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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Thore wore three cases of noht-The anle of curios at Messrs. fiable disease in the Colony on Lammert Bros roame in Duddell Tuesday, all Chinese from the city Street, announced for to-day, has district. Two wors of small-pox been postponed til to-morrow.. and the other of unteric fever (typhoid).

A golf ball driven from the inat tee at Llandudno, Maesdu, Golf Club, struck a rock, rebounded, and struck the player in the mouth. Several stitches were inserted at the Cottage Hospital

The third annual meeting of Hong Kong & Territorial Estates,. Ltd. is to be hold at 2.30 pm, on April 8, at St. George's Building. Transfer books tf the company will be closed from March 31 to April 18 inclusive.

The horrendous habit of refer- Ering to the alligator pear as. dh' Falligator pear led the California Avocado Growers' Exchange to issue a protest recently. "It is bad enough" read the proteat, "that a Welsh rabbit contains no rabbit and that no horse has over eaten horse- radish, but that the avocado, an exalted member of the laurel Family, ahould be called an alliya- tor pear is beyond all understand- Hing. The humiliation of calling this fruit after a repulsive reptile Is too great to bear.

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A honey bird recently lured a native working at Bulwayo, South Africa, to a deadly snake hidden in a tree. The snake struck the man who died within a few minutes. This adds strength to the popular belief that the honey bir aomo- times malteiously leads its victim to a lion, lepard or anake instead of a store of honey. It is understood. that the workman saw the bird fluttering from tree to tree and fol- Towed it In the hope of finding a He must be Istore of wild honey.

considered a funny fellow in the bird World.

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One of the most fateresting electrical labour-saving devices that will be shown at the Ideal Homa Exhibition is the new "Mag- net" machine, which is a Jack-of-alb trades. Its primary purpose is the washing and wringing of clothes, but by an easy interchange of at tachment it may be converted into: #meat mincer or a sausage maker. It will also produce ice cream at short notice, chop vegetables, and It clean and sharpen knives.. closes down to form an ironing table. The appliance is British in conception, and is made in Eng- land by the General Electrical Com- pany,

Six tons of coppers formed: port of total amount of £5,000 collected by undergraduates of Liverpool University in street col lections, for medical charities.

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General Sir George, Milne, re- cently appointed Commander-in- Chief of the armies of Great Bri tain, to succeed Lord Cavan..

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When preparations were being made for the welcome of the Prince of Wales.to Buenos Aires, the public school children of the Argentine were set to learn the British, na- tional anthem. Naturally, it had toabe spelled phonetically, and this is the version that was used:

Himno Ingles..

God seiv aus greiches Kin Long liv aua nobel Kin

"God selv di Kin

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Japi and glorias

Long tu rein over as

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Dai choisest guifts in ator " On. jim bi pilad: tu por

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Mei ji defend aun loos And ever gulv as cos Tu Bin wit jart and vois God selv di King. When sung by the children, sounded quite all right.

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· An "Aldershot Command order states that full lodging, light and fuel allowances are to be given to the families of men serving in the Shanghal Defence Forod who are on the marriage roll.

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Mr.W..W, Hornell, C.I.E., M.A., (Vice-Chancellor of the Univer aity) will distribute the prizes at St. Stephen's College Founders' Day. to be observed in the Great Hall of the University at 7.00 pan, this Saturday.

More than two billion, oleven million coffee trees have been planted in Brazil since the incop Ftion of coffee cultivation two cun- turies ago, according to the latest figures, issued, by the Coffee In- stitute of Sao Paulo

THEOSOPHY

"WHAT IS THEOSOPHY". will be the subject of this Week's Public Lecture of the Hong Kong Lodge The Theosophical Society; 7, Duddell Street, on Thursday, March 33, at 6 p.m. The Public are heartily invited to attend.

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It is amazing to fend, says the "Straits Times," that recently in London, a few misguided females havo netually been presenting young ment with the white feather for not "volunteering" for service with the Shanghai Defence Force. It the War Office wanted volunteers for this mission they could be had in thousands.

A society for defending men's rights against women has been

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

A member of the law firm of Messrs. Hastings. Dennys & Bowley in Mr. C Bulmer Johnson, goes on Home Teave to-day, salling or the "Empress of Canada."

