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LOCAL AND GENERAL SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr. A. R. Kennedy, Conservative to M. P. for Preston, is not to seek

re-election.

Mrs. Kelevy, of Red Lian-street, Nottingham, has given birth boy triplets.

The Canadian farmers, after a fortnight's tour of England, left Liverpool-street for Denmark,

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Mr. Q. A. A.. Macfadyen has been appointed a Cndet

the Hong Kong Government Service.

A lioness in the private men- agerie of Mr. G. Tyrwhitt-Drake, of Maidstons, has given birth to her Afth litter of cubs.

Tables, books, and packs of cards were confiscated when 38 members were arrested in a police raid at the Carlton Club, Glasgow.

the The deaths in London in first three weeks of last month were 4,174, compared with 5,158 in the same period last year.

The Newington, S.E.. justices by a majority of 11 changed the Sunday closing hour of public' houses in the livision from 9 to 10 p.m.

Fourteen mster-omnibuses wers destroyed in a fire which turned the garage and. engineering depot to the at Motherwell Company ground.

Mr. II. A. Grant Watson has been appointed British Envoy Es traordinary and Minister Pleni- potentiary at Guatemala, Central Amerien.

Hertfordshire County Council has decided to oppose the read transport Bills which the rallway introducing in companies are Parliament.

The number of visitors to the Natural History Museum, South Kengsington, last year was 589,913, the previous highest having been 535,116 in 1909.

The fire brigade arrived at the Albert Hall, following an

Sir William Vincent has been member of the reappointed a Council of India,

The Earl of Coventry, who is 89 years old and has been a Wor- cestershire county councillor for 38 years, will not seek re-election.

The name of Lt. N. Garland, B.Sc., appears in the list of ap- pointments to the Hong Kong Civil Service as An assistant Marine Surveyor.

DE SUN YOT SEN

Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the father of the Chinese Revolution, the whose third anniversary of death was observed yesterday in the greater part of China Preper,

Mr. Carlos Cabral, Commissioner of China Maritime Customs et Fin the south-west of Peking Kwangtung) and family arrived in Hong Kong on the ss. "Chetan."

While cycling along the Hog's scout, alarm Buck, Surrey, an R.A.C.

came into colli- of fire, only to find that some rags R. C. Batterham,

driven by had caught fire and were smoulder-sion with a car

Griffith, of Aldershot, and ing in a kitchen,

killed:

Two men were seriously injured when a crowded motor-omnibua taking 14 workmen to Northfield, Birmingham, overturned on Grif- An's Hill, Selly Oak.

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"There is much more kindness and tolerance in London days," said Sir Oliver Lodge in an address at a luncheon hour service at Christ Church, Westminster.

The wife and daughter of H.E. the Governor of Macao, Madame &

visit to. Mllc. Barbosa, are on a

over on Hong Kong. They came Sunday evening by the "Taishan."

The Rev. Mr. R. T. Venn. M.A., Chaplain of H.M.S. "Titania," is to preach on "The Meaning of Re- pentance" at the 5.80 p.m. service in St. John's Cathedral to-morrow.

Dr. Jose Uriburu, formerly Argentine Minister in London, who was recently appointed the first Argentine Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, arrived in London from the Continent.

Misa Violet Loraine, who retired from the revue stage on her mar- riage in- 1921, is to return for two performances in a straight play which is being presented by Mr. Andre Charlot in a West End thea- tre on April 22 and 23.

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The change over telephones was successfully carried out at Nottingham at midnight. 1

Last year 44,708,719 national savings certificates were sold, com pared with 39,748,076 the pre vious year.

The Prince of Wales has ac cepted the office of president of the Nottinghamshire Agricultural So ciety for next year.

A dog, a parrot, two canaries, and a goldfinch were burned to death in a fire which completely destroyed the Lytham Pier Pavilion Cinema.

"I wonder when youth will learn that marriage is a man's job and the responsibilities thereof a giant's."--Mr. Cairns, the Old- street magistrale.

The Middlesex County Council is to request the Alexandra Park Trustees not to entertain pro posals to use the Alexandra Park buildings for dog racing.

A safe weighing more than 2 who taken by thieves cwt, was broke into the British and Argent ine Meat Company's premises in Seven Sisters-road, Holloway, N.

Madame Tamara Karsavina, the Russian dancer, came back to the tri Coliseum for a short season mall week with a new partner, Mr. Keith Lester, a young Oxford

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The recent visit of Mr. Amery, Secretary for the Do.ilalons is to be commemorated by naming peak in the Rocky Mountains "Mount Amery." The peak is 10.900ft, high and is in Alberta.

