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On Wednesday the Colony had clean bill of health

Sume deposited in the Post Office Savings Bank during last year totalled £81,050,397, and at due to a depositóra was £280- the close of the year the balance

The annual meeting of the Hongkong and Shanghat Banking Corporation will be held at noon to-morrow at the City Hall A full report will be inserted in the A special tribunal at Calcutta

Dr January 22 sentenced an Indian873,438 "China Maily subscribers edition to 18 months rigorous Imprison- fer to-morrow

mont for Importing pistols and ro-. volvera from Rangoon and Singa pore

Owing to circumstances over which the Committed. have no con-. trol has been decided not to hold the Annual Dinner of the St. David'a Society thle your. Members are requested to meet at the Cenotaph at 10.30 am on March 1

abdomen.

The Exchange, Banks will open for the transaction of Publie Bust hous at 9:30 am. on Monday; Tuesday and Wednesday, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd proximo, and close, at ig: Noon..

In the first 12 days of this month 1,400 dogs were destroyed. at the people's dispensaries for sick animals in London, which ex- ceeded the total (1,100) for the whole of December.

The Earl of Birkenhead, as Secretary of State for India, has A money changer of Enichikok

received $1,000 from an anonymous received Road, Shamshulpo, serious, bullet wound an his. It is proposed by the Govern-donor, "Shinuwar," as a contri- last night during anment at Macao to hold a big in-bution towards the debt incurred attempted murder by an unknowndustrial fair there shortly which by the Government of India during Chinese who cuped after firing awill be divided into four sections, the Great. War shot through the bars of the coun- and conducted on similar los to ter. The motive is believed to be the Hanol Fair.. one of revenge.

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His Royal Highness the Rajah of Sarawak,. entrusted Messrs. James Pollock, Sons, and Co., Ltd of Faversham with, the building of

That there were no signs of The photogravure poster of

little boy gazing up at the great drowning and death was due to King Arthur engine at Waterloo new yacht and passenger vessel... epneussion and cerebral haemor- rhage was the medical opinion Station has had a widespread ap- the Maimunah which the firm peal, requests for copies having launched towards the end, of given at an fnquiry at the Kowloon ranched the Southern Railway from October. The vessel is built to the Magistracy yesterday Into the Hongkong, Vladivostock and many Rajah's own designs. The cere death of a boatwoman whose body other remets parts of the world..mony of christening the vessel was was found in the harbour. TheThe company have decided to issue graciously undertaken by the Banee jury returned a verdict of murderthe poster annually in the spring. Margaret of Sarawak, by some person 61 persong on- known.

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The conductresses on the Correspondence having urisen autt in England over the rights to Toklo 'buses are protesting against In the "Observer" regarding a re- W. H. Hudson's "The Purple Land the "cruelty" of police officers who Jamesing history of that now-famous their fares and call the conductress Cameron writes---Many readers of volume came to light. An am- down if she is not the personifien "Crusou!" must have wondered inployee of Sampson Low, Manston, tion of politeness. The protest has their boyhood where Defoe obtain Searle and Rivingtan,, publishers of evidently created some interest; be ed his Russian and Chinese in the book in 1885, said on the grand cause one of the officials of the formation. 41 bulieve it must have that an agreement was made with Metropolitan Police Board saye been obtained from the books of Mr. Hudson under the terms of that the police regulations. stipu

Mr. Bell, of Antermony," which the publishers were to bring late that a policeman ahall not ride Ayrshire. Mr. Bell. "Scottish out the book, assuming all the on the trame or buses without gentleman, was in the service of risks. It was first published in a paying his fare, unless he is actual- Petor-the-Great as Ambassador's two volume edition at 21., later ly on duty regulating traffe. The Physician on the Embassy to the at 128... and then at 68, but the official referred to says he a

Bogdu Khan," the "Muntzu" Em-reductions in price did not help -peror of China at Peking: He the sale, and 150 copies of the 500 The obtained the post of Physician" printed wore remaindered. which was purely nominal, at the firm lost, about £80 on the Book, the instance of Peter's Physician, a amount, spent in advertising.. fellow Scottish gentleman. The First editions of "The Purple Incidents of the journey to Poking Land are now worth about £25, are of great interest, and Defoe's and most of them, it was said at story fits in well as having been the trial are in the hands of taken from Mr.. Bell.

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absolutely opposed to plain clothes palice getting free rides. Presur- ably the rales are the same in this part of the country, but it is whys noticeable that the poles when they board a ear never sit down if there are other passengers standing and always seem at pains to cause pas- sengers and drivers as little in- convenience as they can..

