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Reminder: 87th annual meeting of Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders of Hong Kong at G p.m.

Thieves stole £12 in cash, a parrot, and a canary from the house of Mr. Barry Lupino, the comedian, at Sutton, Surrey.

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The Rev. E. H. C. Stephenson, aged 60,, a retired clergyman, of Salisbury, was killed there when his cycle came into collision with a motor-car.

The silver shops in the Shanghai French Concession have consented to pay à monthly tax of Tla.2, after several prominent merchants had acted as mediators.

Sub-Inspector Brown of the Water Police is shortly retiring on pension. Inspector Mess will. take aver the duties at present perform. ed by the retiring officer.

Mr. M. Manuk (of the Dairy Farm, Ice & Cold Storage Co.. Ltd.) returned to Hong Kong by the "President Madison" after a short business visit to Shanghai.

Captain Pichard, R.N.R., has been appointed to command of the Hong Kong. Canton & Macao Steamboat Co.'s sa. "Sul An" on the Hong Kong-Macao ran, succeed. ing Captain Smith.

The Englishman named George' Alstrom who was arreated for at- tempting to pasa counterfeit German 1,000-mark notes has been Bentenced (says a Nice. message) by the Monaco Correctional Court to one year's imprisonment.

With the American and Soviet flags draped around his body, a man walking around the world for a | wager of G$10,000 was seen on the Praya yesterday shortly after his arrival on a steamer here. He has to be back at Chicago within three years of starting..

Lithuania has celebrated the tenth anniversary of the restora. tion of the sovereignty of the State and the proclamation of Lithuanian independence. In Kovno a solemn service was con- ducted by the Metropolitan Arch- |bishop of Lithuania,"

AND PERSONAL.

The Helena May Institute Bible study circle will not be held this week. In future, it will take place on Fridays at 10.20 a.m.

In the American Court, Shang- hai, Judge Purdy told a witness to speak up. The witness did so and a thunder of the choicest of the North of the Tweed dialects rumbl od round the room, whereupon the Judge said he was sorry but this time he could not understand. "An' nae more ean I unnerstan' yer Wor-r-r-ship," responded the witness. Judge, witness and every one else joined in the smiles.

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Dr. Harry Bruce Wilson, DEW director of the American Junior Red Cross. He will direct the ge tivities of more than five million children who enrolled in the junior organization throughout the United States.

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Miss Maud Royden, who is at present in Australia, is expected to visit Japan in August..

Telephone charges between Eng- land and Switzerland have been reduced by from 12 to 15 per cent.

The band of the Welsh Guards played in St. Paul's Cathedral for the St. David's Eve National Welsh Festival.

A valuable collection of postage atamps will be auctioned at Messrs. Lammert Bros.' sales Thursday at 5.15 p.m.

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Dr. de Herrera, head of the special Uruguayan Mission which has been visiting England, has re- turned to Uruguay,

The House of Representatives at Washington has ratified the fund- ing settlement of Jugo Slavia's $62,850,000 debt to the United States Government,

Mr. D. M. Biggar (manager in Hong Kong of the Equitable Eastern Banking Corporation) and Mrs. Biggar have returned to the Colony, arriving on the "President Madison."

a camel years ago plains of

Fossilised remains of whleb a few million roamed the then arid Western North America have been secured for and re-assembled in the Canadian National Museum,' Otta-

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The B.B.C. fee to authors and playwrights of a minimum of £2 2. for sketches and one-act plays will shortly be raised to £3 3s. following a new agreement between the Incorporated Society of Au- thors. Playwrights, and Composers, and the B.B.C.

Mr. F. P. M. Schiller, K.C. has been appointed Recorder of South-

At the Kowloon Magistracy, be-ampton, to succeed Mr. E. B fore Mr. W. Schofield, yesterday, Charles, K.C., and Mr. Roland Burrows has been appointed Re- SVAH an echo of Friday's sensational jail-breaking escapade. Corder of Cambridge, to succeed Sir The case against Chan Tim charged Travers Humphreys, both of whom with alleged murder and attempted have been appointed to the Bench. armed robbery on board a passen. ger sampan in midstream on March' Group Captain J. Si Scott, M.C., 24 last was called. Sub-Inspector A.F.C., director of the Royal Cana- Dorling reported to the Magistrate dian Air Force, is resigning his that the prisoner had escaped, and post to enter civil life. He received his Worship adjourned the case his wings with the Royal Flying sine die.

Corps in March, 1916, and saw, ser- vice with the 6th Squadron in France.

