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The sailing time of the Steam. The next Criminal, Sessions [boat Co's "Talshan"" on the night | open on Tueaday......,

run to Canton has been altered from a.m. to 2 am sailing every alternate day.

Mr. M. J. Qulat. Consul General in Hong Kong for the Netherlands, who has been away on a holiday In the October issue of "The trip, will return by the a.."""Prosi Nineteenth Century" an article endent Harrison" which is due to tulod China and the Future" is arrive on Monday. good analysis of the ills of China. It is by Mr. G. W. Keeton, of thy University of Hong Kong.

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Monday according to the old. Chinese calendar, is the "Beginning. of Winter" written as Litung and Pronounced Laap Tung in Can

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Viscount Gray of Fallodon, speaking of Alnwick, made allusion to the entrance of Germany into the League of Nations, and charactṣr- Ised it as the greatest single step which had been taken towards

curing European peace since then League was founded.

Yesterday was the Hindoo New Your Day, a festival known as The Eastern and Australian "Divall." On account of the recent Stoninship Co., Ltd! has added to deaths of several prominent mem-

"Character in Business" was the the personnel of the s.a. "Tanda"bers of the Hindoo community, the two charming Australian girls to Pioneer Silk Store" did not hold subject of an address at a confer- act us musicians and hostesses. their customary tea party and other of the Incorporated Secre turies' Association at Oxford by Sir This innovation should prove pogu. observances of the occasion.

John Ferguson (president of the lar to the travelling public by this

Institute of Bankers), in which he' It is possible for Hong Kong- urged young men to apply their ites to arrive In Liverpool on Dec. minde to the discussion and dis- 16. (Belfast on Dec. 14). The "Em-rovery of commonsense solutions to press of Russia leaves Hong Kong the present absorbing financial and on Thursday (Nov. 11) at 1 a.mcconomic problems. arrives in Vancouver on Nov, 29 and connects with the "Montroyal," leaving Canada on Dec. 7. local office has full particulars.

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New school Year at SL Stephen's (boys) College, Prospect Place. Bonham Road, commences on Ders 13 and the examination for (new boys will be held on Dec. 11 at 1:30 am. Forms of prospectus may be had on application to the school.

The Earl of Balfour, in opening In Civil Service sports ground new

Glasgow, spoke of the important place games occupied in the public and communal Hffe of the people, e regarded them as a great moral [training as well as a great physical

training.

The promotion of closer Bach relationship with Great Britain is the purpose of the visit to London Pot three gentlemen from Pelangi eting with the approval of their Governments, who. during

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month's stay, propose to make a tour of the grent provincial centres of industry and be the medium, for an exchange of information.

Now York, October 26.-Assum-

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the major burden in financial support of the Belgian stabilisation programme Amerienu

9 The ship's company of H.M.S. Guanciers will absorb '$30,000,000 "Hermes", held a very successful of the $100,000,000 international dance at the King Edward Hotelloun and through the Federi Inst night. The music was supplied Reserve banks will participate in by the "Semreh" Band A prize the $35.0001000 credit for the pur- was awarded to the lady who pos- pose of restoring Belgium's "ed"- sessed the "lucky number" ticket. vaney to a gold basis. Prizes were also awarded for apot || . und waltz dancos.

It is recorded in the sixth re port of the Ministry of Health Ad- visory Committee on the Welfare of the Blind that blindness. is slightly more prevalent among men than women,

Mr. Frederick Mason, A.R.C.0. L.T.C.L., the Cathedral organist, announces an invitation concert to he given in the Cathedral Hall by number of his nupils on Friday next. Nov. 12 at 9 p.m. The pro- gramme is a long and varied one and locul muste-lovers who will be privileged to be present are pro-51 mised a rare trant.

probably because the former are subject to great risks in industry. Forty-seven per cent. the general population re males, but in the bind population

per cent. are of this, sex,

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With regard to the, hearing at Civing evidence before the Royal The following forthcoming the Central Magistracy on Wednes day, in which the manager of the Commission on Cross-River Tratis, weddines Are announced: --

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the Earl of Crawford and Balearres, John Murray McBride (of the Wang Lee Shipping Co. was charg whe represented u number of China Sugar. Refining Co.), No. on remand, with fraud (report- cieties and a Conference of E2 Bost Point Terrace, tood in the "China Maj" on Nov. 4), zinders said that a new brillre at Margaret Elizabeth Gairus, No. Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co., a Choring-cross was the key to the 337A, Nathan Food: Kowloon,general managers of the Hong Kong solution of many of the trade deals Atarazio de Souza Remedios,& Territorial Estates, Ltd. inform version is incorrect. ities. In urging the preservation No. 4. Peuce Avenue. Ho-muns that cur ot Waterloo Bridge, he argued that t... to Gulomar Maria dog The secretary of the Territorial Go. it need not be broadened-at Texet Remedios.. No. 6, Humphreys did not state in evidence that de for twenty or twenty-five year--avenue, Kowloon: Frederick fendant called on him for informa- il a new Charing-cross bridge were Scheer, confectioner, No. 1, Duddelltion about the 8.8. "Kong Ning", and erected. It was perfectly feasible Street, to Maria Carmen de was given a letter to the master. to strengthen and preserve the los Santos, No. 63, Nathan Road. His evidence referred to the leasing ¡bridge.

