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A chicken hatched in a brood
at Sheerness bad four legs and was killed by the mother hent.
A Chinese merchant, at Tachienlu gave the inmates of the prison there several rupees each as a New Your gift.
"A statement made that the projected expedition to Mount Everest. next autamm has been! abandoned, is premature v-no official decision having yet been frale..
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"I was told I should have to Islington had an Empire go in a raffle with 8,000 others,Shopping Festival from March said a man in search of a flat. at 13 to March 20 Clerkenwell County Court,
In 1925 there were 515 A new & centavos stamp has suleides in London, compared been issued by Argentina to com-with 489 in 1924. -* memorate the centenary of the first President of the Republic, || -| Over 12,000 people have: Bernardino Rivadavia, whose signed a petition for the opening portrait is reproduced,
of cinemas in Wimbledon on Sundays...
Apples," (wine saps) from Idaho, U.S.A., on sale at Trow- bridge, have been found to con- tain 1-25th of a grain of arsenic per pound. A local fruiterer was apples. "We have now stopped fined 14s. 6d. for selling the
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The Mayor of Southend has received £32,500 towards the town's new hospital, which is to cost £100,000.
The world's largest tyres- for the new giant air liners--arð. being manufactured by Messrs.. Dunlop. The tyres will have schoolboy diameter of ninety inches, and The howler is quoted from the "Man-weigh two hundredweight.
to obtain the degree of Master in Surgery, for some years Dean of said. the London School of Medicine for Women, left £38,856.
The following
A Chinese giant, eight fleet chester Gaurdian." It seems to tubes, each weighing 88 lbs., will seven inches tall, But, according be a peculiarly interesting version be able to withstand a breaking to the Japanese papers, weighing of the last two lines of Lord load of 86 tons.
only 280 pounds, which seems hardly enough, reached Yoko- hama on Monday aboard the "President Lincoln" on his way to Amerien, whither he is bound for movie fame.. He is reputedlj to be the tallest man in China
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"The waters wild went o'er his
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And he was left fermenting."
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March 30, when Lady Maude Hoare christened Ave new nounced some time ago that Baron Twenty-six public bath Byng of Vimy would not, rem Handley-Page aeroplanes fitted with twin Napier Lion engines to houses have been built by the as Governor-General of Canada supersede the single Vienna city government since the beyond the term for which he was machines hitherto used on
engined war which, with the three already appointed. He had been inform-continent with the names of City the existing, can take care of up-ed by His Excellency, said the of London, City of Ottawa, City wards of 30,000 peoplent
Premier, "that nothing" short of one time. About 100,000 persons quite exceptional public need of Melbourne City of Victoria
and City of New York. daily avail themselves of these would permit him to consider re- facilities at a cost to pach of themaining in Canada. Baron Byng's equivalent of 5 cents. This in-term expires next August. fcludes soup and towels..
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Some relics of early Sydney cume to light the other week when an electrician was renewing Capt., R. H. Mackintosh, an the electric wires beneath the floor Four thousand Lutherans Imperiad Airways pilot, created a of the old barracks facing King will be brought to Canada during new record by flying a big 15-Street, now used as law courts. 1926 and settled on farms in the seater three-engined Handley A quantity of old-fashioned clay western provires through the Page air liner, which with a full pipes and bowls, some containing agency of the Lutheran Immigra-load cfpassengers and goods tobacco, large spoons, forks, and tion. Board A representative of weighed six tons, from London to pieces of crockery were uncover- the board will be despatched im-Paris in ninety minutes. The ed. Many of the pipes were just.. mediately to Europe, and will average speed for the 230-miles lying on the earth, while others have his headquarters inflight was 154 miles an hour, awere buried beneath it. It is Hamburg. The immigrants with record for a big passenger plane considered that these relles are come principally from the Eurd of this size. The actual speed re- over a century old, and that they pean countries where there are cord between London and Paris is were at one time used by the Lutheran minorities, including held by a senter Napier D. H. soldiers who occupied the build- Poland Jege-Slavia, Czecho S6-Express, which four years ago ling. The structure was built by vakia, a Rummenia...
made the flight in 87min. "Governor Macquarie in 1817.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Miss Margaret H. Kidd, of the Scottish Bar, is the first woman barrister to lie briefed to, appear at the Bar of the House of Lords.
"With politics as with Boutlacesy patience alone will untia knots.”—
Lord win. Viceroy-Designate of India, where entertained to lunchen by the Royal Colonial Institute at the Hotel Victoria.
The eight hour day is to be gradually reintroduced for members of the British civil service, who now work only seven.
In anticipation of an interestis event towards the end of Aprik an up-to-date nursery is being install- Fat 40 Grosvenor-square, which for In time is to be the town house-of
the Duke and Duchess of York,
Mr. Charles Olive, favourably known as an actor, of distinction,
A correspondent writes to the leaves for Home on the 22nd inst. [“Struita Echo-A well-known local Mr. Olive has given impersona- Chinese millionaire. it is rumoured, tions of characters from the had some time ago about $2,000,000 works of Dickens and hasap- to let out on lon, but there was peared in such diversified plays no one ready to take ap this money as "R.U.R.." "Waterloo" and "A or part of it even at the low interest Sister to assist 'Er."
of per cent. He finally decided: to invest $1,500,000 in, Government. Bonds, carrying interest at 5 per cent.
