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LOCAL AND
Two cises of cerebrospinal
GENERAL
Christchurch and Bourne Five rare macaques have fever were reported on Friday, onemouth Guardians have in hand arrived at the Zoo. They are
was a imported cuse (Italian) £18,000 and no cases of relief due scoty-coloured monkeys with very und the other a Chinese case. to unemployment.
tiny talls, but although this branch of the macaque family is. い The Law, Society exercises not represented in the menagerie
The new or reconstructed
fears of the Hongkong Tramway control over something like 10,000 at present, probably only two of Co., Ltd., are a decided improve-cut of 15,000 members of the pro-them will be kept. The favoured ment. They give more seating fession practising in England and pair have not yet been chosen, capacity and the first-class pas-Wales. Just as the Bar Counell and in the meantime the five of helds away over the professional them are doing their best, to be. senger has been studied as never before. These cars should be affairs of barristers, so does the amiable and ingratiating, in the Law Society preside over the hope that they will become too come very popular..
affairs of our solleitors-con-popular to be sent elsewhere. A publisher suggested to a trolling admission to the profes- Other new arrivals include a large examining candidates, entellus monkey and a must Scottish author that he should sion. compile a Scottish Wha's Whastabilising fees for services, and attractive squirrel that has not. The Scottish author said he would scrutinising legislation of all yet been classified.
In the latter capacity, it consider the suggestion. After he kind
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had done his considering, he re-does great service to the general
The condition of the Irish pig ported as follows to the publisher: public..
trade is described as the worst for "I've gone carefully over the latest In 1913, at a great celebra-30 years. The Irish pig is being volume of the existing Who's Who," and I find that, with a few tion in honour of George Borrow, driven from the British markets minor eliminations, it will make the Borrow Museum was present mainly owing to the competition ed to the city of Norwich. Civic of the Danes. Before the World the 'Wha's Wha.'
representatives declared on that War Ireland had 976,000 pigs occasion their pride in accepting while Denmark had 600,000. Now, the gift and, in lofty terms, Mr. MacKenna, a member of the announced their intention to pre-Dall.. estimates Denmark has serve it with affectionate cate.
Messrs. Vernon and Suryth their Shae report duted Nowenbee
16, sug-
He also
But the Borrow Museum has been 1,800,000 pigs and the Irish Suay on report of the Roth, nit..closed now for some months. Itgures have declined! fit will be noticed that, when there is explained that rain is coming attributes the Irish decline to the ury changes in prices, whether through the roof and that the high cost of feeding stuffs, to the huys sollers, these prices have City Council cannot afford to do partial failure of last year's potato and a downward tendency and very the necessary repairs. This was crop, and to a more or less "It0M business ħna bei pút thườngh; the house in which Borrow lived widespread disinclination to enter Tin fack only three sticks show as a young man. But Norwich the pig trade.
chemlig tan buess has been does not appear to care very
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Opium seized by the Bureau of Customs in the second quarter The greater portion of rates
A lead to Britain' and the of 1925 was more than 800 per quoted are nominal, with an all round tapital depreciation "of up Empire in fostering the British cent. greater than that of the proximately 40 per cent, since the film industry has been given by corresponding period of 1924 in Duganeing of the boycott and strike the Victoria Legislative Council Manila, according to Captain and even these are bob consider Australia, which has passed a Borremeo, of the constabulary, frock hudtom prices, with the result lause in a Bill laying down that: who is chief of the secret service thma onquiry la conspicuous by its Not less than 1,000ft. of British department absence and the market is daily film must be shown in every pro-Seizures this year amounted to becoming weaker, with
gramme. This provision will be 1966-kilograms, while in 1924 sedlers
enforced next June. It was insert-only 69 kilograms were captured. anxious to accept reasonable priced in the Censorship of Films Bill, The seizures included both crude 36A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. OppoÕ#Good....BURBODDSOUDCHUponuapnuoga for shares that can be obtained for which, says a Reuter Melbourne and prepared opium. The value of
Prices are unusually moderate this fall.
D. CHELLARAM
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them.
