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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"Be lenient. have notthey- During 1925, 180,0001 father nor mother-Woman of emigrants passed through Hong 57 at Willesden Police Cour),

In the Porter's Park Herts,. ladies! golf bogey competition a mother and daughter tied at two Lip

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Asent on the Standard Stock, Exchange, Toronto, was sold the other day for £2,400. A partner in the same firm us the purchaser obtained his soat for only 22 in the Mackintoshes are to be pro-early days of the Exchange. vided for road men by the "West Riding County Council at a cost DF £600

There are only five British typewriters out of the 457 in use in Governrpent offices ity. Northern Frehind.

Take the baby to the dentist when he is one year old is the advice of Mr. Baird Grundison.. Puble Dental Officer for Cum bridge

A Chinese waterworks foreman was accosted by two others' and robbed of his watch after a assault. The adhuck was made in-

side a tunnel at the waterworks and the motive is said to be one

of revenge.

A contemporary, observes the now the Japanese have taken to crossword puzzles, we may soon have some charming designs for wallpaper.

Invention privileges have beon granted to Mr. G. H. Johnston, miner of Kamunting, Perak, in respect of an Invention för m provements in apparatus for sAV-

tim ore in sluice boxes...

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Owing to the prevalent drought, Kedah is suffering from water shortage. As a consequence, street water-carriers are making hay charging as much as 10 to 15 cents for a "kandar" load.

A history is to a publisheding of the school attended by Shakespeare and his brothers in Stratford-upon-Ayon. The history of the school can be traced to the closing yours of the thirteenth century. A thorough search is to be made of the records of the medieval guilds as well as those of the town.

Large family Bibles do not self now as they once did, but thero atilla demand running into many thousands every year. These Bibles are a more suitable shape and ure more sensibly bound than were the large ones" of

the old days and do not have heavy clasps But they are still prefaced with a space for the family record

In view of the saccess of the Teachers from all parts of Eritish Industries Fair held at Malaya met in the main hall of month in London and Birmingham, the Anglo-Chinese School, Panang it has been decided to hold the and held their first conference, at fair again next year at approxi- which it was decided that, in or mately the same time. The Fre-der to foster closer relations and sident of the Board of Trude has announced au the Government publicity grant will be repented.

The P and O. "Naldera" has made a record: P. and O. run: from Fremantle to Colombo, the voyage having taken 183 hours 54 minutes. The previous fast- est record Was that of the "Macedonia" namely 187 hours: 87 minutes.

Vienna saved the life of a womar. A young house surgeon at of 35 by stitching two wounds In

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her heart after she had stabbed by 3. drunken man Through the prompf action of the police, Dr. Nather was able to operate on her 20 minutes after the crime. He sawed through three rius, exposed the heart. friendly feelings among the mem-

located the injuries and made the bers of the profession in this necessary stitches. Blodd was country, a conference should being the following days there were

afterwards transfused; and dur heid annually. A provisional com several injections of chloride of mittee was formed for the purpose sodium, common salt, into her of finding ways, and means of

She is now quite healthy... making this conference regular and permanent and finally to form

There is at present a short- Lumpur.

veins.

The permanent trophy for the Amaten: "Golf Championship of China is of gold and its de- [sign and exécution vonstitute the finest exhibition of such work from the point of view of the golfer that has yet been seen in In Brussels, edition of Shanghak On the left is the Balzac's Physiologie du Mer- caddie standing at the hole and ringe," 1834, ppo 187 to 100 in- holding the pin, while the player chesive of Vol. 2 are printed in a is in semi-kneeling position apparently unintelligible gibberish. close to the ground studying the Some of the letters are upsido line of his plks The attitude of down and the whole four pages both players and caddle is re-would seem to defy interpretation. markably true to life. This Wna i Balzac's intention to hide trophy was presented by the late his meaning in a cryptogram, ar Mr. A. E. Algas, and it is a le the confusion due to a deliberate melancholy fact that he died befreak on the part of printer and fore it was possible for him to publisher? There appears to be witness the formal presentation no solution of the mystery in the

biographies.

a Teachers' Association of Nalayage of ice in Kuala

of it

Supplies at the Cold Storage are only available for very early comers, and ice in the market, if to 3 cents a pound. The reason there is any at all, de fetching 2 given is that a Chinese factory is said to have closed down. understand that the Sanitary We Board is looking into the matter. The shortage is particularly an- noying just now, since, owing to the very hot weather, food goes bad more than usually quickly. The shortage is certainly not due to scarcity of water! says the "Malay Mail.""

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr. J. H. Morgah, formerly of the Standard Oil Co., died on April 1 of scarlet fever at Mukden. He was buried with masonic honours..

