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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
At the Kowloon Magistracy The Colony had a clean bill of yesterday, Inspector P. J. O'Brien health yesterday. of the S.P.C.A., charged a Chinese poultry dealer of No. 241 Portland Street, Yaumati, with cruelty to some ducks which were overcrowd- et in two crates. The ducks were tied together by the feet and piled up "like oranges." The Magistrate (Mr. W. Schofield) imposed a fine of So.
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The Hong Kong Hotel Garage
is shortly to augment its various 'bus services (to Repulse Bay, Folix A decree has been issued in Villas, etc.), two Thornycroft pas. Rome for the establishment of aenger vehicles, capable of seating. school of malarial disenses, with twenty passengers each, having ar rived in Hong Kong from Shanghai. a view to promoting the study They will be put on the road when. of the medical problems pre-repairs and overhauls have been sented and the improvement of completed and certificates obtained marsh areas. The school will be from the Police. open both to foreigners.
Italians
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Sir Harry Parlett, for 37 years
The head of the Quebec counsellor at the British Em-
Forestry Department, who has bassy in Japan, is expected home
According to the Registrar- | had two aeroplanes-searching for soon with his wife on retirement General's statistical review of Eng- Captain Nungesser and Captain owing to ill health, Sir Harry land and Wales, the deaths ascrib-| Coli, the lost Atlantic áirmen, has says that the situation in China to cancer during 1925 were the been inundated with letters from will take many years to clear up hered 51,939-24,002
highest yet recorded. They num residents on the north shore of the
men and or rather to buy up, as generals 27,937 women. The increase con- Gulf of St. Lawrence offering to only remain faithful until higher tinued to be much more rapid for lead searchers to the spot where bribes are offered.
men than for women, Cancer mor- the airmen were forced down. tality was strikingly constant all Most of the letters relate to Excessive food kills many, over the couiftry.”
"dream hunches." more hundreds of people than alcoholic drinks, said Col. F. A. F. members of the first Government of Trees nanded after the sixty-five
A New York message states Barnardo, Principal of the Medi- Canade elected in the Province of that a feature of the new motor- cal College Hospital, in an
Quebec
perpetuate their ships of the Kerr Line's around will address on the use and abuse of memory. In the chief town of each the world service is that four of alcohol, given at the Calcutta of the sixty-five counties they re them will have 1,500 tons of re- Rotary Club. "It is my profound presented there will be planted on frigerator space for carrying conviction," he added, "that July 1, the 60th anniversary of California fruits and vegetables alcohol means less harm to the Confederation, a maple tree. Each to
Dutch the Orient.
East named after the Indies and Straits Settlements, health of the community than the tree will be diseases which are attendant on Ottawn.
county's first representative at
The first of these vessels, the meat eating and sugar sucking."
"Silvergrave" is to leave San The planet Saturn is now a. Francisco August 12. "Advertising, always pays. Wej very bright object in the night sky, need money and 1 am convinced for it is in a practically straight advertising will bring it to us," line with the sun and the earth,
Government servants in said Mr. Charles Stopp, at the an says a Hume paper. At midnight Kuala Lumpur will, we are sure, nual meeting of the Golden-square summer time, it is due south, and be shocked and annoyed to learn Throat, Nose, and Ear Hospital, with a small telescope the rings, that they pay a good deal less Regent-street, W. Mr. Lionel de which are a distinguishing feature for their electric lighting current Rothschild, presiding, said that the of the planet, may be clearly seen. than other consumers. On what committee had put into operation a The rings are at present wide open principle this differentiation is scheme to secure the interest in whereas in 1921 they appeared to made, says the "Malay Mail," we the hospital of the inhabitants of be closed up. Colden-square, "signed nearly
have not been able to discover, 300 letters asking their co-opera-
but Civil Servants, who are a tion, but only ten replies were re-and their friends spent an enjoyable proud race, will certainly resent ceived," he said. "Most of the in- time yesterday evening when a being subsidised by the humbler| habitants of Golden-square appear moonlight bathing pienic by launch, and less wealthy section of the to be Scotsmen-perhaps they help to. Repulse Bay took place. The the hospitals in Edinburgh." (Laughter).
summer programme of this popular Club la proving no less successful
Members of St. Peter's Club
ratepayers.
