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A new cuse of diphtheria was) The Chinese V.M.C.A, annual reported on Thuraday from Kow-meeting is to be held this evening, Floon, the patient being a Chinese. Mr. Yn Hsin Tao, the new general secretary, has arrived from. Europe and America. where he has been the making a spoelal study of Y.M.CA, work,

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The University Women's Hostel Booking is now open the Anderson Music Co. for the produca holding an "At Home" at St. tion by Mrs. Gay Cuming with Stephen's Girls' College at 4 pin. on Saturday with the object of dances by Miss Daisy O'Keefe of the pantomime "Red Riding Hood" making known "the need, for exten- at the Theatre Royal on Jun. 29sion tow that more lady students

are attending at the University: (9:15 p.m.) and Feb. 2 (5.15 p.m.):

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Fines varying from $40 to 315

Lady Clementi is opening the were imposed by Mr. T. W. bazaar in the first floor of China Ainsworth at the Kowloon Magis-Building at 4 p.m. to-day, in aid of tracy yesterday afternoon, when a St. Paul's Girls' College building number of Chinese were charged fund. The Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, with cutting ping tree saplings from C.M.G., LL.D. (chairman of the the hillside at Kowloon City.

Building Fund committees): and the other sponsors hope to raise the $70,000 to make up the $270,000 needed. There will be a "lucky dip" at the bazaar with 4,000 prizes in- eluding a Fiat motor, cor and a diamond bracelet.

Attle Chinese girl, under 12

In England' to-day there is one telephone to every 27 Inhabitants Tventy-six years ago there was one telephone to every 292 inhabitants. and in 1912 (when the Post Office took over the system) one to every 66. America had passed the Bri tish beginning-of-the-century Agure.) ten years before, and in 1900 had ut-years of age, was charged in the ready one telephone to every 57 in Kuala Lumpur police court Before habitants. This proportion had in. the second magistrate, Raja Uds. creased in 1910 to one to 12, and with the murder of a Chinese boy It Was now stands at one to 7.

of seven years of age. atated that on November 6, the gir was seen to push the boy into the Klang river, just behind the build ings of Paterson, Simona and Co., and the body, which was carried off, was only recovered on the after- noon of November 8. The magis trate committed the accused for trig at the Assizes.

The Catholic Church's annul- ment of the marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough has placed their two sons in an unusual positión. Lord Ivor Churchill, the youngest, Is shown above

The Prospectus for 1927 of the Central British Sehoot Kowloon, contains a short history, of the school's growth, a detailed syllabus of the curricula of each form In- cluding sports and games, fall parti culars of scholarships and prizes, feest und rules governing the admit- tande of pupils, a scheme to show the order of movements and the re- lative predominance of effects and aims of a gymnastic syllabus," the full staffs with qualifications and particulars of the Former Pupils' Associatich Details are also given of the Kowloon British Junior School

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In the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon, Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., replied to the arguments of Mr. Bidon Potter, KC regarding the arbitration, the award of which, as reported yesterday, Mr. Potter seeks to set aside. Mr. Alabaster sub mitted that a letter of March 4 was evidence of the award having been accepted and that it was now too inte for it to be set aside. Dealing with the question of "legal miscon- duct," Mr. Alabaster said that there was nothing to show that Mr. Col- bourne "Little, as arbitrator, had neted illegally. The Chief Justice reserved judgment.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

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Bishop Oldham, the founder the Methodist Mission in Singapore. Is paying a visit to Malaya.

Mr. Stephen Meredyth Edwards, secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, has died, aged 54 years.

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MC. J. Bede Cox, the Perak sportsman, will be leaving for home in May. He will be much missed in F.M.S. sport, having figured pro- minently in Perak lawn tennis and in State hockey and rugby football

Cupt. H. Chalmers, senior boarding and emigration officer, Marine Department, Singapore, hus gone to Melbourne on eight months' leave of absence by the "City of Sparta." Capt. Chalmers has been in Government service for 21 years.

