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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Amsterdam diamond merchants have agreed to close down. The crisis is due to the rejection of the Precious Stones Bill by the South African Senate making transactions practically impossible.

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The sum of $532:55 has been. received from the Moslem Debating Association Muar, as a donation to the Malayan Flood Relief Fund.'

Yun Tz-hung, a National army officer, who is alleged to have re- A citizens' committee in San ceived a bribo of $18,000 in con- Francisco la considering the exten-neetion with his official duties, was sion to Australia of the proposed executed near the Shangha! South San Francisco-Honolulu flight, for Station, says the Chinese press, an which a purse of £10,000 is being order to this effect having been raised. Half the purse has al received from Gen. Chiang Kai-

shek. ready been subscribed..

A social gathering will be held in St. John's Cathedral Hall, on Sunday next. September 4, after Evensong (6 p.m.). A cordial wel- come will be extended to. all Ser vice men and others. There will be music and light refreshments,

·About 2,000 employees, led by a band and amidst the explosion of fire-crackers, are reported to have resumed employment at the B. A. T. Pootung factory. Other are expected to return,

The Shanghai Chinese papers say that the military accompanied tax collectors on Sunday, when the latter began the special levy of two months' rent on householders in Chinese territory. It is stated that as much as $5,000 was collect- ed.

Arrested in Nathan Road, Kow- loon, en Sunday, a Chinese woman

When Wong Sih-az was brought was yesterday charged before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon. Magis up in the Provisional Court, Inspr. tracy with the unlawful poasession Clinsold said that, a 10-year old girl of 20 taels of prepared non-Govern-had-boon mortgaged by her mother ment oplum which was found tied to the accused for four years at the round her waist. She was fined annual fee of $65. Accused was $2,400 or; in default, eight months romanded on bail. of $1,000 and the

girl was sent to the Door of Hope. fall.

In the provisional programme of events in connection with St. Peter's Young Men's Club, it is

The Chinese General Chamber noted that the first debate of the

on of Commerce has been notified by i season will probably be held Monday, September 26 at 8.30 p.m. the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition, when the subject in view is "That held in Philadelphia last year, that money is essential to happiness."

A concert party from IM:S. "Despatch" (appropriately named the "Indespatchables") gave an ex- most of the Chinese exhibitors cellent concert at the Canteen were awarded certificates and Theatre. Praya East, Inat night medals of honour, and that these when, despite the inclement wea- are being forwar 'ed to the Cham-ther, there was a fair attendance. Given better wenther, the enter- ber for distribution.

prise and prowess of this happy band of entertainers should result in larger numbers nitending at the repeat performance to-night,.

The Amateur Golf Champion ship of China will be held this year in Shanghai on Saturday and Entries Sunday, October 8 and 9.

Revenue Ofleers searched an must reach the secretary of the Shanghai Golf Club not later than unlicensed sampan in Yaumati Bay noon on October 1, accompanied and seized 70 jars of datiable Chi- by an entrance fee of $8.. Entries nese wine. Yesterday the master of on the sampan was charged before Mr.

The Norddeutscher Lloyd's, or can be cancelled up to noon

the Kowloon September 26, and entrance fees W. Schofield at will be refunded, but after that Magistracy with unlawful posses-ganising the financing of trans- date no entrance fee will be re-sion of the liquor, and was fined Atlantic flight with Junckers planes the German shipping companies funded. The conditions will be 72 $300. Both the wine and the sam-is interpreted as an indication of pan were ordered to be confiscated. readiness to use planes in view of holes, medal.

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A Chinese was yesterday fined service from Germany to North and Sotheby's recently had a two duys' sale of an extensive collec- $3 by Mr. W. Schofield at the Kow- South America as soon as practic. tion of Chinese, Tibetan, and loon Magistracy for gambling on able. Optimistic experts believe Indian works of art, the property the pavement in Wuhu Street, that 1929 will see the realisation

The Hunghom. When searched at the of these plana. of Mrs. E. A. Dulgonan. more important

Police Station, the accused lots included a pair of Chinese polychromaticnine 10-cent pieces concealed in and 25. vases, the sides divided into three his mouth. This money compartments Alled with flowers, cents which was picked from the etc., 221⁄2 in. high-£156 (Han ground, were ordered to be

flacated. cock); and an eight-fold screan, each fold with three panels of black lacquer inat with pietra durs. 1506-1521, 6 ft. high, 14% ft. wide-£102 (Campbell),

