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The Hospital Comforts Com- Major Isidore Sulmon mittee begs to acknowledge with Shanghai can give points to the many thanks receipt of the follow-U.K. or U.S.A. In canned goods, ing for the Hospitals. Parcels of He ought to know anyway, con- magazines from Mrs. W. L. Handyments the "Singapore Free Press." side, Mrs. Pryde, Mrs. Dunlop, Mrs. Minett and the Hon. Mr. J. Owon Hughes.

Foo Chan-song, 81, a Chi- neso seaman, who left his alip at Liverpool in March last and since has been wandering about the country, was at the East Ham Police Court on June 21 sentenced The Nanking Government has to a month's imprisonment, and informed the Chinese Ratepayers recommended for deportation. Association. that their protest

Local estate amounting to | against the increased municipal || A memorandum on the Board $124,300 was left by Kwok Leung-rates has been noted and the Min. of Education Estimates for 1927 shi, married woman, of 87 Welling- ister of Foreign Affairs has order shows that $76,200,000 is provided ton Street. She bequeaths every-ed the local Commissioner to take for education within the purview thing to her husband, Kwok Chok- up the matter strongly.

of the Board. This exceeds hy ting, living at the same address.

more than £1,600,000 the expendi- and probate of the will has been

ture from 1925-26, The cost per child for elementary education still granted to him.

averages 'two and a half times as much as the pre-war figure.

In reply to a telegram from the Wuhan Soldiers' Relief Society, signed by me, Sun Yat-sen, the All-Union Central Council of Soviet Trade Unions has made a donation of 30,000 roubles '(£3,000) from its own funds, and proposes to the Soviet trade union organisa- ' tions that they should also give help,

Hankow Chinese papers atate. that General Chang Chung-chang has formed a new unit of Russian troops, numbering about one thou- annd, with a woman as commander, These Russians are sald to have been recruited from the north of Manchuria. A band of three thou- sand men, called "the daredevils," also has been recruited to combine with the Russian unit.

Captain G. F. Olley, an Im- perial Airways pilot, who was fying an air liner from London to Ostend and back on a day air excursion, was fishing with a weighted net from Ostend pier shortly after 4 p.m, on a Saturday when

he caught a 41h. lobster. Captain Olley brought the live lobster back with him to London, where it was boiled and served at dinner less than four hours after being caught in Ostend.

An important Army Council decision was published in an Alder shot headquarters order. Flights in aircraft by military personal when not on duty can only he un dertaken on express instructions by the Air Ministry in each individual case, and only on the prospective passengers signing a document supplied by the Ministry indemni- fying the Air Council and any person in the service of the Crown against a claim in respect of loss or injury to person or property, including death, arising out of a passenger flight.

Dr. James M.. Doran, successor to Mr. Roy A. Haynes us Protibition Commissioner, U.S.A.

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The Borstal Association, of which the Home Secretary is pre- sident, has received a gift from Mr. W. R. Morris, the motor-car manufacturer, of £10,000. In an- nouncing the gift. Sir Wemyss Grant Wilson, the director of the association, astated that the money had been given to trustees for the benefit of lads and girls trained in Borstal institutions. One of the objects of the grant was to enable- poor parents living at a distance to visit their sons and daughters,

A trap to catch the song of the nightingale which has cost £10,000 to construct-is being used by "His Master's Voice" Gramo- phone Company in Surrey. The device consists of a complete re- cording room, mounted on a motor chassis and capable of being moved to any part of the country- side at a moment's notice. On its arrival at à suitable spot, miero- phones connected to the ran by electric cables. are hung from branches near which the birds sing

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The extent to which female bathers will go to ensure due at tention to themselves when they are at sea" appears to be limit- less. The latest crazo, I am in- formed, says the London

The sale of the late Mr. respondent of a Liverpool paper, McKinnon Wood's Chinese porce- is to wear bathing costumes bear-lain at Sotheby's produced over ing on the front and back charm. £8.080. Bidding was particularly ingly painted pictures. treated in keen for the early examples. such a way that they will not run extremely fine Imperial Clun Yno when subjected to immersion in bulb bowl of quatrefoil shape and salt water. Having regard to the grey porcellaneoua ware, on four extent to which oil refuse is a short legs, realised £900. Another constituent of the waters at many fine piece was an openwork vase of watering places just now, it would inverted pear shape, with a per- be interesting to know whether the forated and moulded design of paintings will defy this component flowers, leaf sprays, etc., 15th cen also. Incidentally, a colleague sag-tury, Ming dynasty, which fetched gests that the prohibitive cost of £800. Both were purchased by A flowerpot the painted costumes might give à Messrs. Yamanoka. hint to the authorities at seaside with a brilliant turquoise glaze de- resorts. They might advertise "oilcorated with lotus flowers fetched painting free of charge."

£330 (Bluett).

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

The King's exequatur empower-

Mr. Hook, of British Insulated ing Mr. K. W. Kruse to act as Cables Ltd., has arrived in Ipoh to honorary Norwegian Consul at carry on the transmission line con- Singapore has received His tract for the Perak River Hydro

Electric Power Co. Majesty's signature.

Inspector Smith has arrived in Port Dickson and 'assumed duties aa O.C.P.D., vice Che' Abdul Manap, who left for Tanjong Malim on Saturday last on trans- fer.

