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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
The quarantine restrictions im- posed against arrivals from Amoy on account of cholera have been withdrawn.
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The Straits Steamship Co.'s vousel "Kudnt" has returned to Singapore after undergoing repairs and alterations at Hong Kong."
There was a clean bill of health, Further evidence was taken yesterday as far as notifiable yesterday at the Kowloon Magis- diseases are concerned.
tracy in the harbour piracy caso, The case was again adjourned..
The total membership, of St.. Patrick's Society, Singapore, at the end of the year, Sept. 30, was 123.
It is announced that the Japan- ese Government has decided not to give-positive aid to Japanese emi- grants abroad but will do its best to improve the quality of those re-
There is to be an increase of 3d. in the £1 on Edinburgh rates: The total rates amount to approx imately 88. 10d. por £1. The figuresident abroad. for last year was just over 8a."7d; per £1, the riso being wholly due to unemployment.
Are bee stinge a cure for rheu- matism? Long a maxim with beekeepers who tested it by ex-. perience, the fact is now being re- gulated by the number of bseg used. The bees eject formic acid which counteracts the effects of uric acid, the natural fluid having a "punch" which the synthetic article does not
possess.
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While a street musician' was entertaining a small crown in Public Square Street yesterday, a pickpocket relieved him for a gold watch and chain worth $82 from his breast pocket.
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A student of the Diocesan Boys' School was yesterday removed to the Kowloon Hospital suffering from injuries received through a fall in attempting to alight from a motor bus whilst it was in motion at the junction of Prince Edward
The Chinese authorities have | and Nathan Roads.
lodged a protest with the Japanese } The chairman of the Hong
Consul-General against a sentence of seven days' imprisonment on a Japanese who was found guilty of forging Chinese revenue stamps, They demand that he should be dealt with in accordance with the laws of China, which provide for a long term of Imprisonment.
London costumiers report that orders for tartun kilts have anor mously increased this year. This, accords with reports from the Highlands that tartans have been in greater vogue with the fair sex this season thun ever before. There can be no doubt that we are living in a colourful and brighter uge. Only the weather is dismal and gloomy!
Welcoming the Regional and Town-Planning Conference in Glas- gow, Lord Provost David Mason said the Town-Planning Committee of the Corporation were preparing a plan to work in keeping with the present streets of the city, and their idea was that no street should
be of less width than 100 feet.
Even 120 feet was not too wide for a main highway.
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The first of two practice dances for St. Andrew's Ball was held. last evening at the City Hall; the second one will take place next Tuesday evening...
Wong Ah-chye, a former pupil.of. the Anglo-Chinese School, Malacca, arived in Singapore recently on his way to Java and subsequently Aus | tralia and America. He has under- taken alone the big task of riding a push bicycle around the world: with the object of advertising his school and a particular bicycle..
Rule 111 under the F.M.S..Rall ways Enactment is rescinded, and that commercial travellers and re- new rule substituted, providing. sident agents of foreign firms shall be allowed, free of charge, while travelling on the railways, three times the amount of personal lug- gage or samples allowed to ordin- these in cloak-rooms at half the or- Dry passengers, and to deposit. dinary fees.
Kong Tea House Employers' Guild, No. 80 Connaught Road West, hos alleged in a report to the Police that the former chairman of the and now third for size the famous Once the world's largest gom guild and two.c.ks absconded on Jubilee diamond is for sale. November 12. taking with
It them rests in a London bank on behalf $1,650 from the funds of the
of a group of. Indlans, headed by guild.
Sir Dorah Tata, the Parsee mil- j
lionaire. The price asked for the stone is £250,000. The stone, which was found at the Jagersfon tein Mine in South Africa in 1895, weighed 640 carate in the rough and 239 when cut.
Local estate of the value of $23.200 was left by Lau Tau-chiu, managing partner of Ying Fong photographers, late of 11 Seymour Road, Hong Kong. promte of whose will has been granted, in the Supreme Court of. Hong Kong to Sum Nim-chi, merchant, of 102 Queen's Road, Central.
