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The Community Church at Shanghai has now been completed. The Church was dedicated last Sunday,
The total amount so far collected in Shanghal for the St. Paul's Restoration fund is $2,380, and Tis. 235.
Motorists should notice. that. lighting up time to day and to morrow is at 632 pm, and 6.33 p.m. respectively
Queen's College Old Boys' Association Annual dinner takes place this evening. A large number of Old Boys and friends will be present,
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St. Patrick's Club is to hold a Capt R. Sassoon paid concert on Tuesday next at 8:30 Tis. 7.300 at Shanghai for a pony pm.
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The collections' to-morrow at St. John's Cathedral will be given to St. Paul's Restoration Fund The preacher at II o'clock will be the Bishop; and at 6 p.m. the Revi G.E.S. Upsdell.
Tenders are called by the Government for the construction of four "A" class harbour buoys.
Revised dates are announced of the Hongkong Jockey Club's Extra Race meetings to be held this seasons
It is announced that ap- proximately £330,000 was raised in response to Lord Haig's British H.M. the King has not been Legion appeal on Remembrance advised to exercise his, power of Day, 1924 Far Eastern com-disallowance with respect to ordi- munities contributed a share. nance amending the Forgery
Ordinance.
When a solicitor at Highgate suggested that a builder's truck was worth 303, and not £10, the owner asked the magistrate, The apnual meeting of" Would it be legal if I called Shareholders In the Douglas him a llar?"-Clerk: It would Steamship Co, Ltd. is to be be very offensive."-Owner: held on Saturday 28th inst. at. Then I won't call him a liar, but, at the same time in my opinion, he is one."
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Entries for the Billards Colony Championship" of the close on Monday next at 6p.r. They should be sent 10 Mr. R. C. Witchell at the V. R. C...
"No wife can tell how much her husband earns unless he is a little absent-minded and leaves his clothes lying about," said a woman at Marylebone County
Court.
The proposed £30,000 grand parede bandstand at Eastbourne is being opposed on the grounds that it is unnecessary and un- symmetrical. A poll of the town on the question is probable.
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A large gathering of children attended at the Helena May Instituto yesterday evening, when cinematograph display was a
was thoroughly given, which enjoyed.
The Registrar of Companies notifies that the Yuen Hang Yang Hong Co., Ltd., and the Hong. keng Mortgage and Share Brokers Co., Ltd. have been struck off the register.
The "Gazette" states that from the Secretary of State that information has been received the jurisdiction of the Austrian Consul at Shanghat has been extended so as to include Hong kong.
It was announced at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday by Mr. E. W. Hamilton that the enqiry into the death of Mr. Re- ginald Earnshaw might have to be re-opened and another juror sworn in as one of the jurors who sat on the opening of the enquiry was due to leave the Colony on March 25. The enquiry was adjourned for the return of Mr. H. W. Abbott from Manila,
With reference to a previous but should he not return in time it is anticipated that the proceedings Government notification, the scale will be re-opened in his absence..of charges for a private nurse as from April 1 will be $200 per month of 30 days and $7 per day. Sultable meals and accommoda- tion must be provided, states the Gazette.
A telegram from Nice states that Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, the lawn: tennis champion, hay The Shanghai American injured a muscle in her arm, and Players announce that they will "has had to retire from the courts: produce Dulcy," the three-act She will not be able to continue comedy by George Kauffmann competing in matches on the and Marc Connelly, at the Carlton Riviera. The news of Mile. Theatre on April 13, 14 and 15. Lenglen's injury came as a com- Tickets will be $4, $3, $2 and $1 plete surprise to Miss Ryan and apiece and the proceeds will be
her other partners. Mile. devoted to charity.
Lenglen has not been playing so well during the last few days, and the difference in her play has aroused comment.
There was one unhappy in cident connected with the arrival of the globe-trotters at Shanghai. For hours before the Arst tender) hove in sight, swarms of beggarsi had made their appearance along the Bund foreshore. Some that were strangers to Bund office dwellers and doubtless hailed from the city had a better command of English, perhaps having had a longer experience of the generous hearted people from afar who; invariably visit the "willow pattern teahouse." One persistent men-1 dicant in a sorrowful state of de composition bellowed" Hulloa" in a truculent tone to all who passed
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A set of four drawings has been prepared to illustrate the Report on the Commercial Develor- Mr. John Duncan, M. Inst. C. E.. ment of the Port of Hongkong by Port Engineer. A limited number
of these sets may be obtained from the Port Engineer, on production of a receipt from the Treasurer for the purchase price which, will be $1 a set uncoloured and $4 a set coloured.
