1926-03-20 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The members of the East Suffolk County Council, include u father and daughter and a husband and wife.

The Hon. Dr. R. H, Kotewall; LL.D la to distribute the prizes: at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. Hall at.. 780 tonight when the Tutorial ID- stitute will hold a concert i con- nection with their annual function:

The small British naval craft returning home from Germany as,

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The coal output at the mines of Great Britain for the week end- ed January 9 was 3.059,300 tons;: and the wage earners 1,084,660, cempared with 4,061,600 tons and 1,084,400 wage earners for

the preceding week...

The unusual girepmstance of two battalions of the same rogi ment being stalloned at. the same place existed Inst month at Gibraltar, where the 2nd Battalion the Suffolk Regiment arrived to relieve the Tat. Battalion, which is not due to leave for w.month.

A boom has been started for Mrs. John W. Langley to succeed hor husband in the US Congress.. Langley rosigned to start serving a two-year term in Atlanta. Peniten- tiery for a liquor law violation.

The Statesy of Jerees by at majority of 8 have decided to Loftur £300000 as a free and final gift to the British Government, The question of a contribution to: the funperin Exchequer Has been the subject of discussion for several years

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The Institution of Naval Arch tects offers the following scholar ships for competition in 1926- The Martell Scholarship, £130 per annum and the Vickers Scholar- ship, £150 per annum for navulli architecture; the Yarrow Scholar ship, 2100 per annum and the Denny Scholarship, £75 per annum, for marine engineering.

Addressing the Chamber of Mines, Stanley Hymans, who has been in British Columbia for gome; time representing: British capital iste, stated that. money for invest. mant, je plentiful in England and that his people had over £200,000- available for investment. In lead, copper and zinc developments. He stated that keen interest was being taken in British Columbia's mineral possibilities; largely by those who have been making money in con- nection with the rubber boom.

The Liverpool Education Com-

In an effort to keep the medical The Mitsubisht Dockyard and mittee has adopted plans for a profession in the Philippines of a Engine Works, Nagasaki, is now new open-air school, the first of high standard, Governor Generalnamed the Nagasakt Works, Mitsu-its kind in the city, to be erected

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The Manila Postal Savings Bark, Bureau of Fosts. reports an increase of deposits for that January over deposits for January last year.. Deposits in January 1925 were P5.623.075.74, while inary this year..showed Accounts com January 31, 1926, were 168,370 and 177,000 this year. To further en- courago deposits, Director Topacio will try to influence the legislature to increase the rate of interest of two and a half per cent, to four per cent.

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signs of Bernard Widdows. contract is now being placed be fore the city council for confiring- tion.. The new school is the last Loudon slums are giving place word of its type and the exper to model dwellings and garden "ence of more than 20 years" experi- suburbs at increasing pace. The ment in the United Kingdom and London County Council, which is other countries will be embodied in London's chief municipal authority.the construction. Each classroom has a number of schemes in hand. will have two walls and the other One of the latest affects the Brady two faces will be provided by swing- Street are covering 72 acres ing partitions which can be closed in Bethnal Green. Here broad..when necessary. Heating in winter i well-lighted streets have replaced will be provided by pipes run un- dark narrow alleys. Blocks of com-der the floors. In plan the build modious wel-designed-flats are ria-ing will be rectangular and in the ing where before stood crowded centre there will be a garder. tenements. The rents of these Assembly rooms for school and fats range down to 148. 9d weekly, other purposes will be provided in thereby bringing them within reach connection with the aloakrooms and of those whose alum dwellings have such up-to-date facilities as map

rooms will also be available. been pulled down.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

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It is reported that Prince M James Thomson, of Ancrum,, Chichibu, of Japan who recently Roxtatgahire, ha celebrated his had an attack of measles "hf|| 300ch birthday. Switzerland, is now ompletely re- {covered,

Although 83, Mr. Henry Coombes stille is at Ride (LO.W.)

The Rev. A. J. S. Stearn, former-Para Church y of the Diocesan Boys School, St. Peter's Church, and the Hong- Mr. Harry Day, Labour M.P.. kong Education Dept. is now holds the record for questions put. Rector of Fletton, Peterbourgh during the present Parliament,

with 924 questions, BRIT LADOM

Cousin of the great novelist, Miss Caroline Thackeray has died at. Zanzibar," at the age of 80

Mr. Edward Wills and Miss Sylvia Ogden were recently married in London. Both belong to well. known families engaged in the tobacco trade.

