THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1927.
KAIPING HOUSEHOLD COAL
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NOTE REDUCTION IN RICE
In Lots of not
less than 1/2-ton:-
Delivered
to
Posk District
(above Bowen Boad), #24.43
per ton
Delivered
to
Bowen Bond and Lower
Levels, $22.00
par ton. Delivered
Kowloon,
$20.00 per ton.
to
Orders shanIL be sent in wrtu. ing at least 24 koura before the Coal required.
All orders must
be accompanied by Una h Cheque, or Compradore Order payable to "The Kailan Mining Ad. ministration."
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The King and Queen opened the new wing of the King Edward VIF, Hospital at Windsor on April 20.
John Hockey, a certificated book- maker, was fined £25 at Liverpool for making a false return to the Commissioners of Customs.
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The Venerable Claudo Martin Blagden, Archdeacon of Coventry, was consecrated Bishop of Peter. borough at Westminster Abbey.
The first step in the development of a trans-Canadian air mail ser
Fines Imposed by Surrey County magistrates last year amounted to £29,715.
Mr. Alfred John King, L.M.S. station-niaster at Harpenden, Hert- fordshire, was killed by an express
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January 1-next has been agreed to as the date which Lord Fermoy's Bill for preventing bid. ding "rings" at auction sales shall come into operation..
Capt. D. H. Hacking, ander sacre- vies will be made this summer bytary of the Home Office, who ha an aeroplane taking over-seas malls recently had trouble with his eyes, to Montreal,
has been ordered to take a rest of about three weeks,
An Argentine deputy, M. Martel- letti, and his wife were murdered in their beds at Mercedes, in the province of Buenos Aires, it is be- lieved as an act of vengeance.
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The object of the Roadside Petrol Pumps Bill, the text of which was issued on March 10, is to enable highway authorities to permit the erection of petrol supply pumps on the edge of the roadway, ax has been done in the case of lamp-posts, watering cart stand pipes, and telegraph poles.
Five German skiers staying at Compatch were overwhelmed by an avalanche on March 10 (says a Davos correspondent). Four of the party were buried. The fifth managed to get free and set off to secure help. A relief party, of 30 men that went to the rescue re- covered the body of one of the un- fortunate skiers.
Nicknamed the "Butterfly King" owing to his hobby of collecting butterflies and moths, Albert Ed- ward Burton, a Worthing railway porter. has died at the age of 48. He had a collection of insects numbering between 4.000 and 5,000 gathered from all parts of the world which he had arranged in artistic designs. The collection is undoubtedly one of the finest in the country.
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Walworth, the birthplace of Robert Browning. was beflagged for the visit of the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Rowland Blades, M.P., and the, Lady Mayoress in civic atate. The Rev. J. Graves, warden of the settlement, who told the story of Browning's association with Walworth, made the first public announcement that the Browning Settlement was now re- cognised as the world's living memorial of the poet.
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The winter in Spain has been an exceptionally hard one. Packs of wolves, sometimes reaching the number of 30 to 40 beasts, have invaded villages in the mountainous
districts of the north and centre of the Peninsula and caused consider. able loss among the cattle. A short time ago, in Asturias, a 12-year-old child who was returning home alone was set upon and devoured by a pack of wolves.
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"There would be an enormous re- duction in the number of street accidenta if Walk to the Left be- came the rule."-Lord Newton at the annual meeting of the London Safety First Council.
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Whole entries of births, riages, and deaths have been cut out of the parish church registers of the Peakland village of Winster, and it is supposed that the missing portions relate to large Derbyshire estates of a century ago.
Sentence of two months' Impri- sonment was passed at Ipswich on Herbert Edward Smith-a local van dweller, for burying a dog alive.
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Bernard Jacobs, 19, the son of a City merchant; who recently dis- appeared from his home at Bronder- bury Park, N.W., has been found.
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Professor J. E. Davey, of the Presbyterian College, Bolfast, has been found not guilty by the Bel- fast Presbytery of all five chargea of heresy brought against him.
Seventy pounds was realised for á fleld officer's gold medal for Tala- vern (1809), and £92 for a gold medal for the Battle of Rolein (1808) at Messrs. Glendining's.
A collection of 17th and 18th century Broadsides and Folio leaf- lets realised - £470 at the second day's sale of the final portion of the Britwell Court Library at Messra. Sotheby's,
Because a cat stole his supper and smashed a cup and saucer, Emilio Zerasch), an Italian refresh- ment-house keeper, prodded it with a red-hot poker and at Tredegar was fined £5,
President Coolidge surrounded by secret service men on the daily walks which he has resumed after temporarily aban- doning them. He is shown walking by the Treasury and White House on his way back to the Executive Offices,
The number of motor-cars im- Lavish hospitality is being ex- parted into Britain from Germany tended, by the French naval au- fell in 1926 to 1,267, from 1,491 in thorities to the crews of the Bri- 1926, and the value declined fromtish ships of the Mediterranean £655,000 to £420,000.
Fleet, which arrived at Toulon.
It was stated at the L.C.C. meet- Ing that the number of motor-omni- have. increased during the buses in London did not appear to three years, non-combine omnibuses past being roughly 10 per cent. of the total. 5,423 for 1926.
Many Oxford University men Antwerp, belonging to the British A large shed at Merxem, outside made the three-mile journey to the American Tobacco Company was poeta colony at Boars Hill on
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Off Tarbert, Loch Fyne, the Glas- gow pleasure steamer "Chevalier" paddles and drifted in a fierce gale, met with a mishap to one of her but the passengers were taken
ashore in lifeboats.
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During a journey from Dover to H. Wallington, Surrey, Mrs. R. Phillips
lost jewellery worth £1,000 from a bag suspended round her neck, and a reward of £100 is offered for its recovery.
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March 10, to see John Masefield's burned down on March 9. A large production of Hamlet, in his gar-quantity of tobacco and ten motor den theatre, from the first quarto is estimated at 3,000,000 francs.
cars were involved. The damage of the private version which he has secured. The part of the Prince was taken by Mr. Hugh Langley, Mr. W. P. Forbes, managing while Miss Buchan, daughter of Mr. director of the Central News, who
First edition, first issue of John Buchan, the author, played has been secretary of the Wanstead Ophelia.
two The costumes. which Young Men's Association since its "The Vicar of Wakefield," were arranged by Mr. Masefield, inauguration 60 years ago, has been volumes, known as the Baroness were rather unusual, and a great | presented · with an illuminated de Ferrars-C. G. Milnes Gaskell use was made of armour. The play address and an album, containing copy, realised £420 at Messrs. was enthusiastically received. the names of all the members. Sotheby's.
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