cinemas, starting from to-day. There is a complete change of pro- gramme at the Queen's where This Is Paris?" an Ernest Lubitsch film featuring the two populari Miller, is the principal attraction, with the band of the 1st Northamp- tonshires rendering selections the 5.10 and 9.20 performances. At the Star (Kowloon), "The Sensation Seekers" is being shown at matinée
at
than that of the winter when the! Excellent mid-week pro- Some 1,000 Chinese are affect- debates held under its auspices grammes have been arranged at the ed, it is stated, by an order resum proved a great draw; and to three Hong Kong Amusements ing Crown land in the neighbour-morrow evening, judging from the hood of Kap Shek Mei village, be- number of tickets sold, the whist tween Taipoo Road and Cheung drive in the Cathedral Hall will be Sha Wan, where improvements are no less successful. to be put in hami which will neces- sitate the removal of about 300 to Twenty sharks have been artistes, Monte Blue and Patsy 400 huts. The notices were served caught off Brighton and taken to on Monday and give 28 days as the the Aquarium. They vary in limit for evacuation. According to length from two feet six inches to the vernacular papers, many of the four feet, and belong to species of squatters now affected were at one British shark known as the "spur time living in small villages near dog," from the sharp spines set in Kowloon Tong, but when the de- front of each dorsal fin. These performances to-day and to-morrow, velopment in this neighbourhood spines form weapons of a formid- whilst the Wilbur Players give their was put in hand they had to find able character. British sharks do farewell performances to-night: accommodation elsewhere and re-great damage to the fishing Indus- | ("The Girl From Childa" ") and to- moved to Kap Shek Mei. It is try, not only by eating a large num-morrow night ("Her Unborn Cild”). understood that application for as-ber of herrings while following the At the World to-day until Satur sistance is to be made to the two shoals round the coasts, but by cut day, the picture version of the old Chinese representatives on the ting away the hooks from the lines favourite "East Lynne" is being Legislative Council.
with their razor-sharp teeth.
featured.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Doyle Penrose Dr. and Mrs. I. E. Tottenham and gave a garden party at Oxhey Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Cassidy left the Grange on June 23 to meet mem- Colony OR July 12 by the 8.8. bers of the China Society and "Sinyo Maru" for the north. Chinese students.
The late Mr. George Deacon Coutts, of Avenue Haig, Shang- hai, who died on December 24, aged 54, left property in Bri. tain of the value of £41,441, with net personalty £41,173,
The marriage took place at the Presbyterian Church, Singapore,
of Mr. Kenneth Ross, of Bangkok to Evelyn Gladys, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Deason.
At the Southwell Diocesan Mia-} sionary Festival, in the Minster at Southwell on July 21, the Bishop of South Tokyo preached in the afternoon,
infant prodigy, has arrived.
Miss Signe Rintala, aged 13, an
withi her father in Penang from Rangoon, It is expected that a recital will bej Sir Laurence Guillemard and arranged shortly. Miss Rintala is Lady Guillemard arrived on June 2 an accomplished singer and dancer, at Plymouth from Singapore. They and has lately been playing in have returned to 28, Tite Street, fore His Excellency the Governor, Rangoon, where she appeared be London, which will now be their Sir Harcourt Butler: permanent address.
Mr. G. A. Hereford, District Judge and First Magistrate, Penang, 18 retiring from Govern- mont Service. and his sue- cessor' is stated to be Mr. J. S. W. Arthur who is at present acting retiring Governor of the Straits coming transfer to the Court of ns Deputy Public Prosecutor.
Sir Laurence Guillemard, the
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ISAKO'S CIRCUS
Settlements and Lady Guille-St. James's of Baron de Cartier NEW RECLAMATION GROUND
mard, arrived in England on de Marchienne, Belgian Ambus-
Mr. W. L. Watkins, a well-June 2 at Plymouth from Singa-sador at Washington, a New known resident of The Straits pore. They have returned to 28, York message recalls that the and chairman of the Pajam and Tite Street, London, which will Baron, when an under-secretary Pantai Rubber Companies, has now be their permanent address. at his Legation in Peking during gone home for good, and is
the Boxer uprising, remained at residing at Clarendon Road,
his post, and sent to Brussels the Lewisham, S.E.13
first report on the situation that relieved the tension in Europei and America as to what had happened in China..
