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

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THE CHINA MAIL

The fourth concert in afd of the Cathedral Organ fund is to be held to-morrow in the, Cathedral Hall at 6 pm

The Singapore Cricket Club believes it is practically certain that a Hongkong teary will visit Malaya in the coming, season

AND

GENERAL.

The Sanitary Board is to meet to-day at 4.15 p.m. At the Office building.

A letter from the Shak Development Co., Ltd relative to mosquito at Shuk 0 will bo ds cussed-de-to-day's Sanitary Board

meeting.p

One Chinose case of entorie A-public demonstration of the new Orthophonic Victoria grumofover (in the city district) was phone is to be held in Messrs.notified during the 48 hours end

Otherwise there "was, Moutric's store on Thursday next od Sunday.

Clean bill of health, from 10 am to 6 pm.

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During 1926 large sums, have ben subscribed by English Free mons for the charities in con- netion with the Craft, and an regate of £300 803, was raised the anniversary, Festivals of the three Institutions and the Mark Benevolent Fund! Last. year's total of 4246,321 is thus exceeded by over £54,000.

The Ordinary Yearly meeting of shareholders in the Hongkong & Shanghal Banking Corporation Ltd is to be held at the City Hall on Saturday February 27 at noon.

Brotests by a motion picture audience at Sheffield caused with

drawal of a film depleting the life. of the ex-Kaiser of Germany; at Doorn, his retreat in Holland. when the film started a man rose and cried: Take it off! A French woman who Jost her hus band in the war supported the pro test and the audience cheered as the film was stopped.

A feature of the shares recent ly lasued by the Dutch American Plantation Co., in Holland and America is that the shareholders, will be credited with interest on their investment at 6 per cent, por asnum until the time the estates that are now being opened come into bearing. It is fixed that the interest will accrue to and includ ing the financial year 1980: *

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The proceeds of the dancing

The old commission of HMS. displays by the pupila of Miss Daisy O'Keefe on February 18Hwkins" will leave. Hongkong and 20, are to be given to Earlto-day or to-morrow on HM.S Haig's: fund for disabled soldiers Yarmouth, and H.M.S. "Calliope": for Honie. The now crew have all and sailors.

he trunsferred from these ships to the "Hawkins," and are carrying

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A peculiar form of sickness that is. stated to have baffled the port medical auth orities up to the present has

Wild ducks, feeding on out practices. A number of men broken out among the crew

fermented grain deposited in a re-from HMS. "Tamar," "Durban" of the "William, Mitchell a British barque which arrived in mode marsh area in Oregon, have and other warships are also going died by the hundreds through some and their places have bean Melbourne recently after a pas- sage of 123 days from Campbell-alcoholic poisoning, is the reported by fresh hands brought out. town, Canada, during which she made to Oregon's game commis-by the "Yarmouth" and "Calliope." touched only at the lonely island stoner by public health laboratory

femists. It is assumed that the A terrible accident took place: af Tristan da Cunha.

mash was dumped by some manu- on the Hakone mountain railway All of on Saturday, January 10, when one An usually harsh musical facturer of illicit liquor. exitician is reported by the the birds examined were found of the electric cars started to run "Bangkok Times," which states with much enlarged crops full of backwards and eventually jumped the Hnes at a curve and fell over that recently in the Bangkok Nowheat and ryb.

ta elift on to the road 120 feet be- district a man was practising a

low. Fifteen persons in the car musical instrument known as the

Sir James Crichton-Browne, were Instantly killed and some ten Baraboo harmonice, when some un the grout neurologist, had some others vecolved serious injuries known disgruntled critic fired up thing interesting to say about In-Four of those kiled were women. through the floor. The musiciansomnia at a meeting which rodent-The car itself was totally destroy was taken to the Central Hospitalty considered the relationship of ed. The car. fell on à farmouse but died next day. The criticaleep to the health of school and demolished it, but luckily

children. Sir James made an in-there was no one in the house. teresting point with regard to On January 18 a deputationsterary men. He observed that The London Dally Express" of the Malay Political Associatier Dickens was sufferer, and that says: The modern little pull-on of Ceylon waited on Sir Hugh his family were able to tract the Hats, which are the joy of shingled Chord at Queer's House and pre- fortunes of his puppets, by the look women, would be doomed to instant sented him with an address of on his face at the breakfast tablo, death if the leading London welcome. Sir Hugh, replying in When "Little Nell' died, Dickens milliners had their way. The lat- Malay, said that he had lived broke down utterly as if he had ter declare that the present unt alost his own daughter.. It was formity is destroying their tradë, among Malayan people for period of over twenty years, and observed that the best of Sir Hall which is not half as brisk aa it was when women wore individual counted among his friends Malay Chine's work had been done dur

models. Unfortunately, a shingled princes and vajahs. When inng periods of insomnia England he met many of them.

head cannot. carry a picture hat, He was always happy to see

and milliners are unable to per Malayan people in any part of the

suade women te abandon the prac

Some London world. He was glad that the

tice of shingling. Malays of Ceylon had always

milliners have formed an organisa- maintained a high standard of

tion to influence the coming fash loyalty to the British flag, and he

lens against pull-on hats, but they congratulated them on having two

ure puzzled how to begin their propaganda. of their members in Council

has not been found!

