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The name of Mr. H. I. K Grabura has been added to the Commission of the Peace for Singapore.**

Mr. George Chambers B.Sc., are rived by the "Macedonia" to Join the Wilkinson Process Rubber Co., ĮLtd., Batu Caves -

Mr. E. P. Grimsdicy, General |Manager for Indis, of the British Thomson Houston Co., la on a brief visit to Ipoh.

The Governor has appointed Mr. F. A. Pledger to be a member of the Board of Visitors to the Lunatle Asylum, Singapore,

Mr. V. Decorha and Mr. A. Theaters have been appointed 'ex- port officers in Penang under the Rubber Restrictica Ordinance,

"Mr. E. J. O'Telly has been ap pointed to offichte as Harbour Master and Assistant Superinten- dent of Government Monopolies, Labuan.

At. St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, Mr. V. A. Mason, of the. Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking: Corporation, was married to Miss Jane Irvine.

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Dr. R. B. MacGregor has been appointed to act as Senior Health Officer, Penang, and Dr. J. C. Carson as Chlef Medical Officer, Malacca.

Members of the West Somerset Funt made a collection for the guard and the engine driver of a trila that was pulled up between. Crowcombe and Bishop's Lydeard In time to avoid injuring hounds, on the line.

Rear Admiral Henry A Wiley, Commander of the Atlantic. Float, who is directing ship, orders and those U. A battlahigs which will accompany President Coolidge on his trip to Havanı, Qube.

Mr. Herbert Hankinson, town

clerk of Northampton since 1902, has resigned.

Mr. A. H. Bassett is going from Hurstpierpoint Celloge to St. Andrew's School. Singapore.

M. F.. V. Duckworth, M.C.S., has been appointed to act as Deputy Controller of Labour, Penang.

Dr A. A. L. Rutgers, who is well known in the rubber plantation world for the research work he has done at the Buitenzorg Station in Java, has been nominated as the new Governor of the Dutch Colony of Surinam

Pedro Guevara, Resident Com misioner of the Philippine Islands,

An agreement for the construe- tion of a sugar factory at Brigg, Lincolnshire, has been signed at the head office of Sugar Industries Auxiliaries, Ltd., London, with the firm of engineers who have secured the contract.

The Athens authorities have de- cided on a atern repression of Communism in Greece, a number of arrests have been made, and the Public Prosecutor has asked sanc- tion for the prosecution of all the Communist deputies on charges of bigh treason.

After holding the post of Dis- trict Grand Master of the District Grand Lodge (Scottish) Constitu- tion, Shanghai, for the past five years, Mr. Brodle Clarke relin- quished the office, and received the following telegram from the Péking Brethren of the District Grand Lodge Massachusetts Con- stitution:--Brethren Massachusetts G. G. L. wish you many happy years well earned rest from your masonic duties after so eminently successful administration affaira Scottish D.G.L. Many more morn-

The death occurred at his reald-ing cups coffee on grandstand.

ence in Kinta Road of Mr. Henry George Kitchen, aged 53 years. He was clerk of works for the Singa- pore Municipality, but daring the 20 years he spent in Malaya he held various posts mostly in connection with planting in the F.M.S.

There will be a late tram to the Peak during the Banvard Musical Comedy Company's season at the Star Theatre. Booking for the seison is now open at Moutrie's and the Star Theatre. The four pieces to be given are “Katja the Dancer" on Thursday night, "Mercenary Mary" on Friday night, "Queen High" on Saturday night, and "Review of Revues" on Sunday night.

