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A Stepany women was fined 530, with the alternative of 60 days' imprisonment," for being in illegal possession of lib. tea, 2016. angar, and 24:b. coffee.
"Dr." John McCormack,
A New York isligrum miales that Mr. John Mcormack, the well-known Irish sezor, has been awarded the degree of Ditor of Literature by the Fenly of Holy Cross College, Wormster.
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Rector's Two Su Killed, The Rv. J. Jackon, Rector of Bampton, a wickshire,
has received a telegram announcing the death of his two sons, H. A. and G. 0. Jackson. Both were lieutenants in the nime engage- ment.
Shipmaster Fined.
Megane Cormack, master of the steamship Clemiston, was fined £10 by the Isle of Wight: Bench for leaving the Portsmouth examination anchorge twice at night without the permission of she nevil authorities.
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A Plague of Seals. Mach injury bat bean caused to Irish faberies by the presence of large nambers of sesis round the coast and wirs. In district thousands of pounds" worth of fish have been destroyed, and rewards are offered for tha destruction of the simals.
Eton Boys on the Land. Many Eton boys who had volunteered to amat the farmers in South Buckinghamshire under the National Service scheme started on their tast, The boya will do piece-work and he paid the standard rate of agriculture! pay.
Campaign Agalast Wasps: In view of the great damage done to fruit by wape, and their annoyance of horse and cattle, the Food Predaction Department argue that their nests should be barged or smoked with
tar, paraffin, or sulphur, if oyanide (the supply of which is uncertain) | cannot be obtained,
Drowned While Shunting. Private Lowes, of the Army Service Corpa, was drowned in Gloucester Canal resently. He was shunting railway racks when a horse slipped down the bank and dragged the soldier, and aleo another horse, with it into the water. Both horses were drowned.
A Sailor's Escape. Wm. Geo. Rainey, a South. ampton seaman whose desth w inserted by his parents in the obituary columna af slce 1 paper recently, as wreck, was picked up on a raft by
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