1927-06-16 — Page 11

THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1927.

K. M. A.

CERAMIC & REFRACTORY PRODUCTS

CLINKER,

PAVING,

BUILDING

& FIRE

BRICKS

STONE.

WARE

PIPES &

GLAZED

TILES

Ask for our 1llustrated Catalogue Compare our Prices and Inspect our wide Range of Samples

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION. 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 CO.,

CHING IU NAM

Factory:-Canton.

Manager,

Hong Kong Office,

148, Queen's Road, West, 1st Floor. Telephone No. C.3882.

FOR THE BEST SERVICE.

Whether it be developing your negatives,

printing or enlarging- AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS should go to

LEE FONG..

Tel. C. 4028.

No. 7, Wyndham St.

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

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO.LTD.

ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRASS and IRON FOUNDERS. All work done in this establishment is guaranteed. W'e hare diver thirty years' experience. We own two Slipways and can accommodate any craft of 200 feet long.

Town Oilleo: 64, Connaught Road Central, Rungkong, Tel, Central No. 459. Tel. Kowloon No. 9, Shipyard: Sham-Sul-Po, Kowloon, Hongkong.

Estimates furnished on application.

Hongkong. April 1, 1924,

ATTRACTIVE

ADVERTISING

LET US SHOW YOU OUR FREE

ILLUSTRATIONS.

UP-TO-DATE DESIGNS FOR EVERY

LINE OF BUSINESS.

"The China Mail"

HONGKONG'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER

No. 5, Wyndham Street.

CHI WAH. TAILORING.

Once known as Chison. Perfect fit guaranteed. 9 Wyndham Street.

Telephone C.22.

TANG YUK, DENTIST

Successor to

the late SIEN TING, 14. D'Aguilar Street,

TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Fros.

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

Surrey County rate is to be 3s. 6 3-16d., an increase of 4d. over last year.

A Huddersfield fireworks firm's offer of £5 for two German field guns has been accepted by the Hessle, East Yorkshire, council.

A car decorated with cotton wool at a carnival at the French town of Manjean, near Angers, caught fire and two children were burned to death.

#Furry Day" at Helston, Corn- wall, when an ancient custom of dancing through houses and streets is kept up, proved as big

a success as ever.

Thousands of pairs of gloves. were destroyed in a fire at Yeovil, Somerset, when the binding room of Messrs. Ewens and Robbins's glove factory was destroyed.

Direct and instantaneous cable working in each direction be- tween London and Boston, Mass., U.S.A., has been inaugurated by the Western Union Telegraph Company,

Income tax due but unpaid on March 31 last was estimated at | £39,500,000.

with compared £32,000,000 at the same time last year, said Mr. Churchill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Parliament.

•

'Owing to the decline in the de- mand for Saar coal, the mine owners are considering the per- manent imposition of one Idle shift per week

1

"

Martial law has been proclaim- ed in Bolivia, where elections have proved unfavourable to the Government and serious rioting has taken place in the town of La Paz,

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has had designed for it a tractor, with a roadless trac- tion creeper track, which, it is hoped, will launch lifeboats off all types of beach.

admitted to New patients Brompton Hospital for Consump tion and Diseases of the Cheat last year numbered 2,854, while the number of out-patient attend ances was 38,085.

Polling for the election of a Common Councillor, for the ward of Farringdon Without, E.C., re- sulted in the election of Mr. Charles Crossingham, an policeman, now a paper mer-

chant.

ex-

In "Twelfth Night" matinees at the St. James's Theatre on May 17 and 20 in aid of the Sadlers Wells Fund, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson and 15 mem- bers of his family or relations ap-

Two dressing-cases with jewel- lery valued at £500 were stolen from a motor-car which Captain and Mrs. Donnithorne, of Whit-peared. church, near Reading, had left unattended in Wardour Street. Soho, W., while they were mak- ing a call.

A royal service of silver gilt, comprising a pair of wine cups and a flagon, engraved with the arms of William III. and Mary, London, 1660, weighing 100 ounces, was sold for £1,680 at Messrs. Sotheby's to Mr. Per- main, fine art dealer, of 32, King Street, St. James's, S.W.

*

At Leeds Assizes when Dr. Samuel Kirkpatrick Adams, of Lavender-walk, Leeds, appeared before the jury for the third time on two previous occasions the jury had disagreed-charged with being drunk while in charge of a motor-car, the prosecution offered no evidence and a verdict of Not Guilty was returned.

*

•

A memorial tablet to three Cambridge scientists who lost their lives while flying during the war-Professor Bertram Hopkin- son, Mr. Keith Lucas, and Mr. Edward Busk-was unveiled in the lecture hall of the Cambridge University Air Squadron by Air- Marshal Sir John Salmond,

LONGEVITY.

To reinforce the system by rational media is to prolong one's years. So things tend to enervate onethe stress of modern life, worry, careless exposure of the person through the die- tates of fashion-all these make de- mands upon the human machinery which exhaust it before its time.

