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During the three days ended. en Monday, daly one Chinese case, of diphtheria was notified This was from the Kowloon district.,
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A Chinese Teper who was being escorted to Shimchum jumpod into the water from the lower deck, of a "Star" ferry boat yesterday. A police munch rescued the mum and he was taken to his destination.
Evidence of dangerous driving was given by Mr. R. A. D, Forrest at the CentraMagistracy yesterday against a Chinese motor car driver
AND GENERAL.
Tokyo May 18 The freighter: New York, May 14-Now York Taishu Maru with a crew of bankers are negotiating with the sixty-five is believed to have been City of Lisbon with a view to lost in a storm of the Kurile Tegranting a loan of $2,500,000 to lands. She has been missing since $8,000,000 for construction,pur- May 12,
poses.
The estimated number of visi tors to the Raffles Museum, Singa pore, in 1926 way 227.700. The Museum was opened from 20 em to I pim. on Sundays, the average attendanes of 180 persons being deemed: poor. On the first day of the Chinese New Year 14,827 visited
who had previous conviction. Ipoh, May 17-A sensational Accused was fined $30. For dis-report from Tronoh
Changkab obeying a trafic signal at Arsenal Estate, near Ipoh, states that light- Street a bram car driver was fined ning struck the manager's house $10.
and sot fire to the attap roof. The whole structure was burned down criminals and the furniture destroyed but were beheaded on a piece of the inmates gucapodt Mr. A. J.. ground behind the South Case, the owner, was awakened Station, Shanghai, on May from sleep and just managed to 16. The
men had been escape... handed over to the Chinese
Four Chinese
authorities by the Mixed Court on The appointment of additionali a charge of robbery and kidnapp-men for the Manila police and ing.
secret service force and an increase for present members of the force, Moscow, May 9 The Ugo-has been recommended to city Buhl (Southern Steel Trust) has authorities by John W. Green, chief received a contract for 86,000 tons of police." Second class patrolmen of rails for Chinese railways. The are receiving P120 a month at the Arst consignment of 3,000 tons will present time, while third class: The shipped by the steamer patrolmen receive" P105 Mr. Dekabrist," from Odess The Green would have their salaries Dekabrist is due to leave Odessa increased P15 monthly.. for Vladivostock in a day or two.
The Chinese immigration to Washington, May 1-Part Philippines is not so alarmingly of the joint army and navy great as has been pictured in car mincetivres to be held during bain sections of the Manila presa, August next year at Narragansett according to reliable data gathered Bay, according to preliminary from the bureau of customs and plans for the war games have other sources, which are well in been made possible by the agree-formed on the question of Chinese ment in Congress on the fuel item immigration to the archipelago of the Navy appropriation bill Ometals of the bureau of customs which will permit the battle fleet and other government offices are so come to the Atlantic coast next
one in their opinion that there is Boring.
no justifiable cause for anxiety re- garding influx of Chinese Immi- grants to the Islands FH
Genoa, Maly.The famous Pugmini violin, which for guar
has been in a glas enso, Wax Pe". We are requested to state that moved from that receptacle by Mr. Leung Koon-tal, the pro- special permission of the authori-prietor of the firm of Mesars. ties and utilised at a concert by Koon Tat & Co.. carrying 02 Bronislaw Gilpek recently, When Paganini died in 1840, his favourite instrument. was carefully laid away. Since then several noted violinista, including Kubelik and Hubermann, have played upon it. Of late it has been realised that it would have
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Miami Florida, May 15,- Dativo Fuantos,, n Cuban flyweight, defeated the Filipino fighter Pedro' Campo on a foul which was called against the latter. The fight was scheduled to go 10 rounds but in the sixth round Campo knocked out Fuentes with a blow to the solar plexes which the referee called low,
Tuberculosis is rampant in Mantin and many new patienta ara reported every day, according to the Philippine Health service. An average of 10 cases and eight deaths are registered daily at the buret fs believed that there are many others who are suffering from the disease but do not report to health authorities.
There is a boom in London in
things Chinese just new largely
because the Queen has been: huy- A cruze ing Chinese antiques. for Chinese decoration has sprung up in Mayfair, and an off-shoot is Chinese food.. Women are wearing
piece of Chinese jade, cornéliar or amber, curiously carved and suspended on a chain of coloured beads.
Tokyo, May 19-Reports from Taiboku state that famine is re- sultire from a prolonged drought.. Following last year's poor, crops this threatens, some fourteen hun- Shinchiku
dred aborigines in Province, Northwest of Formoss. Several are: reported to have died of starvations already, whilst the number of victims is increasing daily. authorities are attempting to alle viate the suffering of the aborigines: by despatching large stocks of rice, and other foods to the amicted districts..
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The local Government
Only four out of five of the U S Destroyers arrived at. Hankow on May 15. One of their number had had an argumcnt business at 24 Des Voeux Road with a tanker just by the difficult bend above Kiukiang, The des Central as Import & Export Mar chants, Freight, Brokers, Coal troyer, the 'Simpson,' steaming just. under 18 knots.. happened to jam. Merchants, Stevedores and Cen- erak Contractors, is in no way con her steering gear when head- nected with Mr. Leung Kam-shuted straight for the approaching alias Leung Kam-tal of 21 Lee tanker. She ripped into the tanker's emergency fuel tank astern and, In so doing, put her own bows out of alignment. She was ordered to return to Shanghai for docking?
to be used more frequently to with-Yuen Street East, Stevědoro, a stand the rayages of a type of report of the Rearing of whose moth which threatene to destroy. petition in bankruptcy was recent- it."
ly published in our paper.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr. N. D. Mudie will be acting
It is notified in the "Welha/wei
Dr. W. W. Yen, the Premier, wil}
of Foreign Affairs until Dr. Alfred
as Resident Councillor, Malacca, Government Gazette" that. Mr. Ladditionally assume the portfolio in place of Mr. Ralph Scott, who. C. Calthrop has been appointed bas: gone to Penang.
to act. temporarily na Junior Dis- trict Officer and Magistrate in Welhaiwei.