Luigi Pirandello, author of " Six Characters. in Search of an Au- thor" director of the government-

A donation of £50 has been sent

subsidised National Art by the Queen in support of the recognition of their war serally Polytechnic appeal. At a dinnervices and the lobs they suffered in Theatre and dean of Italy's play- on March 30 at the Mansion consequence," the late Mr. James wrights, asserts he is the world's Thomas Marson, of Earl-street, busiest and most prolife play- House, the Premier will speak on

Stafford, has left 81,000 each to wright-director-manager. Having behalf of the Polytechnic,

three of his nephews.

just returned with his company from a long trip through Europe, Miss G. E. Dunk who is said to

Pirandello announces that he, s Hudson Baxim, famous American working on four new comedies. One be the only foreign missionary in. Pakhoi, will be remembered as the inventor, has obtained after longis almost completed. Meantime he heroine of the Tai On piracy, some search a steel hand of light weight is preparing this season's work for to replace the hand big lost during als company which will tour Italy, years ago. For her coolness and bravery, the Hongkong Govern-the course of his explosive experi Spain and South America. The Factors will get. little rest on the ment presented. her with a biblements some years ago.

way home, for a short stand is and elgek.

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A certificate was awarded in In order that President Coolidge Dublin to Beter Grimes, labourer,

Mr. Lloyd George has receivert raight hold conversation with his who at a fire induced, 20 girls to father, Colonel John C. Coolidge, jump in orderly, fashion from the a very cordla invitation to go to who is: bed-ridden at the Coolidge window into sheets held by people Russia, accompanied by an assür- homestead, a telephone was install-in the street. He was the last to ance that if the invitation be ac- MARKEERØDDXXXXX-------xxxxxxxxxsed in the old form house at jump and was badly injured

cepted the Soviet Government will give him all facilities to investi- The elder Plymouth Notch.. Coolidge had refused steadily to Mr. Sydney Beer, the English The invitation does

Kate the condition of the country. have a telephone in his home and race-horse owner, who won £65,000 directly from the Russian Govern- only his present disability, caused. In five days playing baccarart at the ment itself, but its authoritative him to accept the innovation..

Cannes Casino continued his run charaeter indicates forcibly what of luck and netted £15,000. He a thought in the highest Russlan played at a table where the mindquarters of Mr. Lloyd George's unique position. Behind the In-

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The pleasures of the table are of all times and all ages of everyum stake is 277. Another player

|lost about £80,000. |||| country, and of every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and in the Signor Carmine Gallone, the end console us for their lose. Italian film producer, has just com In memory of the centenary of pleted the Alming of Lytton's" Last the death of Brillat-Savarin, who Days of Pompei," with a cast of wrote the above words, a luncheon 45,000 We have closely follow- was given at the Savoy Hotel, the led the book," he said." and work Miss Helen Wills besides possess. guests including toe French Amed 10, 12, and 14 hours a day for ing the most powerful forehand bassador, Sir Arthur Stanley, Mr. oven months, but, we had to wait drive ever seen in women's tennis Augustine Birrell, Sir Conan nearly a year for Vésuvius to erupt on the Riviera court, holds the dis- Doyle, Sir Squire Bancroft, Sir and we were almost in despair, tinction of being the only un- Arbuthnot Lane, Senator Marcon, when at length the little fellow bobbed player out of the thirty- Sir Landon Ronald, and Sir John obliged!

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ment. A hairdresser at the Hotel memory of the famous author of Mr. Compton Mackenzie con- Metropole, while preparing the The Physiology of Taste. The fesses that before he was six he champion'a head-dress prior to her luncheon was worthy of the read Don Quixote," and that the appearance on the courts for prac greatest authority on gastronomy pages of the volume were still bont tice asked: "Why don't you bob of all time. The guests wore where he had fallen asleep over the your hair, Miss Wills 11 am furnished with a description of book. Mackenzie's own belief is too old fashioned," replied the each dish, of which, perhaps, the that it is wise to let children 'run twenty-two-year-old........ champion. most interesting was the capon free" among books while they are But, while thousands of spectators braised in cream, and served with young, and that to stultify their applauded her during her match morllies a species of mushroom reading too much tends towards against Mrs. Aeschlimann, an elder- found on the higher slopen of the making prigs of them. He ly British countess in the audience Alpa: The wines were lieursault; préfera

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