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An invitation.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD,

The superb collection of goods gathered together in our Showrooms and Windows this week, constitutes a true indication of the latest ideas for Autumn and. Winter

wear for men.

Only the productions of leading makers are embraced in our showing-makers who rank high and whose prestiga in the world of fashion continues undisputed from year to year.

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HONGKONG."

GOLF.

ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.

Thirteen cards were taken out in the Denison Cup competition in October.

F. J. de Rome: 63-4-5-541-5, qualis Gies...

INTERPORT CRICKET WEEK.

A.D.C.-37 NOT OUT.

COUNTERFEIT MONEY, C

ROLES OF COINS SUPPOSED TO

BE

PIGS

TRAFFICKER GAOLED.

At the Central Magistracy yesterday, before Major C. Willson, a ship's coalie was charged with being in the posses- sion of 1,000 pieces of counterfeit coin, purporting to ba ten-cent pieces Hong- Long currency. In reply to the charge) accused said that he was carrying the parcels for a friend from Macao.

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The combination of the Interport Week and the 57th year of the A.D. C. makes a very efficient opening pair for the

Sub-Dec.-Insp. Lane said that the man season this winter. If fate, is kind, we was arrested by a Chinese revenue officer! shall hear no more of, past depression, on the sa. Chuen Chow whilst the vessel and we can enjoy the light and varied was lying alongside the wharf. The fare, intentionally provided by the coins, which were done up in rolls, were A.D:C to suit the occasion, with no found lying on a bunk, as though ready thought of having to face in the morning to be taken ashore,

a prospect of unrelieved gloom, as occur-ih, The, Chinese revenue offiser produced red last year at this time.

a letter which the defendant claimed Instead of putting on one play, the corroborated his story. This letter, A.D.C. have arranged to have a curtain | translated, read-as follows— raiser, to put the audience on good terms with themselves, followed by a drama in Galsworthy's best vein.

"Please receive from bearer three pigs valued 810 each and twelve amali pigs valued 840."

Witness suggested that this was only fblind" as the total value correspon-

with the value of the coins seized. examined the coins which were of a had colour. very light and did "act "ring

The Court shroff stated that he had

It is doubtfit whether any body of amateurs has hitherto attempted to stage anything so ambitious as this piece which is drama, pure and simple" Melodrama yes; but "The first and the last" is pure drama, 'condensed to such a degree that it requires an exceedingly talented

The Magistrate, in entering a covic cast to cope with the situations leading inexorably towards a denimement, the benent of his claim to be merely a car- tion, said that he would give him the final solution of which is hidden from

trav

persons to carry counterfeit coin, and he

1926.

KAIPING HOUSEHOLD COAL

InLots of not. Note Reduction in Prices.

·less than

Ita Delivered to Peak District (above Bowen Road), $24.00 per ton.

Delivered to Bowen Read

and

Lower

Levels,$22.00.

per ton. Delivered to Kowloon,

$20.00

per ton.

Orders should be sent

In writing not

by telephone

at least 24 hours before the Coal Is required

. All orders must be a- companied by Cash, Cheque, or Compra- dore Order payable

The Kallan Mining ministration.”

For Price Apply to THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION

DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents, Hongkong.

STATE OF BRITISH TRADE.

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SCARCITY OF COAL IN EUROPE.

The following is from The Times of October 10th:-

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Ad-

SAVAGES ON STRIKE.

[By JACK MCLAREN,

• Authh" of 44 My Crowded Solitude,”... My Odyssey."]

The strike fever is spreading rapidly to the wild places of the earth. It is com

natives to cease work as a means of en- mon nowadays for even the most un sophisticated, and hitherto obedient. forcing demands that are often fantastic. ally unreasànable,

Evidence is accumulating that coal, is becoming scarce throughout Europe, and negotiate British coal. Inquiries are that buyers abroad are anxious to fairly numerous, but only speculative sales can he minde pending the fixing of prices and the guarantee that coal will be available.