Dr. and Mrs. R. W. Mendelson. after about ten years residence in Bangkok, have left for America.. They intend residing at Rocky Ford, Colorado.
The appointment of Mr. F. K. Wilson, recently deputy registrar in the Supreme Court at Singa- pore, as assistant district judge: and police magistrate at Penang is gazetted,
Mr. H. L. Mullins, manager of the Kobe Branch of the Chartered Eank. returned to Kobe, with Mrs. Mullins. Mr. and Mrs, Mullins, who are both very popular resi dents, left the port several months ago on furlough at Home.
Peking. May 13.-General Tuen Welchin, who arrived here last night from the south, will act as The Penang Municipal Commis-resident official representative of sion has decided to mark its ap preciation of the Hon Mr. W Peel's services to Penang by call ing the Pangkor Road extension
Peel Avenue."
Mr. J. Harold Dollar, of the Dollar Line, who recently under went two operations, at Shanghai, is greatly improved and has left the hospital for his country home in San Rafael, California....
Marshal Wu Pei-fu in Paking, replacing General Chi Hsieh yuan, who is expected to leave the Capital shortly.
Sze returns from Washington.
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At a meeting of the Ruco Club Cricket Club at Hankow, the follow- ing officers for the year were elect- ed: Captain, F. S. Crawford, Vice- Captain, T. C. G.. Pearson, Hon. Sec. O. B. Pursons.
Los Angeles, California, May 15. Charles Paddock, noted sprinter, broke the world's record for 100 yards to-day, making the distance. in 9 seconds. The wind was against him. The former record was 9-3/5,
Peking, May 8. Reuter's Agency has been requested by General Chang Hsuch-liang's headquarters to state that Colonel Bangkok, May 14.-Mr. S. S.Z. T. Wang, who was reported to Dickson, Secretary to the American have been executed under orders Legation, leaves early in June for from Marsha) Chang Teo-lin, is Europe. He will stay over instill alive. Egypt for a brief spell, will spend, some time in France and then eroas: The mystery of the disappearance
the Channel to the United Kingdom. After a holiday, there, Mr. Dickson The two Spanish aviators who will proceed to America. He will were recently in Bangkok on their not be returning to Siam, having way to Manila brought with them been appointed to the Foreign. an autograph letter from the Office at Washington. King of Spain to King Prajad- hipok of Slam. They were much impressed and universal in their praise of the splendid aerodrome at Don Muang.
of Mr. C. S. Allen, wharf engineer at Holt's Wharf, Peotüng. Shanghai has been solved at lust. Nearly three months ago he engaged a sam pan to take him across the river and that was the leat heard of him. Early on the morning of“., May The death occurred suddenly of17, the River. Police patrol re- Mr. H. McGill of 28 Cantonment covered a body found floating in Road, Penang. Mr. McGl, who the river off the N. X. K. Wharf. was a retired planter, well known The body was fully clothed, but the Im Penang, had enjoyed good health features were unrecognisable, how- ever, in the Public Mortuary, Mr.
A very pretty wedding took and his death has come as a shock place "on May 19,
at to a large circle of friends. He Allen's house-boy was able to. Shanghai when Lomine Mar was discovered apparently uncona-identify certain articles of clothing, garet Fleming, only daughter clous in his chair by his wife at trinkets and things found in the of Mr and Mrs. William S. about 10 o'clock. Dr. Scully was pockets, as belonging to his master, Fleming,
married to summoned but on arrival" pro- Charles Dewey Culbertson, son nounced Hfa extinct of the Hon. and Mrs. Clarence
Was
The trial of Frank Henry Johnston, aged 21, before Judge Grain and a jury in H. M. Supreme Court, Shanghai, was concluded, and he was sentenced to six months, im prisonment with hard labour. The
Incurring a debt or liability to Hsia
B. Culbertson, of Stanley, Wis Declaring that she died owing consin.
to tiredness from life, Viola Gubar, whose proper name accord: Mrs. Alec Tweedie, has returning to her dying confession was ed to England, after concluding Clara Tumentzava (25), passed charge was that the prisoner, "in some 100,000 miles of travel in away at the General Hospital, the Far East, quite convinced Shanghai, suffering from oplum-Wai ching, did obtain credit to the that within a few years there will poisoning and heart failure. De be war in the Pacific between ceased had been residing at No. 48 Japan and America. War is not Range Road, with an ex-Customs a woman's topic, and Mrs employes, until her death, and took Tweedie, who gives her reflections her life when the les ned that her in a volume entitled "An Adven over e contemplated turous Journey,” handles It rather | America, without
amount of Tis, 2040 from Hala Watching under false pretences, or by means of fraud other than false pretencen, contrary to B2 and 88 Victoria 62 anc 13 Mr. A. G. Mossop, the Crown Advocate, with whom was associated Mr. EH
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loosely, comments the China told him, she could not a with Platte conducted the prose Express and Telegraph.
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