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THE CHINA MAIL.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
A vehicle of the China Motor Bus Company, travelling empty on the Hunghom Road, overturned yes- terday evening while going round a bend. The driver was badly hurt.
Parcels will not be forward- ed by the General Post Office, klongkong, to either Canton or Swatow till further notice. This to the Postal due decision is
trike in those two ports. The Canton Commissioner of Posts
has asked Hongkong to send only "light" mail at present,
Borkow. July 21-According te a message from the Honan Governor, all the missionaries at Stanfu are safe.
Tokyo, July 30-The Japanese authorities refused the landing of an Afghanistan delegate who wask altending the Pan-Asiatic Confer. enze on the ground that he had noi Chinese newspapers state that plaaspert in his posvensión, xa, de-f the head office of the Bank of Com-tained him in art hotel at Moji. With münications will shortly be re the exception of the Chinese dele- moved from Peking to the French gutes no representatives from othag
countries are arriving.
Concession in Tientsin. under direction of MP Llaug Shin-yl,
Nos. 155 and 157 Queen's Rond West, with respective areas af 750 and 744 square feet were to have sold yesterday at the the
auction rooms of Mr. A. G. da Rucha but the sale was postponed, no date of auction being fixed.
Posing as an official of Seamen's Guild, Chinese was alleged to have obtained $5 each from fourteen persons or ar offer to find work for them on
Ahips. He was charged before the Kowloon Magistrate yester day with obtaining money by false pretences and remanded.
Those interested are remind ed of the second demonstration in occult science to be given at the Theatre Roysi to-morrow.... start at 5.3 p.m., by Professor Maximilian Langster (Kara-ik. The Professor has "consented to give this matinee. in response to
Peking Julg do-Generals charfe Chung-chang and Chang Haweh-fay have Been made p sponsible for the Nankow warfare, so Marsha i Rei-fu intends la return to Hankow to take personal command of a against the southern inviders in
cunewed attack
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Peking July 2-General Chu! Yu-ru, for the purpose of getting funds, has sanctioned the petition of the government wine and tobarea bureau at Tintain to levy fifteen Per cent. "on all sorts of foreign wine imported into Tientsin
for
Generul Chu public consumption, declares that reign wine dla now largely sold to wealthy Chinese s that it is quite proper to tax it.
Tokyo, Tay 29-According to the "Nichi Mich" the Americny Missionary, Dr.. Heyamier, who was recently accused of branding the word "Thief" with neid on each of the checks of a Korean bay whont he, caught stealing apples from an Peking. July 23-The price of orchard was. to-day hublicly tried
The Procurator de-i telegrams to be raised because at Pienyang.
Hunan.
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of the need of mere funds, accordmanded three montirs imprison- Dr. Heysmier pleaded)
so many requests. Booking ising to the Peking " Shib Pao.meni. with Messrs. Moutrie's,
The new regulations have been guilty. drafted and sent to the Ministry Communications If the ministers
effective.
Summur White House, July 28.
sident Coolidge that the United States rernment, had never
en-
Miss Mura Shipoff (the baby passes them, they will soon becue-It was stated on behalf of Pre- Pavlova) and her talented art bullet company are to give a show at the Seamen's Institute morrow evening start at 9.15 p.m.
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A few days ago it was reporttered any "gentlemen's agreement” that Chapel residents, had with any European country rele This popular company ed
Dr. "" K. Ting tive to a settlement of the wa Reports that the admini needs no introduction to the supplied Hongkong public, 1s is hoped with bottled samples of the water debts. that good support will be forth-provided by the Chupei Waterstration had come to a secret under-
have works, for him to examine and restarting with certain debtor m coming as the members
port a. Dr. Ting is stated to have tines were lathy denied described, this water as not only filthy, but "evil smelling." He has ordered the company to make big reformas, in consequence.
met with il luck recently..
At the Auctioneering and Company's Sales Brokering Roems yesterday. property com- prising what was formerly known as the "Kung Wo" Hotel, and numbered 401, 463, 465, 467A and 469A Queen's Road West was disposed of. The property, which I was disposed of by order of the mortgagee, consisted of three sec- tions of the following areas: 9223 square feet, 263 square feet and 19 square feet? They were all sold as one lot, Mr. Tam Wing becoming the owner at $60,500, an increase of $500 or the upset price.
Peking. July 23.-There is rear deal of poppy-growing in! northern Anbai, under the regula-i! tion of the military, who.. tax it Peking, July 3.-News from highly, ostensibly to prevencita cul- certain military headquarters here tivation. according to the Peking: says that Kinngsi Province, has de. "Yi Shih Pao." "The tax is four, five finitely thrown in its lot with Wajor six dollara a mou, according to Pel-in and is rending troops into the fertility of the fields, and thei Up to Punin to assist in the compaign to total receipts from taxation wrest back Changsha from the grirer four million dollars.
cate more than three million dollarsj of Tang Sheng,chi. Gen. Teng Ju
The inspec! send thre have been collected. cho is preparing to divisions and two mixed brigādes tors, are asking for twenty into Hunan by way of Fing Stang. cent. of the receipts, as they have which is close to the Hunan border not so far been paid for their ser and southeast of Changsha.
vices.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Rome.
