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NEW ADVERTISE-

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INTIMATIONS.

MENTS.

CHINESE

CUSTOMS

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NOTIFICATION.

HONG KONG FOOTBALL

P LEAGUE.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th, 1927.

HE MANAGEMENT COM. TUTTES of the abore Leagus THIS Officen and Stations of will meat at Võlusters HEADQU'AITERS the CHINESE MARITIME (By kind permission), on TUESDAY, CUSTOMS for KOWLOON and DISTRICT SEPTEMBER Gru at 3 30 r., to make NESS on the 10TH SEPTEMBER, tions for the Coming Seon. 1027.

Reèretary's are invited to be present:

INTIMATIONS.

THE VOICE OF THE CITY.

[BY BELLÀ SIDNEY WOOLF (MR), W. T. SOUTHORN),}

will be CLOSED to PUBLIO BUSI- | Arrangements for the League Compaste question, ia to be noted the followus | would buy only small houses in who has been sent to the Govern- the town of Vistoria below;

F. HAYLEY BELL.

Commissioner of Chiness Custome,

"Kowloon anti District.

York Buildings,

Hong Kong, 5th Sept, 1927. [5296

·GOVERNMENT BILLS, ETC. TENDERS for

SPECIE and MEXICAN DOLLARS current in this Colony, for Telegraphie Transfer, on the Lords Commissioner of His Majesty's Treasury, London, up to and for the Sam of £3,000, will be Received by the TREASURY CHEST OFFICER COMMAND PAY OFFICE, O'CLOCK AM. on the 6rx SEPTEMBER, 1927.

The Tander to state, the Total Amount (is Pounds Starling). No Telegraphic. Transfer will be made for lens than £100.

Staled

The

Tenders to be in Duplicate, and is Cover, addressed to the TREA SURY CHEST OFFICER, COM- MAND PAY OFFICE, sad endorsed "TENDERS FOR GUVERNMENT BILLS,

The right to accept or reject any or all of the Tenders is reserved.

5879]

W. E. HOLLANDS.

Hon. Secretary.

HONG KONG CLUB.

NOTICE.

HE

Cinb

YEARLY

THDRAWING OF 20 BEN

on

TURES (1940 Issum—3500 Each) of the HONG KONG CLUB. Payable FRIDAY, the 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1927, will be held in the CLUB HOCAE, at 11 O'CLOCK 1.M.. THURSDAY, the 8TH SEPTEMBER, 1927.

Bearer of Debentures are invited to attend the Drawing

By Order,

A. H. ABBAS,

Acting Secretary. Hong Kong, 7th Aug., 1927. [5203

: HONG KONG CLUB.

NOTICE.

And

pair, made from the beat English A Japanese, living at No 19 leather, is obtainable in English at Macdonnell Road, was bitton on 23/- and lower grades may be pur-longing to Mr. Parkinson, of the Sunday by dog, an Airedala be- An American Author on chased for 18- or even lesa. In

Married Military Quarters 11 Prohibition.

spite of the fact that building in Kennedy Road. "The dog was re-

If you sit on the wall of my side. I imagine his patients' voices England is "sheltered" trade. moved to the depot at Kennedy garden, the highest garden on the add considerably to the murmur In Mfr. T. S. Stribling's most interest- ing book, Firthright, which deals with the open to foreign competition, it Town. Another Airedale, the pro- Peak, you can look down through that rises from the city.

Το the blac and pink hydrangeas and ecure fairly party of Mr. Griffiths, of Nor the white ginger lilies" sending festivals and to frighten devils.

celebrate weddings problems before the United States in is still possible to regard to the white and coloured race large residences for

ums that The Peak, also bit a chair-ccolie, up gusts of fragrance, plumb to Chinese crackers are let off in quan-

tities any and every day, and con paragraph:

Above you have the arch of blue tribute à large I always keep two or three glasses Hong Kong. It is sometimes stated ment Civil Hospital for treatment.

quota to the din sky, and beyond the harbour with of the town may be the among my religions works in memory

