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LOCAL

H.M.S. "Titanin" held a suc- cessful dance at the Helena May Institute Inst evening.

Homeward bound; the P. and O. mail, a.s. "Nellore" will sail at daylight on Saturday' instead of at the usual sailing hour of noon.

The King's Birthday Parade will take place this year on June 3 at Happy Valley. It is expect ed that the hour of parade will be 9 a.m., but further details will be announced later.

A Volunteer Defence Corps smoking concert takes place at Headquarters to-night, commenc ing at 0.15. Trophies and prizes won at the annual Corpa Rifle Shooting Meeting at Easter will be distributed during the evening.

King Albert of the Belgians has made arrangements to open the off cial proceedings of the Rotary In ternational Convention, to be held at Ostend from June 4 to June 10. Over 7,000 delegates from 38 differ- ent countries will participate in the Convention.

High medical authorities agree that anaemia has been practically conquered, a new cure being elsim- ed by a serum extracted from beof liver. Experiments extending over several years proved successful in 90 out of 100 cases. It la expected that the serum will soon be distri buted the same as insulin.

The premature burial scare-a grisly business-is with us again, The F.M.S. Federal Estim- and a Chester gentleman, who has ates for 1927 show under the just celebrated his jubilee as an heading "Police" that only $7,000 undertaker (I trust with appro is allotted for "Rewards for the printe rejoicings) announces that he has invented an electric device apprehension of criminals" and to ensure again burial while in a only $8,550 for "Secret Service." trance (says an "Evening Stand-Under "Customs," on the other ard" writer.) It consists of an hand, we find, says the "Malay electric bell, fastened to the top of Mail," $15,000 for "Secret Ser- the grave, which can be rung by vice." It is really extraordinary pressing a button inside the colla. that the responsible authorities This, it is claimed. has been suc- should be prepared to cessfully tested; no detaila are

allot

given of the test, but it conjuree up $10,000 for the capture of sellers possibilities worthy of Edgar Allan of illicit liquor and only $550 Poe. Given that it is feasible for more for the capture of murder- a."corpse" to ring a bell, it is hard-ers, gang rubbers, and perpetra- ly likely that it would be heard, tors of other serious crimes. unless an attendant is to be station. There seems to be a lack of the ed in readiness night and day.

sense of proportion somewhere can imagine a more cheerful oc-

or other. cupation than that of a "listener- in" at a cemetery.

The current issue of the "Linotype & Printing Machinery Record," the printing trade journal issued by Linotype & Machinery, Ltd., is, as, usual, a typical sample of the perfect printing which can be done with up-to-date Linotype composing machines and Miehle two-revolu-

The announcement that the tion presses which the company

When a committee of ex- Royal Scots Greys are to return manufactures. The Hong Kong sales and service depot is at 7perts appointed by the League to Edinburgh falsifies a pre- of Nations begins to concern diction of Lord Rosebery of Duddell Street.

itself seriously with the vital | twenty-one years ago, that, if a were not then made, The glare of limelight that re-statistics of the whale it is easy protest cently beat upon Fluffy, the London to believe the reports that that Edinburgh and Scotland would Victoria Station cat, who boards the important animal is really in never get their cavalry back 10.45 train to Dover every morning, danger of extinction, remarks again, says a "Weekly Scotsman" lunches upon nice ereamy milk at the "Manchester Guardian." Un-writer. It has almost seemed as the buffet there, and returns to happily, the fate of the whale in if Lord Rosebury's prediction town by the afternoon train, is a the South Seas appears to be the that the regiment would depart reminder of a curious fact about business of nobody in particular. for good was inspired, for when ents; they are at once the greatest The Antarctic continent, round the Royal Scots Greys were under travellers and the greatest "bome. bodies" of all domesticated animals whose shores is concentrated by orders at York to move to Edin- (says a writer in the "Manchester far the largest part of the burgh the war broke out and the Guardian."). Other cats in this whaling industry, has made only regiment was among the first to come into action with General country, and, indeed, in most coun- the briefest of appearances in tries, regularly journey long dis- diplomatic history, and the ques Chetwood's 5th Cavalry Brigade. tancea in trains, usually in the res- tion of possession has never There can be no doubt that Edin- taurant car, but sometimes with the received a final settlement. There burgh will accord the famous guard. As for seafaring cats, there must be hundreds of thou are French, British and American regiment an enthusiastic wel- sands of them, from North Cape to claimants, but the subject of the come. The Scottish capital has a claims is at the moment of so warm side for all branches of the the Horn, Southampton Water 20 Nagasaki Bay Most-liners-carry-little-value that-the-need-for-military, but more especially for quite a number; there are White settlement has never become the picturesque cavalry, and most Star vessels with five-and-twenty urgent. Such setlement is, how-of all for the regimenta with a aboard. There was an amusing in- ever, necessary if rigorous con-long and honourable tradition be- cident not long ago when one of the trol of sea life is to be exercised,hind them. In length of history Adriatic's cats, who had failed to especially in the case of life so the Scots Greya carry the palm, turn up when the ship sailed, re- appeared for the next voyage with valuable as the whale's. To in their establishment dating back the ternationalise the whale now to 1683, entitling them to the her tail proudly waving, in breeze and five little kittens trot- might save it both as a species honour of the "oldest regiment of

and as a source of wealth. ting along behind her.

dragoons."

SOCIAL

George Philip Wells, the eldest son of the famous novelist, H. G. Wells, has married his father's secretary, Miss Marjorie Craig.

General Au-yang Chu, Com- mander of the 17th Division, having been appointed Acting Garrison Commissioner of the Bocca Tigris by the Miatry Headquarters, took up hs post on the 8th inst,

AND PERSONAL

Canada is more Scottish than Bri- tain. In the Canadian Cabinet eight of the 18 members are Scots, whereas in the British Cabinet of 21 only two hall from North of the

Tweed.

