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LOCAL AND GENERAL,

The Singapora A.DIC are || Bangkok has been comp

A group of Chinese producing The Surcereti

of the heate

ek the temmen have arrived. perature rose to 92 der, du the to spend several days: ökyo andi shade.

in other cities

Empire studying general business condi tions and methods, in Japan.

On case of interic fever and one of puerperal fover were report" ad on Tuesday. Both the patients: Successful experiments have | are Chinosu!"

been carried out on Ceylon text estates with a view to solving the

A meeting of the Kuomintangproblem of the denudation of the {{town' members) was held at Kong, Laoil

moon on April 20 to discuss vurious matters, says the "China Mail cor- respondent at Rakkah.

The Government of Madras Intend placing before the Legisla typ Council a proposal for a medi- cal school for women, involving a eost of from 8% to 9 lakhs of rupees

Commencing May 1st the rates

for wireless messages to the river. steamers Lungshan," "Taishan and Kinshan" will be reduced from

* Mr. | „KY Doo, formerly 50 cents per word to 15 cents per principal of the Singapore Chinese word with. minimum charge of |High School," has been appointed | $1.50020

principal of the Confucian School on Petaling Hill Kuala Lumpur. ||

Notwithstanding Assurances from the Philippine, health ser- vice that the islands are free from cholera, reports from the provinces, At the meeting of the Commit-both official and private," "indicate too of the Bangkok International that the epidemie is growing, worse. Chamber of Commarce on April 8, Mr.. W.. Haffenden (Syme and Co.):

unanimously realected the Chairman of the Chamber. Mr G Kluzer and Mr. P. M. Lortee are the Vice-Chairman for the year:

was

Mesars. Alfred Holt and Co. and the British-American Tobacco | Co., Ltd, have each sent donations: of £306 to the funds being collected for the development. of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, These donations, to gether with a sum of £15,000: re-

Trinidad.

The seizure of a large quantity of literature dealing with Triad activities was mentioned at the Kowloon Magistracy yeat day when Del-Inspector Pincott charged nine persons alleged to be concerned in organising a society at a house in Shamshuipo.

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The naval staff at Wel-hai-wet, consisting of six officials, receive in sularies the sum of 42,862" peri annum; at Singapore the naval ataff receives in sularies 25,714 for six persons, including the captain in charge who receives £1,365,

Fifteen hundred acres of timberland were levelled by forest fire which broke out in Yakiyama village, Hiroshima pre fecture, Japan. A naval Are brigade and villages fought for hours but were unable to check. the Blaze. No deaths were re- ported

The annual report of the Sin

When summoned at the Kow- gapore Y.M.C.A., shows an over draft of $7,745, but reports gooding to repair a defective water pipe, loon Magistracy yesterday for £ail- progress in the educational social the rear of his house, a Chinese landlord created a surprise by

and athletic activities of the Asso-

cently granted by the Imperial clation. The difficulties caused by Government, will be devoted to the the loss of six tennis courts and building of an hostel for the stu-long stoppages at the swimming dents, a the" provision of an pool have been overcome, and the estate, where the, business side of Association now have an excellent farming may be taught.

| aportu` ground, tennis courts, and

pavilion at Telok Ayer,

A case of considerable interest to Broking firms in the Straits -

The strength of the British

stating that he had already been fined $10 on the summons last week. A adjournment was made

for investigations to be made.

A Court of Inquiry is to sit. at the local Marine Court at 10.30 am. en Tuesday, May 4 to in-

Settlements and FM.S. was heard troops in Malaya, as presently fix-vestigate the circumstances attend before Mr. G. A. Hereford in the ed aboys little alteration according the collision on April 18, be District Court, Penang, last week.ing to the estimates for 1926-27. tween the Indo-China ss. "Yat.. when Dr. P. G. Temple. Medical The Royal Artillery Heavy Com-shing (now in Kowloon Dock) Officer, Teluk Anson, sued Arrol pany will number 261 of all ranks and the O.SK.Tacoma Maru and Co. for $500 ns damages for the artillery must be increased as

(now undergoing repairs at alleged breach of a contract.. datud the naval base expands-a battalion

Shanghai). November 17, 1925. to buy for his of infantry, 881.of all ranks; com- account 2,000 shares in the Temer pans of Royal Engineers, B officera Joh Coconut and Rubber Estate und 46 meng 2 company of the Limited eum a dividenda, and Hongkong"- Singapore.. Brigade, rights from the date of the contract. Royal Artillery, 120 of all ranka Plaintiff alleged that defendants and detachments of the Royal Army failed to deliver to him at par the Service Corps, Royal Army Medfea rights on the shares, the market Corps, Royal Army Ordance Corps, price of which at the time of the and other departmental troops alleged breach was $7.500 thereby bringing the total op to 1,430 of causing him a loss of $500. Judg-all ranks and arrus, as against 1,851 ment was reserved.

in the year about to close.

Canton boycott pickets firedi on a native craft in Canton River! on Tuesday night, when passengers were proceeding to the "Lungebant to sail for Hongkong. A Chinese accountant, who was returning to. the Colony, after worshipping his ancestors tombe up-country," was wounded in the, hand. He was rescued and his wound. wes: dressed on board the steamboat.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr. A. K. McDonnell's Dodge Rosdater has been won by ticket No. 34.

