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Bullock Charges Cyclist.
A cyclist was charged by a bullock which stampeded at Drem railway station, near Had- dington, East Lothian, and two other men
were knocked down and injured.
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The Australian automatic total- isator was demonstrated success- fully before British Members of Parliament at Australia House, London.
In a fire at Newmarket A garage belonging to Mr. G. G. Rowe, of Market Street, and four motor cars were extensively damaged.
Woman on Fire.
Hill Climbing Accident.
With her clothes in flames,
Whilst climbing up the rocky Miss Aldous, a boarder; dashed face of the 500 feet high famous from a blazing room in Coram Castle Head, near Keswick, in- Street, London, W.C., and col- stead of by an easy winding lapsed on the street steps. She path a young American visitor, had been cleaning clothes with Mr. G. B. Wilcox, fell down & petrol when the fire occurred. rock and broke his left leg. Ho When the fire brigade arrived was accompanied by his sister another woman boarder, was and another American, Mr. shouting from a top-floor window Parker. When about 100 feet up that she was trapped. A fireman Wilcox slipped back into the climbed the stairs and brought | Giant's Cradle. Ambulance men her down.
had to climb up and get him on a stretcher.
A German passenger aeroplane crashed to earth outside Amone- burg, the two pilots and three passengers being killed..
London Flour Millers' Associa-
Having fallen about 80 feet tion announced on August 2 a re-from his bedroom on an upper duction of 18, in the price of floor, Mr. John Allerton, of standard grade flour in the Home Bournemouth, was found lying Counties to 459. per 2801b. dead in his pyjamas in the court yard of the Imperial Hotel, Russel Square, London, W.C.
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Twenty-five boy actors from Castleford Secondary School, Leeds, left Grimsby on August 3 for Germany, where they are to give performances of English plays.
When told it was a great honour to have lived a hundred years, Mrs. Mary Johnson, of Leicester, who celebrated her 100th birthday on August 1, said: "It depends how you've lived them."
Brave Grandfather.
At the wedding of Captain Sir Alexander Stanier, Bart, M.C., of the Welsh Guards, and Miss Dorothy Miller, daughter of Brigadier-General A. D. Miller, CB.E., D.S.O., Master of the South Oxfordshire Hounds, a huntsman and two whippers-in from
the South Oxfordshire Hunt were present at the cere mony to "blow" the young couple away from church,
A Libel Action.
At Cumberland Assizes, 'dam- ages amounting to £300 were awarded to Alfred Hall, of Seaton, near Workington, Cum- berland, schoolmaster, of Seaton Cameron School, in a libel action against Joseph B. Routledge, of Hill Crest, Seaton, also the Cumberland Evening Mail Pub- lishing Company and John Barling, of Warwick Road, Carlisle.
Wakening at 4 a.m, on August 2. Mr. Charles Farmer, aged 70, of 4, Clifton Wood Terrace, Bris- tel, found his bedroom filled with smoke. He roused his two grandsons, John, aged 12, and Ronnie, aged 10, who shared the room, but on opening the bedroom door was met with a sheet of flame. Escape by the staircase was cut off, but with a rope of blankets Mr. Farmer lowered the boys safely to the ground. Fol- A tit's nest containing five lowing the boys down the im- eggs has been found inside the provised escape Mr. Farmer col-trunk of an oak tree while the lapsed and did not recover con- sciousness until he had been taken to hospital.
The Queen is greatly interest- ed in the Windsor Town Council scheme for the clearance of the dilapidated property in River Street, under the walls of Wind- sor Castle. A year or two ago her Majesty went over several of the old houses there and was sur- prised to see the conditions under which some of the people lived, Since then nearly all the old houses have been pulled down and the residents have. removed to new houses erected by the cor- poration on the outskirts of the town. There was at one time a colony of Italian organ-grinders and ice-cream vendors in River Street, and one little shop still remains.
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tree was being sawn up in an Jale of Wight timber yard. The nest had evidently been built in a cavity in the tree and abandoned, the cavity being covered in by growth. The eggs are intact, the colour and markings being perfect. Judging by the growth of the tree, they are at least thirty years old.
The Marquis and Marchioness Townshend gave a flying house, party at Raynham Hall, their country residence, at which the guests included the Lord Mayor Master of of Norwich, the Sempill, Lady Bailey, Lord Saye and Sele, and others interested in aviation. A number of planes were lined up a distance from the hall, and several thousands of people attended to watch the flying.
For fishing within the three- miles limit Charles Bocqueld, skipper of a French trawler, was fined £6 and £6 109; costs and his catch was confiscated, .at Lowestoft.
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Some of the "tips" given by Lord Inchcape to the cadeta of H.M.S. "Worcester," when he distributed the prizes on July 28 were never to get into debt, never to shirk and always to be on the spot, alert and smartly dressed. Lord Inchcape said he remembered that when a boy he greatly resented strap; "but," he added, "I am now convinced it did me a world of good."
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For using an illicit still at his home in Clark Street, Stepney, E., Jona Granick, a Russian, was fined $100 at Thames Police Court, with the option of two months' imprisonment.
On a charge of embezzling £230 belonging to the Mitcham Urban District Council, by whom he was employed as rent collector, Perey H. Faulkner, 55, Elm Cot tage, Graham Avenue, Mitcham, Surrey, was remanded at Croydon on August 2
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