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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

On Tuesday there was a Chio. ese ense of diphtheria from the city..

Warsaw. September 28.- Despite two votes of suspicion and lack of confidence against the minister of the interior and the minister of education, the Bartels cabinet has been reconstituted without the least change. The ministry will again be presented to the Diepson Thursday. If the Diet again refuses to accept the Bartels cabinet, Marshal Pilsudki will dissolve the diet.

Fourteen grouse from the Nairobi After many years Scottish "moors were despatched of sporadic research a serious from Southampton recently by effort is to be made to exploft the steamer for New Zealand, where coal discovery on the Kenya efforts will be made to roar then coast. Following the completion

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A proclamation has been sent for bettor concessioria! issued by the Hupeh Financial terms, an influential South Africa Bureau saying that bank notes to mining syndicate has taken over the value of $20,000,000 lasued by the prospecting work and a gang Wu Pel-fu this spring have been of drillers has been employed. cancelled. From the date of the There is every geological indica- proclamation should anyone trytions or a workable coal bed and to pass these notes with intent to coal veine have actually been dis- defraud he will, on accusation, be covered. If coal is found in pay- punished according to law

ing quantities it will have a re- markable effect on the railways and industry of Kenya.

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Greece is now willing to liqui- date the debt to Great Britain Rome, September 28.- within 60 years by annual pay. Benito Mussolini to-day emphati rents averaging from £250,000 tocally denied that Italy will have opium smokers and eaters who un- £300,000. For the first ten years any part in the naval manoeuvres | dorwent the treatment by the Sing she desires that the instalments off Tangiers. The report was gapore

medical authorities for

should fall below this average.generally that Spain and Italy curing them of the habit 580 and it is proposed to limit the would merge their navies for the absconded without completing the first two years payments to training period and engage in a treatment. It is in the early stages $160,000 M. Caclamanos has sham battle. This was done a of the treatment. during which the been supplied with a schedule of year ago but Mussolini now ton-patients suffer from great discon- monthly payments for submission siders the Tangiers issue too me- fort, that patients abacond, states to the British Government.

have such a joint the annual medical report for last! year. The mental effect is very pronounced and in bad cases when

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Two Home mails arrived yes- terdu The R.M.S. "Empress of In the development of fight-the craving is at te height they Asia" brought letters from the ing aeroplanes driven by powerful iterally roll about and groan in United Kingdom vir Canada (Lon- Tengines and capable of very high agony. The reasons for admission don. September 4) and the as.speeds the United States author for treatment are stated to be fiban- "Calehns" brought mail from Home titles, in conjunction with medical cial in practically every instance

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number of bags landed from the the physical effect upon pilots of-effects of the drug. As regards "Empress of Asia" was 205 of swift dives and audden accelera- the starting of smoking, the reason which 81 were for Hong Kong, the tions. In some trial movements, appears to be equally divided be remainder being for Canton and out-carried out, at extreme speeds, tween pleasure and sickness. ports: There were 15 bags from London, The "Calchas brought 1278 bugs, 58 for Hong Kong, with 28 bags from the United Kingdom vià. Siberia and 21 from the Con-porarily from the head. sinent via the same route.

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An unusual case was heard at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.

pilots reported a sudden feeling of blindness. This, in the doctors' opinion was due to the fact that the blood had been driven tem-

Ottawa--Sir George Perley, the acting Postmaster-General,

Capetowni. -The discovery and proclamation of an ever- increasing number of alluvial dia- mond diggings is beginning to cause anxiety, not only to the directors of diamond mines (who fear, the consequences of flooding. the market with cheap stones) but also by the Government and

a Japanese residing at Kowloon referring to the statement made City being charged with cruelty to at Victoria, British Columbia, by social reformers. The opening || a peacock belonging to Acting Sub-Sir James Allen, late New Zen-up of a new diamond field at- Inspector Smith and with throwing and High Commissioner in Lon-tracts both the professional dig- stones to the danger of the public don, that the misunderstandingger and the man who either is out Sub-Inspector Stimson said that between Canada and the other of employment or is lured from the,bird, which was invariably on members of the Pacific Cable his regular occupation by the hope the walls of the Kowloon City Board had been cleared up, said no of making a fortune at the dig- Police Station, appeared to have action had been taken and the corgings. The vast majority who attructed the attention of the desrespondence Was. continuing. try their luck are, as a rule, bit- fendant who threw a number of Canada has, threatened to with- terly disappointed, and every dia- stones at the bird. The defendant draw from membership of the mond rush is invariably followed told His Worship that he had no Pacific. Cable Board owing to the by a frantic endeavour by many intention of harming the bird and proposed duplication of the All of the disillusioned men a fine of $10 was inflicted on the Red cable route from Fiji to women-to return to their former second charge only.

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

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The forthcoming wedding is an Berlin-The Duke of Hohen-" The South Australia House of nounced of Cezar Outairiesberg, eldest son of the murdered Representatives has passed a vote Baptista, banker, residing at Archduke Francis Ferdinand of of appreciation of the services of Alpha," Hart Avenue, Kowloon, to Austria, has become engaged to Mr. Gunn on his resignation of Elfrida Maria Gomes da Silva. the Countess Elizabeth Wolfegg- the Premiership. Mr. Gunn re- | residing at No. 23. Jordan Road, Waldburg. The duke was a boy signed to become a member of the Kowloon.

of 12, when the assassination of Migration Commission." his parents at Serajevo led to the world war.

