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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

"In the "Government Gazette" is published a list of places of public worship licensed for the celebration of marriages.

Under the Post Office regula- tions price of Imperial reply cou- pons valid for use within the Bri- tish Empire is 10 cents each. The selling price of other reply coupons shall be 16 cents each.

It is notified that, at the ex- piration of three months from date, the Radio Communication Company (Orient), Limited will, unless cause is shown to the con- |trary, be struck off the register and the company will be dissolved.

FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1927.

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clation is holding a launch picnictions price of; Imperial reply to-morrow at Aberdoan for the coupons valid for use within the Dragon Boat Race. The party British Empire is 10 cents each. leaves Pottinger Street wharf at 1.30 p.m.

At least one girl has profited by the publicity given to Britain's 2,000,000 surplus women. Sho has only just turned 18, and has become engaged. "I asked her," said her atdot think mother; wthorne of marriage wore a little prema- ture. "Well, mother, she said, 'I see there are alrendy 2,000,000 sur- plus women, so I thought I'd better wet fixed up."

Kemal Pasha, President of the Turkish Republic, has had a wonderful railway car built for him at Cassel. It is now on its way to Angora via Belgrade. The car contains a luxurious dining smoking-room, bedroom with restful hangings, bath-room, and offices. There is also a little open-air terrace, and, to keep it cool in summer, a double roof. Wireless has also been fitted up.

Amended regulations under the Vehicles and Traffic Regula- tions Ordinance are published in the Government Gazette," of which they occupy three pages and a half. It is noted that con-room. ductors of buses when on duty have to be dressed in uniforms approved by the Captain Super- intendent of Folice. No persona shall solicit passengers to travel in a public vehicle.

An amazing Indication of the rise in rents in the City of London has been brought to my notice, saya the London correspondent of a Liverpool paper. A friend of mine who has carried on a flourishing- bookselling and newspaper business in the heart of the shipping quarter of the City has just terminated his lease. His rent was £200 a When he went to renew it, the land lord said, "The rent will now be £000 a year!" My friend has retir. ed to the country to grow water cross, and his premises will no doubt shortly be taken over by some wealthy foreign bank.

The air mail fees applicable to lettera from Hong Kong for trans- mission by the United States Air or route, will be 36 cents for each; | Mail Service, regardless of distance

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The Milan correspondent of the "Morning Post" says, that Signor Bugatti, the motor many- facturer has submitted to, Signor Mussolini two inventions the first an eight-cylinder automobile engine capable of driving a heavy touring car 100 miles an hour, and the second a semi-sub- mérged boat 100 feet long with eight motors of 2,000 horse- power, capable of a surface speed of 80 miles an hour.

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women and children, that the coffins of King Edward knelt to pray in the wet road out and Queen Alexandra, which side the Tybarn Convent, Hyde since Queen Alexandra's death Park-place W. on April 24, have lain side by side in the ad- after a pilgrimage in the rain joining Albert Memorial Chapel, along "the way of the Martyrs, Windsor Castle, have been pri from Newgate to Tyburn." Or-vately removed to St. George's ganised by the Guild of Our Lady Chapel and placed in the tomb Ransom, the object of the pilgrim-designed by age was to honour the 102 martyre Mackennal,

Sir Bertram who were dragged on hurdles from stands near the altar and is R.A. This tomb Newgate Frison to hang on Tyburn gallows, the site of which is near

draped. The recumbent figure the Marble Arch, because they in marble of the dend King is denied the right of the Kings and on the tomb, but that of Queen Queens of England to be head of Alexandra has not yet been the Church.

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

His Excellency the Governor| has appointed the following to be Public Vaccinators, Mr. Mui Cheung-yin and Mr. Wong To- pui, with effect from June 1, 1927,

His Excellency the Governor has appointed, provisionally and subject to His Majesty's pleasure, Mr. William Edward Leonard Shenton to be a member of the Executive and Legislative Coun- cils, during the absence from the Colony of the Hon. Sir Henry Edward Pollock, K.C., with effect from June 1.

