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THE CHINA MAIL

The "Gazette" publishes the register of qualified midwives in practice. In the Colony. There are 81 of them.

The Peking city gates will open for a longer period every day now that the war is over. The new hours cover opening of the gates at five in the morning and closing them at nine thirty in the evening.

AND

GENERAL.

A student living fh the junior], dormitory of the Chinese Y.M.C.A. has reported to the police the loss of money and jewellery amounting to $592 from his box.

During the 48 hours ended yesterday there was one case of enteric fever (Chinese) and one case of cerebro spinal fever (Chi- nese) in the Colony; also one case of rabies.

The net proceeds from the According to a Reuter cable charity football match between from London, sixty-eight Empire the Army and Navy amounted to Governments are exhibiting at $539,48, the sum, being, distribut Wembley this year.. ed as follows-Naval charities, $269.74; Garrison Ladies' Help Society, $50; Chaplains' Fund, $219,74

According to the old Chinese calendar, to-day is the beginning of Great Cold (Ta-han).

The offices and stations of the Chinese Maritime Customis will be closed to public business from January 24 to 27 inclusive and on February 12,

A Chinese woman, living at Eastern Street, was taken to the Government Civil Hospital yester day suffering from injuries to her teg. It is alleged that the woman jumped into the back yard, follow- ing a quarrel with her husband. "

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Trinidad and Tobago have Chinese politics is to be seen in an definitely decided to take part in Incident over the week-end in the the British Exhibition next A party of Japanese priests French Concession. In view of spring. Jamaica, St. Vincent, of the Nishi Hongwants to the arrival of the new French and the Leeward Islands having visit America for the purpose of Minister, M. de Martel, the Chinese already made a similar decision, HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB offering thanks to various people officials decided to hold a reception it is ensured that the West

for the prompt and generous re-in a guild at the west end of Route lief offered at the time of the Ghisi, and invitations were issued earthquake. They will also in in the names of Generals Chang spect the ferro-concrete churches and Kung. By the time his ex- in America with a view to adopt cellency arrived, however, and was ing this style of building in re-to be entertained, the two Generals constructing the temples of their were at grips, and as a con- sect that were destroyed in the sequence there was naturally no

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Indian and Atlantic group will be fully represented.

General Bruce expresses ap preciation of the Swiss offer to expert guides and provide mountaineers to assist him, in a new Mount Everest Expedition, but states The conquest of Everest is exclusively an English matter."

father. Their Excellencies have decided to devote the gift to charitable with poor

objects connected women and children.

Between 90 and 100 British An epidemic of threatening and American missionary doctors letters appears to have occurred salled from Shanghai for Hong- in the native city of Shanghai kong in the str." President Lincoln" over the last few days.

H.E. Many on Saturday to attend the joint

the Viceroy and the merchants have received letters conference of the British Medical Countess of Reading have received requesting the usual loan, rang- Association and the China Medical Rs. 500,000 from Sir Victor Sassoon ing from $1,000 to $100,000, and Missionary Association. Of these memory of his late threatening them with death if some 20 representatives come from. the money is not forthcoming. A Peking, six from Manchuria, seven number have had the courage to from Tsinan, and 15. from up-river disregard the threats and place ports and others from northern the matter in the hands of the stations. The Governor of Hong.. police.

kong will open the "meetings | Many were the tales brought to-morrow afternoon. The scien- back from the Siccawei district by Dong Sung-foh (25), a tific programme in its varied Sunday afternoon sight-seers who] former "boy in the employ of phases runs from January 21 to went to shroff the battle and re- Miss Maren Olesen, and Tsang January 23 and the C. M. M. A. turned in a chastened mood after Foh-kau (18), temporary meetings will be held from January hiding behind grave mounds until collie, were ordered by Mr. H. 26-28.

the rain of bullets in the immediate Hergel (acting Danish Consul.

vicinity had subsided or 'who General and Assessor) and Mr.had a race round Lamma island country runs,

Yesterday the yachting cruisers achieved new records. In cross- One motorist who Zau (Chinese Magistrate) to be and it proved to be most notable sent to the Chinese authorities for from the fact that off the south execution, the Court finding them east of the island two of the boats guilty of the murder of Miss racing sighted a whale. It was Olesen at her horae at 170 Bub-first seen by Mr. H. S. Rouse bing Well Road, Shanghai, on the and Mr. Davison who were both morning of December 17, 1924, in the "U and I and later Mr. N. Ts Ah-tsang (23) was sentenced Croucher on the "La Cigale" saw it. to 10 years' imprisonment, and. One boat got within 100 yards of Loh Tsang-ling (18) was given the monster, which was seen to three years.

