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Mr. S. Yada, H.I.J.M. Consul- General, who came to Hong Kong on account of his health, returned to Shanghai by the "President Lincoln.'
A 'myserious malady which has affected about 20 people in the Leamington district, two of whom have died, has now been diagnosed [as typhoid in an unusual form.
A constable giving evidence in an alleged poaching case at Ballveaw- lay, Tyrone, Petty Sessions said he auctioned in the police barracks three grouse seized from the defen- dants.
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Mr. L. R. Macphail has just re- turned to Singapore from a long holiday spent in Europe, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda and India.
The Nanking Government, accord- ing to reports in the Chinese newspapers, has ordered chemlata in special tax on perfumes and tollet Shanghai and Paoshan to pay a
articles.
The output of coal from mincs in Great Britain for the week ended October 8 was 4,980,700 tons, com parod with 4,919,000 tons the pre- vious week, the number of people employed being 984,800, compared with 981,800.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1927.
The annual meeting of the Hong GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
Kong Horticultural Society will be held in the Board room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., to-day, at 5.15 p.m.
The Gray and Pon-y-Bont pits, Abertillery, Monmouthshire, owned by the Ebbw Vale Coal, Iron, and
Steel Co., closed down indefinitely on Oct. 15, 1,200 miners being affected.
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The vicar of St. Thomas's Church, Finsbury Park, N., stipulates that 78. 6d. must accompany the notice of banns of marriage, 5s. of which will be returned if no confetti is used.
Mr. S. M. Middlebrook, M.C.S. Is attached to Government Monopolies
Two orphan babies, 13 and 14 Department Straits Bettlements,
When Lady Diana Cooper, of! and is appointed an Assistant
Gower Streat, was fined £2 at Marl-Rooths old, and a widow,, aged 72, were among the 650 Salvation Army Superintendent of Chandu and borough Street for causing an ob emigrants who left Liverpool on struction with a motor-car in Sut October 16 in the White Star liner Liquors Revenue.
ton Street, W., it was stated that "Vedie" (9,180 tone) for Australia. she said to a constable, "I was too tired, to take it any farther."
A commission
Second Lieutenant in the M.S.V.R. has been granted to Mr. W. M. Jamea, M.C., M.M., and Lieutenant C. L. Chapman, M.V.I., has been promot- ed to the rank of Captain.
Twenty decrees of nullity of mar- riage were pronounced and 31 de- crees nisi in the Divorce Division, London, In one day. The occupa- tions of two-thirds of the men con- corned were not stated in public.
The Chinese alleged to have robbed a woman at Taipa Road with| the assistance of two others, was discharged at the Kowloon Magis- tracy yesterday by Mr. W. Schofield. owing to the absence of the com- plainant.
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An interesting - wedding solemnised on November 18 at St. Andrew's Cathedral. Singapore, the Ven. Archdeacon Swindell officiat- ing, when Miss Muriel H. Fell was married to Mr. John Vyner Slingsby Brooke, of Messrs. Boustead and
Co.
Passengers departing
for
Manila by s.s. "President Madison" at midnight included Mr. and Mrs: A. H. Chase, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. da Silva and the Misses C. and P. da Silva, Mr. R. D. Owen, Mr. M. M. Maas and Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Webber.
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The Chinese Ratepayers' Associn- tion held ita election at the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce cently, when twenty-eight members were nominated. Altogether '2,462 votes wera cast. The meeting was presided over by Mr. K. S. Zee, General Secretary.
noon.
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As the result of a sale of work by students of St. Stephen's Girls' College in connection with the Ministering Children's League, Mrs. J. M. Wright, of the "Door of Hope," Canton, as received a con- tribution of $200 towards the funds of that institution.
Charles P. Tatt, 2nd, son of Chlet Justice William Howard Taft, who' will try George Remus, of Clacia- nati, Ohio, formerly known as king of the bootleggera, for the murder of his wife. This is probably the most important case. Young Mr. Taft has had since becoming prose- cutor in Cincinnati.
The three Chinese charged with the theft of 81 slabs of antimony regulus from the godowns of the China_Provident Loan and Mort- gage Company were again brought before Major C. Willson at the Seng-chi, who was rumoured to Tokyo, Nov. 18-General Tang Central Magistracy yesterday. The have transferred from the steamer ense was remanded until this after- "Mitsuki Maru" to a steamer bound for Japan at Woosung, landed at a point in Kyushu and has proceeded The body of a Chinese beggar, to the Beppu Spa in Olta Prefec- Aged about 45 years, was found ture. hanging from one of the stanchions of the Po Tak Wharf, on the Praya, Connaught Road Central, yester day morning by officers on a police launch. He had apparently com- mitted suicide during the night or the early hours of yesterday morn ing.
New York, Nov. 17-Mr. Guy Stevens, apeaking on behalf of the American petroleum companies which have been fighting the new Mexican Petroleum Law, declared to-day that the decision of the Mexi- Can Supreme Court justified com- pletely the attitude adopted by most foreign companies in Mexico towards the new Law.
Memorials to officers and men of 1924, and of Submarine M1, lost in Submarine L24, lest in January, November 1925, were unveiled in Portsmouth Dockyard Church by Rear-Admirals H. E. Grace and v. H. S. Haggard.
