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FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1927.

Choose Glaxo for your Baby

Your Baby's future health depends on your. choice of his food. You must choose the food you know 18 best, for you dare not endanger your Baby's progress by experimenting.

Be guided by the experienceof the great number of doctors, nurses and mothers who choose rightly by choosing the best food they know -Glaxo

Choose Glaxo for your Baby now! And befree for ever from any anxiety as to Baby's steady progress towards healthy, strong-limbed merry hearted childhood, Ask your Doctor!

Glaxo,

The Vita, vila Mitkoz'ovu

"Builds Bonnie Babies"

When Baby is

6 months old.

or when he cats

his first tooth, add

a little Glaxo Malted

Food to his Glaxo, This will provide the Fest means of actust ning Baby. gradually and natur- ally to taking ince solid food. Obtainable where you buy Glaxo.

* THE CHINA MAIL.

THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

Over 40,500 new motor vehicles were registered in London during

1926.

Depositors numbering 226,760 have £7,800,221 to their credit in the Birmingham Municipal Bank, the average holding being £34.

Fire destroyed a lorry and its load of 98 cases of matches, weigh-i ing four tons, following the lorry's collision with a railway bridge at Great Haywood, Staffordshire.

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The South Metropolitan Gas Com. pany proposes to reduce the price of gas from 10d. per therm to 94d. per therm, from the reading of the meters at midsummer.

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Middlesex County Council have appointed Mr. Alfred George Har- field, assistant surveyor to the Metropolitan Water Board, as coun- ty valuation offcer at a salary of £1,000 a year.

United States motor-car exports in April reached a new high record of 34,846 private care and 11,863 trade vehicles of a total value of £9,233,000, an increase over April last year of 14.5 per cent.

In a

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main street crowded with shoppers at Stoke-on-Trent a steeplejack, Horace Smith, 22, of Barwood Hill-road, Winshill, Burton-on-Trent, fell from a 60ft high building to the pavement and was killed.

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Sixpenny all-day tickets for chil- dren under 14 entitling them to ride at will on 200 miles of route are to be issued by the tramways of the London County Council and East London until September 30.

A set of six panels of Morris tapestry, woven with scenes from "The Quest of the Holy Grail," after designs by Sir E. Burne Jones, realised £924 at Messrs. Christie's, while £840 was paid for a Louis

Sole Agents: W. R. LOXLEY & CO., Hong Kong, XVI. mahogany commode.

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO., LTD.

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

Town' Office: 64, Connaught Road Central, Bongkong, Tel. Central No. 459. Shipyard: Sham-Sui-Po, Kowloon, Hongkong.

Tel. Kowloon No. 9.

Estimates furnished on application.

Hongkong, April 1, 1924.

A steal firm, with its biggest plant in Sheffield (believed to be Vickers, Ltd.), is, according to the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce "Journal," on the point of booking an ordnance order valued at £3,000,000 for the Republic of Bolivia,

Twickenham Town Council hava decided to allow tennis to be played on Sundays on the courts at York House.

245,676 dog licences were sold at London Post Offices during 1926, the fees received being £92,129, an increase of £5,112 on 1925.

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Mr. Charles Goatling, a bank manager, of The Grove, Church End, Finchley, who was holiday making at Southend, WOB found dead in bed.

William George Muppley (21), of Caroline Street. Upper Clapton, died in Acton Hospital following a collision with a motor-lorry while cycling to work.

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Mr. G. R. Rand, assistant .aolici- tor-in-charge of the conveyancing section of the L.C.C, solicitors de partment, is retiring in July after fifty years' service.

While cycling in Brixton-road, Horace Keeling, aged 19, of Salter's- hill, Upper Norwood, collided with motor torry. He died from his Injuries in King's College Hospital.

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Mrs. Elizabeth Elkington (39), of Kimberley-road, Laindon, Essex, who fell from a train near Wick- Ford, Was removed to Billericay Hospital with severe facial in- juries.

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The decision of the Twickenham Education Committee in rejecting) an offer of the local "Vat" of Froth blowers to take a number of poor children for an outing to the sea- side has been reversed by the Town Council.

At a village Are near Ottershaw, Surrey, the firemen had to take their hose across country for nearly a mile to reach a stream.

Water was pumped this distance by two en- gines, one standing at the river and a second near the fire.

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Buttercups and daisies growing on one atem have been' picked by af | schoolgirl in a field at Newton

Nottage, Glamorgan.

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The regimental colours of the 9th Essex Old Comrades' Association were laid up at a special service at Warley Barracks Chapel.

By the King's orders, the royal Frogmore, Windsor, mausoleum, was open to the public between 11 am and 4 p.m. on Whit Monday.

Employed continuously at Portj Penrhyn, Bangor, for 19 years, Matthew Owen, of Glanrafon, Bangor, died on his 90th birthday.

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Miners at the Marine Collieries, Cwm (Glamorganshire), number- ing over 2,000, ceased work in sym- pathy with two employees who had been dismissed.

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The body of the man who at Eastbourne hired a boat which was afterwards found empty and draft- ing has been identified as that of Charles French, of Eastbourne,

The map of the Atlantic Ocean made for Bigges' "summarie" of Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage, and lettered references to the four plans of S. lago, ete. realised £510 at Messrs. Sotheby's.

been

Said to have been given to prac- who was found hanging at his home tical joking: Henry George Bailey, at Deal, is believed to have trying to frighten his cousin and sister when he slipped and wis strangled.

