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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
The sale of No. 12 Cochrane
Street and No. 302, Reclamation Street, Mongkoktsui, which was to have taken place at Meaars. Lam: mert Bros. Auction Rooms, Duddell Street yesterday was postponed.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1927.
Three cases of enteric fever | Lord; Provost Stevenson pressid GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
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were reported during the 24 hours ed at a meeting of the Edinburgh ended June 14, two in Hong Kong Citizens' Cenotaph Committee. and the other in Kowloon. One Colonel. Robertson, V.C.. of the sufferers was a British that they accept an offer by the subject, the other two being in the central arch of the entrance Town Council to place the Cenotaph
Some valuable household furni-Chinese.. ture is to be sold by Messrs. Lam- mert Bros. nt No. 86. Bonham Road at 2.30 p.m. on June 22 Full par- ticulars are given in an advertise ment on page 12. Interding buyers
will note that motor buses of the
Hong Kong Hotel leave Blake Pier every 15 minutes for Bonham Road, and No. 86 is just opposite King's College.
Edinburgh trafic policemen are "The Wearing new white helmets. Lord Provost's Committee, the iden Innovation is an experiment by the being that motorists will be able to see the men better in the dark.! Edinburgh is the first city in Scot land to try this.
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the Municipal Bulldings, and that the memorial should be a re- plica of the Stone of Remembrance erected in all the British cemeteries sieners. abroad by the War Graves Commis-
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A seven months old child has An extraordinary scene took just won an action for libel, place at the Singapore police train- brought through his father, aing ground a. fortnight ago. journalist, against his nurse at group of reerults were on parade Prague. In the absence of the when, following the sounding of child's parents the nurse offered police whistle, a Chinese appeared, be discontinued during the Summer the baby his milk bottle, and, on running hard and chased by an- the child refusing to drink, she into the sea and the recruits fophical Society, 7, Duddell Street,
The Library is Open to All. other. The pursued man jumped
Hong Kong Lodge The Theogo shouted "Drink, you beast.” A woman friend of the family heard the remark and told the parents. The girl pleaded guilty, and, at the father's request, the Court modified judgment to a severe re- primand..
lowed without hesitation. The man
an overtaken and brought back next to Hotel Metropole, Hong but the disgust of his pursuers Kong. P.O. Box 632. when they discovered that their
Inquiries are welcomé. prisoner was only alleged to have stolen two tins of milk can be imagined.
An instance of misplaced kind- ness is afforded by the following story of a tragedy at the London tin of condensed milk to the bears' Zoo. A visitor threw a punctured pit. A Malay bear began consum-
Alarm is expressed by One of the effects of the naturalists in Australia and New Zealand regarding the wholesaleather extensive felline of the old slaughter of whales in Ross Sea by elm trees that shaded the lawns of ing it till a larger black bear dis-
It is
Norwegian whaling concerns. estimated that whales are now he ing killed off at the rate of fifteen hundred annually, Mr. G. M Thomson, one of New Zealand's leading naturalists, any's such wholesale killing should not be allowed. Legitimate whaling, which took a certain toll, while preserving the main supply, is probably unharmful. but present operations mean the extermination of the Ross Sea whales in a very short time.
Marlborough House has been to
puted its possession. Mild cutting drive further afield the rather con-led to twenty minutes' heavy fight- siderable colony of wood pigeons ing in which the Malay bear was that have had their homes here for dreadfully gashed. Each get its many years past (says the "Daily teeth fastened to the other and it Chronicle.") This was one of the seemned likely that both would die. very few places in London's heart Suddenly the black bear got a heavy where these birds were in, the habit grip of the enemy and hung on until of nesting, and their gentle coding the Maloy bear dropped dead. on a summer's evening always hud considerable attraction for Queen Alexandra.
