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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Finding unsuitable for the
The evening school la, the Lames, he Japanese Government Chinese Y.M.CA. will have the have decided to withdraw One Yenclosing exercises for the spring bank note, which have been i term to-morrow, the 9th instant, a circulation for a long time.,
7.30 p.m.
A boarding officer, in addi tion to act as master of the "Kau Sing" fa required by the Har- hour Master. Hongkong. Salary offered is £350 to £450 per annum, with yearly increments of £19.
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The furnishings for the new branch of the Chinere Y.MC.A. in the new Bank Building opposite Sincere's, are about rendy. The rooms will be available for mem- hers in a short time.
Mukden, June 20-There are altogether 237,980 persons residing in Mukdep, according to the latent consus taken.
: St. Louis. June 29,--Five Cardinals of the Catholic Church participated in the ceremony de dicating the new cathedral of St. The cardinals left Louis to-day. Chicago yesterday on a tour of the United States which will inke them. As far as the Pacific coast.
A new class for 'Chinese Lieut-Col. Mentague Bates,
San Diego, Calif. June 29,- Y.M.C.A. members who Cannot
foreign C.B., C.M.G., D.3.0., acting Gen-
rum running eral Officer Commanding the awim, and perhaps a second for Sixteen
members who can swim only vessels are hovering off shore to- Forces, has kindly consented to distribute the prizes at next little, will be opened next Monday day and are attempting to land Saturday's Motor Cycle Gymknight, the 12th instant, at 7.30, at 96,000 cases of liquor valued at
the Association.
$4,750,000, before the Fourth of July, accordiak Lo prohibition agents. The coastguard and launches are watching the rum runners.
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Peking. July 1--The Unhed Press is reliably informed that Japan does not intend to press for payment of the defaulted Shantung Railway bonds in the near future despite the fact that Tokyo has been taking the most serious low of the problem.
Captive balloons will be moor-
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Peking. June 25.-Fifty million dollars has been requested of the central government by Tapan Chang Tsungchang according to the "Che Hues Yi Pao." This summ represented the expenditure of the Shamunka military authorities in the recent and present eppaign Kuominchin. it is against the claimed.
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July -Mr. Stax Strawn, American delegate to the Tariff Conference addressing" the Peking Rotary Club to-day declar- ed that the approaching observance. day offers all thinking Chinesa the opportunity to ponder what wer- e in the principal cities
Tokyo, June 30 The Fin-vices a Ceorge Washington or un fortified zones of Japan as Jookouts ance Department has issued af Abraham Lincoln might perform for possible" belligerent aircraft.communiqué announcing that the for China in unifying the Republic. nerording to plans of the Japanese rate of interest on loans, to be ad- War Office. An appropriation for vanced for the latter half-year by that purpose is to be included in the next budjent...
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One of the Special Constables the Hypothee Bank, the Hokkaido in Shanghai has received the fol- Colonial Bank, and all the agricu-lowing in a letter from Home:--
industrial tural and
banka One "Special" on duty during the throughout the country will he recent strike in England bore down rated to from 0.1 per cent. to 0.3. upon a child who was pushing a small wheelbarrow on the pave Tokyo, June 30 The Sino-ment, and ordered him to join the Japanese Joint Art Exhibition rest of the traffic in the roadway: was closed to-day after a great "Garn away the child replied. "1
Exhibits sold totalled seen a real fun, and be red numia. success, 126, of which 116 were Chinese
Tokyo, June 28.-According
Poking. June 23.---Orders for
rebuilding
burned of the Tupan's 'amen at Tientsin are said to have beep given by Tupan Chu Ye-pu. Two hundred room have to be replaced and the cost is estimated at $200,000 in addition fo about. $30,000 for furnishings...masterpieces, including four pur
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chased by the Department of the to press reports, as regards the Now 1a. 2 and 3. Triangle Imperial Household, nine by the construction of auxiliary vessels, Street, (comprised in Section A Foreign Office, twe by His Royal navy authorities as well as others of inland Lot No. 417) were sold Highness Prince Kuni, and one concerned are greatly agitated at Messrs. Lammert Bros. sale by H. R. H. Prince Higashi owing to the leaking out of the rooms yesterday afternoon for Fushimi. $360,000, this" being $5,000 in ad- vance of the upset price. The purchasers yere Messrs. Woo Fuk Hing and Woo, Lai Tin,
The "Central China Post" has
intention of the finance authori ties that the expense to be appro- priated in the coming Budget for vessels should be limited to year's expenditure.
