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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
The last practico dance for St. Andrew's Bail was held last evening at the City Mall There was a kood" attendance.
Reminder: demonstration on radio by Mr. A. J. Chesterton and Mr. F. Taylor at 3.45 pm or Monday, at the Engineers' Institute.
Two drivers pf motor cars which knocked down and fatally' in jured two people were sentenced to a year's imprisonment each at the Singapore Assizes.
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A number of "Alled" army officers who were severely wounded In the fighting, around Kangal arrived in Shanghal on Nov. 21, They were removed to the Settle ment where they will undergo spe- einl treatment and operations wil he conducted.
On the ground that they eat ledted dust, which was very bad for the lungs of his staff. the Omelal Assignee, Mr. E. E.(Colman, made
Those who are attempting to further the citizen movement a Shanghal have coined a new word for it and are now referring to it as the "self-ge movement."
When a police sergeant" in H.M. Police Court, Shanghal," said that a certain man admitted having had a drink or two," the Registrar || rumavkad;---"It depends, of course!
on the length of them."
Wor
successful application in the Sin-
Three armed civilians gapore Bankruptuy Court for the arrested by the Chinese police on destruction of a number of docu-Chenju railway station, just out- monta relating to five bankrupteleside Shanghai, on Nov. 20" They one of which dated back to 1908.
are suspected of being Koumintang Mr. Colman stated that the files of agents. Originally there were four, the bankruptcles would be preserv- but the fourth succeeded in escup-
ing.
The teal change in FLS. postage, stamps is an issuer of the 4 cens in colour of yellow-brown, slightly darker than the 6" cent yellow. This displaces the current | ed trent ved
the in-
In the Kuala Lumpur Police
Preight service on the Shang- The results of the Victoria Court before the Second Magistrate hai-Manking railway has again Branch of the M.C.L. Raffles are: Rain Uda, the case war mentioned Dinner Service. Ticket No. 72 F. C. i which Mr. J. T. Newton, the been suspended owing so Habl Jewel, Casket, Ticket No. 11 cashier of Messrs. John and Co.,reased confiscation of goods wag. gens for the military for the con- Mrk, Carpenter. Haori Coat, Tie-Lid. Kuala Lumpur, is charged veyance of troops and equipment. ket No. 126 Holder unknown with the alleged defaleation of the
Most of these waggons were "enfled sum of $1,858,69 money's belonging into service to carry the tst Divi- please telephone 6,684-Adv b..
to the firm. Chief Court Inspector sien from Houchowft to Hangshow. Riley applied for a further post-vin Shanghai. by Singapore, the jury Enilexponement of & week, for further in- to agree in case in which a Boyantstructions from the Deputy Public egg was tharged with the murder Proseguler, The accused is on of another Boyanese, whom he was alleged to have killed in a fight with several ment The necused was ordered to be retried at the next Assizes,
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The Acting Resident of Bima Sumba Island has presented The Straits Settlements Asso- the Amsterdam Zoo with a speci- clation Committee has unanimously men of the huge monitor lizard of decided that, as the daylight saving Komodo, the "Varanus Komoden- oposal adversely affects the in-sis," over 9 ft. long. It is the Grat terests of some of the working por- living specimen. to reach Europe, The first Chinese girls to en-tion of the inhabitants, who begin though two other specimens were The gake in business as public mani-work at an early hour, daylight recently sent to New York.
American Burden expedition has curisty are working in the Chaplin saving should not be effected by restaurant, Shanghai. It is reported. legislative alteration of the cleck. not succeeded in capturing a living This is the frst manicuring par-
but the Committee, by a majority, lizard of the length of the speci our maintained and staffed by has expressed the opinion that men now in Amsterdam, which Chincuz it. is said. The manier mech could be done to improve the arrived on the ss. Karinata a ists are all under 30 years of age. editions of all elerien stats by special cabin heated with steam.
opening and closing offices earlier.
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A series of ancieho Chinese
It does not always pay to have something up one's sleeve, as an A Tokyo report, of November frescoes is being prepared for ex- ingenious Chinese found when he 10 says:-Mr. Ohtaguro, Chiefhibition at the British Museum came before the Mixed Court, Prosecutor of the Osaka District They have been-lent by Mr. George (Shanghai. He was. estopped on Court, called on Mr. Egh Justice Eumorfopoulos, the millionaire Erondwww the previous day by a Minister, and Mr. Hayashi, Vice-Greek Merchant, who owns the auspicious-minded constable who Justice Minister, at the Department finest collection of Orient pottery He com- speculated to some purpose on a of Justice, to-day and had a con- and china in the world. eentaies bulkiness of the defendant's ference with them for some hours missioned a young London bust- xleeve. On examination he drew about the charge of Berjury filed ness man to bring the frescoes from out a number of live chickens, by Mr. Minoura, a veteran states the interior of the province of The frescoes, which are The man's explanation that he put man. against Premier Wakatsuki Chih-1,
One them there to keep them warm was and others in connection with the priceless, are of great size. sardonically received by the Bench, Matsushima licensed quarters, re- is go big that it had to be divided. who rewarded the poor fellow's moval scandal. It is generally be into twelve parts before it could be kindness wish one month in Javed the case will be dropped. transported to England.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
The Rev. C. S. Norwood, curate of Holy Trinity. Barnes. is leaving England early next year for S. P. C. work in Bangkok.
