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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

A James II. coin (dated 1889), j. According to..."Religino in good preservation, has bean found, in a garden at Flackwell Heath, Bucks.

Three cases of enteric fever were notified in the Victoria district yesterday and one in the Kowloon district. All four were Chinese.

Honorina Osmund.

The mail from London via Patria", there is at present at Ho- Suez, dated April 28 and arriv. munting a Portuguese Class attaching here yesterday by Mantua, ed to the Canadian Sisters' School, under the direction of Mrs. Maria consisted of 546 bags and 138 Distribution sacks of parcels. commenced shortly after 1 p.m.

In Kuomintang circles, it is

The Archbishop of York, Dr. learned that within the next few Lang, and the Archbishop of daya steps will be taken to open Westminster, Cardinal Bourne, Replying to the Colonial Con- Klangau and Cheklang and Pere were at York the contral figures ferences Empire Day greetings,haps other territory under the in concurrent celebrations of the H.E. the Governor sent the fol. control of the Nationalist Govern-1,300th anniversary of the bapt- lowing telegram: On behalf of ment to foreign missionaries and ism of King Edwin and the Hong Kong I thank the Colonial business. It is not yet known founding of Northumbrian Chris- Office Conference for its Empire exactly what steps are planned, tianity, which took place on Day greetings, which are cordial- but it is believed that a pro, Easter Day, 627.

nouncement on the subject will ¦ ly reciprocated here."

shortly be made guaranteeing protection to foreign life and property.

There was a amart turn out at the Volunteer Headquarters yesterday on the occasion of a rehearsal by the. Volunteer De-: fence Corps of movements to be gone through at Happy Valley in cinjunction with the Regular troops on the occasion of the King's Birthday Parade next Friday.

The Trade Union Congress, according to the "Westminster Gazette," has approved of a Bri- tish Workers' Sports Federation being organised to conduct inter- national Olympiads for "class- conscious

workers."

The longest peal of bells on record, an Oxford Triple Bob

Trade Major with 17,824 changes, was rung at the "Heptonstall Parish union sports clubs will be form- Church, Hebden Bridge, by eighted to encourage inter-trade union. bell-ringers. The peals lasted for football, competitors in which 10hr. 51min., and during the must produce trade union cards. whole of that time the bell-

The Wells (Somerset) Bow- ringers were without food or In-connection with the forth- ling Club rejected by a large drink. Each bell had to be rung coming New Territory agricul majority a proposal to admit 28 times every minute, in alltural show, the International women members' future. about 18,228 times, and one slip Harvester Co., the largest manu- Alderman Reakes declared that in making the changes would facturers of agricultural imple-| the women members they used to have meant the event being dis-ments in the world, have sent a have were an absolute nuisance. He protested against women's en- eroachment on men's prerogativeš and asserted that bowls was an immodest game for women.

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representative to Hong Kong to make arrangements for exhibitsĮ There is an increasing num-at the show. ber of visitors to the site of the to show a number of films deal- He has arranged Roman amphitheatre at Caerleon, ing with 'modern farming purchased for the nation by "The methods at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. The May number of the Daily Mail," and excavation work on Saturday at 8 p.m. and has Singapore Diocesan Magazine is proceeding rapidly. A new en- also secured the co-operation of contains interesting extracts trance has been opened up and the Chinse Chamber of Commerce from letters received from China. has been found to retain in ex-in publicity matters. Bishop Graves, of the American rellent preservation the stone Church Mission, writes: "Shang- steps by which the spectators hai is the one city where a white reached their seats. These steps man can feel that his life is safe were buried in Roman times and Probably with the object of on the whole length of the Yang-superseded by a sloping roadway putting an end to all complaints tse Valley, and if it had not been at a higher level, and consequent-regarding the destructive effects that the British Defence Force ly their condition is almost as of modern methods of laundering, was sent in time, in all prob- good as when they were built. a London laundry offers to pro- ability three would not have been

vide regular customers with new one of us on the spot now."

The postponed "Empire collars free of charge as the old Day" concert in the grounds of ones

out. The laundry Fleet Orders announce that the Kowloon Cricket Club is to states: If you think a collar is the annual Indian Empire garden take place there to-morrow worn out, we ask you to write on party for all officers and civilians night now that the weather ap- the inside of it, in lead pencil, who have resided in India, pears to have taken a turn for "Replace by No..

,"selecting Ceylon, Iraq, Palestine, Singa- the better. The programme, the style you want from our list. pore, and Hong Kong, and their which is provided by the full We will then send you a new wives and daughters, will be held band, including the pipes and collar of the selected style and of at the Ranelagh Club, Barnes, on drums, of the King's Own Scot-the same size and depth as the Wednesday, June 22, from 2.30 tish Borderers, commences at old one-unless you ask for a to 6.30 p.m. A polo match, India 9.15. Highland dances will be different size and depth. Collars v. The World, will take place at featured. The proceeds of the must pay at least one visit to the 3 p.m., and a military display by concert, for which a charge of $1 laundry before they become the 1st Royal Dragoons at 4.30 is being made for civilians and eligible for replacement. After p.m. The band of the 1st Royal 50 cents for Service men, are for replacement any collars bearing Dragoons and the Kneller Hall the Hospital Comforts fund. The laundry marks in addition to ours String Orchestra will play dur- concert closes with a Grand Mili-will be excluded from the ar- ing the afternoon.'

