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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Lighting-up time to-day is at 6.06.p.m.
The Municipal Council of Batavia has considered a big scheme for the improvement of the lighting and sanitation of the
"The Colony had a clean bill of town. The plan includes the fill-health on Wednesday when no case ing in of the Molenvliet "kali."
of notiflablé diacake was reported: better street lighting, and the erection of wash-houses For laundryinen At present all Bata- via wash clothes in the "kali."
Aneta reports that there has bean considerable activity in Java in an illicit trade in prewar Ger man bank notes, particularly the brown 1,000-mark notes. Tho chief centre
be at appears to Singapore, and the victims are generally native Hadis travell ing via Singapore to the Dutch East Indies.
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Peking. September 27-Ac- cording to reports published in the "Shih Chieh Jih Pao," a large unit of Cantonese troops is now beginning à campaign against Hupeh, with Anking as the ob- jective, for the purpose of cutting
We are informed by alessrs. Chellerum & Co. that their grand Autumn Sale will close on Satur Osaka, September 29.Acoly, the 9th instant. lision between a submarine and a
Adelaide. schooner, in which the former
-The South Aus- iknocked her head against the tralian Government has granted flatter from under, occurred yea-half an acre of the grounds of
terday afternoon Dear Kure. The Government House, with a front-Anhui Province from south-east submarine Ro-18") was slight-age of 105 feel on the north ter ly damaged, but the schooner, race, for a war memorial which is loaded with copper ore, was seri-tó cost £25,000. Competition for fously damaged and sunk." The the design is restricted to South Australians who are British. The Returned Soldiers' Association Peking, September 28.-The are taking an enthusiastic in- Telephone Administration, faced terest in the project. with numerous applications for
crew was rescued.
two Sun Chuan-fang's forces. Their immediate, objectives are Yingshan, Taihu ang Sosung.
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Johannesburg. The bro- thers Ratshosa, Chiefs of the Bamangwato tribe in Bechuana-
the installation of telephones, has | By order of the Soviet Goyland are appealing against the sent out a general letter to allernment. # Russian medical sentence of ten years hard labour
Belephone users in arrears with Corps, consis ing of a number of passed on them for an attempt to their bills that unless complete doctors. chemists, and 16 nurses, murder the regent of the tribe, payment of old bills is made at left Moscow for Urga on Septem-Tahkedi, on Easter Monday. The once the instruments will be re-ber 21. Their object is slated to appeal is being heard at Mafe- moved. It is stated that great comprise the study of health conking. The appellants' counsel ad- numbers of telephone subscribers ditions in Mongolia, as well as the dressed the court for 24 hours, a have failed to pay their bills for furnishing of medical treatment record speech for South Africa. months"past.
to the Mongolian people, and their
headquarters will be established A Daily Mail" reporter who Ottawa-Owing to a short-in the western suburbs of Urge.set out to find a tall policeman" nge of 20,000 harvest hands, in The Medical Corps took, with it a had only a few hundred yards to Western Canada wages have been large quantity of medicines and go before hearing of Police- increased from 14s, to £1 a day, surgical instruments.
Constable Nichols, of the City all found. An influx of harvesters |~ --
of London force, who is the tall- from the United States is hoped Negotiations are being.car-fest policeman in England. He is for and extra truins are being ried on between the Soerabaya 6ft. Bin. in his rocks. A Manches- run from all Canada east of the postal authorities and the mana- ter rival is a mere 6t. 6in. In Great Lakes in the hope of ger of Messrs. Whiteaway, Laid- addition to Constable Nichols, the gathering last-minute e crews. law and Co.'s Scerabaya branch City of Londer police claim to Emergency calls from the west, with a view of establishing on have several taller meh than the especially from Saskatchewan and auxiliary post office on the branchManchester giant in their ranks. Albert are reaching the Gov-premises,
negotiations The Metropolitan Police say that These ernment,
have so far been unsuccessful but they can produce s the manager of Whiteaways has police officers more than 6ft 7in. | cabled to his head office in Lon-The City Police are generally re- don for further advice.
garded as the tallest in the world.
number of
Peking, September 30.-The resuscitation of the old. Beiyang military party is foreshadowed in a telegram from Chengchow, bub-
shed in the "Yi Shih Pao" this: morning, which states that Mar-'
the Commanders, advocated the reunion of the adherents of the party and suggested that ex-Pre- sident. Tsao Kun should visit the various Provinces for the fur- therance of the proposed reunion.