Sir

Jumes insisted on the importance of indulging only in light recreation before going to bed; but this seems to conflict with his observations about the literary giants, who ter lainly worked late into the night and whose fnsomnia; with its ex- cellent results, was due to their expenditure of midnight oil

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr. G. W. A. Trimmer, Chair man of the Singapore Harbour Board, has returned from. Home leave.

Rassel! Colonel and Mra C. Brown returned to the Colony from Manila yesterday by the "President Jackson."

A lecture on "System: how it. Lieut.-Comdr. A. C Bucknall, helps Mankind," was delivered by R.N.R., has been appointed. Har- Mr. R. J. H. Sidney of the Vic-bour Master, Selangor, and took up torian Institution at the Selangor the duties of his office on Decem. Ceylon Tamils' Association Hallber 13... The Honourable Mr. H. H. A Gompertz, Chief Justice, F.M.S... presided

Segt. B. Taylor, of the Shang- hai Municipal Police Force, well-known hockey player in Shanghai, has found it possible to leave for Kuling in order to re- cuperate his health which has been in anything but satisfactory condition lately. Sgt. Taylor is. attached to Wayside Station.

The following are passengers for Hongkong in the "Khiva" which left London on January 15- Mr. A. Brawn, Mr. A. Brearley," Mr. J. B. Bruce, Mr. L. J. Davies, Mrs.

Girvin, Mr. A. I. Hopkins, Mrs. Hopkins, Lt.- Comdr. E. Hopkinson, R.N., Mr. F. E. Lane, Mr. McDougall, Ligut. R. F. Nichols, R.N., Mr... P. Palacios, Mr.. C. B. Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. A, T. Sabey, Mr. R. P. Shaw, Mr. C. J. Tecehi, Mr. G. G. Thomson,

The following are passengers for Hongkong in the "Morea" which left London on January 29Mr. J. E Atkins, MA W. Anderson/Mrs. A. Dyer Ball, Mrs. H: S. Bayne, Miss Butcher, Mr.. A. W. Burkill, Mr. D. McD. Buchanan, Hon. Mr. W. S. Carson, Mr. M. R. Dickson, Mrs., Edward Hornell and child, Mr. A. Ireson, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Kierke gaard, Mr. H. Keswick, Mr. W. J. Keswick, Mrs. C: C. Luurd, Mr. PJ Murphy Mr JM P McWalter Mr AH Mason M A-McLeod, Capt. W G H Miles. Mrs. Miles, child and nurse, Comdr. B. B. T. Mills, Mr. H. T- Nicholas, Mr. W. A. B. Osmund, Mr. H. E. Rogers, Mrs. Rogers and lafant, Mr. A. Rinch, Mr. T. I, Richards, Mr. 8. 8. Shepheard, Mr. and Mrs. Un

The following are due to leave London on February 12 on the "Devanha"-Mrs. A. Bradford, Mr. D. H. Farrar, Mrs. Farrar,." Mr. A. S. Hinchliffe, Mrs. Hinchliffe, Mr. C. Pain..

Queen Mother Margherits of Italy, who was gravely ill from influenza at Home and, a roported by Reuter at the time, muccumbed.

Mr. E. Lander Lewis, from the Shanghai office of Messrs. Holyoak Massey Co., has arrived in Hong- kong to take byer from the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyonk, who is going Home on leave at the end of March..

The body of M. Paul Kremer, former French Consul-General at Hankow, who died there recently, was placed aboard the French guri- boat. "Doudart de Lagre" and will be taken to France for interment.

The appointment of Me Wong Kwong-tin as a member of the Sanitary Board for a further, term of three years, relative to which the Government has addressed a latter, will come up before to-day's meeting of the Board:

The proposed appointment of Mr D. Davies, the assistant. secretary to act as secretary, více Mr. G. S. Kennedy-Skipton (tran- sferred to another department), will come up at to-day's meeting of the Sanitary Board..

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"The following have booked pas- Bages in the "Macedonia," scheduled to leave London February 26:Mr. A. H. Browne, Mr. W. R. Manafield, Capt.. M. G. O'Leary, Mr. Duncan Paterson, Mr. Ross, Mrs. Ross, child and amah, Mr. C. L. C. Sandes, Mrs. Sandes, child, infant and nurse: Mr. W. Wilson.

Sally Robinson, 14 year old daughter of Colonel James Parsons Robinson of Camp Stotsenburg and niece of John Van A.. MacMurray, United States Minister to China, died at Sternberg Gen- eral Hospital, Manila, from Burns, sustained when an alcohol stove exploded and enveloped her in a shoot of fames.

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