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THE CHINA MAIL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The agenda for Tuesday's mect- ing of the Sanitary Board contains no itama of public Interest.

The Soviet Government has decided to spend £3,000,000 on taking a census in Russia between October and January.

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The Pioneer Silk Store announce that they have received a new assortmant of underwear.. socks- stockings,. dresa lengths and. woollen and cotton kimonos, Inspection is solicited.

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The battleship "Ajax," which Oid Mary, an inmate of Dork. fought at Jutland, will leave ing Workhouse, has just celebrat Sheerness for Fortsmouth, to be ed her 85th birthday. She was prepared for sale. She is being probably the first baby born in Scrapped under the Washington the workhouse, when it was com Treaty on the completion of the pleted in 1841. and save for a new battleships "Rodney and short period she has been an in- "Nelson." She was launched Inmate of the Institution all her life, March. 1912, and will be replaced She is an energetic helper, in the as Senior Officers' ship at Sheer- infirmary kitchen. Mary said: "I ness by the cruiser "Canterbury." have enjoyed all my 85 years here and have always been treat- ed well. I went out to service for a time but had to come back! through ill-health."

An English Pullman ser- An Evice, affording the travel ler facilities for taking his meals without moving from his comfort- To-morrow, being the 16th An-able armchair, will henceforth be niversary of the Fortuguese Refound on the Sud express train public. the Consul General for For- between Paris and the Spanish tugal will hold a. Réception at the frontier. A train composed of Club Lusitano from 11 a.m. to Noon,specially built Pullman cars made Ito which all friends are cordially its first trip recently, and the

invited.

Journey to Biarritz was accom- plished in the record time of 10hr. 50min.

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An interesting new way DA taking the sick to hospital is by aeroplane. This method has been adopted in British Guiana, accord- ing to the annual Colonial Report. just issued. During 1925 the Real Daylight Balata Estates, Limited, imported from England The body of Chinese

a Fairey seaplane for the rapid male was noticed by a passer-by

conveyance to Georgetown for on Saturday afternoon in the The Imperial Cash on Deli-ruedical aid of sick employees at alley way between. Wm. Powell very Association, through its pre- the company's Apoter station, Ltd, and Lane, Crawford, Ltd.sident, the Earl of Denbigh, ap. 272 miles away in the interior. The police were notified, and the peala to the Government to make. The plane is fitted with a Rolls body was removed to the mor further concessions to popularise Royce Eagle engine, and has been, tuary, death being attributed to According to Mr. W. J. specially constructed for the Hopton, the chairman of the Intropies and to carry one stretcher corporated Association of Retail case and an attendant. primarily because it is too costly, Distributors. C.O.D. has failed,

natural causes.

"Adelaide The Governor of Tasmania, Sir James O'Grady, has and cannot continue long, because lity of a new gold field in the

Johannesburg-The possibi just completed a tour of the Mur-the Post Office cannot run it pro-Transvaal is indicated. Dr. Percy ray River settlements, where he fitably on any lower fees. was impressed by their develop- ment and potentialities..

At a re- ception given him by the Com- monwealth Club, Sir James. O'Grady said Australia was the

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Wagner, the senior Government geologist, reporting on the dis- Montreal. The proposed covery at a farm in the Rusten- new issue of postage stamps com-burg district, states that it takes memorating a number of out- the form of a sill of gold-bearing El Dorado of human happiness he life of past days, which was ing upwards of six ounces per ton standing figures in Canadian pub-rock, the richest ore found assay- and comfort, which explained the

proposed: by Mrs. Charles over thickness of 4ft. people's broad ideas and vision. Murphy, ex-M.P... has been held Picked specimens contained 29 If Australia put her shoulder to

up. The new Postmaster-General,, ounces and the gold contents. vary the wheel to find dried fruit mar-Mr. Manion, will consider it later. within wice limits. Similar rock kets the Murray country 30 The stamps were to have been is reported at two other farms, years hence would be the most issued on the occasion of the and if these reports are authentic prosperous spot in the Common-Ottawa Centenary, but it was an a potential gold-bearing area of

nounced at the Department that considerable extent is indicated. the whole mutter is to be further considered.

wealth.

Capetown.

Christchurch, The dairymen

Noisy, sensual; and incredi- of Waikato, one" of the "pre-

bly stupid" was how jazz music sent, butter-producing districts in

The story of was described by Sir Hamilton New Zeeland, have passed the fol- how a farm of 16,000 acres in the Harty, conductor of the Halle lowing resolution: We strongly Fraserburg district of the Cape Orchestra,, when presiding at the resent the attitude of America in Province was bartered for a cou-amual congress of the National excluding our products by a pro-ple of fat oxen was related in the Union of Organists at Manches- hibitive tariff which prevents us Supreme Court during the hear-ter. The present, said Sir Hamil- from paying for our purchases. ing of a right of way case. Aton, is an age of that accursed from the United States in goods. witness stated, that in 1836 his American Negro form of music We therefore urge New Zealap-grandfather had a very fine pair called jazz. He had listened to it ders to purchase as little as pos-of fat oxen, and as the owner of with a sincere wish to find out if sible from America until it is pos- the farm was anxious to join it, had any musical attraction. sible to pay for such purchases Retief's trek into the Transvaal whatever. It possessed only two with our primary products. Fur-and had no cattle strong enough qualities which had anything to ther, we urge that every effort be for the long journey, he, exchang-do with the art of music-rhythm made to buy from Britain, which ed the farm for the two oxen. The and a certain cynical grotesque- takes all our products without any present value of the farm is not ness, Many of the delegates ex-! restriction.

less than £16,000;

pressed their agreement.

