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·LOCAL AND

THE CHINA MAIL,

Miss Jean Ellen, niece of the Hon. Mr. B. V. Elles, has arrived In Kuala Lumpur to visit Mr..and Mrs. G. W. Bryant.

As the result of being caught by the machinery operating the steam winch, a coolic employed at the Holt's timber dump was killed yea. terday afternoon.

David Moy John, of Porth, Glamorgan, a solicitor, was at the Glamorgan Assizes sentenced to 4 years' penal servitude for fraudu- lout conversion of clients' money.

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GENERA SOCIAL AND PERSONAL,

Mr. T, Burke, O.G.P.D., Sungei Besi, is acting as Police Court Chief | Inspector, Kuala Lumpur.

Whilst a Chinese was walking in Wing Lok Street yesterday his pocket was picked and $400 in notes atolen.

Dr. S. W. Eveson' and Dr. (Miss) K. M. Hyalop have been seconded: for service under the Government of Kedah,

Nice, Saturday-Sazonof, who Minister was Russian Foreign in 1914 and subsequently repre- sented Koltchak in Paris, has died. to Reuter.

The Netherlands Miniator Tokyo, Gen, J. C. Pabst, has arrived in Shanghai on his way to the Duch East Indies.

The Pioneer Silk Store, owing to the pressure of their patronage, have extended their Anniversary Smallpox of a severé type has ce-Sale till the 81st instant. curred at Seghill, Northumberland, a new centre of infection, while more than 20 cases

have been notified from the Nottingham dis trict.

Signar Pirandello, the Italian dramatist, while motoring in Sicily was cut in the face by broken glass when his car, in avoiding a motor eyellst, collided with a rock on the roadside.

There Was a celebration at Northampton of a double wedding of 50 years ago, when Mr. George Manning married Miss Charlotte Anne Barber, and his sister be. came the wife of Miss Barber's brother John,

"It is time somebody paid atten. tion to the fact that any lunatic can go into a shop and buy a sport- ing gun, which is quite as deadly as a revolver, and, go out and shoot," Mr. Justice Swift at Derby Assizes.

The Minister of Health and the Minister of Agriculture have ap pointed a joint advisory committee on river pollution, with Sir Horace Monro, formerly Permanent Secre- tary of the Local Government Board, as chairman.

The "Rodney," the battleship which has cost £7,000,000 and has taken 5 years to complete, has left the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., Bir- kenhend, for Portsmouth to take her place in the Atlantic Fleet.

A Chinese male child who fell on a rice bowl and injured his face was admitted to the Government Civil Hospital on Friday.

Mr. Jack Smith, of Coalville, Leicestershire, until recently the Leicestershire miners' agent, has joined the staff of the Liberal Land and Nation League.

There were 86, deaths from in- fuenza in the great towns of Eng land and Wales in mail week, com pared with. 27, 61, 63, and 64 in the previous for weeks.

Suffering from head injuring re- ceived whilst working cargo

on board a junk in the harbour yes- terday, a coolle had to be removed to the hospital for treatment.

A Chinese woman living at Shau- kiwan was yesterday removed to the hospital suffering from a stab wound on the head alleged to have who has been caused by a man absconded.

Dunlop's Singapore office havo established A new department under the management of Mr. G. B. Page, devoted to macintosh cables and every description of electrical accessory,

Mr. G. T. May's houseboy was yesterday sentenced by Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy to one month's hard labour for the theft on Christmas Day of $100,| the property of his employer.

Mr. S. Saklatvala, the Commun- ist, M.P.. will be opposed at the next Parliamentary election by Mr. W. 3. Sanders, prospective can- didate of the newly formed North| Battersea divisional Labour Party.]

Passengers from Great Britain for Northern Ireland by the L.M.S. route via Holyhead and Kingstown will not, after the end of this month, be required to have their luggage examined by Customs offi cials.

