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Alleged Corruption in Japanese Foundry.
A Moji dispatch to the "Osaka Mainichi" reports that some of the staff in the Imperial Iron Foundry at Wakamatsu are c
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scene preceding the Crucifixion. Christian tradition has drawn a picture of the tragic and impres
Christ to Calvary as the drama of His life moves on to its inevitable culmination. What is shown us broken figure, borne down by the here is very different. We see a
forward, stumbling, sinking to weight of the Cross staggering
at Sandhurst came Enst with the In deference to suggestions S. 2nd Regt (2nd South Lau-made by the Bishop of Lendon and His knees, and at every false step cashire) in 1887.
Dr. F. B. Meyer, after the private For the Soldiers' Comfort. view a few weeks before, the scourged to His feet by the lashes In furtherance of the general scenes depicting the hanging of of the guarde. It is not impres Notice has been given by the schome to make long journoya by Judas and the nailing to the sivo; it is realism from which we Finance Department that the rail, 'undertaken by the British Cross were omitted from the shrink instinctively. Yet this balance of the Treasury and Con- soldier in India, more comfort public performance, and the picture of humiliation, of broken solidation Bonds (B. mark) with able, the authorities at Army pictures were accompanied by humanity, is far nearer to the 5 per cent. interest, now remain Hoadquarters have asked the sacred music, consisting chiefly story of the gospele than the scene ing unredeemed to the amount of Agent of the Great Indian Penin- of well-known hymns beautifully Are we to welcoine the correction as our own imagination paints it. Y20,410,000, and the Karoan sula Railway to build corridor readered on the grand organ. bonds now standing at Y1,000,000, bogies on the lines of a plan sub
That Apart from the main question
from the cinematograph? will be redeemed on March 10th mitted. This type of carriage of whether such presentations as again is a question to be answer-
will be fitted with every convent this are to be welcomed under ed individually. ence for cooking, washing and any circumstances and that is a The approximate income for sleeping and if finally adoptond master which must be left to the 1911-12 of 905, charities was £8 will do away with the long halts individual judgment it must be 210,011, according to the edition at Railway Stations, now neces said that the treatment of the for 1913 of the Classified Direc-sary when troops are bound, for subject falls short of what is due tory to the Metropolitan Charities, stations that necessitate journeys neither in beauty nor in reverence. Of this total the income for home of from two to six days.
request, made at the begin- and foreign missions was £3,381,-
ning of the performance, that no 094, and for hospitals, dispen
applause should be given was Barice, and convalescent and nur-
The London correspondent of hardly necessary, for the aimo sing institutions, £1,324,068.
the "Madras Mail" writes that an sphere was more that of a church article in that paper calling attenthan of an entertainment,' tion to the uprotected state of merchant shipping in Mil-Asian At the same time individual waters and urging better provi- pictures are, of course, open to sion of cruisers and participation question and criticism, and the
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showing the lake, with its surface dron in point of cruisers. "There shoull be omitted. Toe Blackburn police have been will be no one" he says, "who But here a further considera-light, the two fishermen waist- instructed by the Licensing Com-will not welcome the suggestion tion arises also. Ia the absence deep in the water casting and PLUNKET'S GAP mittes to report any licensee who that India should make a contri-of any spoken words, the pictures drawing in their nete, and then faile to hang up and maintain bution for naval purposes based have to tell their own story by arrested by the voice of the white- the following notice to tenants of on, the value of her ses borne means of dramatic action, which robed Teacher on the shore and all licensed houses in the county trade. This would be the best is often of necessity exaggerated turning unhesitatingly to obey
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