Francis Higgins. alina John Brown, alias John Lynch, was sent to prison at Cupar Sheriff Court for Three cases of typhoid. one three mouths for having, in the kit- Swedish and two Chinețe, all im-chon of a lodging-house in Buck- ported, and two Chinese cases of haven, assaulted, Mrs. Lynch, the cerebro-spinal fever were reported occupier, by striking her with his in the Colony during last wreck. flat. and kicking her. The accused There were two deaths from ulso threw a kitten at the woman. typhoid and both cases of cerebro. He admitted fifteen previous con- spinal fever were fatal. One Chi-victions, one in the High Court for ese case of typhoid and one Chi- attempted murder, for which he nese case of cerebrospinal fever was sentenced to four years' impri- ended November 14. were reported during the 24 hours sonment.
A European, N. C. Begg, and There was no business of his wife, Jalan Besar residents, At a meeting of Edinburgh public interest at yesterday's meet-i were the complainants in an as- Town Council, Mr. Bilton, on being of the Sanitary Board at which | sault case before the acting Second half of the Plans and Works Com-Mr. W. J. Currie took up his new Police Magistrate, Mr. G. C. G. mittee, asked the Council to accept post as President (in the absence Muller, Singapore, W. R. Pereira the offer by Mr. David Alexander on Home leave of Mr. N. L. Smith). Tod. Blair Atholl, of the pieture, Members, present were Dr. S. W. "News of Flodden," by William T80, Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, Dr. Hole. R.S.A.. for the City Cham S. C. Ho, Dr. W. V. M. Koch, the bers. The gift was prompted by Hon. Mr. H. T. Jackman (Acting the Flodden episode at the Craig- Director of Public Works), Mr. millar pageant. The Council decid-R. A. C. North (S.C.A.), Dr. G. W. ed to send Mr. Tod a special vote Pope (Medleni Ofeer of Health) of thanks.
and Mr. D. Davies (Secretary).
and Mohamed, the former in Euro. pean clothes, were the accused. They applied for a postponement to enable them to engage
counsel. Begg's counsel informed, the court that the charge of voluntarily caus-1 ing hurt may be altered.
A-re- mand was ordered, ball being al- lowed in $100.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Pte. Frederick Ruchwaldy, Sin- gapore Volunteer, has been award- ed the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal.
The Hon. Mr. Sze Jin-chan has been nominated an Unofficial mom- ber of the Straits Legislative Coun- cil subject to the confirmation of H.M. the King.
The marriage arranged between Dr. D. Wilson Gillies, Glasgow, and Miss Maisie Macdonald, South- dean, Colinton Road, Edinburgh. will not take place.
Dr. W. V. M. Koch, who recently roturaed from a holiday at Home, took his seat again on the Sanitary Board yesterday afternoon. Dur- ing Dr. Koch's absence the vacancy was filled by Mr. J. P. Braga.
Immediately following his arrival in Shanghai, Dr. Tsal Yuan-pel, Director-General of Education in the Nationalist Government, called a conference of heads of colleges and schools to discuss the Na- tionalist educational policy.
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Mr. C. L. R. Becher, who lately working at St. Paul's Boys' College, was ordained to Deacon's. Orders on September 25 in South- wark Cathedral. He left Hong Kong for Home in November 1926, and has accepted work in Bermond- sey in the Southwark Diocese.
Mr. and Mrs. CAR. 'Cordle; of the Methodist Mission, who recent ly arrived from America via Suez, are at present stationed at Serem- ban. Mr. Cordle, who has joined the staff of the Anglo-Chinese School, was formerly in the Philip- pines
The Marine Insurance Associa- tion of Hong Kong are presenting:
Mrs. W. G. C. Blunn left for Home by the Blue Funnel liner "Aeneas," which left Penang on November, 10.
