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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Imports of automobiles into Japan during the fire six months increased sixty-neven per cent, as compared with the same period of 1926.
Premier Jaspar of Belgium has presented to Parliament plans for development of Belgium's trans- portation system, involving the ex- penditure of 2,000,000,000 francs.
It is reported in Tientsin that the Shansi forces have captured 100,000 sheep in the course of the Aukuochun retreat. The present time of year is the season for drovers to bring their flocks from the north to Peking and Tientsin, and the moral of the report is that mutton will rise in price.
The Imperial Bank of India recently announced the reduction of its rate of discount from 5 to 4 per cent.
Mrs. Sophia Ellis, of Camborne, England who has just celebrated her hundredth birthday, entered domestic service when aged 10.at a wage of 6d, a week.
The War Office announces that until further orders the minimum height for all recruits for the Royal| Artillery will be 5ft. 7in, a reduc-| tion of Jin.
A party of wounded ex-Service men from Birmingham hospitala were among those entertained at Buckingham Palace by the "Not Forgotton" Association.
to
In Abgasinie, a telephone mes- sage must first be written and The Vice-President and Com- handed to the operator, who, inmittee of the Victoria Diocesan turn, shouts it into the transmitter, Association will be At Home no one else being permitted to use members and their friends at the the instrument.
Helenu May Institute on Thursday, November 17. Tan will be served at 4.30 p.m. The chal will be taken by Mr. P. S. Cassidy, and a short address will be given by the Rev. G. T. Waldegrave, M.Ai, on the work of the Missions to Sea- men.
The State Federation of Labour of California, has introduced are solution in the American Federa- tion of Labour convention now be Mr. W. Schofield yesterday ing held in Los Angeles demand imposed a fine of $250 on a Chi-ing immediate independence for nese who was charged before him the Philippines.
at the Kowloon Magistracy with the unlawful possession of poplu
was
At the Central Magistracy
lottory tickets which were seized Church, at Pontville, twenty miles a Chinese before him who
St. Matthew's Roman Catholic yesterday, Mr. R. E. Lindsell had by the police during a raid in No. from Hobart, was totally destroyed earlier in the month convicted for 22 Temple Street, Yaumati. Ac- cording to Detective Sergeant Biety fire in the early morning hours. tram the accused was found actual-The previous night the customary ly writing lottery tickets at the service was held in the building, time of the raid. The Magistrate and when the priest in charge left convicted the man on charges of everything was apparently safe. keeping a house for poplu lottery. purposes, writing lottery tickets and possession of popiu tickets. der has shown itself beyond the grave. The body of the late Lee Soy-ming was exhumed and mutilat the Seamen's Union of which the ed according to a complaint from late Mr. Lee was an officer. deceased was murdered by an un- The known
the unlawful possession of poplu lottery tickets and fined $15. The man was again charged with similar. offence. The number of tickets he had in his possession was 25 and he pleaded that these were bought as a joint investment :: Hatred towards n labour len-between himself and a few friends. The Magistrate imposed a fine of $50, or, in default, four weeks' hard labour.
hand and buried
at
Shaho. In certain Chinese circles. an act like that shows the extreme hatred the perpetrator must have for his victim.
Two Chinese employed at the Scots Guarda' camp at Shamshuipo, were yesterday charged before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy with the larceny of two pounds of beef. According to Guardaman Heron, in charge of the cookhouse, he suspected larcenies had been going on for some time, and on Wednesday he left the cook- house and kept watch. After a while he saw the second accused The project to excavate the come out of the cookhouse carry-Agora near Athens has been ing a bundle of cloth, he was stopped, and when the bundle was searched, the beef was found con- cealed inside the cloth. The first accused was implicated by No. 2, who said that he was urged by the other man to take the meat out and sell it. The first man was dia- charged on account of insufficient evidence, while No. 2 was sentenced to two months hard labour.
