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Charged with stabbing a woman with a knife, & Chinese was remanded in Police custody until to-morrow morning by Mr.
Tuesday's return of local noti fable disease comprised two cases of small pox and a case of diph theria (all Chinese) and a case of diphtheria (British). All the pa
NEWS.
Another dance will be held at the Peak Club on Saturday, March 12, beginning at 9.15 p.m. There will be a late (Pepk) tram
T. W. Ainsworth at the Kowloonents are me Kowloon disat 12.30 a.m Members and sub- Magistracy yesterday."
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The International Education miraculously escaped death when Board of New York, one of Mr. the top floor collapsed in a blazeJD Rockefeller's foundations, which did $1,000,000 damage to has offered the University of a building on Broadway opposite Edinburgh $74,000 towards the the Hotel Ansoniam, &
Mr. Ko. Leong-hos, managing director of the Ho Hong Bank Ltd.,cluding Hong Kong, left to-day for Shang- hal by the "Empress of Russia to attend the formal opening of the Bank's new branch there which has buen arranged to take, plüce on Feb. 28.
Five of the six Chinese Roman Catholic Bishops, recently consecrated by the Pontiff at St. Peter's, Rome, are due to arrive in the Colony on the MM, 3.5. "Porthos." According to a Reuter message to hand on Saturday last, the sixth Bishop, Monseignor Chiu, left Marselles on Friday on 's Norddeutscher-Lloyd vessel,
The case in which a Chinese is charged with receiving $10,000 in lieu of $1,000 upon presenta tion of a cheque at the Bank of Canton was continued before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon. After hearing further evidence for the prosecution his Worship adjourned the case until Friday afternoon
The principal reason, though several others are mentioned, for the delay in the arrival of the Bombay weekly mail, given by Lord Inchcape in a letter to the "Daily Telegraph," is the inferior foreign coal consumed either by the liners or tenders for which the vessels had to wait on the way. Lord Inchcape, concluding, hopes that the coal difficulty will soon end, and that the P. and O Steam Navigation Company's steamers in future will be able to give the usual regular six in the morning arrivals in Bombay On Fridays..
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Sir Eric Drummond, secretary of the League of Nations, who, according to London reports, will
cost of a new Department of Zoology in the University. The offer has been gratefully accept- ed.
Louis Ebert, a 19-year-old Burasian, of" Penang, who is walking round the world, arrived at Karachi on January S. He left Penang on August 18, 1925, and has walked through Malaya, Siam, French Indo-China, China, Japan, Burma and India. He is now going through Asia Minor to Europe.
According to the Italian. newspapers, the Military Ad- vocate-General has ordered Miss Violet Gibson, who made an at- tempt on Signor Mussolini's life, to be transferred from prison to a mental home леат Rome. All definite measures with regard to her trial have consequently been suspended.
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shortly be appointed British Am-junks involved were formally bassador at Washington to Buc. ceed Sir Esme Howard. Sir Esme has been in England for some time on a "vacation."
Judgment was given in the Summary Court this morning in the undefended case by the Chee A measure is to be intro-Lee Co., of Connaught Road Weat duced into the Malayan Federal against the Hop Hing Cheong Council with the object of pro- Co., of Chiu Loong Street for
charged before Mr. T.. W. Alis- worth. After hearing evidence- of arrest, his Worship adjourned both cases until Friday.
Two live cels wriggled into the limelight at a fire at the Kailan Mining Administration building at Tientsin when the British Fire Brigade was called out. The fire was easily ex-
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some water that was dashed on A Rangoon message says to the fames. They were eels, be connected with such an Asso ciation. It further provides a that Mr. Norman Jackson, first and they twisted and wriggled a of Messrs. Steel rare dance, to which performance penalty for Boy Scouts attempt-manager ing by virtue of their badges to Brothers, has died from a stab the Are-fighters spared not a few exercise authority otherwise than wound, in camp near Frinmana. glances of admiration. That the in accordance with the rules of He was attacked and stabbed by eels were singed in the flames and their Local Association. In form Burmese elephant mahouts while that the brigade subsequently re- it follows the Colonial Ordinance investigating the latter's insubor-galed, themselves with an eel introduced into the Straits Legis-dinate conduct. Three mahouts breakfast, is officially character- lative Council last year.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Miss K... M. Allen, of the Hong Kong & Shanghat Bank, salled on the "Empress of Russia" to-day. She is travelling to Europe via Canada.
