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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Lighting-up time 'to-day Is at 6.15. p.m.

To-morrow Michaelmas Day and the Day of St. Michael and All Angels,

Journalists, publishers. re porters etc., have formally inau-

Long before the ferries were again ruhning yesterday afternoon,

number of launches and motor boats were scouring the harbour. looking for what there was to plex upa sequel which always follows

typhoon in Hong Kong.

gurated an association at Kong-ped

Firing with a "six-inch gun battery in the qualifying rounds for this King's Cup competition of the National Artillery, Association at Sandown In September, No. 180 Portland Battery (Dorset Heavy Brigade) #t Weymouth scored twelve hits in twelve rccends in

thirty-seven seconds. This is be

over the week-end were pre-llered to be a gunnery record in the

Visitors from Macao who stop

moon.--Our own correspondent. vented from returning yesterday qa there Was 110 departure. This

Work has now commenced, ntmorning the boats left as usual Kongmoon city on the building of and the ordinary run has been a bund and malov (modern road) presumed. There was, of course in the business centre. along the no mail either way. river bank-Our own correspon-

dert.

Demanding better terms, om-

The clerk of Bridewell Royal Hospital, in New Bridge Street, certifies that the number of appren-

い Hervice.

Calcutta is unable to shake of

the incubus of communal suspicion din except in the chief City of all and hatred. In every part of In-

and in Basti, in the United Pro- vinees, where the personal bravery of the Police Superintendent, saved the situation, the great Mahomedan ceremony passed ofT quietly,

elaborate precautions had to be taken.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1926,

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ployees, of the Suaning Railway (indices sent there last year by the although, of course, in many places REPULSE BAY

Kwangtung) went on strike on Sept. 2 and the train service stop ped that afternoon. Our own cor- respondent.

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The seizure of 2.100- iɛèls of opium concealed in a secret com- partment of the chain locker on board the s.s. "Tjllelicet" on her | arrival from Amoy on Saturday was

made by revenue officers.

City Chamberlain was nik In the old days the cells for unruly and refractory Elty apprentices were Largely occupied by way of deter- rent punishinens..

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Before the "three guns" were red yesterday morning one of the Chinese ferries went over from Hong Kong, to Mongkok, taking with officials Near-

it the supply of bread for penin- aula-ites and she morning papers. But the blow had freshened to an extens whereby a return trip was deemed inexpedient and the ferry went to shelter instead.

rests were made, but two members

of the Chinese crew have absconded.

At the "Kowloon Magistracy yesterday. Mr. C'R. F. Johnson, of Messrs, A. S. Wätsons& - Com-

pany, was fined $5 for disobeying Because the storm started dur- a trafic signal at the "Stur" Ferrying the night-and there was no wharf. A similar fine was imposed previous warning during the day oh Mr. G. E. . Johnson, of the

a.good many afghboards were PW.D., for not carrying a motorblown down in Chinatown early horn on his cycle.

yesterday morning.

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Usualty Chi nese business establishraents secure their auspended signboards when the "black" typhoon signal goes op. Fokis who woke up yesterday had, to retrieve those long pieces of wood from several doors away.

it some cases,

Bering excavations, at South- ampton a skeleton was discovered buried face downwards 20 f. deep in some old bank premises. belleved to date from the sixteenth century, when it was the practice se bdry executed traitors in this fashion. The spot is only a few yards from the old court-heuse, Hollander.. who toured where, in an earlier age; King, Africs for the purpose of investi: Henry V. tiled and contemnerigating emigration possibilities from conspirators on the eve of his sail ing for Agincourt.

Mr. P. 1. Burgers, a well-known

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The Ukrainian separatist move- ment which was suppressed by Moscow eighteen months ago is again manifesting itself. Accord- ing to the Balic Press a majority of the Ukraine executive whom the now at Moscow”, are powerless to crush are separatists anxious to take advantage of the, party disorders at Moscow to ob.. tain separation from Moscow and the Soviet Union. The Moscow Government considers, "It is added, that the Ukraine movement is the trump eard of the Western Im- perialists. and intends to take energetic measures in the near future.

Recent papera Reem to have been full of brighter news for thej married woman: A London even- 12x paper" announces proudly that! "Married women on the prizes, in at Clophi, Beda" fan ankle show

why there should be supposed to! be any connection between matri-j mony and large feet and thick). ankles is left unexplained), and at) Amsterdam, to the International Federation of University Women, "Mrs. Frank Galbraith, of New Jersey, addrcased the Congress e her experiences as the mother of eleven children and president of a arm of industrial engineers." This Owing to the typhoon, the ad

creditable but not particularly journed inquiry into the Pokfulam

surprising the successful president alven should pumping station deaths fixed for

a nursery of obviously be able to reduce even La yesterday afternoon had to postponed until to-morrow after

industrial engineer to reason. fact, to go down to the works and noon. Due to the same cause, the case in which Captain Weston and

do a Hittle strike breaking must be Mr. T S. Jeffery have taken out to irrigated lands, und declares a nice quiet change from the summonses for assault against that Dutch settler in the Cape nursery... Even if it is only an province possessing £1,000 to £2,000 annual meeting experience should ought to be able to make for him- tell the hand that has rocked the self and hla family a much better eradle (eleven times) should bel living than is possible in Holland. Fequal to controlling the savagest --African World.

