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LOCAL AND GENERAL SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
A whist drive and danco will be held at the Seamen's Institute at 8.80 p.m. to-morrow.
A body recovered in the Medway, off Strood, was identified as that of William Stewart, of Holland |Road,. Kensington.
Reminder: annual meeting of the European Y.M.C.A. at Kowloon, & p.m.. to-day.
The Royal Artillery Association is holding a meeting at Wellington Barracks at six o'clock this evening.
The ship's company of H.M.S. The "Hakone Mary" brought "Hollyhock" la holding a whist back Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Goggin drive at the Seamen's Institute at to the Colony from London yoster- | 8.30 to-night.` day, after an absence on Home leave.
Reminder: annual meeting of the Hong Kong Automobile Associa Mr. and Mrs. F.
D'Almada etion,. 5.80 p.m. to-morrow, In Castro and Miss B. D'Almada Messrs. Jarding's board room. Castro arrived in Hong Kong yes- terday by the "Hakone Maru" from London via Singapore.
The first day of Eamthan the month of fasting in the Mahomedan religion falls to-morrow. At the Sandringham servants, by in-end of 'a month, the new year vitation of the Queen, held a fancy | festivities will take plače. dress ball on Jan. 17. The old palm
court was for the occasion convert-
ed into a Chinese treasure house with relica brought from China by Frince George.
Mr. K. Larssen, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. R. Miller, Mrs. L. B. Wilkinson and Miss C. M. Crawford were among the passengers on the "Hakone Maru" which arrived at Hong Kong yesterday from London via Singapore.
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Caught by a sudden flow molten metal from a blast furnace. at the Acklam ironworks of Messrs. Dorman Long and Company, Middlesbrough, Frederick Davies, aged 77, was terribly burned, and has died in hospital.
Mr. R. H. Andrews, - who W&B formerly with the Electricity De- partment of the Shanghai Municipal Council, left Shanghai last week for South America. Mr. Andrews will spend some time in Japan and the United States en route.
Mr. J. W. Norton left Hong Kong yesterday on the "Hakone Maru" after a brief stay in the Colony. Is in with Linotype & Machinery, Ltd., Tokyo, and has been Home on holiday, breaking his return voyage at Hong Kong.
Mr. and Mrs. Wong Kam-fuk. Miss Pansy Wong, Professor F. Furuta, Capt. S. Morlya, and Dr. H. Miura were among the passengers on the "Hakone Maru" when she sailed from Hong Kong yesterday bound for Shanghai and Japan ports.
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Prot. James T. Shotwell, of Co lumbia University, who m an ad- dress in New York declared that the "big wavy" plan of the United States is Prussiantam. He declared that America wifi be registered in history as choosing the same course na that on which Prussian militar Ism launched" Germany if the big nary program is carried through the present ression of Congress.
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Mlas Barbara Bliss has been adopted as prospective Liberal can- didate for East Grinstead (Sussax).
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...A “Sing Song" will be held at Y.M.C.A, Chator Road and what drive to-morrow at the same time.
There was a large attendance of Nationalist supporters to mark the official opening of the new "head- quarters of the National Club' In Sydney.
Mra. Anita Kerr Price, wife of Lieut. E. 0. F. Price, R.N., left Shanghai last week for Hong Kong. After a short stay in the Colony she will depart for England,
The Banvard London Musical Comedy Company sailed for. Shang- hai yesterday. by the "Hakone Maru," after a successful season in, Hong Kong and Kowloon.
Mr. Albert M. Guptill, the Shanghat representative of Messrs. McKesson and Rebbine, sailed on the "President', Madison" on short business trip to the United States.
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The engagement is announced of David Ian Hobkirk, Newcastle-on- Tyne, to Ellen Margaret, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. H Edwards, of Maidenhead, late of Chipa.
Georgina Hill, aged 64, who had $99 in her possession when she was arrested, Was at Marlborough Street sentenced to a month's im- prisonment for begging in Charing Cross Road.
"Let all labourers unite and fight against the devil" reads one
in poster found pasted up
the Shanghai Settlement. The Identity of this personage has not yet been established.
The Petroleum Export Associa tion of New York has secured a five-years contract to supply all the crude oil and not less than 25 per cent. of the refined products re- quired by Spain. : *
A cable from New York has been received by the "Presbyterian Mis-
With the aid of a skeleton key,sion, reporting the death after a
a Chinese entered the kitchen of short illness of Mrs. Dickson, wife Jordan House; Nathan Road, Kow-of Dr. John R. Dickson, formerly loon, yesterday. He was caught by of Showchow, Anhui, the cook, however, and handed over to the police.
