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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Despite the rain. Poppy Day By driving the first ball the There was a nil return of hotifiable diseases for the 24 fete at Ipoh realised about $4,000. Earl of Leven and Melville open

Let the extended municipal golf" hours ended Thursday,

I think that Christianity as are of Meyrick Park. Bourne- The U.S.S. Huron." flying force might have effectively and mouth, in the presence of about 12.06er spectations. The caddie who the flag of the Commander-in-lustily survived if it had not fer

U.S. Asiatic centuries so notoriously forgotten restored the ball received a sover. the Chief of Squadron, accompanied by the, the teaching of its own founder.- US.S. "General Alava, is due to Mg. Arnold Bennett, arrive here on November 26.

A New York Item of news is

High.

A decree was passed, un October, A district court martial with that Mock Hick, a Chinese now, renewing for three years the Overseas Major J. F. Drake (1/East. awaiting execution in Sing Sing office of Adviser to Surrey) as president will dat for murder, has taken up the students ut Cambridge University. Wellington Barracks next Tues- study of English, because he is The Senior Proctor referred to the day morning for the trial of envious of Lew Chow, a member importance of the office now that Havildar Major Chan Chu-fat, of an enemy gang, also awaitingford had become a world pni-

7 versiy 40th Coy. (native portion), Royal execution, who is able to read the

American newspapers. Engineers.

Ma, Y. Kimura, director of For improvement of port

Welfare in the Robe 'In 1922, 1923, and in 1924, through liberal donations, the facilities in Manila and sub-porta, Public. lepers at Cullen enjoyed Christ the legislature has designated Municipality, says that she seven mases such as they had never had P980,500. Of this P450,000 will day nurseries now in operation in before. The Philippine Anti- be expended in Manila, including Kabe take care of nearly 000 in- Leprosy Society is again soliciting the dredging of the Pasig riverfants and small children each day Thelp for these lepers for the com- and repairs on piers No. 3 and 5. of the year, and that plans are now For port improvements in the re-lander way to increase the necom- jing Christmas.

gularly organised provinces, modations of the two city, nuiseries so that they may take care of more P481,000 has been assigned.

children in needy families in Kobe.

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East and West seem to be West has exchanging games.. taken up mah-jong.. and now East,

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In the London Commercial

for £29.

Society (at Home and Abroad)," subject to the approval of a special general meeting which to be called

in the person of Japanese women, saleroom in Mincing Lane on

The board of directors of the is taking up billiards, as shown by October & all the goods left in the

and Foreign Sailors a picture of one of the feminine London. Docks in recent years British clubs in Japan which is reproduc- were sold to defray the cost of Society, having come to the con- ed in one of the illustrated dailies. storage. The auctioneer polished clusion that the words "and.. off the first ninety lots in forty Foreign" in the name of the five minutes. He was as decided organisation have resulted in the The Government authorities

about selling a case of sharks fins alienation of a good deal of sup- are reported to have decided to demant that the Tokyo Fire and fer one shilling as he was in get-port, have decided to change the Marine Insurance Company handling rid of 177 bags of asbestoe name, to "the British Sailors ed over to the national treasury Y200,000, a part of the share of

By recent amendment to the company received from Mr. Yabachi Katacka as the result of Sections 14 and 15 of the Straits his recent success in the salvage. Settlements Ordinance, it is now.

There appeared to be a native of Y1,200,000 from the bottom of possible for British patentees to the Mediterranean Sea. The obtain a protection in the Straits tendency with some people to suffer salvage of the gold which went to Settlements corresponding to their inordinately from insect bites, said the bottom when the "Yasaka British patent. Messrs. Hughes Dr. R. Hobbs at an inquest at Maru" was sunk by the German and Young, patent agents. The Kensington Indirmary on William raider during the World War was Outer Temple, London, state that Hollpike. 12. of Shepherd's Bush, undertaken by Mr. Kataoka on the a patent can be registered in the who was bitten by an insect while TOÕÛÏZGÕ0. BÕURI«ncodyandan,429000900 contract with the insurance com- Colony by applying within three ring of a bus,. With others, pany that he receive 80 per cent. years from the date of the issue the doctor added, the effect of suc

The of the British patent, the applica DAN DAN KAMI NA DAN PALING WINE BARNAUD VÅDDE 1900 ADA DOLE JANE JOENE U VOU DE DE DE DE DE DE HERNAN DARI Sin the event of success,

Government claims the sum from tion, if the British patent isxperience only lasted a few minutes. Recording a verdict of: he insurance firm on the ground assigned, being made by the that it subsidised the company 20 assignee. The Federated Malay Accidental causes," the commer; per cent. of what it paid as pre-States and Johore have introduced Mr. H. R. Oswald, remarked on the mium for the gold lost when the similar amendments in the patent large number of deaths recently

from similar causes. veskel sank.

