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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Two cases of enteric fever, both Chinese, were reported in the Colony over the week end.
William D. Williama, a native The Crown Agents adver- of Oxford, and 30 years ago a foot-tised in mail week in "The ball "atar" with Bolton Wanderers, Times" for 13 assistant en- has been found dead in a lake. Angineers for the P.W.D., F.M.S.
Wit- murder. A "Daily Mail" reader at autopsy indicates Burnham-on-Sea sends that paper liams was formerly in racehorse The agreement will be for four He years after which, subject to: a poateard which is probably owner, but latterly retired. unique. On the back of the card attended the Woodbine Track dur- satisfactory service, the officers! Miss R. Gabb, of St. Margaret's ing the week and one theory is that will be eligible for confirmation School, Burnham, has written "Buy his assailants saw him there with in the permanent establishment it in Burnham". 1,375 times, or a large sum of money.
or, if they are not offered or 5,500 words. She was taking part
decline further employment, they in a competition during the town's The world's unemployed at will be paid a bonus of $2,850, shopping week. All
words, the end of 1926 numbered though tiny, are quite clear to any- 19,000,000 according to the re-i one with ordinarily keen eyes.
port of M. Albert Thomas direc-
the
A Commission was appoint-
Busy with powder-puff and tor of the International Laboured some time ago to deal with Only Australia, Bel-the question of Bolshevism in lipsick, her vanity-bag mirror held Bureau, aloft now and again for a better, gium, Canada, Hungary, and Siam, and to meet the situation view of the process, a young woman Ireland showed improvement. by drafting a law. The mem- Bat on a bench at Westminster The unemployed in Russia were bers of the commission are H.S.H. County Court. Judge Sir Alfred estimated at 2,000,000,
Prince Bovoradej, Phya Deb Tobin observed her, and remarked:
Vidura, Mr. Raymond B. Stevens "This court is not à dressing-room. There should be a little more res- The Cairo correspondent of and Mr. R. C. Guyon, and satis- pect shown to a Court of Justice the "Times" says that the Har-factory progress is being made than that." The toilet was already vard and Michigan Sinai expedi- with the drafting of a law, which The completed, and the woman hurried- tion under Professors Lake and will be promulgated soon. ly closed the bag with a snap.
Immigration law has been com-. Blake, have discovered frag pleted and after certain formali- ments of Sinai inscriptions script, and two other inscrip- King. alleged to be the earliest Semitic ties will be submitted to the
tions. Dr. Gardiner, Research Professor of Egyptology at the
by the full Military Bund, Pipers, The accond promenade concert
Drummers and Dancers of the Ist Cameroniane at Lee Garden was another success. Postponed from
a week ago on account of the rain, University of Chicago, says the it was held Un Saturday under finds are most important and may ideal weather conditions. The largely help to settle the origin attendance was considerably larger of the alphabet. than on the previous occasion, and amongst those present were several prominent Government officials,
members of the Consular Body, and milltary officers of high rank.
work
excavation During which is now proceeding between the servants' quarters and the new wing of the E. and O. Hotel,
the Penang, states
"Straits Echo," for the purpose of laying There is nearly nine hundred down a septic tank, workmen storage this year in Hong Kong than cophagus or stone grave of some million more gallons of water in have come upon an empty sur- at the same period last year accord-sort and the Chinese workmen ing to the water returns for July 1. who are engaged upon the work Engines from both the Cen-The figure for Hong Kong is are inclined to think that it is a tral and Wanchai Fire Station 2.063.05 million gallons, as compar- Mandarin structure, and so turned out to Queen's Road East ed with 1,172.20 last year; and for superstitious have they become at 10.30 last night in answer to Kowloon, 442.95 million gallons as
that they have refused to dig! a fire call, but on arrival found compared with 336.38 last year. further and lay the foundations Consumption has also increased that their services were not re- this year, the average per head per for the tank upon what seems to quired. The outbreak was a day in Hong Kong being 24.4 gal be a grave-yard, small one which was effectively lons
as compared with 21.2 last! tackled by the inmates of the year and in Kowloon, 20.3 as_com- house concerned. The usual pared with 15.4 last year. There crowd of Chinese gathered in the was a full supply in all, districts vicinity, but soon dispersed when during June this year and last. they saw that there was no pos- sibility of seeing the engines in action.
"Will the President be good A Press delegation from Can- ton visited Hong Kong on Saturday enough to cause inquiries to be by the Kowloon-Canton express made into the existence of
an
entailed in The expenses maintaining a clever staff of Customs officials in British and French ports are enormous.
And
At Tuesday's meeting of the Governments are anxious that Sanitary Board, Mr. J. P. Braga | the salaries should be covered as will ask:-
far as possible by money recover- ed from travellers who try to smuggle. In other words, it is the fines and duties which go to cover Customs expenses. this surely must explain the ingenuous warning which is nail- ed up in all French trains at the! present time, and which reads:--
Passengers omitting due de-| claration, even bona fide, are liable to a penalty in order to cover the "riske of the Treasure." "The riske of the Treasure" is certainly a fresh and free trans- lation of "the cost of the Customs
on the invitation of the officials of alleged nuisance complained of in the British Section of the railway, an anonymous letter signed "Laven and spent a very busy day in der" appearing in the "South China the Colony. Arriving_about_noon,
Morning Post of the 8th July? they were entertained at tiffin an Will steps be taken to remove or, -hour-later-at-tho-Hong-Kong-Hotel, at any rate, abate such naisance?" when Mr. Baker, of the British
The letter in question referred section of the Railway, address to the mooring of a night-soil junk ed AL few words of welcome. gear to certain river steamera on In the evening the visitors were the board which officers and others have guests of the Hong Kong Vernu- to remain during the night.] cular Press Association at a Chi- A letter will also be read at the nese banquet at the To Yuen Res-meeting from the Dairy Farm Com- taurant, West Point, when a very pany relative to the water filtration enjoyable evening was spent. in the Dairy Farm at Pokfulam. services."
