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THE CHINA MAIL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

2-Tho Mr. Havelock Wilson presided Shanghar optember 7-One Peking, September on August 24 at Gatti's Restauraat hundred and sixty-four cholera Chinese Minister in Belgium has cases were certified by the Shang-sent in a request for money for the on the occasion of the formal in-

government students in that cou Fauguration of the organisational health authorities during the

week ended September 4 as against try. If they fall to get funds from known as the Industrial Peace

138 for the previous week,, although the Ministry of Education the Union of the British Empire for promoting industrial peace, A pro- the death rate was perceptibly Belgian schools will refuse to ad- mit the Chinese students says the visional Committee was selected war during last wook,

Minister. equally composed of representatives or capital and labour.

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Statistics released by the Vatican show that there are $12.000 Catholic priests m the world at the present time,

whom 200,200 of

live in Europe. This works out at about one priest for every 1,800 inhabitants. In Africa, there is enly one priest to every 86;000-in- habitants, including, of course, the pagan natives. „

If the Soviet is to be saved then it must return to the rigidity that Leven Lanin himself forsock.

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policeman was so non- plussed over a swarm of about 7,000 bees that settled in a busy Sheffold Street, that he had to ring up hend- quarters on the phone for instruc- tlona as to, methods of arrest. Eventually ex-Counèillor Bashforth, a Shofield accountant, came to the rescue and calmly swept the swarm with a brush into a cardboard box and walked away.

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Poking, September 2.-The Inspector-General of the Hatamen surtax. Hu To-ju, has promised to release sixty thousand dollars to the public primary and secondary schools here. Within a few dave The lower pubile institutions used to receive $60,000 from the return of this surtax every month.

mention is made whether they took the war materials with them.

According to The Shangha Managua, Nicaragua, August

Tribune," A detective employed 15.-The farmers in the vicinity of

in phe China Merchants Wharf

cache discovered a

of 1,000 the Masaya volcano who have clung

The to their farms and homesteads "in face of the crop damage continual-rifles and 10,000 rounds.

Customs were called in but the in the statement of Unibysher, they wrought by the poisonous smugglers had strendy escaped. No

The which it emits, have apparently de- successor to Dzeeriinsky. official says there has been too much cided to beat the mountain at its deviation from the original Soviet own game. Ab-arding to the latest system and he proposes to slash despatches, they have employed a ruthlessly the pay roll of function- group of German engineers who aries and transform the...omic Propose to cap the crater and, by the injection of cermin chemicals, Fenneil into an industry' commis-

to neutralise the gases which, if B. "at.

they must come out, wit come out through valves

Kyoto, September 6-Plans just announced show that a Japan- ese film producing company here Not long ago the Kelguku-kat, has signed an alliance with theor, Imperial Charity Society, de Universal film Company. The cided to allow a life-long bounty agreement stipulates that the latter of Y. 700 per annum for any per shall render technical assistance in on over 60 years of age who hadi the production of Japanese Alms, devoted himself to private social which will be distributed through work for more than thirty years. out the world solely by Universal. Working on this decision the Society | One of the first films, it is pro- investigated cases worthy of the posed, will include scenes from allowance, with the result that 32 Genjimonogatari, a translation of persons, connected with social fa- which was recently published institutions in Japan, and at Scoul London,

Conversation in Morse between

have been listed. Considering their length of service, age, condition of health, etc. eleven of the thirty-two Wimbledon and Borneo has been are to receive life-long bounty, achieved by Mr. J. A. Partridge, while the remaining 21 will have) the first amateur to establish two-some tokens, of their service. The way communication between Ameri- ceremony for this is expected to be ca and Britain, and also to talk with held at the residence of Prince #Chile. Mr. Partridge, from his Kan-in. probably in the middle of home in Park Lane, Wimbledon, October next.. Under date of got into touch with Mr. Grey, a BrAugust 30" the names of the re ton in Sarawak, through Borneo Istation SK 2. Transmission was apoiled by interference from two Brazilian stations at midnight after the conversation had gone on for half an hour.

SOCIAL

Mr. Dick Norton and his "Globe Trotters" are returning to Hong Kong and will open another season on October 3. They will arrive from Bangkok.

Passengers departing on Satur. day for Europe via ports included Mrs. Alabaster, Mrs. M. I.. Hazlerigg, "Mr. T. Stanton, Mr. C. Thornton, Mr. H. Burrowes and Mr. J. Donnelly.

Invitations have been issued for the wedding of Ernest Lewis Pinguet, merchant, of No. 584, Nathan Road, Kowloon, to M. D. Wichell, residing at No. 1, Cox's Path, Kowloor...

cipients were announced by the Association. There are seven for aigners in the published list who are interested in social work at Seoul, Hokkaido, Tokyo, Okayama, and Kumamoto.

Peking, September 2.-The headquarters of the local police has issued an order to prohibit fors tune-tellers in the city. The sooth- sayers, besides their superstitions, are alleged to be agents for the distribution of opium and other The drugs in their daily rounds. police will censor moving pictures which appear at the local theatres.

