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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
masons.
It is announced that the There is some local apprehen- || Hours during which pre- scriptions can be dispensed ation, espacially among tenants veniflg service at St. John's Messrs. A S. Watson and Co., renting comparatively small housos. Cathedral on Sunday, February Ltd. on Wednesday and Thursday says the "Malay, Mail, that renta 27 will be specially for Free- will be increased in 1927 to meet
The newly installed are notified in an advertisement, the increased assessment now being District Grand Master of English levied by the Kuala Lumpur Soni on page 8.
Freemasonry and the District Lary Board:
Grand Lodge will attend, and it is hoped that all Freemasons in the Colony will make a point of being present.
Practically all the leading hotels in Hong Kong and Kow- loon have arranged special car nivals and dinner-dances for China New Year's Eve morrow) and for China New Year Day (Wednesday) ↑
• During the 48 hours ended on Sunday the following not fable diseases were reported to (to-the Medical Officer of Health:-- an Indian case of rabies from Shaukiwan and a Chinese case of diphtheria from the city.
The annual reunion in Lon
The French Academy of don of members of the Victoria Diocesan Association will take Science has awarded the Prince place at Victory House, Trafalgar Albert of Monaco prize, valued Square on June 29 (St. Peter's £830, to Df. Jean Charcot, the Day) The Bishop of London has explorer, to enable him to com premmurd to take the Chair at theplete the equipment of the Pour- meeting.
quol Pas for further geographical cruises.
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HENRY MILLEN WAKIL
Mrs. Edward Browning, famous as "Peaches," as she looks to-day, Callowing her separation from "Daddy" Browning, and a she- will probably look when she goes: into court to Bght out with him the maze of litigation resulting from their sensational though. brief, married life.
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A ferro-concrete bridge of five spans. with a length of 500 feet, is to be erected across the River Severn at. Atcham, near- Shewsbury, and a reinforced con- crete bridge, with a 22 foot span anda width of 25 fest. is to be constructed at Common Lane, Dover.
Signor Mussolini has opened a Fresh campaign against laneing Arising from the deaths of your dancers at the Apollo Cabaret the newspapers demanded the drastic supervision of curbergis and night haunts and the Prefect of Rome" for- hade dancing at such resorts. The Italian Premier has issued a general order to the prefects to close dan- eing chBarets and night clubs "for reneans of public morality."
It is reliably reported that the former Crown Prince Carol's romance with Magda Lupescu has terminated. Prince Carol has left Neuilly, and Magda Laupesen has remained behind.. Prince Carol is believed to be somewhere on the Riviera, but no. authentic information is available. The rumours that he has return- ed to Roumania have been dis- credited.
ANOTHER REMAND.
The case in which an
Indian
More than £100,000 has been paid out by thrift clubs in Glain-watchman, formerly employed by organshire, despite seven months Whitenway, Laidlaw and Co. is deness in the mines and fac- charged with assaulting a Chinese tories. The total in Swansea was youth was again remanded for one $40,000 Bryamil School head-week by Mr. R. E. Lindsen at the Central Magistracy this morning, ed the list with £8,000. The
Chlef Det, Insp. T Murphy inform highest individual sum was. £$40,
ing his Worship that the youth was and the lowest threepenny still in hospital and therefore un-
able to attend Court. piece.
Extraordinary general meet ings of the Union Insurance So- elety of Canton, Ltd., the British Traders' Insurance Co., Ltd., and. the China Fire Insurance Co.. Ltd. are to be held at Union The
Building on February 15, purpose is to submit resolutions.
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Mmg Schumann, Helnk is native of Prague, and while singing in the choir at the Ursuline Convent was discovered by riette le Claire, the great Freh prima donna. She made her debut as Azucena in "1 Trovatore and at seventeen was the principal contralto at the Dresden Court Opera.
which will empower the deletion the of certain words from Articles of the Companies, and substitute other words for them. If the resclutions are passed by the requisite majority, they will be submitted for confirmation as special resolutions at further "ex- traordinary general meetings to be held on March 1.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
The death is announced of Sir Daniel Fulthorpe Gooch, "of Tatchbury Mount, Totton, Hamp shire 1
Personal estate worth £199,778, in addition to real estate, was left by Mr Thomas Wright Dewer, Sandilands, Lanarkshire, "and Hindhead. Surrey, a director of a and other number of distillery companies.