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of the customs,
despatch, came, up for the third the opium seized this year is So far as the Local Shure Market reading in Parliament on Septem- approximately $50,000(G) Forts- DE NON SARA SAME MAMANI MAA SELJA HABIT MEMENUHISEESBIANOLAMENDMENUM) is concerned them is illa deber 30 This action, which will be two persons were arrested in con- plouble lack of credis and with on-sapported by the British public as nection with opium importations. itions generally as they are à contrast to the surfeit of United of whom thirty-eight were con- Chim to-day, which show no signs States and other foreign films invicted. Opium valued at $500,000 of improvement, this site of the four kinemas, draws attention once was recently burned by the market wil continue until con- more to the necessity of some Government.. All of it had been Indence is restored,
similar measures in Great Britain. seized.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr. W. F. Pittendright is a pas- senger on the "President Lincoln which left on Saturday.
Dr. Wagner, of the German Consular service, and Mrs. Wagner arrived yesterday by the s.s. "Saarbruceken."
The many friends of Mr. James Oxberry, of the Palace Hotel, Kowloon, will be sorry to learn that he is very ill in the French Hospital..
The name of Mr. G. W. Sellars, C. of Messrs. McKinnon, Mackenzie & Co., has been added to the list of qualified anditors under the Companies Ordinance.
Sir Frederick Lugard, a former
Mr. R. T. Peyton-Griffin, for- merly of Hongkong, has rejoined Governor of Hongkong, spoke at the editorial staff of the "North-the Church Congress at East- China Daily News".
bourne, on October 8, on "Our Trusteeship for other Races."
The late Mr. Nathaniel Ferdinand Smith (86), of Park- gate, Regate, and formerly of Yokohama, left £20.176.
Leopold Godowsky, the famous pianist who visited Hongkong, has completed a Java Suite, the result of a year spent in the Far East principally in Java.
The King has appointed the fol lowing:-H. F. Handley-Derry, Esq., to be one of His Majesty's Consuls in China and W. S. Toller, Esq., to be one of His Majesty's Vice-Consuls in China (July 1).
The screen version of "The Third Round" (a Bull-Dog Drum- mond book) will, when released, Warrant Telegraphist T. F.ibe a great success. Part of it Perrow, after being posted to the was done on Signor. Marconi's Tamar" at Hongkong, will taste private yacht off Weymouth,, the charge of the Wireless Station at author being a friend of the Seletar, Singapore. Mr. Perrow famous Italian. All those con- served afloat and ashore during cerned in the episode spent a very the late war.
jolly Sunday on board and were right royally entertained. Signor
Messrs. Yu Tchu-au and T. Y. Cheng were, with representatives of important British business in- terests and the Agents-General of Bishop Matoda, of Tokyo, who Marconi spends the greater part five States within the Empire, has a fine command of English, of his life on this yacht, which by present at the thirteenth trade and is a most engaging and the way is manned entirely by dinner of the Old Colony Club, to humorous speaker, was heard at Italians. In cruising about from hear an address by Sir Charles the Church Congress at Eastport to port most of his experi Higham on "Should the British bourne, on October 7, on the sub-ments are made on the yacht, or Government spend £1,000,000 on ject of "Self-Determination in from it, and of course it is fitted"
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up for his purpose with all the latest devices. He invites his
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At the annual general meeting The King has given authority friends to stay with him and gives of the St. Andrew's Society of for the wearing of the insignia of them a splendid time. He is Kobe, held on October 22, the the following decorations: Order indeed an ideal host. following officers for the ensuing of the Rising Sun: Fourth Class—|—————
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year were elected: ---- Mr. · W. Mr. John Nicholson Seymour. WAS RHEUMATIC TO HER McLean, President; Mr. A. D Order of the Crown of Siam: Macdougall, Vice-President; and Third Class-Mr. Walcott Warner Messrs. W. A. Campbell, WShand, Inspector of Mines under Graham, A. C. Macpherson, JW. the Siamese Government. Ritchie, D. S. G. Shirras and' A. 'E. Smith, Committee.
C.D. Pett, of the Shanghai Fire Brigade, and C..O. 3tevens, of the Singapore Fire Brigade, haver been appointed by the Counell' off the Fire Engineers to supervise examinations abroad. At the meeting last month C. O. Petti thought that more attention. should be paid to building con struction in future examinction papers, The President agreed, and it is understood the matter will have attention.
The
The following appointments have recently been made by the Secretary of State for the Colonies Lieut. E. C. Chitty, MB ChB, M.C., Medical Officer: Malay Staces Lieut. Gordon: MR.OR LEC Mediul Oncer-
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