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THE CHINESE RESTAURANT, LTD.

OPEN DAILY 11 A.M. TO 2 A.M.

We take pleasure in offering the following special These menus for the consideration of our patrons. special menus are prepared by our expert chef:

1. Stewed Shark's fins with Special Gravy,

2. Fried Pigeons

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3. Sliced Fowls and Ham.,

4. Roasted Fresh Shell Fish with Sliced Chicken

5. Milk and Walnut Sweet Gruel.

6. Steamed Rice Mixture.

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Price:- $2.00 per dinner per person.

1. Stewed Shark's fins with Special Cravy.

2. Fried Pigeons.

3. Sliced Fowls and Ham.

4. Milk and Walnut, Sweet Gruel.

5. Steamed Rice Mixture.

Price: $1.50 per dinner per person.

and Ham.

There is a special "a la carte" menu in English from which patrons can order other dishes also as moderately charged as the menus. One can choose to the individual taste, either chicken, duck, awabi, shark's fins, bird's nest soup, boiled or fried garoupa, pigeons, as well as one hundred "other delicacies too numerous to enumerate..

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ENGINEERING & BUILDING

EAST AND WEST.

The Imperial Steelworks at Yawata, Japan, are extending. The timplate mill wearing couple.

tion will have a monthly output of 2,300 metric tons. The sheet will extension will start work in April. uy saan after and will give an in- crease of 400 metric tous a mouth to 3,400 metric ton

Excluding the electrical plant in overnment and private works, the

capneity of the electricity generat ng stations in the Dutch East

JAPANESE PETROLEUM,

A TIME OF DIFFICULTY,

BOOKING OFFICE FIGHT.

HOLD UP ATTEMPT FAILS.

A man entered Pickford's branch looking office in Ilford-lane, Ilford, and attempted to "hold up" Mr. James Green, the manager, "wh was alone...

In spite of the fact that he 5 years of age, Mr. Green put up stubborn fight, and his assailant

The year 1932 was very dull in Japan, with a greatly decreased demand for commodities and deed without obtaining any money The mas naked for two tickets, plessed industry. Petroleum was. not an exemption, although sales of

and to get these from the ráck Mr. Green turned round. He then re- (petroleum products YUBU from

5,570,239 barrels in 1928 to 11,154,048 erived a blow on the hend with a in 1929 and 12,288,571 in 1930. The roller such as is used for towels rule of advance was slower, how- Mr. Green fought with his attack- ever: the 1899 sales represented à 28 er, but, fiuting himself being ben- p. cent. increase over 1927, those tea in the struggle, enlied for kolp. for 1020 advanced 19 per cent, and

His erica were heard by å passer- those for 1930 only 1.5 per cent.is, Mr. Joseph Simen, of Wind- Indies at the end of 1920 was:--

Gasoline, sales totaled 3,340,235 gate-rond, Ilford, who is employed Private undertakings, 70.700 kw.barrels in 1928. 3,110,321 in 1920, in local photographic works. and Government plant; 47,400 kw., and 3,703,269 in 1930. Gasoline Singo stated later to a Press re- the total of 124,100 kw, comparing prices have been declining steadily presentative:- with 100,000 kw. at this end of 1928.

from month tà month,, and were te- T happened to be passing when worded at 0.51 yes in October, 1929; I heard a scream from inside the 5 in January, 1030; 0.44 in June,ffice. I opened the door ta' go in, 1930; and 0.41 in December, 1930 and as I did sa a young man of la pass- (Yen=80.1083 at current exchange.) about 20 rushed past me. Movement in prices of other pro ng me he almost knocked me off ducts was about paralloi.

my feet, and I had no opportunity al seizing him.

A new 10,000 kilowatt turi generator has been received at the National Light and Power Com. pany's plant at Moose Jaw, Saskht- chewan, from the C. A. Parsons Company of Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. When this addition in installed, the tots! full load capa city of the local plant will be 21,000 kilowatts. It is expected, that the new unit will be in operation by the first of July next.

