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Kobe contributed $414-5-10 to the British Legion's Poppy Day Fund on Armistice day

The Royal Naval athletic sports are to be held at Happy Valley on Friday next commencing at 2 pm.

The Bishop of Victoria's open ing study circle meeting on "Race Problems took place on" Sündar' last at 9.m. at the Bishop's House, Sir Henry Pollock, Mr. Addia and tho, Roy. W. T. Featherstone were amongst those who took part in the

discussion.

the Botanic. total valu

al of 2.58 Tri inches, The highest, total was on February 21 the figures. being 109 inches. Ruin fell on cleven days.

of 4,500,000,000; francs;

The French Smokers Langue is NEWS probeating against the frequency The pleasure of using the with which tobacco in Flanda 18 brain was seen in the case of the Increased in cost to "plug various cross-word puzzle!" DY, HL Government Idiotic, measures." Wagar, HM Hispector of Schools. The tengue points out that the in- at the Educational Association's crease in the cost of French to

bacco resulted in a falling off by Conference.."

sales of $2,000,000 francs in Decem-

After being fined for larcenyor, 1923 alone at North London Police Court, al

Dancing has Been added to the young woman threw her arms round the neck of a detective, kiss-curriculum of the Paris Conserva ed him, and thanked him for all toire de Musique, the directors of he had done on her behalf.

which until recently had displayed indifference to the art, although 80 por cent of them and their pupils music The course of dancing lessons is of five years. Mine. Chaslea, was the first professor appointed

A team of Soviet footballers was recently making what was The famous lampposts in thehad studied and composed dance described as a "propaganda tour in France. The players wear red shirts and march on to the ground with a military step and martial air. headed by the captain carrying the Red Flag, to the strains of the International, They were matched with a team of

Champs Elysees Faris have only a short life. despite their imposing stature. Within the fire work of 1928 nine, lampposts were put out of commission by automobile within eighteen hours and within 300 feet of one another.

The French Academy has "chosen as the subject for its 1927 French workers at the Stade Twenty-five thousand appli- poetry prize the heroism displayed By Franch African troops during and Perhing, near Paris. The Soviet cants for French citizenship are engagement in Morocco. The in- team gave the better display and now, on the lists of the naturalizácident to be dealt with took place won by

to nition office awaiting examination. four goals

There are only three clerks in the Aceording to the French Press

their dribblings and play with office who are intrusted to decide the head gave them a clear advan whether or not the applicant is worthy of becoming a French tage:"

citizezn Of the 25,000 applicants, 23 per cent are Russians, 13 per

American trader, however, seems to

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July 25, 1926, when, after henvy skirmishing, a major saw a company of Senegalese retreating in good order before the advancing Riflans. The major realizing that the men had lost heart over the death of their commander, immediately or

A shipping ccrrespondent cent Poles, 13 per egnt. Italians, 2 writes: "We have often heard. percent Rumanians, 6 per cent. Bu.dered them to "return to the ridge.""

the Instantly

black soldiers stories of the

difficulties of gians, 6 per cent. Turks, 5 per cent. straightened themselves, saluted American ship-builders in christen-Germans, & per cent. Spaniards. 9 and returned to the Aght ing their ships without violating the per cent Swiss and 2 per cent. Volstead Amendment, fort the Greeks. WERE American seaman is a super- stitious as any, and believes that Bad luck will attend a ship that is not, christened in wine. One have got over the difficulty, for when Mr. Henry W. Breyer bought the steamship Hallfried and gave her his own name he rechristened her in dry dock with a 10-pound jar of ice-cream, a commodity from which he has made the greater past. of his fortune. Personally have n taste for the romantic, and fit is not possible to christen her in wine I would rather have a ship named with a bottle of water than such a very messy substitute."

