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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
The Harbin-Mukden radio- The Blue Funnel Line's dia: service will begin in January or, finctive calendar in the shape of February next under manage-a funnel has now been sund in ment of the Chinese Wireless Hong Kong. Station, Broadcasting equipments as ordered from France, are be- ing installed.
FRIDAY,
DECEMBER 24, 1926.
Another big consignment of GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
war materials for the use of the Allied Army, was sent from Shanghai to Nanking by order of Marshal Sun Chuan-fang on
Thoro will be a Christmas | Dec. 7. Curol service and organ recital at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, at
p... on Sunday.
Horsedrawn vehicles may no6 longer run through the streets of Rio de Janeiro proper after Jan- uary 1, 1927, if an ordinance now before the City Council is adopt- ed. The proposed law applies both to hansoms and commercial vehicles.
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A Chinese criminal handed over to the Chinese authorities by tho Shanghai French police for murder and armed robbery, wa executed at unghwa narodrome..
K. Tajima and K. Goto, who were transferred from Shanghai to the Nagasaki District Court: for trial on a charge of uttering spurious bank notes, have been sentenced to six months' penali servitude.
A Chinese lawyer, charged *** During the Christmas half at the Mixed Court, said: "I had Military bank notes to the tinys, the "Ching Mail" will be to believe all my client had to value of $10,000,000 have been published as follows:-to-morrow tell me and I accepted his in- provided by General Chang (Saturday) no issus; Monday (Box-structions without question." Tsung-chang to be negotiable in ing Day) at noon: Tuesday, as Counsel for the prosecution (Mr. the places under his control; but usual
N. A. Allman)-No lawyer be LTD.only thirty per cent. of the said
lleves all that this client has to say." Accused"I do." Mr. Allman "Then you are an ex- ception to the rule.”
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notes will be acceptable when pay- Monday is the Day of St. John ment is made of "taxes, revenues.the Apostle and Evangeliat. Owing rallway and telegraphic charges, to. December 26 being a Sunday this Hays the "Central China Post." year. Boxing Bay will be observed on Monday which is also a públic (and bank) holiday. ?
The Chinese papers in Har [kow raport that the better qual- fied policemen have been ordered by Chang Teu-len, Commission-
Office.
More than 10 lives were lost in a fire of unknown origin which "destroyed. 23.
houses Spreading rapidly from the art on December 8 et Kwangshao to the second floor, fire of undeRoad, Chapei, about a stone's er of the Hankow Peace Preserv- Etermined origin, which broke out throw from the Chinese Post ing Bureau, to be sent there from guneral merchandise storeroom of fall brunch stations to assume the 4 Klangso Rad, Shanghal.. duty of making investigations for a time threatened nearby busi concerning families and for regisness houses and dwellings and was tering Hankow residents.
extinguished only after a stubborn battle by fremen. The contents of According to the "Shanghai the storeroom were badly damaged
Nippo Mr. Magaoka, Japaness by fire and water.
Vice-Consul, last Wednesday handed to Mr. Hau Yuan," Com- Dispatches from Porto Praye, Affairs, Cape Isands, suid the Latecoere missioner of Foreign $3,000 as compensation for the Aeroplane Company of France in death of the now famous Chentenda building a hydro-aeroplane Ah-dong, who was alleged to have base somewhere in the Archipelago been killed by Japanese members to serve as an intermediate station of the crew of the "Manri Maru."Between Dakar and Fernando The Nagasaki Court found two of Noronha for a preposed Paria- the men guilty. Deceased's South American dip line. M. Co family will receive this money st. representing the company. from the Chinese authorities, said to have found the Port of Sab
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The confusion among those, who attempted so take refuge by boat in the settlements from the war region after the Shanghai- Hangchow railway line had been interrupted, was made
esperate by an' armed robbery, which occurred when about 10 men, armed with hatchets, board ed one of the junks, occupied by a wealthy silk merchant of Kashing, in the vicinity of Shang- hai. They removed "the" loot to their boat, lying alongside the junk, after which they walked off with a pleasing smile of thanks. According to the report Monday: It is hoped to make made to the Water police office, arrangements. for the Bishop to the loag was estimated at $1,500. | visit Canton.
The, damage was much aggravated, says the Shanghai "Daily News" by the high wind and great credit must Be giyen! to the firemen who resolutely fought the fire during the intense cold!
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cient to make Li Hung-chang
Daily News" (Shanghai). turn in his grave, says the appears that the employees in It
Chinese statesman was supposed pawnshops, which the great
to have had under his sole con- trol, have become affected by the floods of oratory and manifestors and now are agitating for more! pay, to the great distract of the "uncles."
