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THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY,
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
No
4 that ou and after JUNE 29тu, 1981, the Business of the COLONIAL DISPENSARY, Chomistaand Druggiata, will be carried on at their Now Fremises in GLOUCESTER BUILDING, Padoan Braxx. A
E MARY HARMON, Manager.
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SOME
PARAMOUNT REASONS
WHY YOU SHOULD
GIVE YOUR DOG THÉ
“QUORN"
THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI DOG REMEDIES
HOTELS, LTD.
R OFFER OF NEW SHARES.
HAREHOLDERS are Reminded
that the LATEST DATE for As. ceptance of the Offer of New Shares of the Company in TUESDAY, 30-μ JUXE, 1931 Forma of Accepta a and/or Renunciation accompanied by Remittances should be lodged "at the Company's Registered Ofles. BroomD FLOOR, EXCHANGE BUILDING. Hoxo KOND, on or before the said
Date,
Hong Kong, 22nd June, 1931.
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HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.:
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Provisional Certificato No. 67/488 dated Hong Kong 20th FEBRUARY, 1929 for Four Shares of this Bank Numbered 123990/126993 inclusive registered in the Name of Estate of LO LAN SHANG (deceased) has been LOST or STOLEN, and should this Certificate not be produced to the Bank befors 17th JITLY, 1931,
New Certificats for the Sbares will be urned, and the aforesaid Certifieste No. 57/488 will. be thereafter treated by this Corporation as Nell and Void "By Order of the Court of Directors,
V. M. GRAYBURN,
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Chief Manager.
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FAMOUS KENNELS RELY UFON, THE “QUONN" BREEDERS AND OWNÉES
USE THE
“QUORN BOTH THE EXPERT AND THE AMATEUR ARE BUYERS
OF THE "QUORN " WHILE CHAMPIONS OF
"ALL BREEDS HAVE BEEN
KEPT FIT FOR YEARS
AND YEARS WITH THE
"QUORN "DOG REMEDIES.
THEY COOL THE BLOOD, BEMOVE ALL IMPURITIES
·AND ACT AS A TONIC TO
THE WHOLE SYSTEM.
Stroomed. & Fire-roomed Apartment A. S. WATSON
PRINCE EDWARD ROAD, · KOWLOON,
Detached and Semi-detached--Villan Modera Construction with Garage.".
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WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore- east and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 3.45 pm stated:
Pressure is low over China and high to the east of Japan..
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bits of India straight to the mind's cya." And that was the impression | of an. Indian Shikär. In a thorn dotted paddock of sixteen acres on the westerly slopes roam a herd, of bison which, it is hoped, are the proud ancestors of large herda yet!"Two Rounds Too Much !! at 77. varito be. A number of the paddocks
The 77-year-old K.C., Mr. N. Micklem, was beaten in the third round of the Bar Golfing Society's tournament at Deal after winning his second round match in the morning. Two rounds a day are too much for me now," he said.
Local Forecast:-SW or able winds, light to moderate; cloudy; occasional rain.
DEATH.
Gow. At. Greenock, Scotland, on June 24, suddenly, JANE, beloved mother of Mr. A. R. H. Phillips, Hong Kong."
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aro of great percage. Towards the south side three of the largest of these touch one another and repre sent, respectively, the animals of three different continents.
The Titanio Lifebelt,
carried to the bottom, but that the rotting of the ropes released it to the surface fairly recently. In puy case, though it is a sad echo of the testimony to the conscientious work- great tragedy, it is a wonderful manship of the man who made, it
"Hula-hula" for London!
The Divorce Crake,
A priest at the village church of], Czechow, in Peland, has been ar- rested on
a charge of granting spurious divorce decrees and then remarrying persons so divorced," with the result that they were un knowingly led to commit bigamy. Many people have been misled in this way, and complaints against
The Duchess of File.