July 24-Commander Francesco de Pinedo declared to day that the accident to his sea- plane would not delay his word fight, as the damaged plane was the to be used on not intended tour.
With regard to the tragic death of Mr. F. Glass of the Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. last Saturday at East Point, an advertisement appears to-day asking for claims against the estate of the deceased to be sent to Messrs. Johnson,
Stokes and Master."
Estate in Hongkong amount- ing to $1,900 was left by Mr. R. H. B. Mitchell, formerly of the Hongkong, Whampoa Dock, who died whilst home on leave in December of last year. Pro- bate of the wil has been granted at the Supreme Court, Hongkong.
Prince Chichibu was one of the Royal party which included three Hings and their Queens at the Royal Air Force display at Heidion on July 3. when 180 aeroplanes took part.
A very quiet wedding took place in the St. George's Church, Johan Farquhar Street, Penang, the con- tracting parties being Frans, van Walraven, of Lirnau Manis Estate, Deli, Sumatra, 2011
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Mr. J. E. Joseph. of Hongkong,, is staying at the Hotel Cecil.
Mr. T. Elink Schuurman has been
Consulate at Kebe. appointed to post in the Dutch
Mr. Charlton Maxwell, Commis
oner of Trade and Custon, Malaya, has arrived in London on
home leave.
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Mackay, whe
have moved to Avalon. Druett, year,
Tadworth, May
Warren, of Mr. and Mrs. A. van Wairavename home from Shanghai last!
Agnes and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Kingswood
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Druett, of Farringdon, Berkshire, England. The Rev. keppel
The Engagement is announced Walter Field, Garnier, Colonial Caaplain off- cated. The bride and bridegroom between Francis came from Sumatra and went..., second son of the Rev. and
Mrs. W. P. G. Field, of Brattleb back in the afternoon.
Rectory, Lincoln, and formerly of and Christ Church, Yokohama. "Kathleen Rose Ekstrand, elder Mr. and Mrs. John dargeter of D. W Wilson, London.
"We neglect the Bible at our peril. It is not enough to put it tables or in upon our our libraries. "It is the chärt "Estate in Hongkong valued at and compass without "which the $44,700 (comprising mainly in-path of any man or any nation is terests in Jardine Matheson anda perilous and disastrous adven- ture. It is a sword without Co., Ltd.) was left by the late Mr. Thomas Shaw Forrest whose which the powers of darkness can- will has been re-sealed at the not be fought and defeated, and Mr. Forrest it is not enough to distribute ten Supreme Court. died at St. Andrew's, Fifeshire, and a half million copies of the in November of last year. His Scriptures, though that is godd
we must not be content until once estate in England was £63,538.
more this Book is the Book of our Moscow, July 22.-The funeral people and those people are the of Felix Dzerhinsy, People's Com- people of the Book."Sir T. W. H. missar, took place to day, the inskip, C.B.E., K.C., M.P., at the body being buried in Red Square, annual meeting of the Bible near the Kremlin Wall, behind Society.
the Lenin mausoleum. The coffint was followed to the grave by members of the Government, de- legations from many cities of the Republic and hundreds of thou- sands of Moscow residents. A the remains were lowered into the grave, at 7 pm. Moscow time, a gun-salute was fired in every town in Russia factory sirena wailed ful farewell.
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The spring session of the Lon- don Diocesan Conference opened at Church House, Westminster, recently, the Bishop of
In London presiding. presidential address the Bishop said that there
very grave change in the habits of the people, especially" the well-to-do.. He could not but view with really grave anxiety the geat number of well-meaning Christian men all over London and the country who had given up Christian worship for golf. It was a bad example to young people.
Murwin. Lefferty shot himself in front of the home of Adelaide Bartols (17) at Hempstead, Now York, to "oo if she'd feel sorry. She did, and he's happily convalesc-
Peking, July 29.--The Waichiao-
(Foreign Office) has drawn the attention of the Cabinet to the im- pending visit of T.R.H. the Crown
and the Crown Princess Margaret Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden Vletoria, and has requested "pro- vision of adequate entertainment funds, which the Ministry Finance has been instructed to supply Reuter.
of
The following appointments have State for the Colonies:Lieut. been made by the Secretary of D. E. Wilson. M.B.. Ch.B., Medical Officer. Straits Settlements; Mias E. Augarde, "Nursing Sister. Federated Malay Statos; Mr. G. Wilde (Engineering Assistant, Post and Telegraph Department, ment Tanganyika, Assistant Telegraph Engineer, Federated Malay States.
Manila, July 30. The Past Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks, Judge William Hawley Atwell, of Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Atwell, will arrive in Manila on the President McKinley, August 14. Mr. and Mrs. Atwell will remain in the city only) three days, as they plan to sal for the United Stater on the same steamer on August 17. While in the city they will be guests at the Manila, Hotel. Judge Atwell was born at Sparta, Wisconsin, in 1869. He is a graduate of Southwestern University and of the University of Texas. He is a Republican and 1 editor and publisher of Atwell's] Federal Criminal Law and Pro- ceduro.
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