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SOCIAL

Mr. W. Bruce Lockhart returned to Shanghai by the P. and O. str.

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A Renter cable from New York announces the death of the financier, Mr. Daniel Reid, the tinplete king,

Countess Elsa Bernadotte of Sweden arrived in Shanghai yesterday from Changsha and will leave by the P. and O str. "Kalyan" to-morrow.

Mr. D. E. Hoste, Superlatendent of the China Inland Mission, Mr. F. S. Joyce, also of the C.I.M.and ***H | Mr. G. E. Towns left Shanghat by

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Among the passengers who arrived at Shanghai by the 6.5, President Madison" were Mr. Leonard W. Hartigan, well-known Shanghai lawyer, and family, Mr. C. Arima, of the Yokohama Specie Bank, Mr. Philip Crovat, Mr. H. S. Daniel, and Mr. Arthur J. Elliot

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HE Offices and Stations of the Chinese Maritime Customs for Kowloon and District will be closed

WING to pubtle business from the 24th to

to the unprecedented-| 27th January Inclusive (Chinese New have the pleasure to announce

demand for seats, the A. "D. C. Year Holidays), and, or the 12th, further extra evening performance February (Commemoration Day of on WEDNESDAY 21st, fost. the Republic of China)

9 pm in addition to the one on R.. H. R. WADE, THURSDAY 22nd inst. Commissioner of Chiness. Customs, Kowloon and District. York, Baildings, Hongkong, 19th January, 1925.

was coming down Route Ohisi to Siccawei Road just as the fusillado began did not even, stop to turn around, but ran his car in reverse until he got out of range. incidents were common enough during the Klapesu-Cheklang war. THE On the next occasion a foreigner will get killed or seriously wound- ed and the practice will cease suddenly.

AND PERSONAL.

Commr. S. H. Simpson, D.5.0. has been appointed to HM.S “Widgeon,” addi, (December 26) and in command from date of joining.

General Pershing has arrived at Buenos Aires, reports a Renier cable, and has been greeted by the Foreign Minister and other authorities.

A Reuter cable reports that the Grand Duke and Duchess Boris have arrived in New York and are

staying there indefinitely. They deny that their visit is connected with the restoration of the Russian Monarchy,

Capt. Leonard Durnford Pinck- ney, of Eastmont, Fowlers Hill, Salisbury, many years in service of the P. and O. (net £10,404), left estate of value of £10,904.

Dr. Lim Boon Keng, LL.D., (Principal of Amoy University), is to lecture on Sir Patrick Manson, the pioneer of Tropical medicine, in St. John's Cathedral Hall on Wednesday, at 6 p.m.

Mr. T. Takahashi, sub-manager Chalford, Glos, and the late Mr. of the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Shang H. G. Sheppard, J.P., and Margaret hai, has been transferred to Singa- de Horne Chetwynd, elder daugh- pore, to be the manager of their ter of the Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Clay, branch office there... of Bisley Vicarage, Glos, will take place early in February.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Russell Kennedy are passengers on the Empress of Asia, bound for

Mr.

Mr. B. G. Tours, H. M. Consul- General at Tsinanfu, has been transferred to Yokohama.

Commander R. R. Mann, United

States Navy, head of the Naval radio station at Los Banos, died last week in Sternberg General Hospital, Manila, of acute peri- tonitis. Commander Mann had been ill only three or four days. Commander Mann is survived by his #ife, who is in Manila at present, and by his 13 year old son, who is in the Brent School in Baguio.

Mr. A.H. Raymond was among the passengers passing through' Shanghai on the "President Van Buren." He is returning from an extended trip to the United States: Mr Raymond owns one of the larg- est Kapok factoiles in the Far East.

