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THE CHINA MAIL.
Mr. G. N. Orme, the Director. of Education, is to distribute the prizes at the Wah Yan College op Friday, March 6,
His Honour the Pulsne Judge. Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz is ill, and as a consequence there were no casea In the Sundry Court yesterday,
At the annual meeting of the Hongkong Auxiliary of the British and Foreign, Bible Suciely, one of the speakers, Bishop Molony, referred to Ho gkong as "This Colony of Shanghai.""
The annual prize distribution In connection with St Paul's 'College is to take place on Satur
day next. H. E. General C. C. Juard will distribute the prizes at 8.45 p.m. A concert will take place at 7.30 p.m.
The Empire Review an nounces that it will award prizes of £30, £30 and £20, for the best 'The Objects of the essays on League of Nations" Essays must) reach London before August next, and must not exceed 4,000 words.
The Society of Women Jour nalists is offering four prizes for the best essays, not exceeding a thousand words, on what Wern hley has done for the Empire: British subjects mién, women and children-are eligible to compete. The prizes are £50 and £25 for adults; £10 for boys under 16and £10 for girls under 16 The closing date for the Far East is Juhe next.
The poetry Society. writes to the China Mai" as follows:
AND GENERAL.
Hongkong may be interested
Dickens' lovers should note, in the news that Mr. Chesterton is that the World Theatre is showing to issue a new weekly to be called ↑ "Our Mutual Friend." G. K's Weekly,"
The annual dinner of the St. Divid's Society of Shanghai took place at the Majestic Hotel last Saturday,
Three hundred and nine tourists are due at Manila on the 18th inst, on board the Empress of France. After her visit of one day she will sail for Hongkong
The mountain at Troedvri fuwch. In the Rhymney Valley, South Wales is again 'moving, and causing much damage to the public services. The main road is cracked for a considerable distance and has been closed to traffic, which has been diverted through☀ Fochriw over the mountain top The position now is that the population on the Glamorgan side of the upper part of the valley, is The P. & O. Company's is 8. in an isolated position. The water "Mantua" lift Singapore for and other services are seriously | Hongkong on
the
1st instantmenaced, at noon with the outward English Mails, and is due here on the 5th instant at about 70a.m.
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Black Bowler hats io Ice House "Street are not uncommon, but brown ones are. One suchadorned the head piece of a well known Agure the other morning and was duly admired.
Those who" desire to be familiar with the words and music of The Gondoliers" to be, pro- duced this month by the Philhar- monic Society; will be able to obtain copies of the score and libretto from the Anderson Music Co.
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Sir Jesse Boot the famous owner of chemist shops, says a Home paper, is buying a lot of land in the Channel Islands for building purposes. A very sound, scheme which shows that Sir Jesse has his head screwed on the right way: Hundreds of people have flocked to Jersey or Guernsey In the last few years in order to evade the income tax. And a place where one can buy whisky at 36. a bottle and cigars at zd. each clearly has a great future.
The Judicial Department of the Shanghai Defence Commis sioner is preparing for a general goat delivery of persons arrested The Bishop of London has during the recent troublous times. ben deploring modera frivolities | This has been rendered possible so insistently of late that a certain because the Department is now Society of artists (it must be name properly organized and in running less) have just sent him a letter rder. The China Press'', containing these words from that all prisoners taken on serions Shakespeare: Dost thou think harges will be tried and punished because thou art virtuous, there arvording to law; those people de shall be no more cakes and ale?"iziner for petly offences will be
dismissed with a cantion.
says
Naturalists of the Argentine As we understand there is a Museum of Natural History have Officials of the Foreign Office increasing Interest in modern discovered fossils of five glyptoare staggered at the flawless. English poetry in the East, we dons and one scelidotherium, a English used by the victorious venture to say that the hope fossilized human skeleton and a Chinese general in his despatch to of fostering this most desirable fossilized human skull "in the the British authorities after the development we are able to deposit along the banks of a lake fall of Peking. But most China- offer to supply parcels of twelve near Chasnomus, in the Province of men are perfect linguists. In the volumes of distinctive Buenos Aires. While the Argen-Cardiff law courts once, a Chinese contemporary poetry, all dif- tine. ратрав yields fossilized was put into the witness box and ferent title recently published animal remains in abundance, addressed by the examining bar- at from 2/6 to 5/-per volume, human fossils are rare, although it rister as follows: Youno speaka selected from the resources at is contended by local scientists Engleesh, what?" To which the our command for stimulating that there is plenty of evidence celestial gravely rejoined "I and confirming a taste for the--that man lived on the pampas in have, I believe, a very fair com- best in English literature, for company with these prehistoric mand of your admirable and ex- the nominal sum of 7/6 post free, boasts.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Senior Revenue Officer G. Watt has returned from leave to duty at the Imports and Exports Office.
Leaving Nimüle to-day, the Duke and Duchess of York are to return from Uganda by the Nile route.
Mr. Shohei Kinoshita has become the manager of the Hongkong branch of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha in succession, to Mr ."Yukie Yamamoto, who has been transfer red to the firm's branch at Osaka.
Mr. James Y. Lee has returned to Hongkong in connection with the producing of cinema films. Mr. Lee is a noted amateur actor
and elocutionist.
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Mr. J. Mickean, Manager of Papar Estate, B.N.B, who has not been very well recently, is on a visit to Hongkong.
