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There was clean bi SI Twenty skilled engineers from health for the Colony on Thursday all part in Great Britain left Liverpool recently. In the Canadian The draw for the KowloonPacific Hiner Montenim,to take up Cricket Club's anndal tennia work in Canada and the United tournament can be seen at the States; Club House, Firat round matches;
before must be played on or April 15..
A' special trainloud of, 31 vane of motor cycles and motorcycle combinations has been despatched by the London Midland and Scot
Scotland Yard and the French and Turkish police are co-operating to trace thieves who stole furs to the value of £3.500 during transit. from -Constantinople to London
A party of Boya from Castle Ford Secondary School Yorkshire) have left Grimsby for Germany where they are to act English playa German schools at Lubeck, Kiel.
The American Petroleum In- stitute's estimate of the production of crude oil in the United States. during the week ending December 19 is 14,113,000 barrels...
Boys of the Central School Oxford were ordered to march pasttish Railway to the Soviet Govern-and Hamburg. the City: Mace and salute Thement. mayor, the Rev. John Carter arrived there with maco and mace-bearer is a part of his cam- paign to teach civic pride. He holds it to be the duty of citizene to raise their hats to the mace, and proposes to pay bat-raising visits with this emblem to all the schools
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feature of the Royal Horticultural Society Show was "peltean plant," which bearga strik ing resemblance to the "head of the bird. Most of the petals are yellow, with one blue to form the bird's tongue.
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Some interest was evoked the. other day when a young man was seen on the Tor Hotel Road, Kobe,, carrying a red flag tastefully de- Though some months must During 1925 only one passer curated with the sickle and ham- olapse before the first of the Test ger wna killed in a train accident met the Soviet emblem. He self-conscious. matches will be played on the on the British railways. Since seemed, rather Trent Bridge ground Nottingham, 1900 there have been two year about it but was not lnterfered people from all parts of the coun- 1903, and 100%-without a single with by the police outside whose. try are already making inquiries as fatality to pasadigera in truar box he waited for a minute or twó to the Recommodation. As yet, accidents, and lm 1905, as in last tn survey the surroundings. however, tickets, have not been enr, only one fatul accident placed on sale, and it is not ex- occurred. pected they will be available until the end of March or early, April Everything points to record crowd and Notts County Cricket Club are preparing to spend be tween £1,000 and £5,000 on the
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While the Carmand, of the Cunard Line, war moving away from the Liverpool Landing-stage outward bound for Boston and New York with 200 frst-class passet-
"KS" of the "Sphere" has been told that Jones a Paris is being asked for at the libraries by the modern young woman who wil "I read none but "spicy" books.. would seem," he says, "that some
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strong ebb tide carried her back in such close proximity to the stage A report from Paris states that she scraped against the side that a Persian carpet is valued at of the Blue Funnel liner Sarpedon the tremendous: sum of £150,000 us she lay embarking passengers The Morning. Post recalls a for the East, Oeffect of the
The best way to prevent war most profitable sale of two Persian presence was to disbdre the gang-dreams was for these troubled it rugs at. Christie's seven years ago. way across which passengers and the way to talk of their experi These were the property of the friends were walking on to the fences before going to bed, as net Marchioness of Graham, who in: latter vessell but landing stage infrequently they were cured in herited them from her father, the Sergeant Carruthers promptly that way. This advice was given Duke of Hamilton, whose ancestor, cleared the people away until the by. Dr. Edwin Smith, Hackney the tonth Duke, was Ambassador Carmanta had passed. The muster coroner, at any inquest on Albert at the Russian Court. The rugs of the Cunarder proceeded on his Wichett, of London-road, whose were woven in silk, and were of voyage, bab after preliminary body was found in the River Lea. pink and purple against a ground examination of the Sarpedon it Frederick Wichett said that his
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and Mr. and Mrs. J. Wattie family leave for Home on April 8, sailing on the "Moree,"
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The preachers at. to-morrow's services at St. John's Cathedral sre Mr. T. Z. Koo (31 a.m.) and the Chaplain (f. p.m.)
Happiness is a way of life. T think it is a child of discipline that self-indulgence is the mother of distress, and that good luck la a result of hard work intelligently planned-Sir Henry Lauder
At the International Poultry Show at the Hague, Holland, Lord Dewar'k exhibits from the" Home- stall Poultry Farm, East Grinstead... Sussex, guined 10 championship. eups, in addition to 48 1st prizes and four 2nd prizes.
A wedding of much interest: was solemnised in Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghal, last week Louise Miss Patrick when Cowan, daughter of the Hon. G. H. Cowan, of Vancouver, B. C., became the bride of Mr. Aeneas, Me'Bean Bell-Irving, son of Mr. H. Bell-Irving, of Vancouver, B. C. Lord and Lady Willingdon and Mr. Sidney Barton (H. B. M. Consul General) were present at the ceremony, Lord and Lady, Willingdon giving the bride a gold and enamel travelling clock. A reception was later held at the home of Major and Mrs. H. Y. Irwine, 288 Yu Yuen Road.
Lady Oxford arrived at a film studio in Covent Garden, wa
M Jean Painleve, son of the French Minister of War, is going to appear on the screen. Like his father; he has adopted a scientific la pursuing his career and now studies in the Sorbonne laboratory. He does not intend to abandon the microscope altogether for the movie
camera.
Ex-Queer Elizabeth Greece In- tends to make her future bomo in Florida with her husband, Gdorge, who was deposed..
Mrs Hughäs;.” of Southbank; Cleveland, North Yorkshire, whore. mother lived to be 100 and her grandmother 102 is now in her 102nd year and is still active.
E E. Ford, manager of the foreign department of the Bank of the Philippine Islands has been promoted to manager of the Cebu branch of the bank to relieve J. M. Browne who has been advanced to second vice-president.
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All the best-dressed women ap- pear to be wearing silver kid Lady evening shoes at present. Louis Mountbatten is among those, who have helped to populárise this fashion In Paris, the latest fad is. for women to have their monograms in. paste of dinmonds on the toesi of their dance alippers, the latter being "generally of plain black antin.
The appointment is announced of Miss Sara Margery Fry to succeed Miss, Emily Perrose, as. Hall, principal at Somerville Oxford's senior institution for women's university education. Miss Fry has distinguished her self as warder at the University for Women Students at Birming ham She has also done good work as a war relief organiser in connection with the Society of Friends At present she is act- ing us honorary secretary to the penal reform committee.
The Japanese are to be taught etiquette by means of moving plc- dares. Officials of the Depart- ment of Education are planning to launch a cinema campaign of
wearing a pair of striking Cana The Shangha! American Con-instruction next Spring. A com dian, snow boots. When she found sulate-Generalis Interested inmittee composed of 20 leading that she was to sit at a desk to securing information of to the educators will adopt standards of write her autograph in the glare whereabouts of Mr. Lau Mook-tai, social etiquette which they believe. of a battery of lights, she made whose last address we should be taught the public and sooie spirited comments on the Lungwa Dock & Engineering, which they consider has been unbecoming qualities of flashlights. Works, Shanghai, Any particulars somewhat neglected in Japun be She was assured, however, that the concerning his present whereabouts cause the emphasis of education studio lights would have a patly will be appreciated. This inquiry has been placed on family ra different effect, and set to work comes from the diniversity of rather than upon social cortar cheerfully The writing of her Oregon School of Architecture and hutograph will form the conclusion Allied Arts, Eugene, Dégon.
of a picture of intimate studies 61. Lord and Lady Oxford taken at The story of a 14-year-old girl Sutton Courtenay, their Berkshire who had what was very liberally home. After having his nose and a hair breadth escape was told
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