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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Marshal Chang Tao-lin is re- ported to have issued orders to the Government Bureau of Engraving and Printing to print 10 new stamps of various denominations, each bearing his image.

The next Session of the Chi- nese Language School conducted under the auspices of the General Chamber of Commerce opens on Monday, September 5. Classes for new and advanced students are held daily during the tiffin interval and in addition each student is allotted a personal teacher for conversational practice.

Mr. Tom Mann, who recently caused indignation by his inflam- matory speeches while visiting China, with French, American, and other Communists as an "Interna- tional Workers' Delegation," is to take the chair, as president, at the fourth annual conference of the National Minority Movement In Battersea Town Hall. S.W., on August 27 and 28.

Rev. Dr. van der Merwe, M.1.L, speaking at Stellenbosch, expressed the view that South Africa's status as laid down by the Imperial Con- ference was a result of evolution and was not an end but a stage in development which would gradually lead to complete indepen- dence. But that was a matter for the future, and to-day they were prepared to accept the position as It now was.

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One cannot help feeling a very' B well. genuine sympathy with known foreign merchant in Man- churia-and it will be endorsed by all the mighty golfng fraternity- for the "Manchuria Daily News" reports that he "has been laid up for five days from a nasty snake- bite which he got on the nineteenth green while playing golf at Hoshi- guara. We are pleased to say that he is fast recovering his health and hopes to get his spirits back soon also."

Another band concert pro. gramme will be given to-morrow at Kowloon Dock in connection with the scheme for raising funds, for a gain for Service men at the bathing beach. The 1st/Cameron- lans' band will be in attendance and the following programme will be rendered:Overture, "Zampa" (Herold); Cornet Sola, "My Ain Folk" (Lemon); Excerpts from the opera "Carmen" (Bizet); Inter mezzo, "The Butterfly" (Bendix);

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It may be of interest to phila- tellats to note that the new leane of Moscow stamps bears the word "Esperanto" in bold letters, over shadowing the Russian.

The cruiser "Calliope," Captain C. C. Dobson, V.C, arrived at Port| Said on July 21, with a relief crew for the "Petersfield" and new crews for the "Seamew" and "Gannet," completing at Hong Kong.

According to the Chinese news-

At a meeting of approximately papers the military in Nanking 20 representatives of the Kusmin- have telegraphed, to Hu Han-ming tang resolutions were passed call- Tsai Yuan-pei and Wu Ching-han, ing upon Chiang Kai-shek "to re- In Shanghal, asking them to return to Nanking and resurne turn to Nanking to take part in office. Another resolution their deliberations.

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Chief Yellow Robe, conferred the highest Sioux. honour on Dead- President Coolidge, at wood, South Dakota, celebration, on August & at Days of '76 Cele bration. He is a great nephew of Sitting Bull and now a mem- ber of the U. S. Indian School of South Dakota,

his called for a mass meeting to be held soon to demonstrate the desire of the people for the return of Chiang Kai-shek.

A representative of a Liverpool) firm of tobacco buyers had his motor-car badly damaged by a lion at the house of a plantor near Fort Jameson. The car, a baby Austin, was left for the night outside the house, when the lion came round and attacked the tyres, mudguards, and windscreen, losing much blood in the process.

The Department of Communica-1 tions of the Wu-Han Government has issued orders to Chinese trans- portation companies to restore the steamship service between the two ports immediately, which probably they would be very willing to do, if all their ships were returned to them and they had a guarantee that there would not be any more com- mandeering by the military.

At a meeting which was held at the Chinese Customs Staff Club, in Shanghal, It was decided to hold! mass meetings in Nantao, West Gate and Chapel at 1 pm on September 20 to give public, ex- pression to the demand for tariff autonomy. The different Chinese: newspapers have been requested to publish special issues and the own ers of theatres to lend their stages so that public lectures may be de- livered. Posters will he exhibited by the shops, hotels and tramways and a Nationalist aeroplane is ex- pected to fly over Shanghai 19 dis- tribute literature favouring tonomy. There will also usual soap-box speeches.

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At the Wesleyan Conference at "The Times."Your leading arti- cle on shorts is most timely. No Bradford on July 16 the Rev. C. W. lawn tennis player need hesitate to Andrews, sen. secretary of the start the new fashion on his sum-Wesleyan Missionary Society, said mer holiday; he will never return that there had not been a Chris- to the old, cumbirous style. I have tian débâcle in the Far East. Wes- steadily advocated-and myself leyan missionaires had been with- adopted-shorts for tennis and am drawn, but in not a solitary instance immensely impressed with their had missionaries left their stations coolness and comfort. With well willingly or from, fear, but in most made flannel shorts, light stockings reluctant obedience to and a short-sleeved shirt there is orders, and through consideration no need for a dressing gown, either for the Chinese Christians, whe in garden or in club. Running would have been seriously endan- shorts and socks plus dressing gown gered by their continued presence. might be reserved for strenuous Reports received by him that day tournaments. The main difficulty showed that the situation was very is to overcome that tyrant, conven- bad in Central China, but in the tion. In some tropical places, men South the Wesleyans had left who wear shorts all day actually skeleton staff, and all the mission. submit to the discomfort of long aries would return as soon as con-

sular permission was received. trousers for a game of tennis!"

