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Mr. N. M. Beck has been appoint- ed Surveyor of Ships, Examiner of Engine Drivers and Inspector of Machinery at Labuan.
Mr. J. D. Maxwell Smith, Chair- тал of the Sanitary Board, is abortly leaving Taiping, on trans- for, and will be stationed at Temer- Ioh.
Mr. J. C. Shenton has been ap- Mr. and Mrs. C. V. A. Eapeut are pointed to be Chemist, Geological | leaving Kuala Lumpur en route for Department, F.M.S.
Home. Mr. J. P. Swettenham is acting Director of Public Works.
Mr. Myles Janaz has arrived from Ceylon to join the editorial staff of the "Malayan Daily Ex- presa."
Mr. F. J. Bryant, the doyen of the F.M.8, and 8.8. Bar, who hud ap-been on a holiday in England has arrived back at Batu Gajah.
Mr. J. D. Fettes has been pointed Deputy President of the Penang Municipal Commission dur- ing the absence on leave of Mr. G. L. Ham.
Raja Omar, who had been of clating at Batu Gajah in place of the Malay Magistrate, is at pre- |sent acting at Kampar in a similar.
capacity.
The concert to be held at the Helena May Institute on Thursday. December 15, is postponed until January. Tickets sold will hold good for next performance,
Mr. Wang Ching-wei has de- clared he will not leave Shanghai until a' satisfactory result has been reached in the Preliminary Meeting of the Kuomintang Party there.
Mr. G. C. Denham, formerly In- spector General of Police, Straits Settlements, arrived in Singapore from Java by the "Melchior Treub," accompanied by Mrs. Denham.
Both marriages and divorces In- creased in the State of New York during 1926, the Department of Commerce announced. There were 120,965 marriages and .4,674 divorces.
The engagement is announced between Mr. Henry Maurice Pendle- bury, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Pendlebury, of Broadlands, Shrewsbury, and Miss Phyllis Hart Reid, of Forward, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire.
According to General Ho Yin- chung, who is in Shanghai, the Nationalist Forces on the Tsinpu line expect to join up with the North-western troops after two or three days. The Nationalist troops now are at the south of Hsuchowfu.
After 32 years' service. Mr. Alfred J. Hughes, Postmaster- General. Bengal and Assam. has retired. Mr. Hughes, who is the son of the late Dr. James Hughes, Civil Surgeon, Nowgong, Assam, joined the Indian Postal Service in 1896.
Inspector J. B. Beckingham, with his wife and family, left Penang by the "Mongolia" for Home. Until his serious illness in September, Inspector Beckingham was Іл charge of the Weights and Mea- sures. Firearms and Explosives Department.
Mrs. Wakefield; the widow of Capt. J. B. Wakefield, who was kill- ed by smugglere a few months ago, is returning from England by the Blue Funnel Antenor." On her arrival in Singapore she intends
to return to her former profession of teaching, or to obtain other em- | ployment.
Cases of cholera have been re- ported in Batavia both amon.r Europeans and the native resi- dents. Seven fatal cases, some European, have occurred since the putbreak, one in Buitenzorg. More than 80,000 people have been inocu- lated. Quarantine regulations are now applicable.
The second meeting of the Inter- national Conference of appraisal of goods was held in Peking in the office of the Director of Revenue, when delegates exchanged views concerning metals, the second and the third items of the agenda sent in by the Chinese delegate. The meeting adjourned without arriving at any decision.
Mr. A. C. Wentworth Lewis, editor of the "Straits Timea." and Mrs. Lewis, have arrived in Kuala Lampur from Batang Malaka, and will continue their tour of Malaya,
The death has occurred in Cal-' cùtta of Mr. Leslie Hay who, for 21 years, was head of the insur ance department of James Finlay and Company, Calcutta,
Mrs. Eleanor Parker Cooper died at the McCormick Hospital, Chiengmai, on November 12. She was over 71 years of age, and had been in Siam some 37 years.
Beginning from Monday, Decem- ber 19, Messrs. Lane, Crawford's | establishment will remain open The forthcoming wedding is an- each day until 6 p.m., for the con- nounced of Miss M. de Vos, journvenience of Christmas shoppers. alist, of 1, Victoria View, Kowloon, to M. Rene Paul Dupuy, mer- chant, of the Rue Sta. Peres, Paris.
