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The annual mosting of the Hongitong & Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd is to be held on Monday, March 29, at noon,
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A truck loaded with iron bare collided with a tram car at Praya East. One of the coolles pushing the truck was injured and the rest ran away. "
The number of unemployed in Germany in January increased by: more than a quarter of a million On January 31 the number hadi risen to 2,080,000.
The total strength of the Ter ritorial Army on December 81 laat, exclusive of permanent staff, was 144,937, an increase, of 4,300 com thepared with January 1, 1925.
Why is it that the nicest woman nearly always have the and the "fest" hasbands: cheerfest husbands often such tory. feline wives, asks
Straite Echo."
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A Syrian document has been Some, Ane acting is to be seen found in the Rylands Library at Thy Name is Woman" show Manchester which, do the opinion ing at the Queen's Theatre, The of Dr. Rendel Harris, shows that -fated Barbara La Marr-recent- Jesus was not more than 6ft 2im
deceased and William Vin height. Mong. In particular: are: splendid.",
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A Derbyshire panel doctor who A fire which taxed the brigades ad accepted 68 88. In 16 payments to their utmost, completely de molished the factory building of H. from an insured person for per
forming a slight operation every. Murdor is suspected in the Diederichsen, opposite the Robert six months has been ordered by. case of a Chinese married woman Dollar-Company, at Hankow, and whose body was found by the police destroyed the machinery and stocks the Insurance Committee to rafund In a vacant flat in Nam Cheong of Liu Brothers Egg Drying Com-the money and forgo £5 of his or-
dinary remuneration. Street. Shamahu po.. yesterdaypany, who had rented the premised, afternoon. The body bore marks The total loss of building, machin ery and cargo amounted to appro of wounding with a knife.
ximately Tis, 185,000
Three boatmen were charged yesterday before the Kowloon. Magistrato (Mr. J. H. Nihil with assaulting, two other boatmen The police agreed with a suggestion made by Mr. D. McCallum (for the defence) that both parties should be bound over, and the Magistrate made an order accordingly,
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Construction of a library and museum, with a hall of fame of eminent Pilipinos; creation Old Austria used specie provincial chapters: serving in an stamps for posting newspapers,honorary capacity, togather with called "Merkur, stamps. Most of the board of trustees and the them have become very rare, and university to constitute the Na fancy prices are paid by collectors. tional Board of Trustees, and a They were issued in many colours: thorough revision of courses o the rarest specimens are now the study are among the extensive yellow ones. A short time ago a plans of President Camilo Osins. block of twelve beautifully pre-for a greater and better National aerved yellow. "Merkur" stamps University. As stated in the "China' Mall" were found stuck on an old periodi yesterday, the Hon. Mr. E.. D. Ccal of 1867, and are said to be HEMLINE Wolfe, Captain "Superintendent of worth hundreds of pounds. The Police, was the guest of honour at periodical had been addressed to
Apostolic dinner given by Mr. Edward "His
Majesty, the Sykes Honorary Police Commis- Emperor Ferdinand at Prague." sioner of New York City, at the Hongkong Hotel, last night... Mr. RC Trudwell, the American Con- sud, was unable to be present owing to indisposition..
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In an armed robbery at Shang (hai Street, Yatmath on Wednesday, a haut amounting to $124 in money und jewellery was taken. A gang
Discussing Lord Southwark's remark that the market was flooded with clerks, Mr. W. C Keay, secre- tagy of the National Federation of Professional Workers, said that the Federation had estimated from Sisters of Good Shepherd Con-the 1921 census that the number vent, Manila, ere complaining to of clerks typists, and draughtsmen the department of justice of the engaged in England Wales, and Jundancy of lower courts toward Scotland was 1,124,790 paraphar minor girla convicted of statutory They were composed of little over offences and sentenced to be: con- six hundred thousand males And fined in the institution for goofal slightly under five hundred thou-- reform. The sisters say that the sand females.. One reason for the usual penalty is from one to two overcrowding of entrants into office work after leaving school was the early age at which clerks were id-
of robbers entered a house atoRe-montha and contend that, the period clamation Street, Yaumyti, yester Is insufficient to enable them to
day afternoon and escaped with make the girls useful to society. mitted to offices compared with
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ME AU BE A BI_money and sewellery to the value The sister recommend that the sen- that of recognised trades, and pro-
of $200. Three aemed men entered tence of confinement be increased fessions.. The raising of the house of a Chinese rubber to at least one year. It is under-school leaving "age from fourteen planter in the Shatoukok districtstood that the acting secretary of or fifteen or sixteen would assiet early yesterday morning and took justice has endorsed the communiin mitigating the evil of over- money and property to the value of cation of the Good Shepherd sisters crowding at an early age an accu $708. Two boys, aged 18 and 9 to the municipal court and courts.pation which was already adequate years, were also kidnapped!
