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THE CHINA MAIL,
LOCAL AND GENERAL, SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Little Japanese gardena in por- celain dishes have become popular for the dinner-table and bou- deir.
Mr. W. J. Wheoxson succeeds Mr. O. P. Grifth-Jones-who has
re- signed-us a Municipal Commis- sioner.
A new scale of medicines, in reference to the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915, is published in to Įday's “Gazette."
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Dr. S. W. Evesen and Miss K. M. Hyslop, Lady Medical Officer, have been seconded for service under the Kedah Government...
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Sir Maurice de Bunson was guest of Lady Chamberlain at the first of her weekly receptions at the Foreign Office on November 8.
Mr. C. H. Sansom has been ap- pointed to act as Inspector General of Police, Singapore, in addition to his own duties as Chief Police Off-
cer.
"Miss China, 1927," a mannequin from China, created quite a sonka- tion when she appeared at the Paris races in mail week in the latest European style jumper suit.
Among the passengers arriving in Hong Kong yesterday by the s.s.; "Iakozaki Maru" from Shanghai was Rear-Admiral H. H: Hough, of the U.S. Navy, who has recently relinquished his command on the Yangtsze.
The captain of the Dutch steamer "Almkerk" has been fined £5,000 at Perth, W.A., for having prohibited Immigrants on board. Fifty-four! Chinese stowawaya were discover- ed in the ballast tank of his ship when she arrived at Fremantle.
At mail week auctions a Chinese; carpet. 8 ft. by, fi ft. Kien Lung. brought $40 (Mrs. Richards) and a Chinese Chippendale wall mirror, in carved and gilt frame
with flowers and foliage in relief, sur- mounted by figure of Chinaman seated beneath
1 shrine-£200 (Timms).
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Mr. W. Gillam, has been pointed to bo Officer-in-Charge of the Postal Department in Malacca.
London, December 16-Jafar Pasha el Askari, Prime Minister of Irak, left London for Bagdad this afternoon.
The House of Commons has agreed to the Lords' amendment to the Films Bill which now only needs the Royal assent.
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Calcutta, December 16.-The annual conference of the European Association passed a urging the Indian Government to resolution
revise the existing tariff.Ruuter.
pointed a member of the Executivo Mr. A. P. Robinson has been ap
Council in the place of Mr. C. Ivoritt.
Mr. R. Wickwar, the well- known director of rubber com- panies, has returned to London after a trip to Canada.
to act as Principal Civil Medical Dr. J. Gray has been appointed
Officer in the Straits Settlements from November 24.
Mr. and Mrs. T. Kikuchi and family,' and'. Miss H. Matsuzawa were passengers from Southampton November 5 by the Cunard liner) "Aquitania," which left for New
eign Secretary. Sir Austen Cham-
London, December 16.-The For-York. berlain, and Lady Chamberlain All Hallows Church, Lombard Kave a luncheon to-day in honour Street, E.C., was so crowded when of Dr. Gallardo, the Argentina a service of the Student Christian Minister for Foreign Affairs, who Movement in London is paying an official visit to Lou- that many of the congregation had held, 'don.
to sit on the floor during the ser viet.
MYKÜLER, KASA
King Alexandlos I, of Yugo-Slavia, whose country has prepared a Note to Bulg.ria demanding guarantees for the future and satisfaction for the part misdes of the Macodanian Comitiis (irregulars) against whom the Intest crime charged is the ansa'nating of Brig. General Mich Kovachevitch of. Yuge- Slavi.L.
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Mme. Borodin, wife of the Rus- sian Adviser to the late Hankow Government, who was arrested at Nanking by Chinese military au- thorities at the end of February lust, has arrived in Moscow from Vindivostock.
The number of persons in re- ceipt of Poor Law relief in Eng- hand and Wales on the last Saturday! in September was 1,148,000, stutea
a Ministry of Health return recent- ly Issued. At the end of June the number was 1,171,000.
Sir Robert McAlpine. who is 80, and head of the contracting firm of McAlpine & Sons, who built thei Wembley Exhibition, is making antisfactory
progress from operation-the second operation within the last few weeks.
