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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
The Incorporated Society of Planters will hold a dinner at the Runnymede Hotel, Penang, on August 15.
If the League of Nations would only agree not to have another war until the last one is paid for, ever- lasting peace would be assured. Lord Dewar.
Inspector T. A. Chilcott, O.C.P.D., Bagan Seral, has assumed duty ae second Inspector at the Cen- tral Polles Station, Kuala Lumpur, replacing Inspector W. Foundall, transferred.
It is understood that 6,000
Messrs. Watson's are advertin- ing their carbolic soap as a form of treatment for prickly heat.
The voluntary liquidation of the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company, whose share capital is £6,900,000, is announced in the
London Gazette."
Inspector William Poundall, of the Central Station, Kuala Lumpur, leaves for Bagan Seral, where he will take charge as O.C.P.D.
A Madras massage reports that the Tamil Nadu Congress Commit toe have unanimously nominated Dr. Ansari for the Presidentship of the forthcoming Madras Congress.
a Chinese wal
The new 43,500 ton gross French Hiner, "Ile de France,"
In Singapore, which will ply between New York and Cherbourg, carries three sea-prosecuted for cruelty to thirteen turtles and two crocodiles. The planes in addition to her comple- ment of life boats.
turtles had their fore-fins pierced! and tied in order to prevent them Small pox, diphtheria, enteric from moving about, while the two oral fever and influenza all claim- tightly to their bodies, and their snouts were also tfed. The accus- ed a victim during the week ended was fined $20 or twenty-one ed July 30, according to local health returns. In all 14 cases of days' rigorous imprisonment. Solo mon probably would have untled the crocodiles. notifiable diseases were reported.
workers out of over 12,000 now em fever, cerebro-spinal fever, puer- crocodiles had their legs tied very] ployed in the Rawasaki Dockyards will be taken over by the Navy, while the Company have decided to dismiss.3,000 workers.
Major C. Willson yesterday fined a Chinese $100 or two months' hard labour for the unlawful pos- session of 425 popiu lottery tickets. He said that they were left with him for safe keeping. The tickets were seized by the police when they raided the accused's house in Well- ington Street on Monday.
The Chartered Bank of India,
A Launch Plenic will be held (weather permitting) on SUNDAY,{ August 7th...
Australia and China has decided to THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. open from August 8 a sub-agency at Sitlawan. The Agency will be entrusted to the firm of Aylesbury and Nutter, general merchants and shipping agents. The district is developing rapidly and a Sanitary! Board, apart from that of Lower Perak, was recently formed.
The launch leaves Queen's Pier at 3.46 p.m.
John Benjamin Thomas, the 15-year-old boy charged in the U.S. Court, at Shanghai, on several
Speculation is rife in Hamp counts involving housebreaking
An important treaty has lately stead, N.W., ahout the fate of the and grand larceny, pleaded guilty
and house at Holly Hill, once occupied! The youth been ratified between Slam before Judge Purdy. of the boy calling for leniency, his Indo-China and will be in force for by Romney, the portrait painter, Honour deferred sentence for 80 10 years. It provides for a neu- which has been bought by Benskin's Brewery, Ltd., the days until the Court should have tral area along the banks of the Watford had time to communicate with the River Khong, which forms the owners of the Holly Bush Tavern, State Department at Washington boundary between the two coun- immediately behind it. Col. W. H. regarding the feasibility of send-tries, and this area will be closed to Briggs, chairman, and managing ing the lad back to America, where soldiers though open to the police director of the brewery, told a re- he could be placed in a reforma- Only unarmed aeroplanes will porter that as yet they had not de- be allowed to land. Any, criminal cided what to do with the house. tory or similar institution.
arrested by the authorities will "Whether it will be merged in the have to be handed over to the na- Holly Bush Tavern or not I don't A mild sensation has been caution to which he belongs and both know," he said. ed in the South African Parliament countries agree to improve all com- by the action of the Senate in remunications. No enmps or aero- gard to the Precious Stones Bill, dromes will be allowed in the nou-
broke out at A big fire the third reading of which it pass
друв the 4 mile, Kiang-rd., ed but in such an amended form
the "Malay Mall," when a pri- that, according to the mine. repre- Bentatives, the Bill has been prac Owing, it is thought, to the vate smoke-house, containing ja tically wrecked. The diamond in failure of a nuilah in Waterloo large quantity of rubber, was com- terests fear the effect on world Road to hold the volume of water pletely gutted. At 7.20 a.m. the markets and on the price of stones. that poured down the hillside in fire brigade, under Mr. H. Lloyd, The Union Government have de Kowloon during the rainstorm were at practice when they receiv- finitely refused the Senate's amend-shortly after mid-day yesterday, ed the call from the Petaling police ments, and the latter will now have Nathan Road (between President station, and within a short time ar- to decide whether it will abide by Buildings and the Orient Tobacco rived at the scene at the junction of its amendments, reject the Bill as Factory) was flooded to a consider the Sungel Besi and Klang roads, it stands, or give way.
able depth by water pouring down The building was blazing fiercely the brigade, securing their from Dundas street and Waterloo and
Two Chinese who had in their possession 12,000 poplu lottery tickets worth $15,000 were yester- day charged before Major C. Will- son at the Central Magistracy. A Chinese detective, as the result of information recolved, stopped the two accused as they were coming ashore from a scavenging boat, and the tickets were found tied, round the accused's waists. One of the men attempted to escape capture by Jumping into the harbour, but The was subsequently secured. Magistrate fined the accused $250 each, or, in default, three months' jail.
