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LOCAL AND GENERAL, SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Nearly 60 cases of machine gun ammunition have arrived in Shang- hai from Soochow.
Mr. A. J. Sturrock, chairman of the Kinta Sanitary Board, will be salling for Home on December 31.
The F.M.S, Chamber of Minos propose to entertain the "High Commissioner to dinner on the occasion of his next visit to Ipoh.
The Chinese who was indicted for the murder of his 16-year old daughter was yesterday declared not guilty Criminal sessions and discharged.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Mis- sion to Seamen In Shanghai ac- knowledges with thanks the receipt of $2,000 being a donation from the Stewards of the Shanghai Race Club,
Amsterdam, Déc. 19.-Hier Jan Oudegeest has been elected Presi- dent of the Dutch Social Demo- cratic Party in succession to Hier Polak, who has resigned owing to denfness,
We have received a copy of the 1928 calendar issued by the West- inghouse Electric International Co., for whom Messrs. Reiss, Massey & Co., Ltd., are sole distributors for Hong Kong and South China.
The Secretary of the Chinā Const Officers' Guild gratefully ac-. knowledges receipt of $1,000 from the Stewards. of the Shanghai Race Club in aid of the Mercantile Marine Masters & Officers Relief Fund.
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London. Dec. 18. "It is an nounced that the Post Office making provision for the transmis- Bion of no less than 60,000 radio messages or Christmas greeting by the medium of their wireless beam services.
Mr. R. Bhaskara Alyar, Superin. tending Engineer, has been ap- pointed as Chief Engineer to the Madras Government. This is the first time an Indian is appointed to this post in Madras and the second instance in the whole of Indía.
The death has occurred at Singa- pore of Mr. Harold Carpmael, the Municipal Assessor, Mr. Carpmnel went into hospital with internal trouble and an operation was found necessary and was performed but he passed away on Saturday night, December 10.
The results of the sale of the wark by the Diocesan Girls' School, with the object of augmenting the School Building Fund. held on Saturday, are provisionally reckon. ed at $950 according to a report re-i ceived from Miss Sawyer, the head- mistress, yesterday.
On behalf of the Board of Gov- ernors the Treasurers of the Shang- hai General Hospital acknowledges with cordial thanks a donation of $1.000 received from the Shanghat Race Club as a contribution to- wards the cost of the Charity Wards of the Hospital.
A sum of $47.000 has been added to Federal Estimates for the pur- chase of instruments and for the purpose of recruiting and training the staff of observers in connection with the organisation and in- vesigation of the Meteorological branch of the Survey Department.
Mr. D. W. Leach, who is con- sidered to be the best all-round cricketer in Shanghai, and who is now in Hong Kong for a few weeks on business, is, says the "N. C. D. News," playing regularly for the Hong Kong Cricket Club in senior cricket. Mr. Leach played for Shanghai in the Interport matches against Hong Kong and Malaya last month.
arrived on a visit to Singapore.
Mrs. C. W. G. Botley, of Ipoh,.
H.M.S. "Wyvern" has sailed from Shanghai for Chinking.
Mr. C. A. Thomas, of Lean and Co., Penang, has entered the Gen- eral Hospital there.
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Nationalist seaplanes are again scouring the Woosung district in search of enemy gunboats.
Mr. C. D. Pearson, of the Shang- hai Waterworks Company, has ar- rived in Shanghat from home.
Commander B. Gordon and Lieut.Com. C. L. Turbett of the Calcutta, Dec. 19.-The aero-Sea Transport Staff leave for In- plane "Red Rose" has arrived and dia by the P. & O: "Khiva." will leave for Rangoon on the 21st instant.
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Mr. G. C. Denham, formerly In- spector General of Police, Straits Settlements, arrived in Singapore from Java accompanied by Mrs. Denham.
Tan Jut Hong, the only son of Towkay Tan Kam, a rubber dealer, of Kuala Pilah, was drowned in the Ulu Perak river. He is said to have gone for a bath.
