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Assorted

of Choice Wines & Spirits

for

CHRISTMAS

Case No. 1.......$35.00

Case No. 2........$40.00 Case No. 3.

.$50.00

Each

containing

1 dozen bottles, of wines and Spirits of the finest quality.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

CUT DOWN EXPENSES

Christmas Hampers of Choice Wines & Spirits Stove, which have been

in beautifully made and serviceable Baskets.

No. 1-$10.00, No. 2-$12.50 No. 3-$14.50 each containing three assorted bottles.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

WINE AND SPIRITS MERCHANTS. PHONE No, 616.

WAITING TO PLAY

for

you!

WHENEVER you drop in you will find one of the new Ortho- phonic Victrolas waiting to play for you the most won- derful music in the world! Don't miss this treat. Come in soon!

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S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. VICTOR DISTRIBUTORS.

The New Orthophonic

Victrola

Tie and Handker-

chief to

in your kitchon by using a Pansy or Ideal Cooking.. specially adapted to meet the roquirements of the house- holder in China.

Economy in fuel is ensured by the use of the cheapest grade of coal which will give results unsurpassed by stoves requiring the bost grade of coal.

Pansy and Ideal Stoves are made to last long. We have a stove for avory purpose.

Mustard & Co., Ltd.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1926.

and that Lancashire, which great- ly increased its number of spindles at that time, was, without realis- Ing it very widely, 'waiting now for the return of a boom to get back to "normal" In other words, Lancashire was over-equip- ped and had for many. months' past bien adding to its costs of production by. dollberately work- ing short-time. Mr. Keynes was arguing with his usual clarity that it would be better for Lan.. cashire if she put her spinning capnelty on an economic bagís in relation to the demand of the past two or three years.

DAY BY DAY,

IF YOU WOULD DE FUNGENT BE DRIEF FOR IT IS WITH WORDS AS WITH SUNBEAMS-THE MORE THEY BURN-Southey.

ARE CONDENSED, THE DEEPER THEY

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CHARITABLE WORK.

LOCAL CO-ORDINATION SCHEME.

21 YEARS AGO,

EXTRACTS FROM "TELEGRAPH” FILES.

The following items are extract-

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At a meeting of the Society of! St Vincent de Paul, held in the ed from the Telegraph files for the There was a clean hill of health | Ibrary of the Italian Mission week ended December 23rd, 1905. in the Colony yesterday.

House last night, the local Presi- dent, Mr. J. M. Alves, reported on the year's activities in the course of which he disclosed that much useful and benevolent work was performed.

The Empress of Canada Jöft Yokohama this morning and is due in Hongkong on the 23rd instant.

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A Chinese, charged before Mr. E. Lindsell yesterday, was fined $20 or fourteen days for cutting saplings from the hillside.

Mr. E. Eagen, the noted boxer who is to appear at Tuesday's tournament, arrived from Manila by the President McKinley.

The 8.8. Newchwang, which ar- rived this morning from Amoy and Tientsin, passed a derelict 110 boat in Lat 28.26 N., Long.

112.0% E.

At the Marine Court this morn ing, the master of a trading junk wha fined $5, of five days' hard labour in default, for causing an obstruction in the Southern Fair- way..

Although this particular argu- ment does not apply directly to Hongkong, it does point, the way to at least one of our troubles, namely, that we are over-equipped with trading houses. Perhaps in the halcyon days directly after the war, and at the time when there was a money and land boom here on account of the insecurity and distrust in the hinterland, there was' justification for so extensive ly increasing the number of this

Amongst the passengers who Colony's business houses, Dur-left for Manila and Australian ing recent years there has been a ports by the a.s. Changte were Mr. tremendous influx of new and reT. H. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. and Mrs. Jackman, Mr. and Mrs. latively small traders, for whom Gray and Mr. L. G. Scott WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT.. there is but little room in these days of slow and unexciting sales. Apart altogether from the boycottments (Sir Laurence Guillemard) and what might be lost in con-intended making towards the end sequence, wo have, to readjust of the month has been postponed ourselves to what is the real norm

on the advice of his medical advis-'

Incorporated under the Companies Ordinances. Hongkong.

