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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
A sparrow flew through the opon window of a house oceupled by Mr. Thomas Lane, of Asfordby, near Melton Mowbray, laid an org in a saucepan, and then flew out again!
The monthly meeting of the Chinese Chamber of Commerco will be held on Wednesday at 2.80 p.m.
returned from a visit to the Far Lady Kintore, who recently East, has found a home at Keith Hall for sonte of the curios she collected. Others are in the Kin-i According to a Bangkok contore's town house in Park Place. reapondant there are serious floods In North Siem where several At a fully attended meeting of breaches have occurred on the Committee of the Shanghai railway line. The water is report the Property Owners' Association, theed to be still rising. new tariff of water charges for the International Settlement wan dia- The Polish Ironfounders' As- cussed at length. It is understood sociation are arranging for the that an early opportunity will to purchase of £500,000 worth sought for
of protesting nguinst South Russian iron ore against de- several points in the agreement very of textiles and other goods. pending between the Municipal It is stated that the deal is, the Council and The Shanghai Water- forerunner of larger transactions. works Co., Ltd.
Owing to its position facing the Padang, there was a gond den! On board
river
Bun-of opposition to the erection Di bont,
the "Taing Kong," the un advertisement hoarding in front ¡Canton authorities seized of the Singapore Municipal build- quantity of opium valuetting now under construction. Those at $40,000 and suld to weigh over in favour carried the day, however, 22.000 piculs. This is probably and the work has been completed. record haul in the Canton River for recent years The acrest. was
that a quantity of mysterious gold It is reported from Albania
coins have come into circulation, and that no one has been able to discover where they were minted or who distributed them. The coins, which are Hentical in value with Napoleon, hear the portrait of the the French twenty-frane Albanian hero, Skander Bey, on one side, and the Lion of Venice on the other. The Minister of Finance has issued a circular de claring the National Bank refusés to dual in them.
The Malaysia Mission has severed one more link with its his- toric past, says the "Malayalan Message," of 'Singapore. It has When a Methodist Episcopal discarded the last horse in its pos- effected by the Anti-Smuggling Clergyman in Penang issued a Session. Until last month Miss Bureau which is part of the Trea-challenge for an open declaration Blackmore had been in possession sury. It is understood that part of whether "the press of Malaya la of a horse and carriage con- the duties of the gunboat "Taing outspokenly wet the "Malay Mall"inuously for almost 40 years. The opium is believed to have been con-ity are all we ene discover among horses have given place to the Kong" is to prevent smuggling. The replied:"Faint races of humid-last was owned jointly with Miss
De Souza. One by one the other: veyed down the West river, along the seven Europeai members the upper reaches of which poppy our own staff." is grown extensively.
Among the chance encounters of life that give rise to speculation is that of the battle bearing the name of one bottler blown on the glass and that of another printed on the label. When next you see un exhibit of that kind you may know that you are on the track of "bottle louse." This engaging name is used in the bottling trude in describe a person who does busi ness on his competitors' capital by using bottles for which they paid. The Inventor of the name was given a prize for his effort. Need it be said that the award was fade by Jan American trade paper, and that the "bottle louse" is the mineral water trade?
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Asked as to the number of accidents, in the streets of the Metropolitan Police district Sir W. Joynton-Hicks, in a written reply, says there were in month 92 fatal accidats, 4.500 non- fatal, and 5,699 involving damage to property. As a result of these accidents the total number of per- sons killed was 92 and injured 4.803.
onrushing Fords and Chevrolets. but this proud ateed with its digni- fied old phaeton has until now held its place before the Church door.
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Mrs. Church, wife engineer's fitter in London, Hring at Peabody Buildings. Ebury Bridge, gave birth recently to "Siamese twins," both girls, who were taken to St. Thomas's Hos
One of the infants was pital. much more frail than the other, and was not expected to survive. but an inquiry at the hospital "What is nuka pu?" asked Sir elicited that both were still alive. Robert Wallace. E.C., at the Lon- The children were christened in the don Sessions, when a Japanese.ap- hospital by the chaplain, One, was pealed against his conviction for named Mary and the other Ann. employing other Japanese to sell In the event of one of the twins chances in a lottery. Counsel said dying, an operation will be per- it was a popular game with Chi-formed, in the hope of saving the nese and Japanese in Limehouse, life of the survivor. while another barrister said he had a brief description of the game but, having read it a dozen times, still failed to understand It! The re- Porter made a bad effort to ro
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Shanghai Chinese gentry and merchants, owing to the recent kid
uppings, are in fear of their lives. and they have held informal dis- cussions as to ways and means of Workmen engaged fr repaying protecting themselves, their famd-Piccadilly enjoyed a diversion dur- lies, and their property from furing the midday break recently when ther outrage. Leading Chinese dancers, jugglers, and singers from have conferred with police officials, the Piccadilly Hotel, provided an but the latter have pointed out that impromptu entertainment the so long us the victims' familles.re.repaved section of the roadway. fuse to co-operate with the police, All-the artists did help turns for the Municipal authorities' are help the benefit of the workmen. A less. The leading members of the large audience of passers-by nisp Chinese Chamber of Commerce assembled. A Barrel-organ provid- have, therefore, called a meetinged music and in a feir minutes, le be held in the Chamber and at workmen, using their spades as which they propose to discuss fur- banjoes, enlivened the occasion ther protective measures.
