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For throwing dangerous "The winter rush of prospec A project is under considera- crackers in the street during the tors to the mining fields of North-tion by the Air Ministry, writes Chinese New Year Holiday, aern Manitoba continues, aero-the Air Correspondent of the Chinese was fined $3 by Mr. R. E planes, dog teams, and snow "Daily Mail" to produce a film de- Lindsell at the Central Magis-shoes all being used.
picting the part played by British tracy yesterday:
aircraft in the Great War.
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A marble head discovered Mr. F. Mason,
A.R.CO.,under the foundation of an early L.T.C.L, is to give an organ recital Christian church at Jerash at St. John's Cathedral to-morrow Falestine, and which it is thought at 5:45 p.m. The collection will be may represent Christ, was on for the argan, fund and the pro-view in mail week in the British Kramme will be found in an adverMuseum for the first time. tisement on page 12.
Nos. 28A, Des Voeux Road and 11, Wing On Street were sold by auction at the China Auction rooms yesterday for $112,500 (an increase of $27,500 on the upset price).
The purchaser was Mr. Wong. Kam..
The directors of the New primrose gold mine have given notice to the South African Gov. ernment that they will close the mine at the end of March. The mine, which la 40 years old, is It has paid nearly worked out. £2,000,000 in dividende,
According to figures just Issued in Montreal 1,090,888, pas. Bengers were conveyed by the seamanship companies which are members of the North Atlantic Passenger Conference last year, The an increase of 82,412 movement between Europe and ports WAS Canadian Atlantic stronger than that between Euro- pean and United States ports.
The Archdeacon of the Arctic, a new post created by the! Church of England In Canada, According to the "Narodny will look after the spiritual wel
the Association of fare of the Eskimos. The Rev.
For returning to the Colony before the expiration of his term | Politika"
of banishment, a Chinese was Divorced Women of Czecho-AL, Fleming, of St. John, who sent to jail for six months with Slovakia has sent a memorandum has accepted the appointment,
hard labour by Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yes terday. In reply to his Worship, the accused said that he had only Intended spending a few hours in the Colony, having come here to borrow money from relatives.
to each of the political parties in the Diet demanding dennite regulations for the alimony to be granted to divorced women who have been innocent parties in their divorce.
began life as a naval architect and later became a missionary in the Arctic, being the first white
man to cross Bafin Land. He is an authority on the Eskimo language and customs.
The coiffeur at the Ritz, in
"In connection with the ex- Paris, who has probably shaved Mr. Herbert Whitworth, Chairman and Managing-Dired-more famous chins than any bar-pansion of the home air defences, tor of the firm of Herbert Whit.ber alive, says that the King of the Air Ministry have placed Roumania's beard was the tough-orders for 80 giant Handley worth and Co,, manufacturers est growth he ever encountered. Page-Napier night bombing aero- and merchants, bas offered £10,- burber admits that his tips planes to equip new squadrons 000 to establish a scholarship fand with the object of assisting alone amount to at least 2,500 and bring up to date the equip- france (about £20) a month. His ment of established squadrona. youths desiring careers in the ex-biggest came from a member of Each of the new bombing aero- port trade.. The Manchester the American millionaire family planes will be driven by two Chamber of Commerce, the of Brady, who once gave him Napier engines totalling 1,000- trustees of the fund, will admin-1,000 dollars (over 2200) for hp. The machines are designed ister the scholarship scheme..
for attacking enemy aerodromes three weeks' attendance!
so as to destroy their raïding. aeroplanes..
In connection with the ap "Truth," has just kept its pointment of Major-General C. Cjubilee, notes Mr. J. L. Garvin Van Straubenzee, C.B., C.M.G., to in the "Observer" just to hand
People who are in the habit be General Officer Commanding, from London. It is the sole sur- of receiving large numbers of Malaya, vice Major-General Birvivor of "eociety journalism," letters dally say that the average T. Fraser, K.C.B., C.S.L, C.M.G., & and one, at least, of the rivals it handwriting is getting worse, correspondent. of the Times" has outlived the "World" of much worse than it was before says that the appointment is of Edmund Yates way of no the war. Some experts hold that more than usual interest. Major-mean calibre. "Truth" is about this deterioration is largely due. General Van Straubenzee is now the best proof we possess that to carelessness. The head of the commanding the 46th North Mid-you need not be solemn in order post departurient of a West End and Division of the Territorial to be good. Its note of cynical business frm said the other day: Army at Derby. His appoint-amusement has been coupled with "One of the greatest Bugbears of ment derives significance from a sleepless warfare on knavery,modern business is the order or the fact that important changes by which both the charitable and letter from a customer in which are likely to develop at Singapore the investing public have been the sender's signature and often during his tenure, which will be saved untold sums. It has been the address are illegible. Much gin in June next and terminate a voluntary, unofficial and most delay is caused by attempts to In 1981. The present staff con- successful hunter of the financial decipher such signatures and ad- sists of 15 officers, including artil-shark-a career demanding as dresses, and very often the eus lery and engineer experts for the much astuteness as assiduity. tomer complains of Inattention to defences, but as the naval base Long may it flourish in its double requirements when indecipher- role of entertainer and watchable handwriting is the sole develops both staff and troops'are
dog. likely to increüse.
cause."
