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Pore Cream Anti-wrinkl Cream Special Astringent. Muscle Oil

Cleansing Cream Cream for hands.

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HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

THE NEW

Orthophonic Victrola

Prices $210.00 to $700.00

Less 10% Cash Discount,

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From

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1926.

YOU ing their time, while the vivd MUST picture of China's internal:

OWN IT

To realise what a wonderful holper, and time saver it is you must own 4 Remington Portablo.

It takes the drudgery out of every writing task.

It has the longest writing line of any portable and takes the standard long envelope.

The Remington Portablo is the lightest and smallest portable with the standard keyboard.

Demonstration without obligation.

DAY BY DAY

ABOUT THE RIVER OF HUMAN

Ruskin.

Another base of rabies is notî- fed.

Two Chinese casos of diphtheria were notified over the weak-end.

The naine of Dr. F.-R. Ashton

sorrows and the costly wastoful- ness of internecine strife should LIFE THERE 18 A WINTRY WIND, be an urge to them to divert their THOUGH A HEAVENLY SUNSHINE, stronuous energies into channels working for the betterment of China's

ofvil

administration. With Peking still at the meroy of whataver Tuchun happens to be in the ascendancy, with each and all of the provincos as prizes in the game of personal warfare waged by "irresponsiblo military has been added to the local regis chiefs, with the national financestor of medical practitioners. in a well-nigh hopeless state, with the country's. railways at the whim and caprice of rabble armies, and with foreign help and goodwill kept waiting right at China's door to be of service when opportunity offers, there is an unlimited field for prodigious work by young-educated Chinese who, unfortunately. moment seem 'most bent villifying certain non-Chineso

The following N.C.0.'s and people. If, only this so-called men have boon awarded the

at the

The P. & O, linor Moroa loft Singapore at 9 a.m, on Sunday and is duo here at 4 p.m. on the 4th instant.

An armed robbery occurred at about nine o'clock on Saturday

morning, at No. 255, Laishikok

Road. The men were armed with daggers. Money and jewellery, the value of which is not stated, were stolen...

Mustard & Co., Ltd. "Patriotism" of theirs could be Army first-class cortificate of

Incorporated under_the_Companies

ordiners Hongkong,

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HONGKONG GOVERNMENT.

LATEST APPOINTMENTS.

The following appointments are notified in the Government Gözétlen

Mr. J. A. Fraser to be District Officer, Northern District, New Territories.

Mr. J. A. Fraser authorised to hold n Small Debts Court in the New Territorios. Dr. W. V. M. Koch to be a Member

of the Sanitary Board.

Mr. J. H. B. Nihill to act as an As

sistant to the Secretary for Chin- ese Affairs.

Mr. G. S. Kennedy-Skipton to act as an Assistant Superintendent of Imports and Exporta. Sergeant H. Owen-Hughes to be Second Lieut, in the H.K.V.D.C.

Mr. R. A. D. Forrest to be Secre-

tary to the Sanitary Board.

Rev. A. D. Stewart to be one of

the German Missions Trustees.

Rev. J. H. Johnston to be one of the

German Missions Trustees.

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BIG ORDERS.

SUCCESS OF BRITISH·

INDUSTRIES FAIR.

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TRADE SCHOOLS.

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sering branch at Raffles College, but it is pointed out that locall trained engineers, may And it din- cult to got billets. The experience of the F. M. S. railway workshops, has been that locally-trained Asiaties are not successful in poste involving administrative charge of a labour force comprising several and Malays the feeling is that the different races, and both in Ceylon

Chinese engineers is China. As proper field for the employment of for the intermediate type of tech nical education, of the stande.d desirable, in English-speaking clerks of works, assistant survey. and so forth, much can be done to ors, building and road overscors, help them by means of evening

classes.

The Committee is pessimisti about the usefulness of a Trale School to help youths training a mechanics, but urge that a simple

type of industrial education, in- volving instruction in such trades as carpentry, should be provided in · English and vernacular schools. It alresses the possibilities of agri- cultural education, although thịu is strictly a matter for the F.M.S., and it is very probable that youths who had received some instruction in the "operations of rubber-plant- Rugby, Feb. 28.

ing would be employed on the larger More than 1,300 foreign buyers Asiatic holdings; such a scheme have left London in groups this would certainly have a very valua... week-end on a tour of the rin ble effect upon the conservation of cipal industrial centres of thishe native rubber resources. country Many of them came to

The tone of the report is cau*i- London more than a fortnight ago Programmes have been issued and have occupied their time in and far from optimistic, bat it has done valuable service by of a new era. There is so much for the annual rifle meeting of specting samples at the British Inpouring cold water on a lot of the WALNtO in this. blind crusade the Volunteer Defence Corps, lustries Fair in London and Birm- onsense that has been talked against peoples and things non-which is to be held at Stoncout.ngham, which closed on Friday about the subject. The truth

ters on April 4th and 5th next. Although, more than £20,000,000

organised into practical use, if education:-Sgt. Crowther and Pte. Devonport, of the 1st. Batth. they could be filled with as much Loyal Regiment; and Sgt. Mac. righteous indignation at the Kenzie, R.A.0.C. 16-17, Connaught Road Central miserable lot of and the injustices

suffered by millions of their The Empress of Asia arrived at fellow-nationals as they are with Manila at 7 a.m. to-day, leaves at foolish and unwarranted resent-here at 10 a. on Wednesday.

