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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Thursday, being July 1, is a local bank holiday. The exchange banks and insurance offices will be
closed..
Another notice has been issued by the Police Department to owners of motor vehicles in the Colony, notifying that ledheds are due for
renowal on July 1.
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Two dre ongines of modern ranke, and with usual accessories, have arrived in Kongmoon, where the merchants took the matter of protection from Are into their own hands. Our own correspondent.
According to the "American Banker, the Coolidge half-dollars, which will be minted this year, will. be the first instance in the United States of a likeness of a living Pre- sident appearing on edins, The colns will be issued in connection with the Sesquicentennial Interha tional Exposition at Philadelphia.
Not desiring to prejudice the future of a Chinese girl who, was charged with the theft of jewellery valued at $76;-the-Kowloon-Magia-- trate made an order yesterday for $20 to be paid as compensation for the part of the jewellery which was not recovered, and further accept- ed the father's signature to a bond "for good behaviour.
"You are a fine set of liars" remarked Mr. Lindsell at yester day's inquiry into the death of a
Recent bad weather, an It. Ja clated, has brought about an epidemic of cholera at Kongmoon.
Our own correspondent..."
At Baltimore recently the public whipping post was once more put to use after consider able time, when James H. Kings- more was sentenced to five lashes with the cat-o-nine-talls for cruelly maltreating and beating his wife. Sheriff John E. Potce administered the punishment.
Policomall Bros. (Grand
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Sourabaya, June 15-From the villages in the Djemther distriaf | | eight new cases of child theft have been reported. According to a na tive official it is thought that the contract coolies for Dell are taking the children with them,
Washington, June 18.---Ten thousand sealed bottles are being sot adrift during this week in, the vicinity of New York harbour, na part of a scientific investigation to determine the action of water cur- rents. Each bottle contains a card bearing message to the Ander asking him to All in certain data and mail it back to the War De- partment immediately.
The police are now satisfied. that the man who was admitted to Hospital saffering from a gunshot wound in his leg was a pedestrian close to the scene of the struggle between a Chinese defective and a man he had reason to suspect, the latter having been shot dead, The pedestrian who te only slightly wounded, says he did not know he had been shot until he had walk- fed some considerable distance and
noticed blood on his leg
Ho Chin-un, 24, a Chiness Beaman in the steamer Pembroke shire was carged at East Ham with concealing 63 automatic Mukden.. June
19-Under pistols' and 6.700 roundy of am- direct order from Marshal Changmunition. A Custoras..officer said Taolin General Yang Yu-ting. that the arms and immunition were Director of the Mukden Arsenal.found concealed under cargo in the has shipped 300 machine-guns to fore poop.or the ship. Sun said by a constable when one man re- The machine-guns, and millions of Antwerp to take to Hongkong and made by rounds of ammunition were" rushed he was promised three dollars for pudiated a suggestion another witness that he had acted to Tientsin on a special train im Bunch gun delivered. as interpreter to the decensed andmediately upon receipt of Marshal his brother who spoke different Chang's telegraphic order. dialects. The case was adjourned. until to-day.
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Albany, New York, May 22 What the speaker, described as Medan, June 12-The "Deli "American Militarism" in China, Courant" states that Mr. Bunk, was denounced to-night by Arthur technical employee of the 'Deli M. Rugh, for 20 years a "Y" secre- has applied for a patent on an intary in Peking, in an address be- vention for producing rain by fore the State convention of the biowing large masses of waterY.M.C.A. in session here: Rugh from high towers, The water then declared that America has a falls, evaporates and risen again in greater military force quartered the form of clouds. Rain making in the Chinese section of the (or artificial rain is of the greatest importance for the tobacco erop which, as was the case this year, is dependent on the rains in the three months planting period.
Orient than any other Power. He denied that there is civil war in China. explaining that 95 per cent. of the Chinese people have no interest in agitation.
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and un $2.80 per. "picul,
Rubber Scrap. $2.70 Plantation. per picul, with effect from May 21, Duties on until further notice. Plantation Rubber sold on forward Contract, duly registered with the Customs Office before February 1, 1926, shall be $2.30 per picul un Smoked and Crepe, and $2.25 per picul on Scrap with effect from May 21, and until further notice? Duties on other exports remain at the same figures us notified pre- vicusly,
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Rev. C. G. Sparhem of the China Mr. H. W. Ray of the Hongkong Divorces were granted in Tien- Amusements returned to the tsin at the sitting of the U. S. Advisery Council of the London Colony on Sunday by 9.8. Suwa Court for Chinu on June 7 to Philis Missionary Society of Shanghai. Maru. Mr. Ray has been combin-G. Eastwiek, eonnected with the departed last week for a year's His ing business and pleasure by tour- Chinese-American Bank of Com leave of absence in England. ing Europe and the United States merce at Paking and to John D. home address will be care the Lon- and visiting all film hendquarters Moore, veterinary surgeon in Tien don Missionary Society, 48. Broad- en route.
tain. The plaintiffs in both castaway, Westminster, London, S.W.1. charged desertion as the cause.
