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THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.
Mr. Eric Platt's Captain Wobb won the Berkshire Hurdle Race at Newbury Race meeting.
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The Empire Theatre in Leices ter-square -is, closed for demoli- tion. On the site will be erected a cinema to accommodate 3,500 people.
It was stated at the headquar- ters of the Land and Nation League that it was hoped to hold 20,000 land meetings during the
In a schoolboys" Rugby inter. national at Richmond, Scotland defeated England by 18. points to 5.
T Leader, the Newmarket trainer, was responsible for three of the winners at the Manchester race meeting.
Mr. Joseph Corbett Lower Liverpool, stock and share broker, left $107,883.
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Over 800 men were killed and 150 were wounded in the three- day battle in Nicaragua. Many wounded were left to die in the
swamps.
F. B. Reas rode three winners. at Plumpton ruce meeting. At Manchester the Victory Steeple- chase was won by Mr. E. Lloyd's
Selected furs and skins to the value of £3,000 were carried off from a City warehouse by thieves, who silenced the burglary alarm present year and to
bell before examining the stock. Shaun Or. engage an army of 2,000 voluntary speak-
ors.
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Livingstone Chapel, at Stan- ford Rivers, Essexy front which Scarcely a
household in the the famous explorer nervously low-lying parts of Switzerland, it led from the pulpit in attempting is reported, has escaped the in-o deliver his first sermon, has fluenza epidemic. So far the been destroyed by fire, trouble has not made an appear."
In an attempt to avoid a man Fance in the high mountain ·re-
sorty.
which are crowded within the roadway in Vauxhall visitors for the winter resortay
Bridge Road, near Victoria Sta- tion, an omnibus was driven on Details of the explosion in D, to the footpath and into some railings, five persons being in- Spuhlinger's laboratory show
jured. that deadly germa were scattered over the whole room, and the doctor remained there several hours.disinfecting himself and cleansing the Aboratory. For fear they might contract disease, he allowed none of his assist
ents to enter the room!
Six English and three German members of the skiing parties which were carried away by an avalanche near Zurs, in the Aus trian Tyrol have been killed. An eye-witness of the disaster estimates that the mass of snow Falch swept away the 'ski-ers was 8 yards long, fifty broad," anu dipht deep..
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As a fire-engine conveying the remains of Superintendent Ho-f ward Beckwith. Chief of the Stockport Fire Brigade, who was killed, left the station" the fire :alarm: was sounded.
"In proportion as women train and make headway for them- selves their scope in this branch of business will grow." states Miss Edith Beesley, who is the first woman to be appointed to permanent position as insurance
manager.
respondent writes, that a £350 It is expected, a Sydney cor- bonus in addition to the allow-ties at Cape Town and the cap- According to the police authori- ance of 3400 will be received by tain and officers of the German the Australian cricket team from cruiser "Emden," a great tragedy the £20,000 which is Australia's was averted by the use of the share of the profts of the 1926 hosepipe on the crowd which thronged the jetty in the hope of Being able to inspect the ship, Without the use of the hosepipe, the Mayor says, citizens would have been pushed over the quay- side and some perectis would have been killed or drowned.
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During the ten months ending in October last the number of immigrants into Canada was 63 per cent. above that in the cor- responding period of 1925. Of the total of 10,013, there were 3,654 British immigrants, and 1,799 were States.
from the United
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A London Lowestoft mail goods train broke into two parts, and when the driver stopped the en- In the probable event of the '
gine at Woodbridge in the usual "Two sentences of two months way, the detached coaches, hav- President again consulting Con imprisonment in the second divi- ing run down a decline, crashed greas before the new Immigra- sion, to run consecutively, were into the stationary front portion tion Law comes into force, it is passed at Marylebone Police of the train. expected that Congress will ap Court upon the Hon. Laurence two mail vans, and several trucks The locomotive. prove of the new system. Under Edward Broomfield Palk (son of were derailed, and the permanent the new law the quotas are fixed heir of Lord Haldon), who adway was torn up. A postman on the basis of the nationumitted, cbtaining £3. 108. by false who had been working in one of origin of the residents of the pretences and A charge of the mail vans was slightly in- United States in 1920, thereby larceny. Mr. Pedler, for the de-jured. Visitors to reducing considerably the nam-fence, stated that defendant, who 1926. numbered 1,934,000, the the Zoo in ber admissible from Scandinavia, had come down and down and second highest figure, on record. Germany, and the Irish Free was now destitute, had State, and increasing the numbeen
never The total aquarium receipts since ber from England, Scotland, he suffered from sunstroke and sum far exceeding the capital since its opening in 1924 amount to a Wales, and Northern Ireland. malaria in the Army.
cost of the institution.
A London Sunset.
the same man
ODDS AND ENDS.
The Changing Sunday.
Girls Or Boys?
