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LOCAL AND

The total rainfall during the month of May was 3-28 inches.

Slace the establishment of Queen Anne's Bounty benefactions and grants amount to £8,900,087,-

GENERAL.

Bernard Shaw's play, Joan Krupp's armament works at of Arc was given at the Theatre Essen, which made big guns during dos Arts, Paris, and was received the war, are about to open a de with unbounded enthusiasm,partment for making artificial teeth Critics say the genius of this and other dental necessaries from English playwright has never been rustless steel. denied to France, and his "Joan"

The return of noticable disproves it to the world. eyes for the three days ended Monday, shows one case of small- pox and one of cerebro apinal fever. Both were Chinese.

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Owing to the inevitable rule that when a Chinese travels, he carries everything but his house, the Peking Tram Co., is reported to be contemplating the running of luggage vans.

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A motorist fined £ at the Guildhall, E.C., for leaving his car A couple who carried on

unattended in Houndeditch said he correspondence courtship for 13. had violent toothache while driv- Fears have been married at the ing. He went to a dentist, who National Scottish Church, Gilling found it necessary to extract the hom, Kent. The bride was Miss tooth; hence the delay. the bridegroom Mr. Lan M'Donald, Nellie Robson, of Australia, and who formed an attachment when started bird-scaring at nine quotes An octogenarian lady, who boy Sunday School. For 13 years Mr. I taught to sing" while flourishing a and girl in Gillingham the following rhyme which she was

! M'Donald has been stationed at

shotless and powderless gun Malia Dockyard, and he is now "Our Cabaret's" final perform-employed at Plymouth, Dockyard. ance was given at the Theatre Royal last night. The talented artists were at their best, their bright performance called forth continued applause and fre- quent 'encores. "Our Cabaret" opens a short season at the Star Theatre at Kowloon to-night be- fore, going North.

And

One wet day, saya Mr. G. B. Burgin in his latest book, I was passing a cinema decorated with feming posters of a reproduction Les Miserables and the gorge ous official in uniform outside the cinema shouted. to the dripping | crowd, 'Ere you are! Nowa your chance to come inside and be less miserable."

When three boys. charged at Highgate with break were street lamps, one mother said she would give her son a good hiding.' The second said her boy should pay his share of the dam age out of his savings-bank money. The third mother wept. Then the second, explaining that the third was a widow, said: "My boy will have to pay his share, and I will pay the share of the widow's MOD.

Young, men have become so femininized in their clothes, ac- cording to West End tailors, that they are now weating "divided skirts." At least the new trousers affected by the young blades at Oxford and Cambridge can' scarcely be told from divided skirts.

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I've got no powder, I've got shot. Shall I shoot you or shall I not? This refrain earned the Hive scarecrow" Is. 6d, per week of seven days, and the crows knew without telling that the gun was harmless.

Westward Hot the little seaside town in North Devon, which is famous for its golf course and for its associations with Charles Kingsley, is threatened with desi by the sea are so serious that a struction: Recent encroachments scheme has been hurriedly drawn up for the protection of the place. which must be carried out if West- ward Ho is to survive. The cost, however, is estimated at £38,000, which is more than the town, with its population of about 5,000, can provide. An appeal has therefore been made to the Ministry of Health.

Savile Row taller mournfully, "Look at this pair," said a The waist is 30 inches and each leg is 25 inches around the knee and 22 inches around the shoe top. Those are practically the measure ments of a divided skirt. "But it is the latest style and the young men demand them. They go even further. They have now begun cunting their sport shirts low-neck a purely feminine fashion." Dr. Percy Hall of Hull, speaking at a the new style of open-necked Rotary Club luncheon, defended shirts. "I men can survive the speedler justice in Britain is aimed Cheaper, more efficient, and new style, they will benefit from at by a small Government bill 10: it, he said "It will harden, them which a second reading has now Women nowadays are much more been given do the House of Com sensibly dressed than men and mons The bill has been in pre- their styles could be imitated byparation by previous governments. men to advantage."

It is now sponsored by Sir Douglas Hogg, Attorney-General, and the two-seater taxicab at last promises second reading debate was from London's long-awaited light only criticism of it heard in the to materialize and thus bring the lawyers who would like it to go British metropolis into line with even further. Giving evidence for the de- New York and other important classes of cases in high and county It increases the fence in a charge of drunkenness, cities. The police commissioners courts, in which litigants can elect which was dismissed, at North have received numerous applicato be tried by jury. It also regroups London, a doctor said the man's tions for licences for such vehicles the probale registries in provincial condition

was due to spastic and the Home Department has centres, so as to reduce the number paraplegia.

now announced the appointment of legal officers where work is light Mr. Samuel Pope (the magis of a committee to settle designs and increase them where it is trate): What's that?

and fares. Labdon streets are at heavy. Another feature of this bill The Doctor: Acute

Dervous present encumbered exhaustion...

with a is that it strengthens the Admiralty multitude of heavy four-seater Court by an additional judge. This taxicabs whose tariff is so high latter court, which is concerned that passengers who can afford to with all classes of disputes apper- use them are not numerous enough taining to the sex, has lately been

Mr. Pope: Why not use plain English?

