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Ottawa, Yesterday. deaths and
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U.S. DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
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“AL,” SMITH A DECIDED FAVOURITE
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Houghton, Texas, Yesterday. Shirt sleeves are rolled
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TRADE IN PERSIAN GULF
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SOVIET STEAMER. WITH MIXED CARGO.
LADY DOCTOR IN TROUSERS.
Basra, Yesterday.. The Soviet steamer "Tobolsk".
and machinery has anchored off
caused in the Niagara Falls dis-literally, in preparation of the with a cargo of sugar piece goods trict by floods owing to fifteen National Democratic Convention, Mohammerah in connection with hours' torrential rains.-Reuter's which opens on June 26. American Service.
AT. GIBRALTAR.
NEW GOVERNOR NAMED.
SIR A. J. GODLEY.
a scheme to promote Russian The temperature to-day is over trade in the Persian Gulf, where 90 degrees in the shade.
British trade at present is pre- Governor Smith's forces apdominant. pear to be in supreme command The "Tobolsk" carries a lady of the situation as dry and Anti-doctor who wears trousers, Tammany,
The defenders, chiefly from the South, who are the backbone of the anti-Smith faction, are fight- ing furiously, but most observers London, Yesterday.. seem General Sir Alexander John will almost certainly be nominat to be agreed that Smith Godley has been appointed Goved on the first ballot and that his ernor and Commander-in-Chief
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MUST GET RECEIPTS FOR PAYMENTS.
"VERY UNBUSINESSLIKE." of Gibraltar in succession to Gen- principal rival, Senator Reed, will
be nowhere. eral Sir Charles Carmichael A curious feature was a demon- Monro upon the expiration of the stration of 8,000 Southern women, in the Summary Court this. morn
The following dialogue took place latter's term of office in Septem-militant, anti-catholics and anti-ing ber next-British Wireless Ser-drys to whom Smith is anathema.
Reuter's American' Service.
vice.
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IN ICE ROOM.
THIEF AT THE PEAK
HOSPITAL.
The Puiane Judge (Mr. Justice Jacks): Have you the rent re- ceipts?
Chinese Defendant: No, I did not keep them.
His Lordship (sternly): That is very unbusinesslike.
Defendant: But I am not a busi-
[General Sir A. J. Godley is a Grand Officer. Legion d'Honneur, Grand Officer Crown of Belgium, Grand Officer White Engle of Serbia and has been. A.D.C. Gen- eral to the King since 1926: Fie has held the post of General offi- cer Commander-in-Chief, Southern Six week's hard labour was im-ness man, I am a doctor!
His Lordship: Well, it is of no Command since 1924. He is 61 posed by Mr. R. E. Lindsell, this years of age and was educated at morning, on a thief who entered use your coming to me to ask me to help you if you don't keep your the Royal Naval School, Haileybury the Peak Hospital on Sunday. and the United Services College. According to the prosecution receipts. He served in the South African War the defendant was seen by a and at the Dardenelles and in nurse in the ice room at 3.30 p.m. France during the Great War.] on that day. He was then caught and was handed over to the police.
THE EX-SPEAKER.
DECLINES A PEERAGE "FOR PERSONAL REASONS."
London, Yesterday.
"SHUN PO" CASE.
(Continued From Page 1.)
Absolute Necessity. This was another case in which one side was legally represented and the other was not. His Lord-
ship exercised meticulous care în explaining the points at issue to the alde without legal assistance and, as he has done before, stress- ed the absolute necessity of obtain- |ing receipts for payments of any
Mr. Fitzroy was proceeding to kind.
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No Instalments. Plaintiff's case was' that:rent for with a Junior in charge who prob- the 9th and 10th moons of last year ably knew very little about such were outstanding, at $75 a month, London, Yesterday. matters. However, he would not For the 8th moon, $20 had been His Majesty's cruiser. "Kent," is
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| balance of $55 for that month” and Referring to the apology sug- he now stood by that. Command) for the Far East for gested by the Magistrate in his Defendant agreed that he had not which she will leave on July 3 to decision, Mr. Fitzroy asked that paid rent for the 9th and 10th replace H.M.S. "Hawkins."-Reuter, that be deleted from the decision moons, but that he had paid for If his Worship could see his way the 8th moon-which was not
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bis Worship's judgment. lord. The application was refused. It was my going very far, pm, yesterday, while returning from Fanling on public motor car Counsel sald, not only to ask the No. 914, near a bridge at Lai defendante to apologise but to re Chuen Valley, Chinese wrapped quest the people to deal with the up some copper cents in a five dollar Japanese. It was one of the things note and threw it at him, hurting which was utterly impossible for a his left eye.
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At the Central Magistracy be In conclusion, Mr. Fitzroy said fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morn- that he had been told that the ing, a Chinese was charged for paper had closed down and the stealing four water meter index presses diamantled, so that there cover from the Main-street, Aber- was now nothing to levy on deen Plan Col, Eaves asked if the other An official from the water party had been notified of the ap works, asked His Worship to take Cases of indecent behaviour by plication, and Mr. Fitzroy replied a serious view of the matter. Chinese of the lower class seem to in the negative, stating that his The cover, he said, cost only 50 or have suddenly developed into an application was an ex parte one. epidemic, and the favourite haunt
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75 cents, but the cost of replacing APPLICATION GRANTED. would be $2 or $9. Although Col. Eaves decided to grant the there was no evidence to connect Yesterday a Chinese was fined application for a rehearing on the defendant with the theft of other $50 or four weeks Jail by Major C. points raised by Mr. Fitzroy, but meters, there had been about
100 meters stolen recently. Willson, O.B.B., at the Central he should certainly like to hear Mr. His Worship sentenced the de- Magistracy, and this morning his Le who was the aggrieved party
fendant to 6 weeks' hard labour. Worship passed a similar sentence under Mr. Flismy's application, and on a second man who was also ar directed that the defendants be rested in the same locality. notified the
In this case the man was watch Replying to question by the ed for ten minutes, by a Chinese Magistrate, Mr Fitzroy said that gentlemari and his zou from the| he did not tliink it would be neces verandah of their house, and dursary for his Worship to hear ing that time the defendant acted | gyldense. But he said, if the other Improperly on three separate occa- party, had anything to say, he would sions as girls went past.; After the suggest that the Magistrate hear third occasion, the youth went dow them ¡Me Fitzroy added that he and seized the defendant whil
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