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THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1927.

Phone C.22

FOR

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Twenty-five Words three insor- tions prepaid $1. Every addi- tional word four cents for three insertions.

TO LET.

HOUSE,

TO LET.-Five-Roomed No. 49, in Granville Road, Kowloon, with flush system and all modern conveniences. Apply to:-Spanish Dominican Procuration.

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-One brass "Hung Ming" pan of the Chinese Han Dynasty with automatic springs. Price $1.000,00 Apply Box No. 387, c/o "China Mail."

MISCELLANEOUS.

YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly: and promptly printed. "China | Mail Office, No. 5. Wyndham St.. Telephone Central 22.

LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVIVORS.

-Public Auctions-

THE

THE Undersigned have received

instructions from the Esten» ; tor of the Estate of the late Mrs. M. J. D. Stephens, to sell by Public Auction

ON

THURSDAY & FRIDAY, the 4th & 5th August, 1927 commencing each day at 11 am. with an interval from 1 p.nt. ta 2.30 p.nt.

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at No. 5. Peak Road The Whole of Her Valouble House- hold Furniture. Blackwood Ware. Collection of Pictures, Curics, etc., etc.

comprising:

Teak Hatstand with Bevelled Mirzat. Drawing Room Suite Chesterfield Couch and Chairs, Overmantel. Oil Paintings, Old Japanese Prints, Bronze and Brass Wire, Lacquered Cabinets, Lac-

CAMPBELL MOORE

LADIES' HAIR DRESSERS,

BOBBING

SHINGLING WAYING

By Expert

Barbers.

19, Queen's Rond C. Tel. C. 151

UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS

Small 3-Bank Portable Medel New Bank Portable Model

and

Standard Office Machines

Every Size always in stock Suitable for all requirements,

SOLE AGENTS - Queen's Building.

DODWELL & CO. LTD.

Ground Floor.

Opposite Ferry Wharf. Tel. 1080 Central.

A. SEK & CO.

26A, Des Vieux Road Central.

Tel. No. C. 3459.

PHOTO SUPPLIES

Kodaks, Cameras and Films &c.

LATEST STYLE. Developing, Printing and Enlarging. ZIESS FIELD GLASSES.

Price Moderate..

A Trial Order is Solicited.

HONGKONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY.||

Full particulars for the

1928 DIRECTORY

can be sent in Now,

quered ware. Barometer, Orna- FAMOUS ECZEMA REMEDY. ments, Curins, Cloisonne Wire, Curtains, Carpets, Rugs, etc., etc.

Teak Extension Dining Table, Teal Sideboard, Dinner Waggon, Cabinets, Cut Glass, Silver Wore. Cutlery, Crockery. Teak Desk, Chairs, Electric Fittings, Ceiling and Table Fans, Filter, Teak lee Chests. Table Clock, etc., etc.

FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY.

GEORGEYLIE

Iron Bedsteads. Teak Wardrobe with Bevelled Mirror Doors, Teuk Dressing Table Glass Top. Teak | No. Chest of Drawers, Tenk Wash- stands, etc., etc.

Very Fine Carved Blackwood Ware, Porcelain Panelled Screens, Corean Cabinet with Brass Clasps, Mother of Pearl Inlaid Curio Cabinets, Old Chinese Hall Lan- terns, etc., etc.

ALSO

Old English Clocks by G. H. Borrall and John Moore & Sons, Loxion, One Old Grand Father Clock One Safe by Milners

AND

One Safe by Herring Hall Marvin

AND

One Piano Planola by John, Brond-

wood & Sons with lot of.

Music Rolls AND

A Large Quantity of Maiden lair Fern and Plants in Pots,

Catalogues will be issued.

On View from Monday, the 1st

of August, 1927.

Terms: Cash on Delivery..

MILTENIA MAT

Thottamis praisei

5 wonderful remely, Lacil for cen. turies with ning kūnas. A spēli, warren relief or Eczema.

Teller, oil, Ulgerssell and rif kin slagaren. No malter how long standing. Cifre Ikä trial.

Generous Jar only $2.00, On Sale at:

40 Queen's Road, C., Hang Kong

HOME TUITION.

ESTÖVER - STEVENAGE.

Within an hour from London. In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal. Individual care and attention. For Particulars. apply to:

MISS RUTH CULLEY

(Camb. Higher Local), (Camb. Tenchera' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER

(National Frodel Higher

Certificate).

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.

BY ORDER OF THE OWNER.

DUBLIC AUCTION of the un-

LAMMERT BROS. PUBL dermentioned Valuable Pro-i

Auctioneers

Hong Kong, 19th July, 1727.

