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'Charley's Aunt le the attrac tion at the Queen's Theatre,

an uproarious farce.

It is

THE CHINA MAIL.

AND

GENERAL.

The loss of a bypewriter, valued Andres Cantos, a watahman of at $800, has been reported to the the Philippine Normal School was police by Mr. Bow of Meaars. robbed of P40 the other tight. Ho Dodwell and Co., Ltd. The machine told the police that as he was pray- One Chinese case of para-was stolen from the office some ing in the school, two men attack typhoid fever was recorded for the time between Tuesday and Friday.

You ha" 24 hours ended Thursday.

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Mr. Robert Goorgs Bates, of Shopperton, Middlesex, who has died, aged 77, started, to ride motor-cycle at 72 and earned to drive a motor-cur last yoara ba

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millionaire has The Eastern Extension Telegraph A Nagoyn Company notifies that telegrams for offered a bonus of a million yen Harbin and other places in Man-to anybody who succeeds in In- churis are accepted for transmia-venting an aerial storage battery sion via Irkutsk as $0.60 per word capable of generating several hun- for ordinary telegrams and $080 [dred volts, but occupying only one- per word for press telegrams. Thundredth as much space as the

batteries now in use.

The weather was so cold up in Hokkaido the other avoning. says the "Osaka Asah that even the oil in the kerosene lamps and agament of the port of Colombe

frozen.

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An important addition to the

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Convinced of the Inadequacy the ink in desk inkwell werely a amart little tug. the Mario of present sources of city income, The temperature in Regine which, arrived from home,Councilors Manuel de la Fuente Obihiro, Island was 30 degrees on January 14 in charge of Captain has recommended to the majority below...

Levack. On November 4, she left councilors enactment of an ordin- the Mersey for Colombo and enance taxing dancing paviliona, in route experienced the worst of fanila hotele and restaurants. Mr. de la Fuente asserted that voyage occupying dance halls are practically opera weather, the

the Manlia ting in

Hotel altogether 71 days

Goulicte's, Tom Dixie: Kitchen: The number of vessels which and other big restaurants, without Hotels entered Ceylon ports during the paying taxes to the city. year, according to the Customs re- and restaurants giving free dance turns issued recently, was 13.881, to patrons are making so much and their total tonnage: 11294.988. money that they are well able to

taxes, he said. The port of Colombo dealt with pay more Almost the whole of the colony's councilor explained extensive shipping 2,963 vessels with an police and fire protection extended. Aggregate tonnage of 10,858,326 to reputable hotels and restaurants, tona having entered Colombo bar-Janother justification for assessing bour during the year. Of theatrem.. Kesela 2,207 were steamers, while

How the "get-rich-quick" public was preyed upon for years by the three brothers Manderie the we-known city Ananciens aged 57,.56 and 502 was revealed at the Old Bailey' where they were: found guilty and sentenced to six years' penal servitude each. The police gave evidence that. £500,000 would be a modest estimate of the amount they had defrauded the public by floating bogus com- panies The Mandevilles owned a lown house and a country mansion and once ran a newspaper called the Financial Ma The Judge Hoped the facts of the case had im-

credulity.

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287 were, sailing vessels, and in Lighthouses

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this year with establishment of three lighthouses, with dwellings instead of four as proposed, and four minor ones, the lighthouses board of the bureau of commerce. and industry reports to Director Fidel A. Rayes. A number of new buoys and beacons also are planned,

A competition has been in- stituted by Mr. Clement H. Biddle The Social Department of the of New York for pupils in the Kobe Municipality has in mind six secondary and higher elementary undertakingre, mainly for social schools of the world The prizes purposes, which it hopes to realise amouns to the sum of about $250, at a cost of Y4,000,000.The un and are tothe awarded for the best dertakings include more arrange- short essays on the twelve figuresments for nursing homes, dispen. The carrying out of these projects in human history, men or women,saries, Municipal pawnshops, em- is made possible with the special. deemed worthy of remembrance as ployment offices, cheap Jodging the world's greatest herdes. It is house, slum improvements, etc. not required that the eaanys should Full details will be announced shortly. Apart from this! the De partment has decided to reclaim the Omo pond in western Kobe, so as to use the land for Municipal residential quarters.. Some sixty houses will be built, which can be required by payment of monthly instalments.

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SOCIAL AND

"Another "Ladies' Night" is to be held at the Kowloon, Y.M.C.A. on (Thursday next..

Major-General Sir J. S. Fowler, formerly G.0.0. at Hongkong, spoke at the United Service. Institution, White-hall S.W.. on "The Chinese: Armies of the Present Day" January 13.

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Mr. A. N. Ovens has been ap pointed acting Consul General for Great Britain at Robe, ME W. Massy Boyds, the Consul-General having lest on the P & 10 8.87) "Malwa" on January 28 on nine months' furlough.

