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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Monday Being a Bank Holiday
Monday is a local Bank Holi
Remember the Bazaar of the the "China Mall" will be publiskod: || day (second Monday in October). || Precious Blood Convent continues! ut mid-day.
| The exchange "banks and insuranes f to-day and to-morrow... | offices will be closed during the day.
The Italian Grand Opera Co. will
prenent Fans!" at the Theatre Reyn on Monday (9.15. pronspt.):
The Heottish Savings Come mitire intimate that during the week ended August 21, 1926, 52,645 Savings Bertiteatrs Were Dur chised in Scotland.
The number of pilgrims who visited Mecca this year is stated to be 150,000, The aréangements made were fairly adequate except in the matter of water, wich at one time was sold in the streets at gone than 3s. per glass.
No 11 Bonham Road was söld
Fasterday as the China Auction Rooms to Mr. Cheung Chun-ming
for $60,000, an increase of $13,000 on the opening price.
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There will be a special dis- at Lee Garden. East Point, at 8.80 play of anique Chinese fireworks, to-night and to-morrow nighte
Sacred Heart English School| Not having seen 'Alice Dollar will give a stage performance at (63), a widow, of Station Road, Tai Yat Theatre, Yaumabi, at 10 Ormskirk, for several days, mulghan, to-morrow, proceeds for the tours entered the house. They students of schools managed by found her dead on the couch grasp the Rev. Fr. G. M. Spadn. Per I' #t saucepan. One hundred mission to use the theatre is by pounds in serins were found in courtesy of Mr. H. W. Ray. the house." |
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The new To Tsai Church (Bon- ham Road) will be dedicated at 2 p.m. to-day and opened by Madame Wu Ting-fang at 4 p.m. A Chinese dinner follows at 6.30 pm. The first regular service will be held at 2 p.m. to-morrow. On Monday evening. Ying Wah Col- lege hold a contert in the Church. Hall in honour of China's National
The largest monoplane ever There are a number of mails constructed in Britain is now near in a big aircraft cue in over the week-end, ineleding completion
It is an n ing two from Home. To-day the factory in the North.
metal passenger machine with 5.8. "Kitano Maru' is due, with single cantilever, metal wing? I mail from Japan, Shanghaf and is to be driven by three Rolls-Royce Europe vin Siberia; to-morrow the engines giving over 2,000 horse- ss Tenyo Maru" and s.s. "Pre-power, and will be capable of sident McKinley are due to ar-carrying between 30 and 40 passen-Day. rive from the North with mailsgers on non-stop flight, of over from U.S..A.. Honolulu. Canada, Japan and Shanghai: and the s.3. "Pyrrhus" is due with mail from Home and Europe. (letters and papers London, September 10 via Negapatam.
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500 miles. After extensive testa Harvesting operations Were by the Air Ministry, the new air stopped by a warm of bees in a giant will be run experimentally on fold on the farm of Mudhall, Dyke, the Imperial Airways between Lon-near Forrest Men and horses were don and the Continent.
severaly stung. The animals rear- cc and plunged and great. dimculty was experienced in releasing them from the shafts. The condition of the horses became so serious that a veterinary surgeon had to be sum moned.
In a written statement exhort.
The Hamburg branch of the A small monkey-like creature Reichsbank was the scene of an un- was found at Penryn (Cornwall expected gas attack, which com- Fa, nest of grass and leaves in pelled the clerks and customers to bunch of bananas from Jamaica. take refuge in the street. Investi- The creature is of the lëmurigation showed that the Reichsbank family, perhaps a gangp. It i Bome time ago had installed an
rey and white in colour with a ingeniou device for releasing the Roman Catholics' of Mexico sharp, raflike head large block ing xas fumes if the building not to permit schlams to arise in eyes, short, bristling' whiskers. and wore broken into by burglars, ttheir ranks, the Episcopate, declares sharp teeth. Ita body is Say long. appears that someone inadvertens-that it will work and wait for o its va devoid et far, and he
paws are those of a monkey. A the daytime the animal crouches in the corner of a cage and hisses un being approached, but at niget it is more lively. Its diet consists of ripe bananas.
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be re-
ly touched the controls, flooding the years, if necessary, for a change in bank with gus. No. one was able the religious regulations. And that to re-enter the building until fire-unti chis objective. is aftained nen arrived equipped with gus church services will not masks. The fumes even spread sumed, says Reuter's Mexico City into the streets, where they caused correspondent. This statement much inconvenience to passers-
goes on to say that Catholics by.
Germany long endured Bismarck's To-morrow is the 15th anniver
Ayrännlend faws, but finally recover- sury of the declaration of China ps“ The ushering of Norsemen in ed the Mberty, while the lyon Republic. This followed, of Camrose. 'Alberta, enrly in July, Chancellor saw "his efforts dis-
the Revolution in 191, course.
was the Hurgest gathering of Norse-credited, and died abandoned in his! when the Manchus were overthrown man ever held in Canada. In castle. The Episcopate sees no! and the new form of Government attendance at the gathering swere hope of any improvement in the set up. There is no Chinese Con- representatives, from H.M. King situation, because the Government sul in Hong Kong for, various rea- Haaken, the Norwegian Govern- on is part declares its intention tol sous, one of which is Hong Kong's "munt, and the International Norse" maintain "Arm attitude in seeing proximity to China Schools, men's association. There were also that the regulations are carried labour unions and other organisa- representatives of the Church. out. According to dispatches 200 tions will observe the day. Monday Union in the United States, the teachers in public schools ELD 1 bank holiday and a dew places Norwegian-American Press and' Guadelujarn have been dismissed by e taking a holiday on Tuesday to ether Norae organisations. The the school authorities because they "make up." Celebrations will be aím und object of the Norse Asso, restricted to the display of flags etation of Canada is to endeavour but there will be no function, on to remind its members of their any large scale;
heritage as Norsemen.
