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THE CHINA MAIL.

LOCAL AND

GENERAL NEWS.

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the The annual meeting of

Mr. J. Mowbray Jones is au- Peak Clab was held last evening, thorised to sign for the firm of and as usual the proceedings wereW. A. Hannibal and Co. private.

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Penang Convent will be cele Two cases of enteric fever, brating the 75th anniversary of its 'at the and of this hoth Indian, and one of puerperal foundation fever (Portuguese) were reported month. yesterday,

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Shanghai's latest organisation, bearing the title of "The Shang hui Women's Association for the Consolation of the Soldiers at the Front held its firat, meeting in the Sin Wu Dal Theatre, Native City, when more than 1,000 women were present.

Thanks for the financial assis- tance they had rendered to the Rt-! volutionary Army were tendered to many prominent Shanghai mer- chants by General Ho Ying-ching. Commander of the First Route of the Revolutionary Army at a recep- tion accorded him at the Shanghai Chinese General Chamber of Com- merce.

"The whining schoolboy has disappeared, and truancy is well- nigh non-existent." declared Mr. A. Saywell, of London, at the annual conference of the National Associa- tion of Head Teachers. In a strong condemnation of the old system of examinations, he said that to im part knowledge by force was as un- righteous as forcible feeding.

A Brisbane lady holds a unique record. Mrs. R. F. Woodcraft has seen every Governor of Queens- land arrive. She was in what is now Queensland before, separation, and before any Governors were up- pointed. She was among those who welcomed the first governor (Sir Ges. F. Bowen), and has joined in! all the welcomes to arriving Gov- ernors since that date.

The most interesting of the six" new baronetcies in the Birthday Honours is that conferred on Lieut.- Commander Geoffrey Cecil Con- greve, son of the late General Sir Walter Congreve, V.C., K.C.B., who died while serving ns Governor of Malta. The honour is doubtless in recognition of Sir Walter's services, and would probably have been con- ferred upon him had he lived. It is rare for a title to be bestowed

in this manner.

The French low courts have| been giving some picturesque de cisions lately. The series began with a re-affirmation of a husband's right to administer physical cor rection to a naughty wife, who was told that this gave her no ground for claiming a divorce. Then came the case of a man who had lent this motor-car to u lady. The lady had an accident, and she asked for damages against the mar from whom she had borrowed the car. She got them, too-not as much as she claimed, but she got them

It is said that the recent lasue of shares by the Reneng Consolidat

ed Tin Dredging Co. has been over- subscribed.

The Senior Executive Engineer, Klang, is calling for tenders for the erection of a wireless station at Port Swettenham,

Holder of one of the oldest

The "Dally Telegraph" states

have titles in the peerage, the Baroncas Furnival! is shortly to make her that several financial firms debut on the stage. Lady Furnivall. been unable to find in London any is just 27, and is a decidedly pretty bank that is willing to discount woman with an extremely attractive Soviet bills. On the other hand. Sir Henry Deterding said that if personality.

France, Brithin and Germany would agree upon a boycott of Russian petroleum and oils it would have a great moral effect upon the Soviets, whose oil industry, especially at Baku, is completely disorganised.

Dame Bridgeman, wife of the Hon. W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, is the first woman chosen to represent Bri tain at the League of Nations in Geneva. Dame Bridgeman is Chairman of the National Coun- cil of the National Union of Con- servative and Uniculat Associa- tiona, one of the most important political groups in Britain.

The Duke of Rutland, inter- viewed at Bakewell as to the pos- sibility of Haddon Hall being again thrown open to the public, said that for the time being the hall was closed. Whether it would he open in the near future he could not say, and for the moment was not prepared to commit him- Relf. The hall, which has been closed to the public for eighteen months, is now occupled after two centuries by the Manners family. The Duke has spent many thou- sands of pounds in making the ball habitable,

Further removals to the new were reptile house at the Zoo made, but no very large reptiles were taken to their new home. The Some cobras were moved. large crocodiles and alligators, in- cluding "George," the biggest and fiercest of them all, are being shifted, while an attempt will be made to move the 24-foot pythons if the cages for their re- ception are quite ready in the new house. The moving of auch snakes as the cobras and rattlesnakes is a matter of routine and is a simple process, but the transference of the large crocodilca and large pythons is à tricky and dangerous business.

At Bankruptcy-buildings, Carey The German full-rigged ahip Street, the first meeting of credi "Grief" arrived at Falmouth, when tors was held under a receiving against Brigadier- the captain reported having lost order made two of the crew on the voyage from General James Arbuthnot Tyler, As a member of the Port Pirie in March, when the ship described met with a hurricane which raged Army and Navy Club, Pall Mail. for four days. Tremendous seas Mr. V. Armstrong, Assistant Off- struck the ship, smashing two life-cial Receiver, said it appeared from boats, carrying away a portion of the debtor's statements that some the bulwarks and twelve atanchions five years ago he retired from the and washing everything movable Army, with a pension of £800 a Two of the boats year, of which he had commuted off the decks.

sixty yards. An one-half. The Habilities amounted were hurled avalanche of water carried away to £1,500, but he possessed no one of the lifeboats, which struck assets apart from the penalon. He a young seaman aged 17 and knock-attributed his fallure to excess of Another sea-expenditure over income, specula- ed him overboard. man was also swept into the seating on the Stock Exchange, and

betting on horse races, by a huge wave.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Prince Leon Radziwill, a chair- man of the board of directors of Monte Carlo Casino, was found dead recently in mysterious circum-1 stances.

