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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Three cases of enteric fever, twa in the Victoria and the third in the Kowloon district. were notified yesterday. Two were Bri- tish and the other was Chinese.

The annual sports gathering. of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation took place at the Bank's ground at New Beckenham on Saturday, June 11. Mrs. R. E. N. Padfield dis- tributed the prizes.

The following will take part in a speciul concert which has been arranged in St. Andrew's Church Hall on July 13 at 8 o'clock and to' which all service men are cordially invited, Mrs. F. J. Jenner, Miss May Gaubert, Miss Dorts Puncheon, Mr. Russell. Mr. Tipple, Mr. War-! ren, Mr. Chaplin. Miss C. Dixon and Mr. J. Peurns.

Princess Juliana of Holland, who is to spend three weeks in Norway during August.

Although Condult Road has now been cleared of the huge fail. of earth and stone which blocked it on May 23, when there was a land- side due to the heavy rainfall, th work of reconstruction will tate.

The Alaska cable has suffer- over six months to complete. An- other retaining wall will be neces- ed from the attack of a whale, sury, built up from the new road which, by some means became below, and considerable

expense entangled, and tried to bite a way will have to be incurred in ensur out. Both the damaged cable ing safety on the new section of and the whale were brought up together when the cable repair ship was sent out to investigate the cause of the fault. Eighty feet of the cable will have to be replaced.

Conduit Road,.

The Boy Scouts' Association, Malaya area, are holding a camp at the Penang Volunteer Corps .camp ground, Penang, from

August 8 to 16.

Prince Chula of Siam occu- pied a box at the Derby Eve Ball, Prince Chula has only recently left Harrow School. He is slight and pale, and does not in the least look like a Siamese. He takes squash-rackets lessons at the Royal Automobile Club.

There was a large audience of}| Service men at a concert given by the "J-Pans" at the Shamshuipo military camp last night when a varied programme of dances, songe and humorous items was greatly appreciated. Those taking part were Misses V. Capell, P. Capell, E. Rose, B. Walker. C. Xavier, I.. Schierhorst, D. Capell, M. Gitting, R. Wong and Messrs. G. Bond, C. D. Lake, A. W. Ramsey, T. V. Har mon, F. P. Lenfesty, G. Arnold and H. Glover, Miss Vaughan was the accompanis

A five storey building in front and eight storey behind is to be in Queen's Road, Central above the erected next to the A.P.C. building! premises now occupied by Roland Sarrault, a money changer, and a rattan work shop which is stated to have been aequired for three lakhs. It is expected that the work of demolition will commence in September. The new building will have a frontage of 45 feet in Queen's Road and as it will be on a level with the A.P.C.' building the will be considerably

Lord Dewar's role as an epigrammist had full sway at the jubilee dinner of the Distillers' Company on June 2, among his efforts being the following:- "The real puzzle to-day is China.; The patients of the Third Gen- Never was it more necessary toeral Hospital, Kowloon (Diocesan footpath

Boys' School) are to have another widened at this point, Provision handle china with care." "The entertainment provided to-morrow will be made for shops on the under-dog in China at the pre- night wheir fears. G. W. Cground floor and the rest will con- sent time appears to be the Burnett, 0. Eager, T. G. Paterson aist of offices. Pekingese." "People who produce and Mrs. H. Minney are to give most of the trouble produce little Items from their repertoire, with else."

Mr. H. J. Fountain as accompanist.| To the frequent complaint of The concert is arranged under the some British men of commerce auspices of the Naval and Military that conferences are a mere Accusing fingers may be YM.C.A. Entertainment Com-waste of time, the customary pointed at America, and in parti-mittee.

reply of their contemporaries in cular at Chicago, but, judging

Germany and other go-ahead from an administration report, The Editor of the "Truth" countries is to send as many crime in Burma is no less commenting on the fear of delegates as they can manage. heinous and rampant Over 800 women's competition in the bat- Thus, it is not surprising to persons were murdered last year, tle of life, which has been ex-find 1,000 acceptances for and robbery with violence in-pressed in the "Isis" and by the the forthcoming Stockholm Con- creased nearly 24 per cent. Some Dons it. a wider press, says that ference including 300 from of the crime were terrible in the last time he was in Oxford it Germany, 200 from France, their savagery. One fisherman struck him that it was the men was hacked to death because he who were feminizing the place would not surrender the day's and the women who were giving catch. Several-victims were tor- it such touches of masculinity as tured and burned. The prisoners it possessed. He suggests that in Pyapon Gaol revolted and the University authorities should killed or wounded all the police rid Oxford of the extremely un- in charge of them. Chinese pleasant young gentlemen who gambling in Rangoon was check- mince up and down the High in ed through tracking a gang to waisted jackets and are not cussions frequently enough con- their headquarters in a sub-ashamed to touch up their com-tain the germ of an improvement terraean drain.

which may be elaborated upon. '

plexions!

and only 100 from Great Britain. Perhaps we flatter ourselves that we know.all that is to be known, If so, says the London corres- pondent of a Liverpool paper, I am afraid we flatter ourselves; the interchange of opinions on commercial subjects, if nothing else, is worth while, and the dis-

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

- Bishop

Mow!! (Bishop, in A Reuter cable from New York Western China), and Mrs. Mowll † announces the death of Mr. E. have arrived in England. They Chariton Black, Professor of Eng return to China in ish Literature at Boston Univer- expect, to September.

