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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS..

The Police Department noti fies in an advertisement in this issue that vehicle licences are now dse for renewal.

Owing to the very heavy rain during the day, the Band Concert at Lee Gardens arranged for Saturday night was cancelled.

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London spurrows are always being blamed of a new ground. They may even be murderers, as this perfectly true story will prove fobserves the "Dally, Chronicle.)) Recently a woman was almost over- come by fumes from the geyser in her bathroom. On sending for the gas man, later, he said that the sparrows were to blame-the birds had built a nest in the ventilator, so that the funies could not escape. "Them sparrows are always doing it," the

man exclaimed, gis gloomily. wouldn't like to say how many people they almost mur- der every spring!"

Preparing his sermon at St. Margaret's Church yesterday morn ing with a short reference to the now organ now being erected by Mr. Blackett, the Rev. Fr. Augus- tine, Rector of the Church, stated that among the first to respond to his appeal for $5,000 was His Lord- ship Bishop Valtorta (Bishop of Leros and Vicar-Apostolic of Hong Kong). In addition to forwarding a cheque for $50, Mgr. Valtorta, sail Fr. Augustine, had generously given a gold watch and chain valu- ed at $250. These, together with two grand pianos which had been given by a Chinese member of the Congregation, would be rated at an early date.

One case of enteric fever (Bri- tlsh) was reported in the Colony yesterday.

Now that women have won ad- mission into the great professions, they will scarcely allow one highly important sphere to be overlooked. An eminent scholar and, librarian tells me, any's a Glasgow writer, that all our great national collee

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An interesting photo of Mr. Charles, M. Schwab enjoying a round of golf on the links at Del Monte, Cal. The steel king has taken up golf in a serious manner.

According to a Reuter eable, thirty deaths are reported to have taken place owing to the wave there.

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Very slowly the cost of living is going down. No one knows how much farther it will tall, or whe ther it will fall further at all. and no one expects it will reach the pre-war

figure in out time (says the "Children's Newspaper."

r.") But it is lower now than it has been In the last ten years. A year ago the seat of living was 68 per cent. higher than in the last month be- fore the war; a month ago it was 71 per cent. higher; now it is 65 per cent. higher, 3 per cent. better than a year ago,

The typewriter has not oust- ed, and never can oust, hand- writing (says a writer in "John

London's Weakly"). It foliows that handwriting ought still to De cultivated like speech and pronunciation, but it is not, Why cannot people write legibly and why do they sup- pose that personal gesture in ink represents an intelligible signature? The worst-written words in a letter of to-day are usually those which compose the signature, to which there is not, nor can be, any clue. A Ran will write you a letter which it is possible to decipher, but he adds to it a signature which is mere- ly his spoor, and he then expects you to know him not only from Adam, but from the entire popu- lation of Kelly's Directories.

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There is a growing disposition on the part of business men here Interesting ceremonies are al-

to lock kindly upon sweepstakes, ways occurring in those. French vll-1

and to urge that they would be al- lages which achieved fame during tions of books are controlled by lowed by law, says a London corres- the war, but one of the quaintest is trustees and committees on which pondent of the "Journal of Com- to take place shortly at Mesnil, a women are not represented, al-merce" (Liverpool). Even if we tiny village just west of Thiepval though it is frequently contended have not yet attained the latter on the Ancre. In 1916, this village that, nowadays, women form the gidily height, surely the Britisher was close behind our front line, majority of readers. There is one is not doing any harm by investing and the commanding, officer of a notable exception. Lady Findlay what is admittedly his own battalion stationed there suspected has just been elected as one of the lottery which may make him that the hands of the church clock trustees of the National Library of measurably richer without possess- were being used by an enemy agent Scotland, and so to the North being the power to render him much does not He resolved to longs the credit of admitting wo poorer. Admittedly it for signalling. leave nothing to chance, and had men to the councils of scholars

lars make it right, but if these things the hands of the clock removed. charged with the care and direction are not permitted by the Govern The hands were taken into safe of our great libraries, Lady Find- ment there is a tendency for them of the colonel and his lay is an ideal choice for the inno- to be conducted clandestinely, and custo-command.

Very soon these hands are to be taken over to France and restored to the church. Für Mesnil, a tiny place, the re- storation of the hands of the clock will be a great event, and is to bu celebrated in the best local fashion.

vation, for she has a passionate and highly cultivated love of books. But now that Scotland has opened the door, we may expect women to find a place in the councils of the Bri- tish Museum, und other institu- tions of reading.

then not only do the Government. lose their control, but they forfeit any chance they might have of in- creusing their revenue. Why not use the Englishman's traditional love of gambling to financially bene- fit the country?

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

The death took place at Singa- pore of Mr. S. C. Cameron, of Mr. Sungei Krian Estate, Perak. Cameron, who was a native of In- vernesshire, died in the General Hospital from dengue.

The Rev. Bro. Aimar, Director of St. Joseph's College, who has cently been seriously

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Paul's Hospital. left the Colony on Saturday for a, short visit to the Straits. Bro. Aimar will complete hia convalescence with a visit to the Brothers' Bungalow, the Crag. Penang.

