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"Use more English politeness Over 2000,000 was the total than French polish in future."--W,coss to candidates at the General | London magistratë to; a disorderly Election of October 1924 according French polisher.
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The Kobe Cricket Club was A week after British troops unable to hold its annual meetingovacuated Cologne the German on March 29 owing to there not aviation authorities have already being a quorum of members incompleted plans to make Cologne attendance.
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The Yearly General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Shek Secretary to the Treasury state "O Development Co., Ltd, is to be that the balance due to depoaltors held in the Offices of Messrs. in the Post Office Savings Bank ""Palmer & Turner, on Tuesday. || at December. 8 last. Was April 27, 1926, at 8,15 pm to £285,400.000 an increase of £5,026
• adopt the Accounts for the Year 667 over 1024, while the balance onding, the December 31, 1926, and due to depositors in trustec say to elect Officers, etc..
Engs, banks on November 20 was 1289,570,000, un increase of 21,285,-
A meeting of members, of 460 over 1924. the Hongkong Baseball Associa- tion and others. Interested, will be‹[i] Duncing is part of an Army held in the Office of the American officer's training. At Sandhurst, Consulate General (by kind-per, for instance, dances are held every mission) on Wednesday, 14th Saturday in the big gymnaalum and just., ht 5.15 p.m. to elect Officers the cadets can invite any nay of and discuss arrangements for their choice to meet them there. It forthcoming season.
is somewhat of a ceremonial fune tion for the commandant sits Draft Programmes and En-watching from his box in the try Forms for the Second Extra gallery, and the Instructors all ap. Race Meeting to be held on pear in their scarlet regimentals, Saturday, May 1, 1926, (weather while the cadets themselves weir "permitting) may be obtained at their navy blue mest kits.
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Stubles. Entries will close at 12 o'clock noop on Saturday, April 17, 1926, Messrs Vernon und Smyth G. FALCONER & CO. (HONGKONG) LTD. in their fortnightly share report
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First edition coples 04 Thackeray's Worka were sold at Sotheby's for $420. A sketch by Thackeray of "The Lord Mayor Killing Jack Endo" realised £80.
An audience composed almost entirely of Members of Parliament save grau Zangwill's play, "The Forcing. Hecke at the Little Theatre the other evening. Mr. R. Storry Beans, MP. bought 400 seats in order to invite his brother members to see this satire on Bolshevism.
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The agricultural department has found that nearly 4,000,000 of the 6,702,762 land-owners in Franco possess Joan than 25 acres of ground each. Only 90/280 have more than 260 acres and less than 5,000 have more than 750 acres. which The small parcels into French fand has been cut up is given as one explanation of the statement that farmera pay little or no taxes. The small Jundowner profits from exemptions the same as owners" of small businesses..
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House of Lords the second read latest government Agares.
Lord Carson, whe moved in the low societies in Japan by the ing of the Moneylenders Bill said important these societies are in it was the experience of investiga-Japanese He may be gauged by tors that lenders who charged the their deposits which total about highest interest were ballies of the
Their total ad- (400,000,000 yen worst type, and their debtors were 440,000,000 yen. The popularity of. vances to members are given at Enquiry for shares during, thereb terrified to take their cases into past fortnight has been on a com-court, In Liverpool alone, accords the societies is attributed chiefly paratively restricted scale withing to witnesses before the Select to the interest paid, the average few changes to record the mar Committee, there were 1,380 regis-being: 64 per cent.
In addition, ket generally has not altered tered moneylenders, of whom 80 boruwers are charged an average- much though buyers predominate per cent.
of 11.8 per cent, per annum. were women. “ Lord shares being difficult to obtain Desborough intimated that the through weak holders having sold Home Office was in agreement with previously.
the main provisions of the Bilt which was read a second time.
Miss Sybil Thorndike, with the whole of the company now playing Shakespeare's "King Henry VIB" at she Empire, Theatre, will shortly visit one of the principal jalls 'to give a reading of the play to the prisoners, has not been fixed. Stage, costumes The date of the visit
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Two nasund incidents were associated With the launching of Drawing back His cuffs in the the Suffol" the first of the five manner of a professional conjurer, cruisers of the County class now Mr. Chuson, K.C... held his neck in under construction at Portsmouth hoose of cord in the Chancery Dockyard. Lady Bristol, who per Division, "Do not hang yourself formed the naming ceremony, made said Mr. Justice Astbury, warning-any scenery. six efforts to break the christening y. Mr. Clauson was indicating visited contains, only first offen- bottle of champagne across the how Mr. John Quiller Rowett (who ders," said Miss Thorndike's man- bows before the contents burst financed the last Shackleton ex-ager.. "The object of the repre--| forth. Later, when, the control pedition) met his death in October sentation is not to provide the pri rope had been severed by a special 1924. Mr. Justice, Astbury decidsoners with a free show, but to malet, and chisel, the vessel res ed that Mr. Rowett committed direct their thoughts into a higher mained stationary. Enthusiastic suicide, and reserved judgment on channel and give them the oppor cheering broke out as eventually the question us toy whether the tunity of appreciating a noble work the eruiser slipped towards the Scottish Providential Institution of art. Such action is held by the water. The tenemory was witness-I was able to pay £20,000 on in-authorities to be reformative, in od by M. Bridgeman. First Lordsurance policies on Mr. Rowett's that it at prisoners to become of the Admiralty.