received several, complalats of the construction" of auxiliary
assaults on foreign ladies by the women cotton "pickers on Peking Hankow, July 1-The Central Road. On June 30 a well-dressed China Post" learns from a mast Chinese woman who was walking authoritative source that the Peking with the pickers but whose clothes Conference has ended with the ur showed no signs of having been in rangement that Marshal Changelose proximity with cotton deliber Tao-lin take ever complete charze ately went up to a foreign lady in of Northern hostilities with the as- Я riesha and stapped her on the sistance of Marshal Chi Hsieh back. It might be just as well as yun, while Marshal Wu Pei-fu, these cotton pickers are big enough with the assistance of Marshal Sun of a nuisance already for the Chuan-fang," looks after the situa- police to keep a close watch on the tion in the South: Marshal WaPeking Rone so as to prevent our Pei-la is expected back here within own womenkind from suffering
further indignities. ten days.
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Washington. Jane 30.-Canada's strengthening of the border patrul will be followed next week by the addition of more than 100 men on the Canadian border by the United States. It was announced to-day. General Lincoln C. Andrews, bead of the prohibition enforcement ma- chinéry, said the bulk of the force would be stationed in the vicinity of Detroit from which place the biggest liquor leak from Canada exists.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
According to the old Chinese calendar to-day is the festival of Slight Hent (Heino-shu) 2
The
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Archdeacon Robert McKew, Copenhagen, May 21 chaplain to the Flect, has been ap-Danish Supreme Court has pointed an Honorary Chaplain to jected the appeal of the Scandina the King in the vacancy created vian-Baltic Methodist Bishop Engineer-Lieut. G. F. Taylor has by the death of the Rev. J. C. Anton Bast against a High Court
sentence of three months' impri been appointed to H.M.S. "Ambrose" | Cox-Edwards, –R.N for duty class 1 with submarines,
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Dr:
Carlos Pulk Casaurac to Japan in Mexican Minister passing through Hongkong with Mrs. Casaurac and children. His. Excellency is going to Italy in the Lloyd Triestian
Esquilino. and will take over the post of Mexican Minister to Rome.
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New Haven, Conn., May 28, Arthur E. Hersey of Tentsin, The Rev... G. W. Sheppard has China, is the winner of the first of left Shanghai for an extended the Benjamin F. Barge Mathe- tour in French Indo-China and matical prizes for members of the Yunnan in the interests of the Freshman class at Yale Univer work of the British and Foreignsity, it was announced to-day, Bible Society.
A reception in honour of Mr. After a brief honeymoon. Mr. Hsiung Hsi-ling, an ex-premier and Mrs. Walter Gibson, whose who, is now in Shanghal in con- Commander P. F.-P. Berryman, wedding at St. John's Cathedral onnection with the Anti-opiam ac- R.N., who has been appointed to Saturday last was reported in yes- tivities, was given by Mr. Hau the river. gunboat Wigeon, which terday's issue, will be "At Home" Yuan, Commissioner of Foreign carries with it the appointment Affairs of Shanghai, at the For-of. Senior Naval Officer on the at Repulse Bay Hotel.
eign Affairs Bureau on July 3. Upper Yangtze, joined the Royal Many local officials, military and Navy in 1906, was promoted civil, were present,
lieutenant in 1910 and com- mander in December, 1924. He Los Angeles, June 29.-"Times" was with the cruiser Gloucester says to-day that Mae Murray, when the late war began and saw movie actress, who was married a lot of service overseas and in the yesterday to David Divani, re-North Sea. Latterly, he was in embraced the Catholic faith at command of" destroyers in re- the wedding. The bridegroom serve at Portsmouth.", Mr. James T. Williams, Jr., editor of the "Boston American" was, baptized as a member of the
The forthcoming wedding is
Albert announced of
Edward Keen.chenist, residing at the Hongkong Hotel. und Elsie C. Bell, who will arrive in the Colony on the P. & C. s.s. "Ranpura" this morning.
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Pirates' Profts
Housing Problem Clothes Amah "Kingsclere" Oplum Smokers Pratas Shoal...
CONTENTS:
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Domestic Occurrences Leading Articles..
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$7,000 Fine".
13
Open Air Ballet
13
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Cant Criais....
1
Kowloon Robbery
13:
A Singapore "Barracker" 1-
2
A Kowloon Problem
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Our Mosquitoes
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July 4
2
On Operations
That Tarif Conference ..
