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LOCAL AND GENERAL SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

London plays and the tendency of the stage were subjects discuss, ed at a meeting of the Bishop of London and the Lord Chamberlain..

Mr. E. P. Welby, of Johore, is go-1 ing on leave by the "Antenor."

The P. & O. 8.s. "Mantua" from Hong Kong arrived at Marseilles on January 8, at 7 a.m. T

Lady V. Fielding teft Hong Kong on Saturday, sailing on the which 18

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The Crystal Palace trustees have bound for Home via Singapore. decided to ratify the contract made with the Greyhound Racing Asso- The theft of a tin box contain-ciation to allow dog racing. ing $2,850 In notes, and $100 in. small money was reported stolen, Lady Barton of Shanghai and the from No. 32, Tung Street during the Misses Barton were on the "Morca" week-end.

which passed through Hong Kong during the week-end, bound for

A free fight in which eleven Chi-Home, nesa took part at the West Point 2, Queen's Bulldings.

Market last night, resulted in a coolic being seriously injured. He was removed to the Government Civil Hospital.

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Lady Eardley-Wilmot, of Healey. on-Thames, was awarded the prize for the best cat in the National Cat Club's show at the Crystal Palace.

There will be a lecture at the Helena May on Monday, January 16, at 5.80 p.m. The subject is "Fra Angelico," by Father Finn, 3. J.-Advt.

Vovey, Jan. 8. The chocolate arms of Peter Cailler and Kohler are negotiating for fusion with Nestle on the basis of an exchange of four Peter Cailler-Kohler shares for one Nestle share-Reuter.

Mr. W. C. Gerrard, who has for The King has approved of the some years been Assistant Super- following-Mr. Katsujiro Tamaki, intendent of Police in the New Ter-se Consul-General of Japan at Sin- ritories, sailed for Home by the "Morea" on Saturday.

At Sunday evening's public meet- ing of the Hong Kong Lodge of the Two men were injured when a Theosophical Society at Lane, G-wheeled lorry dashed down a Crawford's reserved lounge, Mr. ateep hill in Birmingham at 30 John Russell gave an address on "A miles an hour and wrecked several Spiritual Awakening."

vehicles in its course.

Becoming suddenly insane on

Instruction to stop all carol Saturday night, a Chinese carpenter singing and playing until a week cut himself with a sharp knife, before Christmas was given to the sustaining seventeen wounds before police by the Leighton Buzzard, he was disarmed. He was taken to Bedfordshire, magistrates. the Government Civil Hospital.

A ton and a nif of babies--520 The forthcoming marriage is an-have been brought into the nounced of Mr. H. G. White, en-world in this home during the past gineer's draughtsman, of 3, Tan-year, said Mr. F. Prentice at the tallan Terrace, Kowloon Dock, to annual meeting of the Ipswich Miss G. L. Woolley, of the Vacuum Nurses Home. O Co., residing at 565, Nathan Road.

The command of the aircraft-car- rier "Hermes”. changed. hands on Dec 2, Captain Ralph Eliot, C.B.E., being succeeded by Captain Geoff

gapore; Mr. Sakujiro Kuhihara, as Consul of Japan at Bombay; and Senor Don Eduardo Gallardo A, as Consul of Chile at Hong Kong.

Mr. D. Hillary, who has been promoted to the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police, in ex- leave. pected to return from It is understood that he will be posted to Sungei Patani to relieve Mr. E. Cheers, A.C.P., Central Kedah, who is going on leave.

Dr. Wang Chung-hul, Nationalist Minister of Justice, left Shanghai for Marseilles aboard the M.M.S. "Andre Lebon" on his way to The Hague, where he will sit as Chinese member on the Bench of the Inter- national Court of Justice, Sir Wal- ter Bartelot was a passenger on the same steamer and he is on his way to Saigon.

Mr. G. Appelbaum, Mr. and Mrs. W. Stanton Brown, Mr. L. H. C. Calthrop, Mir. E. L. Harrison, Mrs. Lawless and Colonel S. Thunderrey Hopwood, C.B.E., from Chathamnichi," negotiations are afoot for were among the passengers who landed at Hong Kong from the s.8. "Morea" on arrival from the North.