Professor Danenberg's 12th an- hund pupils' pianoforte recital: takes place on Monday next in the City Hall at 5.80 p.m. An attrac- tive programme is to be sub- mitted, including selections on the Orthophonic Victrola,

Mr. B. Oel Tiong-ham, welt known in Singapore, and" à son of the late "Sugar King" who died last year, is a member of the Eton College Rugby Fifteen, and played in their recent mutch against Bedford College.

"The "Overseas" mentions that the Australian Bush Brotherhood! consists of the finest type of men. ¡ of university education. They sign on for five years and receive & salary of £25 a year out of which they have to clothe themselves.

TADY MARY SCOTT

Lady Mary Scott, a daughter of the Duke of Buccleuch

Senor Blasco Ibanez. the famous Spanish writer, author of

Mr. G. P. Puttock,. of Messrs. "The Four Horsemen of the Pritchard and Co., Ltd., Penang, is Apocalypse" has sent to the proceeding to Ipoh to take over the Chancellor of Oxford University management of the branch of the a telegram protesting against the arm there, says a Pentang paper: proposal to confer on: King Alfonso the degree of LL.D.

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Mr. R. Boyd is appointed a police magistrate aak Coroner Penang.

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Mr. and Mza. W. Lock, of Park End. Cuberleigh,. Devon, have been married for 70 years..

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Mr. K. Matsui, the new manager

of the N.Y.K. in Singapore, will arrive in the middle of May.

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Mr. F. T. Kinder, senior exees- tive officer, P.W.D., Penang. fe granted leave of absence for eight. merths.

Ceremonies marking the open- ing of the second nine holes th Tokyo's new 18-hole course will be held Sunday, May 9, at which time the second nine will thrown open for play for the first time.

The statement that the Countess of Oxford may shortly appear as a fim star was strenuously denied by her secretary who said:-- "There is no truth whatever in the statement, which has caused Lady Oxford great deal of annoyance."

Sunday by Sunday Miss Maud Royden gathers together the best brains in England to address her congregation of some 2,000 people.

In connection with the Islington In the evening she herself conducts Dissension in the London Boy Empire" Shopping Week (March the service, but the afternoon Scout movement has become acute. to 20), £1,000 was paid to the meetings are planned on :simpler Following the withdrawal of the mother who had twins born be-lines: Music forms part of all the warrant of the Shoreditch Associatween 3 pm and 4 p.m. on the meetings. tion of Boy Scouts by the Imperial opening day. The parente must be Headquarters, a new association, Ielington residents. called "The Independent Boy Seouts of Shoreditch," has been formed, with Lord Alington as president.

Many who have known the F.M.S. will have read with great

Jan Kubelik, the famous violinist. regret of the death of Mr. has returned to London after an Frederick Weld, of the Malay. absence of five years with 25 Aus-States Service. "Freddy" Weld, as tralian parrots, most of which talk- he was known to almost everybody, The War Office announces that od so much that they were handed was the son of Sir Frederick Weld, Major-General Sir John Fowler, over to his mother-in-law for the a former Governor of the Straits. K.C.M.G., C.B., D.5.0, the famoussake of peace. He declares that Settlements and High Commis- He had a Director of Signals with the the sight of men dancing saddens stoner for the States. British Armies in France, and him. Dancing is not suited for long period of service in the States more recently GO.C. at Hong- man or woman. Nobody would and "was always popular, in what- kong, Singapore and in China, agree with him, but he was con- ever post he found himself, Mr. has been promoted to the rank of vinced that dancing detracted from Frederick Joseph Aloysius Weld Lieutenant-General, in succession the seriousness of human beings.

was 55 years of age, being born in to General Sir John P. du Cane,

June, 1870, and was educated at K.C.B., promoted.

The annual dinner of the Asso- Stonyhurst. Going out to the clation of British Malaya will be Malay States, he became Acting HRH the Prince of Wales, held at the Hotel Cecil, London, on Commissioner of Trade and the President of the Shaftesbury Monday, May 31. Visitors from Customs and Acting British Re- Homes and "Arethusa training Malaya, whether members of the sident of Negri Sembilan and whip is to preside at a Meeting in Association or not, can obtain Pahang, also Acting General 'Ad- behalf of the Society to be held in further information and tickets on viser to the Government of Johore. the Queen's Hall. Langham Place, | application to the Secretary, He married first in 1902, Joan, on Tuesday, June 8. The Com-A.B.M., 31 Haymarket. The re- daughter of Mr. Alexander mittee are desirous of making His sponse to the toast of The Struthers George, of Earlemount, Royal Highness List for an- Prosperity of British Malaya" will Kolth; she died in 1914, and nouncement at the Meeting as be made by Mr. E. 8. Hose, C.M.G., secondly, In 1919, Mary Josephine, large as possible, and will be glad former Colonial Secretary, Stralfs daughter of the late Mr. Walter of special donations.

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