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The twenty-ninth ordinary What are the names of the annual meeting of the Dairy "Hermes's" "planes? Formerly Farm, Ice and Cold Storage Co.she carried Flycatchers and Ltd, will take place on Saturday, | Faireys." October 24, at noon.
A well-dressed, woman,
Wireless receiving apparatus has been installed throughout War, Seal Mansions, in London. These buildings were established as the result of a movement for the nocom-") cam-modation of dagbied ex-service The muscular energy expend-plaining at Thames Police Court officers and men and their families. ed by a woman who tries to swim of this conduct of another wonna Bach of the 188 fluts now has four' the English Channel would darn towards her, said: "I don't mind pairs of headphones, and a listener.] 456,233 socks, or sew on 528,282 her swearing at me OT ever has only to plug in his terminal as buttons, or patch the bosoms of smacking my head,; but it's the he would the electric light, 88,211 pairs of trousers.
limit when she says I wore one hut for tavo years."'
A white line drawn down the middle of roads has proved so efficient as a means of preventing motor accidents that the Ministry of Transport has asked the In- stitute of Patentees to insert in its cess for the manufacture of per- book of wanted inventions "a pro- manent white pigment for the marking of black road surfaces."
A father at Wembley sald jokingly, to his six-year-old son Willie:
"Show your mother round Treasure Island and I will give you 6d. if you can push her into the lake." Willie bided his time, and when his mother was near the water's edge, gave a vigorous push. Willie got his Gd-from his father--and thrashing-from his mother.
Stee! helmets, now part of the regulation jockey equipment on Manitoba racetracks, saved the lives of two riders during the meet of the Manitoba Jockey Club at Whittier Park. Jockey Wood stock was thrown when his mount stumbled. He was kicked in the head by another horse but escaped without a scratch. In the fourth race Jockey Morton's mount fell and the rider was thrown beneath the flying heels of the next horse. A dent of nearly two inches was made in his helmet but he was not seriously injured.
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At the end of this month. of England wrote the Arst sentence Vienna is to celebrate the center of what is now the century-old}} ary of the birth of the "Waltz story of the legislative council King"-Johann Strauss. A son of of Hobart tlus being coin
Edward Strauss and nephew of named "Johann" and who has for the Waltz King, who is also
some time had charge of concert halls in Berlin, will be present. A great Strauss Alm is to Зе shown also.
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are becoming increasingly fond of Artists of the silver screen making their pictures in Canada, where they find unrivalled scenic attractions for the setting of their
tories.
cident with the proclama
originally was a nominee body, but tion of Tasmania's independence of New South Wales, : The council. since 1856 when the House of: Assembly came into being it has For 12 been da elective body. years under the antocratic Govern- mont of Governor Artbur the pro- no publicity was given to them be- ceedings were held in camera andų yond the promulgation of the final measures in the Gazette.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10) 1925."-
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Travellers in England seem popular productions, took a lead to be singularly forgetful. Ing part in the filming of a play Metropolitan London Police re chene, Que., on the Company's 170.000 articles were found in called The Knockout" at Beau-port that during 1924 nearly Timiskaming Branch, where he vehicles in the London police area, had the exceptional good fortune of which 70,000 were recovered to see the biggest log jam in sixty by their owners, who paid £10,000 years on the Montreal River near in rewards, vile 100,000 were Beauchene, shots of which are unclaimed and were either return- incorporated in the film.
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The police also found 160,670 articles A Bank Holiday incident took 50,152 were recovered by owners. in the streets, of which only place at Victoria Station, Lon-The London, Midland and Scot- [don, which must surely be unique.tish Railway collected about
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A great crowd of trippers had 170,000 lost articles of which less assembled to wait for their train than 25 per cent. were called for. to Margate. The official at the barrier left his post for a time when a long excursion train had steamed out. Its place was soon
Une odd point has not been backed slowly in. This was too ther a champion cricketer is taken by an empty train which mentioned in all the colunas of much for the holiday makers, asset or otherwise to a team? The ericket writing: the problem whe- They burst open the gate pouring into the platform soon alt, Gloucestershire were seldom
and question sounds absurd, but after. Filed the Officials hurried up, calling out, Surrey champions in Hobbs' day- empty carriages champions in Grace's day, nor are "All change,' calculated to get them onto the "rows" suggests that when Hobbe and other cries, and the frequency of Surrey platform again. They were only fails, the rest of the team lowest met with calls of "We want to go heart, just as armies ran away in to Margate." "Send the train to the old days when their leaders Margate."
