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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1931.

Any make of shoe repaired FISHING FLEETS.

with solid English leather.

Shoes skilfully

repaired with "K"

English leather will

give longer service

and sustained comfort.

May we serve you in

this direction-

We fit through soles.

only (one plece

leather

to heel)

there

weakening

where the

are 10 nalls

utmost strength

needed, and the

shoe will always

retain its shape.

Mackintosh & Co., Ltd.

In BLACK and all C

SHADES

of TAN

KEE VER

The

Quality

Boot Polish

UNRIVALLED

FOR PE BRILLIANCY A PERFECT WATERPROOF & LEATHER DRESSING

BOOT POLISH

KIWI

BLACK

Sole Distributors: W. R. LOXLEY & Co.

WHITEAWAY'S

A SPECIAL DISPLAY

OF

NEW CURTAIN NETS

AND

FURNISHING FABRICS

IN OUR

FURNISHING SHOWROOM.

INSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED.

ESTIMATES GLADLY GIVEN FOR LOOSE COVERS, ETC.

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.

TOTAL LOSS OF

MERRY ENGLAND: DESPITE A WET

SUMMER

K. M. A.

CERAMIC & REFRACTORY PRODUCT

BEACH PYJAMAS AND HIKING: FUTURE OF LONG SKIRTS?

WRECKED ON LEMA ISLAND BY TYPHOON,

HEAVY DEATH ROLL FEARED.

whole

・the

Wednesday's typ- boldred that the. deen and

"Stanley""" Shir feeta, compris Ing more than a hundred junk and sampana, have met with dissator. Caught by the sudden gale when in the vicinity of Lena Island, in Chinese waters, they were subjected to terrifio buffet

g by the huge seas, and were finally driven ashore on the beach of the island.

"THE SEASON" AS USUAL.

(THIRD LETTER TO HELENA, FROM A WANDERING FRIEND.]

When Instars my monthly, lettoe to you daar Halens I feel that the

ost important part the obvious

to avoid

ning Riking trip ourselves in the Austrian Tyrol, but found it quite unnecessary since the Austrian Tyrol has come to London. We went to the Coliseum to Boo The For instance, what's the use of White Horie Inn and there it describing that vary, delightful gar peasants yodelers, doves, and

·was all complete with pine-woods, don party at Buckingham Palace cows, and a truly captivating Hos when you've read all about it and teas in the person of Fraulein Jea seen pictures in the Taller or fancy, to pave the way of a Germ

Seidle

Some Propaganda-stud this Sketch while seated anugly in your man Lokn 1 farourite corner of the Ladies Antuna Groena, te Lounge at the Hong Kong Club, The mere remembrance of that huge table, loaded, with magazines, just in that locality has hindered any ferves to cramp by style, 80. I attempts at rescue work and has will content myself by stating that prevented any authoritative esti-the London Season ended in a burst mate of the damage being made of sunshine, and that everyone res joiced in having a really Ane day for the final and culminating event which brought it to a close...

That the death roll fa a big one is a foregone conclusion, but so far the persistanos of vory bad weather,

The Long Dress

phat, but I think I can anfely say Goodwood, too, is a thing of the it sounded the death-knel of the

And Just to win the women over too, there is a new stage berbin tive ion-keeper in Autumn Cro Francis Lederer that most attrac cu at the Lyric Theatre, I have always wanted to stay at a Moun- tain Inn and after seeing Herr Lederer: I'm keener than ever.

I really think that someone ought Marooned Without Food

to tell Mr. Taggart about him. I'm The wreckage of the fleat is

Hong Kong and there would not be sura it would help to brighten up strewn along the beach of the is land for more than a mile and a

such a run on flate and houses. With Francis Lederer at the Penk half, and launches which have at

Hotel, and Lea Seidl at Repulso tempted relief report the presence

pant Profits would rise by heaps, Bay almost anything might bap- on the cliffs of a number of fishor-

and bounds (like a Tyrolean. men, who, although saved from imong dress for out-door functions: chamois) and who knows,--perhaps mediate death in the typhoon, are skirta are still in fashion, but pathye For evening wear long frilly the dollar too might rise in sym nevertheless in a serious position, people are getting sick and tired With this last hint for a happier for very little provisions, if any could have been recovered from the wrecks. There are one or two, ama!! villages

on the inland, but the amount of food available would that a roll or a bun at the back

desn't look snart under the popu be totally inadequate for the needs larbowler" and the even more of this sudden addition to the po- popular pork-pie-hat with ita, ruille pulation, and unless immediate asof ostrich feather one side. sistance is forthcoming the maroon. These little hats are so chic, Bod ed fishermen must face sericus so becoming that meny women are privations. It is understood that having their hair clipped again, in the eldera of Stanley and Abordequorder to wear them, are making preparations for TO- Hot.

