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Trains, on the Sunning Rall way are now running irregularly, says our Koogmoon correspondent. on account, of the damaged ferry bridge at Ngau Wan.
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TUESDAY,
JANUARY
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Fokis of pawnshops at Kong- moon have been given permission to form a guild.
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"Reincarnation" will be the subject of this week's Publici Lecture of the Hongkong Lodge' The Theosophical Society, 16, Queen's Road Central, on Wednes- day January 7th at 5 45 p.m. All are welcome.
steamers from Hongkong, says our Yesterday morning, the river Kongmoon correspondent, could not get alongside their respective | ☀. wharves at Pakkal owing to the shallow state of the river,
During the week ending Dec- The annual meeting of seat-porridge were distributed by Salva
ember 20, some 30,775 bowls of holders and subscribers of St. tionists to the hungry of Peking. John's Cathedral will be held in in the four, she ch'angs at present the Cathedral Hall, on Friday, being operated by the Salvation January 30, at 5:45. p.m.
Army in Peking. This is an average of over 4,500 daily. During last week the numbers were still higher, the daily average being about 5.000. On Christmas Day thousands of needy "guests were A Chinese who was brought to given meat and vegetables in ad- the Government Civil Hospital dition to the millet porridge. Poor yesterday was found to be suffer. children were entertained in enching from the effects of oplum of the various centres of Army poisoning The man is said to work in Peking. Cheques in aid of have been living in the servants' this work of mercy should be sent | quarters at No. 5, Ice House Street to Commissioner Pearce, 71, Morrison Street, Peking.
At the Hongkong Volunteer Headquarters yesterday afternoon 30,000 square feet of Crown land at Tsun Wan were sold by auction at the upset price of $600. There was no bidding. Miss Violet Chan is the purchaser..
Mr. James Dalrymple, one of the greatest authorities on tram- way traffic in the world, is on a short visit to Bombay, at the request of the Bombay Electric Supply and Tramways Co., to advise on its traffic position and its possibilities. The Tramway Co. has planned extensive schemes,
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It is reported that the brigands in the Sichwan district of Honan are now making inquiries as to the
the interior are advised not to valuables possessed by foreigners, and that foreigners travelling in carry gold or silver watches, while serious menace to the wearers. even wedding rings may prove, a
A correspondent in the Malay reported that in the floods in North Peninsula writes that he saw it China six inches of rain fell in a day. He says: inches and a half before one "We had twolve o'clock the other day and another
obtaining electric current without An interesting device for any record of it being made on the meter of a Chinese dwelling house, came to light in the Mixed Court in Shanghai when a Chinese woman of development and has recently was charged with the larceny of secured the services of Sir Stanley electricity.. Evidence showed that Reed as Managing Director. Sir in the house of the accused an Stanley Read who knows electric wire had been attached to thoroughly the possibilities of the the main before it entered the city and its traffic conditions, is meter and this had been connected already busy at work in the Tram to an ordinary light fitting thus way Co.'s office.
enabling the accused fraudulently to obtain current. Mr. Maitland for the prosecution stated that this or three in the afternoon. device had been discovered by the and bridges suffered severely, Several roads were washed away, Electricity Department on account some being taken away." of the sudden reduction in the amount of current consumed. Judging from the record of units it had been going on stace Decém- ber, 1923. These records started with a consumption of 31 units in the month and ended with three. the intermediate intervals the gues had been very spasmodic. Accused was sent to prison for a
month.
Yokohamaa has not a very savoury past, says the "Japan Chronicle," and it would appear that following the earthquake all the worst elements are again at work. We have already noted the number of robberies, and now the "Japan Times" reports a great increase in the number of sailors bars. In fact it is said that there are. more bars for foreign seamen in Yokohama' than in any other port in the Far East, which only goes to show tha enterprise of the Japanese. As The Japan Times" publishes to the type of liquor supplied, a long story about the activity of the sailors who lose their ships gun-runners on the south coast of are supposedly not without a Japan, where a schooner named sense of humour when they attri- the "Tenjin Man" is alleged to bute their intoxication to the bad be attempting to run some arms to spirits which the bars sell. China. As the arms are supposed Nevertheless, there can be little to be already loaded on the "Tenjin doubt that the sailors who enter Osaka, where the arms are said to Maru" which appears to have left the places are served with liquor have been put on board, there that deteriorates the farther they seems no reason why she should advance in the stages of intoxica- not get away. The story is a very tion. In the old days Yokohama's confused one, however, mixed up "Bloodtown" was a noted quarter, with Russians and Chinese and among the first of the crimes the usual fascinating woman who coming before the Japanese is the leader of the gang. Whether courts after the abolition of ex- the arms are to be used by the tra-territoriality being a murder Whites against the Reds or by committed there by an American Chinese brigands the "Japan seaman. Of late years, however, Times" confesses it cannot make "Blopdtown" has considerably out, but there is material for an improved, and it would be a pity exciting film in the yam,-in fact, if it should fall into its old bad it sounds more like a film atory state.
