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Miss Etale Janis, the American revue actress and mimic, has ar rived in London on a visit from New York.
The Rev. A. C. E. Jarvis, M.C. Chaplain-General to the Forces, has been appointed Chaplain of the Tower of London.
In a month 500 eggs have been stolen from boxes landed at Hull, and placed in sheds at the Albert 'Dock to awalt railway transit.
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Poppy Day in Hammersmith, W., Mr. S. C. Yeomans has arrived realised £1,367, a record.
in Penang from Bangkok, to take! up the appolutment of assistant ap-editor of the "Straits Echo.".
Inche Kamardin, the newly pointed, D.A.D.O. has assumed duty at Kuantan.
The Prime Minister declined to set up a Royal Commission to in- Mr. F. G. Bourne, who has acquire into the housing of the poor- rived from Home laavė has eat sections of the working classes resumed his duties as Coroner for in urban areas. Singapore.
Four Communists were arrosted and executed by the Chinese au- thorities at Nanchang on the even A canary which was heard singing of December 27. ing when the firemen arrived was Buffocated when a fire broke out in house at Baring-place, Peckham,
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The late Sir Wilfred Peak, D.S.O., J.P., of Rousdon, Devon, who died on October 12, aged 48, left property of the value of | £172,686.
The Hamilton-Sm£h. collection of war medals and decorations has realised more than 20,000 at The cooks of the 1st Training Glendining auction-Brigade, R.A., Woolwich, won the rooms, Argyll Street, W...
Army cookery shallenge shield at the Cookery and Food Exhibition, Holland Park Hall; W.
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Dr. J. B. Westerhout has return- ed from leave in England and has resumed duties as Pert Health Officer, Penang, which 'post was filled by Dr. Karunaratne during his absence,
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The annual distribution of prizes will take place at the Elite Kadoorie School fo Indians on Thurs- day, January 12, at 11.30 am. Bir. A. el Arculli has consented to distribute the prizes.
A 10-years-old boy furnished the police with the number of a motor- lorry in which 80,000. rabbit 'akins were removed by burglars from the warehouse of Messrs, Wheeler Bros. of Garrett-Lane, Tooting
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An, organisation known as the Amalgamated, Association of Labour. Unions has been started in Shanghai to combine the activities of other labour unions, according to reports in the Chinese newspapers.
A Japanese bazaar, te be opened by the Bishop of Leicester and Mrs. Bardsley, was opened at the Church Missionary House, Salisbury Square, on November 20. On De cember I the sale was opened by Mrs. Matsuyama, of Tokyo.
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A six-leaf leather screen paint- ed with Chinese landscapes fotch- ed. £441 at Messrs. Christic, Man- 'son, and Wood's, King-Street, St. James Square, S.W, while six Hep- plewhite mahogany chairs and two armeraire fetched £315.
The engagement is announced of Capt. H. M. Pendlebury, late 7th K.S.L.I., Government Entomologist, F.M.S. and Phyllis Hort Reid, daughter of the late Mr. Sam Rold and of Mrs. Pipe-Wolferstan, For- wood, Minchinhampton, Glos,
Walt painting believed to belong to the 15th century has been dis- covered in the premises of Messrs. Hockman's, tailors, of Oxford, in a room where it is thought Shake- speare may have slept when the house was the old Crown Tavern,
Mr. Walter John Cruickshank, aged 60, of 17, Adamson-Road, Swiss Gottage, Hampstead, N.W., died suddenly after acting as re- feree at a football match on the sports ground of University College School at Farm-Avenue, Crickle- wood, N.W.
On the application of the police, Mr. W. Schofield made an order at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday for the confiscation of one revolver, ore Mauser pistol and 500 rounde of ammunition which were found unclaimed in the steerage quarters of the s.s. "President Jackson."
A Chinese detective yesterday found on infant no more than a week old abandoned on the roadside in Kowloon City. The baby, which was alive, was taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital.
The Nationalist Government at Nanking has issued a circular telegram to the various provincial authorities fustructing them not to encourage New Year celebrations in view of the existing situation.
Holders of Arms Licences are re- minded that their Licences are due for renewal on January 1. Licensees should call at the Arms Office, Palice Headquarters with their arms and licences before January 31
George Remus, of Cincinnati, once "king of the bootleggers," who shot and kijiod his wife, a few hours before her suit for divorce was to have been heard in the Cincinnati courts. Mra, Remus was en route to the court when she encountered Remus, who followed the car abo was in. Becoming alarmed she jumped from the ma- chine and started to run, Remus in turn, grabbing her and drawing a revolver fred one abot." He our- rendered to the police and won charged with first degree murder.
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The sale of a leasehold property. known as No. 480, Nathan Road, Yaumati, Kowloon, which was to have taken place at the China Auc tion Rooms yesterday afternoon, by order of the mortgagee, was can celled. This property has an area of 1218 square feet, and the an nual Crown rental is $16.90.-
Sir Herbert Mitchell, until re
the Council cently Clerk of of the Duchy of Lancaster, "has been appointed a member of the Countil on the retirement of Mr. John Leonard Bolden.
Mr. Arthur Blom, licensee of the Swan and Mitre Hotel at Bromley, who is dead, used a German flag as a doormat at the hotel, entrance. during the war to support his denial of a rumour that he was of German birth.
