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100

Eurenci

Tabletten

arch, Darmstadt

Tablenen

Effecient and Harmless Remedy for all Female complaints.

On sale at all drugstores. Liquid or 50 tablets packing.

E. Merck's Agents:

BORNEMANN & CO.

Hong Kong.

Canton.

G. FALCONER & CO., (HONG KONG) LTD. WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS

DIAMOND MERCHANTS. Union Building (Opposite G.P.O.)

Agents for:—ADMIRALTY CHARTS, ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery.

Prickly Heat Powder

A Certain Cure for PRICKLY HEAT & SUNBURN.

A little dusted on the skin and gently massaged in will speedily cure Prickly Heat, remove Sunburn and the offensive

odour due to excessive perspiration.

· Prepared by

Queen's Dispensary.

Pharmaceutical Chemists

22, Des Voeux Road Central.

SALE

OF

Jewellery, Watches, Fancy Goods, etc.

at a

SACRIFICE

We are removing from our present · premises (opposite main entrance of the Hong Kong Hotel) to the new address at present occupied by "At The Sign of the Lantern," in the ground floor of York Building, and have to sell the entire stock.

No reasonable offer refused..

Sale commenced on 1st. June, 1928,

SENNET FRERES,

China Building,

Pedder Street.

SAND-LIME BRICKS.

Best machine made bricks

Highest tests and uniform qualities. For Economy, Quality, Beauty, Dunibility and Satisfaction unsurpassed.

YEE YICK SAND-LIME BRICK CO.,

CHING IU NAM

Manager.

Factory-Canton. Hong Kong Office,

148, Queen's Road, West, 1st Floor. Telephone No. C. 3882,

LEE FONG.

ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHERS.

Tel No. C.4028.

No. 7, Wyndham Street. HONG KENG.

ASSORTED SCENERY OF HONG KONG & NATIVE LIFE.

SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN. To Developing Amateurs' Negatives Printing, Enlarging & Framing.

CHOY HEONG. MANUFACTURER OF PERSERVED GINGER AND FRUIT. Established. For More Than Forty Years.

Hoer Kong. Tel C. 1424. ham, Chun Birect, Mongkok.- Tel. ELS 409,5-

THE CHINA MAIL,

CRINOLINE LADIES. but the shipping, clerks wore tall hats, and they laid a'plece of card- board on the top of the leather band inside to make a secret shelf for the cigars.

CLIMBED BY LADDER TO BUS TOP.

CLERKS' 'TALL HATS,

About the career of Mr. Harry Wing there clings much of the old London flavour. He steps into the limelight at this point because he has just completed fifty years in the service of an ancient firm of tea merchanta.

I would not have believed that

The tea shop was much the same Afty years ago 'as it is to-day, but the five counter men all wore white neck-ties and cutaway coats. They and the porters had just ceased to "live in" on the premises or in the houses in Devereux Court behind the shop.

Those houses, still in use as houses, were at this itme newly let out to butlers and their wives, who

IN THE STRAND. -

HUMAN REMAINS UNEARTHED BY WORKMEN,

AT ST. CLEMENTS.

London, July 9. A human skull, a jawbone, dozens of fragments of legs and arm and other bones strewn about the rabble thrown up by workmen provided an unusual spectacle for week-end strollers down the Strand.

The bones proved to be remains took in as lodgers students attend-which were unearthed during the ing King's College.

cutting of a trench close to St. Clement Danes Church, which now stands on a narrow Island site in the centre of the thoroughfare.

ladles who wore crinolines ever ven- tured to climb to the top of the old

Temple Bar was still dividing buses that find the perpendicular Fleet-atreet from the Strand, and ladder at the back, but M. Wing making an entrance to the City. Mr. has a mind's eye picture of a bus Wing recalls as an everyday sight conductor holding down the hoops Barham, the milkman of the so-call- of the crinolines for ladies who ed Nell Gwyn dairy, who supplied were going to ride on his bus from Fleet-street. He was six feet tall the Borough for an outing on Peck-and weighed seventeen stone. He ham Rye or in Epping Forest. Mr. Wing was born in the Borough seventy-one years ago-within sight of the Marshalsea Prison.

A RATHER PAINFUL MEMORY! One school he went to was St. Stephen's in Coleman-street: Mr. Guthrie, the minster, used six leather boot laces as an aid to learning. Mr. Wing's recollection is of much con ning by rote. The boys were made

Mr. Guthrie stood behind the boy called upon to repeat the particular lesson, and the moment after the reciter's memory failed him he made acquaintance with the aix leather

ware a billycock hat, knickerbockers and rough stockings, and a long country-cut coat with big hip pockets to it.

