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After rather lengthy spell on
BY MAIL. WIRE, AND ANY LETTERS FOR VISIT TO THE GREAT the top of the wall wo wended
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Malme-Aeroplanes will make night flights five times a week be. tween Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Malmo,
Barcelona-1he Norwegian Pavi jon at the Barcelona Exhibition was opened by the King and Queen of Spain.
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Quebec.-Senator Robert Watson, former Minister of Works in the Manitoba Government, has died at Barndon (Manitoba)...
of State bas met. for the first time Athens. The new Greek Council under the presidency of M. Rak- tivan, a former Minister.
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LIFE'S ANXIETIES.
our way, down to the foot of the |hills to where our donkeys awaited THE PRIMATE ON JOSTLING
us. We found the descent more
CONFUSION. trying' than the ascents owing to Jane's feet being forced hard agninst
the toes of one's boots: "At any The Archbishop of Canterbury rats, we found we needed another (Dr. Lang), preaching at Canter- rest at the bottom of the hills are
The Great Wall, Winding ke a huge make, the we could mount our donkeys and bury Cathedral said that modern Great Wall could be seen for about continue our return jourosy. We life had become so noisy and over ten miles. Crumbling from age in the way, is a walled city--tired but sion of opinions, interests, anxie reached Shaniaikuan-which, by crowded; it was a jostling confu placer, its width appear to vary. happy, peng
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The train was merely half-anties, and amusements. the le 12 or 15 feet wide in places with hour late in starting, and, add to
The noises of the street wore" isaned on Saturday, given following particulars with regard forts built into it at more or less this amenity, there were no arst never so incessant and so insistent, to unclaimed correspondence, etc, regalar intervals. No doubt, cen class conches, and the third-class said the Primate, and men "and unclaimed radio telegrams at the almost foarmountable difficulties sists of a succession of the need of stillness and a way of waiting at the Post Ofice, and also turies ago, it must have presented accommodation appeared to con women of every class and creed ars becoming increasingly conscious of Radio Telegraph Offiat---
to an invading army but, of course, tana with narrow boards running Poate Bastante Correspondenes.:"| such a structure a means of sound the insides of each one to escape to some place where there is Amsterdam-The Queen of the Bakhtawar Singh, B. Buraip, defending frontier would easily do duty for seats. Nor did them peace, Netherlands, after three weeks C. Barreds, Mhe. TL Bingelli be decolished by heavy artillery Appear to be any restrictions us to It is just here that all kinds of the number of passengers allowed people are discovering the great be- stay at Montana, Canten Valais, has W. J. Chapman China Indenting and high explosive shells. left Switzerland for Holland.
The Great Wall waand its torto cram into each compartment. | bediction which our cathedrals be- Co., H. A. G. Clark, T... Dwyer, Rev. J. S. Flacks, Dr. and Mrs. Jtuous way up the mountain side to "Where you like and as many asstow upon na Constantinople.-Seven hundred G. Hill, G. Houston, G. A, Herbert, where we stood and then dipped you fancy" appeared to be the In the midst of the confusions prisoners have been liberated from R. Hartman, B. Italiener, R. down the alley and up to the order of the day. The prisons of Constantinople in Jameson, Capt. Day: Kearney (11) Peak of the next mountain which it Finally, Chinwangtao was reach virtue of the recent Turkish amnes-Gogovale), Mrs. D. McRae, Hon. G. crored looking, at the distance ad without mishap, if not without ty.
9. Mom, Mrs, E. L. Martin, J. J. away, like a tiny yellow-brown rib- delay. And then ozboard again,
dinner, and go to bed." Bangkok-Experiments have re Mantier (Dr. Gen. of Rail Road), ban in width. cently been made in wireless tele-Miss MM. Moninger, F. D. Nor phony between Paris and Siam. A man. A. H. Nark, M. Namias, W. service between Germany and 'Siam E. Priestley, R. C. Paulet, Mr. and Mrs. L. 0. Ross, Mis E. Tasker, was opened last month.
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Le Havre.-M. Martin, French Under-Secretary of State for Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones, opened the International Philatelle Exhibi- tion at Le Havre. There are 378 ex- hibitors, and the exhibits are valued at £500,000.
Blackpool. The cable ship Fara- day has finished laying a telephone cable between Norbreck, near Black pool, and Port Greenough, Inle of Man. It is hoped that the tele phone will be in operation in a. week's time.
Begistered Articles. Matias Ayon, Mons. Abonnel, w. Brotherton, R. S. Moore, W. Mckenney, Kers L Pingamall; J. M: Rowan (s.1. Baron Minto), L Roban, Peter Tester, Ad. Thiband, General Wu Chung Dok, General Wu Kam Ya.
