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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
To-morrow is Ember Day,
Messrs. Deacons have asked for claims against the estate of the late D. J. C. Dulmahoy Allan, to handel in forthwith.
On August 29, the postmen to
At the annual general meeting Sze Yap districts observed a gen- of the Malacca Club, the com eral, holiday in honour of the 'mittee's report and statement of auguzal of their new Association accounts showed that income had beunion). It will be roeddled, th_t |¡ exceeded expenditure by $3,947.78, these men acted in Aympathy with us against $66 for 1926, after úllow- the postmen who struck recently in ing $1,986.54 for depreciation. During the 48 hours ended di Canton. The formation of the Sanday, three fresh cases of enteric union may be a result of that strike. fever (typhold) were notified · All-Our Own Correspondent, patients are Chinese, two from the city and one from Shaukiwan
}" Singapore, September 6-The " CoMelal Agures for the attendance at; the Malayan Exhibition ware:--| Friday 5602; Saturday, 21,866.; Sunday, 16,193: Monday, 67; Total, 50,364. The total compares very unfavourably with that for last year, 74,000. The 10 and 1924.totals were, respectively 24,000|| and 48,000-M.M.
Running short of money at Ostend, a British holiday maker de The Prime Minister, Mr.elded to make an air-dash home for Baldwin, was a prominent exhibitor more: Ascending at 12.30 p.m., die the horticultural show in the flew at 100-mes-an-hour to the ¡grounds of Astley Hall, his Worces | London air station, descending tershire home. He won three first there. at 2 p.m. Directly he had prizes, a second and one third with Julighted he hired a matör-car and fruit and flowers. The prize money ¦ Grove "to, a bank in Croydon, where The death ly" announced of togalled 168.
he replenished his funds. He was Mrs. S. D. Scott, on Wednesday. back again at the aerodrome in September 1. in the Batu Gajahy sime, to catch a 8, p.m. aeroplane Hospital." The late Mrs. Scott, who This put him down was only 29 years of age, went to for Ostend. there at 4.30 p.ni, his rush to Eng-Ipoh three months ago with hey land and back having occupied only husband who is with the Berngo
Co., Ltd. Her death was due to: shock after an operation which followed the birth of a daughter.
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Council at Mombasa..
A total of 400 bags of mail from the U.S.A.. Honolulu, Japan and Shanghal arrived by the sa
President Grant" late yesterday afternoon Included in this num- 12 hours. ¡ber were 37 bag from the United Kingdom via Siberic The Home
A demo tration of mail via Negapatum.... numbering "Branda" boilersequring and slen 417 bags, also arrived by the saing apparatus will be given at the
Nairobi, August 12-Str "Rangoon Maru" yesterday."
Edward Grigg, Governor 92 Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock
Kenya, speaking in the Legis- Company's Kowloon works to-
lative Although nothing has been de
morrow at 4 pm. It is claimed for
replied to Major Ewart finitely decled, there is a pas- the equipment that it revolutionises
Grogun's speech "criticising the sibility that when the Praya East the process of scouring And remov."
Budget. reclamation is completed, the lowing tax, thereby greatly economis
He pointed out that thuj plateau which will be left on the ing in the consumption of coal loan liability, was £18,000,000, with a contingent liability of less than old Morrison Hill site will be Several important shipping com- £8,000,000, and said it was cor- utilised for the purpose of buildingpanies in Europe have adopted the buted that by 1935 the total thereon the new Queen's College the systems in question in putting liability would be 220.000,con. The Site of which it was originally pro-ships bollers in order by the Pro-Governor asserts that the fnafetal posed should be at Sookumpoo.