Light upon one of the darkest parts of Africa has been flung by A good illustration of the in-the return of the Cape Town dustrial progress that has been Denver African expedition, which taking place in recent years is the penetrated the heart of the Kala expansion of electric lighting and har desert and the Kaoko veldt: power plants. Prior to 1910 the Movies were taken of the natives use of electricity industrially in and also of herds of big game, China was in an embryonic stage. proving the Kaoke velds the richest To-day there are electric-powergame country in the world. On one plants in Shanghai, Tientsin, Har-occasion the expedition counted 150 bin, Hongkong, Hankow, Canton, elephants gathered round a water and the other large cities, and the hole; the members she saw herda number of electric power and of wild cattle numbering. 15,000 Hghting plants combined in China head, leaving the dense foresta in is estimated at nearly 400. There the daytime to escape the pest of are few towns of any importance flies, returning at night time. that do hot have a lighting plant. These immense herds were filmed.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr. and Mrs. James Reed and family, left the Colony this morn- ing on the Tanda.

A small girl of seventeen with Mr W. H. Tate, of Taiping, will bobbed hair and a short skirt, be going Home in the near future. who gave evidence against a man, Tate counts 47 years residence at Tottenham Police Court, was in Malaya, all of which has been Professor K. H. Digby and Mr. mistaken by the magistrate for a spent in Perak, a somewhat unique K. C. Mak have been elected Pre-child, and he ordered the court record. sident and Hon. Secretary respecto be cleared. tively of the University Chess

Club

Replying to an address of wel- come presented to him in Calcatta by the Indian mercantile com- munity, Lord Inchcape expressed his firm belief in trusting the man on the spot.

"I want to be buried in the red-frock coat in which I used to Dr. S. W. Tao, L.L.D. will kind-go fox-hunting, were the last y distribute the prizes to the words of Count Joseph Gizycko, students of Sacred Heart English who died in Vienna, aged sixty- School on Sunday, March 7 at 8.50 four. Count Gizycko, married

Miss Eleanor Patterson of A monument to Sarah Bern- Chicago, daughter of Robert Whardt will be erected in Patterson and a cousin, of Joseph Paris. The City Fathers have Medill McCormick, in 1904, voted 10,000 francs toward the subscription fund which has been opened to pay for a memorial to the famous actress.

p.m.

The Hon Mr. D: W. Tratman, Secretary for Chinese Affairs. has consented to open the new exten sion of the Kwong Wah Hospital on March 5..

Mr. L. Forster, Registrar, will temporärly lecture on the Histor of Education, the Philosophy of Education, and other subjects, at the University.

The Court Chamberlain of Swe- den has felt it incumbent on him to contradict a rumour that Frincess Astrid of Sweden, who is about to visit. England, will shortly be engaged to the Prince of Wales,

The Rev. and Mrs. C. N. Mac kenzie Teave to-day on the Hector for England. Mr. Macflenzie has. for many years been stationed at Pakhol as a CMS. messionary, and it is not likely that he will return; owing to l health.

General Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the Insurrections against Spain and the United States, has been unanimously ran elected President of the Filipino Veterans The election is of considerable political significance as Aguinaldo is extremely in- fluential and opposes immediate United separation from the States

in the course of his farewell speech to the European Associa- tion at annual dinner re- cently the Viceroy said that Calcutta had been founded by Council of the Royal Colonial In- At the last meeting of the tian depase, developed by stitute 28 resident Fellows, four Briti ergy and perfected by Undergraduates, 42 non-resident Indians working to Fellows and 42 Associates elect gether, and now stood as a great ed amongst them being the fol monument of civilisation and culture. Calcutta was a happy owing from British Malaya: 3.WS. Anderson (Singapore) fusion of the various interests

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Lady Astore system of attach- Ing labels to each guest at her receptions, which are famous for the presence of leading politie- lans, statesmen and artists, has been adopted and improved upon by other London hostesses. The latest is to fix a label with a coloured ribbon to the lapel of a man's coat or to the corsage of 'a lady's dress with either a name printed on it or the title of a book or work of art by. which the guest is heer known. Norin

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