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TUESDAY..

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

and

SATURDAY

Dinners served from 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.

Special Menus on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Price ... $3.50 Price $2.50 Regular Menus on Tuesdays and Thursdays..... DANCING AND MEALS A LA CARTE UNTIL MIDNIGHT

SUNDAYS:-ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS during tiffin and fernoon tea.

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LOCAL

THE CHINA MAIL.

The annual meeting of the Kowicon Rus/dents Assoolatien is to be held on February 2

The return of notifiable dia

for the 24 hours ended Tuesday shows ono Chinese casu of diphtheria..

The northern part of Japan has been experiencing snowstorms this month which are described as the heaviest soon for 35 years.

The Nan Yuan Golf Course, in Peking was opened on January 17, making the third links, in Peking. The course at prosent rumbers. Inina holes but arrangements have been already started to enlargo it to 18.".

J

AND GENERAL.

Willesdon defendant: 1 am a bricklayar and bulid houses for other people, but cannot get one for myself.

The committee of the Hong kong Chinese General Chamber of Commerce meets at 2:30 p.m. to morrow (Friday) to discuss mat tors of importance.

There has lately arrived over 2,000 barrels of coaltar for the Malacca Municipality and P.W.D... and It is understood that a heavy programme of road construction is to be carried out this year.

An advertisement appears in

0. assistant the "Times" for health offear for the Municipality of Singapore, unmarrieil, not over'

Salary $600 per month, thirty.. rising to $680, with transport allowances.

The "Court System of. Great Britain" was the subject of a lecture given yesterday, at the Chinese Y.M.C.A., Shanghai, by

H.M.S. Cairo, on her way from Mr. R. G. McDonald of the firm of Teesdale, Nowmun and McDonaldTrincomalee to Calcutta, sighted in a waries of talks on courts of the brigantine Delhi, 831 tons, the various nations represented inderelict, and a danger to naviga

tton. The Cairo towed her Shanghah

Trincomalee under circumstances: of considerable diMculty.

.........

With two Magistrates alt- Hng together at the Kowloon Court yesterday, a Chinese wan sentenced to three years hard labour on a charge of unlawful possession of a revolver and five rounds of ammunition."

Eight men were required ta carry the coffin of Tutankhamen, which was brought to Cairo from Luxor and fa now in the Cairo Museum. The Intrinsic gold value of the coffin la estimated at $40,000.

There

A native picked up what a p. peared to be a lead pencil outside the Assistant Resident's office at Djocja. On reaching home, he tried to open the pencil. was an explosion in consequence of which the Ander had to be con- veyed to the Military Hospital, states the Sumatra Bode.

Some Christmas records in London. Highest temperature 57' degrees: in

1882.

Lowest, B dogroes (24 degrees of

frost) in 1860.

Never more than 6 degrees of frost.

since 1906.

Thore will be a rally of Singapore Boy Scouts at Govern- ment House on Saturday January The steamer "Lady McCullum" Never entirely sunless since 1912.

entirely 130 at 4.15 pm, at which the sank half an hour aftor striking a December 24-27 nover

without rain or snow since 1907. Chief Seous for Malnya, H.E. Sirock off Ceylon a fortnight ago. i Laurence N."Guillemard, K.C.M.G.,. All the boats were lowered within Worst snowstorm, Boxing Day, KIC.B., and Lady Guillemard, will twenty-five minutes of the crash. 1886 (9 to 14 inches: in suburbs). The lights failed about tem Five Christmas fogs this century. be present. On this occasion Mr. Frank C Sanda.. Comratasioner for minutes after the collision, as aj Malaya, will be presented with the result of the engine-room being

Most people here, phys the M.B.E.. decoration and parchment, flooded. Only two lives were lost Malay Mail" know the Mission and after various displays by those of Master Abeywardene to Seamen collecting boxes which the several local troops, Lady and the Captain's servant-boy, 20 are placed in the Selangor Club Guillemard will distribute the balderly Bengali Mohammedan,

and in the bar at the Station, and therefore the figures for the past. trophies for 1925. '

few years may be of some interest.. They are as follows:-1922, $47.99; 1923, $30.98 1924, $29.93; 1925,

beer. seem to have been more numerous.

With a view to testing the cancer theory advanced last July by Dr. W. E. Gye and J. E.

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imperial poetry contest held at the Barnard, it was disclosed that six $21.78. Curiously enoughy donors HONGKONG & TERRITORIAL ESTATES, LTD.

hnd physicians

More than 26,000 poems were submitted for the annual Japanese

Imperial Palace on January 18. London

to The 10 best poems were be Inoculated with living cancer in slump years than in prosperous presented to the Empress for her germs and that not one of them ones-but perhaps they had then calls on their puraes. perusal. More than 100 contri- showed any indication of the dis- fewer butions came from Japanese Hving care. The Gye-Barnard theory is The Mission, to Seamen does good in California, Hongkong, Singa- that cancer is caused by a non work. In providing Homes for pore and other parts of the world. filterable virus which is harmless sailors at the great ports and in. Among the contributory from if a certain chemical agent, called protecting them from the land who. abroad was Mrs. Matsudaira, wife by Dr. Gye the "specific factor," sharks; male and female, of the Japanese Ambassador to the is absent. The physicians were would quickly deprive them of well de- United States. The Empress her inoculated with the cancer geam their earnings, and is self submitted a poem. ".

minus the "specific factor." serving of public support.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr. W. G. Goggin returned to the Colony yesterday from Manila by the "President Madison."

