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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A clean Bill of Health was
"Wear a European hat or go As conscience money or the state of affairs for the 24 bareheaded" was the order of the goods taken from the Govern- hours ended Wednesday..
day when the second anniversary meni," Treasury notes and, at of the proclamation of the Bank of Ireland note to the value Turkish Republic was celebrated of £7 have been sent anonymous- as a national holiday. All busi- ly to the War Office. news houses were closed by order
The first public performance of Tolant" by the Hongkong Phi (harmonie Socidly, fakes pheo this (evening, at the Theatre Royal, a
9.15 pm
A combined meating of the China Const Officers' Guild and [Marine Engineers'„Cuik of China will take piter on Sunday, Decone :hem. 12, at 16 2,11,
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of the police; the city was be- .Methodist missionaries flagged. parades were organised China go to preach the teachings and there was fireworks during of Christ and must take any the evening. But what mattered physical or legal consequences. most was the manifestation of The board of foreign missions. the abolition of the fez and the has ruled that missionaries in kalpak to mark Turkey's eman. Foreign lands, especially in China, cipation from ancient traditions. should not request protection of courts and powers other than those of China nor ask extra- territorial exemption because they are American citizers.
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The University of Pitts- When a small boy fled from burgh's 52-story Cathedral of his home at Liverpool he" could Learning, astructure of glisten- not have foreseen that his action ing limestone 680 feet above the would involve his native town in Oakland district of Pittsburgh. a dispute with London. After Folk songs of the various n will be visible for a distance of leaving his parents the lad went tonuties muking up the Sorist about 32 miles in all directions. to London, where he stayed three Republic are being revived and. The Cathedral will house prac months until the police caught him printed to very considerable ex- tically all the activities of the begging and he was sent to a reboot and are eating muchy in- university.
formatory. London County Coun- teresting material for modern com eil at Bow Street summoned the Antelope, which were threat Corporation of Liverpool in renty published ba nousime volime Alexander Zadný«vitch re- ened with extinction in Canada aspect of the Lad's maintenance. few years ago, have been sc- The council thought the coat Faousand Song of the This is said to cessfully preserved in Nemiskam should be transferred to Liver. Kirghiz_People." National Park. When this pre-pool. Liverpool contended that be the first time the songs of these serve was established in 1915 London was responsible, but the .000,000 nomadic people which there were only 45 in the herd, magistrate made an order that a over a great empire in Siberia, the last survivors of thousands Liverpool should pay.
Mongolia, Turkestan and European that once hud roamed the
Russia have been recorded for the prairies. There are now 235 in
use of modern musicians. the herd, a gain of 190.
Nearly 80 years after the mysterious disappearance of the B-dated Franklin expedition to
prs.
People are drinking more' The little tin soldiers cover-discover the North-West Passage, beer, wine and tea, and less spirits.. Doded with rust with which Little the bones of two of its members states, the report of the Customs Boy Blue onge played soon will have been found. The dramatic and Excise for the year ended march away to the Chicago His-revelation was made in stirring March 31, 1925. Tobacco con- torical Society. For the house ly simple language to the Royalsumption is stationary. Some that once rang with Boy Blue's Geographical Society by the 300,000 proof gallons less whisky ughter will be torn down. For Danish explorer. Dr. Kund Ras. has been consumed than during many years the widow of Edgene mussen, who incidentally threw the year 1928-24. On the other Field refused to sell the house on fresh light on that obscure, grim hand, 15.6 million gallons of Chicago's North Sice. There the tragedy of the frozen north. A wine have been drunk, compared poet wrote the lines that made gairm was built over the bodies as with 14.2 millions in 1929-21. him famous, hoping that it they lay, and the two flags--the Nearly 22 million standard bar- would be reserved as a mem-British and the Danish-hoisted rels of beer were disposed orial. But nothing came of the at half-mast. "We were glad to Consumption of tea leapt p by plans, and most of the mementoes feel, as they perhaps might have over 26 million pounds. There have been turned over to the been glad to feel." said Dr. was but a neglible increase in historical society... The house Rasmussen, "that the work for smoking; £54 million" duty MAT NA NA NA NA NA NA NGA MENA DET SALE will be supplanted by an apart-which they gave their lives was derived from 134 million pounds
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
The ship's company of H.M.S. -Hawkins held a successful dance at the Seamen's Institute last night.
Dr. Donald Schokman, who is connected with the Medical De- partment of Ceylon at Colombo, is on a short visit to Hongkong.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1925.
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Mr. C. H. P. Hay, formerly öf the Union Insurance Co. of Can- ton, is a passenger on the Mace-0000000000000000000 donia due in to-day.