Festival of Excited Insects" its maze of shipping, cruisers and There will be a meeting of the steamers, and golden-sailed junks the Festival of Departed Spirits,"

the agenda contains nothing of Dragdas; and beyond the city the the host of the motor car, the Kowloon, the city of the Nine celebration. The rumble of trams, public interest. The only formal Nine Dragons themselves, fan-like business to come before the meet peaks stretching their green danks in the sunshine and beyond the ing, apart from matters laid og

peaks-China. The city is spread the table, is a minute regarding the out like a box of children's bricks: proposed appointment of Mr. J. P. brown and dun, coloured heuses, member of the flat roofs, roads diverging and Braga to be

converging, trees that look no Standing Committee for Water bigger than Noah's Ark trees, So it is with most Closets during the absence on leave motor cars like sixpenny toys, and band's playing for dancers, the

feast of Caza, miracle

'

or

of the fact that our Lord and later that the cost of the land here is wrought a miracle at the marriage mainly responsible for the big Sanitary Board this afternoon, but and sampans; beyond the harbour crackere must be a feature of the

Pecially to bless tha егр. Indeed,

thinking of that price of houses, but painting and at the wedding fraut, I wonder, sir, how the Prohibitionists can defend ordinary repairs, usually done in their conduct even to their own con resfunctory way with interior pcionces because, logically, sir, the miracle of our gracious Lead completely workmen and inferior materials are cats the ground from beneath the generally charged for åt rates which would cause the English contractor to rub his hands in glee if he could Ket them.

feet!

And this from a native born American !

DEWAR'S

WHITE

LABEL

N Terus of Debenture Conditions SCOTCH WHISKY I NOTICE IS

Copies of Forms of Tonder can be had on application

"Persona tandering for (Bilis) are hereby Notified that having regard to the provisions phe Acts 22 George HL, Cap. 45 and 11, George III. Cap. 85, the soceptance of any such Tender is

BEREBY GIVEN that the DRAWING DEBEN. OF 20 ADDITIONAL TURES (1930 -$500 EACH) of the HONG KONG CLUB, Payable" on SAT

the 31st MARCH, 1928. in the CLUB Borex, at 11 SETEMBER 1927, immediately after the SITEXTH YEARLY DRAWING OF 20 DzEXTURES."

re

to the express condition that no Member | O'CLOCK AX., on TEURSDAY, the STY

of the British House of Commons shall be admitted to any share or part in or to say benoit to arise from the Con- made for the allotment of

trat

such (Bill

to

The entered into by say

In question do not

apply Incorporated Company in ita corporated capacity and made for the general benefit of the Company

. G. RILEY, Lient-Colonel, Treasury Chest Ofear, R.A.P.C.

Edis Majesty's Tressary Office,

Hong Kong, 5th Sept, 1997. [3294

REMOVAL NOTICE.

HE Offices of XAVIER BROS THE

LTD., have been REMOVED to No. 2, QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL, INT FLOOR.

[3293

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

DRA

RAFT Programs an Entry Forms for the SIXTH EXTRA BACE MEETING to be held on SATURDAY, 8TH OCTOBER, 1927, and MONDAY, 10TH OCTOBER. 1997 (Weather Permitting), may be obtained at the Rack COURSE, HONG KONO CLUB and CAUSEWAY BAT STALZA,

Bearers of Debentures are invited to attend the Drawing.

By Order,

A. E. ABBAS,

Acting Secretary. Hong Kong, 27th Aug., 1927. [5264

FOR SALE OR TO BE LET

UNFURNISHED.

No. 27, PEAK, LUGARD ROAD,

NIGHT Boomed HOUSE, th

E Central Heating, Fire Bedrooms,

OF GREAT AGE.

AWARDED

50%

GOLD and PRIZE

MEDALS Í

It Never Varies.

SOLE AGENTS: ---

which to live.

of Dr. W. V, L. Koch, in place over all a thin haze of smoke. of Dr. S. C. Ho...

n

There rises on the still air a never- ending hum, a strange murmur, rising and falling: "the Voice of the City."

grunt and part of chair coalies, the squeaking of anoiled wheelbarrows, the tramp of troops, the skirling of bagpipes, the whispers of lovers. the chaffering of the flower market, meat market and fish market, the chewing of "chow or of tiffin or dinner, the ringing of telephant's and slamming of doors, gay jazz- clattering of cloga-that sound which calls up China as surely nag the tinkle of bells calls up Bürma children, all these and a thousand the crying or the laughter of

other sounds go to make up that. thrilling song of the city.

