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The Hilarious Story of an Unmarried Wife

|COMING TO THE - ・・

QUEEN'S

Warner Bros. present

"Slightly Used"

MAY MSAVOY CONRAD NAGEL AUDREY FERRIS A WARNER BROS. PRODUCTION

SUNDAY AND MONDAY

49

"MOTHER"

THE CHINA MAIL,

HUMAN STORY OF DOMESTIC LIFE

TONIC IN A PICTURE

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MONEY AND SHARES

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS

On London— Bank, wire

1/11

Bank, on demand 1/11 7/16- Once in a blue moon comes Bank, 30 days" sight. along a picture which sends an Bank, 4 months sight 1/11 % audience away from a theatre Credita, A with a better and brighter view

sight of life, a picture that makes one Documentary 4 months' think in a different vein.

sight....

-months"

2/- 3%

2/1/2

1212

monchs*

1287

Such a picture is "Mother,"

On Paris- now showing at the Majestic on demand Theatre, Kowloon, and a picture Credits, .sight which has gleaned more kindly comment than any shown locally Ou Berlin

On demand for many monhs.

It is an FBO picturisation sug-On New York-

Kathleen Norris's On demand gested by

story: the adaptation being by Credits, 60 days' sight 49

On Bombay→→ Dorothy Yost.

Wire .. On demand... 130%

On Calcutta---- Wire

Sorrows in Every Home Belle Bennett, who won signal fame in "Stella Dallas," gives an

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On Shanghai—

T.T. on London T.T. on Shanghai

Banks

H.K. Banks H.K. London Reg. Chartered Bank. Mercantile A. & B. Mercantile C.

P. & 0. Bank Bank of East Asia.

Insurances

Canton Insurance

FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1929,

Travel Luxury and

.1/11%

80

Scenic Splendor

.$1210 bi

131 .£19 b

.533 n £15 .£94 .$90% n

.$695 bi .$308-n .T160 b .M850

Union Insurance North China Insurance Yangtze Insurance. China Underwriters $2.20 b 2.80 s China Fire Insurance .....$300 b HK. Fire Insurance. .$766.n Shipping

feature this new route across CANADA

Palatial observation cars, radio-equipped, enhance the thrill of magnificent scenes You see the highest Canadian Rocky Mountains, including giant Mount Rob- son, yet cross them at the lowest altitude and easiest gradient of any transconti- nentel- line.

Daily all-steel trainis from Vancouver. Moderately priced dining car service. For rates, literature and information

apply WE

Asiatic Building, Hong Kong.

CANADIAN NATIONAL

The Largest Railway System in North America

"(SEPARATE AND DISTINCT FROM CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAYY

47%

Douglases

.$33 s

H.K. Steamboats

..$26 s

1804

H.K. Tugs & Lighters....$2% b

[2.60 s

Indo-China (Pref.)

.$45 b

130

Indo-China (Def.)

.$70-m

On demand-p...

1204

Shell Transports

.97/- n

On SingaporS

..

Shell Transports (new)

On demand

84%

Union Water-boats.

$22 n

To regain your strength

On Manila-

Mining

On demande.co.

95

Benguets

-$23% b

1 Kailan Mining Ad.

.64/- b

Langkats (comb.)

*T14 n

Langkats (singles)

T7% n

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.T41⁄2

105

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Tronoh. Mines

17/6 1

Docks, Wharves, Godowns, &c.

H.K. & K. Wharves

$121 n

-25 5/16.

H.K. & W. Docks

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Hongkews

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On demand 791⁄2 30,day's-night (private

paper) ......kera On Yokohama→→→ On demand Gold Leat, 100 fine

(per tael)... Sovereigns (Bank's

buying rate) Silver (per. oz.)

even 'superior portrayal in "Mother," which is the story of a real family in moderate circum stances, just such a family as live right around the corner from any one. You are taken into the home and you get a human siant at the joys and sorrows, the longings and the disappointments which, Bar Silver in Hong

Kong obviously, are prevalent in every

.... 9.90.

home. And, above all, you are re-Copper Cash minded of the great sacrifice that Chinese Copper Cents 6% Prem. every mother makes for husband, Rate of Native In- home, and children.

7% pa...

terest

In addition to Miss Bennett, Chinese Sub. Coin .. -344% dis. brilliant work is done by Craw- Hong Kong Sub. Coin Par.. ford Kent, William Bakewell,

Joyce Coad, Mabel Julienne Scott

and Charlotte Stevens.

J. Leo Meeban directed with infinite, skill and a thorough un- derstanding of his theme.

HEROINE OF SIX

In an unavailing effort to save her three-years-old brother from drowning, Evelyn Vera Kinchin, six, of Northcote Road, Tonbridge, pearly lost her own life recently.

The little boy, Neville Stephen Kinchin was playing on the sports ground near the River Medway when he fell info the water.

When his sister held out her hand to him, the boy grasped it and pulled her into the water.

Another child called two hockey players who pulled both children out. Artificial respiration was unsue- cessfully applied to the boy. girl was taken to Tonbridge Hos pital suffering from shock.

LONDON EXCHANGES

London, Yesterday.

124.15

New Engineerings

Shanghai Docks .:

Cotton Mills

take

these sultry days-

Public Utilities

$125 b

H.K. Tramways ..$18.60 b 184 s

8121⁄2 n

and vigour during

GLYCO MALT

a preparation of ...

GLYCERINE PHOSPHATES

and

EXTRACT OF MALT.