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telephone employee, who has in burn taken' out cross-summonses, was adjourned for hearing at the Kowloon Magistracy on Friday

afternoon.

the Dutch agricultural point of view, has expensed the View that South African farming, on the whole, is a very risky proposition without adequate capital. He be lieves that the mixed fruit and attle-breeding farms on irrigated land offer the best prospects of He strongly favours success. co-operation and group emigration

set of shareholders.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

A carnival is announced to take place at the Repulse Bay Hotel next Saturday evening. Dinner will be 34 per head, and fancy or evening dress is optional. There will be a late bus. to the Hong Kong Hotel

The Dockyard Young Men's Club will hold a social dance in the club room at 6.45 p.m. to morrow.

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The Chinese Mister in Copen- hagen and Mme. Tsung Tee-la. have arsed at the Carlton Hote

Among the passengers for Yoko- The Hong Kong Interport Golfhamd by the N.Y.K. liner "Kator! at 12.30 nm. Tables for the Car-team are due to leave for Shanghai Maru," which

left London on the Messageries August 28; were Sir G. and Ludy to-morrow nival may now be booked.

Maritime s." Angkor.",

Lenox-Conyngham and daughter.

Hong Kong residents who went

to Macan on Sunday for an excur- According to Mr. Cha Steven- slon me pleasant weather except, son, the recent return to London perhaps, for the humidity in the of Mr. R. F. Johnston, C.B.E., atmosphere and the rather intense tutor to the exiled boy Em- heat. The officers of the boats pre-peror of Chima Husan Tang, will dieted a mild blow and were surset many people thinking about prised to set the signals go up the incongruous settings in which after their return here.

Englishmen from time to time. find themselves, and yet manage Special services of thanksgiving-to the amazement and admira and re-dedication were held on tion of men of other races-to Sunday, the occasion of the Second handle unfamiliar and difficult the manner Anniversary of the opening of the situations as if to Union Church, Kowloon. In the born. morning a children's service was

on

In closing the International Boy: Seouts, Conférence at Kanderster on August 28, Sir Robert Baden- Powell welcomed Prince Chichibu of Japan, their new patron of the Scout Alpine Club.

Et Gloria Lodge. No. 3872 of the Royal and Ancient Order of Buffaloes, Hong Kong, are issuing invitations for a farewell dinner at the Royal Naval Theatre on Saturday, October 2 at 8 pm. (Dress optional).

held at ten o'clock, while at the A writer in the "Daily Graphic". oleven o'clock service the preacher speaks of meeting Mr. Oscar Cock,

The Globetrotters did not open was the Pastor, the Rev. J. Horace a publisher, who tried sleeping on their season at the Star Theatre Johnston, M.A. At the evening the Embankment once and found last night." as the “Kiniyung," the service the Rev. J. Kirk Maçonachie it more than enough. Mr. Cook boat on which they were novel of his own, called travelling, was held up by the preached, and a solo, was rendered has a

"The Seventh Wave," coming out typhoon. The vessel is due to-day, by Mr. H. E. Gardner.

300D Years ago he

used and the Company will be at the A friend of King Edward,. die to be a district officer in British Star Theatre to-night. cussing the latest and most ambi- North Borneo, but "went sick and tious effort of the Prime of Wales came home in 1921 without a in "addressing the Royal British bean." After. his Embankment Association, expressed the view experience he went gold mining almdat testily that no one knew in West Africa, but returned to what that fellow, would be up to make his first real lucky strike next. "Did you ever notice," he when he met his wife, Christine asked, "that the Prince never does Campbell-Thompson, also a novel anything that his father and grand-ist with a new book just out.. father regularly did as Prince of)

Charitable bequests to the amount of over £$3,000 are con- tained in the will of. Mr. Henry Wagner, F.SA, barrister-at-law, one of the oldest members of the Alpine Club, formerly secretary to the Barcress Burdett-Coutts, afterwards to Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, who died on April 24 last, aged eighty-five years, leaving unsettled property of the gross value of £198,324.

Wales, and does so many things. The following appointments to that neither of them ever did? the Colonial Service have been When King Edward was Prince and made by the Secretary of State King George wae Prince, you could for the Colonies:-Straits Settle tell exactly every year what they ments-Mrs. C. H. Duke, M.A...

The Red House, Bexley Heath, would be doing at any speciñe time, M.B Ch.B., D.F.H., to Lady which was built in 1869 for There would be Newmarket, Epsom, Medical Officer; Mr. D. I, Gracey, William Morris, is for sale, and Ascot, Goodwood, Cowes, Sand-M.B., B.Ch., B.A.0, to Medical there is a suggestion that it should ringham, foreign apas, Scotland. Officer; Capt. E. R. Davies, M.A. be acquired as a muscum in memory and so on. Their visits to Paris to Mathematics Master; Mr. W.H. of the great poot-crafteman. The |would be regular and the routine Thorne, to Puisné Judge, Malay house is an early example of de- would be observed there. Now Statea-Miss W. H. Mitchell, sign by Philip Webb, the friend of the present Prince does nothing|M.B., Ch.B., to Lady Medical Morris and Burne-Jones, and a regularly except fulfil his official Officer; Mr. F. W. Perry, to pioneer in the revival of country- engagements. He never goes to Assistant Superintendent, Poets house architecture. It contains Newmarket and hardly ever to any and Telegraphs Department; Mr. mural and other paintings by flat races, except upon compulsion. A.. B. Walton, B.Sc., to Assistant Rossetti and Burne-Jonesa. It was He has actually been heard to Conservator of Forests; Lieut. E. Morrie's home for nomo years, ba- describe the Derby as a great whste Sykes, to Angletant uperint fore the exacting claims of of time He hardly any of

he never goes yachting, managemjUTSJALNO Akastanu, Talegripa suozuen uns box at the opera, and he only plays, Engineer, Posts and Telegraphs famous house on cards if he cannot get out of it." Department

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