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Bayambang, Pang, Nov. 27.-The The Clergy of the Diocese of Sin- privilege of exploiting the fisheries gapore have presented Bishop owned by this municipality was Roberts with a Pectoral Cress. auctioned off yesterday, Gonzales, This was made for the Bishop by Agullar and Nepomuceno carrying the Warham Guild. oit the privilege with a bid of P90,000.

GENERAL, SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Colombo, November 24-Follow ing an outbreak of plague in the Kandy Club, five Europeans and 29 native servants have been segre- gated in barracks as indirect con- tacts. The Europeans include the chairman of the Kandy Municipal Cownell.

The First Church of Christ, lentist, announces 1. Free Lecture on Christlan Science to-day at the City Hall, The lecture will be given by Dr. John M. Tutt, C.S.B., of Kansas City, The public is cordially in vited to attend.

In the Straits Settlements during the quarter ended, Sept. 30, Inst there were 35 verdicts returned in the Coroner's Court, Singapore, of culpable homicide amounting to murder, two in Penang and the Dindings, two in Malacca and one in Province Wellesley.

Santiago, Chile, November 25.- An earthquake and fidal wave in the region of the river Aysen, in southern Chile, is reported to have destroyed the small ports of Perez and Rosales.. Several vessels were carried hundreds of feet ashore by the rushing tidal wave. No casualties are reported..

San Diego, Nov. 26. The Navy Department bas ordered 600 marines to-day to replace those who are in Hawaii and China whose term of service will expire at the The marines end of the month.

will sail for the East in January, 200 of them to stop at 'Honolulu and the rest proceeding to Shang- hai .

In the presence of a crowded con- gretion the wedding took place on Nov. 24, at St. George's Church, Penang, of Nancy Frances Norma Dennys, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Dennys, of Penang. who may be counted among the oldest European residents, to Eric Entwistle Watson Sandilands, Bat- tery Officer Commanding the Chin- ese Volunteers.

The death took place on Novem- ber 22 after a short illness, at Kuala Kubu Hospital, of Mr. A. S. De Cruz, chief. clerk, P.W.D.. Fraser's Hill. The deceased had been a P.W.D. worker for 17 years. There was a large gathering of friends from Fraser's Hill and Raub at the funeral, which took place at the Roman Catholic Ceme tery, Kuala Lumpur.

Moscow, November 27-Reports emanating from Roumania to the effect that the Ukraine areas are in revolt were characterised to-day in authorised Soviet quartera as "falsified lies." The reports have painted terrible pictures of murder and anarchy, with hundreds of soldiers and civilians locked in desperate street fighting and can- non mowing down the crowds.

Honolulu, Nov. 27-Naval au- thorities are arranging impressive martial funeral services for the late Lieutenant Commander M. B. McComb, commandant at the Pearl Harbour Naval Station, who was killed when his aeroplane fell into the sea off Koko Head yesterday. The body was taken ashore at Quarantine when the Malolo, to which McComb was giving a "send- Following off" returned to port. the services here, the body of the late commandant will be shipped to the mainland United States.

Mr. E. W. Latle, manager for South China of the Facific Orient Lines and Columbia Pacific lines. arrived here by the "President Madison" on a short business trip.

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1927.

For stealing a singlet from the GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.

garden of Mr. A. J. Kew's house, No. 62, Kowloon Tong, a Chinese was yesterday sentenced by Mr. W. Schoßfeld, at the Kowloon Magistracy, to six months' hard labour.

Pittsburgh. While the palatial home of Mrs. William Penn Snyder was closed during the summer months, a gang of boys broke in and sold $25,000 worth of furnishings They wrecked a Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jenkins ar-to Junk men. rived here by the 8.A. "President $15.000 pipe organ and sold the Madison," Mr. Jenkins is one of metal as junk, the proprietors of the Commercial Boiler works of Seattle. He and his wife are on a world tour.

