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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

One ease of small pox and one of cerebro-spinal fever, both Chinese, were notified yesterday.

The Wah Yan Old Boys' Union are holding a launch picnic on July 10, The launch leaves Queen's Pier at 3.30 p.m. band of Chinese music will be in attendance.

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Carrying revolvers and wear- ing handkerchiefs across their faces, three youtha raided the Oriel Cinema, Dundalk. They held the staff prisoners in the caretaker's

burned house and

the Alm "Mons," which was to have been shown.

A girl pillion rider on a cycle driven by Mr. Li Lin-shing was slightly injured when the motor cycle and a car driven by Mr. D. F. Warren came into collisión at the junction of Mody and Nathan Roads yesterday even- ing, The two vehicles were damaged, but not extensively, and the girl's injuries were not serious enough for her to be taken to hospital.

An excellent concert was given at the "Better 'Ole" (Naval and Military Y.M.C.A., Kowloon) last night when, in addition to the items rendered by! the Band of the 1st/Northamp-| tons, the following contributed to the programme:-Mr. C. W. E. Bishop, Mrs. H. Minney, Misses V., C. and P. Capell, Miss B. Walker, Mr. G. W. C. Burnett, Capt. R. H. Lories and Mr. R. Dormer,

A Chinese detective seized 24 revolvers and 3,000 rounds of ammunition on board a sampan near the No. 5 railway bridge in

Charles James Fox, an Ameri- can attorney and publisher of the "North China Star" at Tientsin. who has been retained to defend the Russians seized in the Chin- ese raid on the Soviet embassy in China if the authorltics decide to conduct an open trial.

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Roumania is to have minted in London over half a million gold coins valued at £720,000, to com- memorate the coronation of King Ferdinand and Queen Mario.

A posteard which was placed In the letter-box in 1912 has just been delivered in the Old Kent- roud, but the receiver had to pay one penny excess pastage before he could receive the belated mis- sive. The card was posted in the Isle of Wight.

THEOSOPHY,

A Public Lecture will be given

by Mr. M. Manuk, on Sunday, July

10, at 11 a.m. at the Lodge 7, Duddell Street.

All are welcome.

What will be found in Joanns Southcott's box? That is the pro- blem which is exercising the minds of undergraduates at Cambridge, for it has been announced that one of the "original" boxes will be opened publicly in the presence of 24 "Bishops" in the Market Square of Cambridge. The contents of the box-which at other times does duty as the tool box of a motor- car-are being kept dead necret, while the date also has not yet! been announced for fear the au- thorities may disapprove. Details of costume and ceremony are now being decided upon by the ganisers, who are members of a small club in a college noted for its clever "rags" in the past.

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When Mr. Thurtle (Soc., Shoreditch) asked in Parliament whether employment in the British Secret Service was confined persons of Eritish nationality, the Prime Minister replied. "I have

The case in which Mr. J. H. nothing to add to previous answers Ruttonjee sues Mrs. D. A. Ross on this subject, from which the for $173.25 alleged to be due on kon. member will gather that the an implied contract for the sup essence of the Secret Service

isply of electric current to a flat secrecy. (Laughter).

in Duddell Street of which plain- tiff was the lessor, was adjourn ed at the Summary Court yes- A new situation was terday.

Kowloon on Tuesday. The. de- Suggesting that boys might be tective's information was that the as useful in the house as their sisters, the Duchess of Atholl, contraband had been received Parliamentary Secretary to the claimed to have arisen by soll- from a French ship in the har- Board of Education, speaking at citor for the defendant by a bour, and was eventually to be Truro, Cornwall, and she did not letter written to the defendant: transferred to Wuchow. He mean that they should study a by the Electric Light Company awaited in hiding for the coming complete course of domostie stating that the meter which had of the sampan, and then went on science, but boys serving as "fags" been transferred with the flat board and searched her. The nt Public Schools was an admir was not connected with the flat arms and ammunition were able system. She understood that in question, but with another found hidden in 13 sacks of salt the most important part of their one." The defendant's claim is fish.. Assistance

then duty was the preparation of food that although an agreement was secured and the occupants of the for the "fag master," and it there-made as to the payment of elec- fore arose that there were some boat together with the contra-husbands, old Public School boys, tric light charges, the charges band were taken to the police who knew more about cooking than had proved out of all proportion

to the consumption.

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their wives.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Sir Hugh John Macdonald, the The Prince of Wales has been Mr. W. C. Lyle, who has been veteran judge and a former Premier gazetted a Knight of the Order of in Hong Kong for some months of Manitoba, who is 77, had his left St. Patrick.

past giving tuition in golf, is leg amputated at Winnipeg to stop!

leaving the Colony towards the the progress of gangrene, from

end of the month for Bangkok, which he was suffering,

Siam.

