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LOCAL AND GENERAL

A Chiene onse of enteric favor An announcement is shortly to:

was notified on Monday.

be made, in Parlament as to memorial to the men of the Mer The total awarda im the 104cantile Marine who lost teir liven Lusitania claims by American subty the war. facts, amount to £480.000,

Mr G W. King. the Magle- trate H.M. Shanghai Police Court: It is not a criminal offence to attempt to abave off one's creditors."

Fifteen thousand intimate love letters received by Vietor Hugo from the most faithful of his women friends, Juliette Drouet were sold at publie auction in Paris for only 18,000 francs.

Four members of the Arsenal

Among traffic prosecutions at Football Club were recently in hospital together: Hoar, with anthe Central Magistracy yester injured knee; Woods with a broken day, Mr. A. J. Wheeldon was fined arm: Haden with a broken leg. $5 for driving a car without a and Jack Rutherford with ear licence Mr. Ahmed Nemazee trouble.

was fined $5 for a similar offence and $10 for dangerous driving.

The annual general meeting: of the Members of the Hongkong. Automobile Association will be held in the Office of Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd, on Tuesday, March 29 1926, at 5.15

Due to his disgust of pressure brought to bear upon him from political sources just as he was about to cause the arvest of severr.) important officials of Yokoham tsy. pass and adopt the Procurator, Nagata of the Yoko- account for the year-ending Dohama District Court has resigned cember 31, 1925, and to efect offThe case under investigation at the cers, etc.

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time, He said was that of graft in the Social Worka Section of the Kagawa Prefectural Government. The vernacular press reporta that the case involves several prominent. persons who are believed to have been connected with the disappear."

The profile of. President Coolidge may be reproduced on a speelal half dollar coin which has been proposed in connection with the sesquicentennial, exposition to Bu bể held at Philadelphia. The coin Junce of about Y150,000 out of the would be one of two, to be sold to Y300,000 which the elty procured

position, the second coin being a $2.50 gold piece.

The estimates calling for R $1,500,000 Building and Endowment Fund for the American School Japan as submitted by the com mittee of which Mr. J. R. Goury is chairman, indientes: that an enrol- ment of at least 100 students wil be had when the new institution enhanced facilities; with throughout is realised..

Typographical errors," said the late William Dean Howells, "are, always amusing. When F was a boy in my father's printing office in Martin's Ferry.. I once made a good typographical error My father had written, The showers last week, though copious, were not sufficient for the millimen. 3 set it up millimën."""

Introducing: Sadha Sundar on Various Singh's Meditations Aspects of the Spiritual Life," which Macmillana will, publish, the Bishop of London recalls the Indian teacher's striking appear" ance and the impression he made upon the clergy of the London diocese by "the simpleness and yet supernatural power of his address,"

The number of motor vehicles: in the Dutch Indles is 60,824 all licensed for hire out of which 88,709 motor cars

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2. At Leads 1,000 seats have been speciality reserved! on the Headingley ground for the Cricket Test match. These will be nuit bered and those in possession of tickets coating: 21 88. 6d. for the three days, will have a sent guar- Jantes even if they arrive late. Several hundreds of these tickets have already been sold! Members now joining the Club will have the same privilege for the unnumbered Beate on the pavilion side as cld members, only they will be called upon to pay an additional 10s. Gal for the season including the Aus- tralian visit. It is expected that there will be a large number of these new members,

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4,900 motor buses and 7,215 moter cycles. The figures are furnished: In If the spectre of hard times by the Java Motor Club.

January, Java and Madoera owned stalka Japan, the cafes, restaur- 27,599 motor: cars 2;762 buses, and ants, theatres and movie houses5.691 cycles. fail to show it, according to the reports of the Metropolitan Police Board on the expenditures for pleasure, during the Oshogatsu, or first tan days of January. A totall many writes:The Devil has, 18 said, a great dea? of Y8,556,825 was spent at such

This of what is called charm, but charm places during that period. is an increase of Y8.251.70 over merely means the power to get your the amount spent during the first own way and to deceive other ten days of January last year. people into doing what you, want Itemisations show that restaur- them to do. You often hear it. while end of a good man that he lacks anda took. in the most. theatres and movie houses came charm, but his lack of charm is second.. Business men were the freqüently an honesty that will not chlef spenders and then came flatter or glose for selfah pur clerks,in government offices and poses. If you meet a really charm students.

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SOCIAL AND

Sir Harry Lauder is back in London for *

seasor adter an absence of two years.

Mr. M., Maus of the A.F.C." xx lis due leave London for

to

Hongkong by the "Khyber" on March 26.

