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The return of notifiable disease for the 24 hours.ended Thursday shows one (Dutch) case of enteric
fever.
The total output of the Kallan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending August 29, amounted to 88,864 tons, and
the sales to 68.246 tons.
The Broadcasters gave an- other enjoyable entertainment at the Theatre Royal last evening and will conclude their short senson at the Theatre to-night.
Mr. W. H. McLeod. of the Public Works Department. Negri Sembilan, is, we understand, the inventor of The Rikisha Double Hand Brake." privileges with re- gard to which have just been granted under the Inventions Enactmen
Eileen P. Pomiroy, formerly of Hongkong, was granted a divorce in the United States Court at Shangha on the grounds of her hustand's desertion. The latter, Harold C. Pemroy, filed no reply, and it was stated that he is at present in the United States.
GENERAL.
The Central British School, Kowloon, has forwarded to the London Hospital the sum of £24. the proceeds of the raffle of dolls, and carriage.
Motorist (to Good Samaritan who has obliged him with petrol). Sorry to have troubled you, old man, been doing forty nt times trying to get home before she ran dry!
Women na letter carriers in Great Britain have proved a suc cess, according to Sir William Mitchell-Thomson, Postmaster General, who said recently that 4.200 women were now in the employ of the department in that copacity.
Miss Ellen Wilkinson, M.P., ht a trade union conference at West- minster, said it is no use going to see the Prime Minister. All you get is "So pleased to see you," and "very goud of you to call."
New settlers in the Invermero (British Columbia) district in- clude several Russians from Harbin, Manchuria. Three hun- dred acres of land have been dis posed of to Russians and 261 Additional settlers are due there' shortly to take it over.
Answering the call made by the Spanish Consul-General in Havana, 131 volunteers shiled for Spain in the steamer "Antonio Lopez to enlist in the foreign legion, being recruited for service against the Riffians in Morocco. are mostly South The men
are seeking Americans who adventure.
A lady engaging a new muid was astonished when the girl said: "Do you do your own stretching On being asked to explain what she meant the maid
Three prospective brides un-1 replied: "Well! Do you stretch across the table for the things youder 3 have applied to Somerset want or do I 'ave to shuffle round House for permission to marry.
In each case the whereabouts of with em?"
the father is unknown, and as the "English as she is spoke" is law now stands a mother's con-
English Kiving the
purists sent is not sufficient if the father The is believed to be living. The now mail and passenger in London much concern. In fact liner of the Messageries Maria hage organisation is in progress question will have to be referred times the "D'Artagnan," left of forming for the purpose of to the Lord Chancellor. Stareciles recently on her maiden against the too wide-spread use VORWAY TO the East, and she is scheduled to arrive at Singapore' on September 21. She is called after gas of the four heroes of Dumas's romance, the others being "Aramis,' "Athos" and "Porthos."
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of slang. Back of the movement Two seater taxicabs should be is the belief that in the years to permitted in London unless the come English is to be the world-present scale of fures by four- language of diplomacy as it seater cabs is voluntarily reduced, already is of commerce. But if according to a report to the Home the Britishers can't understand | Office by a committee which has American slang, and Australians investigated the situation. can't understand British and the recommended that the fares be The Silver Crescent," a 27- Canadians can't understand Aus-reduced one-quarter from the fon vessel, has left Hamble. neutralian, how then, it is argued. present minimum charge of 18. Southampton, for a 35,000 miles are the rest of the nations of the cruise, which will occupy twe and world to acquire a complete con- a half years, On board were mand of the English language. Captain Gardiner, his wife and So the Royal Society of Litera- son. Captain S. M'Lean (who ad- ture, the English Association and companied him when he was run the British Academy have formed ning the Riff blockade), and a an alliance to see not only what sixteen-year-old scout named can be done to tone down the Humphrey Coe.. Captain Gar present-day use of slang but also diner said he was making the trip to keep words that are currently partly for adventure and partly regarded as slang from gradually with a view to improving Eritish creeping into the language as trade with tiny ports and islands regularly accepted words in good which he would visit.
standing.
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for the first mile. The taximen strongly oppose the two-seaters, declaring that the present conges- tion will be made worse, but the committee replies that the public welfare will be best served by a reduction in rates, even if a re- striction be placed on, the number of both types allowed on the streets. The drivers offer a com- promise consisting in an agrée- ment to shut down the metres. during hold-ups in traffic owing to congestion.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Maestro Mario Paci, Cen- ductor of the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra, who is passing through the Colony, gave д piano recital last night at No. 7, as Peak,
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Women's hats, said the Not- tingham coroner. at the inquest A woman killed by a 'bus, are
bad as horses'
blinkers. Bonnets worn by women now. ađays, he added, completely blinded them at the sides of their faces. He wondered that they
Signor A. Carpi of Grand Italian Opera fame is at present in the Colony. Signor Carpi is proceeding to Manila for the pur- did not meet with more accidenta pose of organising an Opera Com-in consequence.
pany.