A watchman, who worked for a taflor in the Ezra Building, During the holidays the engage-Kiukiang Road, told Mr. G. W. ments of His Lordship the Bishop King, O.B.E., Shanghai, in H.M. of London will be as follows:
Police Court, that he did not Saturday: 8 a.m., the Bishop will know on which road he was em-- celebrate Holy Communion in 30ployed. "Was it Nanking Road?" John's Cathedral, 11 am. he will asked his Worship: the answer preach in the Cathedral
was in the negative. "Was it on Canton Road?" "I don't know," was witness's answer. Mr. Goldring, prosecuting;. "Was it near the Cathédral?”, “I don't know!" His Worship" (sharply) "Was it in Shanghai?"-"Yes." "Well now that we know that, on with the case.'
Sunday: 11 a.m., the Bishop is due to preach at St. Andrew's, Kowloon in the afternoon he will visit the Diocesan Girls' School and the Blind Home:/
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
The Town Council of Bexhill has installed Sir Ernest Birch, K.C.M.G., as Mayor for the currnet
your.
The Maharajah of Burdwan and His tivo sons visited the School of Oriental Studies, Finsbury-circus,
on November 18.
Passengers who disembarked" at Hong Kong this morning from the P. & O. "Rhiva". (from Japan' and Shanghai) were. Miss R. Chisholm. Miss M. Salway, Mr., A. P. Stoner, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Wallaec. There jare many other passengers on board for Homeward ports, via Singapore"
The marriage of Mr. Honry Harley Clarke, dental surgeon, of Singapore, and Miss Norah Mar- garet Lindberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Lindberg, of Durban, Natal who recently arrived from home by the "Aenena," was celebrated in the Presbyterian Church, the Rev. G. H Douglas officiating in the presence of a large gathering of friends."
Mr. B. G. H. Johnson has been ap pointed to act as a member of the Penang Harbour Board, during the absence on leave of Mr. H. O. Mas, and Mr. M. D. Rutley had been ap pointed to act as a member of the Singapore Harbour Board, during. the absence of leave of Mr. G. C. Clarke.
Mr. Henry Melvil Simons, of Cadogan-gardens, Chelsea, S.W. chairman of Paterson, Simons and Co., London House, Crutched-friars, E.C.3, a director of the Alliance Assurance Co., Ltd., the, Morcantile Bank of India, and of rubber and other companies, who died. QD September 16, left estate of the value of £180,528, with net per asonalty £177,269.
A well-known. Liverpool ship owner of half a century ago 'passed away in the person of Captala Joseph Brown, who died at his ro sidence in New Brighton in mail. week night, in his 80th year, Until
his retirement from business in
Reminder: dinner and ball of the Chief and Petty officers of the China Squadron at the City Hall at 3.15 to-night; dancing till 2 h.m.
Mr. "Edward'. Powell, for nearly 40 years with the Associated Press and for six years correspondent in Manila for that concern has resign, ed from the Associated Prese and is to leave for Australia in a few days.
A British wireless message states that the death occurred yesterday at the age of eighty years of Sir Frank Forbes Adam, who played a conspicuous part in the commercial and publie life of Bombay and later of Manchester.
The King's Exequatur empower- ing Mr. A. P. Cameron to act as Peruvian Consul, and Mr. Bernard Gotlieb to act--as United States Consul, Singapore, and Mr. Samuel G. Ebling to act as United States Vice-Conaul at Penang, have re ceived His Majesty's. signature,
CATHEDRAL WEDDING.
The marriage was solemnized in St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore! of Miss Aubrey Vivian Darwood and Mr. Alfred John Thorne.
Mr. S. Nakashima, Singapore Consul-General for Japan, returned to Singapore from Japan on Dec. 10; and resumed charge of the Con- sulate-General,
Sir Michael O'Dwyer, while bid- ding farewell to a friend on his own doorstep in London on Novom- ber 25, the night of the fog, heard a woman calling for help, ran to her rescue and found the daughter: of a neighbour struggling with an assailant who attempted to snatch her bag. Sir Michael O'Dwyer seized the man, who broke away,
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The St. Patrick's Society of Selangor held its annual general meeting at the Selangor Club, with Mr...Charlton Maxwell in the chair. It was stated in the committee's
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creased from 47 on January: 1 to'82 on November 29. Mr. Charlton Maxwell proposed Mr. Hannigan så president for the coming year, and Mr. Gleeson seconded. The motion was carried. Lt. Col. Meredith elected Vice-President, and Mr. Gilham Browne hen, secretary; The following were elected to the! committee: Mrs. Ware, Messrs.! Davidson, Dowse, Hobbs, O'Connell, Walters, and Morris.
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The death of Mr. Robert Newman
at the age of sixty-eight has made
a gap in London music which it will be difficult to fill. He was Sir Henry Wood's close ally in the Pro menade and Sunday concerts, for more than a quarter of a century,}] and that so little was known, of the share he had in that great work was due to his self-effacement. Tha policy there adopted of "hästening slowly was one which he thoroughly endorsed if he did not In part originate it. His combina- tion of business talents with a musical training (at the Royal Ht. R. L. Bond and Miam Jean College) made his judgment not Vallanco Fleming Colster of Mr. John only valuable but authoritative Fleming) who were married at BL He was a man of few words, of John's Cathedral last. Haturday.
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