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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Br 31 votes to 30 Shefeld Chy decided against Sunday golf at the municipal course.

Japan's specie holdings at the ond of May were close on Y1370;- 000, approximately. Compared with the end of January last, this 'shows a decrease of Y31.000.000.

The Ceylon Government had sanctioned the use of a nine-cents tamp, in view of the recent re- duction in postage between a cylon and other parts of the Empire, It will probably be three or four months before these stamps are available for issue as they have to be printed in England.

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Mynday (July 12) is the day of Muhamm. The Mohamedan New Year innmo hijos 13451 con- mences."

Two cases of enteric fover, both Chinese. were reported to the authorisiow during the 24 hours cided on Thursday.

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of the The annual aporta Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation's London staff were held at the Bank's ground at New Beckertham on Saturday, June 12, with Barlow! Mrs. of the chief managor, distributed the prizes.

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The police are investigating an The anniversary of the Restora-utrage alleged to have been enni tion of the Republic of China falls mitted by a Chinche on the Hong

The flags were on Monday, but there will not be kong Cenotaph. any local celebrations on pay large ripped from their stails and a bowl maintained by the E.A.S.MA. club scale,

was smashed. It is stated that the 1 Chinese represented himself to be

Rome, July 4.More than 10,000 persons are homeless on the islang Rhodes as a result of the bearthquake' on June 28 according to dispatches in local newspapers.

The ukelele is the most popular musical instrument on the market. and twice as many as six months geure being sold in London to-day,

Mr., Winston Chuchil the Chancellor of the Exchequër, has received, from a "Birmingham resident" swag stock of the value of £14061 for cancellation. Mr. Churchill expresses his, and the

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musi Government's thanks for this gift!

publishers 201 hide" ukelele and their appreciation of the angering in their song alllious and duner's generosity and patriotism. į pieces of music.

Vernacular papers fear that there will be a demy in opening Mount Fuji to climbers this year, owing to a heavy snow-storm on the top of the mountain. It is stimated that there is more than ten feet of snow at the top, which will probably mean that the open- ing, which ustally takes place about.uly 10, wil be deferred to about ten days. The first sur- vey of the mountain was made last week by the army survey cers. Though the top was reached the surveyors were obliged to descend because of storis,

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Now bills to be introduced in it an Singapore Council ́ make offence act to obey trafle direg tional signs such as whhe lines, etc. and enlarge the sections of the Penal Code dealing with traille in obscene publications and obtaining or dealing in miners for "immoral purposes.

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Government employee empower ed to take the flags to be washed..

The importance of cleanliness. and the dingers of city dirt are being more and more appreciated by

the Chinese. especially in

Shanghai, where, a number of very excellent orders on the subject have born issued by the authorities. A body, described by the vernacular papers, as the Shanghal Chinese Amalgamated League of Navign tion, has now applied to the Chin- ese Maritime Customs officials responsible, "suggesting an increase of the water police force ta patrol the Sonchogy River (presumably Sanchow Creek) and ensure it being kept from filth and refuse, "The association promises to en. operate to the best of its ability.

Vienna May 27. The Reichspost" reports the sale of a well-preserved copy of the three- volume Gutenberg Bible, by the Benedictine Convent of Saint Paul

It is reported that the Hankow branch of the Bank of China a contract secretly entered into with the Klangsi Provincial Bank whereby the former undertakes the mintage or silver dollars for the Carinthia, to an American latter. News of the contract how dealer, for approximately. £14.- ever leaked out and on the Roth 117-Exchange. Last February the Melk copy of the Gutenberg.. ul. the Bankers Association held a Berlin, June 21.The annual conference and decided on a pro-Bible-so-called from its having

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preserved at Melk, in report on the evonoraic year end-text to the Bank of China.

Austria. for 300 years-was sold ing May 81. published by the re- paration agent is written in an Statistics given in the Supple to Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, the optimistic vein and declares that ment to the F.M.S. Gazette relating Philadelphia bibliographer, for "throughout the entire period, to the Perak Administration for £21,200. The sale, which lasted Gamany remaitied financially 1925 show somes interesting com- exactly five minutes, took place in round and a slight tendency to-parisons: In 1876 the Revenue was New York. the Melk Bible having ward acthal recovery is now $273.043 compared with '$40,131,507been sent there by Mr. Edward beginning to make itself felt,' in 1923. Other comparisons are: Goldston, of Bloomsbury, W.C., and that "the Reichsbank has Expenditure 1876 3289476; 1925 who was said to have paid more consolidated is position and the $1.836,225. Imports 1876 $831.-than £10,000 for it. The Guten- Exportsberg Bible claimed to be the first stability of the German currency 76; 1926 $49,726,467. stands fully assured. In all its 3876 $730.972 1926 $177.812,683. book printed in movable type is financial transactions. its policy Duty in Tin 1876 nil; 1925 $3,549,- one of the world's rarities," for

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1925 there are only 13 complete copies has been carried out actively and 708.

of this 470-years-old work. normally."

$1,993,410"

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Tokyo, June 22.--Mr. Casarano, Mr. J. Ambrose has been made the Mexican Minister to Tokyo, leftmaraging director and Mr. 1, of the Yokonamu this morning for home. Dolgorouckoff secretary

Shanghai Horse Bazaar and Motor Co., Ltd.

It is officially estimated that the net deficiency on Glasgow Corpora- tion tramways for the year ended May 31 will be £150,000.

