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THE BUICK SIX.

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Owners express surprise that a car so powerful and spirited as the BUICK SIX operates so smoothly and quietly. Such outstanding performance explains why the car is winning and holding the good will of all who buy it,

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GENERAL.

As from to-day, the "Over-}; Owing to wear and tear

New York's Great White Wayland China Mail" (weekly sum-dictionaries by cres-word puzzlers and the rest of Manhattan, below One Hundred and Thirty-Fifth mary of the "China Mail") will be the librarian at Wimbledon has Street, displays 12,228

ready every Friday morning so transferred the dictionaries to his electric sigas nightly, it was shown at the that subscribers will have ample private room; opening of an electric sign exhibit time to catch the mail for Home. A total of 1.121.223 lamps are used Application for copies should be to keep them luminated Restaur-made ants' signs lead. There are 2381 of them. Barber shops are second, with 904 in seventh place come the theatres, with 522 signs.

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Local enthusiasts may be inter-

to the office of theested to learn that there is a publishers ("China Mail" build-Gilbert au Sullivan Journel" published by the London General ing).

Press, Granville House, 9, Arundel- street, Strand, price 5d.

The suggestion having been

made in the House of Cominona A. bill to abolish all U. S visa at disabled ex-Servicemen should

Mace.

It is reported by a Chinese, con fock pa passports has been introbe mitted free to Webley, this tee may at the Canton (overn Pduced in the House by Rebre- │yeur. tha Herretary of thement bus decided to vote $500,000 sentative Sol Bloom, Democrat, Metropolitan Area, British Legion, for the maintenane of the late Dr. New York. At present a fee of appeals to the Exhibition authori-Sun's first wife, the mother of Bun G. Sto is charged for each visa ties and private employers to pay Christian preacher at a Church in Fo. who is us present th lady and a separate viss is required for further tribute to the ex-Service each country visited. "Under my

men by giving them preference in bill," Mr. Bloorn said, "the one the filling of siliations. passport issued by the Secretary of State will be sufficient to take the owner anywhere. The United State's Government does not need the fees it receives under the-visa nuisance. Americans overseas pay dozens of times over what the United States receives, aside from experiencing humiliating annoyance and delays. If the United States takes the initiative in wiping out visa regulations other nations will follow suit."

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The first English silver table fork, made in 1689, has been bought by the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. The fork is engraved with the crests) of the Manners and Montague families,

and

Cross-words for the teaching of French are proving a pro- nounced success in one boys' school. Each week the class is required to compose, as home work, a cross-word problem on a given simple design, words and

The donations promised to the clues alike being in French. St. Paul's Cathedral Preservation Marks are awarded according to Fund now total #242-115 58. 1d merit, and the most successful The intest list, published on March problem is then set for solution in, contains a long list amounting to The Touring Club de France class. To have the pleasure of 13 28. fid., per Rener's Ltd.,

from Shanghai, Tientsin is properly protesting against watching, his class-mates strug

Hankow. unnecessary street noises. Paris, gling with a problem composed by like other great cities, is shaken himself is alone sufficient induce- by sound, and from morning tillment to each boy to put forth his

best. night there is ons continuous roar. A good deal of it is quite un- justified. and just as the smoke nuisance and other disagreeable features of large cites are being Įtackled, so is the noise nuisance to be abated. The din of the city streets. It is discovered, is largely due to the exaggerated use made by chauffeurs of their motor horns, and to the load vibrations of the automobile engine. The Prefect of Police has assured the club that

London, is in jeopardy of lowing her ice-cream men, with. their gaily painted barrows, Covent Garden treated itself Although they do the bulk of their trade in the summer, many" of· to an interlude from the mere them keep going the whole year buying and selling of fruit round. They are so numerous a and: dowers when +Я drive body that they can support a to encourage the eating of journal of their own But the more fruit took place. A well- Cream

Fountain and Soda known comedian who has beenJournal states that, in spite of singing a song entitled "Eat More The fact that the Christmas holi- Fruit, in one of the pantomimes, day weather was bad and that the appeared in his role of the Dame demand for ice cream was greater in "Mother Goose." A camel than ever. it looks as if the old orders have been given for rules already laid down to be respected took part and set a good example ice-cream cart will be eliminated by drivers. Any abuses calculated by accepting two apples, and in a year or two, both owing to to increase the clamour of the finally the comedian sang his competition from wholesale fac- public highways are to be sternlysong rather to the disgust of atories, which turn out ice-cream few butchers who were, there as "broks" by the hundreds of tons, onlookers. They resented the and to new and better sales lines. "Don't eat mutton, don't methods and more rigid Govern- eat lamb, don't eat beef and don't ment regulations. Last year eat ham," but the remainder of about 20,000,000 gallons of ice the audience joined heartily in cream were sold in London." the chorus..

repressed. Clearly, there is much to be done in this direction, and careful inquiry would show pre cisely what strident noises, which together produce an almost intoler able bubbub, can be eliminated,

SOCIAL AND

Mr. R. W. Skinner, Shanghai, secretary of the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., and Mrs Skinner left by the President Wilson on the 1st inst for a six months' furlough. They are ex. pected to return next October.

