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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

From the A.P.C.,(South China) Ltd, the "China Mall has received a number of artistic Chinese calendars reproducing a classic picture.

[ About $80,000 worth of non- Government chandu was seized at Singapore on board the steamer Hong Wah, on her arrival from China ports.

A fire broke out yesterday morning at the Yau Sun-Knitting Factory, Shanghai Street, Yaumati. The workmen immediately sub dued the outbreak with buckets of water before the arrival of the Fire Brigade. The damage done was very slight.

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Medical officers of health at Home are being invited to co- operate with the College of Pestology in a Fly Swatting Week at the end of July each year.

The American Minister has

notified the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that a large number of forged $50 American Federal banknotes have been circulated.

According to the Industrial 'Daily News" a company with £500,000 capital is being formed to carry out extensive developments at Port Sudan terminus of "the Sudanese railway system.

What might almost be describe ed as a general exodus of leading Singapore firms from their former offices into the new Union Building and Hongkong Bank Building is

Carelessly thrown

cigarette butts were the cause of more fires in Osaka in the past five years than faulty chimneys, kitchen accidents | taking place. or electric leakages those causes being the next in order

One case of diphtheria (Chin- so) and one of enteric fever (British, Imported) occurred in, the Colony during the 24 hours ended yesterday!

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No. 2, Broadwood Terrace, had his Mr. T. R. Pareons, residing at sod, 32 years of age, bitten by his boy was given medical attention, own dog yesterday afternoon. The

and the dog taken to Kennedy Town for observation.

threatened to go on strike as a Cargo junkmen at Päkkäi have

protest against the levy of an ad- ditional police tax, says our Kong- moon correspondent in a message of yesterday's date. The Shiu- hing (West River) junks have already struck against a collection of, 15 per cent, ad valorem as an

additional tax.

A Kuala Lumpur corres- The arrest of a Chinese, hay- pondent wrote to the .་་ Malaying in his possession an automatic Mail." .2 fortnight, ago: The pistol and six rounds of ammuni❤ temperature in my house at 5 p.m. tion, was effected by a Revenue yesterday was 85F. upst irs, and Officer. The man will be charged this morning at 8 o'clock It was 73 before the Magistrate in due F.downstairs a big difference in course.

The famine-stricken people in the north of China are feeding on the leaves of trees, writes the Mayor of a small town to the International Famine Relief Association of Pek ing. As the winter closes down,üfteen hours they will be deprived of even this sustenance. It is stated that 1,500,000 people are utterly de stitute and will have no food from their own districts till the summer,

In an interview with Mr. B. Lenox Simpson (Putnam Wesle) which appears in the Chinese press, Marshal Tuan Chi-jai sald that Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang has been appointed Frontier. Tupan of the Northwestern Territorles, and that he will shortly assume the post. Referring to Marshal Wu Pei-fu, Marshal Tuan said that the Government was prepared to offer him a suitable, but important, post if he gave up his idea of unifying the country by force. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was stil} vacant and, added Marshal Tuan, he ex- pected that Mr. Tang Shao-yi would shortly arrive in Peking to take over the past. "He said that helalso hoped for an early settle ment of the gold franc, problem. Marshal Feng has, it is understood, definitely refused to take over the post of Frontier Tapan and there is as yet still no sign of Mr. Tang Shao-yi shortly going to Peking.

Japan's decision to follow the Russian example in exchanging Ambassadors in place of Minis- ters with China is confirmed by the inclusion of a small amount in the Budget to meet the cost of the change..

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Meteorological experts Home are now able to announce that the year 1924 holds, the record, for rainfall. The records of Hampstead, Observatory which date back 95 years show that in this period the rainfall bas never reached the figure registered dur... lag last year, namely, 37.21 inches to December 20,

General Chang Yuan-ming, the Defence Commissioner of Sungkiang and Shanghai, is re- ported to have secured a loan of $30,000 from local merchants for his military expenses.

The loss of a lady's silk haud-bag containing $110 in cash is reported to the police by Mrs. Williamson, residing at No. 53, The Peak. The article was stolen from a wardrobe in her bedroom some time between Saturday night and Monday morning.

A novel way of attracting With tears streaming down | buyers has been tiled by two his face and the entire court-room Tokyo drapers, according to the weeping, a New York magistrate Miyako." They put wicker bas- committed for trial Wong Chue,kets full of silver and copper on a charge of violation of the coins at the shop-front and per Sullivan law. It was not the mitted all who bought articles woe-begone Tongman who wrung above Y5 to value to take as many tears from the eyes of all behold-coina as they could grasp, with ers, but one of several tear gas This attracted greedy buyers, who another grasp for each Y5 spent. bombs found in his possession, which sprang a leak when they police stopped the game."

soon swarmed at these shops. The were exhibited in evidence.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

The death took place last month of Rey Stewart Headlam, at one time a leading figure in educational and theatrical circles.

Mr. Bertin, the French naval architect who died recently, was engaged by the Japanese Govern- ment from 1886 to 1890 to, design warships for the Japanese navy.

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In connection with the first flight. Andes, it is interesting to recall that Colonel Zanni was the first aviator to fly over the great range. This was shortly after the war.

