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The symphony orchestra of H.M.S. "Hawkins' is to play at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday at 19.15 p.m.
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Over 7,000 bags of Christmas Woman at Highgate: I was mails were dispatched from Liversitting at the window taking a pool to Canada,
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Jackie Coozan is the current. autum herring fishery shows that the quantity of herringsattraction at the Queen's Theatre. pickled during the season was The World Theatre alao.com- 681,020 barrels, as compared with tinues to show good pictures.. 845,475 barrels in 1924.
From the "Putnam Book Of 9,325 girl applicants for News":-Friend (borrowing an- other book): "You don't have to blow the dust off that I don't mind." Booklover (sadly): "Pm not-I'm kissing it good-bye:"
A Chinese coglie arrested after two years on a charge of stabbing a fellow worker at the Taikoo Sugar Refinery was sen- positions as telephone operators tenced by the Central Magistrate last year. only 1,651 were able to yesterday to six weeks hard quali for the service, according labour.
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At an extraordinary meeting. of Simpang Estate. Ltd., held in Penang, it was resolved that the sale of the company's property and assets to Messrs. Adamson, Gilfillan and Co., comprised in an agreement of October 26, be car fried out.
"As the result of European A group of Chinese capital women adopting shingling 16,700 an evening paper, is to dine in fists and merchants in Munila are out of 18,400 Chinese women who Lithehouse. You find a queer planning to publish a new Chinese hade hair nets in Chefoo
a few depend for food! upon the mixture of young people in search daily newspaper within of colour, sailors from the docks, weeks for the purpose of giving charity of the local American as well as the Chinese theinselves, wider publicity to things Chinese Missionary Society. who vary from students to the fumong the members of the Chinese inhabitants of Limehouse. Those community. who go in search of local colour
"The most trival social act of come away a little disappointed, for, beyond an animated party of a mass of people atten has painful Chinamen playing Mah Jongg. eonsequences fan, large numbers of there is nothing to suggest that their fellow human beings," said the "district that Mr. John, Lee, Controller of the you are in Thomas Burke has made appear Central Telegraph Office, in an se lurid Even the streets appear address at Eccleston Guildhouse.
Japan seldom fails to be empty and deserted.
Five parades, instead of the abreast of the times. Her repre- of the four usually staged in previous sentative on the mandate commis- Naval and Military Gazette" years, will be among the featuression at Geneva gave a motion writes expressing the opinion that of the 1926 Manila Carnival and picture show to his colleagues, Phe gunnery of the Japanese Commercial and Industrial Fair. depicting native customs, indus- Navy is second to none in the The parades this year will be tries, dances, schools, hospitals, world is an interesting fact Military, carnival, pageant of road-building and wireless instal to reent that in the days when our national beauties, floral and de-lation in the South Sealslands, town battle practice returns were rated automobiles and educa- over which Japan holds a man-
published the China Station tional and health
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enruht trernors lasting children and those of other two German cruisers, "Gneisman" evere and "Scharnhorst," which belong from five to twenty seconds were countries under a scheme of ed to the China Squadron of the felt in many places inland on correspondence organised by the German Empire, were reputed to December 18. There was con- educational authorities at home. The the best shooting ships in the siderable alarin, but hitherto no Thus at. Geneva and in Tokyo Kaiser's Fleet. The suggestion damage has ascertained. Japan offers renewed assertions offered in explanation is that The audience at a theatre at New-cf her internationalism and de- fatmospheric conditions in Eastern castle were seized with panic and Emonstrates afresh her right to be of the most waters favour good marksman- rushed for the exits, but there considered one CLOSES QUE ARA MIN HUMBs Eship, but, as the paper remarks, were no casualties. Newcastle, a active and earnest members in anybody who knows the atmospurt of New South Wales, is 75 the working partnership of the pheric conditions of Hongkong miles north-east of Sydney by rail, League which she has stead- will smile at thist
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H.M.S. "Ambrose' is holding a dance this evening at the Royal Canteen Theatre.
