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THE CHINA MAIL.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Nauen, June 3.A report from Bagdad says that the Kurd tribes at Lake Wan and Djabekçir. have begun a widespread rebellion against the Turks.
Weekly local photographs will Nauen, June S.-The Gorman appear to-morrow in the "China Labour and Civit. Service organ- Mafl" including those of three lead-isations have asked the Minister of Food and the Minister of ing baseball teams.
Labour to take measures to in- crease the amount of frozen best imports, free of duty. The case in which three man
Great Britain's drink bill In.) were charged with an armed rob 1925, in depression, was more. Berin, June 8.-Plebiscita bery on a sampan in Hunghom Bay than 850 million pounds sterling.results of June 6; from the for when they forced the occupanté ints | or approximately 11 billion mer principality of Schaumburg- the hold was concluded at the Kow-dollars." The consumption of ab Lippe indicate, according to loon Magistracy yesterday, Allsolute alcohol is declining, how- Bückeburg despatch, that the three men were committed for trial ever, there having been a re-people prefer their present statua at the next Criminal Sessions. duction of over 42 per cent. since as a federal state of Germany..
before the war. Nevertheless, it
The three Chinese, including two sallors on the Water Police Plaunches, who appeared or Ye-
mand before the Kowloon Mugis trate yesterday on charges of de." manding $500 from the occupanta of a junk, were gach sentenced to four months' hard labour.
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is estimated that the average ex- abstainer family in the United penditure for drink of every non- Kingdom last year was $175.
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The price of beef in the Kuala from 50 cents to 64 cents per cattle. Lumpur market has been raised
The price of fish also shows a general rive. Poultry has come down" a little. Among vegetables, It re to be forbidden to oragnisse price of chillies has come down from 42 cents' to 24 cents per cattie political parties or secret organ and that of somatoes has gone up sations, according to authority from 40 to 48 tenta.. requested by Dr. Alfred Sze, and reported to have been granted him
y the Foreign Oflee! The Chinese Nauen, June 10,-"A Spanish large number of silver and copper, Alfister at Washington is raid to government more democratic than Froins. he had been released by the, have advised the Paking: Govern, the present parliamentary sys
soon, replace the old ment that the students get inteltem will. „palice. A chnige of untusvful pos
session of a forged note was pre. Trouble" with the American police fashioned system of government,
Such declared Primo de Valera, ferred against him, but was also when rival parties clash.
actions pause endless troshle ze the Spanish dictator in a speech at diplomatic and consular officers.
Madrid. He added that he hoped to be able to outline his new scheme shortly.
There being no sufficient evil dente against the Chinese who was arrested on board a junk with a
withdrawn.
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The fusing of a wire in one of the electric fans in the aisle Plans are under considers- of Queen's theatre led to some of tion of the Tokyo municipal
Changed schedules. of two those in the vicinity hurriedly authorities for the establishment Russian trains and his failure to vacating their seats during the 2.30 of an employment agency for contract for hn aeroplane in performance yesterday, the catch-uses. This is to facilitate bet-Chita and the fact that no fast.
ing of the insulation and grense leading them to believe that the fire might spread. A. European seized a fire bucket and extinguished the flame, those who had made a hor riad.exit" then returning. The pic taze showed throughout the mild panie and the orchestra did not cense playing.
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The annual meeting of the Hongkong Football: Association takes place this evening at 5.30, But the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps Headquarters. The most im- portant item on the agenda is that which concerns the alteration of rules. It will be proposed that an entirely new set of rules be sub- stituted for those now in existence, the revisions applying not only to the 'Association rules, but to all bodies and competitions directly under its jurisdiction.
ter service for patients in and out of Tokyo and also to provide em ployment for approximately 7.000 nurses in Tokyo. The police state that several of the organisations to which the nurses at present belong have collected fees from them but have rendered no ac counting.
liner sailed from Yokohama on June 11, were the factors that determined the defeat of Mr. John Goldstorm in his attempt to circle the globe in less time than 35 days, 21 hours, 35 minutes and 4-6 of a second, the record held by Mr. John Mears of New York.
