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SERVICE TO NEW YORK.

NEW YORK and or BOSTON via PANAMA.

For freight, space and particulars apply to

BARBER STEAMSHIP LINE, INC.

ADMIRAL ORIENTAL LINE.

AGENTS'

4. Dos Your Rd. C., H.K. & S'hai Bank Bldg. Ground Floor. Tolephone Contral 2477 & 2478..

ATT

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY. - SEPTEMBER 20, 1924

YEE SANG FAT CO.

LAGER-VEL

ASAHI BEER

BREWED BY

DAI NIPPON BREWERY

Co., Ltd.

TOKYO

JAPAN

Specially Brewed for Export

Sole Agents--

Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Ltd.

HONGKONG,

Take an

early choice

before

we have

sold out.

LADIES' HATS

of the ĮLatest

PARISIAN FASHION

for the

AUTUMN SEASON

Just to hand.

HONGKONG HARDWARE CO.

"TAI LEE CHAN,"

ESTD. 1884

METAL GOODS and HARDWARE.

Tal. No. 1993,

119 Jervois Btrost.

IGARETTES

"ERGETTES MYERS PORALLO CI

Chesterfields not only please the laste. They do more they give to your smoking such a new and different enjoyment that there's only one way to describe it -

They Satisly.

Chesterfield

| LIGGETT & Myins Tobacco Co.

CIGARETTES......,

They Satisfy-millions!

ITALIT

CORRUGATED

ASBESTOS-CEMENT

ROOFING.

SIDEETS AND RIDGES.

STOCKS CARRIED

SHEWAN TOMES &

SOLE AGENTS:

Apply Import Dept. Tel. Central 781. St. Georges Buildings

CO.

GREAT STOCK CLEARING SALE

PRICES ARE SLASHED. TO BEDROCK. EVERY LINE TO BE CLEARED AT FROM 30" TO 50'' OFF. IF YOU NEED SHIRTS. HATS UNDERWEAR, HOSE ETC. HERE'S YOUR CHANCE.

COME AND BUY

Never have such Bargains been offered before,

HERE ARE A FEW BARGAINS

GENT'S FURNISHING AND HOUSEHOLD

GOODS.

4.50 Straw Hats

! $ 3.50 Straw Hats

7.00 Pelt Hats

50 nts. Mer, Lisle Hose Now at 35 cts. | $10.00 Felt Hats

150 Silk Hexc

# 1.75 Silk Hose

$20.00 Over Costs

$25.00

$30.00

带货

90 cts, $12,50 Felt llats

Now at $ 2.50

"I

$ 2.00

., $ 4.00

$ 1.25 $23.00 White Woollen Blanket $12.60 $9.75 $15,μÐ

"

.. $ 6.00 $7.00

.. $10.50

$15.00 $5.00

$15.00 Bain Coats

$17.50 $45.99 Traveling Blankets

" 6 3.15

.. $14.00

$9.755.00 Bed Spreads

$15.00 $ 6.00 Bed Spreads

».5 2.80

$20.00 | § 1.50 Bath Towels

$ 3.80

. $1.00

€ 2.00

$25.00

$35,00

1.50 All Shirts

$ 5,00 Woo!

++

3.50 While dress Shirts...

$ 200 Colouried

19

1.00 Kastled underwat

# 1.50

$ 2.00

+1

6 1.50 A. F. C.

6. 1,50 A. B. €.

$_2,00_B__V_D_

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$3.50 B.V.0. Upion Suits ..

3.00 8 2.00 Bath Towels

☎ 2.50 ¦ » 3,00. Bath Towels

$1.95 $1.25 Woolies Hose 95 cta. 175 Woollco Hose

5Vcts, 50 cts. Linen Collars

75 cts.

Soft Collars

$ 1.0J $ 1.25 President Suspenders $2.00 President Suspenders 90 ots. $1.50 Slik Neck Ties -$1.25 $ 2.00 Silk Neck Tien

$ 2.50 6.00 Emb. Kimmonas

..1.25

.70ctB.

20 cts,

22

.. 50 cts.

., 75 cts.

" & 1.00

»

1.25

$ 3,50

HAVE YOUR SUITS MADE TO ORDER NOW, ALL WOOL' SUITING & COATING 30% OFF.

THE WOOLLEN

Really hard to tell

you just how simple, quick and delightful it in to use LUA-29 that vatiz sult ammer get- mente. hours diessen, sill-underwest, can be washed, again and again and look alwayı an amit as when new, For the buy mother of familymaloe the school teacher, the brainers girl, or any for that matter, the fine. creamy, abundant, instant

LUX

father is a wonder majkerinconsing polled guiments,

the damites the Aster back to their fint lichagan

and colors

NEW COMET.

What Astronomers Expect.

ja profusu mixing of this gas, vury { farobably unbreathable with our pir. Such a mixture could not be merely LE local mixing. The winds would quickly carry the The astronomical hunters of poisonous gas all around the the sky are aftor big game. They world. People at the antipodes are looking for the arrival of a of the place where the comet monster comet. Not one of the truck would within forty-eight "hairy stars" as the anciants hours at the utmost begin to thereafter they called them, that journey around choke. Soon

the sun in vast elliptical orbits, would find themselves suffocating as if exposed to deadly fumes: returning to our neighbourhood.

at regular intervals, but a visitor and presently all of them would from the outor void of space.

be dead. Not a human creature

Just about once in every ton or other animal, would be left | alivo on the earth. They would all years, says an English paper, have perished from asphyxiation. such a stranger comot of large size makes its appearance in the

The notion that a comet is not a very substantial body has been heavens. The next one is ap proximatoly due, and the comat altogether abondoned. Its tail is hunters are watching for gas eo rarefied as to, be - harm- loss if the earth wore to pass Some astronomers specialiso in hunting for comqts. They use for through it. As a matter of fact. the purpose a poculiar, kind of in 1910 the earth did actually telescope of low power but wido pass through the tail of Halley's field of vlow.

comot and nobody noticed it. Bat the nucleus of the hoal is almost Fundoubtedly a warm of solid

meteoric_stones and iron,-and- The head of a comet is gas-lil, may weigh billions of tons. It consists of a relatively solid "nuolous" which looks like a ator question, what would happen if a Leaving the poison gas out of -In some casos thousands of big comet struck the earth asks in diameter, surround the writer? The consequences od by an Immense envelope would certainly be catastrophio. of burning gáo, The quantity For be it realised, the comot big would be travelling at a spoed of

millos

GAS-LIT,

gas carried by a MARKET.

74, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG.

of comet may., not improbably be 50 miles or more per second, and greater than the earth's entire its Impact would be correspond- atmosphere.. Ono own Imagino Ingly torrido. Try to imagine the then what might be the result of smash it would make

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FORGE MASTERS.

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MECHANICAL AND,

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ENGINEERS.

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LIFTING 100 TONS AT 170 FEET RADKIS.

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8. Queen's Road Central, Tel. C. 388.

Just arrived from the most

FAMOUS PARÍS SALONS

A large consignment of

TRIMMED HATS

at moderate prices.

Inspection cordially invited.

NOTICE TO THOSE WHOSE MARRIAGE WILL

SHORTLY TAKE PLACE

Pictorial records of weldlags are highly Coifali)."

Call at the MING YUEN STUDIO Battery Fathy and inspici Specimen grauja,

Ügen receipt of instructions will, wiit sand ampéré

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(Omoini Photographers to the Hongkong Telegraph)