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The King received in audience Mr. James McNeill, the newly ap polated Governor-General of the Irish Free State..
GENERAL SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Tor Bay, Devon, is enjoying a re- markable eprat season."
Fifty ounces of cocaine were sciz- ed on board the "Seang Bee" ok
Mr. George Bonar, Jute manufac-arrival at Singapore from China,
of Dundee, has given
Among the eleven deacons
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Mr. H. Somervillo, Director Mansfeld & Co., Singapore, arrived in Penang by the s.s. Patroclus" on a visit of inspection.
Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth and Co., Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne,
Anglo-Saxon Oil Company.
£16,000 to establish a commercial dained in Liverpool Cathedral was are to build an oil-tanker for the
college in Dundee.
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Mr. Arthur Herbert Procter, VC.
The funeral took place leat week The annual meeting of the Hong of Mrs. Jones, wife of Mr. J. W. Kong Bonevolent Society will take Jonen, of the Straits Trading Com-place at the City Hall on February pany, Limited, Singapore.
2 at 12.15 p.m.
It is reported from Lisbon that General Ivens Ferraz succeeds the late Commander Jono Belo as Por tugucae Minister of the Colonies.
Master N. Bojesen, the 11-year- old Danish schoolboy who was so seriously hurt when getting off a Shanghai tramcar has succumbed to his injuries.
Dr. R. S. Thatcher, music master of Charterhouss, has been appoint- ed director of music at Harrow, in Buccession to Dr. Percy Buck.
The portrait by William Owen at of James Townley, exhibited the
Royal Academy in 1799, realised £483 at Messrs. Christie's.
The body of a four-daya-old child who had been strangled with a piece of string, was found in a suit- case which had been left under a Post Office.
The body recovered from the Mr. H. W. Morgan, of Messrs.
Beachy Head has Harrisons, Barker, Kuala Lumpur, cliffs at who recently underwent an opera-been identified as that of Miss to Ethel Wiltshire Bincker, aged 49, of tion in Singapore, has gone Overhill Road, Dulwich, S., writing shelf in the Sydney General Brastogi,
secretary, who had been missing since December 10,
Eighteen funeral urns contain- ing cremated human remaina be
When the s.a. "Talamba" arriv lieved to belong to the Bronze ored here from Calcutta and Straits Iron Age have been found near ports yesterday she brought a new Romsey, Hampshire.
battalion of Indian troops, namely the 3/15th Panjab Regiment, This Regiment is commanded by Lieut. Col. H. T. C. Ivens, and there are ten British officers, 17 Indian offi- cers, and 883 men.
It was announced at the 82nd festival of the Royal Commercial Travellers' Schools, Pinner, that the total of the festival subscrip- tion list was £24,548,
The Swedish steamer "Astu" (10,960 tons) was sunk in a col- lision off May Island in the Firth of Forth, with the Leith steamer "Breslau" (1,366 tons) all her crew of 10 being saved.
Mr. C. F.. Hewett (Sungei Wangi), Mr. and Mrs E. W. Josselyn (Suffolk), Mr. W. Eagle Bott and Mr. and Mrs. W. Eaton (Walbrook estate) have recently returned to the Lumut district from Home leave.
The Southern Railway Company were fined 40s., and costs at the Mansion House for selling milk nt the refreshment buffet at Cannon Street Station, E.C., which was adulterated with 11 per cent. of added water.
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Mr. Harry Macdonald, who was formerly very well known Bangkok business circles, but who has recently joined N. V. General Motors, Ltd. (in Java), has been motoring up from Singapore on a business visit, and left by car for Singora.
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John Harvey, the Welsh member of the French Foreign Legion whose sentence of night years' im- prisonment for desertion was milted at the request of the British Government, has been instructed to rejoin his regiment to complete his term of service.
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Mr. W. S. Morrison, a barrister, who in 1923 and 1924 unsuccessful ly contested the Western Isles divi- sion of Inverness-shire, has been chosen as prospective Conservative candidate for the Cirencester and Tewkesbury division of Gloucester ahire,, in place of Sir Thomas Davies, who will not seek re-elec- tion,
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Chang Teo-lin, former shep "herd boy and now China's most
powerful war-lord.
