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Twelve lives are feared lost in a mine explosion at Sama de Langreo, Spain.
The cost of getting justice in this country is never cheap and it is difficult to get it at all.-Lord Sumner.
The Rev. Brother Timothy, who had been attached to St. Francis Institution, Malacca, has gone to Colombo.
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Miss Elsic Jania, the American revue actress and mimic, has rived in London on a visit from Now York.
According to Dr. Johnson the Devil was the first Whig, and you may say the Dean of St. Paul's is the last-Dean Inge.
In a month 500 eggs have been atolen from boxer landed at Hull and placed in sheds at the Albert Dock to await railway transit.
Is any man good enough to say that another man must live and suffer pain and disease beyond hope.or health?-Dr. A. Tweedle Simpson.
The Hamilton-Smith collection of war medals and decorations has realised
£20,000 more than Mesara, Glendining's auction rooms, Argyll Street, W.
England is the only civilised country where you can hear educat- ed people declaring that they know nothing at all about literature and care less. Mr. W. B. Maxwell.
Our charity embraces the curth. President Coolidgo.
AND PERSONAL.
A racehorse may be described as an equine speculation-Mr. Justice McCardle.
We shall manage to exist even though Charlie Chaplin is in the United States.-Lord Danesfort.
The Rev. A. C. E. Jarvis, M,C.. Chaplain-General to the Forces, has been appointed Chaplain of the What monster was it who in Tower of London. ventod after-dinnor speaking?-. Lord Hewart.
Probably more books have died of length than of any other disease, -Mr. Robert Lynd.
The Prince of Wales has sent £10 as a special Christmas donation to the Salvation Army.
"Jewish children are the best at- tenders at London elementary schools."-Sir Robert Blair.
M. Ernest J. Solvay has been elected to the board of Imperiall Chemical Industries in place of Sir John Brunner, resigned.
Mr. S. C. Yeomans has arrived in Penang from Bangkok, to take up the appointment of assistant edi- tor of the Straits Echo,"
Mr. H. W. Morgan, of Harrisons, Barker, Kuala Lumpur, who re- cently underwent an operation in |Singapore, has gone to Brastagi.
The annual meeting of the St. Peter's Y.M. Club will be held to
A canary which was heard sing- morrow, at 8.30 p.m. in the Clubing when the firemen arrived was House, under the chairmanship of suffocated when a fire broke out in the Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong. a house at Baring Place, Peckham,
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The death took place at Muar of Towkay He Boon Leam, one of the oldest Chinese residents of Muar, and the chairman of the Hua Khlow Steamship Company, trading between Muar and Singapore.
Employers took the places of em- ployees and continued the painting and decorating of a new big build- Ing at Newcastle, where a dispute:
arose.
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Mr. Lim Koon-teck, si young bar- Mr. Tan Seng Kee, eldest son of trister who received his legal train-Mrs. Lim Nya of Chop Hup Choon,
Ing at the Middle Temple and who Sitiawan, returned to Malaya has filed his petition for admission December 29, from a trip to to the Singapore Bar, has been op- America. pointed a Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, Singapore.
Mr. and Mrs. T Groves are staying in Nice for the winter. Since he retired from the F.M.S. Public Works Department Mr. Miss Maude Royden, the woman preacher at the Guildhouse, Eccles-Groves and his wife have spent ton Square, Westminster, is about most of their time wandering about to pay a visit to India, China, and the Continent. the Far East, and may visit Malaya.
Dr. J. B. Westerhout has return- ed from leave in England and bas resumed duties as Port Health Omeer, Penang, which post was alled by Dr. Karunaratne during his absence.
Mr. Herbert William Neale, a chauffeur, of Southampton, delay- ed by fog in crossing to Cowes, arrived at Carisbrooke Church, lale of Wight, too late for his wedding) and the ceremony had to be post- poned.
