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A new machine to be installed at Victoria (District. Badway) ear deliver 150 tickets a minute.
"Quibble" was the Christian name of », man charged at. Acton..
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For failthy to produce his motor driver's licence when accosted by & | European trafße oficer, Mr.. A... J... Wheeldon, of the P.W.D., had to
Eastbourne Watch Committee pay a fine of $5 at the Central | have refused to sanction the open- Magistracy yesterday..
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A case which was partly heard on Saturday was concluded at the Central Magistracy, yesterday when a parcel boy in the employment of Messrs. Powell; Ltd. was sentenced so one month's imprisonment for theft of alx pairs of silk stockings.
Heavy fines were imposed by the Kowloon Magistrato yesterday in several cases of felt opium possession. Three boatmen were fined a total of $4,320 while an aller of the "Po Sang was Aned $3,600, being ten times the 'value of the seizure. A woman was: sunt to prison for nine months with the option of a fine of $2,000,
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Combined ages of six people who died in St. Paneras totalled 501 years-an average of 83%
yeur.
When a witness at Kingston said he was interested in loud speakers, the clerk remarked: "So am 1. Speak up
"I am not going to deal with troubles in the air as well as on the earth," said the North London magistrate, when asked to settle
wireless dispute.
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Forty-one: students from Japan are in attendance at the London University.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1926.
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The Church Missionary So- ciety at Home, has received an anonymous gift of £6,000.
The French Government has órdered the destruction of 2,400 tons of old official papers."
Prisoners being conveyed in police vehicles in Leeds, are to be insured against third party risks.
It was a death-bed film scene, but the producer,was not satis- fed with the hero's acting. "Come on he cried. "Put more life into your dying."
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Having Imposed an absolute vato upon women drinking in a Leicester Police Court a salicicensed premises, for ten years ugr suggested that a dog rushed past, Middlesbro? Licensing Magis- out of a grocer's shop and deliber-trates have raised the ban ately committed suicide beneath the wheele of a passing motor-car:"
Long-service medals for cats will soun have to bo presented by the management of the White Star Line Addressing members of the Sanitary Inspectors Association
A new Masonic temple which, the other day, Mr. S. E. Cruse when completed, will be the largest (Chief Assistant Manager) remark- in the country, is to be, built at ed that some of the liners carried Birmingham. The temple is being las muny
as twenty-five pussies,built as a memorial to the Free- and some of thee faithful: felines masons of Warwickshire who fell in had been on the strength for twelve the war.
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A meeting of the Imperial Con- The business of watching overference has been arranged to take lighthouses, and. seamaka place in London in October. In around the counts of Great Britain making this announcement the is to be depicted by means of Prime Minister said that, he hoped special, fims by permission of the that all the Dominion Premiers, as Elder Brethren of Trinity House. well as representatives of Indig More than 3,000 feet of film were would be present. taken by Mr. A. E. Jones, "who went on board the Alert, the Trinity
A movement in the reduction) of food prices is being made by a large group of London cafés, which will make the following. price alterations in their tariffs
Cold roast beef reduced from Bd. to 7di per portion;
Pressed beef from 8d. to 7d.: Macaroons from 21⁄2d to 2d.:
and
Jam puffs from Edi. to 11⁄4%0.
Many smokers like to think. that their favourite habit makes them immune from ', but per haps there is a good deal of auto suggestion behind Iny such security they may enjoy.. But at least one amoker fwrites a cor- Four blind typists, who have respondent) takes definite stepe to capacity by the London County wintert He adds a drop of "cam- Council since the beginning of phor to every pipeful, which he the declares improves the flavour in 1924 have been placed on permanent grade at a rate of pay addition to protecting his throat. above the minimum ordinarily
4; applicable,
House yacht, und visited the Nore,been employed in a temporary"medicate" his tobacco during the
Tongue, Mouse, Sunk., and Royal Sovereign light-ships, in the North Sea..
In response, to a broadcast ap- peal for volunteers for blood trans- fusion to save the life of a young mother in a Liverpool maternity hospital 2 persons of"both sexes presented themselves at the hos pital The queue of volunteers amounted to 33, including a youth and three girls, the husband of the patient, and five other relatives. After elaborate tests it was decid- ed to accept blood of one of the mei volunteers. The husband was anxious, to make the sacrifice, but his blood was found not to be suitable.
