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Another A seyere stʊmu "broke over] Under a new act wives in the
pretty Japanese Philippines are now on the same Pintsin and Peking-two-wook-calendar-reaches this office. from footing as their husbands in Ingo, blowing down hoardings and the Toyo Kisen Kalsha, also a very alienation of affection caser. fragile property and spreading" a ornamental table of sailings for
vizjet af dust over ail The four next year. rain Inies of telephones between | Toisin and the capital suffered |· damago whirly, took a day or two
The
first section of a national scheme of irrigation of the rice plains in Siam "was King. It is to cost £1,300,000 and will render fertile a quarter) of a million neres. **
BIGGEST BOXING SHOW opened on November 30 by the tia repair.
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So great was the interest and enthusiasm aroused by these sensational bouts on Sept. 121, 1924, that thousands of people were turned out from Boyle's thirty acres Stadium. Just think what wonder cinema does. The cinema will bring you to the ring side and show four of the WORLD'S GREATEST BOUTS. Think how much will it cost you to travel from Hongkong to U.S. in two diffent trips, and if you were "turned out" as thousands were, wouldn't you feel as if you had received a knock out"
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At the inquest at Cambridge on Mr. Lionel de Soysa, who was drowned in the river on Novem ber 17, witnesses gave evidence that decen ed hailed two men on the river bunk, saying he was going to swim across in order to tell his people that he had done There were sixteen degrees of frost at the time, and both urged him not to do Mo. but walked on.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1924.
OUR GREATEST SALE!
STILL GOING ON !
Don't fail to A clerk in the employ of
Messrs. Butterfield. & Swire has reported to the police the loss of a Kold watch, valued at $12, from a drawer in his desk...
A map of Sarawak, com- piled by. Dr., Charles Hose, from his own compass traverses com
According to a report made bined with all other available cartographic material, has, been to the police, the accountant of compiled and printed at his own the Motor Drivers' Guild has expense. It is stated to be the absconded with a sum of $50 best general map of Sarawak belonging to the Guild. that has hitherto uppered.;
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What was described as the
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the
Reported yesterday, typhoon to the east of the Philip-
Its pines is now stated to be station- ary or moving very slowly.. position this morning was Lat.
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A
oldest scurib in the world was exhibited in Peking recently by the Geological Survey of China, The coroner, cer- It is said to be at least fifteen 11 N., Long. 127 E... sured both for leaving him in the million years old, and was found water. A verdict of accidental in an excellent state of preserva- tion in the hinterland of the
A through passenger by name death was returned.
Shantung coast by Mr. H. C. of Mr. Zahman had a silken bag T'an, geologist of the Survey. stolen from him at Queen's Road The scarab, which has been Central near Li Yuen Street. In med Proteroscarabaeus Yeni the police report the bag is said to (in honour of Dr. W. W. Yen, have contained pearls to the value formerly Minister of Agriculture of $50. and Commerce) formed one fossil in a collection from Shantung which, in the words of a member of the Survey, definitely put the Cretaceous age on the geological map of China.
The "Straits Echo" says The Chamber of Commerce hus more than once referred to the dredging of the South Channel and that the matter has at last been taken in hand is indicated hy the fact that Commander C. A. Perl Harbour Master, Pening left for Klang by the "Seagull" to escort. the dredge. "Kuantan" to Penang. The "Kuantan" is the property of the F.M.S. Govern ment and it is understood that the dredge has been lent to the Straits Government.
