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More Women drive Buicks than any other car because of the striking appearance of this famous motor car Then comes Buick dependability. A woman knows when she starts out with her Buick that she will "get there and back." Other reasons are-the comfort in driving a Buick-the velvet clutch action, easy steering; then the power and quietness of Buick's Valve-in-Head engine! and the safety of Buick mechanical four-wheel brakes.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
LOCAL AND
A nil return of notifiable discases has to be recorded for the 24 hours ended Friday last...
Three-quarters of the profits of the "Chicago Daily News" are to be used for benevolent pur- poses, according to the will of the deceased proprietor, Mr. Victor F. Lawson. The remaining quarter of the profits goes to Mr. Lawson's brother. The "Daily News" is to be administered by the Illinois Merchants Trust Company.
Samples analysed under the 'Sale of Food and Drugs Ordin- ance during the quarter ended September 30 were 53 of milk, nine of bread, 16 of tinned food, two of coffee and one each of several other commodities, the total number examined being 96. The only adulterations were two of milk and one each of vinegar and camphorated oil.
The Association game of football now has a large feminine foll wing, though women are not so prominent in this connection as they are at big Rugby matches, The woman football enthusiast, however, is not so great a novelty as some fulk imagine. The Luton club, for instance, boasts a lady supporter who has not missed home match for well over twenty years,
GENERAL.
The Peak Church is now in a state of almost complete renova- tion. Handsome tenk doors have replaced the old ones which were of inferior wood, both the inside and outside of the building have been carefully repaired and re- coloured. The Committee of the Peak Church are indebted to Lady Pollock, for her help and advice. Dr. Sanders assisted and Mr. E. M. P. Sample, the Hon. Architect, is to be congratulated upon the excellent results."
The enrolment of students at St John's (Christian) University at Shanghai this term is consider- ably below the normal total of 700, reports the "China Press." This is a result of the students' agitation.
A joint of roast beff infected by certain germs is believed to have been responsible for the acute sickness of 22 visitors and the death of one lady guest stay- ing at a boarding-house Countisbury, on the borders of Exmoor.
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The famous "No. 10" is undergoing an autumn cleaning during the Parliamentary recess, but it extends in only a minor
"England is "terribly over degree to Mrs. Stanley Baldwin's private apartments-though the "There are so many people that crowded." said an eld Boer. carpets must have needed a good you wonder how they all obtain deal of attention after the many money and food to keep them- parties she gave during the selves alive. They seem to be season. In many ways No. 11 tumbling over each other. Downing Street is much prefer- terrible to see them jostle and able to No. 10 as a residence; liv-scramble for seats in the train. ing at the Prime Minister's official Goodness only knows what hap house is rather like living in a maisonette above offices. There ene to any one who is knocked
down in the rush. is, for instance, no direct route from the private rooms to the garden as there is at No. 11. and this is a real deprivation, since the garden is a pleasant place with a shady lawn and many trees. Flowers do quite well there in spite of a preponderance of shrubs.
Frederik
Manufacture of liquors con- taining 60 per cent. of alcohol and vodka of 40 per cent. will be permitted in Soviet Russia from October 1. under a decision reach- ed by the central executive com- mittee. The right to manufac- ture alcoholic drinks is granted to private firms, as well as the State sele is permitted throughout the and co-opérative distilleries and Soviet Federation
Constantinople. Innovation Britain's first and only after innovation follows Mosquito Control Institute at trend of the times in new Turkey. the Hongkong has been opened By orrier of the prefect, the by Sir Ronald Ross, who picturesque night watchmen of discovered that malaria is carried Constantinople must shave off by mosquitoes. Four years ago their flowing beards and crop Hayling Island was becoming im their long hair." Also they must and artists, headed by such well- A group of Moscow actors possible as a summer resort owing replace their vari-coloured tur- known actors of the Moscow to the ravages of the mosquitoes bans and. scarfs and baggy Art Theatre as Stanislavsky! whose breeding haunts are the trousers with a uniform re-Nemirovich-Danchenko. Kachaloff salt marshes. Now mosquitoes sembling that of the regular. and Moskvir. have organized al are rare in Hayling Island, and police. The beat of their long building co-operative for the bathing and sitting out in garders Iron-tipped sticks on the cobble- purpose of building in Moscow a has again become as safe as plea- stones is ended. The sticks have Home of the Actor and Artist." sant. This is due to the work of been confiscated and the police- The house will contain apartments KRELEJTETJIGJEJ ZADEBERENTIASTRELLI2JELIΜTTED|ZELD|ZEMNIM | M». J. F. Marshall, a resident of raan's billy substituted.
watchmen or bikdjis" have col- tive; there will be a cabaret on The for the members of the co-opera- lected gratuities from house- the lower floor and the artiste will holders on their beats instead of give performances on the roof, receiving regular wages, Now which will be built with this they will get regular wages.
purpose in view.