A tea party in honour of General Ho Ying-ching, Commanding the First Corps of the Nationalist Army. Shanghai, was given at the Chinese General Chamber of Com- merce on July 22.

Mr. Chang Yuln-nyi, Chief of the Financial Bureau of Klangsu was a passenger by train to Nan- king from Shanghai last Satur- beea in- day, Mr. Chang has vestigating the financial situation in Shanghai on behalf of the Nan- king Government.

Major and Brevet Lieut-Colonel Arthur S. Cantrell has been ap- the pointed Brigade Major to Chatham Division of the Royal Morines. He has lately returned from the China Station, where he had been serving in the flagship "Hawkins" as Floet Marine Officer.

The death occurred on July 23, at the Royal Hospital, Shanghai, of Captain W. F. S. Fawekaer, of the 12th Battalion of the Royal Marines. Capt. Fawckner 'served hfa country in the Marine artillery during the Great War, seeing Bor vice both in France and Russia. He was 32 years old and is survived by his wife, who is in England. He came to China with his Bat italion.

We regret to announce the death of Mr. John C. L. Zorn, senior part- ner of the Stock Exchange firm of Zorn and Leigh-Hunt.. He was a son of the late Bir. John Zorn, who Was secretary of the old British Dell and Langkat Tobacco Co. He joined a Arm of stockbrokers and specialised in tobacco and tea shares, subsequently starting his! own firm and becoming a member of the Stock Exchange in 1901,

H.E. the Governor, Sir Hugh Clifford, G.C.M.G., G.B.E., has left Singapore for Kuala Lumpur.

Lieut-Colonel Lewis C. Lampen, of the Plymouth Division, has been appointed to the command of the Royal Marine battalion in China.

XYGÓN AL ÚNGLAWDOS, K. Ya

Commander Richard E. Byrd In fying togs..

M. Marcel Polain, Belgian Chargé d'Affaires in Siam, is making a general tour of Malaya to study conditions.

Mr. A. Keir, M.A., Inspector of Schools, Perak, represented the F.M.S. and the Straits Settlements at the recent Imperial Education Conference in London.

Einar Hanson, the Swedish stage and film star, has died in hospital at Santa Monica, California, as the result of motor smash. Hanson. who went to the United States two years ago, had starred with Pola Negri.

At the Masonic Hall, Kuala Lum- pur, in the presence of a large gathering of Freemasons, Wor Bro. W. A. Milner, W.M., Read Lodge, sympathetically expressed the geni- eral regret at the impending re- tirement from Malaya and the con- sequent loss to local Freemasonry of War Bros. C. J. Perkins, P.D.G.W.

The London Bankruptcy Court concluded the examination in bank- ruptcy of the Earl of Cadogan. This is the present Earl's third bankruptcy since his father's death. He has lived by voluntary payments by the trustees on whom the estates were settled. The statement of affairs shows liabilities of £48,458 and assets nil.

The promotion of Lieut.-Colonel George Carpenter, O.B.E., D.S.C., in command of the Royal Marine battalion on special aervice in China, to the rank of Colonel Second Commandant is the result of the vacancy caused by the pro-

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ISAKO'S CIRCUS

NEW RECLAMATION GROUND

PRAYA EAST, WANCHAI

We will be leaving on the 29th instant, 10 come and see our show now, before we go. 9.15 p.m.-TO-NIGHT-9.15 p.m.

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PERFORMANCE COME AND SEE

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:-

motion of Colonel Second Com- GOLD WATCHES, RINGS, BRACELETS

mandant Charles L. Mayhew, of the Chatham Division.

Among the promotions to major- general announced by the War Office appears the name of Col, S. E. Holland. formerly of the Rifle Bri gade, and now of the General Staff.

lief of

won distinc- Ladysmith and tion son officer with the French troops in Belgium and General Staff officer Baron Edmond de Rothschild who to Viscount (than Sir Edward) Al-

A new' Senior Officer has been appointed for the West River, to fly his flag in the "Tarantula." He is Commandér M. L. Clarke, DS.C., Benior commander on the staff of The Prince of Wales at Exeter, the R. N. Naval. College at Green- laid the foundation-stone of the wich. Commander Clarke served Col. Holland was present at the re-

block new administrative and art

at Streatham Hall, which is to be on the African Station and on the in the late war. He was liai;}

the

new home of the University College of the South-West of Eng-

land.. His Royal Highness an

"Argus."

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nounced that Lord Glanely had has already done great service to lenby when he was come or the few Wednesday, Saturday & told him that he had promised to scientific research in France by Third Army. He is one of the give £25,000 to the endowment creating the Rothschild Founda senior officers of the British Army fund. This sum would be devoted tion, has made another gift of who believe in Christian Science to the establishment of A few 80,000,000 francs (£242,000) to the to which his attention was drawn scholarslips and a chair of agri Foundation, for the purpose of en- after being given up by specialists culture, and one of the scholarships dowing an institute for physical when suffering from consumption was to be dedicated the memory and chemical research as applied on his return from the South Afri of Sir Franels Drake.

to biology.

can War.

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