According to an Ipoh paper in formation has been received of the death of Mr. E. Mathieu, retired superintendent of Government A marriage has been arranged Plantations, Taiping, while on his between Captain Philip Jermy way to Europe, the event occur- Gwyn, 14th Punjab Regiment, ring after the ship left Port Said. and Elizabeth, elder daughter of Mr. Mathieu was a well known Sir John Tilley, the British Am-tural authority and lived for many tropical agricultural and horticul- bassador in Tokyo, and Lady
years in Singapore. ¡-Tilley, of Felsham House, Suffolk.
The following departed from Mr. R. D. Robins-Browne, a pro- Hong Kong on July 13 by the "Pre- minent member of the Johannes- sident Grant" for Seattle- burg Stock Exchange, is on a visit Miss Kathleen Simmons and
shortly, of Mr. J. L. Dodds, First The engagement is announced, and the marriage will take place Secretary at the British Legation, Stockholm, and Etelka Bell, of 62, Avenue de Tokio, Paris, widow of Edward Bell, of New
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We will be leaving on the 23rd instant, so come and see our show now, before we go.
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MATINEE
York, late American Charge Wednesday,
to the Malay States. He Miss Gertrude Simmons, on: a d'Affaires in Peking, and represents many important in- short pleasure trip to Shangbai; daughter of Brig.-General H.
director Mr. Kan Tong-po, Manager of Conyers Surtees, C.B., C.M.G
terests and is
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of several companies in South the Bank of East Asia, Hong Kong. D.S.O., M.V.O. High Sheriff of Africa. Apart from his business on a business trip to Shanghai:
Mr. P. H. Bordwell, Manager of County Durham, and Mrs. activities he is closely idnetified with motoring generally. He is the Lumber Dept. of The Robert Surtees. touring the East with his beauti-Dollar Co. returning to headquar
busincas fully equipped Rolls Royce lieuters in Shanghai after a sine...
trip to Hong Kong:
The "Squeakattes" concert party!
EVERY
Saturday & Sunday
at 4 p.m.
Children Half Price. COME AND SEE
gave an excellent concert (arranged THE CIRCUS POST CARRIER PIGEONS
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Nelson, travel- ling home to Seattle. Mr. Nelson by the Naval and Military Y.M.CA The Governor of British North is in the Oil business in the F.M.S. Entertainment Committee) at the Borneo, Mr. J. L. Humphreys, left and is going home on vacation;
"Botter "Ole" (Kowloon last night), Sandakan on June 27 for Lahad Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Cadbury and the party comprising Misses Date, on the east coast of Borneo, Family travelling home to Seattle Carothers and Ellaby, Mesdames intending to start from there on on furlough. Dr. Cadbury is con
Charles, D. Brownic, Marcel, shooting expedition, the main object nested with the Lingnam Univer- Cornaby, Greig, Hall, Grimble, Tod, of which is to obtain a specimen of sity, Canton, with Matr. James Lee Murray. Evers, and Grossman, the Borneo rhinoceros, It will their ward and son of General Li Capt. Steel, A.D.C., Lleut. D. M.
In commemoration of the visit of ISAKO'S CIRCUS to Hong Kong, free prizes will be given away. At every performance, our carrier pigeons wil be let off in the centre of the ring and the persons on whom they alight will be the recipients of the following gifts:—
probably be some weeks (waites Fook-inm, Commander of the 5th Rycroft. R.E., Surg-Lieut. Brad GOLD WATCHES, RINGS, BRACELETS
the Jesselton correspondent of the Nationalist Army, Canton, going to field. R.N. Mrs. Russell-Brown. "Free Press") before we get any the States with the Cadbury family, At St. Andrew's Church Hali (Kow- news of their experiences, as with whom he is to be brought up loon) another concert for Service their objective is in an Mr. F. F. Kan, connected with men took uninhabited. part of the eoun- the Lingnam University Conton, Mrs. F. the artistes being Jenner, Mian May try. The expedition is splendidly travelling to Seattle;
Gaubert, Miss Doris Puncheon, Mr. equipped and if blessed with fine Mr. L. Schipper, well-known mer-Russell, Mr. Tipple, Mr. Warren, weather has every promise of being chant in Shanghai, booked through Mr. Chaplin, Miss G. Dixon and
tó Europe
Mr. J. Pearns.
a success.
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