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
The will of the late Sir James Lewis Walker, C.LE., V.D., part proprietor of "The Pioneer and Civil and Military Gazette," India, discloses that he left £59,444.
of York
return
According to a Reuter cable Some time before the Duke from New York, Mr. Davis, the and Duchess Secretary for War sailed on the home their arrival will be s. "Olympic" on a two months' heralded by some of the "picked He will join his souvenirs they have vacation. family in the South of France. up" during their absence, says A Reuter cable from San
a London paper just to hand. Francisco announces the death
The other evening in the Apart from the number of gifts of Mr. John Drew, the famous Lobby of the House of Com-made to them officially, the Royal a little actor. He was the son of Mr. mons I noticed the secretary of travellers have done John Drew, the Irish comedian, an important Labour organisa- curio-hunting on their own ac who died in 1862. His mother, tion talking to a lady whilst count. These treasures have also an actress, died in 1897. munching an apple, remarks the been dispatched in advance to Mr. Drew's first appearance on London correspondent of a Glas- England by ordinary passenger the stage was in 1873 at the gow paper. He turned aside in steamer, and will be later ar- Arch Street Theatre, Philadel-order to eject a portion of the ranged at the Duke and Duchess's phia. Thereafter he went on peel. He was still raunching the new house in Piccadilly. from success to success.
apple as he hurried off towards the smoke-room. He is not a
I hear that Lady Cynthia
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ISAKO'S CIRCUS
on Saturday the degree of freedom, they thority by the Duchess of York NEW RECLAMATION GROUND
to write a full account of Her Royal Highness's life (says a "Sunday Chronicle" writer).
The wedding took place at the member of the House, and one Church of Christ in China wonders how such people obtain Asquith has been given (Bonham Road) between Mr. Andrew W. Hoh, possess at St. Stephen's, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hoh, of Hong Kong, and The most recent acquisition of Special references to her experi- Miss Sara P. Chong, third Master George Lascelles is a exces during the Australian tour daughter of the late Mr. Peter ping-pong set. There are no are of course, to be included, Chong and Mrs. Peter Chong, of royal children yet of an age Lady Cynthia Asquith has acted Sydney. The bride was given for outdoor sports, and ping-pong for some years as secretary to away by her brother, Mr. James has been a popular indoor Sir James Barrie. I often won- Chong, and
was attended by pastime with the Royal Family der how she manages to find time Miss Ivy Chong, her sister and for some time. I am told, says for all she does, for, in addition Miss Esther Hoh, sister of the a Scottish journalist, that the to looking after a family of three bridegroom. Miss Gloria Joyce enormous growth of lawn tennis little sons and her secretarial Yee acted as train-bearer and has
served
to increase the work, she has been doing a lot of Miss Verna Merle and Miss votaries of the table game, and writing herself for some years Dolly Hoh as flower girls. The that it is popular with tennis past. Rev. Cheung officiated at the enthusiasts right during the ceremony. Mr. Peter To was summer. It is possible to keep best man and Mr. Theodore Chau one of the numbers of ping- At Buckingham Palace the
was groomsman.
pong sets, and it is surprising to learn from an official of the
Sir Alan Cobham is to appear All-England Ping-Pong Club that in the title role of "The Flight over ton million are în use. Commander," the Gaumont Bri-
most exciting business of the day! at present is watching Princess Elizabeth's progress in learning to walk (says a "Daily Chronicle" writer), At least 80
many
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In commemoration of the visit of ISAKO'S CIRCUS to Hong Kong, free prizes will be given away. At every performance, our carrier pigeons will be let off in the centre of the ring and the persons on whom they alight will be the recipients of the following gifts:-
tish film on which production will Through what at first appeared people think. Princess Elizabeth be commenced shortly (says the to be a slight injury to her nose, would be on her feet much more film correspondent of the "York- the death has occurred at than she is were it permitted, shire Post"). He will retain his Shaftesbury of little Lady Mairi and she cannot quite understand THE CIRCUS POST CARRIER PIGEONS identity, and will be shown open- Nina Douglas Hamilton, the why the Big People-including ing up Imperial air routes in the seventh and youngest child of the her Queen Grandmother-insist course of a romantic story spe- Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, sometimes in restraining her cially written round the establish- says the "Daily Mall." She was efforts. In teaching baby how to ment of a commercial air station | born on August 27, 1914, and was walk, Queen Mary puts some of in China. Through the courtesy a goddaughter of the Queen. On the "good old methods" into prac- When at of the De Havilland Company a May 11, Lady Mairi was playing tice, including reins. Chinese village is now being built with her dog in the grounds of the exhibition of ex-Servicemen GOLD WATCHES, RINGS, BRACELETS on their London aerodrome at Ferne House, Shaftesbury, when needlework at Sir Alfred and Stag Lane and will, in due course, she fell against a garden seat, Lady Mond's house, the Queen be the scene of much spectacular striking her nose. A few days bought a pair of reins "for air fighting and bombing. Miss later she becam ill, and Elizabeth." The baby Princess, Estelle Brody will appear as the erysipelas developed At the in- despite her eagerness to discover heroine of the film, and Mr. John quest It was stated that the world, is wary in her walk- Stuart will have the part of a erysipelas was followed by septic ing, and has a way of suggesting young pilot with whom she is in pneumonia, which had proved that she is too observant "to love.
fatal.
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