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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
New term begins at St. Stephen's College on Monday.
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On the afternoon of the th After nearly 30 yours' servico the clock in the tower of Southwark fult. two Chinese preshmably stu- Cathedral has broken down, and dents, threw a bomb from the top of| the Chupree are to ask experts to Suake H, Wachang. The bomb Galesburg. inois, Sept. 2
examine the mechanism. The cipek was thrown, with the object of 11: fa estimated that property was the gift of Sir Frederick Wigan, creating panle, and it adrected co dhriage resulting from a storm and succeeded a clock which peu-a"certain extent as a large number of the populace mistook it for the which swept over Central Illinoisdered service for 15 years,
sound of a southern gun. The two and lowa to dny will exrced $2,000,-
The new director of the. Re-howOWET were arrested by the #100.
The light, power and water
venue Stamp Bureau, under the military police and executed public- works of this city were inundated
Finance Ministry, 1 reported to ly and put out of commission.
have discovered that many Feking many parts of this region, she
merchants have been purchasing starm reached the properidons of a
conatorfelt stamps at the rate of eloudburst and many streams over-
40 per cent of their face value. The flowed their banks.
police and gondarmerie hers have been apprised of the facts and are attempting to and the forgers and
wing the fallure of its appeal
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Messrs. Colgate American perfume and soap manu- facturers of New York, obtained judgment against the China Chemi-; cal Works of Shanghai un" the ground that its "Vioris" trademark! for soaps had been infringed By the The latter were fined defendants. $600. with the aptlon of imprison-j ment at the rate of a dollar a day! the1500 days). Assessor Spiker and
Magistrate Kwan heard the case ini
Mr. A. Krisel the Mixed Court. appeared "for the plaintiffs and Mr. A. M. Preston for the defendants,
for an increase in the Customs sur-to arrest the merchants who know- plus appropellon for the main ingly purchased the counterfeit tenance of its monthly expenses, the stamps.. Waichiaopu. like its sister minis
retrenchment tries is oforting a policy. In a recent order, num- ber of members who seldom attend to their duties, including Mr. Yang Yao-liang a Kuominchun.dißtomat and Mr Wan Chao-chi, were les naived of their salaries and given honorary posts, "
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Haincheng, a district, on North of Shantung. Province' is res ported to have been selected by General Chang Tsung-chang as the site in which a new arsenal will be built. With a view to facilitating
Peking. August 25-A "per-jų transportation of various kinds of materials, necessary for the con-section of education in China Bas struction of the ammunities store, ["progressed to such a point where a light railway leading from the ally shalent or teacher displaying! Jerusalem August 1-Pales5-
Eto be ansted like a griminali time is to have its own money,istrict to Tientsin will be soon dependency of thought is likely
the Nationalist Word eum unday that the British colonial secretigy has met a
There has take been $n. Teopie's Tribune" which is pub-
Ari [board to plan a Palestinin aystem
iderulate depreciation of copper lirtel in English in Péking. jof coinage based on the end coins in Shanghai the reason forceding to the Tribune," a regular Listerling. The coins will not be witen is stated to be that largebant is being endeled in churn-pl
Eritish t the designs will be made.
e-gignments of coppers have been¦ Fazal institutions for the aliegedįj in Rugland under the advice of an skipped from Nanking to Shanghai pertese of eradicating bolshevik] expert on the history, of Palestine, o check depreciation in that port. Since the Efitish government are
which is worse than in Shanghai repted a protectorate for Palestine Casequently the Shanghai Dict British nomy has been used,
Mavisime has given intractins
the Customs zudliorates to have? The insport of rupper coins from
Manking entailed.
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lluence. Aut the term lishevik in Subicek to such wide interpretation) that the ban on free thought hus! spread beyond all singan.,
Omaha, Neb, September 4.- - 16: Wian, Corcoran, American Consu w Colegian Germany. akunterri
Barcelona. Sept. 2. is esti maled that 55 pirsons are dead and millions of dollars worth of crops.
