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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
R. B. Salabury's Co.. is fr It is reported that the Java Government State Railways will Shugapore performing "No No take over the Semarang-Chenlbom Nunette" "The Sport of Kings" Rallway Company some time next etc.. Year:
The new department storo of the San Sun Co. in Shanghai.. Attention is drawn to an
con announcement. In this issue giving like the neighbouring rend particulars of the train servicecerns of Wing On and Sincere, is Jon Monday (Fibruary 15) for the chiefly Guntenese-owned-Eraclien. ly all of its paid up capital of Fanling. Hunt, Faces:
$3,000,000 was subscribed by local Cantonese.
The China Light & Power Co. notify consumars that the supply of electricity will not be available between the hours of 9 am 15 pm on Saturday next..
A dinner in connection with! the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders of Hongkong is to be" held on the 19th inst. at the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hotel..
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"Thor's 150. different dialects of the Anglo- Saxon speech in everyday use in Glasgow for business, political and soclul occasiona, writes Mr. Nell Mumo.
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Shanghai must either go under The tenth annual report of ground" or overhead to solve ite andke Ipoh Y.M.C.A. reedds the fact trafle problem was the opinion de that the new institute will be open-pressed by, Magistrate G. W. King ed and in full running order by the in the British Police Court at the end of January. The total con- conclusion of hearings of three tributions to the building fund up traffic offenders.. to December 31, 1925, amounted to
The Cunard Hver "Laconia" will leave Hongkong on March 23. Passage rates and full information to be had from the Tourist. Dupt..$5,692, and a further: $10,000 is Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Led, 16. Des Vaux Road, Central
The "N-C Daily News" says that in spite of all rumours to the contrary there has been very Fenrisiderable- increase both in the number of fema and the residents et Shanghai during the past your.
Giant celebrations have been arranged for Tokio). Kigenatsu, the anniversary of the accession of the Emperor Jimmu Tenno. The fete will be under prefectonell auspices and 50,000 members of Young Men's and Women's Associations, and Retired soldiers and primary school children in the Capital will participate,
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The "Door of Hepe" Shang- required to furnish and equip the hat, acknowledges with sincere building. The membership is now thanks the gift of $2,280,46 from 47 active members and 60 asso-the Shanghai Football Asociation,.
being the net proceeds of the En clate members..
ginors Charity Cup Match of December 26, 1,925,
Ocial unemployment retarne for December 27, issued by the
Seven fremen of the s.87 Ministry of Labour give the num- ber of persons on the registers of "Benavon" who were charged Employment Exchanges in Great with possession of arms and am- Britain us 1,102/400. This was, munition were discharged yester 25,046 less than a week ago, and day, the Magistrale holding that. 66,827 less than a year ago. But the search had not been well car- the decline is largely among:ried out and there was consider. women, children and boys. The eble doubt in the case. total of men unemployed was 896,-- 000 on: December 21, 912,360 on De December 14, and 897.461 om (cember 22 last year. Thus there are only 1,463, fewer men unem- ployed than at the end of 1528
With reference to the raporu
The Times" as recently con- that the Canadian Pacific Raikny Company's hotellin Quebec City, the tained advertisements Jer junior Chatenu: Frontenac, has been burnt assistual rubber planters, wanted
coin down, advice has been received lange group of rubber from the Head Office in Montreal panies operating in Malaya. Ap-
A Musicale will be held at the Helena May Institute on Thursday. 25th inst. Tables may be booked on payment of 50 cents 'per ticket at
No the Secretary's Offee. tables will be reserved after noon on Wednesday, 24th Inst. and tea will not be included in the 50) cent charge to those who have not! tooked before the 24tis.
Playing on Christmas Eve.. to the effect that a portion only offplicants must be healthy, keen, the old buildings has been des- and efficient at all outdoor sport, four young children of a Beverley, over 25 yearA. of age and Yorks, farm labourer found a jar troyed by fire. The major part of not. the Chatene, is operating, with five have received a first-class educa of gunpowder. which had been hundred and fifty guest rooms and tion of a recognised English public buried in a rubbish heap. One of the customary, public space, sc school or the equivalent in Scotland. the children threw the far on the thero la `wmple" accommodation to Applications. from men unable to fire, and, in the explosion which take care of passengers who may ju all the foregoing conditions followed all four were, severely be using the Canadian Pacific will not be entertained. Experience burnt on the face and Himbs. One route through to Europe and who in agriculture and forestry work is in danger of losing his sight.. out, and the may want to spend some time, in an advantage.. Agreements are The mother was Quebor City. The damaged por tion of the Chateau Frontenat wil be rebuilt and ready for occupation by June 1 of this year.
for four years. Beginning salary, father, who was working in the 14 per annum, with annual, in-fields, heard the children scream- Free quarters: passageing. A baby in a cot in the exements.
same room escaped injury,
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Queen Mary has accepted the presidency of the London Hospital. vacant through the death of Queen Alexandra
Among latest contributions to King Edward's Hospital Fund for London is £1,000 from King George, patron of the fund
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Miss Marjorie Staples, late, of Singapore, and now of London, was to sail on January 12, for Brisbane, where she will be married o Mr. D. K. Smith, engineer of that city?
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Three new student interpreters Messrs. J. P. Coghill, D. Cameron, ond E. W. Jeffery, are arriving. from England by the P. & O. 8.8. "Khyber" on February 23 and will go to the Legation in Peking..
