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St. Stephen's College Annual Athletic Sports will be held at the Hongkong Football Ground. Happy Valley...on....Wednesday next
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About 800 Japanese are to London la to have a Turkish attend the 10th World's Sunday bath exclusively for women, the School Convention to be held at first in the history of the city. It Los Angeles, California, in 1928, will be in the West End and Bl as Japan's representatives, Pre-Be run along the same lines as the parations for sanding Japan's de- bath club for men.. The annual meeting of share. Hogates to the convention are de holders of the China Sugar Re-ing made by the Sunday School When a fisherman at Teign- fining Company will be held in Association.
mouth, Devon, fell into his boat the office of Jardine, Matheson
unconscious. his dog barked and Co. on Thursday, April 22. During the life of the Amer-loadly, and later caught hold of ican Congress, beginning in, 1789 a policeman's overcoat and led Government revenues in and extending to the beginning of him to where its master lay, Spain in December totalled 272- the present, session, a total of 000,000 pesetas compared with 60,000 laws have been · pasked. Canada has officially invited |268,000,000 in December, 1921, These laws fall into four groups the
Dominions and the increase being due to better public acts, public resolution, colonies and all foreign powers to customs collections and to in-private, nets and private resolu- attend the 'world's poultry, con- creased receipts from the lottery. tions. Almost three-fifths of the gress, which will be held July 27 Considerable decreases continue to total 29,787 out of 50,000-re to Auglist 4, 1927. Ottown will be shown on the industrial tax present private acts.
be the congress, city: Three thon- which applies to the business:
sand delegates die expected attend."
British
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turnover, and in the tax on busi- A national demonstration by Iness profits sugar and consump- prohibitionists in Japan is plan-
tion taxes have also declined,
ined for the day on which demands Mr. William Morris,who for revision of the liquor woriginated the Monomark scheme, The Melk, Copy of the which will prevent youths or addressed members of the Fub- Guttenberg Bible has changed 21 from purchasing liquor, weity Club at the Hotel Cecili on hands passing via the Anderson be presented to the Diet. Fro-the relation of the monomark to Galleries from Edward Goldstonhibition organisation from all the advertising business, He of London to Dr. A. 5. W over the country will unite in the said that the scheme, which had Rosenbach of New York and demonstration Mr. Yamaguchi,been submitted to a panel of Philadelphin for $108,000. This a prohibition worker in the acturaries, permitted of 10 Tut is more than twice the price paid House will attempt to bar the sale duplication of monomarks. for the last Guttenberg Bible sold or liquor in the Diet Building moromarks
were confined to
in America. It is reported that restaurant on the day the bill is two letters, nearly a million in the bidding was raised a great presented Lecture meetings will dividuals or firms could be cater- den by the efforts of a group of be held all over the city on thated for if five letters were placed New York business men to buy day.
as the limit,, 25 million could come the Bible and present it to the
fin.
Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
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The German federal railways will make a novel experiment, The Free State Government Chekiang is said to posses à when the first Kultor Express" has declined to finance the pro- remarkable systemy of credit will stunt from Marburg for posed transatlantic fight of the which is the basis of most Chin-Calell: On this brain excursion Free State Air Service in July Juse business in the city. This rates will be changed which will next. They do not consider that credit system pertains not only enable the peasants.andi eftizens the advantages derived from such to bank and big shops, but also to of small towns not only to see the an enterprise would justify the smaller shops, and even commun sights of the big city but also to expenditure in view of the pre- daily purchases are made on the utilize its cultural facilities. The sent state of public finances and credit system and shops transfer railway administration has hired in the face of the widespread de- these credits much in the same the Cassel State Theatre for amand for a reduction of taxation. ways clearing house tran- special performance for those That does not necessarily sactions. Although the system making the excursion; at which that the flight will be abandoned,, umazes the visitor, the practice is half the usual admission will be fo there is a move on foot. to carried on without the least com- charged. Guides will be provided solicit funds from the general plication. Very little money. is for the museums and historic public to finance the project. The seen and the scarcity has resulted places. If this experiment is a cost is estimated to be approxim in a daily quotation being made success. "Kultur Expresses" will fately &45,000; (g) and a number for discount on cash purchases, be run on Sundays to Berlin, of prominent sportsmen and This quotation ranges as high as Cologne, Dresden and Munich at others are being at proached with 10 per cent.
regular intervals..
Ja view to their co-operation..
SOCIAL AND
The King and Queen of Spain aro pliening to visit America in the (autumn.
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Mrs. Ridgley. wife of Smethwick, Staffs, butcher, within the last 12 months has lost by death her father, mother, sister and now her brother.
