SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1927.
GRAND CLEARANCE
SALE
Must be cleared to make room for.
NEW STOCK.
LADIES' DEPT.
RAIN COATS &
CAPES
$5.00 to $12.00
LADIES' PYJAMAS
$1.50 to $2,00 NIGHT GOWNS $1.50
ENVELOPE CHEMISE & COMBINATIONS
50 cents
LADIES' WHITE SHOES
$1.00 per pair.
ALSO
Remarkable Reductions in all Departments.
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THAT HOLIDAY YOU ARE
LOOKING FORWARD TO!
Have you thought where to go and what to do? How about a fishing trip in the beautiful country of Northwestern Manchuria? Or have you ever made a collection of Chinese seashells? Or what about doing a bit of bird observation at Tsingtao? Well-read the. special mid-summer number of
THE CHINA JOURNAL
It will tell you about FISHING in Manchuria, about collecting SEA-SHELLS at the summer resorts by the sea, about BIRD MIGRATION in Shantung.
Also an article on the people of the Tibetan borderland, and one on the Chinese dramas of the Three Kingdoms, illustrated with coloured plates, a quaint story of the Taiping Rebellion, as well as notes and comments on a variety of subjects, some of which are bound to interest you. Shooting, fishing, biology, medicine, astronomy, ancient Chinese jades and paintings, dogs, flowers, travel and exploration, drama-all are dealt with,
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THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.
Accidental Death following an A Bill to tax unoccupied, un- error of judgment was the ver- developed, privately owned land. dict at a Peterborough inquest on with the object of releasing land Flying-Officer Horace Miller, 31, for settlement, is to be introduc- who was killed near Wittering ined in the South Rhodesian Parlia- attempting a forced landing.
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ment.
Mr. Haythorne Reed, puisue judge in the Tanganyika terri- tory, has been appointed judge of the High Court, Nyasaland, in succession to Mr. C. F. Belcher.
A marriage at Exhall, near
hours, as the bridegroom, a Rugby man, had omitted to secure a certificate of the publication of the banns in that town.
A sent on the Council of India Following complaints of flood-Nuneaton, was delayed two has been offered by the Secretarying in wet weather, the Minister for India to Sir Henry Wheeler, of Health has decided that the lately Governor of Bihar and old part of Tooting (S.W) Parish Orissa, in succession to Sir E. A. Church graveyard shall be closed Gait, whose term of office- ex- pired on June 20,
Prince Henry, who is to open at Folkestone on July 13 the new concert hall costing £100,000, has expressed a wish that at the luncheon in connection with the day's programme there shall be no speeches.
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A 14-pound shell of the anti- aircraft type, with the cap off but containing the charge in- tact, found by a workman in an enclosed space near Taliesin Street, Llandudno, was hurled out to sea from the Great Orme.
"To a comrade of the old school from a few friends of the new was the inscription on a wreath dropped by an R.A.F. aeroplane from Manston on the grave of a Crimean veteran at the funeral at Whitstable..
The marriage took place at Chelsea Register Office of Captain A. F. B. Carpenter, V.C., R.N., who commanded the "Vindic- tive" in the attack on Zeebrugge, and Mrs. Hilda, M. A. Johnson, of | Draycott-place, Chelsea.
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Police Constable Thomas Moul- For stealing a watch from aton, attached to the Leman blind man who was able to tell Street, Whitechapel, E., Station, the time by touching the hands, who was off duty, was run over Harriet Hackett was at New- and killed by a steam wagon in port, Monmouthshire, sent. to Camberwell Road, S.E. prison for three months.
A hen found sitting on the spare wheel of a motor-ear when it arrived in Glasgow from the country was taken to the police station, where it has laid an egg each day since.
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Rothesay
It was stated at a meeting of (Buteshire) Parish Council that a woman patient in chargeable to Lochgilpead Asylum, who was worth hundreds of pounds and Rothesay, was had an annuity of £30..
The Bishop of Norwich and Mr. Ronald McNeill, M.P., Finan- cial Secretary to the Treasury, addressed a meeting at Sion Col- lege, Victoria Embankment. E.C., to protest against the irayer Book revision proposals.
The Belgrade (Jugo-Slavia) court has sentenced to 2 months' imprisonment Radomir Pasitch, son of the former Pre- The Legion of Honour has mier, M. N. Pasitch, for printing been awarded by the French Gov-articles defaming a departmental ernment to Sir Cooper Rawson, chief, M.P., in acknowledgment of his services in France in connection i with the adoption of French towns by the British League of Help.