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

The Harbour Master at Malacca is to be also Coroner for that Settle- ment.

Mr. H. N. Ferrers, who has just returned from a trip to China, is leaving for Home.

Mr. F. G. Finch, State Engineer, P.W.D.. Pahang, is on a brief visit to Singapore accompanied by Mrs. Finch.

Miss M. G. Birlingmair, of the staff of the Anglo-Chinesc School, Seremban. is spending a holiday at Taiping Hills.

By the "Athos," Father Moreno,: assistant to Father Ouillon, at the Mission Etrangeres in River Valley Road, Singapore, comes to Hong Kong to study Chinese,

Mr. W. P. Millar, of Singapore, was married to Miss D. M. Upjohn, formerly of the nuraing' staff of the General Hospital, at St. Peter's Church, Sutton-Coldfield, on July

20.

Mr. A. B. Ponniah, Hospital AB- niatant, General Hospital, Serem- ban, and formerly of Klang, is go ing to Ceylon on three months' leave, accompanied by his wife and children. Mr. Ponniah has been in! the Medical Service for 25 years, and this is his first long holiday.

Mr. P. S. Nair, who has been con- nected for nearly fourteen years with Temiang Sungei Kaya estate, Seremban, during which time he has made many friends, has been presented with an illuminated ad- dress from his well-wishers on the 'occasion of his retirement, and also entertained to a tea-party. He is at present at Sungel Patani.

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Mr..G. P. Payton now is in charge of the British Consulate in Osaka,

Dr. Charles D. Leach reports that everything is quiet in Huchow.

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Mr. Wang Pah-chun, Nationalist Minister of Communications, has gone to Shanghai from Nanking.

The death is Captain Martin, ed officer of the son in Tientsin.

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Brig. Gen.. Frank R. McCoy, was sent to Nicaragua to super- vise the election in that rebel- lious country. Gen. McCoy was a member of General Woods stal in the Philippine Islands.2

WBB referred to in two exchanges, one quoting the United Press to the effeet that he had arrived in Seat tle and intended to spend the next Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Hart are several years dredging for gold. in leaving for Taiping, where Dr. of British Columbia. Hart is going to act as Senior Medi- After a few weeks in San Francisco cal Officer, Perak, when Dr. E. assembling his equipment he was to Wood goes Home on retirement, go north, establish his base and put

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The next court of Assize of Singa- pore is to begin on Tuesday, Sept. 6.

The Chief Secretary and Mrs. Peel have returned to Kuala Lum- pur from Kuala Kangsar,

Dr. K. Knoll, of the German Con- been Bulate-General in Kobe, has appointed second secretary of the Embassy at Tokyo.

Mr. F. A. Pledger, director of Messrs. Boustead and Co., Singa- pore, and Mr. B. G. H. Johnson, of the Penang branch of the firm, paidį a flying visit to Kuala Lumpur.

With the death of Mr. J. Spranger Harrison there has passed another of the Transvaal pioneers. He died! at his farm at Bank, between Johannesburgh and Potchefstroom. Mr. Harrison leaves behind him in Johannesburgh

everlasting memorial. Harrison Street was named after him. He was one of the early diggers on the Rand, and could recount many an exciting tale of those adventurous days.

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Mr. Alfred Howe Collinson, C.B.E., M. Inst. C.C., died on June 28, while travelling by train in the Punjab, in his 82nd year. Mr. Collinson, who obtained his training as a civil engineer in the offices of the Great Northern Railway, and served with that company from 1881 to 1889, carried out extensive! railway work for the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway and the Great Central Railway, and from 1908 to 1914 was intimately asso- clated, as engineer-in-chief, with the construction of the Shanghai- Nanking Railway, and the Hankow- Canton Railway in China.

An ex-soldier's bravery was com mended by Mr. Ingleby Oddia at an inquest at Lambeth, on July 7, on William Edward Goldsby, aged 44, of Durand Gardens, Clapham Road, S.W., formerly an accountant with the Standard Oil Co., in Canton. When the war broke out Goldsby re turned and volunteered. In France he was gassed, and, after being re- ported missing, was found to be a prisoner in Germany. He received a bayonet wound at the time of his

his dredges to work, then he would The wedding took place at the capture. He was repatriated, and take a brief vacation in France with Presbyterian Church, Singapore, of for seven years was employed at his family while the dredges did Capt. Alex McKenzie Low and Miss the Ministry of Labour. When it their preliminary work. The other Mona Elizabeth Dean Lyle, who, was suggested that his pension was claimed him as being in Vancouver, arrived from home by the "Morea." to be reduced he was, according to arranging for a fishing trip as a A reception was held at the real, his widow, too proud to accept any- preliminary to going on an extend dence of Capt. James Leighton, In- thing. On July 2, after breakfast, ed lecture tour on behalf of Chang stitution Hill; and afterwards din he complained of headache, and foll Tse-lin, his intention being to adner was served at the Adelphi into a profound sleep from which MR. EL 6. QHIN veeste intervention in China by the Hotel, to which 82 guests were in he never woke. A verdict of death from natural causes was recorded.. big-Powerst

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