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Road. Many Chinese shops and water supply from the river, got the buildings were flooded, also a row flames under control by 8.30 8.m., The damage is of houses near the Ho Mun Tin and succeeded in saving the ad- railway bridge and Gascon's Motor joining sheds.
premises. The floods roughly estimated at over $2,000, Agency quickly subsided with the cessation The fire is said to have originated of the rainstorm, and the flooded from one of the Internal combustion
angines. premises were cleared.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Dr. R. H. Dannatt, Chief Sur- geon, Selangor, who had been in Perak for a few days, has returned to Kuala Lumpur,
Baron Okura is expected to arrive in Penang from Kobe this week-end en route to Siam, where he will be the guest of His Majesty The King.
the
Tientsin papers announce death of Dr. N. A. Geloodkoff, aged 60, one of the best known Russian medical men in Tientsin.
Mr. Koo Ying-fan, the Nation- allat Finance Minister, arrived in Hong Kong yesterday morning by the "President Pierce" on his way
Mr. A. Hoshido has been elected to Canton. -as Chairman of the new Affiliated Bank, the combinations of the Kawasaki Bank and the Hundredth Bank, in succession to Mr. S. Ichinomiya, who resigned.
Lieut. Col. H. W. Perkins, C.B.E., Traffic Manager, F.M.S.R., Mr. R. W. Hiam, Engineer for Ways and Work's, F.M.S.R., and Mr. W. J. Hastkins, Chief Engineer for Con- Mr. Henry Matthew Snyder, pub-atruction F.M.S.R., who arrived in. lishers representative, whose an- Ipoh on June 9 for an inspection of nual trips to the Orient have won the newly constructed railway him a wide circle of acquaintances goods shed returned to Kuala Lum and friends at Shanghai, was pur on June 20 by the mail train. married at New York on June 25 to It is understood that the new goods shed will be ready for occupation by Miss Flora Hale Averill..
this month.
the Rev.
Amongst the passengers who sailed on board the s.s. "President A Penang correspondent wiring Pierce when she left for Manita on July 21 states that the wedding was Mr. B. A. Hyder, who is make took place at the Church of the Father ing a combined pleasure and busi-Assumption, ness trip, which will cover Singa Devals officiating, of Capt. Paul pore and Java.
Fogarty, of Falawan Estate, Bidor, to Silva Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir David and Lady Hennessy, of Melbourne, Australia, bride was given away by Major Neville Stevens, of Ipoh, and Capt. C. Y. Husband was best man. The honeymoon was to be spent at the
The Rev. Frances C. Brading, secretary of the Scripture Gift Mission, of 14 Bedford Street, Strand, London, is expected to ar rive by the Minderoo in Singapore from Australia. He has been on a tour to Japan, Australia and New Crag Zealand. He expects to stay a few daya in Singapore before going
The
Passengers leaving on the "Em- through the F.M.S. and on to India press of Canada" to-day for Van-
The King has approved the p- pointment of the Right Rev. Harold Ernest Bilbrough, M.A., D.D., Lord Bishop Suffragan of: Dover and Honorary Canon of Canterbury, to the Bishopric of Newcastle, vacant by the resignation of the Right Rev. Herbert Louis Wild, M.A., D.D. Dr. Bilbrough, who is 60 years of age, is a son of Mr. Arthur Bil brough, of Camden Court, Chisle hurst, and is unmarried. He was educated at. Winchester College and New College,
couver via
clude Manghar, and ports, in- Deacons for Europe, via Canada; Mrs. Biggar for Chicago; Mr. G Hogg, manager of the National City 3 Bank of New York, Hong Kong," for Shanghal Mr. and Mrs, and Misa Ontolani, the first mentioned being Commissioner of the Chinese Post Office at Canton, for Shanghai: Mr. P. II. Suckling of the Hong Kong Shanghai Hotels, for, Shanghai, and several officers of the Scots Guarda for Shanghai.
Mr. Herbert William Prichard, The King, on the recommenda- K.C., Procureur and Advocate- tion of the Home Becretary, Has General, Mauritius, has, been ap appointed Mr. Harold McKenna to pointed a Puisne Judge Straits bela Metropolitan police megis Settlements, and that he will take trate, to fill the vacancy caused by up his duties in Septembar next. the resignation of Mr. Thomas, Mr. Prichard, who is 54 years of Scanlan, Mr. Scanlan, who was age, was educated at Keble College, Nationalist MP for North Sligo Oxford, and was called to the Bar until the Free State was establlah Gray's Ion. in 1892. He practised ed, was appointed a magistrate In In London for eight years and be- 1924. Mr. McKenn, who in 48 dames years of age, was educated at West-Trinke
minster School and Christ Church,
Oxford, and was called to the Bar
1908, He is a nephew of the
Rt Hon Reginald McKenna
stipendary magistrate at
In 1910 and Puisne uritius: in 1915. He was
General
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