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Entries In the C.R.C. annual tennis tournament close on March 27. Matches begin on April 20
Midland complainant:" He said what be thought about me. things I do not even think about I'myself.
Devonshire polleeman of a bagger: He asked a workman for a copper. Beggar. haughtily: Indeed not!! I asked him the way to Monte Carlo.
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The fifth annual general meeting of the British Legion is to be held on Wednesday, March 24, at 5.30 p.m. in the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd.
Under the auspices of the Church Army 25 boys left Tilbury to become apprentices on Queensland farms.
Sussex husband: I asked my wife when she was going to give me a square, meal and she threw a four-cornered dog biscuit on the table.
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"Never minit, you will soon enjoy it," said Judge Parfitt to a nervous witners at Clerkenwell, who said that it was his first up- pearance in couri
Inquiries from municipal authores show that." putting greens are the most paying pro- positions of all municipal sport- ing facilities, states a Gravesend Corporation report..
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A London County Council re- turn shows that, there are 5,398 public-house and beershops" in" the Metropolisa reduction of 1738 since 1904, when the policy of abandoning redundant Hcences was inaugurated,
Final papers in the separa Worcester policeman of ation of the business interests of cyclist summoned for riding with Mary Pickford, from those of her dirt a light: When I asked what husband Douglas Fairbanks, he was doing without a light be have been filed in the form of said, "Looking for my wife articles in corporation of the Mary Pickford Company, capital-
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A Chinese was charged: be- fore the Kowloon Magistrate: 'on
A total of 349 persons, re-used at $1,000,000. Several months Saturday wish larceny from presenting 763 individuals, took ago Mr. Fairbanks deeded pro- three yachts, the complainants up free grants of land in Canad perty valued at $1,000,000 to being Mr. H. S. Rouse, Mr. A. during December appcrease Mary Pickford and her mother. Ritchie and Captain Arthur.. De-80 on December 1924. The total fendant was remanded for fur included 80 Americans and 35 ther enquiries to be made. # from the British Isles
The enthusiastic declaration of one of the people concerned in the settlement of the American Owners and drivers of motor
coal strike that President cars are notified by the Osplay The Mayor of Plymouth, pre-Coolidge contributed enormously Superintendent of Police that no siding at the 107th annual meet-to that settlement by steadily re- cars will be permitted to park being of the Union Savings Bank, at fusing to have anything to do low the former mein entrance Devonport, said that statistics in with the controversy irresistibly to the Hongkong Hotel in Fedder the report showed it was the recalls a small boy's school com Street. Motor cars are not allow-most thrifty town in the country. position on "Pins." "Pine, "wrote ed to remain in Ice House Street Practically it meant two certi-this youthful advocate of a states- longer than is absolutely neces fentas for each inhabitant of manlike restraint, are great Devenport. They had 500 more benefactors to the human race. depositors this year than last Thousands of Hyes have been year.
saved by not swallowing them!?"
Appealing to the German passion for official titles, the Bavarian Government has manu It surprising to learn To raise hotel management factured a number of new titles, writes a correspondent) that to the level of a business and to 150 of which have been bestowed during the last eight years the the dignity of a profession is the upon men of various callings; in-Javerage annual defleit on the aim of the Ecole Pratique du cluding veterinarians. labour bowling greens provided by the Commerce et d'Industrie Hôtelière union secretaries, master plum- London County Council in de la Cité d Azur that has been Ibers, furnace tenders and team- its parks and open spaces in successful operation in Nice jsters. Each of the titles contains. has been $1,000. Bowls. is for nine years. It has the whole- the coveted suffix "rat," which a game highly popular hearted support of the hotel men means: "councillor." An arbeits- with middle-aged and elderly in France, as it is felt that a need rat"-priky councillor of labour men, who find lawn tennis or golf has arisen for attracting to their can be a plumber, carpenter, or to strenuous, and there ought to industry men of professional any one who has distinguished be enough of them to make the calibre: With the school helping Timself by working. The title greens self-supporting. At pre-to attain this purpose, a world "veterinaerrat” has been bestow-seht, however, bowb is a subst-wide service is afforded in view ed on several horse dicetors. Dis-deed game, and sb the Parks of the increasing importance of pensers of pills have exchanged Committee have decided not to France as a tourist Habion. There the humble title of druggist for add to their abilities in this are four other such schools in "Herr Pharmazierat.""
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
"The widow of T. W. H. Crosland.. the writer, has received £200 from the Royal Bounty-thanks to the efforts of Mr. Rudyard Kipling.
The forthcoming wedding is announced of Mr. William Henry Smith, of Shanghai, to Miss Pearle Durham, of Western Australia.