2-3
Not the Shoes
14
Our MosquitoeN
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M.B., B.S. (H.K.)
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3
"Lantern" Sect
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Ladies' Paper
3
Praya Shooting
School Bazar
New Cafe
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Canton News
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4
Pirates. Fate
The Boycott
21
5
Strong Protest
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In Ballast.
Tennis League
6
The Masked Ball
6
Race Ponies Sold
6
Soccer League
6
Baseball League
Lawn Bowls ..........
24
7
Chinese Bathing Club"
Golf Club Results.... ..24 Bowls Surprisa
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Open Singles Championship 25
The V.R.C.
Palace Hotel Billiards
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A Kowloon House
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Malaria. Danger
26
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New President
26
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Water Supply
26
Alleged -Murder- Sedition
10
-Desecrationa
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Traffic Offences
27
Aberdeen Fatality
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Drugs Haul
27
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To Be Or Not?.
27
Hit A Junk
11
Passing Through
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Accidents,..
28
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Another Fatality
28
12
Market Laws
28
12
Colony's Health
28
12
Attempted Robbery 7
28
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Obituaries.
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Douglas Trip
Colony's Rainfall
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Piracy Charge
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church just prior to the wedding. Hannibal, Mo:, May 27.-Erec- (Boston, Mass.), is passing The actress said her three prev!-tion of statues of Tom Sawyer through the Colony. He is enous marriages were not Catholic, and Huckleberry Finn constitutes Motor Fatality route to the Philippine to make an so this is the first time she consi- a tribute to the eternal boy," Kowloon Bathing independent political survey of dered that she was really married. Dean Walter, Williams, of the
Wanted the Philippines for the Hearst in-
University of Missouri school of Such is Fame! teresta.
Mundelein, Illinois, Junė 24-journalism, declared in an d. Scout Awards King Alfonso of Spain to day dress prepared for delivery at un- Company Meeting The engagement is announced be-conferred the grand cross of veiling exercises here to-day. Coast Chunges. tween "George Falconer Ball, Isabella on Cardinal George W. Bronze lifesize figures of Mark Dominion Day M.C., of the Indian Forest Service, Mundelein of Chicago. The pre- Twain's famous literary charac- Captains Fined only яon of Mr. and Mrs. A.sentation was made by Cardinaltera were presented to the city by Two Motor Accidents Falconer ·Ball, of Wedmore, Enrico Reig y Casanova, primate Mr. George A. Mahann, of Hanni- Very Quiet Somerset, and Barbara Joan, "elder of Spain, who said the honour bal, president of the State His Truck Smash daughter Mr P. A. Anthony, was in appreciation of the extra-torical society of Missouri, and C.M.G., late General Manager, ordinary service to the Catholic his wife and son, Dulany Mahan. F.M.9. Railways, and Mrs. Anthony church for which Spain was of Sevenoaks, Kent.
striving so ardently on this con tinent.".
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new
$2,000 Grante The corner stone of the foreign YM.C.A. building in Opium Case His many friends, in the Far!
Bubbing Well Road, Shang- Taipo Bridge
Petrol Fire..... East will learn with distinct The engagement of Virginia hai, has been laid. The cere- pleasure that Captain E. R. G. R. E. Bier, of Wheeling, W. Va. to mony was performed by Captain Public's Money
Dollar and Evana-Evans of the Broke, Evans Harold A. James, of Newhavan, Robert
Dean Local Building of H.M.S. Carliele on the China Conn., United States Etymologiat Symons was in attendance. The Cyclist Infured Station and the decorated hero of to China, was announced at a new building is in an advanced Bad Joss
wonderful lifesaving feat has large tea dansant given by Mrs. stage of completion, and judging Sir Paul Chater
Robbers' Kit got his ship. He has been appoint 8. E. Taylor and Mr. J. L. Bier at by its outward appearance ed to the command of H.M.3. the Astor House on the 20th ult, up to
Repulse, the battle-cruiser which The wedding is expected to take a handsome should prove
addition to the Rowdy Wanchai
took the Prince of Wales to Africa place in September after which Bubbling Well Road. If the Harbour Offences
and the" "Argentina. The Repulse the happy couple will leave Chine inside is se pleasant to live in Arrested Mau's Dodge, joined the Atlantic Fleet early this for their future home in the as the outside is to look at the "Bather Shady
United States.
month
Inew building should be a sucCBSE)
Ping Pong
CS.C.C. Concert:
Missing Sallor
Passenger, List H.KE.P.CAS
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