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Messrs. Lammert Bros. are holding an auction of valuable household furniture at No. 7, Torres Buildings, Kimberley Road, Kowloon at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 9.
Four cases of notifiable dis- case were reported to the Medical Officer of Health yesterday, all from the city registration dis- |trict. There was one Chinese case of small-pox, an Lidian case of enteric fever (typhoid) and two Chinese cases of en- teric.
Work on the floating dock for Singapore is proceeding rapidly at the Wallend yard of Messrs. Sivan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson. It is being built in seven sections, and the first three of these will be launched in about three months.| Over 20,000 tons of steel and more than 4,000,000 rivets will be used in its contruction.
All departments of Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd. will be open as usual on. Saturday. On Friday and Monday, they will be all closed with the exception of the dispensary at which pre- scriptions can be filled between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., and between 6.p.m. and 7.30 p.m.
London, June 1.-Senator Borah hn's informed Lord Derby that he will be happy.
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Sir William Mitchell Thomson, Postmaster-General, stated in Par- liament that the total number of wireless telephone calls between from January 1 to April 24 Great Britain and the United States 769, and the service (for which £5 a minute is charged) was not yet self-supporting.
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1 The Scottish panel patient who has already taken 8,800 pills Is not entitled to call himself the champion pill-swallower. A "Dally Mail" London reader writes to say that her mother, who is 83, began 40 years ago to take a pill a day for a complaint. Up to date ale hus, therefore, taken 14,600 pills and is now in botter health than for many years previously.
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Resumption on a modified scale of the Kowloon-Canton express service has taken place, one express leaving Kowloon at 8.05 a.m. and returning at 3 p.m. It is hoped to arrange an im- proved and accelerated service in the near future. Fares have re- cently been reduced, the through rates being $5, $2 and $1 for first, second and third class.
Altogether 26.88 inches of rain was registered at the Botanic Gardens last month. Nine days were entirely “dry." The heaviest fall was on the 22nd, when 9.11 inches were recorded. Other "wet" days included the 1st with 2.42 inches, 5th with 3.17 inches, 18th 2.32 inches, 19th 2.49 inches and 21st 3.67 Inches. During the remaining sixteen "rainy days, less than a tenth of an inch was registered on ten days.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Lieut. Col. R. E. Power, D.S.O., hns relinquished the command of the 1st Battalion the Buffs (East Kent Regiment), his tenure of com- mand having expired. Col. Power will be remembered by some us a Captain of the 2nd Battalion the Buffs, stationed in Singapore in 1011.
The War Office announces that the following promotions have been ap proved, and will be carried out dur ing the next few months: Lieut. General Sir William Ei Peyton, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., D.S.0 to be General; Lieut-General Sir George M. Kirkpatrick, K.C.B., K C.S.I., to be General; and Major-General Sir Percy P. de B. Radcliffe, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O, to be Lieut-General
Mr. Edward Legge, who died in London at an advanced age, was a special correspondent during the Franco-Prussian war, and for many years a voluminous writer on sub- jects connected with English and Continental Court life. The second son of Mr. George Legge, of Romsey, Hants, he served on the staffs of various newspapers, and in 1876 founded the "Whitehall Review," which for a time he edited. He was called to the Bar at the Middle
Temple in 1875
Mr. H. Dale Morgan of Kansna City, Kansas, former owner of "Sad Sam," the joke racehorse of the American, turf, is a visitor in Shanghai and is returning to the United States on the liner "Pre- sident Cleveland." "Sad Sam," it is to be recalled, was a heavy favourite in the Louisiana Derby at New Orleans nearly 12 years ago. The animal was not then two years old, had won many raees and was rated a wonder. On "Sad Sam" went thousands of dollars of residents of Louisiana, loyally backing a local horse. "Sad Sam" got off to the brilliant start. ran the first quarter in no time at all, turned around despite the frantic jockey, and ran the opposite direc- tion, making a splendid.race of it. That little feat of Sam's cost Mr. Morgan a small fortune. He is in this city accompanied by his bro- ther, Mr. Robert Morgan, and a sister, Miss Jane Morgan, an ex- ponent of the Charleston. "Sad (Sam" is dead.
Two well-known Singapore con- cert artistes. Miss Kathleen Seth and Miss Tesic Seth, have just re- turned after a tour through India with the entertainment party The Globetrotters. The company has now broken up, most of the mem- bers preceeding to England.
The Singapore Consul-General for Japan. Mr. S. Nakashima, accompanied by his wife, is n passenger by the "Hakazaki Maru" for Japan. During his absence
It is announced in the home press that the Council of the British Medical Association has awarded the Stewart Prize to Sir Malcolm Watson in recognition of the scientific and administrative work that he has performed, which has freed large tracts of Malayn from malaria.
Princess Pless, who was Miss Cornwallis-West, has written her Mr. Itauo Goto. Eleve-Consul, willed by Cassell,. a house which also
memoirs, and they will be publish carry out the duties as acting Consul-General in Singapore.
announces the memoirs left by Lord Ribblesdale. Other notable auto- biographies which will appear with the Cassell imprint are "A Musi- clan's Narrative," by Sir Alexan- der Mackenzie,
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The Queen paid a private visit to the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, in mail week She was received by the Mayor and Mayoress, Council-seences," by Mr. J. A. Spender, the lor and Mrs. Richard Major, and well-known London journalist. Mr. H. D. Roberts, director of the hour in inspecting the various rooms Royal Pavilion Estate, and spent an'
and object of interest. Majesty was cathusiastically cheer ed by a large crowd on leaving the building.
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Rosa Sucher, a distinguished sur- vival of the great Wagner period, whose death is reported from Berlin, was until her retirement nearly thirty years ago one of the best- known exponents of Wagnerian opera. Born at Velburg, in Bavaria, about 1860, she was the When Mr. R. M. Dyer (chief daughter of Josef Hasselbeck,
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