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Normal working between Hong Kong, Shanghai and beyond has been re-established by the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co.
A recommendation la to be made to Edinburgh Town Council that a site in front of the City Chambers be granted for the orec- tion of the Edinburgh Cenotaph. This decision was reached 'at a meeting March 17 of a sub, committee of the. Lord Provost's Committee of the Town Counell,
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The Glasgow police, who found Ja man sleeping on a stálr, early in the morning, and took him to the police station, thinking he WAS destitute, had a surprise when they searched him. He had in his pos- Rcasion nine £20 notes, one £5 note, and Afteen £1 notes, the total amaoust being £200.
The late Sir Apolo Kagwa, former Prime Minister of Uganda, left an estate of 300 square miles, cash consisting of 282,766 shillings. 1,402 hend of cattle, and other pro- perty. His successor, Separiya, is his second son, Apola leaves 10 children. le WIS remarkable African. great in stature and in mentality.
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Mr. S. F. Edge, the well-known motorist has purchased at auction for £136,000 A.C. Cars (Limited), which was sold by order of the High Court.
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, the well-known banker, has made a donation of $200,000 to the Neuro- logical institute for the study of sleepy encephalitis lethargica, or sicktiess, as a memorial to his wife, who died two years ago a victim to the mysterious malady.
An anonymous donor has pre- sented Coventry Free Library with George Eliot's manuscript common- Miscel- place book, "Fables and Janeous Notes." This contains ninety-two pages of extracts and notes in the novelist's neat hand- writing.
It seems that M. Doumergue, Pre-
aident of the French Republic. would be wise to go into training! for his prospective visit to Eng- lund in May, just before the arrival| of the French Fleet, cheerves "Daily Mod" writer. I hear that John Flynn, a clerk, living at he is to be given a banquet at the Blackpool, who in Prance in 1915 Guildhall, a State banquet at Buck- was shot through the head and beingham Palace, and a Government came deaf and dumb, has suddenly banquet at the Foreign Office, not recovered his speech. A former to mention the dinners with which employee of the Deaf and Dumb the French colony, hended by their Institute, Blackpool, he went to Embassy, will delight to honour Liverpool to search for work. While im. playing football there he received a kick in the throat, and immediate- ly after he found that he could talk.
The War Office has dropped an- other bombshell on the Territorial Army Associations (anys the "Times") by the issue of a letter.) expressing the opinion that Asso- ciation quarters should not be occupied by caretakers or by civi was announced at the Old Clif-lian employees while permanent
The Prince of Wales has pro- mixed to visit Clifton College, Bristol, on June 2. The decision
tonkans' dinner at the House of Commons by the Speaker: Mr. Whitley, who was at the college, A most impressive service of Other M.P.s who were educated at remembrance was held at World's Clifton are: Sir Thomas Inskip, the View, in the Matoppas, South Solicitor-General, Captain Charles Africa, at the grave of Cecil Craig. Sir Arthur Shirley Benn, Sir Rhodes on the occasion. of the Richard Lace, Sir Kenneth Mur- of his chison, Sir Geoffrey Butler, Mr. twenty-fifth anniversary death. The attendance numbered Hore-Belishu and Col. Joslab a thousand, including representa Wedgwood. tives of the Governmer and all leading associations.
A luminous number which can be seen from a distance at night has been put up on the Budapest town hall, and the authorities are considering the advisability of put ting luminous numbers on all the houses in the city, and luminous
A new form of road-hog has made his appearance and is in creasing in numbers. It is well known that the King's chris fitted with two bright blue flambeaux to enable the police to recognise It easily and so afford it ready pas- sage. Recently an increasing num-
plaques at the street corners ober of private motorists have been which the street names may be easily read after dark. It is claim ed that Budapest is the first city to consider this method of obviating the difficulties of cireufation nt night.
