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The hard times in Japan are)· blamed by the "Osaka Asahi" for the appearance of, many pet cats. The poor, are said to be stealing them in order to sell their skins to the makers of musical instruments such as samisen.

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This morning the Telephone Co. laid across the harbour, & cuble of about 1,900 yards in length, the largest of its kind in the Far East. The cable will be connected up to the Post Office building. It has been laid in a manner capable of holding a ship which should foul it

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Owing to the bumper rice harvest in the districts along the East River, the price of rice in and around Centon is again on the down-grade.

Yesterday the ss. "Empress

Canton proposes to levy a tax. of Australia" was tied up to the of 40 cents per gallon on kerosine, Naval Camber to have her after oil. Stamps will be affixed to each funnel replaced. This year'a tin and a special official is to be annual overhaul is now nearing appointed to collect the tax. completion."

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Giving her views in the In the course of the trade marks {Weekly Dispatch" about. the case in the Supreme Court yester execrable weather at Home, Miss day a witness failed for 35 minules Marie Tempest says: "My views 16 answer a question is spite of are unpublishable, especially since counsel's persistence and at 4 p.m. 1 still remember the divine sun- the Court adjourned. His Lord shine of places like Hongkong and ship asked if the jury wished to Singapore during my world tour. go on after the time for rising But I can tell you the best remedy when the foreman, remarked a ida Turkish bath. Go and sit in laughter that they wished to hoish | the steam and you will find it is a! the case this week. His Lordship good compromise between London assured them the case would finish ard the East." by the week-end and the court, was adjourned until this morning.

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At yesterday's meeting of Among passengers, who arriv- the committee of the Hongkong ed at Yokohama by the Tenyo Chinese General Chamber of Com- The secretary to the Chinese Mara" on February 1, are a party merce discussion took place on a instructed to approach the Ameri- of the Guarantee Trust Company Companies Ordinance of 1911. can Consulate with a view to of New York capitalised at Section 8 relates to the appendix entertaining the American Trade $1.000.000,000 and Mr. George of the Chinese characters for Commission to a party on Sale, son of the president of Sale"limited company" and "China February 18. On February 17, & Frazar. Ltd. of London. They company" to the names of such the visitors are to be guests at a propose to stay in Japan from a organisations. The Bill was re- Chinese dinner.

fortnight to one month. Their ferred to the Chamber's sub-com- mission is connected with a loan mittee. In a New Year message the to the Toho Electric Power Com- Japanese Ambassador in London pany, and investigatione regarding (Baron Hayashi) says:-Closer their investments in Japanese e-operation between the nations, enterprises. It is said that the politically and economically, is investment on the U.S. side is what we must desire for the com- $45,000,000 at the. rate of 7 per ing year. and I am optimisticcent. interest per annum and the enough to believe that we have British side £300,000 at the rate of grounds for hoping that much 4 per cunt, interest.. will be achieved.

A regular service will be opened by the O.S.K., connecting the northern and southern coasts of China early next month. Three boats of 2.000-ton type will be operated on the service, which will have Dairen as the starting point and ends at Hongkong or Canton via Tsingtau, Foochow and Swatow.

Sin Eng, a priest at the Pitt Street Chinese Temple, Pehang, who was charged with criminal breach of trust as a servant in respect of $1,200 in cash and one gold pendant set with diamond value $80. total value $1.280, the property of Sin Kai, was con- victed and sentenced to three months' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. N. K. Bain.

SOCIAL

Mr. Thaveno, Legal Adviser to. the Siamese Government, has re- turned from Home and gone to Singgora.

Dr. J. H. Reed of Australia, who is making a trip through China and Japan with his family. arrived here on the 3.5. "President Cleveland" from Manila.

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Replying to the toast of the

Forces" "Imperial

at St Andrew's dinner at Bombay. Rear-Admiral H. W. Richmond said As far as the sea was con- verned; he saw some tokens favourable to the defence of the interests of Britain in the eastern sens. Next year the squadron he commanded would be strengthen- ed by the substitution of three new and more powerful ships for those of which it now consisted; that cssential factor in the defence of eastern trade and interests. Singapore; would, he imagined, be resumed, and that addition to our cruiser strength that circumstances called for, i 1.ey were to be able to keep their trade flowing in time of war, might be begun.

Supplementing, a cable from our Singapore correspondent, a paragraph in Straits papers says: The Communists in Javn are protesting against the closing of Communist schools. A meeting was held at Desa, Sidomoeljo, near Ngawi, of 1.200 Communišta | ☀ mostly armed. Following a sedi-, A Communist tious speech the police attacked. Was shot dead. Six police and many Communists were injured.

Dr. Saoto Kiyofusa of the Tokio Imperial University, who has returned to Yokohama after studying astronomy at Cambridge Colyersity, announces the dis- covery of a law of cause and effect between the sun and earthquakes, which he is reported, as claiming to be of great importance. declares that the relationship of the sun with earthquakes could be shown by a certain scientific law, and promises to announce the theory in Tokio as soon as his thesis is ready. Meanwhile, the "Japan Chronicle" is inclined to remain sceptical.

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AND PERSONAL.

