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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS:
There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday.
A public lecture will be given by Mr. M. Manuk on Sunday, July 10, at 11 a.m., at the Hong Kong Lodge, the Theosophical Society (7, Duddell Street).
A petition for the winding The public matshed at the up of Davis Co., Ltd. will be Repulse Bay will be opened on heard in the Supreme Court on Sunday, July 10. Cubicles will July 27. Further particulars be reserved for two persons at appear in the advertisement 20 cents per person. The sole columns.
use of a cubicle will, cost 40 cents.
near
A gipay soothsayer at Riga, named Fink, who in January pre- Workers in a vineyard, sur-|
by a cloudburst Remarking that he was not dieted the outbreak of war between prised geing to be beaten by a girl, a
Russia and a Western European Cenicero, Northern Spain, took re nine-years-old Leeds boy, Thomas Power in October, has greatly In- fuge in cabins beside a sunken rond creased his clientele since the Bri- which was soon converted into a Kidney, son of {} steeplejack,
Several cabins were climbed a 158ft, chimney stack of tish break with the Soviet Govern- torrent. the Hunslet steelworks. He was meat.
Fink, whose patrons in- washed away, five vine-hands, two carabinier being determined to do better than the elude lending Latvian politicians women, and
and business climbed
noted drowned. The flood carried away Leeds girl who
did embankment and 150ft. chimney. Thomas begun throughout the Baltic States for a railway
and climbing when he was five-years- the accuracy of his forecasts and great, damage to vineyards old. His climb Was aeon by prophecies. He predicts that atanding crops. his grandfather, who was also a Communist rule in Russia will end
this year. steeplejack.
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The Repulse Bay Road vin Wongneichung Gap is not yet officially re-opened to motor traffic. Work is still proceeding on clearing the road of the honvy rocks which were brought down by the landslide on Saturday afternoon half way between the Gap and Repulse Bay. It is hoped to have the road open in time for the afternoon "trek" to-
morrow,
Sir Austen Chamberlain, at the House of Commons, has received an influential deputation introduced by Sir Alfred Mfond, M.P., from the China Association, who were able to lay before the Foreign Secretury the latest information from China from trading sources. This in- formation had been obtained from representatives of firms located in China who have just arrived in Britain, and it showed that those who were regarded as Chi- nese Nationalist generala were some of them little or nothing bet- ter than bandit captains, and that good trade was being done. Sir Austen thanked the deputation for the information given, and promiş- ed to give the views put forward every consideration.
nien,
PKIERROVO & UNDERWHEN, K. Y
Princess Helena Victoria, cou- sin to King George, who as the most noted fashion leader in London, favours the boyish fashions for girls.
Thanks to the efforts of the Metropolitan Public Gardens Asso- ciation and of Mr. Stenton Coving- ton, of Streuthum, the old-world
The plentiful and still increas- Prince's-square, Kennington, S.Eing supply of crude petroleum in is to be preserved as an open space the United States is giving an add- for the benefit of the inhabitants ed Ailip to the use of fuel oil, in of that congested district. This square, which has many of the characteristics of which Dickens used to write, was in danger of being built over, but Mr. Stenton Covington now writes:-The whole
The Rev. W. Hunt, Rector of Munsley (Herefordshire) claims to have discovered that Hamlet was buried either in the church or in the churchyard. Mr. Hunt! has deciphered an inscription on a slab of stone two feet square, reading "Hamlet, the Danish Prince." Mr. Hunt is now look- ing for the sarcophagus. He be- lieves that the grave may be in the east end of the church.
A strange and fascinating new industry was brought to my notice In a workshop on the banks of the Thames the other day, says a writer. in a shipping paper. Here a group; of expert carpenters are busy carv ing up old battleships, and making them into garden chairs and seats. Castle's Shipbreaking Co. WOS established at Baltic Wharf, West- minster, as long ago as 1839. And the furniture they produce out of man of-war toak is unique for out- of-door purposes. In fact, the more it is left in the wind and the rain the better it grows, and the more mellowkits appearance be-
comes.
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Is history to repent itself in re- gard to the housing of the mer- chants of the City? I have just heard the interesting. suggestion that for a double purpose some of the upper storeys of business premises are to be utilised as flats, writes the London correspondent of a Liverpool paper. Notwith- standing impressions to the trary, it is possible for an office in the very heart of the business parts of London to remain untenanted spite of cheap coat, and the pro- for quite an appreciable period. ceas of "Diasalisation," AN the Some of the newly-erected buildings America style it, is going on at have a whole floor for which there an accelerated rate. While on the are no applicants. At the same hand there is some tendency time, business men who live in to convert steamers into oil burn- the country are experiencing diff- culty in reaching business and in parking or garaging their cars. Some of them are, accordingly, try- ing the experiment of living above their businesses for five days in the week. as their forefathers did throughout the year.
one
of the purchase-money-£2,250ers, the more general process is to has been subscribed, as well as convert them into motorships by in-
contribution towards the cost of
stalling Diesel engines. However laying out the square, which has it may turn out on this side of the been undertaken by the Lambeth Atlantic, Americans are satisfied Borough Council, who will main- that a fairly long period of cheap tain it as a public open space. oil is before them.
