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LOCAL AND GENERAL SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, is suffering from a chill.
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The battleships "Benbow" and "Marlborough" have completed re- fita at Dovonport Dockyard.
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Human bones and what are be lieved to be Roman tiles were dia- covered in a gravel pit near the new arterial road at Edmonton, N..
A timber yard was completely destroyed by a fire at the joinery works of Messrs. W. B. Brown, Ltd., of Church Road, Leatherhead, Sur-
rey.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, of East Putney, ia-104...
Mre. Ann Dunn, of Leicester, has colebrated her 109rd birthday.
The Legislative Council of Vic- toria has rejected the Totalisator Bill.
The Northampton police force are distributing coal-to-180 poor
Sir Charles Innes, the new Gov-familles. ernor of Burma,? was sworn at Rangoon in succession to Sir Har- court Butler.
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Goat slashers have reappeared In the West End; a woman's fur coat was slashed from top to bot
A blind couple were married attem. Princesrow register office, Weat- minater, S.W., the bridegroom being 63 and the bride 64.
Four Chinese employees of the Ziang Sung factory, Poptung, were arrested by the Chinese The total sums paid in unemploy-authorities on suspicion of being ment benefit alace the date of the Communista. Armistice to December 10 of this year was approximately $316,870,- 000,
Sir John and Lady Martin-Harvey and their theatrical company left Southampton in the Cunard liner "Antonia" on a four-months tour of Canada.
Mr. John Longfellow Wilkinson, oficial receiver in bankruptcy for Northampton, has been appointed official receiver for the Southamp ton district.
The King has distributed nearly £3,000 to charitable institutions in the Windsor and Slough district from the State Apartments Fund at Windsor Castle,
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The depot of the Royal Marine Cadet Corps, Deal, has won the King'a shield for miniature rifle shooting competed for annually by Territorial cadet units.
Considerable damage was done when a tank burst at the top of the premises of Messrs. William Mellroy, Ltd., drapers, of Reading, and released 5,000 gallons of water,
The trustees of the late Mr. Alfred de Rothschild have given £10,000 to the National Mother- Saving Campaign of Queen Char- lotte's Hospital, Marylebone Road, N.W.
The owners of the Atherton Collieries, Lancashire, gave each of their 2,900 employees Д parcel containing a Christmas pud- ding, a tongue, fruits, chocolates, and biscuita.
One carriage of an express train from Brussels to Calais became derailed 7 miles from Calais owing to a broken coupling, believed to have been caused by frost, but no one was Injured.
Mr. Alfred Charles Bossom has [been adopted as prospective Con- servative candidate for the Central
The Rev. Brother Timothy, who had been attached to St. Francis Institution, Malacca, for years, left for Singapore en route Bome for Colombo.**
Alfred Walker, a young man of Richmond Road,, Islington, N., was knocked down and killed by an om- nibus at the junction of Gray's Inn Road and Clerkenwell Road.
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Violent hailstorms in South Africa are causing great damage to crops and killing sheep, cattle and horses.
An urder for two Canadian lake steamers has been booked by Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Oficial announcement of the ap- Bowyer, M.P., to be a Junior Lord pointment
of Captain G. E. W. of the Treasury (unpaid) has been made.
G. S. Clive has
Major-General been appointed Director of Per- sonal Services at the War Office in succession to Major-General G. J. Farmar.
Running into the road to help a constable who had been thrown
It is now known that the num from his cycle, Mrs. A. Lee, of bor of persons drowned as the re- Bevois Road, Southampton, wassult of the collision in the Sea of knocked down by a taxicab and Marmora between two Turkish yes. killed.
sels was nearly 100.
Mr. Alvin T. Hert, vice-chairman of the Republican National Commit tee.
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Mr. W. R. Morris, of Morris Motors, Ltd., left Southampton in the Cunarder "Aquitania" en route for Australia and New Zealand to study motoring conditiona there.
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Mrs. Sarah Asbury Barker, of Castle Road, Bedford, who cele- brated her. 103rd birthday is good health, and her reminiscences go back to the reign of George IV.
Passengers on their cross-Chan- nel services to the Continent dur- ing Christmas week, the Southern Railway
numbered announce, 21,177, compared with 19,760 last year.
An air mail service from the Quebec mainland to Seven Islands, In the Gulf of St. Lawrence, was inaugurated at Christmas, when an aeroplane brought 200 lb. of let- ters and parcels.
Two women passengers, Alice Merchant, of Yorkshire, and Maud Kealing, were injured, the former suffering from concussion, when a motor-omnibus came into collision with a lorry in Park-Laine W...!
Hungary has for the first time appointed a military attache in Warsaw, the appointment being Hackney Parliamentary division inter, of Milford Haven, who has re-public in view
Captain W. J. James, dockmas-warmly received by the Polish-
of the traditional place of Sir Robert Gower, who is signed after 40 years' service, friendship between the two coun-
joined the newly formed Japanese tries. Navy in 1881 and commanded the first Japanese battleship.
not to stand again.
Two patty officers and one ser- man died of burns as the result of a pipe bursting in the boiler-room of the French Navy sloop "Remire- mant" while on her way in a gale from Cherbourg to Brest.
