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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Last Sunday night a cobra about 2 ft. 6 in, long was caught at Pokfulam,
One case of small pox, Chi- nese, was notified in the Victoria district yesterday.
been
The valuation lists for the Colony for the year 1927-1928 will be open to inspection at the Treasury for twenty-one days commencing on Monday. May 23.
Extension of the Judgments A gigantic customs fraud has (Facilities for Enforcement) revealed in Germany in Ordinance 1921 to maintenance volving forty million gold marks, orders made by courts in Vic- Twenty prominent cigarette toria is announced in to-day's manufacturers in Berlin, Ham-"Government Gazette." burg and Cologne have been ar-
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mishap occurred to a Scottish express to Euston. After passing through Stafford, four wheels of the tender left the rails near Trent Valley Junction, and ploughed up the permanent way for 300 yarda. Fortunately, the tender regained the rails and the engine and coaches were not derailed.
The Salvation Army has negotiated for a vessel to convey 1,200 selected migrants to Aus- rested for evading taxation by Pofessor Zonwiller Zurichile! tralia, including boys. trained at means of counterfeit revenue demonstrated on April 13, before the Army's farms, domestics, and stamps. Sensational developments the Anatomical Congress, Lon widows with families. It is ex- are anticipated.
don, an X-ray service whereby the pected that other shiploads will follow. The Director of the interior of the minutest blood Emigration Department (Com- vessels and tissues in living be-missioner Lamb) in a message of ings may be observed in, detail,
Aerial planes from H.M.S. "Hermes" are to take part in the King's Birthday Parade celebra- tions locally and the proceedings will be all the more spectacular this year owing to the presence of the Colony of the various units making up the 15th Infantry Brigade, all of which will be re- presented by strong detachments.
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greeting by beam to the Chairman of the Migration and Develop- The case in which Looment Commission (Mr. H. W. Kwong-lam and Loo Kwong-hin Gepp) said that the migrants claim in the Supreme Court for would be hand-picked, and none the annulment of a mortgage ou would sail unless they were 10- their decensed father's property quisitioned and were assured of
infants" at the date of its exe- on the ground that they were employment. cution and that it was prejudi- Mr. Loo Hing-yun, who was According to the Health Bul-
as Chief letin of Far Eastern Ports for the cial to their interests, concluded recently appointed week ending May 14. there were yesterday with the reply of Mr. Justice at the Shanghai Pro- practised in 3 cases of plague at Bassein, 29 at Eldon Potter, K.C. (for plain-visional Court, Bombay, 3 at Rangoon and 1 at tiffs) to the arguments of Mr. Hong Kong as barrister in 1919 Bangkok: Cholera, I at Bussein, 9 nt. F. C. Jenkin (for defendants), since when he has been asso- ciated with the judicial adminis- Negapatam, 'at Bangkok, 285 at judgment being reserved. Haiphong and 20 at Saigon: Small-
tration in Canton, He WLS pox, 53 cases at Bombay, 64 at Cal-
"The gas fire was not burn-educated in England and France cutta, 1 at Moulmein. 14 at Ran- goon, 2 at Vizagapatam, 2 at Singa- ing properly, and an expert was from 1009 to 1916, pursuing studies in political pore. I ut Sourabaya, 2 at Bangkok, summoned to attend to it," writes Special
law neonomy
and · French 12 at Cauton and 2 at Shanghai. Kappa in the "Nation." Search-
ing in the chimney behind he literature at Oxford Univer- from which institu- brought forth a little piece of sity
An attractive programme has been arranged at the Kow-stained paper with the remark tion he received the degrees of that this obstruction was the Master of Arts and Bachelor of cause of the trouble. Taking it, Laws. He was called to the Bar we read as follows: Dear Father 1916, returning to China in the autumn of the following Christmas, I shoud be very pleas- ed if you woud give me a steam. engin, with love from Dick.' This disregarded petition had lained by the Natural History De- there unknown for six years."
loon Cricket Club on the evening of Empire Day when the pro- ceedings are in the nature of a miniature tattoo by the Band of the King's Own Scottish Bor- derers. Arrangements are being made to provide for a large gathering and to afford all the comfort and pleasure it is pos- sible to give. The proceeds are for the Fund to provide Com- forts for the troops.
year.
Information has been receiv-
partment of the Royal Scottish Museum from the Receiver of Wrecks, Wick, that a 10 ft. whale was recently stranded on the coast of Caithness, near Wick. The colour of the whale was a dirty white, and it was character- ised by possessing only four pairs of teeth in the lower jaw and no teeth whatever in the upper jaw, while the flippers were of un- usual length. The whale has been identified as the rather rare Risso's Dolphin, of which only one specimen has been stranded in Scotland during the last four- teen years. Risso's Dolphin is a southern form, the appearance of which on the shores of the Eng-
Lord Aberdeen has added yet another to his large stock of Highland yarns," writes "A Man About Town" in the "Evening Conditions in the Sze Yap News" of London. "An old Scot district, according to a Mary- tish farmer, extremely religious knoll missionary arriving in but cursed with a slight deafness, Hong Kong yesterday, are most always told his ailing wife all peaceful, there being little or no about the text and the sermon local disturbance and no anti-based upon it. One Sabbath he foreign feeling. There has been burst into his wife's bedroom. no need to evacuate the missions Losh, Maggie,' he exclaimed, but in the district and, when it has ye missed yersel' the day. The been necessary to close down for mon preached a gran' sermon. It a short time owing to the priests wis a' aboot the weather, an' leaving temporarily for other | michty true, it wis. Mair so, in districts, the village elders have fac', when he mentioned aboot the assumed responsibility for mis- unseasonable atmosphere. He delish Channel in the South-West sion property which has remain-clared that mony are cauld but of England is more frequent than ed untouched.