Capt. H. A. A. Howell, assistant staff officer to the Straits Forces, Inspected the St. Joseph's Institu- tion Cadet Corpa on Nov. 1.
Lieut. Koh Keng-bock of the
Dame Margaret Lloyd George and the Marchioness of Aberdeen per-Chinse Co., Singapore Volunteer, Is formed the opening ceremonies at a two-days' Liberal bazaar at Perth on October 21-22.
Ogden L. Millla, Under Secretary of the Treasury and former Itep resentative from the State of New York. He is one of Secretary Mellon's most important political advisors. Mr. Milla is a strong factor in New York politica
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to be acting Captain whilst in com- mand of the Chinese Co. Malacca Volunteer Corps...
Mr. Wang Pah-chun, Minister of Communications in the Nationalist Government, was host at a dinner at the Nanyang Restaurant, Shang- hai, on Nov. 6 evening when there was present a very large gather- ing of local merchants, officials and gentry.
.The Treasury Commissioners have appointed the Hon... Evan Charteris, K.C.; Mr.. Samuel Cour- tauld, Sir William Burrell, Mr. Glyn Philpot, R.A.; Mr. Walter Weatley Russell, R.A.; Mr. Henry Poolt, A.R.A.; and, Professor Wil- liam Rothenstein to be additional Trustees to the National Gallery of British Act in place of Trustees whose term has expired.
The engagement is announced of Captain Charles Gordon Borrow man, 4th Prince of Wales's Own
A Gurkha Rifles, younger son of the late Phillip Grierson Borrowman, M.D.; and of Mrs. Borrowman, of 12 Granville Terrace, Edinburgh, and Ella Strickland, elder daughter of the late Christopher John Mul- vany, M.I.C.E of Banelagh House, Roscommon, Ireland, and the late Mrs. Mulvany."
Lord and Lady Balfour of Bur leigh recently entertained the ten- antry and feaars on the Kennet estate, and in the course of the proceedings the Master of Burleigh, the young son and heir, was pre- sented with an ornate clock and Savings Certificates. MrW/Wat
tenant on the estate, made the pre- aentation, and Lord Balfour ac- knowledged the gifts.
a telescope and a cheque to Chief The Rev. Tso See-kat has son, farmer, Broadcarse, the oldest Officer Beatty in recognition of his arrived in Hong Kong after bravery on the occasion of the any absence of four years piracy of the au Sunning. The in England where he studied presentation, which will be made at Durham University, obtaining his by H.B..the Officer Administering B. A. Degree and the First Part of the Government, will take place at 4 pm, to-day, at the General Cham- ber of Commerce.
the Diploma of Education: Previ- The death took place on Novem- qualy he had been in St. Paul's Col- ber 1, 'In Colombo,... of Mr. John lege for five years as a student and, Marks, formerly well-known after passing the Oxford Senior Malayan planter Mr. Marks, who Local Examination, for two years was younger brother of MY The Bishop and Mrs Ferguson as a member of the staff During Oliver Marks, a former British Re- Davie (formerly of Singapore) bave that time he was both baptised and sident of Selangor and now.secre been in Simla where Dorothea is confirmed. He then went on to the tary of the, Association, of British now at school. Mrs. Ferguson- Union Theological College Can- Malaya, came to Malaya in 1920, Davie succumbed to the cold of ton, where he studied for four years and was for several years general Simle, and was down with a chill and was ordained deacon in St. manager of the Digwarrah Rubber The Bishop seemed as full of energy John's Cathedral on December 21, Co. Ltd. Shanghai, when he a880- an ever, he was walking live miles 1919. He returned to Hong Kong clated himself very prominently (each way) to football matches on and assisted in the work in both Et with planting politica in Perak He succesalve days. He was helping Paul's Church and St. Paul's Colreturned to Ceylon two years. He with services at Simla, and polish lege until the summer of 1922 when leaves & son (Mr TB. Marks, ing up his Hindustani for purposes he went to England He is at pre
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