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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
The realdance of Mr. and Mrs. R. Black, in Kobe, was razed by tre on November 1.
The next half-yearly meeting of the Hong Kong Jockey Club will. The held in the Hong Kong Club annage on November 18 at 12.30
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A Japanese gentleman aged 38 has entered for the "Tingtin The Colony had a clean bill of Times" Walking Race. health for the week-end. During
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the 48 hours ended on Sunday, re Mure than 1,000 boxes of am- case T notiitable"disease was raition were brought to Shong
hai from Hungchow on November 7 and sent to Nanking.
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A Southern ofleer entered n Hankew foreign business house. quite recently, to ug his personal account. The perplexed forolgner i was asked to accept rent receipts' etend of the usant dollar notes and collget the amount from Chi- Bese householdera. "
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About 8,000 houses outside Nanchang city have been denioleh- od by the Northern troops, The loss is estimated to be a sum over $3,000,000:
The American Floating College, a. "Ryndum loft Yokohama for Kabe, on November 7, and some students, desirous of enjoying the beautiful sights on Mt. Fast, lefs by Handl
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Will members of the Hafena Institute are reminded that the May Institute please note that bookings for the Musicals close t
Lecture on "Wireless Telegraphy noqn on November 13-Advt... and Tolophany by Caßtain Milesi
will be given on Wednesday, Decent- Word has come to the Tsingtaober 15 at 5.30 p.m.-Advt. Postul authorities, stating that FL number of counterfeit stamps have appeared, 3 cent stamps most of all
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The date of commencement of the Dennison art classes at Messrs, Der A. Wing & Co. (1923), Lid., No: 60. Des Vœux Road Central (Exed for No. 15 has been pest.
"The Burlington Arcade was sold by auction in Londen on Octo- ber 27 for £330,000: The Bart of Rosebery has followed the example of other large land owners by turn- ing His estates into an unlimited company, with a capital of £862,000, [ The Directors are ord Rosebery poned. and Lord Dalmeny."
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Chao, a Chinese of Mukden is. planning to edit a Japanese daily under the style of the "Man-Mo Nippc" ("Manchuria and Mongela Gazette") and has applied to the Mukden police for permission. will be the first vernacular to be published under Chinese manage-[ ment in Manchuria..
Recently two: Japanese per sonated detectives of the Japanese
have robbed a Japanese seaman ni
The Yellow Dingen for Oclu Freshly-gathered English strawber has been published, giving allt berries and plums grow in the the news of Queen's College, with open-air were reaching Covet some excellent contributions. Consular police and are alleged Garden Market in mail week, the strawberries from Hampshire and Somerset. and Victoria plums from Cambridgeshire. In each case the Fruit is second-crop, resulting, from the continuance of mild weather!
cluding a further chapter on the birds of Hong Kong over the well- known initials "A.HC."
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1926.
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The authorities arrested them at a boarding house on Minghong Reada "On November 7 the Soviet Con-Shanghai One was K. Hanada. sulate in Shanghai was decorated by farmer musician of the Cafe Bhe day and illuminated by wight on bird or North Szechuan. Read, whilst the occasion of the anniversary of the other was K. Susada, ex-seaminn. the Russian Revolution and the They are to face a serious charge, establishment of the Soviet Govern the hearing of which will be heard shortly at the Japanese Consulur Court
Observing that he had granted a re-hearing with the utmost reluct anci, Mr. J. H. B. Nihill sitting at the Kowloon Magistracy on Satür-eient. day morning. again dismissed the case in which the proprietor of a druggist shop was charged with selling adulterated mustarri The vane for the Crown was in the hand of Mr. T S. Whyte-Smith, whist Mr. Leo d'Almadu. defended the acgused
-Owing jo failure of appearunce at the British Supreme Court, Shanghai on November 8. before? Clad only in a nightshirt, and Judge Puter Gyaint the case with his fees terribly cut and blie- Aubrey Walker, who claimed from,tured,, a' man was found wandering D. T. Murray T. 70 for rent of aimlessly in Uxbridge High Street garage, room and cash advancos, as in the small hours on October 12. well as insurance, was struck of the list.
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constable met him, and as hep could kes no response to the ques tions he put. He took the man te the police-station, where it becan apparent that he had been sleep- notes amounting to walking. He had actually covered the southern island of Japan, pro- $c00.000. The notes are not new, ja distance of seven miles; from his during a period from the it is said. But Honan Provincial home in Chalfont Backingham- beginning of January to the end bank notes with the seal of the tivi Eshire. Henid that he had no re- of Otober, of the present year, governor on the back. Merchants collection of leaving his home, and was $8. The local authorities are are making known their lack of that he knew nothing until he found He now devising meant to put an end faith in the notes by hiding away kmself in the police-station.
kuch crimes by placiais a wire- their goods, it is reported. Little was wrapped in blankets and taken
ean be found in the shops.
to his home, netting around the criter.
Acerriling to Press reports, the number of people who committed suicide by throwing themselves People and merchants of Honan into the crater of Aso Volcano of ore protesting at the Hoating of Kyushu.military Kumamoto Prefecture,
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Captain M. Haworth-Booth, Royal Marines will assume duties as Staff OfBeer (Intelligence) Colombo, on November 24.
