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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
The Anderson Music Company. Ltd., have now moved from Queen Buliding to new premises in St. | George's Building.
A thousand plgrims left Liverpool in one day recently for Lourdes. France.
The engagement is announced of F. J. Shervell, of the Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering,' Co.. Ltd. to Maud Smyth. of Cardon- Cornelius | ald, Glasgow.
Ai Newmärket The Hongkong General Chame
Foy, formerly a. well-known
A Pan-Paelle Union, similar to iber of Commerce advertise the jockey, was convicted of stealing!
symption of the Chinese classes, bleyele and was bound over in the present Pan-American Union. | provided there are alight purhis own recognisances of 25 and was urged by Professor Bunean
Messes. Lammerta Bros, win ordered not to live in or to visit Hall of the University of Sydney. Australla. in an address before the Institute of Pelkies. According t well by augintat their Sales Newmarket for twelve months. Roems. Budell Street, at m Ton September 2. a qanay of
household and offer furniture.
Ninety Mainys have subscriba United Press" cable he said the tl 259 15s. 2d, to Westminster chief purpose of such an agreement | Hospital the Date Klana Petra of would be to remove the defects in Sungei Ujong, who heads the list. the present Washington conference descriping the donation as treaties and bring about certai marks of appreciation of the great necessary work.which Westminster Hospital provisions.
doing."
Mexico City, August 26. Dispatches to-day from Colima say that a federal,"congressman, Jesus Pineda. and a companion were assassinated by politicntis enemies who killed them from ambush.
Cordova, Alasku. August 24, -The coastguard cutter "Haidh" reported that the only damage done by the violent eruption of Bogoslov Voledo during the past week was the formation of a great salt water lake near the shore. The "Haida" was sent from here last week to observe the eruption and get pictures and scientific chutan.
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mudications in thelt
Vienna.-A plot to poison the John Thurston. aged 24 monks of a monastery at Bregenz,
after a consecration: found guilty at the Hampshire Austria Assizes ar Winchester of stealing festival, has resulted in several After partaking of the 350 at the Copnor branch of deaths. Lloyds Bank, Portsmouth, and consecration meal, all the monks. shooting at the manager with a
were suddenly taken ill and revolver was sentenced to 7everal died during the night. years penal servitude,
Fenty monks among whom is The abbot, are in a critleri condi-! tion, The police are making in- concerning the Yestigations originators of the plot.
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The LMS. Railway Com- pany have decided to apply to the Ministry of Transport for powers to abandon their light alway from Burton-on-Trent to Ashby- fle-la-Zouch owing to motor omnibus competition causing in ereasingly heavy losses,
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Paris. August 26/ France) to-day received the memorandum Nadrobi, July It is official-
from Spain expressing a desire ly announced that all European
that the international district of children attending school
Tangier be attached to the Keara Colony will be granted a
A representative of the Spanish Zone of Morocco. It is free first-class return bont ticket Smithsonian Institution revealed generally conceded in political Fandra"free second-class return at Nome, Alaska, on August 22.clrcles that the French cabinets
railway ticket between any Lake that he was taking to Washington reply will be an absolute refusal.! port in Uganda and the station important specimens Bearing on The Spanish memorandum hearest to the schi they are at the probable origin of the Amer- if it is not fusible to transfer tening. They will also be grant-ican Indians in Asia." Hundreds authority over the international ed free transport to and from of anthropological specimens were district to Spanish administration, their homes and the Lake ports on collected along the Yukon River; » in any other ways Spain will ask any branch of the Government
the League of Nations to give her Transpert System. The Govern. British women aviators have building the "Norge" and praiseči. ment will not, however, ingar any won their fight to be placed on anthe, Spanish Zone of Morocco. Bability as regards the hire of equal footing with men tiers in private transport.
regard to licences. Hereafter women pilots may qualify for Washington, August 6 cences permitting the carrying Secretary of War Davis confirmed for passengers for profit, ending the report that he would make an a twelve-month ampaign led by alfaspection trip to Panama, and Mrs, Sophie Eliott Lynn, first to
Porto Rico, starting within a few receive an amateur's licence. weeks. He expects to nrrive back in Washington late in November
Sir William Veno, arrived at and will prepare a detailed report | Liverpool recently in the White of his observations for submission | Star liner "Adriatic, after at-Teller. Alaska. The great bag has! to the President. His report will tending the, Advertising Conven- been deflated and stored in Seattle | include recommendations which tion at Philadelphia. Speaking of along with pilot house and engine. may be the basis for several ad-advertising generally, he said that cabins. It will probably be trans ministration measures affecting experience had shown, "him, ported immediately to Rome and colonial policy. It is hoped to at the modern newspaper was have the report in the President's loubtedly the best medium, hands, along with the Thompson and for many years it had been report, at least a week before the his practice to use 85, to 95 per opening of the December session cent of his appropriation for ad- hot Corgress.
vertising for the Press alone.