Alexandra Buildings, Des Vooux Road Central,

MCBRIDEGAIRNS-At Union Church, Hongkong, on 16th December, by the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie, John Murray Mc- Bride. Youngest son of the late Mr. Wm. MeBride and Mrs. McBride, Greenock, to Margaret Elizabith Gairns,

of our business here. There is always room for enterprise; and

The visit to Sium which H.D. the Governor of the Straits Settle-

ers.

Referring to the results of the

The rate of the dollar on demand was 28. 0%d.

Messrs, Hughes and Hough sold No. 20, Connaught Road, West, the purchaser being Mr. Pan Hi-ting, for $76,000.

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recont hazaar, Mr. Alves said the gross receipts would exceed $22,000- most satisfactory Sorious riots occurred in Shang- result considering the fact that hal following a Chinesa demand they had to do without the aup-for the dismissal of Mr. Twyman, port of some well-known bene, British Assessor of the Mixed factors, either through demise or Court. Naval, parties were land- absence from the Colony. In ed. There were casualties.

ing terms of the support given particular he spoke in glow- amongst foreigners and Chinese. this year by Chinese ladies and The marringe took pince in giris, both at the bazaar and in Shanghai at Mr. N. Eric Maller the sale of roses, and said that this and Miss I. B. Blechynden.

was very appropriate seeing that

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it was their community which bene-Mr. W. J. Bryan, twice Demo- fitted largely from the work of the cratic candidate for the U.S. Pre- Society.

sidency, "visited Canton

the efforts that had been made to The Chairman later alluded to

interest the Government in the and Mrs. L G. Bird was announe- The birth of a daughter to Mr.

movement, also to the advisability | ed. · of co-ordination of charitable work

in this Colony, a matter on which The Union Insurance Society of lie was now engaged with the secre- Cantan, Ltd., increased its capital taries and representatives of other to $8,100,000.

charitable bodies in Hongkong.

The meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to Bishop Valtorta dance at the meeting and Father Byrne for their atten-

AN INVISIBLE" RAY.

SEEING WITHOUT BEING

SEEN,

An election by Justices of the Peace for a member to serve on the Legislative Council in place of Sir Paul Chater, resignod, result- or In Mr. (now Sir) H. E. Pol- lock being returned. The other candidates were Mr. H. W. Slade and Mr. E. A. Hewett.

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Mr. G. N. Orme was appointed Police Magistrate and AS.P. for the New Territories.

only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. We would be the last to frighten Quean's Pier, failed to appear in Baird, the inventor of television, mants, under cover of darkness,

H. Gairus, Hongkong and

late of Rosyth.

DEATH.

VAN CORTLANDT.—On Decem- ber 16th, at Singapore on board the R.M.S. "Macedonia," Captain Newton Wynne Van

any of it away, but there ean scarcely be any two opinions on the fact that Hongkong tu, to-day, overstocked with traders who make it very hard for all hut the most deeply entrenched to keep their heads above water. It will help us all if we view the present as though it were the normal and

Edward Zimmern, charged with

Rugby, Dec. 16. assaulting A. ticket seller at The Daily Mail saya Mr. John Court when his case was called has now discovered a ray which, are being watched. before Major C. Willson this morn: while capable of illuminating dis- The ray may prove of great ing. A bail of $10, deposited with tant objects, is invisible to the service to merchant shipping, for the Police Inspector, was estreated human eye. by order of the Magistrate.

it is claimed it penetrates fog mors Those upon whom it is directed rendily than any yet invented.- are thus unaware that their move- British Wireless.

report

To-day's Observatory states that fresh monsoon may be expected along the south-east const of China and over the North China Sea. The local forecast up to noon to-morrow is:North-east

some drizzle or mist.

Cortlandt of the Indo-China readjust ourselves to this stan-winds, frosh; generally overcast,

Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., suddenly-in his 37th year.

The Telegraph

FRIDAY, DEC. 17, 1926.

NORMAL OR ABNORMAL

dard. That we stand to partici- pate in an improvement should be encouraging but should not serve as an exeuse for continuing an profitable enterprises..

