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Tokyo, Yesterday, HJ.M.S. Dame MadgeTM Kendal "Ashigara," Japan's fourth 10,000-yoars old last month. ton cruiser, has been launched at Kobe.-Reuter,
The first strawberries of the year reached Covent Garden last month, and realised £2 a pound wholesale. They were hothouse- grown at Worthing.
The "Shipping › World" statos that Sir Thomas Storey is to retire from the chairmanship of Lloyd's Register, and will be succeeded by Sir George Higgins.
Cinema patrons are reminded that only three performances dally are being given of "The Big Parade" at the World Theatre, nt 2.30, 6.30 and 9.15 p.m.
Owing to several recent cases of razor slashing the N.S.W. Cabinet has decided to Introduce the lash as a punishment for offences of this nature. It is hoped that his will act as a deterrent.
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Although there were
lower tanders from foreign firms, Barnes District Council has accepted the lowest British tender namely, that of Messrs. Crompton, Parkin- son, Ltd.-for electrical plant.
Mrs. Archibald Douglas, the wife of Mr. A. V. C. Douglas, of Mains, Scots Guards, gave birth to a daughter at 50, Ennismore-gardens on March 15. Mrs. Douglas is the doughter of Sir Maurice and Lady de Bunsen.
Rep. Florence P. Kaba, of Call- fornia, who has been named on the board of visitors for the United States Naval Academy. This is the Arst time in history that a woman ths been appointed on this board.
The total number of unemployed in Austria on March 1, was 223,985,
да 70
Twenty-one, candles were lighted with one match by a woman com- petitor at a Lanark sale of work.
Flash light beacons are to be installed at the Esher entrance to the Kingston by-pass rond, and also at the Merton connection.
New York, April 21. — The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has established its rediscount rate at 4% per cent.-Reuter's Ameri- can Service,
The late Mr. David Gubbay. (62) of Hertford-strest, Mayfair (Lon- don, W.), lately a director of Mesara, David Sassoon and Co., Ltd., of the Imperial Bank of Persia, and of the African Mercantile Co., left £57,582 (unsettled).
Three orang-outangs which, with various other denizens of the wild, reached London in the Blue 'Funnel steamer "Perseva" on March 17, enlivened the voyage from Singa- pore by their "monkey-tricks." One released the Java sharrows which were being carried as food for the wildents.
The Victoria Cross awarded to Private Duncan Miller during the Indian Mutiny fetched £50 at Glendinning's saleroom in London.
Mr. St. John Hutchinson has been appointed Recorder of Hythe In succession to Mr. F. T.. Barring- ton-Ward, appointed Recorder of Chichester,
Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen (Chain- mean of the B. A. T. and Lady Cunliffe-Owen arrived by the 8.8. "Olympic" last month at South- ampton from New York.
Admiral the Hon. Sir Edmund Fremantle, who is 91, presided at the annual meeting of the Queen Adelaide Naval Fund at Carlton House, Regent-street, S.W.
The conductor for many years of the Oberhochstadt Male Choir, Horr Ernst Putscher, has accepted an appointment as professor of music at the University of Kogo- shima, Japan.
The pipers of the Scots Guards, for the first time in public, last month word their new feathered bonnets at a parade this morning at the regimental headquarters, Backingham-gate, S.W.
Captain G. W. Steele. Jr., former- The, Bookman Prize, presented ly in command of the U. S. S. by Messra. Hodder and Stoughton "Pittsburgh" when that cruiser was for the best French work of im- the flagship of Admiral 0. S.'agination out of the four submitted Williams has been appointed naval by Paris his year, has been award- Attache at the U.S. Embassy in ed for M. Julien Green's "Adrienne Paris and left Shanghai last week Mesurat." on board the "President Harrison."
a round-the-world, cruiser, to take up his new post.
When Mr. Arthur Way, of Gold- smith-road, Peckham, S.E., heard a | noise downstaira at about 8 a.m. he thought burglars were in the house, and went downstairs to in-
vestigate. Opening the kitchen door he flashed a torch he had brought with him, and saw an elephant. He fled. Later he re- turned with some neighbours and recognised the elephant as one which had been recently stabled in a shed near his house. It was hav- ing an early meal of tablecloth and a loaf, and was thoroughly enjoying itself by smashing plates and crockery. With the help of a policeman, it was taken back to the. stable from which it had escaped.
Early yesterday morning; six Chinese armed with revolvers and daggers, carried out a daring armed robbery in the top floor of No. 132, Bosham-strand East, occupied by a rich Chinese rice merchant. The intruders entered the premises through the roof. 'On the premises at the time were the merchant, three women, a small boy, two male servants and two amahs. The rob bara ransacked the premises, and made a haul of jewellery, money and other property worth $2,903.
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Dame Ellen Terry. England's great actress, who recently cele brated her 80th birthday.
