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The Colony had a cleùni bill of'] health Inst-Friday..
Kobe Musical Association is bustly working" on Mozart's Symphony No. 525..
AND
GENERAL.
Germany has 246,000 motor Madras motorists were aur cars of all classes, which is a prised when the police Inida forty-five per cent; increase overcomprehensive trup for those who last year, Germany now ranks had failed to renew their licences. Afth among the nations in regardThe "bag" included military and to the number of automobiles: civil officers, merchnts, princes
and clergymen.
Those who are interested in
The Pope has received in the forming of a branch of the audience 47 Franciscan Royal Army Medical Corps Asso-lonaries of Mary prior to their elation are invitod; to aend their departure for China, India, and names and addresses to Major R. R. the Philippine Islands The Pope Eowis, R.A.M.C.. o... Militaryremarked to them. that, in Hospital. Hongkong.
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The Osaka Custom's officials. have made a big haul in connec tion with the smuggling of hair- nets, the demand for which has abeen growing abundantly of late.. spiritual sense, theirs was no conspiracy between certain "departure," for "the earth is the Japanese and Chinese merchants Admitting that he had been Lord's, und "He is everywhere." to smuggle into Japan $8,000 splashing ink over the dresses of
dozens of hairnets from Tientsin girls in the streets. for nearly.
According to the census and elsewhere was uncovered two years, Sidney Eastbury was taken by the Department of Home early enough to allow the ordered to pay: 10 guineas damages at Birmingham.
Affairs on November 16, lastCustoms officers to hold up the Ho Was a youth, said his solicitor, throughout the whole country, the shipment and charge & merchant, who had been under medical ob number of lepers in Japan is Kamekich! Taki, Y14,000 for servation, and who thought he
861 less than the number enumer. their trouble. "heard voices speaking to himated in March, 1919 Kagoshima
Galen L. Potts, a diver, is Ken tops the list with 1.334, foi- The police said they had had
lowed by Kamioto: with 1,29 alive to-day because he blew up. over 60 complaints
Okinawa 935 Tokyo 880 and putting it figurative He was ex Osaka 766. Other prefecturesploring the sunken tug, Merine. Romany pupils varying in with more than 300 patients each No. 6, near Brooklyn Bridge and age from six to seventy-ax have comprise Hiogo. given the Surrey County educa-Gumma, Shidzuoka, .committee A
surprise Gifu, Awomor:: great When the committee devided to open school especially for the large gypsy colony which lives in caravans, tents and shacks on the Down there was some doubt on the success of the experiment.be introduced into Spanish social to signal or free himself, the open- It was feared the teachers would life on Sunday by the opening of ed a control valve and blew him- have difficulty in enforcing at adult. Sunday schools in the self fifty feet up to the surface: dance and keeping order a smaller towns and villages. This with a sixty-pound shot of com- the adult members cf the Colony, is not the outcome of church pressed air. Fincluding a seventy-six-year-old grandmother showed up for the Bight school showing an expected demand for schooling..
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Turkey, Hike Russian, fs nationalising production.
Nagasaki, was causing Captain John Natvig Yamaguchi,warry, having been down twenty minutes,, when A twenty-foot. geyster shot into the air, and out The correspondent of the of it bobbed Potts. He had step- Morning Post" at Madrid says ped through the hole left when Unable that an entirely new feature will the smokestack was lost.
activity, but the result of the
Leading. lights in the en- new Government's initiative: in
the education. A Royal decree an-gineering department of nounces that the Sunday schools Japanese Army General Staff will be opened for adults of both are evolving plans for a new type sexes in every town and village of tank which will weigh 16 tons; below It
6,000 in population be capable of developing a speed already has made government Lessons will be given in civic of 25 miles an hour, carry two nopolies of tobacco, cigarette duties, the Spanish language, guns and 30 machine guns, and papers, benzine, kerosene, sugar
literature, geography, history, cost Y30,000. This tank, it is
hygiene, and and matches. Now it has decided t
simple stated, will compare very favour- to nationalise the manufacture, economics. The local mayors will ably with the latest European stated portation and sale of wine, beer be responsible for the organisa-creations. It is not and other alcoholic drinks. The tion of the classes, and lectures whether it can also fly and float.. will be voluntarily given by so just what part it will take in Angora Government also. - an- Inqunces a tax of from 10 to 30 teachers, priests doctors, and the next war remains enigmatica per cent. on all food or drink scientists. The inauguration of Vernacular paper are inclined to served in public places. effective the scheme is indicative of the irregularities; with 30 machine on May 1. This, with other taxes, new spirit which is gradually guns this new instrument of will increase the cost of living in permeating all sections of society torture must approximate a por
and inspring real progress..
cupine. Turkey 50 per cent.
SOCIAL
Mr. H. G. Wella is said to be engaged on a new novel in the munner of Tono-Bungay."
Mr. T. G. Martin, acting assist- ant victualling store, officer at Hongkong has been promoted to assistant victualling store officer.
Sir Thomas Lipton, who was one of the first men in England to drive
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PERSONAL.
Misa Mary A. Owens, of Kington. Herefordshire, left 1s. to each faniate of Kington Workhouse "next Christmas Day."