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'After"a successful lecture tour of Japan, Baron Hans Gebaattel, one of Germany's foremost scientists and explorers, is now on a tour of the United 'Mr. A. Brooke Smith has been States before. returning "to elected President, and Mr, A. C. Europe. For the past eighteen Clear Vice-President, of the Shang-months Baron Gebsattel has been hal branch of the Royal Society of touring China and Japan, gather- St. George, Mr. Clear was due for ing antiques and valuable data election as President but is unable for his new book. The Baron to accept the office this year.
intends to return to China after ≈ completing his United States tour and visiting home, in order study China's unknown tribes of aborigines. Baron Gebsattel is an authority in ethnology and other branches of science.
Miss E Hivers is a passenger by the City of Baroda"- leaving to-day at 4 p.m., Miss Havers has been in failing health for some me and her many friends hope that the sea voyage and her stay ia · England will restore her to
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complete health. For many years 21 accepta lo resignation of Mr. A Peking mandate of February Miss Havers has worked in the Tong Shaoyi, Minister of Foreign Mission field in China first at Affairs, and orders Mr. Shen Jai- Pakhoi and latterly in and aroundlin, the Vice-Minister, to snoceed Returning from a trip to Yunnan Canton. Her very cheery per-him as head of the Waichinop. province, General Lau Tsun-wan, sonality has endeared her to
Mr. Shen has been attached to the commanding the pro-Sun Kwangsi large number of friends both Ministry since 1908. In August, army in Kwangtung, is reported to Chisese and European-and her 1910, he was appointed Chiness have travelled from Hongkong to presence will be missed in many Minister to Vienna and was there Canton by one of Monday's night | quarters.
when the Great War broke out. boats....
Since his return he has been Vice- Mr. W. A. L. Pardoe, of the Minister, which post he has held The Ven. Archdeacon and Mrs Public Work Department, Shang-under no fewer than half-a-dozen
hii, with Mrs. Barnett leave this afternoon by the
l'ardos and their foreign ministers. Meanwhile Dr. City of Buod-the first home-three children are passengers on C. T. Wang, having failed success- ward trip of this fie steamer, the the s.s: City of Baroda on Home fully to secure the post, has left leave, leaving Hongkong to-day. Poking for Shanghai in disappoint agents of which are the Bank Line
and disgust, Boy's Ltd. Other passengers include Mrs. Pardoe has been prominently ment Bishop Maleny and a number of identified with activities of the "Chinese Prose" Kindly. Missionaries from Fulden and has acted as han. secretary of the British Women's Associadon and
South China.
gardening section of the Associa tion for some time past. She also Mr. J. B. Tayler, of the has officiated in a similar capacity Economics Department of Yen for the Ladies' Paper Haut Club Ching University, who has been in and done active work on behalf Canton and Hongkong with other of St. Joseph's Church. The Misses members of a commission on social Frances and Teresa Dunne, sisters reseirch, is now en route from of Mrs. Pardoe, are also sailing Shanghai to Wuchang. He will with her on a visit to their parents, spend a week in Hankow, making Mr. and Mrs. J. Dunne, who left similar investigations, and return Shanghai last spring. to Shanghai for further work in
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A Home paper says:-The Duke and Duchess of York reached stolo, their camping destination for their first day's run, on Boxing Day, after a hundred miles journey. Stalking the same evening, the Duke made his first kill 1 Kenya Colony with a couple of shots. Starting off again at sunrise the next morning, through difficult country and tracts of the most dense forest land, the Royal party ighted its destination toward connection with the commission, of Women in Texas reached new evening, but encountered a tropical which he is the chair. He is heights of power in State affairs cloudburst The camp was several expected back in Poking on when,
while one, was in the Finches under water, and the party March 30.
Governor's chair, three others settled down, drenched, but all gravely sat as the first woman's accepted the situation with philo Attorneys are negotiating a Supreme Court In the country, ophic good-humour, laughing at financial settlement between Char- The three women on the beach their plight. On Sunday, Decem Ies Spencer Chaplin, motion, heard. arguments In a case ber 28, the party set out before picture comedian, and the sixteen-involving $15,000 and, the con- breakfast, dividing into two sec year-old bride he married instruction of the law as it related tlons: Using a 22 rifle, the Duchess Mexico last November. Chapilu to an unrecorded declaration of brought off, a remarkable shot, has avoided interviews ever since trust. At the end they judicially bagging a guinea-fowl on the his return from Empalme, Mexico, announced the case had been wing, while the Duke added speci- with his brids, and efforts to com- taken under advisement. The mans of buck tɔ his bag. Stilking municate with him regarding the judges were Mrs. Hortens E Ward a huge rhinoceros towards evening, reported financial settlement nos af Houston, special chief justice; the Duke had an exciting adven gotiation's "hare. met with no Miss Hattle Honenberg, Dallas, ture, He fired at the animal, which success. What part, if any, the and Miss Ruth Brazzill, Galveston, thereupon charged furlously at anticipated arrival of an heir to associato justicos. All are practis him. Standing his ground plud Hfy) the Chaplin fortune has played or leg attorasys. The mon Justices the Duke fired from a distance of will play in the negotiations is not of the court were disqualified ba thirty yards simultaneously with disclosed, nor is any hint divulgad use, they were members of the Mr. Anderson; the wild-gamɔ of the possible terms of the fraternal order which was a party hupler, and the beast rolled over,
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