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Sir Tiruvalargudi Avargal, a member of the Legislative Assem- ofbly of India, who is at present of visiting Canada, declared that the

Dr. Wu Chi-lin, formerly Chinese Minister to Pori, arrived in, the Colony by the s.8. "Empress of Asia" yesterday. Dr. Wu has lately Leuchtenberg, & relative been practising in North China and the late Czar of Rus-feminist movement was spread- has come to Repulse Bay for asia, who fought in the Russian ing in the East. In India, he said, short holiday.

Through the courtesy of Mr. II. W. Ray, the manager of Hong Kong Amusements, the studenta of the Sacred Heart English School will give a stage performance for students of the schools managed by Rev. Father G. M. Spada, at the Tai Yat Theatre on October 10, at

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Imperial Army during the war, the bobbed hair fashion was mak intends to settle in Canada and is ing inroads on the customs of selling his estate in Bavaria. He antiquity, is at present touring with a party in Western Canada.

ME T. H. Woo, who has served for 30 years as Senior Accountant Clerk, was the recipient last week of a presentation from the staff of

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Dr. Franklin Stewart Harris, prominent chemist, arrived in Francisco Japan on September 20 from San on the Dollar Line steamer "President, Wilson," to attend the Pan-Pacific Science Congress

held to be. the Civil Engineer in Chief's De Tokyo, He represente the partment of the Naval Yard. Mr.

Brigham Young University Carothers, in presenting him with Provo, Utah. Dr. Harris is to de- esteem from the liver a lecture on alkaloid soil and European staff, expressed regret also on various problems of the

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Mr. Verhomal Shewaram, the proprietor of Pioneer Silk Store, who has recently been in Japan for a pleasure trip is returning by the French Mail, s.s. "D'Artag-oflicer. nan," on or about the 12th inst. During his stay in Japan, he was entertained by all his friends in Yokohama and Kobe.

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Johannesburg. — Athletic The Hong Kong A.D.C. aru ex-coaches here have declared war on ceedingly busy these days, rehear the Charleston dance, which had sing their productions for "Cricket

become extremely popular. They Admiral ·Sir Robert Harris,Week." According to the experts, whose death was recorded recent the programme will be a very fine assert that the dance bunches the y, was a great sportsman, nach one and present, indieations point hunted game in all parts of the to the entertainments being some world. In China, one of his largest of the best and most amusing ever "baga" was secured on the banks staged by, the Club. Full houses of the Yangtae. In 14 broken days and a record success are confident- shooting a party secured 794 headly anticipated:

of game: Sir Robert's contribution

September 9.

muscles and checks runners' speed. Prominent athletes con- firm this. There is now a decided drop in the popularity of the Charleston. One coach holds that several modern dances seriously affect athletics and that the Charleston "is the limit."

Hankow, September 27-Pre-

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being 109 wild pheasants, niño. The many friends of Mr. E. L hures, 22 anipe, 17 quail, 13 Matteson, late general agent of the

five ducks, and five Dollar Line in Hong Kong, will resumably most people are aware pigeons, various, 180 in all,

gret to bear that his 16 months old that Dr. Aird is leaving the port: daughter, died after a brief illness for good at the end of October, Singapore, September 28-Mr from Bronchial pneumonia in San and there is a very general feel- Tessensohn, who died at Singapore Francisco on September 6. Mring that he should not be allowed Jon Sept 26, was admitted to the Matteson and family left here on to depart without receiving some

General Hospital about six weeks leave in April last and the bereave outward proof of the ago and although his lness took ment occurred while on a visit tomunity's appreciation of the un- on a serious complexion and necos Mr. Matteson's mother, Dr. Suale stinted service he has given for sitated an operation being perform-Frasier. The funeral took place on over twenty years and the very ed, it was not expected. In spite of

deep rogret they feel that those his ripe age (71 years) that there

services have come to an end. would be a facul termination. His Marshal Sun Chuan-fang has mother who survives him is 98 isuued a proclamation addressed Boys of Scarborough Sen years of age. He leaves a widow to the people of Shanghai reiter Training School, during a holiday and devoral children, grandchildren ating his sympathy for the sufferercise in their schooner, "Maiso and great grandchildren, with ings of the nation in general and Graham," have had a hostile re- whom much sympathy a felt the local Chinese in particular. ception in Germany, Lieut. The funeral of the honourable He adds that he will do his utmost Heather, the headmaster of the gentleman took place at Bidadari to keep, affairs running smoothly school, writing from the Kiel Cemetery on Sept. 27 and was and peaceably in the provinces Canal, says We all went into very largely attended. The do- under his control, and to that end the town of Kiel, but we soon censed gentleman's relatives, in- he has given Instructions to his came back. Children and young cluding his sons, daughter, and troops to come down on trouble men and girls openly jeered at us, many grandchildren, were, amongst makers with the utmost severity the younger kiddies those who were present at the ceme- Aiso, all undesirables will be ex- alongside with what were evident

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