In order to disturb the founda- tions as little as possible, the in- terment, in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, of Dr. Charles Mac pherson, formerly cathedral or. ganist, was preceded by cremation.

An acknowledgment of his letter to the Home Secretary has been re- For the first time wireless com-ceived by the father of Edward munication has been established Erswell, the 15-years-old boy who between the commandant, officers, was sentenced at Leamington to and cadets of the Royal Military two months' imprisonment for steal- College, Sandhurst, and those of the Ing fog signals. United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, greetings and best wishes being changed.

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As 25,000 London elementary An unlucky black cat which, with school children are absent from a live mouse in its mouth, tried to school during the September hop cross the road in front of a motor- picking season, the L.C., Educa- cycle at Asfordby, Leicestershire, Elon Committee recommends that in mail week, was entangled in the schools where a large proportion of spokes and killed. The driver was the pupils are so affected be allow- flung over the handle-bars anded to take the summer holiday from slightly Injured. The mouse July 28 to August 6, and from escaped.

August 29 to September 26.

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A FAVOURITE SINCE 1878.

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For working under Moscow orders to overturn the Lithuanian sentenced to death and 13 were sen- Government, five Communists were tenced to from two to ten years' imprisonment. The death sentences were later commuted to 16 years' imprisonment.

The time when the United States

postal authorities had to cut post-

age stamps into sections owing to a shortage is recalled by the sale,for £34 at Harmer's,. Old Bond-street.: W., of half a 12-cent stamp sent from Perrysburg, Ohio, in 1861,

Averaging in his single-seater aeroplane a speed of 166 miles an hour, Flying Officer A. H. Mont- gomery, of 32 Squadron,

Northolt, Middlesex,

at.

Won

100-miles race, the first of its kind, between, pilots of the fighting squadrons allocated to air defence.

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When a verdict of Suicide while Temporarily Insane was returned at the inquest on Percy Camp, aged 44, secretary of the Kent County Ophthalmic Hospital, Maidstone, an official stated that, so far as he could see, the accounts were quite In order,

THREE VICTIMS OF GREED.

The story of a triple murder following family differences was told at Ferozepore, Punjab, at the trial of Gurdial Singh, who was sentenced to death.

Dissatisfied with the portion of the family wealth allotted to him, Gurdial Singh went to the house of his grandfather, whom he throw through a hole in the floor on to the ground floor below. He then fired at his grandfather, wounding him in the leg, and also at his aunt. The man then snatched the aunt'e child, dashed its head against the wall, and kicked it. Sizing a spode, he again attacked his grandfather, and after collecting jewellery and money left the house.

The grandfather, aunt, and child died from their injuries,

SUNRISE AND SUNSET.

July

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HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL;

PEAK HOTEL.

Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG."

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL.

Telegraphie Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI"

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, also 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, THE KING EDWARD HOTEL BAND will play as under:

TIFFIN HOURS

1 to 2.

Tel. Add: "Victoria." Telephone No. C. 378.

DINNER HOURS

7.30 to 9.

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, bót and cold water basin and European he served. baths. Lavishly furnished. Chinese and European dishes can

Tel. C.6505.

Facing the harbour. 37-39 Connaught Road West.

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EMPRESS LODGE.

*Tel. C.5506.

Tal. Kowloon 290.

Tel. Add. "Empreslogu.” 2--12, Mody Road, Kowloon. Private Hotel, best location in Kowloon, convenient to ferry, flats of 2 of 8 rooms, also bed-sitting-rooms, dally or monthly rates. Excellent cuisine, special rates for families. For information apply to

MRS. E. OWEN "HURPHY,

Proprietress.

ST. GEORGE & CLERMONT HOTELS

HONG KONG & KOWLOON

ST. GEORGE HOTEL.

21, 2 & 4, Kennedy Hond, Hong Kong.

Right saluates walk from Blake Pior. Beautifelly situated overlooking Botasiosi Gardens, Hong Kong Harbour, Largo, newly furnished rooms spacious verandahe. Modern convanlancar. Pirst: Claus Cuiufza and rítendance.

Telegrams-Nodaks.

Phone G. 6797

CLERMONT HOTEL

9, 19, 11, 12, Chatham Bozd, Kowloon,

Splendid location in best part of Kowloon. Full view at Hong Kong and Harbour Karga, newly furnished, well ventilated rooms and razosilaha. „All modeïn Convenienced. Catering of the best under European supervision.

Taiagram-Netcan

Phone K. 814.

For terms and information at abora' Hotels applyi

Mrs. F. E. CAMERON

Propriations

Necessity Brought Us Into Existence IMPERIAL CAFE

60, Nathan Road, Kowloon.

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

NO EXTRAS.

50 CENTS

- QUALITY—CLEANLINESS-CIVILITY. English Management.

NO TIPS,

Open from 8 a.m. till midnight.

A KWAI & CO

SUCCESSORS

WING YUEN HONG

16, Connaught Road Central,--HONG KONG.

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GENERAL STOREKEEPERS.

MASSAGE

Mrs. HONDA.

No. 24, Wyndham Street, TeL C 4945.

Telephone No. C. 5338.

MASSAGE NAKAMURA

No. 23, Stanley. Street, 2nd floor"