war anchorage three fishing junk For dredging in the man-of- owners were each fined $10 at the Marine Court this morning. Two Mr. Tan was other owners of small native iven the task of mapping the craft were cuch mulcted in sums geblogical formation of Eastern of $5 for lying inshore during Shantung. In the course of his prohibited hours at night. work he examined the rocks in the region for evidence of the land and fresh water life which
A heap of straw stored, in At a meeting of the Rubber existed wons of years ago. He the Dairy Farm depot at Tele- Restriction Board in Ceylon on used his geological hammer in graph Bay was set ablaze yester- November 27, the question of vain for many months, and then day afternoon. Alighted bringing Quid rubber latex under suddenly exposed a complete cigarette thrown carelessly away the Rubber Restriction Ordin-specimen of a fish. The experts is believed to have been the cause ance was discussed. Exports of of the Surrey say that it over of the fire. No damage was, rubber latex from Geylon for the shadows a similar find whose age however, done to the building. twelve months from November 1. has not yet been determined, but which is made of concrete. 1928, to October 31, 1924, were which was given the name 132 gallons only. During Lycoptera sinensis by Smith- November. 1924, up to the 25th Woodward when it was presented train 101..on the "Peking-Mukden the exports were 9.116 gallons. to the British Museum. After line, leaving Peking at 8.10 p.m. Hence it was considered neces- this find Mr. Tan laid bare hun for Mukdef, also the corresponding sary to recommend to Govern-dreds of specimens of plant and train in the reverse direction, will ment the inclusion of Auid rubber fish life, all embedded in rocks recommence immediately. latex in the Ordinance, which near the scene of his first dis- Railway authorities, however, lean under the definition of "Rubber," covery. Finally his hammer ex-give no definite information as to contains a clause providing for poked the remains, of the fifteen- the time taken on the journey, and such inclusion when His Excel-million-year-old scarabaeid, It it is anticipated that for the present lency in Executive Council deems necessary, It is proposed that the alteration shall come into effect from January 1, 1925.
was found spread on a stone slab under a layer of clay, almost with the perfection of life except for its flattened appearance.
SOCIAL AND
Lieut. Commdr. L. G. Addington, D.SC., has been appointed to H.M S. "Despatch."
Professor W. J. N Smith is to lecture on Browning at St. John's Cathedral Hall today at 6 pm, under the auspices of the C.EMS
Advice has been received that
The
a delay of several tours will be exprienced on the section of the journey Between Eeking and Tien-
tein!.
PERSONAL.
The marriage took place on The "Westminster Gazette" November 15 at St. Mark's understands from Paris that Church, Woodcote, Purley, of the M. Herriot has telegraphed Bishop of Hongkong (the Right ordering M. Jusserand to abstain Rev. C. R. Dupuy), son of the from further Franco-American late Mr. C. Duppuy and of Mrs. debt negotiations, pending the Duppuy, Harrogate, to Miss Baker-Minton, daughter of Mr. arrival of his successor. H. Baker-Muuntoh, of Broomhill,, Passengers arriving by the "Hector" included. Mr. A. D. Woodcote, Purley. The bride was Keigwin, Mr. H. M. Sleigh, Capt. way by her father, and was W. G. Lalor, Mr. G G. P. Harper, "ttended by the Misses Dorothea Mr. J. Kinnard, Mr. N. Currie, and Mary Burrough (nieces of Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak, Miss L the bride) and Miss Heather Aline Holyoak. Mr. W. I. Hawken and Chadwick niece of the bridegroom). Mr. H. W. Ray.
D
The Hon. Alexander · Gordon
Stephen (61), chief manager. Hongkong and Shanghal Banking Corporation, Hongkong, and a member of the Executive Council The Bishop of Peterbrough, who of Hongkong, left personal estate gave the dress, Canon Hollandin Great Britain valued at £72,456 Dr. R. M. Ross and Dr. Roy, H. H. Woodhouse, and Margaret Taylor were united in the Rev. E. A. Shattuck, vicar of marriage on Thursday evening, at the parish, officiate, and the Rev. the home of the bride at Lafayette P. W. Guinness, D.S.O as best Compound, Western
Suburbs, man. The church was beautifully Canton. The ceremony was per-
decorated with white chrysan formed by the bride's uncle, Dr. thenmus, palus, and feins. A Charles Taylor of New York. Dr. age congregation was present, and Ross is physician at the Kerr & reption was held in St. Mark's Hospital for the Insane and Dr. Hall after, the ceremony. Taylor is a teacher at the Hackett: Medical College.