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

NEWS.

Mr. A. G. Fulton, who won his A fortune of £194,165 was left Large legacies are bequeathed to second King's gold medal this year by Mr. Thomas William Garrett, of a number of religious institutions in the record Bisley tieshoot, has Beckenham, director of Osborne, under the will of Miss Bora secured the, championship gold | Garrett, and Co., hairdressers' Margaret Crossfeld, of Liverpool, medal of the North London Rifle sundriesmen, who bequeathed whose estate, la of the gross value.

legaçies to hairdressers" benevolent of £89,673. institutions and, to old employees of the firm.

:Club.

A London message says that several newspapers suggest that Colonel F. S Jackson, the well- known cricketer, will shortly give up the position of Chief Conserva- tive organiser.

He will probably

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Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, who commanded the 2nd Army Corps in A monument to the memory of the first months of the war, takes Gabriel Rossetti, the father of part in the film of the retreat from Dante. Gabriel Rossetti, was unveil-Mons, which is being shown in ed in September in his native town London. be appointed to a colonial or In-of Vasto, on the Adriatic, in the dian Governorship.

Readating of the probate of the will of the late Admiral Henry Morton Tudor, late of Burnham Shalford Surrey, who died on January 3, 1926, has been granted. Deceased left £25,501 net in the United Kingdom and $2,800 in Hong Kong. A stipulation in the will read that to obviate risk of premature burial a medical atten- dant should after his death open a vein or perform such other surgical operation.

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presence of the Prince of Piedmont. Speeches were made by Mr: Duncan and Senator Antonio Cippico, at one time a successor of Rossetti as Professor of Italian at London University.

Mr. Walter G. Fish, C.B.E., who was for several years news editor

In the will of Miss Elizabeth Kein. Clouston. of Holland Park, who left unsettled property of the gross value of 3113,416, there are handsome legacies to Her servants, including a gift of 28,000 to "my faithful maid."

It is announced that the Rev. of the "Daily Mail," and is a direc- B. A. Bastin has been compelled tor of Associated Newspapers Ltd., to relinquish the pastorate of the the company owning that paper, has Wesleyan Methodist Church. Wan- account of ill-health. been appointed editor in succession chai on

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to Mr. Thomas Marlowe, whose Arrangements have resignation of the position was been made for Mr. Bastia to preach announced in mail week. Mr. Ward farewell sermons to-morrow and A suitcase which the Right Hon. Price, who has seen considerable large congregations are expected. Winston Churchill lost in the Cityrvice as a war correspondent, is Mr. Bastin's place will be taken contained some clothing, and also the now assistant-editor. Mr. Fishby the Rev. J. C. Knight Anstey,. some correspondence relating to is 52 years of age, having been who is at present in charge of the matters with which the Chancellor born in 1874 at Accrington. Lan-Wesleyan Methodist Church of the Exchequer had been dealing, cashire: He was educated at Brentford, Middlesex. Mr. Anstey but nothing in the nature of con- Westminster City School. In the is due to arrive in the Colony in fidential States. documents. Mr. year 1918 he occupied the position December and pending his arrival Churchill took the case with hith

of Hon. Director of Publiefty in the here, the Rov. H. E. Rossiter will when making a series of calls, and

Coal Mines Department of the be in charge of the Wanchai

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Government... eury that the case was missed from his car. Detectives are searching, for it.

"I wanted to be a sailor when I was a girl If a nautical career had been open to women, then I ahould have been a sailor. I was. evarything except stage-struck." The speaker was Miss Viola Tree, the well-known actress, who was addressing the Soroptomist Club on "Talent and Inclination as a basis for a career." "When I was 17," she want on, "I started on the stage because it was my father's great idea that I should do so. At rehearsals. I would be absorbed in Keats and would have to throw the book aside when my turn came. The mistake most people make is that they choose for a career what they desire instead of where their talents lie Many comedians, for example, want to play a tragle part as I myself have always wanted to play Lady Macbeth. Only very great people, such as Michael An gelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Napoleon, can do two things, equally vell. Ordinary folk must choose, but if they have character and pled on they can make a success of a Cazear"

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