Sailing to-day by the Empress of Asia" for the north and Canada are Mr. Durschmidt, of S.O.C.O.X.Y. bound for Vancouver; Mrs. E. Stone, for Japan; Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Roxburgh. Major H. Tatlow and the Hon. Mr. L. Quezon, Presi- dent of the Philippine Senate, for Shanghai:

A correspondent sends us an unusual announcement from the "Melbourne Age”—an intimation of the death of Mrs. J. M. Fawaz, followed by the words, "Died of a broken heart." Mrs. Fawaz was the mother of the singer known as Florence Austral, who was recently divorced.

Madame Camille Malherbe, who passed away at the General Hospital, Singapore, on July 2, at an advanced age, was a well- known figure in Singapore for very many years. She was the! oldest French resident, having lived there over thirty years, never having left the place in that time.

xity.

Major-General Harushige Nin- omiya, representing Japan, was one of the military attaches of the Foreign Powers at the troop- ing of the colour on June 4.

The Japanese Ambassador and

.Among passengers departing Baroness Matsui were guests of General Sir John and Lady Max the north and San Francisco, were yesterday by 8.8. "Shinyo Maru" for well at a "Housewarming" party, Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Cassidy, Lieut. given at 34, Belgrave Square on. Eliot, Dr. and Mrs. R. E. Tot- June 7.

tenham, Licut-Col. W. D. Barber

nd Major Jackson.

The Queen of Holland, who is, in the habit of taking a brief vacation abroad every year, will spend three weeks in Norway in ter, Princess Juliana. August this year with her daugh,

Miss Hortense Cartier, aged 78, who is believed to be the sole surviving descendant of Sir George Etienne Cartier, first of the French settlers in Canada

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LAST FEW DAYS HERE.

ISAKO'S CIRCUS

under the Dominion Government, NEW RECLAMATION GROUND

arrived in Liverpool from Paris en route for Canada, where she is going by special invitation to at- tend the Diamond Jubilee of the Confederation of the Dominion in Montreal. Sir George was direct descendant of Jacques Cartier, who gave its name to the. St. Lawrence River.

&

"Bang!" went something at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School; Paddington, W., while Field- Marshal Lord Allenby, after dis- tributing the awards,

was al. dressing the students. At the moment he was saying, "Of course. the war, unfortunate though it has been for humanity, has been very useful, to the sur- geon." smiled, and remarked: "That is dealing with a hopeless case, I suppose; all I should say is R.I.P." (Laughter.)

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What Mr. Justice Sproule des- cribed as an epoch-making event took place in the Supreme Court, Penang, on July 4, when Miss Lim, Beng Hong was admitted to practice at the Penang Bar. She is a barrister-at-law of the Inner Temple and was called with her brother, Lim Khye Seng, who was also admitted, and they in- tend commencing in practice under the name of Lim and Lim.

At a congregation of Cam- bridge University on honor- the Oversea, Dominions, Crown ary degree of Doctor of Letters Colonies, Protectorates, and was conferred upon Professor Mandated Territories Section of residence at Redcar. He joined | Gilbert Murray, Regius professor the Forum Club, the President of "The

of Greek in the University of the Club, Princess Maric Louise, as an articled pupil up. Oxford. The public orator, Mr. said the new section is for the wards of forty years Glover, introduced Sir Gilbert to benefit of 'British women who After several years

Mr. Charles Wiggins, who over thirty years ago was a member of the staff of the "Straits Times,'

at 4 p.m.

Children Half Price. COME AND SEE

At the inaugural luncheon of during the regime of the late Mr. THE CIRCUS POST CARRIER PIGEONS-

Arnot Reid, passed away some- what suddenly on May 29, at his

Chatham Observer

ago.

on the

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:-

AND MANY OTHER VALUABLE AND USEFUL ·

ARTICLES.

the Vice-Chancellor, and in the are, or who have been, on cer- staff of that paper he came East GOLD WATCHES, RINGS, BRACELETS course of a laudatory speech invice or resident overses, by pro and served on the "Straits Latin, said: "You know what viding a central meeting-place Times" about three years. Re this man's name means among when they are in the home coun- turing home, he held posts on Britons, among all of our try. She spoke from her per- papers in Staffordshire and the race or speech: how he teaches sonal experience of the loneliness North of England. For many us to live like men, to feel like of white women who are helping years he was a member of the men, to serve the common repub- to build the Empire in distant staff of "The North Eastern lic of all men and ali races.".

corners of the earth.

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