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A Tamil man was electrocuted | outside the Kuala Lumpur race.
There was a clean bili of health| in the Colony on Friday.
There will be a public Lecture at the Helenn May Institute on Monday, November 7 at 5310_p.m. The subject Weing "Aviation,”. course, when he took hold of a According to a report made to wire apparently forming one of the the police on Friday, money and supports for a telegraph pole.jewellery to the value of $129 has been stolen from No. 61 Battery Street.
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A Chinese, believed to be insane, was on Friday, picked up in the harbour by the crew of a passenger Jurk and taken to the Shamshuipe Police Station. He was later re- moved to the Government Civil Hospital.
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The Yen-ts, Chief of the Land Bureau (Chinese territory) Muni cipality, has decided to tender his resignation, according to the Chi- nese Press,
Messrs. Keys and Dowdswell have been appointed architects for the erection of a hangar for the Singapore Flying Club, which it is understood is to be completed by the end of January,
The Commissioner of Police in There were 412,000 thousand Bangkok has confiscated three men and women in receipt. of un- publications of Chinese newspapers which are suspected of spreading employment relief in Germany October 15 compared with the the "Kit Meng" doctrine. Transla maximum of 1,750,000 last year.ions of the articles in question and investigations are in progress. Réuter.
The newspapers involved are the "Chino-Siamese Daily News," the Tong Wha Po" and the "Lueng Kew Pho."
An armoured car built by
It is notified in the "Government Malayan Motors took part in the Gazette" that on and after to
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day, radio-telegrams will be nes Singapore, when the G.0.C. Malaya, H. E. cepted by the Radio Telegraph De- Office Major-Contal C. C. van Straupartment, General Post benzee, held his first inspection of
the local Volunteer. Forces.
In view of the need felt by the Building, for transmission to Dutch League of Nations for further com East Indies and Dutch Borneo, munication facilities the Swiss Mar- through the intermediary of the coni Company has decided to install two forces consisted of Whites, Radio Corporation of the a new high-speed transmitter with who were the invaders of the Philippines: at Manila, at rate of an anode power of fifty kilowatts island, commanded by Major G. C$1 per word. Deferred Service at and a range of over 3,000 kilometres Meredith, M.C., second in command 50 cents per word.
capable of linking up the League of the S.V.C., and their opponents,
headquarters with any spot in a khaki force under Lt.-Côl, F. J.
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people who suffer from insomnia on A woman ha suggested that account of noises should fill a big handkerchief with sand and tie it on to the car which is not reating on the pillow. If the disease be comes chronic it is as well to sleep on the beach, where the sand is Sentence of alx weeks' hard handy and plentiful. But if the labour was passed by Major sand method fails altogether there C. Willson .an Saturday on is always the old-fashioned remedy a of putting the entire head in a bag.
The death took place yesterday at the Naval Hospital of Mr. Alex under Cooper, foreman at the Royal Naval Yard. Mr. Cooper had been in Hong Kong on his present term of service for six months only, but had previously served in the local
Chinese who was found Naval Yard during the years
guilty of the theft of 1910-12, Mr. Cooper's death fol- lowed a week's linesa and was due
typewriter belonging to the Betheny Sanatorium at Pokfulam, The to acute intestinal trouble. He Both the pictures at the World Police informed his Worship that leaves a widow and daughter at Theatre and the Star Theatre are the man was seen with the type Plymouth with whom sympathy showing for the last time this even- writer in Pottinger Street on Thura will he felt in their bereavement. ing. The former la A French day morning. On being questioned Mr. Cooper resided whilst in Hong comedy wil a small town setting. the accused made an unsatisfactory Kong at the YMCA. and was a "Along Came Ruth," in member of the Bowling Green Club. Viola Dana plays the leading role; further enquiries by the Police led which explanation. He was detained and and the latter is a Western picture, to the discovery of the ownership of "Looking For Trouble," with the the machine. cowboy star, Jack Hoxie, and his wonder horac "Scout" dashing through a series of exciting - ad- ventures.
The six-months-old-baby: John Richard Neville, who was left stranded by his mother at an hotel Windsor and was a patient at the King Edward VII. Hospital, has been removed to a home. The baby's father, Herbert J. N. Neville, the bankrupt son of a re- tired Toronto clergyman, is a share manipulator who is said to have induced many prominent people in England, Canada, and the United States to invest in worthless stock, There has been no trace of him or his wife since last May, when Mrs, Neville disappeared from the hotel at Windsor, leaving her 10-weeks- old baby..
Several members of the Stock Exchange were passengers on the ill-fated 5 pm. express from Can- non Street, which was derailed near Sevenoaks on August 24, with the loss of 13 lives. Two "House" men were among those killed. One was Mr. A. T. Salisbury-Jones, of White House, Deal, admitted. a member in 1899, a well-known dealer in the Rubber and South African Mining market. He was one of the pioneers of motor- omnibus in London, having taken a keen interest in the promotion and development of the "Vanguard" Co., which operated with success a large fleet of motor-'buses prior to the L.G.O.C. seriously taking up the new means of transport.
