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The New South Wal83 Govern-j ment has introduced a B under which motor-car owners must in. Rare passengers' lives and also in- sure against people being knocked down and injured.
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When a police constable went to seize a stray and unmuzzled dog on the Peak yesterday, he was bit- ten in both hands by the anima The Pellee description of the dog is a Japanese spaniel and it is now in quarantine at Kennedy Town.
Mr. Aubrey organ, aged: 28,
of Harlesdon, NW. & member of the London Fire Brigade for seven years, who has died in Willesden Hospital was "a member of the storming party which landed from HMS "Vindictive" at Zeebrugge Mote "in 1913.
For stealing wood from Murray Barracks compound yesterdays a Chinese was this murning sentenced by Major Willson le ten days! hard labour, Defendant's excuse
several was that he bought the beks, Thia the contractor denied,. maintaining that the wood had been jeut into specific shape to be made into the "wooden box" for Chinese (pinnes.
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Says Lite "Singapore Press": 1, seems expedient to issue a warning to travellers not to pur- chase binoculars indiscriminately, A case hng come to our notice of a gentlemon paying Bonsiderable
sum of money to the member of the company of a ship voyaging be- tween England and the Eust for a bale of binoculars alleged to be made by Zeiss. On examination by a competent optician in Singapora the glasses were found to be a frau- dulent imitation warth only abouta pound or two sterling.
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One case of anteric fever, British, was notified yesterday.
At No. 94, Nathan Road (Davis Building), ground floor, Kowloog, s quantity of household furniture will be auctioned by Mesura. Lammert Bros. at 10.45 a.m. on Saturday.
Dr. Harvey Wiley, famous as the father of the pure food inw. who has done much to promote purity in foods has declared to President Coolidge in favour of continuing the process of dene- turing industrial alcohol by the use of wood alcohol and other poisons","
The Association of Paat. and: Prasant Commerein) Students of the Hong Kong University are" holding | their annual dinner in the Great Hall of the University, on Satur- day at 7.46 p.m.
Far Eastern travellers by the reinstated Trans-Siberian railway service will have to go without a bath for 12 days, there being no bath-car cn the brain as there was before the war.
The biography of Sir Patrick Manson, who has justly been called the father of tropical medicine, will appear this apring with Cassell. When he settled ut Amoy, in China, (fa the "seventies of, the last century,
tropical medicine had not come into. being. Hin discoveries of the part played by the mosquito, in diseños Hike malaria and yellow fever were! heralds of the new school,
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"INVISIBLE HELPERS" will be the subject of this week's Public Lecture of the Hong Kong Lodge, the Theosophical Society, 7, Duddel Street, thaxt to Hotel Metropole), on Thursday, February 24 at 6 p.m. The Public are cordially invited to attendi. Lec- turer: Mr. John Russell:
Theosophical Books for sale." Good Library.
The Ledge is open for inquiries: --Mondays, Fridays & Sasurdays, from, 6 to 8 pm, other days and Sundays, before and after meetings... Bill 8 pm
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The Pruss of the world is being invited to Colegio, the ancient city of culture en. the Rhine, for an In- ternasional Press Exhibition to be held in 1928, its objects. being to give the world an impressiva ple- tare of the educational and econ omie Importance of the Press in international life and to further the idea of international co-operation The among its various sections. Exhibition is divided into the fol-) Flowing main"departments; Daily Book Newspapers, Periodicals, Printing art, Technical Instala tions and Auxiliary Equipment, the Unions of the Preas, the German. the Proms in Foreign Countries, The British India steamer Press and Traile, the Press and Art, the Press and Advertising "Mundra" arrived at Singapore on Feb. 14 with over a hundred mong Newspaper Science, Paper and keys on board, destined for Aus- Photography and Kinematography. tralia: The "Mundru" sailed from, The historie exhibits will be so the Hon. Mr. Calcutta. and the monkeys are pre-selected that they will show the de- Hayes Marriott), who was accom-sumably gothg to represent their velopment from earliest beginnings panied on the Bench by the Civil species in Australian Zoological cot and primitive appliances up to the District Judge (Mr. H. G. Sarwar.)lections.
modern newspaper.
interesting A was witnessed in the Civil District Court, Singapore, when of forty- a Government servant seven years' standing was pre- Isented Swith the Imperial Lang Service Medal. The recipient was Babu bin Jad Mohamed, ehlef process, server in the Civil District Court, who first joined the Govern- ment service in 1870; when he was seven years of age and filled the Themble but useful role of punkah puller in the Education Department. The presentation was made by the Colonial Secretary
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Capt. J. Mason, of the
Mr. C..B. Shank of the Hong Pilot Services, is leaving for home | Kong Excavation, Pile Driving & by the P. and O. "Kalyan" on Feb-Construction Co., Ltd. was a pus ruary 27.
senger on the northbound "Shinya Maru" yesterday.