The Misses M. and S. Hynd- man, Miss S. Rosario, Miss S. R. Ismail, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Machado and Dr. C. W. Weedon were among the passengers on the f "Fushimi Maru" which arrived here yesterday from Japan and Shanghai.
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Dr. R. J. Campbell, Minister of the City Temple, London, for 12 joined the years before he Church of England, and now in- cumbent at Brighton, has mar ried his adopted daughter and Secretary, Miss Gertrude Smith. Dr. Campbell, who has been a widower since 1924, is 60 and his bride is 88.
The wedding ceremony of Mr. Charles. T. Hall, son of Mr. C. E. Hall of Shanghai, and Miss Kath- leen B. Lynch, daughter of Mr. E. H. Lynch of Sydney, Austra- at St. lia,
was solemnised, Joseph's Church, Shanghai, the Rev.
Father Macdonald, S.J., officiating, with the Rev. Brother Victoria at the organ.
The Peak Club hold a success- ful dance on Saturday night."
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Lady He Tung and the Misses Ho Tung were among the passen-
the NY.K. "Fushini) gers on Maru" which left Hong Kong on Saturday for London via ports.
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« Generel von Maelensen, one of the most famous German com- manders in the war, as he appear- ed on his seventy-fifth birthday. General von Mackenson is wear ing the red uniform of the former Imperis "Lieb Husaren" Regiment, which is distinguished by the skull and cross-bones on the shuko.
James Gardner Lawrence, Jr.,. of the law firm of Ross, Law-i rence and Selph, Manila, has died at: St. Luke's Hospital from malignant malaria.
Mr. Frederick Lane, Folke- stone, late of South Pickenham Hall Swaffham, Norfolk, ship. broker, left estate b his own dis- position worth £571;500...
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The Hon. John Bartum Payne. Chairman of the American Red Cross, Chairman of the Board of Gaverners and the Execut' mittee of the League of K Societies, who has been attending the Second Oriental Red Cross Con- ference at Tokyo, has been visiting Siam and was in Singapore a few days ago on his way to Europe.
General Baron Berge has died in France in his 99th year. He en tered the Ecole Polytechnique us Bng ago as 1847. and was one of the few men still in the Fre ch army who held a commission under) Loula Philippe. He fought in the African and Italian campaigns, and In the Crimean War, as well as the Franco-Prussian War ef 1870, In 1871 he was entrusted with the re-l organisation of the artillery, and was awarded the Grand Cross of 4a Lapion of Wemony fo General Berge lost three of his grandsons in the Great War."-
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Mr. Eu Tong-sen, O.B.E., the Chinese multi-millionaire of Malaya, arrived in Hong Kong by j the "Kitano Maru' with Mrs. Eu. The owner of a $1,000,000 marble The forthcoming weddings are
Mr. A. S. Abbott, manager of villa in Singapore, this prince of announced of:-Mr. Hubert Hope Hasham, electrical engineer, Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, Lid, tin-miners has interests also in In Kowloon YMCA o Miss Hong Kong, goes to Singapore at Yadiva Anthonovana,
Astor the end of April to take charge of this Colony and in Canton. House, Shanghai. Mr. Woo Yes the branch there while the local 1918 he donated $55,000 to the tak, merchant, No. 807, Des manager, Mr. G. H. Davis, is Hong Kong University and is a life member of the Court., He' Veux Road Central, to Miss Home on leave. Mr. Abbott-ex- Mabel Wong. No. 496, Nathanpects to return to Hong Kong in was on the F.M.B. Federal Coun- Road, Kowloon. Mr. Ming-shek November, and during his abell from 191 to 1920 and is 49 Jim Hang Law, No. 8, Ashley sence, Mr. A. G. Waller, a direc years of age. During the War he Road, Kowloon, to Miss Irene tor of the company in Shanghai, presented a £60,000 tank and an Lucy Mary Lim, No, 385, Nathan will have charge of the Hong aeroplane to the Home Govern
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Kong branch.
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