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Mr. Joseph Conrad's last novel, "Suspense," which he did not complete (and which Mr Conrad declines to allow to be completed) is to be published this autumn by Messrs. Dent.
GENERAL.
The membership of the Kobe Foreign Board of Trado has con- giderably increased, it now brings dut a very useful fortnightly market report.
It is an interesting fact that there is a Board of Trade regula Plans are under consideration requiring steamships to tion by the Government Goneral carry fifteen bottles of port and of Korea to establish a mercantile eight bottles of brandy for a crew marine school in Koren, The of forty-one or over.. Seamen's Training School at Jinsen is to be removed to Bazan. The Government General has appropriated Y180,000 for the purpose.
A total of £1,422 was realized from the recent sale at Sotheby's of books from the library of Sir Robert Peel, a former
Prime Minister, the property of his granddaughter, Mrs. Arthur Soames, and other selections. The Peel books included a fine
copy .of Surtees' "Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities," 1843, first edition which went to Quaritch for £98. It contained Sir Robert's autograph.
"I've done nothing since last December, when I was Father Christmas at a toy store," said Matthew Alp, aged eighteen, when he appeared on a charge of begging, and was asked by the chairman if he could not get a job. He was committed for one day..
The returns of notifiable dis- enses in the Colony during the 72 hours ended on September 20 show two Chinese cases of enteric faver, ore Indian case of para-typhold fever, and two imported cases of cholera, one French, and one Chinese.
!: Dr. Murray Butler, Pre- sident of Columbia University, speaking in London, said that there were five traits which might be considered to be signs of an educated man-correctness in the use of, the mother tongue, The Queen's Theatre yesterday refined and gentle manners, sound showed one of the most specta- appreciation of beauty and worth, cular films ever screered in Hong- the power and habit of reflection, kong-The Fall of Babylona and efficiency or the power to do.veritable triumph of cinemato
graph portraiture. The music so excellently played by the orchestra and on the great organ, had not a little to do with making the appeal of the picture more effective.
WAS
J. S. Smith, of the Station Hotel, Kowloon, who was bathing at the Easma beach, swam into at particularly large one and right side. Mr. Smith was
the right arm and in considerable pain and as it was felt that counter measures should be taken against poison entering the system he was conveyed to Hongkong by launch and then to the G.C.H. where he is still detain- Englished at present,
That Marshal Chang Tso-lin is neither sick nor depreased, much less dead, as rumour would have it, was evidenced on the 15th ulto. when he witnessed a guunery de monstration at the North Camp, ni Mukden. The accomplishments to The enemy of bathing the various units afforded him great picnickers, particularly at Stone- Mr. Henry Hill, one of the satisfaction, but not the least in-cutters, where there are otherwise grand old men of the stationery teresting event of the day was when ideal beaches, was particularly in trade, and one of the few sur-the Marshal voolt a rifle from one evidence there on Sunday and vivors of the quill pen industry, of his men and gave an exhibition several bathers got stings of vary- has been lecturing at Stationers of marksmanship, registring eighting intensity from jelly-fish. Mr. Hall on that old type of pen. In hits out of 10 shots on a small tar his view, although first of all the at a distance of 300 metres. steel pon made a great inroad, and then came the fountain pen,
"Eat pineapples and grow while the typewriter, of course, thin." The unprecedented scar-stung on must not be left out of considera-ety of pineapples in the London tion, the quill, will never become markets this year is declared by actually a thing of the past. For importers to be due to the diver use in legal documerts, for exam-ion of shipments to Germany ple, the quill still possesses un- where "grow thin" vogue is in challenged supremacy. Mr. Hill. Tull swing. It is believed by the way, has claimed the "Olichere that the fruit has excellent Lady" as a customer of his front anti-obesity properties. the time his firm was founded in doctors, however, are warning the year 1843.
their patients not try the pine- apple route without first seeking Hongkong who is easily recog An interesting visitor to Radio music is forcing Londitions the fruit may
medical advice as under some con- don dancers to take up the new harmful.
nisable by reason of the French prove
colours he sports on his cop, the "Charleston" for the new step
tricolour band on his left arm has forced the English dancers. either to learn the Charleston Italian army will shortly be made, Tean" yesterday.
Changes in the uniform of the herd's crook, arrived by the s.s. and his thick stick like a shep- or sit out a good portion of the the new design is already Pernot, & former French aviator. He is M. The Charleston is a fox submitted to the King, as the who served in the war and lost trot with strong Negro charac-preme commander of the army both his lega. In accordance with teristics. There is a considerable for his approval. The idea to the terms of a bet the carrying swinging of hips, and with its vert to the multi-coloured and at out of which will make him a rather difficult time of three beats tetive uniforms used in pre-wricher man by Fra. 700,000, he is in every eight stepa is somewhat days has been definitely abandoned. hard to learn..