The Nationalist Government is planning the re-organisation of the troops under the former, con- trol of General Tang Shen-chi into one army and one independenti division.
Raja Said Tauphy, O.B.E., is due back in Perak from England, and will resume duty as Chairman, Sanitary Board, Taiping, replacing Mr. E. G. Bacon, pilot of the Mr. I. D. M. Smith, acting Chair-Rabenfels, has been on trial at man, who will be leaving for Calcutta for alleged negligence and Temerloh.
lack of skill in connection with the sinking of the steamer "Calcutta" in the Hooghly, on August 29.
The steamship "Wing Ping" is to be auctioned next Tuesday by Messrs. Lammert Brothers, nue- tioneers. The ship has the follow. ing dimensions and capacity. Length, 115 feet, breadth, 24 feet, gross tonnage, 501 H.P. 300. She will be sold together with her ap- purtenances.
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Masundo Hanihara, Ambassador to Washington when the Immigra- tion law was before Congress, is about to be appointed Ambassador to Belgium. His use of the words "grave consequences" precipitated a minor crisis in Japanese American relations. The oppointment will end a penance of three years' up. employment which Mr. Hanibara hos performed for his slip.
Two Scottish V. Co.'s-Sergt. William Angus and Sergt. Thomas Caldwell, both of Carluke, Lanark shire-passed through London on their way to Australia to which they are emigrating in quest of re- munerative work.
In the course of a conversation. General Li Nieh-chung. declared that the Hunan situation might be peacefully settled, and that the Nationalist Forces in the upper river would noon take part in the Northern campaign."
At Ü Chicago meeting of gangsters, the leader presided using a revolver to maintain parliamentary order instead of a gavel, a witness testified at the murder trial of Harry Lewins, charged with alaying a junk dealer.
Mr. Hake, of Messrs. Harrisons and, Crosfield, has been suffering from almost continuous attacks of fever for some time and has had to proceed to Hong Kong on medi- cal certificate, records the "B.N.B. Herald." Mr. Hake is a brother of the Hon'ble Mr. H. B. Egmont Hake:
The sum realised by the sale of wreaths on Armistice Day in Selan- gor was $1.446.80 this year com pared with $486 last year. Mrs.
C. V. A. Espeut was in charge of this part of the Poppy Day work and all the wreaths were made free of charge by the Agricultural De- partment.
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of acting Conservator Forest 3, Kedah and Negri Sembilan, and a well-known Kedah State cricketer. Mr. W. M. E. Martin, sailed for Home on leave by the "Mongolia." He will be spending part of his leave in France at the Ecole Forestiere, The remains of the late Mr. Loo | Nancy. Mr. Martin's place Lim-yok have been removed from being taken by Mr. A. B. S. the pavilion at Macao in which they Boswell. had lain since the funeral last July to Canton for burial at White Cloud Hill on the outskirts of Canton. A large number of frienda and members of the family accom panied the bier to its laat resting place.
A Lodge of the Royal Antidelu- vian Order of Buffaloes (G.L.E.) was consecrated in Shanghai on December 1, in the presence of a considerable number of Brethren. The new Lodge has been designated the "Wanhsten" Lodge in
com-
At a quarterly communication of the Grand Lodge of Scotland held memoration of the Brothers of the in the Freemasons' Hall, Edin-Order who lost their Ilves in the burgh, on November 3 Lord Blyths- Wanhsien incident, and meetings wood, K.C.V.O., was unanimously will be held at William's Hotel, re-elected Grand Master Mason for Szechuen Road, every Thursday the ensuing year. Among overseas evening at 8.30 p.m.. appointments made was that of Sir Malcolm Watson to be District Grand Master of the Middle East (re-appointment).
