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SATURDAY, 5th March, 1927,

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By Mias Violet Capall and her Pupils. Under the distinguished patronage of His Excellency the Governor SIR CECIL CLEMENTI, K.C.M.G. Part of the proceeds to be given to THE LONDON HOSPITAL

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WEDNESDAY, 23rd February, at 5.15 p.m. SATURDAY, 26th February, at 9.15 p.m. MONDAY, 23th February, at 5.15 p.m. Advanced tickets may be exchanged at ANDERSONS as from 14th February.

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THE CHINA MALE

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

A collection of postage stamps The Co-Operative: Wholesale will be auctioned by Messrs. Lam-Society's sales for the last half-year mert Bros. at their Duddell Street ware 888,420,000, salos rooms at 5:15 pm; this Friday.

When Sandy, a Scotch collie, known in Barnet, Hertfordshire, for its dollecting work on behalf of various misalons, was killed severa]{} coins were found in its body.

On the occasion of the anni- versary of the R.A.0.B. "Wellesley" Lodge (H.M.S. "Hermes") a dinner was held at the Hotel Savey last

about week, attended by "brethren."

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Owing to the deaths of Lord Bearsted (a former Lord Mayor of London) and of Lady Bearsted, the Lord Mayor's dinner to the Court of Common Councilmen, at the Mar- sion House, had to be postponed.

The Iriah Free State, Canada, Newfoundland, India and Ceylon have sent many entries to the Empire's Bonniest Baby competition, which will close on June 1.

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The total expenditure on war- been: pensions since. 1914 has

£725,17.980, equal to 415 11s. per head of the population,

The Police have arrested alx Chinese in connection with an arm ed robbery which occurred blau Pul-lung village, New Territories on Feb. 17.

The Hong Kong Jurors List for 1927 will come up for approval by the Legislative Council at the meeting this Friday (8.30 pm).

In memory of the late Mr. A. B. Elliott, Sir Alan Cobham's mechanic, the Royal Aeronautical Society is giving an annual priza of 85 58 for a paper to be written by an aircraft apprentice under training at the Royal Air Force school at Halton, Bucking.

hamshire,

Missing his footing when dis-

The Australian Federal Anah- embarking from the Macao steamer on Saturday evening, Mr. H. Kcial statement for the six months Hung, of Messrs. Deacons, fell into ended December 81, shows a the harbour, Fortunately he was venue of £23,087,000, an Increase of soon rescued and was able to pro- £2,042,000. The expenditure of cead home little the worse for his £18,892,000 shows an increase, of Immersion. N

27,810,000 over the same period of 1925 excluding revenue and ex- penditure on business undertakings and territories,

The verandah of the fourth floor of the gld. Astor House Hotel building which is being reconstruct- ad. collapsed on Sunday afternoon, and a large mass of material fell into Queen's Road. Pedestrians who were passing, were able to get plear before the debris fell into the Ac-roadway.

To give aid in motoring cidents a scheme of voluntary firat nid posts, 5 to 8 miles apart, on the main roads in England, la being for mulated by the Home Service Am- bulance Committee of the Joint Council of the Order of St. John and British Red Cross Society.

"A doctor or barrister is not entitled to charge the wealthy more than the poor," declared Chief Justice Moore at Belfast, A doctor had claimed 20s. a visit from a patient worth 230,000, but the judge gave a verdict for 189, visit.

According to the "Lancet," a scheme has been established in a Bradford factory under which the workers pay 18. per annum each to ensure in-patient treat- ment at the. Bradford Municipal Those who wish to give pre-General Hospital. It is actuari- sents to the children taking part in ally calculated that this small Miss Violet Capel's dance, display contribution will be sufficient to are particularly requested not to meet the fees which would be send up gifts or flowers to-morrow charged if the men went in as or on Saturday but to bring same private patients. The Health along at the matinee on Monday when the articles can be properly Committee of the Corporation handed up.

have accepted the scheme and it 11 is hoped to extend it to other factories. Indeed, it is being proposed that these facilities should be offered to all and sun- dry at the same price. Dr. J. J. Buchan, the medical officer of health for Bradford, gives it as his belief that sooner or later, the public will ask for some such arrangement.

