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Warder G. E. Porkney has been secunded for service with the Johore Government.

Capt. H. A. A. Howell, nasistant Staff Officer to Local Forces, S.S., was admitted to the General Hos- pital.

Mr. A. North, of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd., Mirl, and Mrs. North, arrived from homo leave by the "Rhexenór,"

Mr. H. E. Gillingham, Manager of Broga Rubber Esates, Ltd., Tampin, Selangor, returned from Home leave by the "City of Pekin,"

Mr. K. 5. Nair, Municipal Veterinary Surgeon, is given the powers and duties of Government Veterinary Surgeon in Singapore.

Inspector W. H. Bendio, of the Central Police Station, Inoh, will leave for Tapah to act for Mr. J. Denovan, O.C.P.D., who is lying ill In Batu Gajah Hospital.

GENERAL SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Dr. T. W. H. Burne, M.B., B.S. (London), succeeda Dr. G. B. Pastoy as Chief Surgeon, Perak,

The last of the seven sections of the gigantic floating dock for the Singapore Naval Base has now been launched at Wallsend.

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H.E the Sultan of Parak har accepted the office of Hon. Com- missioner of Police, F.MS.

Mr. W. H. Cordle, of the staff of the Anglo-Chinese School, Serem-{ ban, is being transferred to the Anglo-Chinese School, Ipoh.

Lady Clementi will prosent the Mr. Maurice Maude the well- cups and certificates #t St. known Chairman of the Cicely Rub- Stephen's Girls' College on Speech | ber Estate and other companies, is Day, which la Tuesday, January 17. expected in Malaya Shortly,

Mr. W. W. Hornell, CIE, MA Vlae-Chancellor of the Hong Kong University) will distribute: the prizes on Monday next at 11.30 a.m., at the Vernacular Middle School..

Dr. Richard Paulusz, who re- cently retired after long servico as a-Government medical officer at Singapore, has just come home, and intends permanently settling down in England.

The marriage of Mr. Jack Row Mr. McN. Morren Master of the land Dalton, of Linggi Plantations. 8.5. "Kavong Fook Cheong" resign- F.M.S., and Margaret Kathleen, ed the command of that vessel elder daughter of the late Mr. yesterday morning owing to sick-James, Oliver end Mrs. Oliver, of noss. He has been succeeded by Limavady, Ire, nd, was to take Mr. D. Scully.

place on Januay 2, în Singapore.

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As a protest against the arrest of four members of the merchant vokintear corps, a large number of shops in Pootung closed, The shops were open as usual when the police released the volunteers.

A small Japanese (M.B.K.) steamer the a.8. "Fokuju Mara," was holed by a lighter in the har- bour yesterday and towed Cheung Sha Wan where the vessel was beached. There were casualties.

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Mr. G. E. Vickers, formerly on the technical staff of Malayan Col- lieries, Ltd.. at Batu Arang, who resigned from the company's ser- vice over a your ago, returned to Malaya from Engliad by the "Rhekenor."

The 40th, ordinary general meet- Ing of shareholders of the Hong Kong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ltd., will be held at the offices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on Thursday, February 9, at 12.30 p.m.

Mr. E. Gregson, Engineer, Posts and Telegraphs Department, Ipoh, is transferred to Penang as acting Senior Telegraph Engineer for Pen- ang, Province Wellesley and Kedah. Mr. Buckle, from Taiping. relieves Mr. Gregson at Ipoh.

The wedding of Mrs. Hollinshead and Mr. C. Gordon Osborne will take place at St. Andrew's Cathe dral on Saturday, January 21. A reception will afterwards be held at Balaclava. Nassim Road, the re- sidence of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Sims.,

A now picture of the former Button Mohammed VI. of Turkey, now in exile, who is about to take his tutar wife. His latest wife is none other than the 13-year-old Mllo. Julette Lepeon, dqushie: of a French merchant. The former Sultan was at one time the most married man in the world. baving 'had 600 wives in his harem at one

time.