A crooked chimney-stick 180ft. bigh at the cotton mills of Messrs. Eckersleys, Ltd at Wigan was straightened by Messrs. John Tinker and Sons, steeplejacks, of Huddersfield.
A Norfolk rector's ban on the! words "Peace, Perfect Peace," as a text on a tombstone was overruled of Norwich by the Chancellor diocese, Mr. F. K. North, at the Consistory Court at Norwich,
A valuable hound was killed und others had narrow escapes when a goods train ran into the Blankney pack when they were crossing the rallway in pursuit of a fox near Boothby, Graffee, Lincolnshire..
Sir Campbell Rhodes unveiled a stained glass window at the Bunyan
Church, Meeting
Bedford, in memory of John Rowan Steven, aj Bedford School boy, who WBB drowned while trying to save his friend in the River Ouse.
Arthur Pengrey, aged 22, of Alfreton Road, Nottingham, Was killed and two other men were in- jured when a wall collapsed on them while they were demolishing the "Green Dragon," an old public house in Friar Lane, Nottingham.
Terms of a provisional agree- mont between the Motor Insurance Company, Ltd., and the Royal Ex- change Assurance have been an- nounced. Motor Union share holders are advised by their direc- tors to accept an offer of £9 158, payable in cash, for each fully- paid £1 ordinary share, this price to include all profits for the current ybar.
The Rev. David Hill, B.D., minis-) tor of the principal Congregational church in Belfast, has resigned his charge to take up medical practice in England.
Mr. J. B. Wallace is expected back in Malacca from leave early He has had bad in February, accompanied by his They are passengers by health, says the "Malay Mail" but bride. has recovered and now locks well. the "Aeneas,"
HENRY SKLADA, WASHIO
A new portrait of Aristide Briand, Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, who is more familiarly known as "the grand old man of France." This new portrait study is one of the favourites of Briand.
A fine of $25, or three weeks' jail was yesterday imposed by. Mr. W. tracy on a Chinese charged with ex- Schofield at the Kowloon Magis posing unwholesome pork for sale. A Shantung policeman actually saw the accused selling some of the pork to a woman and arrested him. The pork, according to Mr. M. J. Reidy, assistant Colonial Vetorin ary Surgeon, was putrid and unit for human consumption.
Cargo worth $2,000 was stolen by pirates last week when they attack- ed a trading junk bound from Taipo to Blas Bay. The attack was made near Chingtaukok.
The pirates
The Prime Minister declined to set up a Royal Commission to in-j quire into the housing of the poor- cat sections of the working classes in urban areas.*
A man has been detained by the police concerning the death of John Thompson, aged 64, a carter, of Davies Court, Boughton, Chester, after a disturbance in the Court.
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Sir Herbert Mitchell, until cently Clerk of the Council of the; Duchy of Lancaster, has been sp- pointed a member of the Council) on the retirement of Mr. John Leonard Bolden.
Sir Joseph Bradney, a governor of the National Library and the Na- tional Museum of Wales, who
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.68, was married at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, S.W.. to Misa Florence Prothero, of Chepstow, Monmouthshire.
A staff said to have belonged to the last watchman who called the hours in Bend Sreet is among the collection of truncheons belonging to Mr. A. Landenburg, of Sunning- dale, Berkshire, to be offered for sale at Messrs. Sotheby's,
Mr. II. E. Dening, the new mayor of Chard (Somerset), has been ap pointed for the 34th successive year captain of the cricket club, of which his brothers and Mr. H. W. Lar-
combe have been respectively vice- captain, treasurer, and secretary for the same period.
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During a dense fog a packed L.N.E.R. excursion train, going from Gainsborough to London, ran into the rear of a L.M.S. train at Peterborough Station. The coach of the L.M.S. train, which was just leaving the station, waa telescoped and one passenger, John Perkins, thirty-nine of Coly severely Weston, Northants, was injured. Picks and crowbars had to be used to extricate him.
