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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1927.

LAMOI BEER

"Insist on having It because it is the BEST."

Sole Importers -

H. RUTTONJEE & SON..

16, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

MAN LOONG PRESERVED GINGER MANUFACTURERS.

NEW SEASON PRESERVED GINGER. Best quality-Prompt attention to Exporters. Office:-231, Queen's Itoad Central. Tel. G. 2530. Factory:-2 Gociown, Praya, Dundas St., Mongkok, Tel.-K. 88.

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 už Price List on Application.

THE CHINA I MAIL.

THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

$30,000 Belfast Blaze.

Traced to Mice.

'An outbreak of skin disease in Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, was traced to mice with which child- ren had been playing, says Lam- abeth's Medical Officer.

The whole strength of Belfast Fire Brigade was engaged for five hours with an outbreak in Smith- field Market, in the centre of the

city, The fire originated in dealer's stall full of gramophones and similar goods and spread with amazing rapidity. The damage is estimated at £90,000.

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Claire Windsor, the film star, has made an application for a divorce suit against her husband, Bert Lytell, also well known in the film world.

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Mr. A. Fage has been elected president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers for the year 1927-28, and Captain J. M. |Donaldson, M.C., vice-president.

Mrs. Rachel Beer, of Bishops Down, Tunbridge Wells, formerly proprietor of the "Observer" and at one time a well-known hostess, left unsettled property in her own disposition of the gross value of £318,283 (net personality $269,806), but no will.

"Nobody can expect to handle men properly unless he himself

knows from A to Z what he is asking the men to do," said the Prince of Wales, inspecting the Eton O.T.C. "Whatever you may choose to do later on, I don't think you will ever regret having learn ed these lessons of the O.T.C., though I know quite well that it costs a good deal of sweat and la- bour to learn them.""

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The London County Council have refused an application for permission to practise the playing of bagpipes on Parliament Hill, Hampstead.

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A Newspaper Deal

The Daily Chronicle Invest ment Corporation, formed with a capital of £3,050,000 to buy from Mr. Lloyd George the Ordinary shares of the company that owns the "Daily Chronicle," the "Sun- day News," and certain provincial him newspapers, is paying £1,750,000 in cash and £1,150,000 in Ordinary shares.

Sunday photography on the beach is the latest prohibition by Barry District Council.

Mr. Stephen Tennant, the son of the late Lord Glenconner and Lady Grey, is sitting for his bust to Mr. Epstein.

The Rev. Dr. Cadman, who is President of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, was born in England. He is said to preach to as many as 1,000,000 people, and has done valuable work in support of the efforts to promote international friendship through the Churches. He is famed as an orator, and A woman told the Old Street! many on this side of the Atlantic (London) magistrate that her have heard by means of the wire-husband had spent his week's less his discourses and the com- | holiday knocking her about. monsense answers he has given to the many and varled questions put to him at his meetings.

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Bible Disappearing.

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Two girls have lost their lives at Arcachon, on the Bay of Bis- cay coast, by being knocked down by a French aeroplane from Paris, which made a forced landing on the sands. The pilot escaped un- injured.

In the homes of the poor they used to find the Bible and the Pilgrim's Progress." There was more reading in those homes to- day, but the two books had very New Railway Engine. nearly disappeared from them. A new type of locomotive So said Lord Eustace Percy at the annual conference of the As-which has been built for the Lon- sociated Booksellers of Great Bri- don Midland and Scottish Railway tain and Ireland at Cambridge.

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A gift of £1,250 to the Royal structed for the company by the Alexandra Infirmary, Paisley, was North British Locomotive Com- Painting the Unseen.

intimated by ex-Provost John

pany (Limited), Springburn, Those astonishingly quick Robertson, C.B.E., the new pre-Glasgow, is 38ft. long, and the artists who draw your portrait for sident of the infirmary, in open-total length, with the tender, is half-a-crown while you wait are ing a garden fete in the grounds 59ft. Fitted with a four-wheeled

The donor, now doing flourishing business at of the institution.

bogie and six-coupled wheels holiday resorts. They are re- Lady M'Gowan, wife of Sir Henry which measure 6ft. 9in. in dia- markable fellows and generally M'Gowan, has gifted the money give good value for the money to endow a bed in memory of her meter, the engine has three

cylinders. and a tolerable likeness. Few of late father, Mr. William Young, them, however, can approach in motor and carriage hirer, Paisley. skill the Genoese painter Bacici, The fete, in conjunction with a who lived in the seventeenth cen- flag day and fancy dress parade, tury, and had a very peculiar raised £668, an advance of £7 on talent of producing the exact re.last year's total. semblance of deceased persons whom he had never seen. He British Talent From Germany. first drew a face at random, and

afterwards, altering it in every feature by the advice and under the inspection of such as. had known the party, he imported it to a striking likeness.

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Thirteen years ago a little Eng- lish girl accompanied by her parents left her home in Muswell Hill, London, on a visit to rela- tions in Berlin. To-day that girl is one of the highest-paid artists on the great Ufa organisation, Numbers of present-day houses and apart from being one of the were declared to be unsuitable by most successful and popular film a resolution passed at the con- stars on the Continent, has re cluding session of the annual ceived countless tempting offers conference of the Amalgamated from the world's greatest film.[ Union of Building Trade Workers | magnates. Her name is Lilian in London. The opinion was also Harvey, and her first film, "Crazy expressed in the resolution that Mazie," will be shown shortly in the present housing position was London. Lillan Harvey studied unsatisfactory. "Many of the dancing under Mary Zimer- houses now being built are far mann, of the Berlin opera. When from being in the light of she was playing in a big Vienna modern building development, revue an impressario saw her and proper houses for the people," it promptly engaged her to play in

films. was contended.

Edmonton's new sewage works have been (costing £180,000)

men recruited constructed by from the Labour Exchange. They consisted mainly of out-of-work city clerks, jewellers, bootmakers, and other classes of men who had ever used a pick or shovel before in their lives. Many of them, it is stated, liked the work and were very sorry the job was finished.

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