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Particulars of the Competition of Industrial Designs for 1928, Royal Society of Arts, London, are now available in circular form.
MY, WIllin Thomas Snell, Western Circuit and North London Sessions, has been appointed Re- corder of Andover, Hampshire.
All the war relics in Manches- ter's parks will be sold as scrap metal if a resolution passed by the Parks Committee is ratified by the corporation.
"A silk shawl-made in Norwich in 1869, and given by the Queen to the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, le now being shown there.
Aircraftsman Jamor. Ackrill, R.A.F., stationed at Andover, was killed at. Camberley, Surrey, when a tyre of his motorcycle burst and threw him under a car.
Royal Marines, Plymouth Divi sion, after 12 months in China, landed from the "Mantua" on Jan. 12, and had a hearty welcome as they marched to barracks.
On Jan. 16, Paymaster Lt.-Com. E. D. T. Churcher, late secretary to the Commodore-in-Charge at Hong Kong, took up duty in the. office of the First Sea Lord..
Eight sons, & daughters, and 15 grandchildren were present at the unveiling of a stained glass window at Scotby Church, near Carlisle, in memory of Mrs. Burnett, widow of. a former vicar.
Mr. John Freeman Dunn, a mem ber of the London Stock Exchange, who represented Hemel Hempstead In Parliament from 1923 to 1926, has been adopted Liberal candidats for the Faversham by-election.
Fresh outbreaks of foot-and- mouth disease are reported.. from Ashbourne and Twyford, Derby- shire; Great Coates, near Grimsby, Lincolnshire; Great Bridge. Staf- fordshire;' and Yaxley, near Peter. borough.
Mr. Thomas H. Solly, for many yeare a prominent Essex farmer, has, at the age of 63, told his farm,, Mundon Hall, Maldon, of more than 300 acres, taken Holy Orders, and become curate at Purleigh, near Chelmsford.
Essex Education Committee are Sir Harry Lauder has given the to erect a county high school for Lord Provost of Edinburgh £1,350 boys at Leyton at a cost of 250,000. for three Lady Lauder Pensions for
aged poor.
The suggestion that the name of
Teachers of Slamese Elstree, Hertfordshire, should be
And oi changed to Hollywood has been Tibetan
аго required for the abandoned.
School of Oriental Studies (Uni- versity of London).
The appointment of M. Otto Schmidt, editor of the Soviet Recovered from Mimms Wast. Encyclopedia, an Soviet Ambas-South Mimms, a body is believed sador to Italy in succession tol to be that of a Japanese named Kamenev, is officially confirmed. Tugimoto, of Elgin-avenue, Pad-
dington.
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A constable, whose attention was drawn by an excited flock of sea- gulls over. the river Itchen, at Southampton, saw a shoal of fish in the river. He called boatmen, who netted nearly dewt of mullet.
Samuel HL Collom, of Philadel- phia, Pa., who has been named for the presidency of the United States Lawn Tennis' Association
Conditions of the Lewis Berger Scholarship of £80, in the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. London, have been announced,
An official. Russian atatemen: contradicts the report of the ar rest of the Chinese Charge d'Affaires in Moscow and of two members of the Legation Staff,
An advertiser in "The Timer" wante photographs of Russian torpedo boat destroyers that were: actually engaged in the Port Ar thur and Vladivostok operationa during the Russo-Japanese war.
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The programme at the Queen'n Theatre to-morrow will include the latest Felix the Cat Cartoon, "Felix Trips Through Toyland," which will be found to be quite the best of its kind yet screened in the Colony.
The man found mutilated on the Charing Cross Railway Bridge dn Jan. 8 has been identified as Robert Raymond Pettigrew, aged 25, re- turned recently from service in China, where he was a bandaman In the Border Regiment.
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The annual Carnival festival at THURSDAY February 23rd at 9.15 p m.
Macao on the eve of the Lenten:
Season will be just 100
seed H. W. Morsereau. Mr. Ook tom is vice president of the organ. ization and he is unopposed for the office of presidency. "Mr. Collom de vice-president of the Germantown Cricket Club,
as actively
enjoyed this year as usual, and there are signs that the festivities will be on an even larger scafe than customary.
