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The Shu Tau Kok branch af the Kowloon ridlway la temporarily
eloned.
The .s. "Tilawa." which left Singapore on the 18th Instant is due here to-morrow,
Whilst
tourist ship "Belgenland" was at Yokohama, the Y.M.C.A. Seamen's Club ranged special tours for the crew.
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Trips to Soochow and Hang- chow from Shanghai, for the "Belgenland's" tourists, had to be cancelled because of poor support.
Dunmow, Easten. Lodge, Basex, which has been used as a Labour "Chequers" for a year or two, may become the first Labour University, It has been offered by the Dowager-Countess of War- wirkt herself a Socialist, to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, who have the proposal under review.
The Report of the Hongkong Horticulturd Society for the year 1025,"being the twentieth Anneal report. mentions that the ordinary membership of the Society fell of considerably during the year and now stands at only 175, but it is hope that interest will be revived. The during the coming season.
innal meeting is announced der
nursing next.
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The most trufal meeting ever held by Manila Rotary undoubted ly was that singed at the Munile Hotel when, following Funcheon, Major Gibeony
the chief of chemien warfare division of the Philippines department, gave practical demonstration of the jefficacy of tear gas, to the vast dis- comfort of several score Rotarians who had foregathered on the lawn Inoar the hotel pavilion. Major Gibson addressed the members of the club on his branch of the ser- vice and bespoke its support. The major pointed out that the use of war was really more humane than the use of explosives, in that the victina of gas in almest all instances is only temporarily incapacitated and suffers no per
manent i erTects.
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The Hongkong Police annual ball takes place this evening the City Hall.
During an interval at the Lower Deck dance on H.M.S. "Hawkins" on Wednesday night, Capt. Lake made the presentation of a.. silver rose bowl to Petty Officer Tilbe, as a token of appreciation from the ship's company of the manner in which he had carried out the duties of Secretary to the Enter-
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GENERAL.
One British case of diphtherin was reported in the Colony o Wednesday,
In Bangkok, on Christmas Eve, the temperature was below 60 deg. Fah.
Rallway relics, including 258 books on railroads of all coun- fries, realised £385 it Sotheby's.
The steamship "Angiolina". has arrived at King George Dock, Hull, with a cargo of 10,165 tons of cotton seed from Alexandria, the largest cargo ever imported into Hull docks.
Visitors to the Zoo to the end of November this year numbered Gate money was 3.796.470.
of $10,537 257,871, a decrense compared with the corresponding period last year.
At Blackburn, it was stated in the case of one defendant that he found it too hot and stuffy to follow mill employment in sum- mer and too cold to leave his bed in winter; and of another defen- dans that he declined to attend the court unless a four-wheeler was sent for him:
A big fire in the heart of Bangkok destroyed about fifty
Expenses of being an M.P. houses, most of which were small ones. Several fire brigades com- were given as follows by Mr. J. C. bined to suppress the conflagra-Gould, the Cardiff shipowner, in tion, which was witnessed by over the London Bankruptcy Court 10,000 people, among whom was Three elections .....£1.300 each. Expenses as M.P., £2,000 a year. the King of Siam
Total for six years.....15,900. Mr. Gould was M.P. for Cardiff Glowing tribute to the pro- gress made by the Philippine Central from 1918 until 1924. He Islands since American occupation said that a company known as was paid by Bishop Charles Gould Steamships and Industrials, Despite Bayard Mitchell, bishop of the Ltd, was formed in 1920 with a Methodist Episcopal church of the capital of £3,000,000. Philippine Islands, in a recent the slump it made a prefit of sermon at the first Methodist $500,000, but had now been forced inte voluntary liquidation by badj trade. Church in Los Angeles.
The hearing was adjourn- edr
*The
Municipali Shanghai "Gazette" gives the figures of the
Learning of the wish of the foreign population of the Settle- ment taken at the recent census. Denishawn dancers, to see him, The outstanding feature of the Mei Lab-fang sent word that just census is an increase in this popu- as they desired to see him, so he lation of over 6,000 as.compared likewise desired to see them." with 1920; while turning back to Therefore he proposed that he at- striking tend the theatre where they were previous years growth of the Settlement is well perfening, watch "their versions
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population was under 7.000, and take the same stage and "do his it was not until the 1920 census stuff" in Chinese style. This pro-i that it went over the 20,000 mark.gramme was duly carried out to Up to 1910 the British led the the pleasure of all concerned. foreign community in numbers, Incidentally, the audience voted but from that time onwards they the show that particular night were" surpassed by the Japanese..was considerably more than the The ever greater number of money's worth, since ordinary Japanese there is a striking point glimpses of Mei Lan-fang are about the census figures, for while infrequent and usually entail a they were a community of 736 long wait through a series of only in 1900, they now head the noisy Chinese plays until Me intals with 13.804.. Their increase cided to put in an appea during the last five years is prac-around midnight or early
ing. tically 40 per cent, «
AND PERSONAL.
The Shanghai Rotary Club en- tertained visiting Rotarians from in Belgium who are passengers the tourist ship "Belgenland."
The Chief Justice, S. 8., Mr. P. J. Sproule, had to resort to the use of crutches in entering and leaving the Singapore Supreme Court as the result of a sprain sustained while playing tennis.
