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THE CHINA MAIL,

LOCAL AND GENERAL, SOCIAL AND PERS ONAL.

Mr. A. S. Small is to be a mem- ber of the Standing Advisory Com- mittee on the use of opium in Malaya.

Mr. Culver B Chamberlain, American Vice-Consul at Swatow, bas recently been assigned to Shanghai as Vice-Consul.

The Hon'blo Mr. Justice W, H. Thorne who had been sitting at the F.M.S. Court of Appeal at Kuala Lumpur, has returned to Ipoh.

London, Dec. 21.— The death is announced of Sir Frederic Young. head of the salvage section of the Admiralty during the war.

Mr. Henry H. Balch, American Consul at Adelaide, and family, have arrived at Singapore en route for the U.S.A. and will stay there for a week.

It is officially notified that Mr. J. Laycock has been appointed a Municipal Commissioner for the Town of Singapore, in place of Mr. S. Knocker, resigned.

H.M.S. "Wyvern" has arrived at Shanghai from Hong Kong,

Mr. G. L. Ham, Municipal Presi. dent, Penang, has left for Bangkok,

The Exchange Banks will be closed on Monday and Tuesday next (Christmas holidays),

A fancy dress dance will be held at the Central British School this evening from 6.15 to 8 pm

Mr. A. E. Halps, the newly np- pointed Registrar of the Supreme Court, Kuala Lumpur, has assumed duty.

Mr. Frank Garland, of Aylesbury and Nutter, and Mrs. Garland have returned to Ipoh from their holiday at Home.

Suffering Injurie as the result of being knocked down by a tramcar in Connaught Road Cen- tral yesterday afternoon, a Chinese was removed to the Government Civil Hospital.

A Chinese, who this morning ad- The Shanghai and Woosung mitted to Major C. Willson that he Municipal authorities have ordered had returned to the Colony after the workers of the N.Y.K. wharves he had been bared for ten years to resume work forthwith, accord-in 1924, was aen.enced to eight ing to the Chinese press..

months' hard labour and 20 strokes. of the birch.

Dr. Hu Shih, formerly of the Na- tional Peking University, has been lecturing in the Tung Wen Uni- versity on "The Four Great Think ers of Three Modern Centuries.",

The Raja Muda of Selangor has been nominated to be a member of the Council of King Edward VII. College of Medicine in place of the Director of Government Labora- tories, F.M.S.

Chicago, Dec. 21.-The Federal Arbitration Board has granted an increase in wages to engine drivers and firemen of the Western Rail- ways, the average increase being 30 cents A day. The increase affects 55,000 men.

On November 11, before the Royal Society of Arts, Mr. M. M. S. Gubbay, CS.I, C.LE., General Manager of the P. and O. Banking Corporation, Ltd.. submitted paper on "Indigenous Indian Banking,"

King Felsat visited the Jub- marine depot at Portsmouth on November 9, and had lunch with Roar Admiral H. E. Grace, Rear- Admiral of Submarines, who will be remembered as Commodore at Hong Kong.

The Portuguese. transport "Pero d'Alemquer" has arrived at Shang- hai with officers and men to relieve part of the complement of the Portuguese cruiser "Adamastor," now in harbour. She comes from Lisbon, having called at Macao on her way.

The promotion of Messrs F. T. Tree, C. D. Aherne and J. D. Hall to be supernumerary officers in Class II of the Malayan Civil Service is approved, and of Messrs. R. J. Curtis, G. E. Clayton, W. E. Rigby. and R. W. Grant to be super- numerary officers in Class IV.

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Lt. Col. H. W. McCall, C.M.G., D.S.O., commanding The Green Howards, and Mrs. H. W. McCall returned to Shanghai from Peking on the steamer "Dairen Maru" and are residing, as heretofore, at the China United Apartments.

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Mrs. Bernice Ponton, who has boon the personal stenographer to President Coolidge since be 02. tored the Whtis House. She virtually the only person who knows everything about the cor raspondence of the chief executive. She is a native of Maine.

Mr. W. R. Sinclair, C.A., has ar- rived in Ipoh to join the firm of Messrs. Brown, Phillips and Ste- wart.