As the result of information pan fn the harbour on Wednesday received, the police chased a sam-
and made a baul of three automatic
at-
WAR
pistols and 620 rounds of ammuni tion which the sampan waa tempting to run to West Point, evidently with the intention of landing the contraband on the chased soon after she left the .8. Praya, there. The sampan Was
made practical by a concession rived from Germany. During the "Esquilino" which recently ar- granted by the Greek Government chase a sack was dropped over- and the gift of G.$2,500,000 by an board by the sampan but anonymous American philanthrop retrieved by the prompt action of ist to the American School of classical Studies of Athens and found inside the sack when it was the police. The contraband was other large sums,
including G.$500,000 from the Rockefeller opened on board the police launch. Foundation, which has pledged While the police were engaged in the school for the purpose of bour, the sampan managed to make retrieving the sack from the har- training students to work at ex-good its escape. cavation; but excavation cannot begin, till the Greek Courts have A Chinese named Fung Hae decided the Government's right to.
On the arrival in port yes- ting was yesterday afternoon be condemn modern buildings stand-terday
of a towboat plying fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Cening on the site of Agora.-Reuter,
between Hong Kong and Kitshek, tral Magistracy charged with the
near Swabue, the master reported forgery of a cheque for $50,000,
to the police at Shaukiwan that The accused, who was stated to be Major G. L. Gorr of the G/2nd his boat was pirated in the waters an assistant compradore of the Punjabi Regiment, Whitfield Bar- of Saramunkwan on Wednesday. Netherlands India Commercial racks, was yesterday aummoned be- The boat left Kitshek on Tuesday Bank, was defended by Mr. M. K. fore Mr. W. Schofield at the Kow-afternoon bound for Hong Kong Lo, while the Yokohama Specialoon Magistracy for allowing his with cargo of piga. As the |Bank, on which the forged cheque dog to be at large in Nathan Road, vessel was nearing Sammunkwan at was passed, were represented as Kowloon, without a muzzle. The about noon on Wednesday, she was prosecutors by Mr. F. C. Jenkin, defendant did not appear but was approached by a sampan full of instructed by Mr. H. C. Macnamara, represented by Captain of the Hokle pirates, who fired a volley Mr. D. H. Blake watched the case regiment. After Sergeant Clark at the towboat to force her to in the interest of the Ming Fat had explained that the dog's owner heave to. Six men armed with Hong, the Chinese firm in whose was Captain' Slater who had left rifles and revolvers boarded the tow- name the cheque was alleged to for Home sometime ago and left boat, and after driving the fokis have been drawn. On account of the animal in Major Gorr's care, into the hold, they ransacked' the the Illness' of Sergeant Carey, Mr. the, Magistrate gave an adjourncraft, remaining on board more Jenkin said that he was unable to ment for the appearance of Major than an hour. They eventually fully present his case and asked Gorr, who was stated to be away rowed away with 22 pigs worth for an adjournment. The case was on duty and might be back in a $420 and a quantity of clothing be- adjourned until Friday next. week's time.
Honging to the crew.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Sir Froderick Whyte left Nan- king yesterday up-river, says the Naval wireless, for Hankow.
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A son has been born to Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Cannan, of Welhaiwel.
Mr. T. S. Sterling, Principal of Mra. Molesworth, widow of the Presidency College, Calcutta, Is Judge Molesworth, Д
former retiring after 18 years' service in member of the Victorian judiciary, India. has died in England.
Mr. L. R. Barnett-Smith, of the Customs Department, Seremban, the well-known rugger player, is going to Jahore on transfer..
Mr. F. C. Sands, M.B.E., F.R.G.S., Commissioner of Scouts for Malaya, has returned from a holiday in Ceylon.
General Perrier and Mr. Rudyard Reuter telegraphs from BrusselsKipling were present at the unveil that Princess Astrid has given ing of the monument to the British birth to a daughter, who is to be division at Neuve Chapelle. named Josephine Charlotte.