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Oxford undergraduates have j recovered from the reaction against brightly coloured clothes, Chatting with
which followed the stir produced prominent banker the other day I ventured the by Oxford trousers, and the com- Tickets may be obtained at An- hope that somehow, aometime, ing term bids fair to be one of derson's for the concerts which are there might be a return to the days sartorial magnificence. The being given at the Cinema, Mount of the scales and scoop of which "Oxford trousers" is reasserting Austin, to-night, and the Royal Charles Dickens wrote in "Little its pre-eminence, but a shade of Naval Canteen, to-morrow night, Dorrit," writes the London corres- very light grey has superseded by the concert party of the 2nd pondeut of a Liverpool paper. He greens King's Own Scottish Borderers, was not very optimistic on the fours" appear to be the favourite and mauves, but "plus Their nickname. "Kocky Olly point, and although he agreed that mode of dress-the baggier the Birds" is derived from an old Regl-sovereigns and half-sovereigna mental nickname which was given were easier to handle than notes better, and the colours are ravish- to the Regiment during the Boer and half-notes, he informed me that ing green and puce, and a bright War on account of the Blackcock's his view is to be estimated by the brown which is almost orange. feather which decorated its full fact that he has superannuated his The vivid hued jumpers, which dress headgear and which its pipers sovereign purse. There are some are also worn with them, are very wear to-day in their glengarries who think it would be dificult to short, sleeveless, and extremely and on account of the initials of return to the inanipulation of gold low-necked. Hats are no longer the Regiment when it was the coins, but, for my part, I only wish I'de rigueur, and the coiffures seen King's Own Borderers.
we had the chance.
are miracles of sleek perfection.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Mr. N. S. Brown of Messrs. But- Mr. A. Brontedt, Oriental manager terfield & Swire, accompanied by of Canadian National Railways, ieft Mrs. Brown, sailed for Shanghai Hong Kong yesterday by the "Pre- yesterday on the "President Jack-sident Jackson" and is going to son," where he is is staying a while Shanghai un business. on business.
By the "President Jackson," Mr. W. S. Lantz of Dodge Bro- thers Motor Co. sailed from Hong Kong yesterday. He is going to Japan, accompanied by his wife, and will then proceed to America.
The "London Gazette" announces the promotion to the rank of captain of Lieutenant H.R.H. the Prince Henry, K.G., G.C.V.O., dating from May 11. Prince Henry belongs to the 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own).
A Toronto message announces the death of Sir John Willison Editor of the "Toronto Globe" from- 1890-1902 and of the "Toronto Daily News" from 1903-1917.
Mr. Kwok Hin-wang, director of Messrs. Hin Fat and Co., Ltd., has purchased "Shuitong Villa," Sassoon Road, Mount Davis and has renamed the property "Dik- gent Home.".
ard Oil Co., and Mrs. Kirby, were Mr. A. M. Kirby of the Stand- passengers on the "President Jackson" which left Hong Kong yesterday for Seattle via Shang- hai and Japan.
Mr. H. Kool, Java govern- ment official, sailed from Hong Kong yesterday on the "President Jackson" for Seattle. He is ac- companied by his wife and daugh- ter and they are going on to Europe.
Professor F. R. Z. Bodenwaldt, of the Public Health Department, Batavia, joined the "President The Duchess of Bedford left Jackson" at Hong Kong yester- Woburn Park, Bedfordshire, in a day. He is accompanied by his Miss Isuke, daughter of the aerial tour abroad.
Moth aeroplane for a fortnight's wife. They stop over at Yoko- proprietor of the Circus which is ended in Paris, whence she will Ay America and Europe.
The first stage hama and will then go on to performing nightly at Wanchai to Spain and Morocco. Reclamation, and the show's Barnard is the pilot. equestrienne and tight wire walk- er, has been removed to hospital,; to undergo an operation for ap- pendicitis.
Capt.
The "President Jackson" left
promise no publisher his memories. hai, Japan and Seattle.
