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GENERAL SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

The Tlong Seng Kok Society of Singapore has been duly registered.

Mr. J. R. Neave, M.6.5.; will oft- The annual general meeting of cinte as Resident, Labuan, as from St. David's Society of Shanghai will | December 28, 1927. be held on Monday, January 30.

The Interport golf dinner is to Mr. J. L. Humphreys, M.C.S., | be

held at Lane, Crawford's Governor of British North Borneo, Restaurant on Monday night, who has been in rather poor health' lately, is coming to Hong Kong,

Mr. H. T. Pogdon la expected in Malaya shortly to join the Agri-] cultural Department.

Mr. Sansom has been appointed manager of Wenrne Brosi, Ipoh, in auccession to Mr. "Ted" Kellar.

Captain Baldwin, of the Ameri- can company, S. V. C., is in Tungiu and vicinity on a hunting trip. He

after serów,

Mr. W. L. Blythe, Assistant Pro-is tector of Chinese, Selangor, is be- ir. A. S. Lilburne, of the Raubing transferred to Singapore, in Australian Gold Mining Co, and Mrs. Lilburne have returned to Raub from their holiday in Europe.

Lieut.-Col. F. J. M. Postlethwaite, O.B.E., late Commandant 9.8.V.F., loft for Home on board the "Moren," having completed his service with the Volunteers.

Col. Tai Shih-fu. Commissioner of Public Safety for Shanghai and Woosung, has issued a proclama tion forbidding gambling by the public during the Chineso New Year holidays,

According to a message from Saigon, M. Poincare will visit Strassburg on February 12 and will dellver an important political speech in vlow of the forthcoming elections in France.

Mr. G. Sturrock has been ap- pointed Colonial Engineer, S.S., with effect from December 80, 1927, and Mr. F. T. Kinder will act as Deputy Coldnial Engineer, also from the above date.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Hulme Sharp, who were well known in Penang during their stay there until shortly after the war, when they went to Malacca, arrived in Penang from Singapore by the "Mata Hari."

Mr. Gordorn Pentney, who has been Sales Manager for the last four years with Messrs. Wearne Bros. Ltd., Ipoh, has taken over the

Cycle managament of The

& Carriage Co. (1926), Ltd., Penang.

Kowloon cinema-goers should note that there will be no movie per- formance in the Star Theatre at 9.15 this evening, as The Academia do Liceu Central will be giving a concert at that time.

The Rev. W; E. Horley, M.B.E., of Ipoh, leaves for Home in March and will be away some time. He has been elected delegate for the Churches in Malaya to the Interna- tional Church Conference in Jeru salem in March.

A Chinese amat employed by à European lady won the "big aween" at the Penang races, thus breaking the tradition that these sweep -stakes should, as a contemporary puts it, be "so monotonously won by wealthy men."

February.

The marriage arranged between Mr. Richard Hope Chappell and Margaret Edith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cortlandt MacGregor, will take place at Hong Kong at the end of February.

Mr. C. C. Hawkes, Manager of the Seremban Branch of E. A. Barbour, Ltd.; and Mrs. Hawkes are shortly leaving Soremban. They expect to go on a tour of America. Mr. Hare, of the firm's Penang office, will take over the management from Mr. Hawkes..

Mr. L. B. P. Sturmer will be leaving for Sumatra to establish branches of the Assurance Franco Asiatique Insurance Company, in the principal towns there. Later he will proceed to Java and will take charge of all the branches in the Dutch East Indies..

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Princess Der Ling, formor lady in waiting to the late Empress Tzu. Hai, iron ruler of China for many years, who declares that companion- ate marriages are nothing new in China, for there the custom ta cen- turies old and is one of the many complicated and varigated marriage Customs.

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Major-General E. Gibb, C.B., will be passing through Singapore on board the "Macedonia" on January 27. bound for Hong Kong.

Mr. M. C. Varughese is joining the staff of the Brickfields Road English School, at the Y.31.C.A., Kuala Lumpur, from February 1.

