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exom, we have been. Bingapore,
LOCAL
Rikishas are to appear at the Wembley Exhibition this year.
Bagulo, this season, is become the meeting place several conventions.-
Sir Harry Lauder is to appear at the Star Theatre to-morrow and not on Thursday as previously l'advertised.
Chinese Hongkong : The Y.W.C.A. will hold its Afth annual meeting at 2.30 this after noon
Chinese boxing, sponsored by a number of local gentlemen and with official sanction, will be feature of the Hongkong section at this year's Empire Exhibition,
AND GENERAL.
The Diocesan School Old Boys' Association is to hold a dinner on Saturday, the 21stinat
The Pantaloonatics of HM.S. Durban gave performances in Singapore on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th inst
Mr. Serger Stupin who is to give a Cello recital in City Hall on Monday the 16th insi, is also to give three concerts in Canton,
St. John's. Cathedral needs a book-stand, a table, and a glass inkatabdi Gifts should be sent to the Cathedral Chaplain
There are several married couples flying in this house, and it would be very dull if it were not for their friendly quarrels, said a woman at Marylebone,
"The Albanfan police forces,
| which are to replace the army, wEL be commanded by British officers.
Now
New gold silver deposits were discovered near the Mis sissip! Lake, southern Labrador. A general strike was.
prow claimed at Valparaisó on February 17, owing to the Government's refusal to reduce renistan
In celebration of St. Patrick's Day, a concert is being arranged by St. Patrick's Club in St. Patrick's Hall on Tuesday, March | 175 | Ch
There will be a Musicale at the Helena May Institute on Thurs- day, March 12, at 5.80 p.m. Tickets 50 cents each for members and friends can be obtained from the Secretary. Tea from 4:15 p.m.
A Shameen theft was reported on Thursday last. The residence of Sir James Jamieson, the "British The Masters and The Way to Consul was entered, all table silver Them will be the subject of this ware and some pieces of jewellery week's Public Lecture of the valued at over $1,000.being stolen Rangkong Lodge The Theoso-number of recruits. for the medical So far there, have been no arrests.phical Society Isha's Road Central, on Wednesday March 11th at 545 ping The Public are invited,
It has now been discovered that the inability to get a sufficient
services of the FM.S. has been due to a great extent to inadequate advertising of the vacancies that y the axist and to the inadequate ting, formation in respect of essential conditions of employment."
Manila Hotel made a profit of P1036..for the year 1924. The volume of business handled dur icg the year was far less than The German Socialist Party that of the previous 12 months, introduced a resolution to the for which the Chinese war ja Reichstag on February 17 requeste blamed, as it stopped tourist ing the government to demand the bustness. The absence of the immediate release of the German Asia-Manila fleet was also an-students, held in Russia in Soviet other cause
The number of people who were not allowed to remain in the Dutch East Indies during 1934 was. 755. made up of 717 Chinese, 25 Europears (including 1 Dutch nien), and 13 other Asiatics, Twenty-five Europeans (including zo Dutchmen) and four orientals were repatriated at the expense of the Colonial Government.
At the sales room of Messrs. Lammert Brothers yesterday after noon, 55.000 square feet of land representing six farm lots and New Kowloon Inland Lot 2200 were offered for sale by auction. The auctioneer Mr. H. A. Lammert called for a bid, but none of those present responded. A request for a bid of $17,000 was not forth coming and the property was finally withdrawn.
jails on charges of commercial espionage and political con. |spirácy.
S.S. Montelare is the first. steamship to be fitted with a ship's orchestral repeater which enables music played in the saloon to be heard in other parts of the ship. On her last trip out from Liver pool Montclare carried a micro bhone transmitter and music The Dutch Government intro-played in the lounge was repeated duced a Bill into the Parliament successfully in other public rooms, on February 17 bolishing the located in various parts of the ship.. obligatory franchise, resulting With the aid of such transmitters from the fact that 25 per cent. of ocean travel can be made" much the voters who failed to cast amore pleasant for all classes vote at the recent election would.) of passengers, as orchestril have to be prosecuted.
music, concerts and addresses In the cabin lounge or cabin dining A loan of $600,000 is reparted saloon can be relayed to the third to have been made by the Peking-class lounge and dining room and Hankow Raliway front Kingchen music can also be transmitted to Banking Corporation, the Salt the after deck, for dancing pur- Industrial: Banky the Continental poses, from the cabin lounge, Bank and the China and South Sea dining saloon-or promenade deck. Bank, on the security of freight The installation comprises the revenues of the Tac-Ching and Marconi microphone and Marconi Tseng-Ta lines. The rate of loud speaker, and In addition to interest is fifteen per cent and its use as a transmiter of music it repayment of principal is to be can serve a like purpose for lectures begun after three months.
and other entertainments.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mrs. Rose Carroll and Mr. and Mrs. I H. Barkill left yesterday for Shanghai by the s.s. Taiyo Mara.”
