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From December 1, 1924, the
The silk which left here by the P. & O. s.5. 'Malwa on Kaisha we have received. very fees leviable for passports in the November 15, was delivered in choice Japanese calendar for offices of the passport officers in Marseilles on December 12, `a | next year.
Singapore and Penang areas transit of 27 days,
follows: Passports valid for five The "Daily Telegraphyents. 36¢ renewal of "passport In a report made to the police diplomatic correspondent learns per year up to a maximum of tive,. by the Sang Hol frm of seed oil that President Coolidge has an-years, $1." dealers, the manager of this con.nounced that he proposes to call cern-is-sald-to-have-absconded disarmament conference next with money and property amount summer. ing to $4,893,
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With reference to Local Notice to Mariners No. 170 in connection with the raising of the wreck of ss. "Heungshan" sunk in the vicinity of Junk Rock Notice is hereby given that the on wreck has now been removed,. says a notification from the Canton Harbour Master's Office.
The Admiral Oriental Liner "President Jefferson" will sail for Victoria and Seattle via Shanghai
at 5 a.m. and Japan December 17, instead of 10 a.m. as previously announced. "
At a meeting of the Calcutta Corporation Mr. S. C. Bose was to move a resolution asking the Corporation to recommend to the Government the removal of all shops for the sale of liquor. opium ganja. and other in- President Coolidge is repite It is officially announced toxicants from Calenttä, and that senteil as being opposed to any from Madrid that the "rendjust in future fisonces for the sale of plan for submitting to a Worldment of the Spanish front in the
intoxicants such
has should he Court or other tribinal the ques-Ceuta and Tetuan sector granted only Lo recognisedtion of the adjudication of war practically been completed. chemists ind' druggists for the claims against Germany under Similar operations in the Larache Kaid sule of such quantities as may the Dawes plán,
are progressing." reasonably be required for, medi-
Arabi Ben Hima, a prominent cinal purposes
rebel leader and twelve members of his escort were killed by a Spanish bomb.
zone
The League council has appointed 4 M. Hammarskjold During the voyage from (Sweden), president, and Signor Singapore tú Bangkok the Diens: (Italy), vice-president of
Speaking at Oswestry, on "Katong" sighted & drifting boat, a committee for the progressive Saturday. Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, suys the "Siam, Observer" of
first Lord of the Admiralty, November 28. Oh investigation The United States will be repre-stated that the Cabinet had this was found to contain three sented on this Committee. Chinsmen French proteges, who
codification of International law,
agreed to allow him to start upon the Singapore bust. It was most
had been blown from their The meeting of the Council essential if they had to rely on ground and were 13 days out of the League terminated on the present "smaller navy that from Saigon. When discovered | Saturday, President Mello they should have a base where. they had no food and no water Franco, dn his closing speech, capital ships could be repaired in the bout, and had reached the said he believed the labours of instead of having to come home, point of complete exhaustion, the Council had been, most valu-wasting time and money. They were "picked up by the fable and he warmly thanked the "Katong" and brought up to Italian Government for its Bangkok. Severe storms are hospitality. being experienced in the Gulf of Siam.
idea
A message from Peking states that Mr. Yeh Kung-cho has established a Commission, The timely arrival of a the chairman, and staff of which number of police averted at are drawn from the Ministries of Mr. J. L. Loudoun-Shand, in Singapore what might have de Communications and War and the course of his address, at the veloped into a serious faction various railway administrations, annual meeting of Hevea Rubber fight between two rival gangs of Provision has been made Trust, said:An item appears in
Chinese. Having received in for five -vice-chairmen ap- the profit aid loss account, show-formation that an armed gangpointed from various mill
commands, the ing that we have written off were ambushed in house No. 22 tary 41,000 for a bad debt, but as we and lying in wait for their rivals being that they will attend when have been working for fourteen to appear on the scene, the police questions relating to transporta- years, and this is the first ais-proceeded to the house, in question of their respective troops SIX NIGHTS COMMENCING AT NINE O'CLOCK
fortune of this nature we have tion and effected the arrest of 71 come up for discussion. The had the shareholders will I Hokiens; alleged to be members purpose-of-the-Gommission-is-to- DECEMBER 12th,, 13th, 15th, 7th, 19th and 20th hope receive the
of the Sin Guan Seng secret arrange for better military and placently...Our financial posi-society, who were armed with commercial traffic pending the tion is sound and healthy, and, poles, clubs, and other weapons. restoration of normal conditions, with the prospect of larger
In the police court they were and in other ways to overcome dividends from. the: Hevea
ordered to be bound over for six the horrible" congestion which (Burma). Co., during this year months with a surety of $150 attended military transportation we may look forward hopefully euch, or in default six months' in North China, the effects of
simple imprisonment.
which are still paralysing traffic.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Sir George and Lady Elliot were passengers to Singapore from Calcutta by the Elephanta."
Dr. and Mrs. Malcohn Shith have arrived in Singapore from Bangkok en route for Java and the Celebes:
A wire dated November 27 states that Lord Howard de
Walden his resigned from the Jockey Club.
