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Hong Kong's list of notifiable, disease for yesterday comprised only two cases of enteric fever (typhoid), both patients being Chinese in the city registration district.

The annual census of home- less persons taken by the London County Council on the night of February 18 shows that 68 men and 28 women were found home- less in the streets, compared with 76 men and 24 women a year ago,

Under the auspices of the Royal Engineers and Royal Corps of Signals Junior Dance Club, a dance is to be held at the Royal Engineers Theatre,. Wellington Barracks, on Monday at 8:30 p.m. The "Semreh" orchestra will be in attendance.

While endeavouring to re- pair a grain drill, a Swedish far- mer became trapped underneath and died from exposure. It was several days before his body was discovered. Three of his horses had escaped, but three others that could not get away, nearly dead.

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On her maiden trip to China, the M.M. "Athos II" arrived here yesterday with 191 passengers. Those disembarking at Hong Kong included Mr. Herking from Singapore, Mr. Keepe, Mr. Smiles and Mr. Nepper from Saigon. Comte Sforza of Italy is travell- ing on the "Athos II" from Mar- seilles to Shanghai. Eighty-seven men of the French Navy joined the ship at Saigon for Shanghai,

The offer of M. Georges Sim,

a Belgian novelist, to shut him- self up in a glass case anti write, 15,000 lines"-presumably with

Members alleged that they ob- tained the secret. from God, and that they felt sorry for their fellow beings, so they sold them shares at a shilling each.

A Portland (Oregon) com- mission is to investigate the charge. against a cuit, known as the Divine Revelation Society, of selling shares in a “perpetual mo- tion" device.

There were a good many pas- sengers on the M.M. "Amazone” here

H.E. the Governor (Sir Cecil' Clementi) has accepted an Invita

lon to attend the annual meeting of the Hong Kong General Cham-when ber of Commerce to be held in the City Hall at 4 p.m. to-morrow.

Sir Roger Keyes, who is men- tioned as the likely successor to Ear Beatty, when he retires in a short time as First Lord of the Admiralty. Admiral Keyes com- manded the British naval opera- tions at Zeebrugge and Ostend in April, 1918.

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yesterday from the North. Two American missionaries in Miss Taylor and Miss Andrews are travelling to Port Said and an- other, Miss R. Gould, is going to Marseilles.

THEOSOPHY.

*The, Law of Brotherhood”. will be the subject of this Week's Public Lecture of The Hong Kong Lodge The Theosophical Society, 7, Duddell Street, on Thursday, April 28th, at 6.p.m. The Public is heartily invited to attend.

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Singapore has enjoyed a beau- tiful Easter, the fine weather favouring all kinds of sport, good morning tides bringing numerous bathing parties to the seashore, many golfers to the tees and cric- keters to the wicket. The moon- light enabled a thoroughly pleasant evening to be spent with the Dukes' band in the Botanic Gardens, Tho services of the various religious ¿enominations in town were largely attended both on Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

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about six words to the line-of a holes, for both men and womon, owing to the recent heavy rob The Dairy Farm, Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd.

novel of forty hours, recalls one of the many rapid-writing feats of Alexandre Dumas. Once, for a bet of 100 louis, the great romancer undertook to write a novel in seventy-two hours. He Iset to work, and, with brief inter- vals for food and sleep, stuck to his task, covering sheet after sheet of foolscap in a fair flowing hand, with scarce a single crasure, and won with six hours to spare. The book was the "Chevalier de la Maison Rouge.”

are made of sea shells finely shaved and painted. At Lady Norton-Griffiths' dance, I was tempted to smell the real looking tea rose in a man's but tonhole and got a nasty surprise when my nose touched the razor- edged petals (says a "Sunday Chronicle" writer.) The weight of each shell flower, whether it is a violet or a sunflower, is exactly that of the real flower. Many of the smart night clubs are using them for decorations.

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Special precautions to guard registered mail bags on Malayan railway journeys are being con-" sidered by the postal authorities,

beries of mails in transit. suggestion, says the "Malaya Tribune," is to provide a com- partment fitted with steel gates for carrying the mails in the ordinary luggage vans of express trains. These would be locked and chained and it would be im- possible for any ordinary travel- ler to gain access to the mails. At present, mails are carried in the open vans of hundreds of express trains each day. Theft of a mail bag is the easiest form of crime.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Hong Kong passengers on the "President Jefferson" when she sailed yesterday for Manila in- cluded Lt.-Comdr. J. E. Miller, Dr. D. S. Ocampo, Mr. Jorge E. Weber.

Mr. E. W. Lutic, agent in Manila of the Columbia Pacific

The King and Queen paid a pri vate visit to Lord Rosebery at Durdans, afterwards motoring to Epsom to view the grandstand in the course of erection.

