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Emil Dunenburg's plano Tou cital takes place on Tuesday next at 5.80 p.m.. in the City Hall.
"There are at least ten million pairs of eves in this country which will need optical attention dur Ing their owners vos Mr. F. T. Gregg, secretary, Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians, at Hanley,
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Policemon on point duty in Birmingham have been provided with small rubber mats, which effectively insulate them from the cold and darap.. Those who have used them say the mats have great ly reduced the number of colds from which men on traffic direction duty suffer.
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Wagga (NSW) polies have a Hanae of humour. An abandoned Ford was recently gathered up and run into the pound along with stray cowa and goats,
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In honour of two champion Friesian cowa mother and daugh- ter who have made a British Friesian milking record, a great banquet was held in Belfast. Together they yfolded 1,000. gallons In a gear. The Governor- General of the Free State and Sir James Craig sent messages; the owner
Was toasted and photo graphs of the animals were. Piven a place of Honour in the room.
Even in the heart of Central Africa the Monomark is to be found. Far from civilisation a bronze tablet has been erected by a bereaved father to the memory of his daughter. The designer and sculptor is a Londoner, Mr. The Soviet authorities have. Lander, and the work is signed added to their collection of regal with the Monomark of his firm relics a museum of historic state Thus travellera, who venture in carriages, including the splendid the remote village of Nyanbadwe | vehicles in which Peter the Great, will see one of the first MonomarkeCatherine I, Elizabeth 1, Catherine to find its way into the jungle.. I the three Alexanders and
Nicholas rode. This is in keep
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Labour members of Willesdening with the polley of the Govern Council have asked that the usement, itself strong set against of Latin words and phrases, such everything smacking of monarch- iam, to preserve" all souvenirs of the rulers of the old regime, % sú the peasants and workers of the new era may see how the sovereigns of Imperial Russia lived...
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The Belgian Chamber voted by 119 to 10, with nine members absenting, the proposed law fixing
wcy Prima facie.. the total army quote for 1926 at Vide. 77,500. This number shows a de- Locum teneris.ltre vires, and crease of 5,300 men over 1926. Locus in quo, Wem cong The period of service for infantry shall be discontinued in the coun- One of the Labour is shortened from 12 to 10 months fcil agendu..
A Bricklayer who claimed that. and from 13 to 11 for specialised councillors, who is a Master of he had lost. 76 jobs through being branches
Arts, said the chief objection was victimised by his union, naked for that these phrases were often mis-the help of a London magistrate applied and misspelt,
but he was." told the magistrate could do nothing, for nim. He said.
stable said the Scotland Yardrau-
thorities had stated that defendant was "associated with a gang of int ternational "crooks Sentence of three months imprisonment with hard labour was pussodi
Thia,
At the Folkestone Police Court on February 1, Henry Weinhouse, said to be an American
The United States Lines, in a that on one job they were all ask- subject, was brought up on a
statement issued in London aayed to work longer on acepunt of charge of having 2lb of opium that to pecummodate American the housing shortage and he did or landing at Folkestone Harbour students, who will, visit Europe in hours' work that day. from Boulogne. The Chief Con-large numbers during the coming he said, was the reason he was summer, the United States liner turned out of hia union, and he Republic" has undergone extensive was now unable to get work at all reconditioning for tourists bust because he was not allowed to eas, and a special dance floor, work. He wanted to get his union and other new and attractive card back, but he could net do so. features have been added to the
ner's equipment, Six college or- A bill which is to be intro- The Lord Mayor, at the Far-chestras have been engaged to du..d into the Juhore Council of
Club ringdon Ward
annual furnish jazz for the diinvers on the State prohibits the employment as banquet referred to the visit of Republic and other "ships of the domestic servants of girls under 10 the French police, He recalled fleet. Princeton will have two or years of age. It also attempts to that on a previous occasion the chestras in the trans-Atlantic run abolish the alleged practice of Paris police came to London to this summer, while Yale, Harvard, obtaining women and girls as study traffic control When they the University of New York and the mui tsaa species of domestic returned 15 men were put on University of Pennsylvania, will servitude. The bill further "re- point duty in Paris. Some time each be represented by the best quires the employer of a female later a deputation from London musical talent the college affords. domestic servant under 18 years of made inquiry as to the results of (The season will begin with the age to provide such servant with this experiment, and were inform- arrival of a large group of students wages, food, clothes and medical ed that 12 of the 15 men who had us Plymouth and Cherbourg on attendance. The Protector is been put on point duty had been board the "Republic," the given wide powers for carrying out killed or run over.
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At the present moment there are almost 3,000 overseas students in the University of London.
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Mr. Erie Ried of the Overseas League is a present in Japan.
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Passengers arriving next week His Highness the Sultan of by the "Hakusan Maru" include Dr. Johore has been pleased to recog-J. P. Fehily, and Mr. J. Johnstone. 'mise Mr. D. J. Ward as Consul,of Belgium for Johore.
The preachers to-morrow at St. John's Cathedral will be the Rev. G.