Barracks. The "Hermes" is at tached to the Fleet in China, but is at present at Chatham for reft and recommissioning. She should be out of deckyard hands on Jan.

Mr. Davies, the present Secretary of the Sanitary Board is being 10. transferred to the post of Chief Clerk of the Colonial Secretary's Ofice, and Mr. J. Watson has been appointed Secretary in his place, and Mr. F. D. Angus as As- sistant Secretary:

Yesterday morning's rain caused, a landslide on the Castle Peak Road, between Castle Peak and Chinwan. The fallen earth blocked the road to traffic. Work of remov- ing the obstruction was started immediately, and it should not bo long before the road is re-opened.

Captain E. W. Morris, of the In- dian Army Service Corps, and Mrs. Morris, left for England on Satur-! day, sailing on the "Mores." Cap- tain Morris was an Interport cricketer and golfer. He was one

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of the "advance" officers sent Shanghai to prepare for the arrival of the (British) Shanghai Defence Force.

The annual congregation for the conferring of degrees will be held at the Hong Kong University to- day, at. 5 p.m. There will be the customary procession, and speeches by the Chancellor of the University (H.E. Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.), Į and the Vice-Chancellor (Mr. W. W. Hornell, C.LE.). Tea will be served at 4 p.m.

Mr. Tang Shiu Kin has been elected Chairman of the General Committee of Tung Wah Hospital with Mr. Lo Yin Nin and Mr. Ng Wah as Vice-Chairmen. The Tung Wah Hospital has a big extension programme ahead of it. This year it hopes to build an annex at Soo- kumpoo at a coat of several hundred thousand dollars,

King George, who has startled Home Lady Maud Carnegie, niece of

society by running a poultry farm at Elsick, where her husband, Lord Carnegie, is interested in dairy farm- ing. Princess Maud, as she was known before her marriage, is a daughter of Princess Royal and the late Duke of Fife. ·

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Hong Kong passenger's on "Mores" when she left Hong Kong

According to the "Osaka Mai- athletic contests between France and Japan to be held next autumn in Dairen and at Tokyo or Kyoto after the International Olympic Games st Amsterdam. The French delegation is expected to leave Farts on September 1 and arrive at Dairen, via Siberia, a fortnight Inter...

The 8.8. "Takasago Maru” coming up-river took a sheer when off Pootung Point and headed straight for the Nanking Road jetty. At one time it looked as though noth- ing could prevent the vessel crash- ing into the small, craft lying off The Bund, but she was brought to a standstill and manoeuvred with- out mishap and eventually proceed- ed up-river.

Sixteen arrests have been made by the Chinese authorities in con- nection with the shooting affair in Chapel when a Merchant Volunteer! was shot dead, and many others, including several other volunteers, civilians, and members of an armed robber gang of about sixty, were wounded, as the latter engaged with the volunteer when he sought to frustrate a robbery which they attempted.

Complaints have been received by the Stowards of the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club of needless damage to market-gardens and crops by spectators, riders and mafoos, at the start and finishes of hunts, Cross-country riders and spectators at hunts are requested to do all in their power to prevent the inflletion of such damage upon the country people, and to report to the Stewards all such instances as may come under their notice,

The firm of Joseph Travers and Sons, which has a connection with Malaya dating back to 1889, makes the justifiable claim to be the oldest on Saturday for Singapore and house trading uninterruptedly in London via Suez included Mr. T.

The traditional celebration of Carson, Mr. G. E. Clayton, Miss C. the City of London. It is believed the Russian New Year, under the Ferguson, Mr. B. Flaherty, Mr. to have been founded about the auspices of the Union of Russian R. L. Goodacre, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. year 1666, the date of the great fre Army and Navy men and the Rus-Leddra, Mr. G. B. Milne. Mr. P. J. of London, Bian Benevolent Society, will be O'Neil, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Powell, held on January 18 at the Majestic Mr. H. H. Scott, Mrs. D. C. Spiers; Hotel. It is hoped that, as in Mr. G. N. Syme, Mr. J. Tait and former years, this Ball will be a Mrs. E. S. Wilson. complete success. A special ballet performance will be given in addi- tion to other attractions.

and documentary evidence goes back to 1709. It in not generally known that Mr. Bon Travers, the well-known author and dramatist, once worked for the firm in Singapore..

