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A terrier dog was taken to the Kennedy Town quarantine station for observation yesterday after it had attacked and bitten a Chinese woman. In the police report, the owner of the dog is given as a Mrs. Brambridge, of Nathan Road, Kowloon.
A Chinese was removed to the Government Civil Hospital yesterday morning suffering from injuries sustained in a motor car accident at Des Voeux Road Central.
The British India (Apcar Line) steamer "Takliwa" left Hongkong on December 21, and arrived at Singapore on the morning of Christmas Day, making the passage from port to port in the short space of three and half days.
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For the fifth time the It is rumoured that Sir John Mikara Pearl Co. has experienced Campbell, Ipoh, has discovered a # window.smashing robbery. rich tin mine in Perlis..
the Abouts" half-past seven in morning two suspicious looking
An obstruction in that part of men were seen standing outside the premises in Piccadilly, and the Canton River, about 100 feet soon after a window was smashed eastward of the Talmel Beacon,
worth and fifty guineas'
of has been notified Mariners are jewellery was seized. The men asked to take note. got away.
The captain of the steamer "Borneo Mara" was at Colombo, on December 27, fined Rs. 100 or in default three months' simple imprisonment for having entered the harbour that morning without a pilot. Capt. Gordon Fraser, the Joint Police Magistrate, heard the case, Sergt. Hopklason, of the Harbour Police, prosecuting.
On the occasion of the Prince The silk shipped per s.s. of Wales dining with the members President Jackson," which sailed of the cycle and motor trades the from this port at 6 am. on Dec-other evening, Sir Arthur Stanley embers, arrived in New York at 8 was called upon for a speech. He a.m. on December 28, having been recalled another dinner in the same 23 calendar days. In transit.
hall, when he sat next the Chinese Minister. "He gave me no Indica "An appeal is to be made by tion that he spoke English," said Charles Ernest Robinson against Sir Arthur, and my Chinese was the judgment by Mr. Justice Dar- only very elementary. So neither ling in favour of the bank, with of us spoke " Then after the con- costs. In the action in which Robin-clusion of the speeches, the Minis. son claimed £125,000, the balance ter turned to him, and in perfect English said: "You know, you of a sum of £150,000
people in England think that we Successful trial extending over Chinese are only half civilised. aine days were completed in the We abolished after dinner speak- Firth of Clyde by the "Aorangi," the ing a thousand years ago!" Sir largest and fastest motor passenger Arthur had thought it was dur vessel in the world. She was builting-dinner speaking they had at the Firth of Clyde and is 23,000 abolished. tons and will be employed on the route between, Vancouver" and Australia. The "Aorang!" is one of the first British vessels which are steered by the gyroscope-an In- strument that practically eliminates human agency.
There were three cases of notifiable diseases in the Colony during the 24 hours ended on the 5th inst., namely, smallpox (one Chinese), enteric fever (one Chinese), and buerperal fever (one Chinese); for the week ended on the 3rd inst the following are the official figures:-Smallpox (one Chinese), diphtheria (four British, one Scottish, two Chinese), enteric fever (one Scottish, one Indian, two Chinese, and two Japanese), cerebrospinal fever (one Chinese), influenza-not notifiable (two Chinese).
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For causing an obstruction to the Wing Lok Street Praya steps, two boat people were each floed $5 at the Marine Court this morn- ingen others were mulcted in similar amount for lying Inshore during prohibited hours last night.
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The latest returns show a further reduction in the number of persons unemployed In Great Britain. There are now over 1,000,000 fewer unemployed than at the end of last year.
Barnacles are found by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries to be especially attracted by ships' bottoms palated blue and black; and comparative freedom from fouling can be ensured by painting the bottom plates white, yellow, red or green.
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For the first time, American broadcasting
received in India, in the early hours of Dec- ember 17, when Marconi engineers heard American music, while the foriner were able to pick up one beam" system trans- of the new missions..
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Mr. Churchill, Chancellor of the The "Bangkok Times." says: Exchequer, stated in the House of An American tourist, Mrs. M. B. Commons that nearly £1,000,000 McKipperick, left Bangkok Noi per annus would be saved to the with her husband for Singapore by nation by recent conversion of per cent. the international
on £81,000,000 of $34 December, 24. On arrival at Exchequer Bonds to other securi- Chumporn station "Mrs. McKip- ties of lower interest. perick got out of the coach for a
An ex-serviceman employed walk up and down the platform when suddenly a thief snatched as an attendant at Daly's Theatre her bag containing jewellery worth made an amazing discovery. about 70,000 gold dollars and well dressed woman of about 40 $1,000 in notes and ran away into years of age, entered the gallery the jungle on the opposite side of and left a large parcel in his Three hours later charge. During the performance the station.
were arrested and the man became suspicious of the three men
was recovered. parcel's unusual weight; he opened everything" Arrangements are being made to it and found it contained a "stink send the recovered articles to the gas bomb," as used in France owner, who was informed by during the war. The police were telegram while continuing her called and they removed the bomb journey of the recovery" intact of to safety. The woman disappear- her property.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
The forthcoming wedding is The East Asiatic Co. announce announced of Mr. Marcello Fran- with deep regret having this cisco Houghton, marine engineer, morning received information from of s.s."Tal Tak," to Miss Marie their head office that Mr. J. Rosario, of No: 11 Hart Avenue. Madsen-Mygdal, a director of the company, died at Copenhagen on the 24th December.
