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LATE MR. J. BELL IRVING.
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to the Hon. Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, the lawfully appointed attorney.
The third defendant in connection
The will is dated 14th of December, 1921. He left legacies to his widow, Mrs.
Isabella Thomton Bell Irving, bis son,
Miss Bella Bell Irving. Mr. John Bell Irving, and his daughter,
Together with his widow, ko appointed 29. exentors his brothers Mr. David
chaos to order. During the past two months we have been constantly meeting in Press reports the suggestion of a
The late Mr. John Bell Irving, of People's Convention to lay down the lines
A Chinese was fined $100 by Mr. new idea. of settlement. It is not a
Nihill at the Kowloon Magistracy yes-Milbank, Lockerbie, Dumfries, "Scotland, Efforts along the same liars, have hern
terday fot possessing 450 cigarettes on and formerly of Hongkong, where he made before. One of the great difficulties
which duty had not been paid, and for was Head of Mesars, Jardino, Matheson & Co., and a member of the Legislative, in the present state of China" has been
who died at his home in Scotland on to constitute such a convention as will storing cigarettes in un "unlicensed shop.
Sir James Cantic, the famous surgeon July 13th, 1925, at the age of 70 years.
tha inspire general confidence
value Work left property in the Colony to ambulance efforts within the past ten years to work and authority, oa
of $1,713,300. Letters of administration of Hongkong) - was out a settlement by mears of rondd. table conferences and people's conventions seriously ill in Aberdeen recently, but with the will annexed have been granted have signally failed. Our recollection of was slowly recovering in and ships, binding more tightly the last effort of the kind, rude in Peking nursing home, when the last mail left.
Kuomintang expected the convention to the common boads of a nobleeme eighteen months ago, is that the
these heritage. Not least amongst 8-447
adopt its own ideas and programme, with the charge of possession of a bomb, and when its delegates found that there which was discovered at 24. Yee Wo was no disposition to do so, they retired Street, Causeway Bay, was dischargel at the Central Magistracy yesterday. from it, and the Convention, for all prac tical purposes, proved a fusco. Whether Two other coolies had been previously Jardine Bell Irving, Whitehill, Dum- a People's Convention can be simmoned discharged. The police stated that the to-day with any better prospect of farm house was frequented by coolies, and it was difficult to get evidence against any ing a united government is matter
particular person. on which we can not venture to express nr opinion at the present stage : hut does it not seem that if the Foreign Pawers are not to accord recognition to an Government set up in China save onc which results from the decisions of such a People's Convention as the Kuomintang lenders bave in mind they are likely to wait an unconscionably long time? Then Germany, France, Belgium and England
land. Suspected agents in London are MRS. LEE PO SHAM'S BEQUESTS
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under observation, and developments in interests at stake in China strikes us as
the police campaign are expected at any an utterly impossible one. Some central
moment. authority bas to be " recognised by the
A Chinese was sentenced to 14 days' Foreign.Governments, and we venture to suggest that the Kuomintang Executive hard labour at the Central Magistracy her family, also would be better employed in giving prac- yesterday, for the larceny of some charity. tical help to the "Committee of Publicclothing. He was arrested by Sanitary
to constitute a Provisional Safety" Government, that can he recognised than in broadcasting winds manifestoes that only serve to accentuate the difficulties of the situation.
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Ee left his son, besides much property, the sum of £10:20 sterling.
He enjoined that after his death all According to the London„Horning Standard, a syndicate, headed by male servants who had been in his employ Chinese who was deported from Englandrer fs years should be given £25, and a few years ago was formed some months all male servants who had been in his ago in Antwerp, with its aim the control employ for over 10 years, £50. of the drug traffic of Europe, with agents
Deceased leit a large estate" in Scot-
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She enjoined that $10,000 should be set Inspector Taylor, who, while on the aside for building an institution for the Shaukiwan Road, overheard a washerman educating of orphans, the institution to Complaining to another of the theft. be known in the name of her late father- in-law, Mr. Yuk Hang, as a memorial White riding his motor-cycle along the
of him if such a project failed she Reclamation soon afternoon, he saw a
enjoined that it should be paid to the On man carrying a bundle of clothing.
Po Chi Hospital in the Tung Koon Dia searching the bundle the missing clothing trict in the province of Kwangtung, and be devoted to the curing of tuberculosis. was found,
A recent news letter from Peking She further enjoined that another sum saya:-Increasing turbulence in North of $10,000 should be invested in property, be used for "the upkeep of the same in- Mrs. Nisbet was elected a member of China, coupled with certain special and the income arising therefrom: should stitution and dispensing medicine free of the Peak Residents' Association, not Mr.episodes, has create considerable appro-
charge. Nisbet as inadvertently stated in yester-hension lest afairs take an anti-foreign turn in the near future. "Houses of day's issue.