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Among the passengers passing through Hong Kong on the M. M. | 8.8 ."D'Artagnan” are Mr. and Mrs. |--

|E. Sigaut. Mr. Sigaut is a Member |

of the French Municipal Council in Shanghai, Ageri General of the Far East for the Messagories Maritimes and Minaging Director of the Societe Klousin. Also ¦ on | | board, passing through, -is‹Mr. { / Flori, Chief of the French Police In Shanghai,

Hi Jasper, Premier of Bel- gium, who has disbanded his old cablat and formed a now one elim. new photograph of the Premier has inating all-radical members. This

just been receiveed in the United. Stater

At the Shanghai Provincial Court two Chinese were each sentenced to 18 months Imprisonment for robbing Mr. Charles Lowrie of the aum of $15 on the night of January 20 on North Szechuan Road: Com- plainant declared he and a friend The Hon'ble Mr. W. H. Thomson, were set upon by four men, includ- acting Chief Secretary, F.M.S., and ing the two accused, and he was Mrs. Thomson gavo a dinner at robbed of the money at a time when "Carcia" to meet His Excellency the road was crowded with Chinese Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Yorke holiday-makers.

The Duke of Atholl was success» fully operated upon in a nursing home at Edinburgh for appendi- cltla

Unrest is reported among the employees of dye shops in the Shanghai city as a result of the cutting down of staffs.

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The bodies of John Heston, aged 87, and William Barrow, aged 44, of Parbold, near Wigan, have been found in the canal near their home.

A Penang correspondent tele- graphs that Penang's Poppy Day for 1927 yielded $23,672 as pared with $13,864 the previous year.

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Mrs. Isabella Marshall, aged 82, and her husband, Mr. George Mar- shall, aged 81, of Blenheim Road, Holloway, N., died within a few hours of each other.

Seven vessels for freight ser- vice on the Great Lakes in Canada have been ordered from the Tyne shipbuilding firm of Swan, Hum- ber, and Wigham Richardson.

Thieves, who climbed a stack pips, broke into the residence of Sir Tresham Lever, at Knightsbridge, S.W., and stole some small articles of jewellery,

The Nanking Government Coun- ell has dispatched a telogram to General Chang Tin-fang, Mayor of the Special Municipality of Shanghai and Woosung, who cently tendered hia resigna- tion, pursuading him to TO- main In office and carry on his duties as usual.

Admiral Richard H. Jackson, for mer.commander of the battle flood and now on the Navy General Board, who beads a special board inquiry investigating the sinking of the submarine B-4. The appoint- ment of a special board followed demands by Congress to investigate the sinking of the abrasine.

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Dr. Herbert Chatley, acting En- gineer-in-Chiet of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board, has been raised to the rank of a full member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

A burglar entered the first floor of No. 25 Cheung On Street, Kow loon City on "Saturday night and: got away with jewellery worth $405. and five telegraphic remittance receipts for auma of from $400 to $600.

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Before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, two pocket picking cases heard. In the first instance a pair of spectacles was taken from the pocket of a District Watchman who promtly arrested the light-fingered- one. He got two months" jali. The second man took a pouch from the pocket of a Chinese, and. he also got two months' hard:labour,

Tyrwhitt, Bar, KC.B., D.5.0.,. D.C.L Naval Commander-in-Chief According to Information from on the China Station Among the Headquarters of the Garrison those present were the Hon'ble Mr.. Commander, of, Shinghal, the 3rd James Lornie, British Resident of and 2nd Battalions of the 18th Selangor, Captain and Mrs L. W. Army under the command of the Braithwaite, Miss Braithwaite, Garrison, Commander, General Lieut. Coll W. R. Meredith, D.S.O., Hatung Shih-huj, tave been trans-and Mu. Meredith, the Hon'ble Mr. ferred to Shanghi from Wusth J. S. Arter and Mrs Arter, Mr. and are now stationed at Footung, and Mr. H. Welham, Miss Betty Namiang and Hwangtu for garri Thomas, the Hon'ble Mr. Egmont Lepin res son purposes. The 4th Battalion |. Hake, Lout, Commander G. Caulon, which is now in Changchow has Mr. Bartley and Mr E.. A also been, ordered to proceed to Winnligton-Ingram. After dinner Shenghal to ha stationed, in the the party went on to the dance at - Chapel districtin

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