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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Lord Hillingdon Master of the Graftor Hounds, says that, at a low estimate, the money spent qn fox-hunting and stag-hunting i over ten millions a year.
British and Czecho-Slovákia have signed a joint extradition treaty.
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Two motor cars were involv- ed in a minor ebllision on the Repulse Bay Road yesterday with slight damage but nobody injured.
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Lord Inchcape has made n personal contribution of one lakh of rupees towards the construc- tion of a church in New Delhi, in response to the Viceroy's appeat
The Municipality of Medan The Admiralty announce
is making towards sanitation. that the date of Admiral Sir E. S.
Sanction has been obtained for Alexander-Sinclair's appointment
laying an underground sewage as Commander-in-Chief at the
system for the whole of Medan Nore has been altered from April 1 to May 16, 1927. Sir Edwyn "The Public Works Depart and the work is to be spread over a number of years. For 1927 succeeds Admiral Sir Williamment is inviting tenders for a Goodenough.
new bridge at Taipo and diver-f.40.000 had been voted. ision to replace the bridge washed
away in 1925!
Max Yulier; author and a- tronomer of Munich, who is mak- ing preparations to be shot to the moon in a giant rocket.
Major Miller, Member of the Union Assembly, has raised £85 000 in Great Britain and Amer. ica in order to start a service of commercial aeroplanes, flying be- tween South African towns. It is expeeted that in a few months aeroplanes will be flying between Johannesburg and Durban, thus qualifying for the Government subsidy of £8,000. The fare will be 57%
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Sub-calibre gun practice, will be carried out by the Navy on the morning of Friday, February 11. Firing will be directed against South Gau Rock at the southern entrance to Mirs Bay.
A Chinese girl was admitted to the Government Civil Hospital yesterday from the 1st floor of No. 1, Woo Hop Street, with in- juries sustained through acciden tally falling from a window at that address into the street below:
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Under tragic circumstances of the sailors of the "Schouwer" lost his fe int Belawan harbour on Jan. 11. The deceased, a German, fell over- board and was not seer again. It is surmised that he was carried away by a crocodile or get stuck firmly In the mud.
Among the most interesting of new Acts of Parliament which have become operative is the Adoption of Children Act, which introduces a defined legal status of adoption for the nrst time. An Adopted Children Register, to be established and maintained by the Registrar-General, will be
Russell Wood, of the White House Secret Service, who has been designated to serve as guard for John Coolidge, the President's son
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A Grenadier Guardsman was changed at Aldershot with riding a motor cycle with his hands off the handle bars. He successfully pleaded that he was adjusting his an essential part of legal adop-chinstrap, and the Police Super.
intendent tion.
explained that Guardaman must be particular his appearance. The about Magistrate. did not inflict any penalty.
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Dr. W. Nott, M.H.R., Australia, is enthusiastic about Canberra, which he visited ru- cently. He said that it was fine: Thank offering Sunday is to to see the city in the making, and be observed at St. Andrew's to know that in general layout, Church, Kowloon, to-morrow. At breathing spaces, and beauty iting of the Miners' Executive that the evening service (6 p.m.), the would be without rival in the Government had refused to ac- The Commissioners were cept the nomination of Mr. A. J. sidesmen will bring up he thankworld. offerings and these will be doing monumental work which Cook to represent the Miners' dedicated with a special prayer.already was taking, shape. Tens Federation on the Mineral Trans- The offerings will then be hand of thousands of ornamental treesport Standing Committee. The and shrubs had been planted and Executive unanimously decided to the nomination and everywhere there, were ploughed adhere to fields, all being planned for the declined to nominate any other garden spaces of the city beauti-members from among whom the ful In one great bed 100,000 Miners' Department eculd make tulipa were being planted.
a selection.
ed to the Wardens and counted by them in the Vicarage, after which the amount will be an- nounced. The ordinary offertory will be taken as usual, towards the end of the service.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Mr. Kwok Siu-lau has been appointed: à member of the Court
The death is announced of the Venerable Arthur Edward Stone,
of the University of Hong Kong formerly Archdeacon of Calcutta. for three years.
