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The Astatic Petroleum Com- The Japanese All-Champion pany's oil tanker "Abella," after Basketball team from St. Paul's leaving Teluk Anson, broke her University, Tokyo, have returned tall shaft with the result that the to Japan after playing an inter. propeller sank and the steamer esting series of games here.. now lies stranded
According to a report issued Peking's Chief Executive, by the Shanghai Rice Guild there Marshal Tuan Chi-jui, is reported was stored in the International by the Chinese press to have sent Settlement during December last an agent to Shanghai to borrow 79,230 piculs of rice, which $800,000 for him to meet ad-, 44,449 piculs were in the stores on ministrative expenses. It is said the northern side of Soochow that the loan has already been Creek. arranged. The Ministry of Fin- ance is also reported to be' borrowing $800,000 to tide over the Chinese New Year. The sale revenues will be used as security.
occurred in the Colony during the One case of dipthoris (British)
24 hours ended yes
qnded yesterday
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The B 1. "Chakrata," which was proceeding to Jaffon with cargo, ran ashore, when nearing that port. Sheus subsequently refloated. :
Eighty, three Chinese were re- patriated to China on December 13 from the East Coast of Sumatra, at the expense of the Dutch Govern
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A Chinese press telegram from Hankow reports about 700 ment. soldiers, 100 officers, and 40 "politicians" accompanied Mar- A Chinese woman was ad+ shal Wu Pel-fu to the Hai Sanmitted to the Government Civil The outward bound Bibby (the West Hills), dear Wuchang, Hospital yesterday suffering from liner Leicestershire" (Capt. and have taken with them a food fractured arm as a result of a Geo. English in "command),supply which will last for at least arrived in Colombo on Decem-eight months, ku
zicsha accident. ber so from Liverpool. She experienced very bad weather According to the "Manchuria, right through the voyage, particu. Daily News," the Foreign com- larly when nearing Colombo strongmunity at Mukden, under in head winds making her progress understanding with Major-Gen. alow. On Christmas Day, a gloom Chang Hsueh-liang, is maturing was cast over the ship by the my the plan to lay out an ideal race sterious disappearance of the Chief course about the Golf Links Engineer) Mr. AJ Farish. It is belonging to the Mukden Club. not known how Mr. Farish mef On the other hand, the Mukden with his death, but it is presumed Horse Race Club (Japanese) is that he either fell overboard also pushing forward its plan to accidentally and got drowned or hold formal races at a new course committed suldideju Maran bul
to be laid out about the railway town.
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Within the pages of "The Blue Peter" are always to be found travel episodes which will awaken longings in the mind of the most insular and provide oven the most experienced globe-trotter with something new.The Blue Peter" is a monthly magazine of sea travel of the type one glories in getting hold of during a long voyage. The December sumber
contains stories and articles of the usual high standard such topics as Virgil's Sea Sense," Crossing Tyne Bar in 1854," "The Desert Mall," "The Growth of Empire" and " At Odyssey of Empire, all of which are written by men and women with a thorough acquaintance with their respective subjects.
Three women and A mad, owners of Dative small craft, were each fined $10 at the Marine Court this morning for bbstructing "the southern fairway in the harbour.
A taxicab knocked down a Chinese woman at Queen's Road Central. yesterday." Injured in the leg, and conveyed She was
to the Government Civli Hospital.
The Overland China Mail, the weekly edition of the "China Mall," which will be ready to
of the morrow, contains our two critiques
Saint Joan."
A.D.C.is production of
The largest Department Store in Hokkaido, the Imai in Sapporo, was totally destroyed by fire last week. At about ten o'clock flames were seen bursting out of the basement windows and before the fire engines could be brought they had spread so rapid- ly that nothing could be done to stop them. The Imai is situated 530 has reported to the police that Minami-cho, the busiest his lorry came into collision with thoroughfare in Sapporo and for
on
The driver of motor lorry No.
& time the adjoining buildings, another belonging to the Hong the "Hokkaido Times" and the kong Electric Company at Morri. Communications Bureau were son Gap Road yesterday. Both threatened. Damages will total the vehicles were slightly damaged, to over one million yen.
