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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1927.

The Ever Ready

First-Aid

ZAMBUK

CHILSEN'S SELAMATK

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So delightfully soothing on a cut or more. So rapidly cleansing and healing. And, how much safer and more efficient than common ointments with their animal fats and mineral polsona.

Zam-Buk, compounded from rare herbal extracts, is a wonderful cure for It grows new healthy skin disease.

tissue in a surprising way, and is known as "a surgery in a two-inch box,**

In handy boxes of all dispensaries,

For Quick Clean Healing

NATURAL MINERAL WATER FRENCH GOVERNMENT'S Springs

[VICHY CÉLESTINS

in bottles, half anf "plits

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Refuse substitutes.

CHI WAH.

TAILORING. Once known as Chison. Perfect fit guaranteed. 9, Wyndham Street.

For Indigestion.

and HiltonenISE.

- Mention name of Spring required.

TANG YUK, DENTIST

Successor to

the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street..

TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

Veteran Official to Retire. L.C.C's Musical Adviser.

Mr. T. W. W. Weeding, Clerk to the Surrey County Council, has decided to retire at the end of December. He is over eighty years of age.

Capt. Victor Barker, aged 85, of the National Fascists Head- quarters, Earls Court, S.W., was found not guilty at the Old Bailey of uttering a forged flerarms cer- tificate and was discharged.

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An order for two giant twin- engined super-marine Napier fly- ing boats has been placed with the Super Marine Aviation Com- pany, whose works are at South ampton, by the Australian Gov-

ernment..

It is estimated that Capt. R. C. Warr, 78, formerly commodore of the Cunard fleet, who died at Freshfield, near Liverpool, cross ed the Atlantic 550 times and sailed nearly 2,000,000 miles.

Westminster business men have handed over £12,500 to West- minster Hospital as a result of the "Week," held from May 30 to June 6, the Flag Day yielding £1,887 128. 24. at a cost of £51 58.

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Poles in London."

Eight hundred Poles, on their way from the United States to their native land to pay homage to the Prime Minister of Poland, arrived at Southampton in the White Star liner "Olymple.” ̧·

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Papers in the possession of the man found shot in a train from Dartford, Kent, at Eltham Sta- tion and who died in hospital, bore the name and address of Sidney Albert Graves, Meteor Road, Southend-on-Sea,

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A decree nisi was' granted at Birmingham Assizes, to Alfred James Wargent, labourer, of Newtown, Yarkhill, near Here ford, who was awarded £800 damages against the co-raspon dent, Owen Tudor, timber mer- chant, Green Street, Hereford.

Members of the Kent School, Connecticut, U.S.A., rowing team, who competed recently at Henley Regatta, inspected the great hall of Winchester Castle, being es- pecially interested in the round table traditionally associated with King Arthur.

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Dr. P. C. Buck, M.A., director of music at Harrow School, has been recommended for the post of musical adviser and inspector in the LCC, education officer's department.

Label on a Crab.

Attached to the shell of a crab caught at Fortincaple, Loch Long, off the Firth of Clyde, was a label stating that 18 months previously it had been liberated at Aberdeen.

At Glamorgan" "Assizès," st Fifteen hundred men employed Swansea, Arthur. Townshend, an at Beynon Colllery, Blaine, ex-postman, was sentenced to Monmouthshire, have received. three years penal servitude for notice owing to trade depression." stealing a mail bag containing $7,500 from Cardiff Post Office. It Was recommended

Birmingham Education mittee that 120 acres of land be acquired and prepared as playing fields at a cost £40,000.

The annual parade of the L.C.C. Old Comrades' Association book place on July 10. Weaths were laid on the Cenotaph, and a special service held at St. Mark's Church, Konnington.

qualify production.

In a collision between a pedal cycle and a charabane at Enfield Wash the cyclist Mr. J. W. Llewellyn, of Hawthorn Grove, Enfield, received a fractured skull, and is in a serious con- dition.

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New Air Service.

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What is claimed to be the first full cargo of Canadian wood sent to Britain for 15 years was un- loaded from the B.. "Atos" at the Surrey Commercial Docks,

Whisky and cigarettes worth $400 was stolen by thieves who broke into the head office and stores of "Ye Mecca”. Café Com- pany in Southwark Street, Lon- don, S.E.

A new service of Handley Page

The Commonwealth Govern- air liners, which will enablement has decided on the Centen London business men to fly to the nial Park, Sydney, as the site of French coast, spend the evening the Australian exhibition in 1981, at Le Touquet and return to if the organisation scale is found London the following morning,

practicable. was opened by Imperial Airways in mail week.

made of selected golden Virginia leaf. manufactured & packed with the utmost care, dependable in any climate.