For this reason there are, the Fly River along the new Guinea coast As I was taking a pearling lugger from a yet, no first-hand quotations, the

a little while ago my Papuan crew sad- Nevertheless, some speculative sales are

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the audience until the very last momentier. The law, however, did not allow collieries simply awaiting developments.denly declared that the food was bad,

reported for November and December and that I must go back. "After this comes the interval, the would have to go to prison for three shipment. Colliery owners are unwilling nothing wrong with it, but the natives

at present to quote prices for future supplies...

of the play.

second part consists of a couple of farces which are so absurd, and ridiculous that they must be seen to be believed: "The "genius of A. A. Milne--so well known to all lovers of Punch-consists in showing, in The Man: in the Bowler Hat," a picture of LII ordinary everyday couple, confronted with an utterly grotesque situation. This combination of the ordinary and the grotesque pro- duces such a farve, as serves to bring the curtain down on an evening's entertain ment that few amateur dramatic societies outside Hongkong could better.

HOCKEY.

Y.M.C.A. v. CLUB 23 XI.

months with hard labour.

!

SHOCKING DEATH OF LADY MISSIONARY.

STRIPPED AND EXPOSED ÁLL NIGHT,

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An examination of the food showed were adamant, and, as I could not man Iron and Steel-Dificulties of pro- to do as they desired. I discovered after- age the craft by myself, I was compelled duction have been increased by the Coal wards that their real reason was that Emergency Order, and the total output they wanted to attend a big tribal dance is estimated to be lower than a week ago.on the Fly River. A disappointing development is the stop- page of some steelworks which recently started. Yet the optimism lately pre- vailing is more pronounced than ever, and, in most case, it is based upon News has been received in Tientsin of liveries will keep most firms busy for a substantial order books. Arrears of de the and death-the martyrdom. it must time, and though it is realized that near be called-of Miss Lydia Astrom, ay all the autumn export trade in pig Swedish missionary, at Kueibua in the tertained that substantial home orders iron has gone elsewhere, the hope is en- Suiyuan district of Shansi on October will be released when producers resume 10th Miss Astrom was a lady gifted vail in Cleveland pig iron. English steel looked like a fight. Then learned the operations Famine conditions now pre-

Some tense moments followed, and it with personal attractiveness and a cour- prices are firm, and makers have ex- ageous spirit, and was an accomplished cellent order books and are not anxious I gave it to them, and the matter price they asked—two pounds of tobacco! nurse. She was making the journey from for business. It is well known that big dropped. Patsebolong to Kueihuating when she matter causing anxiety is the prospect of orders will follow the tool settlement. A was captured by brigands, who stripped

At Cape York, in far-north Australia. where I-the only white maa-spent eight years making a coconut plantation, the aborigines in my employ came to me"oze day, arced with clubs and spears.

They declared that they were the real owners of the land and that they would work for me no longer unless I paid them for it already bought the land from the Queens and they took no heed when I said I had land Government.

A Solomon Island trader awoke one

The European Y.X.C.A.. Kowloon, her of clothing and left her all night works make full production, a develop none of the usual crowd of natives wait. rail transport congestion when the steel-morning recently to and in his compound

hampered business. The completion of the the trade-goods-hand-mirrors, coloured ment which after the 1821 strike greatlying to exchange copra and coconuts for foreign steel cartel was immediately fol cloth, and the like.. lowed by notification from Brussels of On inquiry be learnt that one of the price-advances.

ground last evening.

played a friendly match with the Hong- kong Hockey Club 2nd XI, on the Club The game, an excellent one, was keenly contested, the YMCA only being beaten- by three goals to two.

BOXING.

ANDRE DUPRE'S

WISH:

Andre Dupré, the French boxer, who fought Jim Cartlidge here on two occa

In his contests with Cartlidge héré, the decision was a draw at the first fight, but in the second, Cartlidge won on points.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.1 HOME FOOTBALL. NORTHERN LEAGUE RESULT.