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Berlin, September 27.The com mander of the Potsdam gegiment denied to-day that Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, oldest son cf the Ex Kaiser, had joined the Reichswehr or that he would be admitted so it.

A Children's Flower Service was held at St. John's Cathedral yes- terday morning, prior to matins, and the Bishop of Victoria (the Rt. Rev. GR. Duppuy) delivered appropriate address to the young people.

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Two wards each containing 16 beds, in King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, SE.. closed for lack of funds for 18 months, are to be reopened at once.

Mr. Peter Drummond Hay, younger son of Col. Drummond Hay, of Aberdrgie and Seggieden. Perthshire, is working as a ticket collector on the railway at Strat- ford.

Lieut. Coromander Frederick Medway, who has risen from the Constantinople, September 27-ranks to his present position, and The Turkish government ordered who was naval. instructor of the the Young Mon's Christian Asso-Prince of Wales and Prince elation to close its doors and liqui- George, is retiring from the date its affairs and charged įta

Navy. officials with conducting religions propaganda.

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At the July passing out examin- Tokyo, September 26-A portrait ation of cadets of the senior divi- of the Emperor and Empresasion at the Royal Military College, Japan 8000 will start for Sandhurst, Senior Under-Officer Mexico in response to a request of L. H. Bean, won the King's Medal the Japanese Colony there, who and Anson Memorial Sword for asked for it to unveil on one of the the highest aggregate. Japanese national holidays.

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Bulawayo-Lord Wilton and

The King of the Belgians has conferred upon Sir Leslie Scott, KC, M.P., the Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold' I in recognition of services rendered to" Belgium in connection with the movement for the unification of maritime, fav.

Among passengers departing by the s.s. "Kashgar" on Saturday weto Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Conip-1 ton, Mr. W. W. Anderson," Mr. W. H. Edmonda, Mr. J. Barbour, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Millington, Lt Comdr. C. H, Nicholson, Capt. R, S. Macfarlane, R.N., and Mr. A. A. da Roza..

Once, so the story ran in Dublin, Swift 'MacNeill had fallen ill, and he was advised to enter a nursing home. He repaired to the Four Courts in Dublin and began shaking hands with all and sundry. At that time one of the most bitter opponents of Home Rule was Mr. William Moore, but Swift MacNeill made up to him and held out his hand. "Shake! A Tonga Island noble named Major W. Hibbert, accompanied "I am going round forgiving all hands with me, Moore," he said. Vee Lala, who accompanied

by a couple of native boys, have Queen Salote, or Charlotte, as

my enemies," Moore looked at honorary A.D.C. on her visit to completed a motor trip from him in some surprise, and then Auckland, New Zealand, three toria Falls, Southern Rhodesia, a Moore hed shaken hands, "I feel Nairobi, Kenya Colony, to Vic Swift MacNeill added, after years ago, is now in jail awaiting distance of 2,000 miles, in 16 days better now. I shook hands with the hearing of, a charge of theft

Lord Wilton said, they had had which has been brought against no trouble, not even a puncture: Tim Healy an hour ago!" him. The charge arises out of It was now possible to go by road the disappearance of sundry arti- from Capetown to Mongalla, in eles and money from cabins in the Sudan: The delegates to the the steamship Tofus." A few hours before his arrest Vee Lala, who speaks English quite well. had been elected to represent the nobles in the Tonga Parliament.

ernors, to be opened at Victoria conference of East African Gov- Falls, are to go there by motor- car from Kenya

Matheson Lang is a staunch ad- Liverpool, August 29.Mr.

artists touring abroad while they herent to the policy of theatrical)

are still in the hey-day of their prime Next Friday he sails with his company from Liverpool Paris. One of the finest war for Montreal for a six-months' The Twenty-Four Merchant Gallds, Des Voux Road Central, memorials in France, erested to tour of Canada where he will in- the memory of South Africans troduce several of the dramus held a service at their premises who fell in the war, will be in which have been a big success on Saturday in memory of the Inte Mr. Ho Fock, over two hundred sugurated this month at Longue here. Incidentally, his visit will members of the Guild being pre-al (Somme). It has been built be somewhat in the nature of a Pent. Litanies paying tribute to by subscriptions from South "homecoming for him, for he the aplendid work done by Mr. II Africa and is the work of Sir was born in Montreal; but, al- Fook during the last thirty years Herbert Baker, who constructed though he has travelled practical- were read and, led by the Hon. the Rhodes Memorial on Tablely all over the world he has never Orders for photos can be placed with our representative at Cheung Chau, Dr. R. H. Kotewall and the exacu Mountain. The monument con- returned to the land of his birth

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tive committee of the Guilde, all gists of a triumphal arch sur since his father, a Scottish Pres present bowed before the portralt mounted by a bronze group exsbyterian minister, took him back of the decoaned. The premises of cuted by Mr. Alfred Turner. It to Scotland when three years old. the, Guild were draped with scrolls will be surrounded by oak trees Matheson Lang was the youngest presented by merchants of the grown from acorns sent from of seven children, all of whom Colony.

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