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Out of 7.588 members of the medical profession practising In London, about 12 per cent. are women...
The forthcoming wedding is an- nounced of Surgeon Commander Geoffrey Pulmer Adahead of the Royal Naval Hospital to Miss Olive May Orme, of No. 515,. The Penk.
The Federal House of Repre sentative, Melbourne, has adopted:
a private member's Bill proposing that no British woman should lose her nationality by marriage with an alien:
A1 an extraordinary general xxx { meeting of the Easma Club on Fri-, day evening. Mr. R. J. Hunt was. elected to the post of Acting Secre- tary in place of Mr. McReynolds, proceeding on leave.
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"I was prepared to live in a steel house for a month to see for my- self whether they were suitable structures," said Mrs. Baldwin, opening a bazaar at Shaw (Lancs.), but my husband suggested that the proposal would savour of affection, which I abhor, so I put it off."
Still another young
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Mrs. Lulu Mbaby, Pittaborgh club woman, who made, unusual charges of irregularities against other members of a "mixed" Ameri- can jury on which she served.
I hope the best team will win,” said the King, just after he had shaken hands with the thirty been appointed headmaster of a players who took part in the Inter- famous public school. He is Mrham when England beat France national Rugby match at Twicken-
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Their eight daughters, one whom has eight children, attend- ed the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. C. Chamberlain, of Leighton Buzzard
"I am more proud to marry a good, honest London girl than 1 shiduld be to marry an heiress," said Count Mijatovich, former Minister for Serbia in London, after. his marriage in London to Miss Ada Prior, a seamstress. The count is eighty-three years of age. His bride ja. forty-one.
When the immigration, authori ties sidetracked Vera Counters Catheart from her liner to a private room on Ellis Island, for fear lest she should pollute the mainland, all: New York burst into a rour of ribald laughter, and the "New York World" printed as an editorial eleven verses from the eighth chapter of St. John.
Str Robert Baden Powell writes: I went to a dance club the other night with another man to see the fun. To any I was dia appointed does not express it. I never saw such a feeble-looking lot of the male kind-not a man among them.. And the girls were half naked, all skin and bone and jowder-puft.
The period of Court mourning Alexandra has ended, and as a re- ordered. on the death of Queen
ault dressmakers are locking for ward to a rush of orders for brighter dresses "Women in at- succession to Dr. Cyril Norwood,alonen for Australis, opening the tendance on the Queen will now be 1rst exhibition of painting and able to wear coloured gowns now "head" at Harrow...
sculpture under the auspices of the again," said a leading dress-maker, Dominions Artists Club, suid, that "and this, must lead to an Increase one of the artists exhibiting had of orders for dressmakers." been, reduced to such dire straits that he sell his works ].... on the London pavements...
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Coffee stalls have for long been a favourite stopping place with the bright young people of society on their way home from a theatre or a dance in London. Now a rival has sprungup in the chestnut Mr. John Lewis, Blackburn, sellers. Quite a number of these coachbuilder, president and one of nowadays remain on the streets the founders of the Lancashire until the early hours of the morn Football Association, a vice Ing. One little "furnace on president of the Football As wheels," which has its beat in the sociation and the Football Lea neighbourhood of Russell-square, gue, one of the founders and a has become a regular feature of director and for many years Bloomsbury, and all sorts of people treasurer and secretary of the on their way home from paites Blackburn Rovers Football Club, and theatres stop to buy chestnuts and for many years one and to warm their hands at the leading football rulertes, friendly blaze,
Glasgow is heading the return to the fashion laid down by St Paul a woman have long hair it ja a glory to her" The lead is taken. by a certain "beauty parlour” in that city, which has ordered: 'all women on the staff which have ahingled to let their hair grow again. Failure to comply with the order will be visited with dismissal. It is supposed that the establish- ment focuseds a return to norm the or it would not seek to discours loft a fashion which has been a sou
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