The Doctor: It is not the custom, (Laughter.)

to support them. Moreover, the much overworked. The interesting Mr. Pope: But I should drap drivers demand gratuities over and fact bas transpired from corres- the practice. The medical pm- above the fare, thereby lengthening pondence in the newspapers re- fession has received sufficient the already disproportionately cently that not a few of the cases.

hirts from the legal profession as long lines of idle vehicles. The which come before it are brought to what is the proper, thing to do, new two-seater, by providing an by litigasts of nationalities other. and they will not take notice of it. intermediate form of transport Mr. CV. Young (a solicitor): between the too expensive taxi Erhaps they think we have no and the cheap but tardy street right to Rive them tips. omuibuses and underground trains, (Laughter.)

should supply a real need.

SOCIAL AND

Mr. H. R. Harling, the Hon; Mr. E. E. Brodie, and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Yates are passengers on the President Madison which left for the north yesterday.

With the return to the Colony of the G.O.C. from North China, Lt. Col.. F. S. Montague Bates. C.B, C.M.G., D.S.O.. relinquished command of the garrison in South China.

An interesting wedding took place at Brompton Parish Church when Mr. George R. A. Mills, son of the Rev. Barion and Mrs. Mills, marded Miss Vera Beauclerk, grand-daughter of the late Sir Robert Hart, who did great work in China.

Mr. J. T. Prati, C.M. G., who has been acting British Consul-General at Shanghai during the absence of Mr. Sidney Barton, C.M.G.,with Mrs. Pratt and daughter passed through Hongkong on the s.5 Morea during the week end for Home, on leave.

than British who deliberately choose to bring their disputes to the Admiralty Court in preference to having them tried in the courts of their own countries..

PERSONAL.

Mr. P. H. Baker, stock and share broker, returned to Shang- hai yesterday by the President Madison.

The Rev. and Mrs. W. EL Martin return Swatow where Mr. Martin has to-day from been doing clerical duty.

Mr. C. G. S. Mackie,, Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co., returned to Shanghai by the President Madison which left yesterday..

is granted leave from May 25 till Lt. Col. C. M. Stephen, R.4.0.C., July 11.

R.A., assumed command of the Lt. Col. G. F. S. Tuke, D.S.O.,

with effect from May 30. Royal Artillery, China Command,

The forthcoming wedding is announced of Mr. Frederico Maria Gutierrez, of Shanghai, to Miss Margaret Frances Barnes, of No. 3, Lyeemun Villas, Kowloon.

Captain and Mrs. J. R. Patrick are passengers on the President Madison which left yesterday for between Capt. Charles Douglas The engagement is announced the north interested in the sale of ships.

Captain Patrick is Armstrong, M.C., 1st Battalion The East Surrey Regiment, only The wife and daughter of Ma'adi, Cairo, to Dorothy Muriel, son of Mr. C. F. Armstrong of Governor-General Wood, Leonard Wood and Miss L. Wood, Mr. P. H. Holyoak. and Mrs. continued their journey on the Holyoak, of Hongkong.

younger daughter of the Hon. President Madison which left Hongkong for the: North yester day.

Mra

Mr. R. C. Johnson, formerly the Sir William Murison has been U. S. Shipping Board represent appointed to be Chief Justice of ive at Hongkong, has now, after the Straits Settlements. Sir J. W. nearly two years' absence, return- Murion has been, in the Straits ed to the Colony to resume charge Settlements since 1919 when he of the Shipping Board Office. Mr. was appointed Attorney-General, A. W. Anderson, who has been being created a Kt. Bachelor in the the representative in the mean- sameyour. He is all. A. and LLB, time, is to leave shortly for Kobe of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where to represent the interests of the he took honours fo classics and Shipping Board in that port. Mr. Taw and won the Latham English R. C. Johnson took charge of the Prize. He was called to local office on Monday, the bar at the Middle Temple in 1806 and wit at the Chancers Bar

Mr. John King, the "human hair £15.380, directed that bis remains merchant, of Sheffield, who left. should be cremated and buried in his father's grave, with the inscrip- tion on his tombstone:

Born 15th February 1873, at. 8.35 Wills W. Bradshaw,

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departure from the Colony of Mr. Upon the occasion of the Percy Smith it was incorrectly stated that he was the District

Hill 1902, when he went to Baat Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Molson, who masonry in Hongkong and South Older residents will remember Grand Master of English Free Africa, rising to be chief judge

of Zanzibar in 19 He was for many years managed the Sea China, Mr. Perey Smith was arbitrilor in the dispute between men's Institute here, and after Deputy District Grand Master the Sultan of Zannibar, and the wards the Wealeyan Soldiers' and the position attributed to him EAP governments as to His Sailors Home. They will regret being hald by the Hon. Mr. P. H Highness mainland properties. hear that Mrs Molson has just Holyoak It was also stated that He is a Hindu student and was died in St. George's Hospital Mr. Smith was Distr examber in Swahill to the Zanzibar Kew, Victoria, Australia, from Superintendent of Baral

Grand Goverment. In the Stralis he syncope, follow

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