

A gently as nature Pinkettes year. correct constipation, banish sick headaches and

bilious attacks,

Stimulate the liver, aid digeation, dispel gloom. Your chemist. can supply them; or post free, 60 cents the vial, from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 60, Klangee Road, Shanghai.

Three

Castles

ALWAYS COOL SWEET & FRAGRANT

Also packed in Regular 205 and 50§.!”.

SOLD EVERYWHE:

CIGARETTES

Presiding at the annual meet- ing of the Birmingham Unionist Association, held in the Town Hall, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, referring to the duty on certain kinds of pottery, said they re- joiced that one more industry that was going to the wall had been saved.

The New York Gallery has acquired Petrus Christus's por- trait, "Carthusian Monk as a Saint," at a reported price of 125,000 dollars. The painting, says Reuter, was among those shown at the Exhibition of Flemish Art held at Burlington House early this year.

The gift by Sir Charles Hyde, the newspaper proprietor, of a bed to each of the five Birming- ham hospitals, following a broad- cast talk on Lister by Sir Berkeley Moyniham, is stated by the Radio Times" to amount to £6,000. This gift is the largest by-product of a broadcast talk yet! recorded," adds that journal.

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Baron Edmond de Rothschild, who has already done great ser- vice to scientific research in France by creating the Rothschild Foundation, has made another gift of 30,000,000 francs (£242,- 000) to the Foundation for the purpose of endowing an institute for physical and chemical re- search as applied to biology, says | a Press Association (Paris) cor- respondent.

After successful experiments, plans have been elaborated for the construction of a great fac tory at King's Bay for the pro duction of synthetic petrol end other by-products from Spitts- bergen coal (seys Reuter's Osio correspondent). Before effect. is actually given to the plans, In- vestigations will be made con- cerning the extent of the coal- fields around King's Bay.

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'Armed men seized the English newspapers which arrived at Dundalk and burned them at the station. The railway staff was held up by men armed with re volvers, and the papers were placed on the platform, sprinkled with petrol and burned. The blaza was so great that the train had to be shifted along the plat- form out of reach of the flames..

The Board of Agriculture for Scotland have received intimation, of revised regulations governing the entry of potatoes into Den- mark, Kenya Colony, and Poland respectively, The Board are pre- pared to arrange for, the certifi- cation of consignments for ex- port to the above-mentioned coun tries. Where a visit to a con- algner's premises in necessary, a thio service will be charged

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL:

PEAR HOTEL.

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Telegraphie Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG."

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL.

Telegraphic Address: CENTRAL, SHANGHAI." HOTELS,

LIMITED.

In 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. 378,

Victoria." Hong Kong..

Cables:

J. H, WITCHELL, 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. 5884, 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 he served.

-Tel 'C.5505.

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Facing the harbour. 37-39 Connaught Road West.

EMPRESS LODGE.

Tel. C.5506.

Tel. Kowloon 295.

Tel Add. "Empreslogs." 212, Mody Road, Kowloon, Private Hotel, best location in Kowloon, convenient to ferry, flats

et 2 or 3 rooms, also bed-sitting-rooms, daily or monthly rates. Excellent cuisine, special rates for families. For information apply to

MRS, E OWEN MURPHY,

Proprietress.

ST. GEORGE & CLERMONT HOTELS

HONG KONG & KOWLOON

ST. GEORGE HOTEL

SA,&, Kennedy Rand, Hong Kong.

Eight minutes walk from itiaks Pler. Beautifully altuntad overlooking Botanical Garden, Hong Kong Harbour. Large, newly furnleled rooms spacious verandaba. Modern conveniences. First Casa Colaíísú and attendance.

Telogramos-Nudean.

Phone C. 4797

CLERMONT HOTEL

9, 10, 11, 12, Chatham Road, Kowloon

Aplendid location in best part of Kowloon. Full view at Hong Kong and Harbour, Largo, nawty furalshed well vertilated romne kod verandahs, All modern Convenienc Estering of the best under European supervision.

Telograno-Nudents

Phone K, 8),

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Mrs. F. E. CAMERON

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60, Nathan Road, Kowloon.

We respectfully request the favour of your Patronage. English Meals prepared, under. Ideal condition, 50 CENTS

QUALITY-CLEANLINESS-CIVILITY.

NO EXTRAS..

English Management.

NO TIPS.

Open from 8 a.m. till midnight.

ADELPHI HOTEL.

SINGAPORE.

The ONLY HOTEL in Singapore fitted throughout with

MODERN SANITATION TEA DANCES

EVERY TUESDAY

AFTER DINNER DANCES EVERY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY & SATURDAY

ROOF GARDEN CINEMA

EVERY SUNDAY EVENING LADIES' LOUNGE

Cablons Adelphl

PALM COURT ADELPHI HOTEL, LTD." HARRY H. WILLIES, AS

Managing Director.