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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Japanese journalists have da Sargent's painting "The Three Mro Hayley Morris Wha cided to hold their 16th annual con, | Graces" has been sold for £20,000 | slightly injured when not in ference in Shanghal sometime in and sent to America. April, this year.
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The Eastern Extension Tele- The Hong Kong Chinese graph Co. notifies that normal Y.M.CA. hold their seventh an-cable working with Shanghai and nual meeting at No. 127, Cains | beyond has been re-established.
·Road at 280 p.m. to-morrow. The proceedings will be in Chinese.
The director of the Corfu Asylum telegraphs that owing to lack of funds he has been forced to free 200 lunatics, says the Athens
·correspondent of the "Westminster Gaautter"
A bus owned by the China Motor Bus Co., suddenly burst into flames outside the Star Ferry wharf at Kowloon yesterday. Extinguishers were luckily at hand and the five was quickly subdued before serious damage was done.
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After she had been' pitched out of a side-car on to her nose, woman was so injured that she could breathe only through nestri, causing violent snoring. This compelled her husband to oc- eupy a separate room. At the Liver- pool Assizes she was awarded: £200 damages for the injury.
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There was no business of public import at yesterday'd meeting of the Sanitary Board at which Mr. N. L. Smith presided, other members present being the Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, Dr. J. C. Macgown, Dr. S. W. Ts'o;. Mr. Wong Kwong tin, Mr. J. P. Braga, Dr. G. W. Pope (Medical Officer of Health) and Mr. D. Davies (Secretary).
The Bishop of London (Dr. Winnington Ingram), in a letter to "The Time" regarding the Chinese pirates, says: "It is ridiculous that they should be allowed a free run. The British
Fleet is now there, and it could smoke out the wasps' nest in a day. The Chinese themselves are astonished that the British do nothing, and call us a Paper Tiger.
which she was riding collided with lorry in Plough-lane, Croydon..
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A thief, evdding ten servants and a dog, entered the front door of a Park Lana mansion, and stole Jewellery worth £40,000 from a bed- room. The occupants, Mr. and Mrs. Rosenthall, wore in an adjoining
room.
Three cases of enteric fever (typhold) were notified yester- day, two from the city district and one from Kowloon, One Peaches Browning, the 16- patient is British, another Chin-years-old wife of an eccentric mil- ese and the third a Japanesu. Honaire, who is suing him for divorce and 1,000,000 dollars, was offered a contract in the moving plctures. An enterprising film, pro- moter saw Peaches in the helpt f her omotions in court, and decided that she had a good camera face. This announcement was only an hour old, howevor, when the Czar of Filmdom," Mr. Will Hays, hoard about it and said: "Camera face or not, Teaches can't appear in any movie theatre in America!"
General Wu Pel-fu one of the
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Northern war lords, who appears
to be out of the game.
THEOSOPHY "CO-OPERATION"
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"I shall never be banged, even If she dies," said Vincent Michel- lette, a Chicago, waiter, who fired four bullets at his best girl after a quarrel am a big bootlegger " he added, "and whoever heard of a Chi boctlegger being hanged in engo?" Michellette was formerly waiter, and earned £8 a week.. As a bootlegger he earned £5,000 in December. He showed the police his dairy to prove that he spent
The Hong Kong and Shang10,000 on the girl in six months, hai Banking Corporation lost and claims that his shooting was their action against Mr. G. R.Justified because she was friendly Henkel, of Hankow, of Ts. 47,000 with other men. according to a judgment given by Judge Milton, D. Purdy in the U.S. Court for Chine at Shanghai
Five months after Mr. John:
The
While motoring on the dunes
Dodge, the motor-car manufactur- near The Hague, Queen Wilhellast week. The Bank had sueder, died, a daughter, now aged six,
and named Arna, was born. mina saw a woman struggling in for the sum with interest from widow since has re-married. Anna the sea.
She ordered her chauf- March 3, 1926, as damages for got £1.500.000 under the probated feur to drive as quickly as possible fraud and deceit which, it was will, but the other children object- to the place, and the Queen, to alleged the defendant" practiseded, and the courts then awarded gether with the chauffeur and a upon the bank while he was act- the mother the personal property lady-in-waiting, got the woman ing as director and menager of represented by this estate, and gave out of her perilous position. the Central China Export Com- Wrapped in shawls, she was taken pany. Judge Purdy found there to the nearest hospital, where she was no fraudulent representation quickly recovered. She had walk- and judgment, was accordingly ed into the water in a state of entered for the defendant with nervous excitement.
coats.
the brothers and sisters the realty. Still dissatisfied, the children ap- pealed to the final courts, who de cided that a posthumous child had no property rights. Anna's share, was entirely awarded to the mother, and the other children get nothing.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Mr. A. H.. Barlow (chief man- ager of the Hong Kong & Shang- hai Bankng Coporation) sailed on the "Empress of Asia" to-day for Home leave.
Going Home" on leave, via Canada, Mr. J. M. McHutcheon (of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire) sailed from Hong Kong to-day on the "Empress of Asia."
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M. L... Yates; of the Prince Line, le joining the "Empress of Asia" at Shanghai (sals from Hong Kong to-day). Mr. Yates is spending His holiday at Home..
Mr. T. C. T. Beck of Messrs. T. E. Griffith, Ltd. is going on Home leave to-day, Mr. Beck is a keen rider to hounds and has ridden in several steeplechases at Kwanti
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Mias Nellie Kailey, the daughter of Mr. W. Kailey of the Standard Oil Co., left Hong Kong to-day on the "Empress of Asta. Miss Kailey only recently return- ed to the Colony after graduating at an American University.
* Military officers going to Shang- hai from Hong Kong to-day on the. "Empress of, Asia" include Colonel Rice, R.A.P.C., Major Daniels, R.A.V.C., Captain Hol lingsworth, Captain Robins and Lt. Vindam of the 2nd/Suffolks,
Mr. A. H. Ferguson (manager of the Chatered Bank of India, Australia & China, Hong Kong office) salled to-day on the "Em- press of Asia" on long leave. Mr. Ferguson is going as far as Ván- couver, but Mrs. Ferguson and family (who are on the same liner), are proceeding, to England. Mr. Ferguson is a very keen golf- | er end a won many Honours on
local courses.
Mr. A. K. Mackenzie of Messrs. Reiss & Massey, sailed to-day on the "Empress of Asia" for Shang- hai
Mr. A. M Haimovitch, the Shanghai jockey who has been in Hong Kong for some time in con- nection with the annual race meeting, sailed to-day on the "Empress of Asia" for Shanghal
Information
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Mrs. E. Jenkinson, the man- ageress of the Peak Hotel, left the Colony to-day on the "Empress of Asia." She is to settle in- Victoria, British Columbia.
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Mr. G. Lynott, of the Manu-
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Among the passengers who the partner of Messrs. Lowe, sailed from Hong Kong to-day Bingham and Matthews in charge on the "Empress of Asia" were
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Leaving a host of friends berawarded the Distinguished. Ser hind him, Engineer Captain E: G. vice Order and Croix de Guerre Fallot, D.S.O, R.N., hailed for avec palme, "From 1918 to 1920, he was in H,MA. King George Three of the Shanghal Jockeys Home this morning on the Blue V fiagship of the 2nd Battle who took part here in the annual Fannál s.s. “Patroclus" Captain | Squadron. He has also been at race meeting are returning on the Pallot has been Chief Engineer Robyth Dockyard and was chief
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