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THE CHINA MATEU

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Ono case of small pox" 'was notified in Victoris district yester day, aleo one case of cerebo spinal fever. Both cases wore Chinese.

The Welsh Church governing The secret of broken doors body has fixed the stipenda of and furniture in the movies is Welsh bishops at £1,600, with out, The stalk of the yucca, a £800 allowance for expenses of plant of Southern California and A "prosperity bonus" of office, and archbishops will re- other parts of the southwest,

ceive £500 more.'

furnishes material that looks £80,000 was distributed at Hull

heavy, but is light and brittle. A among the 6,000 employees of

The Exten Fire Brigade, chair made of yucca,can be broken Messrs. Reckitt and Sons, Ltd. hurrying to a fire, met hostile over the head of an actor without

crowds threatening and insulting damaging his scalp, the firemen, who were regarded

Messrs. Lammert Bros. will auction a quantity of household furniture at No. 128, Mody Road, Kowloon, on June I commencing

at 10.30 a.m.

possibility of obtaining insurance, 117 new members of the London as interlopers, frustrating the During the month of March says the Cologne correspondent of Chamber of Commerce "The Times." The authorities elected. They included sixteen

were

A concert will be held at the decided that the brigade, should" members of the House of Lords |

Kowloon Cricket Club, weather permitting, on Saturday, May 28 commencing at 9.15 p.m. Ser- vice men will be admitted for 50 cents, half the price charged to civilians.

The Zeppelin airship con- structor, Eckener, has arrived in New York to float a company for American-German air service. He says that he will personally open the Sevilla-Buenos Aires air service next year.

The sixth annual general meeting of the Hong Kong Ex- cavation, Pile Driving and Con- struction Co., Ltd., is to be held at the registered office of the Company, 2nd floor; Powell's Building, Des Voeux Road, next Tuesday at 3 pm,

The Wilbur Players gave their last presentation of "Abie's Irish Rose" at the Star Theatre. Kowloon last night and to-night, and to-morrow night they bring their first season here to a close with. "The Divorce Question." They are booked to return after; their visits to Manila and Singa- port.

receive police protection,

The latest portrait of Marshal Chang Chung-chang, the Tupan of Shantung.

and seventeen of the House" · of Commons. There are now 164 members of the Lords and 108 members of the Commons on the Chamber's roll of membership.

"The only person in the business world who is completely free from fear is the office boy.. It is not the trifling, if necessary, services he performs, but the sense of unclipped freedom he conveys that makes him the darl- ing of every business house." writes Anne W. Armstrong, in "Harper's Monthly." "Still trail- ing clouds of glory,, in, his in- souciant young person, he brings to the harnessed and harassed persons for whom he fetches and carries memories at once com- forting and tormenting-of the heaven from which they, too, have come.

He bears on his slender, inconsequent shoulders the huge portentous weight of some in- ternational banking house, for example, as lightly as a feather. Everybody else aspires to do the same, and nobody else succeeds."

The importance of the part 1 which a clown may play in the general scheme of education has now been officially recognised by the award to "Coco," the popular The weekly concert at the Naval and Military Y.M.C.A.,

clown of the Cirque de Paris, of Mr. A. B. Canty, a director the "Palmes Académiques"-a Chater Road, on Tuesday night, and general manager of the distinction usually reserved to arranged by Mrs. Costen and White Star Line, told a reporter professors other Indy helpers, was no less in Liverpool that it was a difficult writers. Coco, whose real name and distinguished successful than the preceding en task to, find names for their new is. Raoul Jouin, has spent the tertainments which have done so ships, and," he added, "we whole of his life in the circus, for much to brighten the lot of the should be glad of suggestions, he was born at the Nouveau Service men in the Colony. Those "I spend many hours at home Cirque in Paris, and began his who contributed to the excellent thinking out suitable titles. It career as an entertainer when programme were:-Miss Aileen has been our custom to find names only 9 years old. Before he be Woods, Messrs. G. W. C. Burnett, applicable to the countries to came a clown he was a brilliant

H. Livingstone, G. Sharman, G. which the vessels will sail, and and daring trick rider, and first Wheeldon, E. W. Pearce, Falter the ending to 'ic. The established his fame by jump MacCormack, L. W. Steward, J. White Star Line have just taken ing on horseback into a pond W. Brown, W. Brown, T. Wells, over from the Royal Mail Steam from a height of thirty feet. H. Lipsham, J. M. Jack, W. H. C. Packet Company the "Orca" and During the war he not only played Roe, L. Tipple, and H. Edwards, the "Ohio," which they have re- his part in the fighting regiments, with Miss Vaughan, P. O. A named the "Calgaric" and the but rendered, invaluable service Capstick and Mr. H. V.. Parker "Albertic," after the two pro-ae an entertainer in rest camps as accompanists.

