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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1923.

NEW MILLINERY

AT

WHITEAWAY'S

Just Unpacked

NEW SPRING FASHIONS

IN

SMART BUT INEXPENSIVE READY TO WEAR

A Special Consignment

OF

Smart Paris Models

SPECIALLY IMPORTED FOR RACE WEEK

Now on View

PRICES EXTREMELY MODERATE

WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.

20, DES VOEUX ROAD, CENTRAL, HONGKONG.

TAI LEE CHAN

METAL GOODS

Telephons Central 1993

Extablbeed 1334.

and SUNDRY HARDWARE

An Electric FLASH LAMP

that

Never lets you down

PRICE $12

119. Jervois Street

G.E. C. OF CHINA

QUEEN'S BUILDINGS, HONGKONG.

HANDILITE

INEXHAUSTIBLE FLASH LAMP

KLOSTER BRAVEREJ

PILSENER

NEUSTADT

ON SALE AT THE EMPRES3 STOKE, KOWLOON

Fact

-better tobaccos --in greater variety -better blended No other cigarette at the price gives

such value.

They Satisfy

Chesterfield

UCC & Myers Tobacco Co.

HARBOURING YOUNG GIRL.

Chauffeur Imprisoned.

1. Wah tor, a motor car driver, was charged ca pruned at

the

| Mapstrazy yesday afternoon with taking away agir under the fuge of 21 with it the permission of her ful Condon, so with I harbouring her in bulbouse is Park Street. Yaumati. This 16 Pears old.

CIGARETTES

HOME FOOTBALL.

Latest League Results.

1

Second Division.

Barnsley Bradford City Coventry Cay. Derby County Manchester İ Purtsal

Black poul.. Hull

South Shields.

2 Fulham.

• Leeds West Ham Tusy....

PRESSED

AND RESHAPED

DIRT, STAINS and CREASES, vanish as if by magie under our processes and the original shape and "sat** is

restored.

The cost of Dry-Cleaning a complete suit is but $3.25

and the time taken a few days.

Write or phone and we will collect and deliver fæeè.

STEAM LAUNDRY COMPANY,

6.

HEAD OFFICE and WORKS YAUMATI, Tel. HONGKONG DEPOT, 16, Stanley Street, Tel. 0. 1279.

62, Priya Tasi.

KOWLOON DEPOT 19, Canton Road. CANTON, 19, Sharki Central, East.

NEW ENGLISH

COLUMBIA RECORDS

VICTORIAN PENNIES.

X200

THE FIRST NOWELL

Old Friends Going.

1.11

In language which some may

think coldly official and quite un- imaginative, the Mialgives notice 2 of the intended calling in of "all copper coin of uncrowned Queen stampage." Thus, Victoria though the Mint forbears to 817 ao, will be severed one of the most familiar links between this and' the mid-Victorian age, and on its 2severance the public is entitled to Colindalge, if it likes, less in protes:

The Weise-day Mr. A. E. Wood, an assistant in Southampton.. I Crystal l'alace

1 Hatherham the Secretariat for Utunee Affairs. Stockport.

1 Clapto was W bangustion defence The prosentent cundirted as Me GIA. Wel ster

Third Division--Southern Section. The mother of defendant stated! in widen that she dictat

and | prove of her on's acting when he Theolight the war bear, int the

defen last was deal to her a lon

print- estical = debut other the moving spine The westel hom she had given him on

The affare.

try be

Brighton H. V Bastol Charlien A

Seter City

og mi

Laba Town Merthyr

ka andas dates avigatines, esperes Newport · mg her wish to bar me in Burlymouth The net ester to his home of bergents Park

own send and raised tulean Southend

despite his wivi e

The Magistrate po atebent to the --that that he maker's states ment of ber disapproval of the girl bung in the base di aut fit is with history

The Best charge a distisse, the Magistrate drag there en-lant

was no proof that the ated the port away.

s the wood charge Mr. jeter ohmitted that th Importunate thron_threut. i-determined to stay with him

Bristol C.. in Northampton. 1 Brentford

Saiaia 1

Portementle

* Hwindin Bending Aber dam Norwich City.. Millwall..

Watford

Third Division--Northern Section.

StateMaradon Awered ston Astington [Chestertold

Crewe, N.

Mawla On Rochdale

WebSouthport

She was

Hifax Town

1 Hartlepoo!

Badiol

i Wrexham.

# Wigad

Paikam C Trapunt 1.. Nekon Berrow

Harington Walsall'

than in a passing of patriotic regret. It seems to be a case of the inevitable.

Though these old coppers-it will be observed that even the Mint concedes their right to be so I called

are not yet wholly beyond 1ervice, as the pockets of all will testify, they are to be withdrawn from circulation because there Iare in currency too many copper)

coins, and they are the most Witb suitable for extinction. their withdrawal, nevertheless. there will disappear what is for! many minds still the very type of the penny and the half-penny it- self. For these older coins, the peany and the hall-peany and the of the uncrowned

inScottish League-First Division,

Viverices 1 Mortuu

fact she pressed herselle so much

I

1

on the family that the detendant Albion Burets 2 St. Mateu...... ( told her to return to her grand. Clade mother.

