THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1925.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Menirs. Lane, Crawford, Ltd. announce that they can now deliver goods from all depart- ments including groceries, wines, and spirits to Kowloon and Hong kong.
For the week ending Saturday last, the return of notifiable diseases showed one Chinese case of diphtheria. For the 24 hours ending Tuesday, the return show ed one Chinese case of enteric fever,
The period of service on the Education Board of Mr. U. Rumjahn has expired and it was stated by the Chairman at the meeting yesterday that Mr. Rum jahn was not prepared to serve for another period. The vacancy had been filled by the appoint ment of A. el Arculli.
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The King has approved of Dr. W. Crul as German Consul for
Herr Hongkong, and
Franz Winkler as Consul of Austria for Hongkong.
"India does one delightful met with thing which I never anywhere else," says Mr. B. V. Lucas.
The Bishop of Singapore, who,
Chaplain as
Ferguson-Davie (Punjab L.I.) won the silver medal at the Bisley N.R.A. meet- ing of 1904, is competing again this year.
A choirboy stood on his head at Leighton Buzzard while extracts "It is an unwritten law were read from the will of in every Anglo-Indian household Edward Wilkes, a 17th century Mr. Wilkes founded that an extra place be laid at benefactor. meals on the chance of someone almshouses and left charity lands dropping" in..
for their upkeep on condition that the boundaries of his property The reason why Messrs. were beaten every Rogationtide. John Brown & Co. obtained the
Considerable indignation was contracts for the two Australian cruisers has been divulged. Their caused in Scotland by a London tender was higher than the low-correspondent of an American est by £12,000, but their designs paper, who referred to Cale- were such that this differencedonia's fine new Rugby ground would be saved in fuel within 18 outside Edinburgh as "Murray- months. This does look like a Seld, England." Sets should be feather in the cap of Clydebank.
placated by a letter that an American literary agent is brond- As a result of the requests of A "League for the Removal of casting just now. He is recom- the members, the Government the Tax on Marriage" is being mending a story that will be of some time ago undertook to ap- founded by Dr. Murie Stopos. great interest to "Scottish and point a medical inspector for She claims that marriage is "tax- | British boys." schools and at yesterday's meet- ed to the tune of more than ing it WAS stated that Mrs. £20,000,000 a year" in conse- Minett, who had previously been quence of a husband and wife's appointed had now undertaken separate incomes being reckoned her duties which consisted of as one for the purpose of income visits not only to Government tax. This, ahe declares, is Schools but also Grant Schools. directly anti-social and, linmoral Mrs. Minett's professional quali- proceeding, and is against the dications were referred to, also | best interests of the State. her previous experience.
to those who would be his execu
That he had given a direction tors to plunge a stiletto into his heart after his death, was feveal- ed by Sir George Greenwood, who presided over a meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Premature Burial. Miss Helen Oakes, "honorary secretary of the A driver of a taxicab goes to society, said one of the best- It only remains for the Prince the Chamber of Deputies in known men in England, whose of Wales to be given a title in Paris, and when he arrives he nume was a household word, had South America and then his Roya! | places a black cover over the flag once been placed in a coffin' Highness will possess a special of his taximeter. This indicates dead, and when about to be buried designation for every Continent that he is not soliciting fares. He was found to be alive. He had and almost all parts of the world. puts his cab on the rank and en-lived for 20 years... In the United Kingdom, he has aters the Chamber. He takes his choice out of eight titles, but the seat
the
parliamentary One rather extraordinary fea- North American Indians, when he benches, listens to the discussions ture of the lawn tennis boom in visited Canada for the first time and sometimes intervenes. When London is the number of people in 1919, were not content with the sitting is over or when he in the suburbs who have had these and coined one. for them- considers that his presence is not tennis courts laid out in their selves-Chief Morning Star.. The required, he leaves, returns to his gardens, not for their own use, Canadians had already become cab, takes off the black cover, and but for that of other people. accustomed, through their return-plies for hire. For the taxi- These ing troops, to knowing him as the driver is a Deputy, but because he Scout, while the Australians knew is a Deputy he does not therefore
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ingenious suburban- dwellers let out the tennis court for the season, and they also pro- vide teas; those who have space the natives of India, and the For a number of hours every day for two courts make a quite good Japanese have all followed suit he drives for a living. The cab is financial result from it. It fre- during his visits to them, and now his own property and he is there- quently happens that those who the natives of South Africa have fore under no restrictions as to hire the courts bring along parties dubbed him Shiping Sun, a much hours. His name is Monsieur almost every day. This means more handy name than Langa Adam, and he sits as a Commun- several teas have to be provided, Liyakanya, which is the official ist in the Department of the and each brings a respectable. spelling.
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SOCIAL
Mrs. A. W. G. Ogilvie left on Tuesday by the President Polk for holiday at Home.
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AND PERSONAL.