Rome. Augus: 21-Premier Mussolint and Professor Thomas sen, president of the Norwegian Aero Flub of Oslo, signed a jdiät agreement to-day whereby the Italian government purchases the [dirigible "Norge" and preserves it in memory of the fight across the North Pole from Spitzbergen to
placed in a museum. Professor Thomassen thanked the Italian people for their co-operation in building the "Norge" and praised Captain Umberto Nobile for hisl share in the successful flight.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
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The forthcoming wedding is At Messrs. Christie's a James änmounted of. Vivian Edmond 1. Flagon realised £1,040 (£26 108. Ferrier, care of Gerin Drevard an ounce) and a Charles 11. and Co.,. Canton, to Olga M. ankard and cover. weighing 112 | Panteleeva, Canton,
ounces, fetched £767.
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The Hon. Mr. J. E. Tessensohe O.RE.. underwent sugresstal operațiu at the General Hospital Singapore, and is getting on as well as can be expected.
The To Tsai Church Is holding a bazaar and fete from the 2nd to the 4th September, at the Church Bonham Road, in aid of the new Building Fund.
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Air. Fred Terry, the actor- manager, has been elected presi dent of the Green Room Club in | place of the late Sir Squire Ban-
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1926.
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The Pope has appointed Mgr.
„General Sir John Maxwell (for- | ** Raymond Rouleau, Bishop merly Commander-in-Chief in- Valleyfield. 19 be Archbishop of Ireland), having attained the rge Quebec, and Mgr. Alfred Langlois, limit of liability to recall, ceases Auxiliary Bishop of Queberto thero belong to the Reserve Officers. bishoprie of Valleyfield,
Signor Mussolini, the Premier, has decided that no more honours- in Italy for a year. or decorations shall be, awarded:" His inten- tion is falians in this way to the need] to call the attention of
for living more simply and work-
Frankfort am Main, August 9-- Thousands and thousands of crip- bles and persons afflicted with dis: Ases are stampeding the little village of Himyelsbach in the The engagement of H. Major, invarian" province of Frauken. of the Union Insurance Society where the Holy Virgin allegedly of Capton Ltd. to Lily Oram, appeared in a white cloud twice in harder in the interests of the
nation.
The engagement is announced be-| tween Willia Lewlyn Parry, eldest son of Mr. Parry d: Winton and the Hon. Alra, de Winton, and Vivienne Anne Lardner, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Heary
Lardner Dearys, formerly of Hong- keng, and only child of
endy. The Elms. Thames Ditton,
| younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. |:uccession to two Himyelsbach girls G. Oram of Hongkong is un-working in the fields at noontime. noured.
l these cripples have undertaken their cumbersome journey, most of Among the passengers per them on foot and coming from afar, R.M.S. "Empress of Canada" in the hope of delivery from the pitched which arrived from Manila yes-lments. Tepts are
Kince thou terday were Mr. W. H; Bell; man-around Himyelsbach' ager of the Asiatic Petroleum Co.,ouses of the small village, hitherto and Miss Helen Patterson.. known by name only to few, ave! Lonable to ledge themt. The
Surrey. Himyelsbach crusade is the first in H.E. the Governor (Sir Cecil Germany for many years. Clementi) will attend the funeral this afternoon of the late Mr. Huj Fook. The tuneral leaves No. 15, Kennedy Road at 2 p.m. and will arrive at Yat Pit Ting, Kennedy Town, at 1.30 p.m. HE. the Governor will attend at Yat Pit Ting.
Word has been receiver in the Colony chat Mr. A. R. Ritchie, CA., of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham! and Matthews. (who is at present] on leave in Scotland) is to be mar ried to Miss Mary R. B. Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Campbell Anderson, of Falcon Gardens, Edinburgh. The cère- mony will take place in Eain- burgh on September 15.
The engagement between Alice B. Lee... second daughter of the late Mr. Li Po of Heungshan and Mrs. Li of "Dunheved," Robinson Road, Hongkong, and Chow Cheng-lam, B.A., of Taž peng, Perak, and graduate of the Hongkong University, has just been announced. The mar. riage will take place at St John's Cathedral op September 8.
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Miss Barbara Sandmaier caived a medal in Washington as one- of fourteen Red Cross nurses signalty honoured for services during the war.
Representatives of the Liberal Jewish Movement in England, Europe, and the United States. met in conference at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St. John's Wood Road, N.W.. with the ob- ject of arriving at a conformity of ideas between Liberal Jews throughout the world.
Arriving in Portland, Oregon, on a holiday with his three sons, ) Mr. John D. Rockefeller, jun., föld Press photographers that they could go the limit with him, be cause he was "hard-boiled and too old to be spoiled," but they must ignore his family. "You know," he said, "the public expect a rich man's son to make a fool of him- se'f anyway, and I want to lessen the danger in every way possible." Mr. Rockefeller's sons are eub- ject to more limitations than most American boys. Even the eldest, aged 16, has been known to com- plain that a poor farmer's boy has more freedom, They were taught The value of money from child-|
·hood, each having a small amount for spending weekly, but each re- quired to keep a book showing just how it had gone.
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