Mr. J. C. Clark of No. 1, Cha- tham Path, The Peak, has reported to the police that some time be tween 1130 p.m. on Friday and 8 A circular appeal issued by a.m.. Saturday, a thief entered his the Kuala Lumpur Y.M.C.A. states bedroom through an open window that it has for some time felt that and stole a black Japan' box con- the shortage of housing accom-taining his will, deeds. contracts. modation there affords a unique insurance policy, and private let- opportunity to perform a public ters, also $60 in money. In addition service by establishing a hostel, the Intruder helped himself from and thus helping in some small way
the dressing table with three rings not merely to relieve the shortage, worth $200 and an automatie pistol but to bring about some Improve and 75 rounds of ammunition. The ment in the really terrible condi- total value of property stolen, ex- tions under which not a few of the cluding the documents, is placed at young men of Kuala Lumpur are now compelled to live.
$310.
The final sitting was held on Friday of The Dorset palice have been culture Research-Conference. Lord the Imperial Agri- communicating with Scotland Yard Bledisloe, Parliamentary Secretary regarding the identification of to the Ministry of Agriculture, Arthur Pank, who in April, 1919, in reviewing work done expressed was sentenced to death for the the opinion that although the murder of Beatrice Downes, his majority of its results depended sister-in-law, at hér house in upon the co-operation of the vari-| Tottenham, but was subsequently aus Governments of the empire in reprieved, and after serving eight carrying out its recommendations, years, released on ticket of leave. views had been coordinated on a Pank was found drowned near great number of intricate subjects Bournemouth recently, ut at the and practically every branch of time of the inquest he had not agriculture science had been sur- been identified, and a verdict of veyed by those most familiar with "Found Drowned" was returned. it. The next conference will be Later, the body was identified by held in Australia in five years' time. his brother..
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.-
Mr. Wong Pah-chuen, ex-Minis- ter of Communications, arrived in | Shanghai from the north.
Mr. R. J. Farrer has been. ap- pointed a Supernumerary Officer in Class 1A of the Malayan Civil Service.
Capt. 8. R. Perkins has been ap pointed a member of the Pilot Board for Penang vice Capt. W. Brown realgued..
Among Important Nationalist officials who left Shanghai for Nan- king were Mr. Taal Yuan-pel and Mr. Sun Fo, Finleter of Finance.
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Sir Ronald Maclay, formerly Bri- tish Minister at Peking and British Minister in Prague, was en- tertained at dinner on September 23- by the British Society for Czecho- Slovakia.
The late Mr. Joseph Mackay, M.I.Mech.E., of West Park, Eltham, and of Bank Chambers, High Hol- born, W.C., late Chief Government Marine Surveyor at Bangkok, Blam, left personal estate in Great Britain valued at £44,300.
The Council of the Royal Institute of Public Health is bestowing the Harben Gold Medal for the year 1928 upon Sir Ronald Ross, F.R.S., director-in-chief of the Ross In- stitute and Hospital for Tropical, Diseases, Putney Heath, S.W.15, In recognition of his eminent services to the public health,
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Mrs. Charles C. Rende
Sarwat Pasha, the Egyptian Pre- from Singapore to England by the mier, was to have arrived in London "Maiwa.'
from Brussels on Sunday evening.
Mr. J. V. C. Davis has been re- cognised as Vice-Consul of Sweden, resident at Penang.
Miles Poindexter, Spokane, Wash." ington, who has been ambassador to Peru since he retired from the United States Bonats may try to wis' back his sent in 1928." Ambas- under Poindexter þan'an excellent. (chance of defeating Senator: C." OL Dill, the Democrat,who wrested hla a seat from him in 1933.
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Mr. S. E. King is acting as second assistant Director of Education for Chinese Schools in the Straits Settlements.
Dr. Hopkins who arrived from Home by the "Macedonia," has been! appointed second Malarial Research Officer, F.M.S.
The Rev. W. E. Rowlands, veteran missionary of Ceylan, who died on September 25, in his 90th year, was father of the Rev. F. W. Rowlands, who is engaged in mis- sion work in Japan.
In commemoration of the 10th an- niversary of the Balfour 'declara- tion as to the future of Palestine, members of the Anglo-Palestinian Club are entertaining Lord Balfour at dinner on November 10,
Mr. D..N. Livingstone, of the Central Police Station, Kuala Lum-i pur, is not retiring from the force, as reported some days ago, but la going Home on furlough after the next Selangor Assizes in November,
The King, Queen and practically
all members of the Royal Family were present at the interment of the Marquess of Cambridge, the Queen's brother in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. A memorial ser vice was simultaneously held In London in the Chapel Royal.g
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Mr. W. 8. Huxley, formerly of Majaya, is building a large block of flats in London, off Portland Place, and hopes to be able to fill them with tenants from the Straits, for Nikiferoff, the diplomatic repre- whom he proposes to make special sentative of the Soviet Government arrangements. They will be ready in Mongolia, has been recalled, and hear the case shortly about Beptember next year. Messrs, Okhtin bas been appointed to sues wife in an ex-artister Swan and Maclaren, Singapore, ceed himsOkhtinived for con grand ballet have plans of the fats which could aiderable time, in Anserica before upchild be inspected by anyord interested the Russian Revolutions:
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