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THE CHINA MAIL

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Two cases of enteric fever, one in the city and the other at Shaukiwan, were notified yester- day. Both were Chinese.

Sir John Cargill presiding over the annual meeting of the Burma Oil Company announced that the Directors of the Com- pany had agreed to offer £100,000 to establish a college for mining and engineering in connection with Rangoon University.

Aberaven has been unjoying en unusual sensation. For several days householders have been draw. ing from their water taps not only the fluid they desired, but tadpoles in such large numbers that the au- thorities have finally decided

An alder- isolate the reservoir: man of the district has the record, for in drawing a pint of water he found no fewer than 55 tadpoles, swimming about therein.

to

Five minutes after obtaining a divorce at Livingston, Montana, from his second wife, Mr. Waltor Hill, son of the late railway king, James J. Hill, married his third wife. The wedding was performed by a magistrate in a room adjoin- ing the one in which the decree had just been pronounced. The bride- groom had been ordered to pay his second wife £5,000 cash, an addi- tional £5,000 in Ave years. and £200 a mouth for life. The divorce proceedings lasted 15 minutes; the i marriage less than half that time. The third wife of the heir to the Hill millions is an actress who is known as one of the beauties of the Ziegfeld Follies.

Says the "Times of Ceylon": A lesson regarding the need for pushing a country's stapic pro- ducts in overseas markets comes from Mauritius, where the sugar planters have had an unpleasant surprise in the form of a letter from a Canadian firm to the "British Trade Journal." In seeking certain information the letter stated:-"We understand that this island (Mauritius) ex- ports cane sugar..

The "we understand" has come as a terrible eye-opener to a country which has been exporting cane sugar for over a century, and which thought that fact ought to have been indelibly impressed on the mind of every school-boy by the text-books of the class-room, The experience of the Mauritius planters should serve to bring home to Ceylon the necessity for an active tea advertising cam- paign supported by a compulsory

cess.

The Calcutta "Statesman" un- The cat's whisker we all know derstands that a questionnaire has nowadays. Broadcasting has been circulated amongst the Euro-made it familiar to us. Now I pean Government officials in India, discover that the mouse's whisker in which they are asked to indicate, is also made useful in art-an- before the sitting of the Statutory other art, that of painting china Commission, whether they have any

(says A "Daily Chronicle" intention of resigning their ser

For the decoration of vices and retiring on proportionate writer). pensions.

majolica a very delicate brush is needed; the best material for it has been found to be the whiskers of mice.

HARRY MILAN, WADI, IL 3.

Lieut. Carleton C. Champion, who recently climbed 33,455 feet in a seaplane, establishing a new altitude record. The record was made while lying over Hampton Roads. The old record stood at 30,479 feet and was made by Frenchman several months ago.

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times,

The death occurred yester- day of the eleven months' old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. F. M. Graca-Ozorio, of No. 2 Cambay Buildings, Kowloon, The funeral took place at the Catholic Cemetery, Happy Valley, Inst evening. There were many friends of the family present and a number of floral tributes were placed on the grave,

A peculiar feature of the rainless thunderstorm which broke over Penang in the early hours of June 9 was that scissors and other steel articles became magnetised and readily picked up pins and such like small objects. For the benefit of sceptical readers, says a writer in the "Straits Echo," I would add that I had not dined out the previous evening and that the phenomenon was noticed by the entire staff.

Was any other age ever so obsessed by the desire for youth 13 this?

A physician, Sir Thomas Oliver, in his pre- sidential address to the Institute of Hygiene, gave a good deal of time to discussing the changes in The days of smart pussages the effect of age. Sir Thomas under sail are not yet entirely said that the middle period of life over, for some of the ships in the leaves more changes upon worhen great Australian grain race put than upon men, but the middle- up quite respectable

aged women of to-day are, I observes a Liverpool shipping think, refuting the theory that a paper. They can scarcely com- woman looks old sooner than a pare, however, with the Danish man (says an "Evening Stan- barque "Suzanne," French-built dard" writer). Not only does in 1880, which has just made a she pay more attention to her passage of 29 days from Havre figure than the middle-aged man to Sinnamarie in French Guiana, does to his, but she has avoided where port works are in active the convention of her mother's progress. Considering that her day which demanded a special gross tonnage is only 1,229, and mode of dress according to age. that she cannot, therefore, be A man still hazily supposes that compared with the powerful a middle-aged woman will look "Hougemont" and such ships, like the middle-aged woman he this is a remarkably smart pass- knew when he was a boy, and is age, and in the old days, when often surprised when he does a the doings of every sailing ship little arithmetic to find that a were carefully chronicled in the alim and straight dancing part- Press, it would have attracted a ner with a trim shingle must be good deal of attention: As it is, older than his grandmother was no notice has been taken of her when he used to see her in cap Achievement.

and shawl.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

The Bishop of London visited North Stoke, Oxfordshire at Whitsuntide and acted as curate during his stay as a guest in the village.

