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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Archbishop of Canter

A. musicale will be given at The poultry population of the bury and Yack recommend that the. Helena Muy Institute on United States has been placed at where it is convenient the obser-Thursday, November 19, at 5.80-400,000,000 by the Department of This number, the Programme arranged by Agriculture. vance of Armistice Sunday should: p.m.

Collett. Admission 50 Department. said,, would make a this year take place on Mrs.

procession 100,000 miles long and November 8, racher than on cents.

they could lay enough eggs each November 15.

your to reach from the earth to! the moon and back again.

Until the other day, when 800 A Chinese motor car driver chests of opium were received in was Aned $25 by Mr: R. A. D. Bangkok by the my. "Kistna" for Forrest at the Central Magistracythe Government, none of the drug yesterday for dangerous driving had been imported since Novem- In Ice House Street. Mr. W. A. her, 1924, a shipment of 300 tons. Dowley, who reported the matter, was shanked by the Magistrato.

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Piccadilly Circus has gone in for sandwiches. Forty Kinds of Sandwiches," reads one snappy lunch counter sign, hung out to Brain stimulation by sunlight catch the tourist trade that wants exposure is very marked, accord- to eat while it runs. "Fifty Kinds Formerly trading between ing to Bir Henry Gauvain, British of Sandwiches, All Different, Hongkong, and Kongmoon (or urgeon. A group of children re-advertises a rival establishment ceiving sunlight treatment in a nearby. And fifty different sorts Canton and Wuchow), the 8.8. "Leung Kwong which has been London hospital showed great of sandwiches actually are listed on the Canton-Wuchow run for superiority in mental tests over a on wall cards and produced to some months, was pirated group not being given sunlight order.

treatment. October 24 near Tung Ma Ling, that hotbed of West River pirates. Four guards were killed, three" wounded: the captain and chief officer (Chinese), two military officers and about 30 passengers were kidnapped by pirates which came out from the river bank.

Theatre.

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Henry Ford, thinly disguised Theatre goers in Hongkong by the alias of Henry Flips, is the that hero of a motion picture drama will be interested to learn Allahabad is shortly to be visited which has just had its premiere in Ford is the hero whose by a talented company of London Berlin. artistes, under the direction of inventions bring blessings to man- Mr. J. M. Young, who will present kind. and the inventor of the R. B. Salisbury's musical success, death ray, also under an allas,, is The return: showing the The Piccadily Ravels at the Palace the villain bent upon human destruction. Ford, who incorpor number of cases of notifiable

ates the good spirit of modern diseases which occurred in the

The American Jewish Con- industry, fights the villain and Colony for the week ended Octo-

The drama is called ber 24, includes three cases of gress selected Philadelphia as conquery.

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1925 "Curve to the Left,. a Drama of of its diphtheria

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(all on October 25 and 26. With the Hamburg journalist.. cases of enteric fever. Chinese) and one case of cerebro.exception of 1923, all gatherings Palitzsch. spiral fever. The last named since organisation have been held proved fatal. For the 24 hours in that city. Distinguished lead- ended on October 26 there was one Chinese case of enteric fever and one Chinese case of cerebro- spinal fever.

The raiders of a lonely farm at the north end of Lantao Island were each sentenced to seven years' hard labour at the conclusion of the hearing against

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them yesterday, the jury having found them guilty. They all pleaded that they had been in afraid and had been left in charge of the boat said he went to sleep and thought he was still dreaming when he saw the others coming back" with articles of clothing, a bullock and a calf.

SOCIAL

Mrs. Izetta Jewel Brown, dis-1 tinguished American, is visiting Shanghai.

Mrs. R. Sanger is to render several songs at Mr. Harry Ore's piano recital on Tuesday next in the City Hall

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newspaper; a well-known men's0000000000DDOOOOONDDONDO Doubtless on account of the hat shop in Berlin recently an- voices she heard, Joan of Arc wasnounced in an advertisement that chosen as the patron saint of the its manager had returned from wireless operators who organised London with the latest models, the inaugural pageant at Toulon and not long ago one of the most and anti-French. depicting Joan's entry into the conservative city. There was a long proces- newspapers of the city published:

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sion of knights and pages, headed by the Maid of Orleans, who was operetta performed at one of the followed by her famous captain, leading theatres there..

are SO many Lahire, helmeted but lacking head little incidents

Notwithstanding theproofs that very gradually the phones. burlesque character of the pro-wall which cut off Germany from ceedings, wireless operators, and the world of the Allies during and especially seagoing operators, after the war is crumbling away, have chosen the saint in all and that normal conditions are

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AND PERSONAL.

Mrs. A. E. Hersee is a passen- ger on the "President Garfield" which left yesterday.