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The Water Police have recalved! a report that a. junk was pirated Ac- off Kauchau on August 25. cording to the master of the junk (No. 1732) she was returning to From the following programme Shaukiwas, when off Kauchau she arranged by the Y.M.C.A. special was approached by a sampan con- committee for the entertainment of taining seven Hokio pirates. that the Services, it will be seen

soon as she came within range, the there is to be another big concert at stranger opened fire on the junk the City Hall on Saturday, organis with rifies. As the junk was un- The armed, she was compelled to stop, ed by Mra. Younghusband,

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A picnic for the blind is being organised by St. Peter's Young Men's Club. At a joint meeting of the representatives of the Club and programme is as follows: To-day: Four of the pirates armed with re- the St. Peter's Ladies' Guild, it was At the "Cheer 0": Concert, 7.30 volvers and daggera boarded the pienie by, p.m.; at the "Better 'Ole": Whist junk, and after herding all the decided to provide a

In the aft ransacked the motor car for the inmates of the drive, 7pm.: To-morrow: At the crew Blind Home at Kowloon. Several "Cheer O": Whist drive, 7.15.p.m.; Kentlemen, led by the Patron of the at the "Better Ole": Sing song, 7 vessel, and made a haul of a large Club, Dr. R. H. Kotewall, and Mr. p.m.; Thursday:-At the "Cheer quantity of salt fish, fruits, $215 an iron! Ho Kwong, have placed their cars O": Informal dance, 7 p.m.; Friday: in Hong Kong money, $862 in

Kwangtung silver coins, at the disposal of the Committee.-At the "Cheer O": Concert,

The at $2,135. The Secretaries are soliciting the p.m.; at the "Better.'Ole": Variety anchor and a quantity of clothing loan of a few more cars and concert, arranged by Entertainment valued together chauffeurs. The Picnic will be held Committee, 7 p.m.; Saturday:At funk was sailed to 'Nam-0 where on Saturday, September 10, 1927, the City Hall: Grand concert at 6.30 the pirates took the loot ashore in starting from the Star Ferry Wharf, p.m. Admission: 10 cents; includ- their sampan, and the junk was

released to return to Shaukiwen. at 2.30 p.m.

ing refreshments.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Their Highnesses the Sultan and Sultana of Trengganu arrived from Batavia after a short holiday in Java.

Mr. Justice McCabe Roay return ed from Malacca and will be in Johore Bahru until September 24, When the Muar and Batu Pahat Assizes commence,

Mr. Johan Poulson, supervisor of. the Great Northern Telegraph Co., has returned to Shanghai.

Mr. D. A. Gee, of Batu Gajah, who la now on leave in Cornwall, is to be married on September 20.

NEWS.

Mr. R. S. Burnard of the British Legation, will be leaving Peking shortly to take up aimilar duties ati the Embassy in Tokyo.

Mr. W: F. Arndt, recently trans- ferred from Shanghai to Canton as agent of the Dollar Steamship lines, The engagement is announced be-was a passenger on the "President tween Mr. K. N. Black, of Mans-McKinley" as far as Hong Kong. field and Co., Singapore, and Joan,

A Beethoven monument was un-elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 0. veiled at Vincennes Fark Berlin, Morgenstern of Shanghai. on July 25, by the Minister for Instruction, M. Herriot. The Ger- man Charge d'Affaires attended the ceremony.

H.E. the Governor, Sir Hugh Clifford, states that he hopes to visit British North Borneo early next year when the new yacht which is being built for him will be available.

Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, C.LE, and Mrs. Wodehouse are proceed. ing to Singapore per P. & O. 5.8. "Morea" on the 3rd inatant. They are returning to Hong Kong per P. & O. 8.8. "Nyanza," which is due here about 21st instant.

The promotion of Lieut.-Colonel George Carpenter, O.B.E., D.S.C., in command of the Royal Marine special service in Arriving at Hong Kong on the battalion on "President Garfield" yesterday were China, to the rank of Colonel Colonel B. Sergisen-Brooks, Major Second Commandant is the result Balfour, Major E. Percival Brown, of the vacancy caused by the pro- Capt. Smitherman, Mr. William motion of Colonel Second Comman- Kirby, Mr. A. F. Summerfield, Mr. dant Charles L. Mayhew, of the C. S. Murray and Mr. W. H. Young. Chatham Division.