In Brighton Municipal Art Galleries an exhibition of the work of Liége engravers from the 16th-century was opened or May 31

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A collection of 500 documents relating to the vicars-choral of York Minster dating from medieval times, has been found in the minster library.

Tokyo, July 2.-The Dutch Minig fer left for the Kwansai District: last night. He is leaving for home on furlough by the NYK. steamer Kashima, Maru," which sails from Kobe on the 8th instant.

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Mr. E. A Nottingham, publisher of the "Shanghai Times," and Mrs. Nottingham, left Shanghai on July 6 by the Shinyo Maru for a four month holiday in Honolulu and

America.

When the Governor of Burma opened the Rangoon Tuff Club's new raccourue at Kyaukasan, he described it as the Ahest in the East and one of the finest in the world.

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Paymuster Commander R. D. Paffard, O.B.E., lately in financial charge of the cruiser Carlisle. China Station, had bega appointed secretary to Rear-Admiral H. W. Bowring, D.S.0., who has assumed command on the Coast of Scotland, Rosyth.

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London, June 21-The Afghan Minister has sent a cheque for £150 to the fund for the erection and endowment

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emorial Theatre, with a message from the Amir of Afghanistan ex- pressing sincere wishes for the new theatre to the memory of the greatest English poet whose rich literature is read and loved by all throughout the world."

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H. Er the High Commissioner of

London, June 21-Lord Halifax, the F.M.S. has been pleased to

the Colonial Auxiliary | interviewed, said he hoped to leave award Forcas Long Service Medal to for India to visit Lord Irwin in Lieutenant Acting Captain John November or 'December. "I um 37 Henry Harris of the S.S.V.R.

and it is quite possible that, unleas I go out to my son, I may never see him again. It is best to realise that I am 87. It is because of that I have not yet mude definite arrangements." Lord Halifax has. previously.

The láte Mr. Robert Yeats,

The Rev. Alexander Forbes Adam Mohr (74) of Nowhall, Burton-on-Trent, late of the Pres-Cumberland House, Kensington, byterian Church; Rangoon, loft an state (property valued for English grant) of the net value of 249,006.

Tokyo, July 21-M Kopp. the Soviet Ambassador to Japan, ha informed the Foreign Office that he

proceeding to Moscow for two months leave-on About June 27. It is rumoured that M. Kopp will not

return.

Madras, June 24.-The Governor of Madras, at a private dinner party at Government House, Cotn camund, announced the engagement of his younger daughter, the Hon. Cecely Goschen, to Captain Portal, his Aide-de-Camp.

The 'beautiful penmanship of Mr. Hou Shih-ying, formerly Premier of the Chinese Republic, is famed from one end of China to another, Mr. Hau, the "N.-C. Daily News" vnderstands. has arrived in Shang. hal with the intention of settling there as a professional Chinese scroll and tablet writer.

Mr. Wilhelm SchaunLorst, man- ager of the Far East passenger ser- vics of the Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen, is now in Japan making arrangements for a round-the-world nervice as carried on before the war. He expected to leave for Vancouver on the Empress of Canada which, sailed from Yoks hama on July 7-and after a short stay on the American Continent will return to headquarters at Bremen.

late of Messrs. Edward Boustead

and Co., London. Singapore and Penang, who died aged 69 on March 20, left £77,390 (net per- sonalty £60,148.)

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The Hon. Mr. J. H. M. Robson, who has received the C.B.E.. was the founder and first editor of the "Malay Mail" in 1896, and has been prominently identified with public over thirty life in Selangor for He

appointed an years. unofficial member of the Federal Council on its formation. In 1909.

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not been ““India though he has travelled much,

Captain G. Clarke of the Shang- hai Municipal police' who has beca pending a holiday in Tsingtao for the first time, returned to Shanghai on Sunday, states the "Tsingtao Times" of June 3. Captain Clarke has been for many years a polic officer in the Punjab "and, curie down and here somewhat run suffering from sciatica. Sea bath- ing every day whilst in this port The cruiser Durban, Captain effected a remarkable enuément in J. C. Hamilton, is ordered to re- this case, and it is to be hoped that turn to Devonport by October 25 Captain Clarke may manage to re- next, in readiness to recommission turn here later in the season to

The Durbar a complete his cure. on November 2 serving on the China Station, and on June 4 was expected to complete

Kobe, July 1-Miss Cozad, who refitting at Hongkong. Hamilton completed two years hae been in Japan since 1888 a8 1 command of her on May 12, while teacher to Japanese school girts, the ship's company joined at Hong-will leave for America in a few kong on February 14, 1924.

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days, and does not expect to return. Kian Cozad has been connected with A popular though quiet wedding the Kobe Woman's "Evangelistic took place in Peking last week School for the last thirty years and when Mr. E. J. Harris, local Divi- the pupils of this school took tho sion Manager for the Liggett and opportunity of presenting her with Myers Tobacco Company, was a present in commemoration of her married to Miss Robin L. Smith, long service, at the graduation daughter of Mrs. Troy P. Smith, of ceremony held on the 22nd uit Parkersbury, West Virginia. Mr. There were three graduates from. Harris has been in China for about the Evangelistic institution: A four years, during which time he very interesting programme was. had been stationed at Amoy, an arranged, the feature being an ad- ton and Chinwangtao, as well, andross by the Rev. Hiroshi. Hatanaka. at Peking,

of the Danka Church..

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