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Mr. Bugg and Mr. and Mrs. A chance raid by the police on a
Hercombe left Calcutta on Jan. 6 in house in Chinatown, Pennyfields,
a ship's lifeboat, 30 ft. long, in an was described at London Sessions attempt to reach Australia. They on Jan 11, when the occupier, via Penang, Singapore, and Cheng Shu-on, aged 36, a student, Java, and hope to complete the pleaded guilty to permitting the journey within two months. house to be used for gaming, and James Loong, aged 51, the manager, In 1910, writes "Saepius," I pleaded guilty to assisting to con- bought a watch at Weltevreden, duct the business of the house. Java. The first time it wanted Two of the crew of the Cockenzie Loong was bound over, and Cheng attention was in 1926, when I took fishing boat "Ploneer" were washed Shu-an was sentenced
it into a shop in Holborn and was overboard during a gale off East duys' imprisonment and
served by the same assistant who Wemyss on the Firth of Forth mended for deportation.
had sold me the watch in Java 16 coast, but were rescued in an
years earlier. housted condition. One man was seriously injured.
Ex-
Over 80,000 Christmas and New Year greeting messages passed over the submarine cables of the East- ern Associated Telegraph Com- panies between Dec. 15 and Dec. $1, an increase over the previous year's figures of 12,700.
The prospectus of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, St.. Augustine Trinidad, for the year 1928-29, with which is Included the Principal's report for the year 1926-27, has been sent to the "China Mall" which acknowledges receipt with thanks.
Although 21 days' prior residence in Scotland is now necessary be- fora a marriage can be legally per- formed at, Gretna Green, the Scot- tish border village, about, 100 marriages were celebrated over the anvil In the old blacksmith's shop there last year.
John Harvey, who was granted a free pardon by the French Govern- ment after being sentenced to eight, years' imprisonment for desertion from the French Foreign Legion, is to appear with Miss Betty Chester at the Victoria Palace in a sketch dealing with the Foreign Legion.
to fourteen
recom-
Maria Muller, prima donna of the Berlin State Theatre, who is an her way to. America, where sho' will become a member of the Metropoli- tan Opera Company in New York She is rated as ons of the foremost singers in Europe.
Prominent among the paintings included in the Iveagh Bequeat, now being exhibited at the Royal Academy, is Frans Hals' "Man with the Cane." This la described as a portrait of Pieter van der Broecke, of Antwerp, founder of Batavia, who died in 1841.
Owing to the engineer work pro- ceeding in Clayton Tunnel, near Brighton, some of the Southern Railway evening trains are being diverted by way of Lewes, follow- Irig which through trains will arrive at Brighton and London about 15 minutes late.
The council of the Royal Sanitary Institute has appointed a special committed to ascertain in what direction research in connection with the purification of sewage s most needed, and what agencies are available for conducting, encourag- ing, and co-ordinating it.
Nine women of Rathfriland, County Down, Ireland, have, by a decision in the Supreme Court in the United States, been declared: heiresses to one-third of the $100,000 fortune left by Mr. Jeffer- son Foyle, of Rathfrlland, who died at Farmer City, Illinois.
Among the chief acquisitions made by the Trustees of the British
In connection with the researchés A company has been formed to Museum recently and approved by into the properties and structure of transform the Grand Hotel,
the Standing Committee is a gift wood carried on by the Imperial Northumberland Avenue, W.C, from Mr. H. J. Oppenheim of a Forestry Institute at Oxford dub- which stands on what Sir Robert specimen of Chinese pottery of the Ing the past year it is noted that Peel nearly 100 years ago described Han Dynasty, representing a Prof. Kanehira of Japan sent:54 as the finest site In Europe, Into watchdog with, open jaws and up-specimens to the type collection. shops, offices, and an arcade run-lifted head, as if barking. A large Malaya was represented at the ning from the Strand to North- Japanese colour print in three various studies, and of the post umberland Avenue.
sections, representing a boating graduats probationers one wds party, by Choki, has been given by destined for Malaya. Nee Nang-sno, aged 29, a seaman. Mr. C. S. Guilbenklan. Another of the steamer "Glenbeg," was print, "Bosting at Night," by The President of the Amsterdam ordered at East Ham Police Court Shunxan, and a number of Japanese Chamber of Commerce In his re on Jan. 17 to pay £9 5. for illegally illustrated books have been preview of the year says: With the harbouring and concealing on board sented by Sir Herbert Thompson... exception of Canton, one might say 5% lbs. of allk tissue and seven
that the position in China is some-
silk handkerchiefs. Sao said that It is announced that the first what quieter than a year ago. In he bought the silk at Yokohama at chief executive officer for the new the now very faintly nationalistic 28. a yard, and that It would be cruiser "Kent" is to be Captain J. movements, however, It is difficult worth anything from 108. to 148. Wolfe-Murray, D.8.0., who has to discern any attempt at forming yard In England.
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