Unarmed robbers who entered. the first floor of No. 9 Catchick Street yesterday afternoon fourd, as the sole inmate of the pre- mises at the time, a Chinese woman, whom they bound and gagged: The floor was searched and clothing and money to the value of $54 were taken away.

The Very Idea!

Where there's a will to drink same-she'll have 8 inches to ad, there's a way to get it!

that's all!

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One of those very popular gentlemen-vulgarly referred to The lady tourist was inquiring. as bootleggers-got a call the about seaside resorts. "A Well-Timed Tribute.

other day, to deliver a case of The clerk named one in parti- liquor to a movie magnate in the cular. To those who are given to accus-

hotel occupied by a certain visit. "What can I do there? ing Britain of being Imperialistic Gamblers in Manila who try to ing queen. Arriving there he asked. oppressors we would commend play draw poker will have to do found every door guarded * by' "Almost anything you like, We think it is time that some the speech delivered by General it behind closed doors or they will police. Stumped as to what move madam," replied the polite clerk. one called attention to what we Hertzog on his return to South And themselves behind prison to make, he went to a nearby store "There's bathing and fishing, and Africa after attending the Im- bars. In a circular issued last and bought a shiny valise and a motor launch trips, and dancing. fear is the chronically wrong at perial Conference. He asserted week, Judge Delfin Jaranilla, nt- silk hat. At a second-hand store and all that sort of thing." titude of lots of people in Hong-that he had previously been a life-torney-general, ordered all city he bought a couple of ancient war "But shall I get bored?"" kong to regard present conditions long antagonist of Imperialism, and provincial fiscals to arrest and medals..

"Oh, yes, madam-and lodgings, but after the declaration issued prosecute those found "around. Then he walked 'right' up and, too-for two guineasa week.

as being so abnormally bad that by the Imperial Conference he the poker table," following a/rul- to his amazement, three of the to match

-$4.50 $6.50 $7.50

Practically the only opportunity a man has to gratify his sense of colour is in his tie and handkercheif. And these ties and ha dkerchiefs enable him to do that to some purpose, in a gay but thoroughly masculine way.

Old English Madder dyeing the method by which cashmere shawls and the old yard square bandanas used to be dyed

Is the method used for dyeing them.

The designs are printed by hand- slowly, carefully, patiently. For that is the only way to produce their rich, jovial, essentally English colour schemes.

FOULARD SILK TIE AND HANDKERCHIEF.

to match-$4.50 $6.00, $7.00.

LANE, CRAWFORD Ltd.

MEN'S WEAR STYLISTS":

little

Britain as a

of afterward.

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"I'll be a champion runner,"

sald

The man in boastive tone. The only record that he broke Was on the gramophone.

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been paid recently for the best spocimens. The best diamonds. - bring about 500 pounds per carat. There is อ wide disparity of opinion on the judgment of emeralds' value, dealers setting many different prizes on any one gem.

lamps for bringing the rays to bear upon subjects to be examined. Uncle Sam has spoken. Hin The rays are of especial value in

the girls shall and must and will wear determining

quality of stockings which reach 8 inches diamonds. A thread of clothing above the knees. He has spoken left behind by a burglar can easily. through the U. S. Bureau of lead to his identification under the Standards. That worthy body rays which are more effective than investigated the length of 14,000 the microscopo in showing up pairs of ladies hosiery before dyes. laguing its ultimatum length of

they must inevitably improve at had no longer the least fear of ing by the supreme court. In a officers saluted him. "I sure must An extraordinary boom has an early date. Even at the risk the Empire. Later, he described judgment handed down some time have looked like the Duke of started in the emerald market. As of being dubbed as pessimists, we through free constitutions and that draw poker is a game'

country which, ago, the high tribunal decided Kakyak," he remarked to a friend 'much as 1,200 pounds à carat bas think that somebody ought to the common-sense use of them, bud chance. speak plainly for the benefit of made younger nations as free us the Motherland and, at the same those folk who are just hanging time, standing in a close attitude sidence at Crescent Flats, Tan The death occurred at his re- on in the hope, like Micawber, that of ailection. These words com-jong Katong, on the 10th inst., of something will suddenly turn up ing from a statesman who actual- Dr. Percy Scott Falshaw, who for to change what they think is busily fought in the field against Br many years held the appointment tain during the Boer War, possess of Government Veterinary Sur- ness gloom into the bright sun- a significance which cannot be too geon at Singapore. Born in York-