A bills to be introduced into the Singapore Legislative Council pro- viding for the admission und de-I tention in a Reformatory School of A 68-year-old Chinese was yes-children found to be youthful terday removed to the Government offenders or destitute not only from Civil Hospital suffering from any of the F.M.S. but also from any juries to his, hend received na the Malay State under British protec-j result of being knocked down in tian. Des Voeux Road West by a tramcar.

Brisbane. Customs searchers seized about 700 birds on board u steamer, which were secreted in boxes" and cages in the coal bunkera. The birds were liberated. The vessel was on route from Melbourne to the East. Export of birds is prohibited by law.

Suffering from a wound on the right wrist caused by being struck with a chopper In the course of a fight with two of assistants, a shop coolie employed at No. 102 Des Voeux Road West was yesterday re- moved to the Government Civil Hospital,

ver thirty years of faithful service with the Canadian Pacific Ex- press Company was handsomely re- cognized recently when Samuel Nightingale the longest-service driver of the Company was presented with a substantial purse of gold by his fellow employees on the day of his retirement. The presentation took place at the headquarters of the Ex- press Company in Montreal, the purse being presented by W. A. Clark, general agent of the Express Com- рапу.

From the seat of his wagon during the past quarter of a century "Sam" Nightingale has watched the old city of Montreal grow older and higher. For back in those daya of mud roads, sky-scraping office build- ings were not on the building pro gram as they are today. Mr. Night" ingale took hold of a hard route. recognized the most difficult in the city and made it pay. Faithfulness and efficiency are outstanding quali- ties of Mr. Nightingale and it was these qualities that proved an asset to the Company be served for so many years.

It is interesting to record that the horse Mr. Nightingale drove for many years is still in active service on the street. "Babe" is the remarkable mare that has been hauling the Com- pany's wagons for 19 years and is still as sound as a two year old. No doubt Mr. Nightingale will heave deep sighe when he spies "Babe" on duty in the stracts of Montreal,

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New York, November 30.--Sup. pression of the recent revolt Ukraine cost 5,000 lives in three months' of fighting, said a dispatch to-day from Kishineff to the; "Times" here.. The dispatch told of massacres and steel clashes in towns along the Dniester river. It largely confirmed recent dis patches to the United States that Soviet reinforcements had spent a fortnight in ruthlessly crushing the revolt, to the disaster of the revolutionaries.

It is said, according to the "Malay Mail," that an influentially sup- ported company has already been formed in Malacca, to take the place of the "Malacca Observer." which will cease publication at the end of the year owing to the fact that the firm which has printed it up to the present is unable to tinue doing so and there is no other printing press available. This new paper, which will be illustrated, will, it is hoped, make its appear. ance with the New Year,

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Manila, December 1.-Lt. J. A. Xeres Burgos, brother of M. X. Burgos, Jr., general manager of the "Philippines Herald." died on Tues- day at midnight in Baguio where he was stationed. The serious illness of the deceased was reported here by telegram on Tuesday afternoon and a brother at once proceeded to Bagulo to see him. Captain Olimple, constabulary physician, was also dispatched to his aid but to no avail. The deceased is sur- vived by his wife and two child-

ren.

The steamier "President Madison" brought to Hong Kong yesterday the members of a Temple Tours party returning from Manila. They will proceed around the world following several short tours through south Chins. The party comprises:-Miss E. K. Armstrong, Miss H. Boettger, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Hall, Mr. and Mra, O. C. Kingsley, Mr. E Lewis, Mrs. H. F. MacGregor, Mr. A. K. Peck (manager), Dr. and Mrs, L. H. Reichellerfer, and Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Robertson.

Thomas Earnshaw, new mayor of Manila, was Installed at 10 o'clock Thursday last at the, city hall. Simplicity marked the induction into office of the new city executiveļ whose appointment as major has been highly commended by the public through the press. The ceremonies were held at the session hall of the municipal board. Judge) Revilla adminstered the oath of office. Bienvenida Tan, president of the municipal board, delivered a speech, after which the acting mayor, Santiago Artiago, also spoke.