The Shanghal Chinese General Chamber of Commerce is reported Mr. F. G. Coales, executive ex-by the vernacular press to have gineer in charge of the. P.W.D. requested the Nanking Government Technical School, has been ad- to raise the ban on the export of mitted to the European Hospital, raw cotton. Kuala Lumpur...
The Chinese charged with the robbery of gold bars and other property from the Wo Fat Shing launch was found guilty yesterday. He Honour Mr. Justice Wood re- served sentence.
Father Montet of the Portu- gueso Misalon Daman, India, who has been spending his holiday with his relations at Singapore, has had his leave extended till after the Christmas festivities.
Rear Admiral-Julian L Latimer, who commanded the special earv ice squadron in Nicaraguan waters during the critical months of the revolution which eaded last sprice in a way that won high formal commendation from his Govora. ment is slated to succeed Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett commandant of the Third Navat -District and of the Brooklyn Navy Yard when the latter retires co account of age on February 15,
Dr. Danson, who was formerly one of the clergy of Malaya be- fore he became Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak, is now on holiday in England. In mail week he was pro- ceeding to Birmingham, where he was to preach, and was also to there on the recent experiencs in broadcast from the B.B.C. Station
his diocese,
London, Dec. 19.-It is expected that Parliament will be prorogued on Thursday and that the new ses- sion will open on February 7. Efforts will be made during the week to secure the passage of a number of minor bills but time has to be found in the Commons this week for debates on unemployment Initiated by Labour and on agricul ture at the instance of Liberals.
The value of the imports of machinery into amounted to £809,400 during the British Malaya
Arst quarter of the current year, as compared with £597,000 during the corresponding period of 1926."
Mr. Wentworth Lewis, Editor of the "Straits Times," and Mrs. Wentworth Lewis have left Singa- pore on a motor tour of the Malay Peninsula. They will stop at Malacca, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Fenang,
The "Shunpao" avera that Mr. Culver B. Chamberlain, the Ameri- enn Vice-Consul, who is soon ex- pected to arrive from Swatow, will be appointed Senior Consul's De-. puty and American Consular Offi cial In the Shanghai Provisional Court.
As the result of a large piece of rock falling on him whilst he was engaged in doing excavation work on Morrison Hili yesterday, an earth coolfe received injuries, which necessitated his removal to the Gov- ernment Civil Hospital.
The Shanghai "Nippo" has it that the cotton mill owners of the) port have formed a mutual better- ment association, including in its membership the larger manage- ments of British, Japanese, and Chinese concerns.. They propose,
It is understood, to deal as a unit with the onslaughts of radicals ngainst their loyal workers.
The wedding will take place at the Carlton Cafe on De- cember 21 of Mies Tang Yung-shueh to Mr. Russell B. S. Chen, the Shanghai law- ver, who, at the Ratepayers' Meet- ing a couple of years ago, second- ed a resolution for the admittance. of Chinese on the Shanghai Muni- cipal Council on the basis of pro- perty owned by them.
Information has been received that Mr. K. H. Oon, M.Sc., son of Mr. Oon Boon Tan, of Penang, has been elected an associate in Science of the Institution of the Rubber Industry, and is entitled to the de- gree A.L.R.I. (Sc.). Mr. Oon is at present the Chief Chemist of Tan Kah Kee and Co.'s Rubber Manu- factory and is also a member of the American Chemical Society.
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The last of a successful series of fortnightly Whist Drives was held by members of the Kowloon Bowling Greex Club on Saturday evening. The prize-winners were: Ladies-1st, Mrs. R. Duncan; 2nd, Mrs. Hevey: 3rd, Mrs. Purslow; Hidden Number, Mrs. Normington; and Booby, Mrs. Bell. Gentlemen. 1st Mr. C. Stewart; 2nd Mr. Hevey; 3rd Mr. Bell; Hidden Num- hers. Meanra. MacFarlane Frazer; Booby: Mr. C. Bond.
