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TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1927.

KAIPING HOUSEHOLD COAL

In Lota of not

Joss than 1/2-ton:- Delivered to Poak District (abore Bowen Road), $24.00 per ton.

Delivered

to

Bowen Bond and Lowar

Levels, $22.00

par ton.

Delivered

Kowloon,

$20.00

per ton.

to

Orders shank.. be sent in wri ing at least 24 hours before the

Coal is required.

All orders must

be accompanied by Cash, Compradore Order payable to "The Kailan Mining Ad. ministration.”

Choque, Or

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.

Head Office:-TIENTSIN, DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents, Hongkong.

SAND-LIME BRICKS:

Best machine made bricks Highest tests and uniform qualities.

For Econeray, Quality, Beauty, Durability and

Satisfaction unsurpaned,

YEE YICK SAND-LIME BRICK CO.,

CHING IU NAM

Manager.

Factory: Canton. Hong Kong Office, 148, Queen's Road, West, 1st Floor. Telophone No. C.3882.

NEW AT

PIONEER

UNDERWEAR

BORDER STRIPED AND PRINTED

CREEPS

FOR

SUMMER FROCKS.

CHY LOONG.

New Season. Preserved Glager.

Best quality-Prompt attention to Exporters. Office:—231; Queen's Rond Central, 2nd floor. Tel. Central 2530, Factory: 500-504, Canton Road, Yaumati. Tel. K. 869.

ADVERTISE

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OUR MOTTO IS SERVICE AND SO GIVE YOU

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Tel.

5 Wyndham Street.

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King's Dogs.

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS..

At the show. of Hunstanton (Norfolk) Kennel Society the King with four dogs entered took four prizes, including a silver challenge cup for the best dog in the show,

The maximum amount which may be withdrawn on demand from the Post Office Savings Bank account at Home has been raised from £1 to £2.

The cruiser "Calliope com- manded by Capt. C. C. Dobson, V.C., has received orders at Sheerness to depart for Hong Kong with crews for H.M.S. "Petersfield," "Seamew," and "Gannet."

Through absent-mindedly open ing the wrong door of a railway carriage and falling on the line near hichester station James Pink, aged 15, son of a Chichester town councillor, was fatally in- jured.

Drinks for Kiddies.

Murderer Hanged.

Coffin For Museum. It is reported from Peshawar, Among the latest acquisitions of that Gal Akbar, one of the mem- the British Museum is a Chinese bers of the gang of Kohats who coffin with scroll ornament be murdered Mrs. Ellis and abduct-longing to the Ta Tung period, ed Miss Ellis in April, 1923, has 527-29 A.D. been hanged at Akbar. He visit- ed Peshawar in disguise on May 9, but police vigilance led to his arrest.

The quin-centenary of Lincoln College, Oxford, was celebrated, when hundreds of old members returned to renew acquaintances and talk over escapades of their undergraduate days.

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The secretary of the Royal Academy' states that at a general assembly of academicians, Mr. Walter Westley Russell, R.A., was elected keeper of the Royal Academy.

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Captain Sidney Herbert, M.P. for Scarborough and Whitby and Parliamentary private secretary to the Prime Minister, is entering a nursing home in London to

Solicitor's Chase,

The South African farmers left. Paria after a visit of four crowd-undergo an operation. ed days. They gained two valu- able impressions, first that the French market for South African wool can be extensively develop ed; secondly, that a market for South African frozen beef can be created.

Hull stipendiary complimented Mr. Reginald Holdich, a solicitor, who chased and captured William West, aged 39, a labourer, who was sentenced to three months' hard labour for insulting two young women.

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Miss C. Smuts, daughter of General Smuts, has won first- class honours in the first part of Mrs. Anne Meakin, of St. the recently introduced geogra- Auvergne, Queen's Road, Chelten- atham, widow of a Staffordshire phical tripos examination

left Cambridge. Miss Smuts's brother, manufacturer, who Mr. J. D. Smuts, secured a first £10,000, was found dead in a gas- at Billericay, Essex, when Lain-class in the Cambridge mathema-filled room at her home.

tical tripos. Their father, Gen- don Legion Social Club Was struck off the register and officials eral Smuts, also distinguished

himself at Cambridge.

That children and non-members were served repeatedly with intoxicants was a statement made

were fined.

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Members of over-seas Parlia- ments were presented to, the Duke and Duchess of York at reception given by the British Empire branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association Westminster Hall.

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At Exeter Reginald Morey, a young gardener, was committed for trial charged with the murder of James Livermore, another gardener, by shooting him with a humane killer on his allotment on

June 26.

Princess Helena Victoria at- tended the Y.M.C.A. jubilee cele- brations at Lewes, and at a reception by the mayor and mayoress received purses contain- ing £1,200 on behalf of national and local Y.M.C.A. work.

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£2,000 Sweep Ticket.

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The first prize of $2,000 in Manchester Stock Exchange Derby sweepstake still lies in the bank awaiting the settlement of the question of who won it, as the ticket, which drew Call Boy was one of two which remained unsold.

