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The speeding-up of the London A Chinese section of the Hongkong Lodge the Theosophicaltrums has saved 230 cars since Socity has been formed. .... 1914, representing a inving of
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Three new wireless ma855. ancly 500 feet high, were hurled to the ground in a storm at Nord- deich, Germany. employees of the Mansfield has over 8,000 sociation, will be held at The Tunkey Paper M, Maidstone: school children, each of whom was dles Recreation Club, Funk who have served for 50 or more asked to contribute one potato to Road on Tuesday, the th March years have each received a cheque help the local hospital, 1926, at 600 pa precisely.
The Annual General Meeting: of the Mid Levels Residents" As |
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During December last 4,388- 000 bottles of champagne ware sent from the Marne district and 2,000,000 bottles were exported..
By arrangement with
A prospectus has been issued Piled, drivers of tramears Bave of the Kobe and Osaka Press; been instructed to ignore the fol-Limited, which is to acquire and lowing stopping places on Praya extend the business of the "Kobe, East between the house of 11.00 Herald" and the Far Eastern Presented by Prince Taka Tau a.m. and 7 p.m. on the "Race Advertising Agency. The pro- Kasa. F.Z.S., of Tokyo, a pair of days: Greeson Street. Tai Yuenprietor of the "Herald" is to re- Japanese apes-Toki and Yosan Street and Huard Street. 1
ceive Y10,000 in fully paid-up have just arrived at the London shares in the new company, and Zoo.
The police have received re- 16.000 in cashy and the proprie ports of two small burglariestor of the Far Eastern Advertis- Presented by the White Star occurring over the week-end. Ining Agency is to receive Y20,000 Line to a church at Forrester one case the accountant at the in fully paid up shares and Falls, Ontario, the bell of the San Kee shop, 82, Wing On Y20,000 cash. The capital is to Canopic (now being broken up) is Street, reports that the premises be $110,000, so that 180,000 is to on its way to Canada in the were entered on the Sunday be actually subscribed and of this "Megantic."
night.. and woollen cleth, valued sum Y45,000 will be available for
at $244, stolen Investigation by expansion. The present proprie "In New York, people of the police of the robbery which tors are to remain with the com- every race and faith as well as took place at the premises of pany, the one as Editor and the the unbelievers, are uniting tor Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, shows other as Managing Director. The build the Cathedral of St. John that the thieves gained entrance new company hopes to start the Divine at a cost of Afteen by forcing a window at the rear business as from March 1926. millions of dollars," says an Drawers were forced cpen, and a
American Journal. safe tampered with, but the
Dr. Henry Guppy, head of thieves managed to get away the Rylands Library, has been John Galsworthy has picked his with only $15 in money, and three correcting some widely held choice of the greatest American Waterman fountain pens, valuedemoneous impressions as to the newspaper headline. Lecturing at $2 each..
number of books available to on "Expression" before a London readers during the early Middle audience, the famous novelist A. P. Moller, Steamship owner. Ages. He points out "that print said that, for better or worse, the was yesterday held by Mr Justice ng reached its high-watermark of future of English as a living Woodi to have failed in his claim excellence the Venice in 1471thing was in the hands of the of 809,90 in respect of commission that between the years, 1450 newspaper writers and he cited as drawn by Thoreson und Co., Ltch and 1600 15,000,000 copies of the most extraordinary example Imports. and.Exports Merchants, of Queen's Buildhig, acting as his books were printed Europe he had ever seen of what, they agent. It had been the claim of that a small quarto, issued by could do, the headline in an the plaintiffs that the terms of aldus and containing the whole of American newspaper when Robert the English Poet cabled contract for the agency and Virgil, could be bought, for the Bridges, not specify commission on freight equivalent of a present-day half-Laureate. refused to be inter- A newspaper columnist, viewed in New York. The head- collected but the defendants held crown." that such was established custom commenting on Dr. Guppy's dis-life said: and they had acted within their closures, says: "One would like to
KING'S CANARY WON'T CHIRP. rights. Mr. Justice Wood, quoted think that the output of the law judgments that in order to ex-twentieth century had improved clude evidence of usage. It must be in quality as much as it has n we have 10: shown, that, the usage in question quantity bub was "of a particular which is re-optimists left of the type of Henry pugnant to or inconsistent with, the written contract." in his view this was not so. Plaintiffs would have to pay, costs of issue.
Labouchere, who welcomed Bohn's translations on the ground that they showed what feeble stuff the Jelassies were.”
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Lord Darling has been "ahot" by a film camera
Miss M. C. Bedford, Mrs. A. Paterson and Mr. W. Paterson of Hongkong were enrolled as mem
Mrs. F. J. Dickie and childrenbers of the Overseas League in are due shortly in the Colony.
November,
Mr. J. R. Johnstone left for the north by the "President Taft" on Saturday.
Mr. W. K. Edies, aged 82, of Nowport (Isle of Wight), has just completed 60 years' membership of the choir at St. Thomas's Church,
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3fr. John Galsworthy has yet said farewell to the family of Forsyte. Members of this interest- ing race figure in his new novel, The Silver Spoon," which Mesars, Heinemann are, to publish in the spring.
The Begum of Bhopal has been learning hantlicrafts. In London to fit herself to teach them to her women subjects on her return to India.
Mr. Willam Walker, of Headon Terrace, Nottingham, celebrated his 104th birthday by having a breakfast of bread and milk and bacon, and a dinner of roast pork.
That popular. novelist, Mr. Robert Keable, has gone back to live in, the Pacific island of Tahiti and is engaged on another novel of life in the South Seas.
Mr. J. M. Pennycuick, who is A girl of ten years is said to have held the audience at the going home on leave early in March, has resigned the hon. Metropolitan Opera House spell-secretaryship of the Penang Swim- bound
In his retirement. M. Clemenceau ming Clubas from January 21. Mr. s bday with more than one literary Rigoletto.
W. H. Gladwell has been alecta inproject. Apart from his essays on his--place.b
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some time longer in his post Lord Beatty is after all, to stay
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miralty He has already gone yond the normal period for which the post is held, but le to continue for some months more, and will probably not retire until next autumn.
HAPPY CHILDHOOD Is Largely A Matter of Health
A poem composed by a 17-year- old young man has been included! into the selected; pooms in the im- perial New Year's Poetry Contest. The Young man is an employee of Mr. Fujisuke Kujo, proprietor of the Kuno Sake Brewery Company, at Otakamichf-Achí perfecture. The name of the young man, is Takuro Kataoka,
Miss Aiko Ito, daughter of Prince Ito,. is engaged to marry Mr. Ken-ichi Nagatomi, son of Mr. Yukichi Nagatomil, who was former ly vice-president of the Nippon Cusen Kaisha. The bridegroom elect is a graduate of the Tokyo Higher Technical School and res cently returned to Tokyo from Englund where he studied for two. years
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Is why a good cleaning-out' fet the first Majesty the QHead of Stam thing prescribed By the doctor formally have opnferred on Farmorly Castor Oil was the means her in accordance with ancient used to bring about this; now-a-days royal custom, her new style and Haby's Own Tablets, do just the same title of Somdech Phra Borom work, but without trouble to the parent or discomfort to the little patient, Rajini. This ceremony was to take Children taks Baby's Own Tablets place on February 25. Her Majesty happily because there is no nasty tinte la now Mom Chao Ying Rambaf and no griping after-pain follow their Barnl Phra Vararaje Jays, and As a specific for infantile indigestion,ho will become Samedch Phra vomiting constipation, calle, diarrhoes, Nang Chao Rambal Barat Phra Mimpis-Layer, propr
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