To see conditions at Canton, Mr. [K. Hirota (the new Japanese Minis. ter so Holland) landed in Hong Kong yesterday and was entertained by the local Consul-General. Mr. Hirota's mission also includes

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visit to Formosa before going on to Europe from here,

A Bangkok correspondent wires news of the death of Mr. H. Apple- by, manager of Katz Brothers in Bangkok, from peritonitis. Mr. Appleby was previously engaged with Katz Bros. in Singapore and Penang, and had been with the firm about eight years,

FORTHCOMING WEDDINGS.

The following weddings are un- nounced.--

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Mr. Henry John Pearce, civil engineer, Hong Kong, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Leckie of Hankow.

Mr. William Alistair Donaldson of the "Hong Kong Daily Preeu," to Miss Marguarite de Dibon. Feber of London.

Mr, Vivian Petherick, chief of.. cer, marine service, Hong Kong, to Miss Cissie Lilian Mary Hast, 5 Cox's Path, Kowloon,

Mr. Frank Burrington, school- master, Public School for Chinese, Shanghai, to Miss Kathleen Agnes Bent who is on her way to the Far East in the s.a: "Patroclub."

Mr. Frederick William Ribeiro, merchant of Hanoi Road, to Mias Adeline Maria Farias, 312 Nathan Road.

Mr. John Fraser, overseer, Hong Kong, to Miss Helen Clark Shepherd, teacher, of Aberdeen, Scotland.

Sel- The Earl and Countess of bourne, who have been staying at Government House, Singapore, have left for Kuala Lumpur.

A monenta from Madrid' states- that a desperado entered the State lottery office in the heart of the elty, stabbed the manager with dagger, and seized. the cashbox. The manager drew a revolver, shot dead his assailant, and fell dying.

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With regard to the proposed voluntary liquidation of the Holland Pacific Trading Co. following the death of the sole proprietor, Mr. JH. van Gennep Luhra, all those having claims against or owing moneya to the firm's estate shouli sund particulars to the Macic office bofore Monday, Jan. 24.

A Penang Chinese woman has been sentenced to six months" ri- gorous Imprisonment for cruelty to a child six years of age. The As-] sistant Protector of Chinese pro- secuted and stated that a certif- ente from the hospital showed it. was a severa case of cruelty. There were wounds on the head and fore head, cane marks on the body and burns on the lower part of the ab domen caused by ighted cigarette ends. An appeal was notified.

Ricciotti Garibaldi, descendant of the famous Italian liberator, photographed while in the care of Paris police after it Wax alleged he had served the Italian Government as ap agent provo- caleur in France.

NEWS.

It is understood that Capitan Chung Thye Phin, J.P., has tendered the State his resignation from Council to the Hon. British Resident of Perak. The Capitan is, shortly Mr. C. G. Copley has been apferving Malaya on a health trip to pointed secretary of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., of which Mr. J. H. Taggart is now chairman (of directors) and not managing director as hitherto.

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Hong Kong.

The death is announced of Mr. William L. Conlay, C.E.E., Deputy Agent at the Malay States Informa- Lion Agency, The Jate Mr. Conlay, wito was formerly F.M.S. Commissioner of Police, had been ill for rome time."

Social engagements for this even ing include the musient programme at St. Andrew's Church Ha, Kow. icon, at 8:30 p.m., to mark the con-

A Router cable from Minich lusion of Church Missionary Asso.

announces the death of Professor ciation week; the fancy dress earni val ball in aid of Ministering Chil-Friedrich Hirth the Binologist, whe dren's League funds, organised by spent 21 years in the Chinese Cus the Dockyard Ladies Club at 9 p.m. toms service, and subsequently oc- at the Hotel Savoy; and the Kow cupled the chair' of Chinese Lan- loon Cricket Club dance at Lane, guage and Literature in Columbia Crawford's restaurant at 9'p.m. University,

Laisa Ratti, niece of Pope Plus, and Marchess Paraicchetti wore photographed at their wedding in Romo. formed the ceremony.

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