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TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1925.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. MAC'S CAFETERIA

"

Tenders are being invited for One of the moste, surprising: A Chinese was taken to the' repairing the Praya Baat Reclama-biglaries that have occurred in Government Civil Hospital yoster- tion grab dredger.

Shanghai, was discovered at Mr. day suffering from slight Injuries N. G. Maitland's house, 17 Forry to his feet. The man was knocked

and the special feature being down by a motor car near the King ✦ that the burglar ignored everything Edward, Hotel hat the essentials to fit himself out | » in Gorlign style.

H.M.S." Hawkins" will give a Ball on February 10 before her departure for the South..

*A million yen fire rendered fifteen hundred homeless in Sanju,

a suburb of Tokio, reports Router.

The

within two months.

"

The usual public lecture of the Hongkong. Lodge of the Theosophical Society, 16, Queen's Road Central, will be given on Wednesday at 5.45 p.m. The public are invited. "

Service

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Marshal Chang T-lin has sent to Mukden for his No. 5 wife, Four cows. strolling uncons said to be his favourite. cernedly and unattended along, indicates that he has no intention South Bridge Road at 8 a.m. is of returning to Mukden for the "North- Oriental Realty and not conducive to the best regula- present, concludes the Savings Society Ltd, will be tion of traffic, remarks a Singa-Chi Daily Mail," struck off the Companies Re- pore paper. During the rain the

obtain a other day two of the cows were The gister, if it falls to certificate to commence business standing on the five-footway bar- *Adeinide," which returned to with the 8pecial ring the entrance to a towkay's Engad

Bquadron, was ..to house in Neil Road!

leave

week England last On her relavn voyage she will visit Thus the Cardiff Weekly Singapore From Malta she will Mail of December 13: Mr. J. he accompanied by the light cruiser Wuf Pwilbèli, lus" ro-

*Concord," which is to serve with ceivedu, čablegram that his the Australian Squadron, while the daughter Miss Annie was Australian oruiser Brisbane is A successful fancy dress and last Wettleday at the attached to the China Squadron: carnival was held at the Victoria Wish Congregational Chapel al

thief The latest rut:nd-the-world" Recreation Club

Saturday Hongkong to Captain. night, to mark the Chinese New officer of the Blue Funnel-mail travellers to reach Shanghai are Year. Dancing was continued on **Chigkinng. ** The state three Russian cyclists who arrived until an early hour, to music pro- ment that the Blue. Gunel people on Tuesday from Moscow. Now vided by the Lyric Orchestra. Inve 19- m bons flained Shanghai Life," the Russian news. Miss Madeline Rossiter's party, "Chinking" is almost as startling paper, says the trio left Moscow on were the guests of the evening, as he information that there is July 1 and expected to complete arriving at the conclusion of their Waist Congregational Chapel at their 50.000 kilometré-journey in From performance at the Theatre Royal. Hongkong. observes u Shanghai two and a-half years.

Moscow they took the Siberian road to Vladivostok, whence they came overland to Shanghai. The Pacific wil next be crossed, then America on foot. Subsequently they will our England, France, and Spain and return home via Petrograd,

on

paper.

A Reuter's cablegram from Geneva states that the joint Com- Thero has been a sensational mittee of the Opium Conference aftermath to a turbulent scenò at a appointed to find a way out of the Poking café on Christmas night, deadlock that has arisen over the when bottles few in all directions; American scheme, has elected M. Tortunately for all concerned, the Zahle (Denmark) chairman. The bullets failed to find billets, but

