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CANADIAN

PACIFIC

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Direct Sailing to Europe via SİNGAPORE-COLOMBO-BOMBAY

"EMPRESS OF CANADA"

Leave Hongkong Nov. 28 Arrive Singapore Dec. 2.

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HONGKONG-MANILA, SERVICE

Arrive Manila

Leave Hongkong

Sept. 25 Sept. 27 Oct. 16 d. 18

EMPRESS OF CANADA

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Leave Manila. Hongkong Sept. 28 Sept, 30 Oi. 19 Oct. 21

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THE SAFEST AND MOST CONVENIENT WAY TO CARRY FUNDS.

Passenger Department:

Tel. 0.762.

Freight and Express:

Tel. C. 42.

Unbles: GACANPAC." Cables NAUTILUR."

American Express Travelers Chèques

Definition of TRAVELLERS' CHEQUES-

The system of Travellers Cheques was originated in 1891 by the Amarican Express Company with the object of creating a form a travel currency which would give the holder the security of a letter of credit and at the same time the conventence of local currency. The Company registered the choquea under the trade CHEQUEB name of AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELERS the word "Travellers' being apolled with one "" Tals advantage of the Cheques was so apparent that other banking institutiona adopted the system." Quoted from Pitman's Dictionary of Banking by Wm. Thomson. Lanned in G$10, G$20, G$50, G$100 and 45 and 10 denomination-bound in a small handy wallet and cost only 8/4 of 1 per cent, Secure your steamship tickets, hotel tour reservation and itineraries; or plan your cruise or through:--

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Loading about 0th Oct, 15th Oct.

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MESSAGERIES

8th October,

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MARITIMES

FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS.

Sallings from Hongkong.

To MARSEILLES via Saigon,

Singapore, Colombo, Djibouti

(Aden) Suez, Port-Said.

11th Sept. PORTROS.... ATHOS II............ 25th Sept. D'ARTAGNAN...... 9th Oct. 23rd Oct SPHINX.. G. METZINGER... 6th Nov. PAUL LECAT...... 20th. Nov. ANDRE LEBON... 4th Dec. CHENONCEAUX... 18th Deo. PORTHOS...... 1st. Jan.

To YOKOHAMA via Shanghai

@ Kobe.

.11th Sept. D'ARTAGNAN.. SPHINX........... 25th Sept, G. METZINGER... 9th Oct. PAUL LEOAT...... 23rd Oct. ANDRE LEBON... 7th Nov. CHIENONCEAUX... 21st Nov. PORTHOS...

5th Doc. ATHOS II...... 19th Doc. D'ARTAGNAN..... 2nd Jan,

We can insun through tickets to Egypt, Syrian ports, East Africa, Madagascar by transhipment on our mail ateamora at Port-Bald or Djibouti.

COMMERICAL LINE.

For DUNKIRK via Port-Said, Oran, Casablancs, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, (Antworp):

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For full Particulars, apply to:-

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Telephones: C. 851 & 740.

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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH,

PEER'S £2,500,000

"ESTATE.

LD., HAMBLEDEN'S £8,000 A

YEAR FOR WIFE.

Unsettled ostate valued at £2,- 500,000 has been left by the lato Viscount Hambleden, of Gros- vener-place, S.W., Groenlands,

and Henley-on-Thames,

The Manor House, North Bovey, De-

von,

Viscount Hambleden, who was head of Messrs. W. H. Smith and Sons, a partner In Coutts and Co., bankers, and chairman of King's College Hospital, dled on June 16, aged 60. Ho left:

£2,000, the use of his house in Grosvenor-place, or on her ceas- ing to reside there, an additional £5,000, and £3,000 a year to his wife.

£60,000 In, trust for each of his

youngor sons.

£30,000 in trust for each of his daughters.

$1,000 each to his sisters, Emily Anna Dyke-Acland, Helen Soy- mour, Beatrice Dyke-Acland, and Lady Harrowby.

1,000 to his half-sister, Mary Auber Godington.

$1,000 each to the children of

his sisters.

to his

An annuality of £250 cousin, Adelaide Scott, and £1,000 cach to the executors.

He also bequeathed: £5,000 to Elon. College. £5,000 to King's College Hos. pital.

£1,000 to William F. H. Beover. £1,000 to his secretary. Arthur E. J. Legge.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1928,

MINERS AND THEIR WELFARE FUND.

VAST SUMS LAVISHED ON

"RECREATION."

The Mines Department has Just issued a statement of the position of the Miner's Welfare Fund at July 31, 1928.

This statement shows that since the levies for the Fund were start- ed in 1920 the receipts and alloca- tions have been as follow:-

a. d. 7,781,721 14 2 Receipts Allocations..... 6,159,204 16 6 Not allocated 1,672,447 17 8

The actual payments, however, the have been much less than amount allocated, and to arrive at the present position of the Fund we must deduct payments only from the receipts. The state ment will then be as follows:

Receipts .. Payments

In hand

3. d. 7,731,712 14 2 5,470,668 3 1

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'PHONE POSERS FOR A LIBRARY. SAA

· 2,000 QUESTIONS PUT AT CROYDON.

