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Licencom for two-seater taxi-cas in London were issued last thonth..
The General Federation of Women's Clubs of America - observed April 18 to 20 as Garden
Week.
The Rotary Club of Amerten have organised their communities for the observance of Boys week from April 26 to May 1.
The inter-school sports take place to-morrow on the Hong- kong Football ground. H.B. the Governor will presens the awards at 4:30 pm.
An American & divorce." la infinitely more moral than British separation, declared Mrs, M. . Seaten-Tiedeman, one of the Jenders of the movement for the reform of British divorce laws,
the United 'interview
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The New York Board of the Canton Christian College started) a nation-wide drive" on "April 8 for funds for the College, for $2,500,000, "to
ameliorate the financial crisis the institution has
suffered during the recent critical times in Kwangtung Province."
use this summer to be un-
GENERAL.
The third yearly meeting of Two hundred down-and- outs" helped to fight the flames Chinese Estates, Ltd, is to be when fire broke out at the Salva- held on Thursday, May Bi tion Army, hostel und waste. paper factory in Spu Road, Bermondsey. The hostel is one where destitute mon are given employment long enough to establish themselves in society.
The first ordinary yearly meeting of the Rural Land Invest- Ye-ment Co., Ltd. is to be held at the Company's offices, Asiatic Build- ing. on Thursday, April 29, at
The following is being told in London: A donkey and a fivver were standing side by side. The donkey, said: "What do you call yourself?" The flivver replied: Why, I am a motorcar. What are you?" The donkey stagger ed for a moment, but recovered and 'sald: 17 Why, I-'m'a horse.""
The largest French liner afloat, the Ile-de-France, of 40,500 tons, just built at Saint Nazaire Genérale for the Compagnie Transatlantique, was launched by M. Mario Roustan, Under-Serre- tary of State for the Mercantile Marine. Her length is 787. beam 60ft., and draught 31ft. 6, and her estimated speed 21 knots.
It is announced in London that the operation of laying the first cable of "loaded" type be tween Сосон Island and:
noon.
to
Sendors
of" telegrame Shanghai and beyond are inform- ed that, owing to faulty cable connection. telegrams to and from Shanghai and beyond are subject. to delay.
An Aneta report received from Tokyo states that the ex- King of Korea is seriously ill. Crown Prince Kikong hus post- Poned his intended trip to Europe.
in consequence..
The Kullan Mining Adminis- tration
the total notify that output of the Administration's minus for the Week ending April 10, 1926, amounted to 70,854 tone, and the sales during the period to 17,078' tons.
News has been received in Kobe of the return to Japan Fremantle, a distance of 1,800 sometime next September of the Denishawn Dancers, whose visit nautical miles, was completed, or March 15. The new wires will here last year was very success- ful. The troupe is now in feed 2,100 letters per minute, India. They made a great im- compared with the existing line's.
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The present cold wave is due to spots on the sun, which will usually hot, according to Prof. Jed by winding round the core
145 words. The result is obtain-pression in Hongkong. Sakihei Fujiwaru of the Central strips of new metal capable of Meteorological Observatory, Tokyo, carrying additional current. Abnormal conditions are expectedi
tarded
At the annual meeting of the Japanese Residents' Association officers were elected as follows:- President: Mr. S. Kinoshita, manager of the NY.K. Vice- President: Mr. T. Takagi, mana- ger of the Bank of Taiwan: and treasurer, Mr. S.. Okubo,, of the M.B.K.
a this year. The growth of Singhy as a cure for. Jumb ria berry trees and tem planteness has been tried with remark has already been somewhat reable results by the Vocal Therapy Society of London, of which the Duke of York is president. The housing shortage neces- "One man who was practically sitated the eviction of a mother dumb regained his speech com
Replying to Mr. Havelock end. daughter frem rooms in pletely by this method," said Miss Montmartre, Paris, by means of K. S. Malden,, the secretary. "AWilson's appeal for assistance on tear gas. The landlord wanted dumb ex-Service man came to us behalf of wemen and children the rooms for his own son. The for treatment. He took part in who are suffering from want, women pleaded that the daughter the singing classes, and after aowing to the seamen's strike, the was born in the fat, and it was time was able, with great dif-ship owners intimated that while impossible to find shelter elke-feuity, to articulate a few words.logically there is no case for such where. Ax they continued to We persevered with Him, and in a request the ship owners, though ignore the law, the police were a short time he was able to sing their own losses are enormous, called in. Gas was poured in simple words. To-day, after only did not desire to withhold help. until the women were compelled two years, he is a prosperous. He added that they had already to open the door, with tears commercial traveller in the north paid large sums to seamen's de- Estreaming over their faces, of England."
pendants, even during the strike...
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr. W. R. Griggs of the P.W.D.,
The Rev. E Warburton, maked and Ms. Griggs leave on holiday the suggestion that all candidates on Saturday next. Mrs. Griggs for the ministry should work for has been organist at St. Peter's A year or two in a factory. Churcht
After 42 years' lifeboat service, Mr. Stephen Clayson has resigned the post of coxswain of the Margate boat, which he has held for 20 years.
