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“An Elizabethan· · silver-gilt ' on- A tramp in Peterborough work- grayed_tankard and cover, 7 house, has been found to be suffer- inches high, 1577, realised £800 ating from smallpox, Messrs, Christie's.
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The portrait by Tintoretta of “A More than £40,000 was distri Gentleman as David," realised bated by the London General Omal- | £2,625`at Mesurs. Christie's. bus Company's Sick Club for driv- ers and conductors.
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An eleven-years-old girl found the body of her mother, Mrs. Speed, aged about 40, of Wrexham' Road, Farm, near Cheater, lying in a ditch.
Messra. Minchin Bros., of Ascot, at the Bracknell Christmas Fat Stock-Show, Berkshire; gained the prize for the best fat calf for the 25th time.
Viscount Maidstone, Viscount Elveden, Viscount Milton, and Earl Percy were among 200 boys con- firmed by the Bishop of Oxford in Eton College chapel.
The Prince of Wales is to attend the annual Shrovetide football! match at Ashbourne, Derbyshire, on Ferbruary 21, after which he will inspect workshops at Derby.
The Duchess of York, Colonel-in- Chief of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, was to pay her first official visit in mail week to the regiment at Blackdown, Hamp- shire.
The new granite pedestal for the Shanghai Sir Robert Hart'memorial on the Band opposite the Customs Building, has been completed, a Public Works Department report states.
Large quantities of silk pyjames, socks, dressing gowns, shirts, and ties were taken by burglars" who ransacked the shop of Messrs. Colletta, Limited, hosters, Jermyn Street, S.W.
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Achibald Whitehend, aged 65, of The Avenue, Bruce-grove, Tolten- ham, N.,
wan removed the North Middlesex Hospital, where three bullets were extracted from his head.
Harold A, LaFount, of Utah, new member of the Federal Radio Com- mission, succeeding the late John F. Dillon,
Á late 16th-century French bind- ing of red morocco containing a Latin paalter realised $790 at Messrs. "Sotheby's.
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Mr. Li Ching-wol, the Superintendent of the Shanghai Customs, has assumed office, the. Chinese newspapers report.
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Mr. D. Hillary has relleved Mr. E. Cheers` as ́ Assistant: Com- -missioner of Police, Central Kedah,-
Mr. Cheers has gone on leave.
Misa Fannie Gidolman, 70 years old, the oldest official U.S. Government building guide,' who has led thousands of sightseers through the Bureau of Engrav- ing and Printing, who declare that sightseers are for the most part garrulous individuals, who specialize in foolish questions and see the sights just to вау they have seen them. She has been at the bureau for 38 years and still wears the first badge, number on, issued to official guides. She has guided the prin cipal people through the bureau, Including King Albert of Bel- gium.
Old English and French furni ture and tapestry realised £14,526 at Messrs. Christie's a Sheraton satinwood cabinet fetching £892 108.
Mr. LT. Kénake, Assistant Clerk of the American Court for China, who was "seriously ill for sometime, is again back on the job but has not fully recovered from his illness.
John William Hammond, aged 60, a head postman with 36 years ser- více, living at St. John's Wood Terrace, St. John's Wood, was re- manded on bail at Marylebone charged with stealing a letter con- taining 10s.
Cinema-goers should note that the movie programme in the Star Theatre ends at 8.30 to-night and to-morrow night, the Globe Trot- ters presenting their "Incidents" at 9.15. The chief picture in the movie programme is "The Gay, Deceiver" with Lew Cody in the title role.
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Sarah Elaton, aged 69, a widow, died in St. Mary's Church, Whittle- sey, nr. Peterborough, during a servico.
Captain. John Harold Mander, Chief Constable of Norfolk since 1916, died at Norwich from heart trouble, aged 58,
Mr John Lort-Williams has been appointed Pulane Judge of the Cal- culta High Court in succession to Sir William Ewart Greaves.
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Mias Gertrude Lawrence will op. pear, this month in a Sunday per formance of "Ice-bound," "straight" play by Mr. Owen Davis.
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Princess Mary, Colonel-in-Chief of, the Royal Scots, unvelled a war memorial in the new Presbyterian Garrison Church of St. Andrew's, Aldershot.
Lady Maud Hoare, wife of Sir Samuel Hoare, Minister for Air. opened Forester's-drive, a new road costing £50,000, near Croydon aero- drome recently,
The mazer bowl, dating from about 1526, of the parish church of Epworth, Lincolnshire, the home of the Wesleys, has been acquired by the British Museum.