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The King has granted Lord Lee of Fareham a 1350 lease of White Lodge, Richmond Park.
Mr. S. Hamer of the Public Works The Hon. Mr. E. C. H, Wolff, Department and Mrs. Hämer will British Resident,.. Negri Sembilan.be soon returning from Home leave, and Mrs. Wolff, arrived in Colombo They left London by the P. & O. on October 27 by the F. and O. "Khiva" on October 16.
Moren" on their way Home on furlough.
Mrs. L. C. Parker Rees (wife of the Superintendent of Crown Lands in the Public Works Department). will be back again in the Colony shortly, as she sailed from London or the "Khiva" on October 16.
Mr. Tom Wright, well known in Hong Kong as "Adversarius," has left England to spend the winter at Teneriffe, where he is thinking of settling down permanently.
Prince Georgy left.Shanghui for England on the "Empress of Russin". yesterday morning, according to m Reuter cable rom the North,"
The death occurred recently at the General Hospital, Colombo, off Mr. W. Danial, late of the Survey Department, He leaves besides other relatives, a widow and twoļ
Arthur brothers, Messrs.”
and Sydney Daniel.
Raghvendra Rao, the leader of the Central Provinces. Independent, Con- gress Party Nagpur, with the res- in-ponsive co-operation cread, has been. elected unopposed to the Provincial Council. Consequently it is be- Hieved that the formation of a Ministry and the working of the re- forms in the province are more hopeful for the next three years.
Owing to a slight attack of fluenza Mr. V Rupehand, of "The Pioneer Silk Store," has had to re- main indoors for a few days. Ho will most probably be out to-day.
The statement that Lord Linlithgow had been offered the Chairmanship of the Conservative. The many friends. of Mrs. Good Party was denied on October 27 by win will be pleased to hear that His Lordship. who said that the she has made a good recovery" statement was unauthorised and in-from her operation which took place on the 5th and hopes to be out of hospital before long.
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A ceremony to celebrate the con- elusion of important repairs to the
Among the passengers due to tower of Strasbourg Cathedral took
arrive in Hong Kong by the place on October in the presence"Khiva" (left London October 16) of the Bishop' of Strasbourg, the are. Major-General and Mrs. R. Mayor, and M. Paul Léon, Director Wanless-O'Gowan, Miss. E. Ander- of the State Department of Fine
son, Captain L W. Braithwaite, Arts. Next day Mgr. Ruch, the Engineer Captain E. E. Bartlett, Bishop of Strasbourg, opened the R.N., Comdr. G. C. Cocke, Comdr. splendid main door of the Cathe-C H. Heath Caldwell and P. O. dral, which had been closed for Davenport, R.A.F. many years owing to the repairs.
The marriage was solemnized at! St. Andrew's Scots Kirk, "Colpetty, i on October 30 of Mr. W. D. Godsall, of the Ceylon Civil Service, to Miss Anne Jane (Sheenu), MacDonald The bride was attended by Misu Marjorie Tatham as bridesmaid while the bridegroom had Mr. H. C Rowbottom as best man. The bride was given away by Mr. T. H Tatham, who also signed' 'the' gister, the other attesting witness helig Mr. H. C. Rowbottom... Mrs. T. H. Tutham was the hostess 'nt the reception held at "Mackinnon House."
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Mr. W. Miles Lampson, C.M.G.. newly appointed British Minister to Chind, is due to arrive in Shang- hal to take up his new appointment In Peking about the end of this month. The Commissioner of For- eign Affairs, Mr. Hsu Yuan, has been instructed to make arrange ments för Mr. Lampson's welcome, entertainment "and" protection whilst the managing director of the Shanghal railways, Mr. G. P. Yin,
has received orders from the Min leter of Communications, to prepare Pespecial train to convey the new Minister from Shanghal to Nanking.)
Amsterdam, November 14-The
Venezuelan Minister walted on
Her Majesty and handed her the insignia of the Order of the Liberator Renters
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H.D. the Governor Wad an in- terested spectator at the morning'z play on Saturday in the Interport cricket match between Hong Kong and Shanghai on the H.K.C.C. round. In the special stand erect- ed for the Government House party also sat Lady Clementi, who follow- ed the finer points of the game with interest. His Excellency was noted heartily to appland a smart bit of felding by Captain E.. I.. M. Barrett, the Shanghai skipper; who is Commissioner of Municipal Police in the Northern port.
The Colonial Secretary (the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn), «ând Mrs. Southern paid a visit on Saturday afternoon to the Interport erleket) match on the H.K.C.C.; ground, Accompanied by Mr. G. R. Sayer (of) the Civil Service) and Mrs. Suyer,} the visitors sat in the Governor's stand' while Shanghai were batting. Mr. Sayer, of course, is an Inter part cricketer himself, having enp tained a Hong Kong XI in Shang- hal. For years he was 'n leading batsman, the best cover-point and a fine slow bowlor. This year, he was unfortunately kept out of the trials through ill health,
Rugby, November 14-A British wireless message to-day states that Sir Austen Chamberlain, the For- eign Secretary, who is Member". f Parliament for. West Birmingham, will next Tuesday receive the can Eratulations of ite electors on the occasion" of completing Afty "con- tinuous years of political associa tion of his family with Birmingham, His famous father, Joseph Chara-
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