Anatole France's brain was Mary Pickford has written a taken over by the Faculty of letter to one of her English Medicine for the purposes of admirers. In it she says: "When science. It is now learned that I retire, which may be quite soon, The Ven. Archdeacon and Mrs. the great writer's brain was 12 I shall live six months of every Barnett are settling down at ounces below normal weight, but, year in England. Who could ask Nether Compton. near Sherborne, like that of the great French more of life than a cottage in Dorset. Their residence hasetatesman Gambetta, it had Devonshire?" been called Kuling, after the well-numerous and deep convolutions known northern Chinese summer or ridges.
resort.
Captain Maurice White, a son After the lapse of seventeen Mr. R. J. H. Sidney, head-of Mr. Tyndale White, JP, of years, Lord Burnham held a master, Victoria Institution, hus Ongar, Essex, has just died from Court Baron at Hall Barn, been elected a member of the the effect of wounds received Beaconsfield (Bucks), in connec- Headmasters' Conference, which during the Boer war. On Boxing tion with manorjal rights and is, we believe, a distinction only Day, 1900, he was shot in the customs. Lord Burnham, Ax shared by 14 other heads of spine, and this produced paralysis Lord of the Manor of Beacons schools outside the United King-of the lower limbs. Until the day field, appointed his hayward, dom.
of his death he was able to get bailif, constahies and bellman. scalers of leather, ale-tasters, about only in an invalid's chair. The ale-tasters,, appointed were He was given a military funerai.
Mr. Charles Allen Bennet, K.C., and Mr. G. K. 'Chesterton.
Mr. M. F. Key, Sceretary of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, who sustained a broken ankle, a fractured wrist and a badly erushed knee besides minor injuries in the motor-cycle crash, in which Mr. P. Brown of Messrs. Loxley & Co., was the other victim, at Char. Wan Hill on the Castle Peak Road, on May 23. left the Government Civil Hospital yesterday. Mr. Key, it is understood, hopes shortly to resume his duties.
The interest faken by the Chan- cellor's son, Randolph, in the Commons debates is a proof that.
The King of Spain, who is 39, Winston is bringing up the boy in has, with rather grin humour, friendlier way than he himself formed a collection of relics of the con various attempts which have been was brought up. He once fided in a friend that he owed made to cut short his career, everything to his mother, nothing The collection is a considerable whatever to his father. "He one, and its contents range from treated me as if I had been a the test of a feeding-bottle used. fool," said Winston: "barked at in an attempt to poison him at me whenever I questioned him, the age of eight, to pieces of the and when I tried to talk politics Barcelona bomb, the skeleton of a with him, he only looked con- horse killed by another bomb, and tempt at me and would not a fragment of the landau in which he was riding with President Loubet at the time of the at- tempted assassination in the Rue
answer,"
From the fuss made in some of the newspapers over the King's horn-rimmed eyeglasses,. you would imagine that royalty had never worn" eyeglasses or specta- cles before, says a Home writer. The Princess Royal is happily de Rivoli, Paris. Of late years, fuss was made last recovering from the sudden at-happily, the additions to, the year when the Queen wore smoke-tack of hemorrhage which caused museum have been few. coloured glasses at the Wimble the Royal Family considerable don tennis tournament. But anxiety. The King, who is a
The same
most men of His Majesty's age, devoted brother, visited his sister The members of the Royal however good their "long sight" every day. Her life was un-Family are not, as a whole, at- may be, wear glasses for reading. doubtedly saved by blood trans-tached to literature. The busy And the King for some time past fusion. The title of Princess ones, of course, haven't time to has worn spectacles for writing Royal is not inherited by the read much; but nor, for that and reading.
eldest daughter of the sovereign matter, hava they the inclination.) by virtue of her birth. It is a The King is perhaps the solitary special creation. King Edward exception, the only one who would The mother of four notable created his oldest daughter, then read a book for pleasure and not children, Mrs. Haldane had a re- Duchess of Fife, Princess Royal merely because he had to, says a markable series of associations shortly after his accession. The London writer. I once heard the with the Woolsack. She was the title is held for life no matter Princess Royal say that if all the great-niece of one former Lord how many sovereigns may suc members of her family had to Chancellor, Lord Eldon, whom cecd during that lifetime. pass an examination. in current she remembered, although it is George III's eldest daughter, literature in order to gain a liveli nearly a century, since he left the Charlotte, Queen of Wurtemberg, hood, they would starve. The Woolsack the sister-in-law of held it for sixty years; Queen kind of books that find their way -another-Lord-Herschell and the Victoria's oldest daughter, the on to the royal shelves are official mother of a third, Viscount Empress Frederick, for nearly the biographies and memoirs. Haldane. There was another same period. Both were intense Modern fiction is neither seen por judge in her family Lordly proud of their title, and on all spoken of and people like Ches Eldon's elder brother, Lord State and formal documents sign terton, Wells, Bennett and Shaw Stowell, a judge of the Admiralty ed themselves, after their foreign are only known because their Court, who was born in 1745, and appellation, Princess Royal of cames will keep cropping up in whom also she could remember. Great Britain and Ireland, the papers.
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