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TOYS, DOLLS

Christmas Cards and Children's Picture Books

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LARGE SELECTION OF

STAMPS

which will be a delight to any Stamp Collector to receive. STORE WILL REMAIN OPEN ON SATURDAY TO 5 PM.

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P. O. Box 620. Hong Kong.

LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,

THE CHIKA

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GENERAL NOTICES

THE FANLING HUNT & RACE CLUB

WEDDING

PREW FRITH

RECEPTION AT THE D.B.S.

A very pretty wedding was sclemmmised at St. Andrew's Church yesterday afternoon, the contract- ing parties being Miss Iris Audrey Frith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. CE Frith of London, and Mr. Albert G. F. Prew of the Diocesan will be held (weather per Sargent, Belom, ter inter HE CHRISTMAS MEETING Boys' School The Ber. C. B. B.

M. A. Headmaster of mitting) at Kwanti Race Course on SATURDAY, 28th December,sisted by the Rev. J. R. Higgs,

vicar of St. Andrew's Church. 1936, commencing at 2.30 p.

Additional coaches will be at marriage by Mr. G. Coysh and The bride was given away in tached to the 12.12 p.m. and 1.25 looked very pretty in in p. tražus to Fanling, and the satin gown with long pleated | 6.39 p.m. train to Kowloon. Tic-sleeves, cowl collar and kets at $2-include admission to train. She wore the Public Enclosure, and may be Brussels lace veil with purchased at the Kowloon. Rail-blossoms, and carried a bouquet of way Station.

white roses (heat).

THOMSON, & CO. Secretaries & Treasurers.

It's time

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ivory

peacock band-made orange

The bridesmaid was Miss Evelyn Bolt who wore a pink satin. dress with puff sleeves trimmed with roses, made from the same materi- SL She carried a beautiful bou-

for quet of salmon coloured gladioli.

of

spot Beehive Brandy

Before the daily

Miss Margaret Bolt was the flower girl and wore a pale blue satin dress of the Victorian style. The flower girl's bouquet was a posy of African daisies.

Mr. B. J. M. Monks was the best man, while Mr. R. Baldwin offeint. ed at the organ. A reception was held, after the ceremony, at

the Diocesan Boys' School, a large number of friends gathering to uffer their felicitations.

The honeymoon is being speat|

round at Repulse Bay, the bride's going-

After

-Public Auctions -

that thankless task

THE Undersigned have received į

Anction

OF

to sell by Public

Tuesday, the 29th December, 1936

commencing at 10.30 am.

at Godown No. 12, The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon

A Large Quantity of Miscellane ous Goods

comprising:-

Siamese Beer."Teak Wood, Rubber Goods, Carbide. Iron Pipes, Manila Rope, Dyes, Barbed Wire, Scrap Rubber, Porcelain Ware, Iron Bars, Galvanized Wire, Nails, Electric Lampa, Steel Bars, Plate Iron, Iron Sheets, Disinfec-

After

tant, Dates, Wire Ropes, Fish- the

****WB, Ground Eosin. Floar Matrix Cardboard, Camel Hair

Belting, Vicunas, Fancy Goods

Woollens, Rice Mill Machinery game.

Power Machine. Rice Machine

Lithographic Machine Singlets

Lighters

Meat Juice, Window

Glass Marble Table Tops, Per fumery. Nail Polishing Set: Glassware, Chlorate of Potast Candy, Cotton Trimmings, «Piec Goods, Diesel Oil Gasoline En

ine, Worsted Yarn, Labricating Oil. Insulated Wire, Blow Lamps Wolfram. Ore, Tee Iron, Dog

away_dress being of light brown material

DAUGHTER POSTS LETTER

Left By Mother Who Committed Suicide

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are funnier than ever in their newest picture, “Our Relations,” which will be shown at the King's Theatre to-mOETOW.

HES TEST MATCH

Against his better judgment, he had been persuaded to play in the office cricket matcb-"just to make up the eleven.”

As he watched, he shuddered to think what would happen to him when he faced the fast bowler.

Fast man in, with knees knočků. ing, he walked to the wicket and held his bat upright (because he had seen the other batsmen, do 1). The pine, wanting to know if he wanted "centre" or "middle-and-leg. asked: “What do you want

Promptly the timid, hataman replied. "Under, please!”

TOTE MACHINE

IN CLUB

Fine of £30 Imposed

George Rogers, aged 60, an ac-

MAN WHO ONCE HAD $150,000

Made Bankrupt While In US.

ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO DEFRAUD

A man who was said to have worth £150,000 in 1920 was Com- mitted for trial by Ald. Sir Man- rice Jenks at the Mansion House last month. :

He was Mark Crombie Stead- man, 59, a merchant, giving a Clapham hotel as his address. The charge against him was:

Having, within six months of his presentation of a bankruptcy †petition against him, quitted the

country, taking with him 'a por-/ tion of his assets with intent to defrand his creditora.

Prosecuting for the Board of

countant, of Brunswick-terrace, Trade, Mr. W. S. Bourne said that

Hove, chairman of the Exchange Steadman was in New York when Club, Marklane. E. C., was fined he was adjudicated bankrupt lasi 5 at the Mansion House last January. He returned to Eng- month for being the occupier of land and surrendered to the Bank- a house kept for gaming.

rupter Court on March 4.

