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LOCAL AND GENERAL
The annual fete and sale of work in connection with the Ministering Children's League is to be held in the grounds of Gov ernment House on Saturday next a 2.30 p.m.
The Odeon Theatre, which has just been completed and which is one of the largest in the Far East opened its doors to the Shanghal theatre-going public last week. with the presentation of Mary Pickford in Dorothy Vernou
"Why should we be disfran-of Haddon Hall. chised because we are temporarily. resident in Britain?" ask many It was very difficult to defeat are the crammer, he said: Almost all visitors who Australian anxious to participate in the Com-the good places in certain, ex- They urge aminations were carried off by monwealth electior
those who had been trained in polling the establishment of a booth at Australia House, revive two or three "cramming" institu- ing the privilege accorded to tions. Yet the system was a Diggers in war time. It is claim- thoroughly bad one, ed that there would be difficulty if
cabled: A swimming tank at the Hal the nominations were Voters could produce their bona- Rouch Comedies.studio came in ades, and the figures could be cabled to Australia and added to the totals before the declaration of the results.
The net operating income for the year ended August 31, 1925, of the American Club, Shanghai,
for the
1925 87
increase
The patient had been to the out-patients' department of the big hospital,, and, on her return. was eagerly questioned by her friends as to what was the trou ble.
"Well," said she. "I don't think meself them young doctors know what is the matter with folk. Aur'ow I told 'em I'd 'ad me ancroids out, so it couldn't be that."
The earnings of novelists has been the subject of much public
ly £62,000 has revived the speru- curiosity recently, and the fact
lations. An article in one of the that Sir Rider Haggard left near- newspapers the other day aug
Charles Garvice left gested that Mr. Thomas Hardy
The very useful recently for a purpose has made £250,000 out of his other than swimming. The books. been destroyed except for the Ward left only £11,300. studio caught fire and would have £71,000, whilst Mrs. Humphry fact that the swimming tank hap- estate of Miss Marie Corelli pened to be filled with water, pre-amounted to £24,000. paratory to a bathing-girl ecene.
1:
A dwelling-house in Irvine, The English version of the Ayrshire, in which Robert Burns as shows by the balance sheet, is life of the Buddhist saint Honen, lived from August 1781 until the M$72,324.68 as compared with a volume representing nearly 20 following spring, has been des- M$31.279.65 for the year ended years of work on the part of its troyed by fire. Seven families August 31, 1924, an increase of compilers, Mr. Ryugaku Ishizuka, have been rendered homeless. 31$41,644.98. Other income in-head master of Shiba Middle The room occupied by Burns, for the School, and the Rev. Dr. Harper which he paid is. a day rent, was, creased MS42,348.85 over 1924 period. Operating expenses H. Coates, former professor-at until the fire, practically as it was
period
Wa Aoyama Gakuin, has just been during his tenancy. His heckling 1781, still of published by the Chionin at shop, out of which he and his over 1924. The Kyoto in commemoration of the partner, Peacock, were burned on property a few yards further total assets, of the organisation 750th anniversary of the found- Hogmanay night, jare se down at M$1,355.445.40,ing of the Jodo sect of Buddhism stands at the back of another along the same street. The stone- including property, current assets in Japan.
work over the fireplace in the and investments. Current total
which he lodged - still room in liabilities
bears in deeply-cut letters the in- scription "R. B., 1782," supposed to have been cut by the poet him- self.
$87.193.15. M#17.613.81
total $126,447.99. Haggis specially brought The gross surplus is M$186 from Edinburgh was a feature of the "Scots Night," which was 560.08.
held at the Excursion Restaurant, in the Palace of Housing and Transport at Wembley, on Sept- hundred ember. 17.. Fifteen guests came, and after a visit to the Tattoo in the Stadium the party proceeded to the dance hall. Here reels and strathspeys were indulged in until two a.m., when special trains and 'buses took the
revellers home.
Jules A Swiss engineer, Jaeger, has proposed that the European Chambers of Commerce should build two parallel jetties, between $75,000,000, costing Calais and Deal, each carrying a double railway track, and also motor-ways, to enable commerce to be interchanged at a lower capital cost than by the suggested Channel tunnel, to which the com-
The shortness of the life ex- mittee on Imperial defence raised objection. The jetties could easi-pectation of the modern ship of ly be defended in wartime, he war is instanced very strikingly says, or, as a last resort. could be by the case of the R. class of des destroyed. Broad, open spaces troyers, a number of which are near the coast could be bridged being placed on the sale list. Yet gigantic viaducts to admit the it is only ten years since these passage of the largest Steamers destroyers were produced as the using the Channel while the very latest achievement of the smooth waterway between the kind-the fastest, more danger- jettles would enable canal barges ous smail craft in the world. In to carry traffic between London 1915 they were the latest thing; in 1925 they are obsolete. What and Paris, contributing" a con- siderable reduction in Britain's a contrast to the long lives of the
old "wooden walls." manufacturing costs.
