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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A guld watch was left, by some member of the audience at the Shanghai Boy Scouts Concert which is being kept for the owner by Scout officials.
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The number of unemployed persons receiving doles from the Government in Austria has reached 190,000, the highest number since the reconstruction period began.
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"Overwhelmed," cabled Her- bert Sutcliffe, the English cricketer. to The Sheffield Telegraph, after learning of the splendid result of the Telegraph's Sutcliffe testi monial fund.
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A Shanghai Chinese Associa tion of Chartered Accountants has been organised in Shanghal. A charter was granted to the associa. tion recently by the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce.
This year the Chinese branch of the Shanghai police is to be re-armed with automatic pistols, the Commissioner considering that the Martini-Metford carbines are obsolete and worn out. The pistols will give the men a better chance against armed robbers.
The smoke hulsance. caused
inconvenience much
.10 the hospitals in Shanghal last year, FUZLA CEAS ARE 2E36 E3 according to the annual report of the Commissioner of Public Health.
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At the Chinese Isolation Hospital a quantity of grit weighing 11lb. was swept up from the 'central quadrangle in one morning.
SATURDAY
GENERAL HONGKONG HOTEL
The band of the H.M.S Haw kids, has been delighting audiences at Singapore.
For the 24 hours ended Wednesday, one case of enteric faver was notified. Alio one case of cerebro spinal lever. Both are Chinese cases."
The Lee White Company which is opening in a few days at the Theatre Royal had a very successful season in the F.M.S.
The Wish Wynne Co. after a season in Singapore has left for Australia. The company retent- ly performed in Hongkong and Kowloon.
The attention of owners alled to a Hongkong Jockey Club announcement. In the The total output of the Kailan. Twickenham and Esher Handi-Mining Administration's mines for caps (both A and B classes) the week ending March 14, 1925, there will be ho Jockey Allow amounted to 100,300 tons, and the ance, & advertised in the original | sales during the period to 83.776. programme..
A new Sugar Company has Just been incorporated in the Philippines, called the Luzon Sugar Co. Its authorised capital is P.250.000 of which P.165,500 have been subscribed. Messrs. Wm.. H. Anderson, R. Renton Hind, W. G. Hall, A. S. Heyward and Wm. H. Rennolds are the 10 corporators and directors.
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Heavy rains fell in the
throughout Colony
Thursday night. The fall for the 24 hours ended at 10 a.m. yesterday is given in the Observatory report as 2.92 inches,
The return of notifiable diseases in the Colony for the 24 hours ended on March 26 shows S cases of smallpox, 2 cases of enteric fever, and 1 case of cerebro-spinal, all Chinese.
The Free State Government has decided to take part in the movement for popularizing Ireland
The directors of the Hong as a tourist resor The Minister of Commerce has summoned a
kong Tenants' Protective Associa- conference of the various hotel,
tion have called a general meet- railway and other interests in ing for April 4 to confirm a re- volved, and it is hoped to bring solution to send a telegram to the public bodies in the north into co Home Government praying for operation with the movement.
About 800 men employed in the iron mines at Belle Island of
Educational statistics for Ger the British Empire Steel Corpora man universities covering a perlodtion, Sr. John's went on strike be of 10 years show an increase of wo- cause of the introduction of time men students; a falling off in total clocks. The men term this an enrolments, and neglect of the attempt to force them to work ministry. The women to-day are longer hours without increase of about twice as numerous as they pay, while the company officials were in 1914; 7467 as against 4056. claim its object is to secure a bet After the war a large number of ter check on the workers; The young people rushed to the schools, Government is endeavouring to many of them unfitted for univer-mediate. sity work; these have now depart. ed and attendance is becoming normal.
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the extension of the Governor's term of office.
For the third extra race be given in the handicaps, as meeting. no jockey allowance will followTwickenham (2nd and Srd races), Esher (6th and 8th). on the first day (April. 11); Great Metropoliton (4th), Hyde Park (6th), and Kingswood (7th) on the second day (April 13).
