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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

In connection with the allegi ed theft of $30,000 which the Chartered Bank despatched from Ipoh to Kuala Kangsar, it is understood that the bank suffere no loss as the money was insured

Grove Cottage Farm, at Lon- ton, near Nottingham. in which district the Prince of Wales fra- quently hunts, is being purchased by his Royal Highness. One of the Prince's herds of cattle may be transferred to the, farm from his Cornwall estate.

A new portrait of Charles. Chaplin, the world's greatest comedian, who is being sued for divorce by his wife, formerly Lita Grey, who cannot see anything humorous in the comedian's alleged "acts of erucity, threats. of death, boasted infidelity, and general incompatibility."

The L.C.C has taken a seven years lease of part of the old County Hall at Spring Gardens, as the new County Hall, which cost four milliona, cannot accom- modate the whole of the staff.

The steadiness of business conditions in the Straits seems to be reflected in the weekly lists for the Singapore Bankruptcy Court, which have been vary amall" re- ¡cently.

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During 1926, 2,000,577 passen- It is not only to the children were were carried by the Southern that the shipping centre of the West

is: it appenis, for Railway's. Continental and Channel End

observe Island services, probably a world's uncommon thing.

longingl At An adults. gazing record in Continentul Agures, indication of how this truffle has the plotures of sussier countries grown is shown by the thes that it displayed in the windows, ouservos was only in 1920 that the 1,000,000 the London correspondent of the figure was pugged, the total then Liverpool "Journal of Commerce." being 1,194,267 passengers.

The death has taken pico at Ottawa, at the age of 87, of Mr. Amos B. Acworth, who for many years was an organist at his Eng- Fish birthplace. Rochester, Kent. A brother, aged 91, survives at Gravesend. Mr. Acworth was o personal friend of the late Charles Dickens, and an authority on the latturai works. Charles Dickens died in 1870-at the age of 58,"

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To-morrow, being Ash Wed- nesday the services at St. John's Cathedral will be conducted as follow-Holy Communion, 7.45 a.m. Matins: 10.15 a.m. and Evensong at 6.30 p.m. On the following day, Holy Thursday, Communion will be Holy. partaken at 7.45 um. Choral Evensong and. Address will be at 5:43. p.m.

Diamonds estimated at 226.000 in value wore seized at New York. condeuled in the socks of a Lelgian seaman from a steamer which had arrived from Antwerp. The Cus- toma: officials stated, that there was avery reason to suppose that a well- organised ring existed, with head- quarters in Europe, which was mak- ing use of men in vessels leaving Belgian ports, to smuggle jewels into América. "

The Royal Academy holds a collection of pictures said to be worth £10,000,000. It consists of

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"Descontos & AmERATION, M, Y.

Oswald Mosley Socialist mem- bor of Parliament, who recently won one of the bitterest cam. paigns ever fought in Britain, Mr. Mosley is the rich husband of Lady Cynthia Mosley.

number of Flemish master- pieces which have been brought from every quarter of the world There was no legal compul for the winter exhibition. Many A walk along these three streeta sion on a doctor to go to a patient of the pictures have passed takes about 10 minutes, and to any- simply because the patient want through great vicissitudes before body with imagination it is equal ed to see him, Dr. Edwin Smith, they were organised as master to a voyage round the world. In such a stroll one would pass the pieces and saved for better uses.offices-each with its models or the North-East London coroner,One picture was being used as pictures or steamship and railway observed at an inquest: It was the bottom of a drawer in a kit companies trading to the United his experience that 95 per cent. chen dresser. Another was used Status, Canada, India, China, Japan, of the people who ran for a doc. tor always wanted him to go at once: as a matter of urgency, without regard to other exigen- cies such as innumerable calls on his time.

SOCIAL

The Pope has given to General Sir Louis and his wife.

audience Vaughan

as the door of a cabinet before it was taken by the children of its owner and made into a go-cart. A third was used as a board in a fishmarket in Belgium, and eels were skinned on it every day until its value was recognised.

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Australia, South Africa, Norway, Austria, South America, Italy, Switzerland,

Germany, France, Sweden and Holland, I know of no other city whers such a "Round the World" tour is possible with the ease and speed that it can be done

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AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Capt. A. MacIlwaine, the Eng- lish rugby international, has ar- rived at Singapore from home on a business visit.

