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Miss Violet Capol! writes: The gross takings from my two entertainments given at the Queen's Theatre on the 7th, and minst realized $2,910 and in th I am forwarding a draf dan Hospital for £50

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| fouling one of the cross-harbour telephone cables, off Raliway Pier, Kowloon, on Sunday, the cable has been temporarily put out of commission. The launch's pro peller has also been damaged.

Kowloon inland Lot No. 1940 covering 1,860 square feet, st.R Pul Shek, with an upset pri $2,790, was sold for $3,200 to A. G. Pile, on pathalf of Mrs. Wo So-kianga land sale yesterday afternoon Mrs. Wong propose to build a house on it Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1947, also at Kau Pul-shek) and immediately facing the other one, with an area of 5,580 square feet, was sold to the China Light and Power Co. at the upset price of $6,370

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1925.

GENERAL. MAC'S CAFETERIA

· Dr. Sun Yat-sen has been telë- graphically requested by his chief Secretary in Canton, Wa Han-min, to return south; says the “Wah Tez Po," which claims to have ceived intelligence from the eneraliesimo's headquarters in

Canton.

In his report to the Harbour Office, the captain of the s.3 "Changsha" which has just arrived here after, leaving Melbourne on December 8, says. "One Hindu infant of 17 days, died of mal nutrition."

A Chinese received injuries in a tram: car accident in Connaught Road West yesterday and had to be taken to the Government Civil Hospital.

The Vancouver police uro sentel- for a new kind of bundit, who hes poisoned darts from an a inside. One woman who was

his a dart qezelyed profújt Lieut. Edmonston, of H.M.S. nion-whien saved hHawkins," reports to the Police intilor stacks were the loss of a gold dress watch,

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m several Western pinder valued at £50, from a drawer in his cabin some time between Sunday pight and yesterday.

he Swedish schooner Crist right into l'openhagen eight of crew of the throw-mster babooner "Noah of Libur, ho were picked up in the Baltic Sea after drifting for ten hours in mi open boat. One member of the crew was drowned and two others jare missing.

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Dr. Francis Clark, former Medical Officer of Health in Hong- kong, has been appointed Senior Medical Officer at Weihalwel..

The marriage of Miss Evange line Yip, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Yip Kai-cheong, of Vancouver, to Mr. Lee Hon-wing took place at Fanling on Saturday afternoon.

The authorities of the Peking

The Govertiment hopes to in- Octroi Bureau have issued justru crease the pumber of English im-| "Memory" will be the subject of tions that the Sarmer practice of migrants to balance the great trek this week's Public Lecture of the merchants giving presents to the of Candians into the United States. Hongkong Lodge The Theosophi various officials of the Burcun at They therefore welcome the uncal Society, 16, Queen's Road the holiday time should be sus-noncement that the United States Central, on Wednesday, January The Public are pended. Minor officers demanding may place, Canadians under the 14 at 5:45 p.m.

invited. gifts from the merchants will be quota law, severely dealt with according to the new order. This step is one of the hony reforms instituted under the regime of such Tu-pi is head of the Ortroi.

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Mr. M. Hamilton, U.S.. Vice-

to ciptomatic difficulties, the con-

After 14 years delay, due mainly Consul at Canton, has left for

Kiungchow, Hainan, tract for the construction of the American gunboat, to investigate Port of Tangger has been pub up for the circumstances of the murder adjudication. Two important.French

American firma, Hersent Schneider and Co. recently.

and the Societe Internationable der Arayanx Publics, are tendering, and the contract will go to one of these.

Southampton,

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near future airship services could be arranged from Sydney to Los- don in ten days, and London to New York in three days.

Tells in the many Buddhis temples in Tokyo rung out the old year and in the new, ringing 108 times, a custom which has been observed for 18 centuries. Accord ing to the Buddhist teaching, there | ars 84,000 carnal desires'in "human nature. These are divided into 108 classes. So the bells are, ring that many times to impress on the people

The number of persons on the that all things mortal ure aliort of the White Star liner Ist December recorded on the re- lived. The custom was first ob- Homerie," had to deal with a large gisters of Employment Exchanges served in India and found its way number of letters of congratulations in Great Britain was 1,190,200. Japan throughy China and Korea. in connection with his appointment This was 302 less than on 24 Earlier all temples in, Japan irres to the "Mujostic." Au a comple- November, 1924, and 95.433 ices ptive of sect struck their bells 108 mantary dinner in New York priot than on 31st December, 1923. tings on New Year's Eve, the custo sailing he received a presenta tom being most devoutly observed Lion from a number of his American during the Edo period.

friends who have at various times travelled by the Homeria."

A party of native hunters-s the bane of all shooting parties- found their match last week when they tried to steal a fine pheasant shot by a local. sports- man in North Kiangsu. The local man succeeded in recovering the pheasant, but as the hunters claimed they had shot it he poured out some of his shot into his hand and showed it to the Chinese. Then he took their "shot," rusty nails and bits of wire, and placed the piles side by side. He cut open the pheasant, pointed out that his shot had killed the bird, and then offered them a dollar for each piece of their shot that they could find in the bird. Needless to say, they did not earn a single dollar, and as a number of other Chinese gathered, around to watch the fun the hunters were victims 000 of a loud guffaw when the local

sportsman "proved his case.