Mr. H. G. W. Woodhead, editor of the "China Year Book" and the "Peking and Tientsin Times," has arrived in England on holiday. Recently he was lecturing in the United States on China's relations with the Foreign Powers.
Sixty members of the American Students Travel Club have been scouring London and its environs in search of knowledge and his. torical data. They are a section of a big party of 800 engaged in a similar enterprise all over The Oxford University Press Europe. For the most part, the announce that they have appoint club consists of high school girls ed Mr. Norman Peterkin
from all parts of America, with manager of the Anglo-French a sprinkling of middle aged
and school-"marms" Music Company, of which they
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Henry Ford, who celebrated the 62nd anniversary of his birth, says: "I am living for to-day; I have no worries for to-morrow, and yesterday was taken care of. My chief interests in life just now are my three grandchildren, aviation and farming.
Mr. Thomas Hardy has written the following dedication for the new wrought-iron gates presented to the Dorset County Hospital at Dorchester by Mr. Edwin Pope: That swift sympathy which quicks the world. Thomas Hardy. These words have been reproduced in bronze in an en- larged facsimile of Mr. Hardy's handwriting and placed on a tablet near the gates.
Unless the Royal plans are earnest changed very considerably it is have recently acquired control. young men. Eton was one of the unlikely that the Prince of Wales Mr. Peterkin, who is a musician first places they visited. On, will visit his Canadian ranch dur- and composer of no little reputa-founded by Henry VI, in 1440, one though he would like to do so.
learning that the school wasing the present year, much tion was formerly in Hongkong.
of the girls remarked with awe: is practically certain that he "Wal, girls, I reckon this has got will Passengers leaving for Europe
return direct from They were going to South America, leaving Monte by s.s. "Kashima Maru" sailing us beat. to-day, included Mrs. B. and Miss school before we were discover- Video in September. The Prince
H. Wylie, Miss Starkey and Mrs. Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. Maireles (of Macao) and two daughters, Mr. G. Harper of Queen's Dis- pensary, and Mr. F. H. Fisher of the British-American Tobacco Company.
ed!"
It
will probably arrive at Ports- mouth on October 7, and people in Scotland will have an unexpected pleasure if, as is suggested, he travels north immediately to join the King and Queen at Balmoral.
Some most illuminating state ente were made at the annual general meeting of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene held recently in London, relative to the manner in which A society gossiper writes that drugs exercise their alleged In a recent article on "How Sir Charles Eliot, the retiring curative action. Dr. Warrington Old Is Ice Cream?" various facts British Ambassador at Tokyo and Yorke, an authority upon the are recorded which_make_ enter- formerly Vice-Chancellor of subject of malaria and parasitical taining reading. For instance, Hongkong University, shares diseases, intimated, for instance, we learn that Thomas D. Cutter, with Sir George Graham the dis- that quinine is not, as is common- editor of the "Ice Cream Trade tinction of being the only unmer-ly believed, a specific poison, for. Journal," is authority for the ried members of the British the malaria parasites, but that, statement that Ice cream origin Diplomatic Service to attain the after absorption by the human ated in Italy, before 1600, Also rank of Ambassador.
organism, it "is in some way that so far as advertisements modified by the body cells and show, Joseph Crowe of New York: The first Tibetan woman to thereby changed into a substance was the first to make ice cream in arrive in Europe landed at Vic-which is lethal to them." Thus, the United States; this individual toria Docks on August 11 from he explained, to some extent a having run an announcement in the Japanese steamer "Kitano cure depends on the man himself, the Post Boy in 1788. And then- Maru." She is Mrs. King, wife and any factor which reduces his we are informed that, If the ice of Mr. L. M, King, lately British power of self-help must: reduce cream consumed in the United Consul in the province of Khem his hope of cure. And then he States in one year were put into on the Chinese frontier. Mr.added: What these factors are one cone, it would tower over the and Mrs. King, with their three, we can only speculate, but they Washington Monument; that children and Mrs. King's brother, inay well be deficient nutrition, ill more than 700,000 cows. may settle in England, Mrs. health due to extraneous causes, the cream, and that most of the King is the daughter of one of the exhaustion and strain, repeated eggs used in the trade come from thirty-six ruling, - princes... of infection, and mstly, and possibly China. All of which is highly Tibet, and la rented by marriage not least, overdosing with quinine. interes But are we to draw.
alon from
to the present King of Chalaya When it is recalled that big the com feudal head of the frontier pro vince of Khum Mr. King has spent half his life as British re presentative on the frontier- of Tibét
doses of quinine have in the past fac been by no means the exception, cream. the significance of the last few the words of Dr. will be be
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