An Englishman la a man who spende all his days in the open-air A fand who knows only one lángunge-
his own." humoursly said Sir St. |Ckir Thomson? president of the. Royal Society of Medicine, ab a lecture in London. "The most in artiqulate, animals in the world are
donkeys, owls, lobsters and English men," he added. ·
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The Prince of Wales is nothing if not democratic. Recently he mingled with the "down-and-outs" at the East End Labour Exchange in London, and talked sympathell
with cally Apparently the Prince appreciates the unemployed.
fact.not yet generally understood, that a man, though lowly, is not necessarily low..
Private Robert Yeates a survi- vor of the Charge of the Light- Brigade, in which he was wounded: in the leg, and lay bleeding alf night beside his dead horse, died on. March 25 in Belfast Werkhouse, aged 102.
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Until his death he Domestic Occurrence vainly fought the War Office who Leading Articles hud stopped his pension of Is. 3d. Arms Seizures a day when his Army papers were Correspondence destroyed in a fire in 1900,
School's Progress First Aid Celebrating his night off John Naughty Doggie MeDady, a Chicago traffic police Launch: man, dined on oysters.. Suddenly
Bomb, Plot he bolted from the restaurant.
No Bars. Easy Money China Provident Motor Mishaps Manila Flight Armed Robbers Unofficial Mission
Robber Cave Volunteer Orders Illicit Opium",
Penang is now represented by two lawyers in the Legislative Council, and local mercantile, in-Waiters thought he had gone to call Lerests have no spokesman directly the wagon, awear out warrants, or something. But he came buck connected with trade or shipping. says the "Straits Echo." But that is shortly, smiling gleefully. A jewel- the fault of the Chamber of Com-
iler had just told him the peak) he found in the oysters was worth Before he lift Tokyo for Hong-merce, which preferred to send a
He ordered another dozen member of the legal fraternity $200, kong. Mr. George E. Costello, for
rather than a merchant to represent raw. several years general agent of the
theit in Singapore. Passenger department for Canadian Pacific in Japan, was host
A large audience ashembled at Quarry Fatality to Communications offcials, Ralf- The surviving members of the Moscow to hear Professor Vsevolod New Member way department officials, Japan Russian Imperial Family have de describe the life and work of Mary Dog Bites .... Tourist Bureau attaches and mem-cided to fight in the Courts the Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Wedding Bells bers of the Press, at a dinner given attempt at the sale of the Russian dissented vigorously when the pro- Quiet Market In a‘privato, dining room of the Crown Jewele, valued at £50,000,000, fessor described their art as bour, Gallant. Catch [Imporfal Fotoli
by the Bolsheviks, They are send-geois and unsuited to Russia. Itie Silk Stockinga. ing a lawyer to New York to rumoured that Mary Pickford and Dental Register arrange for the seizure of the Mr Fairbanks intend to visit Triad Societies? jewels if they, appear in the Russia this summer, and their films Dogs Ordinance, American market, and are also are among the most popular shown China Sugar Co. ready for an aelion in the French in Moscow.
Growing District New For Old or other Courts against the Soviet.
Kowloon Matters The remarkable growth in the Broker's Win temperance movement In Great In Bankruptcy Britain. la called attention to in the Great Record press by Lord Aakwith, lately chief Out of Date Industrial commissioner. At the U-Country Life commencement of the present cen Robbery Planned? Sury Lord Askwith says the annual Local Imports & Export drink convictions to England and Coffin Mystery Wales exceeded 200,000 In 1810 For Canton they had fallen to 162,000 in 1920 Party Struggle to 96.000 in 1924 to 72,000 He lection Time adds the expectation that whom the Take Boats Sold official figures for 1925 appear they Obituary will show another feather in the Kowloon Water cap of sobriety."
The Siam Observer of March 31 says:Yesterday we recorded the opening of the handsome business promises of the, Borneo Company, Limited, by H. R. H. Prince Chen- daburi, Minister of Commerce. To-day Mr. M. T. Cooke-Collis, the manager of the Company, hands Benito Mussolini, Fascist lender over the reins to Mr A. R. Malcolm, and Premier of Italy, is revealed as prior to retirement from the counthe owner of an heroic sized bust He leaves on Saturday for of himself displayed in the Grand Singapore by the Valaya, and will Central Galleries in an exhibition Ball from the Southern Settlement honnored by the Italian Govern towards the middle of April for mert. The statue is 10 times nor Home. To-day he severs his active mal size, and on the dictator's brow association with the Borneo Com- is curved a wreath of a Roman pany after twenty-five years sex- emperor, The hust was packed and vice. During the whole of that sent to Boston for display follow time he has been stationed in ing the close of the exhibition Bangkok, with the exception of a Later it will be shown in other
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Beggar Nuisance 16 Canton Customs
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Rent of Flat
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Steamer Seized
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Society Work..
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Youth's Offence
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Canton's "Boycott
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Water Figures
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Police Deserter.
New Hope
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Cargo. Seized
Kowloon Houses
8-10 Dagger in Waist
Not Decided
Tower Collapse
Postmen Strike
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Men in the News
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Bank Notes ba
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K.B.G.C. Meeting
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Enterprise Wins
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Same Fees
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"Buffaloes" Meet
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Holiday Gelf..
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Cricket" Notes,
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Soccer Match 7
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Strange Billiards.
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Soccer Interport
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Cricketers Dine
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Rain Wins
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Lawn Tennis
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"Swire" Cup.
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Champions Win
A Plucky, Chinese Ships Personnel
Dr. Ho's Offer
Dr. Ozorio's Reply
16-17 An Appeal Lodged
Strike: Pickets
Reached Canton
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Ray of Hope
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Canton Health
Chinese Humour
Treasure Lost?
Restaurant Fees Worthy of Hire? Cupid's Dartsen Passenger List Trade Boycott