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THE CHINA MAIL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

A quantity of furniture will be auctioned by Messrs. Lammert Bros at No. 7 Queen's Gardens (ground Soor) at 11 a.m., on May 31.

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C and D Companies of the 2nd- K.O.S.B. are holding a dance at the Cinema, Mount Austin Barracks, this evening starting at 7 pm.

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On board the "Neuralia" which arrived with troops, trans- port units, etc.. on Monday were two Y.M.C.A, secretaries who are taking up work at the Y.M.C.A. centres at Shanghal. During the voyage they acted us entertainment and recreation organisers to the troops: Concerts, lectures and ser- vices were arranged daily and "community singing" was intro duced with great success.

Dr. Noorden, of Berlin, a specialist in internal diseases, an- nounces a new remedy for dia- betes, named horment, which is administered in pill form,

"The Daily News" states that Treasury notes, will, dis-[ appear at the end of the year, and will be replaced by Bank of England notes. Pound and ten shilling notes will be printed in carmine and' maroon, respective-

In our report of the Empire Day Service at St. John's Cathedrally. yesterday we omitted to mention

that the Girl Guides from the A Leningrad newspaper, the Belllion Girls' School were present, "Krasnaya Gazette," urging The Belilios Girl Guides Company stricter marriage and divorce i was, the Second Chinese Company laws, says that the Soviet code is raised in Hong Kong.

demoralising the people, who are

The

A De Havilland Moth aero-virtually able to marry one day plane, which has been in the and be divorced the next. stores at Messrs. Whiteley's for journal declares that the most sale has been purchased on the popular time for marriage is pay instalment system for £750. This day,, with divorces when the men is the first recorded instance of have spent their money, usually in vodka.. Few Leningrad mar- an aeroplane having been pur-riages last out six weeks. chased in this way.

A meeting of members of the Hong Kong Cricket Club will be held

*THEOSOPHY * Weekly Meetings: Every Sun-

day at ten-thirty am., Devotional the Order Of The Star in the East. Meeting followed by a meeting of

The report that there was a probability that an immigration | law would be promulgated in the in the Pavilion next Tuesday at near future has caused

the 5.30 p.m. for the purpose of con- utmost interest in Bangkok. It sidering a proposal by the Com-

The Weekly Public Lectures will is not clear when the law will be mittee to add a second storey to introduced, nor yet what precise the Pavilion and make other addi- be discontinued during the summer

to the months. form it will take, but we are in tions and improvements ja position, says the "Siam building. Plans may be seen in the Observer," to state that the Gov- ernment is carefully reviewing the situation, and that no time will be wasted,

former

Pavilion.

The Lodge is open for inquiries. Booksales and Library-Tuesdaya & Thursdays from six to eight p.m.. Sundays from ten to twelve noon.

Hong Kong Lodge, The, Theoso- Next to Hotel Metropole, P.O. Box phical Society, 7. Daddell Street,

Can Hong Kong.

On

The German Foreign Minis- ter, Dr. Streseman, and other members of the Government at tended the first screening of the Because Mrs. Aimee Mac-first part of the great German "The World War."

France's great war leaders Pherson, the evangelist, bobbed war film. her hair, her congregation divid- A remarkable feature of the ex are to be buried in future round ed. Mrs. MacPherson hurt her hibition was the moving dia Napoleon's tomb in the Invalides. followers beyond endurance when grams illustrating the early cam

A Bill to this effect is being paigns. she bobbed recently," said

passed through the French Par- Gladwyn Nichols, the

liament, and arrangements are leader of the Angelus Temple Repairs to the flagstaff in the being made for the transfer of Choir, who presided over an op- grounds of H. M. Consulate- the bodies of some famous gen- position congregation.

Mrs. General, Shanghai, on May 16 erals to the Invalides. MacPherson, replies, "I had my and the consequent non-appear- July 14 the national fete day, hair trimmed short to keep Itance of the Union Jack at 8 a.m. General Maunoury, who was one from falling out."

in its accustomed position, and of the great leaders at the first the arrest of a Chinese caught in battle, of the Meue. Genera! the act of stealing a coil of rope Grossetti of the Yser, General in the vicinity of the flagstaff Humbert of Verdun, General caused a mild sensation in the Mangin, the famous leader of des- vicinity for a very short while, perate attacks throughout the | during which time rumours were war, General Lanrezac, the hero current that a Chinese student of the Battle of Guise in 1914, had been caught in the act of and Generals Maistre, Dubois, stealing the flag. Nothing of the Buat, Roques, Maud'hny, Putz, sort had actually occurred, it was Mitry, Boissoudy, Gerard and merely as stated above, that the Langle de Cary, all of them flagstaff was being renovated and illustrious on many fields of a Chinese workman attempted to battle, will take their appointed steal a coil of rope. He was places around the greatest. of handcuffed and removed to the French generals of all time. Central police station.

Room is to be left for 26 more.

Fred and Cecil Harris, who are twins, competed in the final of the ex-service men's billiards tournament at Shepperton (Mid- dlesex). The marker repeatedly mixed the scores, until the pre- sident of the club asked one of the players to take off his coat. This device to secure distinction be tween the two was successful, but when the match was over, and the player had resumed his coat, the president congratulated the

wrong man.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Tom Russell, the noted Essex wicket keeper, the father of A. C. Russell, the England and Essex batsman, has died at Leyton, in his 59th year.

