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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Heavy fog prevented a 360- The Japanese press states that plane attempt to drop mail bags into Li Van-taung, an alleged revolu- the 8.8. "Leviathan." yesterday. tionary, was arrested by the Jap-

anese pollee.

An alleged utterer of counter- felt banknotes, a Korean, according to Japanese papers, has been dis-j charged by the Japanese Consular Court because the Court was con- vinced that he acted without know- ledge of illegal actions.

"Calcutta Corporation do not spend enough money on mosquito control, though dengue is prevalent every year, and malaria still haunts the outskirts of the city, declares Sir Ronald Ross, Director-in-Chief, Ross Institute and. Hospital for Tropical Diseases, in a report on his Eastern tour.

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The Toho News Agency states that a Moscow. despatch from Vladivostok reports that Madame Borodin arrived there recently en route to Moscow.

According to the "Shanghai Journal of Commerce," € woman

The "Chefoo Daily Newa" was found dead on the premises of states:-"On August 8 one of the the Kung Dah Cotton Mill, crew of the U.S.S. "Pittsburgh" Chapel, having been stabbed in the came, ashore on leave. He, with head.

others, boarded a sampan to return to the ship. Somehow or other on the journey he lost his footing and fell into the sea, and though his comrades and the sampan man did all they could, he was drowned."

In H. M. Supreme Court, his Honour Judge Grain gave judgment in favour of the plaintiff for $50 and costs in a case in which Mrs. R. Bernstein sued Mrs. E. Duncan for dresses suppiled during 1926,

G. R. Carls, a European warder in the Convict Establishment at Mr. W. Schofield had before him Taiping, for whom a warrant, was, at the Kowloon Magistracy yester-issued some time ago in connection day a delivery coolfe charged with with an allegation of cheating in The "Kobe Herald" states the larceny of a bedspread on board respect of a motor-cycle obtained The passenger aeroplane Naniwa, H.M.S. "Magnolia." The theft or from Sun's Motor Agency In Batu belonging to the Japan Aerial curred whilst the coolle was de- Road, Kuala Lumpur, and who was Navigation Co., Osaka, which will livering foodstuffs on board

the arrested at Bagan Seral, was charg- soon be used in a passenger service warship. According to Sub- between Osaka and Shanghat, left inspector Dorling, the accused the Kuala Lumpur police court with 'ed' before Mr. J. W. W. Hughes in the_Kizukawa ground on August 8 clambered from a boat alongside

at 7.30 s.m. and made her maiden the "Magnolia" and took the bed-cheating in respect of the motor- fight to Tokyo, where she arrived spread by putting his arm through cycle, valued at $530. He was re- at 11.20 am. off Suzugamore shore."

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Shaukiwan visited by two Chinese on August 19, who said that they wanted to

a porthole. He was observed by mandad. P. O. Caskill, but accused imrume- diately put off towards shore. Mr.

By a coincidence, the "Straits was arrested and handed over to the Mall" on the same day discussed Allen was signalled to and accused Times" as well as the "Malay police. The Magistrate sentenced the servant problem editorially. the thief to three weeks' hard "For many years, past," says the

labour.

hire the boat to go fishing in Aberdeen. As one of the men was known to the boatmen, they were

Singapore paper, "we have been accepted. When the sampan was

wondering why the Government oft Pokfulum, the two passengers.

It is a hundred years since have not thought it to put into suddenly ordered the boat to pro- Jamieson published the supplemen-operation the machinery which they ceed in a different direction, but the tary volumes of his great "Scottish have ready for Immediate working boatpeople refused to obey. Soon | Dictionary" and now an appeal is regarding the registration'of domes- afterwards, when passing Malam, Į being made by the Scottish Dialects | tic servants. 'And now we learn they were approached by a fishing Committee for financial help for the reason from a reply to a ques- boat with several bandits on board. the compilation of a new Scottish tion asked at the recent meeting of One of the outlaws produced a re- Dictionary. For this new work, the Federal Council. It is to the volver and ordered the sampan which they proposed to bage on his effect that Government will cer master's wife and 17-years-old son torical, principles, after the model tainly not embark upon any polley to board the fishing boat. The of the "New English Dictionary" master was left in the sampan, and and the "English Dialect Diction apparently involving racial dia- ordered to row back to Shaukiwan. ary," the committee have been en-crimination to the detriment of the

Chinese. Well and good! Soon afterwards the fishing boat gaged in collecting material since was caught in a storm and made for Cheungchau harbour where it an- chored and took shelter until after the storm had passed. They left Cheungchau on Sunday morning. While the anchor was being weigh ed, the youth jumped overboard and awam ashore to Cheungchau where he made a report at the police sta- tion.