Amongst those arriving by

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the

The death is announced of 2.3. "President McKinley" from Countess Marguerite Cunliffe- Manila was M. Moiseiwitsch, the Owen, widow of Lord Frederick The world-famous planist. He gave Cunliffe-Owen, ex-diplomat. four very successful recitals there. Countess, on her deathbed, dis- He is on his way to Peking where closed that she was the author of he will give two concerts, after the "Martyrdom of an Empress," which he will proceed back to the the blography of the Empress United States.

Elizabeth of Austria, which was published anonymously.

The American Consulate General in Shanghai is interested in secur

There was a company of about About £30,000 has been left to ing information as to the where 60 present at the Penang Town abouts of Mr. Frank Wintera who Club on the occasion of a farewell her companion, Elizabeth Auld left San Francisco, California, In Craig, by Mrs. Anne Martha Mills April, 1925, and is reported to be in dinner to Captain LR. Lovell, who, after serving as adjutant to the Boyce, of 16, Belsize-crescent; Shanghal connected with some Penang and Province Wellesley Hampstead, N.W., who died last garage. Information to this regard Volunteers for the past three years, March, leaving £45,025, with net will be appreciated. personalty £44,754. She made be- quests to relatives and others- including £200 to the Hampstead General Hospital-totalling about £11,000, and the residue goes, as already stated, to her companion.

la leaving the Settlement to rejoin his regiment. Major G. A. Potts presided, and he was supported by II.E. Major-General C. C. Van Straubenzee, C.B., C.M.G., (G.O.C.

Prominent passengers on the 8.8. president McKinley" from Manila included. Mr. G. P. Bradford, with Struthers & Barry Shipping Coon Malaya.) business trip to Hong Kong; Mr. Joaquin M. Elizalde and Mr. Juan (2: Captain and Mrs. Kenneth G. Miguel Elizalde, prominent augar News-has been received in the planters of Manila on trip to Hong Colony of the death of Mr T. W. Castleman arrived in Shangkel on Kong: Mr. L. R. Ildefonso, with Hill, director of Messrs. Bradley the steamer "President Garfield." Capt. Castleman came from New American Express at Hong Kong and Company and formerly... re- York and will officiate as Chief of Mr. Miguel Romualdez, Mayor of sident in Hong Kong for several Staff of the American Asiatic Manils, on business trip to Hong years. Mr. Hill left Hong Kong Kong Mrs. Dorothy Beck, wife of for health reasons in 1928: He Fleet, under Admiral Bristol, who Major Beck, U.S. Army at Shang died at Aross, Switzerland last is expected to arrive shortly. The hal: Capt. Geo. F. Bloomquest, on Saturday. While in Hong Kong, new Chief of Staff is widely known way to Shanghai: Mrs. Grace. Ar Mr.Bill took considerable interest in American Naval circles and is bogast, wife of sales manager in the ketivities of the Scottish a veteran of the Great War. He Universal Leaf Tobacco Co. of

has an enviable, record as a Naval Richmond, Va., on way to Shang-community and was for a time Oficer. Other American Naval hal; Mr George Epple, going to Secretary of St. Andrew's/Society officers arriving on the President Chefoo to Join U.S.S. Pecos Mr. He was keen and accomplished Garfield" Included Commander C.-W. Gordon, with Canadian golfer, and played in a number of Frank H. Lash and family, Comman-American Shipping Co. at Vancou interport matches Mr. Hill, who der Penn L. Carroll and family from ves, B.C, disembarking at Shang was a son of Mr. Robert Hill, a San Francisco, Lleut Commander hal; Mr. B. Moiseiwitsch, promin governing director of Messrs. CJ. Wheeler, and Lout.-Commanent musician returning from concert Bradley and Co, and a grandson of der A. H. Addoms also from Ban tour of the Philippines; Mr.: Ben- Mr. T. W Richardson, the founder, Francisco Commander Lash will Jamin V. Bush, with Eastman Kodak came to Hong Kong first in 1913 Join Admiral Bristol's staff and the Co. on way to Kobe; Miss Mary after service in Shanghai. He re- others will be attached to the Cunningham, tourist, returning to turned to the Colony after the War 1. 8. S. Pittaburgh."

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