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Through passengers by the 8.3. "Arafura" are:-Mrs. M.E. Mount fort (Yokohama to Sydney), Mr. W. M. Lewis (Yokohama Sydney), Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Stevens (Kobe to Manila); and-the Misses G M. and K. M. Carnegie (Yokohama to Melbourne).

The American Consul-General at Canton, Mr. Douglas Jenkins, and [his wife and daughter, have left for America on furlough, for six months; after four years at Canton where Mr. Jenkins was Senior Consul. He is succeeded by Mr. J. C. Houston, from Tientsin, who was formerly for a time at Canton.

A quiet wedding was solemnised.

at St. Matthew's Church, Surbiton, on June 21, between Mr. William McMullan, of Singapore, and

Rickard, Dr. Elizabeth

second daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Rickard, and of Mrs. Rickard, of 9. Ditton Road, Surbiton.

Dr. Rickard has for several years been in charge of a hospital at Singa- pore under the auspices of the S.P.G., and she hopes still to be able to give her, professional skill to its service.

The death occurred last week of the Rev. A. Pemaratna, the popular lead Priest of the Counter Hall Buddhist Templo and a Preacher of the Penang Buddhist Association. Deceased was much respected by the Buddhist Com- munity by whom his death will be keenly felt, on account of highly plous character and deep know- ledge of the Buddhist Scriptures. His remains will be removed from Caunter Hall to Batu Lanchang for cremation on the Siamese, Temple land at a date to be fixed later.

The engagement is announced of Miss Florence Keaseberry to Dr. Christopher J. Oliveiro, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Oliveiro of 90 Race Course Road, Singapore,

The noted Chinese scholar, Dr. Mr. J. A. Harvey, who has been the Chief Ku Hung-ming, who had been in Private Secretary to Tokyo for the past three years, Secretary since May of last year, connected with the "Daito Bunka and Mr. E. A. Winnington-Ingram, Kyokai" (Oriental Cultural Asso- who has been stationed in Malacca, ciation) has arrived at Dairen, ac- will shortly exchange posts. companied by his wife and daugh- ter. He intends to go to Peking when the civil war comes to a close.

Vera Tolstol, the grand daugh- ter of Count Leo Tolstoi, known as "the grand old man of Rus- sia," who has entered the motion pictures. Countess Tolatoi, as she is better known, has landed a nice contract which will pay, her $1,000 a week from an American Alm frm and sals, spon for the United States. For three years before securing the film contract, she made a bare living running A beauty parlour in Prague.

Mr. C. Renton Coombe, late assistant works manager of the Reliance Rubber Co., Ltd., Lon- don, has arrived in Singapore to join the staff of the Wilkinson Process Rubber Co., Batu Caves.

The wedding of Sir George Max- well's elder son to Miss E. M. Orwin was to take place at the church of St. Mary the Virgin. Oxford, on June 28, and was to be followed by a reception at Balliol College.

A resident of some years stand- ing has departed from Welhaiwet | in the person of Mr. W. R. Haller, the Financial Secretary to the Government. Before taking up another position Mr. Haller intends visiting some eastern ports en route for England from which country he has been absent for more than 10 years,

Taken suddenly ill while in a taxicab outside his, office, on June 24, Mr. Ernest Finch, a director of the Borneo Co., Ltd., Eastern mer- chants, Fenchurch Street, was driven to St. Bartholomew's Hos- pital, where he was found to be dead. Mr. Finch lived at. Lexham

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was 61 years of age. The cause was stated at the Inquest to be heart failure. He served at one time in the Hong Kong office of the firm.

The funeral of Mr. John' Chuen Wong took place at the Chinese Christian Cemetery, Pokfulam Road, on Monday.. The services at the home at Kowloon and at the Chinese Christian Cemetery, Pokfulam Road, were conducted by the Rev. Tseng Yat-sung, of All¦ Mr. Frederick Guy Stevens has

"I notice writes the London Sainte Church, Kowloon, The been appointed a Pulane Judge of correspondent of the "Free Press," chief mourners included Mr. J. M. the Supreme Court of the Straits "that a Malayan paper suggested Wong, a former Vice-Chairman of Settlements. Mr. Stevens, who is recently that it was about time Sir the Chinese General Chamber of 48 years old, is a member of the George Maxwell had a new photo Commerce, Dr. Benjamin Wong, Singapore Bar, and has long been graph taken, I came across him Mr. Edwin Wong, Mr. Walter recognised as a gifted and ex- the other day and I mentioned the Wong, and Mr. Daniel P. Wong, perfenced lawyer. He was point. He explained that he had sons of deceased. There were also educated at Winchester and not been photographed since he present many of the grandsons and

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:-

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Oxford, and come East in 1902 to returned to England. The fact is other. relatives besides repre- Wednesday, Saturday

join the 3. S. Civil Service. Six that Sir William Orpen is painting sentatives of many Chinese com- years later he was called to the his portrait, and he is letting the mercial organisations. The funeral Bar, and left the Civil Service to photographers have an easy. The procession was followed by the Join the emi aut firm of Rodyk picture is to go out. Inter on, to Chinese Y.M.CA. division of the and Davidson, In Singapore, have the Town Hall, Kuala Lumpur, It St. John Ambulance Brigade, of ing remained until the present was subscribed for by the Chinese which Dr. B. C. Wong, a son of the time a member of that firm.

community of Malaya."!

deceased, is the divisional surgeon.

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