MARTIN'S

perties Situate in the New Terri-

THE CHINA MAIL

Dixie Cups

IN

packed with

Delicious

Ice Cream

EX S.S. "PRESIDENT MADISON "

Sold

AT THE ICE CREAM PAVILION

96 Nathan Road, Tel. K. 871.

AT THE ICE CREAM KIOSK

Queen's Theatre Building Tel.. C. 3-156. And by our Brown Ice Cream Boys in the streets.

Foreign Products Distributors

FORPRODIST LTD.

China Building, Ist Floor, Tel. (. #888.

NOTICE.

BANK HOLIDAYS..

TN Accordance with Ordinance No. 5 of 1912, the EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS on MONDAY, the 1st of August.

Dated 28th July, 1927,

HE

PEAK CLUB.

ANNUAL

BUILDING HOPES. POLICE TRACK GHOST

MORE WORK ON THE CLYDE.

After five tense years, during which they have had to struggle with a grimness only now being fully admitted to prevent Glasgow and district from slip- ping back to the economic posi- tion of a community with one- third of its population, the in- dustrialists and traders of

MEETING CAME GENERAL Clydeside have turned the corner

be held at the Peak Club on:-

FRIDAY, 29th JULY, 1927, at G p.m.

.

E. B. C. HORNELL,

Hon Secretary. Hong Kong, 18th July, 1927.

NOTICE OF. REMOVAL.

X7E are moving our Office Pre- 1st mises as and from

W

August, 192% to Prince's Building, ground Hoor, Ice House Street (next Alexandra Cafe).

CO., LTD. (Incorporated under the Companies

Ordinances of Hong Kong). Hong Kong, 18th July, 1927.

Now that the future holds the certainty of better achievement the controllers of the great Scottish industries, whose for tunes are a reliable barometer of Britain's general trade, are prepared to confess that since 1922 it has been touch and go whether the Clyde Industries could survive the crisis.

AFTER IT HAD KNOCKED OFF HELMETS,

some

Lonely Green Dragon-lane, Winchmore Hill, N., has for months possessed a sinister reputa- tion. On several occasions belated| pedestrians have been walking along when, without warning. black form with gleaming eyes kas Ewooped down upon them, snatched their hats from their heads, given vent to a fiendish

screen, and swished upwards again into the darkness.

Rumours reached the police, and

constuble a

was told off to keep watch near a gnarled old oak in the vicinity of the dark railway arch. He waited some time, but nothing happened. Then just as he was about to move off something sent! his helmet spinning into the dark- ness, a ghostly scream rang in his cars, and he took to his heels.

From the police station another constable was sent back with him to

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"CHINA MAIL" CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

[SECOND SERIES.)

NO. 13–$50 MUST BE WON

FIRST READ THESE RULES CAREFULLY THROUGH.

1. The PRIZES in this competition are AWARDED STRICTLY

on MERIT.

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petition have been published.

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compete.

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opened until the close of the competition.

Much of the former trade of the scene, and again as they were the Clyde has been irretrievably about to leave after a fruitless walt on lost, for a generation ahead, but there was a loud swishing sound, the Invincible faith and courage and the second constable's helmet. of the west of Scotland industria-fell with a crash in the roadway. Then the moon appearing from be

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CLOSING DATE FOR COUPONS, MONDAY, AUGUST 1. [Coupons received at the "China Mail" Office after mid-day Monday will not be included in the competition.] ›

Across.

1. Craft.

CALDBECK MACGREGOR & | lists are on the point of produ- hind a cloud revealed a great taway 7. Emerging,

cing results which will more than owl, one of the biggest of its kind! 14. A genus of leguminous trees offset the losses,

Early the next morning a search and shrubs, usually with thorns For a month or two after the

was made at the foot of the oak, und pinnate leaves, end of last year's coal stoppage and more than two dozen men's felt 18. Pertaining to trap-rock. a wave of activity swept over the hats were found in the long grass,17. Harmony of language. banks of the Clyde, but, as the tattered and torn almost beyond 18. Precedente. heads of industry foresaw, it soon

recognition.

ebbed.

THE KOWLOON MOTOR BUS CO., LTD.

tories in the Colony of Hong Kong TT IS HERERY NOTIFIED that the following persons have

New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 53

PILLS Glass Factory

APIOL & STEEL -Surəand serials for mil Pasade complaints. Every lady should keep baxinthebou, Chemists and Start

mall shwini tucsuzkmat the world. ·

Fratelelor Martin, Chamlet, Kanthasmybes, Tej-

NOTICE

TO SHIPOWNERS, MASTERS & AGENTS:

The Yuen Wo Seamen's Institute always has men available to ship as watch- men, seamen, &c.

Our men are employed by the leading passenger Eines. We guarantee satis faction.

Please phone or call: K.661-No. 2. Saigon Street, Yaumati`or

C.2560-No. 38. Tung Man Street.

This Lot is situate at Kowloon Bay,

on which is situated the Tal Wan been appointed to hold office as

from January 1st, 1927:-

LOUIE WAI-SUN,

Managing Director. LOUIE LEUNG, Treasurer, LAM MING-FAN,

Secretary.

