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General Naulin has been apA deficit of £9,140 for the your, An 1847 penny vermilion pointed Assistant to General reported by the Croydon Cor-Mauritius stamp has been sold in "Duchess of Devonshire" was of Weygand, French High Comunis-poration Tramways, is attributed Paris for £1,743, stoner in Syria.,
One person was killed and nine The house of Mr. H. Woodford, persons were injured in a collision secretary of the Royal Botanicat San Sebastian, Spain, between Society, in the Royal Botanicala tramwaycar and a motor-omni- Gardens, Regent's Park, N.W., was bus. broken into and property valued at £100 was stolen.
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When the Exmouth steamed Teignmouth a passenger, Mr. Annie Auger, 58, of London, collapsed, and she died before the steamer reached Teignmouth.
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A cashier in an Antwerp English bank has absconded with a sum of The King of the Belgians and over 200,000 francs-Reuter, Lieut-Gen. Sir Alexander Godley,
Moving the adoption of the re- Commander-in-Chief of the British
At the meeting of the Advertis-annual meeting of the Associated port and accounts at the eighteenth Rhine Army, were present at the ing Convention in Atlantic City it Newspapers Ltd, Mr. Thomas The Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, unveiling of the monument which was unanimously agreed to bold Marlowe paid eloquent tribute to was awarded a gold medal at the has been erected to the memory of the 1924 Convention in London the work of the late Viscount The feat of the Italian swimmer Astley, Worcestershire, Flower the defenders of Fort Loncin, The proposal is heartily supported Northcliffe. Tiraboschi in swimming the Eng-Show for his exhibit, which includ-Brussels, who fell in 1914.
by the American Press. TO LET-Godown at Kennedylish Channel has aroused great ed a fine array of cut and potted
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Netherlands Trading Society.
Yokohama Specie Bank.
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Chequed should be made out to the Order of the Japanese Earth- quake Bisaster Hongkong Relief Fund.
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By Order,
D. K. BLAIR
Secretary. HONGKONG RELIEF COMMITTEE. Hongkong, 10th September, 1923.
NAVY LEAGUE BALL Under the Patronage of Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson, K.C.B. in aid of War Charities)
Will be held at
The CITY HALL on FRIDAY, 2nd November, 1923,
at 9.30 p.m.
Tickets $5 each.
Obtainable from the
Ladies' Committee Mourie's, Anderson's and The Engineer's Institute.
NAVY LEAGUE BALL.
NOTICE.
The List of the Ladies' Coin- iniftes can be obtained from MRS. D. J. LEWIS. Telephone, Ponk No. 120.
Hongkong, 13th October, 1923.
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE next Gymkhana will be held
on the 10th and 12th November
and not
previously 19
1923 advertised.
TO CLUB SECRETARIES.
IN future, the "China Mail" will
publish the teams for week-end matches in Saturday's issue. Secre taries of all sports clubs, including are requested regimental teams, kindly to help in the matter. by sending in the names of blavers not later than noon each Friday.
Hongkong, October 10, 1923.
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enthusiasm in his native country flowers, fruit, and ferns. and the Premier, Signor Mussolini, has sent him an invitation to visit Rome.
The lifeboat Kentwell put out from Gorleston, Suffolk, ona report that a vessel had got fon Scroby Coal mined in Great Britain dur-Sands, off Yarmouth, but it was ing the week ended August 4 found that a piece of old wreckage, amounted to 5,253,600 tons, as com- disturbed by a storm in the mor pared with 5,111,700 the preceding ning, was projecting and had given week and 5,121,600 tans during the rise to the report. corresponding week of last year.
Mr. Edward James Price, 45 of Coleshill-street, Birmingham, who fell in front of a motor car while running to see a fire, on regaining consciousness before his death declared that the driver of the car
was not to blame.
MARKET
Bont Sirloin, Ma! Leg Paib, 30
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For jumping from a tug in Port- Mrs. St. Barbe Staden, wife of the and Harbour on a dark night and rector of St. Margaret Pattens, and rescuing a sailor after a searcht in a Poor Law Guardian, id created the water, Harold Monger, a Porta record in the City of London by land shipping clerk, who suffers being the first married woman to from a weak heart and is forbidden be admitted to its Freedom. violent exercise, was presented at Portland with the Royal Humang Society's silver medal.
A badger weighing 361b, was The soldiers who'saved a bur-presented to the Brighton Museum ning farmhouse at Chippetts Farm, by Mr. A. I. Higgett, of West Corford, near Colchester, were. Ealing, Middlesex, who, while members of the 2nd and 3rd Cadet driving a motor-car from Devil's Battalions of the. Essex Regiment Dyke to Brighton ran over the who were returning from their an-animal which was dazzled by the qual training at Clacton-on-Sea headlights and swerved in front of when they saw the fire.
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Under the will of Mr. John Christopher Geiselbrecht, a City merchant, late of Beechdale, Elth-road, Lee, Kent, who disd a December 16, 1921, the Lord Mayor of London has become possessed of a legacy of £5,000 Metropolitan Water Board Three per cent. Stock for an endowment fund for the poor-boxes of the police-courts of London.
With a view to keeping New York State" dry," a force of 500 special enforcement agents is being mobilised in Washington, and will be sent to New York. In Wisconsin
The Prime Minister, speaking at the Prohibition Enforcement Law Oxford, referred to the need of has been repealed by an over-developing the Dominions and whelming vote.
more evenly spreading the popula tion of the whole Empire in the
trade or starve. We had two dan interests of the denser population of these islands, who must have
Ker spots-one, agriculture, and the other, the the decay in massing of vast numbers of people in congested areas. One of the first endeavours of the Conserva- tive party was to save agriculture.
ing of the King's racing yacht Extensive repairs and re-copper-
"Britannia" are completed, and she will be launched at Cowes to be finished off and tested in readiness for the racing season. After racing at Belfast she will come on to the Southern regattes.
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