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THE CHINA MAIL,

LOCAL AND GENERAL SOCIAL. AND PERSONAL

Gillian Looker, the baby daugh- ter of Mr. H. W. Looker, M.P., In Hyde Park, on March 22, was the subject of a picture in the "Daily Sketch."

The marriage arranged between Mr. David Keswick and Miss Nony Barbara Pease was to take place on

April 20, at St. Mary-the-Vigin, Hambleden, Henley-on-Thames.

Brumels, Yesterday, General Wrangel is very weak. His condi- tion causes much anxiety-Router.

New York, Yesterday.-The next meeting of the Institute of Pacife Relations will be held at Kyoto In November, 1929-Reuter.

fun (ex-Minister of Finance at It is reported that Mr. Koo Ying-

trip.

Canton) la on a vacation trip to The Japanese Ambassador and America. Mr. Tang Chao-yam and are also making the Baroness Matsui were among the Mr. Li Pan guests of the Spanish Ambassador and the Marquees de Merry del Val at dinner at the Embassy on March 22.

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Sir Maurice de Bunaen la to be one of the three representatives of the Royal Geographical Society at the centenary celebrations in Berlin, during May 24-26, of the Gesellschaft fur Erdkunde.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1928.

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Commissioner Charles Duce, the Salvation Army, for 40 years a missionary officer in Japan, and at Abney Park Cemetery. elsewhere, was buried on March 28

The French Ambassador and Mme. de Fleuriau gave a dinner party at the Embassy on March 27, The Petric model of the Univer-their guests including the Jap- anese Ambassador and Baroness sity of London • distinguished MatsuL

work in Archa agy has been awarded

to Sir Aurel Stein, K.C.L.E., D.Litt., D.SC Ph.D. F.B.A.

Charged before, Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy yester day with landing on Stonecutters without permission, * Chinese

A handbag contining $30 in notes and other small articles, was on Monday afternoon snatched from a Chinese woman by a sneak thief in Bak Poy Ghee, 35, laundry pro- | Bonham-rond. He got away with prietor, who was committed from the booty. East Ham on a charge of harbour- ing two Chinese whom he had reason to believe had landed with out leave, was found not guilty at the Old Bailey and discharged.

The late Sir Dávid Miller Barbour, K.C.S.I., K.C.M.G., of Tilt-I wood, Crawley Down, lately choir- man of the Eust India Railway Co., and a member or chairman of several Commissions on Colonial currencles, loft estate valued it £71,132.

Found loitering on the staircase of Nos. 3 and 4 Gillies-avenue, Hunghom, at midnight on Monday, a Chinese was charged before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magis- tracy yesterday and received two months' hard labour. He had a chisel in his possession when ar-1 rested.

Cinema-goers are reminded that awing to the exceptional length of the film, only three performances of "The Big Parade" can be given dally, and these start promptly at 2.30, 5.30 and 9.15 p.m. "The Big Parade" will be screened at the World Theatre until Saturday, and It is a picture well worth seeing twice..

The Right Hon. Sir John Tilley, His Majesty's Ambassador Extraor- dinary and Plenipotentiary at Tokyo, had an audience of the King at Buckingham Palace on March 26, and Lieutenant-Colonel, P. R. B. Lawrence, Commanding 2nd Batta- lion, Coldstream Guards, had the honour of being received by His Majesty on the same day,

The engagement is announced of Leslie Charles Micklewright, of Pelepah Valley Estate, Kotu Tinggi, Johore, to Muriel Edythe Newton Mayson, only daughter of of Mr. and Mrs. W. J, Mayson, Singapore.

A sneak thief approached a Chin- ese woman from behind whilst ahe was walking in Wyndham-street on Monday afternoon, and anatched from her a pair of gold earrings worth $75. The woman raised an

hawker was fined $25, or, in de-alarm, but the thief succeeded in

fault, two weeks' hard labour.

A Sanitary Board coolie Was yesterday charged before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy for assaulting a Chinese occupying a cubicle in the same house as the defendant. Both parties were bound over in the sum of $50 each to keep the peace for six months.

Isaurs Getaldon, resident Com missioner of the Philipple Islands The Persian Minister held a re-hr Washington, D. C. who has ro ception on March 22 on the acen- #igood his sent in order that he sion of the Persian New Year #ght for the freedom of his people. might return to lile native land to Among the many guests were the The Commissioner holda that every Japanese Ambassador and Baroness dollar of American investment in Matsul, the Siamese Miniater, the the Philippines "is an add

is an additional Chinese Charge d'Affaires and ball in the comp of our independ Mme. Wei-cheng Chen, Sir Henri ence." Gabaldon has been elected a member of the Philippine leglula- and Lady Deterding, Sir Denison ture and in an address to Congress Ross, and Mrs. Alec Tweedie.

before his resignation was handed in besenched them to give the Philippines their independence.

getting away before help could reach his victim.

A bag containing $340 was yes- terday stolen from a Chinese pas- senger soon after he had boarded the s.s. “Sui An." He went on to the wharf to report his loss and found a detective detaining a man who had the bag in his possession, The thief was taken to the Police Station;

Sir Denison Ross was host and Mrs. Francia Ayscough hostess at the second conversazione of the sanson of the After-Dinner Club, which was held at the New Burl- |ington Galleries on March 28. The speakers included Brigadier-Gen- eral the Hon. C. G. Bruce, Lieu- tenant-Colonel P. T. Etherton, and Air Commodore Samson.