in the
Regarding the discovery 01 Receipts of the Summer twenty obsolete cannon Palace. Peking,, which was reopen- foundations of the new Chartered .ed after the settling of the mill-Bank building at Penang, an old tary situation, have gained the Chinese has volunteered the to- avaricious eyes of the Municipal formation that they were used in Counefl. In an official request the wars between rival kongsees that latter body has requested in Peruk. Then they were captured, forty per cent. of the revenues and brought over to Penang by the of the historical centre for the British and dumped in the old lock- A stated purpose of paying the up in the Central station, roads in the north suburb and in suggestion has been put forward side the Palace grounds. No that some of them should be sent answer has been returned by the to the Museum so that their his- police Yamen as yet...
tory enn be ascertained.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS,
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Miss K Ward, Mise A marriage has been arranged; and will take place on July 3, DeChristian and Miss E B. Rennie tween Dr. Greene, of Kuala have been appointed by the Secre- Lumpur, and Florence Garrett tary of State for the Colonies as Boddington, daughter of the late nursing, sisters for the Straits S. R. Bastard and Mrs. Bastard, Settlements. Chigwell, Essex.
Washington, June 16.-Charles Herring, the newly appointed commercial attache to the Amer ican embassy in Tokyo, left for Japan to-day...
A British official wireless mes- The following transfer and pro- sage announces the death of Sir For June 24, the anniversary of motion in the Colonial Service, Henry Orria, the well-known sur- the founding in 1920 of the Vie-made by the Secretary of State for geon, and one of the founders of toria, Hongkong, and S. Chins the Colonies, is announced:-Mr.
the Imperial Cancer Research Diocesan Association, a garden Hayes Marriott, CM.G., General Fund. So great was his reputa- party haa.been arranged at the re- Adviser, Johore, to Colonial Secretion as a surgeon especially for sidence
of Mr. Alfred Boyer, tary, Straits Settlemerita. -
operations on the kidneys that in Oaklands, Hildenborough, Kent."
1904 he was summoned on a pro Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Holland and that time he was the only Euro- fessional visit to Bombay. At
Those interested are reminded of
the Imperial Concert Party's show family were due to leave Shanghalpean surgeon who had ever been
ing at the Kowloon Cricket Club to-morrow night. This talented company of eight local artistes need no introduction. Admission is only
81, for the splendid variety enter
tainment offered.
Amongat recent
arrivals at Home from Malaya are the Hon Mr. R. C. M. Kindersley and Mrs. Kindersley, who are residing at Lymington, Hants. Mr. Kinderaley is one of the leading planters in Malays, and is home on a year's holiday, at the conclusion of which he will pay Malaya a six months' visit and then return home for good.
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It is notified in the "London Gazette" of May 14 that the King has approved the following Foreign Office appointments dated January, 1-J. T. Pratt, Eaq, C.M.G., to be one of His Majesty's Consuls- General in China; G. S. Moss, Esq., M.B.E.. to be one of His Majesty's Consals in China; and A. Blackburn, Esq., to be one of His Majesty's Vice-Consuls in China
on the President Cleveland yester
The following appointments were made by the Admiralty on May 25 Licuts.; D. W. Graham, F. A Pigou, J. H. Topp, and R. C. D. Grimes, to Turanr, additional June 21), and for command of armed launch (undated): C.-Y. C. Keays, to Tamar (May 26).
day for home leave in the United called to India to operate. States. Mr. Holland, who is the Jesselton, June 8.-The news of passenger agent for the Dollar the accident which caused the Steamship Lines, expects to be death of Mr. Lowndes at Singa- away about alx months.
pore, came as a great shock to everyone in Borneo who knew him. During the time he was acting as Manager of the Jessel- ton Ice and Power Company, he lived at Jesselton where he was a great supporter of the Club, play. ing, as he did, all games well. His memory will be kept green here by the two beautiful cups that he. gave us to commemorate his good The ex-President, Teao Kun,luck in the 1925 Derby. was to have spent the Dragon Boat Festival in Tientsin, after Kobe, June 17-After which he was to have gone to daya exhaustive search Miss Tangku, his native district, to Heppingstone, British ateno- sweep the grave of his ancestors.grapher in the Kobe offles of the which he has not done since he Rising Sun Petroleum Co., who dis- became President in 1923.
