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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
'The Shanghai Capitalists and Labourers Arbitration Committee held its inaugural meeting in the offices of the Chinese General Cham- ber of Commerce.
The Shanghai British Automo- bile Association draws attention to complaints which are being re- ceived as to the excessive use of Joud horns in town areas, particu- |larly at night,
The "Straits Echo" is in a posi tion authoritatively to announce that an entirely new General Hos- pital, to cost probably several mil lions of dellars, will be erected in the near future in Fonang.
Since the abolition of the dog tax the number of mangy and uncar- ed for pariahs has multiplied con- siderably, and unsuspecting people are never safe from attacks from rabid dogs, says the "Times of Coy- lon.'
Leave to file a specification of an invention for a new method of at- tachment of soles and heels to the uppers of boots and shoes made of leather and other skins without any stitching or sewing has been given to Mr. Tan Kah Kee of Singapore.
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Among the through passengers en the Darvel, says the "B.N.B. Herald," was one of the most enor mous pythons we have been pri- vileged to see. It must have mea- sured a good deal over 20 feet in length and its waist measurement, enhanced by a recent meal of Plan- dok or other meat, was also of no mean order. It was caught we un- derstand, in Sandakan and sold for $100 and will be put on exhibition in Singapore.
A Main, seventy years of age. just returned from a pilgrimage to Mecca, collapsed on the Penang railway jetty and died a few minutes later.
Thirty-al Canadian airmen offer to compete for a prize of £5,000 offered by Mr. Charles Burns, of London, Ontario, for a non-stop flight from that city to London.
A large area of the interior of Western Queensland is to be patrolled by a doctor in an aero- plane for the aid of sick persons far from other medical help.
The M.M... "Andre Lebon" has been in the builders' hand for a year, undergoing a thorough modernisation. She has been con- verted from a coal into an oil burn- ing steamer. She will be in Singa- pore again in October.
The Hong Kong. "Gazette" notifies that the Treaty of Friend-: The Hospital Comforts Com ahip, Commerce and Navigation mittee begs to acknowledge, with with the United States of Mexico many thanks, receipt of parcels of has been prolonged until Decem-literature from Mrs. Handyside bor 81, 1927.*
and Mrs. A. Morris; also packs of playing-cards from Mrs. Bridger, Mr. Ho Kom-tong, 0.B.E., and Messrs. Gende, Price & Co.
The Shing Fat Steamship Co., Ltd., will, unless cause is shown to the contrary be struck off the register and the company dissolved at the expiration of three months from August 18,
The principal films at the cinemas fo-day are "Down the Stretch" at the Queen's Theatre; The Fourth Commandment" at the Sub-Assistant Surgeon Jema- World Theatre; and "The Sea. dar Kirdar Nath, and Sub-Assistant Beast," the screen version of Her- sea story Surgeon Jemadar Niranjan Lud-man Melville's famous hilanvi, both of the Indian Sub- "Moby Dick," at the Star Theatre, ordinate Medical Department, are authorised to sign medical certifi- "The Shanghal People's Asso- cates of death, according to yester-ciation to Uphold Customs Tariff day's "Gazette."
Autonomy" held its second meeting In the office of the Customs Chinesa
To-night at 930 Mr. Charles Staff Association on Min Kuo Road, Chamier's revue company of ten Nantao at which it was resolved London artistes will give its final that a series of mass meetings performance in the Star Theatre. would be held on the afternoon of The programme' to be presented is August 20 in Nantao and Chapel called "Pot Pourri," and repre-as well as one "in the centre of the which sents the most popular numbers in International Settlement," the company's repertoire.
probably means in the premises occupied by the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce,
The residents of Malacca, especially planters, must be relieved that the drought is now over. Dur-
A Nationallat soldier who tried ing the spell of dry weather that they have just had, a kind of winter- to enter the Shanghai International ing was experienced on most, es-Settlement with 250 rounds of rifle The London motor-cyclists set tates, in some cases mild and in ammunition concealed in two billy- off from Central London on a jour-others severe, while the crop on al-cans inside a blanket, and was ar ney round the world. They were most every state showed a decrease. rested by a Chinese constable on Mr. S. T. Glanfield and Flight- Sergt. Sparkers. The side-cars of their motor cycles will be used a beds. The journey of about 15,000 miles will be via Germany, Austria, Yugo Slavia, Constantinople, the Syrian Desert, Baara, Bombay, the Straits Settlements, and Australis, returning across the United States. They expect to complete the tour in 120 days.
patrol at the North Thibet Road- Bridge, was remanded for trial be- fore the Higher Court at the Provi- alonal Court. He pleaded that he i had been given the bundle by a fellow soldier when he came on leave from Nanking and did not know that the bullets were inside.
