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The Culture of Consentration The charge for a landing By the time be is 50 will be the subject of this week's permit' imposed on aliens landing is past the age of love, Public Lecture of the Hongkong ju the Netherlands Indies has been woma at Marylebone Lodge The Theosophical Society, sed from 50 guilders to 100 16, Queen's Road Central on guilders, operative since July 1 Wednesday, May 27, ut 5.45 .m. 1024. The Public are invited.
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Bradford Guardians propose to acquire portable sinama apparatus at their institutions,”st & for use cost of 6116:
Committee is to employ a motor
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Education.
Col. John Coolidge, father of A. Shanghai Municipal Council the President, is to laager in the of a German subject in the Mani- ten to Mrs. J. D. Knapp of Joliet, minute states: The engagemont maple sugar business. He has writ cipul Band se recommended by II, who asked him for prices. the Conductor, is approved, it being "The President's father replied: "Ivan, carrying 1,200 volumes, to recorded that there is no objection have let my lol. thereto
Walter W. Supply villige, libraries. on political obber Lynds makes nice sugar or syrup, grounds."
y and can tell you the price of either," even weeks, Croydon and Streat 475-47,488) bo subscribed within The balance slicet of the post Respectfully, John
delivered at your place by parcel ham residents will have the use as government of Northern Ireland for the year shows a surplus of re-
Copfidge
19 open space of 30 acres of wood- land, adjoining Strenthum Com- vonne over expenditure of £150,000,
more SW. ant. extending into the Farm labourers and seen. borough of Croydon. A little more The figures on the surplus for the previous years of Ulster's existence and others to to an open-air life to 18 buys the property, as a separate state were £47,000, w working in a compressed and 0.000 has been obtained. 232,000 und £96,000, respectively, liver, Waveney, at Huddisco,Canon Daniel Kiely, Roman air chainber beneath the Bed of the A scheme to establish a public pear Lowestoft, making excavations Catholic priest, of Templemore, bud at Singapore has definitely this piors of n new railway Tipperary.. left £100 for massor materialised. It has been decided «bridge, To relieve unemployment, (at os. each) for the souls of all to establish a police bunil of 30 per- of men are being employed on those for whom he had ever said formers, composed of ex-Indian the work us uch as possible. All masses, £200 for masses for his Army handsmon mal it will be under men have had to pass a medical own soul, £200, for the souls of his the direction of Mr Mims, bandamination, Salt, wiry men are relatives and numerous bequests to master of the 2nd Bn. the Royal at sitable for the work, as they Catholic charities, (personal estate Sussex Regiment, who is retiring a low affected by the air pressure in England and Southern Ireland) from his present post and joining
than others. the Stubs Settlements police on June. The band will be sub
disent by the Municipality and will give public performances in the town,
17.520.
Pro-
I should think, writes the "Hundreds of Welsh working author of several books that the men can compose Welsh, poems in miaquotation of Browning's, "O to alliterative verse, compared to the be in England," is not by any intricacies of which a Greek chorus means so frequent us that of in as an infant's puzzle." The grounds of the Hotel Milton'a "To-morrow to freefi fessor Hudson Williams, of the Majeste, Shangimi, should prove an woods and pastures now." I quot- University College of North Wales, ideal spot for an open-air cineina ed it in the preface to one of my mid this tribute in an address on The Hongkong and Shanghai books. The publisher, or his the teaching of Greek at the meet- Hotels, Ltd, have announced their reader, pencilled in fields in ing of the Classical Association at intention to start one early in June,, place of "woods." This emenda- Bangor. Arrangements are being made to tion I erased, but the typist firmly seat comfortably 1,500 nightly and re-instated the erroneous correction. nise to secure "feature" films from Re-corrected, the compositors com- United Artists, First National and bined to restore the wrong reading Fox tcompanies. Shanghai will on galley-slips and page-proofs, for thought. soon contain more cinemas in pro-, alike. Finly, that superior per- portion tes the size of its Western on the printers render restored pupulation: Ulian any, place in Europe. "fields" in red ink on the final Amper-eine is 11 point of proof's. I. therefore, had to re- completion in North Szechnen place woods," choosing a atrik Rond, another is to go up, on the ing shade of green ink, and giving site of the Tad "Shanghai Tines im page nd line references to building-use in uitition (in the seven separate editions of summer at all events) to eight that yedi. Probably nine is the were in operations Fast year. The only popular book pablished in Majeskie open air cinema will make the last twenty years in which the a niti..
line is correctly cited.
SOCIAL
Mr. K. W. Fann, Este of the Government's labomsory depart ment, is now engaged in teaching at Home.
The forthcoming wedding is 41- Bonneed of Mr.
Are too many books published? The statistics for 1924 in "The Publishers Circular" provide food 12.706 books heat all previons re- Just year with cords-482 more than 1923 and 327 more than in 1913, the previous record year! The birthrate, more- over, is decreasing in some classe but growing in others. We would like to hear the views of a literary eigenist. Fiction shows an in- creuse of 314. Games of 55, Biography of 111: but in Techno- logy there is a decrease of 103, Science of 93, in History of 47.