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The "S.S. Government Gazette” contains the following 'notifies- tionaMr R., E. WINgresa to be an Assistant Government Analyst, Singapose: Mr. J. S. W. Arthur to officiute as D. P. P. Penang: Mr. E. A. Winnington-Ingrum to be a Cadet M.CS.

A note in the current issue of the Gramophone states that the

of Prince

Wales's record on "Sportsmanship" issued in Septem- ber, 1924, has been so successful that profits amounting to £1,545 up to June, 1925, have been handed to the British Legion.

Sir James Crichton-Browne, the eminent alienist, is now recovering from an attack of appendicitis. Recently he published in the "Glasgow Heraid" an interesting. sories of articles designed to show that Burns died not of drink, but of rheumatism with complications.. These are to be published in book form in due course.

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a.m.; on

allotment of P225,000 for Hght- houses, in addition to P126,000 for The new regular maintenance, Hghthouses will be located on one. of Dos Hermanas Islands (former y proposed for Tres Reyes Island)); Sulung Island; and Tubbataha Reef; with minor ones upon which will be fixed red lights at Bantayan, Cebu: Castilla, Sorsogon, Bacoyon Eohol; and Ernani, Samar..

PERSONAL.

Mr. H. J. F Bentinck, who wasi with the Chartered Bank, Ipoh, be-- "fore going on leave, is now,station-

ed at Rangoon.

Captain Day. MC., has been allowed to resign his commission in the Straits Settlements Volun- teer Force.

Mr. J. R. H Scovell, the well known lawn terala player, has rep turned to Kuala Lumpur from Home..

A KOWLOON BRIDE

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Mr. J. R. G. Wyatt, who was married on Tuesday at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, to Miss Isabella A Blair, of the "Central British School. Baron

When Sir Charles Ellot was Vice-Chancellor of the Univeraity of Hongkong, it was said he spoke 22 languages. Sir Edward Denteon Rose, Professor of Persian at London University, goes, two better. He is said to speak 24 languages!

British Charles Eliot, Ambassador, left Tokyo at 10.60 February 1 Shidehara, Foreign Minister; Dr. Ikki of the Imperial Household Department, other Court digni- taries, Ambassadors and Ministers, officials from the government de partments, and numerous other personages were on the platform as the train pulled out. Bir Charles stopped over at Shidzuoka and later continued his journey to Kioto and Kobe. The British

The Duchess of York at the Association of Japan, Kobe best of times, i

never very robust Branch, entertained the dis in health, and at the moment, says tinguished visitor at dinner at a home paper, kindly anxious eyes the Kobe Club. During the❘ are upon her. Games and dancing? period, which will elapse before, Sirare more or less forbidden, and John, Tilley's arrival, Mr. C F. J. she will live a very quiet life for Dormer, Councillor to the Em the next few months. Although basly, who arrived in Tokyo late in January, will have, charge of Affairs. The now Ambassador de expected about, the middle of this month

she has that happy gift of being able to enjoy life to the full, she will not mind these temporary | curtailments, for they are made for

the happiest of reasons.

Dean Inye says that it is quite unnecessary to go to Aus- tralia or Central Africa" to findi the savage; he is our next-door neighbour...

Mr. Cox Sproule, & younger brother of the Hon. Mr. Justlee Pujsne Judge, Sproule, Senior Penang, is now practising as a proctor in Kandy, Ceylon."

The refusal of the Rev. W: Pennington Bickford, of St. Clement Danes, Strand, to marry ja Catholic: bridegroom to a Prom testant bride was followed -by-o blessing in the church after the civil ceremony had taken place at a register office..

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Mr Wee Thiam Hock of FMS has been successful in obtaining the diplomas of LR.C.P., L.R.CS. (Edin.), and LM. (Dublin), and is at present carrying out. further studies in the diseases of children and the skin at Ormond St. Hospital, London.

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late William The

Jennings Bryan, whose last public appear- ance was at the Scopes Trial at Dayton, Tennessee, had before his death begun his autobiography. This has now been completed by his widow, and an interesting volume will appear in the spring.

Mr. Tin Fow-tak, the Vice- President of the Klang branch of the Selangor Anti-Oplum Society, has died after a few days' ilinesa at his residence. in. Sultaq-st, Klang. In his life time he render- ed great services in connection. with charitable works, and notably the opium smokera, and his death is a great loss to the community.

Baron Hayashi, explaining why. young Princes come to England to learn, „súys' England is "the best country in the world to provide future rulers with experience and knowledge," because there is quiet, peace, commonsense and what is very rare in the world to day-a reason to feel certain of the futuro."

Prince Chichibu, and Marquis Hosokawa, are going to scale the Alpatogether. Prince Chichibu, who is row in England, will meet ††Marquis "Hosokawą in Switzerland, Accompanying the party will be Mr. Maki, whose explalts in the Canadian Rockles last year brought This name further into the moun

laineering limelight, Viscount Moritaks, Nagaoka, Baron Tomoyu Matiul and Baroness Matsui will also be of the group.

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