"I could sit and dream here for

Not $9

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for

drift moment

things. The cost of living in Eng laud is sixty-eight per cent, above the pre-war level. It is obvious that the cost of living in Hong Miss Doris Woods has received Kong is well above that and it is long enble from Mr. R., B. Salia- It is interesting to think of all about time the question was serious-bury from London requesting her that constitutes this aggregate of

to rejoin his Company for the tour sound. That heterogeneous collection hours. ly taken up if the Colony is to be in the Far East which is to begin presents the broad streets with their listen

of brown squares and oblongs re- Even 13 We Watch and the ever-present great saved from the unenviable reputa- in October. This is further and European buildings, clubs, banks, white clouds sink lower and tion of being one of the most very practical evidence that Miss the Chinese lanes bordered by their A phantom army advances upon barracks, offices, shops and theatres stalk like spectres across the sky. expensive places in the world in Woods pulled her weight in the gleaming gold and red shop signs 11. Mountains, harbour, sparkling team last year and the offer now and teeming with humanity. There water and even the town are blotted made by Mr. Salisbury, which is are hospitals where "men sit and

and out. The swirling mists creep up The general run of prices seems an excellent one, may be regarded hear each other groan," the Univer to the hydrangea hedge, blot out the to discount very largely the claims very sincere tribute to her sity where the students work and lilies and mulle in their dank folda

musical and dramatic ability. Miss. that Chinese labour and Chinese Woods, however, is aasble to a play, and the cricket grounds and all sounds of life below,

tennis grounds.

clouds. Occasionally the products are cheap, but often prices cept it.

That gentle murmur is comprised apart showing are regulated according to what

of grief and igy and pain. The glimpses of sky and harbour and funeral processions pass by with town. Then the folds roll together it is thought the market will bear

the mourners weeping frantically again. One thinks of the eighth and as the Hong Kong people are

and staggering along in sackcloth century poet Li Po in his "Dream and the paraphernalia of offerings of the Sky-land." and banners, or the wedding pro- cession with the little bride hidden in the red wedding chair and the roast sucking pigs hanging out of their baskets, wedding

"baked There are meats." voices of women chattering and quarrelling in the narrow alleys or rickshaw and chair coolies squab- bling over gambling games in dark corners. Out in the roadways of Chinese streets life is lived in public. Shaving, hairdressing, doc toring, all can be watched without causing embarrassment to any of the victims. At the corners of certain streets can be scen (per- 'sonally I have never summoned up. courage to watch him) the primi tire dentist at work. He pulls out the tooth with finger and thumb and a piece of string and easts it nonchalantly into a basket by his

long suffering and slow to move it may be that charges have crept up gradually to point where they have no relation whatever to reason- |able prosta and costs of production. It would be an excellent thing if the Economics Department of the University, undertook an in- vestigation into the fluctuation and It would

Four Bathrooms, Three Drying Rooms A. S. WATSON general rise in prices.

Modern Sanitation, Gram Tennis Court and Garden-Apply: LINSTEAD & DAVIS, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS

[4778

THE SINGAPORE HARBOUR BOARD.

WANTEDEUROPEAN BER- ~~~~THING~~ ́~ ́ASSISTANT-for Mooring And Unmooring Vasels. Applicants baring Experience Boatswain or Quartermaster preferred. WHARF Apply to the BOARD'S

(5248 MANAGER

25

Entries will CLOSE at TWELVE WANTED-E Roomed BOUSE.

O'CLOCK NOO on SATURDAY, 2477 SEPTEMBER, 1027,

[5246

BY ORDER OF THE OWNER.

PUBLIC

AUCTION

OF THE ENDERMENTIONED VALUABLE PROPERTIES,

Mid-levels

or near

PAX ERAM preferred. Apply Bor No. 5121, cjc Hong Kong Daily Press.