But

1908. They aim at securing a suff- why waste time and money in pass- clent number of subscribers to make ing an Ordinance for their registra- the project self-supporting, and in tion in the Colony, and why not tell the meantime, for funda to keep it as the reason for suspending opern- going, they appeal to Scots at home tion of the local Bill? Those ser- and abroad, to Burns Club, St. vants who mean well would be the Andrew's Societies, and Scottish first to apply for registration and County Associations, to help by vot- would welcome its conditions as it ing sums of money or guaranteeing would ensure a continuity of service a certain number of subscribers. | and safeguard their interests."

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

Mr. G. J. Dickson, of Malacca, has gone to Singapore for a holl- day".

The Right Rev. Rollestone Sterritt Fyffe, Bishop of Rangoon, is reaigning his Sce.

Miss H. H. Theobald, of the F.M.S. Nursing Staff, has returned to England on retirement after 17 years' service, in the Malay States.

President and Mrs. Coolidge, left Black Hilla on August 22 en route for Yellowstone Park for a week's outdoor recreation. The President is suffering from a slight cold.

Mrs. Margaret Proctor, the well known American concert artist and newspaper correspondent is in Tientain at the Astor Hotel for a few days, en route to points in | Manchuria, Korea and Japan.

Capt: C. J. Perkins, 1.8.0., second- in-command, Selangor M.V.I., was entertained at a farewell dinner at the Station Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, by the officers of A, Co., MS.V.R., and of the Selangor M.V.I., and members of the Kuala Lumpur branch of the M.S.V.R. Battalion Rifle Association.

Colonel James Whitehead will become Chief Constable of Scotland Yard on September 30.

Leave of absence for three months from July 28 has been granted to Mr. G. A. Hereford, prior to retirement.

Captain A. M. Low, in command of the "Karuah," is to be married at the Presbyterian Church, Singa- pore, to Miss M. E. D. Lyall.

Dr. W. A. Taylor, Chief Medical Officer, Penang, is leaving Penang for London by the "Kashgar". He is retiring for reasons of health.

Mr. H. C. Taylor, who retired from Government Service as Chief Court Inspector, has been appointed Secretary and Treasurer of the Selangor Golf Club.

Mr. G. S. Carver has been ap- pointed an Unofficial member of the Malaya Legislative Council in place of Mr. D. J. Ward, and Mr. G. C. Clarke in place of Mr. J. Mitchell..

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General

Dr. J. Gossip has been appointed a member of the Central Midwives* Board, S.S., vice Dr. J. Sharp.

Major W. H. Whyte, D.8.0., bas resigned his commission in, the S.S.V.F. and left Penang for Hong Kong by the "Morea".

Lieut. J. T. Fernandez, who is at present in Singapore, will be relin- qulahing hie commission in the In- dian Medical Service at the end of this month.

Mr. H. R. Cheeseman, the District Commissioner of the Penang Scouts, was invested with the Order of the Silver Wolf. by the Resident Coun- cillor, at Kampong Bahru, Penang, where Scouts from all parts of Malaya are holding camp.

The Singapore "Free Press" re- cords the death of Mr. Frederick Byrt, son of Mrs. Florence Platt, which occurred at the 'General Hos- pital, Singapore, after a short ill- ness. Deceased, who was only 26 years of age, came to Singapore from England about a year ago, i

At a meeting of the Council of the Institution of the

The following appointments in Rubber Industry held in London on

Government Service are notified in May 8, Mr. B. J. Eaton was unani- the Straits Settlements "Gazette" of mously elected a Fellow of the In-August 12: Mr. A. Hyde to act as Miss Nadine Hwang, a very popu-stitution for his research and in- Second Assistant Secretary, S.S.; Mr. C. H. Dakers to act as Third lar member of Peking society has vestigation on rubber. been appointed press secretary to.

