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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
The Chinese Maritime Customs The market hitherto kopt open staff at Pakkai has been reinforced in the matshed or markat-building by the addition of five Chinese at Panya Bast in biosed.
idewaiters transferred from Shany- hal-Cur own correspondent..
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It is proclaimed by order of His Excellency the Govarner r Mr. T. A. Hodson, C.C.S.. has
Connell that Bourabaya is a place arrived at Kurnegalle to take up
4 which an infectious Fduties
or con- Government Agent N-W.P. in place of Mr. M. Werious disease prevails. Codrington who goes on leave.
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It Is notified that Memorinis Sub.-Lieut. E. W. Howard of Re-entry by the Crown en Rural Crockett has been appointed to Building Lot' No. 235, New Kowloon H.MS. "Despatch."additional, and Dairy Farm Lot No. 1, and Kow- Sab-Lleut, C. H. de B. Newby, taloon Insland Lot No. 1732 have been FEMS. Vindictive" from Novem rogistered according to law. hur 2.
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A successful dance was hald at the King Edward's Hotel last night by the ship's company of HM.S.. "Hermes." The "Semrch" band provided the music,
The Japanese Finance Office" is stated to have struck out the Foreign Office estimate to es,; tablish a legation in Teheran In 1926..
The Dutch East Indies Mancum of the Mining Department, which was to be founded at Bandoeng, willi not be built. The expenses werej ¦to exceed Gida, 900,000.
The Kamunting Tin Company, It is notified that His Excel-of Singapore, has placed an order M. Tchicherin and Rushdiency the Governor in Council has with the General Electric Company Bey have signed a treaty of given directions for the rescission for generating plant in the power alliance at Odessa with the of the Order of July 26, proclaiming house, and also for the electrical| object of concluding a pact-be- Shanghai to be-n place at which equipment for a mining dredgén tween the nations of the East. infections or contagious disente The support of Persia is uncer prevailed, and the same is hereby A snake about 8 feet long tain...
reschided.
was killed by Sorgeant Raich, on the Taipo Road on Thursday "To-morrow, af 9. atm., itia Lord-afternoon. The snake was later Mgr. H. Waltorta will given to a lükong, who, it was solomaly open the new Cathole said, will use is to make certain Att brands of Chinese "modicine." Chapel at Tai Po (N. T.). friends and benefactors will be Sergeant Raich used a stick to welcomed.. The 8.30 a.m. express, despatch, the reptile. Train from Kowloon with stop at
For resisting to permit a lakong to search Him, a Chinese was fined $10 at the Central Mngis tracy yesterday, The defendant pleaded that the complainant was in plain clothes and did not reveat his identity.
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A sentence of seven days hardTai Po Market. labeur was imposed on a Chinese by Major C. Wson as the Central Magistracy yesterday when the de- fendant was charged with stealing a pair of trousers which he was in the act of pawning when he was Arrested
It is notified that the names of the Andrew Forbes & Company, Limited, the China Metals & Weld ing Company, Limited, the United Asiatic Corapany, Limited, the Hing Leong Oil Manufacturing Company, Limited and the Hirano Mineral Water Company, Limited, have been truck off the Register of Com-
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There has been an alarming i increase in the cases of malaria in the whole city of Bombay. A warning has been issued to troops stationed there to take adequate protection against the disease. Although the resumption of the Back Bay reclamation work is denied as the causé, an expert committee has been appointed to go into the matter.
President Machade of Caba in n Armistice Day address declared that it the co-operation of the Con-pantes.
There was a Radio programme Fresg were not forthcoming be
"Notice is given that the Gov. for America's Navy Day, on October ideals of those who died for Cuban freedom might be lost, and internor proposes to make an order 27, "blanketing the entire country." mased that he was ready to declare under the Streets. (Alteration) from Portland, Me... to San Diego to Miami Fin a dictatorship, if necessary.
Ordinance, 1923, for closing the land from Seattle extreme southern end of North The main progranime went out from Street. Any person objecting to Washington through 25 stations, the proposed, order must send his reaching as far west us St. Louia objection in writing to the Colon-and Minneapolis. The relationshi
than between the merchant marine and Hial Secretary not later
national defence was the tople to December 11.
which all of the addresses for Navy Bay were set.
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The importance of trade Pakkaj the port of Kongmoon is emphasised by the appointment. Ey Canton of the head of the Special Taxes Burend there. He is M Ying S. Ng. who has a Master of Arts degrve. and speaks English and French very fuently-Our own
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It is announced that General Bramwell Booth, the Head of the Salvation Army, who is making According to the Palestine a world tour of inspection of the Zionist executive treasury report Army's work, will arrive in the nearly $865,000 was spent by the! By way of protest against the Colony by the P. & 0.. s.s. Zionist organisation in Palestine action of the Governor General "Duvanha" on Tuesday morning. out of Keren Hayesod funds abolishing the Board of Centrul of The General, who will leave for account of the agricultural colon- the Philippine national enterprise India on Wednesday evening, has, isation budget during the first? the Speaker of the House of Repre promised to address a publie meet-eight months of the present year! sentatives and the President of the fing at the City Hall at 5.30 on During one month, May, about Sonnde have announced the inten-that afternoon. The meeting will $55,000 was spent on houses. || tion of the Legislature to go vir n be open to the public and it is stables and barracks, cattle
the inen-co-operative strike and to re- hoped that there will be a large implements in
use to hold sessiona in future. attendance,
agricultural holdings.