The N.Y.K. alm, To the Sonny East," was shown at the Scala Theatre, Charlotte-street, London, W.1, on March 29. The film was prepared by a British firm, who sent out their own operators to Japan. In addition to depicting: lifa aboard the steamers, it in-1 cludes some very interesting pic- |tures of various Japanese Indus-

tries.

A "Standard" writer, corrected as to the derivation of an Eastern word he had used, says:—I have no doubt

the common Japanese word for a foreign dog, "kami," which i *nerally understood to descend the "come here" ad- dressed t is dog by the first Eng-" lish traveler to Japan accompanied by one, might be traced to some classic Chinese origin.

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The marriage arranged between Mr. H. J. L. Leigh-Clare, son of the late Vice-Chancellor 0. Leigh-

At the Central Magistracy yes-found the contraband in a narrow Clare and Mrs. Leigh-Clare, of 60, terday afternoon, the case was con- compartment behind a linen locker Lansdowne-road, London, W.11 cluded before Major C. Willson in and the steel hull of the ship. Ac and Dorothy, second daughter of which six Hokios and, eight Hakkas cused was remanded in custody. Mr. John Strachan, general manag were charged with disorderly con-

er, F.M.S. Railways, and of Mrs. duct as the result of two free The Japanese Ambassador andį Strachan, of Greatash, Chislehurst, fights on the waterfront. arising Baroness Mateul entertained at Kent, took place on March 23 in from a dispute over the sale of dinner at 10, Grosvenor-square, on Colombo.

third class passenger tickets on March 25. Among their guests coasting steamers. His Worship were. the Dowager Lady Swayth- found that the Hokios were the ling, Sir John and Lady Tilley, Sir aggressors, and with the exception Maurice de Bunsen, Sir Charles of two, bound them all over in the and Lady Addis, Mrs. Alec sum of $60.each, to be of good be- Tweedie Lieutenant-Colonel the haviour for six months.

The King held a Council at Buckingham Palace on March 22 and pricked a list of Sheriffs of England and Wales for the ensu Ing year. Among those present at the Counell was Sir Maurice de Bunsen and one of the Sheriffs ap pointed by the King was that for Lord Gort, V.C., back Sussex, Sir Robert Molesworth China, is now on military duty at Kindersley, of Plaw Hatch, Sharp- Colchester, and has given orders thorne, G.B.E.

from

Marquis Mayeda, Mr. and Mrs. Juichi Tsushima, and Captain Koichi Shiozawa.

The Rance of Sarawak is one of for his cutter, "Carlotta," to be the godmothers of the infant sent to Burnham, where he can daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard are playing leading Before Mr. W. Schofield at the have some week-end cruising. He Nedoll, who Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, an

was on March 27 a witness to the parts in "Square Crooke" at the amah was charged with the theft marriage of Mr. George Gordon Prince of Wales Theatre, London, of a wrist watch from her former Medlicott Vereker, M.C., a member The christening took place on mistress at No. 4, Tung High- of a branch of his family, to Mar- March, 25 at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, when Captain street, Mongkok. The defendant jorle, the daughter of the late denied stealing the watch, and aafd Colonel H. H. Mulliner and Mrs. Barry Gifford, R.A.F., acted as that a friend of here gave it to hor Mulliner. In August, when the Proxy for the Ranee, who was un- to take to a watchmakers to be Solent season will be in full awing, able to attend owing to illness. repaired. She was bound over in "Carlotta," which has had a moter the sum of $100.

installed, will return to Cowes..

Beneath portraits of Mr. A. Duff Cooper, who admitted at a dinner in London that he had been called The engagement fa announced Great excitement was caused in The Owen Nares of the Conser between Cecil Hubert Eldridge, Society circles in Amsterdam byvative Party," and Mr. F. G. Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking the newa that Madame Van Eeghen, Penny, the member for Kingston- Corporation, eldest son of Mr and a niece of Sir Henri Deterding on-Thames, who has been declared: Mrs. Eldridge, of Ormonde-road, (Director-General of the Royal the handsomest and best-dressed Branksome Park, Bournemouth, Dutch Oil Company) and the only man in the House, the "Evening and Dorothy Mary, daughter of woman member of the Stock Ex-Standard" says that Mr. Penny was Lieut-Colonel R. L. Bourchier change, had been found at her voted the most popular M.P. by its R.A.P.C., and Mrs. Bourchier, of home suffering from

a. bullet The Maples, Lillington-avenue, wound in the head and her, hus- Leamington Spa

band, a well-known and prominent

women readers,

rubber merchant, dead from a re- At the Central Magistracy yes- The Egyptian Charge d'Affaires volver shot. The bullet which interday afternoon, Mr. Leo d'Almada (owing to the accepted resignation jured me. Van Eeghen has been entered a plea of guilty In behalf of the Egyptian Minister) held a extracted, but her condition is of an Indian constable named reception on March 26 at the Lega-critical Van Eeghen is asid to Hayat Mohamed, who was charged tion in South Audley-street, in have recently had heavy losses on with demanding a bribe of 201 honour of the 60th birthday of the the rubber market, and it is report centa from a Chinese hawker. Mr. King of Egypt. Among those who ed that he shot his wife because Lindsell In passing sentence of accepted invitations were the sho had refused to lend him money, three months hard labour, said Siamese Minister, the Chinese, Van Eeghen married Miss that this type of offence, was ex- Charge d'Affaires and Mme. Wel Deterding about four years ago traordinarily ditieult to detect, and Cheng-cheng, Sir Doulson, Ross and after divorcing his first wife, by when detected, must be punished

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