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LOCAL AND GENERAL SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mra. Parker Rees and Misa Parker Rees were passengers on the "Malwa" which left Hong Kong on Saturday for Home.
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Stewart Bail-! ed from Hong Kong with two chil dren on the "Malwa," bound for Home via Singapore.
It is proposed to hold a Quiet Day in St. John's Cathedral on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22. The pro gramme is given in the February number of "Cathedral Notes."
A riesta coolic employed by a sloopkeeper wan entrusted by his master will two blankets worth $10 to deliver to a customer at the Great Eastern Hotel. The coolio has net returned since.
Lady Chamberlain, wife of the Foreign Secretary, who has been suffering with neuritis, has been or dared sen voyage and will leave for South America on February 15.- British Wireless Service.
Teheran, Fobrinry. 5.-A Russo- Persian agreement lins established a weekly airmail between Telioran and Büku.-Beuter."
Mrs. A. Murdoch was one of the passengers on the P. & O. "Malwa" which sailed from Hong Kong for Home on Saturday.
Mr. H. Handley Pogg of the Mrs. E. E. Chester Woods selled for Home by the "Malwa" on Satur-ceeded on Home leave on Saturday, Public Works Department pro day, with Misa M. and Master D. Chester Woods.
saxing on the "Malwa,"
Mr. W. lo F. Chevalier, with Mrs. le Chevalier and family, were pase sengers on the "Malwa" which left for Home on Saturday,
The annual meeting of the Navy League (Hong Kong branch) will b held at 5.80 p.m. on Wednesday in the board room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Li,
New Orleans, February 5-Costes and Lebrix, flying to New York, love arrived here. They New front Mexico City in tes hours and were welcomed by large crowds.
It is officially announced that the King has approved the appointment of Ene! Stradbroke us Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Agricul
To-morrow. the next working party of the Mothers' Union will be held at the Helena May. Inature its succession to Lord Bedst tute from 3 to 5 p.m. The annual sale of work will open at 3 p.m. on Feb. 21, also at the Institute,
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War bonusca have been abolish- by the Hull City Council and employees' salarios stabilised on a non-fluctuating basis calculated on a 70 per cent. lacrease over the
pre-war cost of living.
Horses attached to a van from Buckingham Palace stables bolted in Buckingham Palace Road, S.W, and crashed into the rear of an LG.O.C. motor omnibus, the driv ing-pole being broken.
Capt.. Arthur. Holme, commander of the White Star liner "Homeric" (34,351 tons), having reached the age limit, has retired after 45 years at sea, 30 of which have been spent in the service of the White Star Une.
Mr. Harry Cooley, director for 13 years of the orchestra at the Tivoll Theatre, Hall, wne' found dead with
cester,
St. Pauls, Minnesota, February his throat cut in a house. In the Cone Sink, aw student when course of erection in Gipsy-lane, is interested in aviation, established Leicester. He was a native of Lel- A chimney fire broke out in ก house in Kwong Hon Terrace, off world record in aeroplane lowping Staunton Strest on Saturday night.by making 515 loops in 4 hours, IN Two fire engines turned out and minutes, benting by 200 loops May had "na difficulty in extinguishing ward's record in France. the flames. Very slight damago was done.
Moscow, February The Rus sinn" Geographical Society has or ganised an expolition to Contral Asia under Kozlov to study the Tibet tableland and investigate sources of the Yangtze-king. The expedition, will, probably last three years.-Reu-
A Chinese withow_living_ot No. 143, Temple Stres, Yaunati, brat a friend a quantity of jewellery worth. $190 to alteal a wedding feust.. She new reports to the police that the Triad hæl absconded with the, pro- fter. perty.
Shian Mor, the four-your-old alt by Bachum-Oruss, which was pur-
Baran cimmed try
Istrideu, Japanese neslalerriman,
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1 for the Royal Albert Docks to ens turk on the s.s. **Karmuda' for Tokyo.
Henry Richard Newson, solici- W.C.. tor, of 2T, Chancery-Lane, was found guilty of professional misconduct in converting to his own use part of a sum of £54 104. belonging to Ethel May Thornton, of Sea View, Isle of Wight, and was suspended for two years,
Charles Henry Downes, solicitor of 25, Avenue-Crescent, Mill Hill Park, Acton, W., was suspended for six months. Having settled an action for libel, in which he had Instructed Mr. E. F. Lever, to net as counsel, he failed to pay to Mr. Loner fees amounting to £4 148.
A Diocesan Library has just been formed, under the manage- ment of the Diocesan Chaplain, Rev, K. V. Haiward, who is at pre- aent acting as librarian. Any en- quiries concerning it should be ad- dressed to him. The Library is housed in the Cathedral Hall.
The attention of cinema-goers is drawn to the fact that special times The have ben arranged for Gaucho," Douglas Fairbanks' new picture, which begins a run of live days at the Queen's Thontre to
korrow. These special times are 2.30, 5., 7.15 and 9.39, and the picture begins promptly after the
overture.
