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THE CHINA MAIL.

LOCAL AND

GENERAL.

"St. Joan" has been drawing Warsaw is, to have a Wood- The Kendell Quartette, two. crowded theatre houses in Batin.row Wilsen Square. The city violins, viola and cell, is per- Jaathorities have decided to give forming in the FM.S., and may

the name of the late President to pay Hongkonga visit.

Nickel stirrups, now in use in the Army. are to be replaced by iron stirrups.

London

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square in the new part of Warsaw, now called Jolibochè..

Nearly $25,000 was distribut [ed to 20,000 members of the New Command Orders state that Prohibition is one of the chief Tabernacle Sick and Provident the collection on Christmas Day reasons for the United States Society at the "share out" on for the Waifs and Strays Society prospertly In the opinion of December 19. realised $23.53, and that this Francis E. Powell, managing. amount has been forwarded to director of the Anglo-American: At a sale of souvenirs-in aid 10 Company; who has just return-of St. Dunstan's, at Wembley,' a Fed from America. Speaking at cup of tea realised £2. I war The Committee of Lloyd's the Old Colony Club, Mr Powell first purchased for 17/6, but was Register assigned freeboards to said prohibition means that the again put up forsale. In the end 539 ships during the year 1924-money formerly spent on drink the auctioneer drank the tea. ・・ 25. At the end of June, the total now builds homes and finances. number of freebourds assigned to trade.

In place of the horse who vessels by the Committee, under

before his death acted as dinner- the provisions of the Merchant A posthumous lied and bell ringer at the Cricklewood shipping Act, 1894, was 24,852. minuet by Franz Schubert have Home for Horses, a new, inmate been discovered by the music his- is being trained for the duty with Suzuki Seijiro, aged 31, antorian. Otso Erich Deutsch, among the aid of a carrot as an addition- employee in. the Munitions the possessions of a granddaugh-at persuasion. Department of Yokosanka Naval ten of the composer's brother, Station, who offered to sell secret Karl. The lied was written to a During the past five years military documents to Dr. Jordan, poem by Count Stolberg, In the 6,000,000 War Medals have been an American citizen, for Y10.000, home of the descendants of distributed, but 200,000 are still and who was reported to the police Schubert's trusted man-servant, unclaimed. Those entitled to them by the prospective purchaser, has Josef Huettenbrenner, the his- cannot be traced by the War been sentenced by Court Martial topinn also found a hitherto un-office awing to their having to six years" penal servitude. known. Tyrolean waltz. of Jchanged their addresses.

Schubert. All three compositions

are to be pablished in December.

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Far away in north-eastern

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Repairs on Calle San Vicente, Manila, by the Manila

Purchased in Shanghai about sixty years ago, a palatial Chinese house-boat has been presented by Spr David Serjeant to the Siberia. on the frozen barks of Gas Corporation have brought a Libraries Committee of the Aldan River, something in the protest from Chinese merchants Camberwell Borough Council for nature of a Russian Klondyke has in the vicinity, signed petition the inhabitants of the borough been discoverett,

having been 'received at the offices Rich gold de- "as a memorial of one who has pokits have been found, and of the mayor and municipal board. passed fifty delightful among them." and it has been Union are pushing toward this action to restore the street in its years treasure-seekers from all over the The petitioners request the city placed in the 'Art Gallery... wild and inaccessible spot, which former condition.

authorities

Ha hundreds of miles away from any railroad. The journey from.

to

take immediate

An examination for manu scrip: curator will be given by the the nearest railroad centre to the Sir Leonard Rogers, speaking Bureau of Civil Service, Manila,Aldan by reindeer, horse or camel at the on January 23. Competitors will takes thirty so forty days.

Guildhouse, Eccleston- The square, said that as a result of not be assembled for the examina-Far Eastern Bank and the Far improvements in treatment, it tion, but will be rated on the basis Eastern State Trading Company was now possible to effect a com- of their applications. The resend regular supplies of pro-plete cure of leprosy in nearly 50 "quirements are the degree of visions for the miners.

Bachelor of arts, five years" ser- vice in a public library and fluency

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A large consignment of Cailler's Chocolates and California Fruits just received for the Festive Season.

