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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
At the Peak Church, Holy Communion will.bo celebrated on Christmas Day at 8 am Advb.
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A Congregation will be bolẻ að The FIMS, Government is ad- the University on Jan. 11 for con- vertising In die,, "British Hedical ferring degrün. Tea is to be 1 Journal" for a second radiologiak. Carved at 4 pm and the degree" On Monday the Colony had a fearomony follows ht p.m. clend bill of health, no case of noti-Academic dress is to be worn. fiable disease being returned during the 24 hours.
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The Stahl town councillor and chief editor of the "Social Republie has been sentenced to seven months' imprisonment for a libel on President Hindenburg.
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On Tuesday, the following enses of notifiable disease occurred During the Christmas holidays, in the Colony-one of diphtheria the local exchange banks wBF be from Kowloon and another » from Smarting under the rigid dis- closed for the transaction of public (Aberdeen, village; one of entertecipline of the New Governor! business on Saturday and Monday. [faver (typhoid) from the city diaColonel Hales, the convicts of
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trict. AM patients are Chinese.
A report has reached, Centrai Police Station that a small matshed:
Wall Street estimates that In the Chinese cemetery on Mount Christmas gratuities will amount Davis was destroyed by fire, oto between thirty-five and fifty Monday.
million dollars. The banks had the same as last year, while the La prosperous year and are giving Stock Exchange has not done so well and is giving smaller gratui-
Mrs. E. M. Clark. Headmistress of Victoria British School, extends an invitation to friends who may care to be present at the open Day and Sale of Work at 10:30 a.m. to- morrow at the School,
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Parkhurst Prison mildly mutinied on November 28, singing the "Red Flag" and smashing the! windows of their cells.
* THEOSOPHY * "Some Aspiration. In Throsophy”*
"subject of this week's will be the PUBLIC LECTURE of the Hong Kong Lodge, The THEOSOPHICAL SO- CIETY, 7. Duddub Street, on THURS- A Gettman expedition fin-DAY, December 23rd, at 8 p.m. anced by the Ethnological In- Lecturer: Mr. J. Russell, FTS. The stitute at Leipzig and led by the Meoting is open to the Public. anthropologist, Baron Von Eick-
Theosophical Books for Salo. instedt. is
"Good Library,„„, en route to India and Ceylon to study the customs and lives of primitive tribes, particu- Early In Travancore, Malabar and
the Himalayas,
Three Chinese charged before Mr. T. W. Atasworth at the Kowloon Magistrney yesterday, with being unlawful possesion, of two daggers. were remanded in custody for week. ball being refused,
Mr. Mo2 Leung, Compradore of Messra. Jardine, Matheson & Co...
A new association entitled "The Association of the Citizens of the Shanghai Special Admin- The Tokyo Municipal Coun-istration Area" has been estab- Ltd., reported to the Polleo pester-Teil has decided to start public lished in French town, where the day that a dork of his had abscond-works in the city with Yer 160,."Three Province Cooperative ted with about $3,000, which he had 000 in order to relieve the unem- Society" is also situated.
collected from various shops on beployed in the winter season. It half of Mr. Ho Leung,
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is understood that the number of those who are to be relieved of At Mesra Komor & Remorunemployment will be about 2,000 St. George's Building, there will be persons.
two weeks xhibition of pearl necklaces, brooches, rings," &c., brought by Mr. Kodak, the whole safe peare merchant, from Japan, Inspection is cordially invited.
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stiee, the shortest day of the year. To-day is the Winter Sol-
it is called "Tang-chih" in Chinese (Mandarin pronunciation) and is
dar.
A monkey that eats, and of the four zeneral business evidently relishes, matches, popa-settling days in the Chinese Ealen- It also a holiday for the. larly supposed to be highly poison-Chinese Maritime Customs.
ous, is owned by one of the officers | aboard the destroyer Pillsbury,""
The first of a series of Christ
A "favourite sport of members of Five men,, one of whom dis- mas entertainments was given at the crew is to toss unlighted played a pistol when they broke the Royal Naval Theatre last night matches to the simian, who into a Chinese house, 384 Dent by the ship's company of H.M.S promptly devours the heads. Road, Shanghai, proved not to be "Vindictive." The programme will
sufficiently terrifying to keep be repeated to-night and to-morrow Two Japanese found gambl three women quiet. When one night; the concert beginning at 8-45.ing in a house in Mannen Road of the women gave tongue, the The programme. Includes songs, Shanghai, were sentenced to 20 robbers fled in dismay, with no [klves, instrumental music, old scadays' imprisonment in the Mixed more. Booty than $3.30 and the songs introduced during the sup- Court. The two men were ar-old lady's Imprecations deafen- posed voyage of a shirt approprinterested with a third Japanese Fing their ears. By way of re By known as the "Skylark," and named Kubo, who was being taliation, two shots were fired, sketch. There was an appreciative sought by police. for the alleged but even these failed to stop the audience last night, the numbers of theft of 15 rolls of cloth from flow of words. The police got which were rather thinned by the Tamaya and Company. Kubo is the alarm, but the robbers were. counter attraction of the boxing. being held for examination. travelling too fast.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
The death is announced of Major-General Sir H. Fieldden, the Crimea veteran
Mr. "C. H. Green, Secretary of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board, Shanghai, returned from Home leave by the P. and O. S. "Malwa,"
Sir Frank Forbes Adam Bad alight paralytic stroke and has been removed to hospital in London It is stated that there is at present no cause for anxiety.
