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Singapore's contribution the St. Paul's Cathedral Restor ation Fund totals $24.397.98.

AND GENERAL.

The annual ordinary general of Messrs. Lane Crawford Ltd., is to be held on Wednesday the 29th inst.

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Stated to have motored at 35 miles an hour, Richard" Lpsile One case of small pox; one of Friday, of Walthamstow, did not diphtheria and one of enteric fever appear at West Ham, but sent a | (all · Chinese-small pox case blank cheque. He was fined £5. imported) were notified for the

24 hours ended Tuesday last.

A human dynamo is the name, applied to Johnny Hines, the screen comedian. The reason is seen in his acting, especially that in "Little Johnny, at the World Theatre showing for two more days only,

The Hongkong Angling Club announces a Salt Water Competi tion, in May under conditions which have been notified to members. Members are asked to notify the Hon. Secretary, Mr. E. B. C. Hornell if they desire to participate in the competition.

As from to-day, the "Over- land China. Mall" (weekly sum- mary" of the "China Mail") will be ready every Friday morning so that subscribers will have ample time to catch the mail for Home. Applications for copies should be made to the office of the publishers ("China Mail" build ing).

Two Australian stories.: Fishing off Sydney Heads re- cently I picked up a beer bottle containing a note. It read: "The person who finds this bottle will also find that the beer is gone.

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Two boys were charged at Highgate with breaking into, a tennis pavilion. Magistrate: Did you go to play tennis? Ons boy: No; 10 play truant.

Introduced as a "distinguish- ed visitor" to a gathering of Leicestershire children, the Bishop of Peterborough asked them to identify him. You are the Pope," was the answer.

The hearing of the injunction, by the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., against the sale by the U. S. The Rev. A. D. Stewart will Shipping Board of the five Trans. conduct a series of Bible Studies at Pacific steamers at present, operate the Helena May Institude on Friday ed by the Pacific Mail Company, | Mornings. The First will be on has been postponed unt!! April 20. Friday 17, at 10.80 a.m.

meeting is open to all women,

A treaty of extradition bas been signed by Rumania and the

United States which provides that Rumania is not now compelled to extradite persons who would suffer capital punishment in America, In. Rumania capital punishment is illegal.

The

is only booked for so of 4,000 The film, The Epic of Everest

cinemas in Great Britain. The Daily Express scathingly com ful picture dealing with the real ments on the fact that a wonder-

heroism and real adventure ap

Two septuagenarian all-the-parently does not appeal to theatre year-round bathers were present love interest and makes no sex managers because it contains no at the St. Pancras Swimming appeal. This aim will be shown Club's annual dinner-Mr. G.

in Hongkong. Webster, the president, aged 77, who won a race last Christmas in Hampstead Ponds, and Mr. R. Ledger, aged 73% of the Serpentine Swimming Club...

The Edinburgh Savings Bank funds show an increase in 1924 compared with the previous year, of £48,780. There was a steady progress in the business of the posited in all departments is now bank, and the total amount de.

new accounts were opened during just under £9,500,000. Over 11,000 the past year. At the annual meeting of the bank Mr. Sleigh, the Lord Provost, spoke of the appeal the savings bank made to the small investor, and pointed out that, of the amount deposited during the year, 68 per cent of the sums were under £5. Lord Sands, one of the Scottish judges, said it was all, estimated that practically every second person in Edlaburgh was a small investor.

Employment throughout Canada during February from the losses showed. considerable recovery at the beginning of, January, as indicated by reports of employers Lightning plays some

on February 1, Statements from acer pranks. A few years ago, a young

5,832 firms, employing 709,878 girl was sitting indoors at Moonan Persons, show an increase of 16,821 Flat when a flash of lightning more than on January 1, 1925 burnt the hair off her head, passed;

Improvement in manufacturing down both sides of the body, was most pronounced, while logs, skipped the corsets and, passing in and construction also afforded down each leg, tore both boots off, largely increased employment sending them yards away. Prior Mining and trade, however, showed

contractions. Activity in to this the girl was delicate, but

except the Prairie Provinces, in creased considerably, but the her experience...

revival in Quebec was not marked.

she improved wonderfully after

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Members of St. George's Society "Mr. J. T. Easterbrook and Mr. are reminded of the tift to be held. C. Douglas returned to the in the Hongkong Rotel on Thursday Colony by the Mishima Maru next

yesterday.

