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THE HONGKONG

AN OLD FAVOURITE!

N. J. CLUB ·

OLD HIGHLAND WHISKY

Formerly supplied to their Majesties

King George IV

William IV

Queen Victoria

Reputation among connoisseurs for its delicious mellow

flavour-guaranteed free from fusel

deleterious substance,

oil ΟΙ any

Price reduced to $6.00 per bottle;

$70.00 per case, duty free

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

PHONE I

58461

Sole Agents.

NEW

PHONE

58461

Magic Hongkong Foot Cure

IF IT

FAILS WITHIN

4. DAYS

$

WE WILL

REFUND YOUR

MONEY

OBTAINABLE ONLY

AT THE

MAJESTIC STORE

Phone 68461.

244. NATHAN ROAD,

KOWLOON

Phone 5846 1.

Mr. Kodaka's Exhibition of Natural

and Cultured

PEARLS

and

PEARL JEWELLERY Opening Wednesday, 25th November

At

Messrs. Komor & Komor

for

TEN DAYS ONLY.

9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Pearls make a good Xmas present; to suit every pocket.

KOMOR & KOMOR

ART & CURIO EXPERT.

York Building. '

Chater

Road,

TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1931.

BRITONS OF IRON AGE.

DISCOVERIES IN A SETTLEMENT. ·

CATTLE-BREEDERS & MEAT EATERS.

The excavation of the ancient British settlement of Salmonsbury, arijoining Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucenterahire, has been under taken

by the Anthropological Society of University Collere, London. under the direction of Mr. Gerald Dunning, of the Society of Antiquaries.

The settlement, which has an area of 66 acres, must have heid somewhere about a thousand in- habitants, and Is regarded by experts as the most important forti- fod eite of the Iron Age in Britain which has boon acleatifically examined.

·

A complete hut measuring 23 feet in diameter has been uncover- ed, and there are indications that a row of adjoining huts may be ex- pected to be found when work is continued next season

"The walls and roof of the hut were supported by a circle of 18 wooden uprights, Mr. Dunning stated to a representative of the Morning Post "and there were one or more similar supports in the contra

"There is double draining trench on the inner side of the hut, which probably served to remove the roof wrter from a whole row of huts. Immediately outside the hut in a rubbish pit, and a little fur- ther away a number of other pita, which were probably uned for storaga.

"Two built-up stone hearths were found at a distance of 12 feet. The small size of the pottery cook- ing utensils may be an indication that meat was generally roasted.

Iron Bars ns Money. "These people must certainly have been cattle-breeders from the number of bones found on the site. They also ate pork and mutton, but apparently not venison, al- though one might have expected red deer en the Cotswolds at period.

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"Two akoletone, one of and the other of a woman, are im- portant, since only some half-dozen renaine of this people had pre- viously been found. They confirm the conclusion that the village was inhabited by the more back ward Celts of Wessex rather than by the Belgae whose remains are found in South-East England.

CHRISTMAS SAVINGS

WE HAVE RECEIVED, SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO REDUCE (ALL OUR STOCKS BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR

TO MAKE ROOM

FOR

HEAVY 1932 STOCKS

We are therefore making the most drastic reductions in our already LOW PRICES.

SEE WHAT THESE PRICES REALLY ARE

And Here's the Proof

EXTRA HEAVY QUALITY.

USUAL PRICE SALE PRICE

Tajmahal Silk Stockings with clock Ladies Underwear (3 pcs. Set)

4.50 2425

P. yd.

17.00

40.00

"

Ladies Pyjama Suits (underwear style)

12.50

7.50

"

Ladies Pyjama Suits Embroidered All Colours 10,50

6.00

Gentlemen's Heavy Silk Striped Pyjama Suits 12.50

7.00

Gentlemen's Plain Pyjama Suits All Colours 9.50

5.50

Striped Crepe de Chine Shirts

7.50

4.50

Gentlemen's Striped Silk Shirts

6.00

3.00

Gentlemen's Plain Pyjama Suits All Colours 9.50

5.50

Taffetta Best quality

2.25

1.30

Striped Fuji Silk

1.25

.85

Printed Georgette Beautiful Designs

3.50

2.25

Printed Fuji Silk

2.25

1.50

Printed Crepe 27"

3.00

1.90

Plain Georgette Double width

2.50

.1.30

-Palace-Crepe All Colours · 27′′-

2.50

1.40

Crepe de Chine All colours 27"

2.50

1.40 :

Crepe de Chine All colours (double width) 3.00

1.80

Striped Crepe 27′′

2.50

1.60

"

Spun Crepe All colours 27′′

2.00

1.30

"

Fuji Silk All Colours.

1.00

.70 "

of

Great Reduction on Shawls, Houri Coats, Kimonos, Bridge Coats and

"Although they used iren bara ins coinage, they had little metal. and their pottery though good, was all hand-made. Like other peoples living in fortified settlements, which were in danger of over crowding, they appear to

have disposed of unwanted infants in 2 drastic manner.

"Fortlictation consisted of two ramparts and ditches, the main- ditch being 24 feet wide and 12 feet deep. The main rampart was 40 feet wide. An unusual feature ia that it appears to have been sup- ported on the outside by a retain- ing wall of the identical Cotswold stone of which the village of Bourton is built to-day.

"There are large numbers flint instrumenta, which must all have been imported from the chalk country of the South. The pottery may be dated to the first or second century B.C., and a lump of pottor'a clay shows that some at least, of

it must have been made locally."

MENTHOLATUM

O, What a Buro! Quick, MENTHOLATUM. Liberally applied it will stop the excruciat. ing pain and prevent danger

of

infection. It will keep the affected part clean and pure and quickly busi što je MorescLarent in the world-arida house": hold remedy for main, bruiven, bendahan, coida, beutalgia, wasburna, akin terka sioon, then sto. insist on the genuine, MorocATEM. Accept no aubedikute,

many other attractive articles.

CHRISTMA

SAVINGS

Tajmahal Silk Store

KING'S THEATRE BUILDING. D'Aguilar Street.

WHEAT PRICES RISE eald the price move reflected a drastic change in the world wheat condition.

“HARBINGER OF GEN- ERAL PROSPERITY.”

"The complete reversal of the prospects, of supplies from Russia has naturally taken Europead and New York, Nov. 1.

Asiatic-markets, by surprise?" ha Wheat, which was believed to be demand on other exporting coun- "and forced an unexpected said. staggering under the hopelsan handicap of surplus production, no evidence of scarcity; the triss. However, there lê ni yet has begun to shake off its burden, reserve le substantial, and the and has given auch a demonstra Farm Board is still holding a large tion that traders in the Chicago carry-over from previous crops in pit are now freely talking of dollar this country." wheat in: the near future.

The collapse of the Soviet whest Chicago has heard that nearly menace is chiody responsible for 50,000,000 bushels) of whest in this revival of American grain, French and Garmin-store-housbe and it is reported; that Russia, iz uaft for milling, and both coun- having sold more than she can trios have practically exhausted deliver, is being forced to buy their holdings from previous years. freely.

In Chicago there is a disposition in and to have proven inferior, and Russian wheat bought by italy to hall advancing prices, as the that country is making large pur- harbinger of general prosperity. shares in Canads and the United Mr. James C. Murray, President States for its macaroni and of the Chicago Board of Trade, I spaghetti requirements.

GRADE PARKRO

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