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DAYS OF BUSHRANGERS RECALLED.
After 20 years, Lambeth Regatta is to be revived.
Sir Harry Lauder has given £100 to the fund of the Soldiers' Home, Glasgow.
For the sixth year Sonning lock, Read- ing, has been awarded the challenge cup for the best-kept lock garden on the Thames.
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The Duke of York is to visit Ilford on Douglas insurance $66) nom.......
October 31st, when the granting of the Charter of Incorporation to the town will be commemorated.
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A part of 30 cadets of the Argentine Navy visited Portsmouth dockyard, and btar Ferries, were shown over the Fictory and the Waterbe battle-cruiser Hood,
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In the Scottish National Shoot at In- verness, Scotland boat. England in the contest for the Ian Hamilton challenge cup by 2,583 to 2,981.
At the opening of the cricket match between Worcestershire and Derbyshire at Kidderminster the rival captains were introduced to Mr. Baldwin
Such figures as are available, the Home Secretary states" in a Parliamentary answer, do not appear to support the suggestion that wite desertion a increan- ing.
Sir Edward Elgar figured as ballet com- poser at the London Coliseum, when a new ballet to his music based on Little Boy Blue was produced, with Anton Dolin as Boy Blue,
The two Royal Air Force flying boats, S1008 And S1030, which left Plymouth for a cruise to Egypt and Cyprus, returned to Plymouth after a magnificent flight of 7,000 miles.
A serious scar city of water is being experienced in South Devon, and in some parishes consumption has to be cut down by a half Paignton, Teignmouth, and Brixham are affected
John Bell, a Communist member of the Middlesbrough Board of Guardians, was remanded at Middlesbrough on a charge of committing an act likely to cause public disaffection.
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-Police Constablo William Wakefield, who has completed his last period of duty at York House, and is retiring on super- anäuation allowance, was preseuted by the Prince of Wales with a silver watch.
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The residents of Hassocks, a village a few miles from Brighton, have appealed to the chief constable of East Sussex for additional police at holiday times to check hooligans who steal fruit and destroy growing crops.
A proposal that the Tailors and Gar- ment Workers' Union should send a dele- gation to meet the Russian Clothing Workers' Union was defeated at the Leeds Conference of the Tailers and Gar- ment Workers Union.
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A number of Labour members have introduced into Parliament a Bill to give, Home Rule to Scotland, with a single- chamber Parliament of 148 members, and providing that no M.P.s for Scotland are to remain in the Imperial Parliament.
The present Mayoress of West Brom- wich, Mrs. Grace Cottrell, has accepted the Mayoralty for the coming year. Her busband, the present Mayor, will be Deputy-layer, and Mrs. Cottrell has nominated her elder daughter, Miss Aileen Cottrell, sa Mayoress.
Colonel Stewart and his wife, well known at Brooklands motor track, riding alternately. a French motorcycle with. a 350 cc. British engine, on Mouthiéry track, Paris, broke the 24 hours' long-dis.
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"It is a disgrace that a man who has done so well should be in this position," said Judge Sir Thomas Granger at Green- wich, when Frederick Hide, who fought at Zeebrugge, was sued by the LC.C. for non-payment of rent on account of un- employment. His Honour made a public appeal that the man. might be found a berth.
A page of Australian history has been re-opened on the death of George Denis Devine aged 79. Devine was a sergeant of police in February, 1879, when Ned Kelly, Dan Kelly, Steve Hart and Joe, Byrne entered Jerilderie. They imprison Devine and the assisting constable and donned their uniforms. They then in spected the town as relieving officers from Sydney and took possession of a hotel, At the Congress of Esperanto held at everyone who entered being made pri bank of Edinburgh at a special service in St. soner.
They then rubbed a
Giles' Cathedral all the acts of worship, £2,000, cut the telegraph wires and rode praise, prayer and preaching were car-away on the troopers' barees.
ried out in Esperanto. The manuscript
of the Bible, translated for the first time into Esperanto, was dedicated by the Rev. Dr. Graham Halley, Reader in Asiatic Languages in the University of London, age-
The Australian Commonwealth Govera ment having issued a writ against the South Australian Government and the South Australian Commissioner of Taxes to restrain them from taxing petrol sales ou the ground that such tax is invalid under the Constitution, the South Austra lian Government is suspending its pro- clamation reducing the petrol tax from threepence to one penny.
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A Lakeland postman who the Road Zitate and remote farms to serve among the hills 1 usually has an hour's dozen in the open if the weather is hot after his morning deliveries," and has adopted a novel way of being awakened, Lying beside a lake he removes his boots and socks and stretches full length with his feet just near enough to the water's edge, for bis toes to be tickled by the wash from a (Continued on next Column.)
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The good old American game of bluff plays a big part in this Saper Comedy. Denny loses his job and drives home to his native village in his late employer's limousine. He is taken for a millionaire and lives up to the part through seven hilarious reels.
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A growing tale of love and intrigue among the beautiful" islands of tho. South Seas. The glories of underses tropi- cal life are shown in all the
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There are many thrills and a satisfying love story.
famous
Rafaul Sabatini's story of the Barbary Corsairs makes an outstanding film spectacle. The amazing ad- boldest ventures of the gentleman pirate who ever scuttled a ship or roved the seas are admirably portrayed by an all-Star Cast of 3,000 talented performers.
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