The arrival at Kingston..or Sir E. Reginald Stubbe as Governor of Jamaica was ilustrated in the Empire Supplement of "The Times." Sir Reginald, who was formerly Governor of Hongkong, was seen passing the guard of hon our of the West India Regiment.
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Mr. J. K Innes, C.M.G., lats Judge of the Supreme Court of the F.M.S... lectured recently on "Pritish Malaya" before the Hanty The following. and Dorset Branch of the Royal Malaya, have been elected Fellows 'Colonial Institute, and paid a warm of the Royal Colonial Institute:
tribute to the assistance given by Capt. H. S. J. Lloyd (Singapore), Chinese; immigrants in the wonder-I. P. Maiters, M.D. (Pahang), ful transformation that has taken Vivian A. Tayler (Seremban), lace in that country in the last Ernest A. Curtley (Sungei Besi) forty years.
Mra, F. W. Howl (Kuala Lumpur). and V. D. Kuppusamy (Parit
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appeared on June 7, was finally found dead yesterday in a valley between hills one and a half miles from her house at Tarumi. Mise Heppingstone, who was 37 yours of age, was found lying on the ground, holding in her left hand a bunch
withered of
lilies which she apparently had picked during her ramblings. The autopsy showa that death was caused by heart fallure as a result of sunstroke.
The final list of delegates to the International Parliamentary Com
Conference. mericnt
held at Westminster from May 25 to 29 included the following from Japan: Kabayama, Count Alauke, (Pre sident of Delegation, Member of House of Peers) Hosokawa, Mar- quis Moritatau (Member of House of Paers); Tanakadate, Mr. Aikitsu (Member of House of Peers, Pro fessor of Tokyo University, Mel ber of Imperial Academy); Mizuno Dr. Reataro (Member of House
Tamura, Mr. Shinkichi Member of House of Feers); Naruse, Mr. Tau (Secretary of House of Peers); Tomil; Mr. S. (Second Secretary, Japanesa Embassy).
The annual reunion of the Buntar). Vietoria, Hongkong, and S, China | Diocesan Association was held B The death is announced of Mr. Victory House, Leicester-square, on F. W. Smith, late of the Singa June 2. The chair was taken by the port Harbour Board and formerly Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick Lugard, of the Cold Storage Company. former Governor of Hongkong and Mr. Smith went Home with the speakers included Sir Claude his wife by the City of Valencia. Poors, ex-Minister of Interior) Severn, late Colonial Secretary or Mr. G. WA. Trimmer, of Singa Hongkong, HE the Chinese Minis pore, received a telegram from ler; and the Rev. C. B. Shaan, Mrs. Smith, saying that her hus Warden of B. John's Hell. Hong band had passed away suddenly Kong University.
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Domestic Occurrences Leading Articles:- Quite Inadequate Our Enquirers The Rents Position An Historical Society Commons and China Smoke, Pollution Correspondence Chinese Coins. Ears Cut Off Sold for $201,000 No Recollection....... Another Snatcher Enlarged Club The Cannon Case Miss Doris Woods No Licence Opium Traffic Three Sales Oriental Bank Doubt Removed Two Thefts No "Fun?" Harbour Robbery New Bishop Car Fatality
Historic Macau Fatal Fall wit Steadily Rising Opium Ring? Valedictory C.S.P. Prosecutes European Sued ... Bobbery. Sequel B.C. Cathedral Magistracy Items Harbour Offences Mission to Lepera Supreme Court
CONTENTS.
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St. Stephen's
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Mr. B. L. Frost
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2 In Bankruptcy
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Obituaries
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Traffic Cases
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2-3 Pirate Caught
Herb Poison
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3 4 Our Rents
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45 Assault Summons
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Heavy Sentences
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Hongkong Hotels
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Police Open Fire The Boycott
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Mutidy Spreads
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Ferry Mishap Alleged Murder "Man Overboard" St. Andrew's ".. Forty years Ago
Club Initiative. Canton News "Vexatious" Football Association Lawn Bowls
Champion Pony :: Tennis Leagus.. Interport Golf Local Billiards. Jockey Club.. Brisk Bidding Trafic Breach Adventure 'Phone Material No Muzzles A Police Chase
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