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Own Tablets for my children for over of the Land Office, Kasla Pilah, Negri Sembilan, writes: "I have used Baby's year and bava found them moskastisfac A fortnight ago New York gasped tory. I have also given the Tablets to with amazement, on learning that friends for their children with very good Shanghai is at last to have a
accident the son of one of its leading familiesalta model yacht pond. In the past occurred of the steamer" Hong and been secretly wedded to a young Tabista, or post free, 60 conta the visi Your chemist can supply Baby's Own The Atago Police Station in the sailing of model craft on the Peng" at Singapore, the chief laundress and was living with her from the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 60. Tokyo received a strange caller ponds in Jessfield Park has been engineer, Mr. W. W. Stewart, parents in a humble house in New Kangoo Road, Shanghat last week. A man, dressed in his prohibited to avoid possible falling eighteen feet into the hold Rochelle in New York State. best with haori and hakama, casualties to young people, but and sustaining serious injuries to carrying a small bag, presented they will rejoice at the Council's the face. The "Hobg Peng" was mance culminated in the statement
Newspaper accounts of the himself to the Prince Regent. He decision, which appeared in lying in the roads at the time, and that Mr. Jones was aegro, born said that he had been ordered by the "Gazette," to build a pond Mr. Stewarti after receiving in Jamaica. The bride and her Prince Takamatsu to convey to for this purpose. The pond will medical aid, was taken ashore in parents indiquantly denied this as- the Regent, whom he greatly be designed to render its juvenile a motor-launch and sent to hospital. sertion, declaring that they me loved, his store of precious pearls, users immune from danger and
from Lincolnshire, England. He then opened the bag and the estimated cost of construction poured out on the desk a lot of is Tis.. 8,000.
The Japanese railways at Mr. Leonard Kip Rhinelander, The sailing of present have a rule that not more who is in the early twenties, loyal dirty white pebbles. He was ex-model boats has previously been than T. 100 compensation may be ly supported his wife's statements amined by a medical officer who allowed under one condition, paid for any piece of baggage, bosom of his own family. In the at first. Now he has returned to the found out that the man was a namely," if children are accom- however valuable, lost through! lunatic from Otsu where he had panied by adults. been in confinement for many appeared in the Gazette" to the men. The "Kobe Shimbun" re- the girl by fraud, she having is A reminder the negligence of the railway-1 Proceedings started yesterday he states that he was induced to marry years He had managed to effect that on the recommenda- ports that Dr. Sengoku, Minister sured him that she was white with- escape from the upper room tion of the Commissioner of Pub- of Railways, has decided that this out any intermixture of coloured THB Steamer which had been his cell, and came lic Works, the pastime is now rule must up to Tokyo to fulfil his strange absolutely prohibited, pending the that compensation may be made Negress. His suit is based mainly be abandoned 80 blood, whereas actually, she is a building of the pond.
according to value.
on the fact that Mr. Jones, when applying for naturalisation papers, described himself as coloured.
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SOCIAL AND
Perak Irishmen have resolved to defer their patriarch's annual dance this year as a mark of respect to the late Mr. Cowdy, who was killed in a motor accident They have also resolved to call for subscriptions from. Irishmen in Malaya to erect a memorial tablet in the Ipoh Anglican church.
A London message says that Mr, Augustus John, A.R.A., who is painting a portrait of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald (the ex-Prime Minister) has joined the Labour Party, Mr John is an exceedingly original] artist with a special gift of insight in portraiture. He is the president of the National Portrait Society.
St.
The marriage took place at Mary's Stamford Brook, оп September 20, of Mr. F. E.
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PERSONAL.
The death is announced of Mr. Harry Rurnisi, the artist, says a Reuter's message from London.
from Washington to-day, President According to a Reuter cable
Coolidge's Secretary, Mr. Stemp,
Singapore was the scene of a pretty return to law practice.
The Church of St. Joseph of announces his early retirement and wedding of Mr. B. L Carnegy.. with Miss K. Long was solemnized.