Banana trees brought to South Manchuria from. Formosa by Japanese experimenters are re- ported to have borne remarkably
The intruders also carried away fine frult, and it la now proposed
a reduction of 0,253 since the mid-title deeds and promissory notes of dle of February, and 20,400 less the face value of $101,450. The than on March 1, 1927.
robbers finally escaped down the staircase. On receipt of the report of the robbery, the police raided the adjacent houses and removed four men on suspicion.
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The inquest Cousins, the West London magis- trate, who was knocked down by a motor-ear in November and who succumbed to his injuries was con- ducted by Mr. Ingleby Oddle, the Westminster coroner.
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to introduce ather tropical fruits into this region, which resembles middle western states of America. in climate and topography the,
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Communists are reported by the Chinese papers. to have attacked the Chung Hsing Village, half way At the Union Church, Kennedy- between. Kiangyin and Changsu. road, on Saturday afternoon, the After plundering the homes of the wedding took place of Mr. William vlagera, they set fire to them and Lumaden; eldest son of Mr. J. escaped after they had murdered a
The Bishop of Manchester, Lumsden and the Inte Mrs. number of unfortunate people. speaking at the Mount of Lumsden, of Dundee, Scotland, and Troops were rushed to the spot soon Olives Missionary Conference at Miss McKelvie, the only daughter afterwards but no arrests were Jerusalem, expressed the opinion of the late Mr. and Mrs. John made. that. If Mr. Gandhi, who perhaps | McKelvie, of Broughty Ferry, was the greatest man on earth, Forfarshire, Scotland, The Rev. J. were a Christian, he would better Kirk Maconachle officiated, and Mr. the week-end, the master of a fish- Arriving in Hong Kong daring succeed in finding his ideal, and his Longyear presided at the organ. ing junk has reported to the police energy would succeed in moralising Mr. A. E. Ramsay gave away the
that his craft was pirated off-Ping. and spiritualising Christian civil-bride who were a charming dress chau Island on Wednesday. A of georgette, with overdress and sleeves of French laco, a Juliet cap on board. The fishing junk, not sampan approached with five men
St. George's Society holding
with orange blossoms and a long being armed, was unable to offer vell handsawn with lovers' knots, resistance. The craft was ransack- special concerts for the services this evening, there will be no he carried a shower bouquet of ed and the pirates helped them- movie performance at the Queen's cream and white rosed with maiden-selves to 378 in Hong Kong bark Theatre to-night at 9.15, but the hair ferns. Mrs. A. B. Ramsay was notes, $10 in Kwangtung silver and 2.30, 5.10 and 7.15 performances flower girl was Miss Betty Evans.
the matron of honour, whilst the $12 in copper cents. will take place as usual. The con- Mr. A. Ramsay carried out the tinuous programme at the Star duties of best man. Theatre to-day will be from 2.30 to 8.30 only.
Among the more important see- tions of the scheme for protecting towns on the Rhine from the dia astroue floods which periodically occur, Neuwied, the centre of the
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Save at the Bank of England, the new silver coinage was not avall public as had originally been an-regarded as the principal. The found a number of documents relatnounced. The reason was explained Provincial Government has ing to the Communist activities into a "Daily Mall" reporter by a City earmarked half a million marks and subsidising and controlling the Left banker, who said: The Chancellor of the State one million towards the newspapers. Coples' of important the Exchequer decided to make a 53,000,000 marks (about £2,500,- correspondence with Moscow was quick profit before the Budget by 000) which is the estimated cost of also discovered. As the result of recalling from circulation pre-1920 the complete protection scheme for the raids, the police made eleven silver coins, which contain 37 parts Neuwied arrests, while others are pending of silver to 8 parts alioy, and issuing Reuter.
In their place the now colns, which
are only half silver and half alloy.. Dr. Norwood, headmaster of Figures recorded in connection But the banks were not consulted, Harrow, stated to a Press repre- with Saturday night's heavy rain and it is difficult as well as expen-sentative that there was no truth are remarkable. For the 24 hours sive for them to forward this in the report that the wearing of ending at 10 a.m., yesterday, 6.80 sthome. By, great labour they the famous straw hat by young inches of rain were measured at the could collect from their labour Harrovians was to be discontinued. Matilda Hospital, Mount Kellett, branches, the pre-1920 coins and ""The matter has not even been whilst at the Royal Observsory, pass these into the Bank of Eng- considered," he added. Many old Kowloon, 2.12 inches of rain were land in exchange for new coins. Hartovlans have been greatly con- recorded for the same period. The But the Bank of England charges à Corned over the possible banish- rainfall at Kowloon since April 17 feo for receiving silver coin in ment of the shallow-crowned, wide- has been 8.17 Inches. The sudden large quantities and the "bl five brimmed hat, with its convenient change yesterday morning was due are asking-why they.. should pay stretch of clastic to keep it on the to the anti-cyclone ever China, and this fee as well as being landed head, although it is stated that the the fact that the Colony was out of with the whole labbur of the boys now at the school. have not -the influencer o
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