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PERSONAL.
Lord Stonehaven Governor- General of Australia, who uses an aeroplane in his journeys over
Mr. F. E. Lacey, who has been secretary of the M. C. C for a large number of years, is retiring the Commonwealth, had a mur- September. Mr. Lacey, who is vellous escape when his machine 66 years of age, was educated at crashed into a tree and fell to Sherborne, and received his blue the ground,
as a member of the Cambridge side in 1882. He afterwards Baron Matsui, the new Japan-played for Hampshire. ese Ambassador in London, has
Of
Giving evidence before the been nominated an honorary mem-1 Mrs. Collins,, of Sriracha, has Foreign Affairs Committee of the ber of the Blackwell Heath Golf given Tes. 1,000 to the leper House of Representativs, which is Club. He took his first lesson work at Chiangmai, Siam., considering a bill to appropriate during the Peace Conference at this sum Tes. 750 will be devoted $5,000,000 to construct, embassies, Paris, and since then has become to the building of a brick cottage Mr. Frank Page, son of the form an enthusiast. Baron Hayashi is on the leper island as a memorial er Ambassador, Dr. Page, declar- already an honorary member of to her husband, David John ed that it cost his father $48,000 the Club:
Collins, who died in 1912, ́ ́ ́ and year to run the Embassy in
the balance is to be used for help. London on a salary of $12,999:
The married residents of the ing poor lepers. German community in Kobe were
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M. André Ribaud, a young the guests of the German bache-Thomas. Alva Edison, the French scientist of twenty-six lors the other night at a dance famous inventor was 79 on years of age, who was killed by given at the Tor Hotel. The February 11, He is very deaf,
the explosion of some liquid airKobe Dance orchestera played for but is, nevertheless, a good con with which he was experimenting, the occasion. Some weeks ago versationalist, if he is permitted is to be awarded posthumously the the German bachelore were enter to do most of the talking. He Cross of the Legion of Honour.tained in a similar manner by the still works as hard as ever in hie This decision was arrived at, at a married men. meeting of the Cabinet Council. M. Ribaud was collaborating with the French scientist, M. Georges Claude, on the extraction of certain
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laboratory, as though his life depended upon his hitting on It is a toss-up whether the some device which would bring American or the Japanese is the him fame and fortune, and he' re- work's worst mguist, and "fuses to admit. he is growing old think the American would win Which is probably why he does He is terribly bad." So says not appear to do so, remarksa Some of England's most enthu Professor A. J. Neville Whymant, Home writer. siastic huntsmen, alarmed by the Britain's foremost language ex increased use of barbed wire in pert, who speaks 85 Oriental the country, which is adding to the languages and dialects, and bas risks of those who follow the more than a nodding acquaintance hounds, have started an organised with the tongues of the rest of the movement to induce farmers to use world, civilised reads a press substitutes for wire fences. It is
article published in London. proposed to lend #nancial aid: to. farmers who are not able to bear.
the expense of such substitutions. Mrs. G. A Ferkins, who has Sydney" Algernon Fane, master of been a patient in Sternberg-Hog- the South Oxfordshire Hunt Club, pital, Manila, more than two has resigned that office because months, has entirely recovered there are too many death traps and is planning to spend several
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Colony in June Mra Perkinsia Through an oversight in connec- the house guest of Mrs. John tion with a marriage ceremony in William Osborn About three Saltburn-by-Sea Wesleyan Church, months ago Mrs. Perkins, wife of a bridal party and friends had to Dr. G. A. Perkins, stationed at return to their homes. at Redcar the Culton Lepeer Colony was without the ceremony being per taken ill suddenly, A radio was a pimply or yellow, if you see siimo formed. When the bride, bride.sent to a ship in the harbour near upon your tongue its answer is you groom, and other members of the their home, asking that the ship do, because these symptoms indicato a party gathered at the altar, the prepare to speed to Manila, to disordered condition of the liver or of discovery was made that there was get Mrs. Perkins to the hospital the intestinal tract. no certificate, and the minister as soon as possible. The Goy Pinketter are laxative perfection. could not proceed with the service. crnor General's yacht, Apo, pick. As gently as nature they stimulate the The bridegroom started off in kasteed up the message and Governor liver, dispel constipation, banish by motor to the office of the regis Wood immediately ordered that pilousness and sick headaches, clear the trar, six miles distant, to receive the yacht put about and bring skin, purify the breath, relieve piles. the certificate, but, he had not re- Mra. Perkins to Manila. For Chemists sail them, or poat fres, 60 turned when 8 o'clock struck, and weeks in was doubtful whether set the vial, from
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