yvyan Dent Foreign Tavares Foreign AMI lected.
The total number of electors who voted was 759. money settlements and a general holiday. 'This year's activities have indeed been exceptionally quiet, and any attempts at horse play in the more thickly. populated areas of the Settlement, such as has been Axnown in former' years, have been quite unheard' of. Large crowds swarming upon the main thoroughfare have in previous years been the cause of not a few accidents but, this year traffic reports show nothing out of the ordinary to have occurred over the week-and.
During Saturday and Sunday tram cars and buses were crammed to their full expacity, and many occupied those vehicles more for the "fun of "joy riding" than for any serious purpose. Temple rites in the Chinese City wore observed with a fair amount of half hearted enthusiasm. Some of the local shops in the Settlement have during the last few days kept up the traditional clatter of cymbals but even this. custom has not been carried on to the extent of former years.
One rather "amusing incident.
red Saturday'; afternoon At the recent meeting of the Governing "Board "of. Community Church It was decided to take a Feligious census of the neigbsur-[odin the: vicinity: ""of ihe new Community Church daring the open ing week of the church. This census will "be undertaken in order Aecertain the pouablities of inter esting: more people in the work of the church. Several thes practical susestions for" popularizing the church were adopted, {Dragon procession. This was stopped by the police who ordered the procession "to "disperse on the (is round that it was causing obstruction. The procession party, Thowever, took a different view the situation and was determined not to be frustrated in its demonstration. Some sort of a discussion enstied "which ended in some of the party starting to throw lighted Arecrackers at the police. At Jemred on the. scene "and. Tathe? this point a foreign sergeant ap-
ively settled the matter by allow-during. the. course "of a" Cantonese' ing the procession to continue.
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