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The article in yesterday's "China Mall"-Modern Psychology and Education was attributed to A. G. Fritz Prew. The name should be A. G. Frith Prew. A
AND GENERAL,
In Canada Empire Day is known as Victoria Day,
For the 24 hours ended Wednesday, one Chinese case of enteric fever and one Chinese case
of para-typhoid fever were notified.
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The population of China in 1923 was estimated by the Post
Victoria Is the first district in Office as being 436,094.953. This did not include Mongolia, Tibet London to have one of the Weir and a few hriebs in Manchuria, steel houses This is practically The Maritime Customs estimate completed in Grosvenor gardens WAK 444.968,000 The foreign: population in China was estimated; to be 324.947.
The sale of "North Pole
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Eggs have been sold Pwllheli for three-farthings each.
In Tientsin, a large shed was erected for the accommodation of the Bund coolies, during the winter with sleeping room for 250 men sach night by the Salvation Army. Hot porridge has also. been distributed there. Up to the middle of February, 12716 men were sheltered, and 31,155 bowls of porridge were supplied.
Stampk." the proceeds of which { Three hundred and thirty: will help finance the Amundsen ex-five men and five women have been pedition, has beguh. The Norwegian axecuted in England and Wales Monday, May 25. will be a military holiday in lieu of Empire Post Office has issued 420,000 of the since January, 1901: The number Day which falls on a Sunday,stumps, valued up 48,800 crowns, Whit Monday (June 1) and King's Birthday (Jure 3) will also be military holidays when the Com mand offices will be closed except for business of an urgent nature.
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A District Court Martial will assemble at Murray Barracks, a 10 am, on Tuesday, for the trial of Private A Markham, 1st Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment. The Court will he composed of Majur R S S. Paton, 1st Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment (President a captality, R.A. and a subaltern of the 5/2nd Punjab Regiment.
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Saturday, the sixth day of the Y.M.C.A., drive for Tis. 201.500 for the erection of a magnificent building on Bubbling Well Road. Shanghai, found the campaigners Tls. 12,497.12 nearer their goal when the reports were made. A grand total of Tis. 170,700 has now been subscribed, leaving about Tis.
to be raised last 22,000 Monday, when the drive officially
ended.
SOCIAL
A Grand "Empire Day" Con- cert is being held to night in the Lyceum Theatre, Shanghai, by the A. D..C.
Mr. N. Brewer. Barrister-at-law, with Mrs. Brewer, is due to return to the Colony about the middle of next month.
Mons: Arinal, of Mac's Cafeteria is shortly proceeding to Peking in the interests of the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd.
The Haokow Golf Champion- ship was won by E. F. Lyle, the runner up being H. A. Allan. The Haig Cup was won by E. Clough, the runner up being W. B. Rigden.
Mr. John Van A. MacMurray, the new U. S. Minister to China, is expected to sail from San Francisco by the President Pierce on June 13. It is not known whether he will be accompanied by Mrs. Mac Murray..
2nd Licut. G D..Upson, 5/2nd Punjab Regiment, has passed an examination in preliminary Urdu, and Jemadar Jagat Singh, 5/2nd Punjab Regiment, has qualified in English (higher standard).
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Passengers departing for Home yesterday by s.6. Fushimi Maru included Dr. and Mrs. H. G. Earie Hongkong University) and two children, Captain and Mrs. Ben stead, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Martin, and Mr. T. R. Rennett.
An interesting visitor who is expected to arrive in Shanghai
During the month of June for all payments in sterling by the Treasury Chest Officer, China Command, the dollar-will be fixed at 2 shillings and 3 pence. The rupee in the same month will be
shilling and 6 pence,
of death sentences passed in that period, according to Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, in a statement issued in reply to a parliamentary question, as 621-on 545 men and 76
women.
Moneylenders have been ex- cluded from membership of the congregation of the Liberal Women in the Halifax dis-Jewish Synagogue, Regent's Park, trict of Yorkshire threaten to NW. In his Passover sermon`at' form a society of their own as a re- the Kingsway Hall the Rev. Israel tort to the Henpecked Husbanda' Mattuck, of the Regent's Park Society, which will hold its Synagogue, condemned money- annual meeting-well guarded lending as un-Jewish and anti- from intrusion on the hill-tops at Jewish. The pursuit of money- Luddenden. One caustic critic, lending was condemned by all refering to her sex as we poor Jewish law as it was condemned deluded women," has described by all the social ethics which the members of the male society Judaism teaches. "The Jew by as going about on Easter nature," said Mr. Mattack, "is not Monday, each усат branding a moneylender, but a money themselves as so many fools." giver." It was BOI because The men are fearful that before prejudice against the Jews fed their society is actually formed itself on the exsilence of money- their wives will realise that their lenders, but because of their action will make the day one of disloyalty to Judaism that his full and unfettered freedom for congregation condemned their the "henpacked."
