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DULCIPEL

Dainty Dusting Powder.

Imparts a natural freshness and sweetness to the skin. Removes and prevents any odour of perspiration.

In Elegant Tins, 75 cts.

SOLE DISTRIBUTORS:

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. The Hong Kong Dispensary 'Phone C. 16 and Kowloon Dispensary Phone K. 19.

NEW SILK STORE

Just Opened

SPECIAL BARGAINS

in

All Colours Fuji Silk

All Colours Spun Crepe

at $ 0.75 yd.

at $ 1.60 yd.

All Colours Crepe de Chine (Double width) at $ 2.50 yd. All Colours Crepe de Chine (Single width) at $ 1.85 yd. All Colours Georgette Crepe (Double width) at $ 1,30 yd. Crepe de Chine Underwear (3 Pcs: Set) at $15.00.

Crepe de Chine Emb’d. Pyjamas

Washing Silk Men's Pyjamas

Washing Silk Men's Shirts

Crepe de Chine Necktie with Handkerchief

to match

All Shades Kayser Stockings

at $ 7.00

at $ 6.00

at $ 3.00

at $ 2.50

SHAWLS, KIMONOS, HOURI COATS, PERSIAN COATS, BRIDGE COATS, AND MANY OTHERS, Etc., Etc.

Our price will surprise yon.

TAJMAHAL SILK STORE

5. Flower Street.

Tel. C. 6136 (Opp. Chipa Mail.)

THE COFFEE TASTES,

BETTER WHEN IT IS

CORONA

COFFEE.

This Coffee when properly made will produce a `RICH FLAVOURED, AMBER COLOURED and delicious cup of COFFEE.

Bola Agents:---

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74, Queen's Road Central, song: Kong.

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GREAT CLOSING-UP

SALE

All Stocks must be cleared, including

ALL THE NEW SEASON'S GOODS.

To make room for

Pre

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Hong Kong, Saturday, March 1, 1980:

STILL WATERS

Sir Cecil Clementi Sir Cecil is commencing his Clement's term of service in *Loss Malaya under very

unusual and exact

ing conditions, for his chief lieutenant in the Straits is now to the country, he is losing the

in the F.M.S. Our sister Colony of Hong Kong may rest assured that her affairs will be in very able hands.

SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1930.

Good Wishes of the

Colony

SERVICES APPRECIATED

Street Scene Wrecked

for "Marianne

>'Tongues'

to succeed Sir Cecil Clementi. K.O.S.B. DEPARTURE ROUND THE CINEMAS The paper thinks that the experi ence gained in Chinese affaira largely accounts for Sir William's selection for Hong Kong. Look- ing through the Colonial Office [Liat it in a singular, coincidence

that no other Colonial Governor of been to-day except Sir Reginald Stubba,} Officer Administering the Colony who once served in Hong Kong, and the O.C., K.O.S.B. possesses any experience of the

From C.A.G. Hong Kong. Chinese people.

To Major Crake, OC., K.O.S.B.,

H.M. Transport, City of Marsofiles, Dated February 20, 1939.

On behalf of the whole Colony I desire to thank you and your Regl ment for your services to Hong Kong, to exproan our regret at your departure, and to wish you all a pleasant voyage aud the best of good fortune in the future.

AT QUEEN'S TO-DAY ́

The following messages have

Instead of building sets for ex exchanged between the torlor scenes in "Marianne,” which opens to day at the Queen's Theatre as a new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer all- talking feature starring Marion Davies, the property man wrecked an entire street scene instead.

Many amusing Sir Henry anecdotes are told Gompertz, of the late Sir

SOUTHORN,

O.A.G.

Henry Gompertz, says a Benang paper. Here is one taken from the letter of a reader. The incident occurred shortly after Sir Henry had assumed his appointment as From Officer Commanding, Chief Justice, FM.S. It so hap-derar ( City of Marsailles); 2nd Bn. King's Own Scottish Bar pened that a Chinese contractor To O.A.G., Hong Kong was called in to do some carpentry Date: February 26, 1030. work, and after explaining what Received (per 4.8. Rawalpindi): Was required Sir Henry asked

February 23, 1990. what it would cost A lengthy discussion then arose in Chineso between the contractor and his assistant. Said one, to the other: "We must ask more than the cor- rect price, so that we can bar- gain." Surprise, if not horror, was their portion when Sir Henry, speaking fluent Chinese, asked them to tell him the correct price without more ado. À nasty shock, that!