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Mr. Irvin, who perished, in the A marriage will take place at last Mount Everest Expedition, Tientsin in February, between the left £6,000. Rev. Laurance Hamilton Ker, a Sassoon eft English estate worth Mr. Meyer Elias missionary at Kirin, and Miss £65,000. His will opens with a Katherine Margaret Manson, a missionary at Wutuel, Honan.
declaration that his domicile of origin is British India and it is
Miss Kohloff have left Singapore such domicile.
Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Kohloff, and, added that he intended to retain
by the B. I steamer" Teesta" en route for Bangalore. Mr. Kohloff was for many years stationed in The engagement is announced Malaya with the Eastern Exten between Cynthia Dorothy Lowe sion Telegraph Company.
eldest daughter of the late Mr.
Lascelles,
second cousin to Viscount Lascelles, to Emma Leversedge, daughter of the late Thomas Leversedze and cousin King Harding, widow of President Stamford, and Mrs. Ingram, of to Mra: J. C. Pasqual. The wedding Harding has been filed for probate Penang, and Gordon Campbell party included Sir D. Bull M. P. at Marion, Ohio. The bulk of her Catto, of the Straits Trading Co., Miss Susan Loversedge, sister of estate, which is estimated at Butterworth, second son of the Inte the bride and Dr. and Mrs. James $500,000 (approximately £100,000, Mr. and Mrs. James Catto, of Hylton Pasqual and others. The is left to Jeanhe and George. De bride and bridegroom were the Wolfe, her grandchildren, who are Widnes, near Liverpool. The recipients of many tokens of affec. 15 and 12 years old respectively."narrlage tion and esteem from friends and relations.
January 31. The Singapore Harbour Board
There are various reports regard has just lost another old servant in Architects 1906-8, the designer of ing the envoy chosen for the return the person of Mr. Henry Chopard the Imperial Institute, Lloyd's of Mr. Martial Merlin's visit to who has died, after a brief illness, Registry, etc. besides many
The "Asali!” says that
The will of the late Mrs. Florence! A. D. Lowe, of Shanghai and
M. Thomas Edward Collcutt, F.R.LB.A. of Totteridge, Herts, president Royal Institute of British
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Compres from Chopard was a well known and died on Oct. 7, aged 81, eft estate Price Yamagata (son of the late Elmondson La Fregue Detébe from Bolbox Heights" familiar figure on the wharf to of the gross value of £19074, with Price Yamagata, and lately Civil) Trai Dock,
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finger and had been with the Prince and Princess Arthur of caused trouble), fethe chosen' Tanjong Pagar Dock Co. and then Connaught, hore now india,envoy the "fill" states that Barsa with Harbour Board for a total arrived at Delhi or a list to the Metaul, one-time Ambassador to period of 24 yehri.The deceased, Viceroy and Lady Reading on France, will go, and the "Mylake who was the youngestron of Thursday,] inpary 15:¦:- Cheir next asys she choice,haw fallen on: Vis Captain Chopard a well-known stopping place wille Lucknow, cour Uehara, formerly Minister Straja skipper, holote his life then, Lahore. Prabowor, Rawal for War, and well known in At BBK many youfkingo, leakedin Pindi, and Benares, They will France, where he lived for some widowozaidzzzmeveral 2tghitdren return to Calcutta on Fabrality far vetro They all agree, tha the. to mount is lossy besides two being dua m Ringost the 17th, depaffure, will be towards the end brothers.
Hu to leave for Europe Party in Aptll, of January.
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Through Bill of Lading issued, for Batavia, Parsian Gulf, Continental, American and South African Porta.
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carrying his Majesty's Maila, will be Capt. H. C. DAVIS, DO, FR, dearatched from this Port on or about THURSDAY, the 22nd January, 1925, of NOON, taking Passengers and Cargo- for the above Ports.
Silk and Valuable Cergo for Italy, France and London (under arrangement) will be conveyed by this Stesmar pro- ceeding to Bombay and there "tran-- shipped to the on-carrying Steamer for Marseilles and London.
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