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The now buildings of the Diocesan Boys School are to
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Shareholders in the, China, Over £1,800 was realised dur Eight and Power Company are in-ing: the past quarter by the sale of formed that the final call of $35 on waste paper from L.C.C.'s offices, shares. has been postponed from old metal and obsolete stock. March 4 to June 4..
The total exports of apples from Canada-this season down to December 17 were: 677,288 barrels 12.065 half-barrels, and 465,549 boxes, as against 712,625 barrela, 1,366 half-barrels, and 441,657 boxes for the same period in 1924.
| oponed on Monday, March 8.
The concert party of the Blue Funnel Stoamor "Hector." gave
Cisizane of Cebu provinza will An entertainment, hust week In Shanghai A callection was made hold that annual fair and exposi- for the funds of the Sailor's Warion the early part of April in the Memorial
provincial capital. Every town in the province will have industria Under the heading "An Im- and agricultural exhibits at the provement the "Straits. Echo" refair. Balls, side shows, parades,.
been cords that the mail train from fireworks, military contest and There has recently Kuala Lumpur was only 1 hour band concerts will be spacial added to the shelves of the Tokyo and 7 minutes late in argiving, at features. Tourists and others de Imperial University library a Penang on Wednesday morning.
fairing to visit the fair will adnumber of volumes containing that Cebu, has splendid hotel ac-phototype reproductions of some Comparative figures supplied by commodations,, severul garage of the most important writings of the acting Registrar, Imports and radio service and many other con- Emanuel Swedenborg. The books: Exporis, show that last month the veniences. It is considered the have been presented by the total imports to British Malaya Queen City of the Southern Swedenborg Society of London. were valued at $87.905000) un ex-Islands cess of $22,508,000 over the Im- ports in January, 1925. The valtis
of January exports was almost double that of these, for January, 1925, the figures buing $244,024,000 and $71,289,000 respectively,
Paris has decided to permit News, is just to hand that the Indian Government has granted her lamp posts to be used for advertising purposes, but will not the necessary authority to the let them be disfigured. In voting directors of the Great Indian to authorise the project to sign
Peninsula Railway for the carrying:
contract for 1,000 posts to carry' extensive out, of an
main-line advertisements, the municipal Confirming predictiona that electrification programme, For Philippine embroidery trade in the which the whols of the orders for Council made the conditions that United States would improve after plant and machinery required are the signs must be "artistic" and the Christmas season the Manila to be placed in England. It is must not be placed on streets that. Bureau of commerce and Industry estimated that the scheme will have special historical or senti hay received not only reports of volve the sum of $5,000,000. It is mental associations. advancing prices on this product now in the hands of a firm of con- and greater demand but also more sulting engineers, and involves the inqginios. From firms who desireline from Bombay to Igatpuri and connections with local exporters Poona, these places being respec- tively 8 and 119 miles from Bom- bay. The complete scheme covers about 300 track miles..
and denters.
At the end of last year, state there the Kencho authorities, were in Kobe 1,167 foreign com- pany or firm clerks, including 285 British, 129 Germans, 98. Ameri- Buttonholes are now being
can and the rest mostly Chinese. jextensively made of rubber. The
The greater part of the local flowers are so life-like that unless. The cost of dying is increas- Chinese werkers were barbers: they are closely examined it.ising in Soviet Russia. Owing to
(100),, tailors (222) and painters impossible to tell that they are the scarcity of suitable wood and (125), while there were recorded no real blossoms. The most druning materials coffins have id 54 Russian watch or cloth pedlars, popular form is a bunch of vanced in price in six months by the last figures showing a remark- The number of violets guaranteed to stand any ha per cent, white owing to the able decrease. Weather, from sun to snow, with congestion in cemeteries the price Chinese piece-goods pedlars also out fading. These violets are so of graves has gone up 25 per cent.decreased very much, there being Among realistic in shape, colour and per-Natural flowers are so prohibitive only 11 at the year-end. fumpe that no one, at a casual in cost that Russians have taken to the foreign residents in Kobe were, glance, could tell they are imita-artificial wax or metal doxal de- 3 German doctors, 7 Russian bion Each violet has a yellow signs as tokens, to, the dead. It is musicians; 3: dancing masters and centre, each curled lead a faint cheaper for Communists to dhe 18 ghowmen (3), etc. The network of lines. Roses, which than any other clasa because they Keneho recorded 108 foreign re- smell as sweet and bok as fresh usually are interred in the plainest sidents out of employment," in:
Not only whom 23 were Russians; 17 and as full of colour as though of pine board coffins. they were Blossoming in a garder does the state defray the cost of Chinese, 14 Americans, 4 Austra- on midsummer's day are another their burial, but usually they get hans, 3. Britishers and 8 Dutch-
Free graves. İremarkable rubber product.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr. A. K. Linton of the Mercan-
Mr. and Mrs. Burlingham re- tle Bank. London, is on a visit to turned to the Colony yesterday Singapore..
from Mania by the "President Taft."
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H. E. Sir Laurence Guillemard has consented to become Patron of the Singapore branch of the Royal Society of St. George.
A re-unlon dinner of the Hong kong University graduates of Singapore was held last Saturday at the China Restaurant, 36, Saga: Street.
