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It is stated that the sub- Baription to the Kowloon Golf Club is to be reduced; from 23. to $2 per month; w.

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GENERAL.

Leicester Corporation have contracted for the erection of 500 houses at £515, and £465 each.

Shanghaty Volunters are to have no camps this Easton, A Camp may be held in the autama

Penang has carrived off the All are cordially Inviter to two Queen's Scholarshipa for attend the 36th annual meeting of Malaya, the successful students the Hongkong Benevolent Society coming from St. Xavior's Institu- at the Cathedral Hall on Wedneation and the Penang Free School day (February 24) at 11 am.

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A total of 16,620lb. of fetter mail left Britain by air in 1928. This is an increase on previous figures. The weight of the out angeing parcel air mails on the whole of the Continental services was: 50,000lb.

Over 100 women have writton to the Mayor of Bath to apply for the post of wife to the Queensland farmer with 1,200 acres and honest face who applied for help

his matrimonial search.

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Booking opened to-day at the Anderson Music Store for the Hongkong Amateur Dramatic ¡Club: production of Lord Dunsany's "1" "which" is so take pince from March 2 to 6 in the Theatre Royal

One of the biggest financial settlements of the year was con- cluded when the London General Omnibus Company paid a choquo for 3823,796 to the London County Council in respect of the renewal of "General" bits licences.

The variable climate of Shang-

Difficulty experienced by hal which makes it so difficult to motoriste in seeing pedestrians at keep the majority of musical in- struments in tune has had Its night if they are dressed in black or other dark clothing was men- effect on the new Cathedral organ.. itioned at a Romford Inquest Although the utmost care

wase driver of a car that fatally taken in the choice of wood and

injured Mary Ann Hant, 73, of other material used in its

con iford, said he tried to avoid a struction it has recently given the dark object four yards ahead, but tuners a great deal of extra work found it impossible. When, he and trouble. It 18, however, be pulled up he found the woman, coming successfully acclimatised to the extremes of humidity and who was dressed in black, lying

near the side of the car.. dryness which are experienced in the Far East..

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Since the beginning of the year, receipts of the Underground. Electric Rallways Co. of London have totaled £12,847,050, an in- crease of 2498,868, over 1924.

"My prizes for good be havlour" said a Tottenham school- boy duplaying to his mother a bag fall of toys and a book. It was found later that the "prizes were the proceeds of a stolen" postal order of 5. The boy was bound over at the local police court.

Approximately 400 unlicensed re-arms of various kinds and makes which have long been in

stabalary and never claimed by the possesion of the Manila con their owners shortly will be dump ed into the sen outside of Manila by according to a decision of General Rafael Crame approved by the department of the Interior..

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John Buchan has decided to: agree to the alming of Hunting-- tower and the screen atory will be a Eritish production The chief cessatlantic competitor was Douglas Fairbanks, who offered a big price for Colonel Bushan's story. The setting of "Hunting tower" is Northern Scotland, and Boy Scouts, of course,, figure pro- minently in it, so that, without deviating from the book in essen-- tials, it will be easy to make a film that shall honour the Boy Scout movement.

All doubts as to where this

year's Cup Final is to be played FounSocialists are accepting were dispelled when the Football to Aacciation announced that the The Philippine Library and the offer of Lady Astor, M.P',.. Museum has received a splendid pay their passage to Russia on con- great fixture will again be staged gift from the Italian community diffen that they stay there for two at the Stadium on Saturday, April presented by the Consul of Italy years. The offer was made in a 24 The chairman of the EA. and Mr. Lamoglia, a well-known speech in which, allyding to said that "satisfactory arrange- businessman and proprietor of ERusia, she said that there was ments" had been made with the Ex- Meridian in Escolta. The gift con- no rush to that country, even by hibition authorities. Difficulty had: sists of the famous and masterly those who pretended It was such arison because the Stadium cannot work of the noted sculptor, G. E. a paradise. Immediately applica-be opened even for one day unless Tolentine, the original in pláster tions began to roll in, and between rutos are paid at the full year's of paris of the fascist which 80 and 40, people wanted to know amount-28,000, and last year the the author has called "Saluto more about it. Further Informa-Wembley authorities share of the Romano, valued at P2,000.00:tion was forwarded and a rather "gade" was £6,000 Returfing of It was through the efforts, of ominous silence enuod Director Epifanio de los Santos silence has been proserved by all thas this donation to the Philip but four of the applicants, and the too Fate to pine Library and Museum, was others secured.