LONDON, November 1st." Playing in the Northern Division of the English League. Rotherham beat Wigan, by two goals to mil.

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LIFE ACROSS THE HARBOUR. KOWLOON HOTEL REDIVIVUS

in a freezing temperature. According to the brief particulars sent from Kasihua, she died a few days after the exposure, the immediate cause of death being Thys. Standard).

SGR. MUSSOLINI'S APPEAL

ITALY'S FARMERS.

A SELF-SUPPORTING EEFORT:

ROME, October 10th. The yield of this year's harvest in

natives, who had been to a mission and- Shipbuilding and Engineering:-Work fearnt to read a little, had found a Lon is heavily in arrears iz

don merchant's catalogue which gave, the great majority of engineering and iron-work-wholesale prices for the trade goods. TO ing trades, and it is confidently expected Without taking freightage, and other

that there will be a period of increased charges into account, he decided that the: activity, when employment will be found trader was making too much prost. The for many men who are now idle. In the trader had the most tremendous difficulty shipyards work is more in arrears then in making them understand that trading in any other industry in the country.

was not all profit. It has been handicapped to a greater For the black worker is in at least one sions last year, has cabled from Holiy- Italy, which is now othcially estimated extent even than marine engineering or respect like his "Red" brother-always wood, California, to a friend in Hong; at 60,000,000 quintals, was described as steel constructional operations, because ready to turn the blind eye to awkward for him here and in Manila, he will a speech to farmers delivered at the Cos- pendent on regular suplies of material kong," that if any fights can be arranged very satisfactory by Signor Mussolini in it is more directly and more wholly de facts-Daily Mail. come to the East again.

tanzi Theatre, Rome, where he

from steelworks. prizes to the winners of the

presented competition for the battle of wheat."

national Cutlery and Hardware:-A better tone.

characterizes the Had it not been for intensified produc-trades, so far as volume of work is con-

cutlery and plate press disappointment at this set-back-to tion, said Signo: Mussolini, this year's cerned. The seasonal demand has deve autumn trade. Difficulty and delay in harvest would have been only 45,000,000 laped to

obtaining

оп supplies

order from a substantial extent..in most factories are reported." The trouble is quintals, and in the circumstances it was branches, with the result that conditions due to the inability to maintain steam impossible to obtain better results. There are much more, netive to-day than they was no need to increase the area under have been for the last 12 months. The ferior quality coal, with the result that pressure at the factories, owing to in- cultivation; the 3,000,000 hectares now active state of a number of hardware production is irregular, certain depart under cultivation were sufficient to pro-industries in the Midlands is shown by a monts having to duce the wheat necessary to make Italy further substantial reduction in the nym- through lack of power.

close occasionally * uelf-supporting country. Last year he ber of unemployed. Among the smaller had, said that production should be in-trades, the marked revival in the jewelry Leicester Chamber of Commerce states Hosiery:-The weekly report of the had been attained, and his new order autumn promises to be the busiest for slight improvement this week, but busi creased by one quintal per hectare. That industry has been maintained, and the that some manufacturers report a very was that an additional quintal should be produced next year. He believed that to the transfer of many skilled mechanics some years. The long depression has led

neus is still very unsatisfactory. There 15,000,000 quintals of wheat. One of the less parts, and other lines in which the except knitted spattees, for which orders the area under cultivation could produce to such trades as motor accessories, wire is no particular demand for any article main causes of Italy's adverse trade skilled craftsman has been found useful; plies to the few firms who are making which accounted for 50 per cent. of the it will be possible to complete the jewelry len outerwear are being imported from balance was the importation of cereals, and doubt is already expressed whether them. Large quantities of ladies' wool- are increasing daily, but this only, ap-

whole unfavourable balance. He urged orders for the Christmas trade by the Belgium and France at prices at which The Kowloon Hotel has just come under until the goal was achieved.