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To-day's Bankruptcy was adjourned on account of the llness of Mr. E. L Agassiz, Official Receiver,
A Reuter cable from Singapore announces the death of Sir Thomas Braddell, former · At- torney "General of the Straits Settlements.
Mr. Oswald Sanderson, of Hessle Mount, Hessle, Yorkshire, and 2, Mansfield Street, London, W., managing director of Eller- mans Wilson Line, Hull, died in
a Leeds nursing home following
an operation. He was 63,
A message from Brussels says that the Right Hon. Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. has been made a Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown by the King of the Bel- gians in recognition of his ser- vices to the Belgian currency.
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The death has occurred of Mr. Alfred Martin White I.S.O., late Government Assistant Veterinary Surgeon. Penang. The late Mr. White was born in Ceylon, and leaves a
widow, son, and two daughters.
After a lifetime devoted to royal service, Miss Annie Smith, aged 74, housekeeper to Princess Beatrice in Kensington Palace, has died in a Kensington nursing home. She entered the service of the Royal Family when a girl and dating the lifetime of Queen Victoria was at Windsor Castle, where in later years. she was the head maid in charge of one of the towers. After the death of Queen Victoria she entered Pris-Mussolini as well as the King: cess Beatrice's service.
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As a result of being thrown from his horse, Sir William E. Berry fractured a collar-bone and two ribs. He is progressing favourably.
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Mr. R. J. H. Sidney, who was for three years headmaster of the Victoria Institution at Kuala Lumpur, arrived at Singapore from Home, and intends to bake up Journalistic work in the Straits Settlements.
The death has taken place in London of Lord Monteagle of Brandon. He was resident land- jord at Foynes, Co. Limerick, took a keen interest in the co operative movement, and was an advocate of Home Rule on Dominion lines.
General Booth, of the Salvation Army, returned to London on Christmas Day from his world tour with his son (Brigadier, Bernard Booth), his private) secretary (Brigadier Evan Smith), and Commissioner. Cun- ningham, who were his compan ions on the tour. Mrs. Booth me her husband at Dover: A large company of the Salvation Army headquarters staffs, with their chief (Commissioner · Higgins), ) gave him a cordial reception at Victoria...
Sir Adolph Jusic, of Park Crescent, Portland Place, W., General Diaz Commander-in-chairman and managing director Chief of the Italian Army and military idol of the Italian people, is in high favour with Premier
of Messrs. Raphael Tuck and Sons, Ltd., Christmas card and picture postcard publishers" and manufacturers, who died on July 8, aged 72, left exclusive of set tled property, unsettled estate of gross value £321,688 8.,
An estate expected to realise about $40,000 has beto 1oft The death has occurred at with not personalty 1253,228 Us. Lancashire charities by the late Charterhouse, of which the wafid He left – 13,000 za majse ganāk Miss Alice Ann Pilkington, aged one of the brethren, of Horace Desmond to distribute among 175, of Laneside House, Accring Lingard, at the age of 90 He charitable Institutions and de- ton, only daughter of the late Mr.started his stage career at Bristol serving poor, and £1,000 for charities Among Thomas Pilkington, a master in 1854 in the same stock com Jerusalem carrier The proceeds of the pany as Marie Welton, after legacies to be treated na capital estate, at the end of 5 years, are wards Lady Bancroft, and played only he left about £4,700 among to be allocated to charitable in Grave digger to Charles Kean's about 88 London hospitals and stitutions, at the sole discretion, Hamlet: He appeared as a star charitable institutions. Bequeste It is understood, of her solicitor, actor in the comic operas were also made to employees. Mr. E. Ranson, of Accrington.Falica" "Pepita, etc., and Among numerous bequests for Mins Pillington left only two per tired from the stage in 1920. His sonal bequests £500 each to her wife, Alice, was so popular housekeeper and her gardenerkusical comedy actress.
mementos he left £60 each to
Sir A. Conan Doyle and.. Mr. Alfred Parsons, RA
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