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There was a nil return notifiable disenses for the 24 hours ended Tuesday last.
The Reserve Company of the H.V.D Corps is to fire part one of the musketry course on Sunday next.
A Voluntary service for Roman Catholic troops was held yesterday (Feast of the Epiphany) in St. Joseph's Church,
GENERAL.
Mr. John Drinkwater has: It is said that the vogue of written a play on the life of the short lunch "hour"" has: con- Robert Burns, The play gives rributed to the prosperity of
Burns glimpses of
As: lover, farmer, reveller. Hterary Hon. America. host and exciseman.
The Advertising Club of New York acted as Santa Claus to several hundred of, the poorer children of New York City. The club broadcasted to its members and to the citizens of New York a request for toys. The celebration Holders of arms licences (in-was Reld in one of the city's parks. cluding 'shot gun licences) are requested to note that their licences are now due for renewal.
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The land tenure question in Nigeria has come to the front with the closing of the British Empire Entries for the forthcoming Exhibition at Wembley, Nigerians races close on Saturday, the 23rd are making a great effort to get inst, ut p.m., and must be sent British or American capitalists to to the Secretary care of Messrs.create plantations and erect fac Linstead & Davis.
tories in Nigeria; owing to the big competition from the cultivated Overheard in one of Shang-palm oil industry in the Dutch hai's toy departments: "And if East Indies, Malaya, Borneo, the they give me a dolt with long hair Congo, and elsewhere. they have to take her to the Beauty Shop the very next day and have her shingled!"
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It is now planned to hold the" Press Congress of the World in Genova, Switzerland, about the middle of September next.
Declaring that "journalism is the highest form of literature because all the highest literature is journalism," and that" jour naliam is not cheap and shoddy unless in the hands of cheap and shoddy journalists," Glenn Frank, of the University of Wisconsin. addressed the Central Interscholastic Press Association. Dr. Frank lauded journalism.. speaking from seven years' experi- ence in the Held.
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The Nigerian Government Swaziland is also one of the has hitherto been willing to give finest cattle-raising centres only 25-year leases with no option | South Africa, a fact which parti- |of renewal, and as a result cularly attracted the Prince's The last meeting of the capitalists do not care to take such attention on his visit. Gassiterite. Church of England Men's Society risk. It seems probable, how- £60,000, is the principal present: was held on Tuesday when nå
ever, that some change in this mining product, and a little gold, address was given by Rev. Fdirection will now be made. In but there is probably a good deal Freeman on "Meditation." A1924, Nigeria exported 127,000 of the latter yet to be discovered, concert will be held on the 19th tons of wild palm kernels and, in while large unworked deposits of addition, 127,000 tons of palm ofl.enal exist. Now that all the hundred of concessions given to The latest addition to the The Island of Grenada, a adventurers by the late King have Messageries Maritimes fleet, the || British colony in the West Indies, at last been straightened out by “Fontainebleu," sister ship of the with an area of about 131 square the Government, it is probable "Compeigne."" arrived. in Hong-miles, has just issued its annual that mining will become of im- kong yesterday on her maiden Peport, and mentions, as the most portance in this rich Httle country. trip. The dimensions of the new interesting event of the year, the vessel are length 479 feet and arrival of its acting. Governor, breadth 59 fean, with a tonnage of Colonel Davidson-Houston, by an The Prince of Wales had an |15,970 and H.P. of 5,600.
American dying boat. This was exceptionally enthusiastic web- due to the courtesy of Captain come when he visited the semi- Gherard, U. S, N. The annual independent native South African deficits still unfortunately, con- state of Swaziland, which is under tinue, Cecon, nutmegs and mace a British Resident and hot under are the chief products. A reduc- that of the Union of South tien of cocont taxation and an African Government. In fact, the increase on spices has been one of natives now date events from that the year's fiscal changes. A visit. In a recent report issued in noticeable event in the year under London, it mentions that the two review, has been the successful staple crops, maize and tobacco, starting of a whaling industry, as were well up to the average last a result of a visit from Capt. Otto year-218.500 pounds of the latter Sverdrup, the well-known Arctic-and cotton planting greatly bananas for export is also another of lint were exported at 15d. a new industry started in Grenada, cound..