One result of the slaughter of ostrichee in South Africa may be seen in London, where ladies' hand- bags made of ostrich skin are dis- played in the shops (says a "Morn- ing Post" writer). Over 200,000 birds have been killed recently, so that there should be no lack of material. The resultant leather is of a pleasing quality, marked for the most part with dark apots which show where the body fen- thers grew, and it is claimed to have enduring qualities. Its em- ployment is a tribute to the modern spirit which seeks out a use for everything, and even turns such a disaster as the killing off of such vast numbers of birds to account.
using blue head-inmps in the hope of being mistaken for royalty. It is mean attempt to secure an advantage over fellow-motorists and deserves to fail, as it surely will do, for it is killing itself by Its very numbers.
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While the Prince of Wales is admittedly the fashion lender for men, some of his too slavish fol- lowers apt to forget the difference between their build and that of his "Royal slimness" (says the "Sunday. Chronicle.") informal affair recently, lounge jackets were worn, the Prince appeared in his favourite single-breasted. two-button lounge jacket, with broad, long lapels. It was comical to watch the transition in effect by the same style on a stockily-built guest of enormous breadth, oh whom the coat looked merely ludicrous.
staff instructors are accommodated In lodgings. They are therefore asked to re-allot the quarters and to give rensons in any case where the eviction of the caretaker is con- sidered impossible.
The "Times" correspondent at: Shanghai, in a
very interesting letter which appeared in mail week, disparages the apparent efficiency of the Cantonese army, and attri-| to the honey- butes its success combing of every new hostile posi- tion by Communist-cum-Nationalist propaganda behind the enemy's lines. Thus are the lessons of the Great War of the West learned in
the East. That one half, at least, of this view is correct is shown by what has happened to Wa Pel-fu at Hankow and Chang Chung- chang before Shanghai.
A correspondent writes to the! London "Observer"-A brief in- timation in the newspapers that the Air Mail is now running to India' and saving five days, out of a fort. night gives a pathetic impression of "publicity" as conceived in the Post Office. The fact than whis- pured is of the very greatest import both to the business world and to the many thousands who have per sonal relations with the Enst. Every branch post-office in London ought to ring with it in conspicu- ous posters with complete details.) What actually happens, is that the would-be user of the Air Mail finds the postal assistant in a state blank ignorance or compelled consult voluminous files for needful directions. Under busi- ness methods like these, it will be the end of the century before nir- carriage becomes economic.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Mr. C. Aris returned to-day from Brisbane by the s.s. "Tanda."
Dr. and Mrs. Mrs. H. A. Judson of the American Presbyterian Mis- sicn left Hong Kong yesterday on the "President Jefferson" for Home.
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Mr. H. H. Howard (of the Stand ard Oil Co., India) and Mrs. Ho- ward auiled from Hong Kong yes- terday on the "President Jefferson" for Seattle.
Passengers arrived at Hong Kong yesterday by the "President Lin- coln" from Seattle and Shanghai included Mr. M. A. de Carvalho, Mr. G. Moolchand, Mr. Otto Morgen stein and Mr. Samuel S. Wong.
To have piloted 10,000 passengers in British and Dutch air liners and to have spent 7,500 hours, or over ten months, in the air. is the re- cord of Captain J. P. Olley, an Im- perial Airways pilot. Captain Olley, who began flying in 1915 and has been on cross-Channel routes since 1919, carried his 10,000 pas-
A Singapore merchant in Mr.senger in mail week in a flight from Albert Peterson was a passenger London to Paris. on the "President Jefferson" which sailed from Hong Kong yesterday for Seattle.
Mr. J. H. Green, Far Eastern manager of Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son, left Hong Kong yesterday on the "President Jefferson" to return to Shanghai.
Hong Kong passengers arrived to-day by the "Tanda" included Mr. G. Bonham Carter, Mr. J. H. Lind- say. Mr. D. Keswick and Mr. H. Studholme from Sydney and the Rev. Scheule from Sandakan,
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Sir Herbert Warren, president of Magdalen College, Oxford, has an- nounced that he has informed the college of his intention to retire president at from his office as Michaelmas, 1928. He was elected to the office in October, 1885.