10 o'clock tonight, and i due

ment against foreigners, China would indood boom the threshold

The Telegraph

MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1926,

THE BANK MEETING,

are

H.M.S. Hawkins won the cup.

Chinese that fiine must assuredly!

worth of urders were actually book-that the only country in the world It is surely little less lian Bring to its prosecutors the

at the two fairs, it is expected in which higher technical edtion- remarkable that during a year realisation that it is foolish and competitors in the H.M.S. Titania worth will be akteed direct by the United States, where it has There were no fewer than 132 that many more, million pounds tion has been really sucressful ia (which will be memorable because uneconomical. Meanwhile, there Marathon Race, open to teams of burers during the present week Pacally sapplanted the appr

of the tremendous social and is for us, who wish for China and twelve from warships in harbour, when they enli at the factories, tices' system savoured in commercial upheaval in China, the Chinese othing but good, first four men, in order of finish-rears that the British Industries

on Saturday at Kowloon. The Never, in the whole of the twelve Great Britain,, the Hongkong and Shanghai | the duty of carrying on as besting, were Sub, Lieut. Newnham Fair has been held have there been

Loading Banking Corporation. has been we can, taking care that prudent Hawkinsk

Seaman 10 many visitors from Overseas The 8.9. Talambe is to leave Hobden (Despatch), Mid. Freer able to work at only a slightly actions based on soundHawkins and P. O. Tilbury. and Abroad. The Dominions sent Amoy for this port on the 2nd less profit and has been able to principles. Surely in this latter (Titania), Counting points for 20 less than 344 representatives, instant, and is due here on the

contributed 651 following day. distribute (with every safety, a regard there could be no botter order of finish of all competitors, while Europe

buyers, the United States 99, the dividend and bonus not less than guide than the conduct of the

Far East 40 and South America 33. was puid during the previous grout banking institution whose

British Wireless, year. This, to our minds, is the annual meeting were here HONGKONG IMPORTS. outstanding fact that comes out commenting upon, for its motto of the annual mocling of would seem to be "The better we, shareholders which was held on weather this time of stress, the Saturday, and there will be very moro fitted shall we be to help hearty endorsement of the forward and participate in the Chairman's eulogy of the wise benefits of the period of pros management by the chiefperous calm which will assured officials and of the hearty and ly follow." loyal co-operation, of the entire staff.

No institution in the Far East has been more vitally

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE REPORT.

It is advertised that the first ordinary yearly meeting of the Hongkong Telephone Co., Ltd., will be held on Monday, March The fortnightly Price Current 15th, in the Board Room of the and Market Report, published by Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, the Hongkong General Chamber of at 16, Des Voeux Road Central. Commerce, states:

The T.K.K. s.8. Taiyo Maru sailed from Shanghai on February 27th and is due at Hongkong on March 2nd at 8 a.m..

Ton taels of opium, found by revenue officers secreted in the after dock of the s.s. Taoshan, were confiscated on application before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy this morning.

The Very Idea!

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Girls kiss and make up 'cause it

Cotton Pieze Goods and Faney Cutton Goods.--Miscellaneous sales covering most styles of staples and China Coat Safaries.

fancies eventuated when market re- Hongkong and the Far East opened after China New Year, but concerned with or inore anxiously generally will have learned with the aggregate is negligible in fighting against the depressing considerable relief that the possi- quantity when compared with that influences which have marked bility of a strike of British of previous years. Latest cotton morcantile marino officers and quotations are those of 25th inst. the year under review, and it can engineers, over the question of Eg. Sakel. 17.50d. Mid. Am. 10.38d. safely bu said that no institution the suggested reduction in the Spot.

Keepers at the London Zoo were which stopped all trains in the Cotton Yarn-During the puzzled recently by the disappear- vicinity. has dune more to uphold the wages of the Indo-China Steam

Navigation Company's floating terval our market has ruled very ance of an octopus from one of the prestige of British interests than staff, has been averted. On this quiet and prices show a lower has the Hongkong and Shanghai question, we are thoroughly attendency.

Quotations are:--No. tanks there. Bank. True, there have been one with a Shanghai contem-10s. $170/185. No. 128. $175/190. Close scrutiny of another of the rubs off.

porary which recently stated that No. 15s.

