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South-African delegation to, the Im- porial Conference.
To provide works for the undom- 8cptember 25:
ployed this autumn, the Government Negro spirituals are an Innova of the Reich has provided the tion at the lunch-hour organ re-means and mado plans for draining citals at Southwark Cathedral • large stretches of country in the Rhine plain, which will bring into cultivation some 12,000 additional
The 29th Cookery and Food Association Exhibition will be held at London Olympia, from Novem ber 12 to November 19,
acres.
A DOG IN HARNESS.
[By Stephen Gwynn.] Why do people in Britain re- gard it as cruel to use dogs, for draught?
I never yet savo ass or mule or ox, show pride in the task to which It was harnessed; about) While Colonel C Rome, of horses, it is not quite so easy to A man named Wood was repaly Shutford Manor. Banbury, and his be sure. But a dog in a cart has, ing a large empty petrol tin in a wife were travelling to Banbury in nine cases out of ten, the same garage at Teddington, when it Burst from York on an L.N.E.R. uxpress,air of delighted self-importance Into Aames and he was severely a dressing case holding Jewels which a spanist wears when he burned...
valued at £800 was abstracted from has learnt to carry a letter and Is The Metropolitan Electric Trum-the rack of a compartment between carrying it in public. ways aro 'experimenting with Rotherham and Sheffield. coupled tramcars with the object of obtaining a larger unit to deal with massed traffic during peak hours.
The Great Western Railway Announce that a new halt named South Greenford has been opened
Besides, your dog, while he Sir Neville Howse, V. C.. 'Common- wealth Minister of Public Health, waits, can lie down in his harness; sys that a camping area will be or, if he so chooses, can stand up. provided at Canberra for the and say things injuriously to crowds likely to attend the Duke of other dogs; he can very often York's opening of the new Parlia- have the luxury of a little scrim to the public between Castle Barment buildings.. Visitors, however,mage with limited responsibility, Park and Greenford (Middlesex). will have to bring their own camp-fully assured that the "fight will
Lord Stonehaven, Governor-Gening equipment.
be stopped. eral of Australia, and Lady An agreement has been come to But the essence of, the matter Stonehaven, who are traversing the by the Spanish and Portuguese is that a dog likes human society. Northern Territory," have flown Governments, whereby, vidas will be and loves giving help. I think the from Brunette Downs to Newcastle unnecessary on passports of each happiest looking dog, and certain, Waters.
other's citizeTS. This will not, ly the proudest I ever saw, was however, apply to travellers to one that I met in the town of ho Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Falaise, A similar agreement has been made between Germany and Portugal.
A Charter of Incorporation has been granted to the Urban District For Leyton. The format reception of the charter and some local fes- tivities have been fixed for October
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Mr. Aaron Mobbs. of Roading. has died aged 91. He had appear led for many years past as. Father Christmas at all the children's Christmas festivities held by the iltown.
Frederick Crow. aged 27 of Maplin Road Tidal Basin, was shown at the inquest on him to have died from the effects of gas poison- serving in Fing received when
France in 1917:
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Falaise Castle, where Williamfi the Conqueror was born, is on a It is Feported from Busra that high crug over a valley; and even raid has been carried out on tribes from the market-place, outside the dwelling at Haltara by Sheikh great church of St. Gervais, the Faleh (Albeniga, in the course streets fall steeply to the stream which
policemen
where the tanner's daughter went wounded. The Sheikh had
to draw water, and was seen by been in trouble owing to his Count Robert." Up the steepest refusal to pay taxes, and since then street of all a notable pair strug- had been Hving in Persia. authorities are arranging for his gied and came to a halt near me among the gay booths and mellow arrest.
fruit stalls.
The
The pair were man and dog: the man. handsome and some- where in the early thirties, was driving a tricycle with a crank worked by his arms; his legs, or what replaced them were cover- ed by an apron. As he worked at the stiff crank his dog, a large black retriever, harnessed by a broad strap, pulled valiantly and joyfully, ',
Reater Toronto correspondent Bays that the Bishop of London" officiated at the marriage of his A picture by Sir David Wilkie, niece, the words of the ceremony entitled The Gentle Shepherd, hus being repeated by Mr. Armstrong. been stolen from the National the rector of the parish, in order Galleries at Melbourne. The frame to comply with the Statutes of had been turned round and picture Ontario, which authorise only a removed from the back of it. clergyman resident in the pro-
The Newcastle Chamber of Comvince to celebrate marriages. merce have recommended the hold- The New Zealand Government has ing of a North-East Coast Indus- introduced a Licensing Amendment iries Fair or Exhibition in the city. Bill proposing a referendum at the, The maimed man wore the rib- The proposal is to be laid before next election on the question whe- bons of the Legion d'Honneur and a town meeting next month.
ther national prohibition polls Croix de Guerre; but it was the As the result of an agreement thereafter be held at each general dog who, looked conscious of the between Spanish hotel-keepers and olection or at each alternate elec-decorations. It was easy to ex- their employees, tips will be tion. The Bill also provides for the change words with such friendly abolished in Spain as from. Septem-restoration of polls if prohibition faces, and I learnt that for six ber 1, and will be replaced by a tax should be carried.
years this help had been given and that it made all the difference on a hill.
of 10 per cent on customers' bills." ? Tawfiq Beg, manager of the Iraqi
The King has appointed the Rev. Royal states, who was charged with" Norman Maclean, Collegiate Minis-enusing the floods at Baghdad in ter of St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, to April, has been found not guilty be a chaplain in ordinary to his by the Sessions Court. The prose alajesty in Scotland in place of the cation stated that Tawfiq instract late Very Rev. Andrew Wallace ed employees to open the canal Williamson.
which weakened the canal head causing a collapse by which Bagh- dad was flooded. The defence denied giving such instructions,
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Francesco ano, who settled in South London over 40 years ago and was known locally as the "ice cream king." has died. The funeral pro-and insufficient evidence! led to an cession consisted of a hoarse drawn by four horses, 12. coaches, and d conveyance with wreaths.
A Cape Town message says that Dr. A. J. Brawer, Chairman of the Board of Trade and Industries in
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acquittal
Among the American tourista who recently embarked in the "Re- public of the United States Lines, after a holiday, in Europe, were. Mr. Arthur Devers, aged 89, Mr. John Mr. Edward
the Union Department of Mines and Gill, aged 75, and Industries, will accompany the Stevens aged 63, all of Portland,
I was sorry for that dog, and I am sorry now; but only because the task of which he is so proud must one day pass to another. Long may he live and be able for it.
Oregon. Since June they had "done" 35 cities in seven countries Belgium, England, Holland, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany. Mr. Devers, completed a trip around the world only a few years ago.
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