Nearly 2,000 telephone inquiries for information were made to the Croydon public libraries during the first year, Among the subjects. were:-

Anonymous letters in history. How to make a sheepskin rug froin the skin.

mosa

of

Geographical position of Her- Present magnetic variation. How to make paper transparent. Addresses of translators Dutch.

In the report issued by the Croydon nublic libraries it is shown. that after fiction (in which class cinssic and modern, 500,415 volumes were issued), history was the most popular subject, with a record of 88,845 borrowed books. In order of popularity there follow- ed travel, blography, music and English poetry, with the surpris- ing number of 10,962 volumes Issued, and psychology and psycho- analysis.

THE

BLUE FUNNE

LINE

REGULAR AND FAST PASSENGER SERVICES |

FREIGHT AND

LONDON SERVICE

"ACHILLES"! 18th Bapt. M'les, London, R'dam & Hamborg SARPEDON" 3rd Oct. Mles, O'lanca London, B'dam & O'sgow "OALOHLAS" 16th Oct. 'les, London, R'dam & Lamborg LIVERPOOL SERVICE

Genoa, Havre, Ii"pool & Glasgow' "BELLEROPHON" 20th Sept. "EURYLOCHUB" 20th Das. Genoa, Havre, L.' pont & Glazgow

2,261,144 11 1 In April it was suggested that,

These figures refer to single sub- at a time when the mining Indus- try was clamouring for relief, the jects. Under the heading of re- booka 01 the Bible, doctrine, levies on coal by which the Fundligion there were lasued 14,081 Is raised should at least be susr pended, that they were n tax on a Church institutions, non-Christian PACIFIC SERVICE

The story hours, in which chil- depressed industry, and that the religions, &c. figures showed that the Fund had huge sums in hand which it hard-dren are told tales from books that might otherwise escape their notice, ly knew how to spend.

have proved most sucessful. A long list of voluntary story-tellera told all kinds of jolly Lales to At the end of last year the Fund 3,884 children.

Playground and Billiards.'

15th-ent. 6th Oct

via Koba & Yokohams "RTYNDAREUN"

"PROTESILA 08" NEW YORK SERVICE

Ztat Rout, 17th fol.

Victoria, Vancouver Seattle Victoria, Vancunver & Bentile

Boston, New York & Baltimore New York, Boston & Baltimore

"PREMTOR"

AGAFENOR" INWARD SERVICE

"MENELAUS" Duo 12th Sept. for 8'hal, Moji, Kube & Yo'ham "TELAMON" Dus 18th Sept. for Shanghai & Hankow

had in hand about £1,750,000. A new organisation to which the Now that figure has risen to £2,-committee have given hospitality 1500 to Herbert Sharpe, clerk, 261,144. That is to say, that dur- is the Croydon Players Circle, and a number of other legacies ing the past year it has taken half which meets to read and discuss PASSENGER SERVICE to persons in his employ.

to the standard of dramatic taste. The whole of his share and in-A million out of the Industry, plays with the object of Improving Actual counting showed that terest in W. H. Smith and Son is which it does not know how

spend, to be offered to his sons at a

Some three months ago the coal-1,326,530 volumes and other Items valuation.

owners sent a deputation to the were issued, an advance of 147,810 Mines Department asking that the on the record of the previous year. collection of these levies should

Portraits of the Rt. Hon. Arthur James Balfour, by Alma Tadema, of Lord Knutsford and Lord St.be discontinued, at least until the Aldwyn, by Cope, R.A., and an oil painting of two dogs by Landseer, are to devolve as heirlooms with the settled estate,

The residue of the property, he settled on his eldest son

TRIUMPH OF THE CIGARETTE,

PIPE BÅD SECOND: CIGAR NOWHERE.

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industry recovered some of its UNPRECIOUS STONES. lost prosperity. The answer was that a postponement of the levies, which are imposed by Act of Parliament, was not possible, but that some special consideration might be given to plts found to be in great difficulty.

HOME-MADE GEMS MAY BE BETTER THAN GENUINE.

Paris, Aug. 10. Rubles and other precious stones, Most of the money from the except diamonds, may soon be with. Fund has been spent on "recrea- in the reach of the most modest Lion," the figure allocated under purse owing to the rapid strides this head to date being nearly that are being made in the produc- £3,000,000: Playgrounds have beention of synthetic gems, says the made and equipped, and local New York Herald (Paris edition). miners' institutions have been built.

factio The triumph of the cigarette over the pipe and the eigar is one of the striking facts United Kingdom. revealed in the Tobacco Report of the Imperial Economic Committee, just published.

£2.8

In 1907 elgarettes accounted for 23.8 per cent. of the total tobacco consumed in this country. against 71.1 per cent, pipe tobacco and 5.1 per cent. cigars.