all farmers to intensify their production required time. new management and there are evident

it would be impossible for English manu- signs that the reins are in, experienced motor tractor has been awarded to

The first prize of 20,000 lire and a

Cotton:-As only a minority of the facturers to produce, even by mas pro- hands. The new Manager is Mr. Perry, Sicilian farmer-who was able to produce in which, after saying that the project Leather Fair appears to have given at mills closed on Monday, the Federationduction or at half present labour costs. who is no stranger to Hongkong. There on an average 30 quintals of wheat on

Short Time Committee issued a notice will be many here who remember him

Boots and Shoes:-The Shoe and" when Manager of the Repulse Bay Hotel,

an area of eo hectares, against an aver

had not met with the support which impetus to the boot and shoe trade, the and afterwards at the Hongkong Hotelage of 10 quintals produced last year.

the committee had.

37 right to expect,' It is all to the good to have experience

they recommended a return to a systeming attracted considerable attention both exhibits of Leicester manufacturers hav of 24 hours a week. There is some sign. from home. and export buyers. There is of a change coming over the market. It steady and persistent demand for is not very pronounced so far, but with Russian " boots. solution of the coal trouble can be found, in another week or two, especially if ·ན

PotteryThough production is in- a definite revival of business seems like creasing, it is still restricted by fuel ly to be experienced. The supply of raw dificulties. Much of the fuel supplied and consequently ensures such a level mixed grades. In addition, the cost is cotton for the current season is enormous, to the factories is of poor quality and of values as ought to lead to free buying almost prohibitive to the makers of the still double the pre-strike price, and is of manufactured textiles. dress goods industry is regarded as so in certain pottery selling prices. As a Wool:-The outlook for the Bradford account the recent 10 per cent, increase cheaper classes of wares, even taking into uncertain that there is no cucouragement consequence, the increased production is to place contracts for delivery of partial mainly in the higher grades of china manufactured materials some months and earthenware. The busier firms are head. As already stated, another effort making four to five days a week

to be made to induce the Government put & duty on imported competing pointment of & committed to inquire into The Board of Trade announce the ap dress goods.

Drapery and Clothing:-With the re- guarding of Industries procedure by the an application made under the Safe- turn of warmer weather, retail business British Pottery Manufacturers Federa bas again slackened after the brief spell tion for the imposition of an import of activity last week. Wholesalers ex- duty on table-ware of translucent

(Continued on next Column). pottery.

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at the helm, and if it is possible to com-

PRINCE OF WALES.

bine the present, very, reasonable rates with an improved service, a really good table-such as is now in evidence and INVITATION TO CANADA LIKELY.

a few of the amenities which go so far

QTTAWA,

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to introduce an atmosphere of Home comfort into Hotel life, the Kowloon Hotel will help in striking a shrewd blow Government to invite the Prince of Wales A proposal was placed before the nt the arch enemy of life in Hongkong, and President Coolidge to take part in our old friend H.C.L.

the formal opening on Victoria Day next which will in due course be brought into linking Fort Erie, Ontario, and Buffalo, Many improvements are being planned year of the international "Peace Bridge" operation and concerning which the New York, and commemorating over 100 public will be notified. Meanwhile the years of peace between Canada and the large number of people in Hongkong who United Sates. are not fortunate enough to possess their The proposal to invite the Prince of own houses and who therefore depend Wales and President Coolidge has been on hotels, can congratulate themselves on sympathetically received by the members this new effort of the Kowloon Hotel to of the Government, and it is possible that do something to raise the standard of the invitation will be personally extended comfort without increasing the cost of by the Prime Minister, Mr. Mackenzie living

King, when in London. The visit of, the Prince of Wales would also coincide with the jubilee celebration of the Confeders tion next year.

By all such the new regime will be watched with a keen interest and a lively sense of benefits to come..