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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Shanghal tea merchants have petitioned the Nationalist authori- tles for the refund of Tis, 1,780,000 deposited in the Dalbank in con- nection with tea shipments for Russia.
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Wong Ah-yung was fined $16 In the Shanghai Provisional Court for fll-treating a pony, Accused was ordered to give the pony good food and to treat it well and he was forbidden to use the animal for three months...
According to a Nanking des patch printed in the "Sinwanpao." Comrade "Mike" Borodin left Loyang on August 2 for Shanal, proceeding thence via Kanau, to Russia. The despatch adds:-"He appeared to be very depressed."
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The The Shanghai Rice Guild has
Nanking Ministry petitioned the local authorities to Finance has sent a deputy to Shang- forbid merchants to sell rice athaf to urge the public to subscribe to the loan bonds issued with the prices exceeding $18.
Klangou-Cheklang salt surplus as security,
The Chinese papers state that the Japanese Consul-General has sent a note to the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs saying that a Japanese avlator proposed to fly from: Osaka to Shanghai on August 16.
The German overseas steamer, "Bertram Rickmers," which was detained by order of the Nanking Government owing to the fact that part of her cargo was alleged to consist of explosives and war con- The small planets Vesta (intraband, was released by order of Libra, near Beta) and Ceres (in the Nanking Government. Scorpio, about 3 degrees north of Antares), both can be observed this month with a small telescope or other glass. Just now both rise some time after midnight.
The propaganda department of the Shanghai Special District Kus- mintang has printed a large adver tisement In the Chinese press stat. The summer number of the Ing that owing to the fact that "Red Triangle" (the organ of the Customa tariff had been drawn up In a luncheon address to British local European Y.M.C.A.) ex-by the foreign powers in collabora- motion picture advertisers, Sir cellently produced and contains tion with China, national products Landon Ronald said he had seen interesting articles and comments had not been properly developed, the result of which was that many beautiful films ruined by the must-on various branches of the or cal accompaniment. He believed
activities locally. Chinese were bankrupt and the that if there were great music for Kanisation's
robbers. The Nationalist a great story, the "run" of that Alm There are in addition reproductions country was overrun by beggars
of sonie very fine drawings by con- and
Government had offcially an- would be tripled and quadrupled.
tributors.
nounced that there would be Cus- toms autonomy on September 1. Though this was a wish of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the militarists and Communists were unwilling to ob port the government. In bringing this about,
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Before the Commissioner of the
Estate in Hong Kong valued at United States Court for China, Mr. N, E. Lurton, Messrs. Melchers & $38,000 and in Shanghai at 38,000 Company sued R. Z. O'Brien for Taels was left by Elizabeth Martha Bremner, late of Cheyne Walk, debts owing to the amount of T18 Chelsea, who died in London in serve it. The people should sup
459.68. Mr. Moss, representing plaintiffs, stated that on many oc- enelone the defendant had run up bills, always with the promise of payment. Judgment was given for the plaintiffs, together with costs
and interest.
February this year. Resealing of
of the
two probate
will and codicila has been granted to the local attorney of Mr. Stewart Bruce Macduff Bremner, son of the de- ceared.
At the 71st annual meeting of Complaining that certain depart the Missions to Seamen it was menta of the native administration stated that the year 1928. had been are abusing the free-licence prone of anxiety and uncertainty. At vileges with regard to ricshes and the preceding annual meeting they automobiles, the Finance Depart-appealed for an additional 25,000. ment of the Shanghat (Chinese) as contributions to the general Municipal Government has request fund. They had in response re ed these institutions to furnish aceived £6,305 above the previous report on all vehicles receiving free year. Notwithstanding this, their licences in order that these may be expenses had exceeded receipts by reduced in number and additional £2,656, figures which proved the revenue accrue to the Government. Importance and pressing nature of
the work they were doing,
The following interesting note appears in the monthly leaflet from Shanghai Holy Trinity Cathedral:~~ "The hot weather has brought up the question of the length of the Cathedral services, and the Vestry, finding that no other part was re- ducible, passed on the suggestion that the sermons during the month of August might be restricted to 10 minutes. It is only fair to the clergy to say that the suggestion did not originate with them, and that, if the intention is to make it easier for them, the reverse may possibly be the case. Few things are more difficult than to say some- thing worth while saying under such restrictions. Restraint is The "Kuo Min News Agency" states that an order to cut down Estate in the Colony valued at inimitable to the purpose and func- expenditure and set a limit to all $12,000 was left by Mr. A. St. tion of the sermon in public war Sermons are not meant to official banquets and private enter- Clair Campbell, a Shanghai mer-ship. tainments has been issued to all the chant who died in Shanghal carly be occasions for oratorical display,
authorities provincial
by the this year.
Re-sealing of exempli nór opportunities for panegyrics on Nationalist Government at Nan- Bication of the will has been grant-topical themes, but rather the king. The Government order inti-ed to the local attorney of the solemn delivery of a message in the Legacies of £1,200 Name of God, for the service of mates, that a clean and honest executors. government la possible only when each to his two sisters and £600 God, by one who at his ordination Its officials are frugal and hard-to his brother, Kenneth Lorn had delivered to him, upon hiz working and that elimination of all Campbell are bequeathed, the re-knees, the Bible, with these words unnecessary and expensive pastimes mainder of the estate being left to will not only be conducive to thrift hla wife, together with property, on the part of the individuals but the estate to be divided later among will also save money for the public. children and grandchildren.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Major-General Sir Theodore Fraser, lately commanding the troops in Malaya, has arrived in London from Singapore.
The engagement is announced between Mr. R. B. Gotch, of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank,
Mr. Frederick Dolbeare has been appointed counsellor of the United States legation at Ottawa.
Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, new Belgian Ambassador. the arrived in London on July 15. He was in Peking during the Boxer
Singapore, and Elleen Madge, rising. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Millard, of Shanghal.
The forthcoming wedding is The engagement is announced announced of Mr. James Francis between Arthur Henry Lucas Wright, stockbroker, at present Cooper, only son of Mr. and Mrs. residing at Repulse Bay Hotel, and Mary Marquarite Doris A. E. Cooper, of Kobe, and Mar- Miss jorie Vining, only daughter of Mr. Brandt, of 5 Tregunter Mansions. and Mrs. E. M. Archer, of Tregenna, Turley.
The announcement is made of the Mr. Silas H, Strawn, who was the engagement of Mr. J. Hart, Shang- United States representative at the hai Electric Co., Ltd., only son. of Mr. and Mrs. Hart, Mount Florida, Customs Tarif Conference in Peking eighteen months ago, and Glasgow, to Miss Kitty S. Mit also at the Extra-Territoriality chell, youngest daughter of Mr. Convention, accepted the invitation and Mrs. Mitchell, Greenock. of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce to lunch on July 25,
Mr. T. H. G. Brayfield, of Mesars. Carmichael and Clark, left Hong Kong for a business visit to Saigon by the 6.8. "Amazone" yesterday.
Mr. F. G. Ritchle, Singapore, was elevated from associate to full membership of the Institution of Naval Architects at a meeting of the Council held at Cambridge on July 14.
The engagement is announced between Laurence Cave of Stoner Hill, Petersfield, Hants, and Mena, elder daughter of the late Frederick Weld of Wynreford. Chideock, Dorset, and formerly of F.M.S. Civil) Service.
The Rector of the University of Paris, M. Charlety, who was French Luncheon Club, referred! the guest of honour of the Anglo- to the traditional bond of sym- pathy between the representa- and French lives of British
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The following have been elected to Fellowship of the Royal Colonial universities, The operations Mr. Frank Kingdon-Ward, the ex- Institute: British Malaya: Henry the British Institute in Paris plorer, and Colonel Roosevelt-who R. Baxter (Batu Gajah), Arthur would, he said, mark a further is recently back from his Central Pearce (Batu Gajah), Wm. Telfer important stage in the centuries- Asian expedition, are planning to (Tronoh), C. Tudor Williams old educational ties between the meet next year on the north-eastern (Renggam), and Charles C. W. two countries. frontier of India. Mr. Kingdon Willson (Singapore). China:
Ward leaves England soon after Charles F. Shackleton (Shanghai). Mrs. Rachel Beer, Chancellor
Christmas to collect plants and
other specimens for Kew, Edin-
House, Bishops Down, Tunbridge Belief in the work being done Wells, left unsettled property in her burgh, and the Natural History. Museum, as well as for a syndicate by the English-Speaking Union own disposition valued at £318,283, of well-known horticulturists. Mr. Was expressed by the Bishop of She was the widow of Mr. Frederick London at a luncheon which that Arthur Béer and a daughter of the Kingdon-Ward was at one time a organization gave in his honour. late Sassoon David Sassoon, and schoolmaster in Shanghai.
Throughout his 500,000 miles died last April, aged 71, intestate tour, he said, he endeavoured to and without issue. Letters of ad- com- ministration have been granted to The Royal Society of Edinburgh enforce the tie. of blood, announce that the Macdougall mon flag, a common literature, at her nephews, Arthur Meyer Sassoon Brisbane Prize for the period common, religion, and a common and Michael Thorneycroft. Sassoon. 1924-1928 has been awarded by the interest. council to Dr. Charles Morley'
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The Duke of Montrose, Mr. Rudyard Kipling, and Mr. P. H. Devitt, honorary members, were among those who took part in the
Wenyon; Director-in-Chief, Well-Dr. Timothy Tingfang Lew, the come Bureau of Scientific Research, eminent Chinese scholar, is paying for his distinguished work in his first visit to England. Dr. Lew. protozoology; and that the James is president of the China Christian Ceremony of Admittance at a Scott Prize for the period 1922-26 Education Association, and is also special meeting of the Company of for a lecture or essay on the funda closely associated with the National Master Mariners, held in the mental concepts of Natural Christian Council of China and the Library of Trinity House. The Philosophy has been awarded to Sir Chinese Y.M.C.A., and. was Dean of honorary members were welcomed Joseph Larmor, Cambridge, the Faculty of Theology at Yen by Sir R. Burton Chadwick, M.P., ching University from 1921 to the Deputy Master who said they also included in their 'honorary The seventeenth International 1926. Congress of Orientalists will be
membership Admiral of the Fleet held at Oxford In the week begin. Among the guests at the annual Earl Jellicoe, the son of a master ning Aug. 27, 1928. The President dinner of the Incorporated Society mariner, and himself one of our will be Lord Chalmers, G.C.B. of Flantera (Malaya) which took greatest British seamen, and also LL.D. D.Litt., and the General place were the Right Hon. W the Lord Mayor of London, who Committee comprises the members Ormsby-Gore, M.P. Under-Secrets Admiral of the Port of London. of the Board of the Faculty of tary of State for the Colonies, the we are all of us conscious, he Oriental Languages at Oxford. In Hon, C. Bitchie, Sir George and concluded, that the status of the cluded in the Organising Commit Lady Maxwell; Sir Edward Mere British officer is not what it should tee is Professor W. E Soothill wether, EM Eric Macfadyen Sir be, and we are determined that this Sections have been constituted pro- TEW Wallington, Bir W B company shall be so ¡constructed visionally which include Central Townley, Sir Stanley Bole, Colonel and administered, that it will tend and Northern Asia, with Tibet, the Sealy Clarke, and Me Choo Kia to raise the status of the whole
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