CeRH and other purposes." The j
position of the Colony is sound, and Europe-Asia Trading Company hold he anticipates a long period of Captaire Hollands, of the C.P.R..the agency a
steady development. He favouis hus reported the police that he
however, certain curtailments in Blost a pockes book containing 26 in Dar-es-Salaam, July 8--The Government expenditure and re-
money and a tram sicket in Mayaway from Tabora to Mwanza. Hance or private enterprise. Road on Sunday lust. Another re- on Lake Victoria, hus now, benn post by Mr. V. Simpson, of the opened for truffle as far as Rukene. New regulations have been. British-American Tobacco Com This line, which was placed first in issued by the Admiralty. with the pany, states that during the week-importance by the East Africanhing's approval. making it com- end he lost a sum of $100 from an Royal Commission, will tap a won-puläory for naval officers to wear unlocked" drawer of his desk. derfully rich région, around Lake decorations awarded to them on Vietoria, the main produce of whica, all ceremonial occasions for which is cotton and ground-nuts. A new either, full-dress uniform or Frock- section was gerently opened of the cout dress with epaulettes is com- Moshi-Arusha railway extension vinnunded. Hitherto chly the ribbons. the Sanje River, to serve the needs have been worn with the frock- of the European coffee plantations cont uniform. For reasons of of Mount Kilimanjaro and the Beronomy officers have beën allowed cattle and whent growing regions to wear this dress at the King's roand Mount Meru. Surveys are Levees and certain other fanctions. [being taken for the line from The new rules are designed to an- Dodoma to Arusha,. to link the sure uniformity in the wearing of Central and Northern railways. deporntions.
Fortunately for the owner of ¦asum (60 8100 in subsidiady coin
which holinadvertently left in frailway eanlage, yesterday, the money waxylisciwered by Mr. Wour Sai-sheung, of the P. and O. Bank He took the coins to the Traffic Superintendent, and later received Better thanking him and advising him that the money had been re- stored to the awner..
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Sir Eric Stuart-Taylor. Bart. M.D., and family: who are home from Hong Kong on holiday. pro- pose staying until after the New
Year
A Grindelwald message" states that the Wetterhorn was climbed on August 17 by Prince Chichibu of Japan, with Yako Maki and the guides Amatier and Stenri.
Col. and Mrs. Henry L. Stimson passed through Hong Kong on the 8.8. "President Grint" yesterday Col. Stimson... who was a former Secretary of War for the United States, returning to the States after investigating conditions in the Philippines.
The late Mr. John Wishart, of Glasgow, chairman of the Jugra Land are Carey. Ltd.. Edinburgh. Rubber Estates. Trolak Estates. |Bruas-Perak Estates, who died on June 10, aged 65, left personal estate valued for probate at | £215,446.
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Mr. W. G. C. Howard, commis- sloner of Customs at Wuehow, was a, passenger on the "Empress of Canada" which left Shanghai on September 5 for Vancouver via Kobe and Yokohama. He is re- turning to the United States on a vacation.
Friends of the late Dr. C. J. Davenport are proposing to endow a bed at the Shantung Road hos pital as a memorial to the late
medical superintendent who spent up the institution which performs so many years of his life building such an excellent service to the Chinese. The cost of the bed estimated at $1,500, and it is aug gested that friends who would have sent wreaths to the funeral should donate the money to the endowment fund,
Madrid, September 1-It la. re- ported that King Alfonso desires; his third son to be "heir to the throne.
Faul Smith's, N.Y., September 2.-President Coolidge motored 100- miles to-day to visit two groups of invalid world war veterans who are inmates of Adirondack hos- pitals..
tsin on September 4 of Stanley The marriage took place at Tien-
Maritime Customs, Tientsin, and Daniel Kemaley, of the Chinese Ivy Margaret Shanhaikuan.
