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LOCAL AND GENERAL SOCIAL AND

About 500 miners at the Becaton pit, near Leeds, which has worked only three or four days a week since the lock-out, have been given notice to terminate their employ- mont.

James Burns, the jockey. has died in hospital from injuries re- eelved in a motor-cycle accident in Delamere Forest. His wife, who was riding pillion, I still In hospital.

The managing director of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway (southern section) has come to Shanghai to purchase several locomotives from

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foreign firm here, says the "Eastern Times,"

A banquet was given in honour of Mr. Gordon Selfridge by the Advertising Association, at the Savoy Hotel, on the anniversary of the inauguration of Mr. Selfridge's of Business," and "London House

the day on which the building will be completed. The opportunity was taken to recognise Mr. Self- ridge's great services to the retail There

trade and to advertising. was a distinguished gathering.

A desk smoking outfit, suitaby inscribed, was presented to Captain

An annual salary of £850 has been granted to the Newcastle Coroner in place of fees averaging about £600

Dr. Annie Sydenham and Dr. W. V. M. Koch, are appointed members of the local Midwives Board for three years each from April 6.

Mr. D. W. Tratman of the Cadet Service, who has occupied high positions in the Government, wont Mrs. on Home Icave to-day with Tratman, salling on the "Mongolia,"

PERSONAL.

Dublin Zoo is lamenting the loss of Pyrrhus, Its baby elephant, who has died just before attending his second birthday, Pyrrhus, was the gift of a Dublin gentlemen residing in the Malay States.

Mr. A. 5. Agnew, London, for a great collection of China stamps in eighteen, volumes, the arrangement! of which was much admired, was awarded a gold medal at the great! Monago Exhibition just closed.

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Passengers on the "Changte" which spiled yesterday from Hong Kong for Manila and Australian ports included Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Smith, Mr. L. Gibba, Mr. J. Smith, Mr. F. D. Angus, Mr. G. McMurdo, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Clarke.

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Four Chinese cases of notifiable disease were reported to the Medi- cal Officer of Health on Friday. From Kowloon there was a small- pox case and one of enteric fever

Dr. F. B. Baldwin, for (typhoid). From the city was one one diphtheria and one of cerebro-years medical director and Vice- President of the Asia Life Insur- spinal fever.

ance Company; has returned to Shanghai after a year's absence In Europe and America, during which time he pursued medical studies in various hospitals and clinics, and he

North-China Building. shortly will open offices in the win will resume his private practice, retaining his connection with the Asia Life in a consulting capacity.

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Regulationis made by Governor in Council under the Dangerous Druga Ordinance the Watchmen Ordinauce were both before the Legislative Counell recently) are published in the current issue of the "Govern ment Gazette."

The Registrar of the H. K.

Dr. Bald.

Police protection of the Royal R. Innes, the retiring Marine University will distribute the prizes Superintendent of the China Na- of the Sacred Heart College fourth Mint, London, was withdrawn on vigation Co., by wharfingers and annual athletic sports to the suc- April 1 and replaced by a guard of For many years friends of the Hong Kong, Canton cessful competitors at 4 p.m. to-ex-Service men. & Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd., Mr.' morrow at the Recreio ground,, twelve uniformed policemen and a Park. Through the sergeant have done night and day W. H. Edley. chief wharfinger, { King'a

From 6 p.m. mude the presentation, expressing courtesy DI the committee, the watches at the Mint. the good wishes of all for Captain Chung Sing Benevolent Society's to 8 am, armed with revolvers, and Mrs. Innes. Captain Janes band will play selectotd pieces at they did special patrol in the scale replied, hoping that friendly re- the sports. lationships will also be enjoyed by

his successor, Capain McCulloch.

Among the passengers who dis- embarked at Hong Kong yester- day from the P. & O. 8.8. "Kashgar": were Mr. & Mrs. Lander, Mr. D. Trafford, Mrs. A. Warren, Mr. & Mre.. Reid from London; Comdr. Philips from Southampton; Dr. Fawcett and Miss P. Brown. from Marseilles; Mr. E. King from Colombo; Mrs. M. Thorpe from Pen. ang: Dr. Cosgrave,. Mr. & Mrs. Shelley, Mr. & Mrs. Case, Mr. H. Green, Mr. & Mrs. Barklaw, Mr. & Mrs. Chen See-hon and family from Singapore.

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Following the loss of a £50,000 dia- pearl necklace, second

jewellery, also appearance posted in Paris, is now engag- the attention of the ing Post Office investigation officers in France and Britain. In this fresh mystery a ring valued at £3,000 is involved, and a reward of 1300 has been offered by Messrs. Summers, Henderson, and Co., na- sessors, 48 Lime-street, E.C., for its recovery, The ring, an em- erald and diamond one, of rare pattern, was posted by a Paris 4 to Mme. jewellery firm on Feb. Mark Wolfe, of London, while she It' 'was staying at Monte Carlo,

did not arrive, and inquiries were begun.

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Dr. Richard Wotistein, prominent. ly mentioned as the next President of Austria. He is a distinguished bolaniat of the University of Vienna, a democrat and a scientiat of world-wide repute. He is the leader of the movement for closer friendship between Germany and his country.

Mr. W. H. Trenchard Davis, for some. years a resident

of Hong Kong, and latterly of Shanghai, is returning Home on the "Mongolia" which arrived yesterday and anils

rooms, machine rooms, and minting rooms, and allowed nobody, irrespective of standing or au- thority, to go beyond the Iron gates The new during those hours.

