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Three hundrud have volunteered to join an An- tarctic whaling. expedition for waleh only 28 men were required.

A donation of 41,000 has been sent by Mossrs. Alfred Holt and Co to the fund for securing the Old Blue Coat School to the city of Liverpool..

This is the sort of man he is.

A consus in the prairie, pro vinces of Canada shows that the population of 13 "Foderal districts. has increased by 8.6 per cent. der--the other day he kicked a cock

because it would not lay an egg. ing the past five years.

So said an inspector at Doncast- er when a man was charged with cruelty to his wife.

Creditors under the failure of the Earl of Pembroke approved by a majority a schemo providing for the payment of 230,000, equal. It was elaimed, to more than 5s.. in the £

Proposed repairs, to the stone work of the Houses of Parliament are officially" estimated £1,002,350. Thoir completion will

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The travelling. Japaneau police which were abolished in consequence of, the restriction of rallway passes carried out by the Former Railway Minister, Mr. Sengoku, will be reinstated in consideration of an increase of crimes on trains,

As somo: members of Leeds. Board of Guardians consider. fur- tian suite degrading, the inmates of the Beckett-street Poor Law Institu tich are to wear trousers only of this material.

Says the "Straits Tinos": Thel endloss chain of luck nuisance"

Is with us again. Several instances of this form of lunney have been brought to our notice. We strongly advise all who receive these silly communications to destroy them at

once.

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Lassen Peak, California, the only active volcano in continen tal United States, has been rest. less recently! Seismograph re- ports from the Government ob servatory at the base of the peak show that a severe earthquake I was recorded. Reports state that earthquakes and the accompany- harboured on: Alaskan islands in ing rumbles are due to variation creased. 88,381 last tear. It is roof internal pressure in the vol as he was going over a level-cross-ported that account made on August 10 showed the herd total !ing.

to bo:761,281 un tant

Mr. W. Bannatyne, veterinary surgeon, of Haddington, was killed

at Saltcoats, Ayrshire, through his motor-car being atrack by a train

The total population of. F.MS. as estimated on June 20, 1926, was 1,476,032 distributed as follows. Perak 654,179, Selan gor 457,170, Negri Sembilan 204,257, Pahang 160,426.

דינין, ◄

Uncle Sam's herd of, fur seals

cano,

A report on the population and area of Eastern Mongolia and Sowing by deriplane has been North and South Manchuria is gdrated by the Manitoba De-issued by the Bureau of Mon- partment of Agriculture. A golian and Tibetan Affairs. number of sacks of wild rice have The statement sets forth that been forwarded to the Lake Cor="|| 7,777,000 people live in eastern During the first eleven monthsoránt station on the Hudson Mongolia, which has an area of of 1926, 315.677 Chinose immigrants Bay Railway for distribution by 24,900 square it. In Southern aeroplane over suitable marshes Manchuria, the population is 12,580,000, and the area 12,440 square li; In Northern Man in the Manitoba northland

churia, the population is 4,898,- 000 and the area 37,400 square li

arrived at Singapore as against 187,243 in the corresponding period of 1925. During the same period 106,889 Chinese deck passengers lefs n compared with 69,275.

connection

At a luncheon in London. In with the National Memorial to Queen Alexandra, it was stated that the total amount se far received towards the objects in view was £154,000, which, is hoped, will be increused to at least | £200,000.-

Latest détails regarding the "at Home" to be given to-morrow by the Victoria Diocesan Associa- tion to His Lordship the Bishop of London at the City Hall are announced in an advertisement on page 3 of this issue. Guests must bring cards with names and will be received between 4.15 and 4.50 p.m. They should take their seats by 5.10, p.m. in the Theatre Royal for the meeting at 5.15 p.m.

According to reports from Balta, Moldavia, three Russians, one of them a woman, were ahot for alleged espionage in behalf of it was charged that Roumania. they gave information systemati- cally to the Romanian War Office respecting the location of "Red" army forces.

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With noroplanes whizzing aver head at all hours of the day, and important delegations of govern ment officials arriving at every mo mont, Hankow continues to grow. more important every moment. Newspaper correspondents general lyshew.. which way

th6. political w bad

blows, and

Filipino women refuse to be come. "Americanized." Valike their male contemporaries who at present there are four vist are rapidly absorbing the modes tors representing foreign news- and habits of American residents, papers visiting Hankow: Sir Per the younger generation of Fili-eival Phillips, of the "Daily Mail"; pino girls are as conservative as Mr. David Fraser, of "The Times." their mothers. With few excep-who is accompanied by Mrs. Fraser'; Dailey, of the tions they Have spurned bobbed Mr. Charles hair and knoo-length dresses. At "Chicago Tribune" who arrived all dances, parties and receptions early and was present during the given by students and young peo-entire, Nationalist, campaign; and ple's societies there are almost as Mr. George Sokolsky, or the "Daily many mothers as dancers,

Express."

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Mr. F. W. Mager, M.ICE, State Engineer, Perak, is leaving for Home on retirement. He came to Malaya in 1904.