with dances and songs,
Regarding the baby White Elephant which la to be brought down in procession to Bangkok] from the North next month. the Chiengmai correspondent of the "Siam Observer" writes under date Oct. 10: "The baby White Ele- phant is in good health, naughty as ever, and a little bit grown up since last I saw it a few months ago.
They take it and ita mother down to the station nearly every evening in order to make them get used to the special railway truck. which is going to take them to Bangkok, and also to the ear-drom breaking whistles. It took only a day or two to put the mother in it, but several days to make her son do the trick?"
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Raja Said Tauphy, O.B.E., M.C.S., who is now in England on furlough, is due back in Perak early in Decem- ber.
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Mr. W. H. Lee Warner, who is at present S.D.O., Province Wellesley, is going to Klang as District Officer in the near future.
Mr. W. E. Wallis, of Messrs. Harrisons, Barker, and Co Ltd., leaves for Penang, whence he will sail for Home on leave "Malwa,"
by the
The Attorney-General, S.S., the Hon'ble Mr. M. H. Whitley, and Mrs. Whitley, are passengers by the "Mantua," due in Singapore on November 4
Mr. J. W. Jefferson. Chief Superintendent of Physical Educa- tion, S.S., has been giving lectures
physical training Malacca teachers...
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Mr. M. R. Holgate is going back to Malacca to act as Inspector of Schools some time next month, when Mr. L R. Wheeler will
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to Perak as Assistant Inspector of Schools.
Sir Percival Phillips, special cor- respondent of the "Daily Mail,” Has arrived in Singapore en route to Java, where he is taking a brief holiday after spending eleven months in China.investigating the revolutionary movement.
When the Hon'ble Mr. H. G. R. Leonard goes on leave shortly after the forthcoming Budget meeting of the Federal Council, Mr. Marcus. Rex, at present Chairman of the Kuala Lumpur Sanitary Board, 'will' act for him as Financial Adviser, FILS.
The late Mr. Joseph Mackay, M.I. Mech. E., of West Park, Eltham, and of Bank Chambers, High Holborn, W.C. Inte Chief Government Marine Surveyor at Bangkok, Siam, left personal estate, in Great Britain valued £44,300.
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Mrs. C. C. Reade has left, Kuala Lampur en route for England.
H. H. the Raju Muda of Selangor and party are on a visit to Kedah.
Mr. and Mrs. Strivens and daugh- ter have returned to Malacca from their holiday at Bukit Fraser.
Dr. Ernest H. Cherrington, de ergi Becretary of the Anti-Saloon Longue, may succeed the late sel of the Anti-Saloon League, Moru Wayne B. Wheeler as general coun. than 150 leading dry advocaten from every slate in the Union, will. assemble in the National Capital on December 11 to select a su cessor to the late Wayne B. Wheel. or. It WES. generally admitted among dry leaders in Washington. that it would prove extremely dim- cult to obtain as active and efficient Consul as Mr. Wheeler has proved.
Mr. J. A. A. Falth, successor to Mr. H.-J. Cockman, the Kuala Pilah Magistrate and Assistant District Officer, has assumed his duties.
The Raja Uda, formerly second! magistrate, Kuala Lumpur, hus ar- rived in Malayà from England, where he had been on long leave.
The Induction of the Rev. G. M. Nicol, M.A., to the charge of the Presbyterian Church in Perak, took place at Rose Villa, Gopeng Koad, Ipoh.
H.E the Governor of British North Borneo, Mr. J. L. Huns phreys, C.B.E., has arrived from Jesselton and is staying at Govern- ment House Singapore.
The Secretary of State for the Colonies has appointed Mr. W. C. Bottomley, C.B., C.M.G, O.B.E., to be an Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Colonial Office to All thé vacancy resulting from the re- tirement of Sir Charles Strachey, K.C.M.G., C.B.
The decrce nisi granted to Mrs. Violet Henrietta Gonzales. of Seremban, by the Supreme Court, Singapore, has been made absolute by the order of the Registrar, on the petition of Mr. M. V. Pillai, her solicitor. MIFA: Gonzales granted the custody of her son.
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General Sir Neill Malcolm, om- einted on September 22 at the mar riage in Londen of Miss Lim Beng- kong to Mr. Oon Guan-yong, eldest son of Capitain and Mrs. Oon Kheng-liang, of Banka, giving the bride away in the absence of her father, Mr. Lim Kim-son, Penang,
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