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jackson, of Liversedge, Yorks received a message from the King and Queen: on their diamond wedding.
It has been revealed recently
a motor-car. still drives his own that Mr. Lloyd George is an avid
car, His other recreation is bit-reader of Wild West stories. There
Bright boys and girls cannot be brought up in bad hourAS. "That is one of the beliefs of Mrs. Green, the Eastern soldier, whose eigth child, Mark, has just go hia L.C.C. scholarship.
Doctor Charles Flemming, lectur- ing to the Bath Clinical Society,. aaid that gout) anaemia, hysteria and senility were disappearing dus to healthier and happier lives. The decrease of gout was, the direct res
Bards. He does not play, cards for is nothing the former Premiersult of a decrease in drinking port
the reason tus he will tell you very simply) that he promised his mother years ago never to touch them.
enjoys more them to get wrapped up in a thrilling sale of cowpunchers or gold prospectors. He has given. instructions to the book dealer who keeps him supplied with reading Described by Sir Arthur Quiller-matter to send him all the good Conch as one of the most re- new. yarns about the Canadian and markable autobiographies: ever American frontiers. written, "Seventy. Years a Show-
books about children.
and beer. Senility has been post- poned for several years.
Gladys. Cooper is among the well known women who have lately been wearing earrings made from single pearls as big as small cak-apples, These are the latest example of the pearl craze among women". "The huge pearls are usually worn stud fashion, close to the ears, not sus pended, and are often accompanied by triple rows of pearls round the neck
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Mr. Alexander Alexander, who
an." by the famous "Lord"
Allerton Hall and Park of 42 George Fanger, was published in 1910. A year later the famous acres have been given to Liverpool circus proprietor was murdered by Corporation as a New Year's gift his footman: Messrs. Dant are by the six sons of the late Thomas now issuing the book with a long and Elizabeth Clarke, in memory The Hall, built introduction by Mr. Kenneth Gra-of-their parents. hame. the distinguished writer of in the 17th century; will probably although born without hands gain- be used as a branch library and arted a considerable reputation as an gallery. The grounds will become artist, has died at Edinburgh. On a public park. The Clarke family, several occasions he had paintings who trace their ancestry to knightshang at the exhibitions of the who fought at Poitiers, have been Royal Scottish Company, in one yeur two pictures being accepted. associated for many years with the Since boyhood he had trained him- General Agent, Passenger Depart-tobacco manufacturing industry in self to hold brush or pencil with his ment. Hongkong: Mr. T. R. Percy, Liverpool. General Agent, Shanghai; Mr. A. M. Parker, General Agent, Yokohamu; Mr. W. R. Buckberrough is Agent at Tokyo; and Mr. C M. Hall 18 Agent at Tientsin.
It is announced in the "Canadian Pacific Belletin" (official crgan of the C.P.R. and C.P.S.) that in the Orient Mr. G. E. Costello is now
toes. When a valuable miniature, about one fich is size by a famous. Princess Marie Jose, nineteen-Italian artist, was defaced," "Me... year-old daughter of King Albert Alexander, undertook the delicate and Queen Elizabeth, has gained work of restoration, and completed recognition of her exceptional it in 12 days.. talent as a violinist. She has just Passengers who left by the passed "with great distinction" an An aggregate of 10,000 miles "Fushimi Mara" on Saturday in examination of the upper class, was travelled by the bride, bride- cluded Miss K. L. Storr so long firat degree," riven by the Belgian groom, and the best man who took connected with the Victoria Home School of Music The young part in a wedding at Bath The and Orphanage, Miss Storr work-princess is known not merely as a bridegroom was Mr. Henry Doel, ed four years in Pakhor and over gifted musician but during the re-only son of Mr. and Mrs. H.-J. 20 years at the Victoria Home, Acent absence of the King and Queen Doel, of Bath, who travelled from large number of Chinese and in India proved herself to be a the Panama. Misy Teresa Mar- European friends visited the host hostess of distinction, presiding at garet Hirle, the bride, - only to say farewell. It is not likely official receptions for the royal daughter of Edmund Jacques that Miss Storr will return to the family.
Hirle an American book pub- Colony
came
Forsheeds have again become Jersey. The frost Richfield, New
Oxford has adopted the umblella because the Prince of Wales carried fashionable, but women's ears Harman, who travelled from one after a French newspaper re-must still be covered up and are Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, was quested him to set this fashion. A useful only as appendages from formerly manager of the Hudson New Zealander says that the which great earringa must dangle Bay Company at Lac St. Anne. Prince has long loved his brull London hairdressers have come to The bride only reached Sous- "I travelled with the Prince of the rescue of women whose heads ampton a few hours before the Wales through Maoriland, and and faces lack the highly classical, ceremony, and arrived in Bath at 1 remember that he carried an lines necessary to make the slicked three o'clock in the morning. The umbrella almost every day. So down hair becoming. The hair is wedding took place there is nothing new in this sud-now swept straight back from the Saviour's, only tires besi den passion, dor gamp But forehead and the first and second parties, the best these young Oxfo
dainty, waves cause, graceful loopa pridesmaid, being radustes
honeymoon is bein from to fall over
London and
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Mr and Mrs. Doel will; zeturn Colon Central America,
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