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as the producer of valuable, brood mares, the family has maintained ita supremacy. It is perhaps to the advantage of our blood-stock that the Band Ors should no lon- ger rute the roost, though there TUESDAY JAN. 21, 1996 is a prospect that the line will re-
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St. Simon Horses Time was when St. Simon or his sons regularly headed the list. The long sequence of champion-
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A statement emanating, accord-| 72, who lives in a small flat at The Valable Leasehold Pro- ing to the Exchange, from the Guildford, Surrey. has succeededperties situated at Mount Physical Research Institute in to one of the oldest titles in Scot- Berlin, that the earth no longer land, though neither lands nor
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Ski Party Leaving For Japan
From the first Baron Munro the barony with the estates have formed the title and chief Resid "There are irregular changes in ence of the head of the nõusa, speed, the earth at times speeding which for nearly 800 years has ex- ap a lttle. We don't quite know isted in uninterrupted descent in Hong what the cause of that is, but it is the male line, a fact said to be un- possible that the diameter of the exampled in the annals of Rent- earth is not always constant, en land or England, targing, say, or contracting by "But in consequence of the ert- sies peing disentatied under the about an inch,"
"It la quite wrong to say that Rutherford Act of 1848 I inherit the earth no longer revolves in 24 the titles without any pecuniary hours. Our unit of time is not advantage, the estates going to
Shanghai, Jan. 18. absolutely constant and astrono8ix Hector's grandson on the ma-
Off tà Japan for three weeks of mers check their clocks against termal aided b
skiing and winter sports, eighteen the rotation of the earth by ob retired a few years ago after members of the Ski and
Winter serving the Moon, Venus, Bun and a long life as an accountants Sports Club of Chins, of whom Mercury. If all those four appear clerk and manag
twelve are ladies, will rail in the "My grandfather, the ninth bas. Shanghai Maru from Wayside to be moving wrongly the suppoel- tion is that it is not them but the robet, succeeded the eighth baro Wharf on Saturday morning. The earth which' Is out of time,"
net as a kinsman Only. He was party will proceed to Sugadaira, then living at Peckham, and left which is reputed to sford, the best for Scotland, taking his eldest son skiing in the country,
a with him and leaving my father, Hotel in Bugadeira, a building The party will occupy the Bki which was built to accommodate. of Onlture. At the tame that the skilers by the Japanese Ministry of taxes at Tambridge Wells and excursionista will be in Japan, the Twaeshow will be at it best. Sunshine.
CEP 8.30 p.m.-Cyster Newspaper, Ads | bis second son, to seek his own
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Bugadeira is situated about eight hours journey from Tokyo sud is 4500 above sea level with "auto rounding mountains: to a height of 7,500 slopes are
Ideal
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7 A rare manuscript, belfered to be the work of the great Parsian MBA
poet, Saadi, has been discovered To-morrow at 11.30 pm Hons Tadjikistan village near the Kong ime 1680 Central European Lorders of Tark sich, - Thị Phon novices and the veterans while for time) an interesting talk on “Elzament is said to include sixteen of the advanced skilars, additiona Colour Photography" will be broad the original poems of the twelfth trips up into the mountains i 18
entury poėš
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