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Nottingham a Port.
The Nottingham Corporation have determined to persevere with the project for making Nottingham s port, at an estimat ed cost of $150,000, by widening| and deepening the Trent, and to advance £10,000 towards the construction of the Newark nether look
"Mr. Chamberlain's Orchids.
The orchid collection of the late Mr. Joseph Chamberlain was dis- posed of hy Mesure. Protheroe and Morris at their rooms, 67 and 68, Cheapside, E.C., on April 15, nd 15. The greenhouse plants, inolaring a fine collection of amaryllia, was sold by the same firm at Highbury, Birmingham, daring the following week.
The Only Record of Rheims ** Cathedral.
Mr. A. S. Walker, speaking at the Y M.O.A., Tottenham Court- road, said that Rheims Cathedral| had been photogra; hed practical- ly idoh by inch by a photographer
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The boom in shipping and the Christian Science Again Falls Panama Canal, come of them impossibility of obtaining delivery suggested by operations in the from British shipbuilders for some European war, depend upon time to come be given an. im oonférences. Major-Gen. Leonard mense filip to the Japanese
Charged with criminal negli Wood, commanding the Depart-industry which, with the present ment of the Eist, is to have with high freights, is able to build geace in the death of Josephine Brig. Gen Edwards, commanding tramp tonnage at a remunerative May Wood, 7 years old, the the forces on the Tethmos, Gen. figuresaya Shipping and Engineerebild's parents, Mr. and Ms.The Peak, unfurnished 5 rooms, Wood conferred with War Doing. Ia consequence a number William F. Wood, and Miss Do- partment officials before leaving of orders have been placed with rothea J. Warmuth, all three for Gulveston to inspect defences Japanese builders and there is Christian Scientists, were arrest. there. Immediately afterward be more tonnage on the stocks, or ed on March 2 in" Philadelphis, will go to New Orleans and suil projected, than ever before in the and held under $1000 bil eaob. for Colon.
bistory of the country. The Miss Warmuth is a Christian 20 On Leave and Cold." Nippon Yuson Kaisha has decid-Soience practitioner. The dead. The Great Eastern Railway ed to order. from Japanese yarda child's parents are said to be Company have opened, close to all the steamers on its shipbuild-members of the Third Church of Liverpool street Station, a soldiers ing programme for this year. Christ, in Philadelphia. and sailors' hostel for. the con- Four steamera are ordered from The child died of diphtheria. venience of men arriving in Lon-the Kawasaki yard-three pata- She was taken ill on February 2 don from different parts of the anger and cargo-boats each 7,500 and the parents called in Miss kingdom, who have to wait for tous of the Toyohashi type, and Warmuth, the Christian Science the early morning traina to one cargo-boat of 3,000 tons.practitioner. Ou March 1, the girl'a proceed on their journey. Sleep Five steamers are ordered from condition being deemed worse by ing accommodation is provided the Miten Bishi yard--three-like the mother, Dr. Bella Schiffer, frabout 50 mes; there are many the passenger boats ordered at was called in, and finding the own yards whilet, as will be teen Gaarde; Lieut. U. L. Gordon, conveniences for washing, drying Kawasaki, and two eirgo-boats, patient in a critical state, the phy in another column, a bankwash Coldstream Guards; Capt. A. A. MOTOR SUPPLIES clothing, &, and hot coffee is each of 6,000 tons. All these sician is turn summoned Dr.A. A. has set in by the purebase of L Stephens, Scots Guards; Capt. supplied in the morning. A steamers are to be completed in Cairna, obif medical inspector, second-hand tonnage and a abip C.L.Smaa Thompson, Grenadier charge of a few penna is goberally sixteen to twenty months from Dcolor Schiller returned to the shat had been sold to Japan a fow Guards; Lient. H. Q Tudway, made, but if a man has no money the date on which the keel is laid. Wood home after telephoning years ago has been re-purchased' Grenadier Gaurds; Capt, the Hon the company admit him, and Bonides these, the two yards are Doctor Cairas sad found the by British buyers at a premium A. E. Malholland, Irish Guards;" facilities aro afforded for him to each now building two steamere child dead.
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for the cleb.)* The Slate Dapartment of Health will be completed at the two yards Miss Warmuth made a state- has appealed to New York Un for the Nippon Yasen Kaisha.ment rpon the suggestion of iversity to establish a course for The Osaka Shosen Keisha bas counsel, while at the Coroner's the training of public health aleo in contemplation a scheme to Luffice. Tois was to the effect that officiala. Every local health build five or six stomers of 4,000 she was called in by Mrs, Wood L officer, says the Department, to 5,000 tons. An order for two a February 24 to give Christian Heavy Losses of the Household abould have a special training in veseele of 5,000 tons has been Science treatment to the child, contagious diseases, beoteriology, placed by Mesara. Tatauma & Co.. Josephine. She said she had re- maricipal hygiene, purification of Dirch, and orders for six more marked to the mother that, from water and sewage, public health by as many Japaness shipping the appearance of the paient, it law and administration; as 38, companies, all with the Osaka as there has been no orrinary Iron Works, for delivery next medical college which ffered spring. The above Iron Work these subjects, it has been impos have also received an order from sible to require this knowledge the Chingkee Co., Chefoo, for the in applicats. Assoon, however, as construction of a consting steamer if he wished to call in a physician. in the hands of the enemy. In a UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS an approved institution includes of 1,000 tons. Tacse o: dora alone Mrs. Wooda is alleged to have rematch the Household Brigade these subjects in iis curriculum, represent a very large increase in plied: "No, it is not dangerous Cricket Club played against West. Eastern Extension Australasia every health officer will be re-the shipbuilding output of Japan ard you can go on treating my minster School at Vincent-square quired to take and pass them and it may be assumed that mapy child."- Philadelphia Public last summer, their score when the.
