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WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1921.
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The seemingly dreary task of the repsus official is not without in coas pensations, as appears from a number et træs woks relatexltisan interviewer Is a census functionary. Women o are temperamentallye conscientious obe
jeros in the matter of recealing their į age the penalty what it may Thas a number of estimated women and-lingly put down their age at thente wine when they will probably never see forty again, one of them reporting herself a year younger ja Hil than she was a decade earlier. Then there was a man who gave his
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GENERAL ITEMS.
An engineer in New York has per- Rected "clock that can be corrected daily by wireless impulse sent from Washingtor at noon,
In the report of the Radium Institate it is said that corns and. warts can be removed by an exposure to the rays of 1 to 1 hours' duration and after they are cured the tendency to return is very slight.
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Cigarette boxes to accord with the profession of the owner-decorations of ivory nusks for the actor, a book shaped box on which rests an ivory quill for the "author are displayed in the Paris shoes this spring.
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Two delegates of the Foal and Shale Employees Federation, desiring to attend a Bolshevist conference in "neutral" heade he acted Moscow, have left Australia secretly. plaintively, my wife says I am not shipping, as members of the crew of manly panugh to be a man and not a steamer to avoid passport-difficulties. sible to be a woman. Another!
MAN as
conscious vist described his Sie Burton Chadwick, who recently Legge as waily had not then, condemned the Chatham pigeon added parenthetically, but not a shooting match. introduced a Bill bill as my wife. A third deposed into the House of Commons to "pro- with refreshing candour that he forklhibit the me of captive birds in all swear in ten languages. The census shooting carried or under artificial official was paystified by still another conditions, who described his wife as his aunt with a clear conscience, since he had martial the sister of his father's second wile. Hundred Years Ago.
During the celebration of Mass at
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MARINE MISDOINGS
THE CHINA MAIL.
Fines of five dollars, with the alternative of a week's jail, were im- posed upon a Chinese boatman and a, cargo bost mistress who figured in the Marine Court to-day before the Marine Magistrate (Lieutenant -Conway Hake R.N.R. They were charged with having been the outride boats of more man five boats which were alongside the sa. "Laen Samud "yes. terday. The regulation under which the defendants were prosecuted was framed with the object of keeping the harbour clear for traffic. It pro vides that not more than five junks on each side may bitch up to a steamer at the same time,
A cargo boat master and two cargo boat mistresses were fined $10 each, or 14 days' imprisonment for going alongside the ss." Loong sang" before police permission had been given.
Mr. Leo Bergholz, American Consul General at Capton, who bas been on furlough, is expected to arrive early in fane by the ss. "Colombia"
Owing to last Saturday's concert having been cancelled, Mischa Elmat has decided to give a farewell per- formance on Saturday evening in addition to the concert on Friday.
The astounding news of the demand from the Lisbon Government of nine million dollars from the Macao Treasury and the stoppage of Macao Harbour works, already in progress, has caused general indigna-{ tion among the Portuguese com. munity, says a China Meil reader.
The Bureau of Education of the Canton Municipality, aiming to unite all the educational organisations and schools in the city so as to map out definite plans for better education among the children, has notified the Police Department to co-operate in the work of gathering statistics regarding private educational fastitu, tions and public schools and colleges of the city. A record will be kept of all the schools, their attendance, and the subjects taught.
The manager of the Canton St. George's Church. Taunton. So-branch of the Bank of China has hierset. Mr. John Collihole, a promi-returned from Hongkong and is con sulting with Ma Yuk-kon, the new nent member of the congregation. Commissioner of Finance, with a On Wednesday sennight ose of collapsed and died in his wife's arms.
view to reopening the branch cicsed after the these disgraceful transactions, which He was more than 80 years old. Death which was seem to be suffered with impunity in was due to heart failure.
withdrawal of the Kwangsi militarists last year. It is expected that sub- all parts of the country, took place in
The funeral of the German Com-stantial funds will be approprated for the public market at Boston. A man of the name of Wm. Riley a banker, munist Suelt (who was recently shot the redemption of the bank notes the issued by the branch office which are of that place, took his wife to the at police headquarters). cost
arket cross with a halter round her Berlin ratepayers 1,000,000 marks now at very great discount, says the ck, and there sold her to a person (normally £50,000), as 20.000 munici Canton Times. named Cam, of New Bolingbroke for pal employees who attended had the small sum of one shilling: as a to be paid for the time thas lost." further proof of the little estimation in which she was held by her husband heretumed the buyer eleren-pence for inck The parchaser, who has a wife and five children, seems to have nade the bargain rather with the hope of turning a penny "by it than from any predilection for his purchase. as we are informed that he sold her again at Horncastle on Saturday Last-(From the Observer, February 1821).
Antique Faluables.
A mile a
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Some talker. The report of the decision of the Court of Appeal in the Wakeford case states that the Lord Chancellor delivered the judgment of 16,000 words in about half an hour. Count it is 40 minutes, that is 400
The special appointed com- mittee to value the contents of de- posits with the Government Bank in words a minute! What will the rate
when Madivostock has been at work al-be
Woman
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CANTON AND HONGKONG (the Colonial Secretary) understood
GOVERNOR'S APOLOGY.
COLONIAL "SECRETARY CONFIRMS
REPORT.
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that it WES to have banded to the San Wen Government for publication. AA important part about His Excellency's observations was that they related only to the wording of the notifica- tions and not to the principles involved.
This morning a China Mail vy approached the "Colonial porter Secretary (Hon. Dr. Claud Severn
As the result of a fall while CMG), in regard to the state-
which appeared in the attempting to alight from a tram car ment
was reprinted while in motion yesterday, a Chinese Canton Times and by us yesterday to the effect that is now in the Government Civil the Governor of Hongkong had Hospital suffering from injuries to expressed regret for the notifications bis face and hands. which were issued by the Secretary
for Chinese Affairs (Mr. S. B. Found hanging by a piece of Ross) on the occasion of the i-rope from a window beam in a house auguration of Dr. Sun Wen as in Saiwanho, Shaukiwan, the remains President of the Republic of China. of a young Chinese woman were Questioned as to the accuracy of yesterday removed to the public the report the Colonial Secretary mortuary. According to her husband, stated that it was quite correct. Sach the woman had been depressed for communication had been forwarded some time owing to illness, and manst by His Excellency to the British have committed suicide in a fit of Consul General at Canton and he despair.
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dependent of outside help in the pro- An incident at the Star Ferry duction of a battleship complete, Wharf in Connaught Road Central: judging by her recent purchases and was mentioned before Magistrate inquiries. Recently some of the Lindsell, this morning, when the ariament machinery from Sheffield Chinese driver of motor car 396 was armament works has been sold to dummoned for reckless driving. In- Japan, and an inquiry has just been respector Garrod said that two Euro caived for a 16,000 tons armour-plate peans were standing under the lamp, bending press. Other significant in the centre of the road and the car purchases' are of Swedish pig-iron, knocked down one of them, a Por- which is regarded as an essential taguese clerk in the Chartered Bank materjal in the manufacture of battle- The Inspector asked for an adjourn shup ammour, and guns. A few days meat until next Tuesday, as this ago tye Japanese Admiralty completed witmusa was understood to be sway the purchase of the third lot of 5,000 at Macao, and this was granted." The loas of Swedish pig-iron this year defendant asserted that the Europeán and it is understood that further said he was all right and was not purchases are to be made shortly. mach hurt.
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