Queens Dispensary

22. Des Voeux Road Central.

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H.K. Realtles

HK. Territorials.

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Ewo Cottons......

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Pharmaceutical Chemists'

$8% n

$32 b

Shanghai Lands

Paris

Humphreys Estates

New York

4.85 5/92

.$8.35 #

Brussels

34.942

Geneva

25.181⁄2

Amsterdam

12.08%

Prince's Buildings, ................

Milan

92.65

Berlin

20.36

Stockholm

18.16%

Peak Trams (old)

Copenhagen

18.20/2

Peak Trams (new)

.$0.55 ea

Oslo

18.19%

Satr Ferries

.8661⁄4 3

Vienna Prague

34.54%

China Lights (comb)

164

Helsingfors

193

www.[7:90 b rights

Madrid

33.99

China Lights (new)

Lisban

108%

Chlua Lights 1928 issue

375

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Bucharest

Bombay

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The

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Mr. H. Richards, of Quorn-street, Derby, has been notified that his! son, Signalman Richards, aged 26 of the Royal Corps of Signals, hos died from gunshot wounds in Cairo.

There are THREE REASONS WHY we have been

entrusted with the installation of

CENTRAL HEATING

HOT WATER & SANITARY SYSTEMS

SCHOOLS

at the following Institutions, etc.:-

St. Stephen's College Diocesan Boys' School St. Stephen's Hostel St. Stephen's Staff

Quarters

Repulse Bay Hotel Mountain Lodge

Pallonjee House, Canton

Stubba Road Garage

CLUBS

Hongkong Club...

Hongkong Cricket Club Hongkong Jockey Ch U.S. Recreation Club Royal H.K. Golf Chib

OTHER BUILDINGS

Police Station, Sham Shui Po

FIRSTLY

SECONDLY

THIRDLY.

HOSPITALS

Victoria Hospital

Matilda Hospital

Alice Memorial Hospital New Tang Wab Hospital Nursing Home, Canton

Oriental Hotel, Canton Aigbuth Hall

South China Morning Post Building Sister Quarters. Matilda Hospital Branksome Towers

All systems are designed by experts thoroughly acquainted with local conditions and requirements.

All work executed by our own staff, thereby eliminating

uted by som ped work caused by sub letting.

We do not interest ourselves in so called "cheap" jobs. All systems being, designed to reduce maintenance charges to an absolute miniTY LAÍNA.

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Queen's Buildings,

Telephone C 1030.

Silver Spot & For-

ward

5 57/64 47 5/16 1/5 29/82 2/4/2 1/11/ 1/10 3/16

25.5/16 -British Wireless Service.

OLD COMRADES

GENERALS WHO SHARE HANDS

Strange coincidences in the lives

were

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H.K. Electrics. (old) 8574 b 58 a

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Macao Electrics

HK. Telephone China Buses.... .......... Singapore Tractions Singapore Pref. Sandakan Lts.

Industrials

China SugarS......... Malabon. Sugars Canton Ices Cements (comb.)

.$26.

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T144 b

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.3.80 sa

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Cements (old) Cements (new) HK Ropes (old). HK. Ropes (new) United Asbestos.

Stores, &c.

Watsons... Der A, Wings.

of the chairman, General Sir Ed-Dairy Farms ward Bethune, and himself recounted by General. Sir Ian Hamilton at a gathering of the ia mail London Fife Association week

"The chairman and myself" sald Sir lan, "evidently were made for, one another.' He has lost his right When hand, I have lost my left. we sit closety, cheak by jowl, at the festive board, we can handle knife and fork like proper trencher-men.

The worst of it is be has the fork hand of me, so the tit-bits are. apt to find their way into his mouth and the gristle and drum-sticks into mine.

"We served together as General, Commanding-in:Olief and Chief of the General Staff. on Salisbury Plain between 1905 and 1909; again as president anal chairman of the British Legion in London during the past three years; and now as chairman and guest,"

$5 b

$19.10 .b $10.20-n .80 cts. b .$21.8

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Lane. Crawfords Mackintoshs Sinceres.... Wm. Powells....

Miscellaneous

-$3011⁄2 · A HK. Amusements. Hong Kong Constructions - $14. B.. Ind. G. Bonds.....65 b HK. Goyt. Loang....5% b Prem

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STANDARD TIME,

SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN COLONY

1.

Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong for May.(Standard Sime › of. the 120th Meridian, East of Green wich), are as followe

May

Sunrise. Sunset. pasma. ·D,M. 5,466.54 5.46 5:45 6.55

0:54

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Je Same School & (Sir Lanpointed out that both he and the chairinan ware wit Cheam Preparatory School and were sub- alterns together in the Gordon High landers.

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"When we went last summer-as pilgrims to the Menin Gate "at Ypres," he added, "the billeting authorities quartored us both in one amall room containing one small bed, one basin, one tumbler one tiny bit of looking-glass, and one everything you like to imagine. It was touching in every sense."

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The Commissioner sef Foreign Affairs, according to the vernacular. press, has addressed a further letter to the Japanese Consul General to the effact that thesowan ers of the str. Hain Dah Ming, which was sunk in a collision with the str. "Atauta Maru I have agreed to reduce their claim: for: gorupensation for cargo lost, and North east collieries askes that the owners of the latterencing a trade boom and there steamer should pay #1,000 to the glut of foreign orders And Act families of each of the victims of in the steel Indust the wreck.

COLLIERY BOOM

London, April

Free Press."

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