William Raymond Wilding, aged

Before by her daughter in a gas-filled bath-concerned with Rogers

the

shoot

BEEHIVE

BRANDY

Sole Agents:

Spikes, Rails and Samples Liquor, GILMAN & CO., LTD.

etc., etc.

On View on Day of Sale. Terms Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BEOS.

Auctioneers Hong Kong, 21st. Dec., 1936.

"Now On Sale THE

CHINA YEAR BOOK (18th edition) 1936

The Chinx Year Book 1, EN indispensable reference book an China; it arms His reader with all material necessary for forming entrect judgments on the☺ Far Eastern sitostion_ ̈ and embodies all'important documental and / statistics of the year.

Among the subjects dealt with by foreign and Chinese experts in the eighteeth edition are the following: Smuggling, Tangku Trace -Agreement, “How Weekly Incident;. Hirota Tires- Point Programma, Soršak Diber Mongolia Protocol, Mongol Tar ritory in Manchukua, ⠀⠀ Leib- Eous Mission, Camancy Posities. etc.

Price $18:

Obtainable at Kelly & Walk, La

or from the pall

NORTH-CHINA DAILY NEWS

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Low in price, but can be ab- solutely depended on to give you lasting service.

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Problems to Us

to

The prosecution alleged that

31, of High-street, Peckham, a Steadman knew there was one Mrs. Joan Batts, aged 59, of manufacturer's agent, was Sned judgment against him for a 2013.01. Rose Hill, Oxford, was found dead 225 and 10s. 6d. costs for being of £478 dne. to Barclays Bank (France) Ltd, and another one. [room last month.

It was said that a "totalisator" for £523. At the inquest at Oxford her machine, which gave odds of from

Letter Of Credit husband said his wife had been 2 to 1 to 20 to 1, and was admitted. In October, 1935, he booked his in ill-health for some years. On by Wilding to be his, was found at passage to America; on November the night of the tragedy he declin- the club.

6, he received a cheque for £851) ed, on account of the state of his wife's health, to agree with the fined at the Guildhall for a similar shares

Wilding bad. admitted being the proceeds of the safe of suggestion that their daughter offence.

This cheque, with sa- should go on a holiday trip

other for £150, he paid into the Westminster Bank. He obtained a Australia.

letter of credit from the bank, and took it with him to New York.

When he returned he had £6 He handed to the Official Ee- Miss Joan Batts said she saw

ceiver, and his assets had realised 553. This bankruptcy showed a a gas warning pinned on to the {bathroom door, and after she had

deficiency of £534, and this pro- found her mother dead she saw is: Evidence that his plane ~ was

secution was order by the Court. another room a stamped addressed flying so low that it blew awo-blic examination, when Steadman Mr. Bourne said that at his pa- jenvelope.

When her father had man's hat off and she threw her was questioned about the letter of gone for a doctor she posted this self to the ground Jetter.

last Mr. Batts denied that he bading. Süsser, lever acted in a brutal way towards | Sergt. his wife.

His wife followed him with a revolver as he went out 'of the Toom. As he was taking the wea- pon from her, it went of

A verdict of Suicide while the balance of the mind was disturbed was recorded.

GAS MASK, DEPOT

BEFORE PLANE CRASHED

It Blew A Woman's Hat Off!

at

the

was given

credit, his reply was: "I left with Steyn- Inquest an Flight-every penny I could lay my hande Fred - Charles

Rogers, on."

aged 28, of the 46th Fighter FH: Lawton, defending, Squadron, R.A.F. Kenley, Surrey said there was no evidence of in- The cause of the crash of tent to defraud his, creditors by Rogers' plane was said to be bad Steadman, who went to America visibility and a verdict of accident on an ordinary business trip in | al death- was returned.--

ignorance of the bankruptcy pro- Flight-Lient. Calder, of the ceedings.

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A depot for storing 3,000,000 RAF, said Bogers had been in Steadman, who had claimed to DB 825-Dick Turple's. Ride to Lark gas masks for the civil population the BAF. 10 years, had held a be tried by a fury, was allowed in the event of war has been es- pilot's certificate for four years, bail in one surety of £53. tablished at Cheetham, Manches-and had completed 1,000 flying

hours.

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Over 80 members of the Mong-; Yoo-pui, Yeung Kar-ching, Yuen

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kok Division of the St. John's An- Sze-heng, Chan Shu-kan, Chow bulance Brigade were successfu Ping-kong, Chow Ping-wah, Chan | in the final examination for Firs. Ting-fai, Lemng Kam-chin, Wail Sir Samuel Hoare, First Lord Aid and Home Nursing, lectures Tiu-wing. Man Chang-fat, Ya of the Admiralty; speaking to on which were given during the King-yuen, Wang Foot-hing, the Abbey Division of West rear by Dr. K. W. Ip and K. K Chee, Chan So, Chan Fook-cheung minister Constitutional Asso Wong, both belonging to the same and Ten Tin-cheung.

ciation last month said that be Division. Dr. Y. M. Ng of the Women's Section; Nursing Or- cause the Government were re- Kwong Wah Hospital, was in Beers. Fan Yak-chun and Gene lists they did not want to em- charge of the final examination. Pang, and Norses Tang Wai-yer, bark on any special areas policy The following are the names of Li So-ping, Fan San-chun, Ld Way which they did not believe the successful officers and mem-fan, Leung Kam-bar, Wan Wai- would schiere the results they

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