The King attended the aporta meeting of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and the R.A.F. Cadet College, Cran- well, at Queen's Club, Kensing- ton, W.

St. Michael's Church, Ashton-

under-Lyne, is the first church in Lancashire to have 13 ringing bells in its tower, and the rector, Canon A. W. Thompson, declares that he considers "13" a lucky number.

Major V. N. Lockett, second in command of the 17th/21st Lancers, the international polo player, has been promoted to command the regiment at Alder- shot in succession to the late Lieut.-Col. D. H, Talbot.

In a sailing race at Southsea the boat of Mr. A. G. H. Macpher son, owner of the noted collection of maritime prints, capsized and Mr. Macpherson was in the water an hour before being rescued, other competitors thinking that he had gone home.

About 50 casual labourers em-

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL”

Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.“ AND

1

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL Telegraphic Address: “CENTRAL, SHANGHAL”

HOTELS,

LIMITED.

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

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

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

All Trams pass in front of Hotel. Most Moderate Rates in the Colony, Hotel Launch meets all steamers.

The Lounge and Dining Room is now open to the Public.

Tel. Add: "Victoria.”

J. H. WITCHELL, Telphone No. C. 378.

Manager.

ployed by Hastings Corporation EMPRESS HOTEL, LTD.

on the reconstruction of the road on the sea front who went on strike, complaining that the work was too hard for the pay (18. 0%d. per hour), were discharged and their places filled.

Mr. George Edward Boyes, a portrait painter for more than] 30 years, but latterly a house painter and decorator, stated when he appeared as an insolvent debtor at Leeds Bankruptcy Court that one of his portraits was now hanging in Leeds Art Gallery.

"How I Did It" was the title of a talk broadcast from 2L0 (and relayed to other stations) by Teddy Baldock, who won for Britain the world's bantam- weight boxing championship by defeating Archie Bell, the Ameri- can boxer, at the Albert Hall, Kensington.

Law students to be called to the Bar include two women- What is more sensible, then, than to Miss Kathleen Marjorie Strettell, restore overtaxed vitality by the use LL.B., Liverpool University; and of a medium which does not merely Miss Winifride Botterell Mc- stimulate temporarily, but permanently strengthens and invigorates a medium Connell, daughter of Mr. R.: the value of which thousands have at McConnell, formerly of the Geo- tested and thousands are prepared to logical Survey Department, attest?

Ottawa, Canada.

the

Messrs. John W. Davis (formerly Ambassador to Great That medium is found in Dr. Britain), Charles Evans Hughes Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, formula of a learned and experi- (the former Secretary of State), enced physician, who found that the

An appeal for £2,000 is being Otto H. Kahn (the banker),very ingredients which are now com- made to aid 500 blind people in T. W. Lamont (of Messrs.bined in them gave relief to puffering the Potteries district, and dona- J. P. Morgan and Co.), and in many forms, and in many instances tions are asked to be sent to the effected a cure. They are invaluable Clarence H. Mackay have joined in the conservation of general health Stoke-on-Trent and North Staf- the movement to raise £200,000 which, in turn, spells longevity, tu men fordshire Committee for the Care in the United States to aid in and women,

of the Blind at the North. Staffordshire Workshops for the Blind, Victoria Road, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent,

rebuilding the Shakespeare Of all chemists, or post free, $1.50 per bottle, 3 bottles for $8.00, from The Memorial Theatre at Stratford-Dr. Williams' Medicine, Co., 60 Kiangao on-Avon.

Road, Shanghai,

NORTHCLIFFE HOUSE

The advertisement department CHARLIE'S SORROWS. is on the first floor and is notable for the simplicity of its lay-out,

OPENED BY THE PRINCE OF everything being planned to faci- NO SALARY & ONLY £300,000

WALES.

litate rapidity of working, includ- ing a mechanical transporter and PRINTING PRESSES STARTED chute combined, for the carriage

The formal opening of North- cliffe House was performed by the Prince of Wales who visited the home of the Daily Mail" and set the printing presses in motion.

of blocks and proofs to and from the composing room.

to set

The great battery of linotype machines upstairs includes the latest patterns devised advertisements in various sizes of display types, and the Ludlow machines offer a further mechan- ical aid to display.

FROM FILM.

£800 A MONTH FOR WIFE.

Pity the sorrows of the world's greatest film star.

Ile gets no salary-he works only when he is inclined. His name is Charles Chaplin, and his fucome from "The Gold Rush" alone was more than £300,000.

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 he served.

Tel. C.5505.

Facing the harbour, 37-39 Connaught Road West.

EMPRESS LODGE,

Tel. C.5500

Tel Kowloon 296.