The forthcoming wedding is an- nounced of William Y. C. Ham, No. 504, Nathan Road, to Edith Jen. No. 235,, Natha Road, Kowloon,"
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Baron Carl Fuchs,, official repre- sentative of the Skodaworks, the well-known Czecho-Slovakian steel manufacturers at Pilson, has ar rived in Japan to establish a branch for his firm in Osaka. The Skodaworks has furnished the Vickers-Maxim shipbuilding and other important companies with steel castings, etc.,
Mr. S. Ukifa, cx-Consul-Generat
Mr. C. D. Squires prominent for Japur to Singapore, has been appointed administrative officer of Manila sportsman and big game the Imperial Household Depart.hunter, is going on another expedi- tion into Indo-China. With his brother, Mr. R. W. Squires, and Mr.
ment.
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An "old Watsonian" dinner wasT. L. Wright, Both of Shanghai, 'Mr. held at the Hong Kong Ectel last Squires will start from Hue, the iso- night, in honour of Dr. John lated ancient capital of Arnam Alison, MA, LL.D., F.R.S... ing about January 1 for a four months" headmaster of George Watson's absence in the wilds. College. Edinburgh, who is on a tour of Watsonian Clubs,
The annual dinner of the Oxford and Cambridge Society of Hong Kong is to be held at the Hong Kong Hotel on Tuesday, Dec. 28, Members wishing to attend are re- quested to notify Mr. R. E. Lindsell Joint secretary), c/o The Magis- tracy.
Mr. Anthony M. Timke, known to all Manilans and throughout the Orient as "Tony" Timke, owner of the Foodle Dog Cafe, Manila, dic I Fat 5.20 o'clock last Sunday after- noon at St. Luke's hospital after an illness of five days. Pneumonia was the cause of death.
The Chinese papers report that Mr. Tong Shad-yi, the veterän Chinese statesman- 'and' diplomat, who was Premier under President Yuan Shih-kal, is due to return to Shanghai in the near future from the Straits Settlements, where he has been visiting relatives.
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Among the passengers arriving in the Colony by the "President Pierce" was Mr. W. C. Forbes, i grandson of the famous American poet and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Aon of William Hathawau Forbes. Mr. Forbes is
Moscow, Novi 26-M. Karakhan is taking charge of Eastern affairs during the absence of M. Chicherin who has gone to Ger- many to undergo medical treat- ment Reuter.
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Dr. Peter Giles,. Master Emmanuel College, Cambridge, has been appointed by the Council of the Senate to be a member of the Universit:ea Bureau of the British Empire for five years. e.
Sir Alan and Lady Cobham on October 24 visited the "Seven Sisters" to stimulate public interest in the effort to purchase for the na tion the picturesque downlands known as Crowlink Valley.
News has just been received from Shanet to the effect that the former Postal Commisioner for Man- churia, Mr. Blix, is returning to his native country, Norway, in the near future.
The late Mr. Edward Lauder Lauder-Watson (40), of Eaton Place, London, S.E. a director of the Telok (F.M.S.), Rubber Com- pany, left 294,597 (not personalty 170,512).
Admiral Sir Edmund Freemantle, who is 92 was not able to be..pre- sent at the Navy League dinner in London on October 21, as he frac- tured a small bone in his hip and was in consequence confined to bed..
To Mr: F. G. Penny, the member for Kingston, belongs the honour of being the first M.P. to reach the House of Commons when It reopen- ed on October 26. He arrived to book his seat one minute before eight o'clock.
Gen. Ngai Bong-ping, former Civil Governor of Kwangtung, who has been invited by the Anti-Reds to raise the banner of insurrection against the present govornment in Canton, returned to Shanghai on Sunday from & Nanking/ During conferred his sojourn there, he with Marshal Sen Chuan-fang and: other generals..
An engagement is announced be- tween George S. Sale, M.C., secondl son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles V.
A former Governor-General of the Gen. Tan Yen-kaf, former Tu-Sale, of. Chesterfield Street, Lon- Philippine Islands, a position he chun of Hunan and Commander-in-don, W., and Kathleen Farrell, eider) resigned in 1913.
Chief of the 2nd Kuomintang Army daughter of the late Mr. Frank In Canton, has been requested to Farrell and of Mrs. Frank Farrell, Congratulations are offered to write the inscription on the stone of Streatham, SW. Commissioner Eady, head of the to be placed in the cemetary in Salvation Army, in Japan, upon his Chapel where the bodies of the Nan- promotion to tha Lieutenant-king Road victims are to be buried. Generalship. Lt-Gen. Eady has This stone will be known as the
The marriage took, place on October 25, at the Brompton "Ora- tory, of C. E. Harvey 10th Royal
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