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Wah Yan College prize dis Half the houses in London: It is generally accepted in tribution takes place at 8.15 pmare occupied by two or more well-informed quarters that to-morrow at the Theatre Royal families.
Mr. Blythe, the Finance Minister, will decide to place a tax on bet Members are reminded of the Alarge meeting of Gerting in the Free State, A con second Annual meeting of the man dews called to com-aiderable revenue would be ob Kowloon Golf Club (at 0.15 p.m.)bat the increase of suicide tained from bookmakers' licences, and of the Kowloon Bowling Green in Garmany, entered into an and but, on the other hand, licensed Club (at 5.15 p.m.) to-morrow, suicide pact. The meeting was bookmakers would demand called by seven lodges of the In-powers which the law withholds dependent Order Bhai Brith, from them to-day. If the Govorn- American Jewish fraternity, ment legalises betting, it would which has branches in various be asked to give the bookmakers parts of the world.
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The German gunboas "Berlin" which is making a trip around the world arrived at Virgo on March 15 and was cordially welcomed by the Spanish Marine "com- Imander.
power to recover a debt from a client who, under the law as it After an Interval of 40 stands to-day, has only to plead years, chimney sweeps have again the Gaming Act in court to evade appeared on the streets of Phil-responsibility. adelphia and cries of "Sweepol
The steamer "Taketcyo Maru" of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha fine left Yokohama. recently for New sweepo" from sooty (individuale, The revolutionary experiment York with 5,000 Japanese articles carrying bundles of sweeping of producing "Faust" in modern for the exhibition to be held in material are bringing back to the dress is to be made by the recent- Philadelphia of the one hundred memories of Philadephians they formed Birmingham. Grand and fiftieth anniversary of Amer-days when wood and soft coal Opera Society, which has more ican Independence.
were the chief articles of fuel than 300 members Mephistopheles obtainable
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red tights, and will be "modelled: conferring as to how to determine Absinthe, claret and currant on the Devil of Marie Corell's whether a man is intoxicated or are among the new colours for Sorrows of Satan Faust will not. The physicians say that spring in London. A rich be a bookworm, Marguerite a smelling the breath, giving the cardinal red is another shade.middle-class girl, and the soldiers suspect tongue twisters to say, Kasha is to be popular gain, but will wear khaki The object of and mild forms of acrobatics do it will have rivals in other this modern dress innovation in not produce the required result, woollens made up in very small opera is to emphasise the beauty as quite a number of sober people checks of the same tone, or in of the music by lifting the opera could not do them all properly.chevrons or narrow lines Silks out of the tinsel of costume in Incidentally the examinee might are to be varied on their surfaces. which it has so long been be suffering from locomotor Many of them have little raised wrapped!" " ataxia and be falsely accused of dots, and striped effects are pro-
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Under the caption "Why not a Coolidge doctrine? the "Specta- for" makes the novel suggestion: During 1925 only one pas that President Coolidge, by a senger was killed in a train aceh message to Congress, or other Major Matsunaga of dent on the British railways.wise, openly should inform the the naval flying field at Since 1900 there have been two world what is America's attitude Kasum gausa, Tokyo, is reported years-1901 and 1908-without a toward the eternal problem of to have perfected a new type of single fatality to passengers in "last resort." The "Spectator" aeroplane which can start from train accidents, and in 1909, as in suggests that the United States. orland on a field as small as a last year, only one fatal accident should act as a "buttress out- school playground. It is also occurred. In a statement issued side the League of Nations and claimed that certain devices in by the Railway Companies" Asso- lay down that wherever there is connection with the new conciation, it is pointed out that a breaker of the peace who re-. trivance make it absolutely safe there are seventeen hundred mit fuses to recognise the sanctity a treaty concluded between as a means of transportation. The Hon passenger journeys, by train of major, who is now engaged on every year. Comparing the rail Powers, there America sees an other articles of acropline equip-way death roll with that of the enemy to mankind. On the other ment, has expressed the hope that streets, the statement reveals that hand, the paper says, it should remote spots in the Empire may 8,031 people were killed on the be emphasised that wherever be brought into intimate contact roads of Great Britain in 1925 America finds a follower of with each other by means of his The number killed in the streets peace, there she recognises & Inew plane..
of London alone was 840.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Professor Gilbert Murray is to be the first incumbent of the Chair of Poetry at Harvaid University.
