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LOCAL AND

GENERAL.

The roturn of nifiably disenses, A society called the Yofukuku for the horseled Friday, tus been recently organised in the shows but Chinese uses of enteric town of Deic. Mie Prefecture, as fever and one Indian case of an organ of the local Buddhist de votees, who are in favour of abolish- puratyphoid fever.

ing the white slave" traffic.

The very Httle boy had been very well brought up by his mother, and, walking with his father one day, and meeting the local rector, he politely raised his esp. I do admire your beautiful The famous film

The Nibelunga is shortly to be an Notices on the 'bus routes, manners, young man." said the gratified cleric, "Please," sald struction at the Queen's Theatre."All cars stop here by request,' This fim has been shown to crowd were misunderstood by Ameri-young hopeful, "I don't think I've ed andignees at the Albert Hall, can visitors, it was reported at got any manners; daddy hasn't given me any." And "daddy is City Council. They still wondering whether there Lincoln accordingly left their motor cars

was an implied reproach on his at these spots while sight-seeing own manners in the reply.

London.

At a recent meeting of the Royal Air Force Association of Shanghai, it was decided to in- stitute an annual essay competi- tion among British school Children of Shanghai in order to spread Interest in aviation. tople of commercial aviation will be selected as a subject for the essay and cash prizes will be awarded for the best efforts.

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Twosurgem telegrams have been reerived from the Hongkong Brunch of the Savy Tague appealing for our assistance in obtaining naval reinforcement more partiendarly for Hongkong and the neighbouring parts. Strong recommendations were at are made to the Admiralty

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complete and all-dictionary of American English put to embracing test, every Monday is soon, to be started, if present evening forty or fity of the inm- plans mature. In the early ates enter into the most interested stages it is proposed that trained discussions on many of the far-readers shall begin the examina- reaching problems of the day. tion of newspapers, magazines, Among recent subjects thus de-advertising literature and every bated have been:"Should Labour other printed document that may Exchanges Be Abolished?" "Can furnish some new word for the

All such "jewels". the League of Nations Prevent collection, Future Wars?"-incidentally, the thus discovered will be printed on men present were of the opinion slips to be later defined. It is not that it could not do Ho-"Do expected that the task will be Poor People Obtain Justice in completed for several years.. maybe as many as ten, and it is. Court?" and many similar ones.

considered certain that it will run into more than one huge volume.

He was one of the last

In the summer of 1907 a man of 50 took a handful of boys camping with him on an island off the Dorset coast. They were the first Boy Scouts, trying out in practice a great experiment under the lendership of Baden-Powell, the defender of Mafeking. There" The "Fair" people, who are were less than a score of them very numerous in Paris-for then. Tu-day there fre two there is a fair being held at some

Some time ago the Venice millions of them all over the part or other of the town con-authorities discovered a rare world.

inually are perturbed at the example of a seventeenth century attempt to apply the Sunday lantern which was about to be Closing Act to them. They are secretly sold to a foreign buyer. protesting that it is on Sundays1t is a triple gilded lantern which that they are most patronized, once belonged to the galley of the and they desire to continue their Venetian Admiral Andrea Pisani roundabouts, their gingerbread who gallantly fought and won stalls, their rifle galleries, their many naval battles against the menageries, and so forth, on the Turks. day when the greater part of the admirals of the Republic of 00 population is free. There is some Venice. and particularly dis- agitation on this question, and at tinguished himself in the Siege of The rifect that is would be a source

present no definite decision has Corfu. Three or four similar big lanterns still exist, and are looked of satisfaction in our timbers, and been taken. many others, if an official assurance

upon as very rare relics in a few could be given by their Tortiships Horn-rimmed spectacles are repatrician houses of Venice, that they are fully satisfied that the ported to have been abandoned by Naval Forces attached to the China Americans Arveling in Europe Command. reinforced by the owing to the additional expense in- "Hermes," are sufficient, and that volved in wearing them. The British Subjects in China may be course of reasoning is perfectly ander apprehension as to the simple. Firstly, every person went An answer was received from the American:. Secondly every Amer- Admiralty, on the 29th ali, token is rich, ergo a hundred per the lot, thank } R.M.S. cent can be added to their hills "Conrad Ind relieved. H.M.S. without causing unpleasantness Timode, which is now on her But apparently Americans

H.M.S. have vadised the drawback of heen way home, Bod that "Hermes is due to arrive at Hong-rimmed spectacles. Last year, at kong very shortly; (2) e Adminid the Fourth of July reception at the ty are satisfied that the combined | Americans Embassy in London. Naval Forces of the Powers will almost half of those attending woreed, with relay stations every after the arrivi of H.M.S.heavy, horn-rimmed glasses. This "Hermes" be sufficient to do all your the number was reduced to a Mat can be done by naval forces to few. Americans preferring to con- sudopard the lives and property dl cal their nationality bulid metal. Foreigners in China.