The "St. Albans" salling for Aus- tralia via ports carried a heavy phs- senger list of 56, of whom 26 were! for Manila, four for Sandakan and 26 for Australian ports. Among those disembarking at Manila were Lieut. and Mrs. W. H. Schaeffer, › Dr. M. Dalgomoni, Dr. and Mrs. R. J. McCandliss, Dr. and Mrs. H. O. Chapman, Mr. J. Noble and Mrs. A. Kynoch were booked from Sydney.

The Misses Audrey and Esme Tosh, two youthful and talented Calcutta dancers, have secured an engagement in a new produc-. tion at the Garrick Theatre, with Miss Betty Balfour as the lead- ing lady. The Misses Tosh were associated with the Calcutta Amateur Theatrical Society in several of their recent produc- tions, and frequently performed on behalf of charitable objects.

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Lord Allenby, conqueror of the Holy Land during the war, who has returned to Palestine where he will dedicate a new cemetery for the soldiers who fell on the battlefields of the Holy Land during the war. This is the latest portrait of Lord Allenby.

The death took place at the Batu Gajah European Hospital of Mr. Bichler, a Swiss mechanical ex- gineer in the employ of the Societe Anonyme des Etains de Kinta, Kampar. The late Mr. Bichler was a victim of malaria.

The death took place at Kuala Lumpur, last week after a brief ill- ness, of Mrs. H. J. Sheldon, wife of Mr. H. J. Sheldon, of the F.M.S, Railway, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Ward, also of the Railways, at the age of 20. She leaves

daughter three years of age.

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The wedding took place at John's Cathedral on Saturday be- tween Mr. G. H. Goddard, officer on Miss the 3.3. "Yuen Sang," and Ġ. M. Razavet, daughter of Mrs. H. Kemp, of 1 Moreton Terrace,

The Causeway Bay,

Rev. H. Copley Moyle officiated. The bride was given away by her brother, Mr. G. R. Razavet and was attended.

her sister, Miss R. Racavet. Capt. Cutsforth, of the. "Fortul" was best man. The bride and bridegroom left for Macan. aftor a reception at Lane, Restaurant.

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Miss Catherine Evelyn Manley, the youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Maħley, Shanghai, and Mr. Victor Evans, an engineer in the Shangbal Gas Works, were married at Holy Trin- ity Cathedral last Saturday after- noon. The Very Rev. Dean Symons) officiated. The cathedral was beautifully decorated for the occa- sion. The bride, attired in a white dress and carrying a bouquet of white roses, was attended by heri niece, Miss Barbara Manley, as flower girl, and Miss Helen Veir, as bridesmaid. She was given away by her brother, Mr. Manley. Messrs. of 39 Causeway Bay Road. The it shows that in that house the wo. A. J. Willis and A. Madar. acted as ushers. After the ceremony a re- Rev. N. V. Halward officiated. The man is master, Rosemary has, of ception was held at 10 Kungping: bride was given away by Mr. C. I E.

St. Peter's Church, West Point, was the scene of a pretty wedding on Saturday afternoon, the parties being Miss Nellie Beatrice Loe, of South View Building, Kowloon,

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and Mr. Alexander Jonathan Lewis, if rosemary flourishes in a garden

Frith and was attended by Mías course, been esteemed for many Road, where toasts were drunk to Collaco, with the Misses K. centuries one of the most potent of Mr. and Mrs. Evans. The honey- Bolt and E. Belt acting as flower healing herbs. Indeed, Parkinson, moon will be spent at Tsingtao. girls. Mr. F. A. Peterson was beat frankly appalled at the prospect of man. Following the Church cere cataloguing its virtues, declares mony, a reception was held at St. that "these are so many, that you Lady Aberdeen has been telling Peter's Young Men's Club. The might be as well tyred in the read- her friends of a little incident in honeymoon is being spent at Macao. o I I in the writing" (aays a her life which is not chronicled in

Morning Post" writer.) however tells

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Gerard "We Twa." She might have been THE CIRCUS POST CARRIER PIGEONS The sympathy of a wide circle of and other PS: "The Arabians the wife of a major in the Salva

succeeding do tion Army. She told an Aberdeen friends will go out to Mr. Herbert write that Rosemarie comforteth audience the other day that when A. Stout, of the Simplex Plaster the brain, the memorie, the inward Company on the death of his senses, and restoreth speech unto he and the Marquis were sojourn wife which took place at the them that are possessed of the ing In New Zealand she went out -Matilda Hospital from typhold dumb palsie." Further, the flow on her own one Sunday, afternoon fever. Mrs. Stout. came to Hongers made into a sweet confection, and found her way to the Salva- Kong with her husband over two comfort the heart, and make it tion Army barracks. She chatted years ago from Fort Dodge, Iowa, merry... "It would be in- about the work for a time with the U.S.A. and was a part time teacher teresting to know whether it is due major in charge, and before long at the Diocesan Girls' School. She to the energing properties of rose he grew confidential and said he was a member of the Helena May marie that woman is master where had great difficulty in getting a Institute in whose affairs she took it flourishes, or whether its abun- partner to assist him with the a keen interest, Deceased leaves dance is a kindly effort on the part work of the Army. Lady Aber-

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