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The death has been announced of Mr. Henry J. Thomas, a Cardiff financial magnate, who was a director of over forty leading com panics in the United Kingdoin, in- cluding Siemens Brothers and the London Coliseuin. He had a roman tie rise to fame. Starting as a young stockbroker, he became a mil- lionaire, and was associated with Sir Oswald Stoll in many of his successful ventures.

tion of Finns to Canada, which has The steady increase in emigra-

been noticeable in the last few years, has continued this year, the number of emigrants for the first nine months being $,700, compared, with 3.740 in 1923, and only 276 in 1922.

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writer who discusses The Prince The "Fortnightly Review" of Wales at Thirty" delicately on the inevitable question, Yes, he needs to settle down. Above all he needs a wife." It is not too late. Though" It is unusual for a Prince of Wales to reach 30 as a Benedick, there have been cases. One was George with Nelson has been broken by was 33, and had better have The most direct remaining link IV., who evaded the altar till he the death at Hereford of Captain missed it altogether. (For this William. Spratt, at the age of purpose We must ignore the ninety-four. His father, who rose ceremony with Mrs. Fitzherbert to be a commander, served as mate when he was 20). Charles II. was with, Nelson in the action at 34 before he married, having Teneriffe in which he lost his arm, waited, with more, than his custo and his cousin, James Spratt, was mary prudence, till he came to the specially promoted for gallantry at throne. All the others since Tudor Trafalgar. The deceased officer times had married to the twenties, had an interesting career of active, generally in the early twenties. service in the spacious days of Henry VIL, with some prevision deadeyes and carronades, and had of his matrimonial fame, aban- many yarns to spin of the destruc-doned the single life at 18. ton of Rangoon, adventures with

cach day seen drilling in some of after. the court-yards, and it is understood that in the ninediate vicinity of the ex-Emperor's paluce there has been a considerable amount. "of military manoeuvring..

The ex-Emperor's own palace in the Forbidden City will soon be open to inspection. At present the only view which may be obtained of that magnificent structure is either from the heights of the Coal Hill or else from one of the court Chinese pirates, by whom he was. A Boston despatch anounces yarils in the Forbidden City which once taken prisoner, and such like that Anna Pavlova, the noted allows a view merely of the upper things, which made the oldest Russian dancer, has married her portion. Now that Mr. Pu Yi is members of the United Service accompanist, M. André Darnide, no longer in residence the guards Club (where for half a century he and that after the present tour will be taken away. For some

was a very familiar figure) feel has been concluded the couple in- reason the opinion has been abroad quite boys again. He saw service tend to retire to the dancer's that the Forbidden City has been in the Burmese War of 1852 and home in Paris and lead a purely closed to the public since the war later on in the Baltic during the domestic life. This has not been so, however. Russian War of 1854-56. He her marriage Pavlova says she In announcing Some of the gates within the City retired as Commander of the delayed making it public because ave been scaled but ive been Folkestone Coastguard in 1873 she believes that artists.. should opened on request. Soldiers are being promoted captain shortly not be married. She intends to keep Pavlova the artist and Pavlovs the wife separate and distinct, because when so prosaic That labour conditions in China things as husbands and other are interesting the world is seen by details of private life are revealed action taken at the International the artist loses some of her An event of considerable signi Congress on Social Problems held glamour. Her-marriage is some- ficance in the development of last antumn at Prague, when the thing too intimate to advertise. scientific activities in China was following resolutions were present- celebrated-at a titin in Peking lasted by the British_delegation and week, given by Prof. A.W. Grabau passed-t. The Congress warmly

representative at his house in the West City to welcomes the action taken by the gathering of the Portuguese com- his colleagues of the Geological Chinese Government in prohibiting mualty at the Roman Catholic Survey and of Geological Institute the use of white prosphorus in the Cathedral on Saturdays afternoon of the National University and manufacture of matches and hopes when Mr Luiz A. Gutierrez, of the others. The occasion was the rub that it will receive any assistance Union Insurance Society of Canton, lication of a monograph on Chinese it may require for carrying ont the was married to Miss Anizia Maria Cambrain Fossils by young prohibition which other countries Lopes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chinese Palaeontologist Mr. Y. Cand social Institutions, national or D. P. J. Lopes, the ceremony being Sun. this being the first occasion International, may be able to afford conducted by the Rev. Fether of its kind in the history of China. from their experience of the Rossi, with Father Riganti at The significance of the occasion methods adopted in countries the organ. The bride wore a was further enhanced by the an- where the danger of phosphorus gown of beaded georgette with silver lace train and was nouncement that Mr.. Sohtou, G. poisoning has been successfully a King of Pelding, had contributed eliminated 2. This Congress equal given away by her father. The liberally to the publication fund ly welcomes the publication of the three sisters of the bridegroom of the Palaeontologia Sinica, iRepon of the Commission on Child and two sisters of the bride, memory of his father, the Late Labour at Shanghai, and the proattended her as bridesmaids with Sinyuan Daw King of Cheking posals made therein for introduc- Miss R. Lamm as flower girl, Mr. Province whose name will here10g the regulation of child labour Léo d'Almada and Mr. P. M. N. da after appear on these volumes as in Chinese factories, and calls upon Ilva acted as witnesses. A recep that of the first Chinese Patron of all the Goverments possessing 15op was afterward held at the Clabe Palacoutology that science which is jurisdiction la Chinese territory to Lusitano, whilst a family dinner so fundamental to the understand co-operate with the Chinese Goverd was served in, the evening at the ing of Chinese pro-history, and the ment with the view toʻgiving affect house of the bridegroom. The development of life upon the, Asistio to, the recommendations of the wedding cake was supplied by thei continent.

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