The Berlin newspaper, "Montag Morgen," declares
that it is privately reported from Moscow, whence news is strictly censored, that "serious disorders and blood- shed occurred following the departure for the Crimea of M. Trotzky, who allegedly now opposes the Soviet
Last
Mr. Hector William Sassoon, of Tantallon, The Peak, Victoria, May Yohe, actress, who appear Hongkong, and of Baker Street,
Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, C.M.G.|►| ed to Hongkong years ago and London, W., a director of Messrs. F.R.S., died on November 17. He ** gained fame through the world by E. D. Sassoon & Co., Ltd., mer was a distinguished engineer who her possession of the Hope chants, of St. Helens Place, E.C., was known "especially for his Diamond, is in the limelight again who died in Londoa on November work on the bridges and main She is married to Mr. John A. 24, 1923, left property in Hongkong drainage of London and on the Smuts, cousin of General Jan valued at $8,133,800, and in Eng- great Assuan dam in Egypt. Born Smuts, South Africa. Her hus- land at £6,667. At the current mte of in Co. Kerry, lo 1861, he went to band shot himself recently be exchange this is equivalent to £989,- Trinity College, Dublin, where he cause he said he had been un-127, of which £982,860 is abroad, took the degrees of M.A, and M. kind to his wife. He probably The testator left Five lakhs of Eng. Having served articles under will recover, May Yohe was rupees (at current value about the late Sir Benjamin Baker,he after- wearer of the Hope Diamond when £35,980) upon trust for investment wards did much work under Sir she was the wife of Lord Francis and to distribute the income In W. Willcocks in Egypt. Hope.
such countries, at such times, and year he visited Hongkong in re upon such conditions as his trustees gard to the Harbour Improvement Reuter announces the death of in their absolute discretion shaft Scheme, and made an elaborate Mr. William Coote, M. P. for consider advisable in assisting Report which dealt specially with South Tyrone, who died after persons (male or female) found the development of Hanghom Bay, collapsing at a meeting at. Belfast gality for the first time of an a scheme that proposes the ex- The late Mr. Coote has been M.P. offence or offences against the penditure of over $12,000,000. Sir for South Tyrone since 1916. He law of the land where they were Maurice had also visited Australia, was born in 1863 and married in convicted, and in assisting un- and when the war broke out he had 1889 and leaves four sons and one married mothers and illegitimate been for some years chairman daughter. He was apprenticed to children, and generally in assisting of the Admiralty Advisory Com the provision trade and at 20, years and providing for the welfare ofmittee on Naval Works, and he held started and successfully carried on the children. His sbarcs in E. D that post till 1919. He was alsɔ a business in his native district, Sassoon & Co. (Limited), in the a member of the War Office Com- Later he commenced business on Hongkong Trust Corporation mittee on Hutted Camps, 1915-18. auctioneer and stock owner, and Limited), and in the Bombay in 1913, and agan in 1918, he visit- rented a large mill premises Idle Trust Corporation Limited), sub. ed the British front in Flanders to for 35 years where he started and lest to certain charges, he left to advise on questions of drainage. developed the manufacture of his brother, Ellice Victor Sassoon Many honours and distinctions woollen yarns, subsequently form To his wife he left his household were conferred on Sir-Maurice, Ing this into a private limited and personal effects, consumable who was the author of several company, of which he was the stores, and 20 lakhs of rupees technical works on harbours, bridg-| macaging director. He was a absolutely, and the income for leing and drainage. His death of a JP. for Co., Tyrone, and a County from 65 lakhs of rupees, with re-comparatively early age in a diss. Councillor.
mainder to his residuary estate, tinct loss to the profession.
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