Clinging to Wrockage.

damp and draggled silks and chifenying (in my best Tyrolese style) of walking over wet grass with Hong Kong I think I'll end by fons dinging round their ankles. Auf wiedersehen !!! ma Yours hopefully

England, August 9, 1901-

FOČASTA,

Long hair is still worn by many, but the hairdressers have discover

August and Beach Trousers.

August is here, and those of us who have gone down to the sen again are getting that. Lido feeling!

Skirts may be shorter. trousers are certainly longer than but over 1

The first nowa of the disaster was received in Hong Kong on Thura- day, when the master of a junk reported to the Teimaha-tsui Water Police Station that, sailing in the vicinity carly in the morning, he had observed the plight of the fleets and by going as close as ho dared visions, clad in gay Bench suits, and On every side one ea. wondrous to the coast, picked up 41 people crowned with hats floppy and enor who were clinging to pieces cfmous, Reas Super Mexican bata wreckage.

I love the gay creconne coats with they are,and very nice they look) their wide flowing trousers under worn by a pretty girl against a Onneath. These briliant garments background of blue sea and yellow

and look most alluring,

Telling him of their ordeal, they related how the wind had sudden ly sprung up about noon Wednesday, and, caught in its fury, they were helpless. For the whole afternoon tusy were subject to the storm's battering, and were driven by the E.S.E. wind right on to the island.

menade, and I simply loathe them, I like shem less on Pier or Pro- They declared that the whole the streets of a sea-side town, when I meet their wearers in flort comprising more than 100 doing the morning shopping. I feel junks and sampans had been dealmost as embarrassed as I do in estroyed. - Sell Se

The story received cfficial confir mation on Friday, when No. 3 police launch, accompanied by H.M.6. Stormcloud, was dispatch ed to the scene. Owing to the high neas which were still prevailing in the vicinity, little paristanco could bo given to the distressed refugees, although four, mora fishermen, who said they had been in the water for twenty-four hours, were pick ed up.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

LAST WEEK'S ACTIVITIES.

SUNDAY, August 30.

Col. Hurley, Secretary for War Fin the United States Governmont, accompanied by Mr. Douglas Jon- kins, Consul General for the Unit

someone with a sponge and soap- a: hotel corridor when I meet dish trying to find the bathroom without a dressing-gown. Girls who look adorable with a long vista of sunburat, or silk-dad legs beneath plorable when they trundle about a short skirt may easily look " des the streets in long and shapeless truserings.

den warmer than skirts which Still I suppose they are's good may account for their popularity.

Bathers and Hikers.

Did you know there was snow in Scotland last week and hail and. elect near London yesterday

Do we bathe in such weather? "Of course we do

Whenever the temperature risen above Zere we rush madly into the sen, and even more swiftly out again: glowing with all the health from an Arctic expedition- and pride of pioneers returning

the best of it! Of course you've Bathers bonst, but Hikers have heard that Hiking is the latest

Hiking strikes me as an excellent answer to Political extravagance, from a people oppressed by rents, rates and taxes and depressed by

stimployment. It is healthy, it is great fun;it occupies our bright young people for hours and days on ANDE

Famay, September during

Lady Peol attended the reception held at the Helen's May Institute in bonour of Min M. Howleth

Hit * Excellency the Governor prended at the meeting of the Hiking is the fashion, abroad as University Counc!. POV well as in England. We were plan-

ed States, paid a call on His Ex-cram; it has caught on to auch an cellency the Governor at Mountain extent that even the British Raili Lodge.

Mr. P. C. Potts left Mountain asus special Hiking tickets, charg

ways recognise it. Many companies. Lodge and ing by mileage alone, so that people His Excellency the Goverocr, & may start where they please and go Lady Peel gave a small supper par where they will debuterede ty on board the Kau Bing.

MONDAY, August 31.3 Captain T.A.H. Coltman, A.D.C. represented His Excellency the Governor at the recention helt the Consul for the Netherlands on the occasion of the birthday of the Queen of the Netherlands, hond

Mr. G. H. Potts and Mr. Schrez And it cannot be faxed ber left Mountain Lodge V Meet a party of happy. Hikers TUESDAY, September 1. -

anywhere. The men wearing bereta, Excellency the Governor girls triin in well-cut shorts and and shirts open at the neck. The inaugurated the new telephone sergay-gipsy-handkerchiefs. All com vios between Hong Kong and lots with knapsack nd back and, atout stick in hand. What do they THURSDAY, September 3 care for wind or rain! How Bun- His Excellonoy the Governor burnt and carefree they look, trang- presided at the meeting of than across country, resting under Legislative Council:"

hodges, pie-nicking anywhere, and this) or wayside. inna is Walpoms lolging in test Houses (a new iden everywhere. No need for them to trop to the road. Many a motorist looks at them with envy as he goes marding by

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