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to-day as ever they were people of Poland includ ing a large number of peasants, We played "Two eyes of grey and tend to purchase an estate and Liddle's "Abide with me to an Staudience of twenty-eight thou- Two Ares took place at Macao present it to Ladislas on Wednesday-one in a fire Reymont, whose tetralogy of and people at Southsea, and you cracker factory at Mongh and novels,The Feasante," won the could have heard a pin drop, says

H Squire, the cellist, another in a matshed at Sakong.Nobel Prize for 1924: The latter resulted in the death of a child.

Penang considers that Gov-

Total passengers leaving New ernment should build houses and York, Boston and other Atlantic The kinematograph industry let them to the public at a rental ports for Burope from April to itself is now moving in the matter which would bring in a clear in August 1, 1925, was 256,000, of doing something to encourage come in return for the capital fu compared with 210,000 last year, the production of British Aims, vested of 15 per cent. per annum, according to the White Star Line The Kinematograph Exhibitors or else restrain by legislation, The Increase of 12 per cent... in Association, after an interview rack-ranters from charging more the total number of passengers with the President of the Board of than would return them 20 per was greatly exceeded by the gain Trade, have decided to call a concent. on their capital ference of the three sections- producers: renters, and exhibitors

so as to fix upon a policy,

Such a success was last year's Poppy Day Collection on Armistice Day that it brought in £2,000 commission in addition to his salary of £800 per annum to Captain. W G. Wilcox, organis- ing secretary of the Appeals Department of the British Legion He receives 2 per cent on pro ceeds over the first 2150,000 clear profit, and last November the total collected was £253,000. The Executive hold, and Captain Wilcox agrees with them, that this is too much, and the agreement will be end

ed. "Captain Wilcox has more than doubled our pro- ceeds, but even so, we cannot pay him so highly out of money that is raised for charity purposes, said a Legion official.

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- London, September 15.-By an act of grace of the Wembley. exhibition authorities the 102 visitors who gave the exact figure of attendance each received 22 instead of 198, 7d. to which they were actually entitled. Among them were one admiral, one clergyman, and one lord. The last named is a schoolboy who has announced his intention of spend- ing his part of the prize on "wire- Jess. Males triumphed over females to the tune of 68 to 34, It is, indeed, a remarkable fact that from the date the competi- tion started till the end of August the fair sex had only 31

In tourist third-cabin travel. This rose from 72,000 in the The extraordinary resonance period of 1924 to 92,000 in 1925. the famous Amati violins is officials of all lines agree that] due to the fact that they were the cheaper accommodation now stained with lime salts. German available hays been the direct violin makers believe. The cause for the remarkable increase cause of the remarkable tone of in ocean- travel this year. the instruments has been a secret, but it is now claimed to come from the salta remaining imbedded in the pores of the prood.

one of the greatest speeches on Evolution that made by Huxley in his famous controversy with Bishop Wilberforce was really the result of an accident! Dancing on rubber soles is It is told in Sir Mountstuart said to give advantagee similar to Grant-Duff's Diary that Huxley those of a spring floor. The rub was actually leaving for the ber sole, of the crêpe variety, is country on the morning of the worn inside the dancing shoe, and debate, when he met Robert Dis- for those whose feet are not Chambers, the author "drawn by the rubber, dancing "Vestiges of Creation." on cushions is a delightful exer- mayed to think that so good an cise: Crêpe rubber "socks" or ally was to be absent from the inner soles may become popular fras, Chambers told Huxley of for walking, too. Worn on the the battle royal that was to take tread, they are apt to become slip place, and prevailed on him to postpone his holiday, with results pery, and require "roughing."

that were epoch-making.

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More than 100 baby girls are

Ladybirds are to be seen all being adopted as the result of an

Paris: There has been, article in "The Daily Mail" on over July 21 about the demand at the that is, a sudden swarm of arti This is the National Children Adoption Asso- ficial coccinelles. ciation, Sloane Street, W., for latest caprice of fashion, and fair-haired, blue-eyed baby girls, wherever one goes one observes A doctor is taking one homeless on cloaks, on feminine hats, on child to be a companion to his own feminine jackets, little painted In little girl. She is to have the red insects with black spots. same advantages as his child, and France they are called bête à bon They were introduced will have the same provision made dieu.. for her. One woman has settled recently and they had multiplied £20,000 on her adopted child, and exceedingly. It is an idle fantasy! when she dies the girl will have to pin the bestioles on one's £200,000. Two school teachers clothing, but no Parisienne would who have just adopted a baby girl now consent to be without her. clever head." She is to have a long, but while it is the fashion university education. Few people the red and black fly is the fetish, want boys.