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Engineer Captalu W. J. Willet Rev. and Mrs. E. M. Smith have Bruce, chief superintendent en- gone back to Ningpo to reside, hay-gineer of the White Star Line, is to ing found the people there friend-retire at the end of October after ly and anxious for them to return. 51 years' service with the company,
Mrs. Weinman and Miss Dora Mr. G. Burton Sayer, eldtor of Weinman are leaving for the "Shanghai Times," and Mrs. Australia by the "City of Palermo." Sayer are due to pass through They will not be returning to Hong Kong en route to Shanghai Malaya.
after a short holiday at home.
Mrs. David Fraser, wife of the
"Times" correspondont in Peking, We regret to record the death,
is planning to leave for England at her residence, 84 St. Michael's
Sir David Galloway returned to Singapore by the Blue Funnel steamer "Teiresias" from Home.
Mr. and Mrs., Vivian Bath, of Singapore, are leaving by the "Sar- pedon" for Hong Kong en route to the United States.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. M. Robson left London on Sept. 21 for Nice, where they propose to spend the greater part of the winter.
Mr. G. M. Billings will leave Shanghai in December for Victoria, B.C., to take up an appointment as Head Master in the University School:
Mr. Victor Berger has been elected Chairman of the National, Executive of the Socialist Party in succession to the late Eugene Debs-Reuter.
Mr. Sydney Hudson, of the Lon- don Committee of the Yangtaze In- surance Association, who died on June 80, left £208,880, with net personalty 4107,827.
The
King Fuad of Egypt was formal- this month. She will travel via Road of Mr Annie Reutens, ly received by M. Doumergue and Siberla
widow of Mr. P.-A. Reu- brilliantly entertained. tens for many years Secretary of speeches emphasized Imperishable the Straits Steamship Company, at Franco-Egyptlan the age of 75 years. The funeral Havas.
friendship was conducted by Father Ruaudel, P the Cure of the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd.-S.T.
Mr. H. L. Hodge, who came out from Home for the Education De partment, has been appointed As sistant Master, Malay College, Kuala Kangsar.
Mr. T. L. Roberts, chief steward of the "Glentara," which arrived in Singapore on October 11 from Tunku Kassim, Superintendent, Mr. John Parsons, a an old pioneer Europe was taken ill off Perim and Monopolies and Customs, Kedab, of Lydenburg, has died at the heat apoplexy. He was buried at succumbed shortly afterwards, from who is now on leave in Ceylon, has age of 85. He was the been promoted from Class I founder of the Pilgrim's Lodge was 56 years of age, was a very sea off Socotra. Mr. Roberts, who M.C.S., to Class II AM Scottish Constitution, the oldest la genial officer and, it la understood, the Transvaal. For many years he Mr. Wong How, for some years was a Town Councillor. In Lyden was on his last trip to the East. President of the United Chinese burg. In June last his name was Society of Honolulu, the principal coupled with the anniversary of the The funeral took place at the organisation among the Chinese in lodge's 40th year of existence. Western Road Cemetery of Mr.
Hawally arrived in Hong Kong SARANKASAM Wilfred Tighe, of Bertam Estate,
early this week on his way to visit
and In Pens
Altogether 183 representative re-, who died at the General Hos his home at Toyshan, aldents of Dairen and Port Arthur pital, Penang, the same morning. DOWN FAVORS ARE attended the grand banquet given The deceased, who came to this
Mr. E A Staines, Superinten by HAE. J., Yamamoto, new Preat country Just over a year ago, dent, P. and T. 68. and F.14.8, has dent of the 8.M.R
the made a host of» riends Jn tha. been appointed Controller Perak Yamato Hotel Dairen: And Dindings His promotion will Count Kodama, Gen. be welcomed Bin Perak where he Ised to be Inipe looked upon as a popular officer Military, Education We here that Mr. Staines will be Body of 1 fran, apitoth rome on Home
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