The "Empress of Russia" took away a long passenger list to-day including the Shanghai Chinese (Eastern China) Interport foot. ball team and Dr. Yung.
Mrs. Buxton, the mother of" Mr. R. C. Tredwell, the American Consul-General in Hong Kong, was a passenger on the outgoing "Empress of Russia" to-day.
The Countess of Seafield and her mother, Nina Lady Senfield, are Eshortly leaving Home on a trip to Burma, Slam, and the Malay States, The young countess is one of the largest land-owners in Scotland. and comes of age next year.
Saya a Shanghai paper: Mr. J. R. Johnstone, who won most of the local swimming championships last. season, returned to Shanghai last Tuesday on the str. "Mantun," after A stay of some five months in his native Hong Kong, where he con tracted typhoid, from which he is now happily recovered..
Sir Norman Walker of the British Medical Council, who is now in Madras accompanied by Colonel Needham, to enquire into. the standard of medical education in the country, had an interview with the Minister in charge of the Medical portfolio. "Sir Nor man Walker also visited the Gen- eral Hospital and the Medical College and inspected the Govern ment Opthalmic Hospital and the Women and Children's Hospital
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The engagement is announced of Mr. E. H. Adams, A.R.I.B.At Miss T. E. Humphrey, both of Messre. Butterfield & Swire.
Among the passengers on the northbound "Empress of Russia," Bailed from Hong Kong to-day, were Mist G. A. Looker; Mrs. G Arneid
for Shanghai; Dr. M. Gomery; Mr. C. R. Powrie; Mrs. Gordon Yates.
Mr. P. Chichgar, Mr. and Mrs." A. K; Henderson were among the passengers who returned to Hong Kong yesterday on the "President McKinley" from Manila,
Dr. Solf, German Ambassador to Japan, returned to Tokyo from Home, with his daughter, just in time to attend the Imperial funeral services, at which he represented the President of the Reich.
Miss Paterson had a great send Major-General P. Warming. (who off by the girls of the,, Diocesan dan Dune) of the Siamese Govern- Girls' School when she sailed from ment, left Hong Kong yesterday ac- the companied by .his secretary, Hong Kong yesterday on "Changte" (bound for Manila and Colonel Phya Vichai.. for Manila on These two She has been the a.. "Changte." Australian ports). on the school's teaching staff for officers have travelled from Bang- Ikok on in official mission to the some time.
Philippines.
The beautiful Countess of Athlone, whose husband has one. of the most enviable of records in the Army, is one of the most popular members of British society. The bandeau of pra cious gems which she is wearing in this picture is valued at more than £20,000..AN
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Mr. H. W. Burgess, superin- tendent engineer of the Canadian Pacific Steamships Co., left Hong Kong on the "Empress of Russia” to-day, bound for Vancouver, ac.. companied by Mrs. Burgess. Mr. Burgess has been in Hong Kong in connection with the annual overhaul here of the "Empress" liners.
Dr. C. Douglas Gray, newly ap pointed medical director of "the Country Hospital has, arrived in Shanghai to take up his post there. Besides his exceptional ability as the executive head of such an in- stitution, Dr. Gray comes to Shang kai fully equipped for dealing with. medical conditions in the Far East through a long residence in Peking where for 25 years he was medical officer in the Foreign Office Servica at the British Legation.
Property in Hong Kong to the value of $578,000 was left by: Lady Mody, widow of Sir Hormusji Nowroji Mody, for- Deaths announced at Home in
merly of Hong Kong and Bom mail week include: Dr. ES
bay, latters of adainatration in Passmore chief medical officer at
respect of whose will have now Croydon Mental Hospital, War-
been granted. A mber of be |lingham, - since the opening of the
quests of Hong Kong shares STO Institution in 1908; Mr. "Sidney
made to her daughter Sirinbai, Howard Lamb, senior partner of Mecars, Lamb and Gold, "stock
Captain, WC. Weston sailed on wife of Nusserwanji Jamsetji Dady Legscles are to ca Jabbers, of Copthall-court, EC. the Empress of Russia" to-day for Mr. Henry Riley, head of Messrs. Yokohama to take up the post of number of relatives Henry Riley and Sons, Ltd, an old Marine Surveyer to Lloyd's Art established music, Arm of Bisming.“ hero. He is an outstanding Brute him, aged 18, and a former presis on the China Const: After: War dent of the Music Trades Assoda. Pärdie
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