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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A Manila paper upted the fact that the tourist bint California had on board 180 merry widows."
The annual meeting of "the Hongkong and New Territories Evangelisation Society is to be held on Wednesday next in the Hall of the Union Church.. Tea from 4.30: meeting at 5.15 p.m.
From the British American Tobacco Co, Ltd. the China Mall has received a set of coloured prints depicting Chinese junks our in the high sous and advertising their famous "Capstan" tigareites.
Manila' bikery shops are bit by an ordinance passed by the city futhers imposing strict regulations regarding the manufacture, gule and transportation of bread, cakes and other bakery products. It is purely a snuitary measure calculated to protect the public health,
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Three Chinese (two in Kowloon cases of small pax were notified for the 34 hours ending Friday lab ..
University holidays are on. Saturday, October 10 (recog- nition of Chinese Republic), and Thursday, October 15, (birthday of Confucius).
Booking for the concert in aid of the funds of the Missions to Seamen on April 2 is now opan at. "Andersons.
A great conflagration swept away 60-houses in Chinkong in Changsha City on March 10, and the loss is estimated at $800,000;
The number of passengers car- Apropos of Mischa Elman's ried during October to December, engagement, a contemporary says 10247 by the China General that marriage does not necessari- Omnibus Co., Shenghai, was asly disagree with a virtuoso vilion- follows:
ist. We believe this is go if he is prepared to play second fiddle.
October November December
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It seems to be increasingly evident that the destiny of the Tahiti islands is to become Chinese in the not distant future. A steady immigration from China, together with a heavy birthgate among those already in the colony, indicates an curly preponderance of Chinese over the roumnants of the native race:
Says Home paper:--| The League of Health ad vocates bare feet as a means of keeping well. Since, without any justification, the price of boots and shoes is soaring, it looks as though their theories may yet be forced on us!
During the thunderstorm on Friday night, lighting struck
Chang Chin-yao, a former house in Leighton Hill, occupied by
uchun of Binan who has been, Mr. W. O.. Lambert, an assistant A book about claret has just arrested and kept into custody in in the Marine Surveyor's office, appeared, and the author says Marshal Chung Teo-lin's head. (Fortunately, is did but little that "a great claret is the king quarters in Tientsin since the down damage, the chimney suffering of all natural wines." Maybe, fall of Marshal Wu Pel-fu was most. The flash appears to have but where find you "great claret?" transported under armed guards to struck the top of the chinney and says a-writer. The claret which Kalgun in Marshal Feng Yu- Cracked. it 'considerably. The you and I know may call itself by hsiang's headquarters for punish- incident naturally created mochany one of a dozen great names, ment concern, and particularly Mr. but what elements of greatness Bambert's household, who experi- | do we find in it? Raw and rough enced a very fortunato escape." and rusty is its too turbid flow.
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Writing in a Sunday paper of the modern craze for pets and charing that thwart the evil eye, Miss N St, John Montague says
M: Herriott's reported deci sion to end the practice of sending The Bureau of Public Works, convicts overseas to French Guiana Manila, employed only a limited Cayenne, and, other penal settle number of junior and sophomore ments, including the notorious students of the college of engineer- Devil's Island, will, it carried out,,
bring France's, penal code in line Students who with that of all civilised countries. work for one summer in the Bureau So far back as 1853 transportation are given credit of eight units to Australia WIS. nominally of college work. The work is abolished by the British Parlia
I would recommend a monkey sing to work as engineering assist ia mascot to aff who have entered ants this year.. this world in an Eastern clime, as these creatures are supposed to be very lucky to their owner, if born where they exist,... One of obligatory on all third year students ment, though for some years after- the most interesting mascots 1 hive in civil engineering. Ir as much ever seen was Sir Walter Raleigh's as all cannot be given employment pipe possessed by the late Governor and in order to give preference to of Hongkong. Sir Henry Blake. It those who are in need of financial was supposed to protect with force assistance, acting Dean Hyde has and power its owner against all appointed a committee to iares- rowardice and fear. Atid certainly tigate the financial standing of Six Houry's conrage was outstand each student who applied for
employment.
