(Mr. and Mrs, Verner H. Petersen will sail this morning in the s. Conte Verde, bound for Denmark.
Frienps of Miss A, Z. Davies will be sorry to learn that she is at present indisposed and in the Country Hospital.
M. Wer Sun Chu, Chinese Minister in Warsaw is to leave his post in the wary near future and he has already begun his round of farewell visits.
(Mr. A. Piercy, of Mes Matheson and Ca., Ltd., made a business trip to returned to Shanghai the Empress of Asia.
Jardine who has Hongkong, yesterday in Round about 10,000 books that belonged tq the first Earl of Balfour, at Whittingehame, his home in Haddingtonshire were sold in Edinburgh recently. Many of them are autographed by Royalties, and have other values. The mansion house, which is large and too expensive to keep up in these days, is to be demolished.
Tae man who is to reorganize our air defences, Lieut.-General J. H. Marshall-Cornwall, has for some years been marked down for a high administrative post. He was trained as a gunner, but since the war—in Shanghai, on the Thracian Boundary Commission, in Berlin, Egypt, -and clsewhere—he has earned a reputation as a strategist and a close student of foreign polities. He is the son of the Postmaster-General of the United Provinces of India, is 51 years old, is small and sandy-complexioned, and speaks several languages.
Tue leader of the opposition against returning Tanganyika to Germany, the Earl of Erroll, holds one of the oldest hereditary offices in the kingdom. His ancestors have been Lord High Constables of Scotland for over 600 years, His Scottish title, of which he is the 22nd holder, dates from 1453. He has been twice married—first to the daughter of the eighth Earl de la Warr, and second to Miss Edith Ramsay-Hill—and has lived in Kenya for the past few years He is 37, and was formerly an attache at the Berlin Embassy.
Mr. Quintin Hogg, who. fought at Oxford one of the most interesting by-elections for many years, is the brilliant son of a brilliant father. He the elder son and heir of Lord Hailsham, who himself was the son of a great father, the founder of the Polytechnic. After a brilliant career at Eton, Mr, Hogg carried all before him at Oxford—a double first the presidency of the Union, and a Fellowship at the age of 24. He is now 31 and looks so youthful that it is difficult to believe that he has been married six years. Like his father, he is a barrister, and he ha published a book on the Law of Arbitration.
Ar the "regular meeting of the Engineering Society of China to be held at 545 pin, today on the 14th floor of the Park Hotel, under the auspices of the China Centre of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the Chairmanship of Mr Gomersall, Mr. W. L, E.
Miller, Grad. ce. will deliver a paper on "Electrical Interference with Ra Reception." With the widespread use of broadcast receivers in Shanghai, many of which are subject to interference in one form or another, this Igeture should prove of interest, not only to radio engineers, but to all members who are interested in the- problems involved in reducing the annoyance during radio programmes caused by interference of an electrical nature.
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