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LOCAL AND GENERAL
The annual meeting of Share- holder of the Hongkong und Ter ritorial Estates Limited will be held in St. George's Building on Thura- day, May 201
There were qvar 300 dogs en tered for the China Kannel Club dog show" held at Shanghai The show which opened on May 1 was a big success;
Bombay, April 18 According The annual general meeting of to the "Indian Daily Mail some the Klang District Planters Asso- Indian post offices will baginciation was held in the Klang Club ahertly to Imprint on every lottar on April 27. Mr. W. S. Roeve.. passing through them the slogan Tucker was re-elected chairman. "Support Indian Industries
The Penang Harbour: "Board According to the Kuo Wer announce a 10 per cent. Increase news agency, the "Ching Proin storage rent and also a reduc. very famous Chinese newspaper Intion in the free storage period from Peking, has been ordered to be 96 hours tp 48 hours. This came closed while the chief editor, Mr.into operation on May 1. A meeting of creditors of the Shao Piao-ping, has been placed Oriental Navigation Co., Ltd. wunder arrest. be held at the offices of easra, Percy Smith, Seth and Flewing on |Saturday, May 22.
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Residents in the Ipoh Race- course locality will be glad to hear, says the Times of Malaya," that A telegram from Shanghai toit has been decided to name a road: the "Wah Klu Yat Po" states that. there to commemorate the vialt of Mr. Ma Soo has telegraphed to Wa Prince George. to. Perak, The road Pel-fu. Sun Chuan-fang and Tins to be called Windsor Road. Sik-san in favour of the repatria- tion of Kharakan and the deporta- tion of Borodin
Should women enter for men's sports?
The question is raised again by the decision of the National Cyclists Union to allow women cyclists to race on the track. Permission is subject to the clause that women must not race against men, but even then is not approved by all the members.
The Kowloon Fire Brigade re- eelved a call from No. 14 Nam Cheung Street, Shamshulpe, shortly after T0 o'clock yesterday morning. The premises, which were used for storing Chinese foss sticks and paper, were well alight and the fire was not extinguished until considerable damage Ead been caused by both flames and water...
According to the Chinese press, the Peking branch of the North- western Bank, whose notes were re- jected in the market as
w conse-1 quence of the withdrawal of the Kuominchun troops from the Capt tal, suspended business on April 16
Hankow, April 22-In, a fare- well dinner to the M.P.a who are departing for Peking, at the Chin- ese Chamber of Commerce last evening. Marshal Wu Pel-tu declared that the M.Ps are not responsible for the disturbances of the past fifteen years. As regards the political situation,, Marshak Wi said that he favours its solution by public discussion.
The Penang Turf Club has. decided to impart 2D thoroughlyodi horses, costing $1,000 each, to be landed at Singapore, which will be gold to subscribers; for $850 each. Dr Baron Hozumi Chincho,, October, in time for the January The horses: are expected' about: President of the Privy Council, who meeting. had been suffering from heart them was made after the half-yearly The decision to import trouble since the end of March, "meeting, at which the chairman said passed away at his mansion in that the Club had "top much Taraikata-cho, Ushigeme, Tokyo, on money. April 7 The deceased was in his seventy-second year."
Officers who take the language course for officers in China and Japan, will not be required to sign an undertaking to continue to serve after completion of course. The sanction of the Army Council will not be given, however, to their retiring with less than 15 years service.
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British people are eating mare Roach, president of the National bananas, according to Mr. E W Federation of Fruit and Potato: Trades
annual meeting of the federation at: Associations.. AL the The Guildhal, London, he said that no. fewer than 12 million bunches en dozen bananas each were nported during the year, Refer- ring to the discoveries of arsenic in apples, he said for the last 90 years it has been known that fruit growers sprayed their trees with senate of lead with no ill results.
From the "Musical News and Herald The Vicar's wife, in the [course of her parochial visiting,
mentioned, with excusable pride. Under a rule of the L. C. C that her daughter had gained a first- Education Committee, a teacher prize at a Corapetition Festival.may be granted, leave, of absence Her stener at once. showed her for 12 months. This enables the fellow-feeling" can understand interchange of the teachers your pride," she said. " welli re-scheme to be worked, and soveral The Hon'ble M. W. Peel, member how pleased was when assistant mistresses are now serving presiding at. the half-yearly meet- our ply took the first prize at the in the Overseas Dominions. Re- ing of the Penang Turf Club, said Agricultural Show."
cently a request was made by the that there had been a rise in in- chief inspector of Army schools come of $41,569:30 and an inercase The sandwich, according to that assistant mistresses in the in expenditure of $32,008,60. popular history (or mythology) was Council's service should be granted Despite this, there was a surplus called after the Earl of that name leave of absence to enable them to of $31,551.88. Subscriptions show- who used to sustain his strength serve for a period in Army schools ed an increase of $6,500, totalisa- with slices of bread with meat. be- (at stations overseas. The tours of tor receipts of $29.008.09, and cash tween, investing this method of duty are five years in India, Egypt sweeps of $9,494. The financial eating cleanly and gambling, at the [and Malta, and three years in Ber position to-day was such that the same time, so that the two occupa¦ muđa, China and the West Indies, Club had $114,840:01 in the bank.. tions should not interfere with each It is suggested by the conmmittee, besides $117,176,02 invested in War other:
Since then the sandwich that leave of absence might rea- Bonds.. Donations of $1,000 each has develped in delicacy and sonably be granted to approved had been made to two Protestant variety, but its original use is still teachers up to a limit of three Churches, to the Convent, and to the obviously proper one.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mrs. D. H. Cameron and her. daughter left by the "President Taft" on Saturday, "for San Francisco.
