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LOCAL AND GENERA!
The Associazione Nazionale Com- battenti gratefully acknowledges a gift of $280 from the Shanghai Race Club.
A young penguin was blown ashore at Corbiere, Jersey, and was captured alive after a fight with a fox-terrier,
Sir James Currie has been ap- pointed chairman of the governing body of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture.
Mr. William Turner, aged 95, who took part in the siege, of Sebastopol and was in India during the Mutiny, has died at Barnstaple.
Sir Alan Cobham's giant metal flying boat was launched upon the River Medway at Rochester in pre- paration for the start of his aerial survey of Africa,
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr. J. P. Souter, of Mesars. Pritchard and Co., Penang, return- ed from leave by the "Devanha."
land on November 25 with her The Rance of Sarawak left Eng-
daughter, Miss Elizabeth Brooke.. for Sarawak,
Three boys who escaped from the Feltham (Biddlesex) Borstal In- Among Michaelmas term stu- stitution recently have been recap-dents called to the Bar at the Mid- tured.
dle Temple, on November 17, was Ar. Kyc Choo-chan..
Singh Ji will be celebrated at the
The birthday of Sri Gurco Gobindi
Several London taxicabs now Sikh Temple on Friday. The Heads; have an electric sign in front, above of Departments and private firms the driver's seat, which at night are requested to grant a holiday on illuminates the word "vacant." that day to their Sikh employees,
News has been received in Pon- ang that Mr. Ong Chong Keng has graduated BI.B., B.S.. at the Hong the late Mr. Ong Teong Hoe and Kong University. He is a son of was a pupil of the Penang Free school.
Captain Pratt, accompanied hy Mra. Pratt has returned from Home A horse harnessed to a van leave and will resume duties as dropped through trapdoors into a Senior District Officer, Province cellar in Milroy Wharf, Black-Wellesley. Mr. W. H. Lee-Warner, friars Bridge, and, as it was im- who has been acting for Captain possible to get it out, it had to be Pratt during his absence, will be
leaving for Kla
shot.
Treasure trove was the verdict at an inquest upon a porcelain jar containing 45 sovereigns dating be- tween 1849 and 1893, which was dug, up at Somerton Lodge, Winkfield, Berkshire.
Skeletons, thought to belong to the 17th century, have been dis- covered during excavations at Leeds Castle, near Maidstone, a clay pipe of that period having been found near one.
A Passover Haggadah, a Hebrew manuscript on vellum of th 13th or early 14th century, with olour ed drawings in the margins, realised £990 at Messrs. Sotheby's, New Bond Street, W.
Mias Florence Power, aged 22, a Londonderry shop assistant, who! was the victim of a razor-slashing attack last April, her assailant being later committed to an asy- tum, died in mail week,
Bridgend (Glamorgan) Guar- dians are to ask the Ministry of Health for permission to issue outdoor relief to the large num bers of unemployed single minera who are crowding into the work- house.
Gloucester Liberal Association have adopted Mr. Thomas Worrall Casey, Liberal M.P. for the Atter- cliffe Division of Sheffield from 1918 to 1922 as their prospective Parliamentary candidate for Glou cester City.
Members of the Japanese Mis- sion which is studying economic and social conditions in Europe, and which includes Mr. Funanosuke Kuhara, a prominent Japanese man, and several Foreign Office officials, have left Rome for Nice, and will visit London after a brief stay on the Riviera.
The Hon. Mr. J. Strachan, General Manager. F.M.S.R., arrived in Ipoh en a surprise visit. Mr. Strachan during the course of his visit, anys the Times of Malaya," took before the Station Superin- tendent two, railway police con- stables who neglected to take notice of passengers crossing the lines and committing trespass in the yard.
The Improved condition of the Haiho now permits of good-sized steamers coming up the river to Tientsin harbour. There is already art improvement at the swinging berths, and on the 10th inst., the "Tangshan Maru," 205 feet long and of 2,089 tons, swung success- fully, loaded to 10 feet 2 ins, when leaving the port.
The Tientsin Land Investment Co., Ltd., in view of its increased capital and business has decided to increase the number of its directora from five to seven, The Board having lost the services of Mr. Wolfers, who is leaving the part, Mr. Tsai Shou-kie, one of its earliest directors has consented to rejoin, and the other new directors are Messrs. Peters and Snow..
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Senator George W. Norris, of Nebraska, whom the Progressivas intend to support in the Proalden- tial preliminaries in a dozen or more States,
Miss Renee Kelly, who has been on tour abroad for nearly three years, has returned to the London stage at the Coliseum in a new comedy sketch "Quits."
More than 100 bandemen played the new mayor, Councillor Joseph Rogers, to church at Northampton in recognition of his long Borvices as conductor of the Volunteer band.
The Rov, J. M. Harden, principal of the King's Hospital Bluecoat School, Dublin, was appointed Bishop of Tuam, Galway, in succes- sion to Dr. Orr, who has been tran- slated to Meath,
A porcelain pot containing 45 sovereigns of Queen Victoria's reign has been unearthed in the garden of Somerton Lodge, Wink- field, Berkshire, the residence of Mr. W. P. Elliott.
"Ben Lomond," by Sir David; Cameron. R.A., realised £220, and Mr. Muirhead Bone's "A Rainy Night in Rome" £185 at a sale of etchings at Messrs. Sotheby's, New Bond Street, W.
The number of persons in receipt of Poor Law relief in England and Wales on the last Saturday in Sep- tember was 1,148,000, states Ministry of Health return at the end of June the number was 1,171,000.
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English and Scottish sections of the herring industry, at a meeting at Yarmouth, resolved to лек the Scottish Fishery Board to fix the date of the opening of] the herring fishings at the various ports in Scotland.
