/WEN-Sai Tai, research student, of Gonville ənd Cains College, has been elected to the Sheepshanks exhibition for proficiency in astronomy, value £39.
Tue usual Bible Society halt hour over the Christian Broadcasting Station XMHD, will be taken this evening by Mrs. W. A. Main who Will speak upon "The Insistent Call for The Bible Over All China," at 830 pr.
Mr. Hu Chung-ming has been appointed Secretary-General to the Provisional Political Council of the Hupeh Provin: Government, by order of the Chinese Central Gov: ment, says a Chungking · Chin report to the "Sin Wan Pao."
Mur Adam Black, cA, of the London Missionary Society, will be the speaker over XMHD, the China Christian Broadcast, tonight, from fight thirty to mine o'clock; the half hour of meditation in English.
By kind permission of Lt.-Col R, A. Wolfe Murray, DSO., ME. and Officers of the 1st Bu. The Seaforth Highlanders their Military Band will play in the Members Enclosure of the Race Club today from M am.
Ir is announced by the local Post Office that air mails for Kiukiang local (being limited to ordinary and registered letters and postcards-only) may now also be posted for conveyances by the Shanghai-Hankow air mail service with the same rate of postage and fee as for Hankow and Hwaining (Anking).
Tur Attache for Press and Culture of the Royal Italian Embassy, Dr. E. M. Apollonj, sailed yesterday for Japan following an invitation of the Waseda University and the University of Commerce in Tokyo. where he will hold some conferences and a course of lessons on the Italian Corporative State.
Tue following service will be broadcast over XMHD today at 10 am. Chimes; prelude "Lead Kindly chorus "Oh Worship the prayer, announcements: chorus "The King of -Love' ture; duet "When I Look in His Face"; sermon. prayer, Rev. G. A. Jacobson: song "Eternal Father Strong to Save: benediction; postlude "Abide with Me."
A sAMPLE of tea imported into Canada by a Montreal resident in 1886 was exhibited in London recently in connection with the Cen-ten ary of Empire Tea there. This sample was part of a cargo of tea brought to Canada on the barque "W.B. Flint," from China a forerunner of the palatial Canadian Pacific "Empress" liners of today.
A courtesy call was made by M. Henri Cosme, French Ambassador to China, upon Dr. Wang Chung-hui, the Foreign Minister, at 4 p.m. on June 16, says a Chungking Chinese message to the "Shun Pao." The following morning, the report ad Mr. Nelson T. Johnson, Amer Ambassador to China, paid his call upon the Foreign Minister.
THE programme for the Brass Concert to be given in Jo Park, today, June 18, from (weather permitting) is as Overture: "Lo Rol D'ys" se Lalo The Cherry Girl.. Caryll Adagio from "Sonata Pathetique enthoven Excerpt from the Ballet "La Farandole Dubois Paraphrase: "Ye Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon". Kappey Polka: "Les Amoureuses" Glidden Selection: "Carmen-up-to-daie^... Lutz Most of the 36 silk reeling filatures located within the Internatio Settlement are now threatened with a complete suspension of their operation schedules, result of shortage of cocoons, says a report to the "Shun Pao." The large quantity of ing cocoon crops purchas by agents of local silk filatures, the report states, and detained by the central China Development Corporation," has not yet been released, after the orders had been paid for in Cash, Tur Central Executive Committee will request the National Government to confer posthumous honours upon the late Mr. Hsiao Fu-cheng. member of the C.EC. who passed away in Bangkok, Siam, on June 1, says a Chungking Chinese report to the "Shun Pao." In consideration of his meritorious services to the Party, the report adds, the history compilation committee of the Kuomintang will be requested to compile the revolutionary career of the late CEE. member, while compassionate grants will be given the bereaved family, the report states.
A Lecacy of "£20,000 to be deducted from my gold in his charge" is left in the £221,000 Will of Captain John Henry Ball of Park Village East, N.W., to Mr. Sydney Edward Lucas, bank agent of Lancaster Gate. Bayswater. It is apparently not unusual for people to keep a stores of gold, Under the Bank and Currency Notes Act of 1928 any British holder of gold to an amount exceeding £10,000 may be compelled to sell that gold to the Bank of England at 85/- an ounce. The provision is still in force though gold today is worth 148/64, per ounce ALL lovers of old armour will be interested to learn that the National Art Collection Fund's latest gift to ihe Tower of London superb collection of armour is a Greenwich three-quarter suit of field armour in russet and gilt designed by the foreign craftsmen whame Henny VIII induced to come to England. The opportunity for this acquisition was provided by the dispersals of Mr Randolph Hearst's varied possessions. This particular suit was pur. chased for £4,600 by Mr. Hearst's agent in June 1923 in the third sale of the Earl of Pembroke's Wilton House array of armour Taree Milawa Victoria, Australia, sisters killed 307 snakes on a 150- yards stretch of creek bank after a flood. Clearing debris one evening one of them killed four. Next evening the two sisters joined in and their score was 174 before dark. On the third evening they added 129. The girls are used to 6-foot tiger snakes, and were disappointed that none in their big bag exceeded three feet. But they had their money's worth in variety, because the colour scheme included pink, copper, green. brown and black. "Two-foot stick: sre long enough when you're busy," they said, explaining their technique. Longer ones break too easily. existence an organization of those
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