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Sir Cooper Rawson, M.P., has been awarded the decoration of the Legion of Honour by the French An English singer had the un- Government in acknowledgment of usual honour of singing the chief his services to France in role in an Italian opera given by nection with the adoption of French an Italian company in the largest towns by the British League of theatre of Venice, the Fenice. This Help. Sir Cooper was the first was Miss Burt-White, who employs metropolitan mayor to adopt a de- the stage name of Bianca Dalilas, vastated village. This was in 1920. She sang the exacting part of Mimi) In Puccini's "Vie de Boheme," this being her first appearance of the operatic stage.

Nowhere does the weather more affect the popular menu than at the House of Commons. In addition to ments served in other rooms more than 200 dinners were served onei night In mail week in the Terrace. dining-rooms, a typical meal serv ed consisting of consommé, salmon, asparagus, roast meats, sweets, and strawberries and cream-all served zohi. The chief effect on the re-p freshment department's chefs was boredom. They were busy enough, but everything had to be cold, and it was all so much alike until one brave man asked for hot, thick) soup,

General von Stein, who from 1916 until the revolution in Germany was Prussian Minister of War, died in mail week. In December 1914 von Stein was placed at the head of an army corps, but it was as quar termaster-general that he achieved notoriety when he signed the bonst tul daily communiquée issued by the German General Staff When, however, he became a Minister he grew more cautions, and by 1917 was admitting that there can be no doubt that the British organisa tion has attained a good deal," and he spoke with similar respect of the French. Later in the same year he attempted, by bringing false charges of cruelty against the Allies, to justify his admitted orders that British and French prisoners should be exposed to the fire of the Allied gune.

HENRY MILLER, WAND G

M. George Theunis, former Premier of Belgium, President of the World Conference on Economics.

I gather, writes the Politieal

correspondent of the "Daily Mail"" that the Prime Minister has now been pronounced by his medical advisers to be completely restored to health, following the indisposi- tion which has compelled him to take things easily and spare him- self from needless effort during the past six weeks..

Lord Donington died in London in his 69th year in mail week. By his death without an heir the peer- age, to which he succeeded In 1920, becomes extinct. The title was created in 1880 and was unfamiliar until the death of Lord Loudoun, Lord Donington's brother, in 1920, for it had been merged in that earldom. In 1894 Lord Donington married the only daughter of Sir Charles Edward Hamilton, who survives him. Of their four daughters two are living.

Deaths announced at Home in mail week included:- Surgeon-General Henry Cook, for- merly principal of the Grant Medical College, Bombay, at Lee- on-Solent, where he had resided for the last 23 years, aged 95; Mr. Edward B. Cipriani, American Vice-Consul in Glasgow, during a visit to Dumbarton; Mr. Bertram Carr, associated with the firm of biscuit manufacturers of that name and an ex-mayor of Carlisle; and 'Mr. W. T. Parr, a prominent | docks and business man, connect-

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PRICES OF ADMISSION REDUCED

Box 6 Persons. .$12. Single Box Seat ..$2 .50 cts.

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ed with the trade of the port for Wednesday, Saturday & Sunday

half a century, at Swansea.

Young men and young women at To-day being the nineteenth of Norfolk, Home wearing much the same dress birthday of the Duke will be a feature of seaside pro- Arundel Castle grounds and gar- menades and riverside resorts this dens will be open to the public, ob- Sub-Inspector J. Perkin, who summer, double-breasted grey flan- served a Home paper on May 30, to the gen-

at 4 ́p.m.

Children Half Price. COME AND SEE

has seen seventeen years' service nel saits having become popular Arundel blogs, and the public THE CIRCUS POST CARRIER PIGEONS

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:---

with the Hong Kong Water breasted coats are cut in almost can roam the beautiful park of more Police, leaves the Colony on re-exactly the same way for men, and than twelve thousand acres at plea- tirement on Saturday. He is the for women; while the woman often sure. The young duke is great possessor of two commendations, wears with it a light grey silk favourite with the people. Many one from the Captain Superin- jumper, collar, and tie resembling of the older inhabitant think he tendent of Police on the occasion a man's shirt, collar, and tie. Soft la next in succession after the of his rescue of a European Ser- grey felt hats worn by man and Prince of Wales and his brothers to

woman alike increase the similar the English throne. He

loves geant's wife and child from the ity of costume, and the woman's Arundel. The story goea that as burning Police station at Tai 0, shingle or Eton crop completes her a small child, being in the south GOLD WATCHES, RINGS, BRACELETS and one from H.E. the Governor man-like aspect. Walking through of France on his birthday, he was for frustrating the attempt of Piccadilly-circus in mall week were asked what he would like for a pirates to make off with the young man and woman of about birthday present. The ready reply "Saikung" launch. Mr. Perkin the same height each wearing a was, "A return ticket to Arundel.

double-breasted brown coat with flat The duchess wishes to keep the de- was formerly with the Royal ili buttons. The man wore the lightful old town as mediaval as Navy, serving in the South coat as a blazer, with sand-colour-possible. Climbing up tha to sto Africa and Boer wars and joined trousers, while the woman wore the castle one half-expects to see ing the local Police force from it as part of a costume and had a men in coats of mail or the ghosts the Navy in 1922,

short skirt of the same material, of former inhabitants of the place.).

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