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THE CHINA MAIL.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Newstead Abbey, in Notting- hamshire, one of England's Ane old historic mansions and famous for its associations with Byron, is being transformed into flats,
Shareholders in the Colony Belgium's last ten tolpedo-
whereby are reminded of the annual meet boats offered for sale, the Belgian Navy ceases to exist.ing of the Hong Kong and Shang- hai Banking Corporation in the City Hall at 12 noon to-morrow.
Certain lots of whisky and jale, in cases, will be auctioned by Messrs. Lammert Bros. at their Duddell Street sales rooms at 11 Am. next Thursday,
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The second organ recita in conhection with the re-opening of the re-constructed organ in St. John's Cathedral, will be given by A Chinese gir run over by Mr. Rupert Baldwin, A.T.CL.motor-car in Belcher Street yes- to-day at 5.45 p.m.
terday afternoon has been ad- Charged with the larceny ofmitted to the Government Civil a spark plug from a motorcycl's Hospital with a broken leg. belonging to Mr. George Lee, a Chinese youth told Mr. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy yes terday that he had been forced to
Sir Samuel Hoare, British Minister of Aviation, who has just completed a 12,000-mile trip by air from London to India and return in the interest of further ing aircraft development by varidus units of the Empine. He was accompanied on Eis tours by Lady Hoare, who, it is believed, has set a record for flying by women in making the India trip.
H.M.3. Pinafore" will be presented by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Society
at the Theatre Royal on April 1, 2, 4, 8 and 9 and on April 6 (4.30 p.m. matinee).
The Eastern Extension Tele- graph Co. notifies senders of telegrams that, owing to faulty cable connection, telegrama and from Shanghai and beyond are subject to delay.
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Owing to the departure of H.M.S. "Danae" for the North. the dance which was to have been given by the ship's company us the Helena May Institute last evening did not take place.
Should it rain, the venue for to-morrow's Girl Guides" Rally will be changed from Headquar ter House to Volunteer Head- quarters (by permission of Lt.- Col. L. G. Bird, D.S.O.) The Rally starts at 3p.m
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Five Chinese cases of notin- able disease were reported to the Medical Officer of Health on Thursday, all from, the city dis- trict. These comprised one with small-pox, and two each with diphtheria and enteric fever (typhoid).
London burglars tied a tea- cosy over the head of an Airedale terrier and Bound it with frocks and yards of uape before run- sacking a house at Palmers Green. When the occupants.re- turned it took them fifteen minutes to release the dog.
It has been stated that there will be another meeting of the Committee arranging the Agricultural Show in connection
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Some valuable household furniture will be auctioned by Messrs. Lammert Bros. at "The Cottage Barker Rond (No. 452, The Peak) at 2:45 pm on Thurs-i
day.
A debate will take place at the club house of St. Peter's Church Young Men's Club at 8.80 p.m. to-day when the following motion will be moved by Rav. H. A. Wittenbach, M.A, seconded by
Rear Admiral, John" Halligan,
wan testified before the American House Naval Appro», priations Sub-Committee that the practice which German sub- marines had of using their radio Lo. "Rid" French radio stations and tooshune another, enabled! the allies to tabulate their posi blons and slip the American troop transports through the sub-zone without the loss of a man. For Free eso of the radio by the German sulis enabled radio compass stations of the allies to trace the paths of the suby wherever they went, he said.
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who had committed the theft. His Worship sent the boy to the Waifs' Club, expressing at the same time
a hope that he would reform and become useful citizen.
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New Territory to be held at Lady Ho Tang's farm. Sheung law). "that early marriages are Shui, to-morrow at 2:30 pm. The desirable." Mr. T. J. Price, meeting is not to be held this B.Sc. (seconded by Prof. L. Saturday, but on Saturday, Forster, B.A.) will oppose the
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March 26.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL" NEWS.
Mr. H. J. Pearce of the Public Works Department, the noted yachtman, returned to the Colony from Shanghai on the "Empress of Asia" yesterday, bringing with him his bride.
Mr. F. C Jenkin. C.B.E., the Among the passengers return- barrister-at-law, returned to the ing to Hong Kong by the "Em- which arrived Colony yesterday on the "Empress of Asia,"
yesterday, were Mrs. "R. M. press of Asia."