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr. Elsley Zeitlyn Barrister-at- law returned to the Colony yester day on "President McKinley from visit to Shanghai. Mr. J. H. Briater was passenger on the same ahip.

Mr. C. B. Shank returned to the Colony on Wednesday by the "President Wilson."-

Mr. Nathaniel B. Stewart, United States' Consul-General in Tokyo, has received official notice from the Department of State of his assignment as Consul-General at Constantinople.

Mr. W. A. Rawnsley, who has been the representative of Cooper and Company, Ltd., in Tokyo, and who has been active in sports at the Yokohama Country Club, has Among the arrivals by the been transferred to the firm'80. s.a. "Mantua" yesterday Osaka office.

afternoon.

Bear-Admiral Cameron, who has come out from Home to take over the Yangtze Patrol command.

Hongkong residents on the pas senger list of the Malwa, which arrived yesterday afternoon, in- cluds Mr Aria, Mr. W. G. Ger- rand, Mr. Allan Keith, Mrs: Moxy- steff, Mrs. 8. H. Ross and Mas J. 1. Ewing

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Reuter's American Service cables, the death of U.S. Senator J. H. Ralston.

- [Senator Ralston was a native He practiced law of California.

He was specially since 1878. interested in Philippine affairs and in 1899, before the insurrec tion against the United States was counsel for Felipe Agoncillo, General Aguinaldo's representa- tive in the United States.

Rexton, Kent County, New Brunswick, the birth-place of Andrew Bonar Law, one-time Prime-Minister of Great Britain, is the site of a 'inonument to the Professor Edmund Blunden, memory of the British stateaman, noted English poet, and professor which was unveiled on September of English language and literature 17 The unveiling was perform- G. FALCONER & CO. (HONGKONG) LTD

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Meyer, of Empress Lodge, Kow-life and poetry, and also gave the presence of the Prime Minis- King, Arthur Meighan, leader of loon, to Miss Dorothy Beard, who selections from his own writings.ter of Canada, W. L. Mackenzie Valor Building (Opposite G.P.0.[

arrives in the Colony by the 8.8.

the Conservative Opposition in Patroclus; Mr. F. X: L. de Faria, Mr. Roy Howard, a well-known the federal House of Commons; Agesta förs ADEIRALTY CHARTS.

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M. M. Tam, of St. Joseph's Build-here on his way to Manila by the New Brunswick, and many other

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Among the passengers depart his trip to the Far East he has To the Master, Fellows, and. High Class English Jewellery.

ing by the R.MS. "Empress of already interviewed several pro-Scholars of Trinity College, Cam- Asia" yesterday were Mr. and minent men, among them bleng bridge, such of the contents of Mr. his residence as they may dealre. ALEXIA COMUNALE COURSE CHARGE JAGUAR) SEC Mrs. J. H. Taggart for Shanghai: Marshal Chang Tso-lin..

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legacy appears in the will of Mr. Walter William Rouse Ball, of Elmside, Grange Road, Cam- bridge, a famous mathematician, detectives who were looking after who has left £38.038. To Fanny Maria Parson, in his employ, he "Petit Parisien, in an article on to his maid, Eilen Elizza Watts, Mr. Baldwin's day, saya-Mr. Upon his arrival in the Colony Baldwin rises at 7 am.; takes his 300 and £40 a year. Apart

from these and a few other per by the s.s. "Mantua" yesterday breakfast and asks for his monsonal legacies, the whole of the afternoon, His Excellency Colonel ing papers, which are read to him

fortune is left for University and The Prime Maia Magalhaes, the newly pa- by Mrs. Baldwin.

similar purposes. Mr. Ball, pointed Governor of the Portu Minister then prepares for his beside being a Fellow of Trinity ruene Colony of Macao, was met morning walk. He does not play College, as treasurer of the by Senor A. L. C. de Albuquerque, golf, but only takes walking exer- Cambridge University Boat Club. Portuguese Consul-General in cise, 20 or 30 kilometres (12% or Hongkong, Admiral Lacerda, in 18 miles) are nothing to him.. charge of the port of Macao, the The two detectives who are look- HELPS OVER HARD PLACES. Commander-in-Chief of the Poring after his safety, it is stated, Diluted with a little wastened water, Chamberlain's Colle; and Pharzhoen tiguese naval forces in the Far were unable to keep up with the Remedy easy to lake and almost East Mr Silva Netto and a Prime Minister, and Reconstantly eases sudden and Intense amber of officers from the war- panted him to the Bevard River stomach pains, cramps and Intestinal thip "Republica." The A.D.C. to by means of the tramway while dispers. A mother is perfectly; safe -

L'in giving it. Lom those stomachachos no ALE the Governor, Capt., the Prime Minister climbed the segurola zrum childhood. Sold and Swinton, M.C. was also present.rocks.

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