The many friends of Dr. T. G. MeMartin, who has been ill at Seattle, will be pleased to learn of his convalescence,

It is learned that Dr. (Miss) Minnehan, at present L.M.O., Gen- eral Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, is to be transferred to Teluk Anson.

Mr. W. B. Hall, successor of Mr. Newey as Superintendent, P. and T. Department, Ipoh, has, accom- panied by Mrs. Hall, arrived in Ipoh.

Dr. L. W. Evans, M.O.S.S., has been seconded for service under the Government of Kelantan, with effect from August 15, 1927, inclu- sive, with claim to pension,

Miss A. M. Belton, nursing sis- tor, Medical Dept., S.S., has been seconded for service under the Government of Kedah, with effect from May 28, 1927, inclusive, with claim to pension.

The marriage took place at St. Mary's Church, Kuala Lumpur, ol Mr. C. S. Kinder, assistant Commis- sioner of Police, F.M.S., and Miss Ethel Cadman, of Yorkshire.

Colonial Auxillary Forces Long Service medals have been awarded to: Capt. Tan Soo-bin, S.V.C., Pte. H. R. W. Lobb, S.V.C., Pte, Cheong Chin-heng, S.S.V.C., Pte. Lim Liang-quee, S.V.C.

London, Dec. 21.--Mr. Lloyd George, accompanied by his wife, son, daughter and daughter-in-law left London to-day for Rio de Janeiro. The party are expected to return London on January 25.

Che Tom, the wife of Zain Ariffin, and Acting Head Mistress of Kam- pong Bharu English Girls' School, Alor Star, will be relieved by Miss Waddel on her return from leave. CheTom is the daughter of Dato Abdul Razak, J.P., M.S.C., I.S.O.

Mexico City, Dec. 21.-Using a Fairchild cabin monoplane, which he had never seen before, Lind- bergh took President Calles and General Obregon on their first aero- plane trip. Both were very en- thusiastic regarding the experience. Subsequently, the United States Ambassador to Mexico, Mr. Dwight) Morrow, also ascended.

An Indian Sergeant and two In- dian constables, who were yesterday charged before Mr. W. Schofield with the theft of a goat belonging to an Indian warder of the Laïchi- kok Prison, were discharged by his Worship because there was not sufficient evidence to prove that the gont the accused were seen with was the one which had been stolen from the complainant.

The Bishop of Singapore an- nounces that, acting on responsible advice, he is causing a Galling Book to be placed in the office at Elshops bourne with + directing sign- board. It is hoped that this ar- Staff Captain and Mrs. Arthur rangement which should be in Ludbrook of the Salvation Army, operation in a few days' time will Mr. Toshio Kimbara sub-manager left Shanghal on the s.s. "Khiva" be a convenience to callers, as well of the Singapore branch of the for Bombay last week. Staff as an assistance to the Bishop by Yokohama Specie Bank has been Captain Ludbrook prior to coming supplying him with 2 record of appointed Agent of the Semarang to Shanghai held important posi- addresses. office and will therefore cease to tions in Peking, and was latterly: sign on behalf of this branch. Mr. the manager of the Salvation Army Takao Misawa has been. authorised trade and publishing in the capital.

London, Dec. 21-Early this to sign per procuration manager of

On coming to Shanghai In April he morning a rapid thaw accompanied the Singapore office.

arranged for and then took charge by sleet set in London and over of Salvation Army activities for Southern England, Rain at Arst Service men, at the Red Shield, 68 turned to ice on the frozen ground Carter Road. The Staff-Captain and for a few hours roada and pave- goes to India to be Financial Secrements were so slippery that early tary for the Salvation Army Weat- Later, the thaw became more pro- morning traffic was disorganised. ern Territory with Headquarters at nounced and traffic resumed Bombay. The many friends of mal. Snow is falling heavily in Staff-Captain and Mrs. Ludbrook the Peak District and will wish them well as they leave rorthern areas. Shanghai for their new sphere.

