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THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.
Dean Page Roberts, of High- lands, Shanklin, Isle of Wight formerly Dean of Salisbury, has celebrated his 91st birthday,
While hunting with the Cot- tesmore Foxhounds; Rutland, Miss Yorke was thrown into a ditch and had her arm broken when her Horse' fell.
William Bevan, 48, a miner, of Cemetery Road Seven Sisters, Neath, Glamorgan, killed himself with gelignite, on which he lay after lighting the fuser
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Sir Wyndham Doedos, Civil, In Eltham Road, Lee Green, Secretary to the Palestine Ad S, Valentine James Linkins, ministration, is visiting Warsaw-aged about 50; a jobbing garden. to study the Zionist question ines, of Lampmead Road, Lee, was
Poland.
run over and fatally injured by a motor-lorry:
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Revolvers and dogs are at pre- sent in great demand in London, The mutilated body of Gladys especially among women. This is Ruth Mann, aged 23, daughter of due to the large number of bur-Mr. Jesse Maun, timber mer- glaries.
chand) of Haslemere, 'Surrey, was found on the Southern Railway between Haslemere and lulphock Stations.
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Convictions for drunkenness in the State-controlled liquor area of Carliste last year numbered 96, compared with 73 in the pre- vious year.
Mr. John Daniel, who has just died in the British Home and Hospital for Incurables, Streat.
Sir Neville Howse, V.C., a At the age of 100) Mrs. P. Eham, S.W., was nominated to member of the Australian dele-Harrison died at Grandchester "Alexandra No. 2" Bed by the gation to the Imperial Confer-Vicarage, the residence of her late Queen Alexandra in Febru- ence, has just left a nursing homeson, the Rev. W. R. Harrison, Theary 1894. after an illness lasting five weeks, deceased tady was a grand-nigee
In a fire which almost entirely destroyed Leiston Hall, Leiston, Suffolk, the owner, Mr.A. J. Weary, a farmer, roused his mother, aged 80, and conducted her to safety.
of Jane Austen,
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"I have on the identical pair of trousers to-night, that I wore on my frat appearance here fifty four years ago," said a farmer at Ochiltree, Ayrshire, schoolfel
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Mr. Alfred Elliott. a Bethnallows" reunion dinner. Green schoolmaster, while on a visit to his parents in Newcastle- on-Tyne, slipped and fell when getting into a friend's motor-car and died later in hospital.
many.
The King was among who sent congratulations to Mr. John Jones, of, Criccieth, Carnar- vonshire. "said to be Britain's oldest retired stationmaster, who celebrated his 100th birthday.
A letter from the King And Queen, addressed frem Sandring.. birthday "present" received by ham, was the most gratifying Mrs. Hillhouse, of Park Lane, Croydon, who celebrated her. hundredth birthday..
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Three armed motor bandits raided the Killarney branch of Munster and Leinster Bank. They ordered the officials to put up While, riding a motor-cycle on their hands, and took away all Epping new road Miss Jessie | available cash in the bank, includ↓ Irwin of Springfield Road.ing a large number of cheques. Chingford, Essex, was kicked and severely injured by a horse tjed to the rear of a cart, and she died in hospital later.
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A Leeds man, aged 22, has given of his blood, for sevell transfusions during the past eighteen months. Out of grati- tude for the treatment he received in the Infirmary he offered himself as a volunteer for transfusion. He was found to be what is known as a universal donor, which means his. blood can be transfused to any patient.
bulance classes were formed on During 1926, 170 "district am- the L.N.E.R., at which nearly 4,200 of the Company's em ployees who were desirous of ob- Eaining a knowledge of first-aid work attended. No less than 8,788 members of these classes were successful in qualifying for frst-aid certificates or other awards.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has received from the The marriage of Sir Richard 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Graham, aged 67, of Netherby, Sutherland Highlanders, station- Cumberland, to Mrs. James Greed in Egypt, a cheque for 249, its ham, widow of his younger gift to the lifeboat service for Making a forced landing, an brother, at Marylebone register 1926. The same battalion. head- neroplane piloted by Mr. Rolandoffice, was the third matrimonialed the list of contributions from Ernest Watson struck a post and venture of both bride and bride- the Army in 1925 with £49, and overturned on the South Metro-room...
in 1924 with £50. politan Gas Works sports ground at Horn Lane, East Greenwich, but Mr. Watson escaped injury.
Professor Vacca,.of the Tizrin Observatory, announces that he has found a new planet, says a The body of Baron Ikeda, a "Central News" message from major on the reserve list of the Rome. The discover?t was made Japanese Army, was found lying on the night of December 5. The beside a picture of the late Em-appearance of the new heavenly peror in his house at Tokyo with body is that of a star of the
a letter stating that he had shot twelfth magnitude, so that it is himself with the object of follow-far beyond the range of any ing his late ruler-
ordinary telescope,
"Pearly kings and queens," Peers of the Realm, and members of Parliament took part in the annual dance of the London costers at Hoxton on January 13. During the evening Princess Marie Louise took part in a set of lancers, one of her partners being a coster attired as a "pearly king whose suit bore some 16,000 pearl buttons.
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