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AND PERSONAL.
Lieut. R. W. Gibson. 1 Loyal. Regiment, arrived from North China by the s.3. Kueichow.
Reuter cables that Dr. J. Percy Bruce, ex-President of the Shantung Christian Mission, has been appointed professor of the Chinese School of Oriental Studies, London University.
The death has occurred at Tien tsin of Mrs. D. W. Lucas, wife of Mr. Lucas, assistant accountant of the Standard Oil Company of New York. Mrs, Lucas, had been un. well for some time, and took a serious turn during the week end. The cause of death was meningitis.
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One day Landseer, was looking at the drawing of a new student, a pretty young lady. very tall and slim, called Guinness, and reading her name on the corner of the drawing-board: he looked
said, her up and down, and
Guinness, Guinness-any re- lation to the stout pany?”
At the Charles Lamb banquet, Mr. Augustine Birrell protested of the word against the use "gentle" to describe the essayist. Lamb himself had an objection to the description. Lamb wrote to Coleridge, requesting him to blot out gentle-hearted applied to him, and to substitute drunken dog, ragged head, self-shaven, cold. At five o'clock there was a cessa-eyed, stuttering, or any other tion of play in the open doubles similar epithet which truly and tennis tournament final on the properly belongs to the gentleman courts of the Hongkong Tennis in question." Clubyesterday afternoon and many heads were bared. This was as a mark of respect to the memory of the late Mr. C. Monargue Ede in connection with whose death a service commented at that time at St. John's Cathedral.
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Lord Oxford and Mr. Lloyd George are both actively engaged on their big books, and his lordship's will probably be published this autumn. It deals with the political history of Britain during the last; half century, while that of Mr. For the first time in the history Lloyd George' has for subject, the of the Bank of England an official War and the years that immediate- of the bank was recently electedly preceded it. Neither statesman to the board of directors, Sir John employs a stenographer. Gordon Nairne, the Controller, books are all hand done. This appointment will involve Sir John's resignation of the office of Controller.. When he was chief cashier from 1902 to 1918 his signature appeared on miltions of
banknotes.
The students of St. Andrews are clamouring for another visit from their Lord Rector, Mr.
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Robert W. Service, author of Songs of a Sourdough," has probably made as much money- from verse as any of our present day writers with the exception of Rudyard Kipllug and two others. Commonly called the Canadian Kipling and attributed to Canada, Mr. Service is a Briton who emigrat
is Mr. Dyson, father of Captain Rudyard Kipling. He has beened to Canada from Glasgow, where J. Gordon Dyson, Deputy Chief to the place only once, to deliver he was a back clerk. He now Officer of the Fire Brigade. Mr. his. Rectorial Address, but it is lives in Paris, and is well known Dyson is 78 years of age, and like understood he is likely to pay a among the drtists of the Quarter. his son has been prominent in fire return visit this, Spring when he brigade work at Home. He is at will receive his golf ipitation, present making a trip round the without which no St. Andrews world, and brigado circles in Paris Lord Rector is complete. and elsewhere have fittingly enter- tained him.
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What to do with our girls? It is KKK | surprising that women are not entering the book publishing business. There is at least one woman publisher in London, but there is room for many more. The calling is pre-eminently suited for university women with a taste for Letters. No vast amount of capital Is required, and some of our most prosperous publishing houses have been begun with very little ready money. Competition, however, is
keen.
Brides-to-be in Northampton are taking advantage of the course offered in the technical school to prepare their trousseaux noder the supervision of expert teachers. engaged by the local education authority to give instruction in the domestic arts. At one branch of the technical school no fewer than ten young women who are to be married during the summer are students, and six of them have been engaged during the past six months in making wedding går- ments, and, proparing linen and fashioning other material into articles for use when they set up house-keeping.
Under the auspices of the Tient- The vogue of bare knees for sin Woman's Club the Tableaux women has reached England from from Omar Khayyam; with read- America. The first evidence of Ings by Mrs C. E. Gray from the new mode was seen by a Fitzgerald's translation of the representative of The People," Doet's verses, which proved so who made a tour of the West End popular a short time ago when streets and parks. The latest de first shown, ware repeated. Vocal parture from long-skin conven- items were tendered by Mrs, tionality attracted a good deal of Raymond Lowry, Miss Walker attention in the Zoological Gardens, and Miss Caldwell, appropriate to where a girl, stylishly dressed fa the occasion: These thr ladies, large-brimmed hat, well-tailored tuma and 2'imitation "sandał united, in a del
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