Colonel Antoinat and his four companions who are attempting a Paria to. Hanoi (French Indo- China) flight have been detained at Adalia, Asia Minor, for flying over
news-
The Marquis of Waterford and his brother Lord William Beres- London, Jan. 30.-The
ford were badly shaken when their papers give prominence to the discar skidded and overturned on the the way to turbing Note, published in the frost-bound road on
Portlaw. County Fascist organ, in which is men- Curraghmore, tioned the postponement of the de- Waterford. nunciation of the Italo-Yugo-Slav
Treaty, which had just been ex- tended for six months. Reuter.
The negotiations between the South African Government and Mr. Tilden Smith with a view to establishing a new line of cargo between Britain and
Turkish territory without permis-office keeper at No. 10, Dawning steamers
Mr. George Newnham, who was
sion.
The number of articles found in public conveyances and deposited with the Metropolitan Police dur- ing the twelve months ended November 30 was 184,735, of which 111,430 were not claimed by the losers.
Captain Cornelius Theodore Pol- lard, aged 87, of the Army Educa- tional Corps, was at a general court martial at Aldershot found guilty on six charges out of of conduct unbecoming officer and a gentleman.
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Dr. W. B. Secretan, of 11, Graven
Street, during Mr. Lloyd George's South Africa have been definitely Premiership, and was his personal broken off. attendant during the Peace Con-
ference and other conferences The Government of Iceland has abroad, has been awarded the made a gift of £360 to the British O.B.E. (civilian division) for meri- fund for fishermen's widows and torious service.
orphans, being part of the sum paid for rescue work by a British trawler which went ashore on an Iceland reef last July.
Chicago, Jan. 80. Captain Joseph Donnellan, ex-Royal Air Force, set out in a small mono- planie named "I Will" upon a flight Sir Henry Mulleneux Grayson, to Santiago de Chile and back via of Ravenapoint, Anglesey, at one Atlanta, Havana and Panama, with time Coalition M.P. for West Bir- the object of opening up commer-kenhead, was married at the Chel-
office to cial aviation between. North and sun
Mrs. registrar's South America.-Reuter.
Hamilton Earle, of Herbert- Crescent, Chelsea, S.W.
At the Kowloon Magistracy yes- Road, Reading, was driving his car terday, Mr. W. Schofield imposed Found Drowned was the verdict along the main road from Woking fine of $10,000 on a Chinese who at Canvey, Essex, at the inquest ham to Reading when it collided was charged with the unlawful on the body of a woman found on with a stationary lorry, and be and Possession of 520 taels of raw the foreshore which was identified his 12-year-old son, Michael, were The accused was passing. through of Alverstone Road, Manor Park, opium on board the a.s. "Luchow." as that of Mrs. Amelia Farrell, 24, thrown out, the latter being killed.
as a passenger on the ship from who disappeared on November 12. Canton to Swatow and when the When John James Searle, a usual search of the ship was car tramp, was remanded at Exeter, it ried out here the opium was found was stated that he was trying to seil a woman's gold watch on the joside of which was engraved: "To Alice Todd from T.R.H. Prince and Princess Henry of Prussia, 16/10/1902-12/1/1906.”
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Police are inquiring into on the false sides of two baskets Anding of a married couple, Ben-Dentist. belonging to the accused. The al-jamin fainaworth, aged 26, an un- Amy ternative for the fine was ten employed plate layer, and
with their months' hard labour.
Hainsworth, aged 21, throats cut in Beatrice Street, Bradford; both are expected to re-
Captain B. Steel, White Star line cover. marino superintendent at South- A possible clue to the
recent ampton for the laat eigh- robbery of £5,000 in ten-shilling teen years, is retiring. He notes from the P. and O. liner has over thirty-five years'
The Prince of Wales, who now, ser-owns Grove Farm, Lenton, Not- "Maloja" at Colombo, Ceylon, has vice to his credit with the com- tingham, has consented to become been obtained at Sydney, where a pany, having joined it in 1892. Appresident of the Nottinghamshire woman (who obtained them quite pointed assistant marino superin Agricultural Society in 1929, when innocently at Colombo) offered 200 tendent at Liverpool in 1903, he the ascicty bolds its next show, the of the notes for exchange at a succeeded the late Captain J. G. Royal Show being at Nottingham bank.
Camerton as marine superintendent next year.
at Southampton in 1909 | Captain Steel spent abmo years in "wind-
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Capt., R. W. Morris, Superinten- jammers" before entering the White Mr. Adam Maitland, of Upper dont of the Sailors' Institute, is Star line employment, and he Woodcote, Furley, Surrey, vice- leaving Singapore by the Talma" served his apprenticeship with chairman of Coulsdon Council, a on home leave. Mr. Abraham will Mesars, J. Heap and Sona, of Liver member of Surrey County Council, be acting for him during his ab- pool, a firm which owned some of and a City man, has been invited sence. Captain Morris proposes to the fastest clippers of the day in by the executive committee of the visit relatives in Darjeeling and cluding the famous Antiope, and Faversham Conservative Associa proceed later to England and his afterwards with Messra Henry tion, Kent, to contest, the by-elec many friends in Singapore will wish Fernie and Sons also of Liverpoot tign consequent on the death of Sir him a very pleasant holiday,
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