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A cargo coolfe who was working on a lighter discharging cargo from an American ship in harbour, was fatally injured when a motor car which was being loaded Into
The first performance in the sixth annual display of dancing by Miss Violet Capell and her pupils will be given at the Queen's Thea tre at 5 p.m. to-morrow. Coupons for seats should now be exchanged for tickets. Part of the proceeds the lighter fell on him as the result is for charity..
of the sling breaking.
Admiral Thomna Webster Kemp. who has died at the R.N. Hospital, Chatham, entered the Navy in 1880, and saw service as a lieutenant of H.MS. "Aurora," on the China Station. He received a special mention for his work during the advance on Tientsin.
Another specimen of the little auk, a bird related to the extinct great auk and a very rare visitor to Britain except in the severest weather, has been picked up dead in Northampton:
We regret to learn that Lady: Lugard was lying ill in mail week at her home, Little Parkhurst, Abinger Common, Surrey, suffering from bronchitis and lung trouble and other complications following influenza.
At St. Peter's Young Men's Club debate yesterday, the motion "That a University education is not a necessary prelude to a successful career" was defeated. The motion was moved by Mr. R. H. Hollle, Mr. and Mrs. A. Bland Calder seconded by Mr. A. J. May and the left Shanghat for America, sailing opposition was led by the Rev. via Suez H. A. Wittenbach seconded by Miss
The annual dinner of the HongM. M. Clark. Kong and China branch of the
British Medical Association is to
be held at the Hong Kong Hotel
at eight o'clock this evening.
To-morrow is Ash Wednesday and the anniversary of George Washington's birth.
Characterising his methods as "A mean way to get money," Judge G. W. King, at the British Police Court, inflicted a sentence of two months' imprisonment on an Indian (named Nadi Box Mahommed for: selling lottery and sweepstakes tickets on the Chinese New Year races at Kiangwan, in the name of a non-existent. Penman Club, to British soldiers.
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For stealing clothes belonging : to British soldiers billeted 'at the Palace Hotel Annexe, Shanghai, a Chinese coolle, recently dismissed from employment at the Annexa, was sentenced, at the Provisional Court to three months, Im2)
thrée pilsonment.. on each of charges. The Court directed, that he should serve a total of eight months' imprisonment.
During the week-end, the police
| carried out further raida for Chin- ese.communists in the Colony. This time attention was turned to West Point, where two houses were raid
Frank W. Stearns, of Boston, who managed President Coolidge's pros- idential campaign and 'who is one of his closest personal frienda. is a prominent Boston capitalist
Mr. Calder, who has been American Trade Commis- sioner in Shanghai during the past year, expects to spend some months. in Washington, D.C.
Riga, Feb. 20.---A telegram from Kazan states that Fokine, a Rus- sian Communist before the war, but-who was until now depúty chief of the Workmen's and Peasants" Inspectorate of the so-called Tartar Autonomous
shot Republic, has. himself.-Reuter.
The Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Quo Tai-chi, is report- ed by the Chinese papers to have received instructions` from Nanking not to visa passports of foreigners desiring to travel in the interior as it is unsafe because of the civil war and bandita."
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With the approval of General Yamanashi, the new Governor-1 General the 'Seoul Government and the Garrison Headquarters. of Korea have made arrangements to use the soldiers posted
the Korean frontier for colonisation of the border on their exemption from active military service.
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The manager of the Fook Mow tailor's shop, opposite the Chinese YMCA, in Bridges Street report- ed to the police yesterday that one of the shop's customers who settled an account planted six forged $5 Shanghai banknotes o on, the 'unsus- pecting manager. It was when the complainant tried to change the notes into Hong Kong money that he discovered that they were counterfeits.
The Rev. Dr. Robert H. Glover and Mrs. Glover were due to reach ed. In the first house a thorough, Shanghal from Philadelphia, on the search resulted in nothing cit C. P. O. S. "Empress of Russia, being found, but the police detala on February 20. Dr. Glover spent ed three suspects, for investigation ten years in China, about 20 years Five suspects were taken into ago, first in South China, and then custody, as the result of the second in Wuhu and Wuchang, in connec raid.
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