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THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.
The Earl of Londesborough's Doldrums, an outsider, won the On Jan. 10 there were 1,432,000 persons on the registers of the Rathluck won the Burton Byrkley Handicap Steeplechase unemployment exchanges in Steeplechase over three miles at. at Darby by five lengths from
Shaun Or. Great Britain. This was nearly Derby.. 64,000 fewer than a week pre- viously, but 210,579 more than a year ago.
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The Probate Division was occu pied with an action relating to the testamentary dispositions of the late Mr. Joseph Browne, Martin, a bachelor who died at Brighton, in January of last year, at the age of 86, leaving property valued at about half a million.
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There is a deficiency in the na- tional finances at present of 2146,430,046, against a deficiency at the end of December, 1925, of £324.000. The shortage in re- venue during the nine months of the present financial year is: en- tirely attributable to income and super taxes, which together have yielded nearly £29,000,000 less than in the same period last [year.
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Under the Vaxatious. Actions.
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The Students' Overeens Trave] Act an order was made in the Committee has launched a pro- Divisional Court restraining Mrs.mising scheme that may result in of public school Emily Dalton, of Hale-end Road, the settlement Walthamstow, from instituting and university men in various any legal proceedings without the parts of the Empire. leave of the Court. The At three years Mra. Dalton had torney-General stated that in brought actions against over forty different persons, including two K.C.'s, two magistrates, and nine or ten solicitors.
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of £500 for bread and coal are being issued by the "Mile-end New Town Philanthropic So- which in the course of its clety, existance has disbursed no less than £11,845.
This winter tickets to the value
At a meeting of creditors and shareholders of the Russo-Asiatic
Representatives of the City Bank the Habilities were stated Corporation, of the professions, to be 22,604,427, and apart from and of societies interested in the amounts which might become welfare of children decided to available in certain circum- form a committee to devise means stances, the assets were 269,000, of raising a fund for the preser- Mr. H. E. Burgess, the Seniorvation of the Foundling Hospital Official Receiver, said that the site. cause of the failure appeared to be primarily the nationalisation (and liquidation) in Russia of all joint stock banks, and the con- fiscation of their asseta.
Speaking on the spread of Communism at home and abroad, Sir Kingsley Wood, M.P., said that if the revolutionary left wing could have its way the big bid made by Communism through the General Strike would be re- peated. Mr. A. J. ook was still permitted to remain the prin- cipal officer of the largest trade union in the country, though he had just returned from Russia with the open and avowed inten- tion of working harder for Com-lights should be switched off, but munism than ever.
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By agreement,, "the London Safety First Council decided to give further consideration to the question whether motorists, 011 meeting other traffic or dark roads should switch off their headlights. It had been recom- mended by a committee that
Lieut.-Colonel J. A. Fickard con- tended that that would be Con- trary to the views of the Ministry University College, London, of Transport and all the motoring celebrates its centenary this year.associations. In connection with the celebra- tion an appeal is made for a sum
of 2500,000, Sir Gregory Foster,
the Provost, stated in an inter-
ENTHUSIASM.
Under the terms of an offer which has been accepted by the Liberal Administrative "Commit tee, a capital sum sufficient to enable "a full fighting line of candidates to be placed in the field at the next election" is to be provided by Mr. Lloyd George,
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Princess Victoria, the new Alexandra Day president of Fund. In a letter to the Duchess of Portland, the chairman of the Executive Committee, convey's warnest thanks to all who helped to make last year'a appeal such a signal success. "The results of the year the Princess writes, "show plainly that the welfare of Alexandra Day lies deep in the hearts of the people, and I am [proud to be patroness."
view that half the centenary fund
Near Wisley-common Mr. Mit would be used to improve the Have you ever heard a dyapeptic buildings and equipment, and give three rousing cheers for any chell-Hedges, the explorer, who half to augment the college thing? Is the man with a torpid Edgell from London to Bourne. was motoring with Mr. Colin At liver ever an optimist? If your endowmente. The college is. present spending a little more brain is sluggish because of a clog- mouth, was held up by six or than £180,000 a year, and its in-ged system how do you expect to seven men, who carried off an come is derived in about equal take a real live interest in daily attaché case containing docu-
affairs?
ments and four human heads portion from fees, endowments,
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At an inquest at Poplar verdiet of wilful murder was re- turned against William White in respect to the death of his brother Feter Alexander, aged 64,, and his sister Annabellà, aged 52, who were found dead at their home in Popiar. A message, stated to be in the handwriting of William White, found in the house, read: "Please deal tender- ly with these two dear souls, as they are devoted to each other. Peter was dead, and Annabella saw it and was going mad, so I took her downstairs to end her beautiful but cursed life."
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Sir John Cadman told members of the Royal Colonial Institute that if the world were suddenly deprived of petroleum civilisation, as it stood to-day, would for a time almost come to a stóp. Without petroleum another coal strike would not only shake the atructure of our industrial exist- ence, but might shatter it beyond repair. He had always regarded the so-called antagonism between coal and oil as a profound illusion, and he welcomed the dawn of a new era, in which compar- able oil products might well be obtained from coal as from tural oil.
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It is understood that in their forthcoming report the Commit tee which has been considering the working of the unemploy- ment insurance scheme will favour an all-round reduction in the amount of contributions from the State, the employer, and the employee, with equal contribu- tions from all three sources. On the main principles all the mem- bers are in agreement, their de- sire being that the schieme should be one of real insurance, the fund having run into debt to the State. to the amount of about £20,000,- 000. Recommendations have been. drawn up to secure drastic reduc- tions in expenditure,
Important proposals for ex- tending the scope of elementary education are contained in a re- port made to the Minister of Education by the Consultative Committee,
which Sir H. Hadow is." chairman. Among the recommendations de one that secondary edu,,, cation should be available for fali children, and it la suggested that after the primary stage, up to the age of 11 children should proceed to grammar and modern. schools. The committee con- ulder that the school-leaving age, now I should be advanced to 15, but the Minia Education, in-
the report-ZU such a chang78-
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