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COURT & PERSONAL

London, Jan. 20. The following telegram has been received by Mrs. Kipling from the Queen:

The King and I are grieved to hear of the death this morning

sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia, with Lady Anderson in the ner Duchess of Atholl for Liverpool,

KIPLING'S GIFT TO BRITISH MUSEUM

nt Mr. Rudyard Kipling. We shall Mr. Rudyard Kipling presented to mourn him not only as a great the British Museum in 1925 the national poet. but as a personal autograph, MS.. in one bound friend of many years. Please ap-volume, of "Kim," cept our heartfelt sympathy.

and another volume containing autograph Mary R. poems.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1936.

UNIVERSITY

NEWS

New Master of Christ's College, Cambridge

London, Jan. 22, The following college announce- ment is made:--

Queen's College contemplates electing an official Fellow in Ma-

The stipend will October, "1938. be not less than £550 a year, with college rent free and rooms in dinner free of charge at the com- mon table,

The telegram, it will be observed, He desired that the gift shouldthematics to take up nis dütles in was signed by the Queen on behalf.not be made public till after his of "the King and I. Usually of death, and further stipulated that course, royal messages of this kind the MSS, should not be used "for are signed by the King.

purposes of collation or reproduc-

The Prince of Wales also sent a telegram of condolence to Mrs. Kipling.

tion."

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Both volumes were accepted by the trustees on these conditions, LORD HILL MARRIED

und now that the period of reserva- Bon is ended by their author's Lord Hill, of Coton-Hall, Shrup-death they have been placed on shire, was married on Saturday at exhibition in the Grenville Library. St. George's Church, Campden Hill, Kensington, to Miss Berthe Maria MR. H. G. WELLS "ILL AND Emilie Schmidt-Immer, of Camp-

OVERWORKED "

den Hill. The service was conduct-

Yarborough.

Mr. H. G. Wells, in a letter to

BARRIE'S TOWN UP IN ARMS

Provost May Resign With Councillors

London, Jan, 20. Kirriemuir, made "famous" by Sir James Barrie's Writings, has been shaken out of its lethargy. In place of quiet tranquility there is intense ex- citement.

Provos: Doig, who took office only in November last, together with Councillors Stewart and Birse, have publicly intimated their intention of resigning office, and Baille Donald is seriously con- eldering similar action. Should all four carry out their intention "the Queen's College also contem-

Councli will be reduced to appro- plates electing an official Fellow in ximately half its proper strength, either Organic or Physical Chem-as at full daer it numbers nine. istry to take up his duties in Octo

ABOUT HAMLET ber, 1936. The stipend will be not

in college rent free and less than £300 a year, with rooms dinner free of charge at the common table,

The rift is or the question of the burth boundary whether should be extended to include the" namlet of Northnauir.

Angus County Council agreed to hand over Northmuir without ask ing compensation. The Town

of one decided to accept the offer, and a petition was lodged with the Sherif Principal..

Candidates for either of the ed by the Rev. L. Patterson, who the chairman of the Old Danen- / Fellowships should write to the council last year, by a majority was assisted by Canon J Cooke-slans Club an organisation for Provost as soon as possible for all Doncaster Grammar School old application form, which must be The bride, who has lost her boys-regretting his absence from returned to him with references father, was given away by Mr. the club's annual dinner in London and three testimonials not later

than February 15, Romer Wynn. It was while gover-on Saturday, wrote: dess at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

cholce of the college will not necessarily be limited to candidates who apply.

Wynn that she met her future hus- I am really very ill and overwork- band. She found an injured dosed, and I do not think you sturdy on the estate and carried it home. Yorkshiremen would like to have Lord Hill, who was a guest at theme, a Kentish man, coughing and house of Mr. Wynn, who is his wheezing among you. All my good

wishes for the festival. ... cousin, rendered first aid, and they discovered that they shared a com- mon love for dogs.

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SIR GODFREY COLLINS Bir Godfrey Collins, the Secretary LORD TYRRELL INDISPOSEN of State for Scotland) will pay an Lord Tyrrell of Avon, chairman of omcial visit to the Corporation ef the British Board of Film Censors Edinburgh to-day. This is the first was prevented by indisposition from of four visits, Glasgow on Thurs- attending the fortieth anniversary day. Dundee on Wednesday week, dinner on Saturday of Messrs and Aberdeen on Thursday, Janu- Ernest Moy, Limited, mechanicalary 30, being the others. At Glas- engineers, at which he was to have Row Bir Godfrey Collins has been been principal guest. He wrote re invited to address a meeting of the gretting that he was "a victim of town council. the vagaries of our climate and stating that he had been forbidden by his doctor to leave home.