190/195. No. 20s. "fish" seemed to exonerate it. on

Our sympathy good put to the times when the wisdom of its any open breach between ship-$195/200. Arrivals 900 bales. any charge of cannibalism, but the

The tank had husband who distinctly heard his $16.50 policy of caution and its strict owners and officers at the present Shipments nil. Sales nil. Unsold octopus was gone.

insistence on obedience to the time would have been little short stock 5,800 bales. Bargains, 3,800 not been disturbed, and who would wife say, "You are the blight of

of calamitous. That paint will be bales.

want to steal an octopus anyway? my life," when for ten years he ordinary safeguards of finance established by only a moment's Woollens-Nothing to report.

Then the truint was discovered thought she was saying "light."" and commerce, have been called reflection on the subject. As to Raw Cotton--No sales to report returning home. A slit three

Excerpts from any prominent" into question by those to whom the particular issue which gave Metals-Spot business stagnant, inches long and one-third of an

rise to the possibility of a serious with few enquiries forward. extraordinary assistance would situation

inch wide ut the rear of the tank man's speech: "I am not a public arising, this Was Flour market raport-Stock: Jed into a small cavity behind some speaker." "And, as I said before." $52,00 have meant inuch, but that there primarily a matter between the About 500,000 sucks. Murket: false rock-work. The squid had "That reminds me of a story."

was wisdom. in kooping this parties concerned, but it became Easter on account large arrivals squeezed his jelly-like body, as "Unaccustomed as 1 am

one of distinct public import in and small demand from outports lurge as an electric light globe, great banking, institution-this

view of rumours suggesting the on account of near approach of and his 18-Inah tentacles through With some married people, if the' financial rock on the stability of likelihood of shipping in the Far Chinese New Year Holidays, this slit...

wife's in Devonshire, and the hus- which so much depends--above East being seriously interfered Quotations: - America Patent.

with by officers and engineers $4.00 per sack; American Straight, policeman would have to push better together.

To accomplish e comparable feat, band's in Kowloon, they get along going on strike. We ar $3.55 per sack; American Cut off himself through the slit in a corner long since been proved. It must told on the most reliable $3.56 per sack; Shanghai Flour, post-box and then return to his $70.00 never be forgotten that the Bank author subject were tasted $5.45 per sick; Australian No. 1 duties by the same route.

has done much quiet-work of in a frank and friendly spirit, $8.16 per sack.

ou the were conducted $3.55 per sack; Canadian Cut-off,[" tromendous value in helping that the Company never issued.

Window Glass.-Local stocks British commercial 'intersets to any notice definitely

stating plentiful. that the reductions would take tido over the difficult

Sugar.-Market dull at increased times place, and that, from the start, it

prices. through which wo in this part of had no intention of forcing the

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Brilliantly coloured wigs have

been revived. Blue, green and a

sort of pinkish mauve are the pre- valling colours at dances. Many I took an American girl, writes women are having their own hair

a correspondent, to watch the pro- bleached, then dyed with their colour. Others aro cession of the Opening of Parlia favourite ment. As the Royal coach passed obtaining wigs of natural hair or wa saw their Majesties very dis of silk. Some hairdressers are tinetly. My friend was obviously renting wigs "to match evening thrilled, and afterwards turned to me and said, in a voice that shrilly, " broke the silence about us:.

gowns.

"An advertisement inserted by his "Well, I certainly did get a, kick wife brought back the memory of out of Queen Mary"

B. C. Matthewa, an Exeter frisur- ance broker. Matthews had been

A Clapham woman's thoughtless- wandering for eight months, A

the world have been passing, issue if its proposals which, in nothing noteworthy to report,

cidentally, included concessions and all

bostow. praiso

by the Managers of the ad

Mr. Barlow and his Company also), were ', ID- ytaff is thoroughly deserved. acceptable to the employees con-

The Chairman's roview of the corned. In view of these state-present, when conditions for all ments, it is somewhat surprising concerned are none too good. present political situation was as that the Guilds should haye-come. For these and other reasons, we succinct and as comprehensive to "a momentous and serious deci- only regret that, in view of the

sion,"

," which can only be inter-Company's declared attitude, an ness held up a Southern railway victim of ammosin, when he saw as we are wont to expect from preted to mean the ordering of a appearance of hostility should train for 10 minutes recently. On an appeal inserted by his wife, and. the holder of that offico. The strike if the reductions were put have been created by the Guild a windy day the woman stogd on remembered his name and home. Bank's sound position should, as into affect. At all times it is de- announcement in Shanghai. the station platform when a sudden I'm. was remarked, give those foolish sirable that awnors and men Surely the matter is one which gust blew the umbrella indide out.

should work together in the could have haen adjusted without In disgust the women threw the When for his dinner he was lato, people who are trying to damage closest possible herniony ut no the nepessity of using language umbrella on the rails. The stool Ho found his wife in trim British

interests seriously to time, in the shipping world, is capable of being interpreted to framework came in contact with For, though his moal was very cold, think whether they are not wast- that more necessary than at the represent a strike policy.. the live rail causing a short ofreult She made it hot for him,

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