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Princess Mary Viscountess Major-General C. C. van Trollope and Cells (Far East), Ltd., Lascelles, accompanied by her Straubenzee, K.C.B., C.M.G., the is leaving for Home with Mrs. Wilson on June 1 by the 8.8. "Em-lady-in-waiting, paid a visit to newly appointed. General Com- press of Canada."

Harrods on Thursday afternoon manding the Troops in Malaya, in mail week.

left England with his wife on the liner "Montcalm," sailing from Liverpool on April-22, in order to connect with the Canadian Pacific liner "Empress of Russia,"

The death is announced at Nice of M. Gaston Leroux, the French writer of mystéry stories which were well known in England. One of the most popular was The Mystery of the Yellow Room."

Mr. Alfred Davis, hitherto in control of the Marble Arch Pavilion, now one of the directors of the big new cinema amalgama- News has been received in Paris tion, must surely have been one from Budapest that the Arch- of the youngest officers. in the duchess Sophie, daughter of the Charlie Chaplin, the film Army, even during the war, says Archduke Joseph of Habsburg comedian, whose expected visit a "Daily Mail" writer. He enlist-and niece of the Duchess of to England has aroused much ed at the age of 15, and a few Orleans, has run away from her discussion, has made no de weeks later obtained a commis-home with & Viennese cafe finite travel plans. It is sion in the infantry by some singer. Notwithstanding all the:

his hope to cross the Atlantic energetic stratagems. When he search made for them, no trace either in August or September, returned to civilian life after the of the couple has been as yet dis- when he has finished his latest armistice he was a veteran war-covered. The Princess is twenty- picture, "The Circus," For this rior 19 years old. The Marble seven years of age. picture he is composing his own Arch Pavilion is remarkable as

music. His business associates a hall which has always shown a

deny that he has any intention big proportion of British filme. Mr. W. E, L. Shenton is the of appearing on the English While those who oppose measures new representative on the Legis- stage.

to increase British films cry out lative Council of the Unofficial that British films are bad and un-J.P.'s, in the absence of Sir It was authoritatively confirm-profitable, the Marble Arch Henry Pollock, K.C. Yesterday ed in Paris that the Countess flourishes, in spite of having a Salm von Hoogstraeten, who was programme composed of 45 per formerly Miss Millicent Rogers, cent. British pictures during the one of the richest heiresses in past year. the United States, has been granted a divorce from her hus-

was the last day for receiving for nominations

filling the vacancy and no-one opposed that of Mr. Shenton, who was pro posed by the Hon. Mr. D. G. M. Bernard and seconded by the Hon. Mr. A. G. Hynes

band, Count Salm. It was be: Behind the extremely success lieved that the dispute had been ful coming to the London stage settled in New York some weeks as an actress of Miss Pauline · General 'Kalitzin, who held a ago when a separation agreement Frederick the film star, there is command in the Russian Army was reached between counsel for a quiet, grey-haired Australian, under General Yadenitch which both parties out of court. The Mr. E. J. Carroll, Miss Frederick wrested the Armenian fortress of count had instituted proceedings might never have come to Lon- Erzerum from the Turks in 1916 for separation with custody of don to act but for Mr. Carroll, one of the greatest feats of the their son when his wife refused. It was he who persuaded her to war is dying in poverty, at the to allow him to see the infant, leave the films In America and age of 75, in a slum in the Mon- go on tour in Australia in Mr. trouge quarter of Paris. The

In the course of a description Frederick Lönadale's "Spring, general, who was one of the of Sir Hugh Clifford's recent tour Cleaning," and it was he who righthand men of the Grand in South India a paper says: found a play, a theatre, and the Duke Nicholas, the Hussian Com Sir Hugh Clifford causes a good necessary capital to present her mander-in-Chief, has lived in deal of concern to those who see to the London theatre public, Paris since the Bolshevik revolu him going about on the hottest Mr. Carroll, who is partly Irish, tion with his daughter, whose days with the hood of his car was born in Queensland and husband, Col Kraouse, of the down and without a topee. The started work as a post office Czar's personal bodyguard, had sun and he, however, are on the clerk. He was one of the earliest been acting as a taxicab driver up

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best of terms, and there must be men in the film business in Aut to the time of his death six Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, something in his contention that tralia. Now he is at the head months ago. Since then the he is one of the lucky men who of companies owning twenty widow, her four children, and, are able to turn the sun's rays theatres, film and dramatic, in her aged father have existed on at once into useful energy. Very his native country. In London the wife's earnings of 24 & month, few people no matter of what he pays Mise Frederick a salary. Two years ago, said the general race, would have driven out to and a percentage of the profita from his sick bed to-day, was Avadi and back between 11 am at the Lyceum, and so successful able to earn my living as a la and 8 pm on a bright and very is the season provi that one bourer In hot day without the protection of week

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