According to the Tokyo papers, Committee briefly discussed pro-chairs and all kinds of Forniture there is an increase in the number cedure and then adjourned until which once adorned the dance of foreign professors in Japanese to-day, in order to enable M. have now been used to help stem universities and colleges, and na Zahle, who is unwell, to attend. the coal shortage. Por sothe nights these gentlemen find the housing

folowing this event, foreign mill problem an acute one, being un While skating arm in arm with tar mailed Pekingein outer to be able, of couise, to build their own the Italian Minister at the Pekingandy should further hostilities houses for a comparatively short Club on Thursday, Mr. K. Yoshi commence. They then departed siny, and finding themselves zawa, the Jounnese Minister, had und, as often happens, when the comfortable in such Japartese a hasty full. ccording to an cat's away the nice do play. One houses as are available for them, "Eastern News Agency" pesnight - a dozen or so invididuals the Education Department has ear sage. AS a result of an examine visited the cafe in single file, but marked Y300,000 in its 1925 Bud- tion by Roortgen rivs, the Minis-there was a gentlein with get allotment for the contruction of ter was found to have sustained- muflet inside the door to receive foreign-style houses for them. The an igwomplete dislocation of the them. "As euch head appeared so number of these professors is given righs femoral bone. O the follow. its owner bit the dust until the ae.. 55 în universities under the ing duy the meeting of the Japanese bodies were piled on top of one Department of Education, 41 in and Soviet delegates was held in another. They are now doing as commercial colleges, 25 in hither the sick-room of Mr. Yoshiznwent well as can be expected under the technical schools, and four in | the Japartese Légation.

circumstances."

higher normal schools,

SOCIAL

Captain H. F. Bloxham has been appointed Assistant Superintend ent of Prisons.

Mr. C. M. G. Bürme and Mr. R. R. Roxburgh returned to Shanghai by the "President Wilson."

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AND PERSONAL.

The death is announced in the "Daily Bulletin" of Mr. Seishu Kubota, ex-Mayor of Yokohama and President of the Eastern Development Company,

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Among the arrivals in Shang- hai by the President Lincoln" were Mr. and Mrs. John E Mr. Gordon Morriss returned to Rowland of New York. Mr. Shanghai by the "President Rowland has gone to join the Wilson." Dr. Bryson was also, a staff of the Engineering Equip- passenger by the same steamer. ment Co.

Mr. G. Elford Griffin, of the Yangtze Insurance Association, Ltd., left Shanghai for Home by the B. F. str. "Sarpedon."

Mr. D. Ewerlof, the Swedish Minister to China, has just return ed from Peking and is staying at the Astor House, Shanghai, enroule for Japan.

Chevalier José Miguel Alves has been appointed a member of the Board of Education for a period of two years, vice Mr. A. F, Batalha Silva-Netto, resigned.

The marriage of the Imperial Prince Asaakira Kuni to Princess Tomoko Fushimi took place yesterday with elaborate cere monial, according to a Reuter's message from Toklo..

Dr. G. J. Rutherford, the retired P. C. M. O. of Ceylon, has received an appointment in the Ministry" of Health. Dr. Rutherford retired last year after thirteen years' service in Ceylon.

Information has been received from the Secretary of the State for the Colonies that His Majesty's Exequatur is being issued to Mr. Algar E. Carleton empowering him to act as Consul for the United States of America in Hongkong.

By the ss. "Korea Mara" Colonel F. Eaves left the Colony:

Passengers who arrived by the 5.5. "Empress of Australia": included Mr. H. Reiss, Vice- President of Andersen, Meyer & Co, Shanghai, and Mr. F. Lowell,) of the same firm, Mr. A. T. Hayim and Mr. K. Martin,

Mrs. L. Fawcett Barry has obtained a decree nisi in England' against her husband, Mr. P. F. J. Fawcett-Barry. The petitioner was given, the custody of the two children. Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett Barry went to the Federated Malay States in 1920, and re- sided there for some time.

