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TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1927.

KAIPING HOUSEHOLD COAL

NOTE REDUCTION IN PRICE.

In Lots of pat loss thas 1/2-ton:- Delivered to Peak Distriat (above Bowen Road), *24.00

por ton. Delivered to Bowen Boad and Lower Lavals, $22.00 per ton

Delivered

Kowloon,

$20.00

per ton

Orders shanL be sent in wide- ing at least 24 hours before the Goal required.

All orders must be accompanied by OE. Cheque, or Compradore Order payable to "The Fallan Mining Ad- ministration.".

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.

Head Office:--TIENTSIN.

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

SAND-LIME BRICKS.

Best machine made bricks Highest tests and uniform qualities.

For Economy, Quality, Beauty, Durability and

Satisfaction unsurpased.

YEE YICK SAND-LIME BRICK CÓ

CHING IÙ NAM

Manager.

Factory-Canton. Hong Kong Offee, 148, Queen's Rond, West, 1st Floor, Telephone No. C.3882.

FOR THE BEST SERVICE. Whether it be developing your negativès,

printing or enlarging- AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS should go to

LEE FONG.

No. 7, Wyndham St.

Tel. C. 4028.

WE HAVE THE BIGGEST AND MOST UNIQUE COLLECTION OF LOCAL AND CHINESE SCENES. Afoderate rates, Punctuality and Excellent Quality.

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO,.LTD.

ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRASS zud IRON FOUNDERS. All work done in this establishment is guaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience. We own two Blipways and can accommodate any traft of 200 feet long,"

Town Ofen: 64, Corinaught Road Central, Hongkong, Tel. Central No. 459. Tel Kowloon No. 9. Shipyard: Sham-Sul-Po, Kowloon, Hongkong.

Estimates furnished on application.

Bongkong. April 1, 1924.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS

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Mrs. Turner, aged 62, of Hurst Road, Eastbourne, died from the effects of poison' In a shelter on Eastbourne front.'

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Misa Shackerley, of Thornhill, who is aged 97, opened a sale of work at Closeburn, Dumfries. shire, with a speech of consider able length.

Though a doctor stated at his birth that he would not live many days, Mr. Thomas Brown, chem- lat, Victoria Street, Grimsby, celebrated his 94th birthday.

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Min- later of Health, states that the average annual loss per house.on houses erected by local authori- ties under the 1919 Act is £46.

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William Maggs, a miner, at Aberdare was sent to prison for a month in the second division for cruelty to a thrush by keep- ing it in a cage much too small for it.

It was reported to Galway County Council that some people in the Aran Islands (Galway Bay) had paid no rates for 20 years, and that all efforts at col- lection had failed.

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Men at work on the monitor "Glatton," torpedoed in Dover Harbour in 1918, found some bones, which, it is thought, are the remains of those who went down with the vessel.

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About Newts. of English Sun- day newspapers, being taken from Kingstown to the south of Ireland by train, were seized by a gang of young men at Killiney, County Dublin, station, and burn ed.

An anonymous donor who sent

a cheque for £100 to Hartlepool Hospital, stated: "I cannot with free conscience take a holiday without doing something to re- duce the heavy burden on the hospital."

At Coalville, Leicestershire, Mr. Charles Chamberlain return- ed home to learn that the police had informed his parents of his death in a motor-cycle crash, whereas the person killed was a man to whom he had lent the cycle,

M. Leturca, Mayor of Albert, and 21 other French delegates from Birmingham's "adopted" town in the war-stricken region of France, have arrived in Birmingham and will be the guests of the municipality and leading citizens.

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The sale at the Tower of Lon- don, EC., of broken armour of the 17th century, which was suc- cessful last summer; has been reopened, and helmets, portions of body armour, and weapons of the late 18th and early 19th cen- tury are now on sale at the White Tower.

Lord Shuttleworth, Lord- Lieutenant of Lancashire, in convening a meeting of the three Lancashire County Associations of the National Playing Fields movement, states that he has the King's command to do his utmost to further the movement for the provision of public playing fields,

Initial tests have been carried out at Felixstowe of the Gloster- Napier V seaplane, one of the high-speed racing aircraft being built to represent Great Britain in the Schneider Cup race at Venice in September, and it is anticipated that the 'plane's speed in the race will exceed 250 miles an hour.

By the spring of 1928 it is ex- Hundreds of children from the pected that a new 12-storey 400-East End who had never seen. the room hotel will be built in Quebec sen were taken to Brighton by City, on the site of Montcalm the Ancient Order of Froth- Market, at a cost of about blowers in a big fleet of cars. $2,000,000.

In a half-year of 1926 no less than 9,407 mining claims were staked In the Province of Quebec, covering an area of 435,000 acres. This is an increase of 83 per cent, over the year before.

"I expect to lose my life in the 'streets of London before I have finished," remarked Mr. Bingley, the Marylebone Magistrate. "It is almost impossible to avoid it; the dangers are so frightful.”

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The Eastern Divisional Council of the Scottish Unionist Associa- tion has appointed Mr. Allan Beaton as organisers of pro- paganda and political education in the North and East of Scat- land.

The Nore-manned ships of the Atlantic Fleet have received 'or.

ders to leave Sheerness to join their respective squadrons and flotillas at a rendezvous in the North Sea on their way to Scot- tish bases,

So successful has been the model lodging-house for women in Devonshire Street, off Theobald Road, W.C., that pre- parations are being made to open another house in the King's Cross or Angel district.

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While addressing the Wesleyan First London District Synod at Wesley's Chapel Mr. T. B. Fear- son, of Highgate, N., collapsed and died shortly afterwards.