The late Mr. C. L. Gibson..of Ockley, Surrey, and Broadstairs,
Major-General and Mrs. R. W. formerly of the Federated Malay Gowan sailed from Hong Kong yes- States, gave £200 each to the Royalterday on the NY.K. "Shinyn National Lifeboat Institution, the Maru."
Walter Stotznor, the well-known German explorar, who will soon start on an expedition to Tiber
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Mr. P. G. Norman, formerly d viser to the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen and who has recently been on a visit to. Canton, left Hong Kong yesterday on the "Shinyo Maru," bound for Shanghai, and San Fran- cisco. Other passengers included the Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Mowatt, the Rev. and Mrs. G. H. Waterk
In the spring. Princess Mary, who
is always an early riser. spends most of her time gardening says the "Sunday Express."), Wearing a coarse linen apron with coloured borders, and a wide flap pocket in front to carry light tools, she weeds and works away. Often she makes light pencilled sketches of the dif ferent lower beds us. a. memoran- dum to remind her of the flowers to order, and her books on gardening" have their own special corner.
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Mr. R. F. Smyth, who has been. .connected with the Siamese, rail- ways as an engineer since 1898, has gone home on retirement, Mr. Smyth is one of three brothers all associated with the State Rail- waya, Mr. James Smyth retired some years ago and is living at home, and the only brother left in Slam is Mr. Gilbert Smyth, who
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Seamen's Hospital Society (Dread-is maintenance engineer at Lam- nought), the National Institution pang. for the Blind; the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys, The value of the briste is £37,246.
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Debutantes of the near future the who will shine socially Duchess of Devonshire's youngest daughter, Lady Anne Cavendish,. who is 18 in August, and has been
NEWS.
The Hon. Mr. Justice A. V.. Brown, Judge, Johore, has been granted leave of absence for three months before retirement.
The Rev. Kenneth Nigel Mac) kenzie, elder son of the Bishop of Argyll and the lales, was married on Jun. 12, in St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, to Miss Alice Alexandra
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Brix. Gep. Jusuph L. Casured U1, S. A.. commanding the 15th Fr fantry, troops to China..
Macdonald Shaw, younger daughter of Mr. James, T. Shaw, 4 Belford Place, Endinburgh. The wedding ceremony was performed by the father of the bridegroom.
Eden Phillpotte may now bel Finished only a few weeks be fore she disappeared, a novel by at a fashionable Paría "nishing ranked among the elect of contem- has Mrs. Agatha Christie, entitled school with her cousin, Mis Maryporary playwrights, for he
Mercer-Nairne (Lady Violet Astor's three plays running in the West "The Big Four," is to be publish girl' and a debutante of next year) End (any's a "Daily Chronicle" ed shortly by Messrs. Collins. It Lady Mary Graham, the Duke and writer.) At the moment he is alone is a tale of mystery, and the Duchess of Montrose's elder girl; in this distinction, and few have publishers received the manu- and Lady Rose M'Donnell Lord and attained. it. I can only think of script only a few days before Lady Antrim's eldest child (ob- Barrie, Somerset Maugham and Mr Christie disappeared. It is serves the "Star") Another Noel Coward. Neither of the lat understood that she had only portant debutante is Miise Evelyn fer, however, can say with Phill- just put the finishing touches to Baird, the daughter of Mr. W. and potts that he has never seen one of it. The book, it is believed, was Lady Hersey Baird, of Lennoxlove, his successes performed, Phillpotta The and grand-daughter of the Dowager admits never having seen
Wife" and written some time ago. It is un-Lady Conyingham. Miss Jean Farmer's
"Yellow derstood that Mrs. Christie, Fauder-Phillips, the oldest of the Sands"; if he has seen pis latest owing to the state of her health, family of Mr. & Mrs. Lionel Faudel-pluy The Purple Bedroom" at has not herself. corrected the Phillips, le another comer-out of the Coliseum, nobody but himself proofs of the book. Mra. Interest Mias Faudel-Phillips is knows of the fact, For so typical Christie is still et Abney Hall, grand-daughter of two wall-reya West Country man, it is diff-
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Sir calt to realise that Philpotts was Cheadle, Cheshire, where she is membered, men he staying with her sister, Mrs. J. George Faudel-Phillips, City mer- born in India, but he came home in Watts. The latest report states chant and Lord Mayor in 1897, and early childhood and went to Man the late Ford Granville Gordon, namead School, Plymouth, where, that she continues to improve Lord Huntly's brother and hair I believe, he was a regular contribu slowly.
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