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A sky of that undefinable colour
"The question of an enforced day A Professor at an American Uni-| that trembles between blue and of rest is one that belongs to econ-vorsity has lately said, "Our Boys green. It is the colour the old omits in the wider sense of the and girls are so much alike nowa- Italians loved, and has been em-word. The State must decide how days, often forget which ployed as the background to many far it is wise to enforce it in the sighted: but isn't there some excuse which." He may be a little, short-
an Umbrian castle, set around by Interests of all classes of workers. for his confusion? Natare surely the dark torebes of cytresses. The que lion of worship is a volun- intended the sexes to be comple
tary one, for no one in the modern mentary rather than synonymous. Anross the sky move a squadron of world dreams of "worship that is And though they seem tending to clouds, stained 2 deep, rose-red carpelled by law." writes "Op- | converge to a new-a mongrel sex, through and through. They have timus" in. the WWestminster may we call it?-we can still dif- set sail from the part of sunset, and Gazette." The division of the ferentiate. The girl of the present pass overhead" "With a slow and question into these two aspects will and still more the girl of the future,
prevent the Church from seem-may give cause splendid grace, nobler than anying always to be asking for restric- The young men have altered little, for uneasiness. Spanish galleon floated by Philip tive measures in its own interests. but the whole personality of our the Magnificent. I ten minutes | That has, had an unfortunate effect girly (and girls all the world over). they had all gone, and with them in the past. It has given an im-seems in a state of fermentation. the magic went out of the sky. It ression, a dog-m-the-mangerThey are the port of a mysterious sunk into the sullen disillusion of is that of worship, not with the re-whence! Though enforced by mass policy. The Church's 'one concern arge-a new clap vital coming sinte-grey twilight. Just a wintergulations governing all the habits suggestion., its infection is far more sunset in London. Ten minutes of of the day. That kind of thing may potent than that. We..see it round. pure enchantmúnt in the afternoon.be left to the legalists. "The whole us, penetrating, enveloping wai A14.10 it filled the skies. By 4.20 conception of a day for worship has feel its breath. We may shrink be-
been degraded by being involved fore its fumes of ill omen or wel the insubstantial pageant had left
with dicussion as to what one may come it if we are young enough, as "not a wrack behind."-The "Daily do on Sunday and what one may not the bridegroom of freedom. This Chronicle."
do, with the feeble attempt to draw apocalyptic Inspiration, or call it Boundaries and erect barriers. The fominism for want of a better word, The Spectacled Cat.
Sabbath was, associated with Thou takes many forms but in essence its Although advertisements in the shalt not." Sunday must be as-sway is inexorable.-J. W.—“From Paris papers are few, and hoard-sociated with the greater note of the Pillow." John Murray), ings and sandwichmen in the "Thou shalt*"
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Paris streets are rare, the boule-Restaurant Run by Boys. vards have always had a reputa
The Lost Crypt...
London's cloak is sober wrey, hus) magic went to the weaving of it; do] but speak her prettily and she will show you the gold that rune
tion for ingenious forms of ad-. The foreign waiter is a British vertising, says the Paris corres. luxury. British boys do not take pendent of a London paper. The kindly to waiting and cooking, re-taugh it and Jewels a-many hid- latest is a loud speaker, which, marks the "Manchester Guardian.
den in its folds (Writes Mary Mor
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24 | | | | | | | from the roof of a slowly-moving parents to send their children into News.") Old timbered houses tant It is almost impossible to persuade rissey, in the "London Evening) motor-car, dominates the rear of
these professions, although it is ob- saw Elizabeth go by, green trees her the traffic and forces you to listen vious that the professions are well father loved, are London's for our to the advice of the gentleman paid and that employment is re-pleasure, and always she gives new who is calmly speaking from the Kuler. The London County Coun- treasures from her ancient hourd inside of the vehicle. Then there cll has realised the shortcomings The Jacobean trinkets hidden is the tall pantomime cat in of the Britlah boy in this direction by a Great Fire-scared gold- seven-league boots, known. to all temporary school for the training of the very floor of & Roman lady's This week it made permanent Its smith 300 years ago, the day-before children who are ever taken past waiters and chefs which was start- house here in our city, and now the a certain shoe shop near the ed at the instance of Major Isidore fair lost crypt of All Hallows-and- Opera, and the real cat gravely Salmon. 1912. Boys are there Our Lady-by-the-Tower. Long, long fitting with spectacles on his taught to cook, to keep kitchen ac- ago, when the gardens were green nose at the door of an optician's counts, to speak French, aven to along the Strand, old tales were told in the Quarier Latin The per-sort wine, and to preserve cigars. of how the Lion-Heart himself bullt manent artificial storm of rain in course for chefs and a one-year today, and of how the first great. There are two courses-a three-year a chapel where All-Hallows stands the window of the waterproof course for waiters, maker's is another form of amus-to
It is open Edward was, bidden in a vision to any boys in
L.C.C. raise a statue of Our Lady there, ing home-made publicity. The school to compete for a techni- for that he should be King of Eng- flashing night signs which are cal scholarship in either waiting land and Lord of Scotland and of unhappily invading some of the or cooking. Otherwise the fees Wales. Then All-Hallows rose there mbat beautiful streets are less are £3 or fő a year. In term-time by the Tower, a holy church indeed, innocuous. Paris has, however, the school runs a popular restaur- made holier yet by sorrow and by a tradition of artistic decency in Hall in Vincent Square.
ant next door to the Horticultural |„grief. They have dug the carth
The way from the old crypt and given such matters, and the Prefect of the Seine has just announced chef's clothe
young students, who wear either us a new page to turn in our plc- or evening dress ture book of dreams. Here may that he has given a fortnight's (some of them are not much over have lain good Bishop Fisher and notice to the luminous advertise: 4ft.), do all the cooking, and all the poet Surrey in their last quiet HONGKONG'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER
ments visible from the Place, da the waiting. Last year the restaur. sleep; here may have come. Mär
ant took 21,400. But the chief garet Roper to pray for that sweet
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