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Mr. J. Meyrier, the French Gon- Under the auspices of the Naval sul, returned to Shanghai aboard and Military Y.M.C.A. ("Cheer O"), the French Mall liner on Friday there will be a grand con- Lebon" from France after eight **Andre cert, of a special and attractive na- months' leave at Homé. ture, at the City Hall at 7 p.m. On we understand, be appointed acting He will, Sentence of death was passed on evening, and on
Monday next there will be a social Consul-General for France upon Tsang Tih-pau in the Provisional Thursday, a
the following the departure of Mr. E. Nagglar, dance. Court, by Judge Hsiung, with last mentioned functions
Both the who has been promoted to whom sat Mr. Meinhardt. Senior place.
fke the position of Director of Eastern in the Consul's Deputy, in connection There will be sing-song at the Affairs, and who is leaving for City Hall. Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign with a charge of armed robbery "Cheer O" to-night, at 7.80; to Parts in about a month's time. which took place at 27 South morrow (Wednesday) there will be Chengtu Road, Shanghai, on Sep- a whist drive, at the same hour; tember 14, when money, jewellery and on Thursday there will be an and clothing to the value of 8800 informal dance, at 7 p.m. Was stolen,
According to the "Singapore Dio- cesan Magazine," Miss M. Sharp is retiring from the post of Secretary Sentence of two months hard of the Singapore Auxiliary Dioce On the eve of his departure to default, a further
labour and a fine of $25, or, in san Association. Her brother, Singapore Mr. J. C. S. O'Hara, of jail was passed by Mr. W. Schofield Sarawak, and assistant Chaplain at three weeks Archdeacon Sharp, formerly of Ipoh, was entertained at a dinner at the Kowloon. Magistracy-yes- St. Andrew's Cathedral under party by a few of his friends. Mr. terday on a house coolic employ Archdeacon Perham, is still Vicar O'Hara, who is going to Singaporeed at No. 3, Pratt Building, Kow- of St. Stephen's Hampstead and to settle down there, is well known loon, charged with the theft of Rural Dean.
Lt.-Col. Sprigga is
in sporting circles in Perak, where several articles of jewellers, and going to be Hon. Secretary and he organised and maintained for some years cricket and hockey mother, employed at the same new chairman is Mr. E. S. Pose, some clothing the property of his Treasurer of the SA.DA The teams that took a large share in address as an amah. It was stated C.M.G, who takes the place of the the local fixture card. His depar-by the police that the accused, who Lord Bishop of Ely, who, as cousin ture, says the "Times of Malaya," was an opium smoker, stole the of the late Bishop, presided over will be a loss to local sport. property whilst his mother and the Councils of the S.A.DA...
wife were gone to the market en December 80.
A master and three mistressca
of junks were yesterday charged
Sir Alfred Dent, who died in before Commander G. F. Hole, at
London recently, was not only a Before Mr. W. Schofield at the member of the Court of Directors the Marine Court for mooring Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, a of the British North Borneo Co their craft inside the low water scavenging coolie employed to re but one of its founders, his connec mark during the night. One of move rabbish from the Kai Tack tion with it dating back to the the women said that her junk was Aerodrome, was charged with the "seventies" of the last century. put in to shore for the purpose of theft of a quantity of copper wire It was on Jan. 22, 1878, that the getting a doctor for her sister-in- and electrical fittings. The ac- Sultan of Brunet granted to Mr. Jaw who gave birth to a child at used admitted possession of the (afterwards Air).- Alfred Dent and 10 p.m. Not to be outdone, an- things, and said that he had pick his partners full sovereign and ter other woman said, that she herself ad them up. According to Serritorial rights over the major por- had given birth at 6 p.m. One of geant Macdonald, the Sttings were tien of what is now B.N.B. and the women produced a midwife's removed from the scene of a fire at very shortly afterwards that the certificate, and after consultation the aerodrome last month, and the Dents house-flag was hoisted with the police, the Magistrate dis- accused was seen by the military alongside the Union Jack at Sanda charged these two women with a police picking out the copper wire kan. The story is told at length caution. The other woman and and fittings. His Worship imposed in Chapter V of Mr Owen Rut the man were fined $6 each S a fine of $25,
ter a book on British North Borneo.
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