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A public garden. In memory hof the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen la to
be established in Swatow,
There was a clean, Bill of| Health for the 24 hours, ended Thuradny.
The radio listener In Sweden must pay for his entertainment, but nevertheless, litafice holders. increased to 173,000 against 8,000 A great firm of Christmas-
last year. A fee of 12 krone paid Prof. Ryugo Inouye of the by listeners has provided funds for card publishers is so confident of the popularity of the Christmas-Sericultural School in Uyeda is an improved programme. Demand card this season that it has reported to have perfected two an the present radiocasting prepared no fewer than 3,000 inventions that are expected to stations has necessitated fresh ar- greatly affect the silk industry.rangements. It is planned to separate designs.
One of these is said to be a debuild a high-power station in the vice to produce new silk from old centre of England having a wave- In a local bookshop says the rags and scraps, while the other length of 1.780 metres. "Japan Chronicle" (Kole) "Cruis a simple method of obtaining den's Concordance is offered for silk direct from silkworms with- sale, with the statement printed out waiting for the formation of or the jacket, "Indispensable for the cocoons, Cross-word Puzzles." To such base uses do we come at last.
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Treasure Island, the child- Fren's Wonderland at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley is The America city of to be a feature of the Sesquicen- or tennial Celebration at Philadelphia, In a four nights play, from will have buklingi 100. 13th to the 16th inst., at the Tainore stories in height, with land next year. It will be in charge of Ping Theatre, West Point, the fine stages, for aircraft, and the Maj. E.. A. Belcher, comptroller Chung Shing Charitable Associa-streets will be of two or three levels of General Services at Wembley, who, with Maxwell Ayrton has. tion has raised a fund of $6,096.20fo receive traffic congestion. This in aid of four schools for poor is the conception of the future been chiefly responsible for the or Chinese students. This associa- nwtropolitan municipality as skete ganisation, of the Robert Louis on has been established for over by artists and architects who will Stevenson pirates mythical home.. ten years and has about 700 exhilst their pictorial prophecies us in extent, he said.
"Wembley's is roughly an acrg.
"Its Ameri memberste
Eone of the features of the Americau can counterpart will be nearly Fnstitute of Steel Construction confive acres in size, but Mrs. Diana Watts is arriv- Ivention.
[though bigger, everything will be ing in Hingkông" on Monday
in keeping with the idea of the next by the "President Van
Saila were introduced as an original. The attendants will be. Bufen" and will lecture at the aid to plowing in a soil tillers in the costumes of the charactere Theatre Royal that same even.
match near the seaside resort of from fact and fiction known to all ing December, 21. at 9:16 on Brightlingsea, of which many of well-brought-up children, and it
The Principles of Greek
its residents are yachtsmen as well will still be a place where there Balance" and on Tuesday after? noon. December 22, at 5.15 81aded the horses in dragging the ship, The Golden Hind, there will as farmers. The wind at times are no don'ts. In place of Drake's The Science and Art of Fer-low along but at other times be a reproduction of Penn's ship, lect Movement." Mrs. Watts makes her lectures particularly buffs blew the implement to ane Welcome, in which the first. side and spoiled straight fur-emigrants to Pennsylvania cross- interesting by illustrating them in her own person and ends the row which hindered the contes-ed the Atlantic." second lecture by giving an
taple chance of winning first archale Greek dance,
Mer as well as women prize. All pro
So firm and lasting i hold on participated in the contest which' nits to go to the M. C. L. funds the judges, decided was a great the public affection have many of Eooking at Moutrie's
success but thought there was the creations of Charles Dickens little possibility of sails ever gained that the information that. putting horses or motors, out of the Church of St. Georgo the business when it comes to plow- Martyr in Southwark, London ing.
known throughout the English- speaking world as "Little Dorrit's wards the provision of leisure for A tax on forgetfulness-that Churchis to be thrown open as scribblers a: Christmastide. It is the latest innovation of the a lunch-hour resting place in has again been decided by the Paris Council. The decree which memory of his famous character, Newspaper Proprietors Associa is issued, institutes a charge of hardly even arouses comment. It tion that a clear newspaper holi-4 per cent on the value of securi-is true that this church enjoys an day on Christmas Day and Box-ties and money which are reclaim-added reason for the public inter- ing Day will again be arranged fed at the Lost Property Office, est, in that the name of the little this year. This decision embraces The same charge will also be person from whom the great all the London morning and made on jewellery which has been novelist took his character is evening newspapers, and though forgotten by its owner. For still preserved in the church re- it may not be followed universally other articles there are compára- gister. Still this fact, without in the provinces, an excellenttively small fees. Nobody en- the help of Dickens, would never lead has been given. In point of titled to grumble at this imposi have earned fame to the church or fact, provincial newspapers are tion, for absent-minded persons been sufficient cause for its pre- almost bound to be affected by who leave their stock certificates sent utilisation for the public the idea, since a good deal of and necklaces in cabs give the welfare. Specifically the lunch London newspapers in the first place.