Captain E. J. Howey, who
A writer in a Home paper served in the Royal Air Force during the war, has just inherit says: Our bishops are exhausted by ed property in Australia worth having to attend all sorts of un- £1,500,000. Tragedy and romance necessary commitee meetings, and are blended in the history of this it is the same with many of our property. It stands on a piece of more prominent vicars and rectors. land in Melbourne which was pur-They are idly busy rushing from chased during the pioneering days one conference to another (till they in Australia by an ancestor of degenerate into deplorable wind. The bags). They are left Httle or no Captain Howey for £120. property has increased in value to time for reading, meditating and such an extent that it is now re-thinking so as to be fitted to give "garded as one of the most valu- out a message helpful and worth
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr. A. W. Graham Brown left It is said that Queen Elizabeth on the President Taft yesterday of Belgium has bobbed her hair.
Mr. and Mrs. for Shanghai.
A. C. Longmun are passengers to Kobe by the same steamer.
The forthcoming wedding is announced of Mr. Robert Cecil Wilson, journalist, of the "South China Morning Post," to Miss Jane Hutchinson Wilson, who is en route to the Colony by the s.s. Macedonia.
The Kowloon Cricket Club held their monthly dance at the Hong- kong Hotel Roof Garden last night. The music was supplied by the Jazz Band of the tourist ship California. This is the last of season's dances ao far as the Cricket Club is concerned.
Mr. F. J. Dickie who recently returned from Home is now with Messrs. Sander Weiler and Co.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Andrews, well-known in Tientsin paper left for hunting circles, bave Home.
Mr. A. D. Silas, Mr. C. J. Smith and Mr. G. D. Templeton were passengers on the President Grant which arrived yesterday.
The Rev. WT. Featherstone, headmaster of the Diocesan Boys School who has been ill with influenza and dysentery is now fully recovered.
Mr. J. Whitsed Dovey brother of "Your profession has many Mr. E. B. Dovey of Hongkong, The Life and Times points in common with mine," lectured on
at the last meeting told of Confucius" Prime Minister Baldwin
Asiatic Society, newspaper men at a luncheon of the Royal given in his honour at the London Shanghai. Press Club when a pipe made
Mr. A. Strok the impresario, is from a brier root 150 years old.
bringing the Denishawn dancers was presented to him. "Neither you nor I have any regular hour to Shanghal, including Ruth St. for meals; we are not subject to Denis and Ted Shawn. It is not the eight-hour law; we are liable yet known if these dancers will
appear in Hongkong. to be fired and put out in the street at a moment's notice, and' we don't possess Rolls-Royce cars or villas on the Mediterranean,
Mr. S. R. Brown, sub-manager of the International Banking Corpora tlon at Shanghat, has left on
The Rev. H..du T.. Pyner of the Diocesan Boys' School leaves the Colony on Home leave.
The Japanese Ambassador, according to present arrangements, will leave London in July for Tokio.
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Mr. Okuma, Secretary at tho Japanese Embassy, left London on February 3 for the Foreign Office at Tokio.
Mrs. D. Beale leaves for Home next month. Mrs. Beale will be remembered for her wonderful in the AD.C.'s performance production of “Saint Joan.”.
Miss Maud Marsh and Mr J. T. J. Clayton, Chlef Officer of the "Taikoo Wan Yi," are to be married this afternoon at St. Andrew's The Rev. G. Church, "Kowloon. Lindsay will officiate. Miss Edith Marsh will be the bridesmaid, and Mr. R. Weal! will accompany the groom as best man.
Amongst those who accepted the invitation of the Netherland Community in Hongkong- and at- tended the showing of the film "Holland" at the Queen's Theatre, last night, were: Mr. and Mrs. A. Stevenson, Mr. J. M. Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. F. Bagot, Mr, and Mrs. Cossart, Mr. J. Manners, Rev. H. du T. Pyner, Messrs. Chau Siu-ki, J. Ring, R. E. O. Bird, Paul Lauder, J. Owen Hughes, J. P. Braga, Professor and dra. Danenberg, Mr. and Mrs. Crook, -M._____ Whyte, · · · M.
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Sir Francis Piggott who has furlough. Mr. JH. Brett, of the Tientsin office of the bank, takes just died, was a former Chief over Mr. Brown's post during the Justice of Hongkong. He was period of his absence, born in 1852, and was educated in Paris, at Worthing College and later went to Cambridge. He wasDr. N. Bradley, who foMontargis and B. Perry.
working single-handed in the big called to the Bar in 1874 and com hospital at Yunnaniu, it engaged He a great little man, writes the menced his career in the Far East in schemes of expansion in con- music critic of the North Chlua when he became legal adviser to nection with the medical work in Daily News of Sir Harry Lauder the Prime Minister of Japan in the big northern city which he and the secret of his success is his 1887, a post he held for some initiated. Dr. Bradley is well wonderful personality. years. Later he became secre-known in the Colony, as is also quality of his voice and the quaint tary to Sir Charles Russell when Mr. Bradley
mannerisms which have endeared he was Attorney-General In
him to the pubifex are not one 1895 he was, appointed acting|
Before his departure from whit changed from those of 15 Chief Justies in Mauritius and in | Shaoghal Sir Harry Ladder wrote years: szoTMwhen one saw him at
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