WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1927.
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PEPE are sold in sealed glass bottles, with meatul 189521 sarkasraw. Valimadicins sandart.
Puli diesations analasad im uvory pushoga.
The Cigar
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.
A Sea Monster.
Resembling an octopus, a sen monster washed ashore near Longniddry, on the Haddington coast, had about a dozen tentacles.
Said to be the largest geranium in the country, a plant at Moseley Hall, Cheadle, Cheshire, is 15 feet high and 13 feat across, with 518 blooms.
The_Rollright Stones, situated in North Oxfordshire, considered to be the most important Druidical remains after Stone- henge, are for sale. 10.
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Charged with murdering his wife by stabbing her in the face, Frederick Joseph Stockwell, aged 31, an LC.C. fireman, of Armstead-walk, Dagenham, was remanded at Stratford, E.
A new Metropolitan Railway electric train is capable of a speed of 65 miles an hour. It has a horae-power of over 2,500, a starting tractive effort of over 30,000lb., and is able to attain a speed of 80 miles an hour in a less number of seconds. It has 482 seats as compared with 816 of the old type rolling stock.
on his
Horse That Sits Down.
Crowds in Cheapside, London, E.C., were greatly amused at the antics of a horse drawing a coal van. When a policeman put out out his arm to stop the traffic the horse sat down haunches: When the traffic was released the animal rose and walked on. The horse, which is described by the owners as hard- working and intelligent, makes a habit of sitting down when stop ped.
New Health Society.
Sir Mortimer Singer has given £1,000 to the New Health Society, of which Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane Is president, and which has as its obje the education of the public in dease prevention,
The Archdeacon of North- umberland, Canon C. H. Blackett Ord, who is 69 and a widower, is engaged to Miss Grace Marcia Brown, eldest daughter of the late Rev. Dixon Brown, of Unthank Hall, Northumberland.
Thieves forced a safe at the Pavilion Picture House, Balham
High Road, London, S.W., and atole about £60, but a safe in a dairy shop next door defied their efforts and they bespattered the walls of the shop with egge.
A Wife Wanted,
The Lord Mayor of Birming- ham has received many letters from girls expressing a wish to get into touch with a young Australian tomato grower who wrote saying that he wanted a wife. All the girls are under 30 and they live within 30 miles radius of Birmingham. Some have sent their photographs and others offer references. The Lord Mayor is forwarding all letters.
The death is announced of Pay- master Rear-Admiral Sir Francia Harrison Smith.
Greville, who for twenty-five years
The Hou. Sir Sidney Robert
life, has died at St. James's Palace played an important part in Court at the age of 60.
Professor Winifred Cullis, pre- to reintroduce half-penny tram complained of a slight deterioration Glasgow Corporation has decided senting prizes at Roedean School, fares almost immediately. cheap fare was discontinued seven women of to-day.
The in the general manners of the young years ago in view of the growing expenditure of the system, and efforts to restore. It were, always met with opposition from the former tramway manager.
Mock Homage.
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Speaking at Stoke Newington, Mr. Lloyd George prophesied that "the Tory party is in for the spill of its life; when it reaches the next cataract it will be keel upwards."
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Some of them clothed in long robes and turbans, 200 students The Prince of Wales, in the from the Imperial College of grounds of the Royal Military Science and Technology, South College, Sandhurst, unveiled a Kensington, S.W., offered mock memorial to the other ranks of homage to the Albert Memorial, the Army who fell in the Great They marched bareheaded and
War. with crossed arms, and a motley their head was a student swing band played a funeral march. At ing a tin can, from which smoke emerged.
been focussed
Public interest has recently
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Lord Swaythling, senior partner Co., the famous firm of bankers and of Messrs. Samuel Montagu and bullion brokers, has died in his 58th year, after being ill for some time.
on Northcliff The Prince of Wales concluded House, the new home of the his tour in the West of England, "Daily Mail," that marvellously after a descent into the biggest and conceived building incorporating oldest slate quarry in the kingdom, the most modern machinery and and inaugurating a new water sup the latest scientific equipment in ply on Bodmin Moor. the world. For three hours dur- ing the night there is an output of 756,000 copies of the "Daily Mail" per hour from 42 printing
presses.
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Twenty boys of Somerset Boya' Home, Bath, offered to look after 4 delinquent of 10, a new boy at
the home, who was stated to have stolen a bicycle, and the police withdrew the charge.
Privates Leonard Falloon and Albert Jones, of the 1st West Yorkshire Regiment, were at Holywood, County Down, re manded on the charge of stealing confidential documents and money, the property of the Secre. tary for War. It was atated that the documents were found intact, Falloon having disclosed where they were. Jones made a state- ment to the effect that they stole
A cry in the night, griping pains in the box in order to obtain their the vitals, cramps, weakening diartions in connection with the ninth Hastings initiated the celebra- discharge from the Army and rhoen; whether child or adult, there centenary of the birth of William having broken it open went to a is immediate comfort and ease from the Conqueror, which was con- prayer meeting where they equal-Pain in Chamberlain's Colic and Diar: tinued in the first week of July on ly divided the money.
rhoen Remedy. It pays to keep it always on hand. For sale everywhere. the other side of the Channel at
Falaise,
Cigare the of Duality
FRIGHTENING IN THE NIGHT.
The Three Castles
Cigarettes
VIRGINIA CIGARETTES
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At the inquest, at Marylebone on Mrs, Maude-Olga-Keens, 29,—and- her daughter, Shella Fay Diana Keena, aged 13 months, who were found shot, the jury returned a verdict that Mrs. Keens murdered the child and committed aufcide -while-she-was-of-unsound-mind-
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Having taken counsel's opinion and that of the Attorney-General, the Government propose to adopt the view that the "unstamped re- ceipts" lately issued by the Midland Bank are liable to atamp duty. It is announced that a test case to place the interpretation of the law beyond all doubt will be instituted without delay.
The grand bazaar of the High- land Association was opened in Glasgow by the Countess of Cassillis, with the Duke of Atholl in the chair. The "Feill," as it. is called, which will last for four days, has been organised with a view to raising £20,000 for the development of Celtic arts, crafts, language, and literature.
"Apart from the difficult land," states the seventh annual report of the Forestry Commissioners (Stationery Office, 1s. net), "there exist in this country exten- sive uncultivated aress aggregat- Ing perhaps 8 to 4 milion acres, admirably suitable for timber production." The acreage plant- ed with conifers during the year 1926-27 was 17,997, making the total since 1919 (first year) 68,198 acres, while the total area planted with broad leaved specles is 2,625 acres.
Colonel Richard Page Croft, aged 45, of Farhams Hall, Ware, Hertfordshire, pleaded guilty at North London to driving a motor car with a" driving (Ecence one month out of date. Mr. Cairns (the magistrate): Strictly be- tween ourselves mine le about six weeks out of date, but I get some- one else to do the driving (Laughter.) suppose you are like me. When you are convicted you want to be convicted of some- thing decente murder something else! Pay
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