The Rev. Keppel Garnier has been appointed, by His Exceelency the Governor to be an unofficial Trustee of Penang Free School, vice the Hon. Mr. W. H. Thorne

Mr. S. Waterlow, C.B.E, the

to new British Minister the Siamese Court, left London, by the F. and O. sa. "Mantua," on April The Rev. A. B. Champion, the

23 and is expected to arrive in one-time popular Selangor Chap-resigned,

Penang on May 19. From Penang Jain, and at present Archdeacon of

he will take train to Bangkok. Mr. Sarawak, is revisiting Selangor... Mr... Charles C. Rende, who un-Greg, the previous Minister, has. derwent an operation in Singapore been transferred to Rumania a a Former residents of Hongkong,last month has returned to Kuala similar capacity. in the persons of Mr. W. H. L.Lumpur in much better health He Warrener and Mr. J. S. McCann has resumed duty as Government havé distinished themselves in Town Planner: the Kobe ADIC.'s production of "Pickles."

Mr. John Nayamith, of the office staff of Dunlop Plantations, Ltd The home of Mr. WD.is leaving Malacca at the end of Whittemore, manager of the Kobe branch of the International Bank ing Corporation was burgled... on. April 20, when a number of valu-

able rings belonging to Mrs. Whittemore were taken.

Mr. T. I. Brocklebank, who was planting in the "Larut District has been appointed Secretary of the Ipoh Gymkhana Club in succession to Mr. A. F. 3. Livesay, who left Ipoh some weeks ago to take up a planting billet in Johore.

Mr. R. H. R. Wade, Commissioner of Customs; who recently passed through Shanghai on returning from leave, has been appointed to succeed Mr. Williain MacDonald na the Commissioner of Customs for Kiaochow Territory:

The marriage of the daughter of H. the Sultan of Pernk.. Yang Mulia Raja Fatimah; to Yang Muila Tengku Abu Baker, son of H. H. the Sultan of Pahang, took place on April 25 and the this month to take up a planting | ceremonics will last to June &. The; appointment with Sungkai Chumor festivities will include a polo Rubber Estates, Ltd.

tournament football matches. menglunchor; a fish drive, a Mr. H. van Witzenburg, Secre hockey match, water sports, and. tary of the Aneta Press Bureau, side shows. The Invitation and Batavia, will be proceeding on programme are beautifully printer leave about the middle of June in black and yellow on white satin. next. Mr. J. Edgar, formerly, RI

agent of the Maintz Production- Mr. A. E. Smith, Kobe manager

handel at Batavia, has been ap- pointed a member of the manage ment of the Bureau, as from the 15th Instant

for Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd., and Mrs. Smith sailed from Kobe on April 15, on the 6.6. "Empress of Asia" for Hongkong From Hongkong, they left for England The members of the Shanghai via Australia and Capetown. Customs Company gathered toge They expect to reach England in ther at the Customs Club to Wish August and will not return to their late O.C., Capt. A J.. Hope Japan until April, 1927, Mr. and Mrs. Hope good-by and good Smith was Chairman of the board Tuck on their Home leave. As the of directors of Kobe International present O.C. Capt. Hendry Was Hoapital. A farewell dinner was unavoidably -- abgent Lt given at the Kobe Club in his Ashdowne presented a small token honour. of esteem from the company. Capt. and Mrs. Hope left by the

akusan Maru' for England

Mme. Alexandra Kollantay, the only woman to head a diplomatic mission in a foreign capital, has

pretty Dutch wedding took been officially recalled as Soviet,

place at the Cathedral of The Minister to Norway. She will be

Good Shepherd, Singapore between succeeded by A. M. Makara, now The forthcoming wedding is an MFJ J. Van Nuzen, of the counsellor of the Rome Embassy.nounced of Mr. Walter John Smith Singapore branch of the Vacuum 1t is said that Mme. Kollantay is Key, civil engineer of the Port on Co and of Helmond, Holland being relieved at her own requeat, Development Department, residing and Mdlle J. O E. M. Stevens, also so that she may engage in social at No. 2A, Cambay Buliding, Kaw of Helmond The ceremony was work among the Russian poor. loon, to Miss A B Macfarlana, performed by Father Ruzudel, In assistant mistress, Education De the presence of the friends of the Partment residing at Kingsclere bride and bridegroom The Franco; of No. 7, Nanking Street, to a lunch at the bridegroom's Te Kowloon, and Mr. Francisco Maria guests were afterwrads gatertained

Kowloon to Miss Celeste Julia aldence in Gilstead Road Castro of St. Joseph's Buildings.

The many friends in Singapore of Mrs. C. H. Brown, née Walker, Bister of Lady Guillemard, will learn with regret of her recent bereavement, her husband, Mr Cecil Hew Brown, LA, having died from heart failure while out, The Rev Shirley Hall Nichols, with the Oakley hounds, near Missionary In Japan since 1913, Bedford, Mrs. Brown, who stayed of the Protestant Episcopal Church for sometime at Government n

House, Singapore,.

friends here, was married two Nips

many Bishop

years ago, her late husband was

the Royal

a. Icaster, at Bedford, College, and was a well-known sculptor. H exhibite Academy, and 'memoria

memor

There have been a number of police (changes in Kuala Lumpur recently. Mr. Kinder. Af Chler Police Officer's Office has Uceeded home on long love

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CONTENTS,

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Magistracy Items

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6 Thefts

Our Finances

21:

Open Night

Presents

Motor Offence

Amateur Tec

The Perfect Husband' Departures

Rent Values

Skipper's Luck

Hit in the Eyes Commercial Enquiries.

Suspicious

Arms Traffic

Car Smashers Info Tree Peak Residents. Bomb Case Soccer Final

Trevessa Trophy Army Billiards Fanling Hunt

Ring Coppers Nearing End

To Play Here? "White Wings School Sports Falkiner's Visit Navy Leag For the MCL Soccer Puzzles

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Matches Fixed

12

Globe Trotters

Chess Club

Ten Days

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Dr. C. C. Wu

To The Powers

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Canton Amazons

Stolen Goods

Back to Normal

Ships Personnel Missing Chi

The Navy League.

Tennis