The church had an extensive churchyard attached until 1905, when part of it was acquired for street Improvements.

At Westminster, The complete skeletons which were unearthed last month when the cutting of cables

was being Icarried out near St. Margaret's, Westminster, were reinterred else- where.

FLEET STREET'S HERCULES:

He carried his great cans of milk suspended by chains from a yoke, and. It required a man of muscle to RUSSIAN OILFIELDS. carry such a weight na these two great cans were when full.

Old Iris, the apple woman, sat

SIR H. DETERDING ON COMPENSATION.

Amsterdam.-At the annual meet-

to toe the line and repeat their les-at the top of Devereux-court for sons by heart.

Afty years. Her mother had had the same pitch for fifty years being of the Royal Dutch Com- fore her. They were Irish, and had pany Sir Henri Deterding declared, D number. of regular customers in reply to question by share- among the lawyers. It was Mr. holders, that the rise in the prices Wing's duty to hand to her the coal of petrol and raw oil do not mean ticket which was one of the firm's the end of the conflict in the all in- A new boy came in for a pleasant forms of charity to the poor of the dustry. sport known as "leading the blind neighbourhood, and on his head are horse to the knacker's yard." He many "God's blessings" called down had to submit, all wonderingly, toin a rich brogue by the grateful the tying of a rope round his waist Iria,

laces.

He was

a taster for ten years, but prefers the outdoor life.

In connection with the queation of Russian oil Sir Henri Deterding made the following state. ment:

"The question of the purchase of in such a way that two ends were Mr. Wing is still a traveller with Rusalan oil has given rise to acute left. He was taken to stand beno thought of giving up. tween two front doors in a street

misunderstandings. We have now disputes, which have led to various in which the houses stood check by

uvery reason to trust that further: jowl, and one end of the rope was "Tea thating makes you very irdiscussions will convince all made fast to the handle of each ritable, and you are especially parties,, including the most import door. His tormentors finally knock-affected by changes in the weather," ant of those who before held a dif- ed vigorously on both doors, and

ferent view, that the principle of withdrew to enjoy the excellent

compensating owners of confiscated sport of seeing the householders

properties will in future be upheld pulling one against the other, with

by all parties, and it is therefore to the wretched new boy dragged this

Jeveryone's interest that this knotty way and that, a helpless participant." The firm sends its tasters tra question

Mr. Wing went to Twining's in velling to Aberystwyth and Llan- the Strand as a shipping and cor- dudno, partly on business, but in respondence elerk. tie told Richard the main to enable them to recuper Twining III.-the house wasate."-W. C. S. in "Evening News." founded in 1675 in its present pre- mises in the Strand that he knew

he said. "Just before the rain comes, keep clear of the tasters, for then they are most irritable. Have you noticed they are nearly always thin men?

all there was to know about ship- EDUCATION & SPORT

ping, because he had been "the

PARTNERSHIP.

captains' boy en land" for a ship | DUKE OF CONNAUGHT AND A ping office in Mark-lane for four years and a shipping clerk for two years after that.

PROFITABLE TRADING.

of Russian purchases should no longer be discussed in public."

The proceedings lasted only ten minutes, and the attendance was very small.

In a short interview after the meeting Sir H. Deterding said that in regard to the question of synthe- tic oil, the Royal Dutch Company was taking up a waiting attitude.— "Exchange Telegraph."

Southampton,-For the first time since his acceptance of the post of visitor five years ago, the Duke of QUIPS IN THE COURTS, Connaught paid a visit to the University College, Southampton, Willesden Husband: I have been and signalised the occasion by open-married six months. The Magie-

botanical laboratories,trate: ing new

And sorry already? The

It had been his duty to conduct ships' captains to the Customs House to report with the manifests of their cargoes, and perhaps their bills of lading. Sometimes he had which have been named after the to lead them also to a notary public late Mr. George Moore, whose to make a declaration of some generous bequest to the college mishap to the ship: he recalls the funds helped to make the develop manner of the old oath, and how a foreigner not acquainted with Eng Iish would solemnly raise three fingers to signify that he swore by the Father, the Son, and the Holy

Ghost.

ment possible.

Husband: Yra,.very.

