Topay is St, Swithin's Day and, us today it will rain for foi and forty nights, A POPULAR series is the fortnightly at 920. This is arranged Nonsense".from
and given by -Henry Brigg, MR, Chou Fo-Hal, Finahce Minisster of the Nanking Government, and members of his staff, who recently returned from Japan left for Nanking terday.
'THIS week's meeting of the Rotary j Will be held on Thursday at 1215 p.m. at the Metropole Hotel, Asp floor," The speaker will be the Reverend F, W. Weaver, and his subject, "Seamen in Shanghai."
A Sür óf $53 has been forwarded the Central British War Fund from the sale of "Fragments" on sale at mos, of the leading book stalls, This gift book contains a series of prose poems, All proceeds for British War Funds, morning, the D.KK. her Meek After arriving pes Maru on the Dairen-Tsingtao-! hai run will be sailing again dri return voyage to northern ports this to be on board at least half an hour before sailing time. mail to catch this vessel must be posted so as to reach the Head Post Office ey 1130 a.m. today and ordinary mail by 12 noon, cee An interéstlhg paper, which has a bearing on the question of the sca Tur King's Daughters' Society are urgently in need of raincoats for thféé "youths, and will be very grateful to receive any discarded raincoats at their offices, 864-868 Avenue Foch, office hours' 8,30* a.m, to-12 noon, Manxawo the first instance of cholera in the Japanese community in Hongkew this year, Mr, Shigenobu Nishi, 24, employee of the Central China Railway Company, who was. taken ilian Sunday, is now in & Japanese Isolation Hospital, undergoing treatment, the "Tairiku Shimpo" reports, Shipbuilders. thought that the speed of a slow vessel falls off to a greater degree than that of a faster ship when heavy weather is encountered, the figures given by Mr. Kari show that this is not altogether the case. The slower and, therefore, fuller vessel may suffer more when driven into a head sea, but, on the other hand, it has been observed that on the North Atlantic the finer ship occasionally makes a less favourable A sammoo shack in Lane 4153 Pingliang Road was gutted at 1.55 ari, yesterday, Engines from the Yangiszepoo station were sent to the Scene and the firemen had the flames under control within a quarter of an hour, The blaze was completely extinguished by 241 a.m, Fortunately, no one was injured, knot vessel will lose only about one knot, while a 15-knot vessel will lose about three-quarters of a knot.
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