After 13 months' work a tunnel 500 yards long for Londonderry's new water scheme was completed, when workmen operating from each end met in the centre, only a fraction of an inch out of their bearings.

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With a first edition autograph presentation copy of "Little Dorrit," bound in red morocco, sold at Messrs, Hodgson's auction rooms, Chancery Lane, W.C. 2, on July 22, is a covering letter in which Dickens, referring to the binding, said: "An old little friend in a new frock."

Coolies Kidnapped.

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Princess Mary Viscountess Lascelles inspected the Papworth Tuberculosis Colony, Cambridge- shire, when she opened the new headquarters of the Boy Scouts

More Coal Per Man. and Girl Guides in the village.

According to telegrams from Customs collector, on inquiring Townsville (Queensland) the

Col. Lane-Fox, Secretary Mines into allegations that between four and Ave hundred Chinese coolles Department, stated in Parliament on the steamer "Haimon" were that the output of coal per man kidnapped in Annam and were

being forcibly taken to the New per shift during the March quar- Hebrides, found nothing to inter of this year was approximate dicate that the coolies had not ly 15 per cent, higher than in the been voluntarily indentured. corresponding quarter of last

Sotheby's sale of Chinese

porcelain, on July 7, produced a

with

total of £1,258. A Coromandel 12-fold screen of carved and coloured lacquer, decorated with a landscape

figures 9ft by 17 ft., K'anghsi, fetched £105 (Todd); and a standing figure of Kwan Yin, in grey limestone, 61⁄2 in. high, Tang Dynasty-£101 (Camp- bell).'

year.

M. H. S. Hatfield, organised a The Mayor of Margate, Mrs. garden fête and fancy fair, in the grounds of her residence, as part of an effort to raise £50,000 for a new hospital.

The appearance of a Woman student, Miss Gertrude Trevelyan, as Newdigate prize-winner, at Encuenia, when Oxford Univer- sity honoured Marahal Foch, Vis- count Allenby, and Lord Horne, made it unique.

Fame in a Night.

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On July 5 a raid was conducted by the Manchester police on a Chinese laundry in Stockton Street, Moss Side, as a result of

. A young South African girl which Lee You (33) and Moy Han-lee (38) were charged with sprang from the chorus to fame

their possession a

at the Winter Garden in a single having in quantity of opium and imple night. She is Miss Anna Clive, At short ments for opium-smoking. De of Johannesburg. fendants were remanded on ball.notice she played the heroine in "The Vagabond King" in place of Miss Winnie Melville, who was ill, and scored an immediate and overwhelming triumph.

WHY THEY TELEGRAPHED.

In the course of a letter received

When Henry William Gardner,

in Singapore from Mr. L. S. Teck, aged. 38, postman, of the E.C. of Roapibon, South. Siam, the fol-office, was sentenced to the Old lowing passage occurs→→→

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"I may mention here that the Bailey to three years' penal ser- telegraphic order I sent you for vitude for stealing letters, an Baby's Own Tablets was not from official said it was estimated that me, but from a friend. Mr. K. Co. 358 letters stolen contained about Leng, whose child had been sick $100. with intermittent fever for a week or ten days already when I gave him a vial of the Tablets, to try. There is no need for me to say anything further. save that the child is now quite restored to health."

Wherever Baby's Own Tablets A memorandum on Zionist are tried they give satisfaction as organisations and the develop-a' unique and absolutely safe ment of the national home during specific for these, stomach and the year 1926-27, which has been intestinal ailments to which infants submitted to the Mandates' Com and little children are so prone. mission of the League of Nations, They quickly reduce fever, remedy shows that, though immigration Indigestion, constipation and colic, has greatly fallen off, the total pains, expel worms, relleve croup check diarrhoen, allay teething net increase of Jewish im- and colds. Of chemists every- migrants after the war is 72,000, where, or post free, 60 cents the making a total Jewish population vial, from The Dr. Williams' of 158,000, or 14 per cent. of the Medicine Co., 60 Klangse Road, total population..

Shanghai,

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Sir Gilbert Greenall, who was raised to the peerage in the Birthday Honours has taken Baron Daresbury, of Walton, Cheshire, as his title. Lord dent of the Royal Agricultural Daresbury, who is 60, was presi Society in 1910 and again in 1925. He was appointed Sheriff of Cheshire in 1907.

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Hotel Launch meets all steamers,

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TIFFIN HOURS

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DINNER HOURS

7.30 to 9.

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Manager.

EMPRESS HOTEL, LTD.

Roof Garden Now Open.

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Tal. Kowloon 296..

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Proprietress.

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ST. GEORGE HOTEL

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Proprietress

ADELPHI HOTEL.

SINGAPORE.

The ONLY HOTEL in Singapore fitted throughout with

MODERN SANITATION. TEA DANCES

EVERY TUESDAY

AFTER DINNER DANCES:

EVERY WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY

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HARRY H. WILLIES.

Managing Directer.

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