Lammert Bros. are auctioning a valuable collection of Curios at News has reached London that their Sales room in Duddell Street Baron Matsui, the Japanese AR- on Tuesday, January 17 at 2.30 bassador in London. is expected to p.m. The collection includes old retire in April. It is regarded porcelain vases, Hons, condiment as virtually certain that Mr. sets, jade, agate and ivory orna-Adatchi, the Japanese Ambassador ments.

in Belgium, will shortly succeed Viscount Ishii as Ambassador in

The engagement is announced | Paris. between Walter Sale, Royal Horse Guards, third sen of Mr. and Mrs. At the Marine Court yesterday, Charles Sale, of Aston Rowant before Commander G. R Hale, House, Oxfordshire, and 10. R.N., the master of a cargo boat Chesterfield, Street, and Ismay was charged with leaving port FitzRoy, youngest daughter of without a clearance or permit from Lord and Lady Southampton, of the Harbour Master, and with Rockliffe Park, Darlington.

carrying. 14 passengers in excess of the number allowed by his licence. Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Fairman and Defendant pleaded guilty and was family, well-known Shanghai re- fined $25, or three weeks' hard sidents and prominent members of labour on the first charge, and fined the American community, have re- $70, or ten weeks' hard labour on turned to Shanghai from a visit to second charge. The sentences the United States. Mr. Fairman) were to run consecutively. was formerly President of the American Chamber of Commerce

A Calcutta correspondent cables nows of the death of Mr. Pat Lovett, editor of "Capital," and the oldest European journalist in India.

Major-General Sir`Philip'Mkin- waring Carnegy, K.C.H, who has dled aged 70, took part in the Boxer campaign in China' in 1900 with the Indian contingent.

A marriage has been larranged, and will take place at Shanghai early this year, between Lieut.- Commander C. J. Gordon, R.N. (Rutd.), and Miss Mar Dorothy Burns, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Burns, of Birch Lodge, Wimbledon,

The engagement is announced between William Francis Anning, only son of Mr. William Anning, of Brockham Green, Surrey, and Batty, elder daughter of the late Mr. E. T. Bond, formerly of Can- ton, and of Mrs. Bond, of Thorn- field, Reigate,

Consequent on the departure on leave of Mr. L. H. Elphinstone, the Attorney-General of Ceylon, who WAS to have been a Judge in Malaya, Mr. M. T. Akbar; the Soli- citor-General, has taken the oath as acting Attorney-General.

Mr: Akbar is a Ceylon Malay.

The Hon. Mr. L. H. Cripps, who Is the third son of Lord Parmoor, and a director of the Ocean Steam. ship Company, has been visiting Java ports and Singapore in con- 'nection with the Company's busi- ness, and leaves for Home by the "Patroclus."

Mr. G. C. Brown has arrived in Talping to take over the duties of Secretary to Resident, Perak, from Mr. T. P. Coe, who went on leave by the "Kashgar." Mr. Sydney Smith, acting State Engineer, Perak, and his daughter Miss Valerie Smith, left for Home by the same ship.

Rear-Admiral. George Edward Richards died оп December within two days of attaining 75 years. Entering the Navy as cadet in 1866, he later joined the surveying branch, and from 1873, when he was appointed to the "Sylvia." in China, he held various appointments and commands in surveying ships.

Hirohito, 123rd ruler of the Em- pire of Japan, completed the first year of his reign-the Era of Showa-on December 25. At the same time-the first anniversary of the death of the late Emperor Taisho-the Imperial Court mourn- ing of one year terminated and Their Majesties were freed of re- strictions they had been under for twelve months.

Major-General A. E. Wardrop, upon his appointment as General Officer Commanding, North China Command, had the honour of being. received by the King at Bucking- ham Palace on December 18. Major-General A. E. Wardrop will leave London for China to take up his new command. On handing over to him Major-General J, Dun- can will proceed home and take over the 1st Division at Aldershot `dur- ing February.

The King has appointed Mr. E. H.M.S. "Despatch" Captain R. H. Holmes to be His Majesty's Is Shanghai, and is the manager of B. Ramsay, concluded her second Consul-General for the Consular Dodge Seymour and Company. commission in the Navy since she District of Kanagawa (Yokohama), was completed in 1922 on Decem- comprising the whole. of Hokkaido A debate on the motion "That a ber 12, and concurrently she la (Yesso), the Kurile Islands and Man becomes Rich as a Result of transferred from the China to the Japanese Saghalien, and the Pre- Chance Rather than Ability or In-America and West Indies Station. fectures of Kanagawa, Miyagi, dustry," will take place at Her late commission began on Yamagata, Fukushima, Niigata, the St. Peter's Church Young January 1, 1926, at Hong Kong, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Gumma, Saitama, Men's Club House on Monday,

and thus extended to nearly three Chiba, Nagano, Yamanashi, Shid- January 16 at 8.30 p.m. The years of oventful service. In her zuoka, Aomori, Iwate and Akita, motion will be proposed by Mr. place one of the new county but excluding the Urban Prefec P. Sands, M.A., and, seconded by cruisers, probably H.M.S. "Berture of Tokyo, to reside at Yoko- Mr. T. J. Price, B.Sc., Dr. F. wick," will proceed to China to hama (November 1). Ashton, M.D., and Mr. A. E. Lea Join the Fifth Cruiser Squadron will lead the opposition.

early this year.

