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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
For wearing his hat in tho For snatching a cap from a "The Belgian Consulate Gen-
yesterday baby a coulle was sent to jail for eral, No. 5 MacDonnell Road. is Kowloon Magistracy one month with hard labour by Minterested in ascertaining the morning, a Chinese was fined $15 T. W. Ainsworth at the Kowloon present whereabouts of Mrs. Tany Mr. T. W. Ainsworth for con-
tempt of Court. Magistracy yesterday afternoon.
Yamine, born Marthe Nuellens..
The "Family Party" gambling
The Kit Cat Club. one' of case was concluded before Mr. London's most fashionable night R. E. Lindsell the Central Mugia tracy yesterday afternoon, Ha clubs, has been ordered to be Worship, tnding that a technical struck off the Register for three affenge had been committet, dis-months. This is the sequel to the
with recent police raid and the subse charged the defendants caution.
quent court proceedings..
For the theft of a hat from a mashed at Cheung Sha Wan, a B year old Chinese was sent "to Jal for two -montha. by Mr. T W, Ainsworth at the Kowloon Magis- Pollbe tracy yesterday afternoon. officers informed his Webship that the accused had previously been cured for a similar offence.
A smoking concert for mem- ters of the Kowloon Cricket Club (under the auspices of the Lawn Eowls section) will be held at the Club House on Saturday night (February 26) at 9 p.m, when the lawn bowls, bridge and tennis prizes will be 'distributed by the President (Mr. R. E. Lindsell).
"Mr. Eu Tang-sen, the well- known. Chinese millionaire who recently paid a visit to Hong Kong, has built the Southern Hotel in Singapore at a cost of about $600,000. This hotel is six storeys high. and it cur best be and described as a westernised modernised version of the lodg- ing house and restaurant which play so large a part in the life of the Chinese districts in Singa- pore. The formal opening was made last week by Mr. K. S. Hsu, the acting Consul-General for China. The Southern Hotel ad joins a grand new theatre which Mr. Eu Tong-sen is building.
Three of the six Chinese Catholic Bishops who went to Rome for their consecration äre
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Architect's drawing of the Book Tower, now under struction in Detroit, which will be one of the world's largest buildings. It is being erected on, Washington Boulevard, by the Book estate, and will be 873 feet high, containing eighty-live stories, four of which will be underground.'·.
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In the annual report of the English Association (Ceylon Branch) for 1926 it is stated that "it is proposed to form a branch in Singapore, and we in Colombo Have been able, to some extent, to help those in Singapore who are interesting themselves in the idea: Possibly the infection will spread to Hong Kong."
Among a number of appoint- ments of Divisional Commanders, i Territorial Army, announced by the War Offee on Jan. 10% was that of Major-General C. D. H. Moore, C.B., C.M.G. D.S.0. (12nd East Lan- cashire) who has seen services in China Major-General Moore, who is 12 years of age, served in the North China and the South African wars. In the late war he secured mentions in despatches oight times, and was awarded the D.S.O.. and the C.M.G. He also wears the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun Brat class) and other foreign orders.
When the complete returns of Parliamentary voters are published. in the near future, it will be found that the tumber of wemer electors how increased to approximately 20.000.000. The growing participa-I tina of worsen in Parliamentary and municipal politics has led to a te- mand on the part of political or-) ganisers for women speakers and workers. Appreciating this fact, the educational department of the Unionist party has inaugurated a series of correspondence courses to enable students to obtain instrue- tion at home in the principal, social, economic, and political problems of the day.
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Statistics recently issued show the serious growth in the number of motor accidents in THE CHEQUE CASE.
Britain. Two Englishmen are 2 device Further evidence in the case in now responsible for due to arrive in Hong Kong on which a Chinese, the manager of which provides protection from of motor Thursday on the French maila firm in Wing Lok Street, is charg- the front wheels
This, the Ratcliff safe- "Porthos," on their way to China..ed with, having received $10,000 vehicles.
