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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
On Tuesday, three fresh cases of enterie, fever (typhoid) were notited, All three patients="are Chinese, one from Kowloon and. Two from the city..
M. Fierre Wertheimer's famous horse Epinard, the winner of the Stewards' Cup n Goodwood La 1928, is to be sent"shortly to the United States, where it will stand at stud,at Mr. James Cox Brady's stud farm at Lexington, Kentucky.
Peking August 17. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has lodged a protest with the Russian Ambassador, concerning the alleg. ed infringement on the sover. eignty of China in an agreement for the construction of railroads in Outer Mongolia.
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In view of the increasing population of Chapel, certain Ohinese merchants have petition- ed to the Directorate of the Port of Shanghai and Woosung for al permit to erect a magnificent up- to-date kotel near the Shanghai- Narking Railway station.
Peking, August 24-At to day's meeting of the Cabinet, the proposal made by the Naval De-
On Monday the Colony had a clohn Bill of health.
The band of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who left Home in September and who have been playing at the New Zealand
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Exhibition at Dunedin, have returned to Britain.
Tull Chen Chin-mao of Hupeh has issued ar: order prohibiting the publication of the "Ta Hän the Kuomintang paper Pao,"
The paper printed in Hankow. was published in the Japanese Concession.
It is reported that three Bri- tish mining prospectors, who have been seeking gold in the mid-mountainous region in the upper |
part of the Heiho, a tributary of the Amur, claim to have dis covered a promising gold outcrop and to have obtained from Muk- den authorities a licence to exploit their discovery.
A storm broke out at night on the night of August 27, at Pakkai, writes the "China Mail" correspondent who says WAS like a that "the" blow hurricane, When morning came, the storm was over, followed by cool weather and a little rain.
Marcato's competition- "announced under Gramophone Notes in the "China Mail" last Friday closes on Friday, Those who wish to take fort are reminded to send, in their entries in time..
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Peking, August 26. The American Minister here, who has lodged a protest with the Chinese Government against the proposed dotation of the domestic loun with the security of the sur- plus funds of the customs e-i venue, has requested the Japan- cse, British and French Minis-; ters to take. the same attitude as America towards the insurance of the lows
An application has been made that a portion of the Im- perial City wall, the section east of Coal Hill, be torn down and to raise money for the Peking Municipality. The Municipality is in financial straits as every other government institution, and so officials seek to obtain funds) from selling some of the bricks of the Imperial wall.
Milan,, August 21.-Thieves broke into the famous Scala
plundered Theatre and
the museum stealing many valuable old relics including the sword partment to erect an observatory which Napoleon Bonaparte pre-that materials therefrom be sold in Haishathe Island of Hong-sented to Cuidita Pasta, the kong, was passed. At the meet- singer and actress... ing. it was also decided to pro- hibit Japanese from managing¦
Capetown. July 8-British observatories in the Ialand and to sportsmen who stalk deer in the instruct the Waichiaopu to con- Highlands should visit South duct negotiations with the Japan-Africa. A farmer in the Rich mond district of the Cape Pro- ese Minister for that purpose. vince, who has about 3,000 spring-
bok on his property,
found The mountain inRhymney that they were increasing with Valley, between Pontlottyn, and sach rapidity that there was very Troedrhiwfuwch. Glamorgan, has little grazing left for his stock. again started to move, and large Accordingly he organised a hunt. fissares have appeared into one of nine guns accounting in one day which a horse fell and was rescued for 394 buck. with difficulty. A reservoir which has cracked is being drained of water. The movement of this mountain has been going on for number of years, and as a result considerable damage has been done in the past..
"Calcutta, July 8-The most humiliating affront that one Indian can offer to another is to Best tim with a shoe, and such assaults have not infraqantly been followed by murder. A man named. Radhuram, whe, or hearing the order of an Indian sub-judge at Mooltan, hit the judge in the face with his sho, has been sentenced by a British magistrate to two years' rigorous imprisonment.
Peking, August." 17.---Whe ther Chilean saltpetre is a fertiliser or can be used for the manufacture of gun-powder will be tested by the Ministry of the Interior. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Customs Administration think it a fertiliser and intend to instruct the Customs authorities to release the cargo of Chilean saltpetre seized by the Foochow Customs last month, but the War Ministry contends that it can be used for the manufacture of powder and is therefore a contra- band article) The dispute has been referred to the Ministry of interior for solution.
The Chinese Government has decided that part of the Italian portion of the Boxer Indemnity should be utilised for the conser vancy of Haiho and Haikow. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has now received a despatch from the Netherlands Legation protesting against the project, which is in conflict with the Agreement be- tween the Chinese Government' and the Netherlands Syndicate.
The united Chambers of Com- merce, Hankow, are evidently out for a busy time. In addition to fighting taxes, they are now re- ported to have tackled the pro-1 blem of the "Hupeh Provincial state that Assembly. They these members were not elected for life and the time has long passed when they should have re- tired and another election held. They have therefore informed the Assembly that they must retire and allow the Hupeh people to elect another.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
The following bulletin signed by Queen Marie of Rumania is pre- Mr. Edward Hunter, late of the Dr. K. Black and Dr. R. 31. Dannus paring to formally visit the Unit- San Francisco Bulletin
and! was issued in Kuala Lumpur at Jed States, according to reports other newspapers in America, has a.m. of August 23. His Ex- which received wide circulation in joined the editorial staff of the cellency Sir Laurence Gulllemard Washington D.C., August 21, al-Japan Advertiser." continues to progrem natisfactorily. though no official notification has No further bulletin will be issued. been received. "
Á mannequin parade, promot by a firm of drapers, was witness jed By 11,500 people at the south beach bathing pool, Scarborough. Ten girls in vivid coloured bathing Costumes, the colours of which it claimed are proof against even salt water, paraded on the terraces and around the pool.