Mr. Augustine Birrell, who will Hong Kong yesterday with a full booking of passengers for Shang- though he thinks he may write them those on board were Mr. P. M. Among some day, has done an introduction
Estate in the Colony amounting for a book which Jonathan Cape is Roll, Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Lee, Mrs. to. $39,500 and in the United King- now printing, "The Portledge. N. Yvanovich, Mr. P. Kennedy, dom to E5,000 was left by the late Papers." They have lain for 230 Mr. C. W. Cumming, Mr. and Sir John McLeavy Brown C.M.G., years at Portledge in Devon, where Mrs. R. G. Gold.. who died at the Langham Hotel, most of them were addressed to Portland Place on April 6; last year. Richard Coffin, by Richard Lap- Resealing of probate of his will has thorne, of Hatton-garden, London. who has eight children, whose I heard last night of a musician been gram d to Mr. G. G. N. The period which the papers cover Tinson, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes Is from 1687 to 1897, and they are he has made to represent the tonic names, out of hohour for his art, and Master, attorney of Miss Hester a first-hand record of its "chatt of; sol-fa scale-the eldest being Doris, Elizabeth Hill, of 120 Elglantine the town," meaning London. Avenue, Belfast, Ireland.
the next Rex, and so on (says n The number of people-well- Musicians seem to have a special London "Evening News" writer). The death took place recently at known ones, at least who do not leaning towards christenings of Knighton, Radnorshire, of Sir care a button about the unlucky that type. Francis Edwards, Bart., aged 75. number 13 grows every day. There where the boys were christened I know of a family Str Francis, who had lived at Knighton for nearly 40 years and positively seek out this usually, fashion for small families will pro-
are not too many, however, who' Haydn, Mozart, and Handel, was indentified with many public dreaded figure. and charitable undertakings, was wood,
Yet, Lady Green-bably put an end to these exuberant Liberal M.P. for Radnorshire,
wife of Sir Haman systems of 'nomenclature, as to so 1892-96, 1900-10, and 1910-18-a
Greenwood, the former Irish many other cheerful celebrations of constituency now merged with Bre-
Secretary, who Was Buch the middle classes. conshire, He leaves no heir to the prominent member of Mr. Lloyd. baronetcy, which was created George's Government, docs. It was
in
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1907. He was formerly a solicitor, house, and she searched high and of the publishing house of that her desire to live in a "No: 19" Mr. George Haven Putnam, hend On Saturday in mail week the low until she found one: Happily, name of New York and London, who Duke of Connaught celebrated his her husband did not care one way was in London at the opening of the 77th birthday and many congratu- or the other about the matter!
Great Exhibition in Hyde Park in lations reached him at his villa at
1861, is paying his 61st visit to Lon- Cap Ferrat. · Of
don, and it will probably be his last. The death of Lord Cowdray re- I recent years the Duke sought sunnier ellmer during the of the Cowdrays," pronounced by sent beautiful embankment," he has always calls the old story of the "Curse I saw the bank of the Thames turned from mud flats into the pro- winter months for reasons of a monk on an ancestor of the said to a "Dally. Mall" health, and everyone is glad to Montacutos for taking possession of "and I saw Holborn Viaduct built. reporter, know that he has benefited as much Battle Abbey. The curse that "by I hate the thought that London may from his stay on the Riviera this fire and water his line should come lose some of its famous old squares, winter. Indeed, it will not be long to an end was fulfilled in 1768, and if London allows these to be before he returns to Clarence when the eighth Lord Montacute taken from her then she is very House, where there is certain to be was drowned in an attempt to stupid! At the age of 88 Mr. a good deal of entertaining on a shoot the Schaffhausen Falla, and Putnam is still working hard. He large scale during the London sen Cowdray was destroyed by fire walks four miles each day to and son. His Grace has been delighted To add to the family misfortunes, from his New York office and play- to bave Prince and Princess Arthur Lord Montacute or Montague left ed lawn tennis last summer. of Connaught staying with him at a sister whose two sons were drown-Though I do not feel old," he add- Cap Ferrat, both of whom have just ed while boating at Bognor. The ed, "this may be my last visit t
to returned to 41 Belgrave Square late Lord Cowdray took his title London, as my wife thinks I am looking very much better. for their from the Cowdray estate when he overdoing it by coming across here holiday.
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v for three months every year."
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