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According to the old Chinese: No case of notifiable disease calendar to-morrow is the festival was reported during the 48 hours of Sprouting Seeda, (Mang-ended on Thursday.
Owing to the Shanghal Muni- cipal Count ruling prohibiting. public meetings of all sorts, the Decoration Day Ceremony at. Bubbling Wall Cemetery hat Sunday has been postponed.
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Two floating mines were soen by officers of the President Madison" about a mile from the island of Corregidor on the after- Paris-French people are noon of May 25, according to a complaining that their country is radiogram received by the Bureau
melting pot. They feel that getting to be too much of nof they are being overrun by for eigners, not those who come as tourlats, but those who come to settle.
Marshal Tsao Kun would like. his confiscated property back. This desire is said to have been indicated to the local authorities in a petition from the former president. He is said to have marked out several former offi- cials for arrest on the charge of having sold his property.
Customs from the ship's captain. The massage included the exact location of the mines when last seen, which was 14.24.15 north latitude and 120.54 Bast longitude,
Teang Yih-tyung and Tea Zaung-yoong, said to be teachers, were each fined $250 by Assessor Martin and Magistrate Kwan in the Mixed Court on May 28,- for aiding and whetting in the sale of oplum on May 27 at 549 Canton Road and 36A S Gee Bai Va. When the police raided the pre themes more than 18 lbs. of opium were found together with all the usual paraphernalia.
A general meeting of members of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce will be held on Mon day, June 14, at 4 o'clock, in the Chamber of Commerce Room, City Hail, to nominate a member of the Chamber for appointment to the Legislative Council for the usual term of four years, in succession to the late Mr. Holyoak. Notice in writing of the names pf candidates, We are informed by and their proposers and secunders Telegraph Company that the must be lodged with the Actingsult of the Derby was. signalled Secretary at least 48 hours before over the companies' systems in the time appointed for holding the the following timesAustralia. and China 60 seconds, raits, 50 meeting.
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Chinese: 14 Russians, 1 Pole, 1 prison labour. Swede and 1 Italian. Lack of passports or proper visas caused the majority to be turned away.
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Peking, May 24-General Chang Tsung-chang, Military Director of Shantung Province, in- circular issued on the 22nd instant, says he will not interfere
with the Central Government policy, but will devote himself to his own province, continuing to hold is present office at the re- quest of the Shantung people, He concludes by urging the necessity of suppressing the activities of the Reds and of the establishment of an "open" policy on the part of. the Central Government..
Home papers announce that the house of Cassell is shortly to According to official figures.publish a book on Japan by Mr. 91,447 people saw Bolton Wan Russell Kennedy, who has lived in derers win the Football Cup Final Tokyo. for twenty years. Mr. at Wembley on Saturday, April Kennedy, it is stated, deals with 24, against Manchester City by the events that have made Japan. one goal to nil, but thousands of ese history since the year 1570,
Home mail via Negapators Wetters only, dated Londen, fay 6) arrived yesterday afternoon by the Tottori Maru." Of others were able to follow the pro- It will be awaited with Interest, total of 70 bags landed, 22 bagsgress of the game almost as especially by those acquainted were for H.M.S." "Tamar." There though they were présent. By with Mr. Kennedy's previous per were only 13 bugs of letters from means of "Daily Mail Marconi-formances in the great cause of the United Kingdom, Early this phone loud speakers enthusiasta pelling the truth about Japan It morning the sa. "Mirzapore" is" due in. Bolton and Manchester, near-w be Mr. Kennedy's greatest with mall from the United King-ly 200 miles away, for the first difficulty to keep those perform dom and Continent via Sibèria. time in the history of the game, ances out of his book. We shall and will also bring Shanghai mail. heard the game described by ex-look forward to renewing ac- Another mail from Home via perts while it was in progress. Siberia is due on the "Nagpare" More than 25,000 people gather to-morrow.. The papers from ed inside the Wanderers' ground Home of Mug 6 are due to arrive Bolton, and 5,000 outside, by the 3.4. "Esquilino" next Tues while at Platt Fields there was
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quaintance with his old bogey the forces of evil" by which he mears all those objectionable people who say things which he thinks the Japanese Government would prefer them not to say.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr. S. Knocker has been ap Mr. W. J. Hawker has been
A presentation of the Imperial Municipal Commis- Service Medal to Mr. J. W B. appointed managing Director of pointed & the Hongkong and Shanghal stoner for Singapore in place of Ogle lateInspector, P.W.D., Hotels Ltd., in conjunction with Mr. F. G. Lurton, who has re-, Straits Settlements took place on May E7 in the Governor's Office. Mr. J. H. Taggart, senior manag-signed.