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Feking, September 6.-According to an announcement made by the Soviet Embassy, Comrade Karakhan will leave here in the course of this whence he will return home by way week, proceeding first to Shanghai,
of Vladivostock."Tohe,"
A private luncheon was given on August 5 at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, at which the President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce (Sir Percy Woodhouse),
Sir Frederick George Painter, the directors, and the executive of many years a member of the City the China section were present to Corporation, and a director of the No megtings of the Eastern Wol- welcome Mr. K. D. Stewart, a lead- Northern Tjillwoeng Plantations, come Club are being held during ing member of the China section, Ltd., and other companies, who died the months of August, and' Septem on his return from China, Mr. on June 9, aged 81, left estate of ber. At the next luncheon on Tues- Stewart addressed the gathering the gross value of £181,220. day: October 5, the Far Eastern on the results of the China Tariff Fress will be well represented; at Commission and the outlook for the least three Editors home on-holida" | Lancashire cotton trade in that propose being present.
country.
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Mr. Sung Vhu-shu, who has been elected as the chairman of the. Shanghai Chinese Bankers' Associn- tion, has consented to assume the
Among the passengers who left Mr. Richard I. Hope, asacciate new post, after having been strong- Hong Kong for Shanghai by the editor of The China Press," was ly persuaded by the local bankers.. 8.8. "President Grant" yesterday on September 6 operated upon t"Kuo Wen." were Mr. R. W. Jenkinson, of the the Country Hospital by Dr. W E. American Express Company, travel- ling on business; Miss Alice Blake, of Hong Kong, on a visit to her brother: Messrs. M. A. Annette and T. E, Griffith of a "business trip.
O'Hara for acute appendicitis. The Mr. A. H. George, who has been case was an extremely grave one Acting Commercial Secretary at as the appendix was perforated be-H.B.M. Consulats-General, Shang- fore the patient reached the hos- hai, during the absence of Mr. H. I. pital. The operation was quite auc- Brett, who recently returned to his cessful, despite the septic condi- post, has been transferred to Tien- Dr. Hu Shih, the founder of the tions that prevailed, and it was re-tsin as Vice-Consul at the British moyement in China for making the rorted from the hospital at mid-Consulate. "living tongue" the literary an-night that Mr. Hope *reating guage of the people instead of the tasily with every chance for r Chinese classical language, ia stay- covary. Dr. H. Lovett Cumming is ing in London. He was formerly also, in attendance upor the cau Pean of the Faculty of the Univer- aisy of Peking but is now serving. on the Chinese Indemnity Com mittee' which will alt in London early next month.
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Mr. C. H. B., Joly, the new Customs Commissioner, has taken up his duties at Pakkai (Korg moon) in succession to Mr. Howard Hia Royal Highness Prince who was invalided out of the ser George arrived at Tientsin on vice. Coming from Amoy, Mr. Jolý September 1 on board H.M.S. travelled from Macao to Pakkai on "Petersfield," together with the the Customs launch "Kongmoon.” British Minister, Sir Ronald-Our Own Correspondent. In celebration of the birth of a Macleay, who accompanied:"the son to Mr. V. Rupchand, manager Prince from Walhaiwef, and proprietor of the Pioneer Silk George and the Minister with Mr. Store, customers were offered gifts Hutchison, HB.M. Vice-Consul, of chocolates at the store on drove by motor-car to the Country Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Club, where they took tifin The Rychand has been the reefplent Prince and the Minister, left by of many congratulations. A reader the afternoon mall train at 3:55 writes to the "China Mall," thank for Peking, Hid Royal Highness's fing Mr. Rupéhand and on behalf of visit is entirely unofficial, and thers Patrons and the Indian community were no officials or guards of hon- prays for blessings, for him and his our on duty at the Budd on landing,
or at the station, di
sua.
Prince Mr. J. V. MacMurray, the United States Minister to China, is due to arrive in Shanghai on September 14, accompanied by Mrs. MacMurray, Mr. MacMurray and party, which Includes: Mr. W. Peck, secretary to the Legation, Mrs. Peck and Miss Peck, will stay in Shanghai for four days and will then proceed to the Philippine Islands where Mr. MacMurray will confer With Governor-General Leonard Wood.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1926.
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