Judge Vicente Nepomuceno of the fifth branch of the court of first instance of Manila was to re- tire from the judicial service of the. Philippine government on March 81 of this year. Judge Nepomuceno is more than 60 years, old and has spent about twenty years in the judiciary.
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Sir Harry Lauder's extended stay at the Victoria Palace, where he is singing every night, reminds jone of u Lauder, story which is very old but which never fails to make somebody smile. years ago-more or less Lauder was a milk boy, earning an Insignicant number of shillings a week, he wore a local singing, com-- petition... Mark, my words," ex-
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Visiting the British Monomark stall at the British Industries Fair at the White City, Shepherd's Bush, the Prince of Wales was prevail- ed upon to adopt a monomark. lt.
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Mayor James J. Welker, of New York, after a month.in office, has been. forced to take a vacation because of the strain. He collapsed twice before consenting to leave his office for a few weeks,
will be "BM/EP." That, on an Monseigneur Van Roey has envelope, with "London" added, been appointed successor to the will find HR.H. from any part of late Cardinal Mercier
the world. The Prince "mande à
four of the exhibition, and stopped The wife of Hongkong's new at several stalls, asked questions Colonial Secretary is a well-known about the goods, chatted with the writer, Bella Sydney Woolf being Bulmen and saleswomen, and her pen-game.i gave practical demonstration of the sincerity of his advice to buy British goods by ordering a num- bur of articles for himself,
The health of D'Annunzio is re- ported to be rapidly failing Doctors will examine his mental condition as a result of his strange behaviour.
Queen Mary, wearing a pair of tinted goggles to protect her eyes. front the intense glare of mercury vapour and special carbon lamps, saw a number of babies being treated by artificial sunlight,
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Sir Bruce:Porter told a Lon- don audience that: it WIA 80 many get "willowy** figures. In spite of the talk, about physical culture there was an sp- pailing number of badly developed young men and women going about the streets. "Why girls want to look like weak and weedy young men I cannot Imagine," he remark- ed. "But they will get that Agure ||all right, "and with it digestive troubles and a greater risk of cons sumption. Why should the fair- and strong-sex try to copy the worst points in young men?" "Don't [let your daughters and nieces
cultivate that figure:"
An interesting sequel to a queer little golfing story is disclosed by Sir Theodore Andrea Cook, editor of the ***Field," in his new book of sporting reminiscences,
"The Sunlit Hours" (Nisbet, 188) He relates that some years ago he pub lished to his paper the following
„A distinguished golfer in Scot- land," who had just played his | approach shot, was distressed to see his ball hit a cow.
He walked up, but the ball was nowhere to be seen.
Shaking her head more in sorrow than in anger the offend ed quadruped moved forward: and then dropped the aphere upon the green out of her left
The published story, saya Sir. The Yokohama company of Girl Gunes which has been inactive, The resignation of the follow. Theodore, was received with howls in the earthquake of 1928, has ing Japanese Ambassadora will be of derision by incredulous con- revived, formal enrolment of officially announced shortly the detall (continues the editor) temporaries. Next week I added pany taking place at the Honda, Germany, Ochiai, Italy that the ball used was the Midget toalicional School. The enrol- Tatsuki, Brazil Akatsuka,
Dimple, My critics became more remony was conducted by Austria, and Moroi, Argentine. Aughton Mathews, who suc-
uproarious than ever. I was em Gernot Mrs: FOwston as Girl A marriage is arranged, and will broidering, it seems, a bald and Commissioner for Japan take place shortly at Algiers be unconvincing narrative. Now after Hamilton Holmes wife of tween Mr. P. Maw, Bishop's long lapse of time Sir Theodore Kish Conal-Generalnt Cleave, Gloucestershire, and Mrs. Cook suppiles the surprising
the Rev. E and Mrs. Ethel Goodyear, widow of Mr. Cere
and a number of the M Goodyear, formerly Surveyor-There can be no harm in say gure of the girl were among General, F.M.S
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