The engagement is announced between Helena Iris, daughter of the late Governor, of Ceylon, Sir Henry McCallum, and Herbert Henniker Heaton, Colonial Secre tary of Bermuda.
"Australia. Day" was celebrated? in the Kobe Club by Australian members, who entertained their friends in a very, cordial manner. The hosts were Messrs. Nuzum, Jackson, Henry, Foggitt, Lane, L Birnie, H. H. Evans Everingham Richards and P. S. Wood.
In order that every Japanese may have an idea of what his Majesty's home looks like from The preachers at St. John's the inside, films will be taken of Cathedral to-morrow will be every interesting, room in the Rev. N. V. Halward (F1a.m.) and palace. Among the pictures will Sir Charles Eliot, on arrival at Rev. E. A. Rigden (5 pan.) All be those of the Main Entrance, the Singapore, told press representasents are free when the ball stops Imperial Porch, Homei Hall, tives that he was on a private at Matins, and entirely free, at
Chigusa Hall and Phoenix Hall. mission and had nothing to say for Evensong.
Films also will be taken of the publication..
Imperial Ancestral Shrines, as well as the Fulkinge Garden.
Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor, aged 102 and 101, said to be the oldest married couple in the country spent a quiet Christmas at their home, Hillside, Green Street Green, near Farnborough, Kent.
A gigantic taste of Burns, on the scale of the Statue of Liberty Harbour, to stand on the Clyde, ia at the entrance to New York The second of two desperate proposed by Sir Hairy Lauder attempts within a month, the well- Putting forward the idea at the known Cape Town climber, G. KirnLondt, has managed to reach the annual supper-
the of (Argyllshire) Burns Club, he offersummit of Kilimanjaro, the high- est mountain in Africa. The first ed' £1,000 towards the project.
attempt was made in November, when Mr. Londt only reached a crater at 15,000 feet, which had previously been believed to be the sunmit. It appears that the fur ther 600 feet had never before been essayed After spending the night on the crater, Mr. Londt. discovered a record, written in an exercise book by two German Salis and climbers, Carl von
Signor Mussolini now holds the following appointments: - Chief
Dr. J. H. Gray, secretary in of the Government, Prime Minis- charge of physical training in the ter, Secretary of State, Minister National Committee of the of the Foreign Office, Minister of y.M.C.A. in China, with an office at War, Minister of the Navy and Shanghai, is shortly going to Minister of the Air Service.
Canton to promote interest in the coming national athletic meet of For the 17th year in succession China in September next. Canton the King" sent to Mr. F. Nmay be the place of meeting this Charrington a donation to cover year, provided, of course, that con-
the cost of one of the teas to 700 ditions. there muko such a gather-Walter von Ruchteschell, dated hungry men and women
given ing possible. every Sunday at the Great Assem- bly Hall Mile End Road, E...
Mr. Allan A. Hunter, travelling secretary of the Fellowship of Mr. H. F. Lawson of the Scottish Youth, is on his way to Canton from. Union Insurance Co. has left. Now York. Mr. Hunter's mismun to Shanghai for home. Mrs: 'and Miss China is to interest students: In Lawson will follow him in the the higher schools of one country. Cours of a week or two. Mr. to correspond with those of an- Lawson has represented his Com-other in order to discuss problems pany in the Far East for ppwasof mutual interest and to promote of 12 years, but has been in fail-international friendship through ing health for the last year or two, the young peoples of different Mr. and Mrs. Lawson expect to re-nationalities knowing one another aide in England with their son, and better: daughter.
February 13, 1914, which was the previous highest climb.
The appearance of the Duke of The Chinese Chamber of Com Yorkda resident of Curzon merce, Singapore, was recently at Street, Mayfair, how makes it one
ENGINE TROUBLE. home to Dr. Lim Boon-keng, and of the most exclusive in this. there were present Masers, Tan neighbourhood to the detriment of
Men, like motor cats, are able to Kah-kee, Leo Kong-chlan, Lim the more damous Park Lane. The engine-trouble. Through lack of Chee-ghee, Lake Yan-kit, Liow duke's landlord, Lord Howe, lives and drinking, neglect of one kind, or sufficient exercise, infudicious "eating: Chia-heng, Ong Thye-ghee, Lim a few houses away at number 35 another, their internal maabinary' gets Tick-shpo, Tan Hunkijamond and the American Ambaanados is cut of order and then the troubles. Lee Wee-nam, who presided A Crewe House, nearby. The Duchess beginery is clogged, if you
your lecture on the educational system of York's brother, John Bowes-Lyon are constipated, liverish, billous, bad- of China was delivered by Dr. lives at 26, and 37 is the house of tempered herdachy" "blue," just tryin Boon-keng, and at the close of || Sir Patrick Hastinga, K.Ci, former Filttle dose of Pinkettes, to-night and the meeting it was decided to raise Minister of the Labour Govern you'll be ta perfect working order in fund to help fa establishing a ment, Lord Lonsdale, Lord Read the morning. Chemlats sell Pinkettes. or 60 cents the vial, post free from Dr. Department of Medicine in the Ing and Lord Beatty also have wollam Medicine Co., 60,....... Klangse University of Amoy
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