WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1927.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
New lounge and bar still open to the public for refreshment. Arrangements are in hand for more spacious Public accom modation...
Highest degree of comfort and good tasta. Entrance: by" public bar; also private oxit. All the other accommodation fa at present used by the Military Authorities.]
Renovations and lavish decora- Ji tions just complated; every modern. convenience; entering de luxe; bost food and liquors..
Each room has hot and cold Water, private phone, box maitress &c; spacious public facilities; attention and service...
J. Witchell, managor: *** Phone C. 37: Cables "Victoria" Hong Kong,
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At Virginia Water the Jaka Wa frozen over, but it was hot safe for aleating.
Mr. H. Liddell's Silver Somme won the Stewards Handicap, Chase
Sir Wilfrid Scott Stokes, the inventor of the Stokes gun, has died, aged 662 NY
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The Great Western Railway deny the statement that the company in at Catwick, in which the favourite.tends running a new boat service between-Plymouth and the Channel Marsin, fell,
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In their Arst Rugby football match of the season Eton College defeated the Imperial Service Co lege by thirteen points to nil
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"British steelmakers have decided to bear the entire burden of the increased railway rates without making any change in their prices.
A rovision of wine duties in the Budget is considered by the trade to be almost certain. Clearances from warehouse and ship until May 1 have been restricted by a Customs and Excise order.
"Oh, I can tell as good a lie here fas in the box," said Robert McIver, 61, when invited to give evidence at Liverpool Assizes in a charge of burglary on which he was sentencedi to 21 months' imprisonment.
Wilfred Joseph Goodhall Reeves 16, was sentenced at Gloucester Assizes to penal servitude for life for the manslaughter of a woman, aged 10, who was employed as domestic help at the small holding at which the prisoner worked.
Harry Smith, the fate of a steam. drifter, who, at great risk to his life, rescued a member of the crew who had fallen overboard and was ainking, has been awarded the Royal Humane Society's gold medal for the bravest dead of 1926.
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Sir Oswald Stoll informed the Brighton licensing: magistrates that f 1928, when the housing subsidy came to an end; and, automatically, Į building costs would fall, he would proceed with his scheme to build a £500,000 cinema, winter garden, and restaurant in West Street.
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In the Court of Bankruptcy Mr: Registrar Mellor approved a scheme of arrangement accepted by the cre- ditors in the case of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, ander which, It was stated, they would receive about 98. in the E.. Freceiving order was rescinded.
The
Sturry Court, the famous six- tepath-century manor house of the Milner family, presented to King's School, Canterbury, by Lady Milner, Kaa been formally handed over.
Eva, Lady Seton, widow of Sir William Samuel Seton, the ninth baronet, who was found unconscious at her house, in Goldington-road, Bedford, later died in hospital.
Out ar 29,813 dog seized by the polica last year, under the L.C.C.. regulations 21,584 were destroyed;
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Mrs. Agnes, of Kempaton, was run Stapping down from a motor-"bus, into by a motor-ear and died in Bed- ford Hospital. The car was, pass- Ing between two omnibuses at the time. ፡፡
It is proposed to unite the parishes of Whitechapel Lime- house, and St. George-in-the-East : and the hamlet of Mile-End. Öld Town Into one parlah called Stepney for Ministry of Health purposes.
Speaking on the motion, for the Address to the Throne, the Marquis: "Expressing the opinion that he of Salisbury aald that there would ought never to have been granted abe danger in not responding to the driving Heence, the Stafford magia public demand for a modification of trates fined a motor-car driver 10s, the trade-unfon law. It was not the and seven guineas costs for driv-desire of the Government to take ing a motor-van dangerously. The up an attitude of hostility to trade. man, who le paralysed in the right unions arra, collided with a stationary suspended the licence sine die. motor and a cyclist. The Bench
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"The business point of view is the the Prince of Wales, proposing the real secret of good farming," said toast of the Melton Mowbray farm ers. "It is no use nowadays trying is no room for sentiment or eyewash to run a farm as a hobby, and there in the administration of it.