Information has reached Singa- The wedding of Mr. W. H. pore of the death at Port Follenfant and Miss Kathleen Said, while returning to the Lydia Joan Shearer takes place Colony, of the son of Mr. R. Bald, this week at the Cathedral of the chief ship's draughtsman, Singa Good Shepherd, Singapore. Apore Harbour Board. reception will be held afterwards nouncement was previously made An an- by Mr. and Mrs. J. Taylor at by error of the death of Mr. Bald. Pearls Hill Térrace. 1

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The death of Mr. Constantin Gloulis, which occurred at St. Mary's Hospital, Shanghai, last week, removes one of the older residents of Shanghai. Mr. Gioulis arrived here in 1885, and served for twenty-five years in the Police force and 14 years as guardian of the Koukaza Park. --

The death occurred at Hanko on Jan. 16, of Mr. S. W. Litvinoff, head of the well-known tea firm of Messrs. Litvin.ff & Co., and for Among the passengers who left many years the leading member of Shanghai by the P. & O. liner the Russian Community in Han- "Kalyan" for London were low. The cause of death was Mr. C. S. Adkins, Mr. E. paralysis, the final of a series of Bouvier, Mrs. J. W. Burtwell, strokes having fallen upon him a Capt. G. Chapman, and Mrs. few days previously. and Mrs. W. G. Hollyer, Mr. D. S. McDermott, Mrs. Roberts, Mrs. L M. Stancliff, Mr. P. Shaw, Mr. A. Turnbull, Mr. H. H. Williams, Mr. P. A. Whilting, and Mr. and Mrs. Park and children,

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Prof. Royal Mecker, formerly U.S. Commissioner of Labour Statistics and later Director of Reseach at the International Labour Office, Geneva, and Mrs. Meeker arrived here by the a.s. "Empress of Australia." With Dr. I. B. Taylor, of Yenching University, and Prof. C. W. Sarvis, Dr. Meeker Is making a few months' tour of China.

The 13.5. President Jackson brought in a large batch of world tourists. Amongst those who travelled to Hongkong were Mr. S. Chellaram, Mr. E. W. Latle, the new General Agent for the Columbia Pacific S. S. Co., Hong kong, Mr. H. K. Chow, Chinese Vice-Consul in Manila, and Mr. L Among the passengers who left Waug, the newly-appointed] ★ Shanghai by the "President Wil- Chinese Consul-General, to the Son" were Mr. and Mrs. George B. | Philippines." Fryer and their daughter Roberta. During Mr. Fryer's "absence is America for six months, Mr. S. Hocking has been appointed acting superintendent and secretary of the Institution for Chinese Blind.

Greetings appropriate to the festive season were exchanged at a tea party on Sunday afternoon at the Hongkong Chinese General Chamber of Commerce Among those noticed present were Mr. Li Po-kwal, Chairman, Mr. Ho Kwong, Vice-Chairman, Mr. Chow Pak-ifm, Assistant Secretary to the

Recent changes in the Shanghai Y.W.C.A. personnel include Miss Vera V. Barger and Miss Helen Rysdorp, who sailed on January 10 vid Europe, for the United States;; The death is announced of Rev. Miss Marie B. Speidel, who sailed J. H. Scott, at Fort Said. Mr. Scott on January 21; and Miss Daisy was a missionary in Osaka for 33 D. Brown, who left yesterday years with the Baptist Mission, Chamber, the Hon. Mr Chow Shou- all of whom are on the Shanghai Mr. and Mr. Scott left for son, the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotowall, staff. Miss Katherine Vaughan Constantinople on October 11, per Mr. Hlo Foo, Dr. S. W. Tao, Mr. of Canton, also leaves for Home Morea to join their son, Wong Kong to Mr Li Wing this month. Miss Esther Hoag has Prof. B. Scoff, at Constantinople. Kwong, Mr. El Yau-trun and Mr. joined the office and business Mr. Scott is survived by his wife; Li Yik-mul. In a felicitous speech executive of the National staff and his daughter Mrs. F. B. 'Wiley; and to the gathering, the Chairman MissRuth Parker, will arrive two sons, Prof. H. L. Scott of predicted better times this year toward the end of January to Robert College, Constantinople, accompanied by an improved assist in religious education;! and Mr. C. J. Scott of Kobe, Japan. trend in Chinese politics.

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