1927-08-06 — Page 13

SATURDAY, AUGUST. 1927.

GRAND CLEARANCE

SALE

-Must be cleared to make room for

NEW STOCK.

LADIES' DEPT.

RAIN COATS & CAPE

$5.00 to $12.00

LADIES PYJAMAS

$1.50 to $2.00 -

NIGHT GOWNS

$1.50

ENVELOPE · CHEMISE & COMBINATIONS 50 cents

LADIES' WHITE SHOES

per pair.

$1.00 1

LADIES' SUMMER HATS

$4.00

ALSO

Remarkable Reductions in all Departments.

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YEE SANG FAT CO.

4. KWAI & CO.

---MUCONSSONS----

WING YUEN HONG

15, Connaught Road Central,-HONG KONG.

"NAVAL CONTRACTORS" Ship-Chandlers, Provision Merchants, Sall-Makers

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GENERAL STOREKEEPERS.

Telephone No.. C. 5338.

Cable Add: "Winner"

THE CHINA MAIL

THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

New Prayer Book."

E1,700 for Colour Print.

An only state Impression of the About 2,000 people were pre colour print by F. Janinet, after sent at a demonstration in Hyde N. Lavreince, entitled

"La Park against the New Prayer Joueuse De Guitare" realised Book, when Speeches were de- £1,700 at Messrs." Sotheby's. livered from eight platforms and

resolutions of protest passed,

To mark the centenary of the Royal Merchant Seamen's Or phanage this year, the Prince of Wales visited the orphanage at Bear Wood, near Wokingham, Berkshire, on July 13,

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The Queen visited the exhibi- tion of the Worshipful, Company of Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers at Stationers' Hall, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.

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Colour Ban Bemoved.

As the result of meetings by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh with the managers of the dance halis concerned, the colour ban, which for some time has existed in the city, has been removed.

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A new comedy, "Bird In Hand," by Mr. John Drinkwater, is to be produced at the Birming ham Repertory Theatre on Sept.

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Mr. James A. de Rothschild, the race-horse owner, has bought Lady Leith of Fyvie's house, No. 28, St. James's Place, S.W.

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Sir Alfred Mond, M.P., and Mr. William Adamson, M.P. for West Fife, had the degree of LLD. conferred on them at St. Andrews University.

Murder Sequel.

At Glamorgan Assizes at Swansea, Arthur Bevan, 18, charged with the murder of William Miller at Cardiff on May | 22, was found unfit to plead, and Mr. Justice Branson ordered his detention during His Majesty's pleasure,

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The body of Mr. Arthur Dunk, 45, formerly attached to the C.I.D. department of the Acton, Middlesex, police, from which he retired owing to ill-health, has been found in a canal at North Acton,

Continental Competition.

Are

Continental architects among the many who have sub- mitted designs for Birmingham's new city hail, mansion house, museum and library in competi tion for a £1,000 prize.

The British submarines H 27, H'80, H 81 and H 48 have arriv ed at Riga from Reval.

In Dail Eireann Mr. Blythe, Minister for Finance in the Free State Government, announced that another national loan would

Mr. James Allan, one of fourbe floated in the autumn, Socialist members of Hull City Council, who threatened to resign from East Hull Labour Party be- cause of Communist activities, has tendered his resignation as chairman of the party,

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After blasting operations necklace of jet beads and pieces of pottery believed to be 2,000 years old were found in a grave at Kyloe Quarry, Northumber. land.

Rear Admiral George Tomlin, who was navigating officer of Mrs. Langtry (Lady de Bathe): H.M:S. "Medina" when the King has arrived in London from Nice and Queen travelled in her to in order to be with her brother, the Indian Durbar In 1911, has Mr. Clement Le Breton, K.C., who been appointed Director-General is lying seriously ill in a London of Ports Administration in nursing home. Egypt.

£50 Left to Sweetheart.

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Lord Lambourne, Lord-Lieuten- ant of Essex, opened the Brook- After putting his

life's lands sports, ground, a fine open savings, more than £50, in his apace in the centre of Romford, sweetheart's bedroom, George which has been saved from the Alfred Wright, aged 23, butler to builders by local sportsmen. Judge Harington at. Onslow Gardens, Chelsea, threw himself from a window 58 feet above the ground and was killed:

Standard Prices.

