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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
A fresh case of enteric fever
(typhoid was reported.. on Tues day, the patient being a Chinese from the elty district.
The giant arm of Sumatra, which produces a leaf ong year and a flower the next year, is in full bloom at Kew Gardena and is attracting much attention not only for its size, but for its beauty.
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Osaka, September S. Flana Mr. W. Houghton, a farmer, of just published show that the Edmonthorpe, Melton Mowbray, Osaka Municipality will spend two with his boots, as his only weapo million Yen in the next few years | attacked a large vixen fox which he in the construction of Ave dams, found in his poultry yard. to accelerate the passage of water intruder, finding herself cornered. in the many canals, which for cande savage attacks on her oppoli turies, have provided a convenient unt, and finally, having relieved the means for the transportation of farmer of a good portion of his merchandise and made Osaka trousers, escaped with a fying leap known as the Venice of the Far through the only exit.
East
Alighting from an air liner The rise in the price of tin is likely to send up the price of silk 22. announces
An Athens telegram of July which had just arrived at the Lon- the discovery of don air station from Brussels, a stockings. While this sounds valuable petroleum deposits by a French business man turned to rather remarkable. it is none the British company who have been the pilot, Captain A. S. Wilcock- less true, for the artificial silk in-granted a concession to exploit the son, with the remark, "Where's dustry is a big buyer of tin, and of deposits between Durazzo and thia?' On being informed that he will be badly hit by the rise.
Berat, in Albania. It is stated was in London he exclaimed, "Oh, that oil was struck at a depth of but I wanted to go to Paris," and "Movie censorship" by police about 800 ft. in large quantities produced a ticket on the French has hit even ancient Peking. An- and nouncement has just been made change Telegraph message from
of good quality. An Ex-air liner from Brussels to Paris. that the authorities will hence-Vienna states that the Anglo-
Montreal. August 1-There is forth guard civic morals by in- Persian Oil Company, which is a strong possibility that the juvenile specting all films and ordering drilling near Valena, Albanin, ia hears desired by Mr. McDonald, necessary deletions. It is under-reported to have, struck a rich oil Deputy-Minister of Game and stood that the news of foreign source of the est quality.
Fisheries, for the Canadian Na- film directors are frequently out'
tional Exhibition Toronto, may Le of accord with those of old-school
secured through, the good offices of Chinese high in official circles;
Mr. Peter Manzo, of the contract, ing arm of Tweedie and Manzo, who are building a stretch of the Government road at Haviland Bay, Mr. Manzo says that the area in which their camp. is located fairly
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A young Jewish bride, Mike Yenta Waterman of Ambler-place. Judgment was delivered at Newton, Yorkshire, was married Windhoek, South Africa, upon the from the house where her mother ex-Kaiser's application for an lay dead. Two hours after the order with regard to the property bride hud left the mother's body belonging to his family in South-as carried from the house toems" with bears. The animals West Africa. Mr. Justice Gutsche
A few days before Mrsmaku night hideous with their con commented at length on the Waterman, who had not been versation, and about the only thing "sketchy and defective" nature of
suddenly worse that can be said in their favour is The Jewish law the application, intimating that
that they ut the garbage which is deposited near the emp a good deal of necessary evidenceProvides that under such circum on law and fact had not been laidances precedence must be given before the Court..
to the wedding. At the ceremony His Lordship
the bride was weeping bitterly and declared that on the case as pre-she could hardly stand up. sented the application was not en-brother fainted in the synagogue Her titled to an order, but he could re-and members
of the congregation new the proceedings if he was so were in tears. advised No order regarding costs was made.
and died.
Batavia. August" 28. „On. n- rival in Tandjong Priok yesterday | further news was obtained! of the tragic incident en board the "Siamat" just after the ship had left Colombo an August "91. The victim WRA certain Miss Green who was travelling to the N.E.. in the hope of obtaining a better position than was possible!
com-
Edmonton, July 28-A trap- per from the far-off Barren Lands The foreign-trained Chinese between the Mackenzie river and accountants of North China have Hudson's Bay, who returned to organised a united association of Edmonton recently, tells tales of in Holland. From the start it a Chinese accountants with head the Indian's modern defection heared that. Miss. Groen was suffer quarters at Tientsin. During the from the simple scalping-knits of from her nerves and was ex- incuration of the association, his ancestors in favour of plus-1
Verely melancholy. During the the chairman reported that some fours, loud shirts with stiff col-plaints all of which were proved
voyage she made numerous time ago the British Lega-lars, and even vanity cases ** tion "notified
to be unfounded. One day the Chinese met on the trail last winter," says from Colombo cut, there was Government to
the effect this trapper. "a young Indian
a. masked ball in the Brd clas that as the title of char-with His deg-team, and the brave in which the unfortunate lady was tered accountant" bas been actually took out a vanity case travelling. After having danced specially created by the British from his breast pocket, powdered several dances she went. out ong Government for fully certified Bri-his face, and then inspected him deck and sat down in a chair. tish chartered accountants in self in the mirror at the back of few seconds later, to the amaze- England. Chinese accountants the case. "He carried a suit- ment of the native boy she climbed should not copy it in China. On case on his sied and opened it to on to the railing and, aprang over- account of this, the association re-show me, with evident' pride, a board. The boy immediately gards the practice of foreign ar- pair of real plus-four pants, sever. warned the officer in charge and countants h China as legal asal shirts of loud pattern, and numerous life belts were thrown well as unreasonable.
starched collars to match"
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
According to the Chinese Press, Mr. Tam Wing-kwong, the General Chang Hsueh-liang, the manager of Messrs. Ip Tack and son of Marshal Charg Tso-lin, is Co., China Building, is leaving for studying the Japanese language a two week business trip to and has engaged a Japanese Shanghai by the "Empress of tutor to teach him daily,
Russia."
