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FRIDAY,

AUGUST 5, 1927.

HERE.{s no worry or anxiety in rearing Baby healthfully and happily, even in a tropical climate,

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Glazo is the food that has been used to rear the children in five Royal Nurseries, Court Physicians see the Royal Babies have the best and most nourishing food- that is why Glaxo has been chosen.

Give your Baby Glaxo, and watch the difference after a few days; see how restfully healeeps, how contented he is and how steadily be increases in weight. Ask your Doctor {,

Glaxo

The Vitamin Milk-Food

"Builds Bonnie Babies”.

Coal Output,

THE CHINA MAIL

THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

The coal output of Great Bri- tain for the week ended June 18

↑ A Long Walk.

Eleven Churchmen, one aged 80, left Hull to walk 40 miles to was 5,011,900 tons, and the num-York to take part in the Minister ber of wage earners was 1,018,- anniversary celebrations. 400, the lowest since March, 5.

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An application by West Ham "Mr. George Bray, a foremost Town Council for a loan of grower, stated that hop mildew, £12,000 for electricity purposes a disease not formerly known in has been refused by the Public Herefordshire, had-now made its | Works Loan Board. appearance there.

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Sir Sardi Lai, Chief Justice of An application for an order Lahore, India, accompanied Mr. under the Merchandise Marke Justice Hill on the Bench in the Act for the marking of Imported Divorce Court while 116 divorce meat, Including bacon and ham, decrees nisi were being made has been referred to a com- | absolute, mittee of inquiry.

Tar Causes Cancer.

The jury. at an inquest at Manchester on William Henry Worsley, a gasworks employee, aged 53, found that death was due to cancer caused by, tar and the verdict was Accidental Death.

In Charlton Park, Cheltenham, the Balliol Players, under graduates from Balliol College, Oxford, gave a performance of Euripidea's play, “Iphegencia in Aulis," in English.

The Right Rev. Arthur Len, of Lexham Gardens, Kensington, Bishop of South Japan, summon ed at Bromley, Kent, for driving a motor-car at a speed exceeding 10 miles an hour at High Street, Bromley, was fined 40s.

Bank Raider Sentenced.

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Stamp Fetches £76,

A Newfoundland April 1919, unused air stamp, issued for the first Transatlantic Air Post, a relic of Hawker's unsuccessful venture, was sold at Mesara. Harmer's, Old Bond Street, Lon- don, W. 1, for £76...

A reprieve has been granted Eliza Emily Neal, who was sen- tenced to death at Kent Assizes for the murder of her six-months- old child at Bromley.

Wynnstay Colliery, Ruabon, Denbighshire, one of the largest collieries in North Wales, em- ploying 1,000 men, is to close owing to trade depression,

In a referendum 6,778 electora of Isleworth and Heston, Middle- sex, voted in favour of changing the name of the district to Hounslow and 3,776 against.

Workmen demolishing an old At the Chester Assizes Stuart R.1.C. barracks at Kilkee, Co. Raymond Hawkins, aged 20, a Clare, found beneath the founda- student, who

found tion a large mine, apparently guilty of demanding $75 | laid to blow up the barracks. from the manager of the Midland Bank, Altrincham, by menaces,

The London pleasure steamer was sent to Borstal for three "Crested Eagle" off Deptford During one of the fierce squalls years. Hawkins raised a pistol Creek collided with and sank the of a 70-mile gale, which raged at the manager and demanded barge Genos, laden with coal, along the West Australian coast, noter He bolted when an assist- but was able to proceed down the three-masted schooner, "Abe-1 ant appeared, and squirted | river. mama," was driven ashore near ammonia from a water-pistol into the site of the abandoned naval the face of a policeman who tried base, south of Fremantle,

to stop him.

The embargo on the importa tion of cattle, sheep, goats and swine into Southern Rhodesia from Great Britain has been re- moved, and shipments can be made provided the animals are accompanied by health certi ficates.

Sole Agents: W. R. LOXLEY & CO., Hong Kong. New London Sheriffs.

PHONE C. 416.

THE ASIA COMPANY

GENERAL STOREKEEPERS

SHIP & FAMILY COMPRADORES

9. POTTINGER ST, HONG KONG

Only the Finest British and American Goods are Stocked-by us. Price List on Application.