Mr. Courtenay Crocker is shortly S. Upadell, H.C.F. (11 am) and leaving Siam for good. He is to be the Chaplain (6.p.m.). succeeded as Adviser in Foreign Affairs by Mr. Raymond Bartlett. Stevens, who is expected to arrive next month..
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. McCann, formerly of Hongkong, took part 'in' the Kobe A.DE.'s production of
Lord Richard in the Pantry."
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The engagement is announced between Mr. Charles W. Meanor, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. E A.. Mensor, formerly of Shanghai, and Beryl, daughter of the late Mr. T. A. Robinson and Mrs. Robinson, of Ferriby House, North Ferriby, East Yorks.
The engagement is announced of David Evan, eldest son of the late
The "Straits Times" hears that. Mr. R. H. and Mrs: Evars, of Tal Hey, lundilo, Carmarthenshire, and Sir" Ronald Ross, who has been Vera Phylls, youngest daughter of visiting Ceylon, has decided to re Mr. and Mrs. H. Stanley of Ken-turn to England, postponing his. nedy Roady Hongkong? Morn
contemplated visits to India apdi Malaya until next winter? He had
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Queen Marie, of Roumania, is to turn scenarist for motion pictures at Culver City, California. Is announced that the Royal author has signed a contract to write an Mr. R. Remédios, one of the invitations to go to Calcutta from original story for Immediate scaceroldest residents in the Colony, cele-the Indian Tea Association and the production,
brates to-day his Golden Jubilee in School of Tropical Medicine. the service of the Mercantile Bank
Captain H. J. S. Brownrigg, who Is well known on the China Station, has been selected for the appoint, ment of Gunnery Division, with Captain P. Macnamara sa Assistant Director-both., appointments to date from March 1.
Mr. R. H. Greg, Minister to Siam has been accredited by His Majesty King George V ag Hi Special. Envoy on the 'occasion of the King of Siam's Coronation. It will be recalled that Mr. Greg is going Home shortly and will be succeeded
by Mr. S. P. Waterlow
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of India. He joined the old Char-At the quarterly meeting of the tered Mercantile Bank of India, Royal College of Physiciana, on London and China in the year 1878 Jan. 28, a licence to practise medi- at the age of 17 on leaving the cine surgery and midwifery was Government Central School (now conferred upon T M. Ling, B.A.. Queen's College) and has worked Oxon, St. Thomas's Hospital. his way to the position of chief diploma in ophthalmic medicine and
Wong, M.R.C.S.,L.B.C.P. clerk, which post he has been surgery was conferred upon S. T. occupying ever since 1884.
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News has been received in Kobe The Wesleyan Methodist Church of the engagement of Mr. Siegfried Queen's Road East will hold the E. Lindstrom of Kobe to Miss. Buth 31st anniversary this Sunday. The Fowlen of California. Mr. Lind- preacher at 10:15 m, and 8 pm. strom, who is a Kobe boy, to the all be the Rev. Ernest A. Bastin son of the Rev. H. Lindstrom, who A tea (6 p.m., tickets 25 cents) and has been a Christian missionary in Mr. Geo, S. Parker, President of public meeting (6.16 p.m.) will be Japan for the last 37 years. The the Parker Pen Company, Mra. Par held at the Sallora and Soldiers marriage, is expected to take place ker and their daughter have met Home, Arsenal Street, next Wednes-in' Kobe in the middle of April. with a motor accident in Ceylon.day: the Rev. A. H. Bray, MA. Mr. Parker and his daughter escap- B.B., will preside: His Lordship the ed but Mrs. Parker was somewhat Bishop of Victoria, the Rev. R. De injured The party are making an Rees, M.A., and Mr. F. V. Early Eastern tour and are expected to M.B will speak Mr. E. E. Haggar
la the soloist arrive in Singapore shortly.
In a reference to the Eaher family. concerning their love of animals; a writer in the "Weekly Dispatch!! says: The Rance of Sarawak, Lady Esher's daughter, had a pať python out in: Sarawak. It used to ahow Its affection for the Rajah by twin-
"During the five years I have Portraits of Lord Carson and Sir lived in India. It has been my everJames Craig, which have taken 12ing round his arm and squeezing it. present desire to build up a fabric years to complete, are to be taken Finally, the squeeze got so affec- which would benefit to the fullest to Belfast shortly by the artlet and tionate that his arm was nearly extent the people I have grown to will hang in the City Hall. A 12 broken. Then the python was love so well declared H. E. the years mystery will then be cleared turned loose in the forest, but Countess of Reading when opening up, for the artist, Mr Howard Ro- always returned and slept nightly the Delhi Baby Week Exhibition, binson, who received his common the roof, arriving with loud I was stated that two million child sion through a firm of publishers, rustlinga lives were lost in india every year has never been told who ordered
the paintings." ME through preventable cause:R
thinks | Dr. Annie Norton, aged 80, well
the features of his two, subjects known among American and Fille "The Rev. Samuel Taylor, the new | are essentially Empire Teping residents of Manila, died at the lour of Holy Trinity Church,It was 12 years study of Mary Johnston Hospá Carlisle, has informed his features, he said for that illness of about a weel parishioners, that, he dennitely no
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