PREMISES TO LET
PEAK MANSIONS:1
5-roomed flats,
6 roomed fats
PRINCE EDWARD ROAD
DISTRICT,
1 4 roomed asta,
4-8 roomed residences.
CAMBAY BUILDINGS:
2 & 3-roomed flate.
CHEUNG SHA WAN;
1-3 roomed data.
KOWLOON CITY:
1-roomed läts,
PREMISES TO LET.
ODOWNS TO LET-One large
concrete 2-storied godown, foor space about 14,000 sq. ft, at No. 200, Hennessy Road. Two large godowns each about 8,000 sq. ft. at present occupying by British American To- buccy Co., Occupation from 1st Jan. 1936. Two large godowns each about 2,000 sq. ft. in King Ming Bload, Causeway Bay, opposite Hessrs. Butterfield & Swire's Coal Godown. Apply --KONG SAND NG LI, G. P. O. Box No. 320.
FLATS TO LET
LET-FLAT No. 4
9734
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TOMANSION 18, Macdonnell Road, partly furnished or unfurnished. Apply: XAVIER BROS., LTD. Tel. 83727 or83918.
13389
APPLY:
CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME ORIENT
FRENCH BANK BLDG, 5, Queen's Road, Central. Phone: 11063,
HOUSES TO LET.
LET Flat No. 3. "Kellest House", 196, The Peak. Four System. Separate Rooms Flush Kitchen. Servant Quarters All Modern Convenience Apply DEACONS, Prince's Building.
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The
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VICTORIA, HOYS KONG
For further particulars and Con- ditions of Sale, Apply to:-'
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BEATING BIG EEN
At the end of each day's busi-
ness in the House of Commons
Dominion Governments the Clerk reads out the items have been kept fully informed Which have not been reached, through the customary channels The Government Chief Whip calir of developments in the Italo-out which day they will be taken Abyssinian dispute.
The
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High Commissioners London also have been in touch with the Foreign Office:
The position of South Africa may be rather different, because of her growing export trade to Italy in subsidised Italian ships. The racial question may also in fuence the South African view.
No expressions of opinion have so far, I understand. reached, To the Mr. Eden will send--
Whitehall from the Dominions, as he always does when abroad
Canada, Australis. and New his very long despatches in cypher Zealand are expected to fall in These reports are usually supple-with the Brith kne at Geneva, mented by at least one" long) telephone conversation every day. Nothing at the moment is likely to arise which would require the calling of an emergency Cabinet. If necessary, Sir Samuel Hoare can consult with the Prime Minis- ter, who will be in Worcestershire. CONSERVATIVE BOLSHEVIK The headquarters of the British delegation to the League Council, will, as usual, be the Hotel Beau Rivage. one of the oldest in Geneva.
as
They will occupy the same rooms previous British delegations. Mr. Anthony Eden's suite on the, second floor has two stting-rooms, one facing a street, the other
overlooking the Lake
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"VERY WONDERFUL PEOPLE"
Sir Edward Grigg's reference in the Commons to M. Clemenceau's verdict on British rule in India carries one back to the years just after the war
M. Cemenceau toured India in the winter of 1920-21, shooting two tigers within a few months of his 80th birthday,
Journalists were naturally alive to the news value of the "Tiger's" prowess, and on his landing at Toulon he was asked for his in Whatever the political com-
pressions. He began, however, in plexions of their Governments, another vein. He said natonal delegations are strictly do not talk on politics any Conservative In their choice of lodging.***
M. Litvinoff, for instance, re mains true to the Richemond. The French and Italians invari ably to to the Hotel des Bergues, do you carry? Mr. Bruce and the Austrálisnis put and medicines, came up at the Hotel, de la Paix
The Caechs and Hungarians the reply.
Go ahead was the rejoinder share the Beau Rivage with the carry gravestones."
British delegat
more, but I can say what on fimmense impression was made on me by India and what I saw of the British Empire. You English (for there were Engun journaliste in the group)"are very wonderful certainly a
people."
Late on Thursday night Capt. Mergesson called out "to-morrow" to an item of business. Then he looked at the clock and saw it was midnight. With fine attention to detail he called "this day" instead of "to-morrow?" for two more items. Big Ben then began to chime twelve, Capt. Margesson blushed. One or two M.Ps cheered.
If Capt. Margésson's "this day" had been taken literally the House would have had to sit on through the night doing yesterday's work. OLD AMERICAN FURNITURE That well-known furniture ex- pert, Mr. Moss Harris, who has attended Christie's for over half a century, has hit upon an excellent idea.
In the compass of 70 pages he has described and illustrated the history of old English furniture. with a short chapter on American craftsmen.
Apparently the first settler to make furniture which has sur viyed was Nicholas Disbrowe. He was born at Saffron Walden, and emigrated to Connecticut in 1835. The earliest piece by him is a two-drawer chert carved and inscribed
Mary Allys Chist, cutte and " Jouned by Nich. Disbrowe Later, in 1790, Duncan Phyfe, of Brottish descent, established him- self in New York and blended the styles of Hepplewhite and Shera- ton
Incidentally I learn from Mr. Harris that cypress, wood from Persia and the Levant was used in Only then did M. Clemenceau mediaeval times for chests, being "answer the question about h's mentioned in John of Gaunt's will,
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