Magistrate, Singapore; and Mr. T. B. Cocker to be temporarily Off- cial Assignee, S.S., and a Commis sioner of the Mohammedan and Hindu Endowments Board.

Premier Pan Fu. Miss Hwang is At a meeting of the General the daughter of a former Chinese Council of the Institution of the diplomatic representative in Rubber Industry held in London on Spain who died last year. She is May B. Mr. B. J. Eaton wAS UN- a gifted linguist, speaking several animously elected a Fellow of the languages fuently, and has

Institution for his searches and, charming personality which makes

investigations on rubber. her much sought after by both for eign and Chinese society in Peking.

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Dr. A. Neave Kingsbury, Institute of Medical Research, F.M.S., has been awarded the North. Persian Mr. Tan Teow Bok, son of Mr.Forces Memorial Medal for the His many friends will learn, with Tan Loy Kow, an old resident of year 1928 for his paper Some. In- deep regret, of the death of Mr. Kuala Lumpur, and a pupil of St.vestigations of Malarial Fevers, Joseph Francis Carvalho, which Xavier's Institution, who had the published in the Transactions of the occurred at A5 Balestier Road, distinction of winning the first Royal Society of Tropical Medicine Singapore after a brief lilneas. The place in the last Queen's Scholar- and Hygiene. This medal is award- late Mr. Carvalho was at one time ship competitive examination, opened annually for the best paper on in the service of Powell and Co. to boys from all the schools in the tropical medicine or hygiene and left this firm to take up an Colony, is leaving for England by published in any journal during the appointment under the Sarawak the "Kashgar" to take up his studies preceding 12 months by any medi Government as chief storekeeper, at Oxford..

where he remained several years

and made many friends. Mr. Car-"

cal officer, of under 12 years' ser- vice of the Royal Navy, Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Air Force: Indian Medical Service, or Colonial

Bangkok was mildly interested in valho was a man of a quiet and the Archbishop of Canterbury's kindly disposition. He leaves be selection for the vacant See of Sin- Medical Service provided that the hind a widow, five sons, six daugh gapore. The new Bishop-to-be is standard of merit justifies an ters and several grand-children.

only known here, says the Bangkok correspondent of the "Free Press,"

award.

On the occasion of his impend-to the clergy. He has never been Mrs. Lily Snow, whose death ing departure to Shanghal, Mr. in Slam, but they have been un- occurred at Muar, held a qualifico- George Hogg manager of the local swerving in their belief that if the tion as a maternity: purae.

Sbe office of the Nationt 1 City Bank best choice was made, on Mr, took up an appointment under the of New York was the recipient of Roberts the mantle of Bishop Johore Government at Muar at the 8. presentation by the staff. Mr. Ferguson Davfe would ultimately end of 1928, and held it up to the Hogg, who leaves Hong Kong next fall.

month, has been associated with the Bank in Hong Kong for the

time of her death. Throughout her services in Muar writes a cor respondent of the "Straits Times," the endeared herself to many. people by her bright and cheerful to-morrow on an eight months holi- nature, her unsparing service and s: silver ton and coffee set and 8 day During his absence Mr. her unselfishness. She gained the blackwood tray. inlaid with silver Consul A Bethofer will be in confidence of people by her cap dragon with silver bandies; was charge of the Netherland Con ability and her excellent work. made by Mr. 7. d'Almade, chlet sulate General Mr. Noest, Her maternity establishment in the clerk. The address refers with Vice-Consul in Singapore has been Muar Hospital was in every respect appreciation to Mr. Hogg's con-attached to the Consulate General beautifully kept and run. She alderation for the welfare of the and Jay due to arrive here in the spared no pains in training the mid- staff and expresses the wish for, arst half of September. Mr. Quitt wives who came for tuition and all continued success in his new timed to leave Blake Plor Wed- | trained by her passed high examina sphere of activity

tions in their work Gnesday at 10.30 am

last twenty-five years. The pre Mr. M. J. Quist, Consul General sentation, which consisted of an for the Netherlands, leaves for illuminated addresa together with home by the "Empress of Russia"

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