Canon Thomas Carey, rector of the Church of Our Lady of Vic- tories, Kensington High Street, died in St. John and St. Elizabeth's Hos- pital, Grove End Road, N.W.
Mr. C. F. W. Russell, lately Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- potentiary in Abyssinia, has been appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Switzerland.
At a meeting of the Thanet.So- cialist Party at Margate, Councillor Edgar Plaisted, a miner, of Blaena- von, Monmouthshire, was adopted as Socialist candidate at the next general elestion.
Mr. Armstrong, organist of St. Pater's, Eaton Square, S.W., has bee, apointed organist at Exeter Cathedral, in succession to: Dr. Bullock, who is succeeding Dr. Nicholson at Westminster Abbey.
UNNERYDOS A UNDERWOOD, JA Ahmed Mookhtar. Bey, new Am- bassador from Turkey to the United States.
The first performance in English in England of "Uriel Acosta,"
Mrs. Sema Belilios, of King adapted by Mr. Beriram Jacoba Members of the Weat Somerset Edward Hotel, Victoria, Hong from the historical play of that Hunt made a collection. for the Kong formerly of Calcutta, left name, was given at the Garrick guard and the engine driver of a property in England valued train that was pulled up between £948. She gave 1,000 rupees to the Theatre by the Jewish Drama
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When charged before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magis- tracy yesterday with the em- Mrs. Lucy Mason Giles, aged 27, bezzlement of $4,820, the Chinese Government-buildings, Camp manager of the Fuk Kee firma of Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, is contractors, admitted taking only to be charged at Farnborough in $2,820. The balance, he claimed, connection with the death of her belonged to his dead father who five-months-old daughter, Una, who was connected with the firm. was found dead from injuries
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Mr. Edward James Veal, aged 82, of Seward Terrace, Writhlington, Somerset, and his wife, Mrs, Mary Rachel Veal, aged 83, who celebrat ed their diamond wedding last March, both died within hours of one another.
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Brigadier-General Sir W. T. F. Horwood, Commissioner of Police, and more than 350 Roman Catholle members of the Metropolitan and attended Solemn City Police Requiem Mass in Westminster Cathedral for members of the. Catholic Police Guild who fell in the war,
Passengers for Hong Kong on the "Empress of Canada,"
Hartar Singh, S.M.P., attached to which arrived yesterday were:--
the Amoy Road Jail apeared on Harold Vincent, aged 36, an ex-
Major and Mrs. Max C. Fielsch remand in H.M. Police Court before The the Registrar, Mr. I. T: Morris, mann, of Santa Barbara, convict, who had parades of man- former is chairman of the board of charged with a breach of the King's nequins at eight West End shops the Fleischmann Company on a Regulations. Mr. E. T. Maitland and gave orders for goods to the visit to the Orient, and return. prosecuted on behalf of the S. M. value of £1,000 for which he did Mr. John Arhold, of Hong Kong, Police and after evidence had been not pay, was sentenced at Mari- borough Street to 11 months' hard Canton and Macao Steamboat Com- reliction from duty, the Registrar the Secretary of the Hong Kong, given regarding the accused's de- labour for theft and obtaining pany; returning from vacation in sentenced him to one month's im money by false pretences.
England and Canada. Mr. and prisonment. Mrs. P. Bell and daughter, who are Detective Inspector Lane and a prominent Victoria residents on a It was reported to Bubbling Well party of police raided the third | trip to India, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Police station that the body of a floor of No. 8, Victoria Street, said Gowen, of Seattle, an architect on murdered man had been found on to be the headquarters of a triad a tour of the Far East. Dr. G. W. Great Western Road. Detectives, society," "and", there arrested 15 Leavell, a prominent Canton commanded by Det, Sub-Inspr. Chinese. The men were produced physician, returning from vacation Henry, investigated and ascertain before Major C. Willson at the in the United States. Mr. and ed that be, a well-dressed Chinese, Central Magistracy, yesterday Mrs. F. C. Hall, of the::. Canton had been shot, the spent cartridge afternoon charged with being mem- Insurance Co., Hong Kong. Mr. being near by. Although the man bora of an unlawful society, pos- F. W. P. Zwagers, of Shanghai, the has not been identified, the police ression of documents pertaining agent of the Java-China and Japan have concluded that he is the vic- to's triad society, and assembling Lijn. Col. W. L. F. Gordon, Com-tim of the notorious gang of Shao- at night for an unlawful purpose: mandant of the Shanghai Volunteer haing kidnappers, who, their de- The case was adjourned until Corps, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Botelho, mand for ransom being unheeded, Wednesday next,
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