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died in Liverpool. She was brought across the Atlantic in, the hope be that a cure for cancer might found in the new lead treatment, but she was too ill to undergo the treatment.
Prior to their departure on transfer to Kuala Lumpur, Mr. and Mra, Gordon Brown. District En- gineer, Gemas, and Miss Brown, were entertained to a farewell tea
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MA J. H. Kortright, of the Chartered bank of Yokohama, will leave Japan early next month for England where he will join his wife to spend a six month's leave.
Mr. Henry Erooks, J.P., of Blackpool, Lines, who rose from the position of a circus acrobat and gymnast to that.pf theatre manager," and who became Mayor of Blackpool last year, left £36,840.
The Rev. H. Parsons, who work- ed in Singapore at St. Andrew's Cathedral, has been appointed Priest-in-charge of Warwick, Ber- muda and expects to arrive in thut Colony about this time.
Earl Jellicoe, in unveiling at Portsmouth the portrait of the late Agnea Weston, said the Dume Mother of the Navy was a noble woman who built up a work for
men revered which naval
her memory.
by the sub-ordinate staff of the In an address at a luncheon at Engineers' Department, Gemas, the Yokohama Bankers' club in who presented Mr. Brown with an his honour, Dr. John R. Mott, Gen- the illuminated address as a mark of erat Executive Secretary of the appreciation and esteem in International Y.M.C.A. praised the which they have held him during spirit of the people of Yokohama
Mr. H. O. Wasser, assistant man- the time he has been with them, and elaborated upon the pro- Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Brown. and
gramme of the, Y.M.CA. in Japanager for the Tor Hotel in Kobo, hae taken the position of manager of Miss Gordon Brown were as well as throughout, the world.
the Astor House in Shanghai and garlanded, and a most enjoyable
will leave Kobe In February with evening was spent:
his wife and two children for
China. Mr. Wasser has been with the Tor Hotel in Kobe four years.. His successor has not been an.
Mies Florella Pedley, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Hilton Pedley of Everybody who knowa him,
Kyoto, was married December 19, either in Siam or Malaya. will in New York City to Mr. Conrad repolce at the high boneur
Van Hyning according to cable in- cently bestowed upon. Mr. W. Aformation received in Japan. Misknounced. Graham by the King of Stam, Pedley was a member of the says the "Straits Echo." Mr. faculty of Kobe College three years. Graham is not only an administra- and left Kobe, for the United
tor of outstanding ability and one States August 25,
of
the men who has helped tp
create the new Slam during a
of Messrs.
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H. Sir Laurence Governor of the Straits Settle- ments and British Agent for North Borneo and Sarawak, has kindly consented to the suggestion that career of nearly thirty years in Mr. W. A. H. Thomas, Dairen one of the roads in Sandakan bo Samuelnamed after him, in commemora- that country and its dependencies, manager but an
& Co., Tokyo, and acting Vice- tion of his visit here in 1924, says author of distinction, a
"British North Borneo thorough sportsman and A most Consul for the Netherlands; and the genial companion whose interests Mrs. Thomas expect to leave for Herald." The road running round and knowledge cover an unusually England late this month. Mr. the Recreation Ground f accord- wide range of subjects.
W. H.. Winning, who is acting asingly to be. renamed. Gülllemard 8wedish Consul at Dairen, is ex- Road, Among passengers who left pected to take over the Dutch Hongkong to-day on the RLMS. Vice-Consulate also, while Mr. "Empress of Canada" for Shang G. B. T. A'Beer of Tokyo will be hai are Mr. EA F. Aucott Lof in charge of the Dairen branch of Messrs. Jardine; Matheson & Co.) Samuel Samuel & Co. and Mrs. Aucott; and Mr. C. L
Mr. Andrew C. Fleming of the
Robert Dollar Company in Tokyo passenger has been appointed agent in Kobe for the Dollar and Admiral-Oriental Steamship Lines, Oliphant, of Messrs. Jardine," At the last meeting of the to Buccged Mr. Ralph H. Norris whose resignation from the Dollar Matheson & Co" Mr. Alan Shanghai German Worter's Club Cameron, Oriental Manager of the officers for the coming year were Line is effective January 1. Mr.!
was manager of the C.P.S., is going to Shanghai elected to take the places of mem-Fleming Mr. A. T. P. Farquharson, of the bere who will not be in Shanghai Robert Dollar Company offices at P.&O. Bank, 18 going on transreydaring the next Clunking in China four years, and to Shanghal. Mr. Lionel Yates, Officers are Mrs. A. Hartmann, six months ago and was placed in the Prince Line, and Mrs. secretary, Mrs. G. Rochreke, execu-charge of the Robert Dollar Com Yates are also booked to bang tiva board member, Mrs. B.H. Thielpany office in Tokyo. This office hal Mr. G. Otten, General Man and Mrs. E. Krueger, Social com- being discontinued from ager of the Java-China-Japan-Lijn, mittee members. Mrs. F. Thiel, January 1 Mr. Norris, whose and Mrs. Otten are booked for the wife of the Gorman Consul position Mr. Fleming is taking, Kobe, and Mr. G. E. Costello, General was welcomed back as expects to leave for the United general agent passenger depart honorary president of the organ-States in a few weeks as the re- ment, C.P. in Japan, and Mrs. | Isation foll ing a year's absence presentative in America for an
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