its appearance in Scottish waters.
few are frozen!””·
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Captain C. W. Willson, O.B.E.. Lieut.-General Sir George Kirk To-day's "Government Gazette", V.D., Hong Kong Volunteer De- patrick, Commander-in-Chief of states: His Excellency the Gov- fence Corps, has been promoted the India Western Command, andernor has been pleased to appoint, to the rank of Major and transfer-formerly Inspector-General of the provisionally and subject to His red to the Reserve Officers. C.M.F., has been promoted to Majesty's pleasure, Mr. John
general.
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Among the most interesting apring weddings is that of H. G. The death is announced in Wells's elder son, Gyp, who is very Shanghai of Mrs. Mary Houston well known in town (says a "Daily Allen, widow of Dr. Young Chronicle" writer.) Gyp Weila's Allen, who
died in Shang- speciality is science, and.he is short- hai in 1907. This Christian
ly to collaborate with his father in
Owen Hughes to be an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Coun- cil, with effect from May 18, 1927.
Shanghai papers record the death of Mr. Hans Beck who died a book. Frank, the younger son, couple devoted their lives to the at the General Hospital on Friday April 13, following has more catholic tastes, which in cause of China and the welfare night,
Д serious operation during clude Alming and interior decora- of the Chinese. Dr. Young which heart symptoms de- tion. I hear that he has recently John Allen was born in the
Mr. Beck, who been redecorating his home. To allow this must some came to China with his wife in had made a score of friends in the parents United States in 1886 and first veloped.
arrived in Shanghai in July, 1922, times be a severe test of paternal 1860 as a missionary of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, various communities there and Later he entered into the ser- the German community of which he was particularly well-known in vices of the Chinese Government
affection, but in this case the result in yery successful.
young men and
Noel Coward is a young man
as a teacher and translator and he was a member. He was aaso- very much imitated by the youth was acknowledged as one of the ciated with the local agency of of both sexes, (says the "Daily greatest Chinese scholars, China the North German Lloyd and was to have returned to Germany for Chronicle." Not always to his has ever known. In the year delight. He once wore a high- 1875, Dr. Allen, commenced at a leave of absence during the necked woollen sweater at a dance his own expense a newspaper call-next few weeks. The deceased club, and next day dozens of ed the "Wan Kuo Kun Pao" and was 30 years old. He served in the German Army during the women rushed published that organ for some Great War and was a prisoner of out to buy similar sweaters. The 15 years. Later, he edited it for
war for three years, returning to the Christian: Literature Society latest fashion to be set by the and carried on in the capacity of playwright is.the white carnation button-hole. At a recent first editor until his death. night he was one of several mer wearing white carnations instead, To a life already crowded with of the red or pink blooms which adventures, Mr. Miles Mander, have been the generally accepted aeronaut, sheep-farmer, world masculine rule hitherto.
Germany from England in 1919.
The death has occurred of Mr. Arthur Henry Hall, 0.3.E., M.I.C.E., the well-known mathe matical author and engineer. Born in August, 1876, he was traveller, soldier, and kinema educated at Clifton, and Trinity actor and producer adds the ex- Hall, Cambridge. He was ap- perience of acting in his own prenticed to William Denny and Jean Forbes-Robertson, who first play. A few weeks hence Brothers, Dumbarton, and later has scored a fresh success in "The will be published his first novel. became an assistant mechanical Dybbuk" at the Royalty Theatre, "Life goes so quickly that one is engineer in the Woolwich is the one young actress of to-day bound to crowd into the early Arsenal, which position he retain- about whom all the critics agree. part of it as much as possible," ed from 1905 to 1914, when he Seeing her play, it is difficult to was the explanation for his wide became Assistant Superintendent realise her youth and comparative variety of Interests. "I am a of the Mechanical Engineering inexperience (observes a "Home keen politician, too," he added, Department of the Arsenal, then, writer.) Although she is, still and hope by and by to stand in succession, Director of Mine "new" to the stage, Jean Forbes for Parliament." Mr. Mander's and Torpedo Production, and also Robertson always has had the play, Common People, is to be of Anti-Submarine Devices at the stage senso keenly developed. produced at the Everyman with Admiralty: Controller of the Mis When, as a child, she used to go Molly Kerr and Malcolm Keen as cellaneous Stores Disposal, Minis- to see her mother and father play principals. The opening scenes try of Munitions; Controller, the play's action affected her are laid in the Leicestershire Aircraft, Factory Consumable deeply. Sometimes there would hunting country, and "pink" is Stores and Miscellaneous Stores be a strange personal streak in worn. "I know the hunting field Disposal, Ministry of Munitions. it. Once, for instance, after see and the people who figure in its Mr. Hall also controlled the die- ing "Cæsar and Cleopatra," she rather closely guarded coteries," posal of ferrous and non-ferrous was found weeping bitterly and said Ms. Mander. While my metals and chemicals after the under pressure confessed that the characters are of course, war, and in 1920 was appointed reason for her tears was that fetitiotis, the types are drawn Superintendent of Production at "Cesar was so rude to my from life. His novel "Dasts" In the Royal Afron
Works, mother!"
a story of erotic love In Morocco, Cardington,
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