The following deaths were an-

the Captain F. H. Rolfe Indo-China S. N. Co. went to Shanghai to-day on the "Presjnounced at Home in mail week: dent Jefferson."

Dr. S. Seguin Strahan, the local medical practitioner, was A passenger to-day on the "Presi- Ident Jefferson,"

bound Shanghai.

The Rev., William Blomefield Sleight, vicar of St. Katharine's. Northampton, for many years

for.

Mr. W. Lock Wei (son of the Hate Sir Boshan Wei Yuk), the noted tennis player, left Hong Kong to-day on the "President Jefferson."

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The death is reported in Reuter cable from London of Mr. Arthur MeCamus, the Commun- ist who received the famous Zinovief letter.

Accompanied by his wife, Mr. H. Thompson (local agent of Messrs. W. R. Grace and Co.) went on Home leave to-day, sail ing for San Francisco on the "President Jefferson."

The death is announced of Sir William Madge, who was 82 years old. He started in 1881 the first Conservative Sunday penny newspaper, "The People,' and was for many years associat. ed with. "The Globe" of which he subsequently became proprietor. He was responsible for the his- toric journalistic coup in the publication of the Salisbury- Schouvaloff Treaty in 1878. ....

the new Meron Christen areb: at the Ramanlan Ortho bure, who is a member of tripartite regener voangel of ania, which, in the ayent of

Fucdinand's death, would rular

til the child, Crown Celiner Michael, should comW OF RED,: uñas his father, Prince Carg), Is rostored to him rights of succession.

The death occurred on. Feà. 9 of Mr. Willie Waugh, the well- known Newmarket trainer.

The health of Princess: Victoria is far from satisfactory at the pre- sent time, and she will probably go abroad presently in the hope that change of air and scone will prove

beneficial to her reports a "Sunday

Chronicle" writer.) Her Royal Highnes passed the recent holidays very quietly with a single com- panion at her new home at the vil Jage of Iver in Middlesex. She de- nately withdrew from Court some

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A Reuter cable from London

states that the death has taken! place of the Rt. Rev. Charles John Ridgeway, former Bishop of North China. He was at one time Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral and Rural Dean of Paddington. Later he was ap- pointed Surrogate Commissary of the Archbishop of Cape Town and later stil Bishop of North China. He was also a past Chaplain of Grand Lodges of Masons, both in England and Scotland and in 1908 to 1919 Bishop of Chichester. He retir ed in 1919. He was the author of several religious works.

The Duke of Connaught, who is at his villa at Cap Ferrat, ls at the came time one of the simplest and "most Royal of all members of the Royal Family (says the "Daily Chronicle. When at Clarence House he rarely omits taking an early morning walk on fine daya, Often, he mingles in Pall Mall with

the crowds of business folk hurry-

Queen Victoria would have been ex-president of the British Deaf surprised if she had had a vision of and Dumb Association, and ang workwards, and it is ne unusual one of her granddaughters dancing frequent preacher in the sign thing to see a clerk who was once In Hoxton with a coster as Princess language at Kenilworth War-in the Army come suddenly to the Marie Loulse did in mail week, but wickshire, aged about 75; Mr. salute on recognising the cugust this is na startling experience for of Oraton, passer-by great ideat gue his the Princess herself, who for many Nottinghamshire, district regis.sally boulinealtă is attribut years now had gone about London trar of the Probate Office, who ed by the Duke of Connaught to his early training in the Army". He is on her many charitable schemes in the most informal way. I once en died at Radcliffe while on a train essentially soldier and knows countered her on a Tubo reliway journey from Elton to Notting that job from A to Z He las platform, evidently quite familiar ham; Mr. W. E. Comison, head of matter of fact, our senior Field with the ways of underground the import and agency depart. Marahat, having received his baton travel. Princess Marie Louise's ment of Ellerman Wilson Line, nearly a quarter of a century ago, wide experience makes her especial: D, Hull, at Hornseas and Dr. And he is one of the few to wear the riband of the Red River Expedition,

by good friends with the younger George Merriman Hirons, one of which he won, is a young officer, in members of the Royal Family The the drat magistrates appointed at the Rides. In spite of being only King's sons, "I notice (sayyan

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