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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
The London Chamber of Com- merce has decided to allow Ger mans and Australians to resumo their membership.
Remarkable incidents occur-
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Stx Englishmen are leaving home for Germany for the purpose of engaging in the sky-writing of advertisements, "Germany has
come to England because we are the only people in the world at aky writing," anys Major Savage, the proprietor of the Savage Sky Writ- ing Company. Other contracts) have been made with Denmark, Switzerland, and America and negotiations are pending with Aus- tralia.
A Chinese case of enteric fever (typhoid) was reported to the Medical Officer of Health dur- ing the week-end. There was no When the Cunard liner "Lan-other occurrence of notifiable dis- caatria" reached Southampton from ease in the Colony. a Mediterranean. cruise her 380 passengers had a varied assort ment of souvenirs, including many canaries. These feathered soured during the rush to the sup- venirs, purchased at Malta by the posed new goldfield at Gras crew and passengers, numbered be- fontein, in South Africn, and the tween 200 and 300, and the vessel rush has now been declared on her homeward journey was illegal. The quaintness of garb veritable palace of song. Prob of many of the runners was the ably the most curious souvenir was
Professor Harry Pisler, who that of a passenger who purchased cause of much hilarity. One man for 1,500 lire a Sicilian 'donkey-cart wore a swimming costume over a has been giving demonstrations in full suit of underwear with his occult science at the Lee Theatre and n.dog-eart.
pants tucked into his boots, and and other places in the Colony. with his four pegs, with theirs to appear again at the Lee Thea- featherlike plates holding his tre, East Point, on Thursday, Fri- Hla perform- name and number, he looked for day and Saturday. all the world like a modern. Robinances will begin at 9.15 p.m. Book- Hood. Another man rode to the g can be made at the Theatre, or line fully stretched out on the Messrs. Moutrie's at $2, $1 and Soldiers and anflors in running board of a motor-car to uniform will be admitted to the conserve his strength. He had Theatre for 60, 30, and 20 cents. cut his pyjama trousers off above The display, is well worth seeing the knee and had handerchiefs und, highly convincing, bound round his legs to protect them from the sun.
of many.
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Holding an inquest on a two-year-old boy, who had died from scalda, the Hackney coroner said it was an amazing thing that almost everyone in getting ready a warm bath put in the boiling water first, and then proceeded to cool it down with cold water. The case be- fore him was one typical mother had placed the bath upon the floor, put in three gallons of boiling water, and, while she had left it temporarily her son_top pled over into the water. "Even trained nurses and other people who ought to know better," he added, "sometimes did the same thing, and when there were children about it was a very grave danger and a veritable death trap."
A dog belonging to Mr. R. V. Singleton, a cinema proprietor, of Burnside, near Rutherglen, Glas- gow, has a record of finding 52 golf balls in a day. Mr. Single- ton told a reporter that the dog is a four-years-old mongrel named Mickey, and that it has never been trained. "Mickey's gift for finding golf balls," he said, "was unsuspected until one Sunday my son took him for a scamper over the Rutherglen Corporation pub. lic golf course. Mickey began to find golf balls in the rough, and in the forenoon he got about 30. We went out again in the after noon and he raised the day's total to 52." While the family were on holiday at Lochranza, in the island of Arran, during July last year, Mickey found nearly 400 golf balls during a month.
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Speaking at the 28th annual Labour members of the Glas- meeting of Shanks and Co., Ltd., gow City Council have decided to Mr. W. Shanks, the Chairman, boycott the projected visit of the said: The one sinister feature in King to their city on July 12. the foreign market is the chaos Their attitude will be regarded by in China, where for some years most Britons as a blend of the we have done a good business. pathetic and the humorous, re- The Socialists talk of the ex- marks en Australian paper, «Ap-{ ploitation of the Chinese by parently they cannot see that in rapacious capitalists, whereas the offering insult to the Crown, fact really is that, whatever pro- which symbolises all that is gress or well-being has come to potent and valuable in British China during the past, half- civilisation, they are insulting century has been largely brought themselves, and the traditions about by British capitalists and and cultural environment to missionaries. Individual capital- which they, as Britons, are heirs.ists have ventured all over the It may be that they do realise world, and have built up the huge this, and prefer
render foreign export and import busi- allegiance to Moscow, or to ness by which a large proportion nothing more important in the of the inhabitants of these islands selteme of things than their own live. I venture to say that if the strictly limited vision of things as export trade in this town of they ought to be. But even they Barrhead were to disappear one- can hardly hope to achieve any third of the people now employed progress toward their ideals would be dismissed, and general (whatever they may be)-by-offer---impoverishment if not bank- ing gratuitous insults to the ruptcy would ensue!
I say, nation through its chief repre- therefore, that these political sentative. They have yet to learn, fanatics who would hound the perhaps, that good breeding has British out of China and leave its roots in the application of it to the tender mercies of Bol- common sense, as well as in kindly shevik Russia, are the enemies of consideration for the feelings and the working people whom they susceptibilities of others.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
General Shih Ying has been ap- pointed director of the Shanghai Arsenal.
Professor Dr. Karel Panek passed away on May 1 at the Gen- eral Hospital, Shanghai.
Women have made such inroads into British commerce that there now are 101 women directors of important London firms earning salaries, ranging from $3,000 to $100,000 a year." One year ago there were only 65 women direc- tors listed and two years ago only five. Lady Rhondda, whose caus- tic attacks on the "idle women of the leisure class" have been wide- ly quoted, is a director in 30 com- panies. Lady Honywood controls nine hotels. Women directors ean now be found in the iron and steel trade, mining, and the other great industries, in finance con- cerns, and in fact in all walks of British industry and commerce.