"The Judicial System of Japan the subject of a lecture in the "Courts of the Nations series, was given at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. The lecturer wha: Mr. A. Tajima,
The flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Sinclair is now being Blown H.M.S. "Petersfield."
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John Ingram, of Pimlico, whe was found drowned in the Thames. was said at the City inquent to have been buried alive three times. thein France. An open verdict was
recorded.
MT. Bentley Bentham, of Mount Everest Expedition, won two first prizes in ice gymkhanas" at Maloja, Switzerland.
Last night's audience at the piano-vocal recital included Lady Clementi, Mrs. McElderry, the EngHon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, K.C, Mr. R. A. North, Dr. and Mrs. Balean and Mr. and Mrs. R. A. D. Forrest..
The Ven. Archdeacon and Mrs. Barnett write cheerily from
and where both are busy with parochial and other work.
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Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Henderson'
Dr. E. R. Stone, MB, B. Ch who left for the north last week Medical Superintendent of the Lines, have had the trying experience of Lunatic: Asylum. Sepoy being in the Yokohama earthquake Singapore, who is, on leave at pre- and the Hongkong Hotel Aresent has recently obtained
Diploma Tropical Medicine, Captain Hamilton and Owners, Liverpool. Admiral-Oriental Line, Ltd, Manila, issued invitations for a reception on board the s.sy Taiping on the occasion of her maiden voyage. The "Taiping" is the sister ship of the s.a. "Changto."
An Associated Press. telegrain of January 13, says that Mr. B. G Horniban, who was deported from India seven years since, and who made a dramatic re-entry into the country fortnight. ago, le
The Canadian Pacific liner
acting Consul-General for Japan, Lady Clementi's entertainment shortly taking over the editorship who spoke in English. Mr. Chang Committee was responsible for the of the "Bombay Chronicle." Nieh-yun interpreted into Man-attraction at the Seamen's In- darin, and Mr. Chong Pong-ping stitute last night, when the cele-Mella in which Captain Clews brated "Squeakettes" provided a was shot at Antwerp recently, 27- occupied the chair..
rare programme. Dancing wasrived at Jarrow for reconditioning. Mr. T. E. Dibbs, formerly of the indulged in at the close of the Dr. J. Bryce Merrick, the shipla doctor, dropped dead at Jarrow staff of a Penang newspaper, was concert. ordained u Home Missionary of the
railway station after having book- Presbyterian Church of New Zea- A motor-lorry owned by a man ed for Birmingham, where he was. land; on December 21. The named Holden, driven by a Holden, going to viaft friends. He belong- ordination service, which was con- with a Holden as drivers mata,od to Toronto, Canada, and was ducted by the Rev. T., N Cuttle, came into collision at Blackburn about 50 years of age. Moderator of the Presbytery of with a motor-car. The owner of the Westland, was held in St. Andrew's motor-car was a Holden; so was Church, Kumara.**'*
the driver. The policeman on point duty reported the accident. His name was Holden.
A schoolboy and giri, romance reached a happy store on Decem-" ber 80, at Beckenham Parish Mr. V. Viccajee, BA, having Church, Kent when Mr. Ronald finished his course at the Univers Deterding married Miss Ethel sity, leaves the Colony, this Louise Philbrick Mr. Deterding it month. Mr. Vicgales has rendered the younger son of Sir Henri yeoman service at the University Deterding, of the Royal Dutch Shell in the cause of good music. Him Oil Combine, and director of the self a capable player on the Shell Transport Co, while Miss Violin, his contributions have Philbrick is the eldest daughter of invariably been drawn from the Mr. and Mrs, G. H. Philbrick of classics. Clare House, Beckenham. Mr. Philbrick has been for a number of
The teachers of the English and Malay Schools of Negri Sembilan, and the staff of the Education Office, Seremban, were present at a farewell tea party given to Mr. P A Yearwood, Inspector of Schools, Negri Sembilan, and Mrs. Yearwood, at the Negri Sembilan Club, Seremban, on the occasion of their departure home on furlough, prior to Mr. Yearwood's retirement frem the Government service.
For a copy of Kipling's "Schoolboy Lyrics," an E-printed pamphlet published In India in 1881, in an edition of fifty copies years head of Clare House, a pro- Mr. Cecil Holloway, assistant in for private circulation, the sum of paratory school for boys. Mr. & European firm at Bombay, while £291 was paid. A first edition of Ronald Detording, who was born in motor-cycling near the Taj Mahal Echoes," by Kipling and his sister, 1900, was a boarder there for some Hotel Bombay, January 9, with brought in 2246. This glory was time, and bochie dequainted with a pillion passenger den or certainly not foreseen by the care- Miss Philbrick, who is the eldest of judgment in taking the bend and lessly-dressed youth who with of three sisters. The acquaintance-crashed into the kerb reustaining a lean yellow dog at his heels, utte ship ripened, and, as stated, the fracture of the skull, He died at ly uninterested in the amenities young couple were married on the hospital. The pillion passes of Anglo-Indian December 80 Mr. Detarding is a ger, Mr. RF Moto, Resistant of about the boxer, and he has on many occa- Messrs. Thomas Cook and Son; alone gone down to Clare House to was also removed to hospital suffer fudge the boxing competitions being from alight nip tween the boys
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