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The F.M.S. committee appoint. rumour that the F.M.S. Govern-Collegians are due to give their ad to make recommendations on the ment is offering the Imperial opening performance to-morrow Motor Cars Enactment of 1912 Government £$20,000,000 to help at the Theatre Royal, starting at
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pus the mining industry on its 9.15 p.m. Other performances state that they are satisfied that no feet, says the "Topicist" in the by this visiting company of enterproperly enforceable rules äs to "Singapore Free Press. tainers will be on July 19 and 21, weight and speed of heavy lorries when in use on the road exist ande Tokyo, July The Pek-that in some cases abase of the Further the Diplomatic
has roads has occurred, Corpa The famous old United States ing
£ resolution to the committee suggest that each State schooner "America" reaches its pussed 75th year this summer., The effect that the Powers agree "America" Arst captured the refuse any Chinese proposal America Cup off the Isle of Wight raise loans until the question against 14 contestants in 1861. the foreign loans is brought into Twice after that she beat foreign order. challengers for the trophy.
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A protest signed by the Medan. June, 26-Motorists editors of all illustrated papers in received a shock las veek when Java has been sent to the authori- Mediun was ties, alleging that photos and films a detention of the New Guinea expedition are s ago she being sent to America whereas
European woman. sentenced to one in jail. A few m
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Budapest resounded with the
chuckles of the faithful who daily visit the minute pump-room of the "Hungaria" spring. The old- est inhabitant of the Zoo, elephant which has been known
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was earning to drive a car and local papers have not been allow. to the youth of at least three
was accompanied by a panion. Unfortunately
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the car
generations as Uncle Siam," re- cently fell ill, and the professor who was called in to treat him diagnosed the trouble as inflam- mation of the kidneys, and pre scribed a hundred litres of "Hun. water to be swallowed garia" daily. For a time Siam express- ed his disapproval of his novel "drink by spotting it from his trunk at bis keepers and visitors, but as he was deprived of all other liquids, he was eventually forced
a Tamil woman and over
A convict engrossed , and killed her. The male, companionlluminated the framed. scroll, was also sentenced to two weeks'
of subscribers detention. Both have appealed., giving the names
to the farewell testimonial which the Parkhurst Prison staff pre- Dr. David, the Bishop of sented to Capt. R. H. D'Aeth, the
discussing at Liverpool
the governor, upon his retirement Diocesan Conference the attitude after 27 years in the prison Lof the Church to the national in-service.
dustrial crisis, said the mining industry should be reorganised in
The oldest and smallest tele-to swallow his daily ration, and the latest bulletin declares that order that in "future a decent phone exchange in London, the
been closed and he is on the road to complete re- wage should be a first charge upon Bank, has lt. They did not pronounce on the 900 subscribers transferred to covery. the question of nationalisation the Central exchange. Situated but they did claim that somehow in Mansion House Chambers. the national interest, must be Queen Victoria Street, E.C., the recognised and the national re switch-board, worked on the sponsibility fulfilled.
magneto principle, is obsolete. It is the only exchange in London Tokyo, June 20.--According worked on this system, which re- to a report by "Hochi," at the quires the turning of a handle toagination of the French and
the Soviet request of ment, Mr. Yumihachi Kataoka,
Govern-call up.
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The Times" Tangier cor-| respondent states that the break- up of the Riffs has disclosed that the supposed presence of influen- tial Europeans at Krim's. head- quarters existed only in the im-
Spanish newspapers, chiefly owing to their disinclination to believe that the great difficulties with which they were confronted
the President of the Sinkaikogyo Owing to the large feather- Kabushik Kaisha or Deep Sea (draped hat being driven out of Salvage Joint-stock Company, the market by the small, close-were due to the Riffs alone. It which succeeded in salvaging gold fitting hat now worn by shingled is now apparent that with the bullion valued at Yen 1,000,000 women, South African farmers exception of a few deserters from from
the Japanese steamer have been getting rid of their the French Foreign Legion who "Yasaka Maru" in the Mediter-ostriches as the feather industry were useful as mechanics, in- structors in trench digging and ranean Sea some time ago, left is no longer profitable. This was Tsuruga for Khabarovsk yester-evident at a sale of ostrich drill, and Riffian ex-soldiers who day. The visit is connected with feathers, the first strice October, I were acting as instructors in the the salvage of gold and silver coin held recently at the London use of mitrailleuses and in bomb- amounting za 6,500,000 roubles in Commercial Salerooms, Mincing ing. the French and Spanish to the the Soviet man-of-war which is Lane, EC., when competition was troubles were solely due lying at the bottom of the sea off confined to American and French ability of Abd-el-Krim and the
buyers. Northern Sakhalin.
courage of his followers.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
"Mr. C. G. Anderson has been. appointed branch manager of the Fire Department of the Assur- ance Franco-Asiatique, L'Urbaine Fire Insurance Co., Ltd."
Bishop Titus Lowe, who is in charge of the work of the Methodist Episcopal Mission in Malaya, will be leaving the United States for Singapore with Mrs. Lowe early in October.
Mr. G. W. Grey, F.S.I., char- bered architect, is now in charge of the architectural department of the Hongkong Realty and Trust Co., Ltd. He succeeds Mr. WD. Goodfellow, whose services terminated on June 30.