SOCIAL
M. Jean Perrin, a Professor at the Sorbonne, has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.
AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Mr. Lister Henry and Mr. Kerby Clough, prominent Kobe merchants, are visiting Shanghai.
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Mr. C. Cox of the P, and O. Bank has returned to Singapore from leave ja England.
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M. Jean Millet, the French Inspector G. Greenslade has News has been received: from Danube Commissionery was arrived in Tientsin from Shang-Fremantle, Western Australia, drowned on November 8 in the hai to join the British Municipal the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Danube while inspecting. French Police staff.
W. C. McCall: Mr. McCall was ships.
manager of Werne Bros... Penang branch, and has now returned from leave as manager of Wearne Bros.. in Singapore.
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Mr. E. Nordstrom, District De Mr. Jas Chung-pyn has been apputy Postal Commissioner for ointed to be a "Forest Officer" for Chihli, has been appointed acting the control and superintendence of Commissioner for, Shansi, and will the forests of the Colony, with effect proceed to Taiyuanfu shortly. He from Novembar 15, in succession to will be succeeded by Mr. R. M. Mr. Leung Kim-chan, resigned.
Caudron, District Accountant. whose place will be filled by Mr. L. D. Murray:
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The forthcoming wedding is an- nounced of William Wallam Ma, merchant of No: 3 Kennedy On October 29 Madame Welling- Road', to Ruby Hon. Yan. ton, Koo arrived in Harbin and was student, of Kan Koo, Terrace, Wan- met at the railway station. by the chai.
whole of the Chinese officials, and on the same evening a special di ner was given in her honour at the Moderne Hotel. On October 30 she left by the Siberian express for Paris and London.
Dr. V. K. Ting, mayor of Shanghai, returned to Shanghai ion Noyember 11, but left shortly afterward for Nanking. Mr. Sun Sih-jen, Marshal Sun Chuan- fang's local agent, also returned to Shanghai.
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Miss. Irma Duncan and her troupe of young pupils from the Isidore Dancun School of Dancing in Moscow scored & great triumph ini Harbin, every performance being crowded to the doors. The 3fth performance was "sold out" a quar-i ter of an hour before the curtain: rose, They propose to pay visits to Tientsin, Peking, and Shanghai.
At the annual meeting of the Singapore St. Patrick's Society Mr. Denis Santry, who is at present on leave, was unanimously re-elected President. Dr. Hoops was re-elect- ined Vice-President. Mr. M. Wardell was elected honorary treasurer in place of Mr. L. P. Hickey, who is geing on leave early next year, and Mr. G. Cullen was re-elected honor-
ry secretary
A garden party was "given Tokyo by Foreign Minister Baron Shideharn on November, 8 at the Judge Adolph Wislizenus of the roxidence of Baron Iwasaki which Court of Brat instance of Cebu died was attrided by 800 guests, includ on the 12th intant, after a longing Promier Wakatsuki, savants iness. There were Protestant who are attending the Pan-Pacife rites at the house of the deceased Science Congress, and foreign dele- before interment and Catholic.cefc-gatea to the general meeting of the monies at the cemetery..
Red Cross. Society."
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Reference to the departure from the Colony of the Hon. Mr. Dj Beatty was made at the annual meeting of the Singapore St. Friends in Hong Kong of Mr. The Fanshan Lama is being urgoi | Patrick's Society, and it was unant Donald W. Leach, the Shanghai In-to return to Tibet to take up mously agreed that Dr. Hoops torport cricketer
all-round domestic and diplomalle Affairs, by should write to Mr. Beatty express- of ability have presented him with a 10 representailves who arrived in fug regret at his departure, also ad: | wedding gift, Mr. H. R. B. Peking on Noyamber 8 from his miration for the able
manner int Hancock made the presentation native land. The group went to the which he has carried out his duties and Mr. Leach replied amidst capital vla' India, It is said that as Secretary for Chinese Affairs in laughter that married life had not the Buddhists called on the Pan- the Colony. improved his batting.
ahan Lama at Ying Tu shortly after, their arrival to make their
"On October 80 the Arst ball of According to a Router cable from appeal for hi
the season was given at the Rall- Stockholm, Mr: G. B. Shaw's letter
way Club, Harbin writes the accopting the honour of the Nobel Irineo San Jose, a colonel in the Shanghai Mercury's" correspo
this being in aid of the award but suggesting the accom army of the Philippine revolution. dent). panying money (46,500) be devoted and manager and proprietor of the Harbin Benevolent Society, and to the encouragement of Anglo-Philippine Employment, bureau on arranged by the wife of the C.E.R.. The Swedish Intercourse in art and Calle Escolta, Manila, was charged manager, Mrs. Emahanoff literature, is interpreted as toata in the court of first instance, with whole of Harbin, official, for mount to rejection of the whole having kissed and embraced Paz efgn, commercial, financial and
off in a
On December 1, 1925, the offended very lively munner. It is esti-
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