Mr. J. J. Saunders, Advocate and Solicitor, Messers. Hogan and Ivens, has returned to Singapore
from home leave. -
M. Herriot's condition is satis factory. The fever is decreasing and the phlebitic inflammation of the leg is becoming localised.
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Mr. C. W. A. Sennett, Second. Magistrate, Singapore is trans ferred to Penang, his place there being taken temporarily by Mr. {O. E. Venables
1:
M Wilden French Consul- General at Shang ai, ard Mme. Wilden passed through Singapore by the
French mail sicamer "Amazone," en route to France.
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Commodore and Mrs. Edgar Grace and their daughters, who sailed for Home by the
5.3. "Mantua" on Saturday, wish to thank all classes and communities. in Hongkong for the courtesy and kindness which they have ex- H.M.S. "Hawkins," arrived inperienced during their happy com Shanghai last Saturday after-mission in Hongkong. Frederick noon with Admiral Sir Allan Everett, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., C.B., on board. The vessel left for Hongkong yester- day.
Mr. Bertram Giles, who has been acting Consul-General in Canton during the absence at Home on leave of Sir James „Jamieson, arrived with Mrs. Giles Australia" and left for Nanking, in Shanghai by the "Empress of where he is the Consul General
The death has occurred of the Duke of Beaufort. His son, the Marquess of Worcester, who assumes the title, was born in 1900 and he married in 1923 Lady the staff of the International Dr. Royal Meeker, formerly on. Mary Cambridge, niece of the Labour Office and more recently Queen.
Secretary of Labour and Indus- try in the State of Pennsylvania, Mr. F B. Rickett of the arrived in Shanghai on Hongkong
the Bank, who stationed at Penang for a good is joining a group interested in was "President Pierce." Dr. Meeker
.mary years and married daughter of Mr. Lang, of
a ascertaining whether there is a the need for a centrai bureau
to
E. E. T Co., and a sister of Mrs. gather data to guide those work- W. Peel, has arrived in Singapore.ing along home, educational, The Rev. Bro. James, who went to Burmah on a visit of inspection
rural, and industrial lines, and if Mrs. Bell, the widow of the such a need exists, how best to: of the Christian. Brothers' schools late Mr. Edward Bell, Counsellor meet it. Mr. J. B. Taylor, of there, returned to Penang on of the American Legation, left Peking University, is the chair- December L.
Peking for Tientsin with her man of the group. The study Mr. Albert C. Hall, manager for children. Mrs. Bell was to sail will begin in Peking, visits will the East of the Ocean Accident, the "President Cleveland," the report will be written in for Kobe on December 6, to join be made to various cities and and Guarantee Corporation is going on home leave by the route for San Francisco.
Mantua," sailing from Sigga- pore on the 19th instant.
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The Shanghai Academy of Accountancy, the only educational institution in the Far East offering courses in British commercial and company law, secretarial law and
A distinguished gathering re Mr. S. Brayshay, Executive presenting His Majesty the King, Engineer, P.W.D., F.MS, who, the Foreign Office and also several recently returned from home Ambassadors, bade farewell in leave, has been appointed Acting London on Saturday to the French Director of Public Works, Ambassador M. St. Aulaire, who practice and other commercial His subjects, has been fortunate in Kelantan. Before going on leave has held office since 1920, Mr. Brayshay was stalloned. In successor M. de Fleuriau, took up obtaining as its new Principal, Mr. Ipoh on some special work.
his duties yesterday.
S. C. Potter, who is a member of several of the qualifying societies of accountants and auditors. In Two old and much-esteemed The tour progamme of" Their addition. to being a practical former business men of Royal Highness the Prince and accountant of many years public Singapore died at home 00 Princess Arthur of Connaught is practice at Home, the Academy's succeeding days early in Novem now being arranged. Captain A new Principal has also bad exten- ber. The first, to whom a cable Batty, Military Secretary, pro- sive tutorial experiance. Students" referred at the time, was Mr. Scott ceeded to Ader to meet Their are prepared for the intermediate Russell, of John Little and Co., Royal Highnesses there on Decem- and final professional examinations who passed away at Falmouth-a-ber-444-at-present-arranged, of the Chartered. Incorporated.. November 5 aged 69. The second Their Royal Highnesses will arrive Corporate and London Associa was Mr A. H. Raeburn, who was in Bombay on the 19th and staytions of Accountants Special. formerly for many years in the there for a couple of days as guests courses are also given in 'book. employ of Guthrie and Co, and of the Governor and Lady Wilson keeping and accountancy, higher left for home, where he continued They will then visit Poons and accountancy, costing, wrtnership. la business, about twenty years arrive in Calcutti on December 24,, law; auditing, higher "indiring, and ago. He arrived in Singapore in where they will be guests of the office: orga ization and minage, the early eighties. At the time of Governor and Lady Lytton till the ment. The Procly is assisted by his death in Jersey ho was 71.
28th.
a number of qualifie ? : strástols.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1924.
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