Mr. S. Kawnslima, who has been appointed Consul-General - to Hamburg is a passenger on the s.s. Kashima Magu.

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Major R. S. S. Paton has become President of the Garrison Recrea tion Club.

The Rev. Father Placzek is now Mr. and Mrs. 'Gorman Ander the officiating clergyuan to the Bon left for Shanghai by the s.s.Roman Catholic troops in Hong- President Jackson yesterday. Mr. Long. Anderson is now on the staff of the Custenus at Shanghai. Mrs. Anderson (tella Benson will later leave for Hong, via America.

Bir Alfral Dent, K. C. M. G., has

Mr.

Wiliam Evans, of Tyncelyn, Llanfrothem; Meri- oneth, who is in his 75th year, has retired, after serving over 40 years as houndsman" with the

resigned his seat on the Board ofYnysfor Hounds. He took part Diretor of the Chartered Bank of in 500 fox and otter hunts. Laddin Australia and China owing to ill-hull, and Mr. Archibald Audio Jatnieson of the Borneo Co., Ltd, has been elected to El

the vacancy.

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I sometimes feel, when I am making a speech in the House, that I am not addressing human beings but hat-pegs. And even then, the hat-pegs do not always seem to be listening.

Lt. Osborne Woods is reported to have delivered himself of the following:

"Money earned by hard work is easily spent. I feel that if I buckle not only honestly earned, but not

down to work, I not only will get back some of the money I have squandered, but will regain the respect of my friends which in- decd is more than money can buy."

Mr. F. E: Weatherly who married a second time at 74, and now takes silk at 76, has been described as Captain J. Macrendy, .D.S.O., the most prolific English song D.A.A. and Q.M.G. of the fessed that he did not know how writer of the day, and once con- China Comum, has been many he had written, as a curious. noted to the rank of Major. Major superstition kept him from ever Macready is a grandson of "the counting them. But two years ago rent Macrendy, who in his day he told a newspaper representa- was perhaps England's greatest tive that the actual number was tragedium, and IN himself in

well over 2,000. His "Nancy Lee amateur actor of very high attain-

was the effort of but a few minutes ments.

and other songs which are very Deathless Army" "Darby aud popular

Nirvana," "The Joan," "We've Come Up From Somerset," "Roses of Picardy," Thora," and the "Star of Bethle- hem,"

when

are

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Doszentle DocARTEDOCH Lending Artiolon ------ I-1 Local and General... Social and Persona! A Missing Man. Twelve Bomba, a ne sana po a Nollo Prosequi pote Credit to Colony...

The wet weather yesterday did not deter in any way those invited to be present at the launch of the 5.s. Changte at the Hongkong and Whampoa Dóck. Umbrellas were much in evidence, and a large und distinguished company gathered

Mr. Max Malini, the magician, to witness the ceremony. Among who entertained a number of them were: His Excellency the parties in Tokio and Yokohama, Governor (Sir Edward Stubbs), on his recent trip to Japan, has the Hon. Sir Claud Severn, Sir conjured up a total of 420 for Henry Pollock, Commodore, Mrs. the Yokohama General Hospital and Miss Stirling. Mr. and Mrs. by a benefit entertainment on

Funeral services for Miss Bur- B. D. F. Reith, Hon. Mr. and Mrs, board the President Lincoln. The leigh, who was shot and killed in H. T. Creasy, Mr. G. M. Young, Purser took that amount to Tokio a motor car, Mr. J. Reid, Mr. and Mrs. R, M.

were held at the the President Lincoln Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Dyer, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. R. returned from the United States. John, Manila, the Rev. John P. Douglas, Captain and Mrs.

Williamson, reading the brief Mercer, Mr. H. P. White, Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. R. E. O. Bird service, assisted by Chaplaio T. L. Mrs. Allan Cameron, Captain leave the Colony on retirement on Dennett, U. 5. A., of Stemberg Douglas, Miss P. Maud. Lieut.Tuesday next. Mr. Bird is well Hospital. The services. were Comdr. Conway lake. Rev. J. H. as headmuster of the attended by a host of friends of Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. G, M.