A Fish Pond situate at New- Kowloon Inland Lot No. B in the New Territories.

Lot Nos. 5908 and 5918 in Survey District in the New Territories (Agricultural Lots)

to be sold by

PUBLIC AUCTION

on

Technical Research.

They have disregarded tem- porary periods of betterment and have concentrated solely on one purpose-to attract new cus- tomers and get back old ones by building up new branches of their industries and by in- tense technical research, thereby offering something with which their foreign rivals are so far unable and unfitted to compete. This is particularly the case in shipbuilding. Although the new tonnage being produced is No PURCHASE contracts can be recognised by this Company unless still less than the average of very much signed by at least two of its Direc-pre-war years and

below that of really good years, more and more shipowners are being persuaded to order only the latest type of vessels,

THURSDAY, the 15th Sept., 1927, tors.

at 3 o'clock, p.m. IN FOUR LOTS

by Messrs. LAMMERT BROS.;

Auctioneers.

at their Sales Room,

8, Duddell Street, Hong Kong. For further particulars and Con- ditions of Sale apply to:-

Messrs. HASTINGS, DENNYS & BOWLEY, Vendor's Solicitors,

8, Des Vœux Road Central,

or to

Messrs. LAMMERT BROS., The Auctioneers, No. 8, Duddell Street. Hong Kong, 23rd July, 1927.

L. G. CHONG,

Manager.

All communications to be ad- By Order of the Board of Directors,

LAM MING-FAN,

Secretary, Hong Kong, 18th July, 1927.

dreased to the Secretary,

Polar CAKE

ITS QUALITY THAT COUNTS

The next ten weeks, it is ex- pected, will accordingly see very large numbers of shipbuilding and engine-shop men brought back into the industry..

A SOOTHING BALM, For soreness of the muscles after violent exercise and for rheumatle paint, much relief in afforded by hanging the affected parts thorough-

The English differ, it seems, from other misguided persona in never being in the right, ever by accl dent-Dean Inge.

THEATRE

A STROK

Presents

ROYAL

BENNO

MOISEIVITSCH

SATURDAY. August 6th. 0.15.

Varied Programme.

MONDAY, August 8th.

9.15.

Chopin Recital.

y with Chamberlain's Pain Balm. Try Booking Now Open at Moutrie's

it when you have need of such a pre- paration and see for yourself what an excellent iniment it la.. Sold every- where.

Prices: $3, $2 & $1.

20. A beautiful flowering tree of

China,

21. Edge of the roof of a building. 22. Scaffs. 23. The magpie, 24. Rt. T. E. (Actual), 25. Censure.

26. A particle often prefixed to

Anglo-Saxon verbs,

28. A nocturnal lizard.

31. Tree found in Pacific islands. 32. An imurinary evil being sup-

posed to prey upon human bodies. 33. In good reason.

84. Sorrow.

35. A simpleton,

$7. A bore.

39. Pierced with a sting.

41. Because.

48. Squirrel's nost (plural).

44. Compass point. (abb.).

45. Non-commissioned officer (abb.),

47, Armed hostility.

49; Artifices.

|60. A taasel.

52. To make a whirring noise, .

58. Fabled giant of ancient mytho-

logy.

55. To provoke.

56. A genus of palma,

57. Abundance.

69. An ornament worn as a remedy or preservative against evils or mischief.

60. Earnest:

101. To roll.

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Down.

1. An unimportant or superfluous

word.'

2. An agate..

3. Ingenuous,

4. U.C.M.E. (Actual).

5. Plant closely allied to whent.

GĄ Gothic prefix.

8. C. T. (Actual):

0, Arid.

10. To cry out like a child,

11. To part asunder..

12, I. P. A. C. A. T. (Actin!).

13. A congregation.

15. A specles of sapajou,

18. One of the faces of a hewn stane.

19. To become extinct.

27. A hut or small cottage.

28. To shelter.

29. Kilns for drying hops or male 80. A prairic.

32. A rogan

33A. An age.

36. A gregarious aquatic animal 88. To draw conclusions. 80. Surely.

40, Notched on the edge.

42. To write, engrave, or mark upon.

44. The pinion or outer joint of the

wing of a bird.

46. A carnivorous, animal of the

genus Lutra.

47. To handle,

49. A long embroidered scarf of

gauze or silk.

51 A barrier.

52. A river or small stream.

54. N. T. O.

(Actual).

56, A. M. U. (Actual).

58. Nephrite or jado,

59, AR (Actual).

Competitors are reminded that the prize is to be awarded for the correct solution, or if nobody succeeds in getting the correct you have not done the cross-word puzzle in full, send in what you sulution, for the NEAREST correct solution. Therefore, even iii have done it may prove to be the nearest correct solution.