THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1927.
KAIPING HOUSEHOLD COAL NOTE REDUCTION IN ICE
In Lots of not
lous than 1/2-ton- Delivered to: Peak District (above Bowen. Boad), +246
per ton
Delivered t.o Bow on Bond and Low OT Levels, $22.00 per ton
→ Delivered
Kowloon, $20.00
per ton.
to
Orders shatte
· be sent in whe
ing at least 24
-hour before: the Coal is
required.
All orders must be accompanied 170 sh Cheque, or Compradore Order payable. to The Kallan Mining Ad ministration."
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Head Office: TIENTSIN.
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Hongkong. April 1, 1924.
NATURAL MINERAL WATER FRENCH GOVERNMENT'S. Springs
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THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.
The Press Association learns officially that seventeen variety theatres belonging to London Theatres (Ltd.) have been sold tor rearly a million pounds.
Panier was created at the Alexandra Palace Exhibition, London, by a large bear which suddenly appeared among the crowd. It was afterwards secured, by its trainer and muzzled.
Permits for flag day collectors are among the recommendations put forward in the report of the Home Office Committee on Cof leeting Charities.
A prisoner, a private in a Scottish regiment, was being conveyed from London to York under the escort of a sergeant and a private when, as the train was passing Biggleswade, the man dived, head first
During the last quarter of window. Into the man through a
1920, according to a return issuedod and taken to Biggleswade police: from New Scotland Yard, 293 station where his escort awaited persons were killed by street accidents in London,
The "London Gazette" stated "A melody composed on that the Chancellor of the Ex- voyage between England and, the United States was sent over the chequer has appointed Capt. Wedgwood Benn to be Steward Transatlantic telephone to Enz-
and Bailiff of the Manor of don on February 10, and a few
Northstead. hours later was played at a public performance in the West End.
Stopped by the Immigration authorities at Copenhagen, Flor ence Amy Lamb, an eighteen year-old Hull girl, was found to have atowed herself away on steamer which left Hull recently. | She was detained and sent back. to England.
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A direct descendant of Oliver Cromwell; Major Sidney Riach Field, Clerk of the Peace for the Warwickshire, and Clerk to County Council, has died in Egypt, says a Leamington mea
sage."
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The drop in the cost of living to 72 per cent has brought down the average for six months. on which the bonus of Civil Servicn employees la based.
The Prosa. Association
understands that as a result of the periodical adjustment, however, there will be an inpresse, in the existing bonus of 2-28th, The cost-of-living figure has been. eagerly awaited in the Civil Service.
Two foxes which jumped up in front of the Whaddon Chase Hounda. just after the meet at Great Hor wood, Bucka, caused the pack to
divide. There were two separate. hunta, one lot of hounds chasing one fox until the first whip was able to call them off, and the rest of the hounds chasing the other fox for an faxes escaped.
Mr. Jerome K: Jerome, the author of "Three Men in a Boat and "The Passing of the Third For the Spring Fair at Leipzig. Floor Back," on February 17 hour on a seven miles, point. Both opening on March 6, the Lon-visited Walsall, the place of his don and North-Eastern Railway birth, and received the freedom Company made arrangements for of the city. apecial through services including journeys from Glasgow and Edinburgh to Leipzig via the Hook of Holland.
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The LINER. Pullman ex- press from Edinburgh to King's Cross arrived five minutes ahead of scheduled time, having made the non-stop run of 197 miles from Harrogate at an average. speed of 55 miles per hour, despite the fog which prevailed throughout the journey.
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The Rev: F. G. Bell, a County Antrim Presbyterian minister, who has just returned from a tour in America, said they found that if they wanted to get on. with their work in that country they had to discard their "dog collars."
The old warship "Triomphe, which was sunk during the Battle of La Hogue has been raised: from the bottom of the harbour at Cherbourg, says "Central It has been disclosed that the "mystery towers built by the News." Her hul bears striking Admiralty during the war were testimony to the excellent marks intended to be used in the defencemanship of the English and of the Straits of Dover. They Dutch vessels. A number of in were to be towed out to sea and teresting relice have been found on board, and will be placed in with heavily fortified
guns. Owing to the Armistice, only two French museums, were bullt. They are to be used ia filming. the Battle of Falkland Islands.
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In explanation of the Railway Companies increase of rates pamphlet has been published en- titled "Railway Rates; How Little They Affect the Cost of Food" which, by diagram, shows that rates constitute but a small proportion of the retail price. Similar diagrams illustrate the position in 1913 (pre- war), showing that the proportion of price attributable to railway
carriage to less in 1927 than in 1918.
The results of the Provincial elections in South Africa, says & Cape Town correspondent show that while Labour suffered heavily In all provinces, the Nationalists maintained their position practi cally unchanged. They increased the number of their seats in the Transvaal from 21 to 23, lost one in the Cape Province, and gained and lost one in Natal. Labour lost Ave seata in Natal, three in the Cape Province, and one in the Transvaa
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The L.N.E.R. Cottage Homes
The Royal National Lifeboat In and Benefit Fund to provide rural stitution has decided to award its homes for railway employees who thanks, inscribed on vellam,. to 25 Mr. Fred Cavill, whose death may retire from disability or in women of Newbiggin, Northumber is announced at the age of 88, firmity, or for the dependants of land, for their gallantry in launch- claimed to have been the first deceased railwaymen, has been ing the lifeboat on January 28 last.. man to swim the English Chan-instrumental in providing 157 This is the third occasion in recent nel, says. & "Central News" homes. Ten new houses have years on which Asherwomen on the Mr.just been opened on the Acomb Northumberland coast have been (Sydney) correspondent, Cavill awam from Dover to Calais Hall estate at York by Sir Ralph awarded the thanks of the Institu in about twelve hours in 1877, Wedgwood, C.B., CMG., Chieftion on vellum for gallantry. In 1925: the women of Boulmer, re- although Captain Webb's success General Manager of the LNE.R. 1822 the woman of Holy Island, and "ful effort in 1882 is regarded as
ceived a similar award. the first official record
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Lord Buckmaster's Bill to pro tect the pwing, which was in-
A message from Dr. Gann to. "The According to a statement by troduced on the opening day of Seotaman" from Belize, British Hon- the Natural Resources Intelli- the seasicon, provides that it shall duras, statos that he has discovered gence Service of the "Department not be lawful to sell any lapwing a vast extent of ruins in Southern of the Interior at Ottawa, over for human consumption between Yucatan. There is a series of great half the tobacco smoked in March 14 and August 11, or to temples, some nearly 200 feet high. which were originally covered with Canada is produced within the sell for human consumption any stucco, and painted in bright country, and figures published by egg of the lapwing The pro- colcurs. The underground cham- posed penalties are £5 or under bers, the temples. platforms, and the Federal Department Agricultura show that 8,571, 122 for a first offence and in the case walls may represent the earlier pounds of leaf tobacco were of a subsequent offence a fine not occupation of Yucatan by the Maya Ectually exported from Canada exceeding £10 or imprisonment mentioned in ancient records, but during the fiscal year ending for a period not exceeding one of which no trace has before been
month March 31, 1925.
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