Bills Among Private Members which will bo introduced in the next session lause of Commons are a number of Bills embodying the demands of the railway com- panies for road transport powerg

The Home Secretary has rejected Dr. the petition for a reprieve present- wased on behalf of James Joseph, a policeman, sentenced to death for the murder of Olive Gordon' Turner, who was found drowned in a canal.

The "Christian General," Feng Yu-hsiung, an ally of the Nationalist who has removed his headquarters to Kaifeng but is remaining at Loyang..

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Carpenters and labourers structing the Stadium for Olympic Games at Amsterdam In July have gone on strike, but the officials state that no anxiety need be felt as to the completion of the work in time.

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The skeleton of a man ceptional stature, who, it is thought, may have been one Cromwell's men killed at the battle of Winceby, has been unearthed in Edlington Hall Wood, Horncastle, Lincionshire.

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Dr. H. Brierly, Registrar of" Wigan County Court, who is old,

since has *years his 80th birthday been appointed Helens and of St. Registrar Widnes, and now has three courts, under his administration.

In a vain attempt to find the body of a girl thought to have been. drowned, searchers at Peritwynmawr, ncar Newbridge, Monmouthshire, placed mercury inside a loaf of bread and fastened it to a apar in the belief that it would attract the body.

the eastern sections of the

The first stage in the electri A dinner will be given by the festion of the central and part of The Home Ofice announces Committee and members that Sir William Joynaon-Hicks, Hong Kong Chinese General Cham- the Home Secretary, is fully re-ber of Commerce to the Hon. Mr.Southern Railway suburban area of the will be completed in March, when stored to health, but has been

D. G. M. Bernard, head ordered by Lis doctors to refrain local office of Messrs. Jardine, the electric service on the Caterham as far as possible from outdoor Matheson and Co., Ltd. prior to his and Tadworth branches to London, speaking while Parliament is

departure from the Colony. The by way of Purley, will be opened. sitting.

function will be held on Wednes- Chinese day, March 21, at the Merchants Club, China-building.

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The Birmingham police are searching for *Hilda .Barnett, Among the passengers arrived

aged 16, of 134, Normandy-road, by the "President Jefferson' from Manila yesterday was Mrs. G. S. Before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Handsworth, 5ft. lin. in height, Harrell, wife of the Manila passen-Kowloon Magistracy yesterday with fresh complexion and dark a street coolie was at brown bobbed hair, who has been ger agent of the Dollar Line, who morning,

cotton missing sirice January 10, and was was accompanied by her daughter.rested for the theft of a Mrs. Harrell was formerly Miss Jacket from No. 284, Temple-at the time of her disappearance Marsh, of Kowloon, and is on a street, and also of returning from wearing a pink volour coat, black visit to her parents.

banishment after having been de shoes, and do-k'grey stockings. ported, from the Colony for ton Among the passengers on the years. The defendant pleaded "President Jefferson," sailed to-day guilty to both charges and was for Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama, sentenced to eleven months' hard Honolulu, San Francisco and Los labour on the count of returning A. D. from banishment and a month on Angeles were:-Lt. Col. Radcliffe, Mr. C. J. Clackett, Mr. & the larceny charge.

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Lady fo Tung, at a University Union social yesterday, distributed the prizes to the successful.com- petitors in the indoor games tournament. The President of the Union, Mr. Peter Pau, welcomed Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tung nhd ал omnibus paid a tribute to Sir Robert's work Drevet, Mr. & Mrs. H. Bell, Miss had a narrow cscape at Catford for China and his kindly and bene-

Bridge, S.E, when one of the scent interest in the University. L. J. Richardson.

"Archway" vehicles running be Before Mr. W. Schofield at the tween Highgate and Elmers End, A new immigration Bill, which Kowloon Magistracy. yesterday left the read and, crossing thewould Increase the quotas from afternoon, Miss G. Gala of No.: 53,pavement, crashed, through the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Hollywood-road, was charged with fence and stopped with the front, has been introduced into the Senate, driving a private motor car while wheels hanging over the support with the approval of Mr. Davis, in an intoxicated condition on Taling wall on the western alde of Secretary for Labour, by Senator Po-road on Feb., 29. Mr. D. the bridge over the Southern Rall-Watson. It is estimated that the One passenger,aquotas from the different countries Blake appeared for the defendant, way. line.. who was not present in Court, and woman, complained of shock. Be of Europe would be increased as asked if the case could be remand-fore it left the roadway the omni- follows: Great Britain and Nor ad. for one

afternoon, she bus collided, with a large touring thern Ireland from 34,007, to T2,039: thought medical evidence might be car owned by Mr. H.. G. Lumsden, Russia from. 2.248 to 4,781 ~ Ital There woul necessary. The case was accord of 67, South Norwoord-hill, Bouth from 3,845 to 6,091. ingly adjourned till 2.80 p.m. on Norwood, who was travelling from alan be minor increases for

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