5121

D0018.-Hong Kong, Kowloon

R single, double, Flats, furnished, or

:furnished.

& CO., LTD. WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

PHONE C. 616. ESTABLISHED 88 Tus.

Street.

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Hong Kong Office: 11, Ice House London Office: 21, Bride Lane,

Fleet Street, E.C. 4.

The Daily Press.

EONG KONG, SEPTEMAZR 6TH, 1927

PRICES, ENGLISH AND CHINESE.

Captain R. Neville, who came out to Ceylon as Private Secretary to His Excellency Sir Hugh Clifford in March, 1996, has been appointed A.D.C. to the Governor of Bombay, Sir Leslie Wilson. The appoint ment, which has been made by the Admiralty, owing to the fact that Captain Neville is attached to the Royal Marines, has been sanctioned by the Secretary of State for the Colenics. Captain Neville was A. D. C. to Sir Edward Stubbs dur- ing the time the latter was Governor of Hong Koo.g

THE C.N.C. DISPUTE.

COMPANY TO DEAL WITH

OFFICERS DIRECT.

involve a good deal of work for the collection of reliable statistics relating either, to wholesale "or retail trade-is attended with much

A further stage has been reached difficulty, particularly in China, in the China Navigation Compazy but such work would not be wasted. dispute. Properly arranged it might prove of very considerable value to the

intimated that it will now deal It appears that the Company has

directly with the men, and not with

accepted by to-morrow,

students themselves and if the in-the Guilds, if their terms are not formation obtained did bring to A memorandum bas been issued light the true

by the China Navigation Company the reason for

to the Officers' Guild setting out enhanced prices every que would the terms on which the strike may benefit.

One Chinesë' case of enteric was reported during Saturday and Sunday,

be settled and indicating that unless these are accepted the Company will attempt to deal with the officers directDetails of conferenceà, in Shanghai are also set out.

MAYOR

the

OF MANILA IN HONG KONG.

ENTERTAINED BY LOCAL FILIPINOS LAST NIGHT. ..

--

The seafarers tell of the Eastern

Iale of Bliss. It is lost in the wilderness of

the misty, sea waves,` But the Sky-land of the south the

Yuen-landers say,

"I

May be seen through cracks of the

glimmering cloud."

IL

climbed, putting on the clogs

of the prince Skyward on a ladder of clouds, And half way up from the sky-

wall I saw the morning sun, And heard the heaven's cock

crowing in the mid-air.

"Gone was the radiant world of

gogamer,

So with all pleasures of life. All things pass with the east-

flowing water."

THE BISHOP OF HONG KONG."

HIS IMPROVED HEALTH.

"In the current fague of St. John's. Cathedral Notes there appears an extract from a-private letter from

A representative gathering took a member of the Cathedral con- At a previous meeting it was place last night at the Café gregation giving the writer's im- arranged that another conference Parisien of the local Filipino compressions of the Victoria Diocesan should be held in Shanghai to-day,munity, invited by Mr. F. Mendoza, Association Reunion in London, and probably a reply will then be manager for Messrs. Fisher & Co., on June 28th, It reads under: Mr. Gillard, of the Hong Kong made to the memorandum in ques to meet Mayor Miguel Romualdez, "I was only able to attend the Company, has reported to the tion.

of Manila, and his son,

afternoon meeting at Victory It now remains to be seen whe- police that a conductor of the the, in the event of the Guild not

House and it struck me as being a most enthusiastic and successful mands, the men will deal individual.

not a strong speaker, that is to say, ly with the Company, or will con

his voice does not carry far and tinue to support the Guild.

unfortunately, I was at the back of the ball and could not hear much

The Mayor and his son, the latter A world tour and are leaving to day

Flat for dispon with A RESIDENT of Hong Kong, now Company has disappeared, taking complying with the Company's de. a promising young doctor, are on affair. The Bishop of London is

Situate in the NEW TERRITORIES furniture House 320/30,000 wanted.

in the Colony of Hong Kong Also 30,000 8q. ft. land co Peak. NEW KOWLOON INLAND LOT

No. 53, on which is situated the SMALL INVESTORS. Tel. O. 4630. TAI WAN GLASS FACTORY,

This Lot is situate at KOWLOON

BAY:

taral Lots)

TO. BE. SOLD

BY

PUBLIC AUCTION

DX

in

THURSDAY, THX 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1937, AT 2 O'CLOCK FM. .