Austin, Mr. G. Hogg, Mr. E. Cock and Mrs. C. Cook,
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Professor Fann, of McGill University, and the Hon. Mr. According to a British wireless Woo Din-hsin, a special educa- message received from Rugby tional commissioner of Peking, this morning, the King has ap-arrived in Hong Kong yesterday proved the appointment of Lieut-on the "Empress of Asia." enant-General Sir Louis Bols to
be Governor and Commander-in- Chief of Bermuda in succession to General Sir J. Asser, who will
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Mr. and Mrs. Fisher, Lt.- Comdr. R. D. King Hargreaves, Dr. P. Kervrann, Mr. A. A. Remedios, Mr. D. E. Sassoon, Mr. J. Gubbay, Mrs. P. M. Yvandvich, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Henderson and Mr. and Mrs. Fisher were among the passengers who arriv ed at Hong Kong yesterday on the "Empress of Asia", from the Northe
Mr. H. M. Fetterly, chief assistant of the freight depart- ment of the Canadian Pacific S.S:Có, srived in Hong Kong yesterday on the "Empress of Asia which also brought Mr. J. M. Henderson (passenger agent) and Mrs. Henderson. Mr. Henderson has beer on leave in Canada and was married in Toronto.
Premier Waktu), of Japan who, addresstoy the exposing jesstoo of the Japanese Dier, declared char bis country will maintain ice axlar. ing naval strength, unlese, Soulabir changes" occur in the internaciona situation.
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Mr. Winston Churchill, Chan- cellor of the Exchequer stated in the House of Commons that the sun spent on war pensions in- 'cluding medien! treatment and administration, from the date of the Armistice, was estimated at £640,000,000, reports a British wireless message received from Rugby this morning.
An impressive military funeral took place yesterday when Pte. Melvit, a popular member of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, was laid to rest at Happy Valley. Pte.. Melvil died rather suddenly shortly after admission to Hoa- pital on return from Camp in the New Territories. The coffin, placed on a gun carriage and covered with the Union Jack, was preceded by a K.O.S.B. firing party with arms reversed, the bagpipes and muffled drums being draped in black. The Rev. Mr. Alexander, Chaplain of the Bat- talion, officiated at the graveside.
There have been few more tragic figures in history remarks a Home paper about the ex-Empresa Charlotte of Mexico, who has justi died at the age of 86. The daugh ter of a King and the wife of an Emperor, her life was nevertheless and full. to the brim of sorrow A Reuter cable from London
disaster. For sixty years her mind announces the death of Sir Ed-
had been clouded as the result of ward Marshall Hall, K.C., the
her terrible experiences, and Pate famous English barrister, Born
certainly made her pay a bitter at Brighton in 1858, he was
price for those few years of glory which ambition thrust upon her and educated at Rugby, where he
ber husband. Her death serves to was a mathematical prizeman,
Mr. Alfred Yates, who has retir-remind us of the enormous changes and at St. John's College Camed from the port of harbour master which the world has witnessed since bridge. He was a barrister of
at Portamouth, served in the Navy the Emperor Maximilian reigned in the Inner Temple in 1882, a ben- for many years, and as a torpedo Mexico and she kept her brilliant cher in 1910. He practised in instructor in H.M.S, "Vernon" in court. Many an empire and king- London and on the South-Eastern 1889 taught the King (ther Prince dom has vanished as though it had Circuit and Sussex Sessions. Sir George) torpedo work. Arthur was M.P. (C.) for the
Southport Division of Lancs.,. After an absence of about 1906-6, and of East Toxteth twenty years, Mr. St. Nihal Division of Liverpool, 1910-18, Singh, the noted Indian writer, He appeared in many celebrated paid a return visit to Hong Kong, од the cases during the past thirty arriving yesterday years, and was generally regard- "Empress of Asia" from the remote. No career ever exemplified
ed as one of England's most dis- North. He is accompanied tinguished barristers.
his wife,
never been, and it is not too much "to say that the whole complexion) of society has profoundly altered. She lived through all these changes, forgotten, lonely furs, unaware of what was going on about her, and her death snapa' a link with a past that already seems incredibly byniere completely the Ireny of fate or the inscrutability of Providence.
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