By climbing a high wall in their stockinged feet, Private W. Drew, of the 1st Highland Light Infantry, and Gunner Bailey. R.F.A., escaped from Corunna Barracks, Aldershot, where they were awaiting a court- martial.

The Postmaster-General has is-

using

As the result of a fall from a busued a circular to all head post was in motion on Kowloon City quarto paper instead of foolscap In attempting to alight whilst it offices and controlling offices to

economise stationery by Road, a Chinese received Injuries to the head which necessitated his Paper when dealing with corres removal to the Kowloon hospital, where he died soon after admission.

pondence.

the alterations to rules made neces- Sary by the new Trades Union Act were carried.”

At the close of a private delegate Miss Ruby Wright, of Whit-conference of the National Union of Railwaymen In London, Mr. J. H. stable, Kent, who was reported as Thomas, M.P., said: "The whole of missing while on a visit to her brother in Canada, has been dis- covered, according to a British United Preas telegram. which The "Great Bed of Ware" (men-states that she decided to spend tioned in Shakespeare's "Twelfth

Montreal before Night"), which is in a building ad-some days in joining the Old Rye House at Hed-leaving for Winnipeg.

deadon, Hertfordshire, is included

in the sale of the brewery business

af Christie and Co., Hoddesdon, to

the Cannon Brewery Co., Ltd.

A silver model of the battleship "Ville de Paris" (captured by Ad- miral Hood from the French), which disappeared from Napoleon'a Court, was recently recognised by a French visitor at the Ackermann Galleries, New Bond-Street, W., and it is hoped to secure it for the. Louvre.

Mr. V. Shewaram, proprietor of the Pioneer Silk Store, despatched a cable to Sandringham Palace on Saturday respectfully and loyally ex- tending Christmas greetings coupl- ed with sincere New Year wishes for His Majesty the King-Emperor and the Royal Family,

The driver of public motorcar No. 439 reports that whilst driv- ing along Praya East on Friday near No. 2 Police Station, he ran into, the rear of a tramear. A passenger in the car was injured on the forehead by broken glass and removed to hospital.

Paris, Saturday.The Budget, after going backwards and forwards between the Chamber and Senate, has been defnitively adopt- ed by both Houses by substantial majorities. Receipts total Frs. 42,496,000,000 and expenditure Frs. 42,441,000,000.-Reuter..

The following have been elected executive members of the Tung

Don King, reporter of the "Washington Herald," who posed as a conductor and talked with Edward Kidwell in a soft-drink parlour and obtained from him such information that when pre- Bented to the District Supreme Court caused the dismissal of the Sinclair-Fall of conspiracy jury.

The wedding is announced to Wah Hospital for the coming year: take place on January 3 of Miss Messrs. Ng Wah, Li Yau-cheung, Ngai Ling Chee, eldest daughter of Tang Shiu-kin, Lau Shing-chong, Mr. and Mrs. Ngai Bong Fing of Na Yau-ting, Mak Shiu-chor, Ko Loung-wo, Lo Yin-lin, Weng Chung-to, Li Che-cheung, Li Chak man and the management of the Yick On Bank.

Sir William Davison, Conserva- tive, M.P. for South Kensington, will, in the House of Commons, ask the First Commission of Works if he will consider reducing the charge for chairs in the royal parks: from 2d. to 1d.

with

Li

Following a lengthy conference General Chiang Kai-shek, Generals Li Chi-seng and Toong-zeng left Shanghai for Nan- king by train. The discussion was purely upon military affairs and the anti-Northern campaign.

Mr. Henry M. Hake, assistant in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum since 1914, has been appointed Director, Keeper, and Secretary of the National Portrait Gallery," in succession to the late Mr. James Milner,

Divisional Inspector Frank Page, of the Stoke Newington, N., division of the Metropolitan Police, who is retiring, was, as a member of the Scotland Yard Flying Squad, con- cerned in the case in which Frederick Bywaters and Mrs. Thompson were executed for the murder at Jiford in 1922 of the woman's husband.