Penang. ing Director.
The forthcoming wedding is an nounced of Cyril Edwin Millard, of the Kowloon Dock, to Edna Frances Rapley who is due to arrive in the Colony by the 8.5, "Ranpura."
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Mr. R. C. Drew, Executive entertained Comm. de'Rossi at dinner on May 29, at the Majestic, Engineer, Public Works Depart Shanghai, in honour of his apment, Central Kedah, has succeed- appointment as Charge. d'Affaires ed Mr. A. G. Robinson, Executive at the Italian Legation, Peking Engineer, Perak North; who has
left for England on leave.
An engagement is announc-- An address will be presented by ed between KM Ross of Dr. F. V. Jacques, formerly the Catholic Community to the Messrs. Syme and Company, Health Officer, Kinta, has been Rt. Rev. Mgr. H. Valtorta, Vicar Bangkok, and Gladys Evelyn posted to Taiping on his return Apostolic of Hongkong, at a re-Deason, eldest daughter of Mr. from Home leave. He is succeed- ception in the Theatre Royal on and Mrs. F. Deason of Singapore.ing Dr. Reed, Health Officer, Perak Monday, June 14,
North, who is 'shortly going 'Home' on leave.
Tokyo, May 26. Mr. Tokonami, President of the Seiyuhonto, visit ed Premier Wakatsukt this morn ing when the former expressed his refusal to join the Cabinet.
Hollywood, Cal.-Instead of painting eyelashes now in Holly wood, they're eurling 'em. Anna Q. Nilsson thus explains the method: A little metal device is heated; clamped over the tips of the eyelashes and left to "sizzie" for a few moments. When re- leased the lashes have a graceful, upward curve. Dorothy Mackaill passes the idea along to men who wear "elek" mustaches with the suggestion that, they drop waxing and use the eyelash curler.
ME" E. C. Peters of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co, who for the past year has been Chair man of the British Municipal Council at Tientsin, is proceeding Home by the "Empress of Bussin
Simla, May 6-The King has approved of the appointment of the Right Rev Alexander Wood, to. be Bishop of Chota Nagpur, in the place of the Right Rev. Eyre Chatterton, when the latter retires in October, 1026,
Peking, May 27.--Mrs. Saburi, wife of Mr. Saburi, the Chief of the Commercial Bureau of the Tokyo Government and a Japan ese delegate to the Chinese Tariff Conference, died of malignant scarlet fever at five o'clock this afternoon.
The amateur meeting held at the Turf Club on May 24 made the sixth day of racing for Singapore în just over a fortnight. The An interesting wedding took racing habit has been thoroughly place at Tsingtao on May formed, however, and there was 19," when Tasia Horvatt quite a good attendance, although Bojechko was married to net so large as on professional J. E. Willds, son of Mr. and days. H.E the Governor and Mrs. E. V. Willle, of Cork, Ireland Lady Guillemard were again pre- Miss Bolechko is the daughter of sent, and her ladyship presented Mr. A. W. Allen Manager of Mr. and Mrs, Horvatt Bojechko, the cups at the conclusion. the Hongkong and Shanghai of Tsingtao. The wedding waS Banking Corporation arrived in solemmised in the Convent Chapel,. Kuala Lumpur on June 1, bo take the service being conducted by the charge of the branch there. The priest in charge. The bride Malacca community are sorry to part of whose education was re- lose Mr. Allen and wish both Mrs. celved at the Tangtao Convent, and Mr. Allen- the best of luck in had the pleasure of seeing many their new sphere of activities. of her old schoolmates and the Mr. C. V. Rampton of the same Mother Superior herself at the institution has proceeded Home wedding, on leave, his place being taken by Mr. W. W. Rae who has just re- turned to the Orient from Home leaver
The dancing display to be given by the pupila of Miss Violet Capell
At the Theatre Royal to-night will
Mrs. Myddelton opened the New Silimpopon Golf Course, states the North Borneo Herald, and, by- remarkable fuck, holed out the first. hole in bogey, that is to say a ro markable drive, a wonderful ap prosch and a more appalling fluke in the way of a nine foot putt on a now green. The onlookers were so astounded that they all repair-- Peking May 18 The many ed to the Club House where the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Owen success of the Club was proposed Lattimore who have beer feeling by the Resident and toasted in some concern as to the where champagne. abouts and their safety will be glad to hear that word has been received in Peking that they are fre
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