A message from Vancouver announced the death of. Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, K.C.M.G., at the age of 72.. He was distinguished, Canadian statesman, and son of a former Premier of Canadian. He waa knighted in 1893 for hia, services in pro- tecting the Canadian seal fur inter- esta in the Behring Sen by arbitra- tion at Paris,
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Mr. Philip Laszlo, the painter, who recently arrived at Madrid has
The death has occurred at Cape- been entertained at a dinner attend- ed by leading artists, writers and town, at the age of 79, of Mr. musicians. Mr. Laszlo is engaged Isaac Lewis, senior director of the on portraits of members of the Lewis and Marks group. Spant h royal family. Mr. Philip cordance with Mr. Lewis's desire, Alexius Laszlo de Lombo, who was his remains will be interred beside born at Budapest. la a naturalised those of his wife at Willesden (Lon. British subject. He has painted don). Mr. Lewis went to South. portraits of many royalties and of Africa nearly 50 years ago and, distinguished people, including the with his partner, the late Senator late King Edward and Queen Alex Samuel Marks, was one of the andra, and Signor Mussolini, the pioneers of the Kimberley diamond Italian Premier.
fields. In addition to being one the biggest industrial magnates Mr. George. Allsop, whose death, in South Africa, he was also one at the age of 63, is announced from of the biggest land-owners, With Johannesburg, will be remembered others he established the iron and as manager of the South African steel works at Vereeniging. cricket teams. which toured Eng- Barnatos and Jools were his asso- Innd in 1904, 1907, 1012, and 1924. clates in those early days in the The best team under his charge diamond flelds.. Paul Kruger, and was that In 1907; when South Mr. Lewis were great friends in African cricket was at its best. In the days before the Boer War. that season England won only.one of the Test matches, the other two being drawn. Mr..."Allsop WAS General Str. Hamilton Bower met secretary of the Wanderers Club in with a nasty motor accident at his Johannesburg, and his death is residence, The Cottage, North Her- loas generally to sport in South wick. He was starting his car. Africa. which had apparently been left in gear, when he was knocked down, and received severe injuries to his head and legs Fortunately no bones were broken..
Prominent Chinese of Malaya who sailed from Hong Kong yes. terday on the "President Jefferson" for Seattle, to go on to Europe, Included Mr. and Mrs, Chun Poh- Blang and daughter, Mrs. Tan Chay- yan and, daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Chee Swee-chiang and daughter.
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The Colonial Office sometimes the "Observer" of March 27 When moves in a mysterious way, anya Sir Hugh Clifford entered the public service as a cadet forty-four years ago, he distinguished himself by One of the last of the British the thoroughness with which he, contingent to leave the Swiss win- mastered all the dialects of his ter sports le Dame Katherine Furse, Malayan sphere. The recognition who has just come down from the of this industry, took the form of The young Swedish nobleman, Engadine, where she remained for removing him to Nigeria, where his Govan Falkenberg, a Count in his the excellent skiing still available load of expert knowledge would own right and the inheritor of an at this period of the year, says acount for precisely nothing. Now, income of nearly £6,000 a year, for Home gossip writer. Wearing & after storing his mind for a dozen whom Swedish Consuls all over very practical costume of blue years with the linguiatic miscellany the world have been searching, serge and looking extremely of West Afrlen, he returns to visited the Consulate at Sydney on bronzed and fit. Dame Katherine Malaya as Governor. There may April 8. He had read the news broke her journey at Geneva, where be method as well as humour In paper, reports regarding the death she was shown over the Becretariat such transitions, but it requires of his father, and, in duty to his of the League of Nations by Dame considerable faith to think so.. mother and the younger members of Rachel Growdy, the head of the Not, of course, that any Colony res the family, he reported immediate women and children's welfare sec- ceiving Sir Hugh, Clifford as to the Consulate.Count Falken- tion, herself askier of no mean Governor will believe Itself other berg will leave shortly for Sweden; reputation:
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