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LOCAL AND GENERAL
The annuhl general meeting of The Diocesan Boys School: Repairs to the dog-gun at he Hongkong Rationalist Associn opened auccessfully in their new Sampanchow lighthouse. (Canton tion has buen unavoidably post-buildings at Kowloon on Monday, River) have been effected, and the poned till 5.15 p.m. oh March, 24. 280 boys, answering the roll out of gun is now functioning as before,. a total of over 800 on the register says the Canton acting Harbour.
Master.
The Hongkong Jockey Club. has Axed the following as the Pro-. vislonal Elat of dates upon which Extra Meetings will be held this Season: Apr 3, May 1, June 5 October, 2 and early November.
One pound and ten shilling treasure notes are among the novel;
The Honorary Treasurer of the has Shantung Road Hospital
In order to give physical acknowledged with thunks the sum training to students the Burmah of $10,860.70 from the Stewards of Government have sanctioned the the Shanghai Rate Club. This sum securing by the Education De- was obtained from the Races boldpartment of the services of the on January 1, 1926.
Physical Director of the Y.M.GA...
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bookmarks used-und forgotten-- The American publishers of Rangoon, for a further period of two one year from April 6, 1926, on by a than who is a frequent bor-the Book announce that. rower of bocks from one of Man-weeks after the publication of payment of an annual grant of chester's publie Hbranios. Quite A. S. M. Hutchinson's One In Rs. 6.000 to the Association. A large sum has been returned by creasing Purpose," it was the local
Tests, made, not by teetotallers, the librarian to this absent-minded best seller in Boston and Philade)- borrower
phin, third best seller. in Chicago, show that both typlets and com- fourth in Baltimore and sixth in positors produce more and more Brooklyn. Within another week it correct work when they have not A Chinese motor driver wast
had moved to firat placer had a drink of intoxicant than other fined $25 for failing to keep to his
Brooklyn, with corresponding individuals, or indeed the same in- own side of the road and a simitar
strides in other elties.
dividuals who have imbibed a small sum for dangerous driving. The
quantity of alcohol, but, the latter prosecution was a sequel to a col-
"The" " President Jefferson imagine that they have done more ision at Fanling in which a car
Mays the Yusbin,” brought and done it more correctly than driven by Mr. P. C Potts. was damaged to the extent of $70. The 8,000,000 eggs of the white fish"under, more abstemious conditions, question of compensation was post-growing in Lake Winnipeg In Heald Sir Arthur Newsholme in a
Canada, to Yokohama a few days recent apeech. poned
ago, to the order of the Agriculture
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and Forestry Department. They The negotiations for the The Fourth Ordinary Yearly were taken delivery of by an expert acquisition of a site at St. Helens Meeting of Shareholders of the of the Department and are expect for the establishment of an arti Hongkong Engineering and Coned to be hatched in Lakes Chuzenjeni silk factory have been com struction Co., Ltd. will be held in Nikko), Kizaki (Nagano-ken) pleted, and ratification terms are the Offices of Messrs. Shewan and Biwa. This fish is a very likely to be signed shortly.. || Foires and Co., St. Georgo's Build-popaler delicacy in Canada and English Arm has agreed to par
ing Chater Road, Hongkong, onAmerica. In Japan it is hitherto chase the old Sutton Glassworks of Wednesday, the 24th day of March, unknown.
Messrs. Pilkington Eros... and it is 1926, at 10a.m. for the purpose of
stated that employment will be receiving the Report of the Board
and found for about 3,000 men women, whose number might in time be increased to 6,000,
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Some days ago ructions were reported in Sakai Japan over a girl gf seven having been abduct- ed and tattooed on her leg with a flower.
Subsequent examination proves that it was not tattooing ab all merely marking with strong Though the offenders re still at larger it is surmised that
'the'
Shidzuola and Yamanashi Pre of Directors and a Statement offectures have found a bone of con- Accounts for the year ended on the tention in the exact location of the ast December 1926, and of elbeting summit of Mount Fuji, in othar Directors and Auditors.
words as to which of the prefec
A success for the FMS tures should enjoy the distinction announced in the reaulty just of possessing within its bound- aries the mountain which the Published of the December, 1925,
competitions of
Sloan- Japanese people come high to wor
Duployan Shorthand Society shipping. The dispute is by no means new, but it has been revived headquarters, Ramsgate, Eng- land). Entries were received with added virulence by the dis- covery of an old document which from all parts of the Empire, a states that the summit is partly total of 16 medals being awarded. under the jurisdiction of a village The Silver Medal in Class. I for the Yamunashi side of the the best paper in reporting style mountain. Both prefectures are was won by Mr. R. P Lourdes, getting their backs up again, just Malay Mail offices, of Kuala as they did 20 years ago, when the Lumpur. We understand that dispute. fell through as neither Mr. Lourdes is a self-taught side could, bring conclusive evi- "student, so that this result is all. dence to bear in its favour. the more creditable to him
the mankin was the result of superstition in connection with the | Setsubun festivih, which comes at the change of season. The mark is gradually disappearing, it would seem and is expected to be gone in
week.