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The Government of India has de- cided to send a small trade mission. to a number of countries to report| on the potentialities of markets for Jadian cotton goods. The mission will visit the Malay States and "Java, and several other countries.
The "Great Bed of Ware" (men-i tioned in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"), which is in a building; adjoining the Old Rye House AT Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, is in- cluded in the sale of the brewery business of Christie and Co., Heddesdon, to the Cannon Brewery Co., Ltd.
"In another decade the greater portion of the Japanese women will be dressed in the European style and living in European houses," This prophecy appears in the Eng. lish supplement of the Tokyo "Asali" A curious fact for the social psychologist is that the! change has come about almost en- has this year
The forelyn Press of Shanghal tirely since the disastrous earth-cellent Christmas
put forth two ex quakes of 1923,
numbers, the Chatham is reported to be revel-{ issuing houses being the "Northling in a glut of gold. One of the In connection with the chrysan-Shanghai Times.“
China Daily News" and
"The three divisions of the Royal! themum shows which are now on. it in magazine form and is full of from China, and, as is the custom! The former is Marines has just returned home is rumoured that there is still one very readable material, much of it on foreign stations, the men, variety of chrysanthemum which la of local interest. jealously guarded by the Chinese. usual, is well to the fore with his have brought some of this back to ceived their pay in gold. They Sapajou, s and no flower, plant, or root ever been allowed to leave the coun- special, issue of the "Shanghai culated in Chatham.
admirably executed cartoons. The England, and it is now being cir- try. It is the Sacred Blue Chrysan-Times" runs to 112 pages and also themum, which grew, carefully pro- contains tected, in the garden of the Bm- features.
many specially-written peror's paluce.
re-
Herr Konneeke, who started from, Cologne on September 20 on a flight to the Far East, was forced to land; A gruesome mystery of the sea Bronze Medal has been awarded to ed the tail of his machine.
The Royal Humane Society's near Etawah, and in landing smash- was unfolded on
The the arrival at Sergt. G. W. Martin, D.C.M., Royal German airman scoured the bazaars Seattie, on November 1,
of the Artillery, liner "Margaret Dollar." The vea China Command, Shanghai, Sergt. jungle the tax is being rebuilt. Kon- Headquarters, North for toola and material, and in the sel picked up, off Washington state, Martin, it will be remembered, necke is suffering from fever, and an eighty-five-foot Japanese fishing saved amack with two dead man
Nina Cailivakya, sleeping quarters, and a pile of River in an attempt at suicide at
who may not resume his flight for a fort- in the threw herself into the Whangpoo night. bones on board, which, in their Shanghai on June 1. Martin jump- opinion, were all that remained of ed in from the bank, and a crew of seven or eight men.
Seventeen States have signed swimming 70 to 80 yards reached abolition of import and export pro- the Geneva Convention for the Among disclosures of the way in struggles, succeeded, in bringing
the woman, and, in spite of her hibitions and restrictions. They are which the taxpayers' money is her to a steam launch wasted, made in the second report jetty, when she was got on boardland, France, Germany, Italy. Bel- which the Select Committee Public Accounts prepared for the water was 30ft. to 35ft. deep, and
on in an unconscious state. House of Commons, is the instance there was a very swift current and of a new kitchen, costing £700, dangerous undertow. fitted out on the Consulate premises
at Foochow. As a member of the committee points out, that sum 18 almost sufficient to buy house.
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gium, the Netherlands, Czecho-i The Slovakia,
manis, Luxembourg, Egypt, Japan Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rou- and Sian..
The annual meeting of sub scribers and adherents of the
a whole Union Church, Kowloon, was hold Antwerp to the captain of the Glen An anonymous letter handed at on Thursday evening, the Rev. J. Line steamer "Glenogle" (9,513 Aming the
(Pastor) yesterday afternoon on the siding. The Hen. Secretary (Mr, Dock in the Thames, resulted in the
passengers leaving Horace Johnston
pre- tons), now lying at King George V., "Changte" for Australia
A. Chapman) presented the an-discovery of nearly 200 revolvers Manila and porta, were the follow-nual report, whilst the Hon. Trea-and 2,000 rounds of ammunition. Ing:--Mr. E. L. Stainfield, of the mitted the financial statement. ammunition had been smuggled on surer (Mr. D. F. Warren) aub- The letter stated that revolvers and, Supreme Court, Mr. T. Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Anderson, Mr. In subsequent proceedings, the board with the connivance of some and Mrs. Manning, Mr. H. R. speakers included the Rev. J. Kirk members of the Chinese crew. Everitt, Miss M. T. Hughes, Capt. and Mrs. T. W. Pickard, Mr. W. C. Walker, Mr. C. II. Bryant, Mr. Donald Quick and Mr. and Mrs. Forsythe.
