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Referring to the proposed en The annual meeting" of thes Sale by John D. Rockefeller quiry into the Shanghai shoot Hongkong Cricket Love is to Sr. of his estates at Pocantico ing on American paper says:he bell on Monday the instant Hills and at Lakewood, NJ, of The name of anyone coniected in the Cricket Club's pavilion.his town house and garage in New either with Shanghai or Hongkong The meeting is timed to commence York City, and of his winter is being ruled out and it is expecs at 3.15 p.m.
home at Ormond, Fla., to his son,') ed thay British judge from tlie
John D. Rockefeller Jr., for a
·Straits Settlements, an Ameriesa He called his wife an angel price in excess of $3,000,000." is judge from the Philippines, and a often that xhe became announced. French jalge peably from Tong suspicious and asked why he used king, will conduct this investiga-
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that particular term of endear- Rumanian deportation of ment. "Well," said he, "you farmer enemy subjects and politi- seem never to have any clothes, eal suspects, classed as "not you are always up in the air, and wanted." is now being extended to Now that the railway is a you keep on harping!"
Allied subjects, Large numbers hundred years old it is amusing to
of British, French and Italians. read some of the old notices. In
There were five cases of in- occupying important positione in one old railway guide it is stated fectious disease reported to the Rumania's business life, have re- that a servant of the company is Medical Officer at Health lastcently been given a time limit to allowed to receive a "tip" or re-week-three of enterle fever and leave the country. The latest list muneration of any description or one each of cerebro-spinal fever of names includes the executive under any conditions. Luggage and puerperal fever. All were personnel of the Bank of was often carried on carriage Chinese and occurred in the Vic-Rumanía and many Britishers roofs in those days, as may be toria registration district. One employed by the oil companies. seen in some old prints, and on patient suffering from enteric The British Government has the wall of a booking-hall at fever died. There was a clean lodged a strong protest. King's Cross there is still exhibit bill of health for Monday. American legation states that it is ed a placard warning passengers
uninformed as yet of any Ameri- to see their luggage labelled, and to "take note of the number of
can being ordered to leave. the carriage in or upon which it is placed !**
The belief that it is im- possible to contract malaria in England is gradually
being disproved. There is at least one authenticated case of a persou Mr. F. G. Penny had a merry who has never been out of the five minutes in the House of Com-country being infected with this deadly germ. Where there are muns the other night, and was instrumental in bringing a noisy mosquitoes malaria is always less in the air. and scene and the threat of a long more or
The sub there are places in England that sitting to
an end. ject was
swarm with this nocuous pest. unemployment. Mr. Williams, & Unionist member,!
The
Statistics which have just, character of the mineral produce been published show the varied of France. In 1922 one discovers with some surprise that 160- 1923, 250 grammes, were extract- grammes of platinum and, in ed. In 1922 there were found 513 kilos of gold and, in 1928, 491 kilos. Even in the days of the Gauls it was known that gold existed in the country, and the
rivers, especially those of the Central Plateau and the Pyrenees. So far as is known, there is no concentration of gold, but never- theless small quantities of it are scattered everywhere. In 1922, 10,800 kilos of silver were dis- covered and, in 1929, 13.991. It is auggested that research in this direction should be encouraged by the state, for hitherto these opera- tions have been casual and even accidental.
was assailed with .cries of i Russia has decided to build | mhabitants extracted it from the "Divide" so loud and so persistent at Touapse. on the Black Sea, a that he appeared to be speaking in dumb show, Mr. Ponny rose "to a point of order" "May we ask the hon. member to speak a little louder so that we may hear what he has to say." pleaded the Member for Kingston in his blandest mander, A roar of laughter greeted the point of order," and a moment later some- body moved the closure, which .was carried.
special oil port in order to facilitate the loading of big ocean steamers with oil for export. The bulk Russian oil export is now concentrated at Tourpse. The long discussed project of building an oil tunnel from Grozny to Touapse has been approved by the State Planning Commission. It is expected work will begin this year, and the tunnel will be completed by 1928.
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Rev: 1. B. Slann and Mr. H.. G. Hughes were among the loen! Volunteers who completed the trip to Manite and back on the Empress
of Asia.
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Mquitócs, which have descend- Dr. Thomas B. Strong. Bishop of ed a larger swarme than usual this Ripon, has been appointed Bishop summer on New Orleaus and other of Oxford, in succession to the life places along the American gulf Dr. B. M. Burge. Dr. Strong was coust, have been blamed for "bad | fumous as an amateur musician. He disposition and almost everything is a Christ Church man, once dan A passenger on the Empress of else. But the intest charge against and then vice-chancellor of the Asia returning de Manila said that them comes from Tangipahou parish college, leaving that post to become The witnessed a number of boxing where the pests are accused of cuus Bishop of Ripon in 1920. He is a matches on the Pacific Couss following the postponement of five well-1.D., un Hon. D.Mus. and Hon. ing the death of Pancho Villa; and dings in one week.
that at each one, just before the main event, the ball was darkened, while the referee counted ten,
memory of the deal fighter.
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Morris J. Harris, for the past year associated with the Munila Daily Bulletin," is a passenger on One of the exciting incidents of
the Empress of Asia. the voyage of the Empress of Asia Harris plans to go to -which might have turned out a 113 the interests of
A story of a bet with the Countess tragedy occured at Nagasaki,
of Oxforod, over newspaper work and wall later
Mr. Winston young lady going out as a missioned to North China. He does Churchill's election was told at ary to China sem over the side of not intend to return to the Philip garden party at Woodford Green the ship for a very early morning pines. Following a stay of an in-Central Liberal and Radical Asso- given by the Epping Division swint 5.30, to be exact. The definite period in Chino he plans ciation. Mr. G. Glanville Sharp, ship sailed off and left her. Her absence discovered,
to proceed to the United States by two boats, munned by Russian sailors, went to
way of Europe. Mr. Harris fret the unsuccessful Liberal candidate the resume. After three quarters of me to the Far East in 1920, at that the last Election, who is to fight time going to Japan where he was Division owed a cash debt of £10 again, stated that the Epping an hour in the water, she was
in newspaper work in Tokio. for
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experience; but the aptain nerves were said to have suffered more than the lady".
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three years. He ended his stay in to Lady Oxford, who had spoken that country after experiencing the earlier in the evening. He ex- great earthquake of Beptember, plained that Lady Oxford had back. 1928. He later went to Ching and ed him for that amount to defeat alter varied trips through the coun-Mr. Churchill. She lost and paid T. M. Healy Governor try, Northern Manchuria and the up, but it rested with the Liberals General of the Irish Free State United States, he came to the of the constituency to see she did divulged a well-kept act of the Philippines to become areciated, not lose the second time, as she in- part the King played in bringing with the Mavile Daily Bulletin. tended batting 420 on him at the about peace on the Tris question.r. Harris place on the Bulletin next Election in order to get her Speaking at an Irish dub dinner in as heen taken by George B. money back. London, he said :—
Carroll, a man of much newspaper
I hope I am not guilty of in-experience in both the United discretion in saying that the States and the Far East. Mr. turmoil and distress which used Cerroll left the United States thres to prevail in the South of Ireland years ago, going to Honolule where so wring the heart of his Majesty he made a lengthy stay. Later he that but for him no approach to went to China, being actively en-1 a truce or a settlement would have gaged in newspaper work all the been possible.
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