A reporter was informed at his home later that Lord Tyrrell is suffering from a slight cold and is staying in bed as a precaution."

DR. TEMPLE

5.

The Secretary of State is also to meet representatives of Scottish education, authorities in order to discuss with them the Govern- ment's education polley.

MME, FRIEDA HEMPEL

Mme. Frieda Hempel, the soprano singer, has caught a heavy cold, and the Jenny Lind recital which she was to have given at Queen's Hall to-night has had to be can.

The Archbishop of York, wno re- turned from a month's tour of the United States on Wednesday, is confined to his room at Bishop-celled thorpe Palace with a slight chill.

THE POET LAUREATE

A telegrain from Los Angeles states that Mr. John Masefeld, the Poet Laureate, is suffering from severe laryngitis. He has been ordered two days' rest, at the end or which time it is hoped he will be able to continue his lectures.

SIR MURRAY ANDERSON

THE FARADAY MEDAL

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The Council of the Institution of Mectrical Engineers has made the fourteenth award of the Faraday Medal to Sir William Bragg. The Faraday Medal is awarded not more than once a year, either for notable salentine or

industrial achieve-

ment la electrical engineering or for conspicuous service rendered to the advancement of electrical Admirai Sir Murray Anderson, science, without restriction as re- the retiring Governor of Newfound-gards nationality, country of re- land, who bas

been appointed sidence, or membership of the in- Governor of New South Wales, has 'stitution

HOME FOOTBALL

London, Feb. 12. Sheffield Wednesday suffered ? home defeat in the English Foot- ball League to-day losing to Ports- mouth, by the only goal scored. In the southern section of the Third Division Notts County lost before their Own supporters to Aldershot by the odd goal three. In the northern section Gateshead won on the'r Own "ground against Hartlepools, scor-

ing once without reply

In

The second round Scottish Cup replay between Kilmarnock and

Falkirk saw the first-named, play-

ing at home, lose by three goals to one, after extra time. Reuter.

THOMPSON - ARBEST WARRANT IS SENT

Justice Official To Bring Broker From Shanghai

CHINESE APOLOGY-TO

JAPAN

Tientsin Conference

London, Jan. 17.

The conference between Major

1936.

CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 21

The

Following the November election, the scales had swung in the op- Posite direction, and the non-ex-

tension party had a majority of che. Objections to the petition were "lodged with the Sheriff Prin-

Mr. Charles Gulton Darwin,cipal, and, in order to lend weight. M.A., FR.S., a former Fellow of it was decided to take & plebiscite Christ's College, has been elected of the ratepayers. to the Mastership of Christ's on the retirement of Mr. Norman Mc-, Lean,

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PLEBISCITE ILLEGAL

The Town Clerk definitely statěd that a plebiscite was legal and that the promoters would have to face any charges incurred. He further ruled that such a plebis cite, could at beat have no legal bearing and be but an expression of public opinion.

Mr. Darwin, who was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge, was elected to a Fellowship at Christ's In 1919, but relinquished it in 1822 on his appointment as Tait Pro-

Despite his advice, the step fessor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, which was taken, but the public, tired of post he took up in 1923. Mr. Dar- the "squabbling, practically ignor- win is a son of the late Sir Georgeed the matter and only between Darwin and a grandson of Charler Darwin. He is married to the daughter of Mr. F W. Pember, the lare Warden of All Souls College, Oxford.

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP At Emmanuel College Wilfrid Stephen Mansfield, MA, Univer- sity Lecturer in Agriculture and Director of the University Farm, has been elected into a Buper- numerary Fellowship and William Albert Hugh Rushton, Ph. D., Uni- versity Lecturer in Physiology, has been re-eleced into

2. Research Fellowship.

PROFESSOR C. G. DARWIN

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Professor Charles Galton Dar- Win, of Edinburgh, a grandson of the famous Charles Darwin, was yesterday elected Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, in succession to Mr. Norman M'Lean.

Professor Darwin was the first incumbent of the newly instituted Talt Chair of Natural Philosophy in Edinburgh University, and has held the appointment since 1922, worthily filling a chair which com- memorates a distinguished pioneer in naturai philosophy. Like the late Professor Talt, he has the rare gift of investing mathematics! symbols with physical reality.

