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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Lighting-up time to-day is at 5.55 p.m.
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Rice prices in Shangha, on October 9 wore unchanged from re- sunt high levels. being quoted at German missionary has $17.40 to $10 per picul, the latter, beon murdered near Omsk price being the maximum under the Siberia by Bathonlan Conimanists official price restrictions recently according to a report to the Gustafintroduced. Adolf Society;
Something new in Chinoso bar ber shop annquncements. The fol lowing notice is displayed at a barber shop in Avenue Edward VII.. Shanghai: "Hairdressing 50 cents: Face shaving 40 centa: Lady, drena- ing 60 cents." No rush has been reported for the last item.
A new tax came into force at Mr. F.-H. Loseby, a new soli-Tangtao on October 6. namely, a
Thirty-seven Chinese mili eltor. was admitted to practice minimum charge of $50 on all
motor cars landed at Taingtao,tary officers belonging to Marshal Yesterday by the Chief Justice, or
Chang Tso-lin's army. headed by Summer visitors will not be so Colonel Lo: Yun-kuei, a staff officer the application of the Attorney
rendy to take cars from Shanghal and concurrently Chief Military Genari,
Mr. Louby is joining
for a couple of months stay if they Instructor, arrived in Tokyo on Messrs. Lee and Russ..
are taxed to this extent.
October 8 in order to enter various military colleges in Japan.
A new feature. in local aqua- tics-the swimming race across the harbour is to be introduced by the Army sports authorities to morrow, the course being from the, Kowloon wharf to the R.AS.C. camber.
Nos. 14c.. d. and ... Robinson road were sold yesterday Mesara. Lammert's Auction Rooms, the price in, each case being $1,200, a rise of $200 on opening be Mr. Fung Woin bought Nos é and e. and Mr. Man Poo No. 8.
Poking. Oct. ab-In view of the fact that almost all the Branch offices of the Russo-Asiatic Bank in A public telephone service China are located in foreign cone
has been introduced at Kungyick cessions, the Waichihopu, fearing in the Sunning district) the ex- that books and documents of the change at Kongmoon being con- Bank might be lost or destroyed,nected to the Sunning Railway yesterday naked the Diplomatic wires. -For each message to or Corps to keep watch over those from Kungyiek a charge of 30 branches.--Toho,
cents is made-Our own corres-i pondent.
-The King's Own "Scottish Borderers arrived on Friday by the
"Neurs fa and as the Bast Surreys will not be leaving till the following Wednesday a few aport
It is and that the" cost of re- pairs at Port Arthur to the Chin-1 ese warship Halchi will amount to Berlin, September 30-The $120,000 and that she will be com Governor of the Italian colony Epleted on October 24, and that then "Haichen" and Erythren on the Red Sen bas eor the warships cluded a treaty with the Imam of "Chungho" will ulo, proceed thereing evt. between the two Reg Yemen giving italy important for repair. the cost of repair to the cessions in return for economic alformer, being estimated at $20,000, and the supply of certain material.and the later $80,000.
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The Sin Min Yi Pao. an official organ of the Chinese Association
mette have been arranged. A foot a match is fixed for 'Saturday and a boxing tournament on Mon- Jay evening.
The Hong Kong & Canton lee Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is to h
Moscow. September 22--The the 6th annual meeting (at the town oflee No. 2, Lower Albert for Maas Education in Peking Electrotechnical Trust has decided Road) at 12 noon on November reappeared on the National Anni-te introduce "Fordisation" of pro- The duction. It means highest speciali 2. The transfer books will oversary day, (October 10.).
editor-in-chief is Mr. Chang Yao-isation and division of labour and it closed-fr a to-day to November
jen. This paper has been suspend quicker process of production inclusive."
et more than a year. It adopts expected that all factories of the A report from the "China the simple style vernacular lan-lectrotechnical Trust will yiehi Mail correspondent at Pakkai guage in its columns, as the Asso-goods for (received by mail) confirms theciation for Mass Education désires against 27 million roubles during Naval intelligence that all strike to employ the thousand characters, lust year.
which are taught in mass education pickets at the port of Kongmoon choo, in the newspaper to spread withdrew on October 10. The
itsmass education programme. merchants there were looking for- ward to the trip, from Hong Kong, of the s.a. "San Nam Hoi.”: ..
36 miliem. Foubles s
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Nine recruiting offices opened by General Sun Chuan-fang, in Shanghai, were closed on October The offices were opened at tea- shops, hotels, and in huts vacant ground and resulted in getting about 100 recruitadaily since October 1, when they were first opened.. Seventy recruitsi obtained in Nantao were sent to Nanking on October 8. Another 40 obtained in Chapei were also despatched northward. One hum. dred men from Taichow, in Che- kiang, passed through Shanghai to Nanking, while a small party of men who received training in Nanking returned to Shanghai on and were sent to Woo- October sung Forts.g
A Cantonese, victory in China. was predicted by Ambassador L. M. Seerabaya, Dutch Indies, Octo. Karakhan when interviewed in ber 5-Five Europeans and six in Vladivostock, China will eventually tives were killed here to-day in a be free from both the militarists homb explusion: The barbe was and from unequal foreign treaties, Thurled at a government official as M. Karakhan declared. indicating he was riding in a procession given that "the present period of internal ir honour of a national holiday, militaristic domination and external The bomb fell short and the off- oppression by foreign Powers must cial was not injured but the ex- "be considered only as a transient plesion came in the centre of a phase." M. Karakhan said that the crowd of persons densely packel treaty between Soviet Russia and together watching the parade. Twa Chine had set an example of an hundred policemen took up the pur- equal treaty, along the fines of suit of the bomb thrower but he which future foreign treaties with managed to escape in the densely Ching must follow.