A Gibraltar message says that a fine feat of seamanship saved Lieutenant Burges, of the British destroyer "Splendid," after he had been washed off the vessel by a huge wave.. Bleuten ant-Commander Falls manoeuvred A picture-mad 14-year-old the destroyer to where Burges errand boy, who was charged at was floating, and, as the man was Wimbledon with stealing 108.being dashed towards the ship's from his mother's purse, was side, he was hauled aboard. ordered not to visit the "movie" ship's cook was also washed over for two years. The father said board, but

a succeeding wave the boy sold the baby's pram and washed him back on deck. his mother's clothes to raise money for the pictures.

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Male clothes, I hear will be brighter in colour this year (saya the "Star.") The well-dressed man is rather conservative in his tastes, but the tendency a West End tailor informs me, ls towards much rayer In most places the threepenny effects than those to which we have bit is almost extinct (says a "Star" been accustomedi. "Plain:

greys "Bobbed at five means bald at writer). There are undoubtedly and blues, it seëma, mare; ~ not|| 50" writes the Vicar of South- many in circulation, but by a merci

so popular as they used to “Brown mixtures, into which sea, contributing to the contro-ful dispensation of Providence they be. versy

whether

seldom appear-in London at least are woven faint stripes of all should lengthen their hair. "No-to worry the harassed traveller by sorts of colours-reds, blues and tube and train! Not so in the North, mauves-will largely be worn, body but a Philistine, will say according to a correspondent. He Worsteds are the favourite mate- that woman's appearance is en-has just returned from a short 50-erials of the moment. Tweeds, hanced by shaving the back of journ in the Scottish capital, and though they make up into the best- the neck," he adds. Meanwhile, there he met threepenny bits all wearng suite, are not at all popular, supporters of bobbing say that over the place. It may be that and whipcords have gone right out the absence of dropped hairpina though the Londoner "cannot be do- of fashion. One curious thing this

was that St. C has saved the lives of thousands ing with them," and promptly loses authority told me of cattle. In post-mortems at the them, the more canny Scot treasures Patrick's Day was once on a time regarded by the tailoring business Veterinary College it was often them in his waistcoat pocket.

as marking the opening of the dea- found that dairymaids hair-

son's demand for new clothes, but fasteners were responsible for

since the war this has otherwise strange deaths.

morely, a legend!“

But whatever be the explanation, there can be no doubt of the fact. The threepenny bit is a force to be reckoned with in Edinburgh,

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

At the "funeral of the Dowager Lady. Michelham in Paris the coffin was covered with the Union Jack.

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Admiral the Hoa. Sir Stanley Colville, who was first the principal A.D.C. to the King from 1919 until 1922 when he retired, has been pointed to the office of Rear- Admiral of the United Kingdom and of the Admiralty, volds by the signation of Admiral the Hon. Sir Edmund Fremantle.

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Sir John Middleton, Governor of the Falkland Islands, has been ap- pointed Governor and Commander in-Chief of Gambia."

Among the many passengers who sailed for Manila yesterday on the "President Jefferson were Dr. end

Mrs. W. R. Houston,

become

The King is to become Patron of the National Pig Breeders! Association."