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Mr. A. L. B. Hay, B.A, "has been appointedetutor in English at the Hongkong: University...
H.RH. Prince George, who is Dr. Thurston, Bath, at a ten to salling shortly for the Far East, the Bath Force, said he looked has been, it is officially an forward to the time when police nounced, suffering from tonal-men would have umbrellas to litis, but was making good pro- escort ladies across the road. gress toward recovery in mail week.
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Princess Mary;' Viscountess Lascelles, gave a small party at Goldsborough Hall on Saturday, February 7, to celebrate the second birthday of her eldest son, Master Harry Lascelles.
Viscount and
Viscountess Inchcape, who have been. Täid up with influenza, are now well again, and left Home on February 5 to join the P. and O. steamer Mantua at Marseilles for Egypt.
The wills of mail week included that of Mr. John Service, a director of Service Reeve and Co. (Lon- don), Ltd, East India and China merchants, who left £1,128 (net personalty £954),
Onger lady who is compiling s Sir Thomas Lipton, asked by an
book of proverbs, mottoes, etc., for charity, to send his favourite motto, wrote "There is no fun like work." :
The marriage is to take place at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, on the 31st inst, of Mr. A. E. Farrell of Messrs Butterfield and Swire, youngest son of the late Mr. and Mrs John Farrell of Liverpool to It is due to the Prince of Wales Miss Marjorie Thorpe Joy, only as much as to anyone that the daughter of Mrs. W. Morley of All Blacks have good home with Kowloon and the late Mr. T. G. their spirits quite restored after Joy of Cardif.
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stone of a new block of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, but he was unfortunately Prince Henry of Pless is to be laid up with an attack of tonsilitis, Mr. B. D. Evans gave a silver married in London to Senorita Prince Henry, therefore went.
Clotilde de Silva y Candimo, a to Sandringham and ful cup for an eclectic competition member of a well-known, Spanish &lled his brether's engagement over the new course at Fanling family. The Prince is 63 years of at Norwich He was received by to be played for during the age, and his bride-to-be is 26. Lord Leicester (Lord-Lientenant months of January and February. This will be the Prince's second of Norfolk) and, the Bishop of It was won by Mrs. Fitzroy marriage. His former wife was Norwich Williams, with a nett score of Mary Theresa Cornwallle West, tr
75, Mrs. Hornell being runner and sister of the former Duchess. Captain RH.T. Ralkes, D.S.O., up. Mrs. T. E. Pearce presented of Westminster, now married to hitherto in command of the world's prizes for a tombstone competi- Captain Fitzpatrick Lewis. King largest completed submarine X.,1, tion over the new course at Edward, Queen Alexandra and entered on January 29 upon his Fanling on March 3, Mrs. A. many members of the Royal | new appointment in command of Humphreys won the silver cup, family, attended, the wedding of the China Submarine Flotilla? with finishing the final putt on the Price Henry of Pless, at St. his pennant in the depot-ship 18th green. Mra. Hannibal, won | Margaret's Church, Westminster, Titania. For two years the flotilla the hidden number prize, at haffe, in December 1891. His bride was has been commanded by Captalo
(only 37 at the time,
C&G-Brodie-Captain - Raikes Echimmanded submarines In the Gurdon, 14)| War, and was awarded the DISO nent who was for such service in 1916.10 1018. Adjutant at he joined the staff of Commodore wonted; that) ap- (S) xt Fort Blockhouse, Befo
he had bold, taking command of X 1, he come and return manded the Periscope School
In view of the visit paid to Hongkong by the great dramatic Brevet Ma basso cantante William Heughan! it will interest readers of the "China Mail" to learn of his great success in Sydney. In the Town Hall, Sydney, on January 17 he appared before a audience of some "4,000 peop
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