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guard consists of fourteen Service men and three, former non- commissioned officers, chosen by the War Office and Ministry of Pen- sions. They are members of the "War Office Constabulary" of ex- Service men.

Air liners of five nationalities- British, French, Belgian, German, and Dutch-were compelled recent- ly by fog to make forced landings in the English Channel. In some parts early in the day the fog was as, low as 150 ft. above sea level: but later in the afternoon the Channel was reported by the Afr Ministry to be quite clear. An Imperial Airways liner from Paris to London was forced down at Abbeyville, while other machines in the same service landed at Ostend and Flushing. A Dutch aeroplane also landed at Ostend. At Lympne, Kent, a French Air Union machine descended, the pas sengers being sent on to London by train. A Germán 'plane on the London-Amsterdam-Berlin service

left Croydon, but returned two and a half hours later, having abandon. ed the trip. A Belgian machine landed near Boulogne.

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Judgment was given by the First Division of the Edinburgh Court Group Captain H. M. Cave

dismissing as Irrelevant the action Browne-Cave, D.S.O., D.F.C., who

in which Lewis Couts, a student, led the Far East flight of the Royal

of "Orchard-place, Aberdeen, claim- Air Force auccessfully to Singa- to-day.

ed £5,500 damages from Professor Adolphus Jack, Professor of Eng- pore, has special qualifications for

While he acts A Deputy Relish Literature at Aberdeen Univer- this duty. He is an Old Alleynian, who went through a special course gistrar of the Supreme Court, Mr.sity, for alleged slander, and for of marine engineering at the T. M. Hazlerigg, M.C. (Assistant having been prohibited from at- Royal Naval College. Greenwich, Crown Solicitor) is to be a Com- tending the English Honours Class University. Plaintiff's and reached the Royal Air Force missioner for Oatis, etc., the ap- via the Royal Naval Air Service pointment by Sir Henry Gollan

case was that Professor Jack at a During the war he had consider (Chief Justice) being announced private meeting with him, had call- able experience in anti-submarine in the "Gazette."

ed him "mad, ignorant, and 'allly," and that he had taken action which reconnaisance, and was then in

Professor Mr. J. G. Garraway, of the Hong had wrecked his career. command of the seaplane base, Malta, from 1918 to 1919. He won Kong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., Jack denied alandering Coutta or the DS.O. for his active-service who has been a member of the

The Court prejudiced his career, work at the old RNAS. base at Volunteer Reserves and chairman of that any action taken by him had Since the war he has the Dock Recreation Club, was upheld the Sheriff' judgment Dunkirk,

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the regard to been very closely associated with presented with a cheque from his

alleged new developments as deputy diree colleagues at a valedictory gather- slander, but so far as the ques- tor of design and then technical ing on Saturday. With Mrs. tion of Coutts having been pro development, and he only relfa- Garraway, Mr. Garraway sails for hibited from attending the English quished this responsible post on Home to-day on the "Mongolia", on Honours Class was concerned they taking over the command of the retirement, after 22 years in Hong remitted the case back to the Far East flight on its formation Kong.

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Formed to maintain cameraderle and to serve the interests of Anglo- American community in the Prin- cipality, the M.C. Club, founded this year, entertained Prince Pierre of Monaco, Eari Jellicoe, and other

and guests at the Hotel de Paris. Bir Walter de Frece presided, among others present were Lord Newborough, Sir William Yarworth

The absence of women from the When Sir Hugh Clifford came grand juries on the south-eastern back as the Governer of Ceylon it circuit was commented on by Mr. was expected, says the "Ceylon Justice Shearman when he opened Observer," that, mellowed by time the Sussex Assizes at Lewes recent hé would be a great success. But y. "In none of the towns in which to a man of his restless brilliance I have travelled on this circuit," the present detached nature of this he said, "have I found a single lady office appears to have been galling on the grand jury, although in most in the extreme. After a time he other places I have found the grand sent a despatch to the Secretary of jury adorned by one or two charm- the Colonies exposing what he al ing ladies. Why it should be so I Jones, the Mayor of Monaco, M. leged to be working difficulties and do not know."- dangers in the present Government

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despatch, still unpublished, which to-day on the "Mongoila” ard Herbert Walker, Sir Pomeroy Bur occasioned the sending of the Captain H. F. Bloxham (Aselstant ton, Sir-Harry, Samuel, Mr. Philips Special Comunission of Inquiry at Superintendent of Prisons), Mr. Oppenheim, Sir Harry Livesey, and once. But for this despatch there H. G. Hegarty (Hong Kong & Mr. Douglas Bladon. Prince would have been no question of Shanghal Bank) Mr. and Mrs. Pierre, who consented to become a further changes, in the administra- E. C. Kerrison, Mr. V. C. Labrum, patron of the club, said that if the tive machinery till 1929. Sir Dr. J. K. Millward, Mr. E., B. Reed sunshine of his country could" help: Hugh Clifford's indictment called (the C.S.C.C, and interport cricketer to cement the friendship between attention, to the divorce of power who played for one of the second- Monaco and the outer world he from responsibility under the pre-class counties when last on leave), would be satisfied. Lord Jellicoe, sent system, and it is to this de Mr. D. O, Russell (Messrs. Loxley referring to the suggestion that he fect especially that the Ceylon & Co.), Mr. and Mrs, F. R. Smith, had learnt his golf at sea, mention- ange, Dr. A ed in defence that he had achieved Commission is expected to find a Mr. and

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How Hong Kong spent Easter is described in the "Over- land." The friendly invasion of Japanese Naval men is recorded in the "Overland," together with the local news; sports articles, cables, etc. ·

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