Polling took place at the Guild- hall for the election of two sheriffs for the City of London for the ensuing year, Mr. Henry E. Davenport (1,492 votes) and Mr. F. D. Green (1,286 votes) being elected. The other two | candidates were Mr. Isidore N. Jacobs, 1,271 votes, and Mr. W. G. Coxen, 397 votes. Mr. Davenport is a member of the Corporation and a former mayor of Hackney. Mr. Green is a son of the late Sir Frederick Green and is a member of. Lloyd's and a shipowner.

The Cigarette of Quality

Sir Joseph Burn (Prudential Assurance, Co.) Way elected President of the Eighth Interna tional Congress of Actuaries which opened at the Grocers Hall, Princes Street, London, E.C., 23 countries being repre- sented.

Sir W. Francis Taylor, the arbitrator in the South Wales coal mines dispute, has decided that the present subsistence wage of 88, 04d. per shift shall con- tinue, and that 6d. per shift shall be added to the wages of grades between the ages of 16 and 20.

GOOD FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY. Mothers always give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for croupy coughs, colds, difficult breathing, bronchial and influenza coughs. It is good for the little ones and grown ups too and every one knows it contains so nar cotics. Sold everywhere.

The Three Castles

VIRGINIA CIGARETTES

ALSO PACKED IN REGULAR 503 AND 203.

Old Elas Sacrificed.

Residents in the Royal Borough of Kensington, London, W., are mourning the disappearance of a row of huge elm trees. which stood just inside the grounds of Holland House, beside the Ken- #ington Road. The trees, which were of great age, have been cut down as a preliminary to building a block of flats on the site, and a Temarkably beautiful street view has been spoiled.

During water-main excavation work at Little Sutton, near Chester, a wall collapsed, and Thomas Treston, foreman ganger, was killed and four workmen seriously injured,

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It was stated at a Bourne- mouth inquest on two young men who were drowned while bathing that 17 boats are stationed at points on the beach in readiness to go to bathers in trouble,

The distinction of having cele- brated two silver weddings, one with his first wife and one with his second, was held by Mr. Frederick Benjamin Wickenden, who died at Taunton aged 92.

A 13-years-old schoolboy named Irvine, of 83, Amner Road, Battersea, S.W., reported as miss ing eight days before, was found by the police sheltering from a thunderstorm in front of a shop. st Herne Bay.

The First Cinema..

Recently the Mayor of Bath, while in America, heard a speak- er claiming that theUnited States were the home of the cinema. He at once protested that the honour belonged to Bath. As an earnest of his contention: he is erecting in New Bond Street-place a tablet to J. A. R. Rudge, who in the kitchen of a house there displayed, it la claimed, the first moving picture, and to Friese Greene, who in a studio, a few yards away, using celluloid strips instead of glass plates, followed up the invention by showing the first moving film. The men were friends and Greene never forgot the debt he owed to Rudge.

The inquestat Exeter on James Livermore, aged 61, jobbing gardener, in connection with whose death Reginald Morey, a young Exeter gardener, is in custody, was adjourned until October 5.

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The Commonwealth Govern ment has decided to spend on bores and wells, in Central Aus- tralia, during 1927-28, a sum at least equal to that expended dur Ing the financial year ending June, about 15,500,

For assaulting a Young woman whom he threaten- ed with a gun, Athole Breadal bane Gregor Menzies, aged 27, an engineer's fitter, was sentenced to two years hard labour at Hert ford Quarter SessionsAPMAY

Conservative M.Ps interested in the coal-mining industry de- cided to form a parliamentary committee with Mr. Wilson (Lichfield) as chairm to con sider all estions relating to the Industry

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TIFFIN HOURS

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

· DINNER- HOURS 7.80 to 9.

-J. H. WITCHELL, Manager,

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IS NOW OPEN.

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Facing the harbour. 87-89 Connaught Road West.

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Tel Kowloon 206,***

Tel C.5808; :

Tel Add. "Empreslo 12, Mody Road, Kowloon.

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Proprietress.

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ST. GEORGE HOTEL 23-24, 2 & 4, Kennedy Hond,, Hong Kong,

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