IN FOUR LOTS

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MASSES.LAMMERT BROS.Auctioneers

JAT THEIR BALES BOOM,

No. 8, DUDDELL STREET, HONG KONG.

OST - HONG

FO

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HOTEL OG

SALE. OVERLAND MOTOR CAR, 5-Paansenger Ferfect Condition and Good Running Order. $850.00.-Apply: Box No. 272, c/o The Hong Kong Daily Press. [272

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in England, comments upon the 846,5. "reasonableness **. of the prices| charged for various commodities

tons,

for America by the be Koren Maru.

of what he said.

In welcoming the guests of bubur. on behalf of the host. Major Y. R. Barros, U.S. Army

said firetired)

local that the

He evidently has not forgotten Filipino community took great Hong Kong and took away with Pride in having such distinguished his good impression of the place, guests with them. He, the speaker, not only its natural beauties but had been a colleague of the mayor also of the various works being done in connection with the and could truthfully say that no

Church; in fact, I came to the con- better fellow could be found then Mayor Romualdez to be the head of Manila's municipality,

Mr. L. R. Ildenfonso said they

together with two buildings in the his son bon voyage and, on behalf course of construction at Tau Liu of those present, he wished the Street, and New Kowloon Inland distinguished guest and his young Lat No. 539, and two un-numbered son a safe trip and, wherever they buildings at Tin Liu Street. might go, they hoped that good The properties mentioned were luck would accompany them. Be also said that from what he knew put up in two lots. 犷

clusion from what he and other speakers said that we are quite an alive place after all!

Our own Bishop, who looks much more himself, spoke very much to the point. After the meeting there was a great re-union of old friends. estimated afterwards that in the course of a little over half an hour shook hands with fifty people, many of whom I had not seen for The only drawback was that there

The first Lot (No." 649) has an of the mayor, he could endorse what years.

Efforts are being made to trace the at Home and upon the wide range shop, the Wing Ning.Tong, of No. whereabouts of a fuki of a medicine of prices to correspond with the 79, Bonbam Strand West, who it is

PROPERTY SALE. A FISH POND situate at NEW I Sunday Night ONE POCKET different qualities of goods sold, said has disappeared with 34,500.

KOWLOON INLAND LOT NO. WALLET, Brows, contained Money and There is, he says, a feeling that

BUILDINGS AT SHAMSHUIPO. 8 in the NEW TERRITORIES. Scapshot which are only of valta to LOT Now. 5908 and 5918

Owner-Founder plesse Return to HoNG the selling price has now a definite SURVEY DISTRICT 1 in the Koxe HorzL.

The total output of the Kailan [473

At the China Auction Rooms NEW TERRITORIES (Agricul

relation to the cost of production Mining Administration's mines for yesterday afternoon. Mr. E. V. M. and that it is a real competitive the week ending August 20th, 1927, R. de Sours sold, by order of the price. It is honest and openly dis amounted to 100,432 tons, and the situated at Shamshuipo, known as mortgagee, leasehold properties played "and must bear comparison sales during the period to 82,315 New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 549, were gathered to bid the Mayor and with that of other shops which sell similar goods. In these days of There will be a meeting of the cheap transport by tram-car, Management Committee of the motor-bus and railway the public Hong Kong Football League at have a wide area in which they Volunteer Headquarters this even- can conveniently make their pur-ing, at 5.30, for the purpose of area of 2,160 square feet, and the Major Barros had said. He felt was so little time for a yarn, for

making arrangements for

the annual Crown rental is $14. The sure that the local Filipino com- no sooner had one started reminisc- chases and will think nothing of League competitions, in the coming lease is for one of 75 years, renew-munity had been much honoured travelling a mile or two if they season. Club secretaries are invited able for a further term of 24 years by the presence of Mayor Romusling than one or the other of you was interrupted The Bishop was imagine that by so doing they can to attend.