The House Committee of the Women's Shanghai American Club provides an attractive menu Break- tur for its members. fast is 60 venus; a three and four course tiffin 80 cents and a dollar respectively, the same charge being made for a three and four course dinner.
Mr. Somerset Maugham," the Sir Charles. Eliot who has been so signally honoured by the author, accompanied by his secre Japanese Imperial Colony. will be tary, has left Bangkok for Singa remembered as the first Vice-pore. Chancellor of the University of Hongkong.
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of marriage Vivian Smyth and Joyce Geoffrey Creagh-Osborne will take place early in March in Shanghai, and not in Hongkong as previously announced.
The Rev. H. Parsons, lately of St. Andrew's Cathedral, who left Singapore in March, has been appointed Priest in charge of Warwick, Bermuda.
Mr. C. F. Mummery, L.D.S., R.C.S. (Edin.), has arrived in Kuala Lumpur to open a dental practice, with a surgery in Laid- law Buildings. Mr. Mummery is partnership with Dr. Naughton, of Singapore.
The King has approved of:- The convalescence of Princess Mr. Iyemasa Tokugawa as Consul-Nagako, the consort of the Japan- General of Japan at Sydney; Mr. Tatsuo Kawai au Consul of Japan ut Vancouver; Mr. D. J. Ward as Consul of Belgium at Singapore, fox Singapore, Malacca, and Johore; Mr. M. C. English as Consul of Belgium at Kuala Lumpur, for the Federated Malay States (Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, and Pahang).
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Tennis Champion, is homeward bound by the 8.3.. "Patroclus."
and Co., who was at one time at- Mr. R. C. Mushet, of the Singa- pore branch of Messrs. Mansfield
The King, on the recommenda. tion of the Home Secretary, has appointed Captain Charles Wil lam Rawson Rayles. C.M.G.. R.N.. to be an Assistant Commis- sioner of Police of the Metropolis France that Miss Leung To-ching, News has been received from from January 1, 1926. Captain former student of St. Hilda's Royds commanded the "Empresa (C.M.S.) School, Canton, holder tached to the Penang branch is of India" during the greater part of a Canton Government. Scholar. also travelling home by the 5.8. of the war. He is an FR.G.S.ship at the University of Lyons, "Patroclus."
and a Younger Brother of Trinity has gained the certificate. In her House.
The farewell dinner which was to have been given in Shanghai to Mr. Cyril Champkin has been cancelled owing to his sudden departure for home on receipt of
medical course, in physics, chemistry, zoology, botany, and osteologyCanton Gazette."
Mr. Kent W. Clark of Kobe left for Peking to spend the Christmas Mr. Clark has com- a cable bringing news that his holidays, father was seriously ill. In losing pleted his contract as manager of Mr. Champkin, the Boy Scouts the Oriental Hotel and was to Association will have no little difficulty in filling his position so ably and well. Mr. Chumpkin is well known in Hongkong where his activities in scout circles is remembered.
The January Bulletin of the American Women's Club, Shang- hat has the following.
Herr von Kessler, the succes-. sor of Herr 0. Weber, German Consul in Batavia, la expected to arrive in Java towards the end of January. As already mention- ed, Herr Weber is to be trans- The new ferred to Singapore. German Vice Consul, Herr Pros, arrived by the "Coblentz."
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spend over, two months in India, visiting Calcutta, where he will be the guest of Lord Lytton, Delhi, Agra, Lahore, Benares, Madras and Ceylon..
The "Siam Observer" states: Members who were present at the October 20th: "International Phra Sri Surindr (Tunku Yalis Relations Day" programme and Shah) of the Privy Purse Depart heard the splendid talk delivered ment, who left by the mail train by the representative of the on December 16 for Kedah, is not Portuguese women, will be in returning to Siam, having obtain-
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