"The Midnight Follies" are to go on a stage proper is "Blue Sky," a new musical entertain- ment to be presented to Mr. Archibald de Bear and Mr. Clifford Whitley at the Vaude- ville Theatre, W.C., in a month's time.
aero-
Capt. Rene Fonck, the French air "ace," announces, that in September he will try to fly from New York to París. in an plane carrying five persons, two being passengers. Last Sep- tember Capt. Fonck's machine crashed near New York at the start of a similar attempt, two of its occupants being burned to death.
VILLAGE BOUNDARY
COMEDY.
The propeller of an aeroplane piloted by Leading-Aircrafts man H. A. Richardson struck the ground and was broken during a landing in a field at Four Marks Ed, Hampshire, but the pilot escaped with slight injury.
After parading the main streets the Devonport naval gun team, the winners of all three trophies in the inter-port field-gun com- petition at Olympia, were wel- comed back to Plymouth by the mayor and the commander-in- chief.
When Thomas Somerset, 12, was being committed by the War- rington magistrates to an indus- trial school for wandering and sleeping out, his father, Thomas Somerset, of 16, Earwood Street, fell to the floor in a fit and some people in court wept.
PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY.
Sir St. Clair Thompson's story of
Mr. Justice Sankey is having a quiet time on the South Wales circuit at the summer assize, there being no prisoners for trial in the counties of Pembroke, Cardigan, and Brecon
In smashing a door panel at Whitefield's Central Mission, Tot- tenham Court Road, W., thieves, who secured little booty, raised an alarm, but escaped before the arrival of the police.
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Fined 5s. for smoking on the quay at Immingham (Lincoln- shire) Dock, Harry. Charlton, on the approach of a policeman, had dropped a lighted cigarette into his pocket, setting fire to his coat:
While a Grimsby boy. H. James Frederick Miller, was playing darts, a dart thrown by a com- panion accidentally pierced his hand, causing septic trouble which proved fatal.
dent Harding" entered Plymouth As the American liner "Presi-
Sound a big shark, which passen- gers tried to capture with im- provised harpoons, by the ship's bow and cut in two.
was caught
One of the biggest "rags" ever organised in Brighton was held in aid of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, Brighton, and there was a pro-] cession of decorated cars.
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tunnel in the ruins of Sandown The skeleton found by boys in a Castle, Deal, has been identified as that of Sidney Thomas Black- more, 35, missing from his home at Ramsgate since January 18 last.
The police are investigating three robberies from shops in Bromley, Kent, the windows of which were broken, cameras be ing stolen in each case by thieves who, it is believed, used a motor.
car.
LOST HIS OWN 'BUS
A London omnibus conductor omnibus.
A singular boundary anomaly the boy who wrote in an examina-in mail week "lost" his own that has long plagued a perplex- tion paper: "Chlorine gas is very ed village may be ended by a de-injurious to the human body; the
He stood disconsolately at the following experiment, therefore, ciaion at a specially convened should only be performed by the corner of Chapel Street," N.W., meeting in favour of Porlock teacher," reminds a correspondent and Edgware Road searching for (Somerset), becoming an urban of another aspirant for scientific the vehicle in his charge which district. For years Porlock has honours whose courage was evid had disappeared. been a village divided against ently far greater.
When another omnibus came) itself, half being in Porlock parish
This youth had been asked how up he told the driver of his and half belonging to Luccombe, he would distinguish between three plight, and sought his help.. He a hamlet three miles away. The nitrogen, nitrous oxide, and nitric boarded the second vehicle and beli-jars containing respectively dividing line runs somewhere
acid gas. down the main street of Porlock. lows. I should inhale a portion Edgware Road, looking anxious- His reply was as fol- proceeded northwards up the Because of this awkward divi- of the contents of each jar. That ly for his missing property. sion the village has in the words which produced no effect I should When the conductor had tra-
of Mr. G. Bowen, the chairman know to be nitrogen; that which velled about three-quarters of a
laughter would be nitrous oxide,
of the meeting, been the laughing caused me to burst into a peal of mile and had reached the corner stock of England for years. the policeman arrests a man in the street," said Mr. Bowen, he
while that which made me cough of St. John's Wood Road, he saw and spit blood would be nitric acid with a sudden wave of delight Kas." has to measure the road with a
his very own omnibus pulled up tape measure to find out in which obtained for his answer; but he
We do not know what marks he by the side of, the road. parish the man is arrested. What certainly had some knowledge of of the driver of the waiting His joy was no less than that would happen if he had one foot "practical" chemistry. in each parish I would not venture
omnibus, who had found to his to say."
horror. that he had lost his con- ductor.
In the summer the village water cart waters one side of the street only, the other being in the wrong parish. The cemetery is in Luc- combe Parish, but when Porlock parishioners die they have to pay double fees to be buried there. Another result of the anomaly is that there are separate rates for each half of the village.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET.
200 MILES IN AN OPEN BOAT.
July 8, 1927.
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Andrews.
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