SOCIAL AND
PERSONAL NEWS.
News has been received in. On the eve of his departure the Colony that Mr. R.. C. Lee, from Nigeria for Ceylon, H.E. Sir Hugh Clifford, now Governor of the "Straits Settlements," wrote some verses entitled "Pro- motion" and a few weeks ago sent them to Magazine" to which he has been "Blackwood's
a contributor since 1898. In a letter to the "Straits Times" he complains that his poem has been published in a "deplorable and
Despatches from Los Angeles state that the will of the late book collector and philanthropist, the son of Mr. Lee Hysan, has Henry E. Huntington, provided, succeeded in passing his final inter alia, for the erection of a examination for the Bachelor of hospital at Los Angeles to cost Arts degree, at Pembroke College, $2,000,000, in honour of his Oxford. Mr. Lee is shortly re- uncle and his son Howard. It is turning to Hong Kong and is also stated that during the year expected here towards the end 1922 the testator made a deed of of August. gift of $50,000,000 for a public
MYRKY MILLER, MAIN & GA
Sir Robert Baden Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement, who recently celebrated his 70th birth day, The Boy Scouts of Sweden presented him with a bronze stalve of Scouts preparing their fond.
The death is announced of Sir Arthur Francis Whinney, president of the Institute of Chartered Ac- countants, in a London nursing home, in his 62nd year. He was senior partner in the firm of Whinney, Smith and Whinney, and he played a leading part in many important business amalgamations and reconstructions. He was one of the liquidators of the British Empire Exhibition, and at one time or another he occupied the posts of Adviser on Costs of Production to the Admiralty, Assistant- Accountant-General of the Navy and Adviser and Consultant to the Admiralty in Accountancy, and chairman of Board of Trade com- mittees under the Safeguarding of Industries inquiry. In the region of economics and finance, in the present difficult times, he was one of the publle men whose words and writings attracted widespread at- tention.
For Wednesday evening St. Peter's Young Men's Club bas arranged a moonlight picnic to Repulse Bay. The launch leaves Queen's Pler at 8 pm. The fare is 60 cents for members and ladies, and 80 cents for non- members. Tea-only will be pro-
UNDERWOOD & VHOZINION 16V
Here Is. Captain 'Charles Lindbergh, Arst man to cross the Atlantic Ocean In a plane
alone.
vided. Refreshments, such as misshapened" form and that Mr. library and art museum at San cakes and pastries will be obtain- George Blackwood has tried "to Marino, California, and set asideable on board at nominal rates. madly squeeze a right hand foot. more than $8,000,000 for its the party exceeds 100 arrange into a left hand shoe," He has maintenance. In a leading ments will be made to secure a therefore sent the poem in its article, the "New York Times," larger launch, possibly a former original form to a contempor- which understands that the in- Star Ferry launch. A string ary with the words: "I am em-
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We are remaining here for a short season longer.
ISAKO'S CIRCUS.
NEW RECLAMATION GROUND
:
PRAYA EAST, WANCHAI
PRICES OF ADMISSION REDUCED
Box 6 Persons..$12. Single Box Seat ..$2
1st Class Chairs $ 1. Gallery
MATINEE
EVERY
Wednesday, Saturday &
at 4 p.m.
.50 cts.
Sunday
Children Half Price. COME AND SEE THE CIRCUS POST CARRIER PIGEONS
In commemoration of the visit of ISAKO'S CIRCUS to performance, our carrier pigeons will be let off in the centre Hong Kong, free prizes will be given away. At every of the ring and the persons on whom they alight will be the recipients of the following gifts:-
come from certain funds is to band will be present. Next boldened to seek the hospitality GOLD WATCHES, RINGS, BRACELETS
be used "exclusively for re-Friday night there is a whist of your paper because, as you are search in American and English drive at St. John's Cathedral aware, the very earliest of my all history," says this gift is "of Hall beginning at 8.30 sharp, too numerous Malayan Stories world significance, because it will There will be light refreshments and Sketches were originally pub- not only bring England and provided. To-night there is a lished in "The Straits Times;" America to a better understand ping-pong tournament at the and because I am anxious to dis- ing, but will also help to set them Club house, and to-morrow after claim the authorship of the verges In their true relation to the rest noon there is the usual weekly in Maga as promptly and as of the world.".
launch picnic.
prominently as I can."
AND MANY OTHER VALUABLE AND USEFUL ARTICLES.
Cut and bring this slip to the circus ticket office and you will obtain your ticket at a special rate from 30 cts. up.