London, November 15.-Ladies' The legality of the Socialist

legs are alimmer, declare the makers Birkenhead Council requiring cor-j Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2,095, of Wellington boots. One manufac poration employees to join trade situated at the junction of Mong-turer in an interview, said "I unions is shortly to be tested. A

kok Road and Tung Choi Street, should affirm without hesitation writ, dated October 20, has been having an area of 4,464 sq. ft. was that within the past ten years girls' undoubtedly become served on the corporation by sold at the upset price of $8,928 legs have former employee named Stafford, at the. P.W.D.. yesterday.

The slimmer." "I think I will be who was in the electricity depart land is held for a term of 75 years agreed that the present-day girl ment. He alleges that he was sum- from date of purchase with the has an all around slimmer physique marily dismissed because he was not a member of a trade union, and option of renewal for a further than her grandmother had, and I term of 75 years. The purchasers should say that this is probably that the continuance of his em- were Messrs. Hazeland and Gon- due to the greater amount of out- ployment was conditional upon his olla on behalf of Mrs. Tong Chau- door exercise which girls take to- being a member. He claims that

day. Dancing, and let; do, of shi. the corporation acted illegally.

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Mrs. G. Lawford was matron ok

Berlin, November 30-Col. Jose The wedding of Mr. William

Altoona, Pa., November 30,- Herbert Page Hall, of Sedenak Tarafa, head of the Cuban augar Vicente Villamin, Filipino lawyer estate, Johore, and Miss Ruby defence committee, to-day conclud-speaking here to-day before a masa Cade, who recently arrived from ed his negotiations with the Ger- meeting of business organisations, Home, took place at St. Andrew's man. Polish and Czecho-Slovakian charged that a combine of "power- when the agreement ful Cuban-American sugar capital- Cathedral, Singapore, on November interests 28, Archdeacon Swindell officiating, reached in Paris last mouth was lots and their natural business ad- ratified. The Hungarian producers veraary, the domestic cane and beet honour and Mr. J. E. Richard wasbers of the agreement. The execuing for a restoration of the reatric also have agreed to become mem-

sugar producera," were campaign- best man. The bride, who was

which given away by Mr. Miller Mackay, tive council to be appointed to looked charming in a dress of ivory carry the agreement into effect is georgette with inlets of old lace, to meet here next month. and a tulle embroidered veil She carried a bouquet of white lies. Her going away dress was a shell- pink jumper suit,

tions on Philippine sugar were removed with the adoption of the Jonos law in 1916 He de. clared that a restriction of the Philippine sugar output would Manila, December 2-An in-boost the price of the commodity crease of P2,000,000 in the re- to the American consumer. venue of 22 provinces for the last.

10 months ending October 31, 1927, The little-known fact that King compared with last year's similar, Manila, December 1-Though 82 Edward_kept a canoe on Virginia perfod is shown in 'reports of pro-cabin passengers sailed from Hong Water, Surrey, is recalled by a re-vincial treasurers recently received Kong for Manila on the "President cent meeting at the Ship Restaur at the executive bureau. The total Madison, American Mail Einer, 88 ant, Charing Cross, S.W. of the collection for the period under re-arrived yesterday. The new addi- Royal Canoe Club. The club was view. In 1927 WEB P22,188,186.61 tion to the ship's roster was Miss founded in July 1866 by John while in 1920 it was P.20,786,582.86. Maria Teresa Cay. The young MacGregor (Rob Roy) and given a The insular internal revenue col- lady is now three days old and was royal warrant in 1873 by Quean lected in these 22 provinces report born to Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Gay, Victoria The Prince of Wales Is ed was P.6,779,111,67. Collection | Manila residente, a few hours after commodore of the club, whose mem- on real property tax was P.5,203, the Madison had left, Hong Kong. hership of about 200 includes Bri- 474.18 and on cedulas P2,414,511.50. The mother and the baby are still tons in India, Egypt, Cyprus, and The increase in this year's re- under the care of H. B. Cochran, the Canada and seven women members, venue is due to collections on mis- ship's doteor.The party of around- The meeting was addressed by a cellaneous items and on real pro-the-world tourists are travel veteran of canoes, Mr. E. B Tred-perty taxes in arrears paid this ling under the auspices of the wen; who is 74 years of age.age year, ro

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