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An immediate return on capital Bank, on demand 1/11, 7/16 is a state of affairs highly desir-E-ink, 30 days' aight ed yet rarely achieved, and in this Bank, 4 months' sight 1/11 % connection the Hull City Police Credits, 4 months' Fire Brigade must be congratu- sight lating themselves on their fore-Donumentary & monsha' sight in providing themselves
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Escape. Within a few days of de- livery of this escape a disastrous
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Human' Escape." Every move- Kong... ment is mechanically operated Copper Cash but, so controlled that under no Chinese Copper Centa 6% Prem. possible combination of circum-Rate of Native In- stances can the safety limit be exceeded, except by deliberate in tervention of the operator in case of emergency.It will extend to 85 feet, revolving and inclining itself, at the same time automa- tically taking charge of the plumbing of the ladder, if the Parls chassis is on an inclination. Should the ladder strike an ob-Brussels stacle, the immediate and auto- matic stopping of the ladder pre- vents further damage.
Similar escapes have recently been put into commission by Man- chester, Huddersfield, Bolton, Birkenhead, Birmingham, Dun- dee, Newport, Wakefield, Wigan and Swansea Fire Brigades.
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ANTIQUE ENGLISH SILVER DISPLAYED
Hard upon the heels of the de- lightful exhibition of interlor de- coration at Lansdowne House fol- lows an Exhibition of Old.. Eng- fish Plate, at Park Lane, showing the former glories of national crafts- manship, once the envy of Europe.
Sir Philip Sassoon lent his house for the exhibition which will benefit the Royal Northern Hospital, Hol- loway, of which Sir Philip is hon.
treasurer.
It fa a gracious method of raising funds, and examples of English goldsmitha art have been lent from; many notable collections, including those of the Queen, the Prince of Wales.-and-the-Duke-of-York
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A film actress, Mrs. Toyo Take-Dairy Farms shita, aged 23 years, has been Watsons sentenced to five years' imprison- Der A Wings ment for attempting to murder Lane, Crawfords her husband. The woman, whose Mackintoshs stage name is Miss Yoshigo Sinceres Kagawa, pushed her mate into a canal near Kyoto but the man
Miscellaneous was rescued before drowning ILK. Amusements United Press.
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There is a drinking horn from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, that is over 500 years old. and Mazzers of the same period.A Fax, lent among other notable items by New College, Oxford, goes back to 1250. The same notable period isrepresented also by cocoannt
Rome; April 28. cups, standing cups (one of 1554) Cardinal Gasparri's attendance. of crystal and silver-gilt from the at the celebrations of the four: Green Vault collection, now owned teenth centenary of the Abbey by Baron and Baroness Schroder), Monte Cassino as Papal Legate was the occasion of remarkable
and gaits.
A unique piece is wine taster, demonstrations. The Cardinal 1573; the earliest known example blessed the assembled crowds at of that vessel. Of the same period all stations along the route is the "Bacon" cup and cover, one Trans-Ocean. of three made out of the Great Seal of England and left by Sir Nicholas Bacon-Lord Keeper-ex- hibited by Lady Loula Mountbatten and the executors of the estate of the Inte Sir Ernest Cabeel. N
Treasures that fince graced the palaces of the English Kings, make an d'imposing array, those of the Stuarts being particularly striking. Famous makers of plate of the fate seventeenth and early. eighteenth centuries will be re- cognized in the names of Pierre Harache, David Willinume, Pierre Platel, Paul Lamerle, and others of Huguenot extraction.
The Prince of Wales's items in- clude four trenched salt cellars from a unique set of twelve made in 1717 by Pierre Platel for the Prince of Wales, and bearing the Royal crest. ́ ́ These originally formed. part of the well-known Cumberland collection.” The Duke of York has lent examples of the workmanship of Paul Storr
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„WORLD FLIGHT SCHEME TO CIRCLE GLOBE & REFUEL IN THE AIR
Washington, Apr. 29. Three American military aviators are making, definite plans for a non-stop flight around the world the Washington “Post” says to-day,, The flyers are Lieut. Albert Halse, U. 3.A. Reserve, Capt. Harry Lyon, Je, who was naviga- tor of the “Southern Cross" or ita, flight from the United States to Australia, and Lieut. "O'Conners, a radio officer of the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, N. Jag
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Assembling of Japanese Dirigible Portland gn Tokyo, Apr. 22.
**The first dirigible- manufactured wholly in Japan is being assembled at the Kasumigaura-naval aero- drome, near Tsuchiura.
Assembling of the alrehip is-be- ing carried out in conformity with experience gained during the con struction of the dirigible N 8 by General Umberto Nobile at the Exme: aerodrome United Press
The work of prominent makers Royal Swedish Flying Service, who An Edinburgh meeting resolved such as Philip Holles and the al-gained International fame by his renetic to form a Soottish Carlyle Socisty: ready mentioned Pierre Harache cangle, disaster in the Arctic regioni last died forty-eight years ago.
of General Nobile in the "Italia" dirigi- to commemorate that writer, who be seen in the great wine cisterns, a Lundborg took the sole weighing 1.920 oz and measuring blame" for rescuing Noble
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