William Bonley, a ganger of 19 Hanbury Street, Watford, and W. Chandler,. n platelayer, of 82, Neal Street, Watford, were over and killed by an electric train at Watford.
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Frederick John Branscombe, aged 22, of Raymouth Road, Rotherhithe, a film operator, whose motor-cycle crashed into a wall at Lewisham, died in hospital from a fractured skull.
The poll of the Liverpool Cotton Association resulted in a majority for favour of the proposal that mills with floating charges on their assets should pay cash be. fore delivery, 238 voting in favour and 197 against.
Earl Egbert Everden Hughes, aged 61, of High Street. Sydenham, was sentenced at Bow Street to two months' hard labour for being drunk in charge of a taxicab, which' overturned in Parliament- square, the six occupants being injured.
The King has approved the fol-i lowing appointments: Vico Ad- miral William Fisher to be Lord' Commissioner of the Admiralty and Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff in succession to Vice Admiral Vernon Haggard, to be Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Chief of Sup- plies and Transport in succession to Vice Admiral Fisher,
The skeleton of a woman with the skull smashed in was found beneath some leafless bushes in a wood at Hollington, near Hastings, by two brothers, William Lee and Albert Lee, of Hollington. A set of false teeth lay near. The con- dition of the skeleton indicates that it had probably been lying there for some months. The wood, which is near a picturesque church The British Motor Manufactur-
known as the Church in the Wood, era' Association intends to spend a
Evan Lloyd-aged 28. of Osborne is a favourite resort of visitors in large sum in the next few months terrace, Clapham, S.W., was knock-summer. on advertising British cars in Newed down and killed by a motor-car Zealand, where sales of foreign in Park-lane, near Stanhope-gate, cars are dropping considerably, and local dealers will contribute a simi- lar amount for co-operative cum *paign.
A young military student tra- velling in a sleeper by the Mel- bourne express dreamt he was in the wrong train and jumped out while the train was running at 25 miles an hour. When he was awakened by the fall he saw the lights of a station and walked there, asking the stationmuster to arrange for his catching the next train to Adelaide.
W. A car alleged to have caused It is expected that about ten the accident was found in a garage Shanghai Chinese banks which in Winchmore-hill, N. The driver, closed at the end of the Chinese Clifford Lewis, of New South-gate, financial year will not re-open for N., who is alleged to have made a business after the holidays. Their statement, was charged with man- decision to remain closed is partly slaughter,
due, it is reported, to the demands made upon them by the Nationalist Sir Hugh Clifford, Governor of Government and partly to the dull the Straita Settlements, accom-stote of business. Although some panied by Lady Clifford, fa to ar- rive in Bangkok on February 6, and leave on February 12 for Saigon, travelling overland. An elaborate programme has been arranged, in- cluding a trip to Ayuthia, the an- cient capital of Slam. On the way up a night will be spent at Hua Hin. On February 7 the Governor will be received by the King.
of these banks commenced with a capital of $30,000, they are now being asked to pay this sum, as a contribution to the Nationallet Government in one instalment.
The Hon. Mr. H. Fairburn,
The case
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In pector-General of Police, re- turned to Singapore by the Textile Syndicate of the U.S.S.R., was, sued by its former manager, The attention of cinema-goers is "Hakusan Maru" after a visit to Mr. P. Nossoff, for three montha salary drawn to the fact that, owing to Hong Kong and Shanghai. and travelling expenses from Tien- the exceptional length of the film, Fairburn's visit was mainly in con- tsin to Shanghal amounting to there will be only three perform nection with police matters, but $1,460, was withdrawn in the Pro-ances of "Ben-Hur" dally, and he also found time to see nome- visional Court, plaintif stating these will begin promptly at 2.30, thing of the methods of traffic con that a compromise, had been ar- 6.00 and 9.15. The picture beginstrol used in Shanghai, The traffic rived at whereby he would be a run of eight days at the Queen's situation in that city is much more paid $620 in full settlement of his Theatre on Monday next, January serious then it is in Singapore, claim and he would pay the costs. 30: A special booking counter has where the roads are wider and the Dr. F. Wilhelm, who appeared for been opened in the lobby of the pedestrian and vehicular traffic defendants, confirmed thia.