Admiral Sir Hugh Tothill has been placed on the retired list as his own request." He was Com mander-in-Chief of the East Indies Squadron from 1919 to 1921
Reminder: Hong Kong Police an- al ball at the City Hall to-morrow night, enmmencing o'ttik.
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Commodore J. L. Pearson, C.M.G.. " Mrs. Pearson and the Ward Room officers of H.M.S. Tamar" are giving
↑ dance on Wednesday, January 28.
Sir Robert Horne has left for India. He will visit Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi and Rangoon, principally, but not solely, for business purposés.
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Mr. A. Brand Calder arrived'
Shanghai during the past week to take the place of Mr. George G. Howard, the American Trade
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Commissioner, who is going to the United States shortly leave. For some time past, Mr. Calder has been attached to the American Embassy in Tokyo 93. Mr. Justice Martineau, PuisneTrade Commissioner. Judge of Lahore High Court, died at the age of 85 at the In The forthcoming Wedding is an
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Dr. F. R. Sayers has been. ap- pointed to act as Chief Health Officer, Singapore..
Mrs. G. Stanley Lovett has ar fived in Singapore from Australia. having recovered from her recent Hlness!
Sir Ronald Rose Ras" arrived at Pört Swettenham by "atcamer" from Singapore. He is the guest of Sir Malcolm Watson at Klang.
At a committee meeting of, the Singapore branch of the Royal So- city of St. George Mr. 2. 3.
Vincent, of the Commercial Union,;
was elected hon. treasurer in place
of Mr. J. W. D. Harding, who has Fesigned
The visit of Sir Laurence Guille- mard, Governor of the Straits Settements, to Slam has been post- poned until the end of next year.
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The Board of Trustees of the Chamber of Commerce at Beverley Hills has announced to- day that Will Rogers former cowboy actor and humerist, has been elected mayor of that city.
Mr. Finn, representative of the Hardeman Hat, Company of Seat te, has arrived in Shanghai after A trip through Manchuria and North China. After a few days there he is planning to depart for
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Taggart, directer of the Hong Kong the end of this month, but owing to and Shanghai Hotels Ltd, residing His Excellency's liness his medical at the Repulse Bay Hotel, to Mrs. advisers deemed it advilable that it Mary Turner, Widow, 135 Fell should be postponed until the next Street, San Francisco, S.A., and cool season. of Mr. Guy Athe! Hattel, passen-1 ger agent, Dollar Stambhip Line, residing at No. 4. Des Voeux Road, to Miss Edith Andy Marsh, of No. 4. Des Voeux Road.
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The Aga Khan saw his Italian SATURDAY, SUNDAY & MONDAY
wife, Theresa; in Paris, a few hours before her unexpected death. A Moslem religious ceremony was sub- bequently held at which the Aga Khan and the Persian Minister were of the Globe Trotters Miss Elleen present. The body was embalmed Broadbury the throat
|prior to sté rémoval to Monaco, daughter of Mr. Bröndbury (known where it was buried alongside her Mr. Frink Haytor of the turf), child, which died in its infancy.
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of the staff of Messrs. Powell, Miss Broadbury has taken part with tho. Globe Trotters in gofhe of the per A study of hotels and methods The "North China Daily News"formances which they have given of operation of the Orient is Be- locally. In spite of her youth,ing made by Mr. Don A. Goodwin, these were not the first appearances widely-known proprietor of the of Miss Bradbury in publie ner Hotel Akret of Akon, Ohlo, who formances, as she has travelled in has arrived in Shanghai. Mr. India and the East with her other Goodwin, who is accommyfed by his and father as a trapeze and bare wife and is bound for Port Said, in back rider,
an official of The Greclers; a nu- tional organisation of botel owners and employees in the Uilted-States.
announces that Miss Frommel, who was recently the victim of an attack et the part of a former houseboy, has left the Country Hospital and is convalescing at the Shanghai American School.
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The condition of Dr. V. K. Ting: has now greatly improved, and he is now able to "take food. while, Mr. Hau Yuan, Commissioner df Foreign Affairs, le acting as Director of the Shanghai and Woo auny Port Development Bureau,
The War Office announces that Major-General O'Dowda has been appointed to command the Baluchis- tan district in succession to Major General Sir Hastings Anderson, who has been appointed Quarter master-General of the Forces,
THE DUKE OF YORK.
At the Great Eastern Hotel, Shanghai, Mr. R. J. Glandianing, Rugby, Dec. 21, Chief Trafic Inspector of the The battleship "Renown," which Sbanghal-Nanking Railway, was en- will carry the Duke and Duchess tertained to dinner by the train of York on their visit to New Zen- guards, over 100 persons being us land and Austrália, will leave sembled to do honour to the guest Portsmouth on January 6. Four of the evening. Mr. Glendinning destroyers and five flying boats will will ratire from the Shanghai-Nan necompany.the cruiser as endort 50 king Railway after 21 years' service Saint Catharine's Joint, Isle of at the end of the year and will re Wight British Wireless Service. turn to Australia early in January,
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