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A young bittern was caught "According to the Chicago A code of motoring. on beare the White Star liner | Tribune" (Paris edition)s, women to be drawn up by a group of na- “Olympie" when about 600 miles are now able to insure themselves tionally known men. The code from New York on her homeward against failure to secure huslis sponsored by the American ¡voyage..

bands. The terms of these mar- Automobile Association, riage policies, instituted by a New Twenty-three cases of over-York company, provide for the landing push bicycles, in which payment of an indemnity to any 43 persons were involved, werely insured woman-maid, widow, or brought before Mr. W. J. Stark, divorced who finds herself single the Kuala Lumpur police magis on her fortieth, birthday. trate, the other morning. Fines ranging from $1 to $2 were im posed, tetalling $77.

Mr Rudyard Kipling is searching for a Kim, that is to say, an English boy capable of assuming that role. It is ex- pected that characteristic: Indian typos will be chosen for the alm which apparently is to be made in India.

The first big span of the Rama V bridge across the The collections in Pahang Menam at Bangsorn, Siam, was

The Kandy Maha Lana Sabha. for Ear Haig's Fund amount launched into its final, position has passed the following resolu already to over $7,600. The on November 8 A connecting tion, which it has submitted to contributions from the various span has now to be erected be the Ceylon National Congress for districts are as follow:-Kuala sween the end of the big and the scussion at the next Sessions of Lipis $1.550, Raub $200, Temer-Brat abutment. The completion the Congress to be held at ph $710, Pekan $460 Bentong of this finishes all work, from the Randy in December:-"That $530 Kuantan $4,160. The col fenstern bank; and the erecting capital punishment should not be Elections from part of the Kuantan plant will now be dismantled and imposed unless the verdict is a

district are not yet to hand, and re-erected on the west bank to unanimous one." there are various other small Jerry on the same work from that amounts to come in, so that it alde may be anticipated that the final total will be in the neighbourhood of $8,000.-M.M..

The mathematics of the new English postcard are worth some The Chancellor of the Ex-attention. The old one mensured chequer. has received £63 12, 48.5 inches by 3% inches, with from an anonymous donor, who a surface area of 19,5 square în- Mr. Cecil Roberts, author of stated that it was the amount ches. The new one measures 5% The Love Back." recently pubpaid to him as a clerk as balance inches by 1/8 inches, with a lished, says of the sheikhs whom of civil pay during war service, surface of 24.23 inches. That he met in Tunisia, that They To support the Government's means an extra four and three- carry umbrellas, wear sock sus efforts in effecting economies he quarter inches of writing space- penders, and the Singer sewing had decided to pay the amount a concession which the holiday- machine advertisement can be into the national Exchequer.maker may or may not appreciate, found near every mosque." The £20 has also been received from There is no doubt that part of the first thing that met the eye of another anonymous donor as a attractiveness of the picture post- Mr. Roberts when he entered contribution towards the Budget. card is the extremely limited space Kairouan, one of the Holy CitiesThe Chancellor desires to express left for, writing when the artist of Islam. was a huge model of a his thanks for these generous has done his work. molar tooth hanging outside the gifts. shop of an Arab whose sign an- nounced "American Dentistor."

A child of five was too young to go to school, as it overtaxed the brain, declared Dr. H. B. Savage, house surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, at an inquest on a boy killed in a street accident.

"Their brain is not in a state to learn until they are seven," said the doctor."

Younger children get overtaxed. and that accounts for a lot of trouble:

Coroner: Would you allow Ichild of five to go to school?