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Weunded membere are Lient. the Bon. H. R Alexander, Irish Guard; Lient. A Leigh Bennett, Capt. Gay Eiwurde, Coldstream Guarda (hoo, secretary of the club); Lieut. Lord Esme Gordon- Lennox, Grenadier Guards; and THE FLEETS OF THE WORLD Lieut. E. H Tollemache, Grena LAND AND WATER MAP OF THE
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WAR, dra sin under direction of Of last season's playing mem- are doing their best, and recently
Hilaire Bolle was a cise of tonsilitis, Mirabers of the Household Brigade two of them, Capt, Lord. Francis BRITAIN'S TERRITORIALS ING Warmath also aid she had fol. Cricket Club, says & recent paper Scott and Sir F. rizwygram WITH THE ALLIES Biobard THE MAN OF IRON, Richard Debaa: 175,
PRACE & WAR, Webster.......... towed the usual cum of Chris from home (March 12), no fewer, Barty were mentioned in dee-
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innings was declared closed 398 icr five wickets, quite the best We have had the Mantis ver- nothing has been heard. The
performance of the suitothe best sion of our muting, says the change from quite recent practice,
the eleven players only two are Straits Times, in which the mali is evident when we remember lier vessels built in Japan, the now (o far se is known) safe and neers were described as sitting in that, in 1912, Japan was only principal part of the steel work sound. They are Lient. 8. T the trees as thick as rambutana building sight vessels at home, and the shell plating was import-Taylor (who was top scorer, mak. firing down at the whites, and we with a gross tonnage of 77,100 ed from Europe, the amount of ing 125) and Lieut. A. W. F. have also heard the story of a tone. Six of these were liners of building done consisting more of Ramsay, both of the Coldstream phantom feet of German war over 9,000 tone, the three largest, putting together than actual con- Goards. ships which bombarded na until of the Bawa Mara type, of 11,900 struction. This is now altered Of the others, Linut, H. 0. notone brick remained in its place, tn, and the smaller ones of owing to the preoccupation of Loyd, Coldstream Gaarde (who These were good examples of 3.500 tons built for the Japanese steel works at home with naval made 122). Lisut: C. W. Tainell, picturesque lying, but the follow Volunteer Fleet. These vessels and military orders and it may Grenadier Guarde; Capt. Lord Ber ing extract from the New Zealand were built under a heavy Govern- be doubted if much of the steel nard Gordon Lennox, Granadier Herald shows the honest endearment subsidy for service on mail work for the vessels now under Guards; Lient, the Hon. Archer our of a densely ignorant person linee and it may be presumed construction in Japan will be Windsor Olive, Coldstream to explain all about it. The mess that they were being built less imported from home. As a conse- Guarde; Lieut. Vironunt Ha- singe is dated Sydney, February for the idea of cheapness as com-quence, Japanese steel works will warden, Coldstream Guarda; and 26, and reade as follows: Apared with European yards than find an opportunity of establish- Lieut, the Hon. J. N. Manners, passenger by the Mongolia from for the sake of the subs dies. Asing themselves while freed from Coldstrerm Guards, have been Singapore reports that the re- a matter of faot, the NYK, which competition, and one of the in- killed; Capt, M Crichton Maitland, giment which revolted wea com ordered these fine ships, was dirout advantages of the war to Grenadier Guarde (caprain of the posed of Malay troops. They are having constructed at the same Japan will be the recovery of her team); and Lieut. B. G. Aubrey Market, Amoy really a police force armed with time in Great Britain four chips shipbuilding industry. Whether Fletcher, MVO., Grousdier Sinsconhunt Winglok Street, riften to mainisin order on the of 23,700 tons for cargo service. tonnage now being construoted Guards, wounded; and Capt. Amoy. rabber plantations. The ouse Two of these were of the Totori in Japan could have been built w Payne Gallway, Grenadier of disaffection was that the men Maru olass, 8500 tone, and the there in ordinary times in fags of Querde, taken prisoner, Hongkong, April 23rd, 1915. alleged that they bad not received others of the Penang Mera olsas she competition of Europe is of The eight other playing mem- their plantation fees, and also 5,300 tons, and being used prin- 90 concern. The because their white officera volan sipally for cargo, would now make that, with the supply of new ships feared for service in France with-up for the increased cost of build entirely out off and no out consulting the rank and file, ing in Japan by the subaidies, band tonnugo AWho Were.. unwilling to go. received: In addition it may
way world markets, Ja noted that, with most of the ear- able to fill the vacancy
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