WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1927.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.
Mayoress Again Nominated,
Mrs. Grace Cottrell, Mayoress of West Bromwich, is to be re- nominated for the ensuing twelve months.
The Budapest police have dis- covered a secret Communist printing press in a bakery and have made several arrests.
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Mr. Walter George Spickernell, of Tonypandy, Glamorganshire, was struck off the Roll of Soliel- tors for unprofessional conduct.
The King has approved the appointment of Sir Harry Court- hope-Monroe, K.C., as Recorder of Sudbury, Suffolk, to succeed the late Mr. C. M. le Breton.
Mr. J. A. Descarries, K.C., a former member of the Canadian Federal Parliament and belong- ing to one of the oldest French-
age of 54.
National Playing Fields.
Lord Woolavington has sent £5,000 to the Duke of York's National Playing Fields Appeal Fund.
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Secret of Life:
"Kindliness is still the great secret of life," said Mr. Justice McCardio at the Birmingham Assizes when a settlement was announced of the action for dam- In a dense fog six drifters rán ages for alleged libel brought by ashore while returning to Fraser-George Arthur Edmund Parkes burgh, Aberdeenshire, from the against Elders of the Plymouth herring fisheries, but all were re- Brethren. floated except one.
The Rev. H. N. Rodgers, Rector of Havant, has been appointed Archdeacon of Portsmouth in auccession to Dr. Lovett, the new Bishop of Portsmouth,
Mrs. May Heald, 32, of Hainault Avenue, Westcliffe-on- Sea, who had her skull fractured jin`a motor accident a month be- fore, when her child was killed, died in mail week.
The United States Shipping Canadian families, has died at the Board, cargo steamer "Home stead," 6,630 tons, sprang a leak and sank off the Malabar coast, the crew being saved by the oil tanker "Aungban."
The Real Murderers.
In sentencing Communists at Stuttgart (Wurtemberg) to penal servitude for murders and bomb throwing, the judge said those really responsible were living in security in Russia.
Mr. F. M. Mackwood has pre- sent to the Department of En- tomology, Natural History Museum, South Kensington, 3.W., sixty boxes of butterflies and moths which he has collected in Ceylon.
For being drunk In charge of a motor-van, John Lionel Morris, aged 43, of Hermitage Lane, Streatham, S.W., was sentenced
at Lambeth to six weeks' impri- sonment and disqualified from driving for 12 months,
The appointment of the Rev. Ronald Erskine Ramsay, domes: tie chaplain to the Bishop of Bristol and honorary canon of Bristol Cathedral, to the newly constituted Suffragan Bishopric of Malmesbury, Wiltshire, has been approved by the King."
Two Hanley Staffordshire) boys, summoned for trespassing, who placed their hands on the metals, as a result of which a passenger train Was stopped, were reprimanded by the Stipen- diary Magistrate at Hanley,
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Pleading guilty to being drunk on board H.M.S. “Adamant" (de- pot ship for submarines), Sur- geon-Lieut. Robert Burns was sentenced by a naval court- martial at Devonport to be dis- missed his ship and reprimanded.
June!
June, the musical comedy actress, is to return to the stage. in a new revue, "On The Rails," to be produced at Blackpool be- fore being brought to London,
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Frederick Joseph Stockwell, aged $1, an LC.C. fireman, of Walk, Dagenham, Armstead charged at the Old Bailey with the murder of his wife by stab- bing her, was found guilty but in- sane, and was ordered to be de tained during the King's plea-
sure.
As the tyre of a motor vehicle was being blown up at the Leyland motor works, Leyland, wheel burst and fatally struck a near Preston, the steel rim of the labourer, William Proctor, aged 35, on the head,
Sweetheart Stabbed.
For stabbing his sweetheart at Sutton, Surrey, after she had written to him saying that she wished to end the courtship, James Booth, aged 22, was sen- tenced to 12 years' penal ser- vitude at the Old Bailey, Mr.| Justice Branson saying it was The Metropolitan Water Board only by the mercy of Providence have agreed that the work, es-that the man did not kill the
girl. timated to cost £22,000, of relay- ing the water mains in ccadilly shall be carried oa continuously for 24 hours.
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Trader (Furness, Withy and Co., The British steamer "Pacific 6,317 tons) collided with and sank the American steamship in San Francisco Bay, but no "Northland," 1,387 tons, in a fog
lives were lost.
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Messrs. Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., of Wallsend-on-Tyne, are to build a Norwegian owners, and Messrs. 8,700-tons cargo ateamer for Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, have received an order from the Company, Ltd., for a 20,000-tons Union-Castle Mail Steamship
liner for their South African mail service.
diocese of Portsmouth attended Many people from the new the consecration in Westminster worker, was remanded at Edin Flora Kerr, 23, a laundry
Lovett, formerly Archdeacon of her mother, Mary Ann Mc- Abbey of their Bishop, Dr. burgh charged with murdering Portsmouth,
Following the formation of a
Donald Kerr.
local branch of the National tive M.P. for the Yardley Divi- Mr. A. R. Jephcott, Conserva- Playing Fields Association, Wal-sion of Birmingham, since 1918, sall Town Council have decided who is 74, has decided not to seek to provide ten acres of playing re-election. fields for the borough.
POLAR CAKE
ITS QUALITY THAT COUNTS
The heaviest snowstorms for many years have occurred in South Australis and people en-i joyed the novelty of snowballing.
In June 2,863 recruits joined the Territorial Army, 800 more than in May, making the total strength, exclusive of permanent staff, 141,955.
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