The Spanish Minister at Poking| is reported by the vernacular press to have approached the Waichipopu with a view to instituting nego tiations for a new Sino-Spanish treaty.

Dr. and Mrs. E. L. Hall gave a delightful birthday party to Misa Rosa Brockman and eight of her friends, at the French Club. All the guests were students in the American School, in Shanghai.

A large quantity of opium seized by the Customs and the Shanghai Municipal Police during the last quarter of 1927 was burned at the Pootung furnaces in the presence; of a number of Chinese and foreign officials.

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Sir Malcolm Watson, panied by Lady Watson, who turned a few days ago from Cal- cutta, where the former attended! the Seventh Conference of the Far Eastern Association of Tropi- cal Medicine, left for Kuala Lum- pur by the 8.8. "Klang."

Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., agents for the Dodwell-Castle Line (James Chambers & Co., Liverpool. managing owners) have forwarded a tasteful, calendar for 1928 de- picting one of the wooden ships of the time of Columbus surrounded by smaller craft of the period.

Should the Colonial Office decide] to send Sir George Maxwell out tol Malaya as Governor and High Commissioner when Sir Hugh bida us good-bye auch appointment would rejoice the people of Malaya as much as did the appointment of Sir Hugh Clifford.-T. O; M."

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Mr. H. B. Roe, of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, who has for some considerable time served the Shanghai Municipal We regret to learn of the death, has given notice of his rc-

Singapore General Has-

is signation. This due to tho pital, of Mrs. Gertrude Jonce, fact that he is leaving for Hume wife of Mr. J. W. Jones, of on leave at the end of this month. the Pulau Brani Smelting Works. The deceased was a daughter of the late Mr. Wemyss, formerly of News has arrived by cable that Penang, and of Mrs. Wemyss, who Mr. C. Y. Kok, who la reading at is now at Home. Her sister mar- Lincoln's Inn, has passed the exam-ried Mr. H. A. Low, of Adamson, inations in constitutional law and Gilfillan, Ltd.-M. M. legal history, and also in criminal law and procedure. He is the third son of Mr. Kok Choong Sun, an old resident of Pudu who is very well known in Kuala Lumpur.

A very enjoyable musicale was held at the Helena May Institute- last evening. The programme was excellent, and the concert proved to

which

Before evacuating Ichang, anys the "Sinwanpao," the troops of Gen. Yang Sen, perpetrator of the Wanhsien outrage, set fire to the city and burnt several thousand houses. Hundreds were reported to have been killed during the indis-! criminate firing by Yang's men or burned to death.

Bishop Grose of Peking and be the best of the season. There Bishop Brown of Foochow sailed The death occurred recently of was a large attendance of music for the United States, to attend the Mr. E. E. Solomon, the well-known lovers who thoroughly appreciated General Conference of the Method- broker, of De Souza Street, Singa- the French modern music

ist Episcopal Church, which will pore. He came to Singapore 80

May. years ago and established himself made up the entire programme. meet in Los Angeles in as an exchange and share broker. The artiates all did full justice to Bishop L. J. Birney will sail two weeks later. A group of Chinese The news will be learnt with regret the composers' work.'

delegates have been appointed and by his many friends and his fami-

soon will sail. liur presence will be missed from the Arcade.---"8. T."

T. J. Falla, a warder; was sued by another Indian moneylender in the Summary Court yesterday. for the aum of $280, money lent under

Mr. A. F. Davies, Assistant Emi-) gration Commissioner, Negapatam,

a promissory note and an L.O.U. is paying a short visit to Malaya

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Divorce proceedings were started in the U. S. Court for China by Mrs. Leonore K. Hartigan v. Mr. Justice Wood held, as in the before reurning to India to act as

Emigration Commissioner Leonard W. Hartigan, an inter- previous case (reported in yester Madras. Mr. Davis, who first came locutory order being granted by day's issue); that defendant was

Honour, Judge Purdy in favour receiving less than $200 a month to Malaya as a planter in 1895, join- of the petitioner. Similarly, an and was therefore protected by theed the Labour Department many interlocutory order was given peti- Public Servants' Liability Ordin-years ago and is a recognised ox-

pert on Tamil labour. tioner in another divorce action ance. Plaintiff was therefore non- Bruce S. Jenkins v. Agnes Ida sulted. Jenkins:

