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Miss Maude Royden, the prea- cher, loft England on Dec. 28 on a world tour, including China and Japan,

A debtor in the Northampton County Court said he was the father of 30 children, 29 of whom were girls.

Three hundred and ninety-three deacons were ordained during the year ended last September, 80 more than in the previous year.

Mr. H. W. Looker voted for the new Prayer Book in the House of Commona division, and Mr. Penny, Mr. Campbell and Col. Aplia against it.

Hundreds of banjos were des- troyed by a fire in the banjo- making department of the Decca Gramophone Co., Ltd., in Cranmer Road, Brixton, S.W.

The Duke of York was 83 in mail week.

Mr. J. Stenacher, tide surveyor at Canton, has rotired after 31 years in the Customs Service.

Mr. Yasumaburo Mori, Counsellor of the Japanese Embassy in Romo, has been appointed Minister to Chile.

It is understood that Mr. Justice] J. R. Wood (Puisne Judge) and Sir Joseph Kemp, K.C. (Attorney General) will be going on Home leave at the end of April.

A Chinese woman was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment by Mr. Schofield at Kowloon yesterday for kidnapping a six-year-old girl from the. Un Lee Shipyard, where her father was employed.

Mrs. Woodhouse, of Harrsgate, celebrated her 101st birth-day on Lieut.-General Sir Edwin Alder- Dec. 19, and, judging by her plc- son, who during the war command-ture in the "Daily Express," tooks ed the Canadian Division and after- both halo and hearty. Her grand- wards the Canadian Army Corps, son is Dr. Doppuy, the Bishop of died at Lowestoft aged 38.

Hong Kong.

The following were among the! Fellows elected at the last meet- ing of the Council of the Royal Colonial Institute: Ernest F. Hardman and John F. Pilcher, both of Shanghai.

Mme. de Fleurian, wife of the French Ambassador, and Mlle. de Fleurlau left London on Dec. 15 for France. They will be away about a month. The Ambassador will remain in London.

A late 16th-century morocep French binding, marked with the crowned cyphers of the Medicis, enclosing Giannott's "La Republica de Vinegia" (Lyons, 1559), realised £630 at Messrs. Sotheby's.

Frank Percival, aged 16, of Hug- glescote. near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, was found dead in a garage in which he had apparently been overcome by fumes after starting up his father's car.

The chairman, the Marquis of Blandford, announced a record subscription list of £11,613 at the annual dinner of Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End, of which the Queen is Patroness and Prince Henry President.

F. W. von Prittwitz-Gaffron, new Ambassador to the United States. Before this appointment he was connected with the Ger man Embassy in Italy.

A Musicale will be held at the Helena May on Thursday, January 26, at 5.30 p.m. The Programme will be of French Modern Music. Tickets to be booked at the Secra- tary's office-teas may be had from 4 p.m. onwards,—Advt.

Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippine Senate, who has been on a visit to Washington.'.

The P. & O, n.s. "Khyber" is due here on Saturday with the Home Mail via Suez. Among the passen- gers on board art the following for Hong Kong:-Mr. N. H. Bennett.1 Rev. and Mrs. A. H. Bray, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Coom: Mr. S. W. Cliffe, Mr. J. S. Dykdat. Mr. J. A. Gul braith, Lt.-Comdr. E. C. Hulton, Lieut. J. H. Illingworth, Mr. and Mrs. J. McCormack. Mr. and Mrs. W. Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Taylor, Masters Taylor (two).

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Pictures showing for the time to-day, besides the exciting detective story. "The Pleasure Buyer," at the Queen's Theatre. include "The Lucky Lady," with Greta Nissen and Lionel Barrymore at the World Theatre; and "Aloma of the South Sens," with Gilda Gray at the Star Theatre. ""The Lucky Lady" is being screened at 6.15 and 9.20 only, the picture at 2.30 and 7.15 in the World Theatre being the Chinese drama, "Wong Tin Ba."

The wife of a man in a good position as a shipping agent in China was sentenced at Maryle- bone Police Court on Dec, 20 to three months' imprisonment in the second division for shop-lifting. A detective described her as "confirmed shoplifter." She was Mrs. Annie Tweedle, aged thirty- two. Mrs. Tweedle was alleged to have posed in Oxford Lady Everard Fraser, and was accused

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bassador in Belgium, has heon'ap- pointed to succeed Viscount Ishil as Ambassador in Paris.

Sir Frederick White and the Hon. Bertrand Russell arrived from New York by the Cunard liner "Berengaria" on Dec. 21.

Six tugs were needed to pull clear the Norwegian steamer "Pan" (1,809 tons), which ba: me wedged between two buttresses of London Bridge.

At a party at Nind Home, Singa pore, the engagement of Mr. Paul Thomas and Miss Sylvia Barnes, both of the Methodist Mission, was announced.

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"Truth" acknowledges the receipt | of £26 5a, from the Singapore Turf Club towards the Christmas Toy Fund and a like sum for the Treas Barry Fund.

Mr. F. Wickett M. Int. M.M., M.I.M.E., of Enggar, and Mr. A. G. Story, of Tapah, have joined the Board of Directors of Raja Perak Tin, Limited.

Mrs. Florence May Weeks, aged 37, the wife of the steward of the Shirehampton Golf Club, Bristol, and one of Bristol's strongest swimmers, died after collapsing in the bot mineral baths at Bath.