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Peking. September 2-Prices of food stuffs become considerably lower on account of the large crops

autumn and harvested this

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proved railway transportation after the recent war here. Prices of various kinds of flour range from twenty-Ave to thirty coppers per catty, and only seventeen coppers per eatty for the flour of maize...

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Dr. Vernon, addressing the r British Association at Oxford, said experiments had shown that Ameri- cane, are permanently acclimatised Six degrees to a temperature

The warmer than the. Britiah! American finds himself most com- fcrtable in a temperature of 70deg. Fahrenheit, and the Englishman in one of 64. This is due largely to the greater use of central heating systems in houses. in the United States.

AND PERSONAL NEWS.

£109,616 has been. raised in Great Britain and overseas for the memorial to Queen national Alexandra.

Mr. Ratanhi Dadabhai Tata, a Director of the Tats concerns in Bombay, died suddenly on August 26 at Hardelos, France.

Putlan, the youngest daughter of Mr. M. B. Moody, of the Asiatic. Petroleum Company, died at her sister's residence, Jamshedpur, on August 8.

Monsignor John P. Chadwick, chaplain of the battleship "Maine" when she Wan blown up in Havana harbour, in 1898, has re- The naval board of inquiry decid-signed aa chaplain of the United ed after a brief investigation that Spanish War Veterans of New York Commander John Rodgers had died State, after affiliation with the in line of duty and not as the re-organisation for 27 years, sult of any error, lack of skill or misconduct on his part.

Marshal Joffre presided and several high British officers were present at the unveiling of a monu- ment erected at Guillemont by the E.Irish Free State in mumory of the Irishmen who fell in the Enttle of the Somme,

Calcutta, August 14-Mr. McGillivray, 24, an engineer on board the 8.8. "Matina," which is lying at the

at con) docks Kidderpore, was found dead in his cabin this morning. The opinion of the ship's doctor is that death was due to asphyxfa, owing to the deceased having accidently swallow

ed his false-teeth while asleep.

The Daily Express publishes 2 message from Paris stating that Capt. Arthur, ex-Aide-de-Camp of Raja Sir Hari Singh, bas married a wealthy Irishwoman, who is an" authoress and also has exhibited pictures in the Royal Academy. M. Karakhan pald a farewell Arthur, who has been living in visit to Admiral Tsai Ting-kan, Paris since he was released from Foreign Minister, on Sept. 1 The prison, has conducted a commercial Walchlaopu has been handed over concern so successfully that it has all official documents connected been converted into a liability with the Sino-Rusälan Conferonde.company. He and his wife are Although it is expected that, the leaving Paris in. October to live in conference will soon be reopcted, the South Sea Islands. no definite reply has as yet been received from the Russian Legation in Peking.

Mr. G. D. Leys, Superintending Electrical Engineer at the Hong Kong Dockyard since March, 1924, has been appointed to take charge of the electrical depart ment at Chatham Dockyard: Mr... Leys will be remembered in con- nection with the productions of the Philharmonic Society in which he has taken leading parte during is residence in Hongkong The Bdst rendered vacant by his de #parture will be filled by Mr. P. A. Tapp; from Pembroke Dockyard.

The remains of ME CR Coales, HM Consulat Changaha, brought to the port on the steamer Tungwo, wore laid to rest the International Cemetery, Hankow, Blur sackets from HMS. Grat" and HMS "Bee formed the ben

distinguished comp

naval and comm

sent to do the las décé

Bombay, August 13-His Majesty the King has approved of the ap- pointment of Mr. Cecil Patrick Blackwell, barrister, as a Pulsno Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, in the vacancy caused by the promotion. of Sir Amberaon Marten, LL.D., to be Chief Justice...

A United Press cable of Septem- ber 5 from Martinsville, (Indiana)") saya:-Senator William McKinley's condition became suddenly worse to-day and his family were sum- moned to the bedside. Physicians attending him in the local sans- tarium say that, there is little hope. for his recovery....

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An Evansville. (Indiana) cable of || September 5 states:-Osborne C Wood was much improved to-day, Dr. Wynn said he expects to be out of the hospital within week, although "when the patient was brought to our hospital there was doubt for the first 24 hours' whether he would live." Mr. Wood expects to depart for San Francisco soon on his way to Japan.

Before leaving Londen on July 29 on his world tour the Bishop of London sent a message to his diocese in the course, of which he aald. In Japan our arrangements are in the hands of one of my old "Boys," the Bishop of Kobe, and, among other places, we are to visit the now Cathedral of Korea, consecrated on May 2 this year. I have been chairman of the Korean Misalon since the lamented death of Canon Brooks äfteen years ago. I only regret that, my old friend, Mark Trollope, the Bishop, will not be there to receive me. The arrangements in China are rather yague, is apparently they depend upon the equally vague condition of to help the cour

the bishops there in any thence we FO

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