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refused to reply to the Government circular requesting them to dafne their attitude to the Government's religious policy.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Mr. Wilden, the French Minister to Sium, has been laid up for some ifteen days with a severe attuck of dysentery. He is now improving.
Mr. J. S. Gillingham, M.IN.A., M.B.E., member of the Royal Corps of, Naval Constructors, will read a paper on "The Ship, a Brief His tory" at the Engineers' Institute at 6 pm. on October 22.
Lady
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left her residence in Portland Place, London, for the Argentine She
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The Duke of York, accompanied by the Duchess, will lay the founda- tion stone 01 East Ham's war memorial hospital on October 23.
Mr. B. Crompton, Wood, Unionist M.P. for Bridgwater, who was in- jured in a hunting accident, will retire at the end of this Parliament.
Signor Mussolini has declined the offer of the Castle of Rocea Caminate, in Romagna, which was made to him by a committee of the people of that district.
is keenly interested in this part-! Winnipeg. The Bishop of Lon- cular South American Republic, and don before leaving Canada will. was the promoter of an "Argentinear and nine days in British Colum- Circle" some years ago in her Lon- bia, visiting the diocese there as don club, the Lyceum
chairman of the British Columbia Aid Association, which sent out £250,000 during the last 20 years Madame Wu Ting-fang, who is to for tho establishment of the Church open the To Taut Church this after-of England in the province. Dr. noon, is leaving for Shanghai, to-Ingram will also spend a week in morrow by the "President Wilson." Winnipeg, where he will interest She is the widow of the Foreign | himself in the work of the Church Minister at Peking and at Canton of England Settlement Board. till his death in 1922. Madame Wa
is travelling incognito as Mru. Ng Yee Shi. (Note: The surname Ng" in Cantonese is pronounced "W" In Mandarin).
Lady Clementi opened, at the Chinese Young Men's Society pre- mizes in Caine Road yesterday, the bazaar of the Sisters of the Con- vont of the.Precious Blood. Mrs, Kolewall presided and. Lady Clementi was welcomed by the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall who referred to the Interest taken by Lady Clementi in supporting werk for the poor and helpless. The bazaar continues this afternoon' and· ·- to- morrow.
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CUSTOMS WEDDING.
Professor W. J. Walker, Ph.D., D.Sc., a native of Dundee, Scotland, who has been appointed to the De Beers professorship of engineering: at the Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg," Arrived at the University on August · 11. Prof Walker was lecturer in mechanical engineering at the Manchester Cbl- lege of Technology in 1914, and during 1916-1919 he was technical officer attached to the Royal Air Force in the aero-engine design' section. From 1920 to the time of Photo by King Ming. | his appointment to his new position in the Transvaal he was senior lod- turer in engineering at the Dundee University.
Mr. P. J. Austin (of the Chinese Maritime Customs) and his bride, Miss. Winifred Suckling, after their wedding at St. John's Cathedral, last Saturday,
Among the passengers arriving from Manila by the s.s. "President) Wilson" yesterday were Mr. H. C. Anderson, Mr. W. 3. Fiekes, for Hong Kong; and Capt. H R Standiford. US.N., for San Fran cisco
Invitations have been issued in connection with
the annual Armistice Day, Dinner to be held by the Ex-Active Service Men's Association at Volunteer Head- quarters on Thursday, November: 11th at 8 p.m.
The Kowloon Chess Club re- sumes activities next Friday. when the annual meeting will be held at the premises of the Central British School at 5.30 p.m. The committee hope that there will be a good attendance at this meeting.
The second daughter of the late Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, and sister of the present. Peer, has celebrated her silver wedding on- niversary. Lady Victoria Innes Ker was wedded to Captain Charles Hyde Villiers, Royal Horse Guards, in St. George's, Hanover Square, in August 1901. It has proved a happy union. The elder sister of Lady Victoria Villiers, Lady Margaret Orr-Ewing, was widowed Badly early and is a grandmother. At one time a great favourite in society, she gave most of it up when she joined the Roman Catholic Church, and began to devote her! life to good works.
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Mail week brought a fifty-first. birthday to Colonel John Buchan, whose Stevensonian romances, "Prester John," "Greemantle." and "The Thirty-Nine Steps," which appeared serially in many; publications, have deservedly won great popularity. During the war Colonel Buchan, after service at the front; made himsplf invaluable as head of the Information Depart- ment of the Foreign Office, and has since written one of the fullest and most authoritative. histories of the great struggle, Incidentally he is an active partner in a great Scot- tish publishing house. Ho is also an honoured elder of St. Columba's (Church of Scotland), Fout Street, Belgravia, S.W. His sister is also a novelist of distinction, author of "The Setons" and "Penty Plain," among other books,
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