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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1925.

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For the three days ended Monday, a clear bill of health for the Colony has to be recorded.

A Naval flight is projected from Yokosuka to Maizora and across the Japan Sea to Vladivos tok, to take place in either July or September. The return trip, is expected to take a week. seaplanes will participate. ---

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Reuter telegraphed from Lon- from high and low. The good it by competitive interests in an American is a great gentleman effort to boycott the products of don that Sir John Anthony Cecil and this quality seems to be the Company, the Company "hasTilley, British Ambassador at Rio widely diffused, irrespective of felt justified in calling the atten- de Janeire since 1921, has been differences in social position. tion of the public to the great appointed Ambassador at Tokyo. quantity of charitable work it We are an horitatively informed has done in China. A list of its that this appointment does not go charities follows, making a very into effect mil carly next year,

until when Sir Charles Eliot will | ♦ Tol Kawleen large totul.

remain at Tokyo.

It is not without significance that, when Ph. procession of Chinese paraded the streets the other day in Kobe in order to en- courage the strike of Chinese sen-

President von Hindenburg has

The city of San Francisco con- men, some of the most prominent objected to the paintings hung by in the procession were employees President Ebert in the rooms of tains some very polished letter A Vancouver shipping Pre-writers, of British firms and these pro- the Presidential, Palace. minent patriots were not them-sident Ebers, who was a great firm recently wrote to a business selves on strike.

lover of nature, hnd decorated connection. in the California port his rooms almost exclusively with asking for confidential opinion as The following appointments landscape pictures. In his work to the financial stability of a re- sident. The reply stated that were made by the Admiralty on ing room hung a large landscape the gentleman, in question was: woman's portrait by Rem" sort et mercantile Blondin July 4: Lt.-Commr. A. S. Acheson, D.S.C.. to Cockchafer brandt and two small (July 20), and in command (un- colours. President von Hinden-balancing across the whirlpools dated): Sub-Licuts, G. A. Thring, burg, however, declared they of bankruptcy upon the tight- to Hawkins L. R. K. Tyrwhitt, to were not cheerful enough for his rope of stranded credit." Magnolia; and H. B. C. Holmes, taste, and has chosen several new to Dido, for emergency destroy pictures at the state picture

ers, and Diomede on commission-galleries. ing; Payr.-Lieut.-Commr. T.H. Trust, to Tamar.

The Duchess of York is report ed to, have been one of the biggest winners of the Royal family at the Ascot race meet. Gossip credits her with having won between £2,000 and £8.000. She celebrated her triumph by giving smart little dinner at Claridge's, at which a tiny gold race horse was presented to every guest. Princess Mary did not have such good luck. Although she won a considerable sum the first day, the amount being swelled by the victory of her father's Rose Aloysia, she ended the week's betting several hundred pounds

the loser.

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As showing the thoroughness

of W. T. Stead, it is related by Aaron Watson in "A Newspaper Man's Mentories" that when Mr. Stead was working in New- castle at the time of the Siege of París "he enoght the office mice. cooked them with nice care, and up to himself on

A Biblical ballet has been hold ing the attention of the Moscow public for some time. It is en titled Beautiful Joseph," and depicts the incidents of the perse-served them cution of Joseph by his brothers, tcast, as a means of understand- with his sale into Egypt and sub- ing what sort of experience the scquent adventures there, through besieged residents of Paris were the medium of a rich Oriental passing through at that time." weird. bizarre Hint No. 1 "How to "Become ballet, with musical accompaniment by the Writer." Russian composer. modern

A more conven-

A Dutch shipowner has hit Vassilenko. tional ballet entitled "Teode upon a new way of "showing the up rather linda," a story of bandits trans flag" which opens formed into fauns, with musical dreadful possibilities. One of his accompaniment by Schubert, is steamers recently caused a sensa- "Beautiful tion in a Danish port by arriving given along with Joseph," and the double attrac- there flying the Dutch ensign tion has for many weeks drawn embellished with an advertise. large crowds to the Experimentalment of 'ar oil engine manufac

turing firm. Some nasty things Theatre, where it is given...

were said in the Danish Press re- garding this piece of commercial "enterprise," and the Dutch authorities have administered a sharp reproof to those who thus degraded the national flag.

The Chinese Communists, arrested after the attack on the Chinese Legation at Puris, were taken to the frontier of Belgium to be dumped in that friendly State, As a rule, the Belgian police do not object, but these undesirables were too much for them.

John Chinaman

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"It is better to have a loving wife than to make fifty at cricket. It's better to have a loving wife than to make ninety-nine at cricket. I won't go beyond that." Thus cautiously spoke Sir James Barrie who was a cricketer be- fore he became a famous author ---to a Cotswold village cricket

Fifty Boy Scouts from Japan team of married men beaten at

will go to China this summer to this game by a combination of

was spend several weeks in camps bachelors. Several of his hearers promptly. pounted hack into there, says an American paper. had failed to score at all their France. A French Commissary At the same time some two dozen record being thus 0, or, in British tried several points along the Chinese Boy Scouts will come to cricketing, parlance, "a duck's Belgian frontier but each time Japan for a visit. This plan of egg." Sir James Barrie was thus the yellow Reds were returned to exchanging Boy Scouts with afforded an opportunity of which, him (without thanks). He re- various countries has aroused in opening the village clubhouse solved to try Germany.

From considerable enthusiasm among It was immediately afterward, he avail-Strasbourg he took his proteges Scout leaders in Takya. ed himself shamelessly. "I hear to the nearest point of the stated that the Boy Scout organ- funny sounds inside this frontier beyond the Rhine, and isation of Hungary has begun pavilion," he said. "No one real- told them to go straight on. They negotiations with the Japanese ly knows what's inside, but did not return. The new Chinese organisation with the view of think I hear ducks laying eggs." puzzle was solved.

exchanging visits.

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