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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An extraordinary general London May 11—Among meeting of the Hongkong Civil the strike newspaper curiouities Service Club will be held to is the dally issue of the morrow at 5:15 pm in the San "LNER news by the London tary Department Board Room and North Eastern Railway con- All members are paticularly retaining the time table of the quested to attend...

railway and general news.----

Times of Ceylon.

The story of "The Dollar Princess" which is being perform ed by the Russian Light Opera Co.

There were. Pär Bu minera employed in Per year Chinese onining cooltes in

·Indian Perak totalled 59,008. minipg cooliea 7:527 and Malay mining cookies 1,851.

at the Nagor Kashem Theatre to-ing a sharp fall, notwithstanding which will transform it into a night; has been translated into Siamese under the title of "Hiran

Day!.."

A copy of the new road map of Singapore has been issued by the Survey Office at Singapore. It is a clearly printed and very use- ful adjunct to any office, the stale being Ave inches to the mile. and is obtainable from the Survey Office in wall or book form

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The romaine of J. K MacNichols, second officer of the Admiral Line steamer "Eldridge." have been embalmed and are to be sent from Kobe to Seattle on the "President Grant," the same boat on which Backlund, the man who shot him will return to the United States for tripl.

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• Yildiz, the famous palace of the past Sultans of Turkey, had Mukden, May 24-Fengtlen been let by the Angors Govern- convertible notes are experienc- ment to an Italian Company, casino, with an hotel. The Yildiz Kiosk in the days when the Sultans lived with their hareems, heavily guarded and in complete isolation was one of the most secret and mysterious buildings. in the world"

every possible effort on the part of the Fengtien authorities to bull the market. Today, they fell from 875 yuan to 380, causing the exchange here to suspend market.

An Aneta cable from Batavia states that there is a good deal of eriticism almost approaching a scandalla connection with Sours baya harbour expenditure. The Batavia paper "De “Courant" goes so far as to refer to secret com- missions,

Peking, May 21,-- General Wang Huai-ching has restored to the owners the Manchu property. in the suburbs of Peking that General Feng Yu-hsiang turned over to his brigadiers so that the. rents might serve as pensions for incapacitated Kuominchun sol- diers. The confiscation of these. many Manchus without means of properties was said to have left

livelihood.

According to the "London Even ing Standard," syndicate, headed by a Chinese who was deported from England a few years ago was formed some months ago in Ant-

Shanghai, May 26-Summer. worp, with its aim the control of began to make its presence felt in the drug traffic of Europe with Shanghai yesterday when the Washington. May 21.-The

agents in Gormany, France, Bet-thermometer registered a maxi- United States troasury will receive gium and England. Suspected mum temperature of 93.6 degrees, approximately $88,000,000 from agents in London are under-obaer over 20 degrees hotter than May various foreign nations on June 1.ration, and developments in the 24 last year. Yesterday's maxi. under debt funding agreements re police campaign are expected at any mum represented a big increase in cently ratified by the United

degrees on previous hottest days States senate and the governmenta

this year. Saturday's highest. of the respective debtor nations.

Chinese papers in Hankow temperature, according to Sicca- Two-third of this amount will be placed in the treasury "mis recently gave prominence to a rewei, was 88 degrees and Sunday's cellaneous fund" and the remain-port that the ricsha coolies sent a maximum was only 83 degrees. der applied to the reduction of the deputation to the 8th Station to

see the Chief of Police to request. public debt...

moment.

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Two Republican prisoners, his aid in connection with the Keogh and Killoran, Have made a coolie who died in the sensational escape from Dundrum. Delhi, April 99-Much Indig-Hankow Special Adminis-Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Ireland, nation was expressed at the meet-trative District. In rewhither they had recently been re ing of the Delhi Municipality held ply to their petition the papers moved from prison, Bight arm- this morning over the resülf of the say the Chief of Police stated:fed men held up a drapery van at enquiry into the scandals connect. This coolie was not beaten to the outskirts of Dublin, and three ed with the Municipal record rooms. death by a foreigner so if you of them proceeded to the Asylum. No fewer than 1,750 Ales have been want to create trouble you are not The Porter of the Asylum, think- found missing, 1,371 having been patriots." The Municipality has ing that it was a van delivering removed without any marking, and inserted an advertisement an-goods, admitted it. While the H370 réquisitioned years ago by Denouncing that the dead coolie Forter was held up by a revolver,

partments and never returned. Aowed a considerable amount of the two prisoners, who had appar Sub-Committee was appointed to money and, several days ago, just ently been waiting for the suggest steps for adequate disci-previous to his death, he received rescuers, entered the van and were plinary, measures against the cul- a sound trouncing from his credi-driven off. The van was later dis- prits, and to consider procedure for tors. Afterwards he took the covered abandoned." One of the the due care and preservation of wrong medicine and died at the prisoners was serving 10 years': public files.

