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MISS PEGGY O'NEIL
Erzo DRESS TRIED ON IN COURT.
When the hearing was resumed of the claim against Miss Peggy O'Neil, the actress, by the liquidator of Peron, Ltd, for £120, the price of a three-piece moleskin costume, Miss O'Neil put on the dress in court to allow the judge to see how it fitted.
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Hongkong rainfall for the S4 hours ending at 10 am. to-day, 0.01 mat Total since January 1st, 19.14 inches, against an average of 55,69 inches.
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maid at the solicitors' table, re- moved her hat and inserted her arms and head into the skirt.
✰ KEFEKATuas, in the shade in de- With the assistance of the maid grees Fahrenbalt. she got it on in about two miastes, to parang Her black hair was somewhat disarranged in the process. She mature being 100. then, turned round to exhibit the fit of the dress to the judge..
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"I cannot sit down, she mid. You see I have to keep walking" "Later she demonstrated that it was only by raising the bottom of the skirt that she could sit down,
Mr. Justice Talbot gave jedg- | dredtha, ment for the company on the £120 claim.
The school, opened in 1885, was pioneer of the new era of woman's wider education, including the playing of hockey, cricket, and On Miss O'Neil's counter-cial other games, till then, confined to for the return of moleskin coat, тел. The school began in a which she said she had asked the house in Lewes cresent, Brighton, company to use in making the with 10 pupils, but now occuples costume, judgment was given for 30 acres outside the town and has Miss O'Nell for £12, and for £5 15 a membership of 437.
respect of a hat also left with the Among those present on Satur company day were the Lord Chief Justice. Mr. Justice Lawrence, brother of the reuring principals, and Lord Justice Sargant, who spoke warm- ly of the public spirited action of the Misses Lavrence, the eldest of whom is over 19, là handing over the school fo piblic control.
"The Misses Lawrence will re- main as members of the council.
Miss B. A. Clough, ex-principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, presented the prizes.
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Travancore Ghat, section at five different places, and it will take three or four days before the line is cleared. With regard to the breaches near Olavakode broad gango of the Bouth India Railway these are due to the over dowing of the Ponnani River near Parli station.
Madras. July 17,-Reporte re- ceived from various quarters show that there has been heavy rain and consequent floods, landslipe, and On the Nilgiri Railway... slight breaches of railway lines.
slips occurred near Aduti and News from Coonoor states that Lovedale, but these are not causing. on the 14th and 15th July that any serious obstruction to trafic.» station experienced sovero mon- The Mettupalayam mail train ar- Boon weather, and that the stream rived at the Central Station, at Dhobypet in in food. Many Madras, punctually to time this trees have been uprooted and morning but for the Mangalore minor landslips have occurred. mail a duplicate train was run from
An Ootacâmund correspondent Lakki station on the Podanur- telegraphs that owing to heavy side of Ottapalem, and this train floods the Pykara bridge has been also came through to Madras to washed away.
time. The Trivandrum express Inquiries made from milway has been held 'up, and trains are authorities in Madras show that now running only from Shenkotta there have been landslips on the station eastwards.
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