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Mostly under the assisted passage The Commercial Banking Com The weight of the earth is scheme, 1,000 British settlers left|pany of Sydney and the Bank of 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tona, Liverpool for Canada.
Victoria are now amalgamated. says Dr. Paul Neil, of the US.A.
Bureau of Standards.
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Lord Inchape has given £5,000 The British Legion will spend towards the Endowment Fund being about £70,000 of the money raised created by the newly formed Com-on Poppy Day on a housing scheme. pany of Master Mariners,
A 24 passengers Junkera K.31 On completion of restoration monoplane has arrived, at Angora work, Evensong was held in the from Dessau. The journey took choir of St. George's Chapel, Wind-] 111⁄2 hours. sor, for the first time since March 1921.
Thomas Hampshire, 48 & chauffeur, who was to have under- Standard Telephonen and Cables, gone an operation in Bath Royal Ltd, London, havo received an United Hospital, was killed by fall- order from the Polish Broadcastinging from a hospital window. Co. for a 10-kw. breadcasting sta- tion to be erected at Katowice.
Under a will made in 1926, which stipulated that each recipient should walk over the grave of the testator, Henry Travice, 40 poor persons received in Leigh, Lanca- shire, Church 58. each,
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The post-mortem examination of Mr. Wyndham Radcliffe, the Welsh shipowner millionaire, who was found dead in his flat in Knights. bridge, S.W., showed that death was due to an affection of the heart.
Accidental Death was the verdict at an inquest at Hull on John Wil: In a fire at Beeches, Brent, Pel-fred Dales, $4, 4. South African ham, Hertfordshire, the home of farmer, who, while eating an apple Major Maurice Barelay, joint masin bed, swallowed his false teeth, ter of the Puckeridge Foxhounds, which set up septie.poisoning in the two valuable hunters were burnt tof right lung. death and a motor-car was 'des- troyed.
Convoyed under a heavy police guard, a large number of valuable paintings, mostly Dutch masters from the Hermitage Museum at Petrograd, have been brought to Moscow, where several will be selected for export abroad.
For thrashing his 13-years-old daughter with an iron bar because she was late home from school, James Alfred Tucker, tailor, of Glebe-place, Chelsea, S.W., was at Westminster sentenced to four months' imprisonment in the second. division.
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Taken from the grave of her son, Capt. H. W. Trefuala, who was kill ed in action in November 1916, a wooden cross rested on the coffin containing the remains of Mrs. Emma Mary Trefusis, wife of Dr. Trefusis, Bishop of Crediton, when it was buried at Chittlehampton, Devon.
Gresham Hotel, one of the five hotels in Lower O'Connell Street, Dublin, destroyed by fire during the fighting between Republicans and Free State troops in 1922, has been rebuilt and reopened.
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At a Folkestone hockey festivalji banquet atfended by the English, French, and Germun hockey teams. the three National Anthems, Includ- ing that of the German Republic, were sung by the company, which numbered about 250.
In Shakespeare's "All's Well That Ends Well," ataged in modern dress at Birmingham Repertory Theatre Mins Eileen Beldon as "Helena" first appeared in black knee length dress and crop, and later in a cape coat.
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In a plane tree in Trafalgar. aquare, London, a wood pigeon, quite unperturbed by the traffic be- low, is hatching her eggs.
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By the end of this year America hopes to raise £100,000 towards the endowment of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on- Avon.
To relleve congestion at the Man- sion House, the Ministry of Trans- port is considering a scheme for the extension of the one-way traffic system in the City.
A motorist fined at Oswestry had knocked down an old couple while he was driving by the light of a candle. A police officer said that, legally, one light was enough.
A vixen which nad killed 75 hen pheasants in a rearing run in the Vale of Newlands, near Derwent water, was tracked to her earth in the mountains and was destroyed.
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Cumberland Standing Joint Com-) mittéé, at Carlisle, passed a resolu tion protesting against the early re- tiring age for policemen, The dis- cussion was due to the pending re- tirement, on a pension of over £200, of. Superintendent Maason, of Ap pleby, who is 44. He has completed 25 years' service.
**Mr. Hugh Hughes, the North | Wales miners' agent, states that the Mines Department has appointed Judge Roberts as the independent chairman for the North Wales Miners' Wages 'Board, which will meet shortly to consider an appli- cation by the North Wales minera for, a. 50 per cent. Increase in the minimum rate of wages.
As a protest against what they described as the Anglo Catholic tendencies of the vicar (the Rev. Francis Bacon), some members of the congregation of All Saints', Buxton Street, Stepney, E、 walked
Renting the invitation to Mr. out during the nine o'clock service Baldwin to take part in the Cana- as they did also the previous Fridian Confederation celebrations, the day.
Ontario branch of the Canadian Labour Party, representing Framed certificates and cheques the Communist wing of Cana for £3 38, each from the Society for dían Labour, has refused to take the Protection of Life from Fire any part in the commemoration. were presented at Tottenham Police The Canadian Labour Party decided Court to Mr. B. Davis, Mr. H. E that the practice of saluting the Batley, both of Coniston Road and Union Jack should be discontinued, Mr. G. H. Pearce, of 4, Brantwood and that prayers and religious Road, Tottenham, for rescuing three; teaching in the schools should be children at a fire in Coniston Road. eliminated.
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