This
At the annual meeting of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, it" was suggested that Notice is given that the the annual report "forms a third crdinary yearly meeting valuable piece of propaganda The public land law of the of shareholders of the Hongkong work for the Colony which no Construction doubt members will take the Philippines prevents citizens of Engineering and countries other than the Philip Company, Limited, will be held in opportunity of distributing to pines and the United States from the offices of Messrs. Shewan, business friends abroad." acquiring public lands there. Tomes & Co., St. George's. Build-advice is being so generally fol Therefore, the Manila papers re- ing, Chater Road. Hongkong, on lowed that the question of print- port officials as saying that the Wednesday, the 8th day of April, ing a second edition of the report request of some 1,000 Russians 1925, at 11 am, for the purpose urgently arises-before the type now in Tientsin to be allowed to of receiving the report of the is distributed. It will be a great of Directors and convenience to know definitely. come to colonize portions of the Board uncultivated land in Mindanao. | a statement of accounts how many copies are required cannot be granted. However, it for the year ended December and all, interested--both members was hinted that should these 31, 1924, and of elect- and non members-are asked. Russians desire to come to the ing directors and auditors. The kindly to send in a definite order. Philippines, they would be per- Transfer Books of the Company forthwith to the Secretary. The mitted to enter, but they cannot will be closed from the 2nd to the price, as already announced, is obtain public lands.
8th April, both days inclusive. $2 a copy,
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Messrs. W. Money and R. Latham have been appointed Justices of the Peace for the State of Perak...
The Seremban monthly Golf competition for March was won by Mr. Burchette,
Letters to hand indicate that Dr. and Mrs. Woodmao are well and enjoying life at Vancouver Island.
Mr. D. H. Cameron, general manager of the South China department of the Standard Oil Co., has been on a visit to Manila Mr. Jacob Gould Schurman where he was hospitably enter-American Minister to China since tajned.
June 1921, has been appointed. Ambassador to Berifn.
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Mr. Charles "H. Albrecht, American Consul, Bangkok, hasi left for America on leave. His future is uncertain, but the pro- bability is that he will be return- ing to Siam.
Mr. P. E. H. Marsh, son of Dr. and Mrs. E. L. Marsh, of Shang- hai, won the recent inter- University boxing contest for Oxford against Cambridge, in the heavy-weights class.
Two members of the world- famous quartette" which recently appeared in Hongkong, are now performing at the Hotel Plaza, Shanghai-Mr. Herbert Cave, tenor, and Meläa, violinist. Mr. Garrat, another member of the quartette, passed through Hong- kong on his way home:
Says the Straits Times" of the 19th-Amongst the through pas- Hengers, from Marseilles to Hongkong, on board the Suwa Maru, which came in Monday, morning and continued her voyage the following afternOON, were Senhor J. Mi de Castro Basto, kad his eldest son, Dr. Beate Benhor Basto is one o. the old and leading members of the forturgesa Hongkong and
HAPPY COUPLE.
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Mrs. McCubbin, will present the trophies at the conclusion of the junior and senior Football Shield Anals on the H.K.F.C. ground this afternoon."
Miss Macdermott, of Rothesay, who received this year the Bute Wedding Dowry (248 10s), founded by the late Marquis of Bute, is claiming last year's also as there was no applicant.
The Prince of Wales signed, the register at the wedding of Miss Vera Birkin and Mr. J. Seeley and gave the bride a sapphire,and. diamond brooch, and Prince. George's gift was a blue enamel and gold clock!
Madame Cerruti, wife of the Italian Minister, is proceeding on a visit to Europe, at the com- mencement of May. Monsieur Cerruti hopes to follow in June, in which case M. Scaduto will become Charge d'Affaires
Capri is one of the places befng visited by HM the King and Queen in their health cruise. Capri became the Deauville Of the first century.A.D. The enter
rising owner of the place, in the year 26, built a Villa there and presented it to the Emperor Tiberius. For eleven years the Capri season was opened by the arrival of the Emperor in a gilt- ed barge with purple awnings and all summer through he and his Court would toll under the shade of climbing vinear con cushioned couches marble
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