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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

A nice assortment of Chinese curtos will be sold by Messrs. Lammert Bros. at their Duddell Street auction rooms at 2.30 p.m. this Friday.

The language school for teaching the Cantonese dialect has now been started at the Hong Kong University. Instruction is given daily (except Sundays) trom 9 a.m. to noon. Particulars of fees are advertised.

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A lot of old newspapers (560 Reminder: annual sale of bales), more or less damaged, will work, Mothers' Union at the be auctioned by Messrs. LammertHelena May Institute to-morrow) Bros. at No. 6 godown, Kowloon, beginning at 2.30 pm. Many at 11 a.m. to-morrow.

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At the weekly meeting of "A nobody claimed it. took the Hong Kong centre of the it," said Sanitary Department Order of the Star in the East coolis charged bofare Mr. Lindsell yesterday at No. 7, Duddell this morning with the theft of 4. Street, Mr. H. E. Lanepart gave plank of timber.-5 or seven days. an address on "The Taking of a Body by the World Teacher."

A typical scene in the harbour at Hankow.

The return of notifiable dis. ease in the Colony for Saturday. and Sunday comprised a Chinese case of smallpox from the city and a Chilean case of puerperal fever from Kowloon,"

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The funeral of Mrs. Belliza J. Pereira Noronha, whose death occurred on Saturday at her residence at No. 88, Jordan Road, took place yesterday at the Roman Catholic Cemetery, many friends. and relatives attending.. Mirs. Noronha was the wife of Mr. S. Noronha, formerly of Shameen, Canton. ""

Considerable excitement was caused at the taxicab stand out. side the Post Office yesterday afternoon when one of the taxis. suddenly burst into flames. A watchman broke the glass fre alarm in the neighbourhood and four appliances came dashing to the scene. The blaze was ex- tinguished with patent fre: ex- tinguishers. The chauffeur es- caped unhurt.

"From an advertisement else, where in this issue it will be seen that the Kowloon Cricket Club is holding another dance, at the Savoy Hotel on Friday evening.. The previous three dances this season have been an unqualified success, and have done much to bring the members and their friends together in a social capa- city. Tickets for Friday are al- ready selling well. These can be had at the Club house.

The British India Steam Navigation Company has decided to immediately raise £2,000,000 new capital by the issue of 10,000 5% per cent. cumulative preference shares of $100 each,

Interesting tests In wind velo- Discovery of ancient ruins, Jeitles are being made in America, arousing the hope of archaeologists on what is said to be the world's that future excavations may reveal one of the most important buried highest chimney. The stack, which cities of Mexico, is announced in is situated at Duluth, is 300 feet despatches from Oaxaca.. Traces high, and is of reinforced concrete. of a city antedating recorded his

been tory have been found by explorers Ingenious instruments have installed to ascertain by how much of the division of archaeology, De-as. authorised in 1924, and a it is moved in different velocities.partment of Education, near the similar issue created. This deci. A steel horizontal plate, the under-village of Quiotepec, efsion was reached at a meeting of Oaxaca. Preliminary excavations shareholders on Jan. 27. The aide of which is painted like a chequer board, has been fixed to the indicate the ruins of a great an Intrer shares will rank pari-passu atack near the top. Thia is lu-eient fortified city, with a series minated, and the reflection is cast of huge walls enclosing what may with the first-named, also with through a rigid telescope on a mir have been a population of many the existing 700,000 5 per cent. For at the ground level. Any eway- thousands, and a number of tem cumulative preference stock. The ing movement of the chimney can ples and pyramids similar to those new shares will be convertible

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Mr. Wei Wing-lock, the well- known tennis player and son of the late Sir Boshan Wel Yuk of Hong Kong, returned to the Colony to-day on the "President Monroe" from the North.

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Major-General C. J. Deverell The Commander-in-Chief and has been appointed Quarter-Lady Birdwood visited Kapur. thala on January 22 to unveil a Master General in India.

State War Memorial, which is the first of its kind in an Indian

In response to the appeal issued cape has made a personal contri-State. by the Viceroy for funds for a

Among the passengers arriving

A pretty wedding was solemn-Church in New Delhi, Lord Inch- ised on Jan. 31 at St. Mark'sbution of Rs. 1 lakh.

at Singapore by the American Church, Seremban, when Miss

The following appointment ismail liner "President Jackson" Rena Wood, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Wood, of rotified in the "London Gazette" were Mr. and Mrs, I. S. Motz, the engaged in educational work Thornton, Fifeshire, and Mr. Ian of January 4A.D.C. to Stewart Mackay, of Kuala Muda Governor and Commander-in. with the Methodist Board of eatates, Sungei Patani, Kedah, Chief of the Straits Settlements, Foreign Missions, who have gone were married by the Rev. E. T.Lieut. W. A. Woods, D.W.R. July to Malaya where they will remain

for several years. Loader, a large number of guests. being present.

Straits, papers say that there appears to be little doubt that the announcement of the death of the military secretary to Viscount Willingdon, Governor-General of Canada refers to Mr. Richard Bourke Osborne, M.V.O... M.C.. who, for many years, was in the Civil Service of the Straits Settlements. Mr. Osborne in 1920 was attached to the Colonial Secretariat and in June of that year was appointed Private Secretary to the Governor, Sir Laurence Guillemard.

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Chinese soldlere burying their dead following battles in that vicinity between the. Cantonese and the army of the north,

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