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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The King, for the eighteenth year in succession, gave. a ten to 700 poor people at the Great Assembly Hall, Mile-and-roud.

2nd The strength of the Suffolka te 847 Including alteen officers, nine warrant officers, and 822 ather ranke.

During the absence on leave of An exhibition of old Chinese Sorgennt Nolloth, Sergeant Dickson painting.and caligraphy will be of the Water Police Station will held at the City Hall to-morrow and be in charge of the Hawkers De-Wednesday from 11 am to 5 pm. partment.

each day. Entrance is free.

A little Chinese girl has been admitted to the G.C.H. Ad a result of a fall from an upper window in in house in Wo Hop Street on Satur-

day afternoon.

During the 48 hours ended on Sunday, the only case of noti- Aable disease in the Colony was that of a Chinese with diphtheria from the city district.

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The annual meeting of St.. An- drew's Church takes place to- morrow evening at six o'clock, pre-, ceded by a reception given by the Rev. G. R. and Mrs. Lindsay at the Vicarage.

At Messrs. Komar and Komor's to-day and to-morrow there will be exhibited a collection of twenty- three strings of the old pearls which are even better than the eol- lection shown during Christmas week. These are stated to be the best pearls seen in Hong Kong for MABY

priers yeurs, The from $300 to $1,500

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By kind permission of the Commanding Officer, the Dance Band of HM.S. "Caradoc" will play, under the direction of the Band President, Mr. B. R. Reike- Smith, at the Repulse Bay Hotel,, on Saturday, February 12, com-" mencing at 8.30 pm

The annual meeting of the Hong Kong Horticultural Society is to be held to-morrow at 5.15 p.m. in Messrs. Jardines board room. An important item on the agenda is to fix the date for the annual flower show, which the outgoing committee suggest should be held on Thursday, March 10

To guard against forest fires, a lechaut tower, almost 190 feet high, has been built on the top of a pine tree in the Doschutes National Forest. The Kurround- ing country for many miles can be viewed from the top.

The Astoria. London's latest palatial cinema, dunce saloon and Road has cafe in Charing Cross been opened.

A large quantity of valuable! household furniture will be nue, tioned by Meters. Lammert Bros. at 2.30 pm. on Friday.

Furniture belonging to the cstate of the late Mr. A. A. Bolton will be auctioned by Mosers. Lammert Bros. at No. 2, Waverley Terrace (Kowloon Dock). Hang- hom, at 2.45 p.m. next Monday.

The Girl Guides' Association will hold a Rally in Headquarters" House on Saturday, February 26, at 430 p.m. There will be a de- monstration of Guide and Brownie! work and the presentation by Lady Clementi, M.B.E. (local President) of the Prince of Walos banner. Admission for adults is 50 cents;} for children 20 cents; and Scouts, In Puniform wil be admitted free.

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The proposed double-deck bridge across the Thames, at Charing Cross has at least twol forerunners. A road and railway bridge. of steel and concrete con- struction." across the South Saskatchewan River near Lun- lane, has just been opened An- other notable double-deck bridge is at Brooklyn, where electric trains and trams, as well as fast and slow traffic are accommodat ed:

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Speaking recently at the an nual dinner of the Bristol branch of the Royal Colemal Institute. Mr. Ormsby-Gore. Under-Secre- tary of State for the Colonies, said he wondered how many people could answer the question, Which country in the whole world had the highest exports per head of the population? The answer was British Malaya, which, with a Three babies born in London Population of 3,250,000, in the Year 1925 exported £150,000,000/ hospitals on Christmas Day have atrendy been named Neel. Two worth of produce. He admitted A record made by an electrical are boys--born at the London How-that it was largely rubber. But instrument of traffic

apital and the General Lying-in rubber was very, very important. 15 giri An appreciable portion of our several basy centres in London Hospital and one

Catherine Noel, born at the war debt to America was paid in shows, M. Jack Hylton, the com- poser, states. that the sounds hav-Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hos-rubber, which was sent from Cey- ing the greatest effect are thoacpital. Another baby girl born at lon and British Malaya to pro- the General ying-in Hospital vide tyres. "for motor-cars in made by the changing of gear on

has been named Christine. Three America, And we sent to Malaya omnibuses. Human sounds made

re- girls and two boys were ne impression upon the wax

Queen Chur-and Ceylon, to pay for the rub- cord, and the noise of horse-drawn during the day at

ber, British manufactured goods. vehicles was practically negligible.lotte's Hospital

sounds:

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

of

H. R. H. Princess Patricia

the Hon. Connaught and Capt. Alexander Ramsay are visiting Ceylon.

Mr. A. Prismall, of the ac counts Department, A.P.C., Mr. H. Wilson and Mr. and Mrs. J. Simpson and family left for Home on Saturday by the as... "Morea."

Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McLeod on left Hong Kong for Home Saturday on the s.8. "Morea." Mr. McLeod is Assistant Chief War der of the Prison Department and a prominen: Freemason.

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Among the passengers who sailed for Home by the P. & 0. Ener "Morea" on Saturday were' Dr. and Mrs, W. B. A. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. J. Ralston, and Mrs.

J. E. Hancock and two children.

Mrs. and Miss Speyer left Shanghai by the P. & O. S. "Morea." Mrs. Speyer's absence will be greatly regretted, for it will be remembered what excel- lent service she did while decre tary of the Entertainment Com- Imittee of the British Women's

Association.

The following deaths are an- nounced:-The Rev. Arthur E. Smith, who claimed to be the first officer to wear the Salvation Army uniform; at Blackwood, Monmouthshire; Mrs. Valentine. Brown, wife of Major Valentine Brown, of the Royal Marines, re- tired, whose diamond wedding was celebrated last year; at Havant, Hampshire.

Mr. Robert Williamson, lata. De- puty Chairman of the National Bank of India, left £346,452..

According to a British wireless message, the estate of late, Lord Bearsted founder of the Shell Transport Co. has been sworn at £4,000,000.

Canon T. Papilon, who has died at St. Leonards, at the age of) 85, was an eminent scholar and an. authority on educational subjects.

Master George Hubert Las- celles, the four-years-old son of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles, who finished up his first hunt with the Bramham Moor Hounds (Yorkshire) by be- duly asing at the "death, was

blooded:

Captain Wedgwood Bunn, Liberar Member for Leith, has decided to resign and recontest his sent Labour candidate, states a British wireless message.

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A recent photograph of Mr. Orville Wright, ploneer aviator and first man to successfully fly in a heavier-than-air machine.

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Madame Sarah Grand, present- ing prizes as Mayoresa of Bath Mr. Earee, formerly of the to Hermitage House schoolgirls, night staff, "S.C.M. Post" left expressed the opinion that the Hong Kong for Colombo by the most stupid remark ever made by 5. Morea" on Saturday. Mr. an eminent man was that uttered Eares was a keen golfer. He had

by Dr. Johnson when he said he held office at St. Andrew's liked a "good hater. She urged Church, Kowloon. the girls to drop the word "hate"

from their vocabularies and cul-

tivate kindness to others.

Lord Rochdale has bought Cap- tain Francia Horner Lyel's Swale- Idale estate in Yorkshire, com- prising 36,000 acres, practically the whole of Swaledale. It in- eludes some of the most wonderful country th England, and the tran- Enction is one, of the largest land sales of the year,

Mr. H. Burgess, Marine-Super- ¡intendent of the Canadian Pacific Company in Hong Kong, arrived at Shanghai on the "Empress of Canada" for a brief visit. Mr.) Burgess is originally from Van couver but has been stationed in Hong Kong superintending the overhauling of the Empress liners.

A Brussels message states that Princess Charlotte, ex-Empress of Mexico, left £400,000. The State takes 50 per cent. After bequests to servants the, remain- der is divided between six legal heirs, of whom King Albert "of Belgium is one. It is thought| each will receive $20,000 to £25,000.

The following deaths are

who ported: Mr. H. Cakebread, was estate agent to the late Sir Phillp Rose of Rayners, Penn, Backtagamshme, aged 93: The Rev. William Dewhurst Pearson, Vicar of Durston Northampton- shire, since 1914. found dead in bed at Durston; and Sir James Wilson, who entered the Indian Civil Service in 1875 and hail oc- cupied high administrative posts, including that of Financial Ccm- missioner of the Punjabis, at

News has been. received by Crieff, Perthshire, aged 78, Messrs. John Littler and Company

of Singapore of the death inouests to various charitable and

The Royal Family spent an old-don of Mr. Samuel Richard Carr, Institutions in Warwickshire

of the firm. Mr. Carr elsewhere are included in the fashioned, homely Christmas at, formerly Sandringham, where the Queen went out to Singapore in February legacfes enumerated in the will of 1878 to join the firm and ultimate Captain Walter Henry Starkey,! had prepared a pretty little aurly became managing partner. In who left unsettled property of the prise for the homecoming of 1894 when the firm was formed gross value to 281,688. In addi Frince George. The Flower Court into a private limited company be tion to numerous gifts to charities, was transformed into a Chinese went Home and took up a director Mise Fanny Sarah Longmag, of tea room, and there will be slip In London and thereafter did! Clevedon-placs, S.-W. who left stored the cabinets, manuscripts, not return East. He was for many £108,665, bequeathed £10,000 to years Chairman and managing her companion. Mr. Norman and other curiosities collected by director in London, but resigned a Ernest Parsons, Bray Yorks, left Prince George during his two few years ago, although here- $61,084 and Mr. Francis Beer years' service on the China mained on the Board of Directors Westlake, Plymouth, a prominent station,

until his death,

Freemason, £6,407 gross.,

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