News in Brief

HMS. Kent is expected to return to Hong Kong on March 12.

Judgment will be delivered on Monday by the Full Court of Appeal In connection with the Sir Paul Chater Will cage.

Information has been received in

the Colony that six cases of small pox have been reported at Tainan, south-west of Formosa.

Vary many thanks for your gracious cable. Please thank the whole Colony for their unfailing kindness and hospitality to the battalion during our three years' stay and for the magnificent send- off which will be an unforgettable memory to all ranks.

SCOTTISH BORDERERS.

HOME POLITICS

The new picture has a locale of work was done to give the street post-war France and the wrecking

.for

realistic atmosphere romantic comedy action.

the

In the picture Miss Davies plays the part of a French peasant girl who falls fir love with a doughboy, a role played. by Lawrence Gray, New York stage favourite.

Robert Z. Leonard directed the Rubin, Robert Castle and others of picture with Cliff Edwards, Benny ndte in the aupporting cast

INDIAN FINANCE Fresh Sources of Taxation

New Delhi, Yesterday. Sir George Schuster, the Finance Member, has presented to the As- sembly a most important budget, proposing fresh sources of taxation to permit the Government of India more greatly to assist the provinces

United 'Empire Party and enable them to work on re-

Opposed

COLONIAL VIEW?

London, Yesterday.

forme.

The new taxes Include the colton plece gooda duty Increased from eleven to Afteen per cent, an additional protective duty of five per cent, on non-British cotton The Conservatives aro opposed goods, and a three-year allver duty strongly to the recently formed of fourpence an ounce. United Empire Party.

The excise duty on kerosene la Last night Mr. Ormsby-Gore, raised from one anna to one anna who was Colonial Under-Secretary and six ples; the import duty on in the late Government, said that keroene is reduced in no circumstances could he jola annas and six ples to two annas from twa One of the papers

the Party, or support its policy and three ples. in Malaya asserts The forthcoming wedding is an- The great Dominions were deter The Import duty on sugar is that the appoint-nounced of Mr. A. Ernest Chapman, mined to become Industrial manu raised by one rupeo and eight

Sergeant of the Hong Kong Police facturing countries and ment of Sir Force, to Miss Winifred Jessie longer content to be regarded

were no annas per hundredweight.

The income tax on incomes of William Peel to be Governor of Mold, of 78, Rectory Road, Clapham, merely as producers of raw fifteen thousand rupees and up- Hong Kong must come as a sur-London, S

materials, and they would not wards is raised by ona ple in the tolerate outside interference. prise "because it was scarcely ex-

rupee; and the super tax is Three men carried out A daring As to the Colonies, he pointed respondingly raised, except pacted that his 33 years' service daylight armed robbery on the first out that in Ceylan, Rhodesi flat rate super tax on companies.

Bermuda, the A full rebato on the silver determination of silver..

Age Not a Guide

cor.

the

The new taxes will produce a

in Malays would be so handsome floor of 93, Apliu Street, Shamshud- Cyprus, Malta, ly rewarded by the Colonint Office, veterday and got away with a Barbadoes. Jamales and British duty is allowed for re-export of

pair of gold mounted rattan bangles Honduras, the calling pron him to carry on for worth $20. They gained adnais- fiscal policy rested with the un- The additional protective duty Lé further period in one of that sion to the flat under the pretext official members of the local on non-British cotton goods 3M most senior governorships in the that they were friends on a visit. legislatures, and not with the subject to the approval of the

Colonial Office; but even

In the Assembly. Colonies." Sir William closed his

At the China Auction Rooms yes more directly controlled Colonies, 56th year on January 27 and in terday, Hunghom Inland. Lot No. there would be most dire results surplus of seventy lakhs. A loan the ordinary course he would, like 161, situated at 4, Station Lane, and reactions if by Government of 23% crores in India is fore Sir George Maxwell, have been was sold to Mr. Lo Fook-tong for action at home, the wishes of the shadowed, of which 7.4 crores

$4,200. The land has an area of local inhabitants were over-ridden will be new money-Reuter. aummarily axed under the age about 750 sq. feet and its annual

Free trade within the Empire in [-A crore is ten millions, or one limit. By a stroke of good for rental is $10. Another plece of the new party's sense of the term hundred inkha.] tune the powers-that-be in Down-land known as Inland Lot No. 2060 would destroy the free port of ing Street have, at least in time but the sale was postponed for policy was impossible for British LUNGSHAN MISHAP was to have been offered at the same Singapore within a year, Such a this instance, been able to realise a week..