An operation was performed on Dr. Sun Yat-sen in Peking o Tuesday of last week, reports the Chinese press, and he is now pre- gressing favourably. It is thought that he will have fully recovered within a fortnight's-time.

The resignation of Mr. G. N. Wilson as a member of the Shanghai Municipal Council and Electricity Committee, owing to his departure from Shanghai, has been accepted with regret, states the "Municipal Gazette.”

Pa-yi (Hsuan-tung), the young Emperor, is reported by the Chinese press to have decided to leave Peking for Japan in a few days' time with his family. He will later go to America and Europe.

Lady Marjorie Dalrymple, who is a cousin of Lady Fycroft, wife of the Governor of British North Borneo, 16 visiting British North Borned. It is understood that Lady Marjorie is most in- terested in the Girl Guide move- ment both in Scotland and Eng- land.

F. J. Davar, the Scoutmaster of the Twelfth Bombay Scout Troop, who is making a world tour on a bicycle, has arrived at Berne.

Professor Gustav Kron, the German instructor at the Tokyo Music Academy, who joined the institution in 1913, has resigned his post and is to leave for home- in March next.

On Sunday the new golf course at Kowloon City will be officially opened by H. E. the Governor who will play a round with the G. O. C (Major-General Sir John Fowler),

Mr. G. Stothard, manager of Malakoff Estate, Malaya, had to leave for home at short notice by the mail on medical orders, Mr. Stothard, who has been 24 years in the East, had hitherto enjoyed remarkably good health..

Lord and Lady. Parmoor have sailed from Genoa and will arrive in Ceylon on January 17.

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The death has occurred in Colombo of Capt. Harold Roland: Dounelly, of the 3/20th - Burma | Rifles.

On the return from Wembley of Mr. Ip Lan-chuen, secretary to the Hongkong Chinese General Cham- ber of Commerce, Mr. Chow Pak- tun, who has been acting Secretary during Mr. Ip's absence, has been appointed Assistant Secretary to the Chamber.

General Hsu Shung.chi, com- manding Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Cantonese army, has not arrived in Kongmoon, but is silli belleved to be somewhere dp the West River, probably at Shfuhing.

The marriage took place on December. 23 at Christ Church, Galle Face, of Mr. Harry William correspondent, Li Yat-ngok, who According to our Kongmoon Hawkeswood, manager of the General Rubber Company, and Heungshan magistrate by Dr. Sun was dismissed from the post of Miss Helen June Bligh, daughter Yat-sen, has been appointed by of Mr. Francis Bligh, merchant, the merchants as Commandant of New South Wales, and Mrs. Bligh the Merchants Volunteer Corps

of the island.

and Village Guards of the four districts of Nam Hoi, Shun Tak, Koon Shan and Hol Shan.

The death has occurred at the Archbishop's Palace at Borella of the Very Rev. Father C. Conrad, O.M.I., Vicar Procurator and

Catholic Messenger." General Manager of the Ceylon Mr. Lindley-Jones, O.B.E., Editor Father Conrad, who was 66 years is expected in Singapore shortly.. The late of the Mercantile Guardian," of age, had served in various parts Mr. Lindley Jones, who is accom

panied by Mr. F. Hilary Jones, Is well-known to many business men and is on tour, through India, Burma, the Straits and Ceylon on The Labour Party's sole woman a quest for a great understanding representative in the new Partia of trade methods beyond the seas. ment is Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Mr. Jones is a Fellow of the Royal Mr. and Mrs. Snyder S. Wright who is 33 years old. She is only Geographical Society and of the of Tientsin announced the engage reputation for pluck and pugnacity.

five feet tall, but has established a Institute of Journalists. ment of their niece Miss Juliette She is known as a wit and is one Caroline Grimes to Mr. Alexander of the "most effective woman plat Stuart Clark at a dinner parly form speakers in the country given to a group of their friends

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Mr. Au Tung has been appointed manager of the Hongkong station Sof the Chinese Telegraph Administration; in succession: to The "Japan Chroniclean. Mr. Y. C. Chin. Mr. An studied

of Marletta, Ohio. She has been nounces the death of Mr. H. R. lawat the Japanese Law University spending some time at Peking Johnson, steward of the Oriental and was once telegraphic secretary and

at present visiting Hotel, Mr. Johnson, who was to the late Yuan Shi-kai. On Tlaatsia Sheis-a-graduate of fong-four-years-old, has been in several occasions Mr.Au -WB6 Marietta College and the Bristal the hotel business in differant private sücretary to the Minister of School for giris at. Washington, parts of the world all his life, and Communications. He has also D.C., Mr. Clark is the son of Mr. for the last thirteen years had been been telegraph superintendent of and Mrs. R. S. Clark of Tampa, with the Toyo Kisen Kaisha for the Pukow Shunyang Railway and Florida. He is a graduate of the Sve years as travelling steward, transport superintendent of the University of Florida and is at going from ship to ship to see that Ching Ting and Lungha? Railways; present connected with the Ameri- the standard of the servien was Mr. Au la sparing no pains to can Tobacco Products Cos Thor maintained, and for the past eight re-establish telegraphic: * com« wedding will take place about the years at the Oriental Fotol. He munication between! Hongkong Chinese New Year, Med

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