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Mr. J. W. Callan, Secretary of the Penang Club, has. returried from Home leave.

The engagement is announced between Mr. M. J. O'Neale Browne, of the Mercantile Bank of India Ltd., and Miss Madge Allen Hilton, third daughter of

It will soon be possible for Londoners to charter a taxicab for Scotland, though this method of travelling sounds as though it A might be rather expensive. taxicab relay service has been organized by the Motor Cab Traders' Protection Society, and this is already running between London and Worthing, and Lon- don and Brighton, the relay station for these two places being Reigate. A London-Leicester.

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twenty-five miles. In fact, travel by taxicab either nurth to Scotland, or south to Land's End, is promised for the near future.

PERSONAL.

Miss H. Tamurty returned to the Colony by the. a.8, "Kliyber."*

Mr. W. L. Gerrard has returned to Shanghai from a holiday at Home. It is understood he will again be going Home toward the end of the year.

Mrs. Imoile Anderson, who has returned to Kabe from Hongkong recently, had opened a duncing school for children at the To Hotel, Robe. While in the United States recently Mrs. Anderson studied all the new dances with Mr. Theodore Kosluff in Los Angeles,

Mrs. A. M. Murray, of Singapore, Kenneth Logan, the two sons of live in a bed-sitting-room and Messrs. D. C. Dogan, and "I have no friend in London; I says the "Pinang Gazette."

Mr. W. Logan, returned to the cook my own breakfast. I don't

all Portuguese Government pas- sengers coming to the East will

many girls like myself who must

fun going to

It is stated that under an Colony from Europe yesterday go dancing because there are so arrangement recently concluded,hey arrived by the Blue Funnet

line "Lycaon..'

Among the passengers who left the steamers of the Messageries were Lt. Com. C. Hargreaves, the have to travel from Marseilles by by the 8.8. "Khyber, yesterday Maritimes. This restriction will interport cricketer and Lt. Com. not apply when they are return-R. D. Paffard, Capt. and Mrs. C. M. ing home, and they will be allow Moore and Mr. D. B. Boue. ed to travel by any line they may find convenient.

The Portuguese Government transport "Gill Eannes, which Mr. and Mrs. F. Duxbury have passed through Singapore last -left Penang for good. Their de- month on her way from Lisbon, ́parture caused a big gap in with reinforcements for the 'the European social circles of garrison of Macao, is named Penang. Mr. Duxbury has been after a famous Portuguese navi a very successful business man gator and discoverer, though per- and holds a high position in the haps not so well known in naval business circle of the island. history as his great compatriots, In sport he has figured in cricket, Albuquerque and Vasco da Gama. tennis and golf, and has been the owner of several race horses. Spangles and King Cole are among his stud,

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be wallflowers. It is not much the pictures or

London business girl expressed theatre alone; I am just lonely.

her plight to the "Sunday Chronicle."

That's all." That is how a

Only two members of the Government, if Mr. Churchill be excepted, can accurately claim the title of journalist. Mr. Ronald McNeill was for four years editor of the old "St. James's Gazette," and Mr. Amery spent some years! on the editorial staff of the Times." If to these is added Sir William Joynson-Hicka, who has done a little occasional writ- ing for the Press, the list of mem Mr. Herbert Thomas; of the bers of the present Administre British-American Tobacco Co..tion who have wielded the pen, and Mrs. Thomar; Mr. E. F. either for profit or pleasure, Is Bothwell, of Messrs. Palmer and pretty well exhausted. The "N. C. Daily Mail" tells of Turner, and Mrs. Bothwell; and a foreign missionary travelling in Mr. and Mrs. V. D. Gensburger, a railway carriage in which were returned to Shanghat by the some students of the aggressive RM.S. "Empress of Russia. kind. Presently one of them Mr. M. H. Roffey and Mre asked the foreigner from what Roffey passed through en route to country he came. This question | Hongkong and the. University, nowadays often savours of im

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Positive cures of many cases of general paralysis by deliberately infecting the victim with malaria are reported by Professor Warrington Yerke, who describes results of experiments on eighty-| four paflents. Of that number,

pertinence, and there is no reason Goldsborough folk are never twenty-three improved so great- why it should be answered. The happy when "the little gentley both in mind and body that missionary in question; however, men," as they call Princess, they were discharged from the obligingly replied,From Corn-Mary's sons, are dway visiting hospital. It was the first time wall. From where ? asked either of their grandparents.any patient suffering from the students, nonplussed. "From Master George is still the favour-general paralysia, ever had been Cornwall," repeated the mission it for the country folk are dismissed from the hospital azy. But where is Corn-oyal to first affections, and the Great Improvement. wall? asked the studenta embar way he walks and talks and what seventeen "oaees)

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foreigner. Oh, Lovar forkshire tea tables. Every but no mental ráín, twenty

thenwald the other new baby girl Goldsed no change whatsoe

1. bordt 10 cilind Mary, and fourteen died, So

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in his own circle a sionary from Cor

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