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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
About 120. men of the R.A.M.C., with equipment, left for Shanghai yesterday by the "Empress of Asia."
Messrs. Lammert Bros, nuts
While Mass was being cele- tioneers, have received instructions brated on Good Friday in the to sell a quantity of household little church at Loriga, Portugal, furniture at No. 23. Humphreys the building collapsed. Two Building, Kowloon, on Wednesday, persons were killed and 30 injur May 18,
ed. Most of the congregation had to be dug out of the ruins.
Two cases of enteric fever and one of small pox, all three Chinese and all three
from
Our Cheung Chau correspon- Kowloon, were notified yester-dent writes that the Afforestation day.
Department has been busy planting out small trees in the holes pre-womankind is not complete it!
If the emancipation viously prepared on the Island.
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of
Y. M. Decaney, a former The recent rains should give the must be very nearly approaching violinist of the Queen's Theatre, I plants a good start. The rains it remarks a Liverpool paper. was ordered at the conclusion have cut up the paths somewhat, For some time now lady barris- yesterday, of the action brought but the contractor has vow men on ters have been making their ap
in the law courts the job putting them in good pearance against him at the Kowloon Magistracy by his wife, to pro-
shape.
throughout the country, mostly vide her with $80 a month, An
as probationers, but sometimes order was also made that the According to our Cheung stepping into the role of acting wife was to have the custody of Chau correspondent, the second counsel. Now comes the news the four children.
matshed theatre erected on the that one of their number, Miss island by the Vegetarians has Margaret Kidd has ventured into now been dismantled. The pro-an inquiry before a Select Com- A special May Dance is
ceedings concluded with two mittee of the House of Commons, being held at St. John's Cathe-Lion" processions, the usual She was well supported, for there dral Hall-to-morrow evening big drum being vigorously beaten, were no fewer than three K.C.'s when fancy dress will be A collection of funds was made to lend her, which fact would optional. The dance starts at from the shops and houses.
leave her really but little 8.30 and i limited to seventy
nothing to do. One would searco- couples. There will be tea and
ly have dared to accuse lady. barristers of "showing off," but it is worthy of remark that they don't do any of their waiting in police. courts where wig and gown. are not worn.
light refreshments and the Dancing in the air will be "Titania's" Melodians Orchestra one of the features of Germany's will provide the music, Tickets new Zeppelin, the LZ. 127, which for gentlemen are $2 and ladies by has been chartered by Spain for courtesy. There will be prizes the air service Seville-Buenos- for the best fancy costumes.
Aires. The walls of the combined dining and drawing-room will be It is interesting to note will be a parquet floor second to panelled in cedarwood, and there from the "Yellow Dragon," the none that ever adorned an occan organ of Queen's College, that liner. The forty passengers will the February-March circulation be able to dance with consider WRS eleven hundred copies, ably more comfort which indicates the strength of sometimes the appeal it makes to present crowded room. and past pupils alike. Numbers
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Speaking at the annual Halifax Per-
1, 2 and 3 issues for this year have been received containing interesting reviews of activities meeting of the and the continuation of the in-manent Building Society, Lord teresting series of articles
Burnham said that "150,000 Birds of Hong Kong.
houses had been purchased through the help of that society, If each of those houses were Enquiries at the Kowloon-occupied on the average by four Canton Railway elicited the in-persons, the society's assistance formation that there was no had been extended to provide truth in the report appearing in homes for no less than 600,000 a vernacular newspaper that in- individuals.. They say that Pro- formation had been received vidence provides for the pro- from the management of the vident. Well, I hope that the railway in Canton stating that Providence which provides for the express service would be the provident will long bless the normal again to-day. It is work of this society until its in- understood that the slow traincrease is equal to the public de- service is the only one at pre- mand, and until, with those that sent and no information as to are associated and allied with it, the likelihood of starting the ex- it gives to all our working people press service has been received. and a good many of those who The vernacular paper also re- belong to the middle part the ported that the local authorities chance of acquiring, on fair of all districts along the railway terms, the house in which they had been instructed to see that live, for themselves and for their the road was well guarded.
children who come after them."
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house near Chelmsford and made The thieves who robbed a
good their escape by car were able to do so because the police have as yet no method of effect- ually closing roads to traffic in an emergency, remarks the "Daily Mail" in an editorial com- ment. What they do when, as in this case, criminals are known to be escaping is to send out a dis- trict call to hold up all cars along certain roads. To give effect to this call the police stand in the rond and call on every car as it approaches to stop. Innocent drivers pull up at once; criminals ignore the challenge of the police and run the policeman down if he does not get out of the way. What is wanted is some effective means of obstructing roads which criminals cannot break through without
Lights and other signals would risk to themselves.
remove any danger to law-abid- ing motorists. In London motor bandits, as was shown by a case a few days ago, find it possible to escape in the crush of traffic. A special police signal could easily be arranged which would have the effect of stopping' all traffic. chances of the police of capturing This would add to the
the criminals.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Mr. W. A. Harpur, formerly of the "Westminster Gazette," Lon- don, has assumed the editorship of the "Straits Echo," Penang.
Mr, F. A. Perry, Manager of the British American Tobacco Co. (China). Ltd. left yester- day by the "Empress of Asia" for England via Canada for six months' holiday.
The Bishop of Singapore, who is shortly leaving for Home on retirement. is paying farewell visits up-country in Malaya, and is not expected back in Singapore until June 1.