The Rev. Brother Paul, Rev. Brother Alexius, Mr. R. Costa and Mr. C. B. Davies were among the passengers who left Hong Kong yesterday on the "Athos II" for Shanghai.

Mr. A. el Arculli (the local Mr. Julean Arnold, the Com- solicitor) left Hong Kong yester- S.S. Co., left Hong Kong yester-mercial Attache at the American | day on the "Amazone" for a holi- Legation; Peking, was on the day in Europe. He is captain of "President McKinley" when she sailed yesterday from Hong Kong for Shanghai and Seattle..

day after a very brief stay here. He came up by the "President McKinley" on Sunday and sailed yesterday on the "President Jefferson" for Manila.

Petty Officer Hindley, who was on his way to Hong Kong to join the fleet, contracted pneumonin on the voyage and had to be taken ashore in Penang from the 5.8. "Autolycus" on Thursday last, says the "Malay Mall” of April 19. He was taken to the Hospital where he died on Friday morning and buried in the afternoon in the Western Road Cemetery.

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The "President McKinley" left Hong Kòng yesterday with many passengers from Hong Kong for Shanghai and Seattle via ports. These included Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Byrd, Mr. E. Moller, Mrs. Kan Yuk-kai, Mr. and Mrs. C, L. Rocha, Miss C. Pintos, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Lee, Mr. P. J. Anderson, Rev. P. A. Dakin, Dr. B. Black.

The Rev., W. T. B. Hayter, vicar of Dorking, Surrey, has been appointed Master of Charter- house in succession to the |late Rev. G. S. Davis. An old

Carthusian, the new Master is 68. years of age. He graduated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and was known as a keen sportsman. From 1913 to 1921 Mr. Hayter was Dean of Gibraltar. His new appointment: carries with it a salary of £300 a year, with a house and other emoluments, "

Mr. Frederick J. Wilcoxson, AR.B.S., of London, has com pleted his work on. the statue of

Daniel Rudge, 17-year-old Lon- don messenger boy, who crossed the Atlantic Ocean bearing a package of photograph records of the compositions of Beethoven on the 100th anniversary of the death of the famous composer.

Lady Clifford, whose health has the late Dr. Loke Yew, which is will it is understood, sail from not been satisfactory for some time.

the Indian Recreation Club 1st XI and was honoured by the club prior to his departure. Mr. Arculli is also a member of the Education Board, Accompanying| him were Dr. II. el Arculli and Miss J. el Arculli.

Mr. R. Negre was a Hong Kong passenger on the "Amazone" when she sailed from here yester- day for Saigon. Mr.. H. W. Wilson goes to Singapore on the same ship. Bound for Marseilles are Colonel and Mrs. H. C. Jewett (U.S. Army) who came up from Manila, Mr. and Mrs. Gosse, Mr. and Mrs. Descans, Dr. R. Palma and Mr. E. Ross,

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The engagement is announced and the marriage will shortly take place, of the Earl of Lathom, of 65, Mount Street, W., and Mrs. Xenia Morison, of 25, Elvaston Place, Queen's Gate, S.W. The Earl of Lathom, who is 31, was A.D.C. to the Governor of "Bom- bay, 1916-18. He has written plays including "Tuppence Coloured," "Wet Paint," "The Way You Look At It," and "Ostriches." He has financed several theatrical productions in the West End. In 1925 he open- ed a shop in Davies Street, W., for the sale of modern furniture and house decorations.

The Queen of Holland and her undergradukte daughter often figure in the news of the day, but one seldom hears of the Prince Consort of Holland, who is now taking a holiday in Switzerland. eo Alpiniat he has done some Although not quite the build for “NEW SPRING SEASON PARIS Library, Kuala Lumpur The O steamer Cathay" on May 14 the Monte Rosa and Breithorn. to be placed in the Memorial Ceylon for England by the F. and of the best-known climbs, such as sketch model and the larger In the course of a speech at Kandy, On, these occasions he takes quite statue, which is now being cast in Sir Hugh Clifford, stated that the a number of guides and porters, bronze, Bhaw Loke Yew in the present Governor of Ceylon would who in addition to hauling the robes which he wore when made die officially on May 8 During the royal climber over the dangerous a doctor of the Hong Kong three months that will elapse be parts have to carry the cham University. Considering that Mr.tween the departure of Sir Hugh pague which is drunk when the Wilcoxson had no personal know- Clifford for Malays and the arrival summit is reached. Whenever ledge of his subject, and had to of Sir Herbert Stanley, Mr. AGM the Prince makes an ascent be guided by photographs and by Fletcher, the Colonial Bocrotary of the personal description given by Ceylon, will probably fill the post importance be is presented by the those who knew Loke Yew the Government Mr

Mavor of the village with an of Officer Admi ringthe

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