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Bank of Canton Bullding.

per cent. of the cases. It had been estimated that there were

In the course of some clear-two million lepers in the world, ing up in the old Sadler's Wells 30,000 in the British Empire.

one million being in China and Theatre, London,, one of the an- The Nagasaki Press reports cient wells was discovered from that preparation is being made by which the theatre derived its The Seventh Annual Füir will the Jocal association of ex-soldiers name. The well had evidently he held in Brussels from April to carry out emergency practice been filled in in times past, but the 7 to 23 this year in the halls and In the latter part of January water had risen over the debris entirely closed park of the against an air raid on Nagasaki.with which it was choked. It is "Cinquantenaire," covering more The local young men's association, known that some 200-300 years than 140 acres of ground. Raw boy scouts, middle school students,ugo, a so-called "Holy Well" exist-materials and manufactured fire brigades as well as the ex-ed on the site which was supposed goody both of Belgium and for- soldiers' association will partici- to have wonderful healing pro-eign origin are distributed into 35 pate in the practice, which is to perties. It was because of the groups. thus enhancing the be carried out on a big scale.wells that Sadler bought the variety and richness of the dis- Lights will then be turned out for property and attracted the élite of plays. Fuller details will gladly a time, both ashore and afloat. London by building a "Musick be supplied by the Secretary Gen- The raiders will probably be House" and making it a place of eral of the Fair at 19, Grand

popular resort. naval planes from Sasebo.

SOCIAL AND

Mr. L. Yates left for Manila in the "President Lincoln' on Friday.

1. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Goodwin are passengers in the "President Grant" which left for Manila on Friday.

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Mr. E. Q. Cooper, of Messrs. L. Moore & Co., has arrived here: from Shanghai on behalf of the insurance companies interested in the Hongkong Hotel fire.

Among the passengers arriving on 3.3. "President Polk" due at Shanghai, to-morrow will be Miss Irene Mitchell of Chicago and Misa. Geraldine Dyson of the State af Illinois, who were winners in a contest. the first prize of which was a trip around the world on the Dollar Steamship Line.

Chiming that William Andrews CHY; Brd grandson of the Inte Saator Glark, the copper king of Montana, refused" to marry, der

he had promised to do so, Marguerith; MeNnity, how girl, hán started a breach of promise action for 100,000

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PERSONAL.

Mr. H. Bell, business manager Is will be interesting news to of the Shanghai Theatrical Enter-theatre goers, writes HL.H. from prises arrived here on Friday by Home to the "Straits Times," to the "President Grant" to make learn that there is a probability cf. arrangements for the perform-their seeing some really first rate ance at the end of the week of the Lordon attructions in the course Russian Imperial Light Opera of this year. The incomparable Company.

Pavlova contemplates another Eastern tour. Others who may make the venture are Mr. Oscar

Douglas Fairbanks and his Aache and Miss Lily Brayton, the wife, Mary Pickford, have applied famous pair who made theatrical Angeles for passports to Great Mr. Seymour Hicks and Miss at the federal offices in Los history with "Chue Chin Chow," Britain, France, Italy, Holland, Ellaline Terriss, now doing well Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, in "The Man in Dress Clothes," Japan and China. They said they Mr. Percy Hutchinson and his would sail from New York on company, and Miss Marie Tempest January 16 or February 2. and Mr. Graham Browne.

On reaching the Philippine Islands Major de Pinedo received a letter from a hundred school children at Balingtang which read: "We have never yet seen an airplane; will you be so kind as to fly over our school on your way

to Japan?" De Pinedo replied

that he would, and at the same time informed them of the pre- cise hour of his arrival""The Italian airman kept his word, although to do so meant a further prolongation of 200 kilometers in his fight...

A little item which appeared in the Society column of the news- papers recently ran as follows

The Frente and

Mme. de Fleuriau gave, a pri- vate dinner party at the French Embassy last night. The guests included the Belgian Ambassador and Baroness. Moncheur, the German Ambag sador and Frau Sthamér, the Brazilian Minister and the Japanese Chargé d'Affaires,

The was thie nizat occasion since August 1914, on which a French Ambassador in London has invited his Gurman colleague to his house. It was not an "official"" banquet, but it is at least a sign that the two countries are at last on the way to burying the hatchet

Strumming on her guit offerson Corbett,

daughter of Joseph Jakara

ed the patrons and patronasser Masked Ball of the Grammer Cab

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