·SOCIAL
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Sutherland are returning to the Colony in the early part of December.
Mrs. Fredericks, of Glenealy Hotel, left for Shanghai and Japan to-day on a short holiday..
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AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Miss Mattie Mögabgab, who Mr. F.. H. Holdman, of the oral has been, in Kuling for the past l'ost Office, is returning after fur- month, returned to Shanghai onough together with Mrs. Holdman October 9.
early next month. They left L don on the 8.8. "Delta" on October
Mrs. Frank P. Lockhart, wife of the American Consul-General at Hankow, left Shanghai for Harbin, Oct. 5.Mr. Cheruniff, Hankow on October 8 accompanied who recently was appointed as So-by her sou and daughter. viet Acting Ambassador to Peking, arrived here this morning en route to his new post...
Miss Mable McNeill, of "Min neapolis," "Minnesota," has arrived in Shanghai for a visit of several months' duration to her brother-in- law and sister, Mr. and Mrs Arthur P. Henningsen..
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Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, CIE., Deputy Superintendent of Police, is due back from. furlough shortly.
He is travelling by the 9.5. Malwa" which leavea London, on November 12.
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Mrs. E. B. Gregory, the wife of Mr. Gregory of the British Cigar- ette Company, is expected to re- turn to Shanghai on October 23 from a visit to her home in. America."
The engagement is announced! between Herbert John Weeton Peck, eldest son of the late Captain Herbert W. Peck, Sarawak Service, and Joan Tasker Evans, second' daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Evans, of Fair Eima, Pinner.
A marriage has been arranged and will take place in Colombo, in February, 1927, between Arthur, only son of Mr. and Mrs. F. L Mr. W. Willshire, for many Clark, of Lancing, Sussex, England. years "aseociated with the Hong. and Maev, younger daughter of the Kong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., late Rev. H. McVittie Taylor, of and until recently manager of the Dublin, and of Mrs. Patrick Palace Hotel, Shanghai, is a through passenger to Bombay, where he is to take over the man- ngement of an important group of| hotels.
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Governor-General Leonard Woad Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, Depiity returned to Malacanan Palace from Superintendent of Police, who has Sternberg Hospital on the 14th
instant. Her has been in the hor been on. "Home" leave for some pital for several weeks after under months past, is due to return Hong Kong by the P & O. ad going serious operation. The Malwa," which sails frora London operation was completely success- on November 12. Also a passen ful, and the Governor-General's ger on the same steamer is Mrs. health improved rapidly. A. O. Lang.
The forthcoming wedding la an- nounced ofi John Francis Shirley, Chief Electrical Artificer,
To-morrow H.E. the Governor and Lady Clementi will be At Home at Government House to a representative gathering of the East Surrey Begiment when it is anticipated that nearly 800 will be present (including the wives and Mr. Allan Cameron, Orient
families of N.C.D.'s and men). Manager for the Canadian Pacific They will be entertained to tes Railway Company and the Canaand there will also be dancing, dian Pacific Steamships Company, Lady Clementi having arranged will return to Hong Kong by the for lady partnera. A play by of the H.M.S; "Hermes," to R.M.S. "Empress of Canada" focal amateura will be given in the Gertrude Ellen Davis. of The Mount, the Peak; Carl Peder Cameron has been away from Hong Nissen, merchant of Shameen, to kong for the past few months on grounds and musical items in the
a business trip to the head office of ball room. Arla Kristiane Petronella Poulsen the Company in Canada. During (nee Jensen), widow, of Copenhais absence Mr. P. A. Cox, asuist- 'gen.
ant Oriental Manager, Shanghai, has been in charge, and he will now *After 25 years of continuous serbe returning to Shanghai.. vice in the Chinese Customs, fx. KLASEAN
Calcutta accorded a most cordial. welcome to India's distinguished visitors from overseas when they arrived at Howard on September. 27. The South African Deputa-
C. W. Cunningham left Shanghai Word has been received in tlon was received on the platform on the 12th instant, on wall earn- Mantia of the death on September by the Mayor and Corporation, the ed Home leave, accompanied by his 5 of John Rex Thompson of Seattle Sheriff of Calcutta, Mr. Lindsay, eldest son and daughter, and ex-well known in Manila as a shriner representing the Government of pects to be absent for seven who has made three pilgrimages to Bengal Bir Devaprasad Barvachi months, Mr. Cunningham, who the Oriant with Nile Temple. As kary, a member of the recant has been in charge of the Dynamite Mason, Mr. Thompson held prac Government of India Deputation to -Magazine for over 19 years, will tically every office in Nile Temple South Africa, and representatives Bodles Sir Hugh. tait the explosives factories of He was its director for seven years
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