Prices are unusually moderate this fall.

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H.H. the Maharajah and H.H..

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A-grandson of the poet Robert

Brooklyn's 12-year-old poetess,

a

the Maharani of Dhampur. Southey lies dying of cancer in Natalia Crane, has just published Swansea Workhouse In-her second book of verse under the Her first Princess Jaswant Kunverta, and the

It appears

that title "Lava Lane." party reached the Colony yester-firmary. day by the

of he served in the War, and, having book appeared a little more than received a small pension, tramped a year ago. Since then the girl Australia."

the roads in the Gower Peninsula. has been invited to become M. R. Lusey, chier wireless The British Legion is doing every member of the Author's, Play wrights and Composers' Society of London. spoo joperator of the "President Cleve-thing it can for his comfort.

land," is a patient at St. Paul's Hospital and was not able to sail with the "Cleveland" when she left for Manila.

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Having crossed Canada, the nine British journalists brought Johnstone Villa, the old home to the country by E. W. Beattie, of his parents in Cambuslang, president of the Canadian Pacificnear Glasgow, has been presented Mrs. L. Dunbar, Mr. W. D.Railway, on the eve of their by Sir Thomas Lipton to Cam Goodfellow, Major and Mrs. R. R. departure for the east, united in buslang District Nursing Associa *"and Lewis, Rev. H. du T. Pyner, Mrs. stating that they had been unable ition as a residential home for to find any sentiment in the nurses. Sir Thomas recalled his. Eldon Potter, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. all kinds

Perdue, returned to the Colony Dominion favourable to annexa-associations, with the Serbian

"We

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have questioned every kind of thing would have pleased his man and woman wherever we mother more than to give their old Dr. M. F. de Silva, who has have met them, whether on station home for such a purpose. THE CHINESE BAZAAR,

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No other personage in the Right in the middle of the Assembly of the League of Chequers estate is a very beauti-Nations, perhaps, stirred so much ful hill known as "Cymbeline's public interest as the Maharajah Mount," which, though public, of Patiala, reputed to be the cannot be reached except by tres- wealthiest of India's reigning passing on the Prime Minister's potentates. He was listed among preserves. Someone complained the delegates as "Major-General about this to Mr. Baldwin not His Highness the Maharajah of long ago and suggested that there Patiala" with a formidable array of letters after his name: should be a public right of way.

G.C.LE., 'G.C.S.I.,

G.G.V.O., "There's no need," said the P.M., "as long as people know they can GE.E., A.D.C. In appearance he reach it. No one's going to might have just stepped out of the Arabian Nights, because on prosecute them. for trespassing-

top of his European dress he certainly not me!"

wears gorgeous turbans, of vari- ous briliant colours, wound around his head, jewelled earrings: and bracelets..

Siegmund Breitbart, "the strongest man in the world," is dead. For many years he enter tained audiences all over Europe Mrs. Elinor Mordaunt, the by his astounding feats of novelist, who has just returned trength He could drive a 10in. from travel in the East and in the nail into a block of wood with his Pacific Islands, tells an amusing fiat or break a horseshoe as. anatory of an adventurous jaunt in ordinary man breaks a pencil New Guinea. By way of escort, From a piece of cold iron he could the Governor allotted her twenty make a horseshoe, using nothing convicts, and having no fear but his fingers. One of his her life, but distrusting the pres favourite tricks was performed pensities of thieves, she made han with-anizoh bar which a dozen election Izam the murde people could not bent He took it They justified her confidence in his right hand and bent it while they delighted in their double by hitting it against his expected liberty, they were exi left arm. He rent strong chains platy in their behaviour, And as though they were paper, or bit tractable. The only drant through them with his teeth was that they were rather prou Great slaba of stone could be of their homicidal achievemen broken by throwing them against and

his head, and a motor car with six people in it could run over him

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