AND PERSONAL.
Renter, under yesterday's date. cables that the body of the lata art Ypres was cremated at Golders Green.
Renter cables at Sir John Bert Harvey Baird has been elevated to a barony Puorner, of the Hongkong Hotel, on the occasion of his appointment to Miss Carmen, Marie Souza, en us Governor Generaļ of Australia. route from Slangbai by the ss. Moreu.
Mr. Wallace J., Hansen, directora of Messra, John Manners and Co., Ltd. of Canton,.,and Consul for Denmark at that place, revisited Bangkok with his wife by the Bintang,
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The Court of Directors of the B. N. B. Co., have accepted with much regret the resignation, on urgent medicul grounds, of His Excellency the Governor Major General Sir Williun H. Rycroft, K.C.B.K.CMG, with effect from | May 05 1525.***
The following message is publish- ed for general information:
After little more than years in Borneo, 1 am forced to re- linquish ray Post under the highest "Medical orders.
period us Governor.
WILLIAM EYCROFT.
Reuter cables that the Duke of Northumberland has been appointed Knight of the Garter The Duke served in South Africa, the Sondan and in the Great War.
The Duke of York has become president of the Wembley Garden Clab, the social centre of this year's British Empire Exhibition..
Mr. G. H. Potts has been pro sented with momento by the Shanghai Clay Pigeon Club in sp preciation, of his kindness in grant- ing the club the free Use of His ground.
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The death, has occurred suddenly- ut Bristol of Mr. Henry Albert- Butt, father of Dame Clara Butt, the contralto. Mr. Butt in early Mr. Alastair Cameron, a director life was a captain in the merchant of the P. und O. Banking Corpora service and afterwards a shipbroker. tion has been appointed Deputy, at Bristol. He retired some years Chairman of the Board. Mr. Q, E. ago. Malkinson and Mri R. Nicholson! have been appointed as assistunt general managers.
When Viscountess Astor gave an address on Ideals in Politics" at the Eccleston Guildhouse recently, she was introduced by Miss Maude Royden, who applied to her the lines from the "Winter's Tale." Women will love her that she is a
Womai
In commemoration of Empire Bay, Capt. Neville (A.D.C. to H.E. the Governor), laid a wreath at the Cenotaph on behalf of His Excel. lency. He was accompanied by Pay-Lieut. E. D. T. Church More worth than any man; men, (Secretary to the Commodore), who that she is also laid a wreath on behalf of, The rarest of all women. Commodore Stirling
The marriage took place yester Chinese Affairs, by the Hon. Mr. day morning at the Secretariat for
"It is with the greatest regret that I sever connection with the
The news received a few days ago On doing so I must tender that Herr Fritz Baedeker had died Btate. "my deepest thanks to the whole of in Germany at the age of 81, recalls W. Trataan, of Mr. F. 8. the Officials, European and Asiatic the fact that the world-famous Harrison, South British Insurance including Native Chiefs, who are guide books which bear his name JW. Harrisou, and of Mrs. J. W. Co., Ltd., second son of the late Mr. responsible for having given me rare brat launched as long ago Harrison, Epsom, Auckland, New the happiest recollections of my 1830 by his father. Karl Baedeker, Zealand, and Mrs. Philippa Olliver,
"I am confident that there is a a publisher of Coblentz, whose first
vonture was Belgium great future for the country but Holland."
and only daughter of Major General The original Kari patience is necessary."
T. E. Stephenson C. B. and Mrs. Baedeker died in 1859 and was suc
T. Stephenson, 75 Carlisle ceeded in business by his sons Mansion B. W. I.. Fritz und Ernst, The two con He considered The First tinued the work of their father and The Prince's concern as Hundred Thousand" the most re-auded continuously toy felist of whether he would put on weight markable journalism of our time, der books natif every part of during his tour reveals a secret. It maid Mr. Edgar Wallace, presiding Eumpe was represented in the is that long trips abroad like this, at a house dinner of the London series, besides, several other coun- particularly ocena travelling, give. Press Club when Major Gilbert tries outside of Europe, Le. Egypt, him an opportunity of rest from Beith (Ian Hay"), brother of Mr. India. Canada, and the U.S.A. his strenuous existence at home." D. F. Beith of Mesars, Jardine,The task of revising these guides He plays an hard ae he works, and Mathecop Co., Ltd.), the well-and bringing them up-to-date is close observers at his first Lorée known novelist and playwright, was love an enormous one and keeps formed the opinion, that he was in the principal guest. In Hay on international staff of travellers need of a milder and less energetic said, as a result of writing The ad literary men constantly kind of relaxation than be le First Bundred Thousand, he was occupied. Bo much may he said normally accustomed to taking. sent for during the war by Lord for their accuracy and thoroughness
Newton, who said I want you that, when the war broke out, both Queen Mary revived the exper- to go to America and tell we and our allies did not hesitate fences of her youth while visiting them something more. There has to make use of the familiar guides Italian tows She lived for a time been fostered by the pro-German and every available copy was in Italy, when a girl, as her parenta Eress in Amerce the idea that
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