A new world record comes from Ultra-violet rays, used in recent shine of a boom. Frankly, we see highly stressed at the present mo- shire 56 years ago, Dr. Falshaw British Columbia, where a white years in the war on disease, have reason to regard presentment General Hertzog, like many first came to Singapore in 1898 to Leghorn has laid 361 eggs in found a new field."They are being conditions as other than similar another, had in the past been take up the appointment of Gov- 365 duya-just fourteen short of used in Berlin in the detection of given to judging Britain and the ernment Veterinary Surgeon and an egg a day,One more effert, crime. German police stations to those which we are going to British on hearsay evidence. By had latterly rotired. He also act- and we shall reach the landmark are being provided with quartz experience for some considerable personal contact and by what heed as veterinary surgeon to the of One Man, One Hen. time to come and, instead of just ted into the inner councils of the for a number of years honorary has learned through being admit-Singapore Municipality and was Idly and perhaps wastefully wait Empire, he has now completely reveterinary surgeon to the Singa- ing for better times we ought to versed his views. He sees the pore Turf Club. A prominent

British Empire as the guardian of Freemason, Dr. Falshaw was' be reorganising our affairs and so economising all round that we tan liberty and freedom, not as the Pastmaster of Lodge St. Michael. tyrant which our detractors would go on at the present pace, making have it appear that we are; hence enough to pay our way, ready to he does not hesitate to express reap the harvest of better times both his love and respect for Bri-

tain and for British institutions. Paris should they eventually come. We It would be impossible to pull Brussela

Amsterdam aro guided to submit this advice wool" over the eyes of such a man

Berlin because of a very thought-provok- be suggested that that is what has as General Hertzog, but, lost it

penhagen ing article we read the other day happened, let it be borne in mind Halsingfors by Mr. J. M. Keynes who was that the representatives of all the Lisbon dealing with the Lancashire cot- Dominions who attended the Im-Buenos Aires

Shanghai perial Conference have been Yokohama ton-spinning slump. This great equally emphatic in paying tribute New York

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economist was pointing out that to the ideals for which the British | Genová. Lanchashire's "glump" was no Commonwealth of Nations stands, Milan

Stockholni It is cheering and encouraging to Oslo. longer really a slump but a new have these verdicts of virile men Pragu lovel of stability. Lots of fig-of the world from the outlying Madrid ures were quoted by Mr. Keynes parts of the Empire, which should Rio.... showing that the world consump do much to offset all the lies and Bombay

distortions which are to-day bo- Hongkong

Silvor (spot) tion of cotton yarn was back to ing pirculated to our detriment in Silver (forward) the old level before the 1919 boom this part of the world.

EXCHANGE RATES.

Rugby, Dec. 16, 120

.34.89

27.5 inches in all stockings from Mother (at bedtime)-"Don't. 1213 heel to tóp, and figuring that this numble your prayers, Mollie.. 20.30 stocking would come 8 inches can't hear a word you pay." 18.21 above the lees of a woman & feet Mollie "I wasn't speaking $4.424 6 inches tall; weighing 130 pounds. you, mummy."

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There is no reason to believe Every movie company has Its that principles of modesty or own musicians usually three so-called morality actuate the whose duty it is to keep the 26.10 bureau in its august decision, players in the right mood while. The 1084 This bureau merely works to see they are before the camera. 18.16 that manufacturers give con other day a company was shooting. 10.21%

sumers a fair deal. They probably some scenes on the boulevard. 104ccided that for purposes of com- Daring the lunch hour the

31.83 6.27/32 fort, warmth, utility, a stocking orchestra was sitting on the curb 1/5.18/10 of this longth would give the playing some old selections. The greatest good to the greatest num concert came to an abrupt end ber: And no law will prevent the when an old Indy stopped and gave. flapper from rolling here just the them a quarter.

Pireless.