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We observe that the Executive Com. mittee of the Nationalist Government in Canton has issued a manifesto solemnly appealing to the Foreign Governments to refuse recognition to any government
Two more persons were bitten by dogs
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Both victims were Chinese
Mr. John Bentley of the Union Insur. ance Society of Canton arrived by the transfer from Amboise yesterday on Shanghai, accompanied by Mrs. Bentley.
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A Chinese prisoner, aged 68 years, who was admitted to the Victoria Gaol on. March 17th to serve a sentence of twelve The naval staff at Wei-hai-wei, consist- months' hard labour for an offence under ing of six officials, receive in sularies the the Banichment Ordinance, and who died sum of £1,862 per annum at Singapore in the prison hospital yesterday morning, the naval staff receives in salaries £5,174
for six persons, including the captain in was the subject of an inquest held by Major Q Willson at the Central Magis- charge, who receives £1,385.
tracy yesterday afternoon. The evidence
At the Central Magistracy yesterday showed that the man suffered from tuber- set up by the militarists in Péking and a Chinese motor driver was fined $10 culosis and was removed to hospital on
She also enjoined that $40,000 should be set aside and be invested, to form a relief fund. The income derived from the fund should be devoted to ameliorate
distress in the case of typhoons, famines, She trusted that the fund floods, etc. would be augmented by the financial aid so that it may of other rich people." never end."
Mrs. Lee left over a million dollars.-
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College to re-instate the three students the Kuomintang Reds have decided to they recently dismissed for misconduct, blockade the college compound with the Steady progress has been made towards object of starving out the teachers and students, following the precedent at the close Juss jar for 3 or 4 Months of Longer,
When Revenue Officers searched the
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BOIC weeks ago on account of similar BEDROOMS. (3 Beds) enclosed Verandah,
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[203 government" established in China as the her arrival from Marseilles via ports,
Nationalist Government in Canton itself they discovered concealed in the engine lounge was re-established in the premises labour tyranny. It is believed, however, professes to be. But can the proposal room 100 rounds of ammunition and an foriperly occupied by Mesura. Laze, that they will not succeed in closing down which the Canton Government males atomatic pistol. No arrests were made, Crawford's Ladies Department and the Christian College which has the cup. that the public bar of the Hotel, which few appear to side with the dismissed deemed a practical one? It is perfectly but the weapon and ammunition were William Powell's. Now it is announced port of practically every student. Daly a bas not functioned since the fire, will be students. Moreover, a number of Canton citizens have rallied to the support of the The yearly general meeting of the
Meanwhile students have been cautioned" rival war lords must be brought to agree Shek Development Co., Ltd, was held re-opend on Saturday next, May 1st College.
at the offices of Mesara. Palmer & Turner, The new public bar adjoins the old.block among themselves to "bury the hatches," and unitedly support whatever decifions. Alexandra Building, yesterday evening, wrecked by fire. The hours of business about leaving the compound unnecessarily for the future government of China may for the purpose of adopting the accounts will be from 8 am, to midnight, and so as to avoid coming into contact with be laid down by
a People's Convention for the year ended December 31st, 1925, there will be the usual shacks available the pickets who are bent on creating The saddest thing .connected with the We seem to be a long way from that stage and electing officers etc. The proceedings at popular prices. The Hongkong and
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Fifty-nine ting of prepared opium that the Hongkong Hotel New Restaurant take over the institution or starve it into statesmen who have been working for (somewhere, about 100 taels) were seited will be opened on Saturday. Tiffins will submission appears to be that the attack peace in the Capital, and who constitute at the Wing Lok Street Wharf yester. be served at $1 from 12 to 230 daily, and is directed by one of the College graduates the institution. The American Consular the Committee of Safety or at least the day by police searchers. The opium was dinner for 81.25 from 6 p.m. to 8.30 and supported by a few workers who have majority of the Committee-now control- found concealed in a false bottom of a p.m. daily. A la carte meals can be had been many years in the employment of ling the Administration of the country wooden box of one of the Chiness at all hours at popular prices. Tickets authorities in Canton are watching the so far as there is any central control at passengers who disembarked from the .. for tiffin at a charge of $25 per book of development of the situation, while the
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