Lady Rhondda has gone to "her favourita Pyrenees-to walk chiefly. She has the simplest tastes, this 'wealthy and ‹ buay enormously woman. Her only other outdoor

Norcomal and Mrs. M. D. Lec. Dr. T. Nagel, Mr Utoomal pastime is ayimming. She could

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Jive a life of ease. and luxury, re- marks allome paper. But fashion- While hunting with the Alder-able playgrounds never see per. shot Draghounds, Prince Henry's Politics, social work, literary acti- horse fell at a. fence, but the vitles (pho edits a weekly review), Says the "Daily Maile gossip Prince was unhurt, and remount- and business (she is director of 25 writer: Prince George, after his year and eight months' naval sering, was one of the first at the companies), take all her time. She

"kill." of vice in China, la a little out

menace--and is challenging Mr. touch with the newest dances, and

G. K. Chesterton to prove otherwise at a public debate at Kingsway Hall. has yet to master the Charleston. The Court, being in mourning for

She wields a controversial sabre; the late Emperor of Japan, the pital, on Saturday. of Mr. Wong "G.K. a rapier. Mr. Bernard Shaw Princes are, of course, not dancing Ying-yuen, at the age of 88, pub-presides. in public; the other evening, how-lisher of the "Wah Kiu Yat Po" and ever, the Prince of Wales, who is a practised and accomplished expon ens, gave Prince George a lesson in the Charleston.

The death occurred from typhold fever, at the Government Civil Hoa

fer over ten years chief storekeeper

Capetown papers report that of the "South China Morning Post." Educated at Queen's College, the Mr. John Galsworthy, with Mrs. late Mr. Woung, was also once em- Galsworthy and some relative ployed by the Steam Laundry. Co. are

he Capetown, but

that not prospecting Princess Beatrice; who is shortly The present whereabouts of country for material for a going abroad once more, usually Count Goran. Henrik Hans Didrik future work. His is declining all travela under the name of "the Falkenberg. d Swedish subject born public invitations, and is working Countess of Balmoral" (says "May" in 1904 la the subject of an inquiry hard on the last part of his sec- fair in the "Sunday Chronicle by the SwitConnu late-General A few years ago, when she was in Shanghat and the Swedish Vice-ond Forsyte trilogy. Further, staying in the South of France, an Consulin Hg Kong. He left Mr. Galsworthy is visiting South American lady who was staying at Sweden in 1923 and is known to Africa on a non-lecturing tour. the same hotel took the trouble to have been living in Brisbane, Aus- This is his second visit to the search the peerage, and could of tralia, some time during 1924 The Caps. He landed there in 1893 course; And no such title. She Information fo wanted owing to his from a sailing ship in which

went to the manager and told him being the heir of his late father. Joseph Conard was first, offiest

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he was harbouring a barefaced im postor under his roof. When blandly informed that the Coun- was a daughter of Queen Vetoria, and mother of the Queen of Spain, the lady packed up her post sessions and left the place very quickly indeed!

He visited the copper mines at The funeral took place in Shang-Namaqualand, and afterwards balagt week of Capt. James Arthur went on a shooting trip in Vivian Tyres late chief officer of Kalihar the str. "Luan-yi," who died on Tuesday morning at the General Hospita: from a sudden and severe

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is the attack of pneumonic meningitis. victim of a mistake which is causing The interment took place at ths new him much. "annoyance. From all cemetery in Hungjao, Road, in the parts of the country are coming! With the stage specially warm presence of the captain, Mr. W. R. letters asking him why it was that ed for him, Mr. Godfrey Tearle Elders, and other officers and en- he was seen drinking six cocktails returned to his part in Aloma," gineers of the deceased's ship at Bournemouth while the minera the South Sea Island play at the Insp. Morgan, of the SM Police, were starving. The truth is that Adelphi Theatre, Strand, whichland Capt. H MacKinnon magis he and two other bour leaders superintendent of the China Mera were ruests at a small privata Inn- he was forced to leave a month chants, S. N. Co. The deceased cheon party at Bournemouth hotal before owing to serious throat mariner was a well-known ahip during the Trades Union Congress- trouble. The part allows only master in Australia, having the meeting The host and two other scanty clothing, and Mr. Tearle unique record of being an exempt guests, had two cocktails each on wore an ext

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