Tel. Add. “Empreslogs.A voja 2-12, Mody Road, Kowloon, Private Hotel, best location in Kowloon, convenient to ferry, flats of 2 or 8 rooms, also bad-sitting-rooms, daily or monthly rates. Excellens cuisine, special rates for familias. For information apply to

MIS. E. OWEN MURPHY,

Proprietress:

ST. GEORGE & CLERMONT. HOTELS

HONG KONG & KOWLOONa meihgear Mi

-

·ST. GEORGE HOTEL S3

2,2 & 4, Kesmedy Euad, Hong Kong.

:)

Eight minute walk from Blake Flor. Beautifully elinated overlooking Botanical Gardens, Mr Jee

g Kong & Harbour. Largo, newly furnished rooms spacious rerandaha, Blodern cotronlances, First Class Califňá xul aftendance.

Telegram-Nudean."

-Phone C. 4797

TITT

CLERMONT HOTEL

9, 10, 11, 12, halham Road, Kowloon, Aplendid focation in best part of Kowloon, Full view at Hong Kong and Barbour, Large newly furnished wall ventliekad ruoma and vornodatie, All modern Comentance Catering of the best under European ampervision.

Telegram-Nuisan

Phone X 810,

Per terms and Information at above Hotela appty:

For

film-

• Mr. Schenck sald that Mr.

Chaplin gets 75 per cent, of the re ceipts. "We should lose our bank- roll if we had to pay him a salary," he said.

The function was a purely domestic one, no one apart from

Evidence, given by Mr. Joseph M. directors and members of the The art department is on the Schenck, who distributes Mr. staff being present.

same floor as the composing room, Chaplin's pictures, was to this effect Among those who conducted and is a masterpiece of ingenious in the alimony suit brought by Mies the Prince round the building planning for rapid work without Lita Grey, Mr. Chaplin's were Viscount Rothermere (chief loss of time in transit from one actress wife. proprietor), Mr. Cecil Harms- process to another. worth (Chairman of Associated The machine room is one of the Newspapers, Ltd.), the Hon. sights of London, or it would be Esmond Harmsworth, M.P. (vice- if it were open to the general chairman), Sir Leicester Harms public. Those who are privileged worth, Sir George Sutton, Mr. to see the forty-two great units Walter G. Fish (Editor of "The running will occupy a sort of "Dis- Dally Mail"), .Mr. Vyvyan tinguished Strangers Gallery" Harmsworth, Mr. St. John which occupies the whole of one the wife £800 a month, retrospective Harmaworth. Lieut.-Colonel W. side of the vast apartment. It to January, Wild, Mr. P., A. Goudie, Mr. G. was from this gallery that the Ward Price, Mr. H. W. Wilson, Prince of Wales started the Mesars. Ellis and Clarke (the machines. architects), and Mr. Allen Fair- head (the builder).

The prince made a complete tour of the wonderful new build-

SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONG- KONG FOR JUNE, 1927.,

ing and showed a keen interest in Date the workings of each department, June displaying more than a casual acquaintance with the technical Intricacies of newspaper produc- tion. ARNAAR

Northcliffe House is a remark- able building. A Press represen- tative spent a considerable time visiting the many departmenta and found everywhere new de vices, labour saving and time saving, which bring the great task of producing a dally paper to a pitch as near perfection as bas yet been imagined.

"He works only when he is in- clined. Charlie works by inspira- tion; other stars by perspiration."

Whereupon the court awarded

HONG KONG HOTEL VISITORS.

June 15, 1927..

Messrs. S. F. Brown, D. Braun.

Mr. S. R.

Sunrise

Sunset

Mr. J. K. Colgate.

16

++

17

5.38. 5.38.

7.08

7.09

18

6.38

7.09 Mr. C. N. Ferrier.

Mrs. F. M. Davies, Davenport

19

5.99

#3

7.09

Messrs. S. H. Gray, W. A. Graham,

* 20

Eco

7.10 Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Gale.

6,89

710

5.39

7.10 Mr. J. E. Joseph.

Mr. A. F. Henry-

5.40

7.10.

Mr. H. A Keller,

5.40

7.19

Miss H. Lille..

5.40

7.10

5.40

Messrs. C. R. Powrie, E. Powell,

7.11 | G. B. Pattison,

5:407543711 Messrs. A. N. Tait, N. S. Taylor, 6,418

$7.11| Dr5E, 8. Taylor.

7.11MA HA Volker.

5.41

5.41

7.11

“Messrs. T, B. Wilson, GaWragge.

Mrs, F. E. CAMERON

Propriotrow

Strong Health

"After I have taken Sanatogen for a few days, I can do my routine work, which is fairly arduous, "with-- out any feeling of fatigue ensuing at any time," writes a physician in the "Medical Echo," Jan. 1925.-

Sanatogen builds up your health, renews the blood and fortifies the nerves by infusing into the cells the very elements phosphorus and albumin-which mean Strength

SANATOGEN

Obegiralle at all Chemists and Stores

Give R

•