Mr. F. W. Mackie, of the firm of Pearson, Mackie, Atwall & Co., in Kuba, expects to leave the latter part of this month for a trip to England and Scotland.

Mr. H. Edwin, V. Andrews of the C.A.M., Chefao, was married to Miss Grace A. Funk of the

January 19 at Foochow.

Mr. T. L. Fox has been appoint- ed secretary of the Selangor Turf Club.

Senate President Quezon and seven members of the supreme na- tional council left on an extensive tour through Mindanao on January 28.

་

Mr. Basit de Souza, a student

Mr. Grant Jones will be raturn- of the King Edward VII College of Medicine, and the second- son

ing to Hankow as Vice-Consul of Dr. F.O. B. de Souza, of Singa: shortly, Mr. Orden being transfer- the 16th red to Klukiang and Mr. Davidson instant by the P. and 0. mal leaving that port for Peking, steamer Macedonia to continue states. the "Central China Peat." and complete his medical educa

pore,

оп went home

G. FALCONER & CO. (HONGKONG) LTD. A.B.C.F.M., Shaowa, Fukien, on- tion at the Edinburgh University, ing boat, in which Commander de

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THE RITZ

The memorial hospital erected by the Chinese for the late Futher Angelicus Melotto, of the Roman Catholic Mission, who was killed by bandits in Hupeh in 1923, was opened on January 14 by Marshal Haino Yao-nan in the presence of Chinese and foreign afficials and representatives.

where his father studied as A Queen's scholar from the St. Joseph's Institution.

The log of the "Savoin," the

Pinedo made the 65,000-kilometer flight from Home, around Aus- tralia; to Tokyo and return, will soon appear in a book written hy the popular aviator. The book will contain valuable notes on long dis- tance overseas flying and will describe strange and variod, ex- periences which he and his

Campanelli, The de mechanician,

had together in landing on foreign coasts, in hitherto unknown basina and rivers and in their reception. and departure from many capitala. of the Orient.

Mr. P. H. Hendry, jeweller of Kuala Lumpur, has been favoured with an order to design in silver the Coat of Arms for H.H. the Sultan of Pahung's car.. aign is as follows:-Arms Sable, Chogan between two elephant tusks crossed surrounded by an eastern crown, Argent supporters Messra. Lowe, Bingham &on either side a sea lion. Argent, Matthews, accompanied by a $10 crined, finne and tufted and note, given anonymously, with the gorged with a collar gach support. request that this money should being a chosan erect. divided between St. Andrew's and

Says the "N.-C. Daily News": We have received a cheque for GALANTARUM), || $254, contributed by the staff of

Meals à la Carte at all hours from 8 A.M. to 12 Midnight

Xmas, Wedding and Christening cakes to order:

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

Only the best Food and Wines served. Alexandra Building

Nowell B. White Telephone C 2336

Proprietor.

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St. George's Societies in memory of Mr. Eric M. Ross, who had at one time been. Vice-President the former institution. We have forwarded $82 to the hon. trea surers of each society.

A titled girl of nineteen is run- ning a wine business in London and with it a juncheon club for business men. She is the daugh ter of an English Army officer and Mrs. F. Garland Ipoh, writes to lately succeeded to the title of an the "Times" of Malaya: "I can uncle, Baron de Beck of the hot say yet what Malaya has col-Papal aristocracy, who owned a lected for the Poppy Fund, but it wine business with headquarters certainly will be far in excess of in Rome.. The young Baroness de- According to an announcement laat year-probably in the neigh cided to develop the business in made prior to his departure from bourhood of £9,000. Bar Haig London, so she rented offices and Shanghai, Mr. G. D. Musso who is writes that it is too soon to foreformed a limited company with en route for Italy at the present cast the amount rained by the herself as the chief director. This time where he will spend about Poppy Day Appeal, but the returns was four months ago and the six months, plans to publish a show that the claims of distressed Baroness says she is doing splen book dealing with certain phases ex-Service men and their depend didly, although she had no pre- of China before his return. The ants received generous support.

vious business training book will be published in Italy and He thanks those who subscribed promlass interesting feature of and all, who pasisted in carrying Mr. Musso's numerous contacts in out the collection. China. Mr. Musso is a member of the legal firm of Musso and Fischer and was one of the captives in the Shantung bandit outrage a few years ago, hum

Those élected to lenta, on the Shanghai French Municipal Coun

Captain R.N.RE known to

active taker

and Company, Manil Phillips have just returned an extended trip cond

Phillips was president of the Monday Musical last yea Their

Jave the States.

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