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The third organ recital in. The recent passage through! connection with the re-opening the Canal of H.M.S. of the organ in St. John's Cathe-with the Duke and Duchess of dral will be given by Mr. York on board added 14,500 dol- Frederick Mason A.R.C.O, lars ($2,900) to the canal tolla L.T.C.L. to-morrow at 5.45 p.m. for January. This is the largest. boll which is recorded to have boon levied on any vessel except H.M.S. "Hood," which paid 28,889 dollars (£4,768).
Two coolie women were riding on top of some sheet tin loaded in a motor truck on Nathan. Road yesterday. when some of the cargo shipped and the women fell off. One of them sustained a bad cut in the leg and had to be taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital.
Four thousand automatie the way to telophones are on Whitworth; Mr. Herbert chairman and managing director Canton from the Automatic Tele- of Mesars. Herbert Whitworth,phone Co. of Chicago, between
The value of newspaper pub. Limited, manufacturers and mer which and the Municipal Tele chants, Manchester, has offered phone Administration a contractelty was never better llustrat- $10,000 to establish a scholarship was signed last year for the ined than an incident growing out fund to assist young men desirous stallation of a complete aatoma of a request made upon the of taking up a career with thetic system to replace the anti-Daily Mail" by a Briton former-
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Show in the Central Japan. const region reached twelve to twenty feet in height, being "the highest in 260 years, says a Tokyo message of Fab. 7. The acting Home Minister, M. Adachi informed the Diet that the snow disaster had resulted in 168 dead, 53 injured; 22, missing. while the number of houses de- stroyed reached 318. The rail-
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The wanderings of a lunatic who escaped from Broadmoor 38 years ago. were described, when James Kelly, an Aged man, applied to the Yokingham magistrates for readmission to Broadmoor, where he escaped in January 1888 after conviction for murdering his wife. He subse- quently lived in Paris, England, Rotterdam, New York, and cross- ed the Atlantic several times.. Het recently returned to England from New Orleans, working his!
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now inly of. Athelstead Farm, the Transvaal. This individual wrote to the London newspaper asking for "someone who lives within the sounds of London" to write to him. Hundreds of letters. reached him before Christmas.. Four hundred came in one mail the correspondents ranging from a viscount to an engine driver. Then came Christmas, and with It: 2,500 letters... "hundreds of parcels and newspaper packages, and 15 Christmas puddings. HIS mail is now bigger than any he could hope to deal with and in addition it is imposing an undue; strain on the postmistress, who, as the Briton has now left the district has had to readdress. hundreds of his letters. No man should be lonely after that aval anche of mall and puddings.
Mr. Parker Gilbert, Anancial expert, and representative of the United States on the reparations commission which is attempting to solve the scal problem of. Europe, who recently called on President Coolidge to report on the progress of his work,
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Mr. Baldwin at" the jubilee banquet of the United Kingdom Chamber of Shipping revealed an unpublished story of the war. He told of a little cargo boat from Dundee which had a "duel A London air correspondent with the German auxiliary saya the United States Navy is cruiser "Leopold" which was tryinviting tenders for the construc- ing to slip into the Atlantic to tion of a super-airship, with support the submarine attack.quick. firing guns in the bow and The Premier praised the Com-stern and in disappearing tur. mander, Captain Selwyn Day as rets, which it is claimed will be "a Sir Richard Grenville of the the world's largest aircraft. The merchant service? Captain Day length will be 780 feet and it says the hero was not himself will have twelve engines. The but Lieutenant Lawson who speed will be 80 mp.h and there boarded the Leopold" and lost will be a crew of ten officers and This life.
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An interesting discussion is ir progress concerning the con- tents of the stomachs of the an- dient predynastic Egyptians, writes the London correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian." The point is of great importance in establishing the date of the birth of agriculture and hence of civilisation. Professor Elliot Smith holds that these predynas- tie Egyptians did not eat wheat because barley husks only are found in their stomachs. On the other hand Professor Percival, the wheat expert, explains that the wheat would probably have had its husks removed, leaving nothing sufficiently tough to restat decay. Whatever the out- come of this controversy may be one cannot help wondering what owners of the" the ancient stomachs would have thought about it. Perhaps they would not have been particularly surprised to hear that the contents of their stomachs would be eagerly de- bated a hundred centuries hence, for they presumably had the overwhelming Egyptian belief in somewhat the reality of a material future life."
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Sub-Inspector A. J. W. Dorling and family. res turned to the Colony from Home leave by the P: & O. "Macedonia."
Mr. Lo Kan, Miss V. Leonard and Mr. Kwok Sin-lau were among the passengers who arrived here on the "President Lincoln" from Shanghai and ports.
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Returning from long leave, Mr. E. Larmour (land surveyor of the Public Works Department) arrived" .on the P. & O. "Macedonia" from London.
Craigengower Cricket Club are having another dance in the clubhouse at Happy Valley this. Saturday, beginning at 9 p.n.
The Prince of Wales, in the poor districts of London on Feb. 16, visited the coffee and fried fish shops. The owner of one of the former said to-day: "It was late, and my shop was shut, when some- one knocked I wondered whether to send for a policeman, but final It was the Mackenzie, ly opened the door..
Mr. E. L. Judd will take charge of Mesars. Brunner, Mond and Co. (China), Ltd. in South Chima during the absence on leave of the Manager, Mr. G. F. Hasiam.
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