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The Kien Hua Kindergarten, 97%. It has been doflultely deelded After many years of silence Albert Street, Singapore, is appeal-to hold this year's St. Andrew's cannon practice has been resumed at the Phiasur fortress. at the ing for funds in order to purchase Ball on Wednesday, November 30.
mouth of the Menam River. a school building.
Compared with 123 at the time of the Confederation, there are now 3,770 branch banks in Canada, an Indication of the increasing service given by Dominion banks to the business community.
Cases of small-pox are being notified from different areas in Kuala Lumpur and other places in Solangor.
The Ecuador Government have issued a decree forbidding foreign churchmen, irrespective of their religion, to enter the country save The Dutch Colonial Depart in exceptional caacs, when a ape- ment has received an urgent tele-cial permit may be lasued for a gram from the Government of the stay not exceading 40 days.-Reu- Reliable reports are to the Dutch East Indies asking for theter. **.** effect that a. quantity of German immediate dispatch of a number of arms, consigned to Chang Chung-police commissioners and other chang, have arrived in Tsingtao, officers comprising 8,870 rifles (now pat- tern), 2,500 rifles (old model), 250 machine-guns, nine acroplanes, and 2,983,650 rounds of ammunition.
Shanghai Chinese organisa- tlons are protesting against the alleged despatch, by the Japanese Government, of troops to Man- ehuria and Mongolia for aggres- alve purposes and to trespass on China's sovereignty." They de mand their immediate withdrawal,
W. 3. Hier, riding at No. 558 Nathon Rond and T. H. Pile of 521 Nathan, Road, were charged before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kow- loon Magistracy yesterday with causing obstruction in Nathan Rond by leaying their motor cycles on the pavement. Both defendants plead- ed guilty and were fined $4 each.
and Mesrs. Wolsiffer, Morris Southwell of the British American Company, Mr. P. V. Botelho, wife and family, and Mrs. Au Yeung, daughter of Sir Robert Ho Tugg, for Shanghai, Mrs. Bicknell, wife of the General Manager of the U. S. Rubber Plantations at Medan and Dr. H. F. Halpin, U. S. Pubile Health Officer in Hong Kong, bound for San Francisco were, among the passengers departed by the 6.5. "President Cleveland."
The report of the Singapore Junior Civil Service Association for the financial year ended June 30 lust shows that there is an ex- cess of assets over liabilities of $7,747.76. The account indicate that since the opening of the new club house, enormous expenses have been incurred in connection with the running of the club house and as further heavy expenses will have to be incurred for the con-
Lieut. William Davis, Jr., navi- gator of the "Woolaroc," the winning plane in the Hawaiian air Derby for the $25,000 Dols prize.
The French law courts have decided that cultivated pearls, gen- erally known as "Japanese pearls," cannot be sold as real penris since they are not the unaided work of the syster, but "contain in their interior an important nucleus of foreign matter."
In consequence of the protest struction of three tennis courts and made by the British Deputy," Mr twe Badminton courts and also for A. J. Martin recently, against the the purchase of sports requisites, light sentences imposed by the etc.. in addition to the monthly re Provisional Court upon a gang of current expenses of wages, to-armed highway robbers found gether with the lighting and water guilty and sentenced to eight and rates, the committee trust that a six years' imprisonment respec- prompt response will be made bytively, an application was heard by those members, whose subscriptions the Provisional Court of Appeal by at the small rate of 50 cents per the Municipal Police to have sen- mensen are in arrears, for the tences increased. After the formal purpose of replenishing the funds application had been made the of the association.
hearing was adjourned.
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The Butterfly, on the Wheel," the play which the Forbes Russoll Comedy Company is presenting In the Star Theatre at 9.15 to-night, has not been staged before during the present season and should therefore attract special attention. Booking is at popular prices.
The Prince of Wales unvelling the Laurier monument at Ottawa is one of the recent intercating events depicted in the topical gazette show- ing at the Queen's Theatre to-day and to-morrow. The gazette also gives glimpses of the work in! connection with Southampton's £13,000,000 dock extension scheme.
