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Beer for Workmen.
To enrare provision of beer for their workmen, particularly farascomsen, Mosats. Steel, Fecch and Tozer, of Rotherham, bave taken over a fully-licensed public house adjoining their work. The place will be ran se a canteen, and will revert to the original owners after the war,
"Home for Blind Babies. Adeline Dachers of Bedford' and Sir Arthur Pearson, of the National Institute for the Blind, i 224, Great Portland-street, Lou- don, bare initiated a new project for blind babies The school education of blind children begins at the age of fire, la a day or residential school; but from birth until this age it is usually difficult in a poor household for anyone to find time in which to care for them, and the National Institute for the Blind was therefore nudez- taken to support and manage the home for them. A suitable houss, with large grounds has been par obaead at Chorley Wood, and here some 25 blind babies will be brought up until they rasch school "age. The house and ground havS gust £6,500 and a farther sum of at least £1,000 will be needed to fit it for its new purpose. Three thousand pounds have already been subscribed and an spread ie. made for the balance. The Queen, in expressing her sympathy wịch the proposal, sent £50 and Queen Alexandra forwarded a donation of £100...
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Withdrawal of Halfpenny Omalbus Fares. Following the example of the London County Council-Tram- ways, the London General: Omnibus Company (Limited) and allied companies hare withdrawn
, fares and fares of halfpenny denomications. This step w rendered necessary, owing to the difficulty in collecting fara through the heavy loading of the reduced number of omnibuses, The distances carried at fares of peony denominations will remain unobanged, though some revision. of stages in under immediate con. eiderstion. The weekly traffic returns of the London County Couroil tramway shows large increase, the receipts for the week ended July 4 being £58,830, compared with £49,016 for the corresponding week last year. From April to Jul 4 the receipt totalled £942,228, against £649,636 for the corresponding period of 1918.
New Labour Alliance. An important queme for the development of the productive and banking setivities of the co- operative movement in association. with organised trade unionism wa", it is understood, to be dix- cussed at a conference in July of representatives of the Parliamen tary Committee of the Trade
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alfts To English And Scottish Art Galleries. Bequests to the London Ma- seum, the Tate Gal'ery, and the Scottish National Gallery are contaired in the will of. Lady Ellen Oabardeon, widow of Sit Persius, in the Berliner Tageblatt,fore, he says, "bat to obtsia what William
Instructions to sell by Public Auction on Qiller Orohardeon, everly condemns the Pan the Pan-Germans call "freedom THE Undersigned has received THE Undersigned has received R A.,who died Inst May and left German agitation for the sunera of the seaeeridently that lic Auction on grora estate of 28,722: To the tion of the coast of Flanders. means protection till the open first named Lady Orchardson left He argues that the addition of Atlantio is reached-it would be TUESDAY, the 4th September, a black silk dress which belonged that coast to Germany would be necessary to anner the French to Queen Victoris, to the Tate a source of weaknese rather than cost up to and including Brest, Galery portraita of her father, strength, pointing out that which he declares to be absurd, Charlie Moxon, and her mother, Germany's present North Son Captain Peraine also argues by her husband; a sketch, "The cost is admirably suited to that the value of distant avai Last Dance," by her husband; delence and the work of the fiset bases is greatly exaggerated, and and a drawing of her basband ander modern conditions. in the absence of complete sea
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