Miss Hilda Hechle, whose water-colours are to be seen at the St. George's Gallery, George Street, Hanover Square, is both a highly gifted artist, and an intre- pid mountain climber. Fatigue, exposure, danger are nothing to her when she climbs 12,000 feet
Mr. Nieh Kai-yi has been ap * A great deal is heard of the in- pointed by General Chiang Kai-fluence of a "General" Sutton--- shek as director of the Nationalist said to be a British Army officer General Aviation Department, in receipt of a pension, which, Shanghai branch.
Among the passengers arrived here by the s.s, "Preussen" dur- ing the week-end were Professor R. Kudick, Mr. and Mrs. T. O'Toole, Mr. S. L. Reed, Captain S. Lang and Mr. T. E. Aucôtt.
Passengers arriving from Foo chow, Amoy and Swatow yester- day on the s.s. "Hai Ning" in cluded Mr. J. C. Saunders, Mr. K. H. Robinson, Mr. F. L. Reed, Mr. F. J. Weins, Mr. L. Todman, Mr. and Mrs. T. Carr Ramsay, Miss Adina Weins,
however, he has not claimed for the past two years; he is stated to have proved a tower of strength to the Northerners, whose forte is certainly not organisation, anys a London correspondent.
Sir William Orpen, A. R. A., celebrated portrait painter, has taken up the cause of unknown English artists who are shivering In Chelsea garrets because they are Sir William has accepted the chair- unable to market their pictures. manship of a committee of well- known artists to choose the works of little known painters which will be exhibited and offered for sale in various cities in Great Britain, and later in the United States.
Mr.
Passengers arrived in Hong Kong this morning by the "Em-
The following deaths were an- press of Asia" from Manila in-nounced. at Home in mail week: cluded Lt.-Col. and Mrs. R. H. Mr. Matthew Clark, of Messrs. J. Pierson, Dr. and Mrs. F. P. and T. Clark, Glasgow, and for Wakefield, Mr. E. P. Williams, some years a member of the Mon- Mr. and Mrs. J. Wyllla, Dr. H. chester Cotton Exchange, at Llan-
drindod Wells, Aged 54; S. and Mrs. Bookman.
Kighley John Hough, official re- ceiver in bankruptcy for Cumber Probate of the will of Mra. Aliceland, formerly a member of the Dawson, late of Sai Tau, Kowloon, Chancery Bar and later admitted a who died on March 21, 1927, has solleftor, a prominent member of been granted to Miss Ruby Mow the Primrose League, at Carlisle, Fung, of the same address, the exe-aged 67; Mr. John William Dean, Mrs. Dawson for many years a bank manager at cutrix of the will.
or so to get on intimate terms Colony, and the whole of her estate circles in the Potteries, at Stoke-on- left net personalty of $10,400 in the Tunstall, prominent in musical with her beloved peaks and glaciers. Her work attests to the is left to her two sons Aubrey Ed-Trent, aged 72; Mr. J. M. Markham, absence of fear; for, though she ward Dawson and Frederick Wil-formerly seizes the majesty of the heights, the vastness of the snow-covered
slopes, the bulk and structure of the mighty rocks, her pictures range from the serene to the solemn, and never reflect the threatening, fear-inspiring ELS- pects of nature.
By the appointment of Miss Asta Crowe as private secretary
Ham Dawson.
a Northamptonshire county cricketer and a follower of Pytchley Hounds, at Northampton,
Birkenhead, Past Grand Wurden, Squadron for nearly 30 years, at The Right Hon. the Earl of aged 76; and Mr. Thomas Pasley,
secretary of the Royal Yacht] was installed as Deputy-Master of his home, Northlands, Cowes, aged the Royal Colonial Institute 67. Lodge, No. 3556, on March 11, in
succession to Sir Thomas Willes Commenting on Bir Hugh Chitty, Bart., Grand Registrar. Clifford's appointment to the post The Installation, meeting was due of Governor of the Straits Settle- in January, but, owing to the ab-ments, the "Daily Mail" says: It sence of Lord Birkenhead in the is no searet that he is fed up" to Sir Colville Barclay, British Canary Islands, there was a post- with Ceylon and that the lack of minister to Budapest, ahow ponement. The great interest progress of his pet schemes--pea phase has been opened in the taken in the event was shown by sant proprietorship, land, and the diplomatic service. Mina Crowe, the presence of 250 brethren, anti-malaria campaign discour oldest daughter of the late Sir members of the Lodge and visit aged him. His long experience as Eyre Crowe, permanent Under ors from overseas. The officers & Colonial administrator made the Secretary of State at the Foreign appointed in January were invest-pin-pricking of the unofficial Office, is the first woman to consed by Lork Birkenhead. At the majority in the Legislative Coun- quer in the field of diplomacy and conclusion of the investitures ad-cil here distasteful. In his new her appointment has caused a stir dresses were delivered by Lord post Sir Hugh Clifford will not and brought about much specula Meston, Past Grand Warden; Sir have to suffer that. He is a deter- tion, Miss Crowe has already Frederick Follock, Past Deputy mined man and has fought taken up her duties. Among Grand Registrar, and Bir several Colonial Secretaries in other notable women diplomata Thomas Willes Chitty all the past including Mr. Churchill. who have served in London, Miss Past Masters of the Lodge, A He speaks Malayan like a native Crowe's appointment recalls the Past Master's Jewel was present- and said that he would," be name of Madame Olga, deed to the Immediate Past Deputy of mores use in Malaya than in Vovikoff who was ambassador Master by Lord Birkenhead, on Ceylon, and was grateful to the from Russia during the Prime behalf of the members of the Colonial Secretary for giving him Ministry of Gladstone.
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