The dancing and the aim of the change is on the teachers frown with a good deal one hand, to simplify the uniform of disapproval on the new dance, adopted during the war, and, on but it is catching the popular the other to render it more comfort funcy and is being learned in able to the soldiers. The uniforme spite of the dictum of the dancing will retain their gray-green colour masters that it is not likely to but a better quality of cloth will become widely popular.
be used.
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touring the world and whilst here will have his papers "chopped" by the French Coneul as irrefutable proof of his visit to Hongkong. The time limit for the tour is 20 years and the ex-aviator is con- fident of doing the tour in the scheduled time.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
The birth is announced of a daughter to Mr. J. A. dos Remedios, Secretary of the Trea sury Department, Macao, and Mr. Remedios.
The birth is also announced of a son to Mr. L. G. da Luz, also of the Treasury Department, Macao, and Mrs. Luz.
The Rt. Rev. C. R. Duppur (Bishop of Victoria) was to have left Yunnanju on September 9, writes the "China Mail" corres- pondent.
Miss Margarida Gomes who was so well received by audiences at Hongkong intends giving two concerts in Macao during the first week of October next.
To-day, a special service is to be held at Se Cathedral, Macho, being the anniversary of the disastrous typhoon of the same day in the year 1874 which caused great damage and was the cause of the loss of many lives at Macao.
Mr. Eric Rice, formerly Private Marshal Wu Pei-fu does not be- Secretary to H.E. the Governor, lieve in the theatre for children, leaves London on the 29th inst, according to the "Commercial Ad-| for a tour in the interests of the vocuta, “ A few days ago one of Over-Seas League, of which he is his soldiers took Wu's 10-years old Special Commissioner. It is on to a theatrical performance likely Mr. Rice Il visit Hong-thinking the Marshal would be kong as his tour e.abraces Egypt, pleased, When they returned to Ceylon, Burma, Malay, Siam, Wa's gumbont, the "Chuch Chuan.' China and Japan.
both were given a severe beating.
Mr. George Bernard Shaw has Maurice Beck, the art photo- promised to record his voice for grapher, is very proud of the the gramophone. In a letter, to Chinese art collection, with which, the company, Mr. Shaw says that in a mews of New Cavendish though he knows that the gramo Street, he made his studio beauti- phone can talk intelligibly, he is ful. So it was all the greater. rather sceptical as to its power of shock, the other night, when, giving a really satisfactory re- after he had taken a cord of an individual voice, bút driver in to give him a drink, he that he does not mind. "having a heard the man say, "It's wonder-' try."
ful Gov'nor, what you can do with a stable and a lot of junk.”
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"Men nowadays, smoke cigar- ettes in their baths, and smoke.
If it is true, as has been sug incessantly all day long. They rested in several quarters, that never seem to be satisfied, and Mr. Cox, to whom Lord Ypres. are always craving for another bequeathed his fortune, is only cigarette almost as soon as they acting as a trustee in the interests have thrown away the last.”. So of others, the late field-marshal said Judge Sir Thomas Granger, has shown a startling originality Miss Tsune Karasumoto, a who fined a barrister for smoking in devising a new form of will, maiden Kuchikimura, recently in the robing-room at Greenwich
says a Home paper. Such & offered herself as a sacrifice, to be County Court.
method would break entirely new buried alive in the foundations of
ground, and would rob the the new temple to be built near
"My faith," he said, "is not family lawyers of many of the the imporial tombs in Momo your faith, but truth is a jewel perquisites which flows from the yama, Tradition says that some that has many facets. Whatever drawing up and administration 300 years ago a girl of Tokyo was our creeds we can all, as men, of a trust deed bristling with at her own request interred in the join in the name of common technical pror'sions and provisos central pillar of "Asakusa humanity to relieve suffering, to and extending perhaps for the Tempio, and the popular belief succour the distressed, and to length of three lives. General Is that her sacrifice saved the extend a brotherly hand to those French, as he then was, showed edifice in the earthquake disaster whose misfortunes are greater himself very apt in thinking out of September, 1928.
than our own."-The Maharajah new cavalry tactics for baffling of Patiala, at 3. Salvation Army the Boers. Is it possible that he also discovered an unthought-af means for confounding "the legal papers for payment. Apart from The Archbishop of Canterbury profession? Lord Birkenhead, only one front had the surprise of his life when
Minister over shown days ago, he, cailed at a
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