Daniel Driscoll, one of the three had no difficulty in getting along men sentenced to death at the side the trader, and five men armed Glamorgan Assizes, la to apply to with rifles boarded her. Not content the Appeal Court for permission to with removing the cargo, the pirates bring forward new evidence. It is Chicago, Mr. Albert Lasker, ex- took the junk's passengers on board stated that if the evidence is per- Chairman of the United States their craft and then sailed for their mitted a new light will be thrown Shipping Beard, and his wife, have den in the Penghol district. Four on the death of David Lewis, the donated 1,000,000 dollars to the teen of the prisoners were later boxer. Driscoll's friends at Cardiff Chicago University for the estab-released, but three are being held have opened a fund to defray the lishment of the Lasker Foundation for ransom.
for Medical Research into the cause
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and prevention of disease among That he had worried because he. middle aged and elderly persona, had been cited as co-respondent with a view to ascertaining how to prolong human life.
costs of the appeal. It is expected that appeals will also be lodged on behalf of the brothers Rowlanda.
in a pending divorce case was,stat Service, Mr. Hugh Broadbent, Civil After forty-five years in the Civil ed at the inquest on Frederick Mr. H. R. Cheoreman, Inspector nine, teacher at King's School, ligence-who during the war was William Seymour Hosley, thirty- Assistant Director of Naval Intel- of Schools, Penang, is leaving for Canterbury, who was found dead in the right-hand man of "Blinker" Johore in February. The Johore a room at a Paddington hotel. Mr. (Sir Reginald) Hall has retired. educational system is being re- Jecks, solicitor, said Hosley had "The Naval Intelligence Depart organised and Mr Cheeseman has denied there was any truth in the ment," he said in an interview, been selected to be the first Super allegation, but he felt that what "carried through some very seri visor of Education there. Mr. ever the result of the case he would ous business. Sir Reginald Hall Cheeseman, who is a most capable have to resign his position. A became known as the "anti-spy' offi- officer, will be greatly missed in doctor said death was due to cer. He initiated many bold enter Penang, where he has been con- polson. In the were two prises and successfully carried nected with education for 20 years. bottles, and a glass which contain them through. We are always pre-
ed acid crystals.
pared for the contingency of war."
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Mr. Walter. Hill, head of Messra. W. Hill and Company, Ltd., adver
Mr. Roy Royston, the actor, now tising agents, of Southampton-row, Many old boys of the Bedford appearing in "The Girl Friend" at W.C., has died, aged eighty. He schools resident in the East will the Palace, Theatre, has become en- was one of the pioneers of scientific be interested to know that Mr. gagod to Mrs. Laura Gould, an advertising, and established him Alec Allen, after fifty-six years as American widow, and a member of self as a publisher and advertising boy and master at the Bedford the wealthy Gould family. Mr. contractor, with special reference Modern School, has retired and is Royston is twenty-eight years of to poser advertising, and built up now living on the South Coast. ago. His first stage appearance the extensive business which bears Mr. Allen, who was familiarly and i was at the age of eleven, as one of his name. M. Hill, was the ori- generally known as "Kipper, left the children in the Haymarket ginator of the Billposters Censor the impress of a forceful charac- Theatre revival of "The Blue Bird," ship Committee in 1800, and draft- ter upon his school. In particular and later he gained fame as a boy ed the rules under which it has he did a great deal for sport both actor. He played Lucius in the all- since operated. At his death he in town and school. His son, Mr. star cast of "Jullus Caaar" at the was a director or managing direcGN. Allen, who was stationed In Shakespearean Tercentenary per- tor, and in most cased chairman of Singapore about ten years ago with formance at Drury Lane in 1916.) no fewer than forty-five companies. the Chartered Bank and afterwards He served as a lieutenant in the While in his eighty-first year he served in Ceylon, is now with the R.A.E. during the war and won
made a journey to Buenos Aires bank in Japanes Gardased the M.C...
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