Mr. H. Bos, the Netherlands Con- sul and Senior Consul's Deputy at the Provisional Court, left for Hong Kong, to which place he has been transferred, by N.Y.K.S. "Hakozaki Maru." He is succeeded in Shanghai by Mr. J. Van den Berg, who, for several years, was Dutch Vice-Consul and Mixed Court) Assessor in Chinese civil-cases.

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Six European children from The news has been received by Highland School, Sumatra, on their cable of the death in London on the Mr. R. S. O'Meara, Canadian way to their homes in the F.M.S. 5th inst. of Mr. Frederick Butler Government Trade Commissioner for their Christmas holidays, ar- Madden, who was one time manager for the Middle East, with head rived in Penang by the "Kuala," of the Ipoh Marble Works. Mr. quarters at Batavia, Java, who left says the "Pinang Gazette." Here, Madden went to England during the Java for Canada in April last, has observes our contemporary, we have War and obtained a commission in recently completed an extended tour an object lesson which teaches us the Labour Corps, was wounded of the Dominion, and is due to re- the imperative need for hill schools In France, and invalided to Eng- turn to Java in the early part of for children in Penang and the land. In 1919 he was repatriated January 1928, Mr. O'Meara will be F.M.S. As it is, parents have to to Malays but went shortly after- passing through Singapore late in go to the Dutch East Indies to keep wards to Ceylon, whence he retired December.

the home together; when we are to live in England. alck we have to go to the Dutch East Indies to recuperate our A new

aspect of the sampan health; when the surgeon's aid is Resealing of Testament-Testa- navigator's life can be viewed al- necessary have to go to the mentor in respect of the will of Mr. most any early forenoon these Dutch East Indies to find him. It William Inglis, late of the Hong December mornings. from the Gar is a satire on British enterprise Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor- den Bridge, Shanghai, when more which might amuse a sardonic old poration, who died at Cupar, Scot than three-quarters of the sampans Jew; but brings tears to the eyes granted to Mr. G. G. N. Tinson, at- land, on January 29, 1927, has been lying in Soochow Creek find them- of our guardian angell

torney for Baring Bros, & Co., Ltd., selves marooned on the mud to await the turn of the tide. Only a

No. 8, Bishopsgate, London, who At the Kowloon Magistracy yes are the executors and trustees. narrow channel close to the Bund terday, Mr. W. Schofield Imposed a Hong Kong estate is valued" at Gardens makes traffic possible dur- fine of $25 on a Chinese who are $41,800, and there is also estate in ing certain hours of the morning, convicted on a charge of assaulting Scotland valued at £122, in Eng: The amphibian quality of the eam an Indian guard on board the 5.8. land valued at £80,550 and abroad pan is aptly demonstrated.

"Linan" on Tuesday night. ∙An valued at £855;

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Rear-Admiral Stotz, the new guard, and sign a bond to be of Resealing of probate in respect Commander-in-Chief of the French good behaviour for 12 months. of the will of Mrs. Elizabeth Squadron in the Far East, arrived From evidence. given by the pro- Raumann, widow, late of No. 21, in Hong Kong yesterday aboard the secution, the accused boarded the Mount Ephraim Road, Streatham, cruiser Jules Michelet" and paid "Linan" from a sampan and was Surrey, and formerly of "Antwerp an official call, on H.E. the Gov ordered off by the guard. Later House, No. 106, Oakfield Road, ernor. He was met at Queen's Pier the accused returned to the ship Croydon, Surrey, who died on Dec- by a guard of honour from the armed with a chopper with which ember 22, 1928, has been granted to KOS. Borderers, under the com- he inflicted a wound across the Mr. G. G. N. Tinson, the attorney of mand of Capt. Staunton, with brass Indian's hand. The defence was Mrs. A. J. F. Tilby, the sole execu band and pipes, Capt. Whyte, that the guard demanded $1 from tric named in the will. Testator A.D.C., met the visitor and accom the accused before he would be alloft $45,200 in this Colony, and panted him to Government House, lowed to sell congee on board the leaves all her estate to Mrs. Tellb An official dinner to welcome the ship, and subsequently the guard who is her daughter, dnes Wigs Admiral was held at the French threw coal into the accused clboat, sideslat No. 21,

Consulate yesterday eveningger bra karaokiaStok 25.

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