The Members of the Garrison Sergeants' Mess are holding their Anal Whist Drive of the season this evening at their mess, Queen's Road, commencing at 8.30 p.m.
Dr. Wellington Koo, the ex-Pre- mler, is reported to have returned to Shanghal again from: Hankow. While on his way back he touched at Nanking where he had a brief visit with Marshal Sun Chuan-fang.
The late Mr. John Prentice (77), of Yangtszepoo" Road, Shanghai, China, engineer and shipbuilder, formerly of Greenock, left. property of the total value of £21,768
Decca, April 23-Three Euro- pean. Nuns of St. Francis Xavier's Convent; Sisters Alphonse, Vie- torie and Thomas, died suddenly, it is reported, of cholera other Nun is seriously ill
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Jaffna, April 34-The death occurred last Thursday night of Mr. Harold Lancelot Hopper, of the Ceylon Civil Service, at the Jaffna Kachcheri, at the Civil Hospital, Jaffna, from cerebral malaria..
It is understood that. Mr. A. G. Morkill will probably succeed Mr. Berkeley as District Officer; Upper Perak, when the latter re- tires from the service at the end of June, says the "Times of Malaya, Mr. Morkill is now at Tampin
Mr. Hollands arrived by the 3.8.. "Hai Ching" yesterday.
Mr. and Miss Snuggs were pas- sengers by the 8.8. "Hydrangea."" which arrived in port yesterday.
Mr. J. Carter, the Selangor cricketer manager of Sungei Tamu Estate, is leaving for a holiday in Europe this week.
· London, April 20-Mr. E. B.. Skinner will be the next Chair
of the Rubber Growers" Association Times of Ceylon.!!
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Dr. C. L. Sansom, C.M.G., late. Principal Medical Officer, FM.S., is now in Calcutta, Mrs. and Miss Sansom are joining hing there this month.
It is notified in the "Wothaiwel The British Ambassador at Government Gazette that.. Mn. Admiral Earl Jellicoe bas jast Washington (Sir Esme Howard) LH. C. Calthrop has been appoint. been elected a member of the has presented Sir Matthewed to act temporarily as Junior Court of Assistanta of the Mercers! Nathan, formerly Governor of District Officer and Magistrate in Company. The Mercers is one of Queensland, to President Coolidge. Weihaiwai. the richest of the City companies, Sir Matthew, it will be remember- 2001 | and has an annual income ofed, was at one time Governor of
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The forthcoming wedding is announced of William George Jarvis, of the China Maritime Cus-
Gen. Wang Tulang-yuan, former London, April 22-The death toms, to Maille Roche who is Military Governor of Hupeh, la re- has occurred of Sir Henry Mance, | due to arrive. from Dublin by the ported to have arrived in Shẳnghai | CI.E,, the inventor of the s... "Ranpura."} on April 29 from Tientsin on his heliograph. He entered the ser- way to Nanking to confer with vice of the Indian Government in Marshal Sun Chuan-fang on behalf the Persian Gulf Telegraph De of Marshal Chang Tso-lin.
partment in 1868. He was a director of the West African Telegraph Company
The Rev. T. C. W general secretary of the Chinese Mission to Lepers, is sailing from Shang- hai for Canton, Swatow, Amoy, Hongkong, Foochow and other southern cities for the purpose of Investigating the condition of leprosy which is most prevalent In the provinces of Kuangtung and Fukiende
About fifty members of the Singapore Association of En- gineers gathered in the Associa tion's rooms in Raffles Square re- cently to say farewell to two of their members, Mr. F. W. Smith, of the Harbour Board, who is deaving Singapore on retirement after 38 years' residence, there
Mr. H. C. Bathurst, who was Chief Assistant District Officer, Kinta, prior to going on leave, will, it is said, take over the duties of Deputy Controllers of Labour, Penang, on his return from leave. TOM.
Simla-On the 10th April Mr. E. C. Handyside, C.I.E., O.B.E., Commandant of the famous Frontier Constabulary, met his death in an encounter with out lawa Details are lacking Mṛc Handyside waa well know
The British North Borneo and Mr. G. H. Johnson, throughout the Frontier, his con- Herald" of April 16 says: The of Hammer and Co., who nection with the N WE P Resident of the West Coast, the has been president of the Police extending over a period of Hon'ble Mr. G. C. Irving, met Association for the last twenty-five years. He was per- with a most unfortunate accident six years, and who is shortly sonally respo
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