Early yesterday morning a fire appliance which was being driven by a Chinese driver was returning to the Wanchai Sul-Station, when Local estate amounting to $33,- It suddenly awerved and ran into a 100 was left: by Chiu Cheung-shi, verandah pillar outside the Soldiers' late of 4. Po Wa San Kai, Canton, Club in Queen's-road East. The letters of administration in respect front of the vehicle was smashed, of which have been granted to Chiu and the turn-table ladder was Foon-wo, of Canton, temporarily damaged by the force of the impact. residing at 34, Wyndham-street. The driver, who was the only per-The sole beneficiary is the third son on the machine, sustained daughter of the deceased Indy. slight bruises.

probate has also been granted to three executors in respect of the $26,100 local estate of Lau Kai- shiu, the estate to be held in trust for deceased's ron, Tsung Lin. The three executors are Li Cheung, Li Kong-cau and Yeung Tai-mun.

Seven cases of notifiable disease were reported to the Medical Officer of Health during the week-end. There were three Chinese casts of small-pox, two of which were im ported; two were from the city registration district and the other from Kowloon. There were also three cases of enteric fever (typhoid), one Japanese (import- ed) and two Chinese; all three cazes were from the city. One case of puerperal fever was from the city, the patient being a Chinese.

The "China Mail" records with regret the death of Mr. Yew Man. taun, who was one of the leading

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Lilly Dilloncz-Balitzer, buttfal Austriați actress, who plans apother non-stop fight across the Atlantie- this year. The charming actress. made one altompt with Fritz Luone, German aviator, last year, but was forced to discontinue the same in the Azores. She is the daughter or the famous Austrian, painter, Dil Irurz Holltzer. 2 da

A proposal to transfer the town of Wiesbaden from the supervision and administration of Mainz to that of Frankfort-on-the-Main has bean vetoed, by the Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission.-Mainz is in occupied territory, whereas Frankfort is not.

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The Alsatian custom of firing blank cartridges at a christening ceremony has had a fatal ending in a village. After a discharge of firearms a little boy was fall, and a doctor found that he had been killed by a. bullet which had been. Inadvertently left in a re- volver.

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Communal elections took place,

all over Bulgaria in mail week and were not disturbed by any incident) of the least importance. Accord- ing to the first indications of the results, the Government, party ob- tained 80 per cent. of the votes, which should ensure 70 per cent. of the seats being held by Govern- ment candidates.

In connection with the celebra- tion on Oct. 28 next of the tenth anniversary of the proclamation of the Independence of Czecho. Slovakia, the Minister of Public Instruction is making arrange. ments for the establishment of. 500. communal libraries, each of which will bear an appropriate inscrip: tion.

"În connection with the promo- tion of Captain E. R. G. R. Evans (who will be well-remembered here) says a Shanghai contempor- ary to the rank of Rear-Admiral, Home papers refer to the fact that he is entitled to wear more orders and medals than any other living

Sir Henry Thornton, President naval officer, among them being

of the Canadian National Railways, Lloyd's special gold medal and the

who has been on a mission to silver medal of the Royal Humane

Mexico to advise the Government on Society, awarded for saving the After four and a half years in rallway matters, has recommended lives of 228 Chinese from the Shanghai as Custodian of Enemy President, Calles to appoint Mr. wrecked steamer ""Hong Moh" in, Property in China Lord Addington R. A. C. Henry, an official of the 1921, near Hong Kong, when he has left with his sister, the Hon. Canadian National Railways, as awam to the wreck with a line Ruth Hubbard, for good. During president of the Mexican national through beavy seas, and thus made his stay in Shanghal Lord Adding railway aystem. the rescue possible. This recalls ton took much Intereat, in parti an occasion when Mr. G. H. Stitt calar in the branches of the work

"Arizona," the army mule mascot (formerly of the Hong Kong and of Trinity Cathedral. Lord Bhunghal Bank) introducing the Addington arrived in Shanghai of the Thirteenth Regiment of the gallant officer before one of his first in June, 1928, and he has thus United States Army, has been the entertaining lectures, added "V.C. been present during one of the recipient of well-merited honour.. to his titles. Capt. Evans turned most interesting periods of China's The animal was wounded in the round with a surprised look on his history. He and his sister left by neck by a piece of shrapnel at the face, whereupon Mr. Stitt said: the str. "Fengtien." They will Argonne, but recovered and return- Well, if he has not got it, he has travel to Peking, via Tientsin, bead home after the war. At San deserved it and some 200 British fore leaving China entirely and Francisco the other day while the sallora in the gallery broke into a will then go to Japan, visit Hono- regiment marched past at the burst of cheering, which lasted for lufu and cross Canade before final salute he was decorated with a new Jan appreciable time.

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