Mr. H. C. Joass, of the Hongkong Bank, has taken over as Sub.- Manager of the Singapore Branch from Mr. H. C.. Aspinall who left far home leave by the Khyber last Mr. C. G. Adams passed week through Singapore from Calcutta on his way to Sourabaya where he has been appointed Accountant.
Baron von Gebsattel, one of the directors of the Nauen Wircleon Service; died in Tokyo at St. Luke'a Hospital on the night of the 3rd instant after an operation for ap pendicitis. The remains will be sent to Germany for burial. Baron von Gebsattel was on a tour of inspection of the wireless alations of the Far East and was conduct ing negotiations.
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Rome, June 20.-Former Queen Mother Olga's body will be taken on Monday to a local Greek ehurch for a brief funeral service. A repres sentative of King Victor probably will attend, together with many members of the nobility. Follow- ing the service the casket will be taken to Florence and buried in the Orthodox church cemetery next to the grave of her son Constantine.
The death of the Rev. Edwin Thomas Drinkwater Robinson, of the China Inland Mission, occurred at his station, Liangshau; Szechuan on June 8. The late Rev. Robinson attending famine refugees, and contracted typhus, or famine fever, while doing so. He was ill For 10 days. A native of Sheffield, he was 54 years of age at the time of his death.
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Miss Harriet Camac, a socisty girl, was adjudged typical of the beauty of U.S. "Eastern girls by Ernest Linnenkamp, artist, who is selecting theftcon most beautiful women in America for a portrait series.
Mr. M. Ichiki newly appointed Manager of the Kobe Branch of the Nippon-Yusen-Kaisha,wan-tha. host at the Oriental, Hotel, Kobe, on June 16 to a gathering of ap proximately 150 persons, including Yamagata.. His Excellency Mr. Governor of Hiogo Ken, other civil officials, practically the entire Con- sular body, and other representa- tivos of various sections of, the foreign community of the port.
San Diego, Calif., June 2 Sergeant W: T. Ryckman, noted marine corps football player, and. Corporal Dander, also a football player, were held for investigation to-day on a charge of bootlegging. Deals, another football player, and W. Cercack, recently escaped from the guard Captain Benjamin T. Cripps, United States Marine Corps, who was officer of the day then de tained all four for investigation: at the request of Brigashes General Smediny Butler, commandant of the marine corps base here.
Jabin Hsu, former assistant and Chinese editor of The China Press at Shanghai, has been ap pointed editor-in-chier of The Eastern Times published in Tien- tsin. The Eastern Times" was founded several years ago in Peking by Putnam Weale, but owing to political difficulties during the occupation of the Capital by the Kuuminchun, the paper was moved to Tientsin. Mr. Hsu, who has been In the North for several wedka, expects to return to Shanghai,soon to wind up his affairs there.
Cow Agency, Montana, Jufle 22. The death is announced of Henry.
This village is assuming all the Brougham Guppy, F.R.S.; the well-
aspects of a frontier boom town known geologist and botanist, while
with thousands of Indians and whites pouring in to observe the returning from Tahiti. Dr. Guppy was a member of the medical ser
50th anniversary of Colonel Cus ter's last stand,” an event vice of the Royal Navy, and was surgeon in the Hornet on the China
The report of the Singapore Pro- memorialised in many a song and and Japan Station from 1877 to testant, Boneft Bociety, which has story, Colonel Custer and hiệ 1880, and in the Lark, the survey entered its fifteenth year, shows a United States cavalry troops were Ing schooner in the Western Pacific, credit balance at March 31, for the ambushed by Indians and only one from 1881 to 1994. He took, full peceding year, of $8,479,08 as conf survivor fe known to have escaped advantage of the position of surpared with $8,897,47 on March 81, from what is known as the batzle geon to make important investiga 1925. Two members, Mesara, S. 3 of the Little Big Hora.The ser tions in the Far East, reporting on Stubba and J. L Colledge, died vices are to take place on Thursday, geological and meteorological com during the year and donations due (Friday and Saturday Participan ditions in the Korean Archipelago to their nominees amounting to will include a detachment of In 1878, and later on these cond$280 have been duly paid. The Seventh Cavalry, Colonel Custer a
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