With great mulacity a sneak thief entered the ground floor of Sincere's Kore on Saturday evening and snatched up a bundle of notes worth $100 from the accountant's counter whore the latter was counting the day's takings. He then darted out into the street, chased by some of the store's fokis, and was eventually caught in Fat Hing Street by a Chinese constable.
A warrant had been issued for the Arrest of a rent collector named Tse Tit employed by the Wing Yick firm of contractors of No. 21, Switow Street. The master of the firm in a report to the police alleged that the wanted man lnd absconded with $781 which he had collected in be- half of the firm from various ghops in Shackiwan during the past few days.
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HONEY MULLER, WARM, J. Gʻ Count Volpi, chancelor of the exchaquor of Italy, in a new por trait study in which he wears the Venetian style at costumo worn centuries ago by his ancestors. Ha is credited with placing Italy on a sound Onancial basis and was Italy'a representative, at the debt' funding conférence held In the United States last year,
Mrs. Reed, a widow of Uiten-
hage, South Africa, who sent the Prince of Wales £5,000 for war- blinded men during his tour in 1925, has bequeathed the whole of her fortune, £40,000, to the British Empire Service League.
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The King has approved of the appointment of the Rev. Turten Dixon, Chaplain to the Missions to Seamen at Barry Docks and Penarth, to the vicarage of Christ Church, Walker, vacant by the ces sion of the Rev. Houpsfield.
According to a Cologne despatch, a projected tour of German athletes to Jajan this year has been post- poned until April 1929 as the re- sult of official action to ensure the best possible chance of success of the Amsterdam Olympic Games.
Of the six cylinders, believed to contain poison gas, bought at an auction by Ir. Vincent Speddinga, a metal-serap merchant, of Stani- forth Road, Sheffield, four have been found to be empty and the other two to contain acetylene **S.
In St. John's Cathedral Notes for February, the new Dean (Very Rev. A. Swan) appeals for more men for the choir. He has had four recruits but many more are wanted "for such a large building and so important a centre of wor ship."
Charles Henry Tomlinson was struck off the roll of solicitors at the Law Society's Hall, Chancery- Lane, WC, the complaint against
him being that while in the em ploy of Mr. Arthur Saville Cohen, of 23, College Hill, E.C., he atele £16 158.
The police are searching for s man who went into the Twicken- ham Road post office, Isleworth, sfated that he had been sent to London, February -High Com-when he was allowed to go behind,
examine the telephone, and then, missioner for Australia, Sir Grun the counter, snatched 20 in Trea- ille Ryrie, will visit to-morrow at sary notes and bolted. Portsmouth the new Australion submarines Oxley" and "Otwny,"
M. Paderewski, Polish musician which leave Portsmouth on Wednes and one time statesman, is said to day, next for Australia under their have recently announced that he own power. They are due off will open a subscription list among Thursday Island on April 20-Bri- Poles living in the United States tish Wireless Service.
At the Central Magistracy before Major C. Willson on Saturday, two Chinese women were charged with harbouring three children, without
for a fund to erect in the city of Posen a monument to President Wilson. The amount needed for this purpose is said to be $20,000.
A good many officers of the Royal
the consent of their parents. It was Navy left Hong Kong for Home on stuted by Sergeant Bitches, who pre-Saturday by the P. & O. "Malwa." secuted, that the women wen con- These included Lt.-Com. L.. B. nected with a gang of kidnappers Bishop, L. W. G. Brittain, Lt.-Com. who had killed the children's parents D. Garvey, Lt. D. C. Ingram, Lt. in the country. The children were R. McP. Jonas, Lt. F. D. Lipscombe, A three days Lt. P. T. A. Love, Lt. L. L. B. aged 7, 18 and 14. remand in polies custody, was given. Meyers, Lt. R. J. O'Donnell, Sur- geon Lt.-Com. D. W. Tighe, Lt. C. S. B. Turnbull, Lt. R. D. Watklus.
The Duchess of Leuchtemberg Beauharnais, cousin of the late Czar of Russia, la ong, short visit to Hong Kong, arriving in the a.s. "Malwa" with the well-known vlo- linist, Alexander Mogullewsky who may give a recital during his stay in Hong Kong. In this event, the Duchess will act as his accompan- toon
On Saturday a Filipino student of the Hong Kong University was rob- bed of $874 in the City. After draw ing the money from a bank, he been placed it in his pocket in an envelope in
Hotel. From what has sald of the violinist other centres, he Is an artist of eminent skill. The Paris "Figaro" speaks of his "successful instrumental refinement and ex- quisite art."
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And went to the Queen's Theatre, violinist in other centres, he is an where he booked a sent for the show, paying for the ticket with a $6 nolo which he extracted from the roll in his pocket. He then proceeded to the Star Ferry whard to meet a
When & Chinese carpenter em. friend; and there discovered that hie pocket and been slit and the monoyployed on board the .s. "Sunthia' stolen. He reported to the police was charged before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy with yesterday.
importing 60 ounces of cocaine with- out a pormit, Mr. W.. D., Owen, tho who dofonded, produced · nocused's records showing a long.
Among the Hong Kong passen gers on the "Malwa," when she sail-
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