The histítution and Installation the Rev. Alfred Swann, M.A., D.S.C..

as Dean of St. John's

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At a meeting of the Kingston and F. B. Kay, a bank manager at District Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Kingston, and chairman of the

The cruiser "Castor," Captain. A. T. B. Curteis, was due to leave Hong Kong on December 14 for Cathedral and Archdeacon of Hong Surbiton Urban District Council, England with relieved officers and Kong, and the Rev. Mok Shau- gave an interesting talk on bank- ari idéa men from small craft on the Chinatsang, incumbent of the Church of 1ng, He said there was Station. She was to conform to the Our Saviour, Canton, as Arch the last century or two, but on the that banking grew, up only" within following programme:-Singapore, deacon of Canton, will take place contrary it was a very ancient pro- December 19-21; Colombo, Decem ber 28-30; Aden, January 6-81 Suez at evensong to-day, at 545 p. fession. There were records of

Prior to this ceremony, a reception bank which existed 'n China 2,000 and Port Said, January 14-15; to. Malta, January 18-22 Gibraltar, Swann will be held in the Cnthe-love that it get into trouble welcome the Rev. and Mrs. B.C, and there was reason to be January 26-26; Plymouth, January dral Hall at 4.30.

The Church 80; Portsmouth and Chatham, as Body extend a cordial welcome to through the issue of too many

notes. ail interested in the work of the Cathedral to be present to-day,

necessary.

Kemal Pasha, the Turkish dicta-

Dr. J. B. Addison, who has re- tor, is not always as black as he The educational classes of the cently been Principal Civil Medical is painted. He confiscated Jesult Y.M.C.A., held a social gathering Officer, left the Colony on Tuesday schools and turned them into bar-yesterday afternoon in the Associa- | on the ground of ill-health. Before racks, and no one believed he would tion's rooms at No. 127 Caine Road coming to Hong Kong, Dr. Addison, pay the compensation prominent when a programme of music was who holds, the degrees of M.R.C.S. under the Treaty of Lausanne, carried out. There was also a de- Eng., and LR.G.P., London, spent Jesuits, however, are famed for monstration of work by the various many years of his life at Seychelles. their patience: is it not a fact classes. Mr. E. Ralphs distributed He was appointed Assistant Medi- that part of their training is to fish the certificates won by members of cal Officer of the Islands in 1907, for hours in empty footbaths the various classes. He em- and in 1908 was made Chief Medi- And their patience bas triumphed phasised the value of the type of cal Officer. He remained in the over Turkish chicanery after nege- educational work which is being Seychelles until 1924 when he came tiations that were spun cut over done in the Y.M.C.A., and con- to Hong Kong, Dr. Addison is 68 eleven months. The representa-gratulated the girls in the Flist and is returning to the Seychelles.. tive has now departed as thin as Ald and Home Nursing classes for Dr. William Brownlow Ashe Moore lath, but with his pockets full their good work. Altogether 41 is now the Principal Civil Medical of Turkish pound notes.

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Canton, during the past week, has experienced a period of quiet such as has not been its lot since General Li Chai-sum left the capital for Shanghai. Now that he is back business is being résumed as before and peace reigns in the city. In the countryside the Kwangsi troops are still chasing the Iron- sides and a fresh outbreak against Cummunists has commenced. Underneath the surface, however, there are many political movements astir, and these are fully dealt with by our Chinese observers and correspondents in this week's "Overland Mail."

On the Yangtze the Nationaliste find themselves internally at loggerheads and externally threatened by an army from Hunan. Hankow, as our special correspondents point out in the "Overland," may at any time prove to be the scene of an armed struggle.

All local events are fully reported in the "Overland," including police court proceedings concerning the charge against two Canton officials of possessing a large sum of money alleged to have been stolen from the Central Bank of China. Politics, it seems, enter into this case, and it is creating an amount of interest,

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