NEWS.

When the "Empress of Canada" sails on her next homeward trip she will take with her Sir Henry and Lady Pollock who are pro- ceeding on six months home leave

via Canada.

Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, it la learned, will stand as a Justices of Peace candidate for the Legis- lative Council vacancy caused by the forthcoming departure of Sir Henry Pollock. Mr. Shenton will be proposed by the Hon. Mr. D.

G. M. Bernard and seconded by the Hon. Mr. A. C. Hynes.

The death hos occurred of De-

Big departmental stores in Amer- ica are employing Englishmen at salaries of from £2,000 to £5,000 a year to advise customers on how to dress for various functions when on The students of St. Stephen's visit to Europe. Well-connected Girls' College are giving a fare-young men, especially ex-officers in

Guards regiments, are preferred. well concert to their retiring Headmistress, Miss Middleton Smith, to-morrow night (com-

Probate has been granted in mencing at 8 pm.) in the Great respect of the will of Mah Hin- Colone! Charles Linton, J.P.,

chuen, alias Ma Ying-ching, mer-paty Lieutenant for Huntingdon chant, late of 86 Jervois Street, shire, of Hemingford Abbots, aged. The wedding took place in Rome who left local property of the 80, chairman of the St. Ives Beard on April 30 of Miss Rosetta Man-value of $97,200, Testator gives of Guardians for 25 years and for peni, daughter of Signor Musso- full power and liberty in regard many years a member of the Hunt- lini's sister. The civil ceremony to the disposal of the estate to ingdonshire County Council. was performed in the Capital in the the sole executor, Mr. Wai Pik, served for about 30 years with his regiment, the Second South Lanen- morning by the Governor of Rome, of the same address.

shires, in India and Egypt, and re- Prince Podnoiuni, who presented

tired from the Army about 25 years ..ago.

up, his post on the 8th inst.

Ho

the bride with a golden pen with which she signed the marriage re- gister. The religious ceremony A Reuter cable from London

Santa was in the Royal church

announces the death of Lord

The death took place at Mor- Maria del Angeli. Signor Musso Walter Kerr, Admiral of the timer, Berkshire, at the age of 49, lini acted as witness for the Bride Fleet; G.C.B., K.C.B. Born in of Lord Rothes. In 1893 on, the at both ceremonies.

Scotland, on September 28, 1839, death of his grandmother he suc Admiral Kerr was educated at ceeded as 19th Earl of Rothes and Radley College and entered the Baron Lelle and Ballenbreich in navy in 1859. In 1854-1866 he the Peerage of Scotland. He was formerly in the Black Watch and

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Following the wedding, report- ed yesterday, of Mr. M. H. Lo and Miss Edith Lam, a reception served in the Baltic. He was the Devonshire Regiment, and was was held at Woodgreen," Con-with the Naval Brigade at the re- wounded. in the Great War. He duit Road, at which the toast of lief and battle of Lucknow. In had two sons, the elder, Lord the bride and bridegroom was 1872 he was made Captain, Rear- Leslie, now succeeding to the Earl-; proposed by Mr. R. E. Lindsell Admiral in 1889, Vice Admiral in dom. who paid a tribute to Mr. Lo's 1895, and Admirai in 1900, -- In sportsmanship and wished the 1904 he was created Admiral of young couple every happiness. the Fleet.

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The death of Sir Sydney Colvin, the art and literary critic and friend of R. L. Stevenson, is ably replied and the guests had

arinounced in a Reuter cable from been entertained in lavish man-

Prior to bis departure for London to-day. Born at Nor- ner, the bride and bridegroom de- Home on board the "Em-wood, London, In June, 1845, he parted under showers of confetti press of Asia," Mr. A. J:became a Scholar of Trinity for Repulse Bay, where the Chesterton, superintendent of College, Cambridge, and became honeymoon is being spent, the the Marconi International a Fellow of his college in 1868. bride leaving in a dress of fawn Marine Communication Com-In 1873 he was appointed Slade georgette.

pany Ltd., was the recipient of Professor of Fine Art and in the a gift from the operating, ses- following year became Director Coming from the land where the going and office staffs of the of the Fitzwilliam Museum. In gospel of business decrees that a Marconi Company, The gift 1884. he removed to London on man is too old for work at 40, it is took the form of a solid silver his appointment as Keeper of strange to find refutation of this model of a Chinese patrol junk, Prints and Drawings at the doctrine in an utterance by one of complete in every detail, includ- British Museum. His chjet pub- th most successful Americansing regalla, and guns, and with lications in book form are his article in The World's Work, terute yasa surdo at the pre- Florentine Ficture-Chronicle,

in a recent à suitably inscribed plate. Re lives of Lazdor and Kesté... “A which has word for the elder men which seems to station to Mr. Chesterton's "Early History of Engraving in be particularly acouraging for keen interest in the Radio England," the Edinburgh edition those once thought to be "to old af Bociety and to his work for of RL Stevenson's works, edl forty. His own personal feelings operators and, shipmasters on tions of the letters of Keats and and experiences show Mr. Ford the the const. Those present at the of the “Vailima Letters of folly of that belief. He puts the ceremony Included Messra. U. B. Stevenson which were chiefly ad- elders with and anlong the young Howling(China Coast Opera dressed to Colvin and other let sters For the presence of the older man adds balance when bors) Wo Kent(Singapore ters of the novellatin-1011 ho would otherwise be lacking Keepers Chilwald signed his post at the British

Operators) FAN, Hà (Office was knighted and in 1912 Le Té unusual for a man to have much real judgment until he is about 50% (Wi

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