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RACE MEETING EXCURSION" TO MACAO.

SUNDAY, 9TH SEPTEMBER, 1834. 8.9. "TAISHAN"

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SAILINGS FROM MACAO

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REGISTRATION OF PERSONS ORDINANCE, 1934

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• AXCURSIONB,—Singis : $255; Beturn; $4.00.

Norn.--All Steamboat Company's Steamers are fitted with Wireles

ESTABLISHEEDS

SEPTEMBER

LONDON NOTES

By The Air M

· London, Aug. 18 Half the clubs in Pall Mall and St. James's at the moment are în the hands of the decorators

The Athenaeum and the Army. and Navy are the guests of the United Service Club. The Oxford and Cambridge is offering has- pitality to the Travellers, and the United University.

Arthur's- 18 at Brooks's, and Boodle's at the Windhara, which is also taking in the members of the Marlborough Club.

In many cases the dispossessed are offered a choice of migration. Thus members of the Conservative Club can use the Carlton or the Union, or they can console them- selves with the Eastern comforts

her alongside the English cha ger and made thè min tion,

WELSH EPISCOPAL ELECTION

On Wednesday next the Electoral College of the Welsh Church will meet to choose a successor to Dr. Edwards in the Sea of St. Asaph.-

"Though the elections are singu< larly free from preliminary wire- pullings, there is a confident ex- Welsh pectation among many Churchmen that the Ins will fall on Canon Benjamin Davies.

For the last three years he has been vicar of the important parish of Wrexham. In the St. Asaph diocese.

Canon Davies fulfils one esSEN="

of the Oriental Club in Hanover-11a requisite for a Welsh bishop square.

nowadays as he is bilingual. He is a native of Dowlais S

The Oriental Club also enter tains the Reform, the members of which used to be good Liberals. In addition, the Garrick and the Union Club are offering the temporary home.

Next month all this hospitality will be duly exchanged.

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There is one club, however, which is a shining example. The R.A.C at the moment throwing open its club house to some of the clubs I have mentioned. requires none in exchange. It can anyhow afford to be generous for, unlike ita.fellows, it never closea ALUTAMATOIRET I

FAINTER

When I saw M. Paul Potret in London less than three months ago he was a sadly shrunken figure But I am aa astonished as the Parisans themselves to learn that he is now drawing the French dole of 10 francs a day.

M. Pairet lost a fortune in the Oustric crash. His business in the Champs-Elysees went. Then he took to painting.

Except for his undergraduate days at Oxford, where he took a First in Mathematical Mods and a First in the Final Honours School of Mathematics, he has spent his whole life in Wales

He is 54 and unmarried.

UNIFORM UNIFORMS

A motorist of my acquaintance, who is almost a connoisseur in the variations of polle uniforms laments with Margate, the Home Office recommendations for a na- Honal standard,

While not agreeing that the standartijen formes The ugly as sin," I shall be Borry if the distint- tive helmets of the City of London and of Guildfare, for instance, and indeed, the smart white hel mets of Margate are to disappear. " And what will happen to the informal but comfortable points- man of Rochester, whom I have twice seen directing traffic in his shirt sleeves?

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RADIOLYMPIA BREAKS

He explained to me that he pre-

RECORDS ferred this medium of self-expres-

Radiolympia on its opening day sion, as dress-designers no longer already started breaking records. had the necessary freedom artistic creation.

fort

Evidently his desire to be known for the future only as a paliter has not enabled him to sell his pictures. Many of these had for their subject the

flat which be still retained from more prosperous dnya.

ENDEAVOUR JUNIOR-

More people paid for admission during the first hour than in any previous exhibition,

The General Electric Company stated that during the first hour

business they booked

·worth

of the 2300.000, including one largest orders ever placed by South- América in this country.

The HM.V. Company announced that they had booked £80,000 worth of business, including an or der from a Liverpool house for 24 of the 10 guineas radiograms, one of which is to be supplied to an Indian rajah.

Mr. and Mrs. Sopwith received charming compliment at Newport yesterday morning. This was when the syndicate controlling the Rain- bow presented them with a six- foot model of the Endeavour.

The tiny craft, which is an exact Ab the Phillips stand it was stat replica of the challenger, even toed that more business was done the lettering on the mainsail, was during the first hour than ever be made secretly at the Herreshoff fore in the history of the show." yards and christened Endeavour Junior.

Mr. Sherman Hoyt, the wall known amateur yachtsman, salled

Other prominent manufactur ets said the same. In some cases orders were double or treble those or last year.

1934. 式拜疆 日郑月玖年瑋

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

To-day

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER

Cinamaa

King's "Strictly Dynamite" Queen's: The Wandering Jew" Central:-"Chinese Picture.** Oriental:"Wild Cargo"

:: World:-"Chinese Picture"

Alhambra;—"Heads We Go" Majestic: Madame Spy": Star:-"Footlight Parade"

Meetings

The Chup Tick Steamship Co. Etd., 25 Connaught Road Central, first floor. 5. p.m.

St. Andrew's Church Meeting of the newly elected Social Commit- tee, 9 pm...

Miscellaneous

Presentation of Prizes "to suc cessful Competitors at MCL. Gala, Repulse Bay, by Lady Peel, 6 pm.

Rotary Club Tian, Hong Kong. Hotel Roof Garden.

Speaker! Rotarian LC. F. Transport-An Bellamy, on "London Passenger Experiment In

Socialism."

Moon. VI Moon, 26th Day.

Principal Mrs

Inward Air and steamer Mail: from Europe by Takada and Shunchih; from Europe via Siberia by Troilus.

Sports Aquatics-M CL Gala

(Re pulse Bay/

Hockey St Andrew's v. Royal Signals (Marina groped), 5.13 m

Sunrise.-6.08 am Sunset 8,38-

v.m.

Tides-High. at. 5.35 and 21.36; Low at 13.19 and 23.36.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5.

Creditors, Kam Hing Knitting Co., Ltd, 638-652 Nathan Road, Mongkok, 3 p.m. in.

General Committee of B, An- drew's Club, 9 pm.

Kowloon Union Church Women's Guild, 10 a..

Miscellaneou

Whist Drive, Seamen's Institute, 9 p.mx

Kowloon Union Church resumes Choir Practice, 8.30 pro...

Moon-VII Moon, 27th Day.

Principal Mails, Inward from Europe via Sáez by Rawalpindi; Air Mail from Europe by Takada.

* Outward for Austraila by

Sydney Maru, 5, p.m.

Sports.

ming

Aquatics Inter-YMCA, Swim- Gala, Chinese YMCA. Bridges Btreet, 7.30 pm:"Chinese Athletic Association Gala at North Point 8 pm.

Lawn Bowls-Singles Champion- ship: A. Chapman v. D. Rumjahn (Kowloon B.G.G. green), 5.18 p.m. Sunrise.-6.08 am. Bunset.-8.37

p.m.

Tides High at 6.42 and 31:28; Low at 13.54.

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