Alcoholic delights have a strong appeal for the natives of Raratonga, the principal island of the Cook, group, according to a London, September, 22.-A description of South Sea Island sensation has been caused by the drunkenness by Mr Robert London Stock Exchange posting Keable, the author. There are Cep- up an official notice prohibiting tainly
many stories of the its members from taking out strength and potency of the bookmakers' licences or from us home-brewed intoxicants mosting the Stock Exchange or mem-shal Wa Pei-fu, in a speech before favoured by the islanders, and it bers office a betting premises. is said that the drink is naually The prohibition applies to clerks made from the roots of a certain also. There are at present many tropical plant. After partaking bookmaker members of the Stock Low freely of this native "ire | Exchange and the Committee has water" one night, a certain Scots- so far winked at the practive, but, man returned to his shipmates as all bookmakers must now be The telegram states that Marshal and in reply to their questions as registered. the Committee basTsao Kun will shortly visit Anhui the quality of the liquor. re-stepped in. to point out that the land, Chelang in order to inter-i pher "Man, it's enough to make articles of association "do not view Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, a rabbit sit up and spit in the allow a bookmaker also to be a General Lu Haiang-ting and other face of a bulldog?"
member of the Stock Exchange. influential persons.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Passengers arriving by the 8.8. "Saarbruecken from Europe in- eluded Mr. and Mrs. A. Fothergill and Mr. G. 'Bordiker.
Among the passengers arriving yesterday, by sa "President Jack- son" was Miss "B. Woods, daughter of the Governor of the Philippines, en route for Seattle.
Sir H. H. J. Gomperts, Chief Justice, F.M.S.. and' formerly Puisne Judge at Hong Kong, is ex- pected to arrive in Kuala Lumpar to-day:
Mr. A. J. Bell, À.C.A., has arrived in. Tientsin from London to join the local staff of Messrs. Lowe. Bing- hum und Matthews, Chartered Accountants
Peking, Septeniber 29.-The Chinese papers assert that ex- President Tsao Kun has decided to spend the rest of his days at Shanghai and that he has already left Paotingru for Chengchow in order to see Marshal Wu Pei-fu en route.
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It is stated that Mrs. D. H. Morrison, widow of Mr. D. H. Morrison, of "Günong Rapat estate, F.M.S., is likely to be ap Lieutenant, T. Kitaura, Assist- pointed to the position in the Rubent Naval Attache to the Japan- ber Restriction Office vacated by ese Legation" in Peking has been ordered to Canton. He is to be Mrs. F. M. Campbell.
accompanied by Mr. T. Intoure, who has been appointed Vice- Mr. F. A. S. McClellean, who re-Consul at Canton. They will leave
He returned from Hometired from the post of Treasurer.shortly for their posts.
on the s.s. "Mantua."
The forthcoming wedding is an-
F.M.S., two years ago. has return- ed to London after spending the winter on the Continent and four nounced of Franc Stewart months in Corsica. He is next Gumley elvil, engineer, of Hum-going for a month to St. Malo. phreys Buildings, Kowloon, to Elizabeth Margaret Grey Hall, of Selkirk, Scotland.
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The "Echo de Tientain" records the first Annamite marriage in Tientsin. which took place at the
Shanghai, September 29-The suit for divorce brought by Mrs. Dorothy Gould, against her hus- band,Randell Chase Gould; on grounds of cruelty, was further adjourned by Judge Milton D Purdy in the United States Court for China, this morning.