Going on Home leave via Canada, Mr. John Arnold (secretary of the Hong Kong, Canton & Macao Steam- boat Co. Ltd.) salls to-day from Hong Kong on the "Empress of Canada,"

Josef Hofmann, the famous

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Mr, R. L. Stewart arrived Hong Kong yesterday on the Albans" from Kobe.

The forthcoming marriage is; an- in St.nounced of Cedric Arthur Lacy Rickett, No. 1A, Chatham Path, May Road. to Aline Beatrice Cox, Ful- mar House, Farthing, England.

Mr. G. E. Towns, acting chief ac- countant of the. Hong Kong and' Shanghai Bank, sails for Home to day on the "Empress of Canada."

The annual ball, of the 4th Sub- marine Flotilla (China Squadron) has been indefinitely postponed on account of unforeseen circum- atences."

Oriental manager of the Cana- dian Pacific Steamships, Ltd., Mr. Allan Cameron leaves for Yoko- hama to-day on the "Empress of Canadá." Mr. Cameron is also a director of several public panies in Hong Kong..

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Mr. T. C. Monaghan (purchasing agent and catering superintendent of the Canadian Pacific S., Ltd. in Hong Kong) leaves for Vancou ver to-day, with his family, by the "Empresa of Canada. Mr. Monag hans keen golfer and tennis Diayer,***

Among the many passengers. on the "President Madison," when she Fuatled yesterday for Shanghai, Seattle and ports were Mr. F. W. Sutterle...Colonel Y. Takekawa Mr. and Mrs. S.. Erlanger, Mr. and Mrs. L. D Warron and Mr. and. Mrs. C. C. Hickling.

The following deaths wera an- nounced at Home in mail week:- Rev. Alfred Redman, vicar of St. James', Heywood, for 42 years, and honorary canon of Manchester, a writer go botany and geology, st Heywood, aged 82; Rev Edward' James Elliot, rector of Broad- water, Worthing, since 1905, while After a short atay in Hong Kong visiting. Brighton, aged 64 Mr. Mr. P. W. Massey (managing Robert Henry Coates formerly director of Messrs. Reles, Massey & general secretary of the United Co., Ltd.) returns to Shanghal to Machine Workers Association; at day, salling on the "Empress of Sunderland, aged 66, and Mr. Canada."

Walter Bull, one of the senior mem- bers of the Corporation of London, Captain TT. Laurenson, D.3.0., and Deputy Alderman of Bishops local branch secretary of the China gate Ward, at Snaresbrook, aged

** Coast Officers' Guild and president 86. of the Easma Club, goes on Home leave to-day by the "Empress of Canada."

Captain J. S. Crawford, Mr. J. A. W. Loureiro and Mr. L. J. Sawyer were among the passengers on the Manila-bound "President Hayes" when she left Hong Kong yesterday.

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J. E. Sterrett, famous ( econ. ̈omist, and member of the transfer committee under the Dawes plán.

Mr. W. T. Daley of the Hong Kony offee, passenger department, Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd., has been appointed to Kobe and salls to-day on the "Empress of Canada

· Mr.Ma --Wong-chan (managing. directory and Mr. Jan Con-sang (manager) of the Sincera Co., Ltd; Hong Kong were passengers on the President Madison" which left for Shanghai yesterday.

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News has been received of the death at Home of a retired Hong Kong merchant in Mr Herbert The wedding took place at Christ Stephens whose daughter in the Church, Shamees on Saturday of After being with Mesars Butterwife of Mr Colin Sart of the Public theodora Cawald, eldest son of Mr. feld & Swire, Mr CM, Young, Works Department. Mr. Stephens and Mrs Charles Lammert and M.B.E. (a principal of the firm) is came out in 1998 and till his retire Proso Dolores Quitzo, daughter leaving for Home to-day on retirement fn 1923 was Head of Messrs. of Capt. and Mrs. Quitzow - of ment, He sails on the "Empress H. Stephens & Co. commissior, London. Mr. Charles Lammert of Canada" and travels via Van agents. He has since lived at save the bride away and Mr. couver. Mr. Young Is a director of Harbome Birmingham and was 59 F E Jammert acted as Best the Hong Kong & Shanghai-Bank, years of age. As a yachtsman, an Man Mrs Wyndham Law, wite of a member of the committee of the ardant teherman, owner of the the Deputy Commissioner of Car Chamber of Commerce, présidant of motor-bost ""The Kipper:

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