Mr C. M. Bain, Chairman of the Shantung Road Hospital, Shanghai,. has given notice that the Committee of the Hospital has décided to bring forward a resolution at the forthcoming annual ratepayers meeting that the grant to the Hos pital be increased to Tls. 70,000 per annum.

"Kismet" the Oriental play is to be produced this month in London on a scale of considerable magnificence. This proved one of the successes of the Hongkong FERNTENT. BUENOLAT ENAMORA:D.C. when Mr. C. P. Hay of the

local office of the Canton Insur ance Society appeared in it with much acceptance.

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A woman's will, locked in a drawer in Fort, was eaten by rats, it was stored in the Probate Division, Belfast. The woman's son, William James Ferguson,

who found only a few scraps of paper, made a copy of the will from memory, and this was admitted to probare.

A 13-year-old Slavey Indian boy, BEAUMAGAMITEREN TOELOURBOX Frank, Hardisty; ran 950 miles in front of "Rags" Wilson's dog teams, breaking trail from Wrigley to Fort McMurray. Canada, Thirty- nine days were consumed in this arduous journey and the lad with- stood the rigorous experience ex- tremely well. His feat is the talk of the north country this spring.

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Messrs. Futcher and Foston have" started poultry farming on Alligat tor Island off Pasir Panjang, abou an hour's steaming from Singa pore. As they have had experience in this line, of industry, and as the Island offers every advantage there is every probability of their succeeding in their enterprise.

PERSONAL.

A woman wearing a hat with a ribbon bearing a stave of music has been seen in Exeter.

The venerable Editor of the Monthly Paper of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore has succumb- ed to the craze. A cross word puzzle is set in the current issue of the magazine.

The Hankow Race Club at its recent annual meeting refused to agree to a proposal of the Chair } man, Mr. Pearce, to readmit Ger- mans to membership. There was a majority in favour of re-opening the door, but not the required three-fourths vote..

KOWLOON WEDDING.

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Mr. H. W. Abbot arrived in the Colony from Manila by the Pres sident Lincoln. This should axpedite the enquiry into the unfortunate death of Mr. R. Earn- shaw.

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Thanks to excellent make-up and a "hiding" of the natural voice, theatregoers generally on Thursday failed to recognise that one of the characters was being played by Mr. W. K. Reynolds. Mr.Reynolds is one of Hongkong's noted amateur actors and took prominent roles in the A.D.C.'s productions of "RU.R." and Safot Joan."

One of the largest and most re presentative international groups ever assembled in Shanghai gather- ed at the new American Club In Foochow Road, for the formal opening of the Club building, on March 31. During the two hours' reception, it is estimated that mem- hers and visitors to the number of 1,200 filled the ample rooms of the Club home.

The maids of honour of the Belgian Court are said to have held a secret meeting to discuss the matter of the Queen's proposal to shingle her hair, but the next morning the Queen appeared smiling and with her hair shingled. There was a chorus of objectioas, but the Queen closed the argument with an epigram: "I' fear, mesdames, your hair is longer than your views."

Fifty-two girls, whose ages range from 14 to 21 years, from Dr. Barnardo's Homes. England, arrived in Sydney' and were met } by a large number of friends They were lined up two deep.oul» side Government House, where Her Excellency, Lady De Chair, Satur-received them. In a few words of

advice she said:

Photo by Moe Fong.

Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Wilson' leaving St. Andrew's Church after their marriage last day, "

The Asia Life Insurance Com- pany, Shanghai, has made another forward stop in life insurance health service in China, by bring- ing to Shanghai, from Germany, Dr. Fritë Rier, who will serve the (company as Assistant Medical

Director.

Henry Sayago has now com- plated the arrangements for the tombstone which will mark T, W., HCrosland's burying place in Finchley Cemetery, It will cOBEL £28 and it will bear the inscrip-

HERE LIES

by the mercy of God

T. WH. CROSLAND,

Port

and Englishma NE

The words were written by Cros lard himself, the money will be Toulld by a fawiftlands,

An annuity of £89 has been left

employee of Messrs. Marshall änd Shelgrove, Oxford-street, Win recognition of many courtsales re- ceived at her hands. This hande

Home legacy comes from- hífin Susan Flomar of 29, Harold-road, Horsey N, whose estate is valued

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You have arrived to settle down in a young country, where you will each" have unlimited opportunities to succeed. You will be looked upon to help in the development of this great land. What a splendid thing it will be for Australia if you prove yourselves, to be the excellent citizens we expect you will be: Some of you are stronger than others-see," then, that you use your strength, wisely. Some of you wlit; f time to conte, comme mand more influence than your friendsvesne that you put that influence ta useful purpose. «B6 „careful” of your actions. • Never

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