Government's Ellis Kadooria the murdered girl. Captain A Shaw, Capt. R. Innes, Mr. F. W.

School, and as a cricketer-particu- Pickens of Fort McKinley and Mrs. James, Mr. C. C. Knight, Mr.arly as a bowler-of considerable R. F: Carter, also of Fort McKinley, J. W. Paton, Mr. and Mrs. W. note.

Before her marriage, Mrs. were heard in a duet, with Mrs. Lang, Mr. T. S. Morrison, Mr. D. Bird, as Miss Clarke was head of the Schuyler at the organ. The pall- Harvey, Mr. J. Flemming, Mr. A.

Betilios Girls' School. Both bearers were Mr. Jack Byronde, Ritchie, Mr. and Mrs. F. He assured of the best wishes of the Lieutenant J. K. Bush, Lieutenant Crapnell, Mrs. E. Cock, Mr. and active participation in the life of A. S. Rush, Lieutenant C. F community in their retirement from G. H. Cammouche, Lieutenant Mrs. Stevenson, Mr. T. Oliphant, the Colony. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, Mr. R. F.

Beattie and Mr. Jean Cleaver. Mattingly, Mr. and Mrs. J. S.

Reuter cables the death of John E. E. White, better known to Gillingham, Lieut.-Comdr. C. R.Sergeant the eminent artist, one of his many friends as Blanco, has Thompson, Capt. and Mrs. A. C. the most eminent portrait painters left Manila en route to his home in Kennedy, Dr. J. C. MacGown, Mr. of his day, who was born in 1850 at Canada where he will join his and Mrs. S. T. Williamson, Mr. Florence. He received his educu-aged mother and remain with her, and Mrs, Severre Berg, Capt.tion in Italy and in France and having retired from the great Williams, Mr... Sim, Mr. Hedge, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of Canada, which he has served He financial institution, The Sun Life Mr. Forsyth, Mr. H. W. Wild-in 1897 and since that date has well for twenty seven year as the ridge, Lt-Col. Robertson, Lt. Col. continuously exhibited there and general representative in and Mrs. Matthews, Lt-Comdr. at the Royal Academy, he was Philippines and Boraco. Probably and Mrs. Crane, Pay-Comdr, and elected an A. R. A. and later was no other man has played to pro- Mrs. Brown, Mr. Keating, Mr. made full Academician. Quarles van Ufford, Dr. Shell the war he was the most fashionable of golf in islands as has #Blanco" Prior to minent a part in the development shear,

Mr. Young (Lloyd's as well as one of the greatest and White had come to Manila dum Register of Shipping), Major and most daring portrait reintera. His log the stirring days of ninety eigi Mrs, Hyland Mr. R. Hunter, Miss principal works are El Jalen and when the Americans were pouring McKellar, Mr. and Mrs Weall, the portraits of Duran, Ellen Terry, troops into the Philippines to Do Mrs. Luard, Mr. R. A. Nicholson, Joseph Chamberlain, Mr. Carl down what had developed into an Mr. A. W. Rowe, Mr. W. S. Meyer and children, Octavia Hill, surrection and already was an Bailey, Captain and Officers of Lady Fidel Phillips. He will be enthusi tie, celler Almost im the 8.8. Oostkerk, Capt. Stewart remembered as the painter also of mediately with the help of pro- of the 8.8. Haining, Captain of the war picture which aroused wide lent Britishers and Americans 8.a. Dux, Mr. Holmes and Mr. comment at the time it was hung he began to lay plans for a golf Sanderson,

at the Royal Academy Gassed.****

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Aviation Disaster Still More Ama Good News". Shooting Incident "Gold Mountain ". Tell-Tale Revolver.... Rabies Symptoms. Race Meeting Welsh Notes... Ship's First Ald Amany Notes...... Correspondence 20 Governor Returns

W Oil Tank Blaze

Harbour Daugera Tramcar Arrest Derelict's Crew Trial of Pirates

"Under Arrest

Pirate Pesto.. Going Home..

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Good Friday....

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Fighting the Pirate.

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Appointments

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Proposed Ferry

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Sport Attempted Robbery

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Women Deorys

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Company Meeting

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Thysical Jerks

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Makid Robbery.

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