metal Of the other three one is returning from the Bank of Canton in ex-ty guard: consists of a via America and two are coming change for a cheque for $1,000 was shield so fixed as to be always in shortly. The party spent a busy heard by Mr. R. E Lindsell at the axial alignment with the wheel. day in Singapore visiting various Central Magistracy yesterday after-The lower portion of this shield Catholic institutions and the
Mr. M. M. Watson appeared for consists of a heavy rubber flap, members of the French and the prosecution and Mr. C. G. which while "out of action" is Portuguese Catholic Missions. Alabaster. K.C., O.B.E., (instructed held back to allow normall road There was a special benediction by Messrs. Le and Lo) defended clearance. The effect, however, of sudden pressure on any part in the Chinese Church, which was the accused. crowded to its utmost capacity,
"A foki- formerly employed by the of the metal shield is to cause the The Bishops were entertained to defendant gave evidence as to the ruber flap to shoot down with dinner by the Bishop of Malaccatter's actions on the day of the lighting rapidity, remaining fixed
After considerable cross- and then continued their voyage examination by Mr. Alabaster, the and rigid, and preventing even an arm or wrist from being passed to Hong Kong vía Saigon, says ease was adjourned until this after-
over by the wheel! the "Straits Times."
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Lord and Lady Selborne arriv- ed in Penang "fortnight ago, crossing over from the mainland. They were met at Penang by Licut. Baker, A.DC., to His Ex- cellency the Governor, Com- mander Oldershaw and Mr. A. W.
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President Diaz's election to the presidency of Nicaragua recently ordught about a change of atil tude by the United States toward that country. President Diaz. headed the conservative party. Now Secasa, an insurgent, seeks to set up a liberal government himself as "head. Hls tactics brought about, United States in- tervention to protect citizens and property."
Mr. J. W. Campbell is to be a Municipal Commissioner for the Town and Fort of Malacca, vice Mr. T. F. Anderson Pole resigned:
News has been received by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation of the death of Mr. R. C. Edwards, agent of the Bank in Bangkok, who passed away subsequent to an operation. He had seen over 30 years of ser- vice with the Bank in the Orient" and was Chief Accountant at the Hong Kong branch in 1911. He was in the 1923 earthquake in Japan and suffered the loss of a hand. After a period of home leave he was appointed to the agency of the Bank at Bangkok...
The death is reported of Mr. E. Ohlman, retired Commissioner of Customs, who spent the last years of his life in Tilvesheim, Han-
over.
Mr. Ohlman was one of Peking's old timers" and will be re-called by most of the old hands of the capital. He is supposed to "have originated the International Race Club at Nanyuan and to have been responsible for the construction of the GermA N Legation in Peking. He was great friend of Sir Robert Hart and was generally admired for his good qualities.
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All the eight children of the late ex-Empérör. Charles of Asatria spent Christmas, with their mother, the ex-Empress. Zita, at the villa provided for her at Lequcitio, u fishing village on the north coast of Spain, by Spanish noblemen. Otto, the eldest, who expects one day to be crowned King of Hungary, re- celved: a motor car as a' gift from Hungarian Legitimists on. his 14th birthday. They have now sent him accessories.. King Alfonso, gave the family a motor-ommbus Blackstone. Lord Selborne is a
in which they can' make Director of the Eastern Exten-excursions together, but the shore sion Telegraph Company and has of the little bay is their chief play- ground. They have a rowing boat beon visiting the Company's and bicycles, and a disused bull Gutta Percha Estate at Kuala ring makes an excellent riding Lipis. Considerable damage was school for Otto, Robert, and Felix, done to the estate by the dis- the three alder boys, who have astrous foods. Owing to the ponies. The ex-Empress a great floods: His Lordship was delayed nancial stress has recently been at Kuala Lumpur for a fortnight, the income from her late husband's when he was the gucat of the private estates in Hungary. The Chief Secretary and Mrs. Feel. family still live very simply,
rolloved by the surrender to her of
The Hon. Mountstuart Elphin- stone, managing director of the British North Borneo (Charter- ed) Co., was to sail on January. 14 by the P. and O. steamer Mongolia" on a visit to British North Borneo. -
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Mr. Alanson B Houghton, American Ambassador" to the court of St. James who has been made. defendant in a "mystery" suit for $50,000 for alleged, false arrest being brought in New York. by Miss Dorothy Mason, a woraan whom the diplomat claims never to have heard of before.
She
alleged that Mr. Houghton had her arrested and charged with stealing a pin valued at $1,500.
Lord Ashley married Sylvia Hawkes, actress, in London, on Feb. 4. No close relative of the bridegroom attended although hia parents, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury were in London, having made an early morning cash by motor car from their country residence near Sallebury. The Farl only became convinced that the marriage would take place on receiving a telegram late
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