The upset price was 22,000, and dez and his son. after advances of 850, the property The health of the Mayor was then greatly pleased at repeiving the secure a better bargain. The wide

telegram from the V.D.A Council. The Chinese owner of a car and was purchased by Mr. Chiu Yan heartily toasted by all present. Both he and Mrs. Duppuy look range of quality enables the poorest his chauffeur, had a narrow escape

for the sum of $2,200.

Mayor Romualdez, responding The second property has an area said that he was much impressed wonderfully fit and I think there is to obtain the necessaries of life at from serious injuries when a four-of 2,160 square feet, an" annual with the Colony and their system very little doubt but that he will be

seater plunged down a ten-foot

in Hong Kong by the end of the prices which startle those who ( ernbankment, on the main road near grown rental of $24, and the lease of Government. He was more par-

year." is on the same terms as in the case ticularly impressed by his country- thought Chinese products were Aberdeen on Sunday. The car was of the first lot.

The upset price men living here. On his recent visit damaged, but the men sustained cheap because labour in Chine was only light injuries. At the time also become the purchaser in this H.E. the Governor and also officers he felt sure that the independence

was $4,500, and Mr. Chiu Yan Santo Macao, he was entertained by

assumed to be plentiful.

of the accident, the owner was be case for 84,600.

of the Portuguese Army and Navy, of the Philippine Islands would not -ing-taught- how to drive.

The Portuguese Colony paid the be too far off warmest tribute to the Filipino re- He thanked all the charming sidents there, and he could say ladies present and "our host ** Mr. WEATHER REPORT..

nothing more than to ask his coun- Mendoza for the honour dose him.. Edward van Langenberg, engineer,

trymen to keep up their honour, The Café Parisien orchestra then stances where the Chinese product

residing at No. 8, Cameron Road, Yesterday's weather report, fore prestige, and the good work they played the Filipino. Nations) Hymn. will not bear comparison, either in Kowloon, to Miss Celeste Francisca coet and remarks, issued by the were doing in Hong Kong as Dancing was engaged in by quality or price, with the English Rosario, residing at No. 101, Austin Royal Observatory at 6.10 p.m.; as in Macao. In his tour round the all Among those present were:

Road, Kowloon; Mr. Anecleta Con-statedr

world, he would make it his special Major-V Barros Messrs Fred- article. The Chinese shoemaker, ception, clerk at the GPO, resid-Pressure remains highest over duty to study the welfare of his Fisher, T. Mendoza, Zafra, F. de la for example, will charge from tening at No. 20, Front Row, first the southern part of the area. The compatriots wherever he found Cruz, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Ilden- them the Filipinos continued to lonso, Mr. and Mrs. MJ Rull floor, Tut Heng Causeway Bay, to trough-is-stationery....... to twelve dollars for making a pair | Miss Tang Chiu King, residing at LOCAL FORECASTS.W. winds, progress as they were doing now, Mr. and Mrs. A. Gascon and Miss of men's shoes whereas a first-class i No. 103, Tai Woo Street.

moderate, cloudy, occasionally rain. (Continued on next Qolumn.), M. Alarcon.

For further Particulars and Condi-

tions of Sale, Apply to

MIA HASTINGS, DENNYS

AND BOWLEY,

Vendor's Solicitors,

8, DIS Vaux BoaD CENTRAL,"

OR TO

MI36as. LAMMERT BROS.,

---The Auctioneers." No. 8. DUDDELL STREET.

Hong Kong, 13th Ang., 1997. [5233-

"EXON SALE,

HONG KONG HANSARD. BE-

PORTS of the MEETING

of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

for the Bession 1995.

“Bevised by Members,

"PRICE

Fong Kong, DAILY PREM OFFICE.

TO LET

OFFICES

STEPHENS'. BUILDING, ̈.

07/49, DES VŒÙX ROAD

CENTRAL

Chinese labour may be cheap but the fact is not reflected in the prices

APPLY S. J. DAVID & CO. charged. There are numerous in

PRINCE'S BUILDING,

CHATER ROAD.

ding's are announced:-Mr. Arthur

The following forthcoming wed.

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