Following the conference be tween the Dominion Government and the provincial Premiers, an official statement has been issued to the effect that the Government's future Immigration policy will in- clude the admission of all farm workers and domestle servants from the British Isles without res- triction as to numbers.

A Catalan capitalist group has signed a contract with an Ameri- can construction company for the building of a large dam In the River Tagus, near Toledo. The contract price is 15,000,000 pesetas (about 2530,000). The scheme forms the

8, Lower Castle Road, to. Mr. Lee first development of an electric Shiu Kee. Mr. Ngai Bong Ping supply project for obtaining 500,000

Commissioner of horse-power from the river. Was formerly. Police at Canton, and the bride- groom in the brother of Mr. Lee Shiu Kai who recently married thei A lawn tennis ball "guaranteed uniform in weight, size, bound, at 168, 6d, a and compression,"

Hon. Dr.

A cable from England announces eldest daughter of the that a marriage has been arranged R. H. Kotewall, C.M.C. He is at dozen, is announced by one of the between Mr. J. D. Lloyd and present studying medicine. Dorothea, the eldest daughter of

the

four big arms of lawn tennis ball Mrs. Crowe of Weaton. Mr. John' Mr. M. A. Grant, a missionary Association has announced its

manufacturers, The Lawn Tennis ac- Daniel Lloyd, who has been in the living at No. 13 and 14, Saikung ceptance of a tender for balls from Cadet Service of the Hong Kong Road, Kowloon, reported to

a firm outside the "big four" at Government, since 1907, le on police that during his absence from 16s. 6d. a dozen to the public and leave and is expected to return to the house on Saturday night, 148. 6d. a dozen to affiliated organ-

stranger called, and upon being ad- isations and clubs. the Colony in March next.

mitted by the amah, overpowered the woman and ransacking the The following members of the place, atole a quantity of money

The "Chica Times" published ́al Nationalist Government arrived in and clothing. The thief was sub-telegram from the North Shanghai from Nanking by special sequently arrested by the police, nouncing a victory on the part of AR- train last week-end, according to and at the Kowloon Magistracy yes the Nationalist forces in the Esu an official report:Messrs. Wong Pefterday he was formally remanded chun (Minister of Communica for a week.. tions), Dr. C. C. Wu (Nationalist Minster of Foreign Affairs), Sun

chow sector, as follows:At noon on December 16, the 9th~ Army under General Koo Tsao-dong, cap- Fo. (Minister of Finance), Cheng Mr. Bernhard Baron has given tured Hsuchow and took prisoner a Hung-nien, (Vice-Minister of Fin£50,000 for the rebuilding of the large number of the enmy. The ance), Taal Yuen-hel (President of St. George's Jewish Settlement, Advance Corps is now situated be of Nationalist Univeralties). Betts Street, St. George-in-the-East, yond the Man Tsung Hallway, north

E.When the Prince of Wales of Hauchow."

came to the, settlement a

Miss Annie Esmall and Mr. Usuf months ago," Mr. Basil Henriques, The "Shanghai: Nippo": reports Ebrahim were married at 8, Sing the warden of the Settlement, stated, that as a result of negotiations be- Woo Lane, Wongaelcheong, inac-"he said he hoped we should soon tween Sub-Lieut. Furuhashland cordance with the Mohammedan re- be able to move into new buildings, representatives of the Woosung- ligion. The bride is the daughter. At that time there was no prospect - Shanghal Defence Force, the five of the well-known local share of it, but now Mr. Baron told us wharf coolies who were detained by broker, Mr. H. M. Hajee Esmall he would like to make possible the the Labour | Unions Unifications The bridegroom la with the Civif scheme suggested by the Prince" Committes were released on the Service in Jesselton, British North. It is estimated that Mr. Baron, who condition that Chen Liang, one of Borneo, for which port he will be in chairman of Carreras, Ltd, has the strike leaders who is now “in salling to-day with his bride by the already (given.» away, moray, than foustody on order of the Provisionni

Court be liberated

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1927.

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