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A concert.nd dance will be given by the members of Morrison, Hall (the University Hostel) at the City Hall at 8p.m. this Saturday...

The annual general meeting of the Mid-Levels Residents! Associa tion will be held at the Ladies' Re- creation Club, Ronk Road. morrow at 0 p.m.

Eighteen widows assembled in court at Berlin, according to theDaily Mail's" correspondent, and denounced Robert Loteisen, a ship's cook on a Hamburg- Amerika liner, who had promised to marry each of them. Lotelsen's fascinating style enabled him to scrape an acquaintance with pas- sengers who in turn introduced him to rich widowa.. When he was sent to jail for 18 months his victims cheered.

The Paris eorrespondent of the "Daily News" says that a vigorous patriotic riot has been imparted to the great anti-trou- sers campaign by the declaration that Frenchmen are thereasing unemployment by wearing Eng- lish-made trousers.. It is suggest- Fed that the substitution of dis- creetly buckled kneebreeches will end London's tyranny. The press adduces Mr... Baldwin's baggy garments as proof that even England can make trousers un- attractive.

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A small blaze occurred at 17, Queen's Road Ct, (the promisss of the Eama Club) early this morning due to the catching dro of the bed of the lift. boy.

The fire brigade turned out and extinguish

ed the fire in a low minutes.

Mr. John Van "A. MacMurray, the United States Minister to China. He is one of the youngest men to attain the rank of Minister in the United States Diplomatic Service.

Two notifications of diphtheria were made during the week-end end from the city and one from Kowloon. There was also a case of typhold from the ofty. All the pa- tients are Chinese.

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This would be a moral thrill that would electrify the world,” said Mr. Upshaw, a militant pro- Hibitionist, bidding good-bye to congresa after eight years. The. thrill he described would be "for the president, the vice-president and every member of the Cabinet to all openly and unitedly an nounce that they not only will never take another drink, but will never attend any function, social, commercial or diplomatie, where intoxicants are served."

Two farmers,' one an 'ex- Indian officer, and the other who was a doctor, whlie sheltering in a cave, in Southern Rhodesia, dis- covered on the roof of the cave paintings, which were pronounc ed by an expert to be typically Egyptian. The theory is that the ancestors of the painters once lived in the then fertile Sahara, but were forced to trek tof

on account of Somaliland droughts. They were driven out. by the Bantu people, Ave thou sand years ago, and fled to the south This is the first link con- necting the North with South Africa..

Excavations on the south Iside of the Singapore River in connection with the rebuilding of "For an inadvertent sentence The annual procession of Our Elgin Bridge have brought to in an obscure book," says Captain Lord of Passos took place on the Peter. Wright, who lost his bel grounds of the Roman Catholle light an interesting "find" in the The bank of the action against Viscount Glad Cathedral yesterday afternoon. form of three clay jars, says the

"Free Press.” stone, in connection with certain There was a large gathering of the

faithful from every part of the is-river, for a considerable depth, statements as to the character of land and Kowloon present. Rev. Fr. consists of soft mud, and the the late W. E. Gladstone, "I am

Noval of the Spanish Procuration vases were discovered 46 feet compelled to acquiesce in a tor-carried the Blessed Sacrument below low water mark. One of rent of public abuse, persecution, followed by Bishop Valtorta, the them is of curious design, but the deprivation of my livelihood and clergy of the Cathedral and repre-crudeness of their manufacture is expulsion from the Bath Club or sentatives of the French. Spanish all that there is to bear out the wash a great deal of historical and American Missions. The Band supposition that they are of any linen in public. "Being a pes- of the Portuguese Philharmonic great antiquity. On one is a simist, I do not expect justice or Society provided the music, while small patch of glaze which sug-1 this earth, consequently I am not

geats Chinese origin. It is. pos- disappointed.. I consider that I

sible that they may be vessels have not been treated with a

which were in use on board junks semblance of justice by most tri

which used the river years ago. bunals, social and legal, and the fo little girls-little tota. not more and were flung into the river and:

undisguised, flagrant illegality does not vex me. The profits of my book were under £40," he con-

cluded.

choir from St. Joseph's College sang "Mercy, Oh Lord" at various stations en route. The feature of the procession was a dozen or so

than four years old-prettily, at, tired as angels. After the proces laton 2 sermen was preached" in Portuguese, followed by the Bene-

dietion of the Blessed Sacrament.

sank to the considerable depth at which they were found owing to the softness of the ground in that vicinity.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

A Reuter message from the Hague states that Baron Gevers, the Dutch Minister to Germany, who is short- ly retiring from the Diplomatic Service, will be replaced in Berlin by Count 'Van Limburg Stirum...

Sir Charles Greenway, Bt., upon whom the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom has been conferred, will be known by the name, style and title of Baron Greenway of Stanbridge Earls in the county of Southampton.

Arriving at Hong Kong to-day by the "President Van Buren" from the North Is Mr. Max Jensen of Hamburg.

Mr. G. T. McCarthy, assistant general passenger agent of the Dollar Line, is on the "President Van Buren" which arrived here this morning. He anils on, the boat ta Mr. William Herthel, of themorrow, for Manila, on business. Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, Canton, arrived in Hong Kong to-day on the "President Van Buren" from the North.

In the course of a tour of the Dast, Capt. William James Todd, a director of Messrs Findlater, Mr. Andrew A. Freeman, a New Mackie, Todd and Co., Ltd., arrived York Journalist, arrived in Hong in the Colony yesterday. In addi- Kong to-day on the "President Vantion to being a well-known business Buren from Shanghaf Accom- Mr: panied by Mrs. Freeman, Freeman is on a tour of the world and leaves on the same boat to-morrow.

Mr. Nordahl Grieg, repre- senting.Norwegian, Danish and Swedish newspapers, has arrived in China to follow the course of events here. Music lovers will be interested to learn that he is a grand-nephew of Grieg, the composer of "Pier Gynt" and other famous pieces.

After

The "Chicago Tribune" learns from Riga that the German specialists recently invited to Moscow declared that Stalin, Pre- sident of the People's Commis- saries' Council, was suffering A fatal from stomach cancer.

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The King and Queen were "At Home" to 400 people at Bucking- ham Palace on March 1. There was no formality and it was just

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