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In connection with the volume Jeron K. Jerome to appear in reminiscences by the nucumn, one wonders if his re- markable article, "This Sceptred ж Isle," contributed wellnigh five years ago to "The Daily Express," is wholly forgotten. "My country, right or wrong' is an insult hurled at God," declared the distinguished writer. "I love Her poets and thinkers, her mighty men of art and science, her great captains of literature und learning, her noble men and the train was destined for some combat,
Explanations that were smitten down in personal 800X00000000000000000OOOOOOOO women who laboured and suffered place quite other than Margate who have nobody that stands out At any rate, Yorkshire, for the truth. It was not Eng- met with deaf ears, and in the hend and shoniders above the rest, and made them. It is they" end it was found to be easier to but even good men each of whom and let the facts come home to us send them to Margate than to get can be relied upon to bat and howl, to-day "who have made Eng-them out of the carriages, 'so off are easily ahead of Surrey and all land,"
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Members of the Hongkong University Education Society will, hold a Tennis Tea party on the afternoon of October 18 at the University Pavilion.
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Mr. H. Ellis, manager of the Shanghai office of the Linotype Edwin S. Cunningham have left Consal-General and Mrs. and Machinery Co., has passed Shanghai for a short vacation in through Hongkong on his way to Japan. During Consul-General Hanci, where the printing plant Cunningham's absence, "Consul which produces the official publi- J. E. Jacobs will be in charge of cations for the French Colonial the Consulate-General. Government is equipped with the only notype machine in French Indo-China. Mr. Ellis will super famous Scottish International half. In signing Johnny Gilchrist, intend certain overhauls which back, the are required as the result of the Wanderers Football Club has cer Brooklyn (America) ineptitude of the native operators. tainly sent a thuil throughout
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country. The Tientsin Country Club Gilchrist is one of the best known at 9.13 to-night when members began its existence on September footballers in Great Britain, and m and their friends are assured of a 26 under auspicious circum- Was selected to represent his coun good time.
stances, when several hundred try against England, Ireland, and guests attended its first dance. Wals. His former clith, Ginegow Mr. M. Manuk, President of The club is fully equipped and Celtic, scld his transfer to the Theosophical Society, delivered a ming pool, ladies' and gentlemen's land for the record sum of £5,000. the Hongkong Lodge of the furnished, and contains a swim Prston North End Club of Eng-
lecture on "The message of changing rooms with hot and cold Theosophy" on Thursday, October shower and plunge baths, Squash After an absence of eleven years, 1, at the Masonic Hall, 30, The Racquets Courts, Gymnasium, Anna Pavlowa, world-famous Rus Bund, Shanghai.
Tonnis Courts, Billiards, Card and [sian dancer, gave her first perform- Mahjongg Rooms, Dining Room, ance in Berlin. calling forth, The Committee of the Shanghai Lounge, Bar, etc. The Generals before the war, onthusiastic Cathedral Schools announces that Committee consists of Mr. E. J.applause. The programme includ- Mr. A. H. Candlin, M.A. (Edin), Nathan, Chairman; Dr. G. ed sixteen dances to the musc has joined the Staff of the Boy's O'Neill, Vice-Chairman; Messrs. of Tchaikowsky. Kreisler, Grieg. School as Assistant Master, Miss G. de Caters, J. S. McEachran, Some of these she danced alone, and other, well-known composers. D. Meathrel has kindly under- P. S. Jameson, L. O. McGowan,othera with her two partnera, taken the duties of Cub-Mistress H. Langebaek. Mr. C. K. Smith; at the same School.
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Laurent Novikoff and Alexander' Volimine, while several were danced Mr. D. J. Lewis, for the past
by ber ensemble. But the audience four years secretary
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governorship He did not spare folk their rails and replace them Frem for having his privacy in himself and if Tamales did not by articles worn by European vaded at every hour of the day, and advance along the lines of pro- The President's wishes wore, jina eving his academic lectures on Ereas, it would not be for the mediately carried out in CastankIDA theology inpitomized by reactors who know something about bande
of effort on his part, and the population of which met Jaco here is general regret that he will his return from Ineboli birther
be returning to the colonserting hate in their hardas