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
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Dr. Lim Boon Keng, O.B.E., Pre-.! sident the Amoy University, is at short present in Singapore on holiday.
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The death has occurred in a West-end nursing home of Mrs. Victor Chetwynd, whore, husband is the heir to the Chetwynd baronetcy, which dates from 1796.
London papers:
announce the death of Lady Weaver, the wife of Sir Lawrence Weaver, the founder of the National Institute of Agri- coltural Botany and the initiator of many post-war movements..
Dame Ellen Terry, who has been seriously ill, is now well on the way in convalescence.
Mr. Stephen Walsh, M.P., has been elected president of the Lan- cashire and
Miners') Cheshire
Federation.
According to the latest list of
Sir Benjamin Samuel Faudel appointments, transfers etc. Mr. George Cormack, Chief En-Phillips, Bt, a leading City mer
chast, has died at Bails Park, gineer, 8.8. "Sunning," is on
Both reserve,
Hertford, in his 56th year. his grandfather and his father The "Municipal Gazette" (Shang-served as Lord Mayor of London, hai) of February 10. announces the the former in 1846, being the first confirmation of Mr. Philip WJewish Chief Magistrate of the Goldring's appointment as Assis City. tant" Prosecnting Solleftor to the Council. The appointment le ante- dated October 10.
Bishop and Mrs. H. Welsh and The death has becurred at the Misa E. L. Welsh, Lt.-Comdr. and Freemasons Hospital of Mr. John Denyer Hand, after a long and Mrs. E. M. Woodsen and family, He had been the Mr. A. H. Bishop, Mr. H. Stevens painful illness. proprietor and editor of the "Free-and Mrs. J. L Stepens were mason and Masonic Illustrated" for among the passengers who sailed over twenty years.
from Hong Kong yesterday the "President McKinley" for Seattle..
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Dan Breen, the Republican who was elected a member of the Dail Eireann for Tipperary in 1923 and has hitherto refused to sit, received an ovation when he took the oath of allegiance and his seat, upon the reassembling of the Dail Eireann.
Mr. Cedric Hardwicka and Miss Helena Pickard, who are well known on the stage, were married at St. Mr. John McArthur, Western
Judes-in-the-Hill, Hampstead: Both Canada's greatest railroad builder, has died at the age of 73 of pernici- Major-General Sir Neill Malcolm, are now appearing on the London ous anaemia. Mr. MeArthur built a K.C.B., D.S.Q., president of the Bri-stage, Mr. Hardwicke In "Yellow" large portion of the present Cana- tish North Borneo (Chartered) Sands" at the Haymarket, and Mias dian National Railways in the West, Company, is oxpected to arrive in Pickard in "The Purple Bedroom" and also the Hudson's Bay Hne. Singapore about March 15 on his at the Coliseum. He was a native of Lancaster,way to Borneo. Sir Neill Malcolm Ontario.
was formerly General Officer Com- manding in Malaya and many friends will be glad of this oppor trnity of meating him again.
The yacht "Alacrity with Mrs. Moore, an American millionaire and Mrs. Knight on board, was ex- pected at Bali on January 31. The party was to tour through Java and Sumatra overland. It is also possible that the yacht will call at Belawan. The Alacrity" was formerly the yacht of the Comman- der-in-China of the China Station, She was sold on the ground of
sconoray,,
"It was quite a romance of a Ifner, if you like to put it that way, but I cannot say that the engage mant took place before the end of
Deaths announced at Home In mail week are:-Mr. W. H. White, managing director of the Vaudeville Theatre, Reading; it is claimed that ahe opened and reanaged the first A New York correspondent continuous picture show in Londor states that the testinhony given in in Bishopsgate Street in 1906; and & Government suit that Henry Dr. F. Stewart Hutchinson, ot Ford recently rejected with deri- Furze Hill, Hove, Sussex; at aion and laughter, the offer of Maloja, Switzerland, where he had $200,000,000 for his business, has me for a sports holiday; aged 57. awakened Americans to the con-
The following deaths · are -AT- sciousness that they now possess
nounced at Home-The Rev. a multi-billionaire. Mr. Norval Thomas McMurdie, former presi- Hawkins, Ford's former Sales dont of the Catholic College of St. Manager has estimated Ford's George's, Woburn Park, Weybridge, fortune at 2400,000,000, including Surrey, aged 72, who during the £30,000,000 cash in banks, Great War gave refuge ar the col lexe to many Balejano Mr. G. W member of the Bromley Board of Gedney, aged 8 for 6 years a Guardians, a former naval officer Indian Mutiny veteran of Glabe Road, Bramley, Kent the Rev. Edward Lees vicar of Brentwood, Esqox, since 1928, aged 54H MR. Rhys Davies, colfery owner, Abercrave, Braconshire; "foriber nuty; and MP)
sittings to Sir William Orpen, B.A., who is painting his por trait, which is being subscribed for by the Chinese of the FMS., states the London of the "Malay trait Sir George white runiform
the voyage, as I am sure you would Sir George Maxwall is giving lika." Thus, laughingly, Miss. Peggy Thomas, the eldest daughter of Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., discuss ed with a Press representative the announcement of her engagement to Mr. Reginald Harris, whom she met in the liner Saxon on a trip to South Africa two fearg ago. The wedding will probably take place
panying her father off! Parliamentary: mission.
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