In 1924 cigarettes had risen to 58.6 per cent., and pipe and cigars 40 and 1.5 fallen respectively to per cont.

Empire Tobacco.

It is estimated that 37 per cent, of the pipe tabacco consumed in Britain in 1927 consisted of Empire leaf; but only slightly over 1 per cent, of the cigarette tobacco.

Synthetic precious stones, in all shades to match the costume, would seem to have little limilt as to size. Chemical actence can make such faithful reproductions that none Bave the most expert and practised eye can tell the difference,

Strangely enough, it seems that the genuine gem can often be de tected only by its imperfections, such as are not found in the flaw- less chemical products. It costa only 18, a carat to produce and cut Over 250 brands of Empire synthetic rubles; while the natural tobacco and 40 to 60 brands of gem 'may be worth as much se £700 Empire cigarettes have been placed a carat, and in the case of rare ex- cellence a stone of a single carat on the British market,

While in 1914 the annual average may fetch a price as high as consumption in the United King- £16,000, dom was 2.4lb. per head of the The largest source of synthetic population, in 1927, 3.4lb. was con- gema la France, where one factory sumed, 'indicating a rapid increase in the Paris area, turna out more due undoubtedly to the extension than 15,000,000 carats of rubies of the cigarette habit and to smok-and other stones a year-or more than the amount of all the diamonds ing on the part of women.”

Whereas the. Empire only aup-In the United States.

It is possible to make a diamond plied. 71⁄2 millions out of the 228 million lb. imported into the United in the laboratory, but only at the Kingdom in 1921, it supplied 41 tremendous cost of £40,000 ̊a carat; The consumption per head, how-millions to the 1927 total of 222 while the natural gem may cost

only from £20 to £60 a carnt. ever, appears to be highest in the million, Ib.

"It is probable that pipe tobacco does not now form more than 35 per cent. of the total tobacco con sumption of the United Kingdom," adds the Committee.

The advance of the cigarette in popular favour is not confined to Britain. Throughout Europe, con- sumption now inclines towards cigarettes and the milder varieties of pipe tobaccos.'

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via Bues Cansi via Suez Canal

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SERVICES. TO

6th October.

26th October.

30th November.

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MAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA

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via Suez Canal

16th October. ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINK 15th Novembe

Loading for Maurition, Rension, Delagos Bay, Durban, East Landon, Algos Bay (Pori Elizabeth), Morsel

“und Bay Capstown. Through Bills of Lading issued to Beira, Quilimaine, Iho, Port Amelia, Mozambique, Chinde, Inhambane ̧«

Zanzibar, Mombasa, Kilindini, Fort Nolloth, Luderita Bay, Walvis Bay and Madagascar.

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Ringapore, Marsollen & London PATROULUS" SL., Oct. ... Singapore, Marovilles & Loudon

Bails at Daylight.

Also cargo steamers with lifted pussonger accommodation at specially reduced fares.

For freight, paaaage rates and information apply to ***

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SAILINGS

Weekly Trans-Pacific Service.

To San Francisco and Los Angeles The Sunshine Bolt via Honolulu FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS ON TUESDAYS President McKinley

President Grant President Cleveland President Pierce

Tuesday, Sept. 11th 7 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25th

9th Tuesday, Oct 23rd

Tuesday, Oct.

To Seattle and Victorin The Short, Straight Route to America FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS ON TUESDAYS.

President Jefferson

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Tuesday, Sept. 18th

Tuesday, Oct. 2nd

Tuesday, Oct. 18th

Tuesday, Oct. Both

£120, £112 Spacial through rates to Europa vis United

States. Dieset connections with all Atlantic

lines. Choles of rail lines across United States and Canada, liberal

stop-over privileges for sight-sssing.

Europe and New York Direct

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FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS ON SUNDAYS VIA MANILA, STRAITS, COLOMBO, SUEZ CANAL, ALEXANDRIA, NA- PLES, GENOA, MARSEILLES, NEW YORK & BOSTON. President Van Buren ... Sunday, Sept. 23rd, 8 m. Sunday, Oct. 7th, 8 a.m. Bunday, Oct.

President Hayes President Polk President Adums

21st, 8 a.m.

Sunday, Nov. 4th, 8.m.

To Manila

President Jefferson President Grant President Van Buren President Lincoln

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Sept. 11th, 6 p.m. Sept. 18th, 6 p.m. Sept. 28r3, 8 a.m. Sept. 25th, 6 p.m.

SPECIAL ROUND-TRIP SUMMER FARES.

From Hongkong to Shanghai and Return-

Kabo

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Yokohama

HK.$120.00 HK.$210.00

HK $235.00

Round-trip Tickets at the above rates will be sold until September 21st, and will be valid for return passage up

to Three months from data of issuo,

For Bookings, Passenger and Freight Information, apply to

12, PEDDER STREET, (oppcsile Hongkong Hotel.) Telephones Central 2477, 2478 & 795. Cable Address "Dollar"⠀

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American Mail Line

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