Among the passengers arriving here to-day by the s.s. "Talping" from Australia was Mr. M. Manuk, Secretary, of the Hong Kong Dalty Farm, Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd. Mr. Manuk is also President of the Hong Kong Lodge of the Theoso- phical Society.
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Among passengers leaving for the North yesterday by the s.s. "Empress of Asia" were Mr. R. C. Tredwell, Mr. H. Owen Hughes, Mr. J. J. Brooks,. Mr. R. F. Clark, Mr. A. J. Chesterton, Mr. H. Dixon, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Dick, Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Hansen and Mr. C. D. Robertson.
T. White Mr. Hausmann, Mrs.
Cheung Chau has said goodbye to The death has occurred at the age several of the ladies of the Alliance of 82 at Worthing of Mr. Edward Mission who are sailing for Lloyd, the famous tenor. For Americà, conditions in China pre-over thirty years until he retired in venting their taking up, their work 1900 he was idolised as one of the again for the time being.
greatest singers of the day..
Great preparation is being made several important models of rose-
Paris has received with favour! at Kensington Palace for the re-lilac for evening wear. The colour, ception of Princess Alice Countess which is exactly what it sounds, is of Athlone and Lady May Cam- becoming to both blondes and bridge, who will arrive from Africa
brunettes. 'One of the meat popu during May (says the "Sunday lar models in this colour is design- Chronicle.") Friends of the Prin cess at Windsor are hoping she will has created in it a gown which the ed by Jean Patou in velvet. Patou unt forget the Royal borough when she pays out-of-town visita in the
woman of only moderate perfection of figure and colouring can wear as summer. She is a popular figure there, and often used to walk endowed sister. The secret is. a her more generously gracefully alone, carrying a small shopping deep slendering V arrangement of basket
to strass embroidery from neck waistline and narrowing effect of hip line..
I met Lady Astor the other day looking as young and pretty as her own. daughter and told her so! The King and Queen have been She says she is so busy with en- doing an unusual amount of gagements she never finds the day quiet entertaining at Buckingham long enough (observes a "Sunday Chronicle writer.) Then at a Palace recently, and most of dress show I saw Lady Oxford and their guests, whether at luncheon, Asquith, whose slim figure and tea, or dinner, have commented "chic" revalled the youngest de- upon the masses of spring butante in the room! Later on in flowers in the Royal rooms (saya "live" figures of Lord Darling and Queen Mary likes flowers on the Bond street I contrasted the brisk, a "Daily Chronicle" writer). Lord Birkenhead with the languid meal-table. It is boredom of the permanently-waved which she has conservative ideas, matter upon young men in their purple "ensem- bles,” and could not help wondering,
preferring gracefully arranged which is the younger generation? vases of fragrant blooms to de- corate the dinner table rather than the fanciful and artificial "novelties" which many hostesses
Passengers arriving at Hong Kong by the s.s. "Taiping" from! The following deaths were an- Australia to-day were Mrs. C.nounced at Home in mail week now use for the purpose, Prin- John. Mr. Chas. Ramsay, Mrs. Major S. R. Field, who in July cess Mary also has real flowers Diamond, Miss P. Diamond, Mr. succeeded his father as Clerk of for dinner-table decoration, but H. B. Dickson, Mra, Layton & son, the Peace and Clerk of the County the Duchess of York occasionally Mra. J. Howie, Capt. and Mrs. Council of Warwickshire, a uses decorative details of the Bayes Davy, Miss M. Bayes Davy, descendant of Oliver Cromwell; more modern order instead of Miss G. Bayes Davy, Mr. and Mrs. in Egypt; Miss Frances C. M. flowers. Arum Hiies are among Nolan and daughter, Miss H. Barker, headmistress of the the flowers which grow especially Johnson, Miss R. Johnson, Mrs. Eversfield School for Girls at well in the Royal Gardens at P. M. Alzona, Mr. F. Aildas, and Surrey, and formerly English Windsor, and on most days now Mr. H. Glanchand,
mistress at Newcastle High they are to be seen in profusion School, at Worthing, aged 43 at Buckingham Palace. The The foreign population of Cheung to 1900 headmaster of De Aston Windsor where the show of Canon A. Temperley, from 1880 lilles are sent up regularly from Chau has somewhat thinned out, writes our Cheung Chau correspon School, Market Rasen, and subsearums this year is magnificent. dent. Dr. and Mrs. Hayes have quently rector of South Willing- Every day flowers and vegetables returned to Canton, and Mrs. ham, Lincoln, at Heightington, are sent up from Windsor, under Wright has gone to join her hue near Lincoln, aged 76; Mr. Walter the aegis of the head gardener," band thore, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Tripp, the actor, who to Buckingham Palace while the Wright will be celebrating their played under the name of Tripp Court is in residence there. The silver wedding anniversary at the Edgar, father of June, the goods are carefully packed and end of this week. Cheung residents musical comedy actress, at transported by road. Daffodils Are sorry that these old and tried Brighton; and Mr. Willam are among other spring flowers friends will not be on the leland Roberts, founder of the Birming coming up at this time, and there to receive personal congratulations, an Industrini Co-operative: So are usually some of the gardenias, but wish them many more years of service, and companionship tociety, and formerly a railwayman, | in which Windsor excels, in the gether.
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