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for departing Manila per 9.8. "President Lin coln yesterday included Mrs. G. R. Lindsay and children.

Their numerous friends are congratulating Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hollands on the arrival of a son on Friday morning. Mrs. Hollands and infant are both doing well.

A marriage is to take place in Havana, Cuba, May 15-Osborne Tientsin shortly between Thos.C. Wood, the son of Governor Henry Porter, sub-accountant at General Wood of the Philippines, the Mentoukou -minės, and left Havana to-day for New York Mary Gertrude Kepish, who is at after a stay of some time in a present "employed at Shanghai. sanitarium here.

A new lodge of the Royal Ante- diluvian Order of Buffaloes was consecrated on Saturday evening at the Institute in Duddell Street. This lodge is mainly for the ship's

Mukden. May 16.-General Chang Hsueh-liang, son of Marshą! Chang Tao-lin, who had intended to proceed to Tientsin, shortly, has been ordered by his physician "to

Dr. E. P. Minett. the Govern-company H.M.S. "Hawking and keep to his room for at least a week ment Bacteriologist, met with an is called the Prince George" unfortunate accident on-Friday, [Lodge- When leaving his hollae he stum-

bled over a dog chain and fell so The King and Queen lost one of heavily that an arm was broken...their oldest servants by the death of the late housekeeper of Bucking

on Account of cancer of the stomach from which he is now suffering.

The late Sir Robert Houston, the shipowner, who died at his real- dence, Beaufield, St. Saviour, Jer-

Sir Newton Stabb, Sir Montague ham Palace, Misa Ann Clark, aged Turnier, Sir Charles Addis and 70. Miss Clark joined the householdes de guld to-have-zmasy- Mr. H. W. Looker, M.P., were of the Quoon, then Duchess of among the guests at a dinner given by Mr. Samuel Samuel, M.P., at the House of Commons on April 26.

The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. C. Bond will be pleased to hear that their son Victor is now.

York, at York House, St. James's, soon after her marriage in 1895 when the King became. Prince of Vales, she moved to Mariborough House; and thence to, Buckingham Palace in 1910.

od about 27,000,000. An official at Somerse? House told a Daily Mail reporter that, if the will was proved at £7,000,000, the death duties would be in the region of £3,000,000...

Admiral Thomas MacGill, who Berlin, May 18.A meeting of died at Victoria Cottage, East out of danger and progressing the Per Club comprising poets, Cowes, was burled at Whipping favourably-He underwent an operation last week for acute appendicitis. He was rushed to the French Hospital only just in time. Drs. Strahan and Thomas are to be congratulated on their

success.

essayists and novelists of practiham Isle of Wight: Admiral cally all countries opened at Berlin MacGill was navigating officer of yesterday with a reception in H.M.S. Alexandria when the King rooms of the Deutsche Gasellschaft.thea Prince of Wales was a Among those present, were Messrs. lleutenant in the ship. Ele. alsworthy, Jules, Romain Karin, Majesty sent a message of symnathy Michaelis, Thomas, Mann Ludwig with the widow. Luida and many others. A banquet was given the club by the city of Mr. Galsworthy Berlin to-day. was elected president of the club, Mr. Fulda vice-president.

Mr. G. A. Pasquier who bas been on the staff of the North China Daily News" ever since shortly after the end of the war, in 1919, left Shanghai by the Blue Funnel str.Troilus." Mr. Pasquier has been compelled to At Christie's on April 15 a Chi- go Home owing to the state of his nese 10-leaf lacquer screen, carved health, which has been bad for with landscapes and igures, and some months past. Whether or painted in polychrome, 0% ft. high, not be will return is doubtful, fetched 100 guineas (Nephews) a

The King, who is Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guards, was photographed with the King's Company of the 1st Battalion DD the East Terrace at Windsor Castle. The company, under the command of Major AFR. Wiggins, was about 120 strong and lu der without rifles. height of the men was Chinese famille verte dish, anamel and the tallest man in the com led with scenes in the gardens of was 6ft 6in.

There was an excellent attend ance at the evensong service at palace, 22 in, diam., Kang He102 St Andrew's Church, Kowloon, guineus (Mallett); and a square yesterday, when Mr. Rupert Bald.Chinese vase enamelled with that win, A.T.CL, who only a few flowers in red and green, the weeks ago arrived from Home-to centre modelled with four maske take up his appointment ar or in relief-16 in high, Ming 78 ganist at St. Andrew's gave his guinear Yamanaka) first organ recital. He opened with "Prelude in G Minor (Gail. mant), following with E MasoT E

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