John Rear-Admiral

Ewart Cameron had the honour of being received by the King at Bucking- ham Palace on Dec. 14, upon re- linquishing his appointment as Rear-Admiral and. Senior Naval Officer, Yangtaze.

The Spanish Ambassador and the Marquesa de Merry del Val gave a dinner at the Embassy on Dec. 15 in honour of the Infante Alphonso and the Infanta Beatrice, the guests including the French Am-

Maurice bassador and Sir

de Bunsen.

A well-known personality of Tientsin, Nr. Marcel Wolfers, who for some years past has been manager of the Tienstin branch of Arnhold and Co., Ltd., left for New York via Mukden, Japan and San Francisco recently to take up a position as Vice-President of the affiliated Corporation in America.

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Rear Admiral Thomas P. Ma- gruder, whose recently outspoken criticism of the administration of the U.S. Navy, in an article bear- ing his name in the "Saturday Evening Fost," caused an uproar.

Two motor-cycles, one driven by by a West London firm of stealing Albert Victor Gwyer, aged 30, of gloves, brooches, and other arth: Downton, Wiltshire, and the other clea. Detective Somerset said that by William Roster, of Great her husband makes her a monthly Bedwyn, Wiltshire, who had his allowance, and that she has two son Stanley as a pillion passenger, children at boarding houses in crashed into one another in the fog England.

near Salisbury, both drivers being killed.

The Cumberland provincial divi- sion of the National Union of Con-- The candle-blowing oath taken servative and Unionist Associations by a Chinese, before. Mr. Justica Mr. F. G. Penny, M.P., and Mrs. has passed a resolution urging on McCardle is only one of the strange Penny, were guests of Sir Row- the Government a reduction of ex- forms of oath permitted in British land and Lady Blades when they penditure and safeguarding of in- courts. Another Chinese method entertained Prince and Princess dustries, especially Iron, steel, and is to break a saucer, the witness Arthur of Connaught at dinner at agriculture.

exclaiming: "If I do not tell the Claridge's on Dec. 16. The party whole truth then, as that saucer went after dinner to a scientific Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the 18 broken, may my soul be broken gathering at the Biddlesex Hos- Home Secretary, and Sir Philip

like it." The Buddhist version pital. * Cunliffe-Lister, President of the runs: "I declare, as in the pre- Board of Trade, had to share bejudiced, and if what I. shall speak and will shortly take place in of Buddha, that I am unpre- A marriage has been arranged, tween them the hand-shakes of 6,000 people who at Olympia, Ken prove false, or if by coleuring truth Shanghai, between David Hulme sington, W.; attended a whist drive others shall be led astray, then Halley, eldest son of George Hulme and dance organised by the Con- may the three holy existences, Halley, of Inverlaw, near Dundee, servatives of Middlesex..

Buddha, Dhamma and Prosangha, and Margaret Maureen Sparke, in whose sight I now stand,to only daughter of Charles Ethelbert gether with the Devotees of the Sparke, of Shanghai, and Mrs. twenty-two firmaments, punish me Sparke, Bexhill-on-Sea, and also my migrating soul."

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Sir Fredric Whyte, the head of the British Delegation to the Hono- lulu_Conference, who is returning

It has been decided to form a to England, after having made a

Lordon Java Association and the study of the Chinese situation, was

"Shanghai Bound," the new pic following officers have been elect- entertained at dinner by the Inture at the Plaza, is a story of re-ed:Mr. E. T. Campbell, M.P., volution and gun-running in China, president; and Messrs. A. E. Veale with Richard Dix as the star. The (care of Messrs. Francis Peek and story is written by Tex O'Reilly, Co., Ltd., 5, Eastcheap, EC.8) and who was a member of the Interna- J. Lamb, hon, secretary and assis tlonal Police Force at Shanghai for tant hen, secretary respectively. two years, and who was afterwards

stitute of Pacific Relations in Now York, an Dec. 13. These were 300 guests, including Mr. J. D. Rock feller, jun., Mr. Newcomb Carlton, and Mr.. Thomas Lamont, “

a drill master in the Chinese Im-

Booking is now open at Moutrie's | perial, Army, Richard Dix plays Dr. Neville Whymant, the Orien and the Star Theatre for "Incl- the part of a captain of a river talist, whose remarkable sittingă dents," the entertaining revue with boat trading on the Yangtze, He with Mr. George Vallantine, the which Mr. Dick Norton's company is a Alm replica of Captain Lalor, American "direct voice" medium, of eleven artistes, the Globe Trot- The most thrilling scene in the were described about a year ago, ters, will conclude their local Sea- picture shows, how he rescues a lectured on Dec. 20 to members of son at the Star Theatre on Friday company of white people from the National Laboratory of Psychi and Saturday next. Incidents" river pirates and then proceeds to cal Research, South Kensington. represents "an entirely new pro-fight his way down-stream. The Gramophone records of the repated gramme which can be relied upon to Chinese background has been voice of Confucius, made in Lord go with a swing from start to faithfully reproduced, and more Charles Hope's flat last spring, finish, Admission is at the popular than 200 Chinese appear in the were played during Dr. Whymant's |prices of $3, $2 and $1.4

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