SOCIAL

Mr. R. C.Wilcox, The late formerly of Hongkong, £48,497.

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This the Stadium pitch is a matter that will now have to be tackled., When the pitch was returfed for laat. year's Final nearly 200,000 square: feet of turf was' required.

AND PERSONAL.

Captain Caithrpp-Calthrop, Mas- luftter Attendant at Singapore, leaves for England at the beginning of April

Mr. J. E. Hawker and Mr. A. D. Calloway are passengers in the President Piens" which has left for San Francisco via Northern ports.

Philharmonic

The Hongkong Society is in active rehearsal for the concert it is to give in April. Mr. W. R. Fleming is the con- ductor.

Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Lambert, Mr. Fred Ellis, and Mr. A. Ccbb are passengers in the "Pre- sident McKinley" which has left for Manila.

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Robert Graves, one of the most distinguished of the younger ricets, has been appointed ProfessOT English Literature at Cairo, and ñas salled to take up the duties there.

Like other famous lawyere, the late Mr. Charles King Francis, the Westminster magistrate, who has loft £24,500 failed to make his own will satisfactorily. Owing to several alterations and interiinca- tions in the document affidavits regarding its execution were re- quired before. it could be executed

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There was a great gathering::of past and present Manchester. Guardian men at the dinner to C. Montague at the Reform Club, Manchester, on his retire ment after thirty years of active Journalism Among the speakers were Mr. CP Scott Mr H W Nevinson, Sir Basit Clarke and the Editor of the "Spectator

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One of the senior medical women missionaries in India, Dr. Agnes E. Henderson, daughter of the Ikte Sir William Henderson, has died in London. She received the M.B.E.. in 1923.

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An American woman. Coorge Osborne, who Helen Mason, and who has been established at Nica for six years, las reported to the polles the theft of 250,000 francs in cash nd jewellery worth 500,000 francs. She says she intended to purchase a piece of property, withdrew the necessary funds and concealed them in a piece of lace behind a shelf of books in her library.

Princess Mary's visit to Lord

Mr. Rudyard Kipling has been and Lady Harewood on Christian, Day was not by any means a awarded the Gold Medal of the formal one, nor is it a rare thing Royal Society of Literature, accord for the Princess and her children ing to news from Lendas. Lord When Balfour made the presentation. to visit Harewood House.

are in residence" at The Morning. Postim "a" lang they Goldsborough Hill which is but article on Kipling's contribution to a few miles away dearcaly a day literature, says that the award is. passes without their calling to see an honour to the Society as well Lady Harewood for a few minutes.as to the recipient, and suggests The elder boy is sometimes allow that the public debt to this man of

ed to pay his grannie a visit of a genius is too little acknowledged. few days duration, a very special

John D. Rockefeller, Sr., usher- treat which they both enjoy, for

Master, George" is as fond ofed in the new year with a round Lady Harewood as he is of his of golf over the country club links at Osmond Beach Mr. other "grannie."-Queen Mary..

Rockefeller had as his partners General Adelbert Ames, of Massachusetts, and Mrs H B. Warner eter his granddaughter. Miss Muriel McCormick, and Tito O Scipa, the Chicago Opera singer, and Rockefeller's house guests. fained them In their game. The oil magnate's game showed him in good form. His shots were short and straight. HadirndlgerTERON

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