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Sheep are not allowed to graze on the Government forest preserves as they can ruin heres til forest land. If sheet are being herded
liamentary Bill dealing with exten-, sions and improvements marks an other stage in schemel which will provide bonsiderable additional om- ployment next winter. The most important of these is that for the extension of the tube railway from through the forest preserve they the "Elephant and Castle to Can-are not allowed to stop in, one place berwell Green, which is to cost
more than twelve hours and from
Dipping and Shenring,
A Farsons & Co. and of the Par-£1,875,000. It is catimated that this what I understand a recent ruling will provide work for 5,000 men for 1 to the effect that the time is to
be cut down still lower... two years. Additional employment will also be found by the reconstruc- tion of Chancery-lane Station at a In the spring when the wool is. Chemical Works at Shanghai and cost of £193,000, similar work at the prime the sheep are driven to the
Tlontain:
Post Office Station at a cost of home ranch and shenred. “Every £230,000, the provision of new animal is, disinfected before shear- aidings at Edgware, a subway ating and it is quite a sight to Russell-square, and improvements at ace the large herds" dipped." A Hammersmith.
special tank ja dug in the ground. and filled with the disinfecting solution and each animal is thrown
Establishment of two modern chemical works respectively for the ་ ་ ཉ་ ༔ ་ manufacture of aide and alkalies at Shanghai and Tientsin, part of the programme of the Ministry of Industry for the development of basic industries, is under careful consideration. A special committed is being appointed to bake charge of the projecte.
Britain's Gun Trade,
At the annual meeting of the
in and allowed to swim out. In this
Birmingham Gan Trade, the chair. manner. each animal is throughly man, Captain K. R. Davis, said cleared. Professional shearers are that in 1030 the number of breech-then given the task of clipping the loading gune proved in Birming wook It takes about three minutes Berlin's Power Station.
ham was 21,000, the total number of to completely ahear one animal. A most impressivo right which arms being 17,808. There were im The work commences early in the greats the visitors entering Berlin ported 25,350 foreign proved arms, morning and does not stop stillate from the east is the Klingenberg and according to Board of Trade' at night and on some ranches, where power station of the Berlin Muni-returns we exported 23,650. There electric lighting is possible, it con- cipal Power Co. Erected during was still a good home market for tinues all night.. 1025-26, to cover the rapidly growBritish manufactures and given:
In the fall the sheep that are to ing peak load of the German some measure of protection to
by marketted are separated from capital's electric power system, this restrict the unequal foreign com-
rest of the hard and again clipped. station with a maximum generating petition we should retain the whole They are then shipped to the pack- capacity of 270,000 kilowatts, re of it. This would mean larger outing centres by railroad. Most of mains to-day one of the largest and put with consequent lower costs, the sheep ranches are as near a most efficient steam plants in enabling us to compete in oversea railroad as possible as a long drive Europe. Much of its success has markets. The trade committee was
wears the fat off them. been due to the exclusive employ-now cringed in considering whether
The cost of raising sheep is much ment of pulverized coal firing,
and in what form it could put for ward another petition under the greater than cattle raising, but the Safeguarding Act for the protection profits are much larger and the of the trade against the free im-industry is increasing by leaps and ports of foreign-made guns into this bounds wherever it is possible to country. He sincerely hoped that raise them successfully. any conflicting interests might be" reconciled and the support of the whole trade given to that applica tion.
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Lunghai Railway Extension: The extension of the Lunghai Railway towards Tungkuan and Sinnfu is going steadily forward and the Chinese railway authorities hope that the line will be actually running to Tungkuen in a few months and to the Shens capital some time next yent. It may be revallad that it was arranged when the Belgian Rhart of the Boxer
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Bottle Factory in Venezuela,
A new glass bottle factory han
WOMAN'S USE OF DOG WHIP.
"LEERED.".