Malaya, whose trade was in rub that although the age limit of 55

ber and tin, which could produce may be taken as a fair indication officer in charge of Prisons and with all the world. The same Dr. Alexander Cannon, Medical no food for itself, and must trade, of superannuation it is never a re- Victoria Mortuary, is retiring from consideration sppiled to the Gold liable guide for hard and fast ap the Government service on April 12. Coast, which provided half the plication in the Colonies generally. He will also sign bis Teachership world's supply of onboa

Canton, Yesterday, In Morbid Anatomy, at the Univer

A collision between the Canton- ^^" aity:~ It la understood that Dr. must, in his view, follow the the Tinyat took place at Tai Shek,

Any future Imperial trade polley

Hong Kong steamer Lungshan and The retirement Cannon is going to the University example of many of the Dominions which is about an hour's distance

of London. With: Mrs. Cannon in making specific mutual arrange- A Howl of of Sir George and Wendy, he sails for London meurts limited to two or more in. from Canton Indignation?... Maxwell at 55, on the 6 Malwa Dr. Cannon dividual parts of the Empire.

we are told, has been in the Hong Kong. Govern- aroused a howl of indignation in ment service for three years, to

Service.

ple-British Wireless

Collision with the Tinyat

Silver Bullion Cargo

It appears that owing to shallow water, the Lung An Editor Resigna

shan was stranded, and while in The editor of the well-known into by the Tinyat, which, coming that position she was bumped executive head of the FMB Melays because it was realised A Chinese sampan girl was killed Sunday Review, Mr. Gerald Barry, to pass her. Both boats vibrated political and literary weekly, the down with the tide, was unable Government, and the Under that Sir George, was still full of yesterday afternoon by being has resigned, in consequence of with the shock of the collision. Secretary of the latter Govern vigour at that age, quite apart knocked into the hold of the boat the paper having been committeed The Lungshan's rallings were ment has accepted the Governor from the rich experience he had by aling of cargo walle the boat by its board of directors in sap damaged about 20 feet in length. ship of British North Borneo, accumulated in Malaya that was was being headed towed port of the United Empire Party The Tingat is reposted to have says the Straits Times. More ruthlessly turned to waste at a shortly before three o'clock, and controllers live followed the inches in the bulkhead. The

godowns, The mishap occurred The entire editorial staff and been holed about eight square oyer, adds our contemporary time when Malaya most needed an the girl was immediately rushed a there is a rumour that the Colony able administrator of his type to the Kowloon Hospital by Revenue Officer Powell In bla may lose the services of Mr The 50 years rule has been round private car, but on arrival at the George Hemmant. Thus Malaya y criticised ever since then and hospital life was found to be Lenters upon an anxious phase of no more convincing proof of the extinct, and the body was taken to

its financial and commercial, his unfairness of applying this rule the Kowloon mortuary. tory with all administrative in a hard and fast manner can be

SCHOLARSHIPS programmes inevitably affected afforded than in the case of Bir by the rubber and tin look William Peel who still possesges

Fresh Awards by the under the gulding hand of a new many years of useful service that

University Governor and High Commissioner he can render to the Empire. who himself must rely upon new asaistants.

Assurance for

Hong Kong

should learn the,, news William

·turecz week

BRITISH SHIPS

Able to Meet Foreign

Competition

The fifth shipment of silver bul- lion amounting to half a millon- ounces, arrived here yesterday by the Lougahan Ther proseist dally output of the mint is more than $100,000 in 20 cent pieces. In or der to increase the output, Mr. Fan Kee-mois contemplating b put on a double shift at the mint, so as to meet the full redemption. London, Yesterday of the Central Bank notas at the The Security Company states earliest dato. Cantón that the industry in the past two Moll is informed by years has been steadily consolidat

Agency the following ing its position and has been able ave been arded on to meet foreign competition. The Matriculation British shipbuilding industry s November, now building over ifty pericent of the world's toptage, but the Educa shipbuilding problem is gradually becoming more and more acute Po-kad each year, owing to curtallment in

there

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Ago

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