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THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.
The Grimsby trawler "Joseph Burgin" landed a ateamship's funnel trawled from the bottom of the North Sea..
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German taxation receipts in March amounted to £27,100,000, making the total for the financial year £858,700,000,
James Crowley, a furniture dealer, of Union Street, Reading, was found dead in a shed on his allotment.
Engineer-Captain W. R. Parnall, R.N., has been appointed a naval aide-de-camp to the King in place of Engineer Captain E. P. St. J. Benu, promoted to Engineer Rear-Admiral.
Falling into the river at Wellingborough, Walter Neale, aged eight was drowned; while fishing for "tiddlers.".
The Prince of Wales has taken Summerfold, the Duke of Suther land's house at Ewhurst, Surrey, for the months of June, July, and August,
The Kentish, boy scouts who
Over 500., motor-cycles and Preferential rating for all cars took part in the Slough to are visiting Madrid were enter tained by members of the British premises occupied as aub-post Land's End annual test. Eighty Colony to a special circus per-offices is to be sought by the failed to reach Launceston, in-
National Federation of Sub-Post-cluding twenty-five cars. masters, whose annual conference concluded at Aberdeen.
formance.
The statue of Lord Byron in Hamilton Gardens, St. John's Wood, N.W., was decorated with lilies and roses on the anniversary of the poet's death in 1824.
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A 12-years-old Chatham boy dived into the River Medway at Upnor, near Chatham, rescued a 3-years-old boy from drowning, and did not wait to be thanked.
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A badger which appeared in the basement of a tenement house in Summerbill, Dublin, WAS caught, after it had attacked a dog, by keepers from the Dublin Zoo.
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Hythe magistrates granted a licence for a cinema to open Sunday evenings during nine months in the year, ordering it to be closed in June, July, and. August.
While rabbiting near Launces- ton, Cornwall, a man named Whale was shot by his gun, which discharged when picked up by someone else, and later his leg was amputated.
H.M.S. "Nelson," the world's most powerful battleship, has been completed by Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Walker-on-Tyne, and leaves the Tyne for Portsmouth for trials. and docking.
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Speaking of the scheme to pro- vide a large number of British Legion houses in different parts of the country; Major J. B. Cohen, M:P., hon. treasurer of the Legion, said that it had been 'de- cided to spend on it about £70,000 of the money raised by Poppy Day.
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a bottle said to have burst when being taken from a shelf, spread over the floor to a fire in a Chester chemist's shop and burst into flames, consider-
able damage being done,
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Col. Blanton Winship, who will Boon succeed Col. Sherwood ‘A. Cheney, as chief military aid to President Coolidge.
The first provisional chapter of of Leicester has been appointed" the cathedral of the new diocese by the Bishop of Leicester, there being 6 canons, 27 honorary canons, and 16 lay canons. :
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Mr. and Mrs. William R. Hurst, of Salisbury Road, Edmonton, have celebrated their golden wedding. They are both sixty-eight years of age.
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A tablet was unveiled at Batley to Edward Vansittart Neale,. one' of the Christian Socialista in the middle of last century, and the first secretary of the co-operative Union.
Miss Rose Hollick, aged twenty. two, of Hemel Hempstead, died in Luton Hospital from injuries re- ceived on a fair ground on Good Friday, when she was struck on the head by a swing boat.
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After sending a boy for two gallons of petrol John Feaster, 69, an East Yorkshire farmer, was seen to pour it over himself and set fire to it with a match. He died from his injuries.
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Mr. Robert Standish Sievier was awarded £47 5s, damages at Brighton County Court in sin action against Trusler's Hill Farms, Ltd., one of whose ser- vants shot his terrier for, it was stated, killing fowls.
The funeral took place of the Rev. William Leaf, Rector, of Holy Trinity Church, Southwark, Wedding services in the church are popularly believed to have inspired the writer of the old music-hall song, "At Trinity Church I met my doom."
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It was stated at the annual
meeting of the Newcastle In- firmary that in 1926 nearly 1,000 motor accidents which *WAB double that of the previous year, Articles. found, close to the had been treated. One werd skeleton of. & man discovered had had to be almost devoted to near Burnt Oak, Edgware re- such cases, and the cost to the cently, have been identified institution was £5,000. as having belonged to Drum- An Oslo telegram states that Major Thomas Sanders, of Recording a verdict of "Felo the Bill reducing the annual the Scots Guards, who dis- de se" at a Wandsworth inquest salaries of members of the Stort-appeared from his home in recently on Mrs. Herminia Clark| ing (the Norwegian Parliament) Edgware in the summer of 1925. (41), of Standen Road, South- from 7,000 kroner (roughlyIt is understood that after re- fields, who died from syncope fol- £400) to 6,000 kroner (about tiring from the Scots Guards lowing quinine poisoning, Mr. £330), which has already passed Drum-Major Sanders suffered | Ingleby Oddie. (coroner) said she the Odelsting has been passed by from neurasthenia and heart must have taken an enormous the Lagting,
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