In the month of dune 546,99of "Hurrah for Prohibition" wid then] and other property in rainy as result of the most devastating tourists enteryal Canin at Ninyabarassed champagne to his gunstą Edertale) storms and floods in many years | Walk Onturi Tourist inathie from including Gertrude
American girl who sin the Basi which are sweeping the central and the 'aited States to Canada is ex | north-eastern parts
of Spain dingly havy this year at alllish Chunach, the Omaha Women's Twenty persons were killed yesterinergationil boundary points of Christian Tempertange Valon wants, and consequently the him recalled, according to an ans The Stace day when a fra. from Barcelona missing to Valencia was wrecked by a land- Canadian immigration officers are nouncement Le-lay,
Go-day Wis WIL- Niagara Falls Department slide rear Ampello. The Barcelona aknormaly busy.
Lo whether [district suffered most heavily and continues to be the mest popular fect ofeial word from Cologne, reliz supplies are being loaded on meeen for tourists, especially since Germany. railroad trains and into automobiles the Tails have been illuminated at William Corcoran, Amerlin Censuti for shipengal to the stricken regions. Faight by powerful are lights of there shouted for propibition and! It has apparent then served champagne so his; Rescuers worked throughout the different colours.
It was indicated, however, night and succeeded in string hunely not been losing any of its popa-guests.
resort for honey that all the reports are nothing] dreds of families marooned by the larity
would be done about the incident. flood.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Mr. E. Tallefsen, Commissioner Martinsville Indian. September
condition
Senator of the Shanghai Chinese. Postal 2.The William Mekiniey of inois, who Service. Shanghai, has tendered his
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After a two months' tour in the! United States, the Crown Prince! and Princess of Sweden sailed on
Mart" for, Hawaii, where they pro pose to stay for a fortnight before continuing their trip to Japan.
a confined in a sanitariam suffer- besignation and his plage will bAugust 4 on board the liner "Shinyo ing with serious congestion of the filled by air. C. B. Shields. Postil langs, has shown marked improve-tommissioner at Nanking:
Нія ment daring the last 24 hours. physicians say that he has survived the crisis and his recovery is pro bable
1t is offelally announced that
The Muster of frempill has been their Royal Highnesses the Dukh and Duchess of York, on their pro- doing quite a lot of tying at his home, Fintruy 'posed visit to Australia and New father's country Those who remember Mr. Jan Zealand. will probably leave Eng-Trouse. Aberdeenshire. With his De! Greig, M.C, at one time of Ayles and about the middle of January Havilland Moth he has taken flights|| bury and Nutter, Ipoh, will be in-and proceed on H.M.S. "Renow with a number of guests, going
Both his terested in a picture in the "Sunday by way of the Panama Canal, re-one to John O'Groats. Pictorial" showing Mr. Greig and turning via the Suez Canal towards parents went for flights with him. and his two sisters, Miss Margaret his bride, Miss Ailsa Maclean, the end of June..
and Miss Elizabeth Sempill, and his leaving the church of St. Mary
wife, were passengers as well,
Mr.
The Prince of Wales, on learning that Polier-Constable William
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Abbots, Kensington. after their The following have been appoint marriage on July 31 says the led by the Colonial offer to the Times of Malaya." Mr. Greig was Malay States:-Miss H. I. in kern rugby and hockey player Robertson M.A. ME. Ch.B., Wakefield was doing his last duty
when in Perak.
Lady Medient OfBeer: Mr. R. B. Jagoe, B.Sc., as Agricultural Field at York House, St. James's Before MF. B. W. Fleisher, publisher of offer: Miss M. C. Cox, as Nursing retiring on pension after 26 years' the "Jam Advertiser of Tokyo sister: Lieut. R. S. Clemons, Ltd. service with the fores, sent for him and widely known throughout the. J. Walsh and Mr. C. M. Reidd presented him with a Far East, will sail for the United
us Assist. Superintendenta of Cus-watch bearing the Prince's mon
gram. Alluding to the fact that States within a few days to uptome.