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

A dance will be held by the Craigengower Cricket Club at 9 p.m. to-morow,

Mrs. Ellas van Castricum has been appointed Recording Secret ary of the Kobe Women's Club

News has been received in Kobe of the engagement of Miss Doris Cooper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs A. E. Coapar, to Mr. Cecil Roberts, of Malacca, Strafts Settlements.

Findlater, Mackie Todd & Co., Ltd. owing to the resignation of Miss want to China un an evangelistic.

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H.H. Prince Chichibu: was taken in Switzerland, whither. he had gone with a party to climb the Alps. The doctors were called in immediately and the trouble was diagnosed as measles.. There is no need of anxiety regarding the condition of the Prince..

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Mr. Ban Teong Hoe has returned to rejoin the staff of the Anglo Chinese School, Penang.. after graduating BA, at the University

This

Newe ranching Kobe states that. Mr. J. K. Andrews, at one time with the International Banking Corporation there, is now on the stalf of the Seaboard National Bank of the City of New York. The Rev. Daniel Sundrum, who

Mr. W. E Reynell, one of the mission about nine months ago, oldest foreign residents in Kobe has returned to Singapore. After has been, elected an Honorary visiting and preaching in Shang-Member of the Kobe Club. hai, Foodhow, Peking and several the first honour of this kind, other sea-ports and inland towns, that has ever been conferred upon. he has formed the opinion that the a member.. outlook for Christianity in that and he and is very bright.

The library belonging to the late thinks that.men of the type of the Dr. Baron Okano, Vice-President of China Inland missionary are highly the Privy Council and President of respected there, notwithstanding Chuo University, Tokio, has passed the anti-foreign movement which on to the University... together with his view, is really a nationalistja donation of Y5,000, such having.. movement.

been designated in the deceased's will The Abrary comprises 10,000; foreign works and 20,000 Japanese.

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of Hengkong. He is recommended Mr. J.G. Huy, managing director for the University Diplom nof. Guthrie and Co., Ltd, London, Education, and is also the holder has returned from Sumatra and

Captain and Mrs. L. B. Jacobs. of Senior Normal Certificate. will continue his tour through announce the engagement of their Malaya, viafting a number of rub daughter, Katherine Elizabeth, to The marriage is to take placeber and tin properties with which Lieutenant Kirtley Jameson Gresk this month of Edward J. Nathan, he and his company are associated. of the Air Service. The marriage O.B.E., B.A. (Cantab.), of Tien-Mr. Hay is a director of Linggi will take place after the return to tsin, North China, eldest son of Plantations, Lta, United Suu the United States of Captain Colonel Sir Frederic L Nathan, Betong Ltd. Malacca Rubber Jacobs and his family, who will K.BE., and Lady Nathan, 37, Corn-Plantations, Led Labu Rubber leave Manila in July. Miss Jacobs, wall-gardens. S.W. 7. to. Issbol Co., Ltd, Cheviot Rubbers, Ltd., who has been in Manila, during her Mitchell Macphall, M.A of Malayan Tinfields, etc., Mr. Hayfather's love, is one of the popular Médaille des Epidémica and will subsequently visit British members of the younger set. Serbian Cross of Charity, youngest North Borneoc daughter of Donald Macphail, M.D., late of Coatbridge, Cadzow Lodge, Hamilton, Lanarkshire,

Mra. A. W. Stanford, of the American Board Mission, has left Kobe after forty years'. work. in:] Kobe. Her work was chiefly educational, and since her return to Japan after the death of her husband, the Rev. Dr. A. W. Stanford, she has been attached to the Biblewomen's School in Nakayamate dori Mra. Stanford expects to stay in Los Angolce for a time, and will perhaps nettla there for her retirement.

Mr. C. Watson met with a nasty accident the other evening on returning from the Sports Club, Bangkok He was in a five-seater Essex car and collided with the red.. lamp placed where - Hun, Lampong, „Surlwongae and Sports Club roads meet, the car apparently swerving

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Dr. Solf, the German Ambas aador, has been elected Prezident of the Asiatic Society of Japan In succession to Sir Charles Eliot, the British Ambassador Sir Harold Purlett and Dr. S. H. Wainright continue as vice-presidenta. Other #officers ara, Mr. W. J. Davie, cor

responding secretary Mr. Eugene Ho "Dooman,recording secretary," Mr. N. K. Rosçde, treasurer, Prof C.-D. Hyde, librariant Mr. Frank H. Hedges, editor. The members, of the Council are. Dr. S. Anezaki, Dr. R. C. Armstrong, Dr. N G Monro, Dr. Bakural, Prof. JT Swift, Mr. G. E. Sansom Mr. B Snellen, Colonel Kenondeau," and R. Rose Innes. «

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