The linking of two wealthy "families takes place in the marriage
of Hon. Stuart Albert Samuel Mr. Floyd Gibbons, a well! Montagu, eldest son and heir of known American journalist, form- Lord Swaythling, and Miss Mary erly managing editor of the Paris Violet Levy, eldest daughter of edition of the "Chicago Tribune," the late Major W. H. Levy, D.S.O., and now special correspondent for and Hon Mrs. Levy, daughter of the paper, has arrived in Singapore Lord Bearsted." The two families from Australia, Bre enormously wealthy.. Lordi Bearsted five years ago purchased part of Berkeley-square and pro- perty in Mayfair, the deal involving a sum of £5,000,000. 1.
The hurried departure from Singapore on Christmas morning of the Archbishop of Goa and his brother was due to the necessity of His Grace being in Goa by January 6, in time for the Feast of The Epiphany.
Mr. B. G. Tours, H.B.M. Consul-General at Tsinanfu, has been transferred to Yokohama.
The death is announced by Reuter's Berlin "correspondent, of Baroness Elizabeth von Heyking, wife of the former German Minister to China...
Capt. C. E. Kennedy-Purvis has been appointed to HM: S. 'Diomede" (January 21), and in command from date of joining..
Mr. G. J. Johnston, of the International Bank at Peking, has been transferred to the Hongkong, branch of the International Bank- ing Corporation and is being succeeded at the Peking post by Mr. Bower, of Kobe.
In recording the sudden death of Mr. George Brinkworth, of
Passengers expected by the Messrs. Kelly and Wash, on Nov.
The engagement is announced P. and O. s.s." Morea" to-morrow, 23 at Home, the Publishers' Cir
of Miss Doris Dinsdale, of Kobe, to include Sir George and Lady cular and Booksellers Record Mr. Frank Wallis, H. B. M. Vice Gibbs, Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, mentions that he graduated in bookselling at Messrs. Simpkin, Consul at Canton. The marriage Commdr. C. A. Brown, R.N., Mr. Marshall and Co. "Mr. Brinkworth will take place shortly at Christ- and Mrs. G. Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. K. K. Staples, and Mr. and had great and varied knowledge church, Shameen.
Mrs. G. R. Sayer.
good account as buyer for his
of books, which he turned to Commander A. Westmorland
Sir Alexander Wood Renton, firm, whilst he also excelled as an Wood, RN, retired, has been ap accountant. He will be greatly pointed General Secretary of the Kt., K.C., MA., late Chief Justica missed by the many friends he Navy League, in succession to of Ceylon has been elected trea had in the trade, who universally Lieutenant Commander J. N. Ben-surer of the Honourable Society of respected his thorough sterling character,"
and bow.R.N
Gray's Inn for the year 1925 In succession to Lord. Birkenhead, who has been elected vice-treasurer for the same period. Sir A. Wood Renton was appointed a Pulsne Judge of Ceylon in 1905, and was conarmed as Chief Justice in 1914. He retired from Ceylon in 1918.
Sir Robert Waley Cohen, K.B.E., was expected in Colombo from The "Bangkok Times" an-home last week on a short visit. nounces the death of Mr. George Sir Robert, who has been connect- Rowland, manager of Messrs.ed with the Shell Company and its Herbert Whitworth Ltd.'s Bangkok associates since 1901, is the branch. Mr. Rowland went home managing director of the Shell in poor health in Jupe last. He Transport and Trading Co, Lutda Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has came to Bangkok in August, 1901, and of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum to join the firm of Denny, Mott and Co, Ltd, and a director of the he embarked on the steamer: Dickson then being successfully Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd. # <** managed by Mr. A. J. C. Dickson.
He gained a good knowledge of
left London for Avonmouth where
"Camito" for Jamaica. Members of the Labour party saw him off at
A News Agency is responsible Paddington station, warmly cheer- the import side of the firm's for the statement that Mr. Frank ing him. Mr. MacDonald told the activities in the
years that Hedges, who was Civil Lord of press that he was going to take a preceded their absorption in the Admiralty in the late Labour rest and would pass the time in Bangkok by Messrs. Louis T. Government, will probably become reading. Leonowens, Ltd. He stayed on a miner again. Mr. Hodges, who
some time with the new firm, and started as a working, miner in a A pretty Chinese wedding was then he and Mr. J. M. Milne, who South Wales colliery, eventually solemaised at St. Joseph's Church, was manager of Messrs. Louis Tbecame Secretary of the Miners Garden Road, yesterday afternoon Leonowens, Ltd., left-Mr. Mile Federation. He lost his post on when Miss K. F. Yeung became. to join the Stam Tin Syndicate in the formation of the Labour the bride of Mr. Frank Chow, of Paket, and Mr. Rowland to Government. At the last election Messrs. Liggett and Myers, Lid. | ❤e establish the branch of Messrs. he failed to retain his seat in Both familles are well-known, as Herbert Whitworth at Bangkok. Parliament and he was left without evidenced by the large gathering Mr. Milne is now manager of any official connection with the of friends at the Church ceremony Messrs. Guthrie's branch in miners. He is stated to have been and at the subsequent reception, at Penang For some time past offered important positions in other the home of the bridegroom. The Mr. Rowland had been a director spheres of Labour activity but has celebrations were continued, last of Messm. Fraser and Neave, Ltd, refused them on the grounds that night, when the customary and he was also a director of the hin Hlework has been with miners; marriage dinner was given, at Mekleng Railway Co., Ltd. He Mr. Frank: Hodges drew £1,000 a the Ching. Tin restaurant, West was only 49 years of apenjanten year when in the Labour Ministry,- Foint.
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