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Mrs. Martha Tyler has died in St. John's Hospital, Wandsworth, S.W., aged 105.
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Colonel Martin, Inte Liberal member for the Romford Divi sion of Essex, has joined the Conservative Party,
Owing to the difficulty of aecuring English coke a Tees- side, firm of iron-masters have placed a contract with a German
firm.
Italian schoolboys who are first in class are to be allowed to form part of the guards of honour at local war memorials on specified
occasions.
The Government of Mauritius is to be asked to vote a sum in aid of the sufferers by the recent cyclone in the neighbouring island of Madagascar.
A packet containing 12 tubes of hypodermic tabloids of morphine sulphate, which disappeared in York was found intact in the museum gardens.
Nearly 800 lawn tennis courts will be available to the public this
year in 44 London County Coun ell parks, of which 41 are pro- vided with hard courts..
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At the inquest on four persons poisoned by gas at Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent, it was stated that the gas escaped from a main, broken by a mining subsidence.
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An all-Canadian Labour Con- gress has been formed by a con- vention representing nearly all Canadian labour organisations without international affiliations.
Donations of £10,275 and new annual subscriptions of £259 were announced at the annual festival dinner of the Commer- eial. Travellers Benevolent In- stitution.
Chief Constable Wilson, of Cardiff, reporting against the in-. troduction of women to deal with sex crimes, said girls and women more readily told a lie to a woman than to a man.
Burglars at Messrs. C. Packer and Co.'s jewellery shop in Regent Street, W., were 2p- parently alarmed and left without taking anything, but it will cost $200 to repair the damage done by them.
Mr. John Buchan, the novelist, has accepted the invitation of the Scottish Universities Unionist Association repesentatives to be- come Parliamentary candidate in the by-election caused by the death of Sir Henry Craik,
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Mr. C. W. Hurcomb, principal assistant secretary of the Minis- try of Transport, has been ap- pointed permanent secretary in place of Mr. J. R. Brooke, who has been appointed secretary of the Central Electricity Board.
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Among miniature books ex- hibited at the London Library, St. James's Square, S.W., for a few weeks is the smallest Italian book printed from movable type, being so tiny that it would not cover the surface of an average adult's thumb-nail.
While playing on the bank of a tributary of the river Roding, which separates Barking from East Ham, a boy found a parcel containing 28 watches, all át which were going.
A man aged between 50 and 60 jumped from Westminster Bridge into the Thames and was drown- ed.
A fairly severe earthquake occurred at Westport, New Zea Lord Plumer, High Commisland, but no damage has been sioner in Palestine, christened an
reported. Imperial Airways liner "City of Jerusaler" and afterwards he and Lady Plumer went for a flight over Jerusalem.
At Lincoln when it was decided to wind up the Lincolnshire Co- Operative Bacon factory, Sir Archibald Weigall, who presided, commented on the lack of support by farmers.
Mr. C. Stafford Crossman, who was called to the Bar in 1897, has been appointed Junior Equity Counsel to the Treasury and Board of Trade in place of the late Mr. Dighton Pollock.
Bristol magistrates for the first time granted cinemas per- mission to open on Good Friday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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Baroness Elsa von Rosen, a Swedish subject, living in Lon don, was fined £31 at Folkestones for smuggling silk articles,
novel "Josoph Andrews," two "A first edition of Fielding's volumes, printed in 1742, realised £138 at Messrs. Sotheby's.
The first railway line construct- For the improved service ed in France, that from Paris to which, the London Midland and St. Germainen-Laye, was opened Scottish Railway are arranging as a reconstructed electric rail- to Belfast via Heysham, Messrs. way, Denny Bros., of Dumbarton, are to build three new twin-screw geared turbine steamers.
Henry Morgan, the 14-years-old Wandsworth schoolboy who last July dived 50ft. into the river from Wandsworth Bridge and rescued a little boy from drown ing
was presented with the Royal Humane Society's bronze medal and certificate.
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The Estimates for the Govern- ment of Northern Ireland for the of £686,000 compared with the next financial year show a saving! previous year.
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of Cecil Street, Yeovil Somerset, Doris May Westcott, aged 14, was fatally burned through her frock becoming ignited by a
candle in her bedroom.
Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Divi- sional Socialist Party have de cided not to support Communist candidates in the forthcoming municipal elections.
Harrington Hall, Spilsby, Lin- colnshire, which has associations with Lord Tennyson, and which was to have been sold in lots be- fore demolition, was, minutes before the time for aue- tion, purchased privately by colnshire landowner. Major W. H. Rawnsley, a Lin- At the funeral at Chertsey, Surrey, of Thomas Chennell, who collapsed and died when loading furniture, the coffin was borne to the grave in a furniture van.
Professor Henry Steenbock, of the University of Wisconsin, who has refused a $2,000,000 offer for his patent rights in his process
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Elsie Clark Porter, of Norfolk Square, Brighton, was fined £10) and had her licence suspended at Shoreham Petty Sessions for being drunk in charge of a motor-
car.
While driving a motor-lorry laden with iron girders, Frederick Lemmon, of New Park Road. Salford, was. crushed to death at Runcorn by the girders moving forward.
Hull Corporation receives regularly about £100 a week in fines on shopkeepers for Sunday trading according to the corpora- tion abstract of accounts just published.
Sir Alfred Mond and some directors of the new chemical in- dustries' combine left Croydon by air liner for Brussels and Paris to attend international chemical industries' conferences.
Suicide while Temporarily In- sane was the inquest verdict at Hambledon, Hampshire, on Mrs.) Murray, wife of Dr. Percy Hope Murray, found drowned in a pond a mile from her home.
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which will transfer life-sustain- ing ultra-violet rays into food in immense quantities. He has given the rights free to his Uni- versity in order that the rights may be passed on to benefit 'all humanity. The process consists
In view of pending discharges from the royal dockyards the of segregating the elusive vitamin D. and inserting it into ordinary
Admiralty has agreed to consider foods. In addition to increasing an application for the immediate the food values, the new process
release on pension of established virtually insures against rickets.men nearing pensionable age,
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JEAN LEBEL,
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EMIL
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YPICAL
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Frank Dupuis, comparatively un- known North Shore musher who Jumped into dog-racing fame last year by winning the Eastern Inter- national Dog-Sled Derby, at Que- bec, is to take part in this event again. He will drive for Alex McKay & Co.; Ltd., whose colours ho carried to victory has a splendid team of dogs. last year. Dupuis claifs that he
The fifth Eastern International Incapacitated dogs must be taken Dog Sled Derby will be run as on the eled and drawn back to the usual in Quebec, a city, now world Anish line. renowned for its aports. The cash prizes raced for in the The race is run In laps of about Quebec Dog Derby usually appro- Sucha well-known and, famous 40 miles a day, and 120 miles is the ximate $2,000, but the mushers, or mushers: as. Emile St. Goddard, On- usual total mileage. Many thou drivers, are invariably more proud tario Paper Co., "Shorty" Russick, sands of men, women and children of their teams then the money, for driver for H. 1. Sutton, of Chicago," view these races, and it is Interest- the dumb brutes appear to know. Joe Dapuis, Frank Dupuis, V ing to sea how the husklen make what they are working for and It-Livignes, H. Chevrette, Walter supreme efforts to be lead team, ie amazing what superliuman, Channing of Boston, and . P. J. The drivers accord the dogs every strength they seem to put forth, Molloy, of Berlin, N.H. are num possible comfort and attention, and Praise and the approval of their heren among those who will fight hỏ cruelty to the dogs is allowed. I masters are sufficient for them. to a Anish for the championship
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