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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Liverpool Chamber of Com- merce passed a resolution urging the Government to inquire into the lighthouse system, as it was con- tended many existing coast lights are unnecessary.
A man named Godlevsky has been found strangled in the public He gardens at Kharkoff, Russia. had been one of the most notorious executioners in the service of the Cheka since 1921.
As the result of meetings by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh with the managers of the dance halls con- cerned, the colour ban, which for aome time has existed in the city,
has been removed.
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A coollowho tried to steal) Silk shawls and dress lengths will form a very attractive dis-empty bottles from the N.A.A.F.I. play at the Pioneer Silk Store Canteen at Great Western Road! Camp, Shanghai, was sentenced to this week.
15 days' imprisonment at the Pro- visional Court,
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Society hold their first chorus re- hearsal of "Merrie England" at St. John's Cathedral Hall to-day, at 5.30 p.m.
A Pittsburgh message states that fifty negro miners were hurled from their beda by an explosion which wrecked two buildings but injured no one.
The Hong Kong Tramways Ltd. intends to apply for permis- sion to construct about 1,000 yards of double track on the Shaukiwan Road between Quarry Bay and Cornhill.
A Straits Settlements Govern- ment "Gazette" states that Basrah, Bombay, and Mohammerah and
A concert on a big scale has Abadan (Persia) are declared in- fected places on account of the been arranged at the Kowloon existence of cholera in an epidemic Cricket Club on Saturday, Septem. state.
ber 3, for the purpose of raising funds for an entertainment for following The exclusive privilege of mak-Service men on the ing, selling, and using and author- Saturday, ising others so to do, an invention for improvements in the method of
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on the steamer
at
A passenger "Hong Peng" was arrested Penang, the police finding In his possession 92 counterfeit ten cent pieces. He was charged in the Police Court and remanded on bal! of $1,000.
tax
Japanese cotton mill owners of Shanghaf held a meeting in the Japanese Club on Boone Road, in connection with the new proposals of the Nationalist govern ment scheduled to take effect on September 1. It is reported that preparations are now in the making
by
some of the mills to suspend taxes being enforced. operations in the event of the new
con-
The anniversary number taining the 68th and 59th reports of of the International Institute China, Inc., has just been publish- ed The International Institute "The Mission of of China Inc., or Among the Higher Classes China," is a compilation by Dr.
A small chimney are broke out an apparatus for the manufacture on Saturday evening in a house in Hear the Man of rubber goods from rubber dis-Square Street,
Mo Temple. An engine from persions by electrophoretic means has been granted to the Anode the Central Fire Station was early Gilbert Reid of the work carried! Rubber Co.,
18 Throgmorton on the scene, and the outbreak was Avenue, Londen, rubber manufac extinguished without difficulty.
turers.
out during the past year by this Institution the aims of which are principally the promotion of wel Ladies of the Colony would do fare of. China and the Chinese well to pay a visit to the Liberty people and to promote harmony be- Silk Store. This store, which has tween the people of China and the just recently opened in Chins foreigners. It containe many inter- Building, is under the able proprie- eating details of the work perform- torship of Mr. M. Lokoomull, who ed by the institution.
Armed with a warrant Issued by the Procurator's Bureau of Formosa District Court, the Shang- hai Japanese Consular Police raided a house in an alleyway off Whang is well known in the Colony, hay- Pang in Chapel and arrested a For- ing been in the silk business here mosan revolutionary alleged to be for many years. It goes without connected with a certain secret saying that the Liberty Silk Store society organised by the youth of has the beat in silks to offer to its Formosa. Inquiries are being made customers at reasonable prices. into the activities of the arrested; youth since the time of his arrival in Shanghai.
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The Kuomintang members in the various ports are collecting funds from Chinese residents in the! Straits Settlements for use in the Peking Expedition, according to The following was the pro- gramme of music at St. John's reports turned into, the Peking government by 'secret service men Cathedral at Evensong laat night and given out by one of the leaders
of the 1st in the Mukden government.
Con- A letter has been received by when the band
Queen's took part under the siderable amounts have already the Shanghai Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, the Chapel conductorship of Band Sergeant been turned over to the Nasking
Manley:"The Angelus
and Wuhan factions. It is learn Chamber of Commerce
and
the F City Chamber of Commerce notify Massenet; "Morning" from "Peered that the Peking government Is ing them to inform all merchants Gynt" Grieg: Hymn 24-Sun of giving much attention to this and of Shanghai that another celebramy Soul," Male Voice Choir An fearing that his financial support tion will be staged on September 1. them "I pray the Father" Tormay do some injury to the military The letter emanates from the Union rance; Hymn 178 "Jesu, the very of the North, the authorities have of Chambers of Commerce and an- thought of Thee;" 2nd Movement nounces that the celebration is in from "The Unfinished Symphony" honour of the ablition of likin and Schubert; Hymn 215. "The Church's the enforcement of the autonomy of one foundation;" Fugue in G. the Chinese maritime customs by Minor Bach; "Entry of the Gods "The Rhine- the Nanking Nationalist Govern- into Valhalla" from ment.
gold" Wagner.
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instructed the Peking Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take steps to stop this move. A circular tele- gram has been addressed to the consulates Chinese legations and abroad requesting them to look into the procedure of collection.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Mr. G. A. Hereford, the Singapore magistrate, has been granted three months leave on full salary before retirement.
