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GENERAL NEWS:

The Imperial Fund Dinner.

The Duke of Westminster gavo. & dinner at Grosvenor House

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SERVICE MATTERS.

Health of the Army in India.

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THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1912.

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The general report of the the other night in aid of the health of British troops in India Imperial Fund. The chief object for 1911 is the most favourable of the fund is to advance the one aver regardeil, and constitutes cause of Tariff Reform and Im-red under ull heads except T perial Preference, and it is for a small fractional rise in the posed to raise $100,000 for the death-rate from all cases over Hongkong. 6th Nov, 1912, purpose. More than £48,000 had that returned in 1910. The chief been already subsoribe, and after features are shown in the follow- the diunor it was announced that ing table:- aubsoriptions amounting to an other £80,000 had been received. Mr. Bonar Law was to have boon the chief guest at the dinner, but he was unable to attend owing to the death of a near relativo The Duke of Westminstor explained the purposes to which it was in- teade to put the fund, ani. speeches were made by Mr. Austen Chamberlain and Mr. Wyndham. Mr. Rupert Guinness and Nova Scotia,

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It is re-assuring to learnly been registered in London as ly interested for some years in the potentialities of farming incruiting was never brisker för Canada, Mr. Guinness has not

the Royal Navy than it is at the part of the Export trade and hitherto owned land there himself, Present tooment. The committes business of distillers and vendore presided over by Lord Devonport of gin, carried on at 132 Goswell a few years ago, when he was Sir

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and his recent tour was under taken largely for the purpose of visiting some of the former pupils at his Canalinn training far near Woking, all of whom he found doing well. Ilis purchases

The above announcement re- reported that there was always minds us of the antiquity of the

Mesars. Garner Quelch & Co., Hongkong Hotel Buildings, are the Agents for Gordon's.

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of land up to the present amount un adequate supply of boys ready House of Goswell Street-the covered and work entailed, will | and willing to be trained for the home of the noted Gordou surpass most event of his own to about 350 acres. Ho proposes to extend at once the training service. The absence of train-

Distillery. work at Woking, so that a greater than a supply of suitable material.bent on adventuring his fortunes and India. In the middle of

ing taachinery was more apparent

previous records. He leaves New It was in 1769 that one Gordon. York for London, Paris, Colombo, number of students' may learn practical Canadian agriculture better thalters since that repor attracted by what Sergeant for China, and will call on the way Something has been done to in the City of London, was January Dr. Mott is due to leave at one time. British Appreciation Of President was published, and more is being Buzfuz described "as the retirent Singapore and Hongkong. In dano, year by year, a conferences, mont and tranquility of Goswell China he is to spend six or seven In the course of a mordant are held by those concerned in Street." There Gordon acquired weeks, visiting a number of the criticism of the policy of the the movement of providing more Sextuple Group, "The Daily British seamen for Britisht ships, known as 132 Goswell Road: eastern provinces, and moving on the substantial house now principal cities in the central and 'Chronicle" says it is impossible Yet the supply of boys etil and there erected. those to Korea in the latter part of March.

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Notice with which the Chinese President number of boys who can be for the purposes of a rectifying succosaful mission field is to be GREEN ISLAND CEMENT confronts the Six Powers at this absorbed by our mercantile train-distillery and cardinal manufac followed by three weeks in Japan, grisis in the destinies of his ing establishments. The Navy tory which remain practically and then, after a call at Honolulu, country. "We wish him well in has been at pains to considerably unaltered to this day. Though Dr. Mott will land at San Fran- his patriotic resistence to a subtle extend is aval training system, thousands ask daily for Gordon's cisco early in May, go on from and unscrupulous attempt to sub to meet the requirements of the stitute foreign for native control moment, and an oairly new est Gin in all parts of the world, few there to some meetings at Los over the collection and administra-ablishment for the training of whose recipe has been in use for ference of the World's Student records remain of the distiller Angeles, attend the annual con- tion of the salt revenue. Of the Six youths (lads between the ages of nearly 150 years and whose Christian Federation at Lake Powers who are seeking to dictate 16 Bud 18 years) has been business has been carried on with Mohonk early in June, and after the conditions under which China brought into being at Devonport unbroken continuity under six a visit to Princeton University shall borrow, two, Russin. and Whether the recuiting of mon as Japan, staggering under a load well as boys to meet this sad successive Sovereigns. Pessimists complete his world tour by reach- of debt, have not a ponny piece only discovered-but long exist. may talk of the vanishing trade ing his home in New Jersey after Hongkong, 16th August, 1901

ent need of the senior service, Gordon's Gin remains, there will linuous travel.

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