It is reported that the Chinese Grand Hotel, the parties being Customs Administration proposes Nguyuen Var Huong and Vevey (Switzerland)-General "to send" a score of members of Hguyen Thi Nghlem. The French Bruce, leader of the Mount Elver- the Chinese staff to Europe, Consul and Mme. Saussine wereest expedition, has arrived at America and Japan to study cus-present, and a number of French Kandersteg, which will be hist toms systems in those countries. guests. The bridegroom made a beadquarters for making some Those who have been in the ser- long speech, to which the Consul high mountain ascents in the vice for seven years will be quali- | replied.:
Oberland. Gerieral Bruce recent- hed to go.
ly stated that the attempt to con- quer Eferest would not be renew- ed for some time, as the Dalai
Superintendent T. 1. Vaughan,
Mr. R. E. Osborne, D.S.O., M.C.,
to foreigners to enter the country.
of the Shanghai Municipal Police, relinquished his appointment as has been appointed to the post of Publicity Officer at the Malay. Lama, the ruler of Tibet, is go in. Stutey Information Agency. on cersed over the recent visit of a Chief Superintendent. This pro- mation fellows the retirement from August 31, and will shortly be leav-number of Tibetans to England the force of Chief Superintendenting for Canada as Private Secre- that he has refused all permission Wilson, who left the force last try to Lord Willingdon, the new Thursday after 43 years service, Governor-General. It is not yet Superintendent Vaughan, is a very popular officer and for some time has been doing special work, often: appearing in court as prosecutor. for the Municipal Police.
known who will succeed Mr. Osborne at the Agency, but it is rumoured that the vacancy will be alled by Mr. S. W. Bunker, who was Assistant Chemist in the Agrical tural Department at Kuala Lumpur a few years ago.
London, Septembar 28.The entire British press is aroused and embittered over the speech of Dr. Chu Chao-hain, China's delegate to the League of Nations in which he made scathing' criticism of Friends of Mr. Ralph A. Cooper
Britain's policy in the Far East. will be interested to know that his
The "Daily Mail" says that the mother-inlaw, Mra, A. T. Smith, The death took place in a situation la serious enough at pre- was the leading speaker at the nursing home at Ruthin, North sent without Dr. Chu's, meddling.. Liberal meeting at Portage la Wales, of Dr. John George It takes the stand that the Chu Prairie, Manitoba, on Sept. 4. The Adami, Vice-Chancellor of Liver- speech was entirely out of place meeting was in support of Mr pool University, a pathologist and that the delegate grossly Dr. Chu is Evan McPherson, Liberal candidate, with a world-wide reputation, misstated facts. who defented the Hon. Arthur Born at Manchester 64 years ago, China's Charge: d'Affaires at the Meighen, former Premier of he took his DLD, when he was 28, Court of St. James and this fact Canada, Mrs Smith is an ex- and the following year was elect makes the anger of the press perfenced public speaker, having ed a Fellow of Jesus College, Cam more intense. The Daily Tele been President of the Canadian bridge. He held many profession- graph" Bays that the speech was Presbyterian Women's Society for al appointments at home and in such an affront to Great Britain: some time. Both, Mr. and Mrs. Canada, and from 1892 to 1919 that it is a question whether Bri Cooper have been active workers was Professor of Pathology and tain should longer retain a seat for the Liberal party in Canada Bacteriology at McGill University, in the council in which China's for many years.
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All the subsequent typhoon reports from. Jast Thursday. are included, completing a terrible tale of havoc and loss of life.
The latest piracy is described.
The "China Mail" has made it a practice of adding foot- notes and explanations to all articles that present difficulties to non-Chinese, Such are faithfully reproduced in the Overland." If you are stumped for an answer this edition will help you out, either as news for folks at Home or as a handy reference...
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