Mr. Arnold Bennett, the author; has gone to Rome. He is engaged on another.növel,
Mr. Frances A Taylor of Cheltenham on her 100th birthday received a message from the King and Queen.
Mr. Stanley Stonier has arrived: in Yokohama to take charge of the Mr. E. W.. Hamilton has been interests of the Goodyear Tyre and appointed to act as second assist- Rubber Company in Japan.. Mr.ant Colonial Secretary. His place Stonier, who comes direct from at the Kowloon Magistracy has Akron, relieves Mr Paul E. been filled by Mr. J. H. B. Nihill. Gleichauf. Mr. Stonier, who has Mr. E. W. Hamilton has been been with the Goodyear company Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, nowadays transferred the Colonial for the last seven years, will make, the chief missionary of Spiritual. Secretariat where he is acting as his home in Tokyo. The Goodyear Ism, hda written a history of the second assistant Colonial Secre- Tyre and Rubber Company is re-subject, which Messrs. Cassell are: tary. As already announced. Mr. presented in Japan by Mitsubishi publishings It is a particularly J. H. B. Nihil has been appointed | Shoji, Ltd., with whom Mr. long work, and will appear in two to succeed Mr. Hamilton at the Stonier's offices will be located. volumes. Kowloon Magistracy.
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Those wishing to join the com- mittee of the Hongkong Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals or to take office are asked to send their names to Mr. B. L. Frost, the President and Hon. Secretary fr order that their names may be considered at the annual meeting of the Society to be held on March 29,
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manager of the Ford, Motor Com- pany of Japan, left. Yokohama February 16 on the President Jefferson for an extended trip to China and the Philippine Islands. He expects to return in about two months.
Five women fainted in the crowd Mr. Stephen B. Carr, assistant at the funeral services of Barbara La Marr, moving picture star Only a few friends and close acquaintances attended the funeral services, as was the wish of Miss La Marrs The crowd formed in front » of the funeral chapel and fought police to get a glimpse of the coffe na it was It seems," says Miss Borden, the started on the way to the Holly writer "as, if the mass of people wood. Cemetery. A sixth woman in England are so taken up with The marriage arranged be- was so forceful in her attempt to the difficulties of economic ques tween Lieut-Comdr. Gerald view the casket that she was ejecttions and politics; and, on the Jackson, R.N., and Beryl, seconded from the crowd fighting, by other hand, with sport and horses; daughter of Dr. and Mrs. G. police:""
that painters, writers and must- Montagu Harston, of Hongkong,
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will take place on Thursday, Keen interest in the novels of April 8, at St. Jude's Church, H. G. Walla, is now beifig displayed Mr. Compton Mackenzie was rei South Kensington. Dr. and Mrs. by German publishers. His futurecently up-rooted from his Island Harston have booked to return to work, is being contracted for in ad-home of Herm in order to address Hongkong by the P. and O. s.s.vance. A significant pain da thâia University of London Society on Macedonia" leaving Marseilles the price to be paid for his un, the subject of "Religion in Novels on October 15.
written novels is to be much higher Mr. Mackenzie's long story, "Fairy if they prove to be a reversion to Gold," which has been serialized in A very pleasant and enjoyable Wells's earlier, fantastic romances the "Evening Standard,” is being function was held at Lugard Hall Mr. Wella will not commit himself. published by Messrs. Cassell. (Hongkong University) yesterday His last novel, "Christina Alberta's afternoon when the students of that Father," which is certainly ramin- Among the numerous decrees Hall held their "At Home," iscent of the earlier. Walls, has just General Pangalos has issued gathering which is held each term beeg translated into Finnish, since assuming the dictator- The function was to have been hold
ship at Greece a one allow at the University Athletic Associa Jascha Heifetz, whose reappear teen inches from the ground instead wing women's skirta tebe four- tion'a Pavilion, Pokfulam, but fance on the Berlin concert stage of twelve inches. This concession owing to the inclemency of the has been received, with enthusiastic has around much interest in the weather, it was transferred to demonstrations, has been led to feminine world, Lugard Hall. Nearly one hundred larcent that German journalism is students and their friends were becoming "Americanised present.
thought that here at least would Lace, for some years neglected be safe from reporters he com- by French modistes as trimmings Mr. David Moses David, who plained. "But the Berlin prese, for women's lingerie, except for died at Shanghai, last week was which at the time of my put visit women visitors from countries en 74 years of age at the time of his was most discreet, has become so joying high exchanges as against death, and was one of the oldest | Americanized that my throat is the franc, has come into its own foreign residents of China, hav- hoarse from talking to reporters again because of lower prices. dng been for about 60 years th the and from choking on flashlight Frail Valenciennes and the more country. Of these about 40 ere fumes." Berlín music lovers have gorge Bruges, Melines apentin Shanghai, where huden displayed exceptional driosity Blarid
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