CAPSTAN.

CIGARETTES

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As the result of a motor-cycle accident on the Watling Street, south of Dunstable, George Wilcox, of Thrums Road, Hare- breaks, Watford, died in hospital at Luton.

Fifty-four Hampshire volun, teer fire brigades assembled in camps at King's Park, Bourne- mouth, to compete in the National Fire Brigades Association con- petitions.

A farmer, Mr. Henwood, of Appledore Farm, Callington, Cornwall, plunged into the River Lynher to save his two daughters, aged 10 and 11, who got into difficulties while bathing, but was only able to rescue the younger.

FRIGHTENING IN THE NIGHT. the vitals, cramps, weakening diar- A cry in the night, griping pains in thosa; whether child or adult, there la immediate comfort and ease from Pain In Charaberlain's Colic and Diar rhoea Remedy. It pays to keep it always on hand. For sale everywhore.

The police are satisfied that the death of Mr. Alan Macbeth, who has been appearing in "One Dam Thing Aftor Another" at the London Pavilion, and whose body was found on the stairs of his flat in Orange Street, London, | W.C., was due to heart failure.

What X-rays Revealed.

throats at West London Hospital Four X-ray examinations of revealed: In & girl of 18, an open safety pin; girl of 4, large button; woman of 60, big mutton

beefsteak. bone; iman of 26, large piece of

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The Port of London Authority announces a reduction of 10 per cent,, Instead of 7% per cent. as at present, in certain dock and other dues.

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HONGKONG

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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.

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The Lounge and Dining Room is now open to the Public. THE KING EDWARD HOTEL BAND will play as under:

TIFFIN HOURS ··

Tel. Add: "Victoria.” Telephone No. C. 379.

DINNER. HOURS 7.80 to 9.

J. H. WITCHELL

Manager.

EMPRESS HOTEL, LTD.

Roof Garden Now Open.

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Roof Garden on Saturday.

Modern Convenience:

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TUNG SHAN HOTEL.

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IS NOW OPEN..

EVERY MODERN CONVENIENCE. Firat prizes in the London Un- Private telephone, hot and cold water basin and European derground Railway station gar-baths. Lavishly furnished. Chinese and European dishes can Inspector Stevenson, Ealing Com- den competition were awarded to mon, and Collector Bishop, Ealing Broadway.

Confirmation of reports of the Admiralty's intention to use Rosyth as a base for reserve destroyers is provided by orders isaned for the transfer of destroyers from Portsmouth to Rosyth and Chatham.

A carting contractor was fined 10s. at Rotherham (Yorkshire) for having left on à road at Kiveton Park heaps of gravel which it was stated caused a motorist to be thrown through the hood of a car.

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A settlement was announced at] Birmingham Assizes in a slander action brought by Miss Gwen- doline May Hughes, of 27, Upper Villiers Street, Blakenbell, Wolverhampton, against John Bennett, of 44, Ranelagh Road, Blakenhall

Suicide Averted.

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It was stated at Rotherham (Yorkshire) when Harry Pres- cott, furnace-man, of Clough Road, was bound over for at- tempted suicide, that on finding the supply of gas from a slot meber to be insufficient to cause death he went to bed and slept.

When a widow applied to Judge Herbert-Smith at Thetford (Norfolk) County Court for £85 from compensation money for.....a gravestone" the judge said this was simply throwing money away, adding that gravestones were no earthly good.

The four-masted Finnish schooner "Mozart” of 1,987 tons gross, arrived at Quenstown after a 152-days voyage from Port Lincoln, South Australia.

Search le being made around Coventry for a valuable Alsatian dog which broke loose and rushed madly through the streets knock- fng down a woman and colliding with iron railings,

- A pigeon belonging to Mr. Wakeham, of Jersey, returned to its loft with others in a race from Bordeaux after being - missing from a similar race two years ago:

POLAR CAKE

Tel. C.5505.

Facing the harbour. 37-39 Connaught Road West.

Tel. C.5506.

EMPRESS LODGE. Tel. Kowloon' 290. ga

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HES, R. OWEN MURPHY,

Proprietze83.

ST. GEORGE & CLERMONT HOTELS HONG KONG & KOWLOON

ST. GEORGE HOTEL

14,1 & 1, Kennedy Bond, Hong Kong,

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CLERMONT HOTEL.

9, 10, 11, 12, Chatham Road, Kowloon.

Splendid location in best part of Kowinen. Full' view at "Hong Kong and 'Harbour, Langs newly furnished well ventilated rouma and verandaha. All taodern Coursalmeal. Catering of the best under Kuropean supervision.

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SINGAPORE.

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