SOCIAL
The forthcoming marriage is announced of Mr. Andrew Nicol, Civil Engineer, of No. 158, The Peak, to Miss Anna S. Fraser, of the Helena May Institute.
Messrs. Jongen and Bilewski, who gave a successful classical re- cital on Wednesday in the City Hall, leave to-morrow for Java for a series of recitals.
use
"Examinations, their and abuse." was the subject of an address by Professor E. A. Gardner, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, at the Associations, at University Col- annual conference of Educational lege, London. Some of his re- marks were:-
As a test of what the pupil has learned, examinations are essential. AS
a standard they are cramping, both to teachers and pupils.
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woman,
Mr. Josef Holbrooke, the com- poser, says: "My feeling towards jazz pianists is positive venera- tion. The public has no idea how brilliant and subtle they are."
Prince and Princess Andrew of at embark are to Russia world tour of 37,000 miles, aboard Southampton in January, on a the "star," one of the largest and most luxurious private yachts That Paria is old-fashioned and afloat. The party, including Lord Baron Keishiro Matsui, newly
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He position to mixed bathing in the Prince and Princess during their LECANÇÃODPORCIQuetico Pacific ans. "Empress of Asia" on lessly fighting the strongest op- Americans who befriended the
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marriages, arguing that mixed Fabulous wealth is represented bathing would bring the young in the wedding gifts to Princess people together, which would be Mafalda of Italy to Prince Phillip preferable to the scandalous un-
the council of Hesse. The Pope's present is dressing in the theatres. a magnificent golden and silver dayen of reproduction of the Basilica at St. "What's the world coming to?" Peter's, indicating the improve- ment in the relations of the
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Mustapha Kemal, whose divorce was announced a little while ago, manners and general outlook.! is practically a European in his The When Lord Curzon on one occa- asked:sion was treating him with condescension the dignified
that atates-. dear to
him slapped Kemal man, Charles E. Guest, for three heartily on the back and said:
Vatican and the Royal House of years manager of the Shanghai
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Italy. Queen Helena sent and Manila branches of the Unit-Stop! No Englishman can feel gorgeous diadem of pearls, and ed States Rubber Export Com-at ease without a drink. What'li pany, has been appointed general you have?" Lord Curzon declin- diamonds. Signor Mussolini con- ducted the civil ceremony and pre- manager of the company with his/ed the offer, and from that cribed him as "a very exceptional sented the bride with the Govern- office at New York, Mr. Guest's moment Mustapha always des-
Englishman!" mont's magnificent gift
promotion came while he was on a business trip to the states and he The threq Singapore residents is not returning to Shanghai. He who are attempting to motor to is well qualified for his new posi- London in a Trojan car have met on, having 26 years' experience with their first disappointment in in the export business, 10 of Slam. A. Bangkok paper last which have been with the United
States Rubber Export Co., Ltd. week stated:-
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Priscilla Lady Newnes, widow of Sir George Newnes, and mother of Sir Frank Newnes, has died after a brief illness at her home in Bournemouth. The daughter of the Rev. James Hillyard, of Leicester, she merried Sir George The three Singaporeans who
"The development of the con- Newnes in 1875. It was in 1880, are attempting to motor to London in a Trojan.car got as solidated power system for large while reading aloud to his wife an far as Singora, where they public utilitles in Japan is making extract from an evening paper, made a halt. Two of them rapid progress," declared Mr. that the idea came to him which visited Bangkok in order to George H., Bucher, assistant gen was afterwards put into operation "Why ascertain if it were possible to cral manager of the Westinghouse and became the foundation of his make the trip overland into Electric International Co., New prosperity. "That is what I call Mr. cannot a paper be published con- Burma, but on approaching the York, who arrived in Shanghai a tit-bit," he remarked. Railway Department, they were last week from Japan. advised not to do so, as there. Bucher assisted in, the organlyn sisting of nothing but tit-bits?" was no properly constituted. tion of the new subaidiary organ-Lady Newme agreed that there motor isation of the Westinghouse Com-was a future for such a publica- track over which any
They, pany in Tokyo and after spending tion, and, helped and encouraged car could proceed. therefore, returned to Singora, a few days in Shanghai as the by her advice. Sir George and from there they will pro- guest of Mr. E. L. McCloskey, Newnes published the first num- take manager for China, will proceed ber of "t-Bits" the following ceed to Penang, and
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as "beat" or number of the bout ended. I name of the mentioned firs in each bout, result.
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(5 wins):--
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2 section)
(Drummers).
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wine) —
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