Professor Darwin is a son of the

General Dolhara, and General late Professor Sir George Darwin. Sungcheyuan, which ended

in He was born in 1887, and educated Tientsin yesterday evening, dealt at Marlborough.. and Trinity with local incidents only. Accord College, Cambridge, and · មាន ing to the Japanese, General Bung fourth wrangler in 1909. From (who is chairman of the Hopel 1uld he worked in the laboratory Chahar Political Councl})

#poo- of Professor Rutherford, Man- gized for the Peking gate and Ta- chester, partly in experimental incidents. the former being work, but mainly in mathematical settled and the latter remaining work

connected with the re-

to be settled. General Sung searches in the laboratory, and gave lectures to honours students

promised to restrain the 28th

Army (which he commands) from in physics. anti-Japanese activities.

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During the war he commanded

The Customs, Bait Gabelle, and a sound-ranging station, and lat the railway problem of North terly acted as an experimental China were also discussed. The omcer in the Royal Air Force. He Japanese claim that they acted in return to Cambridge in 1919 an an advisory capacity only but it college lecturer in Christ's College.

and author of "The New Concep- tons of Matter," published in 1931) as well as various papers in theore tical physics.

is significant that the Japanese He is a Fellow of the Royal Society spokesman later referred to large suing leaving Hopel which he said, were essential to the ecang mic development of the province. The future of the autonomous regime of the Demilitarized Zone was not discussed, nor the post- tion of the Kalan, minés,

Manila, Feb. 5. The warrant of arrest against Richard E. Thompson, former Ma- nila broker, wanted here to an- awer to charges of estafa invol Chinese reports suggest

than P100,000, were the Hopel-Chahar Council, 2 a ving more sent to Shanghai at night on result of the conference. intends board the Empress of Russia.

Thompson was detained upon bis

that

SCOTTISH CUP DRAW

London, Feb. 12. The draw for the third round

to retain the revenues from the of the Scottish Cup was made to

salt felds near Tengku and from day and Reuter cables it as fol

Morton v. Queen South

the rallways in North China, pay-, low-p arrival in Shanghai by the Uniteding Mr. Yin Ju-keng chairman Beates district attorney upon the

of the Autonomous Régime) $250,- request or the United States High 000 monthly from the former and Commissioner. Podb

$100,000 from the latter. Later:

It is understood that Thompson reports sad that the future of

be brought here under the custody of an ometal of the de- partment of Justice, who is now on leave in Bhanghai.

the Customs in North China Is uncertain, rumours suggesting an impending détention of the

Aberdeen V. Rangers Third Lanark v. Dumbarton Clyde v. Dundee

Cowdenbeath v. Motherwell. Dunfermline and Falkirk drev

byes.

The programme will be

or February 223

200 and 300 voted from a foll of 1300.

Determined to stop the scheme, the next step was ta move for the withdrawal of the petition. The thane seemed opportune, for its

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opponents not only had a major- lity of one but one of the support-

ing councilors was: in..

There was consternation in the municipal, chambers last week, however, for the sick councillor obtained leave from the nursing home and attended the meeting and cast his vote: in addition, one of the counällors who had signed the objections changed his mind

last week and voted with the other side. The result was a win for the extension party by 5 votes to 4.

Whenever the result was known Provost Dolg' and Councillors Ste- wart and Birse intimated their Intention of resigning office. Bai- ite Donald, who also opposes the scheme, la taking the week-end to make his mind up as to whether he also will resign.

Supporters

the extension scheme claim it will only burden the rates by id; the other side say it will cost at least 18

of"

"Kirrie" folks do not seem to be

worrying much about the scheme. but What does interest winter s

the questionWill the four coun.... cillors resign?

SOUNDINGS FÖR NEXT OLYMPIC GAMES

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Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Feb. 12,

The President of the InternA- tional Olympic Committee. Count Baillet-Latour, is, already making preparations for a journey to TUKIO, where he will make persocial in- vestigations on the spot, in order to discover whether Japan is in position to organise the next Olympic Games in 1940.

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The President's fourney does. however, not mean that Japan has been finally elected, the principal other countries whose claims call for consideration are Italy. and Finland. The visit to Japan is being made this early, so that the Count will be able to report on the coun- tries in question at the forthcom- ing meeting of the International Olympic Committee to be held in f Berlin-Transocean News Service.

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