The Shanghai vernacular press A sale of Crown Iand was held describes Judge Paul Myron Line- Before Mr. W. Schofield at the at the offices of the Public Works barger, whose unconsciouly humor. Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, a Department yesterday afternoon ous suggestions for the reform of conductor employed by the Kowloon when New Kowloon Inland Lot No. the U.S. Court for China appeared Motor Bus Company, was charged 1119 was put up for auction. The in

our columns recently, a with the embezzlement of $46.55, area is 3,380 square feet, and the "former Federal Judge in Shang- land was knocked down at the hai." This is quite incorrect as he which represented the takings on upset price, without any advance has never occupied a judicial post his bus on January 23. The accus- being made, the figure being in China. He served for some time ed was alleged to have absconded $3,380, or $1 per square foot. as a Federal Judge in the Philip with the bag of money. after the Mesars. Hui Ka-ting, Ha Ka-pik, pines. day's work. Sentence of six weeks' land Hu Ka-taung, of 12, Connaught hard labour was passed.

Mr. William Wolf, the disabled American soldier who started from Los Angeles three years ago on a walking tour around the world,, is

Road Central, were the purchasers,

The annual general meeting of

Resealing of letters of adminis- the Kowloon British School Former tration with the will annexed, in Pupils' Association was held yes- respect of the estate of the late terday, Mr. G. Franklin Nightingale Mr. Evelyn Edward de Wiveleslia now back in Hong Kong after a presiding, when the following off- Abney, inte of The Holly Hotel, trip to Northern ports and parts of cers word elected: Hon. Sccre. Upminster, Essex, who died at 49, the interior. As already announc- tary: Mr. Hast. Hon. Treasurer: Blackwater. Road, Eastbourne,

Mr. Moses. Committee: Miss M. Sussex, on May 21, 1926, has beened in these columns, Mr. Wolf is Groundwater, Mies E. Woolley, granted to Mr. N. J. Perrin, at undertaking his tour for a wager, India and Messrs. Whitley, Kinross and Hed-torney of Mrs. Florence Bullard and has yet to visit ley. The problem of the Associa- Tod Abney, the widow and re Africa. His stock-in-trade is his tion's future was discussed and it siduary legatee.. Hong Kong voice, and he pays his way by sing- was decided to continue in exist estate is valued at $9,500, and grossing at the places he visits. ence for at least another year. catate in Great Britain at £1,983.

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Attention le again directed to the Evidence, was taken by Major C. Scotland Yard-detectives are en- excellent opportunity afforded dur- Willson at the Central Magistracydenson" wearing gallers and a blue deavouring to trace an, "Arch- Ing the past three years by the yeatorday afternoon in University of London in having its

overcoat, who is alleged to have de examinations held in Shanghai. Chiang Shiu-chui, a Chinese Ser- frauded West End tradesmen by means of worthless cheques. The man's activities were first brought to the notice of the police by a West End tobacconist, from whom he obtained cigarettes, all of the very best brands. In some casca the "archdeacon backed up his chéquos by showing bankers'

La t werk, a matriculation examingoant Interpreter at Central Palice ation was held at the British Con- Station, Is charged with the theft sulato-General, Mr Cameron of two pieces of clothing belonging Potter, appointed by Sir Sidney to a Chinese prisoner who was de Barton. Consul-General, acting as tained in the Police cells on January honorary sub-examiner to the Unf- 6. The case was adjourned until versity. Examinations leading up Thursday afternoon next. Wit to degrees in Arts, Science, Cominesses' deposition yesterday bor drafts, with which he said he was merce, Law, etc., now can be taken out Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse's open about to open a banking account in In Shanghai. The honorary Bacre- tary to the University of London ng atatement of the case at the London. It is stated that, among Society in Shanghai 18 Mr. J. P previous hearing as already report those deluded in this way was an Jones, B.Sc.

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