There was once's time when the journalist had to do without holidays, but recent years have ɛeen a welcome movement to-
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and deserve to be penalized for which Little Dorrit rested "one their carelessness.
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Mr. Phillips, the British Con- I know that one can worship the sul at Harbin, has left with his
G. FALCONER & CO. (HONGKONG) LTD. is returning to Colombo after a Creator in a grove of trees or by family on a year's home leave.
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Xmas, Wedding and Christening cakes to order,
A large consignment of Cailler's Chocolates and California Fruits just received for the Festive Season.
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Dr. Donald Schokman, of the Medical Department, Ceylon, who
holiday in Europe and the United States, left by the s.s. "Haruna Maru to-day
a running brook, or in a man's. He has recently been promoted to own house just as well as in a Consul General and when he re-" church. But I also know as a mat-turns he will have his headquar- ter of cold fact that the average ters at Shanghai as Inspector of "As You Like It, was present-man does not thus worship." Consulates in the Far East. This
President Roosevelt.
ed by the foreign members of the Canton Christian College faculty last night at Canton at the Y.M.C.A. Auditorium. Box receipts will go to a local charity
Prince Takamatsu, third son
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Mr. W. W. Gimpbell, for many years head of the Pucite Mail Co. in Japan-both the old Pacific Mail and the company that was
of the Japanese Emperor, is to realitated after the old que de promoted to the rank of sub-ced to go out of business Heutenant this month. The back in Japan and will be in Prince has been a member of the charge of Mesare. Mackinnon, crew of the battleship "Fuso" and is to be transferred to the croiser "Furutaku" next April.
is an entirely new post recently decided upon by the "Foreign Office and Mr. Phillips will be the first Consular Inspector.
Dr. Harold Dearden,, whose being published by Messrs. Heine- "The Science of Happiness is mann, has been at great pains to study everyday paychology at first, Muckenzie & Co. a. mb-agency in hand. He has worked as a aku. No one has been more de chauffeur, has sold papers in the servedly popular than Mr. Campbell,streets of London, and has lived and his return to Japan will be in a workman's dwelling in the regarded as good news by a large East-end. During the War, Dr. circle of friends.
Dearden was medical officer to the 3rd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards,
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Mr. Zane Grey is the fortunate owner of a schooner in which he is wont to make voyages round the southern coasts of the
George Bernard Shaw United States, and Messrs. Hod- Hothing if not original, and his der and Stoughton are now recent reply to an invitation sent publishing one literary product of to him by T. P. O'Connor to at these adventures: "Tales of Fish-tend a non-party dinner in honour York's best-known neurologista, ing in Virgin Seas.".
of the British Foreign Secretary gives a predominant place to sen is typical. It read, upon a postal card:
Sir Edwin Stockton figured in a curious comedy of errors. at:
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No, really The dinner, should Birmingham He was due to be to me. It was 1 who proposed lecture at Birmingham Univer. sity, but his audience waited In New Year's Day, 1914, when it Locarno pact in 1918 again on vain. His taxi driver had driven might have prevented the war him to an outlying University What use is it now when all the building three miles away Sir mischief is done? However it Edwin duly returned and deli-
is greatly to Mr. Chamberlain'i vered his address,
credit that he is only twelve years behind me instead of afty
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Dr. L. P. Clark, one of New
timent in the death list.
The loss of friends and love is the most frequent cause of mental and physical breakdown, resulting in friendship and love attributes, death. The spiritual decay of
their break-up and consequent scattering, both within the Indi vidual and around him, render a person more susceptible disease
Lord Dawson, personai phy
King George
As in previous years, the Prince of Wales will light the After giving up his choir at the cian to Lamps of Maintenance at the Annual Birthday Festival of Toc Ministry of Finance to Premier added to the list of H (Talbot House) tonight at Painleve, M. Cailloux went with the Royal Albert Tall, London. Mme. Cuillux to his residence at The Festival coincides with the | Mamare," the intention of fe arrival in England of the Founder maining omplete seclusion mi Padre, Tubby" Clayton, and the toward the end of the Rev. Pat Leonard, DS.O.. the Onillaux has Manchester Padre, on the con- droppe clusion of their world tour. This makes Hay resulted in the establishment
to comba
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