The Shanghai Garrison Commis- sioner, in a letter to the President of the Shanghai Provisional Court, has expressed his willingness to deal with major criminals and per- sons who commit offences in the Settlement which have any bearing on military affairs.
Mr. J. J. Warren, Assistant Com- missioner of Police, F.M.S.. has been appointed to officiate as Hend of the Preventive Service, Govern- ment. Monopolies Department Straits Settlements, and to be an Assistant Superintendent of Chan- da and Liquors Revenue.
With the sailing of the "Mace- donia" there departed, in the person of Mr. Clement Everitt, one who has bean outstanding in Singapore for more than twenty years. While his departure was greatly regretted, Mr. Everitt carried with him the good wishes of a host of friends in his well earned retirement.
Penang, November 17. The death took place on board the Straits Steamship Co.'s "Mahidol" of Mr. H. Downle, manager of the Satu Pulo Tin Mine, Takuapa, Slam. Mr. Downie, who leaves a widow and family, 'was on his way to Penang for treatment for malaria.
Among the items in the topical gazette heing screened at the Queen's Theatre to-day and to- morrow along with the feature zt- traction "Slide, Kelly, Slide." are flashes of the Dempsey-Tunney Cup, and some thrilling buffalo fight, France winning the Davies Cup, America winning, the riding.
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Mexico City, November 15.- The Japanese training squadron which recently visited New York and Washington has proceeded to Mazatlan, where. it will depart for Hawaii.
will remain until November 18, on which date squadron will arrive in Japan on December 20, according to present The
It is proposed to form Association representative of in- a new dependent European owners of rubber estates In Malaya; and per- haps to include rubber shareholders schedule. also. Preliminary steps are being taken in Negri Sembilan, but it is and to centralise the movement in hoped to enlist general sympathy Kuala Lumpur.
Mexico
City, Nov. 17. The Mexican Supreme Court has ren- dered a unanimous verdict granting an appeal by the Mexican Petro cum Company (an American con- cern) to restrain the Department of Industry and Commerce from cancelling certain drilling permits Gaining admittance into a house belonging to the company. This is In Shanghai Street, Kowloon in the the first case involving, the new guise of an electrical fitter, a Chi-Petroleum Law.
ese with two others not in custody,
it is alleged, made an attempt to
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yesterday afternoon of Mr. J. M. French Hospital, Causeway
The death took place at the Bay', Pereira, a well-known member of the Portuguese community. Mr. Pereira was a retired employee of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, & Co., Ltd., and was the editor of "Religao
Patria," a Catholic periodical. The funeral will take place to day.
Peking, November 12
Mra
C. C. Wu entered hospital on Friday morning. Her physician says that. there fa nothing serious about her condition, but as it is difficult for her to have a complete rest at the visits-of-numerons friends and re- latives, she was advised to stay in hospital for a few days.
rob the inmates. He was arrested Kuala Lumpur, November 17, home of her mother in view of the and brought before Mr. W. Scho- At the meeting of the Federal feld at the Kowloon Magistracy Council this morning the Acting yesterday. The case was formally Chief Secretary, moving the Supply remanded for a week.
Bill, said ↑ committee. would be appointed to decide in future years Another well-known figure in It is understood that Mr. J. the Public
what sums were to be allocated to local sporting circles has left us, Huggins will shortly relinquish Assessment would be made on the person of Mr. E. W. Hide, who has Works Department. 32ys the "Malacca.Observer," in the the post of Private Secretary to highest expenditure of the Inat gone to Kuala Lumpur in the the Governor of Singapore, which
he has held since May, 1925, and three years plus a 20 percent. capacity of Controller, Posts and that he will be succeeded by Mr. margin.
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W. F. N. Churchill, who was for Francis Cardinal, some time acting Private Secretary postman, who saw service in India to dinner at the Chinese Volunteer
a London the post office entertained him Bookbinders. to Sir George Maxwell. at "Carcosa, during the War, was so impressed Club, Kubu
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An interesting visitor to Ceylon at present is Mr. Arnold Wall, son
of wine in Pedder Street, detectives tage hospital for women lepers at of the late Mr. George, Wall, whose visited the house of her brother-in-1 Nanamadura. During his rounds, law and there, it is alleged, found Cardinal interested an old woman, many other bottles of wine. The who left money, which, with the girl, her brother-in-law, and his postman's savings, was sufficient to wife were charged before Major Cbuild a modest hospital Willson at the Magistracy yester
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family name is so well known in Dentist. the history of Cavion planting. Mr. Wall left: Ceylon, as a small child and was educated in England, and for thirty years he has been Profes day for a revenue offence and the A burglar entered No. 18a, visit to the country of his birth nor of English in the University of Now Zealand This is his first Macdonnell Road early yesterday after an absence of fifty-five years, morning, and got away with some
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vas copcluded before Knowles Into the hills has been Gregory, both living in the house Chinese women were charged with In wbica three located by Lt. Col: James Stewart The contents of some drawers were assaulting a fourth During at Mentoukou. The man reports strewn about the Boor, but the hearing of the case tho that he ran away from Knowles half thief did not tough any money, al had occasion for reprim WAY between Mentoukou and the though there was a good bum with male witness who saldy Trappist monastery, because Shanst in easy reach. It is believed that not interfere to stop soldiers appeared: Monks report this burglary was the work of the cause h that Krowles reached the
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