Hare's speech to the Navy League last month have now come to hand and show that, as the cables hinted at the time, the First Lord of the Admiralty paid much attention to the Government's construction programme, This has received further Jelaboration in the broadcast address of which summaries have been pub-Ushed, To the Navy League Sir Samuel specifically made disclosures: in regard to the two new battleships The arinuat general meeting of the November 27 cee Rubber Trust Ltd. will be bel Messrs, Tilden and Vines wil play Ju exhibition matches wt Shang hra'on November 24
Mr. H. P. Hall has purchased the entire outstanding stock of the Pride Dry Cleaning Ca, Me.
The annual. general meeting of the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club will take lace on November 20, the British Residents Association.
The fifth annual general meeting of
China will be held on November 24, The Consulate General of the US. of Venezuela in China is now located Cathay' Mansions, Rooms 210-320
Mr, ©, Lester Arnold has resumed costa of the" Ching Branch oes Ca, Ltd.
commercial Union Aansran Mr. R.G. Herbert has resigned his position as manager of the Insurance department of the China Realty Company.
A reception is being held at the Consulate, General for Finland on November 18, Latvia's Independence Day, to which all Latvian etizens are Numerous advertisements of coal herald the approach of winter. Prices range from $27 for Hongay anthracite for use in salamandre stoves to $160 for ordinary Ketehen coal. is intended to hold the 18th public drawing of the Republic lina 6 per cent, Gold Bonds on December 1 in the offices of the Banque Belge pour L'Etvanger, 20 The Bund, Mr, Douglas Fleming, 24 The Bund, will buy smalt los of rubber shares He slates that Holdings of odd lots of rubber shares "will gell at" better Bue t'roundded Into: parcels of 900 '000 shares, meeting of shareholders of the Shang The twenty-el ordinary generat
hat Cotton Manufseturing Ca, Ltd wil be held. at the headofes of the company, 168. Stechuen Road, on November 2
'The King's Daughters. Society. are now accepting orders dor' Chriaimas puddings and. mincemeat, Many Fousewives have. availed: thenselves of this service tu the past and have boon wel tatisted." Ores with cash should be sent to. 1" Seward Row, Puddings re $1.00 per 1b and mince meat. $140. tow being id down, Our ang ica upp ft an ort eeenat EP Tae expen Enteatpc a Ste Goverment har i i haa ceed ling to res bola towels sufi Bisping ince one tad en nota more she tier manure Done ie uta Stn Bose on hose a anita Brat iene ecb he can wih he cgi tenet tuts Sig ive tied othe we, beta tite Othe nota" Nvy wal te asa were Sera ae tele rare we del Between the atte an: Yondon and afloat as te what should be embodied, cicers allot, with the result that ing. baiileshipa when completed, wil be the Yom tthe" most me jesser Moat. The {ors are a hom the Navy ower a the In fact the Naval Constructors keep. the closest contact with the fleets see how their ships are performing, Incidentally Sir Samuel pald a great {tribute to the personnel of" the Royal Navy and stated that the call for increased numbers had. satis torily resulted in the applications of men and boys of the right': stamp, The speech has special interest just now since it pressing impatience of the Government's reconstruction Programme.
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