The Duchess of Fife, more gön Connaught, celebrated her birthday erally known as Princess Arthus of last month. She is the oldest grandchild of King Edward and Queen Alexandra, and until the birth of the Prince of Wales stood very close to the Throno-just na The dukedom of Fife, created on does the Princess Elizabeth to-day.
the marriage of her parents, des- conded by special remainder" in the female line; and Princess Ar- thur's son, the Earl of MacDuff, whose title is one of those com- prised in the Fife titles, will, in due course, become Duke of Con naught and Strathearn and of
Of the Ava hundred acres of the Pork not three hundred aro as yet developed. The belts of new afforestation have not yet grown
One can hardly believe that the the priest have been lodged with tall. The immense chalk pit which is to be the lion's den is now being Titanic lifebelt, which was recently tha Public Prosecutor. He will dug out, and it makes an interest washed up near New York, has been new have to appear before the ing spectacle in the technique of washing about in the sen for 19 Criminal Court, the open Air Zoo, It was die years, as one would expect all trace. appointing to find that the chalk of its origin to have been obliterat. was so soft and crumbly that there ed. It may be that it was never wis danger of its falling and in-released from the wreck and was juring the animals. The chalk will therefore have to be completely faced with solid material-a very costly task-before lions and tigers are introduced. Meanwhile a pair of pretty lion cube inhabit a spacious fenced enclosed elsewhere WHIPSNADE ZOÓ. in the park. Mongolian wild horses a. paddock of eleven acres BRITISH people are noted for their with a few camels and a herd of love of animals and for their in-yaks. In another field the chief in terest in all matters connected with animal life. In some way this is somewhat surprising. The develop ment of the industrial towns and the wiping out of vast rural areas might have been expected to kill whatever interest the industrial workers had in natural history Instead of that the opposite seems to have been the case. They are more interested than ever in every. thing connected with animal life. There are societica in existence for the protection of wild birds, and animale, and all are enthusiastical- ly supported.
There was therefore, the greatest interest in the opening of the new Whipsnade Zoo, The public wore wildly delighted, and they thronged to the Zoo in tens of thousands." Unfortuately they evinced a greater desire to see the new Zoo than was expected; transport facilities were woefully inadequate and it was a matter of the greatest difficulty, to handle the masses of people who had come by road and rail. The countryside was packed, and the police finally had to order the railway companies, to issue no more tickets to would-be visitors. Mean JUNE, the Public Works Department, DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE while people who had been fortu- nate enough to get there in time wore enchanted with what had been
forty miles from London, is one done. Whipsnade, which is not
of the loveliest spots in the Home Counties. The Zoological Park lies on the edge of Dunstable Downs, which form part of the Chiltern Hilla. From almost every corner of the Park the views: are magni-
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
Sale by Pablie Avotion to
be held on MONDAY, the 20 Day of
1931,
by Order of His EXCELLENT ZER Govar
801, of One Lot of CROWN LAND
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This Large Volume of approximateficent. The Park itself is beautiful.
ly 2,200 Pages gives, in addition" to the Usual Lists of Firms, an
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Kenya. Problems.
The suggestion cf a woman au thor, endorsed by. Sir Arthur Keith, that English women should adopt South Sea Island dances to keep babitants are ostriches and zebras;ft, depresses me anys a London. The eland and more zebras roam in a friends "going native" and danc
prospect of all my women author Fife field nearby; and as next door ing the "hula-hula"-or a suitably tighbours they have llamas and refeened version of it--is ghast
Bly. If the idea is adopted, May- The preparation of the Whip- fair and Belgravia will resound to shade Zoo had been a fairly costly the strains of the ukelele, and it experiment, but some enthusiasts will be impossible for any of us believe that it will one day be a men to get any pence and quiet source of gains. Both birds and I am making plans to retire to beasts are more than ever valuable. the South Sea Islands, where the In one corner are two great cranes natives are probably so sophisticat which cost several hundred pounds ed by now that they have aban- doned the "hula-huls" for à quie ter form of health giving exercise. British Politics,
They are the living spirit of Japanese prints and the export of these birds from Japan is now prohibited.
enade ever pays its way or not is
But whether Whip a matter of no great importance compared with, the pleasure the public will have in seeing the world's wild creatures at large in surroundings which have been made, as nearly as possible, natural to them.
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