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Dr Elizabeth M. Sloan Ches-- ser, addressing the Parents' Asso-
A sixty-year-old, tramp stopped [ciation said: Rolls-Royce motor car two miles The best way to make a boy from Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.grow up was for him to have a The driver, thinking that he was sweetheart. Extremists of all gave him a lift and made him kinds-red Communists, black- comfortable among the cushions in shirted Fascisti, and die-hard the back of the car. At.Bromsgrove Conservatives were people who the driver spoke to a policeman, had not grown up. Over-indulged who began to question the tramp. children sometimes failed to grow The tramp replied that the place up.. These "Peter Pons" were a he was going to was the workhouse, trial to others, and they very He jumped out of the ear and readily developed nervous ail walked into the institution nearby. ments after life.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr. V. Liu and Miss Reynolda of Changchow are visiting. Manila with the object. of collecting funda to build a school.
The death. ia England 18: The Rev. T. B. Powell of St. announced of Miss Gage-Brown,John's Cathedral is due to leave formerly of Singapore.
the Colony at the end of this month.
Mrs. Kingsburg. President of the A sensation- nas been caused in Dramatic Department of the Shang-Hull by an intimation from the hai American Women's Club, re- Prince of Wales that he would pre-haa died at St. Pancras, fought with turns from Australia to-day..
the banquet which was being arranged in connection with his two Women of various towns in Gerdaya' visit to the aity in May to many have celebrated their be cancelled in view of the cutlay emaneipation from long hair by it would involve. forming "bobbed hair" eluba.
Mr. Eric Rica, travelling secret ary of the Overseas League, ar- rived in Kuala Lumpur on his way Home, after a tour of the East which has resulted in the securing of 1,100 new members for the League.
At a meeting, of the Council of the: Royal College of Surgeons, on March 11, the diploma in Tropical Médicine and Hygiene was confer- red on, L. T. Yin, M.E., B.S., Hong- kong. "who was a candidate from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Baths, butter, beer and jam rolls
The following presents for her triplets, two girls and a boy, have been received by Mrs. J. Stevenson, the wife of an Ilkeston, Derbyshire,
labourer:-
The King's bounty; £3.
Mr. R. Jarvis, aged seventy, who
the Dragoon Guards in the Zulu War. He drew an Army; pension for forty-two years.
"Nine children of Jarrow family named Pearce, have made'a total school attendance of 72 years, noņe having ever been absent. Nine medals and three silver watches have been awarded to the family.
"Some of the most successful
A perambulator, (to accommo-people in the country town in which date all three).
Postal orders by post. Ofer of unlimited special bubles food by manufacturing firms.
Suitable clothing and socks. The babies show promise of grow ing into fine, healthy children.
Prince Henry is receiving many· "congratulation from his friends upon having successfully passed his examination for promotion to the
I spent my early days could not read or write, but their bank books) were all right. Education is not everything."Judge Parfit..'
Although he is 18 rebre of age, Capt. James Arthur Page, who lives in retirement, at Southampton after many years' in the Army, hag néver been in a cinema. He bas seen so many first hand pictures of tragedy, he says, that the films fall to attract him.
were among a host of details closely rank of Captain in his regiment, the me King Ande, that during a
10th: (Prince of Wales's· Owen)..
Inspected and highly approved by: the King during a surprise visit to Royal Hussars, and he is likely to long and tiring day he can keep up Wallington Barracks, Birdcage-receive his step in rank very his strength on chocolate. Always walk, to examine the reconstructed shortly. The military future of he keeps in his pocket a little flat barracks. The visit lasted only an this Prince has been under con box of plain chocolate. The late hour, but never has the King dissideration for some time past, and Marquis Curzon found the same. played keener regard for detail,
staff appointment, either on the thing that chocolates stimulated Viceroy's Staff in India or that of far better than did a smoke His uncle, the Barl of Athlone, In South Africa, in suggested for him
Mr. Bernard Shaw has written bis first sub-title for the screen, It runs thus, in his own heat, worke
manlike handwriting: "Good peo"
Mr. F. O. Roberts, M. for West
delegation to the West Indies, de-
so soon as he receives his captaincy. Bromwich, who accompanied 8,
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The fashion in visiting cards is lighted three thousand natives by No longer is it consider playing a violin and teaching them to use long and narrow to sing "Show me the way to go home The coloured people: cardsMany
showered presents on Mr. Roberts espacially womens are wanting admething diffe and christened him "The Sweet
Singer of the Stage,"
ple! Be not deceived! never go changing on like that. The man is really ME and this handwriting is genuine, but the rest is a put up Mobie The Ara, is a fake and the
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Presiding at the annual meeting of the Salangor Club on March tha Hon. Mr. H. W. Thomson that
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