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A new theatre at Croydon will be opened by the Duke of York in October,
A woman carrying & pet Five postcards addressed toseagul in her arms has been seen Councillor H. G. Toseland
walking in Holborn. Epping, and members of his fantily.. posted in Christiania, Norway, on June 23, 1938, have just been re- ceived
The late Mrs. Lee Po-stam of A social evening in connection
No. 7. West Terrace, left estate to with St. Peter's Church is to be held on Thursday next In the the value of $1,060,900. Sha be- Cathedral Hall. Proceeds are toqueathed her fortune amongst hor family. Probate of the will has | just been granted..
go to the repair fund. --
Mr. R. R. Jackson, aged 33
Sir Basil Zaharoff has written to Aeling Manager of. Harrison & Crosfield. Ltd., has died at Kobe. deny the rumour that he is the from largest shareholdet in the Casino Mr. Jackson, who came Australia, was prominent, in social of Monte Carlo. "During the forty winters. I have spent there." he and athletic circles in Kobe.
says, "I have never entered, the It may not be generally known Casino, which in no way interests me," It is a wise rich man who does not wish to be richer.
that Sir Arthur Yapp who ad- dresses a Y.M.C.A. meeting on hia Friday gained his title for services at the Food Ministry dur ing the war. He is a popular figure in Lancashire...
With characteristic thoughtful ness, the King has made arrange ments that the Honourable Char- lotte Knollys shall continue the use
of the private brougham in which she, used to drive for so many years while secretary to Queen Alexandra, The brougham will be kept for Miss Knollys in the King's stables.
A legacy for a missing son is the will of Sir contained In Thomas. Pink, the well-known jam maker. and yachtsman. Sir Themes, who was head of Mossre,
.
Mr. W. L. Kerr, of Messrs. Jardine Matheson and Co., Ltd., has left for England on furlough. Mr. Kerr is well known in Kobe, and also in Rugby circles.
Son of the late Mr. George Bradshaw (founder of Bradshaw's Railway Guide) Mr. W. Bradshaw, of Ellesmere Park, Lancashire, Printer and publisher, left 239,768, He owned the unique collection of railway literature shown at Wem- bley and other, exhibitions.
Mr. Richard Katz, staff cor- respondent of the Berlin Vossische Zeitung, is making a visit to Japan for several weeks on behalf of his paper. Mr. Katz came after spending some time in Hawaii and Samoa, and expects to go from Japan to America,
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"direet that under no circum.
E. and T. Pink, Ltd., left £276,088, stances is an Englishman to be and devised: life annuity of appointed as rector." This clause, £750 for the benefit of my son, leaving the advowson of All Saints' Thomas Bernard Fink, to benome Rahony, to Blahop Plunket, appenrs payable only when my said son shall in the will of Lady Ardilaun, of make actual application therefor, Dublin, and Macroom, County as I have lost all trace of him since Cork, who has left £931,676, 1914.
By the judgment of Lord The Queen of the Belgians has Merrivale in, the Probate Court, just had made for her a silver Mrs. Frances Booth, of Hawstead jumper, which is likely to set an Bury St. Edmunds, become entitled entirely new..
Every to the estate, valued at £11,000, of fashion. hody knows
that the Queen her husband. Colonel Booth, under of the Belgians is one of the best his will made in 1882, when he was dressed Sovereigns. She choocus ordered to Egypt on active service. ner eipthes with great taste, and The will was destroy in a fire at wears them in a way that is the the colonel's house in 1916. The admiration of even the great dress colonel died last year! aged 80. makers in Paris.
Defendants in the case were rela- tives who were intercated in the event of
an intestacy.
The top hat worn by the late Dan Leno at his last performance
The best short stories appearing in the English periodicals just now are
those signed: "Georges Clemenceau." His "Demosthenes," work analysing the character and fortunes of the great Greek, is acknowledged to be the best produc- tion of the year in French letters. Now eighty-four years old and but lately recovered from a serious illness, the "Tiger" is at work upon another book to be issued shortly. This is a philosophical study in four volumes, entitled "Life."AN AR
During a debate at a meeting of at the old Tivoli was sold by us Trincess Mary has many domes-Greenwich Borough Council Mrs, tion at the London Coliseum ontic Interests, but these do not over- Cunis, a councillor who recently Sunday evening, March 28, during shadow her love of gardens, and passed over from the Conservative aureat all-star entertainment in especially of rock gardens. Last to the Labour ranka, opened a red aid of the principal music hall year the Princess had part of the parasol, and commenced to clean charity, the Variety Artistes Bene-terrace in front of Goldsborough it with a pocket handkerchief volent Fund and Institution Hall laid out with blocks of York-dipped In a water bottle, The There was also auctioned the wig-hire stone, through crevices of Mayor observed that he thought It worn by the late Herbert Campbell which tiny Alpine plants are now would be as well if the lady sent as Widow Twunkey in his last per Loginning to shoot Those which it to the cleaners, Mrs. Cumis;31 formance at Drury Lane as well flower have tlay blue petals, and have a free will, and can send it as one of the two Dutch shoes worn the herbaceous border. In this part to the cleaners or otherwise as 1 by Happy Fanny Fields during her of the gardens is also largely made destre. She resumed operations, farewell performance at the Coll up of blue flower, so that the and when pleased with the results seumthe shoe being signed and effect in very charming when the closed the parasol and placed it on dated by Ming Fields
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