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Sydney The Conference of State Premiers has unanimeasly decided in favour of uniform legislation for the control of theatrical employers and agents in order to check the operations of bogus theatrical com panies and protect young girls
Berlin.-Factories and official establishments throughout the 4444 U.S.S.R. continue to make collec-Wisdom... tions for the Berlin May Day 4444 victims," besides the "voluntary contribution, consisting of about 1 per cent. deducted from workmen's monthly pay
Manchester-George Fratson, 30, a native of Royton, was committed for trial on the charge of murdering George Armstrong, an outfitter, who lived over his shop premises at Grange Terrace, Winslow Road, Manchester. He pleaded.Not Guilty," and reserved his defence.
Fleetwood The Fleetwood steam trawler Bonthorpe, of 100 tons, left the port with Captain Leslie Clax ton in command of a crew of 12, for Fremantle, Western Australia. She has been told to the Western Aus tria Trawling Company of Perth,|| who intend starting deep sea. Ashing from the port of Fremantle.
Elstree Fines amounting to £42 were imposed on Herbert James Rodwell & baker, of Windy Lodge, Barnet Lane, Elstree, for occupying and using as bakehouse a bare
ment room in Boundary Road, St. John's Wood, under dirty and in- sanitary conditions and for having dirty utensils.
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Birkenhead-Cammell, Laird & Co., Birkenhead, have launched the Thomas Holt, the second of two cargo steamers under construction by the firm for Messrs. John Holt & Co. (Liverpool); Limited. The vessel is 330ft. long with a breadth of 47ft. and a depth of 28ft., and will be employed in the African trade.
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and anxieties which remain after a
great political struggle can people not find some refreshment in the spaces and silences of our wonder- ful cathedrals ?”!
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SUSPENDED OVER ALPINE PRECIPICE.
GERMAN'S TERRIBLE FATE.
Berlin, A fatal accident oc curred at Chamanis, in the French Savoy Alps, when Herr Kuchne, departmental director in one of the ministries, when returning with a friend from a mountaineering trip, fell on to the branch of a tree and had to hold on all night. His strength finally gave way, and he dropped six hundred feet, with in- stantaneous death ensuing.
The rescue party succeeded in recovering his body. His friend escaped unhurt.
Landon woman, who was charged Brighton-Elsie Wheatley, 37, a with attempting suicide by throwing herself from a pleasure steamer while on a cruise off Brighton, was bound over by the Brighton magis trates on promising to go to a Salva
Berlin-Near Kufstein, on the Austro-Bavarian frontier, an Aus- trian named Kuprian, suspected of smuggling, was pursued by Bavarian Customs officials over the frontier, arrested on Austrian territory, and brought back into Germany in cus tody. The Austrian Ambassador in Berlin has been instructed to protest to the German Foreign Office.
Paris. A memorial tablet totion Army home. Emile Zola was unveiled at the house, No. 21 bis; Rue de Bruxelles, Paris where Zola lived during the last 13 years of his life, and where he died on September 29, 1002, 18 the result of a tragic accident. A number of addreases were delivered on Zola's life, his novels, and his fearless intervention in the Dreyfus next. dispute.
London--News has reached the Spanish Embassy in London to the effect that the meeting of the Inter national Congress of Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture and Coffee Cultivation to be held at Seville has been postponed. It will now be held from September 26 to October
Berne. Mr. Leche, First Secre New York-Sir Eame Howard,tary of the British Legation in the British Ambassador, visited the Switzerland, when taking a walk British Apprentice Club in New on Gurten Hill, above Berne, vas York, and was greeted by 35 Britial attacked and beaten by two peasants boys serving their apprenticeship on board ships now in New York Har trespassed. His assailants were on whom field he and inadvertently bour. The club was opened soven, charged before the Criminal Court years ago for apprentices of the of Berne, British Merchant Service by Antwerp--A British flotilla of six American ladies in appreciation of the hospitality shown by all classes submarines, escorted by H. Depát
in Great Britain to the Americanship Alerto, has arrived at Antwerp. fighting force during the War. The officers and crews were wel
comed by the Port Authorities, and- Although the visit is not an official. a delegation of the British Legion. one number of receptions have been arranged.
Berlin. The death i announced from Brigue, Canton Valais, of Herr Joseph Beiler, aged 71, the well- known hotel-keeper who, with his father, Alexander, contributed to the development of Zermatt, Dur. ing the past few years he had been running the Beiler Hotel at Gletsch, near the Rhone Glacier, in which he had gathered valuable collection of ancient Swiss furniture, paint ings, and engraving, as well as aamvenirs of the roads over the Furka and Grimsel paeses,
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Canberra, Mr. Bruce, the Com monwealth Prime Minister, con mending the Empire shopping week, declared that inter-imperial trade is the key to the Empire's progress. Preferences and reciprocity we means to this end, but it is neces sary that citizens should be educat ed to practise the principles under lying the great objective.
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