The departure of Miss Middleton Smith constitutes a real 1s to the Colony, states the Dioces. "Out post, Supplement," not only to the educational work to which she has particularly devoted herself, but: also in the many branches of social service in which she has been ac- tively engaged. As a member of the Cathedral Council, of St. Peter's Church Council and of the V. D. A. Committee, she has always been a keen supporter of all church and diocesan movements. Her valuable help and advice, and her inspiring personality will be much missed. and we wish her a pro-perous voy age and a speedy renewal of health and strength.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. Geoffrey Robley Sayer to be Superinten- dent of Imports and Exports, with effect from May 28.

Mr. A. F. Hill, a prominent Cardiff solicitor, who died in mail week, was a famous Welsh Rugby International forward nearly forty years ago, and was considered the finest forward who ever played for the Cardiff Club. He was also a

skilful boxer.

His Honour Mr. John Rosk- ruge Wood, Chief Justice, has appointed Mr. John Sutherland MacLaren, Assistant Treasurer, to be a Commissioner to adminis- ter oaths and take declarations, affirmations and attestations of honour in the Court, so long as he shall hold the office of Assistant Treasurer.

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The following deaths were nounced at Home In mail week: Rev. Charles Brookes, for 20 years: vicar of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Northampton, at Not- tingham; Mr. James East, clerk to

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His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. James John Hirst, Assistant Supervisor in the Botanical and Forestry De partment to be Forest Officer, with effect from June 1.

Colonel L. H. R. Pope-Hennessy, D.S.O., has been appointed Military Attache, Washington, in succession to Colonel C. E. C. G. Charlton, C.B., C.M.G. D.S.O. Eldest son of the late Sir John Pope-Hennessy, M.P., of Rostellan Castle, co. Cork, Colonel Pope Hennessy was born in 1875, and served with the West African Frontier Force in 1898-99. He was attached to the King's African Rifles. for the next nine various parts of Africa. He serv years, and saw active service in ed in the European War in France and Mesopotamia. For four years afterwards he was Assistant Ad- jutant-General at the War Office, and he went to Berlin in 1924 to act] as Quartermaster-General of thei Military Inter-Allied Commission of Control.

Totternhoe (Bedfordshire) The death occurred recently in Parish Council, collapsed and died Paris of Prof. Paul Alfred Daniel at Luton, aged 80; Mr. Linnæus Berthelot, who was sixty-two years Jones, formerly a master at Chel- of age. He was, says

"Engineer tenham and at Rugby and a noted ing," one of the four sons, two well- botanist and geologist, aged 83; known as politicians, of Marcellin and Mr. Leví Sagofaki, who claim-Berthelot, who made his name by re- searches on fats (glycerin), ex- plosives, thermo-chemistry and photo chemistry, and who is some- times confounded with Comte de Our readers will no doubt be glad Berthollet, one of the great chem- to hear that word has been receivists of the French Revolution, who ed from the Bishop saying that he died in 1822, five years before Mar- and Airs. Duppay arrived safely in ceilin Berthelot was born; the two England on April 11 after an ex worked in similar fields. Daniel cellent passage, states the Diocesan Berthelot followed his father in the "Outpost Supplement." He says line of his studies. and he claimed that China has been much in his that the law of photo-chemical thoughts, and continues: "I believe equivalence and the quantum if we will wait patiently the Chris- theory, usually connected with the tian Church will have a wonderful name of Einstein, had been re- opportunity again In China soon, cognised by his father in 1875, in and we need to be ready when the his general considerations of the chance comes. May God fit us for atomic theory. The son, who was the work to which He has called professor at the Ecole Superieure de

Pharmacie, expanded these views.

A Reuter cable from Londoned to be the oldest Jew in England, announces the death of Professor died in the Leeds Home for Aged John B. Bury, M.A., Hon. Litt. D., Jews, aged 102. Regius Professor of Modern His- tory at Cambridge University since 1902. Professor Bury was a Fellow of British Academy, cor- responding member of the Im- perial Academy of Sciences of Petrograd, the Hungarian Acad- emy of Sciences, the Roumanian Academy, the Massachussets His- torical Society, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and Professor of Modern History in Dublin Univer sity. He was born on October 1861 and was the author of many historical scientific works.

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