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the island, who, at his own cost, turned his house and grounds into a sort of general headquarters for the destruction of the mosquito army.
SOCIAL
Mr. E. W. P. Birch, a son of Sir Ernest Birch, who died re- cently. left £1,191. He was ageri 39 and in the Nigerian Politica: Service.
The marriage of Miss Elizabeth Goodall and Mr. Harold W. Bibber at the home of Dr. and Mrs. H. V. S. Peeke, 2 Meigi Gakuin. Tokyo, is reported in the "Japan Times.
The dramatisation of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles," the noted novel by Thomas Hardy, Nestor of English novelists has taken London by storm."Transocean
Radio."
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the British Labour leader and ex- Premier, has been suffering from gout, his thumbs being completely stiffened. The Trensocean Radio reports that he has been operated ouby a homeopathic healer.
There are signs, writes a cor- respondent in the "Malay Mail," that the housing problem in Seremban
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Mrs. Wallace Hansen arrived in the Colony yesterday by the "President Jackson."
MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1925..
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begun to make a name for himself in the world of tennis, refused to commit himself when naked whe-
Mr. R. M. Cholener and Mr.ther he thought it was a better F. W. Franks were amongst the game than golf. "When I am passengers who left by
the playing golt 1 think it the best. "Khiva” оп Saturday for game in the world," said he, "and Europe.
when I am playing tennis I think i it the best game in the world: I can imagine croquet being equally absorbing and possibly tiddly- winks!"
Mr. H. Glanville, Comdr. W. H. Jotham, Mr. L. Yates and Mr. H. R. Butters, were amongst the passengers who left for the north by the "Karmala" on Saturday.
Among the passengers who left by the 3.8. "Taiyo Maru" yesterday were Mr. E. J. de Figueiredo, Jr., for Yokohama, Mr. and Mrs. I. F. da Rocha, Miss Laura H. da Rocha, Miss A. M. da Rocha, Miss C. M. da Rocha, for Shanghai.
Unlike Hongkong, the Shang- hai Committee of the Ministering Children's League announce that they have aban- wish to doned their autumn entertainment for this year in view of other is again becoming enterprises in which so many of acute, and the shortage of Euro-their members are actively en- pean bungalows is emphasised by gaged. the number of enquiries almost daily for residential quarters.
Miss Simone Fleisher, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Fleisher of Tokyo, was married in Philadelphia on September 15, to Mr. Jack Stecker
A former member of the house- hold of President Coolidge nearly died of convulsions at a Lyan hos- pital the other day. Paul Pry, an dogs" two months ago for bad. Airedale, exiled to the "devil behaviour
at White Court, brought the illness on himself by official bulletin said he was resting over-indulgence in shellfish., The
comfortably, but "suffering from ptomaine poisoning.”
Insistent his daughter, it was less than half on proving that, whatever he might have said to enough, Arthur Cohen, a plumber of New York, introduced the girl in Court, and pronounced her an exhibit for the defence in his efforts to clear himself of a charge of using abusive language, I was an eye-witness of an "Look here, judge!" Cohen de- the other morning, says a Home the example, he launched upon a Amusing incident at Le Touquet manded. and then, with the girl as: writer. I had accompanied a tirade against boy friends, paint, friend to a large modiste's to pur-powder and petting parties. chase a Spanish shawl, and whilst she was in the midst of choosing of Philadelphia. The couple one with the aid of the chief
Not since the days of the tango B. W. Fleisher, the father of the grey Rolls Royce drew up at the dance as there is now concerning will live in Philadelphia. Mr vendeuse a magnificent silver- controversy has there been so much discussion about any new bride is the editor and publisher door. A large but handsome The Charleston" Dance ex- of "The Japan Advertiser. lady slowly descended and entered perts themselves are divided in It is not usual to bestow de- expansive and all-embracing smile will become the chief favourite of the shop, where she gave us an opinion as to whether it really corations on enemy subjects, but prior to remarking deliberately the ballroom during the winter. General Allan, who commanded in a singularly penetrating voice, the American occupation forces in "Say, folks, is there anyone here Some who deny the charges of the Rhineland, has been awarded who speaks the: an honorary Doctor's Degree by language?" the Medical College of Frankfurt
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