Constable Wakefield had kept a dergo treatment for an arterial
watchful eye upon his favourite disense which has kept him bed-
Columbia, S. C. September 2-A dog, and had made a friend of the fast for nearly a year. Fleisher will enter the Mayor Bro-noff primary will be necessary to animal, the Prince said at parting. thers sanitarium Rochester, Mira determine whether Senator Ellison am very sorry to lose the services He plans to return to Japan as Smith Speaker Edgar A. of so gued an officer, and I am Brown of the South Carolina House quite sure Cora will miss you, too." soon as convalescence is complete. Representatives shall be the The constable has been on "duty at Democratie nomined for United York House since the Prince went Among the passengers who leave States senator, neither having re-
into residence there seven years on the Dollar liner "Presidentceived a majority at the primary on ago. Pierce" for San Francisco to Tuesday. Ex-senator Din ran third morrow is Dr. R. W. Hart, the in the primary. Senator Smith is
Word has been received of the United States Public Health an advocate of the world court.
death of Mrs. Laurence II. Sears, Officer in Manila. Dr. Hart is ac
in the hospital at Feachow, Shanai, companied by his wife and is go-
Tenants of houses on the Duchy following an operation for appendi ing on leave. Mr. E.-C. Water-
of Cornwall entute overlooking citis. Mrs. Sears was spending the. house, a big rubber planter of Sumatra, is also leaving on the Kennington Oval have been notified summer with her husband at the same liner for Honolulu. Lieut.that they must pay entertainment Yataoho summer reeort, near Fen- Commander G. W. Dugger, of the tax on money received as the result chow. A short time ago she deve- of letting windows and balconies to loped appendicitis. When it be U.S.S. "Helena," with his family people to view the fifth Test match came clear that an operation would is proceeding on Home leave by officials of the Excise and Customs be needed before she could be the "President Pierce,"
Department called on the tenants brought back to Peking, she was and left two documents, one a type- taken to the American Board Mis Archbishop M. J. O'Doherty of
Mrs. written form drawing attention to alon Hospital at Fenchow. the diocese of Manila arrival Section 11. of the Finance Act, 1922. Sears was the wife of Mr. Laurence in Munila on the "President Picree."
and the other a lendet setting out Sears, who is doing student work Mons. Jose. Bustamante, vicar-
the scale of taxes,
with the Y.M.C.A. in. Peking. She general of the archdiocese of
also was the sister of Mrs. Sidney Manasuperiors of the different
During the two years Mr. Henry G. Anderson, whoso Gamble.
in Peking. religious orders, rectors of Romun Catholic colleges, high government death at the age of 79, has occurred that she had been oficials, laymen and students were on his farm at Scholtzfontein, was she had won many friends for her- one of the early pioneers of the self, among the Chinese as well as members of the general reception
the diamond fielda. About 1869 he was among the foreigners. Mrs. Sears committee
welcomed that
was President elect of the American returning prelate, At the close one of a party from Port Elizabeth
Colloge Women's Club for the who joined in the first rush to the of the reception at the pier.
Vaal River. When the goldfields coming year, and also teacher of Derm Te
in sung the Reman Catholic cathedral in of the Witwatersrand were dis-French in the Feking American Her father, Mr. W. E. the Wilied City. Archbishop M. I. covered Mr. Anderson occupied a School. O'Doherty during his stay in the farm which has since become a Lowe, is professor of Hlatory at United States
the suburb of Johannesburg. He was Colgate University. Dr. Lowe and attended
wife were In Peking last Eucharist congress at Chicago and one of the original claim baldera his later visited many of the larger at "New Rush," which afterwards autumn visiting the two daagh-
became the Kimberley mine. cities in the middle west.
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