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Mr. C. W. E. Bishop leaves the Colony early next month. He has been a prominent member of the Hongkong Football Club.
The annual distribution of prizes of the Tutorial Institute will take place at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. Hall on Saturday evening.. The Hon.. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, has consented, to give away the prizes: "
The late Mr. W. G. B. Denman Fuller (45), of Coniston Lodge, Richmond Park Road, Bourne- mouth, formerly of Hongkong, left property in Great Britain valued at 27,643 (net personalty £7,662)...
The Kobe Catholic Association,. with the aid of the Kobe Dance.
Beggars" Orchestra, gave
Carnival (Fancy Dress Optional) at the Oriental Hotel, on March 113, in aid of their two Leper
Hospitals.
Gladys Bull, aged 14, of the L.C.C. School at Kennington, with whom the Prince of Wales shook hands, said that dozens of her school friends "crowded about me and seizing my hand that the Prince had shaken, kissed it again and again.”
At the Hongkong Volunteer De- fence Corps Headquarters last night a farewell dinner was given by the Scottish Company to Capt. J. B. Ross, 2nd-Lieut. H. E. D. Adams and 2nd-Lient; K. 8; Morri- son, all of the Scottish Company, who are leaving the Colony on long Home leave.
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AND PERSONAL.
W. you marry a widow with an children: you are. asking for trouble."Marylebone magistrate.
Mr. Trimmer, the blind organist of St. Peter's Church, Wrecclesham, near Farnham, has not missed a service in 22 years."
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When an elderly man said he was recovering from the effects of an accident. Judge Parfitt, at Clerken well, remarked: "A modern boy" would have said, I shall never be any good again.?"
Miss, Helen Wills, premier Ameri- can women tennis player.
Evening wigs of gold and silver tinsel thread or of coloured silks
The following forthcoming mar- riages are announced-M. Re- ginald Charles Pass; marine engineer of No. 2 Salfes Terrace, to Lilas Elizabeth Davidson, of are worn in Paris by those who King' Buildings; Mr. Henry Low Fealise that the shingle, however cock, merchant of 15, Babington desirable in the daytime, looks Path, to Miss Mabel Kotewall of incongruous on so many evening 57 Conduit Road; Mr. Alberto frocks. These wiga are made up Antonio Maria Rodrigues, of No. 1 on a strong, net or muslin cap. St. Joseph's Terrace, to Miss Car which fits closely to the head. men Justina da Roza, of 17 Ladder Street.
MA J. H. B. Nihill, who recently returned from leave, has been ap pointed as Magistrate in the Kow- loon Court, relieving Mr. E: W Hamilton.
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Mr. T. J... Coast, of Rock Ferry, Cheshire, left £100 to Gillingham Corporation, the, interest to provide a watch for a council schoolboy who is first in the Dockyard Civil Service examination,
Sir Rider Haggard left behind him an autobiography, "The Days of My Life" and the publication of this interesting work will come about shortly. Sir Rider made an express reference to this autobio-. graphy in his will Apart from this promising book, one 01 two complete Haggard, novels, are still to see the light, and a uniform edition of his works is contemplat- ed,
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In having their names engraved on the toes of their shoes, women of fashion are following an example set years ago by a notable mom- ber of the "Fancy." Ahold Londoner relates how one day in a tavern he was impressed by the bearing of another occupant of the bar, and asked a friend if he knew him. Look at his boots," whis pered his companion. The object of his curiosity beard, and turned his right foot for inspection. Oni the toe-cap was picked out in little brass studs the name Tom Sayers."
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A London writer says:-It must be acknowledged that Signor. Mussolini commande: "striking oratorical style. Whether we agres or not with his political views, there is no gatting away from the effectiveness of the message re- gently quoted in the Times" - ***We wish for peace. I went, and
while words of peace flash on the
would return to Locarno, but horizon: I cannot avoid noticing that the skies are filling, with pro digious flying machines and the seas with new naval war units. Our surast peace, like that of the Compton Mackenzie, is among Paradise of Islam, lies in the the lucky ones who always see shadow of the aword. The man things in colour. Ever since his evidently in deadly earnest, and The "Dally News", learns from o trustworthy source that the health was a child the printed word has the fire and vivacity of his thought of Signor Mussolini is causing been full of life to him. When he shines through his lungungebot han serious aneasiness to those about was about four years old he heard him. He is suffering from a com the hymn, Once In Royal David's plaint attended with slight but cun- City," and Immediately "Raw it Chamberlain's Pain Balmas tinous haemorrhage and there have gold and purple, while his childish
A feeling of warmth, comfort and been two attacks of haemorrhage grace before meat appeared to him relief from pain follows an application nuch more serious in character as a long thin chocolate brown of Chamberlain's Pain Balma) It is a and another might prove fatal, line, and that of the race afterpetrating himant for "deep seated Signor Mussolini is frequen in was a life of mustardy yellow pains, which reduces painful swillige, pain, his nervus are greatly
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