On the Yakuno skiing grounds on the borders of Tajima and Tango Provinées, saya the "dij," snow was fourteen inches deep on December 18 and the grounds were opened for the sport on the
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Constance. Talmadge of the Wladislaw Stanislaw Beymont, films has become an American Polish novelist and poet and last citizen again. Native born, sheyear's winner of the Nobel prize i lost her nationality some years for literature, died on December 3- ago when she married Mr. J. T. last after a long illness. Mr. A. Goiding, who was Pialogien, the wealthy foreign. [formerly "wi di Bar Asiatle Perlenmeigarette manufacturer, Then she 166, has returned sex bpoh andijon-was divorced and had to be re-the Abbe Bisch, ninety-four, has Be the staff of Messi's. Maxglui naturalized
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Dr. Sara Winstedt who, with A Tombstone Competition in her husband, the Director of connection with the Ladies' Education went Home by the Section of the Royal Hongkong "Morca" has been given, in addi-
Locarno, besides being linked. Golf Club is to be held on the new tior to her ordinary full pay leave, with the recent security confer course at Fanling on Tuesday two months' special study leave, Fence, has also sentimental rela- next. Mrs. Alan Cameron has which she will spend in the hoa-tionship with the great French kindly donated a prize:
pitals at Vienna. Dr. Winstedt is poet Lamartine. In 1813 one of the most capable surgeons Lamartine met a pretty girl there in the F.M.S: Government Medical whom he loved but who would net Service.
marry him. Fifty-five years later oocoon--------------------------- the French poet received a letter from Carmelite Order in Rome stating the Superior of the that a Sister Cecille, who had just died, had directed that a dried crange blossom should be sent to Lamartine's Meditations. It him at her death. She had read was Sieter Cecille to whom he constantly referred in this magni- ficent work. Sister Cecille behind the convent walls had read it, and admired Lamartine, whom she remembered from Locarno..
Dr. Okano Keijiro, Vice-Presi- dent of the Privy Council, who was lately enrolled, passed away
"Bolshevist boots" is the name at his villa in Oso on December scoffing Englishmen are giving to 22, He was born in Yedo in the boots women now are wearing September of the first year of in London and other English Keio (1865). The late Dr. cities. But, in spite of male jeers, Baron Okano (Tomosaburo) Cabinet in 1922 and Minister of boots in such quantities that Eng- women are buying the high-topped Education and of Agriculture andish factores, working overtime, Commerce in the Yamamotoare unable to keep up with the Ministry at the time of the orders. Letter-writers to London Kwanto earthquake.
papers hint that Rusalan boots are used to conceal thick and ungainly Mr. Kagawa Toyohiko, the well-ankles. Others object to having known Christian social worker, women cover up their. dainty has in hand a plan to build a ankles with ungainly loose leather labour middle school on a site tops. opposite the workers" lodging house in Matsukura-cho, Honjo,. Tokyo. The scheme is the first of
the kind in Japan. It is planned to construct a two-storied building at an estimated cost of Y40,000, for inauguration in February Dext.
Mr. Kagawa is now bent. on raising the necessary funda, inasmuch as what he can secure from subscriptions and his lecture, trip, will not exceed Y15,000.
Bracelets are replacing sleeves. and gloves, says a French message being worn right up the forearm to the elbow by women in evening dress. The bracelets are of various shapes and the material In them ranges from the modest elephant's hair. inter oven. "with" "Etripe","df planum, gold or silver, to heavy silver and gold bazida loaded with diamonde. Embroidered net dresses were popular for dances. The embroi dery la done in beads, crystal, tubes and sequins. Velvet dresse have lost some of their last y popu
When the C.P.S. "Marburn" sail- ed from Montreal on Oct. 25 she had no less than five youngsters ranging from two to fifteen years of age en route for the British fales after travelling by train from Western Canada.. They were Alexander Rugs, aged two, going to his mother at Glasgow; James) McCullough, aged fifteen and his four-year-old brother, Wesley, visiting friends in Lanarkshire; Bimmie McFarland, nine,. to join. his four-year-old brother, Wesley, visiting friends in Lanarkshire; Jimmie McFarland, nine, to join hia father at Belfast; and Agnes Cassidy, six, going to her grand- father at Kilmarnock Tagged and labelled like the valuable Uttle parcel she is, Doris Quigg, four-and-a-half years old, recently arrived at Montreal on Mar burn" having travelled from Bel fast, Ireland, alone to join the family of an uncle and aunt there:
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