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The return of notifiable dis enace for the 48 hours ended Sun-as day shows one Chinese (imported ense of arnallpox and one Chinese case of diphtheria.
A court at Bordeaux has meted out six months in Jail and a fine of 20,000 franas to two in dividuals found guilty of selling kischen wine bottles labelled "Haut bien."
More than 200,000 citizens visited the Meijt Shrine in Tokyo during the first three days of the New Year to pray for prosperity and happiness. Nearly half of these visitors called on the New Year's day when the spacious road reading to the main sanctuary of This is the shrine was crowded to capacity.
An Imperial gift, of. Y1,500 has been made to South Sea Islands for the rellof work of refugees in the recent storm there. said to be the first gift given by the Japanese Imperial family to The islanders there
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The first vehicle to run by Ita own power upon a highroad was French. This was the steam r
An amazingly clumsy con- trivance, with a huge, kettle-like boiler, and Its highest speed was about four miles an hour. It end-
Two new
radio stations wil shortly be in operation by the Manila bureau of posts. They are Pandar Radio in Catanduanes, for which P6,000 is being spent, and Infanta Radio In Tayabas, P4000.causing estimated damage of ap-ed by running into a wall and up- The other proposed radio stationa planned last year and this year, numbering 16, will be done by ad ministration or by contract...
Fire originating in the kitchenriage made by Curnot in 1769. It of the store of Tan talong swept the was commercial centre of Ormoe, Leyte, on the morning of January 5 and reduced to ashes six Chinese stores,
proximately P100,000.
other
setting, spilling hot embers and bolling water in every direction. its unfortunate inventor was arrested and put in prison.
The Turkish Republic is to replace all the paper money now in circulation with n new • Der of the
Plans for construction of a More than 100 mail contructs money bearing the name
The paper, money now Faoush brackwater and the closing have been renewed by the Manila republic. bureat กา posis.
view in circulation, that of the Ottoman or to present channel on the west let the opening of more roads | Empires, for the most part, so breakwater, at Manila are being filthy that it is a menace to public drawn up by the bureau of public in the provinces and the better ser
Included in this project. tipes by trucks, transportation health. All the paper of the em- works.
publicpire must be submitted for ex- are the improvement of Pier 5 companies and enrriers, the mail service this year change und burned within six through the widening of its pron to about 25 feet-around the pre- months is expected to be more efficient, re-
sent pier, to foliate transfer, of gular and frequent..
All Great Britain dancecargoes front..the adenmers; con- Something entirely new to the simultaneously the other night instruction of a pier head similar to average Berlin concert-goer was a gigantic internationak radio jazz that of Pier 7, to give room for The qustoms Inspection offees; and the singing, of Negro spirituals by revel for hospital charity. Roland Hayes In the large hall of chief revel was at Olympia" h Lon-dediging off the harbour the Philharmonie, not long since.dan, but there were smaller dinees which will be, made passage way
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plauded with genuine appreciation. Steady increase of typhoid Mr. Hayes' beautiful votes, expres-fever in Tokyo for several weeks don and fine phrasing made the has enussed the Chief of Police to sanie impression here as last year. His programme Italian German and English num-Police Board show that 6,500 cases pairs." That would have seemed a bors, his perfect interpretation of have been reported in Tokyo since large sum to the thrifty parers Health department and pruners of the Treasury who several of Hugo Wolf's meat di- December. 1.
to house in 1800 made the first grant of cut songs exportally delighting his officials plan a house German heDETH, Mr. Hayes wua canvass and a survey will be made $15,000 for furniture and seven force, iar response to the applause of the stocks of vegetables sold in years later made the first appro- of the audience, to extend his pro-restaurants, shops and markets. priation of a similar amount for None, however, wilk. gramme until the lights were Preparations are being made to re-repairs. ·
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The London Missionary Society announce the death, at Barret, of the second oldest of their mission- aries, the Rev. Samuel James Whitmee, late of Samoa, at the age Mr. Allen Cameron, Mr. L. Gain,
Mr. Donis Santry of Swan and of eighty-seven. Mr. Whitmee Mrs. G. F. Haslam, Mr. Eam Woo,
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at Bristol and outright by Louis Yong last year held pastorates after 20 years of vain struggle for Dublin. He then returned to It will be Samoa for special work for the ultimate possession..
The staff Society, and while resident there competed for yeriy.. and pupils of the Institution are zave Robert Louis Stevenson re- very grateful to Mr. Santry for gular lessons in the Samoan
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Mr. W. W. Royds, Acting British Consul-General in Kobe, left the pors on Junuary 28 by the. P. and 0. steamer "Malwa. He will be for nine absent
furlough on nieaths.
Paying a visit to old friends in the Colony is Mr. Charles Young, manager, Oriental Union Trading Co., Shanghai. Mr. Young is. an "old Hongkong boy." He has been away for over ten years and is now a valuable member of the Shanghai business community.
The whole of the foreign com- munity in Seoul was "en fête" on Friday 16th January, in honour of the marriage between two of its most popular young members, Miss Gwenyth Jones, late of Hankow,and Mr. E. C.. Wood, manager of the Rising Sun Petroleum Company." The Consular Service was per- formed at the British Consulate- General by Mr. Arthur Hyde Lay C.M.G. the witnesses being Miss Mount Biggs and Mr. M. E. Dening.
The following notifications under the Singapore Volunteer Ordinance are-published in the Gazette: Com- missions as Second Lieutenants are granted to Messrs. "R. L. Brown, R. L. Cuscaden and C. E. Lambert; Becond Liutenant R. L. Brown is
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