The farmer has to be a bit of a chemist, a bit of a botanist, and a bit of mechanical engineer, but all these bits will not make farmer unless his cornerstone is a sound. business sense. It le a matter of carefa), scientific management; with a very shrewd eye on the main chance."-
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You cannot expect to if you are constipated. The poisons that en ter the blood-stream from congested bowals cause this to make such heavy demands upon the functions that purify it that normal sleep in out of the question.
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Jewellery worth about £9,000 which, was removed from a trunk.
of Mr. Ian Macpherson, K.C., M.P belonging to Mrs. Macpherson, wife
Carlo, is reported to have, while being conveyed from Monto been. found in the possession of a French railway employee, who has been arrested.
Mr. Churchill, addressing a Con- servative meeting at Manchester, said that all our obligations: į throughout the year, had been paid. out of taxation Although the amount available for the reduction of the National Dobt would be far less than he had hoped, it would be substantial.
With a Naplez-Campbell motor ear of British construction through- out Captain Malcolm Campbell succcoded, on Ferdine sands, Car- marthenshire, in breaking the world's records for the mile and the kilo For the mile his spasd was 174.224 miles per hour) and for the kilo 171.019 miles per hour.
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The Australasian Medical Con- grees has opened in Dunedin N.. Z In his opening speech the Fresident, said that the members of the con- Guard against this type of insom-cancer research, and, referring to gress would endeavour to stimulate nia by the judicious use of Pinketthe proposed inauguration, "during tea, the perfect laxatives and liver the meeting of the congress of in Special inducements, such as the regulators, mild yet certain in Australasian College of Surgeons, waiving of visa feea and extra rail-action and most convenient to take he said that the promoters would en way facilities, are being offered to Of chemists or post free, 60 conta deavour to combine the good points American delegates to the Interna-per vial from The Dr. Williams of the Royal College of Surgeons. tional Rotary Convention at Ostend Medicine Co., 60, Klangse Road, of the British Isles with those of the and members of the American Shanghai,
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Legion and their friends to visit Great Britain before they return home,
Mr. Baddeley, the Minister for Labour has introduced into Parlia İment a Child Endowment Bill. It is proposed, at present, to pay in res- pect of children of employees at the rate of ha. weekly for each child under 14, provided the family in- come does not exceed $64 annually, including endowment, Domentle employees are excluded from the benefits of the measure.
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Judgment was entered for Mr. Maurice E.Silverman, manufac turers' agent, Earlham Road, Forest-gate, for £52 108 damages in hie action against the Imperial London Hotels Ltd. for damages in respect of personal injuries sus tained, it was alleged, as the result of insect-bites inflicted upon him when using the Turkish baths at the Imperial Hotel, Russell-square.
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F. A statue to the late Mr. Joseph Chamberlain was unveiled in the members" Lobby of the House of Commons by the Earl of Balfour, When, Lord Balfour said, the his- tarian forgot all the mutations of political fortune and the bitterness of controversy, he would admit that no man had left a deeper impress than Mr. Chamberlain upon the |development of the Empire or had done more to help on the common, cause of social reform.
Apart from a demand for alterna- tive programmes there has been found to be practically no unanimity |in the opinions of the members of the bodies represented on the Ad- visory Committee There has been Bomething like general agreement in criticising programmes, on the ground that they are too “sérappy.". Professor A. M: Low bas submitted a.suggestion to the Postmaster General that every person taking out a licence should be furnished with a form and asked to submit anewars to Zour simple questions on programme policy.
In order that an opportunity might be given to work ont more. scientific principles for the settle- ment of industria, problems, Mr. W. LHlchens, the chairman of Cammell, Laird, and Co., Ltd. urged at the League of Nations Union Conference that both sides in Industry should agres to a five years' truce,” At the end of thé period, he was convinced, ruk wages would be far higher, thẳn they could possibly be if strikes and Flock-outs were to remain the order. of the day. - Declaring that Capital, and Labour stood fecide each other agrosa afrontler Hne, Sir Harold Bowden sugges
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