Dr. H. B. Mellon and Mr..

T. H. G. Brayfield are passengers

in the "President Monroe" which left Hongkong yesterday.".

the

Mr. A, P. Glanville of PW.D, with Mra. Glanville and infant, is due to leave London for Hongkong on April 9 by the

Malwa."

Passengers on the "President Grant" which reuched Hongkong yesterday from Manila included Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Zeininger, Mr. Zelninger, who is editor of the Manila Bulletin, is going to the States on holiday,

The late Miss Nina Henrietta Benth, M.B., Ch.B, formerly of the. Medical Mission of the Presbyter- ian Church of England, Swatow

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Eva Lavalliere, once one of the fore- mast of French, actresses, Was re- ported to be dying in her pensaut's hut near Vitter, France. She left the stage while in her primo and lived as a peasant secking "expiation and redemption."

The engagement is enounced of Mr. Reginald F. López: ef Messrs. Whiteaway, Liédiaw and Co, Ltd, Malason to Miss Mande Rozells of Singapore.

In the list of successes in the Bar Finals is the name of Major Brett M. Clortman, who, was awarded the last V. C. in the war on November 6, 1918, for gallan- try at Pont-sur-Sambre.

"To the memory of e fine old sportsman" was inscribed on a wreath from the Prince of Wales at the funeral of Mr." George Gee, aged 35, said to be the oldest member. of the Pytchley Hunt, which took place at Welford, Northamptonshire.

The following are the officers' and committee of the Kobe Golf Club for the current year. Mr.

J. P. Warren Chairman Mr. H. Macnaughton, Captain, in place of Mr. J. D. Thomson, and Measra. E. B. S. Edwards, A. C. Macpherson, D. 8. G. Shirra,. G. N. Hallett, and Viscount Kuki committeomen.

Intervention by King Boris, has saved a poor peasant living near the royal summer palace at Varna from a prison term. The King's lowly neighbour stole enta. from the royal barn, filling a cart, but he was soon apprehended by the police.. and the King asked that he "I cannot La released, saying:

The case came up

The test style of hairdressing for the modern woman is known as the "Charleston," and bids fair

Passengers due to arrive by the to replace the Eton crop. A Ride parting with a cocks-comb effect Macedonia include Mrs. LA Dickie over the forehead, and a curl on and child, Mrs. R. E Lindsell and each cheek is the note on this new child, Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Lane, Mr. style.

W. R. Mansfield, and Mrs. F.permit the prosecution of my poor neighbour. I am rich and Normington

he is poor; no wonder he wanted If Cardinal Rattlerudite to lead his wagon with my cats. "Shanghai is the most wonderful Italian prelate, linguist extraHe will live in neighbourly rela place in the world. It is full of ordinary dentist and book-tions with me in the future." interest," he said, "and its attrac-lover, had only

Speaking of Shanghai, on his re- turn Home Sir Harry Lauder said:

remained

tion to Western visitors is mag- Monsignor Rathi instead of becom- "Suitcase marriages" have been netic. There is no better place in ing Pope Pius XI, he might now discussed so much in England the world in which to study hummune member of the French that the Church Assembly will types:"

Academy of Inscriptions and consider a reform of the law re- Belles Lettres. As there are a latirig to the publication of mar antinage hanner Many of the 8,000,- The marriage of Mrs. Marlan number of pronounced Curtice to Mr. A. Wallace Jones clerical members and a unanim-000 members of the Church of was solemnized in Kobe on March ous vote is required, a movement England belong to congregations 6. The consular service was held to elect His Holiness, if not de- outside the parishes in which at HBM's Consulate General infinitely abandoned, has at least they resida Consequently, if the morning and a quiet church been pigeon-holed. The former they desire to be married in the service took place at All Sainte Monsignor Rath was proposed for church to which they belong, Church at 2.80 o'clock la the after-membership in the learned gather they rust take up residence in noon, followed by a wedding re- ing some time during the war that parish for three weeks. ception at the residence of Mr. Not well enough known," de. This has resulted in the renting E. T. Stapleton. Mr. Jones was clared the haughty academicians of room in which a suihouse is manager of the Kobo branch of "let us wait and see if the pro-left to establish residence. It la the Chartered Bank but will sall duces a magnum opus that will proposed that matrimony be per- On Home leave with hia bride by entire tram to sit with us." How.bted in the crunch of the parish the R.M.S." Empress of Canada" ever, before the French iterati in which either of the parties le on March 25, Mr. Stapleton re could get around to his case entered on the electoral roll, whether actually resident there lieved Mr. Jones, as Kobe manager again, Cardinal Betti has ascend- of the Bank

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