Sir Joseph Bradney, a governor of the National Library and the National Museum of Wales, who is 68, was married at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, S.W.. to Miss Florence. Prothero, of Chep- stow, Monmouthshire.
A staff said to have belonged to the last watchman who called the hours in Bond-Street is among the collection of truncheons belonging to Mr. A. Landenburg, of Sunning- dale, Berkshire, to be offered for sale at Messra. Sotheby's,
Arthur Pengrey, aged 22, of Alfreton Road, Nottingham, was killed and two other men were in- jured when a wall collapsed on them while they were demolishing the "Green Dragon," an old public- house in Friar Lane, Nottingham.
The Deptford, S.E., Borough Counel! Has accepted the resigna- tion of Councillor J. C. Harvey- who had previously intimated that he would resign if a woman mayor were appointed-when the 'qucation was put by the mayor, Mrs. Drap- ner.
Mr. H. E. Dening, the new mayor of Chard (Somerset), has been ap- pointed for the 94th successive yor captain of the cricket club, of which his brothers and Mr. H, V. Larcombe have been respectively vice-captain, treasurer, and secre tary for the same period."
`Mr. William Wright, a Leeds- solicitor, 'who' is alleged to have disobeyed an order of the court in connection, with the estate of the late Clara Felicia Harrop, has been taken to Armley Gaol, Leeds. on à writ of attachment issued by Mr. Justice Romer in the Chancery Court.
A number of Singapore police officers have returned from Home leave including Inspectors H. Up- hill and H. J. Spinks, formerly of the. Traffic Branch Mr: Uphill, who is accompanied by Mrs. Uphill is attached to the Rochore Divi- sion, and Mr. Spinks to Orchard Road, Mr. Linton, A.S.P., has also returned.
A verdict of Death from Natural Causes was returned at an inquest at Addlestone, Surrey, on Frederick Goff, a retired grocer, of Barnss, bury, N. who within an hour of eaying, "I know what my death will be; I shall drop dead in the street," died at "Addlestone Station after seeing his daughter-in-law in her coffin,
Assessment Committee, consisting *The Kusla, Pilah Sanitary Board of Mr. E. B. Gaffney (Executive. Engineer) and Towkay Ho Kong Kee, accompanied by Mr. D. S. Stoner, Sanitary Board inspector, visited the Sanitary Board areas with a view to arriving at valua tions for the purpose of assess ments for 1928.
At the European Revenue Off- Sir Percival Phillips has com cers' Mess, on Wednesday evening, menced a series of striking articles a party was held in honour' of Mr. on the Far East in the "Daily and Mrs. Powell, who leave for Mail" Since leaving China, where Home on Saturday by the 8.s. he was special correspondent of A marriage has been arranged, "Morca." Speeches were made by the "Daily Mall," Sir Percival and will take place early this Messra S. J. Clarke and Ward, and Phillipa has been travelling in month between Miss Gladys Mrs. Powell was presented Java, the Straits Settlements, Bremner, daughter of Mr. David with a jade brooch from the Re- Burma and India, and everywhere Alexander Bremner O.B.E., and venue Officers. A concert and has encountered Soviet plots to Mrs. Bremner of Chelsea, London, dance followed.
Bolshevise Asia. 8.W., and Mr. Cecil W. L Way, Messrs. Liddell Bros. & Ca., Ltd., Tientsin.
Capt. J. A. B. Menates, M.C., The following appointments are B.SC., A.A.LE.E; has arrived in announced from Tokyo: Mr. Aol Ipoh from England to superintend There was an echo at the Kow. Shigemitsu, First Secretary Lega the Installing of the electrical loon Magistracy yesterday, of the tion, to be Councillor to the Em- Christmas party held at the Kow-bassy in Berlin; Mr. Shigehort plant which le being supplied by the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical loon Hotel, when Mr. H. J. White, Tafiri, Secretary of the Foreign Export Co Ltd., to the Ferak manager of the Hotel was sum Office, to be Consul at Tientsin; River Hydro-Electric Power Co., moned before Mr. W. Schofield for and Mr. Shigetomo Saegusa, Secre- Ltd. Capt. Menzies will be foin- Belling drinks during prohibited tary of Legation, to be Secretary hours on Christmas Day. A fine to Foreign Office and Chief of the ed early this year by a staff of six
engineers from England, sq First Section of the cultural work oppor of 820 was imposed
department of the Foreign Office. Mr. H. R. Cheeseman, Inspector of Schools, Penang, is leaving for
Mr. Jotaro Yamamoto, President An extraordinary meeting of of the South, Manchuria Railway Company, who had been on a visit the Singapore Amateur Wireless in Tokyo some time, has left for Society was held when decisions Dairen, according to a ""Toho leading to the winding up of the port. It is understood that Mr. Society were arrived at. It was de Yamamoto will stop off at Seoni cided that the general committee on the way to, interview General: be empowered to vacate the room Yamamashi, Governor of Korea in Union Buliding at the end of January, and, if necessary, to dis pose of the Society's assets as they
Johore in February The Johore educational system is being reor- genised and Mr. Cheeserinn - has been selected to be the first Super- visor of Education there. Mr. Cheeseman, who la a most capable officer, will be greatly missed in Penang, where he has been con nected with education for 20 years.
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