Sir Matthew Nathan attended Dr. Bardsley, Bishop of Peter- Mrs. Amery's, At Home at 112.borough, has been appointed bishop Eaton-aquara, on November 17.

of the new diocese of Leicester.");

"Princess Mario Louise opened, a Mr: George Robey is to give a ten Major Philip Durning. Holt, of new artificial sunlight clinic at the weeks' season in South Africa next Sibbarefield Hall, Chester, has been Mildmay Memorial Hospital, New-year, and will take with him his nominated one of the three sheriffsington-green.

"Bits and Pieces" prodüction, which for the County of Cheshire.

has proved so successful on tour.

Baroness Strathcona's: will, lodged at Dunoon, shows a total aggregate for duty of £6,687,863. The death duty is £2,166,780,

Mr. Michael O'Leary, VC, who has been unemployed in Canada, is stated to be returning to England to take up a position with an Eng

Hsh hardware firm. «

The residence of the Dowager Lady Michelham at 20, Arlington- street, Piccadilly, SW was sold by auction for £75,000.

Vice-Admiral Henry W. Grant, who has been engaged in submarine cables since, 1018," and is joint monaging director of the Eastern Lady Ravensdale has returned to Telegraph Company and a director of the Eastern Extension Company, England. from her long holiday, during which she visited China and has just been elected to the board of Japan, and is leaving for Melton the Western Telegraph Company Mowbray, hoping for some hunt-Joming the "Britannia" in 1883, he saw much service on the China Station and the West Indies.

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Miss Margaret Bondfield, M.P for Wallsend, was slightly injured in collision between two omni-23 Vice-Admiral Sir Regeld their Colonial tour, and at the out-

The King received in audience at Barve in the "St. George", which Buckingham Palace on November accompanied their Majesties on

buses in Loaden on November 18, sustaining cuts over the right eye from broken glass. Miss Bondfield's late father was the first minlater of Union Church, Hong Kong

Tyrwhitt, Bart, on his appointment as Commander-in-Chief, Station..

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One of London's oldest registrars of marriage M Benjamin Bater Bull, who f$65 years has sat at

break of the great war was in com- mand of the l-fated "Hampshire" on the China Station. Later he be came assistant and deputy director of the Operations Division of the Naval Staff.

Flag Nat changes notified by the the same de in the Archbishop of James's Palace when the Duke and There was a brilliant scene at St. Admiralty Include the ratirement of Admiral the Hon. Sir Victor A. Canterbury Taculty Office, Knight- Stanley, Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis rider-street, EC., is, at the age of 1 Duchess of York gave an evening party, to which 800 guests were Clinton Baker to be Admiral, Rear 180 to take a rea

invited. The Prince of Wales, who Admiral Sir Henry T Buller to be

had given a dinner party to the Vice-Admiral, and Captain the Hon. Prince Frederick Victor Duleep Diminion Premier, came on after- A. B. SxDutton to be Bear Admiral, Singh, Norfolk, a well-known anti-wards, and other members of the quary and formerly an officer in the Royal Family present fncluded Norfolk Yeomanry, with whom he Prince and Princess Arthur of Con- served in the Great War left un-naught, Princess Helena Victoria, settled property valued for the pur Princess Marie Louiss, Lord and poses of the English grant at Lady Carisbrooke Lord and Lady $86,166. collection of eighty Louis, Mountbatten, and Capt. the we Norfolk Gil Suffolk portraits he Hon., Alexander and Lady Patricia bequeathed to the Borough of Ramsay The Friary Court en- Thetford.

trance was used by the Ambas sadors Cabinet Ministers, the The Rev, K. Anstey, the new Dominion Prime Ministers, and chaplain to the Wesleyan Church, other privileged persons, while the Wanchal, arrived from London on general body of gusets arrived at the Halyan" with Mrs Anstey, the Marlborough Gate ance, The following donths were an“

They zounced in mall week: Mr. John Other passengers for Hong Kone which is used for the

Morto AncludeSub-Lt. C.-H. de New passed through the lower corridor. Edward Taylor, head o ampton shee mkuufacturity and Mr. A Gordon from and up the staircase which were

London, the Rev. Mothers Cecilia, beautifully decorated with gro and a former town councilor aged to L Cam. 1. E. Nowell, RN of palms and bronze and

A writer in the "Daily Chronicle says that when Bertrand Russell was in Peking his Chinese friends, finding it impossible to pronounce the name of "Russell, got another ore ready for him, to wit, "Lo. Bu." Presumably Lo Su in the nearest to Russell that the Chinese tongue can manage: If you say it quickly you will see the connection!

78. Canon Thomas Hands, of Matuds and Cartrude from Colom- Holy Trinity Church, Shoreditch B.,

for 31 years vicar of St. Lawrence, from Shrapore. There were on Tapestry Northampton, la a London hospital, board also a good many for Shang Vice Admiral John E Drammond, hal and Japan ports.

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