TUESDAY, JULY 26, 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. LADIES' SUMMER HATS
$4.00
ALSO
Remarkable Reductions in all
Departments.
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Antigua Farthing.
An Antigua farthing of 1836, in the collection of American coins formed by the late Mr. Richard F. Peltzer, now being dis- persed at Glendenning's sold for £10.
Mrs. James Peach, the Mayoress of Northampton, was presented with a chain of office, being the first mayoress of the town to wear such a distinction.
"Sunny" ends its run at the Hippodrome, WC., on July 16, and it will be followed on July 25 by "Shake Your Feet," a new revue with five grand pianos as orchestra.
Cheaper Gas,
Following other companies, the South Suburban Gas Company will reduce the price of gas by a penny per therm (5d. per 1,000 cubic feet) from the midsummer reading of the meters.
For a collection of old French snuff-boxes and objects of vertu belonging to the late Sir Edward Marshal-Hall, K.C., £3,267 1s: 6d. was paid at Messrs. Christie's.
A collection of boxes, trays, fans, and other articles in French and English pique on tortoise- shell, and ivory, of the 17th and 18th centuries, realised £1,558 at Messrs. Sotheby's.
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State Apartments,
The State apartments at Windsor Castle will be open to the public on Saturday and every week-day except Friday from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. until further notice.
More than £12.318 has been received as a result of the Boy Scouts' London Appeal for £150,-
000.
Gas Buoy.
Lost for two years, a gas busy has drifted from the Canadian coast to the Clyde, a distance of over 2,000 miles,
Spectators at a Glasgow fire, in which 26 horses perished, saw the maddened animals with manes and tails burning when trapped on the first floor by the collapse of the roof,
The Industrial Court have granted an increase of 1s. 6d. per
Fourteen gold coins in a flint week in wage to 4,150 work-receptacle found at Westerham, people employed by the Metro- Kent, are believed to be pre- politan Water Board.
Roman, probably minted in Gaul and brought to Britain for trad- ing purposes.
Mr. Hippolyte Montplaisir, a Canadian senator, who received his senatorship from Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John Macdonald, has died at Three Rivers, Quebec, at the age of 88.
Adelphi Estate.
No bid was made when the Adelphi estate, Strand. W.C.. was offered for sale by auction at the London Auction Mart, E.C., but it is understood several private offers have been made..
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A schoolboy named Harold Robert Smith, of the Bungalow, White House Avenue, Boreham Woods, Hertfordshire, fell under one of the wheels of his brother's lorry and was killed.
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Mr. Samuel St. Barbe Emmott, To ensure that supplies shallformerly manager of the Ports he of Empire origin, Lambeth mouth branch of Lloyds Bank, guardians have decided that in all who three years ago fractured future tenders for fruit a clause his thigh through a fall, when should be inserted giving particu- the limb was amputated, has died. lars us to the country of its origin.
"Ren! Sporting."
"You have been real sporting," said Judge Turner at Nottingham County Court, shaking hands with Samuel Amery, of Radcliffe- on-Trent, who was awarded $21 in an assault action, but as the defendant was an ex-Service man, offered to accept £10 in instal-
ments.
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Experiments in communication by wireless telephony between fire engine and brigade. head- quarters conducted by Fireman J. W. Shaw, of Rochdale, are meeting with success.
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An exhibition at the British Museum of the antiquities dis- covered by Dr. Woolley during excavations at Ur of the Chaldees is open to the public.
VERSES TO DIVORCED WIFE.
Depositore in Driffield (York shire) Trustee Savings Bank have due to them £253,326, ac- cording to a statement at the quarterly meeting, or nearly £50 per head of the population of 5,674.
"I liked the girl and her baby, and I pitied her for the way she had been left," said Sidney Reynolds, 25, who was charged with aiding and abetting Eliza- beth Tamplin, 23, both of Lam- beth, to commit bigamy. Both were sent for trial.
Wage Increase.
Fifteen unions comprising the London Ship-repairing Joint Trades Committee have applied for a wage increase of 10s, per week for all workers engaged in Thames ship-repairing yards.
The £500,000 fund which is be- ing raised in connection with the Centenary of University College, London, now totals £177,440, which includes about 43,000 con- tributed by past and present students.
At a Conservative women's garden party in the grounds of Fairfax House, Beaconsfield Road, Blackheath, two of the guests fell in the lake and were saved by the gardener, a man named Powell.
A petition organised by the of Great Britain for the week The coal output from the mines Automobile Association to pro- ended June 11 (Whitweek) was test against the diversion of the 3,177,800 tons compared with Road Fund and to urge the main 5,102,900 tons in the previous tenance of an efficient Roads De-week, the number of partment will be presented in the House of Commons.
FEW CHILDREN ESCAPE IT. Stomach aches, so inseparable from the years of childhood, can become serious hawel disorder if not prompt. ly quieted. Chamberlain's Coils and Diarrhoee Remedy is safe and de- pendable for both children and grown People. It immediately relieves severe intestinal pain and stops weakening diarrhoea. For sale everywhere.
LORD. JUSTICE BANKES.
wage earners being 1,018,200 against 1,022,500 in the previous week.