Dr. Mon-lin Chang, the dis- tinguished Dean of the National University of Peking, will visit Canton this month on the invita- tion of Mr. Chao Lu, President of Kwangtung University. Dr. Suh Hu, the well-known Peking educational reformer, and several other graduates of Peking University are accompanying Dr. Chang on his tour.

Prince Yasuhito Chichibu, the second son of the Emperor of Japan, has arranged to enter Oxford University next May for a course of two or four years' Prince, who is 22, to a Princess who has not yet been selected will be announced in February. The wedding will not take place until after 'he returns. Prince Yasuhito speaks French fluently. The following forthcoming wed: He has been learning English dings are announced: Mr. Leonard since July, when it was decided Wynne Harrison, China Navigation Company, to Miss Dorothy Offord, that he should go to Oxford. He who arrives in the Colony by the be the first member of the "Malwa"; Mr Cycil John Wood ruling family to be educated house, electrical engineer, Dodwell abroad, a break with centuries of & Co. Ltd to Miss Mary Haigh,tradition. of No. 48, Mody Road.

Mr. William G. Jackson, who drove the first train on the Shanghai Yokohama. Mr. Kennedy is studies. The engagement of the Woosung milway that was ever journalist and is touring the Far run in China, died on December East in the interest of British and 10, at Reydon, Southwold, aged American newspapers. 75. Until a few years ago he was Kennedy, was formerly Reuter's engineer of the Southwold Railway. repreacntative in Tokyo. The Chinese authorities, which in this case was the Viceroy of Nan king, resented the introduction of the railroad. It was purchased, and after being run for a year the line was taken up and with the equipment was transported to Formosa.

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The Foreign Union Church, neers (Chinesischer Verband Deut.

In recognition of his special Chungking, taxed to its seating scher Ingenieurs) held its annual meeting in Shanghal last week, the service and as an aldato bis com capacity on December 7, was the following officers being elected plete recovery, Police-Sat. Boddy, scene of a very pretty wedding President,Mr-L--Junginder of the Shanghai Police, has been when Miss Edith Muriel Tufts, KA E.G. China Electric Co.); Vice. Kranted six months special Home daughter of Mrs. Robert Tufts of Landon,-Ganada and Dr. "PRESCENT, Mfg P. Speth (Speth, "&" Co.); Secretary, Mr. H. Sauermann

Dames Lincoln McCartney, (Han: Yung Co); Treasurer, Mr.

Mr. Norman Franklyn, the younger son of Dr. and Mrs. A Sailer (Robde & Co): Com- advance agent for Madeline J. H. McCartney of Chungking, mittee, Mr. Få Drayer (Siemens Rossiter Company, arrived on were united in marriage by the Chfun Co.), Mr. Tencking (Tangchi Saturday by the na. “Kamakura Bey. G. W. Sparling of the ¿College, Woosung), die

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Hongkong, 19th January, 1925.

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ANNIVERSARY DINNER: HONGKONG HOTEL

FRIDAY, 23rd JANUARY, 1925

that owing to alterations in the Generating Station the supply of electricity will not be available WILL Members intending to be. between the hours of 9 am and

present please advise the 5 p.m. on Saturday the 24th, undersigned by MONDAY, 1916.

January.

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NOTICE.

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SATURDAY, JAN. 13n! & 26th at 8,80 p.m. "FLARES and FLASHES"

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TUESDAY 27th at 9.30 pm.

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FOOTBALL INTERPORT GAMES.

HONOKONG T. SHANGHAI Saturday January 24th.

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SOUTH CHINA ATHLETIC. SHANDHAK Monday, January 26th.

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UNITED SERVICES, SHANGHAI Wednesday, January 28th. Admission :--- $1.00 & 50 cts.

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THE above-mentioned vexcel having arrived from the above-mention. ed Ports, Consignees of Cargo Are hereby informed that they must take immediate delivery of same- from alongside, and all cargo impending discharge will be landed. at their risk and expense into the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co's Godown at Kowloon,. and stored at Consignçes' risk.

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