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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Lighting-up time to-day is at 5.56 p.m.
A large assortment of sundry goods and merchandise will be sold by Messrs. Lammert Bros. at their Duddell Street auction rooms at 11 a.m. on Saturday,
W members of the Helena: May Institute please note that the Musicale arranged for Thursday,
October 28, is unavoidably can-
celled.
Berlin, October 6-A large de- partmental store to cost ten million marks will be erected at Hermaa's Paris, October -In "Le Matin" Sqaase in Berlin. It will have aub to-day De Jouvenal says that Gerterranen communicablen with the
ubway. jmans must recognise the eastern boundries and renounce Austen German fusion If there is to be any working basis for a Franco-German reconciliation...
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Chefoe," October 'The Che foo-Weißsien Motor Road Company [has 'started construction of
long distance telephone from Che- The Fire Demonstration with too to Weihaion. It is expected the automatic dry carbonic acid that the line will be in use by the fire extinguisher "Total." which end of December. was postponed or account of wel weather, we take place to-day at 5.30 p.m.
at the Kowloon Fire. Brigade compound near Star Ferry wharf).
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On American, "threa French. and two British merchant vessels en the upper Yangtze were com-
mandeered by General Yang Sen recently for the transportation of armed troops from Wanhsien to Ichang. Yang Sen simply took the ships, placed his men (10,000 of them, says the report), brought them, to Ichang, and turn- ed the ships loose, states the: Hankow "Heraid."
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Tokyo, October 18-Barly this morning an unknown person at- tempted to set Are to a godown in the British Embassy compound. using osoaked "papers, but only the slightest damage was done and the Are was quickly discovered and Immediately put out. The police are now investigating. It is under. Berlin, October 6-The Ge-stood that a workman with a per-: Tran frm of Wolf is constructing sonal grudge is suspected to be
No significance gigantle aeroplane specially, de responsible. signed for the crossing of the attached to the incident. Atlantic. The aeroplane, is 146 Held annually, the 10th
metres long and is, driven by four athletic sports meeting of the motors, and capable of carrying Yaumati. Government (district) 100 passengers, having a restau School are to be held at 11.30 4.mant, salood and reading room. to-morrow, at the school ground, King's Park. Kowloon; and Mrs. A. O. Brawn (wife of the head. master) will distribute the prizes at 4.16 pm.
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Peking. Oes. 6-The closing of the Russo-Asiatic Bank has had serious repertussions in Manchuria, Recording to Mukden advices. It is said that many of the Individual Hanover, October 9. The depositors in the bank were Man- It is stated in Chinese the typhoid epi-churians. death to from demic tony recched 2001 The circles that Dr. Wang Chung-hui, pidemic started a month age when the Chinese Government liquidator The Board of the Hong Kong ment, brought from rural regions, of the bank's affairs, has been re and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd, have was contaminated with Lyphoit quented by Mr. Cheng Chien, of appointed M. Percy H. Suckling bacilli The only hopef feature Chang Tao-lin's start, to send, de- Indled reports to Mukden regarding General Manager of the Company of the tragic situation is that no
the proceedings handled by the liquidators in going through the in Hong Kong and Mr. R. Weed-ses of the disease have been re-
affairy of the bank. - ing Skinner. the Shanghal Man-pursed within the last 21 hours, ager, and Mr. V. W. G. Smith, the localSecretary, at Shanghai. The appointments take effect from inst Saturday.
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Last week there were only two cases of nouifiable disease re- ported. Both were of enteric ever, the patients being Chinese one was from the city and the from Shaukiwan
A paragraph in this page on October 2 referred to the appoint-ther
The leading article of the Osaka "Mainichi" on October 0, ensialed "The Degeneration of the Leading Classes" vilces & wide spread sentiment amongst the people Onaraipat statesmen, politicians, off- ment of Mr. Sun Ying-pu. as Monday four fresh cases were cials. high officers of the Army and Hulpan Associate Director) of notified (one British and threc Navy and readers in other walks of the "local Chinese Telegraph Chinese); three patients weretife. The paper gives recent in- that em- From Kowloon and one from the stances illustrating how they are Administration and
supposed to be losing the confidence ployees opposed the appointment city
of the masses by allegedly dis- by the Peking Ministry of Com- munications, saying that their There was no business of honourable, underhand and coward
The "Mainich points! wages were in arrears and that public interest at the meeting of y, acts. was useless to appoint a new man the Sanitary Board yesterday out the recent municipal assembly with a salary of $240 monthly. afternoon. The following mem-elections in Hokkaido and welcomes This was culled from a Northernbers were present-Mr. N. the rise of Labour as injecting a texchange. The word "local" Smith (President), Dr. W. V. M. pure: fresh spirit into the life of referred to should have been Koch, Dr. S. W. Tso. Dr. S. C. Ho, the nation, but expresses & fear "Peking." The wrong impression Mr. Wong
Mr.that the "degeneration" of the pre-i Kwong tin, created is regretted as the ei-R. A. D. Forrest (Secretary), and sent ruling classes will result in dent did not in any way concern Dr. A. G. M. Severn (Medical unbalancing the equilibrium of
society. the Hong Kong, office).
Officer of Health).
SOCIAL AND
PERSONAL NEWS.
Mr. D. M. Gubbay returned to | Mr. and Mrs. Carl Nahmmacher Shanghai on October 9, on the are leaving Shanghai by the "President Lincoln" after a holi-"President Lincoln" on October 28
for day in America.
a holiday of four or five months in the United States,
Among the passengers return- ing to the Colony by the R.M.S "Empress of Canada" yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Potter.