The new Bishop of Singapore (the Rt. Rev.. B. C. Roberts) accompanied by Mrs. Roberts and Berlin, December. 1-In an ad- their two children. arrived in Chinese shops on Paushan and dreas, celebrating the 150th an- Singapore by the "Haruna Maru” Kiukiang Roads in Shanghai Chi- niversary of the landing in on December 4. They were met nese territory suspended their America of the famous German by the Ven. Archdeacon F. G. business for four hours as a Steuben, who took such а pro- Swindell, in whose charge the manifestation of their opposition minent part in the American war diocese has been since the retire- to the stamps forced upon them by of independence that he was called ment of Rev. G. T. Shetliffe, the the authority, However, the four the German Lafayette, the German Rev. G. H. Douglas, Minister of hours' strike was soon called off Foreign Minister, Dr. Stresemann, the Presbyterian Church, Mr. G.
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Cadet each other in the recent war will the Rev. E. A. Hone, the Bishop's ship left Wilhelmshaven on a tour now also come together to col that the Rev. H. J. Hutchinson, the Commissary in England, stating of the Far East for approximately laborate again peacefully towards 15 months. The ship will call at the realisation of their high ideals. Organising Secretary of the S.F.G. of the Diocese of Chelmsford, has the important ports of the Far
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Chaplaincy East, including Bombay, Trin- comalee, Rangoon, Singapore, and Hong Kong yesterday for Seattle son will sail in March. The sams the Japanese Ports as well as via ports, on the .s. "President cable contains the news that Mr. It Pierce," were:-Mr. and Mrs. D. Hone has secure the services of will be the first time since the Williamas, travelling home to Mr. Baggett, a master at Hurst- war that a German man-of-war Europe, Mr. Williams is a railway plerpoint College, for St. Andrew's will show her, fing in Australian engineer in India and is returning School. He hopes to leave early
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Dr. D. MacGillivray, of Shang passenger, is a prominent business London."A working girl buy- hal, has made an original study of man in Calcatta, returning home ing silk stocking at 8s. 11d. a pair. the memorial stones erected by the to Europe, and will break-journey. It is scandalous," exclaimed Judge Jews of Kaifengia in 1489, 1612, in Japan. Mr. Ralston B. Latti Crawford at the Edmonton County and 1663 A.D. After much diff-piere is returning home to the Court, in dismissing a draper's culty, owing to the state of war U.S.A after touring Australia and claim against a. labourer for goods in Kaltengfu and vicinity, he has the Far East, and will stop over supplied to his daughter. He add- obtained rubbings of the stones. at Shanghat. Mr. and Mrs. Ira ed: "Gloves coat Ba.. shoes 20s, a These will be on exhibition, also W. Hoover, from Calcutta, are re hat 148: and a coat 1058. I feel enlarged plans of the Byzagogue, turning home to the United States, shooked that working girls' clothes which were first sent to Roine by Mr. Hoover is in the architectural cost so much. It only shows the Father Domange in the 17th cen- business in India. Mr. and Mrs. modern girl's-tendenales As the tury, the originals of which are now. H.S. Zumwalt and family are re-bill included braces, the Judge, ad- preserved in the Vatican. For pur turning home to Seattle on vaca mitted it might have been, for the poses of comparison there will also tion. Mr. Zumwalt has been the father, but he was not so sure. be a rubbing of the Nestorian local Agent for the Columbia He did not know what underclothes, Tablet
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Events have moved swiftly in South China during the past ` week, though there is little to report on the Yangtsze 'and northern fighting and political fronts. The affair of most importance, has been the taking of Canton by the Communists, the coup being staged last week-end when there were few Ironside troops in the city. The "Reds," however, did not hold the place long, rapidly fleeing when sufficient soldiery had been collected to oppose them. During the few days of their occupation they reduced the city to a state of chaos. There was a little bloodshed, but considerable looting, and when the city was relieved by the Government troops the. inhabitants in many instances were on the point of starvation.
Efforts to bring the disorders to Hong Kong were prompt-
ly frustrated by the local police, and a number of arrests were made
as the Canton boats arrived here.
In addition to carrying the full story of the taking and recapture of Canton, this week's "Overland Mail" also con- tains an exclusive account of how "Red" agitators attempted to promote a strike among the workers of the Colony.
Local news-social, commercial, sporting, eteis fully dealt with in this issue of the "Overland" and a comprehensive report is given of the morphía case proceedings in the Police.. Court.
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