Queen's Theatre, where seats for not as dense as it is in Shanghal. the dress circle and back stalla may now be reserved for the entire season,
In the Provisional Court of Ap- peals, judgment was rendered' in connection with the appeal of a German named Teppers against a sentence imposed by the Court of First Instance, of a year and ten months imprisonment for fraudu- lently obtaining goods from a Judges number of complainants. Ziar (presiding), Chiu, and Tean, with whom sat Mr. II. E. Stevens, Senlor Consul's Deputy, in dis- misalng the appeal, stated that they could not do otherwise than: to uphold the original decision.
Last week's mall from India brought the news that Rao Bahadur D. Arulanandam Pillai,
A tea party was given at Meaars. former Government of India Agent Lane, Crawford's Restaurant yes- in Malaya, is likely to be nomin-terday by Khan Sahih Inspector ated as the Indian Christian mem-Nawab Khan and Sardar Sahib ber of the Madras Legislative Inspector Mohinder Singh, of the Assembly in succession to Pro-Hong Kong Police, in commemora fessor M. Ruthnaswamy, who is tion of the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, making up the Principalship of the Captain Superintendent of Police, Law College, Madras-a Govern-obtaining the K.C.M.G. The guests ment appointment. The Rao included: The Hon. Sir Shou-son Bahadur's many friends in Malaya and Lady Chow, Sir Henry Gollan, sincerely hope that there is sub- Hon. Sir Joseph Kemp, Mr. Justice stance behind this rumour. "M.T." J. R. Wood and Mrs. Wood, Hen. Dr. R. H.. Kotowall, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. King, Mr. P. P. J Wodehouse, In the Shanghai, Provisional CI. E. and Mrs. Wodehouse, Mr. The marriage took place at the Court, Judge John G. H. Wu made and Mrs. L. H. V. Booth, Mr. and Church of the Assumption, Penang. reference to the appearance of Mrs. J.-W. Franks, The Hon. Mr. the Rev, A. Devala officiating, of foreign legal practitioners and re- DW. Tratman and Mrs. Tratman, Mr. Bernard S. C. Doral, of, the
and Tole marked that, at a recent meeting Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, Mr. R. E. Government Posts of Judges, it was decided that Lindsell, Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Craig, graphs, son of the late Mr. P. R. lawyers who did not enjoy extra- Mr. and Mrs. H. Green, Mr. C. D. A. Doral and Mrs. Doral, with territorial rights, and who were Melbourne, Mr. and Mrs. W. Kent, Miss Matilda Lilian Lessior, and within the jurisdiction of the Dr. W. B. A. Moore, Major C. Will only daughter of Mr. Court, as well as Chinese practi, sony Mr. Bishen Singh, Mr. G. R. Mre. J Lesslar. The bride, tionere, could appear in all cases, Sayer, Mr. A. E, Wood, Dr. Valen- who had Miss Freeman as purely Chinese cases included. tine, Mr. W. Schofield, Dr. S. W. bridesmaid,, was given away by her The privilege of appearing in pure Tso, Dr. Samy, Capt. Kenendy, Dr. father. Dr. H. A. Phipps, was ly Chinese cases was limited to J. T. Smalley, Dr. G. H. Thomas, bestman. After the ceremony a these and it could not be enjoyed Mr. R. A. C. North, Mr B. W. reception was held at the Eurasian by foreign lawyers who were Hamilton, M., Le H. C. Calthorp, Volunteer Club, where the custom- citizens of countries not amenable Mr. W. B. Scott, and Mr. F. Mowary toasts were duly pledgod and
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