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Two of the public bathing beaches, those at Stonecutter's and Kennedy Town, are to be closed at the end of the present month. Launches will not be available to these beaches after Wednesday evening. September 30, and the matsheds will be dis- mantled. Other public beaches reniain open.
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The case against a Chinese Since the recent unpleasant revenue officer, who is charged incidents due to the appearance with attempting to obtain by of sharks and crocodiles at threats a sum of $100 from a dis-favourite bathing resorts, the in- tiller, was continued before the crease in the number of bathing Kowloon Mugistrate and again pagars at Port Dickson is very adjourned.
was noticeable. Nowadays scarcely any bathers are seen in the open- sea. A very striking addition to these pagars is that adjoining the fine new bungalow recently erect- ed at the fifth mile on the Coast Road, by a well-known Pasir Panjang towkay.
alleged to have been suggested to the distiller by which he could defroud the Revenue Department.
At a dinner given at Welling-
Anglers will be interested to ton to delegates of the Empire hear that an ide weighing six Press Union, who are visiting pounds was caught by Mr.
M. New Zealand, Sir Harry Brittain A.
Preston and Mr. mentioned the increasing fuct L. M. C. Lorden landed another of that New Zealand's 1.250.000 eight pounds. The fish caught population did more trade with by Mr. Preston has been placed in Great Britain than the 400,000,- | one of the ponds in the Bund 000 of China. This must not Gardens, Shanghai, so that any however, be taken as under- one who cares to do so can see a rating the importance of certain specimen of China's great carp. branches of China trade to England and of China as a field for British manufactures.
Malaya and Hongkong are both represented in a large Em- pire delegation which is visiting Hall to see for themselves how comprehensive are the quays for handling fruit, the warehouses for storing grain and ment, the shede for holding wool, and how expeditiously, with the aid of the London and North- Eastern Railway. can large cargoes be unloaded and trans- ported over the greater part of northern England.
At the annual meeting at Auckland on August 4 of the Now Zealand Insurance Company, whose local agents are Messrs. Holyoak, Massey and Co., the shareholders were informed that the directors felt justified in re- commending an increase of the rate of dividend, and they accord- ingly recommended that a sum of £118,750 should be distributed by way of dividend for the year, being equivalent to, a dividend at the rate of 1/7 per share. In order to meet this increase in dividend it would not be necessary to draw on the underwriting pro- fits for more than £7,154, as the income derived from investments was only short of the dividend by
that amount.
Among interesting items re- ferred to in an article in the "Ice Cream Trade Journal" are the following: If the ice cream con- sumed in the United States in one. year were put into one cone, it would tower over the Washing- ten Monument; that more than That there is an intense 700.000 cows supply the cream, desire on the part of Asiatics to and that most of the eggs used in acquire a knowledge of English is the trade come from China. All proved by the numerous schools of which is highly interesting. in Singapore, and the latest can commenta the "N. C. Daily didate in the field is the newly-News," but are we to draw the established institution at Seran- conclusion from these latter) goon Road, with the euphonious facts that honest-to-goodness title. "The Practical Double-Rate cream and eggs really enter into English School, where English the composition of everything and Chinese classes are held sold as ice cream? Alas, we wish every evening."-"S. T.”
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Arrangements have now been The cruiser "Diomede," Cap- completed for the opening of the tain C. E. Kennedy-Purvis, trooping season at Southampton. arrived at Portsmouth on August Six vessels are preparing for a 20 from China, where she has busy time, which will last until been serving since her completion the spring. The "Derbyshire”, in 1922. The vessel was cómmis- will make the first sailing. She sioned for the first time for ser was to leave Southampton on vice on October 2, 1922, so that September 2 for Bermuda and by the time she is paid off her Jamaica, Returning to Ber- term will have extended to nearly ruda she wil make for three years instead of the normal Multa
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Colombo, Hong- "Diomede" has temporarily been kong, and other Far Eastern taken by the "Concord." Captain poris. On her homeward pass A. R. W. Woods, D.S.O., from the age she will call at Bombay, Aden, Mediterranean, until such time as Port Sudan, and "Gibraltar, and the large cruiser "Vindictive." the voyage lasting over four Captain G. F. Hyde, R.A.N., months will end with her arrival arrives on the atation, The at Plymouth on January 11. "Diomsde" will be transferred to During the coming winter the the New Zealand Government, artillery rnoves to India will be which a year ago offered to main- made. When the 13th Heavy tain a second cruiser of the same Battery leaves Hongkong it will type as the "Dunedin," already go to Karachi.
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Joseph Conrad is the inspira- tion for the
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The Very Rev. Dean Symons has been elected an honorary life member of the Shanghai Football Association. Dean Symons has always been a keen patron of sport, and on most Saturday afternoons is to be found at the Race Course, watching the games.