vinces in Canada.

and hospitals.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

The oldest and best-known

Engineer Captain W. R. guide in Snowdonia, ̈ Robert Parnall, C.B., R.N., has been ap- Owen, has died in his 74th year at his cottage at Nantgwynant, He was an experienced botanist, geologist, and antiquarian."

pointed a Naval Aide-de-Camp to the King (from April 11), in place of Engineer Captain E. P. St. J. Benn, A.D.C., promoted to Engineer Rear-Admiral..

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Mr. Alfred Ollivant, the i.. novelist, of Evelyn Gardens, Among the passengers leaving South Kensington, and Kingston on the Messageries Maritimes Garse, Littlehampton, the au- 3.5. " Athos, II," on Tuesday for thor of "Owd Bob," "The Marseilles was Professor Harry Gentleman," "The Royal Road," Pisler, who has been giving a and a number of other books, series of occult demonstrations in who died on January 19, aged the Colony during the past few 52, left £32,784, with net per- weeks. sonalty £19,045.

London papers announce that the death pccurred in his 82nd year, of the Right Hon. Eugene Wason, formerly M.P. for South Ayrshire and afterwards for Clackmannan and Kinross. It

occurred at his London house, 8, Sussex Gardens, -Hyde Park, and is attributed to heart failure following on an attack of influenza.

Mr. S. F. Gilbert, the well- known operatic singer, has died in London at the age of alxtys seven from cancer. He was 4 DÓ- tive of Mansfield, and sang with the Carl Roan and Rouseby's Operatic Companies and after- wards toured the provinces with his own company and with the D'Oyly Carte operas, Mr. Gilbert travelled overseas, and later visit- ed America' hs ballad singer.:~:

The "Femina Vie. Heureuse". prize for 1925-16 has been award- ed to Miss Radclyffe Hall for her novel "Adam's Breed." The "Bookman" prize for 1925-28 has been awarded to Dr. Etienne Burnet for his novel "La Porte du Sauveur."

The forthcoming weddings are announced of Charles Christie Warren, Chlef Officer of the B.S. "Kwong Sang," to Henrietta May Sully, residing at No. 2, W.O.D. Quarters, Kennedy Road; and of Antonio Fran- cisco Botelho da Cunha, clerk, residing at No. 807, Nathan Road, Kowloon to: Ricardina Maria Carmo da Luz, residing at No. 17, Granville Road, Kowloon.

A typical Parisian is M. Morain, who is retiring from the post of Prefect of Police for the Department of the Seine-that is, Paris and its suburbs. M. Morain,. who is about to undertake work In connection with one of the commissions of the League of Nations, reminds one in appear ance of Henry IV., and in recent years he has been a famillar figure in the capital. Like one of the most popular of his predecessora, M. Lépine, M. Morain was always on the spot when there were dis- turbances in the streets, and gave his subordinates a laudable example of sangfroid. He devot- ed himself energetically, among other matters, to the traffic pro blem. It may be recalled that he Miss Megan Lloyd George, is

visited London a year or two ago rapidly becoming a first-class

to study the management of traffic apeaker and promises to be a

when there, and some of the ideas that formidable rival of Lady Violet

he gained on that occasion have Bonham-Carter, who has for

been put into practice in Paris. some years been regarded by

Like all foreigners, M. Morain many as one of the best women

was immensely impressed with platform speakera, tremarks a

the unquestioned authority exer gossip writer in a Home paper.

Ecsed by and the implicit Miss Lloyd George is just 25 and

Zanima me shade obedience accorded the London a most attractive young person.

at policeman, and there can be no She has inherited some of the Mr. and Mrs. J Ormiston left doubt that as a result of his talents of her father, including the Colony for Australia by the efforts and ing uctions vs the the quick ingeruous turning of a Mishima Maru yesterday Mr. motorist of Paris has to-day-a phrase, accompanied by a light Ormiston, will be much missed at much greater respect for the ning sense of humour. In spite the Institution of Engineers and age of this, Miss Lloyd George has a Shipbuilders in com ¡ztrong personality She prepares whole, aldirs

One of the most popular of the nobility in the Balkan States is the Princess Olga, wife of Prince Paul of Jugo-Slavia: She was. formerly Princess Olga of Greace,

all her speeches unaided andit leading part Holds her own decided inlong on organising most of the Important questions proved ho popular and of the day

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