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First two Rows of Stalls $5; Orchestra Stalls and Dress Circle $4; Stalls $2; and Back Stalls $1.

Booking at Moutrie's and the Sta”. Late Tram To The Peak.

THE CHINA MAIL,

LOCAL AND GENERAL SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mrs. Harriet-Fraióf, aged 40, of Finborough Road, Bouth Kensing ton, fell from the balcony of her | home" when seeing the Old Year out

and was killed.

Leaving for Shanghai, Mr. W. R, | Mansfeld, of the Union Insurance | Society of Canton, Ltd., sailed from |Hong Kong to-day on the R.M.9.

"Empress of Canada.”......

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Two hounds of the Staintondale Hunt, in dashing after two foxes, went over the high cliffe at Clough tón, north of Scarborough, York. shire, and one was killed, ...

Mr. J. S. Gubbay departed to-day for Shanghal, by the "Empress of Canada,” kojima je

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Major and Mrs. Henshaw of Queta India,zalled; from › Hong Kong to-day per the- RM9.. “Em- press of Canada," for Vancouver.

Gold bullion to the valve of £250,000, consigned from the Royal Bank of Canada to the Bank of England, arrived at Liverpool and was forwarded by train to London.

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Nearly 100 persons have already Medied from a disease, which doctors have failed to diagnose, which is raging in the Bobruisk district of Russia, near the Polish frontier. High temperature, and swelling of

Among the passengers on the "Empress of Canads, which left for northern ports to-day, was Mr. C. C. Knight, of Messrs. Butter feld and Swire, Shanghai.

A reprieve has been granted to William George Eutherland, aged 25, a Liverpool fruit, porter, sen- tenced to death for the murder of his wife, whose thrust he cut în the street.

The 2nd Battalion of the North- amptonshire Regiment reached Southampton in the transport "City of Marseilles" after eight years in the Bast, and entrained for Colchester.

"Our statistics appear to suggest that the female is far less violent in her ways and far more honest in money matters than the male," say the Wimbledon Justices in their annual report.

Joyce Thompson, aged 5, and Emma Hughes, aged 7, both of Moss Road, Kearsley, near Bolton, were killed by the collapse of a 10ft.. barn wall at the Old Moss Farm, Kearsley.

Made daring by want of food, herds of wild deer are raiding farm lands in the Dalmally (Argyllshire) district, and farmers have to chase them over fences surrounding hay, corn, and turnips.

United States exports for the Arst nine months of 1927 totalled in value more than £700,000,000, representing a gain of 3 per cent.

the face and feet marked symptoms.

are the most

Col. Norman Branden Judah, of Chicago, Low American Ambas sador to Cuba.

The Chinese geaman named Ho Tin who is charged before Major C. Willson with attempting to obtain

$4,000 each from two Chinese over the figures for the correspond-in that he represented that the women by alleged false pretences, Ing period of 1926.

money was required to secure the release of four of the women's

relatives who were arrested by the

According to a Reuter cable from London, Charlott, ex-Empress of Mexico, left property in Great Brl-Chinese authorities at Shanghai as tain valued at £116,214. The value suspected communists, was yester- of her property abroad is believed day discharged at the Central to exceed £1,250,000.

Magistracy. Mr. C. A. S. Rus was for the defpace

On a holiday trip to Vancouver, and then around the world, Mr. O. Eager, of the export department of Mesarz. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., left Hong Kong on the "Empress of Canada" to-day.

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The executive of the London Engineering Joint Tradea Com- mmittee unanimously. decided to apply at the end of the stabilisation perlod for an increase in wages of £1 a week on all base rates in the Greater London area.

President Hindenburg, who re- ceived New Year's greetings from German Ministers and the Diplo matic Carpe, declared that "for- eign military might and occupation of the country are irreconcilable with final pacification."

A skeleton found in Hollington Wood, Battle, Sussex, on December 18 has been identified by the arti ficial teeth as that of Mrs. Emma Frances Cozens, aged 40, a widow, of Southampton, who had been missing since November 7, 1926.

Col.. Meredith, Officer. Command- Ing the M.S.V.R., Mesara. Stewart, Tucker, Puckridge, MacIntosh, Garside, Nicoll, Farrington, Rutter and McIntyre, and Mrs. B. W. Elles, are at present in the Euro- pean Hospital, Kuala Lumpur.—' M.M.

day

Perry M. Parker, father of littlä Marion Parker, of Los Angeles, Calif, who was alleged to have been kidnapped and murdered by William Edward Hickman, nine- teen-year-old youth."Mr. Parker is an omcial at the bank which for marly employed Rickman, who was arrested for forgery.”

Mr. R. Tredwell, Consul- Dr. 8. S. Rajanyagam,, Senior General for the USA in Hong Assistant Surgeon, Kuala Pilah, Kong, and à anal party of friends, who had been to Ceylon and India Capt. A. JL Whyte, A.D.C. to on ten months leave, has returned H.E, the "Governor of Hong Kong, and resumed duties. During his Major and Min. G. F. Charles, and holiday he secured the Diploma in Mr. Childe called on H.E. the Tropical Medicine at the Calcutta Governor on Sunday last and Medical College, cuming out at the luncheoned with H.E., Senhor head of the list

Tamagnini de Sousa Barbosa and Madame Barbosa, after which a short visit wis paid to the Macao. Mr. and Mrs. Burgess ware Photographie Exhibition before de among the passengers who left turning to Hong Kong the same Hong Kong to-day on the R.M.8;| "Empress of Canada. As the Superintendent Engineer of the han C.P.S., Mr. Burgess is returning to On Monday night, four, robbers Vancouver after being in Hong armed with daggers raided, a house Kong for some time in connection in Samtohang village, Taipo, The with the annual overheal of the occupants of the house offered #Empress liners.

plucky, resistance. In the ensuing, etraggio, the master of the house was wounded when the Intruders Marzo, Feb. An official visit endeavoured to gag him. The rob- to Macao was made by the Italian bers stayed in the house for about Consul General"a" Hong Kong | half an hour and carried out a Benhor, Carrara, aboard the Italian (systematic search of the place, but gunboat "Sebastiano Caboto.” “The succeeded in collecting only $4.60 in glaitors arrived on Sunday, the bth || moder, and some blankets and Instant, and left the following clothing of not very great value. Thursday. An official, dinner in. On receiving // Information of the honour of altore was given by robbery, the Talpo police went to His Excellency the vernor the house and had the wounded Sunday night

man removed to the hospital...

A young Glasgow man who was arrested on the eve of his wedding was given permission by the authorities to be married while in custody.

On transfer to Kobe, Mr. F. W. Mathieson, of the Passenger · ·Do- partment, Canadian Pacific Rall- way, left Hong Kong today by the "Empress of Canada,”

Gaused, apparently, by the heavy gas, a subsidence 20ft. to 25ft. long and 12ft. wide occurred on the Marine-parade at the eastern end of Dover sea front.

After a long rest the Macao Race Club announces the first meeting of the year to take place on Sunday, March 4. The programme has

been issued and it is a noteworthy feature that the prizes offered are, on the whole, higher than the average last year.

Mra. Elizabeth Knox, Fleming... aged 56, widow of Colonel Samuel Fleming, a former London police court magistrate, who was killed when she jumped out of a window, was buried at sea off Shoreham,

Sussex, in accordance with & with expressed in her will.

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