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one of the Ho Hong Steamship Co.'s boats, of Singapore, created what must have been a record recently. He left Singapore on August 31 returning on Septem- ber 17, having in the meantime travelled to Hongkong, where he underwent the necessary examin-i One of the leading exponents of ations and returned to Singapore advertising in Great Britain, Sira master mariner. Charles Frederick Higham, who has many friends in America and Sheila Kaye-Smith has reached managed the huge India Tea the first edition pinnacle, the goal campaigns there, was married to of novelists. A recent list of Miss Eloise Rowe Ellis in London. wanted firsts issued by a well- Sir Charles is 49 and was Coali-known London bookseller includes tion member of Barliament from Conrad and Moore as leaders with South Islington from December, Gissing third. The other writers 1918, to October, 1922.
in demand are W. H. Hudson. E. M. Forster, James Stephens. An address by King Boris was H. M. Tomlinson, Norman a feature of the fiftieth anniver- Douglas, Lytton Strachey and sary celebration recently of the D. H. Lawrence. Aprilov Gymnasia, the first in- stitution of higher learning established in Bulgaria. King, who spoke for half an hour. devoted his remarks to the signi- of San Francisco, became the ficance of the event as evidence of bride of Mr. Lewis Jackson the beginning of Peoples, of Townsville, North culture. Carolina, who is Han River
Mr. F. J. Benton, formerly of the E. E. A. and C. Telegraph Co., Ltd., in Singapore, is now settled in Sydney and is a direc- tor of the Rural Estate and Development Co., Ltd, and the Federal Building Loan Co., Ltd. He writes to say that if any Struits men require information regarding real estate in Austra- lia he will be pleased to answer letters addressed to the offices of the companies, 251, George Street, Sydney.
A wedding of especial interest to the younger set was solemnized at St. Joseph's Church, Shanghai, when Miss Marguerite Tahaney,
The
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Mary and Lord Lascelles may visit shortly the latter's Irish estate, Portumna, in Galway, one of the most beautiful spots on the West of Ireland. Ever since her marriage her Royal Highness has wanted to
tious. Now the long anticipated
manager of the British Cigarette The engagement is announced sce Portumna Castle, though until Company. The bride was given between James Geoffrey Hart, now times have been unpropi- away by Mr. Otis D. Tereil, and only son of the late Mr. James visit may take place at no distant Mrs. C. F. Wolsiffer attended as Hart, of the Chinese Maritime matron of honour, while Miss Customs (brother of the late
date. The vast estate Lord Ramona Gray acted as brides- Sir Robert Hart), and Mra big "cash" fortune, from his Lascelles inherited, together with
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Arnold Ellert, of Inverness Ter-
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Marquis of Clanricarde. Some Count and Countess Carlo Zanadi of the Irish property has been Landi, of 20, St. John's Wood sold, and Portumna Castle wants Park, and Piacenza, Italy.
practically rebuilding.
Three men who in the last few years have been unofficial ad- visors to Herbert Hoover, Secre- tary of Commerce, and the Ad- ministration at Washington regarding Russian affairs, are ZZZZZRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgoing again to Soviet Russia.
A movement has been started A copy of the Gatenberg Bible They are James P. Goodrich, in England to raise a fund for has recently been purchased in formerly Governor of Indiana: Mile. Aimée Dostoievsky, the Austria by Edward Golston, a William N. Haskell and Dr. F. A daughter of the Russian writer. London bookseller, for a sum in Golder of Stanford University.Mile. Dostolevaky,, left, penniless excess of $10,000. It is in two Colonel Haskell, who directed the by the Russian Revolution, has volumes quarto and is said to be a American relief administration in been ill for months, and In a letter perfect speciman of the early Russia, already has sailed from to the London "Times" recently Gutenberg texts which were New York.
Hugh Walpole wrote: The small-printed in 1455-56. Upon Mr. est sums contributed to this fund, Golaton'e arrival in London he addressed "Dostoievski Fund," announced that the Austrian Mr. A. H. F. Edwards, who was c/o Comptoir d'Escompte de authorities objected to the books Commissioner of "Customs, at Genéve, Rue du Simplon, Vevey, going out of the country, but he Canton at the time of the attack will be thankfully received and managed to rush them through as on Shameen, and was shot in the acknowledged. I think that every soon as the purchase had been knee, has been undergoing medi- one who has known some of the completed. It was first reported cal treatment at home. It was finest and roblest moments of in that the treasure was in Cologne, found inadvisable to extract the spiration when reading ""The but when Mr. Golston arrived
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bullet which was in the centre of Brothers Karamazov"Crime there he received word that THE OHINA LIGHT & POWER 00., (1918)LTO,
the bone, but success was attained and Punishment" and the other was to be found in a town in the difficult and painful" pro- masterpieces will wish to help the "twenty hours distant.” His next cess of Joining up the
severed daughter of so great a genius. If stop was Vienna, and
and the books portions of a tendon which had 4 is the only fashion in which we were soon located. It was then bebt, khốc #way." Mr. Edwards is | can repay something of our debt, necessary to make a return tri shortly returning to the Far East | Dostolevek? never received a cent London to complete the arran Ela Siberia, together, within Mrs.) for any translations of his banks, ments for the large mum. Edwards, but his future sphere of as Russia was not in the Copy activities is not yet known right Convention.
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