THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 6, 1989
News Snack Bar
Taking angle shots of the Cheltenham Flyer on the G.W.R. for a new film.
CAÑADA SETS A FASHION
Anyone seen wearing a mousta- che resembling that of Herr Hitler
will be arrested, according to a re- solution unanimously passed by the Huron County Council, Ontario, Canada.
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91, AND LIKES BEING A J.P.
Never say die.
At ninety-one, Mr. John Eli Walker, of Knowle House, Mirfield, Yorks, has been elected chairman of the Dewsbury, West Riding, Bench.
He has been a magistrate forty-three years.
"I find the work more of a strain than I did twenty years ago," he told an interviewer. "Every day I become more conscious of growing old. But nothing has happened to make me think of giving up."
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PRESENTED FROM COURT
Heard in London police courts: Policeman (witness): I told de- fendant he would be prosecuted for speeding, and he said, “I don't think it's my fault.
I think the world is moving round faster nowadays."
Woman (also witness); The only way I can get in touch with my husband over the telephone is by disguising my voice, otherwise he says, "Wrong number."
Wife: My husband said he was fed up with married life, and added he was going back to his mother.
R.C. PRELATE DEAD
Old Mr. Walker is a senior direc- "STABLED" FISH tor of the firm of James Walker
Roman Catholic Bishop of Lan- Fish experts say you cannot keep and Sons, Ltd., blanket makers, who have three mills in Yorkshire and roach alive in a tank. But in Lon- caster, the Right Rev. T. W. Pear- one at Witney.
don, not twenty-five yards from the son, died in hospital at Preston, his He At his Mirfield office there are Old Bailey, is a stable, and in the birthplace, aged sixty-eight. dictaphones, steel furniture, central horse-drinking tank there are five Lancaster in 1925 a year after was consecrated first Bishop of heating and departmental tele- roach! phones.
'Not just put there, but tenants
the diocese had been formed by the division of Liverpool and Hex- Bench sits his for over five years, and lively and
ham-and-Newcastle. He is only eighty- healthy.
If you ask Old Bill, who looks The Walkers' father was born in after the stable, what he feeds them DIED FROM KICK 5 YEARS AGO 1796, and was quite up in years on, he just says he doesn't.
before even steam engines were only food they get is the corn and invented or Napoleon began to chaff which drops from the horses' bother Europe.
mouths as they drink.
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On the same brother, Sam. five.
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DUKE'S SON M.P.?
A game of football played five years ago led to the death of Stan- ley Toothill, eighteen, of Lamprell-.. street, Bow, London. That was stat- ed at a Poplar inquest when a ver- dict of Accidental death was re- turned. He was kicked on the knee in 1933 and had been in hospital and Clydesdale, M.P. for E. Ren- ever since.
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CHAMBERLAIN-
NAZI PIONEER
One Chamberlain
was a
Nazi
pioneer-according to Munich stu-
dents.
Not a member of the
Birmingham family, however, but of the Portsmouth lot.
This was discovered when stu- dents began naming their clubs after "great Germans." The Berlin "Hans students called theirs the Lody" (after the officer shot during the war in the Tower).. Munich
the University chose
namé of "Chamberlain," so commemorating Houston Stewart Chamberlain (born in Portsmouth in 1855, and married in 1908. to Eva, daughter of Richard Wagner, the composer).
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Houston Chamberlain became German subject, wrote many books on music, and in 1904 published his first work on "Aryan Philosophy," upon which much of the Nazi creed is based,
EVEN AT LITTLE SNORING
Little Snoring (Norfolk, popu- lation 236) has been scared by a phantom white dog which is said to haunt the road between the village and Great Snoring.
The dog runs across the road in the path of cyclists and motorists and disappears, howling in the fields.
Recently a motor-cyclist ran "through" it. He was so scared he abandoned his machine by the roadside.
Lord Malcolm Douglas Hamilton, brother of the Marquis of Douglas
frew, is to be recommended for adoption as Unionist candidate in the Devizes division in succession to Sir Percy Hurd, who does not intend to seek re-election. Third son of the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, Lord Malcolm married Miss Clodagh Pamela Bowes-Lyon, a cousin of the Queen.
WITNESSES TO MARRIAGE
Motorist at Wimbledon: If I had pulled up when the lights changed, my wife in the back would have complained t had jerked her up'. . . I chose the lesser evil.
one.
Husband at Willesden: My wife. says she always thinks of us as The trouble is she always puts her views into practice, and I never have a moment's peace except at work.
HOUSES AS GIFTS
Four families in Flimwell, Sus sex, received a new house each for a Christmas present. They are the first workmen's cottages to be built there for over fifty years.
The
How did they get there. Someone returning from a fishing expedition dropped them in for a lark,
WE DRINK MORE BEER
was
Total_of_1,444,830 standard bar- rels of home-made beer charged with duty during October in Great Britain and Northern Ireland against 1,435,802 in Octo- ber last year. For Scotland the figures were 116,612 and 110,135.
In all cases comparisons reveal progressive increases in October for the last seven years.
BACONS AND THE EGGS
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SHIPS
Construction of ships in Holland for British owners will be the sub- ject of a question in the Com- mons. Socialist David Kirk- wood is to ask the President of the Board of Trade if "In view of the fact that last year sixty-five vessels. (over 24,000 gross tonnage) were built in Holland for British owners. and that British shipyards are bet- ter qualified to build vessels of all sizes he will consider stimulating. the building of ships here."
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WHO DEFIED BRITAIN
Holland has decided to put up a statue to the man who defied Bri- tain in South Africa, and left ever since a feeling a bitterness-Paul Kruger, the Bible-bound Boer Pre- sident of the Transvaal.
And Queen Wilhelmina has been to- Greatest friends in the old-world among the first to contribute
The monument · village of Odiham, Hants, are two wards the fund. elderly women-and it would not will probably be put up in Utrecht. seem quite right if they didn't get on together.
For their names, are Bacon and
Egg.
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WOMAN AIR NAVIGATOR
Only woman candidate to pass Mrs. Mary Egg is a widow who the examination for civil air navi- came to live in Odiham with her gators' licences (second class), held in London in November last, was husband, a naval pensioner, some
Miss M. R. V. E.. Friedlander. years ago. Everyone was delight-
the ed when the Eggs, soon after their Thirty-six candidates sat for
examination. Miss Friendlander, arrival, became friendly with the
who lives in Park-lane, W., said: Bacons.
"I hope this will prove that women zan be as able as men.”
Mrs. W. Bacon, wife of a local with Mrs. caretaker, often goes Egg shopping and to social func-
tions.
England.
The cottages were built by the
Mrs. Egg believes that she is one St. Richard Housing Society, which of the last bearers of her name in builds houses and rents them at very low rates to poor people. Flim- well were chosen as the pioneer vil- lage in East Sussex.
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** FLYING OYSTERS NOW
Packed in wet sea mud oysters are being flown from Sydney to
distance of 4,700. Singapore, a
"It is an old New Forest name," she said. "My husband had some brothers, but they went overseas and we had no children.
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The Finnish Government's order Fascist miles. The experiment, conducted dissolving the Finnish
over the past two months, has prov- movement and suspending eighteen ́ed completely successful and regu- Fascist publications failed to lar consignments have been ar- legally justified in the Helsingfors ranged.
be
courts.
£100 FOR MUSSOLINI MANUSCRIPT
The manuscript of Mussolini's famous "Article on Fascism" was Bold at Sotheby's, in London, for £100. A collection of Nelson's letters fetched £105.
was
Mussolini's manuscript written a few months before the great March" on Rome, which later placed him at the head of Italy's Government.