Another famous Chinese scholar has just passed away in the French Concession, Shanghai, this being
Mr.
Dr. W.. W. Yen, who has been spending the past two weeks at Peitaiho, returned to Peking on) August 19 and was present at the regular meeting of the Chinese Tariff Commission held at Chu Jen
A Tientsin-message reports that since his arrival in Tientsin last Spring, Mr. Yeh Kung-cho, ex-Minister of Communications, has been living in complete seclu-Tang the next day. sion and taking no interest in politics, devoting most of his time, in studying Buddhism
Major-General Chu King-tong, commanding the 13th Cantonese (Nationalist) division, has been appointed garrison commissioner Chu. "Shih-sung? B Hanlin of the Five Districts (of Sunning, scholar and poet, at the age of 66.Sanwui, Yanping, Hoiping and Mr. Chu was the author of a num-hek-kai) and the districts of ber of standard classical and his Yeungkong: Lo-ting and Sho- torical works and was the honorary hing. Our own correspondent. editor of several local papers.
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Passengers due to arrive from Europe to-morrow by 8.s. "Kashgar"
include: Mr. D. Beath, Mr. JAT. Christie, Mr. A. da Roeya, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Lissaman. Lt-Comdr. R. Leeds, R.N., Surg. Lt.-Comdr. A. W, North, R.N. Mr. D. W. Phillipa, Mr. Philp, Eng-Deut. J. T. Roberts, R.N., Mr. D. M. J. Sheil Small, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Thompson.
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The American Consulate-Gen- eral is interested in securing in- formation as to the whereabouts and welfare of Mr. Ralph Deval, Who is reported to have arrived in Shanghai in October 1922. The inquiry comes from his sister Mrs. A. L. Beers, 38 Bailey Court, Daytona Beach, Florida. Any particulars concerning Mr. Deval's present whereabouts will The Rev. A. E. Hillard, the Highbe greatly appreciated. Master of St. Paul's School,
Peking, August 17.-A popular moving picture actress, Yang Nai- mai, of Shanghai, has arrived here and will appear in person at the Sin Ming Theatre when her production, "The Three Women of Shanghai," will be shown of the screen there. Miss Yang is a Cantonese, and in the coming pro- gramme she will sing songs of her native province.
Hie many friends in. Malaya, says! the London correspondent of the "Malay Mall" will be sorry to hear that Mr. A. W. Still, late of Singa pore, had been very ill. He is now in hospital at Hampstead, suffering from theumatic gout and neuritis, He did not spare himself when he came home and his many years of hard work in the Straits have told upon him and caused this break- down in health. Els doctors now order a complete rest in the coun- try after he leaves the hospital.
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Hammersmith. W.. at the school. Mr. C. H. B. Joly, acting deputy News has just been received in prize distribution said that it seem-commissioner of Chinese Mari-Shanghai of the death in Schenec ed to be the fashion now to find time Customs at Amoy, arrived tady, New York, of Mr. Edward. out what a boy wanted to do and at Pakkai (Kongmoon) from Clark He had been suffering let him do it, and to call that Macao, on board the Customs from diabetes for some time. Mr. education. He did not accept that launch "Kongmoon," to Telleve Clark had been connected with St. Paul's almed to prepare their Mr. Howard, who came to Hong- the General Electric Company boys to be always ready to do what kong on grounds of ill-health. since his graduation from the they did not want to do if it re Mr. Howard was in charge of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech quired doing,
Customs at Pakksi and is leaving nology Boston. He was with for Home. Our own correspon- their offices in Shanghai for two dent,
years and then in Manik handling General Electric pro-
An offer of £4,000 has been made- to the Oxford Diocesan Board by a 62-years-old woman on condition that £200 per annum is paid to the Washington, The State Doducts for the Pacific Commercial donor for the remainder of her partment reports that more Company. Two years ago, prior life, and that the capital sum of than 1,000,000 Europeans to his return to the head offices of 24,000 is used for executing repairs who epplied for entry into the the General Electric Company in to the elementary schools in the United States in 1925 were kept Schenectady, he made a short Oxford Archdeaconry. One men out by the immigration quota trip to Peking, to see his brother, ber thought there was serious risk, limitations. In England, with a and added that it was quite possible yearly quota of 84.000, applica for a person to live to 100 in the tions to settle in the United Oxford Diocese. The Board agreed States totalled 93,000 This num to acoapt the offer, subject to the ter is unusually large for Borland dosd of security being approved by and a attributed to the strike or the board's solicitor.
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Mr. Grover Clark While in Shanghai particularly, Mr. Edward Clark took a prominent dart in the teaching of various bechnical courses in the YMCA night schools. He is survived by his wife and three sons.
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