Property valued at $2,582,331, consisting almost entirely of jewellery. was left by the late Princess Anastasia, of Greece, who was the widow of William B. Leeds, the American "tin plate king."
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The Bishop of London, who went
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Changes in the personnel" of H B.M. Consulate-General in Shany- hui include the transfer of Mr. G. V. Kitaon. Vice-Consul, to Cor- ton, and Mr. A. L. Scott, who has recently returned from home leave, as Vice-Consul to Amoy.
Signor Mussolini has sent a gift of 50,000 lire to the head of the Dr. Wu Lien-teb, the well-known Candia. This sum is to help in the epidemic prevention service for Italian Archæological Mission at Chinese bacteriologist in charge of the work of restoring the ruins of the Three Eastern Provinces, left the museum, which was badly
for Tientsin to establish a medical damaged in June last by an earth-college in the Chinese Isolation quake.
Hospital grounds at Harbin, at a cost of $400,000, provided by the
to Canada with the intention of stalled Provincial Grand Master The Burma Rifles have suffered officiating at the wedding of his of West Yorkshire. in succession Thiere and nephew, was unable to Sir William Raynor, at the heavy load in the death of
perform the ceremony, as the law in Ontario only allows the local
Town Hall, Leeds, on October 8 Major R. M. F. Patrick, M.C. He ¡çlergy to perform marriages.
His Lordship will take charge of died of blackwater fever contract- the third largest Province undered while on recruiting duty in the
Kachin Hills the Grand Lodge of England, with
on August 26. The marriage took place at St. nearly 140 lodges.. Mr. Richard Major Patrick commenced his Andrew's Church, Kuala Lumpur, Gill, while continuing in the office military career in the Cork Militia of Sinclair Herbert Morrison, of Deputy Frovincial Grand Mas- and on the outbreak of the South of Seventh Mile Estate, Daman-ter, is to be installed Grand Super-mission and enlisted in the Royal ¡African War resigned his Com- sara, and Eileen Agnes Cormac, intendent of the Royal Arch Munster Fusiliers with whom he youngest daughter of Mr. and Degree in the Province, in succes was on active service from 1899- Mrs. C. R. Cormac, of Kuala sion to the late Mr Edward 1902, being twice mentioned in
Viscount Lascelles is to be in-Chinese Guild in that city.
Lumpur.
· The engagement is announced of Capt. D. C. Logan, M.C., Officer Commanding 'Scottish Company, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Logan, of Hong Kong, to.. Miss Iris MeCoan Thornhill, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Thornhill, ef Hong Kong.
Dr. Schmidt, professor of the Leningrad University and a mem- ber of the Soviet Academy.of Science, and four other scientists, have been appointed to represent Soviet Russia at the Pan-Pacific Congress to be held in Tokyo dur- ing the latter part of October.
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Bombay, August 13-Mrs. Anne Mason, a European Sulvationist, nged 36, died today while under chloroform. The decensed, had been suffering, from malarial fever for the last six months, and she Was advised to have her teeth ex tractod. After two teeth had been extracted on the öperation table khe | collapsed. At the inquest the jury recorded a verdict of death' due to heart failure while the patient was under chlorofdyta,
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when other means falled, Helena Dasu stowed away on a ship from Italy to New York to join her sweet- heart, Prof. Marcus Longworth of the University of Pennsylvania. – She but her fiance is expected to wod her, was captured and will be deported,
In Italy.
despatches, whilst holding the rank of Corporal. He was ever- tually given his Commission in the Royal Irish Regiment. from which he transferred to the Indian Army in 1906.
The following FM.S. appoint- ments are gazetted:--Mr. A. J. Sheedy, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Straits Settlements, to be a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Federated Malay States; Mr. Rupert Savigny Clemons to be an Assistant Superintendent of Customs, Customs" Department, Federated Malay States; Mr. Wil- liam John Walsh to be an Assist. ant Superintendent of Customs, Customs Department, Federated Malay States; Mr. R. Ingram, Timber Accountant, Forest De- partment, Federated Malay States and Straits Settlements, has been appointed to act as Controller of Timber Supplies, Forest Depart- ment, Federated Malay States and||| Straits Settlements; Mr. W. M. Millington has been seconded for service.In the State of Kelantan-as Acting British Adviser, Kelantani (Staff); Mr, H. PA Bryson has been appointed to officiate as As sistant District Officer, Bruks
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