He has come out on a pleasure trip. Mr. Hay's H.5. the Governor hås kindly Dr. H. O. Beyer, a scientist and performance in the A.DC's pro- | consented to distribute First Aid a recognised authority on the duction of "Kismet" is 'still re- Certificates and Medallions, and tribes of the Philippine Islands,membered Trophies for Efficiency and Swim was a passenger on the President ming, to members of the St. John Taft which arrived yesterday Mr. P. W. F. Mills, well known. Ambulance Brigade at Govern- from San Francisco.
as a hockey player in the Colony, SEZON MONIKERIIHINEN ANEH HANTURISTIQUES BERSAMA MELENLER ment House on Monday, the 14th
has been transferred to inst., at 9:30 am.
Honourable Lingoh Wang, con- |_ ELLER EN BOULARDA HA BETELUIA DEMO IR sub, general of China, gave
dinner party at the Manila Hotel at which covers were maid for 20,
1999 Marunam Kond, Shanzhat.
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in honour of Justice and Mrs. E. Finley Johnson. who had just re turned from Shanghai and Honor ableLeRoy Webber, American consul at Amoy.
the ľ The Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, Shanghai Office of Messrs. Butter- who has been in England through- field & Swire. He has been two out the period of the Wembley years with the firm in Hongkong. Exhibition as Commisssioner of Mr." Mills was also a former the Hongkong section, returned Secretary of the Philharmonic to the Colony on the Blue Funnel Society. liner Antenor.
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Development and Improvement of Landed Property and attend to all Branches of Real Estate Business.
Aged 102, Mr. Thomas Buck, Among Hongkong residents a retired bank manager, of Men- who returned from England onston, Yorkshire, gives the follow- the 8.8. Antenor wore Mrs. H. A. ing recipe for long fe:- Lammert and Mr. Alfred Lam- Plain food. mert, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Hewlitt, Manila, in holiday mood greeted Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Rouse, Mr. the amil of the palatial Cunard M. M. Watson, Mrs. Yates and around-the-world liner "Carinthia."two children, Mr. J. K. Shaw. While the ship was slowly being Among other passengers for warped to the dock, the Con Hongkong were Mr. G. B. Bass, stabulary Bank entertained the Dr. C. H. Brangwin, Mr. and he planted himself. He married x000000 tourists. The gangplank was de Mrs. E. R. Childe, Mrs. Hance his present wife when he was 91. 'corated with a huge "welcome" and two daughters, Mrs. Love-
floral wreath and festive Manilaps. B. Smith and Mr. H. Town.
grove, Misa M. McGregor, Miss. greeted the tourists as they left! the ship.
Mr. Chao Hsin-chu, the present Chinese Chargé d'Affaires in Lon- don, has been appointed Envoy Exhaordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary to Italy, Dr. W. W. Yen, who has been appointed Chinese Minister to the Court of St. James's, was formerly Minister in Berlin, and is at present altend ing the Tariff Conference in Peking. Mr. Chu has been instructed by his Government not to leave for Rome till Dr. Yeni arrives.
He
The death is announced, of Dr.- H. B. Kent, principal medica! officer of the Kailan Mining Ad ministration. A graduate of Lon. don University, Dr. Kent, was trained at Guys Hospital obtained his M.R.C.S., L.R.CP and passed the preliminary exami- nation for F.R.C.S. (Eng.). Dr. Kent thence went out to Lagos for service under the Colomet Office; in West Africa. He joined. the Kailan Mining Administration in July 1910, as medical officer' in the Mines Area for the Ad munistention, the Chinese Govern. ment Railways and the Obee Hain -Coment Cota 1010 DE Kent- sused his grehimbilien, the degree of M.8., which is the highest examination in surgery open to the profesion. He passed billiantly while four out of seven- candidates failed.
Kent obtained his F.R.CS. in 1928:
These twins are the sons of Mr. and Mrs Henry Clune... And their proud-mother-in- sure that they will some day swith the English Channel: For Muvver is none other than Charlotte Boyle, one time world's champion swim mer and holder of many recorda
No worrying over trifles. Every day, wet or fine, Mr. Buck works in his garden.
Be- fore his birthday he just finished digging his crop of potatoes, which
Mrs. James Kenny, of, Arthur- ton, SA, is probably Australia's oldest inhabitant. The old lady,; whose age is given authoritative- ly as 111 years, arrived in Ade- laide 88 years ago from County Limerick, Ireland, with her hus- band. Settling at Yorke's Pen- insula in its earliest days, Mr. and Mrs. Kenny were the first white people at what is Maitland, a thriving agricultural township. The husband died 16 years ago at 103., Descendants are scattered throughout the Pen- insula.
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The King received Ernest Douglas Munford at York. Cot tage, Sandringham, after church and presented him with his Majesty's gold medal for being the most proficient, scholar of the year at King Edward VII, Grám mar School, King's Lynn. The King shook the lad warmly by the hand made him feel quite at home, and asked him several questions. The lad told him, in reply that he was the 17-year- old son of Mr. F. E. Munford works manager for the West Lynn Slipway Company, and that He hoped to be a science master.
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