Mrs. Partridge, of Bacton, owner of Sprig, winner of the Grand National, has given £100 to the Herefordshire General Hospital to colebrate the victory.

Only 16 per cent. of seeding had been completed in Canada at the end of April as compared with 81 per cent. a year ago, according to an official statement.

Among old English silver sold at Messrs. Christie's, a set of 14 George II, table-candlesticks, en- graved with the royal arms and cypher (made by Paul Crespin, 1727), realised £1,095 98.

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A copy of the original edition Seven Pillars of Wis- dom," by Col. Lawrence (issued to subscribers at £31 10s, a copy) was sold by Messrs. Harrods to a private purchaser for £420.

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The sub-committee of the Lon- don County Council Theatres and Music Halls Committee acceded to an application for a licence for a new cinema at Marble Arch, W., to be known as The Regal,

London County Council inti- The annual conference of the mate that mixed bathing will be Federation of Engineering and permitted, an experiment, | Shipbuilding Trades at Hull in- after 9.30 am. on Mondays at structed the emergency com- Peckham Rye open-air bath, and mittee to make an immediate ap on Thursdays at the Highbury plication for ал advance int Fields bath from May to Septem-wages. ber inclusive.

German asparagus growers will Mackenzie King, has decided to aeroplanes for the distribution The Canadian Premier, Mr. this year rely almost entirely on become a sheep farmer on a of this table delicacy, says Reu- modest scale on an estate at ter, confident in the knowledge Kingsmere, in the Gatineau dis- that epicures will gladly pay the trict, where he spends his avail- price provided they can obtain the able spare time, says an Exchange "grass" early and fresh.

(Ottawa) correspondent,

Mr. Herbert Pollett, a Grimsby Two Fokker aeroplanes which grocer, has had three pictures left Hudson, Ontario on March 21. accepted by the Royal Academy to deliver supplies at Fort this year, two being placed in the Churchill, a possible terminus of beat room. This is the fourth the Hudson's Bay Railway, re-successive year the artist has had turned safely (says Reuter). the distinction of having pictures Among the supplies delivered accepted by the Academy. were six cwts. of dynamite.

A NIGHT ALARM! What more distressing than to be awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of a sick baby or little child! You are startled and hardly know how to act. The hour is too late to summon the doctor. What are you to do until morning, when he can be called if still required?

Tablets most probably are all that is The answer is simple: Baby's Own needed. These little Tablets are plea- sant and testeless, easily administered because they crush at slight pressure to

Baby's Own Tablets

a powder; quickly allay fever or teeth ing paine, relieve colle, indigestion. nerves, send the child back to calm croup; check diarrhoea; quiet the health-restoring sleep in a antural way simply by removing the cause of its troubla. Guaranteed harmless even to the newly.born "infant, chemists sell them, or post fres, 60 cents the vial from: Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 60 Klangse Road, Shanghai,

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During the hearing of a case at Lambeth County Court the landlord complained that the woman defendant would not open Ther door, and the summons was served between two birthday cards. The woman said she thought the document was an election address.

With the object of accom modating increased stock at Grove Farm, Lenton, Notting- ham, the Prince of Wales is to acquire another eighty acres of grass land bringing the total acreage of the farm to 205. Later, a small and select stud of shire horses will be introduced.

of Lakenheath, Suffolk, was milk- Major Henry Beveridge Smith,

down and gored him to death, ing his cow, when a bull got him

breaking most of his ribs. Major Smith was formerly a medical officer in the Royal Air Force, inf which he held the rank of Squad- ron Leader.

Eight trombones served as a novel “arch of triumph" after the wedding at St. Luke's, Bath, of Mr. John Jones, trombonist in the Pump Room Orchestra, Bath, and Miss Mabel Copestake, daughter of Mr. Leonard Copestake, the tympan- ist in the same orchestra, who gave his daughter away.

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HOTELS,

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In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lite, Peking.

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...

Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms, newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone,

All Trams pass in front of Hotel. Most Moderate Rates in the Colony.

Tel. Add: "Victoria." Telphone No. C.,873. - ·

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. 5384, 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 be served.

Facing the harbour. 37-39 Connaught Road West,

Tel. C.5505.

Tel. C.5506.

EMPRESS LODGE.

Tel Kowicon 206,

Tel. Add "Empreniors." 2-12, Mody Road, Kowloon. Private Hotel, best location in Kowloon, convenient to ferry, fixta of 2 or 8 rooms, also bed-sitting-rooms, daily or monthly rates. Excellent culaine, special rates for families. For information apply to—

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Propriatzems.

ST. GEORGE & CLERMONT HOTELS HONG KONG & KOWLOON

ST. GEORGE HOTEL

21, 5 & 6, Kermely Road,' Hong Kong.

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9, 10, 11, 19, Chather Road, Kowloon,

Splendid location in best part of Kowloon. Full view at Hong Kong and Harbour, Large newly fumlahied wall ventilatai rooms and verandabu. Álf modern lontaniencas. Catering of the best under European supervision.

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C.P.R. Observation Car Combines New Features

A departure in the usual type of observation cat, used by the Canadian Pacifle, Railway Company throughout the Canadian Rockies has been made,, :The above photograph shows the new car which will replace the open-top car used formerly on mountain journeys. Find the b

In designing the new type of car the protection of passengers was the chief conalisration and has requited in the specially designed flat, roof which can be seen in the illustration, Buch a roof will afford ample protection in the event of a shower, in the mountains and, at the same time, makes possible excop- tionally high windows, in the central portion of the car.: This section has mil the appearance of an observa- tory, where pasangers, cão" sit and obtain an unrestricted view of the passing mountains, even thougia. the weather in a little too chilly to alt. in the bien. The VeroAKANDAAR

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