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London's Week-end Fires. Daring a recent week-end the London Fire Brigade were called oal 33 times.
War Savings Associations.' War Saringa Am cistians, to the number of 33,593 are now at work in England and Wales,
Glasgow's Generosity.
Over two millions and a half had been raised in Glasgow for relief funds from the beginning of the war to the end of last year.
Still Golar Strong.
Mr. William Fausts, of Maid- stone, recently rescued the age of 102. Ha wa-one of the workers on behalf of Mr. Disraeli at the election of 1837.
Au M. P. Clergyman, “- In view of the dearth of clergy, the Archbishop of York has licensed Mr. E. R. Tarton, M P of Upsali Castle, Thirak, to take Sanday services in his diocess. Mr. Turton preached at Thirsk on Sunday da food scanomy.
A Lady Mayor. Mrs. Kanyon, was recently ap pointed Mayor of Dakinħeld, in eccosesion to her husband, Mr. G. H. Kenyon, unvan timan mayor and Laboral Parliamentary candi data for the Stalybridge Division, who died suddenly.
Patriotic Methodists.
At the ógning of the Primitiva Methodist Conference in the Holborn Hall, the Rev. J. Tolfree Parr, the new president, said that their Church had sent 100,000 of j her scos into the war. Already 10,000 had besa broken and maimed, sad 5,000 had lain,dowa their lives.
A Flower Loving Soldier. Lance Corporal Vernon Raw- cliffe, of Accrington, bas made a garden on the motor lorry on which he carries munitions up to the firing line "somewhere in France." In a letter to his wile he writes:-"I have in it pansies, forget-me-note, primroses, and a few other flowers and plante.”
A Gépèroas American, An American whose name hsa not been disclosed baa sent 23,247 18, to the Royal Sobool for Officers' Daughters, Lansdown, Batb. Tos gift will enable the! governing body to proceed after the war with the addition of a new wing to the present building giving accommodation for another 25 papile,
Death of Teresa Carreno. A recent telegram from New York announces the death of Terass Carreno, the pianist. Teresa Carreno was born stj Caracas in Venezuele, December 22, 1853. At the age of sight, after lessons from Gottschalk, she appeared at a concert in New York, and then wont to Paris, | where abs seguired some of the Chopin tradition" from Mathias, one of his best papile, wed inter on learned from Rubinstein himself much of his smEN- ing technique and. the power of making a simple passage aloquent with feeling. She was married at 19 to Emil Sauret, the
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