A new shape in bouquets has appeared. It is known as the long bouquet, and will be usedį at all the smart weddings of the season (says the "Daily Ex- press"). This is by no means a shent of flowers. It is rather in the shape of a cone,. slightly pointed, with the blossoms light- ly and charmingly arranged. "We are using flowers in pastel tones just now," said a Bond Street florist to a "Daily Ex- press" representative. "As the advances into summer flowers deepen in hue, and the effect-will be richer. Brides are choosing the blue, mauve, and pink sweet peas-pale yellow iris and tulips for the gold wed- ding. mauve tulips and lilac for the mauve wedding, pink carna- tions and roses for pink wed- dings.

These colours,`and, of course, white roses or lilies for a silver or white bride, are among the fashions ruling in wedding flowers this season.”

season

NEWS.

News has been received of

A Reuter cable from New the death in Montreal, Canada, York states that Mr. Andrew after an illness of two months' B. Mellon, Secretary of the duration, of Mr. W. A. Higinbot- United States Treasury, has ham, the senior superintendent sailed in the Italian liner 3.5. of agencies of the Sun Life "Conte Biancamand" to Gibral- Assurance Company of Canada. tar whence he will go on a sum- Mr. Higinbotham was very well-mer holiday cruise in the

Mediterranean in the yacht "Venetia." He will return to America in September.

Ladies are not only wearing the fashionable snake necklets, with evening dress, but earrings, bracelets, and girdles to match (says the "Daily Telegraph”). The stiff slave necklets to go with the gold bangle came over from America, and were prompt- ly superseded by a flexible orna- ment having a snake's-head clasp, with Jewelled eyes. Gåld and silver or imitations of those metals are used, and the latest variation of the fashion lies in twisted gold and silver ropes, of which the small ones are worn round the neck, while the larger ornaments girdle the evening frock. Earrings and, if desired, a bracelet in the same design can also be worn, though it would re- quire a statuesque figure to carry off the effect without appearing to be over-adorned.

Miss Megan Lloyd George, Captain Nungesser,

whose daughter of the former Premier

death in essaying the direct Paris who recently made her first poli-New York flight must now, we tical speech before ✡ London audience. The substance of her remarks was that the Conserva- tive and Labour parties were too occupied to give attention to the housewives' needs; hence house- wives and mothers must turn to

Liberalism. Miss Lloyd George

fear, be taken for granted, was during the war a leading member of the famous "Cigogne" squad- ron. Most of the "as" who bei longed to the famous escadrille

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have met their fate, including THE CIRCUS POST CARRIER PIGEONS

There will not, after all, be such a gathering of descendants of William the Conqueror in France from this country as was at first expected, says a Home paper. The few leading families with clear titles are not at all keen about making a show of the fact, and it would require more time than is available to sift the mass of other claims which have been made. Curiously enough, nothing has been said of the family which certainly possesses the most interesting link with

Guynemer, who for so long held the hero of the forthcoming

the record of victories in the celebrations. Lord Suffield, who

French Army It was the irony was such a great friend of King

of fate that Guynemer who was Edward, married a daughter of

rejected from the infantry on Major R. P. Gabbett, of Limerick,

the score of ill-health, should! and his ancestry is traced back

have become the doughtiest of without a flaw to the grand-known in the Far East and made French airfightera. He strongly mother of William the Conqueror. frequent visits here during the objected to the idea that there The name was originally "de in last 25 years. In addition to was anything romantic or chival Garbetto," and the members who China, Mr. Higinbotham superin-row in an air combat. "It is a came over with William settled tended the company's businesses mean job," he told the writer, in Shropshire. It is a further in Japan, the Straits Settlements, "when I go up, I look round hop interesting fact that the Garbetts Manila, India, Egypt and Greating to spot a Boche who has not have enjoyed the favour of our Britain, and the news of his spotted me, and to shoot him reigning monarchs right down to death will be received with great down before he knows that I am the present time.

regret by his many friends,

there,"

later stated that she had no in- tention of standing for Parlia ment at the present time, but might do so, in the future.

In commemoration of the visit of ISAKO'S CIRCUS to Hong Kong, free prizes will be given away. At every performance, our carrier pigeons will be let off in the centre of the ring and the persons on whom they alight will be the recipients of the following gifts :—

GOLD WATCHES, RINGS, BRACELETS

AND MANY OTHER VALUABLE AND USEFUL ARTICLES.

and bring this slip to the circus ticket office and you will obtain your ticket at a special rate from 80 cta. up.