The Chinese who previously failed to answer to his name at the Criminal Sessions where he is charged with alleged attempted bribery of a constable in connection with the sale of Macaé "poplu". (lottery) tickets, again failed, to answer when called at the begin-1 ning of yesterday's session. Tho Crown Solicitor asked his Lordship to deal with the matter at the con- clusion of the last case-the Mrs. Mackay murder trial. The man's bail was $1.000,
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Disguised in Japanese kimonos, two Chinese detectives of the Wan- chai police gained admission to No. 13 Leetung Street, and proceed- ing to the third floor, they found that a game of fantan was going on in the premises. There were thirteen persons, twelve Japanese and Chinse, taking part in the game. Having waited until the players had staked their money, the detectives gave 11 pre-arranged Bignal and A party of police offi- who had been in hid- cers, ing in the vicinity, raided the flat. All the thirteen gamblers, and a Chinese woman whe appeared to be a servant were taken into custody and removed to No. 2 Police Station. Yesterday they appeared before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy. Of the fourteen de- fendants, a Japanese named S. Horda and a Chinese named Chan Chuen failed to surrender to their bails of $200 and $150 respectively and the money was estreated. Of the others, the Chinese woman was fined $5 and the rest $10 each. | Money seized from the gambling table by Sergeant Rozeakwy com- prised Yen 25, G$10 and $134 odd in local currency. All this money was ordered by the Magistrate to be confiscated.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Dr. Needham, the noted biologist of Cornell University, and Mrs. Needham are visiting China and at present are in Shanghai..
The engagement is announced of Mr. Edward Walker, of Aberdeen, Kuala Lumpur branch manager for McAlister and Co., Ltd., and Miss Doris Poynton, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Poynton, of the FMS. Railways..
A change took place in the De- partment of the Director of Naval Equipment on August 29 when Eu- gineer-Commander George Villar succeeded Engineer Commander Cecil Simpson, D.S.O. The former officer was recently serving in the "Hermes," aircraft-carrier.
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The marriage arranged between Mr. J. A. Fraser and Miss K. E. Mozley will take place in St. John's Cathedral to-morrow, 2,30
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to the bride's recent illness, there will be no reception, but all.friends will be welcome at the Cathedral.
Mr. Karl von Wiegand, General Manager in Europe, of the newa bureaux of the Hearst chain of newspapers, which includes the International News Service and the Universal News Service, is on his way to Manila, Singapore and In- dia to continue his study of the Nationalist movement in Asia.
A proposal of. Increasing the salary of the Governor of Ceylon was considered by the Select Com- mittee on the Budget which was to decide the question before the arrival of the new Governor, Sir Herbert Stanley. The present
Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin arrived in London on Monday evening on their return from their holiday at Aix-les-Bains.
Mr. Ananda Mohan Sahay of Calcutta, who was in Japan for some years is now on his second trip to Japan.
Art Goebel, Dilot of the "Wool- aroc winner of the $25,000 Dole prize.
Mr. Saburi, the newly-appointed Counsellor to the Japanese Em- bassy, left London on August 30 for Geneva.
The wireless operator on board the s.8. "Tungchow," the B. and S. steamer, was found dead when the boat arrived in Shanghai · ́last
Thursday from Tientsin... Death is believed to have resulted from na-| tural causes. He was a British subject.
Mr. Oscar Cook, who went out to: Borneo in 1911 to plant rubber, and afterwards for ten years filled; a Government post with the British North Borneo (Chartered) Co., has published a cheap edition of his book, "Borneo, the Stealer. of Hearts." Mrs. Cook is Christine Campbell-Thomson, a young novel-
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Prof. E. Ariam Williams, Secre- tary to Poet Rabindranath Tagore, is sailing from Singapore for| Bangkok in connection with the proposed visit of the Poet to Siam. His address will be care of British Consul, Bangkok. He expects to spend a few days in Malaya on his way back to India about the middle of October.
The death is announced at Tamale, Ashanti, of blackwater fever, of 2nd Lieutenant Guy Duke, Argyll and Butherland Highlanders, and younger son of the late Mr. George Duke and Mrs. Duke, Bents Road, Montrose. Lieutenant Duke was commissioned at Sandhurst in 1920, and two years later was drafted to the Gold Coast, wliere he was stationed until February of last year, when he was invalided
The late Mr. Archibald Alexan-home after an attack of blackwater
salary is £9,000, of which £2,000 der, H.B.M. Consular Service, fever. He returned to the Coast
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