Mr. F. E. McGarvin, superinten- dent of contraction on the Ningpo Baptist Hospital, has returned to Shanghai, and is living at his home
at Siccawel.
Sir Mortimer Singer has given £1,000 to the New Health Society of which Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane is president, and which has as its object the education of the public in disease prevention.
A committee of the Singapore Municipal Commission have approv- ed the recommendation of the con- Bulting engineers that Mr. Gifford Hull be appointed to the post of Chief Resident Engineer, Johore, on the resignation of Mr. H. L. Pear-
son.
The Rev. M. Dodsworth, of the Methodist Mission, Malacca, who went to America on leave in Feb- ruary, is now at the Chicago Uni- versity, where he is studying for his M. A. degree. Mrs. Dodsworth is also attending the same univer- sity.
It is reported from Kashmir that Sir Hari Singh's marriage for the second time was celebrated on August 4 with the simplest cere- monies, and was conducted accord- ing to Hindu shastric rites. Very little was therefore spent on the marriage itself; but His Highness distributed very large sums of money to the poor. Sir Hari Singh, who is 32 years of age, succeeded his uncle as Maharaja of Jammu aad Kashmir in 1925, His name was mentioned in connection with a notorious case in the English. courts' a few years ago,
Mrs. D. McFinch and MesSTB. Richard F. Charts, A. J. Dizzle, and S. 0. Gregory are new members of the Overseas League.
The Governor has appointed Imam Shaik Hussain bin Abdul Rahman Alkatip to be a Kathi for the Central Division of Singapore, and for the Arabs in the Settlement of Singapore.
The distinction of having cele- brated two silver weddings, one with his first wife and one with his second, was held by Mr. Frederick Benjamin Wickenden, who died at Taunton, aged 92.
- HEURY MILLER, WASIL E C.,
Lieut Albert F. Hegenberger, navigator at the Army ml-engined" Fokker Army plane, who with Liéu:: tenant Maitland made the first non- stop flight between the West Coast of the United States and Fawall.
Mr. A. Hyde is appointed to act as Second Assistant Secretary (B) Straits Settlements and Mr. C. H. Dakers as Third Magistrate.
Mr. T. P. Givens, recently-
appointed Assistant Commissioner of Municipal Police, Shanghai, will sail for Japan on the liner "Shang- hai Maru" on holiday leave of one month.
Mr. G. S. Carver has been, ap pointed provisionally a nominated Unofficial member of the Singa- pore Legislative Council in place of Mr. D. J. Ward, and Mr. G. C. Clarke in place of Mr. J. Mitchell.
Mr. Hector McRae; son of Colonel Sir George McRae, the well-known Scotsman and Parliamentarian, who raised a battalion of the Royal Scots in 1915, has arrived in Singa- pore on his way to Miri, Sarawok.
The many friends of Mrs, James, wife of C. P. F. James, of the Dollar Steamship Line, will be sorry to hear that she underwent an operation at the French Hospital! on Saturday last. Happily she is progressing favourably.
The Rev. Brother Aimar, Director of St. Joseph's College, who left on a health trip to the Straits Settlements, found it advisable to undergo a slight operation to his nose in Singa- pore. This proved successful and he then proceeded to Penang to recuperate. He sailed on Friday! by the s.s."Astuta Maru" from Singapore and is due here to day, unless the steamer is de- layed by the typhoon.
Miss Ruth Jones, of Washington, D.C., sailed from Hong Kong for Manila" ou the liner President Taft." Others south-bound passen- gers on the vessel were Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Garmezy and their son The death took place at sea bo-
Robert, of Wichita, Kansas Mr. tween New Zealand and Australia,
Walter Diehl, Diehl, of the on July 23, of Mr. D. D., Rankine, proprietor of D.D. Rankine and Co The anniversary, of the constitu- Associated Oll Company; Mr. E. W. stockbrokers, Kuala Lumpur. Mr. tion of the German republic was Hoskings, of Los Angeles, en route Ranking was summoned by cable celebrated in Singapore by a recop to Manila, where he will represent some months ago on account of the tion at the Consulate-General, where the Associated Press; Mr. and Mrs. serious illness, of his wife. He the Consul General, Herr Weber, Louis R. Springer, of El Paso, arrived in New Zealand in time to and Frau Weber, entertained a Texas, Mr. Jake Wanzheimer, man- see her before she died. He was on large company and cordial wishes ager of a sugar plantation in the his return journey to Malaya at the were exchanged: Among those pre Islands Mrs. D. G. McVean and time of his death. Mr. Rankine has sent were: The representative of daughter, returning to Manila; boen for many years in the tropics His Excellency, the Governor, Sir Mrs Helen H. Greedy, Miss G. as shipping agent for Burns, Philp Hugh Clifford, the A.D.C. to Major Greedy and Master F Greedy of and Co. and with Fraser and Co General C. Van Straubenzee the Berkeley, Calif, en route to Manila
P. Flood, of Singapore. He fought in the Consul-General for America, the M and Mrs. Raymond South African war and was badly Consul for France, the Consul MThomas Wright and family, wounded at Magersfontein, Mr. General for China, the acting Con- M, Carl Hess and son, Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. Rabkine leave an only son sut for Japan and the Vice Consul R. C. Jackson, Mr. J. H. McCarthy
and Mr. and Mrs. Whitney Harb. in New Zealand;
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