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search was made and the contra- band was found in empty oil tanks.
Sir Montagu Cornish Turner and Lady Turner celebrated their golden wedding on November 3 and, received numerous congratulatory, messages. Sir Montagu, who mar- ried in 1877, went in the same year to India. Subsequently he became President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, and was also elected: a member of the Viceroy's Council. Sir Montagu is now Chairman of tralia and China, Erith and Dart- Chairman of the Westminster Bank, ford Lighterage Co., Joint Deputy-
P. and O. Banking Corporation, and a director of Allen Bros, and Co., F. and O. Steam Navigation Co.
Maconachie, the Rev. Mr. Short and Mr. Ingram. It was decided to call a meeting for the purpose of considering the inauguration of a Women's Auxillary Guild. Mr. Chapman and Mr. Warren were re- Singapore, December 7-A popu-Treasurer respectively, whilst a elected as Hon. Secretary and Hon. jar resident of Singapore who dur- ing his twenty-three years here has large and influential Committee been an enthusinatic. supporter of
was appointed. all aports leaves for Home on re- tirement to-morrow in Mr. M. B.
Replying to the Shanghai Muni- McKean. For twelve yeare Mr. cipal Council's expression of sym McKean Vacuum Oil Co, in Singapore and Secretary of the French Council, the Chartered Bank of India, Aús-
manager for the pathy at the death of M. Legendre, for the last ten he has been man- M. Fauraz, Acting Secretary wrote ager for the Scotia Lubricating Oil to the Secretary of the Settlement Co., distributors of the Burma Oil Council: "I have the honour to Co.'s lubricating oils in this terri- of November 25, in which you con
acknowledge receipt of your letter tory. Mr. McKean succeeded as manager of the Scotia Lubricating vey to the Municipal Provisional Oll Co. by Mr. F. J. L. Mayger. Commission the condolence of the Shanghai Muncipal Council for the Japancaa circles in London are death of its Secretary, Mr. P. Mayeda has arrived in London and cruel loss it has sustained in the Lieutenant-Colone! the Marquis preparing to welcome Mr. Tsuneo Legendre, The Municipal Com has assumed his duties as Military Matsudaira, Japan's Ambassador
Washington, who, as
mission highly appreciates the attaché to the Japanese Embassy. nounced recently, is to succeed this unhappy event. The death of In the early part of the War and was sentiments expresssed by you on Marquis Mayeda came to England Baron Matsui as Ambassador in Mr. Legendre will be felt all the employed as a special attaché in Great Britain. Madame Matsu-more inasmuch as, during the London Later he went back to daira, when in Tokyo, acts as Eng-eight years of his Secretaryship, ha Japan, but returned to England lish interpreter to the Japanese has contributed in no small men with the late Prince Higashi Court. Soon after being appointed sure to the cordial relations exist Fushimi when his Imperial High- Ambassador to the United States, ing between the Administrations of nesa brought the insignia of a Jap- three years ago, Mr. Matsudaira the two Settlements. I am direct-aeae Marshal to the King in the ridiculed the gossip of war betweca ed to request you to be so kind as autumn of 1918. After the War Japan and America: Such a can- to express to the Shanghai Muni Marquis Mayeda went to Paris as a flict was "a physical impossibility," cipal Council the deep gratitude of Staff Officer during the Peace Con- he said, "as we are destined to live the Municipal Commission for their ference. He has recently been em- In peace for ever." Baron Matsui will probably return to Japan next participation In tho Jspring.
funeral ployed as an instructor at the Jap obsequies."
anese Staff College in Tokyo.:
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