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Mr. Arthur Macey, a London shipping clerk, plunged in to the rescue of a woman visitor, Miss A. Lineham, 23, who got into difficulties while bathing at Margate, and kept her afloat until both were pulled out with
ropes.
FATHER AND SON'S MARRIAGE.
Mr. Eric Seabrook Pinker, liter- It seems generally accepted in A father who objected to his ary agent, of Messrs. J. B. Pinker legal circles that Lord Justice son, aged 20, marrying, was sum- and Sop, Strand, London, and Mrs. Bankes will be seen no more at moned by the son at the Mary- Mabel Morrison Bennett, the the Law Courts after this term, lebone Police-court, under the former wife of Mr. Richard Bon- and that, following the custom of Guardianship of Infants Act. nett, and actor, were, married re- late years, the announcement of The father was Harry Randa, of cently. Mr. and Mrs. Basil Rath- | his resignation together with the Southampton Road, Hampstead and bone were present.
names chosen to fill the consequent his son, Harry, said he was living Since her divorce from Mr.vacancies on the bench, will be at Vorley Road, Highgate, and was Bennett in 1925, Mrs. Pinker, who made in October, on the eve of the | earning £3 2§. 6d. a week. He was Was known on the stage as Michaelmas sittinga. Vacancies engaged to be married, but his "Adrienne Morrison," has been will result because it is probable father objected on the ground manager of Messrs. Pinker's New that the new Lord Justice of that he did not want to be respon- York office. The Bennetts had Appen!, who in any case must come sible for him. He had prepared a been married 20 years when she from the common law side, will be home for the girl, and, when they obtained an uncontested divorce, taken from among the judges of were married, she was going to her husband insisting that he still the King's Bench Division. It is help him to maintain the home by loved her. Since then he has spent eight years since a King's Dench going out to work as a cook. much of his time in writing verses judge has been promoted-rather The father said he understood dedicated to her.
a long period. Such an appoint that if he gave his consent to the ment will leave a vacancy in the marriage he was responsible, not lower division which will have to only for his son, but for his daugh- be filled.
ter-in-law.
ANOTHER MISSED CATCH.
The post of Senior Lord Justice
The magistrate said that if a A terrier which jumped into the and president of the Second Court young man of 20 married his par river at Enfield after a rat is re- of Appeal will, on Sir John ents had no responsibility towards ported to have been seized by two Bankes's retirement, fall to Lord him. "Your son," he said, "seems piko, one of which was, almost Justice Scrutton, who is one year an intelligent young fellow, and he dragged ashore before it would re- his junior as a Lord Justice and is anxious to marry." lease its grip. It must have been two and a quarter his junior in a trying experience for the dog-years.
but the terrier has .now recovered Sir John Bankes was 73 last and is going round saying to all April and his judicial service its canine friends, "I tell you, my (King's Bench and Court of Ap- dear fellow, the one that got away peal) will have lasted 17 years. Was the size of an Alsatian! Bless my whiskers, you never saw such a fish-believe me, if the thing was an inch it was three times the length from the tip of my tall to the end of my nose?"
DEEP-SEA SOUNDINGS,
WHEN YOUR LITTLE ONE
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The Father: Yes, but I can foresee trouble. They are both of
a very domineering nature.
The magistrate remarked that the father might be a very good prophet, but he saw no reason for his objection to the marriage, and he should give his consent.
SHIPOWNER'S GENEROSITY.
The normal, growing child is
At a meeting of the University lways ready to eat, and any Court at Edinburgh the Principal, dainclination for food must be set gir Alfred Ewing, read a letter down to ill-health. Ninety-nine from Mr. Thomas Cowan, ship times out of one hundred that ill- owner, of Leith, making a gift of There is a touch of irony in the health is merely a temporary in- £40,000 as an endowment fund to fact that the new German cruiser disposition, some slight derange-assist the scheme for the establish "Emden" has been sounding the ment of digestion, or of the in- ment of a residential house for sea-bed upon which so many of the testines, or of both.
male students attending Edinburgh In such cases Baby's Own victims of her namesake rest, anys
University, with which his 'name "Truth."
Tablets comprise the logical la being associated. Mr. 'Cowan be administered. trusted that this free income would After leaving the Dutch East medicine Indies she got the deepest water They will quickly restore the relieve the University of any ever yet plumbed, touching bottom little one'a appetite by gently financial strain. He desired that putting the authorities of the University It has long been cleansing the system, at 33,795 feet. known that the deepest water in everything right, and transform should have full power to utilise the world is in this region, where ing the moping youngster to a the capital sum of £40,000 for any the thinness of the earth's crust happy child who is always on the schemes they think desirable to combined with terrific weight of lookout for meal time,
benefit students, male or female, water results in so many earth. A hundred reasons might be attending Edinburgh University elied why you should, koep Baby's after 1967, when the stock of the quakes.
Own Tablets always on hand. Investment falls to be redeemed. They may be summed up by re- Mr. Cowan's previous gifts to the minding you that these Tablets, University, amounting to £30,200, containing no narcotics whatso are being applied to provide a hall ever, are invaluable for relieving of residence for students, which teething pains, is treatment for is to be called Cowan House. worms, in correcting all the minor Wilments of infatty and early childhood. E
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Once a migration movement of ex-Service men to the Dominions is fairly started it would have a snowball effect-Earl Haig.
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