The Magistrate said the evil nez of the d-fendant's mother alone ws sutlicient to coatiet her son. Sbe remonstrated with him but he The fact that pai no attention. the defendant lived with the girl

for three days was but consistent

with his story that be urged bar leare his hope.

bim te two most

He senten

hand labour.

|

Dunde

Falkirk Hisernins Kilmarnock

.. Motherwell Parties T... Third Latarki

& Raith Roeke #Hearts

farthing

Queen Victoris stampage," were the offspring of the great revolu tion of 1860, when bronze WAY substituted for copper and the weight of the penny was reduced by one-half, forty-eight peonies instead of twenty-four going to the bronze alloy pound.

1

Hamilton A

1

Agr United... 6 Rangers Airdrieonian-

In 1561 more than £273,000, worth of coppers was coined, so great was the demand ia con- sequence of the change; hat in

overal subsequent years output

the ten

2

U

Alloa Celtis. Rugby League. Wigan 71 del Keighley Bradford 3 Leeds. Bramley 15 Salford Deweb art.... 2 York ... Huddersneld. Hochdale Hull Kingston 2) Bartlep

WEA at least imes as small, that of the 1864 pennies, we believe, being so especially restricted that it is almost worth while to look for a possible specimen. The issue, too, as everybody is aware, has never baen excelled in comeliness by Over its 30 sny of its successors.

heavier predecessors the 1860

have had ira must penny measurable advantages. It was light, clean, and portable, Oland Warringtoo

by these virtues con- Leigh.

Broughtoa... 3 must have substantially St. Helena Her 11 Halbax......

tributed to the establishment of Swietes

St. Heleo-

the penny

the desirable! Waketi-l

Hall

minimum price for many popular commodities. Widnes

CROWN LAND SALES. Hunslet.

Further Brisk Bidding. Two lots of Crown land were auctioned at the offices of the Public Works Department yester day afternoon, yielding $60,500 to the Treasury.

... 5 Obban: Rugby Union

89

Happy indeed, we may now Newport.19 Northamptoa.. refer, were those who first 22 Lundon Irish..23 handled the products of the Leicester Coventry O Devonport S. 8 "uncrowned stampage." A penny- 11 worth was indeed a pennyworth One sale was in respect of 42.000 Manteg....15 Swanses

P'mouth Albion & Redruth... .. 3tben, and not as it bas since square feet of land on the S.V.

4 Pontypool.. 5 become.-E1. le of the motor road beyond Llanelly Sbautican. The upset price was Gloucester

were Batb The purchasers $19.900. Mesurs A. and P. Leung Hing Abertilley...

Watsonianz Kee, who paid $44,800.

Edinburgh Un-

iversity

The other sale involved a lot extending from Bawen Road to Magazine Gap with an area of 62,200 square feet. It was pur. chased by Mr. Leung Hin-sun fur $15,000, nearly three times the upset prico.

Cacom"said I£3 VICTOR RECORDS shall be my biography"! MOUTRIES:-Sole Victor Agents.

$ Neath

17

POISONED FOOTBALLERS.

.10 6

8 Bristol

Cross Keys Cl.......12 TRAP FOR SHOPLIFTER. - Hull Head An electrical device has bega Fligh School 15 adopted at a drapery store at Hall to detect shoplifting, and the sequel was the arrest of a married woman, who was sentenced to A close faquiry is being made two months' imprisonment for Into the mysterious attack of thefts. Filfering had been ex- ptomaine poisoning from which tensive and a parcel was placed three of the Natts Forest football on the counter with a wire at- players suffered during the last tached to it. As soon as the few days of December. There is parcel was lifted a bell rang. The little doubt the men ate some defenders was found with the affected food while in London for parcel under her arm, and sub- their match with Chelses of sequently many other stolen; Christmas Day.

goods ware found at ber house.

DAME CLARA BUTT

(with Quartette į

FIN À MONASTERY GARDEN HUBERT EISDELL LAH. MOON OF MY DELIGHT

་་

THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS

D1446

FRANK MULLINS

THE PRETTY CREATURE..

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(COMFORT YE MY PEOPLE-

EVERY VALLEY SHALL BE EXALTED

LE453

1430-51

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Sle Distribu Ice House Street

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THE BEST OF ITS KIND

Stocked wy all

local

grocery

Stores.

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Sola Agents for South Chi

16 Des Vaux Road Central.

PURE

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PRESCRIPTIONS-

when the doctor prescribes

he expects the druggist to fl the prescription with pure drugs. The quality of our Drugs, Medicines and Toilet Goode is

not surpassed. Have the doctor?x+ prescription led kne and the result will be Istisfactory

THE PHARMACY

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