Mr. P. Frank Pomeroy, äged 39

H.R.H: Prince. Sakol.: accom- years, died at the Italian Hos-panied by his secretary, Khun pital at Tientsin after brief Vadhi. is in Singapore, attending illness of pneumonia. He was the Epidemiological Conference Managing Editor of "Peking-at on behalf of the Siamese Govern- Play" and has resided in the East ment. since 1913 when he went to Shang hai to join the firm of Messrs. The Rev. H. Parsons, Singa- Garner Quelch and Co., Ltd., pore, terminates his agreement. previous to which be was with the Cathedral at the end of Proprietor and Editor of the February. His plan is to 'proceed Olympic Announcer" in Manila, Eastward in the first week of Mr. Pomeroy was a keen sports March, as sailings offer. man and figured largely in base- ball polo, and in the hunting leave, an, field in Shanghai where he was also a member of the Light Horse. He is survived by his widow in Tientsin and by his father and four sisters in USA.

Mr. J. P. Swettenham, who is at present acting as, P.W., will act. as general manager of the F.M.S. Railways, when Mr. P. H. Henshaw voes an February 15.

Mr. H. N. Sellers, who has been acting as Executive Engineer, North Kedah, is going Home on furlough in the near future. Mr. 1. E. Robertson, from the F.M.S.,

succeeds him,

Mr E S. Benbow Rowe has been appointed Secretary of the Shang haj Municipal Council. Mr. Rowe has been Acting Secretary of the Dr. (Miss) Marguerite Lin Council since the resignation of

Mr. Norman Liddell. Xavier, M.B., B.S., (Lond.) MIR.C.S. L.R.C.P., M.R... who has been spending a holiday in Penang. returned, to Bangkok on February 9.

A Rome telegram announces the appointment of Mr. N. G. de Martino. til recently Italian Ambassador in Japan, to be Am- bassador to Washington. Mr. de Martino and his family left for America some time ago. and it was generally understood that he was to receive this appointment.

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Mr. R. C. Morton, formerly Agent for, the Pacific Mail Co. in Hongkong and now Director for the Orient of the United States' Reubens, a Solicitor of Singapore, leave from

The case in which Mr. Cecil Shipping Board, is proceeding on was convicted by the Police "President Cleveland" during his, Manila by the s.8. Magistrate of reckless driving and vacation. He will go to Washing- disobeying the signal of a Police ton on business connected with

On the s.s. "President Clere-Officer, and sentenced to a fine of the Board. labd." Mrs. G. Fiori, wife of the $100, was argued in appeal before Chief Police, Shanghai, is return- Mr. Justice Barrett-Lennard. His ing North from Manila with her Lordship set aside the conviction on leave of Mr. M. J. Uppcott The departure from Singapore daughter, Miss Frances Fiori..

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signal, and reduced the five to leaves a vacancy on the Executive A bicycle corps of police officers, one of $70 On consideration he Council of the Colony, a much numbering 40,' with Mr. Hao did not interfere with the more important body in reality Hungist as the commander, has Magistrate's direction for the that the Legislative Council, been organised by. the Peking endorsement of the licence."

though its doings naturally come Police Headquarters for the pur

much less prominently before the This vacancy will very pose of helping the troops and Among the passengers disem-public. police in the four suburbs of borking at Shanghai from the likely be filled by the appointment Peking in patrolling work and "President Jackson" Dr. of Mr. John Michell, trapsmitting alarms in time of Walter T Diver, an eminept emergency,

surgeon of Troy, New York, who Passengers on the s.8. "Pre- is on a pleasure trip to the Far Sident Cleveland" from Manila. A Unitd Press telegram from East. Dr. Diver boarded the boat. include" (for Hongkong) Mrs. Vienna states that the Soviet Gov-at Hongkong, making the trip to C. H. Benson, Mr. J. S. da Costa, ernment has decided to transfer Manila and then to Shanghai, Mr. R. H. McDermid, Mr. A. H. Mr. Joffe from Austria to Tokio where he plans to stay some time. Rowe, the Rev. and Mrs. J. T. as Russian Ambassador. In this He intends to visit Peking before Stone; (for Shanghai) Mr. connection (says the "Japan returning to the United States, Leonard Everett and Mr.. C. HE Chronicle") Mr. Kawakami

Benson; (for San Francisco) Mr. Toshihiko, who conducted nego-

R. C. Morton. tiations with Mr. Joffe at Tokio the oldest foreign residents of Mr. W. A. DeHaviland, one of two years ago, remarked that in Tokyo, and a prominent member

"Mr. David T. Fullaway, who is the event of Mr. Joffe's coming to of the British colony, is the in charge of the Bureau of Tokio, some people would rub plaintiff in a suit for divorce in Entomology of the Board of Agri their hands because Mr. Joffe is Tokyo court. Mrs. De Havilland, culture and Forestry, Honolulu, is admirable diplomat, who who is an American, and had visiting China for the purpose of understands Japan and the made reservations to sall for the hunting certain parasites in Japanese, but others would be fill-United States after the first legal which the Board is interested and ed with apprehension of Red formalities had been gone through also to get other beneficial para "propaganda." He added: "The and she was free to leave under nites from India for breeding and impression Mr. Joffe left on me the Japanese laws, has decided transfer to Honolulu, Mr. Full- was that he la à diplomat of very to remain in Japan until the case away, who is well known in the great vigour and fighting spirit, is settled. A final decree is ex- entomological world, is staying and with an adequate understand pected to be awarded by the court at the King Edward Hotel, Hong- ing of Japan."

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