Ctr.
wards convicts continued to be sent to Western Australia at in tervals at the request of the free settlers dwelling there. In January 1865, however, it was decided that transportation should cease lutely in three years' time, and in 1887 the last shipment of convicts to Western Australia took place.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, Crown Soli- |citor has left for Home,
Mrs. Salter, so well known in A.D.C. circles has left for England.
Mr. and Mrs, C. Sara left on the Kashgar. Mr. Sara is on the staff of the P.W.D.
Mrs. Nihill, wife of Mr. J. H. B. Nihil of the Government's law department, left for home on Saturday..
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Mr. and Mrs. Cassidy left for Home on the Kashgar. Mr. Cassidy is of the firm of Messrs. J. D. Hutchison & Co.
Mr. Felix Dyck the famous planist left on Saturday by the Empress for Shanghai. Later on he will go to Japan.
The Hon. Attorney General and Mrs. and Master Kemp were among the passengers on the Kashgar which left for England on Saturday.
Mr. C. G. Perdue of the Criminal Investigation Department has gone on Home leave.
Senhor de Freitas, the Portu- guese Minister to Peking, has been transferred to Holland.
Mrs. B. Thompson is leaving, on April 3 for Tsingtao.
The Peking Players produced last week "The Man of Destiny' and The Twelve Pound Look."
Signor Ronconi, Italian baritone Mr. L. J. Davies of Messra. Gibb who was heard recently at the Star Livingston & Co., a noted wicket-Theatre, gave a concert on Wednes Keeper left for Home on Saturday, day, March 18, and Sunday, March
22. ut.the Zorilla Theatre Manila
Mr. and Mrs G. S. Archbutt (Union Insurance Co., Ltd. re- turned to the Colony from Manila on Saturday.
Dr. W. E. Barton, known to numerous readers. us Safed the in the Union Church, Manila. Sage preached the other Sunday
The Shanghai A. D. C. announce Yi (Why Kick?) and a grand variety entertainment to be given settlement. next Saturday in the northern
The artistes are Mra. C. Wingrove, Miss contributing Betty Cohen, Miss Kuppy Cohen, and Messrs. D. M. Mollison, G. E. Mr. and Mrs. R. Packham withden, R. F. Hunter, and A. E. their daughter, departed
Heyes. од Saturday by the Empress of Canada. Mr. Packham has retired The dance and social at the from the service of the Godown Co. anghai Customs Club last Satur
duy was a conspicuous success,.
Dr. Alexander Lipny, the new director of the conservatory of niusic, University of the Philip- 16. He comes from Vienna. pines, arrived in Manila, on March
Mr. W. Tinney who lectured re- cently at the Helena May Institute has been lecturing in the north. His subjects have been "The Destiny of Men and Nations" and The Return of the Dead at
Hand."
ton, of Penang, have issued inviti- Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Codring tions to the wedding of Miss Anna Minnitt and Mr. L. A. C. Biggs at St. George's Church, Penang, on March 30, and to a reception at 8 Racecourse-rd.
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At Mr. Felix Dyck's pianoforte bring especially notable because the ing Mr. A. H. Todd, Secretary of After the Seremban Skye meet recital in the City Hall on Friday two striking artists, Cave and the Singapore Turf Club and the last, the audience was pre- Melsa, attended to dance
This They Straits Racing Association, was pre- ponderatingly male. Eight ladies bought no music, but Cave Esented with a gold watch in appre- only were present surely a re- while turing the violin from the ciation of work done in the past on cord for Hongkong.
instrumentalist of the jazz band, behalf of the Negri Sembilan Turf Mela gave two classical pieces with Club. Passengers who departed by the
splendid effect. Besides the danc Empress of Canada on Saturday ng of the evening there were songs included Rev. and Mrs F. A. on Miss Peach, Mr. and Mrs. Christopherson, Mr. A. H: Carroll, Scott: Mr. Hall and Mr. Newton Mrs. K M. Fetterley, Mr. C. v. a Lango exhibition, and a comic Mark, Commander and Mrs. P. H. sketch by Mr. Maggs and Mr. Rolfe, Lady Severn and children, Jones, Mrs. Peach was accom Sir Robert and Lady and Mr. Dunia Robert Ho Tung.
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