It is to he noted that there was quantitative increase in demand for oil producis, while other com modities suffered from decreased sales. Comparison with prices quot ed in other countries indicates that the decline in price was not us rent elsewhere as in Japan, and it

Developments in Formosa

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Mr:

The office was in state of. grent disorder, and I found Mr. Green lying on the floor, bleeding profusely from wounds on the head. He was still conscious, and, told me, That man attacked me.""

Mr. Simco called the police, and

is hoped that the Japanese market | later Mr. Green was taken in an Regarding the telephone service will show signs of improvement in ambulance to King George Hospit- between Singapore and Kuala Lain-ther near future.

al, Itford. For forty-nine years he pie, the approximate date when it

has been in the employment of Pick- will be rendy is July 1. The service

fords. between Singapore and Ipoh will [he rendy about the same date, and that from Singapore to Penang be- fore the end of this year. On com! pletion of the. Singapore-Penang- service the whole of the F.M.S. tele. phone system will be connected with Singapore with the exception of Pekan and Kuantan, which are not connected with the main F.M.S.

sstein.

At the end of 1930 the Japan Oli Co. was successful in producing Rasutine from its Kinaui oilfield in Formosa. Atraent there is n daily recovery of about 530 barrels, but this is only one-third of the production capacity of No. 8 well, and the company is preparing to renser the yield by doubling the

As the well is com equipment. pletely protreted against the en trance of water, it does not seem probable that production will stop except with exhaustion, which is not to be expected before several years.

Modern plant facilities added tu Maniin gas works during the last twolve months, included an Auto- matienily operated water gas set nad a gas dehydration plant. Gaa There is a possibility of finding dehydration is an innovation of the a few more wells of similar in- gas industry to reduce the contentportance. The was deposits of this of water vapour, thereby eliminat Fortnogan section are considered ing currusion of mains and meters. | irexhaustible, and it is experted Another advantage is an uninter- that deeper drilling will find a good rapted supply to customers. Manj-deposit of oil. Prospecting in an- la is the sole gas crimpany through- | other part of Formosa has proved out the East which has installed the existence of gas in quantities gas dehydration plant,

similar to those in Kinstti.

Oil praduction in the province of Alberta, Canada, reached the ligh total of 3,433,844 harrols during the year 1930, according to revised | figures compiled in the Department of the Interior and based on the reports of operators. The December total, which showed the highest monthly output on record, wh 175,372 barrels. An analysis of the figures for 1930 shows that 1,313,039 barrels of naphtha were produced in Turner Valley during the year the remainder being light and heavy

crude.

Anthracite for Steam.

A paper read at a meeting of the South Wales Branch of the In- stitution of Mechanical Engineers

Messrs. D. Farr Davies and Graham Venier quinted out that the utilisation of anthracite as

haiter Inel was to a great extent being confined in this country to the boiler plants on the individual collieries mining anthracite, and at the boiler plants connected with tinplate works in the vicinity of

these collieries, as well as in central heating. If burnt under proper “ New Venture in Diesel Engines. Lieut.-Col. P. B. Tonides, vice-conditions there was no better fuel chairman of Messrs. Armstrong, for steam-raising. The develop- Whitworth & Co., states that the ments carried out in the chain firm is embarking at Scotswood on grato stoker and furnace to burn the manufacture of Diesel electric

the tower-grade fuel, anthracite engines for railways, and commer- vial vehicles using Diesel engines, duff, had resulted in its successful Several orders are in hand for these burning. Considerable progress had engines, and the time is not far also been made in the use of an distant whan this type of engine

thracite as pulverised fuel, and. will be adopted on a large scale on the railways. The whole orienta- whilst recent experiments had not tion of traffic seems to be from the proved too successful when using railways to the, roads, and, that anthracite powdered fuel in a Lan. being so, the firm feels it is a wide cashire boiler, yet with boiler plaut incusure to get into the road busi ness The value of orders placed constructed for the purpose, pul for lorries in Great Britain is verised anthracite had nirendy pro- annually about eight times the ven itself. At the Aberpergwit value of orders for locomotive colliery of the Amalgamated Ar Burning fuel oil, the new engine

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is mode charper in rousing than thracite collieries.the-entiga boiies. the petrol engine.

plant was run on pulverised an thracite.

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