The full military band, fifes and drums, of the 1st/Northampton shire Regiment are to give the pro- gramme at the Kowloon Dock con cert to-morrow afternoon whon Ser- vice men will be allowed the use of the beach and the pleasure of listen- ing to the open-air concert free of charge. The funds raised by these
At Lukawei Cemetery a number concerts are to be devoted to the of officers and men of the Shanghai cost of a proposed gala day for Ser Municipal Police participated in a The British Air Ministry has vices at the beach later in the sea: simple ceremony consisting of the completed its secret tests regard-son. Following is the programme: laying of a tombstone at the head March, The Vanished Army, Alford; ing the "Flying Battleship," a huge Selection, Lady be Good, Gershwin of the grave of the late Russian flying-boat with three Rolls Royce Cornet Solo, I'll sing theo songs of constable, Klakin, who died from Conder engines of 2,100 horse- Araby, Clay, (Sololet L/C
Abullet wounds received while en It will be christened Green); Selection, Rose Marie, deavouring to apprehend a gang of "Valkyrie." It has a wooden hull Friml; Retrent by the Fifes and armed desperadoes on Carter Road of immense strength, specially Drum Band; Saite, Nell Gwyn, Ed. in June last. The tombstone which treated to prevent the absorption of German, Selection, Sonny, Kern; bore a replica of a cross of the water. It is intended for recon- Cornet Duet, The Friendly Rivals, Russian Orthodox Church, contain palasance. crew of five for whom arr: Godfrey, (Soloists L/C. Aed the following inscription: "To hammocks have been provided, en- Green and Bds. F. Chapman); Selec- the warrior who fell abroad defend- abling them to be several days tion, Tip-Toes, Gershwin. Conduc- Ing the name and honour of 'Rus-
tor, Mr. W. Cresswell, L.A.M.
Bian.'"
power,
over the sea.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Mr. Thomas Hardy laid a com- Mr. H. L. Mackenzie, A.S.O., memoration atone at the new Dorchester Grammar School Build- ment Depot, Hong Kong.
has been appointed to the ings on July 21.
Mr. J. A. Harvey, until lately Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary, is going to the Selangor Secretariat as Assistant Secretary to Resident.
Mr. A. P. Cameron having re- Arms-signed, Mr. T. W. Stubbs takes his place as a member of the Board of Licensing Justices for Singapore,
Mr. J. S. W. Arthur, Malayan Civil Service; has been appointed District Judge and First Magistrate, Penang.
Letters episcopal have been A message from Brussels states issued dated August 7 appointing that M. Eugene Yaaye, the septua- the Ven Archdeacon F. G. Swindell genarian violinist, married, at na commissary for the Bishop of Knocke-sur-Mer, Jeannette, aged twenty, his brilliant pupil, the Singapore, during the absence of daughter of Dr. Dincin of Brooklyn, the latter from the diocese.
The High Commissioner has awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal to Lieut. S. R. Jones of the Selangor Malayan Volunteer Infantry and the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decorá- tion to Mr. W. B. Hawkes of the Malay States Volunteer Regiment.
Viscount Kikujiro Ishil will retire from diplomatic service upon the closing of the Geneva Conference. He will be succeeded by Dr. Mineichiro Adachi to represent Japan on the Council of the League of Nations of which he is a per manent member. Dr. Adachi is the Japanese Ambassador to Belgium. '
Mr. Pat Zilwa, J.P., of Kaala covered from his injuries in the Lumpur, who has practically re- motor car accident in which Mrs. Zilwa was fatally injured, has arrived in Singapore en route to Colombo on holiday.