SOCIAL
The fifth concert in the Cathedral Hall, for the organ fund will be held at 6 p.m. to-day. Tickets at one dollar.
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AND PERSONAL.
Captain J. T. Walsh, maneger of The Ceylon Legislative Council the Canadian Pacific Steamships inhas agreed to the Government Montreal is retiring from activereconimending to the Secretary of duty with the company after having State the creation of a permanent been a member of its staff for over pensionable post of Medical En Prof. J. L. Shellshear will de-22 years. He is to be succeeded by tomologist, in the Medical and a lecture 03: *Cultural Captain W. J. McGiffin, who is at Sanitary Services of the Colony, Systems of Borneo" to the" Hong- the present marine superintendent and if Mr. E. C. Carter, the hong University Law Society to of the company at Montreal in the Malarialogist, is appointed, the morrow at b p.m. in the University summer and at Saint John N.B., salary will be £1,000 per annum. Union Assembly Room
during the winter months.
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Mr. A. L. C. Fell, general mana ger of the London County Council trarnways from 1903 to 1924, is to marry Miss Florence Ruby Wynn, of Redcar, Yorkshire, who for nearly three years nursed his first wife, for a long time an invalid.
Anastasio A. Silvestro of the office of Speaker Roxas, has been declared victor in the typewriting contest at the Manila Carnival auditorium, February 7, according to an announcement of, the board. of judges. He made. 12,365 strokes, wrote 2,473 words, committed 29 errors and under the rules made an average speed of 78
words a minute.
Sinclair Lawis, author, caused a
The Chinese Government has bestowed upon Jonkheer
The man who was largely res Karnebeek. the Dutch Foreignponsible for the Dawes scheme of Minister, the Grand Cross of the reparations. Sir Josiah Stamp has First Class of the "Order of the now taken up his duties as Presi Golden Rice Stalk, Inlaid
with dent of the Executive of the Lon- den, Midiand, and Scottish Railway. precious stones.
This is the latest development in a career. Sir, Josiah remarkable started business. life in the Inland Revenue, and there developed that mastery of figures and enormous knowledge of revenue and taxation problems which led him on to highstir at a meeting of the trustees. of Lincoln and Lee University at Government posts and to the secre- taryship of Nobel Industries. Kansas City when he said "damn," Even now he is only in his forty with two Methodist Bishops as Feeding thirteen Texas diamond seventh year, and the direction of hearers."You will need the spirit rattle snakes by forcing mice down the LMS. may not be the limit of of yells and God a damn sight their throats and bathing, the re-his achievement, for he is a burly, more than you need money," was ptiles with soap and water twice a bluff man who enjoys the best of als advice. While some trustees week are the duties of Miss. Grace health Sir Josiah has denied the seemed offended at the language, Olive Wiley, curator of the museum rumour that he is to receive $15,000 neither Bishop EL Waldorf nor of the Minnesota Academy of Na year as the first railway president Bishop W. McMurray showed tural Science her.
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in Great Britain, but, whatever the Agure may be, it is undoubtedly.. large, and no doubt every penny of President Coolidge smashed a tradition and laughted out loud it will be worthily earned.
when asked to comment on the controversy over George Washing
Mr. Seiji Noma, the Japanese "Magazine King." will come to Europe, early in the, New Year to study Western methode of publish- ing. He was formerly Secretary of Among the many anecodotes,ton's morala, raging as the result the Law College of the Imperial from every possible source, that of statements made by Rupert University of Japan and served are being printed about the late Hughes, the novelist. I am asked for some time as Prefectural School Queen Alexandra are few that do to comment on George Washington Inspector. Rejected in his youth, not testify to her having had an the President said. Turning to the for physical reasons, by the Tokyo exceedingly good understanding, south window, of his office, where Military Academy, this son of The literary and highly cultivated the view of the Washington Monu famous swordsman determined to women she owned as friends proves ment was obtainable, the President, serve his country by teaching the it, too. She could not have kept still smiling remarked: "Well, all, youth of Japan to take a greater up such Intimacies without con can say is the monumen: still Interest In education, sport, and genit Interchange of thoughtstands,
oratory. Seventeen years ago, Mr. Such of her letters as have been
Sejl Noma founded the Society of published show her to have been After Interviewing nearly 200 Eloquence, there being at the time not at all the unintellectual woman girls in a vain search for a typical ford: a perfect fever for debate among she was assumed to be all these English beauty, Mr students, and published his first years. Even in one of her funeral Writles, of the Midnight magazine, called "Eloquence." sermone an outspoken preacher decided to explore, the London He was passing through Encouraged by the success of this went out of his way to say, "She shopa. venture he went on to produce was, of course, not a woman of the ribbon department of Messrs magazine after magazine, until he mind. If all these anecdotes and Selfridge's had covered a great field. He now personal friendships and letters behind the Has magazines, wall-written and regarding the well-illustrated, devoted to the fur have any terests of women, of young girls. sound and schoolboys, and many other sections far mor of the
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