Mr. H. JSlater, R.A.P, who is serving on H.M.S. "Hermes," is a son of Mr. Slater, the Commis- gionaire of the Malay States Agency, Cannon Street.
Dr. Georg Strobbe, the newly appointed German Consul-General has arrived in Shanghai accom- panied by Mrs. Strobbe and his son. Dr. Strebbe and family are staying at the Aster House Hotel.
Mr. Kang Yu-wei called China's Modern Sage, returned to his home in Shanghai on October 9, after a trip to Dairen and South Manchuria, the Chinese news- papers report.
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Sir Henry Follock, who return ed to the Colony yesterday, will re- sume his seat on the Legislative Council which, during his absence has been occupied by Dr. W. V. M. who was elected to the Koch, position.
Mrs. Thomas G. McMartin and Dr. W. V. M. Koch and Mrs. Koch left for England to-day by her daughter, Jean, are leaving the Blue Funnel liner Patroclus." Shanghal on November 1 for a Travelling on the same liner are protracted stay in the United Dr. McMartin expects to Mrs. R. E. Greensmith, Mr. and States. Mrs. W. G. Adams and Miss join his wife and daughter early Adams and Mrs. E. G. Pallot and in the spring.
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Mr. C. W. Atkinson, General H.E. the General Officer Com-Manager of the Standard Oil Com- manding (Major-General C. C.pany, Mrs. Atkinson and Miss Luard, C.B, C.M.G.) is to inspect Virginia Atkinson, returned to the Mounted Infantry Company Shanghai on October' 9 on the of the Hong Kong Volunteer De- "President Wilson" from a holl fence Corps at the stables, day spent in the United States. Causeway Bay, at 5.30 p.m. to-
morrow'.
Mr. A B. Owens, of Du Pont de Nemours and Co. has returned to Shanghai from Tientsin," where he has been stationed for the past six months.
Mr. Ray Hill of the International Banking Corporation, who has been transferred from the Shanghai office to Hankow, left for Hankow on October 8.
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At St. Andrew's Church, Penang,, ON October 7, James Macintosh McBurnie, of Dumfries, was már- ried to Mary Lokerbie. "daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Lckerbie, of Limehurst, Dumfries. The bride who arrived by the "Mantua," was given away by the Hon. Mr. J. W. Kennedy. The reception was held at the E and Q.,,Hotel"
The Tientsin Musical Society is now busily rehearsing for the opera "Morrie England" by Basil Hood and E. German, which the Society intends to produce at the Empire Theatre on November 2, 4, and 6.
An ambitious effort is being made by the society to equal if not sur paas their previous productions, The Mikado" and "Yeoman of the
Guard."
Art collectors will be interested in the announcement that Dr, Anne Walter Fear has decided to disposel of her unusual collection of fron
pictures, dating from the Chien Lung period. The closing of her sanatorium and her home on Route
Among the passengers who left by the Admiral Oriental liner s.3. The forthcoming wedding is an-President McKinley yesterday nounced of Charles Wilkinson afternoon were: Mr. A. E. Ross, Pichon made this sacrifice neces
She selected these pictures Bewick, of Messrs. Lane, Craw- Manager of the China Soap Com-Bary ford Co., Ltd., to Lily May pany, Hong Kong, and Mrs. Ross, with care and they cover a pleasing
variety of subjects Grimes, of 128, Wongneichung for Shanghai, and Mr. S. Black, Road, also of Charles Percy Manager of the Great Northern Cave, assistant, A.P.C., Installa- Telegraph Company, Hong Kong, ton, Taikoktaui, to Ida Black- for Shanghai, more, widow, "of Sheffield, York- shire.
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Dr. and Mrs. Walter Bloem arrivad in Peking and are staying in the Hotel in Nord. Dr. Bloom To-morrow is the anniversary is a German novelist, and is making of the Battle of Trafalgar in a world tour to enrich his ex- Shanghai has said goodbye to which Lord Nelson met his death. perience. Dr. Bloem's visit to Mr. W. N. C. Allen, who, after 27 The Hong Kong Branch of the Peking is to study Chinese Society years in the Far East, sailed for Navy League is to hold a grand life on which he hopes some day During the Great Home to settle down there. Mr. concert at Queen's Theatre, when he will write. Allen arrived for the Bradford the famous film depicting the War Dr. Bloem was wounded four showed remarkable Dyers' Association and has been Zeebrugge of the Great. War will times, and With that fir uninterruptedly, be shown for the first time. For bravery. Aling the position of managing other particulars see news pages. agent during the past several
years.
Tokyo, October 11.-The 50th The Crown Prince Rupprecnt of anniversary memorial of the pub Eavaria, who has been vacationing lication of the first, Japanese Bible] Among the passengers who incohito in Rome, departed on will be held at the Okuma Hall arrived yesterday by the 8.8. October 6. to Bavaria. During his here on Friday. The occasion will "Empress of Canada" was Mr. visit, Prince Rupprecht, it has been also be taken for the exhibition of E. A. Childe. Mr. Childe was until declared, spanded the Italian Goy various remembrances of early his retirement a few years agperiment of its atlitude towards the gartyrdom in Japanese Christian. joint manager at the Head office eventual union of Bavaria and the History. In this connection, it is of the London Joint City and Tyrol under his rule Rupprecht stated that the number of Bibles Midland Bank (how the Midland das for yekre been playing with tubed the Bible Publishing The House of Yokohama dince 1878 has Bank). Hela on a visit to his son to German monarchy
Mr. B. R. Childe, of the China Italian Foreign Office refuse to already reáchal the figure of
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