The death of Mr. F. F. F. Kiene in Tacoma, Washington, is announced. The deceased was well-known in Hongkong for many years. He was engaged in the insurance business, and afterwards went into business in Zetland St. as an auctioneer, in premises now occupied as a cinematograph.

A fire broke out in Queen's Road Central in the storeroom of Pathe Freres the Kinema and gramophone agency, in Zetland Street. A large number of records and gramophones were stored here and those burned rapidly. The flames spread to the Hongkong Electric Company's Installation…