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In a house at Church Street, Lower Edmonton, London, to be demolished owing to road- widening scheme, Keats served as

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Mr. E. S. R. Ho Tung and Miss Lan apprentice and dispenser to D. O'Keefe returned to the surgeon. The house tras-not-bong Colony yesterday by the "Pre-occupied for many years. sident Jefferson."

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Even great dancers, who have,

Mr. T. Honda, the Colony's ex- The jazzing proclivities of the of course, to keep themselves in Tennis Champion, and Mrs. Young General, Chang Tso-lin's the most perfect training, permit Behar and infant, left yesterdayson, are still the subject of ad-themselves the indulgence of an Pavlova, by the "D'Artagnan.”

miring comment in the North. occasional cigarette. At a recent jazz festival in Tien-still remembered in Hongkong, tsin the junior Chang and his fair likes to smoke when she is Chinese partner carried off first engaged with business, and is very particular about her cigarettes. prize,

Her accountants keep an extra Messrs. Macmillan are pub-special Russian brand at their lishing this autumn a book offices in the City, in readiness for of

Miss her occasional visits when she is travel sketches by Stella Benson, so well known in town. in Hongkong, whose work, though infrequent, always confirms the critics in their admiration for her original genius.

Mr. Allan Cameron (Oriental Manager of the Canadian Pacific S.3. Ltd.) and members of the Italian Opera Company, arrived yesterday by the "D'Artagnan."

Bridat, Mr. Fernando

the newly appointed Cuban Consul to Hongkong, is due to arrive here by the s.a. "President Lincoln" to morrow, accompanied by his family:

Informed that a pet wallaby was on its way to the White House as a special gift for him, President Coolidge went into hurried-confer-

ende with Secretary Everett

There was a good attendance Sir Frederick Michel Hodgson, last night at the Seamen's In- K.C.M.G., formerly Governor of Sanders on the nature of the stitute, where another successful the Gold Coast Colony, of Bar-prospective addition to the execu dance aranged by the Social Combados, and of British Guiana, who tive mansion. It was finally deter- mittee of H.M.S. "Hermes" was was besieged in and fought his mined that the wallaby is a species

Dance music was dig- held.

way out of Kumasi in 1900, who of kangaroo, and it will be accept- pensed by the jazz band of the died on August 6, aged seventyed and turned over to the keeping ship and dancing continued from three, left estate of the gross of the zoo. The gift is from L. A. 8.30 to midnight..

value of £9,276, net personalty Newman of Tasmania, in remem £9,098.

brance of the visit of the Ameri

Mr. John Toulmin, J.P., of the "Preston Guardian," following his

"Fathers seem to expect 100 custom of recent years on the per-cent. sons, from a 30-per-cent occasion of his birthday (his example," said Bishop S A eighty-third), took a like number Huston of Olympia, preaching in

can fleet.

"Will you shake hands with me?" sald John Keen to Bailie

of poor crippled children a motor Seattle last month. If I were to Mrs. Bell shortly before he was Mrs. Bell trip to Lytham, Blackpool, and ask some of you, what kind of an hanged at Glasgow. Fleetwood on the 6th ult. Each example you are setting your was the first woman J.P. in Bri- child was given a packet of twelve children you'd turn purple. Young pennies to spend.

Lady Fraser, widow of the late Sir Everard Fraser, for so many year's Great Britain's distinguish

people will do as we do, and not as we say Parents have a remark able faculty of forgetting their own shortcomings, indiscretions and sins, and rehemently denounc

ed Consular representative in ing the rising generation for what Shanghai and Senior Consul, they complacently countenance in returned to Shanghai in the themselves." P. & 0.8.8. "Mantua." Mrs. Sidney Barton, wife of HM Consul General, was also a pas senger for Shanghai in the same steamer.

tain to attend an execution as part of her duties. When Keen: asked me to shake hands with him," she said afterwards, "I re- plied, "Certainly I will. This little act seemed to please him. When he got to the scaffold someone exclaimed, Shut your eyes, but the execution was over before knew it had taken place."

Mr. E. C Stocker, engineer with the Whangpoo Conservancy Board, was elected President of the American Club at the-amual

There are a few changes im pending in the personnel of the Kedah Civil Service, says the Strafts Echo Mr. J. J. Fleury, State Veterinary Surgeon, and Dr, Miss N. Osborne, who is en D, Bridges, State Surgeon are general meeting of the Club. "Mr. route from England to Japan to be returning from leave next month, 0. G. Steen, acting head of the married to Mr.JB-Betaugh of and among those proceeding on Robert Dollar Company's offices the Nippon Electric Company was furlough in the near future are in Shanghal due to arrive at Kobe on the Mr, E. V. G. Day, Secretary to the President and steamer Mantua on Monday Sanitary Board, Alor Star, and fellow also last. The wedding will take place Private Secretary to the Adviter Comp at the British Consulate in Tokyo Mr. T. WH Kingston-Protector to-day The ceremony will be of Chinese and Assistant Super followed by

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