A Women's Possessions.

Remanded .at Birmingham, Florence Wilkinson, aged, 19, who was charged with wander- ing, was stated to have in her possession three tins of face powder and cream, a powder puff, and a pocket mirror, but no

The attention of the Board of Trade has been drawn to the fact that the London County Council have found it impossible in re-money. cent years to obtain competitive tenders for electric lamps, as all firms quote the same prices for the same specifications.

Miss Betty Balfour, the British film star, has been engaged by British International Pictures to play the leading feminine part in Following the death of Judge | “A Little Bit of Fluff" with Syd Kershaw, Mr. Thomas Richard- Chaplin, brother of Charlie Baron de Cartier de Marson has been appointed a judge of Chaplin, chienne, the retiring Belgian county courtson Circuit 2 Ambassador in Washington, who (Durham)-and Judge Moore, is has been appointed Ambassador to be the judge of the county in London, arrived at Plymouth courts on Circut 47 (Southwark from New York,

and Greenwich and Woolwich).

Miss Helen Florence Griffin, 66, of Bexhill, Sussex, depressed as the result of two serious operations; took salts of lemon in tea, and at the inquest & verdict of Suicide was returned.

Miss Norah Blaney, the actress, had a finger severely cut in a stabbing scene during a perform ance of "The Vagabond King" at the Winter Garden Theatre, but continued her part to the end,

FRIGHTENING IN THE NIGHT.

Unveiling a tablet at the Royal Commercial Travellers' Schools, Pinner, Middlesex, in memory of his late mechanic, Mr. A. B. L. Elliott, shot near Bagdad on the flight to Australia, ́Sir A. Cobham said: "As" I ́ ́ lifted Elliott from the cabin of our seas plane when his condition was critical, he said to me, 'Don't forget to turn the oil off.""

"The house quality,, new-laid, table-without-distaste egg," was a definition given to a committee sitting at the Ministry of

A cry in the night, griping pains in Agriculture under the Mer- the vitals, cramps, weakening diarchandise Marks Act to hear an rhoes; whether child or adult, there application by the National

is immediate comfort and ense from Farmers' Union and the National pain in Chamberlain's Colle and Diar Poultry Council for an order that rhoea Remedy. It pays to keep it always on handFor sale everywhore. all foreign eggs should be marked.

At the Speech Day at Halley- bury College the headmaster, Mr. John Talbot, said the school had a good mixture of brains and brawn, five members of the fifteen having won intellectual distinction during the year.

Fourteen Oxford "blues were present at Oxford at the wedding of Earl Russell Thoenen, the Oxford running blue, of West Virginia, United States, and Meredith Gardiner Smith, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States.

POLAR CAKE

ITS QUALITY THAT COUNTS

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HOTELS,

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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 $.

J. H. WHITCHELL, 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. 5884, C. 5385, C. 1986, C. 5387, C. 6388. 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.

Tel. C.5505,

Facing the harbour. 37-39. Connaught Road West.

EMPRESS LODGE.

Tel. C.5506.

Tel Kowicon 290,

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

**MES. E. OWEN MURPHY,

Proprístress.".

A WEEK'S PAPERS IN ONE.

After a fairly long lull in the military situation fighting has again broken out on different fronts. Plans have been completed for a number of big attacks in other directions, particularly on Peking and Tientsin by General Chiang Kai- shek. Full war movements are given in this week's "Overland

Mail....

During the week activities in South China, noticeably around Canton, held public attention. Here much of political and military importance has happened, all of which is set out. in the "Overland."

This week's issue also contains the first three of a new series of lectures of "Republicanism" by the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen; the latest local happenings, sporting events, and authoritative editorial and special articles. Let us send the "Overland" home for you.

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CLERMONT HOTEL

7-8, 29, 31, 13, Cikmatham Road, Kamisuk.

Splendid focation in bast part of Hgwloon Tall, Hew at Bong Kong and Harbour, Harga newly, furnished; well ventilated rooms and veranlahe, : All moders Conveniences, Catering of the best undar European anpervisipo.

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