Mr. T. J. Hume, Managing Direc tor of John Little & Co., Ltd., leaven via Kuala Lumpur and Penang on home leave. During his absenco Mr. E. Challen and Mr. J. F. Hodgins will be in charge of the Company's business,
Under the will of Colonel Llewellyn Morgan, RE, of Swan- sen, £2,500 and his collection of Nantgarw and local chinn are be queathed to the Royal Institution of South Wales, and £3,250 to St. Gabriel's Church, Swansea.
The death took place on Decem ber 8 of Mr. H. W. Chapman, a very old foreign resident of Bang- kok. The deceased came to Bang- kok from Burma at the time when the telegraph was first introduced; into Slam and was for many years an inspector in the Posts and. Telegraph Department,
Dr. Barnardo's Homes publish their annual Christmas appeal. The really wonderful scope of this charity can be judged when it is realised that no destitute child is ever refused, that, on an average, Ave are admitted every day, and that 24,000 meals have to be pro- vided daily. A gift
of 108. will Sub-
At 9 o'clock last night Mr. Boxer, living at the London Mission House, the police that a thief broke into keep a child for ten days. No. GB, Robinson Road, reported to his room by climbing through the scriptions should be sent to 18-26, to the number of 1,200. who were ventilator over the verandah door. Stepney Causeway, London, E1, called up in January last for ser- As the intruder was about to leave and made payable to Dr. Barnardo's vice in China, were due to arrive with some of Mr. Boxer's property Homes,
The remainder of the men of Section "A" of the Army Reserve,
at the Albert Dock, London, in the in his possession, he was observed
W.C., sald that
transport "Karmala" on November by a lady living in the adjoining Mr. F. H. Adams, a solicitor, 24. Of those who were called up house. She very pluckily grappled describing at Westminster County in April over 600 were expected to with the thief, but the man man- Court efforts which had been made reach Liverpool on board the aged to break away from her and to garnishee the salary of Mr. "Bellerophon" on or about Decem- make good his escape. ber 10.
Sam Mayo, the actor, upon judgment for 7 11s. 10d. for Misa Bettina H.M.S. "Cornflower," which has daughter of an American million- Martin's-lanc,
Warburg, the Charles McAllan, printers, St. posters obtained by Megara. been selected for duty on the aire, is a medical student at the China Station, in place of the National Hospital for the Paralysed Messrs. McAllan had failed to "Hollyhock." Commander R. B. T. and Epileptic, 'Queen Square, serve the summons personally be- Miles, is to be ready to leave for the Bloomsbury. She graduated in the cause it had been necessary for Far East on December 28, She United States as M.D., but follow the server to wait for the comple- will commission with the relief ing professional custom she has tion of another performance by crew of the "Iroquois," surveying not adopted the title of Dr. War Mr. Maye. vessel, and the paid-off crew of that burg since she has beer in. Eng- ship will return in the "Hollyhock." land. She is the daughter of Mr. The "Cornflower" is at present Paul Moritz Warburg, chairman of been received into the Roman undergoing repairs at Sheerness. the International Acceptance Bank, Catholic Church at Derby. Mr. New York, president of the Federal Hooley, who is 68, was born at The articles of Association
Advisory Council of the Federal Re- Sneinton, Nottingham, his father of serve Board, and a director of being a lace manufacturer. the Siam Free Press Co., Ltd. have several big organisations, including coming a stockbroker. at the age of Be- been duly registered. The names the Western Union Telegraph Com- 22, he came to London in 1896, and of the promoters who have acquired pany.
by a series of successful company promotions he acquired a great fortune. At the height of his
the business from the former owners are: Nai Louis Girivat, Nai
Mr. Ernest Terah Hooley has
S. Siong Wan, Nai Soon Chai Goo
A motor accident which occurred career he was in control of a no- Trakul, Luang Sarabakich Vicharn, in the vicinity of Bowrington minal capital of $18,000,000. His Nai Kim Chai Srisukri, Mr. Canal, East Point, yesterday, re- success was shortlived and in 1898 Andrew Freeman and Phya Vinaya sulted in a Chinese woman being he became bankrupt. Sundara. The capital is given aa instantly killed, and four other ago he was sentenced to 8 years Five years Tes. 200,000 made up of 2,000 people injured. The motor car ponal servitude for fraud in the shares of Tes, 100 each. "Bangkok was travelling in an easterly direc- promotion of the Jubileo Cotton Times."
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The locking of a chapel door at of the motor car had to swerve A draft of Coldstream Guards! St. Briavels, Forest of Dean, Glau- sharply to avoid running the man left Windsor on Novei ber 19 on cestershire, has caused a good deal down, and in doing so the car route for China. The detachment, of comment throughout the neigh- knocked down a boat woman who under the command of Lieut. bourhood. For some years the was killed outright as the result of G. H. R. Madecks, is going out to chapel has been administered by the impact. A five-year-old child relieve the time-expired man and the Congregational Union, and two which she was carrying on her back! A class of reservists of the 2nd years ago "Mr. W. P. Chatfeld, and was very severely injured and was Battalion Coldstream Guards, whe evangelist, was appointed as the taken to the hospital in a critical are returning home. The party, pastor. The Rev. C. E. Watson, condition. The man who jumped headed by the drum and fife band secretary of the Gloucestershire from the tramcar was hit by the of the 3rd Battalion, Coldstream and Herefordshire Congregational rear of the motor car and thrown Guards, were given a hearty send Union, told a reporter that there into a ditch, receiving severe in off. The detachment proceeded to bad been dissension among those juries, whilst two other pedestrians the Tower of London, where they attending the chapel and that the suffered slightly from outs, and joined a detachment of the 1st Bat Congregational Union and a major bruises as the result of b bowl-talion, 1 Gold
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