-The widow of a man who made clothes for Abraham Lincoln- Mrs. George Silker has cele- brated her 100th birthday at Kyle, Ayrshire.

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Sir Robert Sanders, M.P., has been appointed chairman of the National Union of Conservative Associations in succession to Dame Caroline Bridgeman.

General Sir Neill Malcolm, K.C.B., D.S.O., will arrive in Singapore from British North Borneo on May 30, and sails for Home by the "Morea" on June 3.

At a meeting on April 4 of Two more old hands of the Police the Administrative Council of Force will sever their connection the Suez Canal Company, M. with Hong Kong within the next Jonnart announced that he de- six weeks. Inspector Blackman is sired to retire from the office of retiring next month, while, Sub-president. The Council accept- The marriage is announced to Inspector Perkins goca on pensioned, with deep regret, M. in June of John in July. Both will return to the Jonnart's resignation, and ap- take place Fleming of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham Old Country, and Matthews, Hong Kong, and Katherine Baillie Strong. second daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. W. B. Strong, of Glencorse, Viscount Lascelles (husband of The Earl of Harewood and

Princess Mary) are the directors of Harelles Trust Limited, the registration of which, with a nominal capital of £200, was re- corded by Jordan's. Harelles, it will be seen, is a combination of the names Harewood and Las- celles.

Midlothian,

The offer of Lady Methuen of New Place, Haslemere, to es tablish a scholarship, to be known as the Stedman-Methuen Scholar ship, in memory of her husband, Sir Algernon Methuen, to take boys or girls from secondary schools in West Surrey to a university, was accepted by the Surrey Education Committee.

pointed him honorary president. M. Edgar Bonnet, vice-president and honorary Director-General, M. le Marquis de Vogue was having declined the vacant office, unanimously elected president.

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Prominent people whose deaths were announced at Home in mail included:Mrs. week Hawker, mother of Captain I, G. Hawker, V.C., the famous airman, who was killed in France in 1916, while attacking a German plane; Mrs. Mary Bosanquet (92), Interviewed by the London re Minehead's oldest resident and presentative of the Times of its "Lady Bountiful" in earlier Famous as the founder of the Ceylon," Sir Herbert Stanley. years, when she interested her- restaurant bearing his name, Mr. Governor-Designate of Ceylon, self in numerous local welfare Charles Pinoli, one of London's expressed great pleasure at the and benevolent objects; Mr. oldest Bohemians, has died at his prospect of governing Ceylon, Henry Holiday (88), the famous home in Chelsea, at the age of this. being his first introduction artist, whose many works includ- 77. Mr. Pinolithe friend of to the East. He was looking for-ed the celebrated "Burgess of Royalty, statesmen and literary ward with great keenness to his Calais," painted in 1868; Mr. figures of many lands-founded period of office, though he realised Thomas Midwood, J.P., one of his restaurant over 50 years ago that he had some knotty pro- the best-known men in the Isle and continued to conduct it per- blems to tackle. Questioned on of Man; Mr. Charles Pinol! (76), sonally till 1902, when he turned the subject of snort, Sir Herbert the well-known restaurateur, who It into a limited company. He Stanley said that he was very startest a new era as regards was governing director till 1921. keen on horse-racing and sail-catering; and Rev. G. Gilbert Mr. Pinoli married a second time, ing. The Governor-Designate Muir, superintendent

of the

at the age of 72, his bride being will go to Rhodesia on June 10 Brighton Wesleyan, Circuit." Miss Trube, a court dressmaker. and thence to Ceylon,

He deplored the passing of Bohemian London. "But I am) content to live with memories," he would say.

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Lady Diana Duff-Cooper has arrived at Southampton, after a During the world tour of the seven months' stay in the United "Belgenland" (27,000 tons), the States. She was met by her commander, noticing Alfred husband, Mr. A. Duff Cooper, Mr. Joseph Harker, the well- Pierce, an English wine steward, M.F. for Oldham, who said that known scenic artist, has died in conversing familiarly with Mrs. she had come for a rest after a London. He had been seriously Jean Nawn, a wealthy Californian very strenuous time."So far as ill with heart trouble for a long widow, ordered Pierce's removal I know at present," said Lady time. Mr. Harker was one of from first-class to become assist. Diana, "I play the Madonna in London's greatest scenic artlats, ant linen-keeper. It was then re- The Miracle at Dortmund, Ger- and, though over seventy years vealed that Pierce was already many, at Easter, and I expect to of age, was still working in married to Mrs. Nawn, who had tour in Canada in the autumn, partnership with his four sons an income of $2,000 a year from a but I have no definite knowledge up to the end of last year: Sir taxi corporation, in which her late about the play being produced in Honry Irving first helped him to husband was interested. She had London." "During my tour in the become his own master, and become lonely, not knowing any United States I had an exciting eventually he painted all the of the passengers, and befriended journey through a sandstorm at scenes for that great actor's Pierce. Mrs. Nawn was known as Palm Springs. The sand was Lyceum productions. His "the blue bride,” because of the blown with such force that it took Oriental scenes were generally colour of her dress. She walked all the paint off our motor car, considered his best, particularly the decks like a will o' the wisp, and my companions, and myself the sets be painted for 41 Chu | and sent notes to her husband, were bruised about the face. That Chin Chow, Decameron while he was working in the same evening. I had to play iny. Nights, Cairo, and "The depths, below.Pierce proposes part, and did not feel a bit like Garden of Allah,”

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