The many people who used to delight to listen to the glorioua Hilda Thue at voice of Mme. Shanghai concerts, and still more, all those who were fortunate in her personal friendship, will be glad to hear that she has been decorated by the French Government with the Legion of Honour, in recognition of the great amount of charitable work she has performed. Dr. and Mme. Thus still are residing in Oslo,
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The Rev. Dr. Charles Allen Seager, Provost of Trinity College, Toronto, has been unanimously elected Bishop of Ontario by the Anglican Synod,
The marriage between. D. Wills, of the Malayan, Civil Service and Helen R, L. Livingstone,.. took place at the Presbyterian Church, Penang, on Saturday, July 3, at 4 p.in. Reception at the E. & 0. Hotel.
The American community
Sir George Wills has contribut Singapore celebrated. Indepen-ed to the Diocesan Board of very success-Finance in the Diocese of Bath dence Day with a ful dinner held at Seaview Hotel and Wells £5,000, which is to be under the ausplees of the Amer-invested and the income used for lean Association of Malays. Over increasing the stipends of the
hundred members and their clergy.
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guests were present, including
The late Mr. William Reginald many ladies, Mr. S. B. Chumberlain, Brigadier General J. W. Stirl Frederick Brock (48), of "Kuala president of the association, the ing, who served throughout the war and was mentioned in de-. Lumpur, lately a "director of the Hon. Hugh S. Miller, American Kuala Pilah Rubber Estates, Ltd. Consul at Singapore, and Mr.spatches five times, receiving the and of the Caledonian (Selangor Fred T. P. Waterhouse, the senior C.B., C.M.G., and Croix de Guerre, member of the, Americanmercantile died at his residence, Hensleigh community.
House, Exeter, aged 71.
Rubber Co. Ltd. domiciled in Guernsey, left estate valued for the purposes of the English Grant ät £40,406 (net personalty 240,013).
London, Junc 3. The un- The office of Consul-General for ceremonious manner of the Prince Italy at Hankow has been taken William Cooper" Hobbs, who of Wales at golf at Sandwich has over by Signor D. Nadamlenzki. in Agured in the "Mr. A." case and is made him, very popular with the Signor Nadimlenski arrived
OF June 21 and now serving a sentence of two caddies on the Royal St. George's Hankow years hard labour in Wandsworth links. During his visit to Sandwich took over office in the Royal Italian Prison, is in the "prison hospital, April last the Prince's caddie Consulate on the game day. suffering from, heart trouble, and was an ex-soldier named Ernest it is understood that his relatives Daniels, who walks with a stick. are making representations to the On Friday last when the Prince professional, George Gray, holder. arrived at Sandwich he asked for of the world's record break of Home Secretary fox his release..
Daniels's services. Daniels was
Tientain, and is arranging to give? Klukiang, July 4-The White booked for a tournament on an ad-2,196 (unfinished) is at present in exhibition games in the Tientaln Lama is expected here soon on his joining links, but he managed to way to Kuling, where he will de-pass on his job to another caddie,
and when the Prince drove up on Was liver speeches and lectures on Buddhiem. Several' delegates have Saturday morning, Daniels been, sent by the Taoyin to meet awaiting him at the clubhouse and the Lama at Hankow and prepara- was greeted by the Prince with a tions have been made for his wel handahake. come. The Lama will live in the 'Great Forest Temple at Kuling (Ta Lin Tsz-Reuter.
The famous Australian billiards
Club and the Customs Club.
London. King George has many of the qualifications of a good news reporter. After the explorers Major and Mrs. Court Treatt had The "London Gazette" of Friday, recounted their adventures, which are to be put into a book, the King. June 4, contains a list of Foreign.
remarked: "Make it human end Office Appointments. The King has been pleased to approve of tell your story in a chatty style, with.. Brigadier-General W. H. H. Mr. A. E. Southard as Consul- anecdotes of your experiences as Waters, who was British repre- General of the United States of they really happened and us you sentative with the Russian army in America at Singapore, Mr. Mitsue have told them to me." Manchuria during the Russo- Sato as Consal of Japan in London;
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Japanese War, and was subse. M. Yves Louis Napoleon de Princess Ingrid of Sweden," ared quently commander of the British Courthial as Consul of France at 16, daughter of the Crown Prince troops in North China, is giving Singapore, for the Straits Settle-and late Crown Princess of Sweden his experiences as a military atments, the Federated Malay States, (Princess Margaret of Connaught), tache a book entitled "Secret Johore, Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan, arrived in London on June 8 on a and. Confidential," which Murray's Trengganu, Brunei, Sarawak, and visit to her grandfather, the Duke The Princess was announce. General Waters had in North Borneo, Bañor. Don Victor of Connaught..
by her brothers, teresting and unique experiences Mansilla as Consul of Chile at accompanied which brought him into personal Singapore, for the Straits Settle- Prince Gustavus Adolphus, aged 20, touch with kings, emperors, am menta; Mr. D. J. Ward as Consul and Prince Sigvard, aged 19. The bassadors, ministers, generals for Belgium at Singapore, for the Frincess will stay at Clarence lenders of society, and even politi Straits Battlements, Malacca, House, St. James's, S.W.." as the cal prisoners in Siberis, The Johore, and Brunel; M. Georges guest of the Duke of Connaught, passage of time now. Permits their Dufaure de la Prade as Consul of while the princes will stay at the.
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