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The death has occurred at home of Mr.C S. Wait, who was plant ing in Ceylon for about 35 years. He was Superintendent of West Holyrood, Talawakele, of which he was in charge until his departure for home in February last.
A London message announces the death of the Duke of Beaufort. He was born in 1847, and in 1895 he married Louisa, daughter of the late Mr. W. H. Harford, and widow of Baron Carlo de Tuyll. There are two daughters and the heir, the Marquis of Worcester.
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Mme. Teiko Kiwa, took the part A Japanese opera singer, of Madame Butterfly at the State Opera House in Berlin on Novem tive comment from the critics. ber 24, and gained very apprecia Madame Telko Kiwa sang in Italien, and she was applauded and called before the curtain at
the close of each act.
The population of Shaps] Province is given as in 1919 at 2,241,633 families, and in 1922 as 2,308,563. The population was 11,338,958 in 1919 and 11,654,879 in 1922. The figures are perhaps the nearest approach to a scientific census in China, says the Bureau. of Economic Information.
and magazines The Cornhill Among the December reviews Magazine" contains an interesting description, by Lt.Col. P. T. Etherton, of Chinese Turkestan, where he served as Consul General. The political quarterly, among other interesting matter, an "The Round Table," gives instructive article on America and the Philippines," and "The Fighing Forces" includes from the pen of Capt. M. D. Kennedy "Notes on the Japanese Army, which are accompanied by illus trations.
PERSONAL.
Mr. Li Fal-kwong, the pew magistrate, of Sunning, is staying at the office of the Sunning Rail- way pending the departure of his predecessor, Mr. Lam Chuf-po.
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It is announced at Shaoghal that Mr. E. F. Hardman has been admitted as a partner in the firm of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews.
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sent Governor of British Honduras, Sir Eyre Hutson, K.C.M.G., at pre- has been appointed Governor of Fiji, He was formerly in the Colonial Service in Fiji, and filled Dr. Schurman, United States on two occasions the position of Minister, arrived in Peking on Acting Governor and High Com- December 21, by special train, missioner for the Western Pacific. having left Tientsin at 2 p.m., He represented Fiji and the accompanied by his daughter, Miss Western Pacific at the wireless Barbara Schurman. He was met conference: in Melbourne in 1909. at the station by the entire per Sir Eyre Hutson joined the sonnel of the Legation and a strong Colonial Service in 1885, and has marine guard, Chinese police. Billed important posts In Barbados, troops also being present. Dr. Mauritius, British Guiana, Jamaica, Schurman was in excellent health and Bermuda. and declared he was glad to get: back to a place where n Leh work" awaits him.
Singapore would seem to treat
Mr. Winston Churchill appears 10 be in danger of losing his reputa- tion as a wearer of unusual hats. So far, to the great disappointment
wealthy manufacturer, in Liver- Mr. Thomas Reginald Clay, a pool, who died recently, bequeath- ed £15,000.to his doctor and £10,000 each to the manager and sub- manager of the branch of the bank at which he kept his account.
The marriage of Mr. Robert V. Walton, of the Standard "Oil George Coombe Walton and Mrs. Company, only son of the late Walion of Augusta, Georgia, U.S.A: daughter of the late Edward Melbourne, Australia, and Mrs.
Albert Pearce G. Stanley Lovett of Gallop Road, Singapore, was solemnized at St. Andrew's Cathedral last month, the Ven Archdeacon Swindell efficiating at the ceremony.
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A pretty holiday season wed-i week when Miss Cicely Leith Leith of Walmer Court, England, "daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. became the bride of Mr. Walier S. Anill of W. M. Strachan and Co., Kobe. The consular service,
its public men somewhat scurvily, of the Treasury officials, he has held at the British Consulate says the "Straits Echo." At any been comparatively conventional rate it let Mr. Lowther Kemp, who in the matter of headgear. On his General, was at 10.30 o'clock in hed served the commercial first few visits to the department service at All Saints' Church with the morning and the Church community faithfully and well for he wore a silk hat of perfectly the chaplain, the Rev. George many years, as Chairman of the normal design.. One day he Bridle oficiating. Chamber of Commerce and aroused the hopes of the staff by member of the Legislative driving himself. to the cffice in a Ccunell, depart with never a word two-seater motorcar and wearing a of public acknowledgment, much kind of shortened silk hat. Next less a complimentary, dinner or day, however, he was again in an sling a whole morafag, pen in W. W. Jacobs once confessed to some function as is usually ordinary topper." Employees at hand, without putting a word in arranged in other places when the Treasury are inclined to regard paper, while Sir Arthur Conan cltizer, of Mr. Kemp's standing this emission on the part of their Doyle has wrliton a story of £2,000 and services reiites finally from chief as a personal grievance. words without leaving his desk the scene of his labours,]{' Ab, well," said an elderly A friend set, up late with him and Gratitude is the last thing a public messengerisecently with a shake man looks for, if he is wit, but of the head, as he gazed after the the entire lack of any mani- disappearing form of the Chan festation of it in. Mr. Kempla caeocellor of the Exchequer,, "things is has evoked considerable comment not what they used to be. Life outside of Singapore. a geta duller every day.
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