"These Saturday night distur- bances in the streets of Cambridge. caused by foriner members of the university visiting their friends have got to stop," said the Mayor in the local police-court when im posing fines on an undergraduate and his friend, *
Indemnity money was returned that hoen opened at. Maiquetia, Vene HIT UNDERGRADUATE WHO 26 per cent. should be used for zuela. The complete unit was con- education and 75 per cent, for rail- structed by an American firm and ways. Of this latter amount 53.33an American personnel of three will per cent. went to the Lunghai Rail supervise operations until such time. way and 46.00 per cent, to other as the plant may be turned over lines. The Lunghai Tailway with to local management. About 30 this money has bought ten new native workmen will be required to locomotives, the money, for which operate the plant. The new indus is being repaid from railway re-try has been set up by a brewery, ceipts and then used for extending one of the loading industries of the the line. A Belgian, M. A. Fleury, district, as a source of supply of is in charge of the work, which in glass bottles for its various branches
William Arthur Kirkcaldy Royle, volves no small enginearing feat as in Venezuela. The company may 22, an undergraduate of St. John's about a dozen tunnels have had to also manufacture fint glass, but for College, was fined £10 for insulting be made between Lingpae and the present only bottles will be a woman, and Eric Hedley Me Tungkuan.
made. Present daily capacity i§ 14 | Eenzie Grimsdell, optician, 31, of tons of material and 12 tons of Windermere-avenue, Finchley, was glass, or an output of 15,990 12-once fined £15 for assaulting the police;' beltles per day. The cost of the constable who arrested Royle. plant complete is estimated at approximately $100,000.
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Tubs Railway Extensions, The formal approval given by the shareholders of the London Under: ground Railways to the Par
BIBLE STILL THE BEST SELLER.
NOW TRANSLATED INTO
́644 LANGUAGES.
Presiding over the annual meet ing of the British and Foreign Bible Society at Queen's Hall, W, Viscount Hailsham said it would sumprise a great many people to learn that the society was spending more than £400,000 a year on the translation and distribution of the Beriptures an amazing figure.
Copies of the Scriptures were inued in 644 languages.
Expansion which the work of the Society showed was most remark able. A good many religious people looked back upon the mid-Victorian days with a fooling of regretful envy. They seemed to think that in that period there was a greater sense of religious fervour and a deeper study of the word of God don was found in the wor thinks wo world to-day, Some people seemed
It was stated that a number of. young men from the Footlights Club were seen in the street in an excited condition, and most of them, includ. ing Royle, were under the influence of drink. After he had been parted from his friend, Royle insulted Mrs. Elizabeth Sarah Brown, who said that he: leered at her. She struck him with a dog-whip.
No Cause for Pessimlam.
People were apt to say in these post-war days that a change had come over English people, and that the younger generation cared less for the Scriptures than their fathers; yet since the war the distribution of the English version of the Bible had been more than Grimsdell went in search of his doubled. Therefore, they had no friend, and, finding him in the grounds for pessimiem or discou
custody of a police-constable, struck tant.
The past year had been one of the officer, The constable released exceptional difficulty. There had. Royle and closed with Grizadell, teen losses in trade all over the world, and it had been necessary to handcuffing him, while out down expenditure. He won-Brown's husband took hold of dered how many chairmen of com- Grimsdell's legs and pulled him to panies would be able to tell their shareholders what the Bible Society the ground." was able to say--that the record of 1930 had only once been exceeded.
The King's Words,
Mrs.
Royle denied any intent to insult Mra, Brown.
Hie tutor, Mr. M. P. Charles- The meeting was held on the worth, told the magistratos that, anniversary of the King's novession to the Throne, and Lord Hailsham Royle had only one other examina- reminded the audience of the tion to pass before taking his King's pronouncement when he was degree. He could not say that Royle had never been in trouble.
crowned:
undergraduate."
It is my confident hope that ray with the college authorities, but the subjects may never cease to cherish their noble luberitance in the troubles were only such as might English Bible, which in the be expocted with a high-spirited nocular aspect is the first of pational treasures and, in its piritual significance the most valuable thing this world afforda. ---It was stated that fourteen -now. had gone back; but be noticed in versions had been added during the the Bociety's report that during his past year. The number of volumes conviction, against him at Bow- own lifetime the annual distribuissued during the year totalled street, when he was fined a for tion of Bibles and parts of the society amounted to £405,628 and being drunk in charge of a motor. Bible had been multiplied six times. the expenditure £408,385.
11,688,220. *** The income of the
Grimsdell denied striking the constable intentionally. It was: stated that there was a previous
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