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Consumption in Rangoon, It is stated that consumption in becoming rather prevalent among the Coringhi alas in Rangoon, especially among those who are engaged as rickzba puilers.
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The Railway Board have de -sided to close the Indo-Barms Railway survey for the time being. The cosat route was surveyed considerable time ago, while that Savoy; in 1885 be joined John become. His death, therefore, Was through Manipur has practically Hollingshead at the Gaiety, where a unexpected as is will be baen rejected as it offers
regretted. no their first production was the advantages, and would be ex burlesque "Little Jack Shopperd.". tremely expensive. There remains On Hollingsbead's departure a the Northern route through the year later, George Edwardes be- Hukong Valley, and the surveys came role manager of the theatre of this stand over until after the which he was to direct for nearly war. When these are eventually 30 years.
Mr. Edwardes was a liberal finished, the material will be
patron of the Tarf. Two or three His first venture alone was years ago a friend asked him how available for a final decision "Dorothy" the famous comioopera, many horses he owned, and he regarding the Indo-Burma con- and though the Gaiety very soon
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Chater's Bungalow, No. 66, He showed signs of developing later that it disappeared from the disinclined to admit their good Apply to CHATER and MODY,
Owners are often singalarly Nathan Road. Kowloon, cholera a few days ago. The Gaisty in favour of musical lock, and Mr. Edwardes was not 5 Queen's Road Ceatral, patient was sent to the infectious comedy, the long list of bar an exception, but in fact he was diseases hospital, and the ship lesques at the Gaiety, from "Monte remarkably fortunate. When be was placed is strict quarantine Oristo Junior" to "Don Jasa," ginning to form hisstud be picked with a limited number of coolies, showed Edwardes drawing nearer apfor 190guineas a son of Queen's In the event of the case turning and nearer to the new form of Birthday and Merry Wife, destined out to be one of real cholera, the musical pieca which He had in to earn fame as Bantoi, for Mr. coolies will have to be eant to
Edwardes was accustomed to name Ragama for five days.
With "The Shop Girl" in 1894 many of his horsea after the plays
Lieutenant-Commander Edgar Sir Harcourt Butler and Mr. begs the list of musical ocmedies to produced at the Gaiety and Christopher Cookson, R.N., D.8.0., -many of them with the word Daly's Theatres, or after actors who was killed on September Sharp visited Benares on October «
'girl" in the title-which are and actresses who had bean con-20 during the operations at Kut- 18 and went over the ground with asscointed in the mind of the pre-spicuous in them. Santoi won el-Amurn, on the Tigris, was the Dr. Sunder Lal, Pandit Maleviya, sent generation with the Gaiety the Ascot Cap and other races of younger son of the late Captain Mr. Bhagwande, Babu Moticband, Theatre--both the old house, the value of £11,275 in all, retir-W. E. Cookson, B.N., and of Mire. and other representatives of the palled corn in 1903, and the new ing to the stud at a fea which Cookson, of Clifton, Bristol, and Hindu University Society. The house opened in the same year. increased from £19 to £150 as was born in 1883. He was educat conclusion arrived at was that Meanwhile Edwardes had taken his sons and daughters proveded at Hazelhurst, Frant, and Hongkong, 13th November, 1915, the present premises of the Hindu on the control of the Prince of their merit. No classic race ever entered the Britannia College are insufficient to permit Wales Theatre in 1892, where he fell to the starting of the new Uais produced more musical comedies; Ogbourne, skilfully controlled midshipman on board H... to the stable at the September, 1897. He served as versity in them, and that no time and when Daly'. Thestre, which for many should be lost in acquiring the had been built for Augustin Daly Edwardes, and latterly by Mr. P. time of the Boxer rebellion. In
yeora by Major Dido, on the China atation, at the Shanghai. proposed new site, and patting in 1893, became vacant, he took Hartigen. Santeve, a daughter the present war he took part in the maru olo Morioka, Talio. ap the necessary buildings. It that too, and produced there of Santai, ran third for the Oake defence of the Suez Canal, and was is hoped to be able to do this musical comedies of a different of 1908, and won the Liverpool afterwards sent to the Persian within a year, Teachers are kind-on the whole nearer to] Autumn Cup both that year and Gulf. He was awarded the D.8.0.Hotel, Dairon. meanwhile to be engaged, and comic operas, more sentimental in 1909, but the Epsom third for services in the Shatt-el-Arab, other preparatione pushed on in
tone and with. The Viceroy will lay the in form.
more chapely was the nearest approach to of which the following is the offi In
cial record:-"Lieutenant-Com- foundation store in Febraary.
he class'e honours. | added the Adelphi Thestra to his In 1913 Mr. Edwardes owned mander Cookson was conducting a The Governor of Shansi has list, and there, too, he produced a highly-promising colt in reconnaissance up a creek of the musical comedy; and besides Flying Orb, a son of Orby and Euphraten west of Qurnah in the made special efforts to promote managing at various times half a Stella, His wind became affected, armed launch Shushan on May 9, women's education in his pro-dozen or so of other theatres, he and his staying powers were 1915, when he was heavily attack Hongkong, 12th November, 1915. | vince. He brought from Hupeh, was for many years managing consequently curtailed, but be ed by Arabs concealed in the where he was a Governor before director of the Empire Theatre of won ranes last year, the Portland reeds. Although severely wound-
Schoolchildren's Holiday, Amsterdam, September 26,---- Plate at Doncaster among them, ed, sarly in the action he resumed George Edwardes's special Daring recent seasone Mr. Ed. command after his wound had Berlin messages announce that Girls' Normal and other schools. sobievement, musical comedy, has wardes has secured a large numbeen temporarily dressed, and the Kaiser has sent a telegram to After one year of hard work great been called all sorts of hard ber of minor atakos. Last year nooseded in motably extricating the Education Minister expressing improvement had been made. At his request Miss Chien Wei-chen, ames, and has revealed all zorte his horses osrried off 31 racee, the vessel from a perilous position gratification at the extent to which
of inartistic and extravagant fol- within two of the highest total, under heavy rifle fire." head of the Girls' Normal School, H, But it has amused handrede which was gained by Kr. Halton,
| throughout Germany contributed. has been ordered by the President of thousands of people nos over and seven above Mr. J. B. Joel, IF you have lost your appetite to the using his kejay to be "praised and rewarded" critical in art or manners; and it third on the list. But the 31 and a special talet written by as brought into prominence per only yielded £7,233, and there dainty dishes at the ALEXAN- decision that to-d y should be
one of the big variety of loan, and announcing his Majesty's (2 the President has been given to formers against whose ability were 13 owners above with larger DEA CAFE is sure to tempt taken as a school holiday through.. the Bchool where he teaches usand humour not the strictent l'aggregates.
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