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Baronet Rescued.
Woman Burnt to Death.
£1,000 For Hospital. Miss Elizabeth Parsons (65): was In recognition, of the great ser While sailing on the lake on his found fatally burned In her bunga-vices rendered by the medical and estate at Glaslough, County Monag low at Burwardsley, Tattenhall, nursing staffs to the victims of the han, Sir John Leslie, Et., and two near Chester. A temporary post- Sevenoaks railway disaster, Sir companions, Captain Vivyan Hol- man, Leslie Harding, who is Miss Charles Wakefield, who was a pas land and Mr. Jackson Palmer, were Parson's nephew, noticed smoke senger in the train, has subscribed capsized and in danger of drown- coming from the bungalow roof. £1,000 to the funds of the Sevenoaking. Miss Anita Leslie, grand- He smashed a window and saw and Holmesdale Hospital.
daughter of Sir John Leslie, put out in a rowing boat to the rescua Miss Parsons lying dead on the bed,
and the three men were brought safely to shore. They were much exhausted, but soon recovered.
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Oxford University is said
Great in 872.
have
Over 150 deaths are reported in been founded by King Alfred the
Galician floods.
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Membership of Automobila As- Bociation is now aver 350,000.
The saying that "s cat has nine lives" is generally supposed to have originated from the old myth that Pasht, the cat-headed goddess of
Mrs. Amelia Bingham (58), the Egypt, had nine lives. American actress, has died.
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John Fuger (19), of Strood, was drowned while bathing near Roches- ter bridge.
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An imitation of a Reeing hare, made of rubber, and inflated before ench event, is used on Southend's new greyhound racing track.
New Art Gallery.
In order to complete the modern foreign gallery which was opened by the King at Millbank last year. Sir Joseph Duyeen has made a fur- an additional ther offer to build gallery for modern foreign sculp ture. His offer has been accepted, and the now building will shortly bo erected on the vacant site reserv. ed behind the present galleries.
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When driving home to Dean Farm, West Down, Devon, Cyril Chugg (26) was struck by lightning and killed. The pony continued the journey, and Chugg's body was found lying in the cart.
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Benoist, driving a French Delage car, won the Grand Prix of Europe on the track at Monza, Italy. Morandi, with an Italian. O.M. car, was second; Kreis, with the Ameri- can Miller COT, WAS third; and Minoia, with an Italian O.M.,
fourth..
Snake in a Motor-Car.
On arriving at Carnarvon during a tour of North Wales, a Manches ter motorist was astonished to dis- cover that a snake, over 8 feet long, had colled itself under the seat of the cur- Both driver and passen- ger were greatly alarmed, but a member of the town council came to the rescue and, whipping the reptile from its hiding place, killed it.
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Statistics published by the Com- monwealth statistician show that the population of Australia is more than 0,000,000 persons, as compar- ad with 2,250,000 in 1881.
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King Albert of the Belgiana is the only king who is a Rotarian.
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Mrs. Sophia Bird, of Lough- borough was 104 on September 4,
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Silk is the cheapest of all fabrics. in Madagascar and women of all ranks wear it.
Mark Axe, Crimea, an Indian Mutiny veteran, died at Montacute, Somerset, aged 94.
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Premier Mussolini received Ar thur Sapp, president, and O. R. At a cost of £20,000, a twenty-acre Perry, general secretary, of Rotary site near the Goldstons. Ground, International on September 26. Hove, bas been bought by a syn- The director showed interest indicate for greyhound racing. Rotary's world-wide work.
Roman Relics.
Cadets' Cruise.
Cadets of the Scarborough Sea Training School returned on Sep- Among Roman relics discoveredtember 8 from an interesting and at Whitherley, South Leicestershire, instructive cruise in the schooner during excavations in connection "Maisie Graham." Under the com- motor parking site were mand of the principal of the school, with a
one hundred fragments of the cadets left Scarborough on over
Other articles unearthed July 28, and since then have cover- pottery. include bronze signet rings, a haired nearly 1,250 miles, visiting pin, safety pin and coins.
A Tokyo cable of September 25 says:-Viscount Saito arrives here on Monday and it is understood that he is re-assuming the Governor. Generalship of Koren immediately.
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At Battle Creek, Michigan, a doctor of a sanitarium has announc- ed that fear is the cause of sea- sickness. Fear, he believes, is the cause of most gastric and intestinal disturbances, and the best way to prevent seasickness is suggestion.
Abyssinians are to be educated to drinking German lager beer. A company has been formed in Berlin with 675,000 marks-partly Abys sinian capital to erect a brewery In Addis Abeda, the Ethiopian capital. It is expected that lager beer will be on sale there next year. |
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Cowes, Calais, Brussels, Antwerp. Flushing, and other ports. Even in the worst of weather, it is stat- ed, the boys worked well, and wherever they want they received a cordial welcome.
While fighting a stack fire on Boxted Hall estate, near Colchester, Nayland Fire Brigade saw nino stacks in another part of the estate a mile away burst into flames, The firemen dashed to the second fire, but all eleven stacks were des- troyed.
£500 Dole Fraud,
"I found it easy. I have drawn two lots of money at one Exchange | on the same day. I started with one book at first and it was money for nothing, so I carried on with others. I have had well over £500." This statement is alleged to have been made by Albert Gorham (47), clerk, who, at Greenwich, was 'sent for trial for alleged unemploy- ment relief frauds. Detective-Ser- Two wedding receptions were begeant Horrell said in Gorman's ing held in a fashionable hotel in locker în an L.C.C. lodging house Found unconscious in a Rother- London at the same hour. Since he found 11 unemployment books hithe-Street, Mr. John Corrigan, an
the guests kept getting into the and several diaries containing the engineer, of Evelyn-Street, Dept wrong receptions, the two affairs names of men, with particulars of ford, died in Bermondsey Hos were merged. A late guest, refus wives and children. pital. It was evident that the man ing a glass of champagne, said: "I---- had been assaulted and robbed, and know when I've had enough; I've Scotland Yard officers are endea-seen two brides already." vouring to trace the thieves. When he was found, Corrigan had n severa wound on the head, and, al- though he was known to have re- ceived £40 from his employers shortly before, there was no money on him and his pockets were turn- ed inside out.
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When Princes of the Blood Royal visit their Dominions Overseas they have to go through a great number of ceremonies, receptions. and functions which in the aggre gata furnish a considerable amount of hard work which makes of their
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Not far from Hyde Park Corner. London, the Japanese Lilium speciosum has displaced a remark ablo display of the white trumpet or "gun" lily, as the Japanese call L. longifforum, from the Inordin- ate length of the tube. Tiger lilles, also from Japan, are pushing up their heads among the beds of rhododendrons near the Row, and If the weather relents should soon be in brilliant flower. This happy use of Japanese lilies in the heart of London is an example, says "The Times," of what can be done when courage, imagination, and sound knowledge are allied to good staff work,
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in the lap of luxury. They were all picked men who have been out at one time or another with cale "brities travelling® C.P.R._ across Canada....... The chefs were men of St. European reputation"," who are ac- knowledged experts in their line, They accompanied the Prince of Wales on his previous visita to conveyed the distin- Canada and; so were known to His Old Country, although the latter guished ests across the Dominion. Roy
Standing on the may rellove them somewhat in the Grouped on the observation and of car, from matter of speeches, the tour be the private car Mount Stephen Hick comes all the mors arduous by rea-l that was assigned to the load of the son of its greate
trip anything but a vacation time and this has been amply looked When, further, they are accom after in the Canadian Pacife Royal panied by the Prime Minister of the Train
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