Messrs. F. H. Grumitt and A. R. Thornton are appointed Municipal Commissioners for Penang in the places of Messrs. J. D. Kemp and L. E. Slowe, resigned.
lonese community of Muar enter- At the Muar Club, the Indo-Cey-
tained Messrs. M. V. Pillai and K. S. Pillai, barristers-at-law, to a
dinner to bid farewell to the former Europe on a holiday and to wel on the eve of his departure. to
charge of Mr. M. V. Pillai's prac- come the latter, who is taking over tice. Mr. H. H. Norris, barrister- at-law, presided and a long toast! list was submitted after which an entertainment was provided by T. S. Muttusamy Pillai and Co., of Tin- nevelly, India, the party dispersing at about 2.30 am.
Among the guests of Sir Trevor and Lady Dawson at their Hertford- Edgewareburg House, Elstree, on July 2, were shire residence, Prince Chula of Siam, the Japanese The Edinburgh Town Council, by Ambassador and Baroness Mataul, 30, votes to 22, adopted a proposal General Sir George and Lady to confer the Freedom of the City Macdonough, and Admiral Siren Sir Harry Lauder, who was born Arthur and Lady Leveson, Admiral in the City. There was bitter op the Hon. Edmund Fremantle, Ad- position to the proposal, chiefly miral Sir Frederick and Lady from the Labour councillors, one of Tudor, and Lieutenant-General Sir whom said that Sir Harry Lauder Sir Aaron Banks, managing direc-Travers and Lady Clarke,
"presented the English-speaking tor of John Banks and Sons Pty.,
world with a type of Scotsman not Lid, of Victoria, arrived in Malaya
Arrangements have been made found in Heaven, above the earth, from Australia. He has been pre for a visit in October this year of or beneath the waters under the sident of the Melbourne Hospital Dr. E. Stanley Jones, a well-known earth- type who, if he came in since 1918 and is a past president lecturer and author of "Christ of their midst, would be sent to an of the Melbourne Metropolitan Hos the India Road" Dr. Jones, is a saylum." Another described Bir pital Association and chairman of very powerful speaker and in re- Harry Lauder as "a Tory propagan- the Walter and Eliza Hall Research cent years has travelled and lec diet who denounced trade uniona.” Institute.
tured in Europe, India, Burma, Via Java, United States, Egypt, and
"The second annual conference of It is understood that Major Sir Turkey. He visited Malays in 1920 the Malayan Teachers' “Association Archibald Boyd Carpenter heads and was very warmly received by was opened by Mr. A. J. Sturrock, the official delegation which the large cosmopolitan audience in the District Officer, Kinta, at the British manufacturers Section of Perang, Ipoh, Ku..la Lumpur and Town Hall, Ipoh. There was a re- the Society of Motor Manufacturers Singapore.
cord attendance of teachers. from and Traders Ltd., have sent to
Call parts of Malaya, including Sin- Australasia and South Africa to The Japanese Minister to Chiun, gapore and members of the general explore factors of importance in Mr. Yoshizawa, was the guest of public 85 that the large Town Hall securing for the British motor in honour at an affair at the Chinese was full to the doors, Mr. P. E. dustry e greater place in the mar General Chamber of Commerce; | Navarédnam, President of “he Asso. kets of the Empire. The mission Shanghai, at which were present, ciation, was in the chair, to Mr. is due to reach Singapore at an about 20 prominent Chinese. The Sturrock declared the Conference early date. Sir Archibald is a son meeting, was presided over by Mr. open with a speech touching on of the late Bishop of Ripon and is Quo Tal-chi, the Commissioner of some aspects of education, after tha✨ Unionist" representative of Foreign Affaire, who delivered an which Dr. Rabindranath Tagore, Coventry in Parliament. He was address and expressed a hope for the poet-philosopher, delivered the Parliamentary and Financial Seore the continuation of friendly réle-inaugural address. Dr. Tagore from July tions between China and Japan, spoke for about 45 minutes on the de was Mr. Yoshizawa, replied, praising the subject p ducation with special Treasury, hospitality of the Chiness and state reference to his own Secretary, ing, that chorts should be made to Shantineketan,:2AV
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