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Decapitation has been instituted
The Way Valley Flock Mills, H.M. The King visited the Royal as a means of capital punishment Military College, Sandhurst, on May Peasmarsh, near Guildford, have
been destroyed by fire. In French Morocco,
Mr. H. Ryves,
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manager of The Prince of Walos opened the Senawang Estate, was entertained Royal Edward Dock extension at by his staff prior to his departure Bristol on May 28, on leave.
The Trans-Atlantic telephone service is now open from 11.80 am. to 2 a.m., an extension of. two hours daily.
The four-masted Finnish barque
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arrived at Falmouth, having done the voyage from Australia in 96 days.
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Fifty men were out of work as the result of a fire at the works of Messrs. Meggitt and Jones, timber importers, of Barry, Cardiff.
Mr. M. Malim, Assistant Con troller of Labour, Johore, has gone on leave to India, sailing by the "Rajula." Ho le due back at the end of June.
The Lord Mayor's fund for the relief of distress in the coalfields amounts to £60,000.
The Rev. Prebendary Michael Hopton, the oldest Herefordshire clergyman, has died at Hereford at the age of 89.
Officers and ratings serving in the Royal Navy on January 15. numbered 102,814, compared with Mr. J. T. Brownlie has been re-198,094 in 1918. elected president of the Amalge- mated Engineering Union.
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A fish canners' committee of the National Food Canning Council is of to investigate the question establishing a fish canning industry in Britain.
A. Mortlock, of.. Hastings University School, has won the championship at the Hastings Boys' Chess Congress.".
The dispute over a -tipping in- cident at Mark Brown's wharf, Toolcy-street, Bermondsey, S.E, in- The examination of Lord Robert volving nearly 200 men, has been Innes-Ker, husband of Miss Jose settled.
liabilities wore Collins, whose stated to be £32,825, was closed in the London Bankruptcy Court.
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Theatre Royal Swansea, The owned by Swansen Theatre, Ltd., has been sold to a London syndicate Mesars. Ellis and Edgar have for conversion into a cinema, with issued another of their always in-seating for 2,500. There is a likelihood that the Co- teresting and informative Stock
to Mr. W. B. Walker, a member of Optimists, who
disbanded Exchange booklets giving, up were
of some time ago after a career ex- April, figures and quotations of Bootle (Cumberland) Board tending more than five years, will steck listed on the local Exchange, Guardians for more than 65 years, has declined re-election as chair- shortly be revived.
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Three families have been render-
The late Mr. M. J. da Luz, a ed homeless at Bourne End, Buck-resident of Macao who died there
The body of Leonard Beaconsfield inghamshire, by a fire од the on Dec. 12, 1927, left estate in Abbotsbrook Estate, which des Hong Kong valued at $17,000. He Fuller, aged 45, a butcher, has been troyed four houses.
bequeaths everything to his widow found by the police in a garage in who lives at No. 24, Robinson-road, | Fairfax-drive, Westcliff-on-Sea, a Probate of his will has been grant-tube in his mouth being connected
to a gas bracket"
Lord Apsley, eldest son of the Earl of Bathurst and an M.P. fored. Southampton, is not to contest, the seat at the next election owing to pressure of business.
Mr. William H. Hatcher, aged 46, managing director of Lucanta Billards Halls, Limited, has been found dead in his bath at his home at Penarth, Glamorgan,
aged 20, Arthur Reeves, farmer's son, of Bolby Farm, West Hythe, Kent, crashed into a bank when riding a new motor-cycle at West Hythe and was killed.
An R.A.F. bombing 'plane, descending after night flying, prac- tice at Biggin Hill, Kent, crashed head-on inte a stationary plane, both machines being damaged.
The Queen on May 11 opered the Dr. Nicoll Memorial Wing of Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End, Stratford, E. 8, of which the Duke of Gloucester is president.
The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Charles Butho, and the officials accompanying him devoted the last day of their stay in Belgium .to a visit to Antwerp, leaving in the evening for Harwich.
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Mrs, Alfred Brousseau, President- General of the Daughters of tha American Revolution.
Twelve young couples became engaged during the 36,000-miles voyage round the world of the Canadian Pacific liner "Empress of Australia," which docked at South- l'ampton' in mail week.
The special stipendiary court ́set-up-in-1867-for-Chatham-and- Sheerness is to lapse next year, the Home Office having decided that i sufficient provision for dealing with cases, is afforded by the ordinary courts..
Miss, Margaret Gibson, the blind principal for more than 40 years of Laurel Court School, Peterborough, where Nurse Cavell' was one of her pupils, and the first hon. woman freeman of the city, has died at the age of 91,
A verdict of Found Drowned was recorded at the Inquest at Brent- ford on the Rev. Frederick Edward Lewis-Gower, curate of St. Mary's Church, Hadleigh, Suffolk, whose bady WAS recovered from the Thames at Kew Bridge.