When a debtor was asked at Bow County Court when he could pay, he replied: "Time will tell

"If you want to get on with your civic reception

The Royal visitor was accorded neighbour never refer to her as "this on his arrival at person.""The WHlesden magis- Southampton West Station, and trate. was welcomed at the college by the A defendant nt Clerken- Duke of Wellington, president of well County Court: His wife the Appeal Fund.

wears the trousers and

hei

can manage to

Incidentally he secured perquis

In the course of his reply to an has to do what she tells him. ites from time to time in the shape address of welcome, his Royal Mr. Registrar Friend: I don't of Turkish delight and cigars. He Highness said: "No one more than know how in these days of short learned how to trade in goldfinches myself sees the necessity of educa-skirts any woman and Spanish onions, Goldfinches tion. I love sport as well as anyone, wear trousers. could be bought from the crews of but I recognise that education must the Oporto boats for sixpence exch, come first and that there is plenty While endeavouring to escapo and could be sold for as much as of room for both to work hand-in-from a frontier guard near three shillings. Long ropes of hand." He hoped it would not be village of Dalheim, on the Dutch Spanish onions could also be bought so very long before they would be frontier, a smuggler, was shot dead, for 6d. and sold for thrice that sum. able to call themselves the Univer- He had risked and lost his life for Cigurs, of course, were contraband, sity of Wessex.

the sake of five phunds of coffee.

KEEPING ABREAST OF THE TIMĖS

CANADIAN

PACIFIC EXPRESS

• £-One of the Casadian Alawara Lämlend

The

• pilēt. [ "Bundt’Louside, Toronto, the pilot scerpts for | taking off, jo

new Canadian, ionow apple by the monoplanes used in the Toronto-kontrasi service. delivery, the manifest le signed beberg t

ازاد

A two day lead over ordinary. Express Service | At present the new express service to and from: between Rappuşid and the west le now grined, the ships will be bi-weekly, with provision made for through the use by the Canadian Padlóc Railway, whatever domestic traffic offers.

of an air mail and Express package service between ]::: Air transportailon must be seriously taken into the Gulf Point and Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto, recount if one would keep abreast of the times, Pæresia takes me fnsoming ships at Histamid early | according to T. E. McDonnell, vice-president and Saturday reach Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto by general manager of the Canadian Padfin Express plano, the same day and, being carried from the Company who secs great air servios development in latter point on the Vancouver; Express arriya in the interests, had to the great advantage of both Winnipegou" Monday mornity,and Vancouver, the business and financial meu of the Dochinion. Wednesday evening,"

the

TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1928.

VASENOL WORKS-DR. ARTHUR KOPP-LEIPZIG.

VASENOLOFORM POWDER.

(Vasenol Foot Powder)

Just the very thing for this hot `weather. A powder specially made to counteract PERSPIRATION of the hands, feet and armpits. A RELIABLE and INEXPENSIVE preparation for all who suffer from excessive perspiration.

The medical world unites in pronouncing it a prepara- tion of simple but unequalled effect and absolutely harmless in all cases of excessive perspiration.

Vasenol preparations are only sold in the original sealed packets.

Refuse unsealed packets.

· Sold by all chemists and stores. Sole Agents:—

CARL SCHROETER,

THE CANTON TRADING ASSOCIATION, LTD.

China Buildings,

289, Tai Ping Road,

CANTON,

HONG KONG.

L'Imperator

FIRE EXTINGUISHER.

The Most Powerful Powder Fire Extinguisher Extant.

NEVER REQUIRES ANY ATTENTION. GUARANTEED FOR 10 YEARS AGAINST EXPLOSION.

500,000 Now in use.

Sole Agents:—.

ORIENTAL COMMERCIAL COMPANY.

'Phone C.4405.

Bank of Canton Building, Hong Kong.

FOOTO

EASE

Chif

Ma, 2002 FM.

No. 909

PODITED HEE.

Sold in all loading storya

"OBTAIN FOOT-EASE

BY WEARING.

C/FOOT EASE HOSIERY"

FOOT EASE HOSIERY MILL

· HONGKONG OFFICE

TEL:C5450 FIRST FLOOR BANK OF CANTON BUILDING

AGENTS:-

AUTO-TOTAL

THE MOST EFFECTIVE FIRE ·

EXTINGUISHER FOR

MOTOR CARS

NO PERIODIC REFILLING.

Contents Never. Deteriorate. Harmless to Upholstering, Machinery,

Or Rotative Parts. Contains, no Grinding Properties,

KELLER, KERN & CO., LTD., 16/10, Conmught Road C.

FARMER

NAM WAH

BRAND.

NEW SEASON GINGER.

Well Preserved.

Colour and Melloseness Guaranteed

Nam Môn Preserved Gorge Mastectures.