Dr. Savage: No, I would not

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A second attempt is being A priza contest for the opera- made to bring a Zurich professor sion of the abacus, or sorában, to the University of Wales. held recently at the Central When some time ago,. University: Hall in Ote in commemoration of College, Swansea, appointed Dr. the 50th anniversary of the Weinstein part time demonstrator establishment of the postal saving in mathematics, the Ministry of syster in Japan, was won by Labour refused to permit him to Mikiko Miky, 48 years old, woman come to the country on the ground employee of the Transfer Saving that mathematicians were avai Section of the Postal Savings inble here. The council of the Bureau. She has been the holder college by seven vote to ve has of the record for 35 years. Her again decided to reappoint him. record in adding 200 advice ships, and one of the dissenting mem- each containing from three to sixbers of the council has now numerical figures, by the use of written to the Ministry of Labour abacus is 3.20 minutes. More urging that the refusal to grant than 40 experts on the instrument him a permit should be reaffirm- participated in the contest. *ed.

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Mr. and Mrs S. J. Hicks, re- turned to Shanghai by the P. & 0. S. "Kashmir."

The Hon. F. S. Calthorpe will

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the West Indies. They are sail- ing from London for the Barbados on December 16. Tennyson is !member of the team.

PERSONAL

Mr. L.A. Forster, E.A. Re- gistrar of Hongkong University, has arrived in Shanghai for the purpose of making an inspection of schools.

of the Rev. C. Wilfred Scott, of The engagement is announeed the Church of England Mission. Tientsin, to Miss Stevensort of the staf of the Tientsin Gram mar School.

The Hon. E. Lyttelton, formerly head of Eton, has contributed this bright suggestion:---

What a different thing our. lives would be if there were at hotels people who would unite in singing choruses and part songs, instead of, as at present,. talking the most intolrable bosh of the hour...

Tokyo, November 9.The training ship "Twate" with 118 naval cadeta, including Prince Hironchu Fushimi, left Yokosuka this morning, on a five months' (cruise, including Australia,

The engagement is announced of Lilian, youngest daughter of ||Mr. and Mrs. Graham Hutchison,

named Thomas Thompson had of Dalvey House Dalvey Estate,

died from his injuries he decided Singapore, to Captain G. A. Mr. H. W. Hughes, of Malacca, to return home. The journey Stephenson, The Middlesex. Regi-for many years resident director took him two days.

So that he could surrender to Mr. E. C. Haile, for some years the Irish police, Noel Jackson, of Shanghai agent for the Pacific Bangor, Co. Down, flew home by Mail, has now associated himself aeroplane from the Sudan.. Jack-

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with Dean Witter & Co., Bond son had been involved in a motor Brokera, of San Francieco Seattle accident, and left soon afterwarde and Los Angeles, with his re for Egypt. Hearing that a man sidence in Los Angeles.

and general manager of Dunlop Plantations has been medically

The Ven. F. H. de Winton re-advised against a further pro- tires from the Archdeaconate of longed-stay in the East and has Colombo after forty-six years therefore decided to resign his labour in the ministry of this post and remain iu England. Colony, and it is interesting to note that, having been ordained priest in 1877, he is within two years of hie Sacerdotal Jubilee

land's most noted writers of to Baroness Orczy, one of Eng day creator of "The Scarlet Pim- pernel and other favourites of Mr. V. Grosse of Shanghai fiction lovers, recently arrived at acknowledges "with" grateful Quebec on board the Montnaire to thanks the receipt of $5,000 from gather data for a novel on "Old Messra. Butterfield &,Swire for Quebec and another on the "Wild Russian relief work. This gener-West." The. Baroness expressed ous donation has been made in herself as charmed with the appreciation of services rendered scenery of the St Lawrence. by Russian crows in vessels of the China Navigation Co during the `recent strike...

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Among prominent passengers by Canadian Pacific Steamships Princess Mary has promised to recently have been Lord Buckmas- perform the naming ceremony at. ter, the former Lord Chancellor of the launch of the Rodney from Great Britain, Sir Ronald Mac- the yard of Messrs. Cammell, Leay, KCM Laird, Ltd., Birkenhead-on Deed British Minister ta cember 17 The occasion will be Lindy MacLeay...” Col. - interesting, and may prove bis Sidney Péel D.S.0, and Lâd torical. The “Rodney" is the last Peel, also BC Newto battleship under const

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