When fire broke out at a house In Willow-street in Romford, Essex, a woman named Stock climbed out of a window and dropped twa children to the ground, while Frederick J. Merrick, a cripple, fought his way upstairs and saved a third child.
Fines of $10 each were yester- day imposed by Commander J. B. Nowill, D.S.O., R.N., at the Marine Court, on the masters and mis- treases of 15 junks who
During the past week-end two performances charged with lying Inshore at Chinese theatrical Wanchai during the dark hours. were arranged at the Kan Yu Fong Theatre by the Chinese masters Following references In the and a committee of boys. The net Canadian Parliament to are unem profit on tickets and goods sold, ployment demonstration in Win- after all expenses have been paid, nipeg, Mr. J.B. Woodsworth, a was $838.40, and this amount has Labour member for that city, been paid into the New School excusa that he was forced toward threatened to move the adjourn- Equipment ment of the House in order to dis- cuss the unemployment situation.
It is now 'believed that the murdered woman wearing linen of English manufacture found in the Seine at Nanterre, near Paris, may be a young Luxembourg woman named Katie Henitz, who alated to have travelled in England, and to have worn clothing of English manufacture.
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At the Marine Court, before Commander J. B. Newill, D.S.O., R.N., the Chinese master of a trading junk was charged with anchoring his boat in the Taikok taul cable reserve. In spite of his
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Fund. Great thanks shore by a heavy wind; the defen- are due to the British American dant was fined $10. Tobacco Co., the China Tobacco Co. and the Connaught Aerated Water Co. for goods supplied free, and also to the masters in charge, Mr. Law Lok-tin and Mr. T. S. W. Chan.
Marlborough-street Police Court, Mr. Andrew Hogg Ross, a General Post Office employee, of 85, Southampton-street, King's Cross, was presented on behalf of the trustees of the Carnegie Hero Fund with a certificate and a cheque for risking his life in tackling a run- away mare in-Ryder-street, S.W.
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Nice, The report of the Monte Carlo Casino, presented at the meeting of shareholders, shows, a gross profit of 154,000,000 francs! ($1,200,000), and a net profit öf The forthcoming wedding is an 91,000,000 francs (£700,000), Of nounced of Mr. James Tung-Bang The "London Gazette" recently the latter figure, 8,000,000 francs Choy, son of Mr. Choy Hing, to announced the appointment of is placed to the special Reserve Miss Sylvia Joyce Lau Hey-shing, Field-Marshal Lord Plumer, High Fund for stabiliaing, future divi- younger daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. Commissioner for Palcatine, 48 dends, and 15,000,000 france is Lau Hey-shing, which will be High Commissioner for the ad carried to the Reserve Fund for solemnized at St. John's Cathedral Joining territory of Transfordan. Improvements. These improve at 3 p.m. on June 2, after which a The appointment follows the agreements mean the enlargement of reception will be held at No. 2, ment between Great Britain and the present sporting club, which Park-road. Transjordan signed last February." the directors and too small.
The
present post. office will be pulled Mr. J. V. Chelifab, BA, a pro- The Chinese coxswain of the down and transformed into a park-minent citizen of Penang, whose A divi- only son died recently, has offered steam launch "Lee Ka" was yes-ing space for motor-cars. terday charged before Com-dend of 145 per cent is declared. to construct and present through mander J. B. Newill, D.S.O., R.N., The 600-franc share is now worth the Hindu Endowments Board for at the Marine Court, with towing 11,600 francs. junks of more tonnage than allow- ed by his licence. Owing to a technical blunder, the charge could not be sustained, and it was with
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the use of the Hindu Community an up-to-date brick and fron crema- törlum combined with a metalled road leading to it from the public highway, as well as a water-pipe and cistern.
Probate of the will of the late Mr. J. W. W. Huddleston, of No. 46 Torrington-road, Wallasey, Chester, has been granted to Mr. M. H. Turner of Messrs. Deacons, attorney for deceased's widow and At the Kowloon Magistracy, Volunteer Orders of May 16, brother. Mr. Huddleston died on yesterday, Major, C. Wilson heard contain the following paragraph Feb. 21, 1927, in England. His a case in which a Chinese woman extracted from the remarks of the estate in Hong Kong amounts to and her daughter were charged Overseas sub-committee of the $1,800. His net property. In Eng with flying the white pigeon Committee of Imperial Defenceland is valued at £36,415-58.0d. De The allegation was that the accused. "The Committee note with great ceased bequeaths all his personal had defrauded a Chinese-of- $20. "go- satisfaction that the high level and household property to his wife, It was arranged. previously attained by the Straits Mrs. Janet. Huddleston, and directs between" for the girl to go and live. Settlements Volunteer Force, both that $200 be paid to her immediate with the as regards organization, and train-ly after his death, also £50 to each The ing, has beca more than maintained, of his two aunts and In the betwee and they consider that all ranks of event of his two clerks leaving the to the
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the various units, as well as the employ of his firm, 2 for each went to live with the man on May authorities responsible for their year of servic paid to them. 11 but the next day the mother.
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