The attention of China Companies

During the week-end, the Fire is called to Section 273. (4) of the Companies Ordinance, 1811, which Brigade received several ealls but Pictures showing for the last provides for the payment of an an- the outbreaks were mostly chimney time to-day, besides "Cheating nual fee at the rate of four centa fires, or in heaps of rubbish and Cheaters" and the Felix cartoon at for each hundred dollars of paid were extinguished with little dim- the Queen's, include "Miss Blue-up capital by every China company culty. In only one instance did the a serlous beard" at the 5.15 and 9.20 per- on or before the 81st day of fire threaten to assume formances in the World Theatre, January in each year. The fee sapost. This was an outbreak and Tin Hats" at the Star Theatre, should be paid in Mexican dollars among some rattan stored on the "Miss "Bluebeard" is a rollicking to the Registrar of Companies at verandah of a house in Wuhu force with Bebe Daniels in the Shanghai, China companies: whose Street, Hunghom. The firemen leading role and "Tin Hats" is al capital is expressed in taels or from the Kowloon Station were comedy of the Army of Occupation sterilng should convert their cap early on the scene, and after a brisk presenting Claire Windsor and tal, in computation of the above fight managed to save the building. Conrad Nagel.

mentioned fee, into Mexican dollars at the rates of exchange provafling Major AF. F. Q: Perkins, M.C., Washington, Jan. 8. The coun- on the day of payment and should R.E., will relieve Major P... W. try is alive with interest in the furnish the Registrar of Companies Justice O.B.E., R.A as General news of the engagement of Prince at Shanghai with a memorandum Staff Officer 2nd Grade at Fort Chichibu and Miss Setsu and the setting forth the rates of exchange Canning. Major-Perkins has had people are not slow to appreciate on which they base their computa the romantic element of the union tion

of a member of royalty and a com

a distinguished career in the Army. He went to France with the original Expeditionary Force, and was moner. Moreover, they suspect the In the Provisional Court before wounded in the early stages of the romance" had its inception in Judge Chau and Mr. Burdett, Senior war. Afterwards he became a Bri- America, Miss Setsu is still only Consul's Deputy, Leer Singh was the gade Major in France, and later in in her sixteenth year, and is plaintiff in an action to recover 8600 Germany with the Army of Occupa acknowledged to be one of the being money lent to one Char Tretion. It is understood that Major most popular maidens in diplomatic kao. Dr. F-Wilhelm appeared for Perkins- is accompanied by his circles.

the plaintiff. After the plaintiff wife,

had-produced the promissory note HET JAA Miss Beswick and Miss Jennings, and proved the debt the defendant Before Major C, Willson, on both of the Church, Missionary said that he bad borrowed the Saturday, two Chinese were charged Society's Victoria Home, Kowloon money from another Sikh and did with uttering forged tickets of the City, were held up by three Chinese not know the plaintiff Id the matter. Hong Kong Canton and Macao highwaymen on Saturday night as His Honour gave judgmans for the Steamboat Company M FE they were returning to the Home, amount claimed with costa. After Nash prosecuted on behalf of One of the robbers was armed with the conclusion of the case the de- Woo Hay Fong, the complainant. a dagger.The three approached fendant was been dragging the Sikh the case, and Mr. Horace

4the two the ladies from the opposite direc who he had alleged to be the real fended one tion, and the man with the dagger plaintiff in the case, through the unreprésen

Dr. Wilhelm protested | states threatened them, whilst the other Court two“ proceeded to rellove the lailles and of their valuables. The robbers was haul fncluded a wrist watch some Judge allver coins and other small articles: defer

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