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A now chaptor has been opan- nd in the history of flying on the North-Wost Frontior. -Tho Miangul of Swat, who, within
The Y.W.C.M, of Chùm by virtuofthe past six months, by axtond- An indication of the extent to which the Royal Canadian its national organization ating his dominion over the whole Mounted Police has been reduced 1st October's Convention, is now of Bubr and establishing himself in numerical strength is fur-r the first time a member of theas de facto ruler from Swat to nished in the roport of Commis-World's Asscintign and will be the Indus, has horome one of the Bionor Starnes for the your ond-represented at the meeting of the most important chiefs in tho World's Committee by Mrs. 11. C. tribal area, surveyed the whole ing September 30, 1923: On that
Mei of Shanghai. This meeting, of his territory recently in two date the strength of the force was which is to be held in Washington and a half hours froin the air. 58' officers, 1090 non-commission- ed,officers and constables and 543 D. C. from May 4th to 10th will be Having boon accorded permission attended by about 100 voting by the Government, the Minngul horses. On the corresponding date in 1922 the strongth was 64 dolegates, and visitors representing set out from Risalpur and with officors, 1163 non-commissioned forty countries. Mrs. Mei of Shanga full flight of D.H.9's an escort and 656-horses; in 1921 it was 70 bai, for some time Chairman of the flew over Rustam to Kabaigran, National Committee in China, sails on the Indus, thence turning and 1610 and 295 and in, 1920 it from Shanghai on the President wost to Shaide, in Swait, and was 73 and 1598 and 942.
Mckinley on April and will be over the Malakand back to accompanied by Miss Sho-bing Risalpur. Tho Miangul was do Ting. Acting General Secretary of lighted with his trip, and as ho had previously warned his sub. the National Commultifes-
According to provinces, the force on September 30 last was as follows: Ontario, 317 officers and mon and 63 horses;* Quobec, The World's Committee is the jeets to look out for him, it is safd 31 officers and men: Manitoba international body of the Young to say that his enterprise last 64 olliours and men and 26 horsos; Women's Christian Assertion, nothing of its inoral effect. Saskatchewan, 253 officers and with hewlquarters in London. Its men und 216 hørsgs; Alborta, 152 fuperoturies travel in forty, countries, Fatheers and mon and 133 horses; developing nut corelating the work | Kritish Columbia, 143 officurs and Among the foreign delegates who
In view of the exaggeratod accounts pabished sometimes of political meetings in India: it is
T and 95 horses; Yukon, 42 will be present at the Convention refreshing to read the candid officers und men and 10 horses are the Her Mrs. Montague account of a recent meeting in maritime provincos, 32 officors | Waldeginer, President, the Tinnevelly. One of the speakers
ir men: headquartors staff, 72 Countess of Portsmouth, Lady is reported to have said that al- officers and moni Baffin and Parnour, god Miss Edith Pieton though there word 55,000 people Ellesmore Islands, nino officers Turke sille of the executive Com-in Tinnevelly only 550 had at- and men.
mittue. From Bruner. Comites de tended the meeting. This in There was an increase of 17.30 Portales and Mile Jesh Bettreh spita of all possible attempts to from get a gathering. He was also per cent, in the amount of work will attend as delegates: done in the year ending Saptom Italy, Miss Mary Rissi: from of the 550 ware khaddar. He Germany, Frl. Ukia Zanuck :
very sorry to note that vory' fow ber 30 last as compared with the provime your there being a total stonin, Miss Helen Fold. Other called upon the audience to take of 16,463 cases handled in 1923, delegates include Fisken Olafsen the pledge that they would wear as against 14,032 in 1992, 12,505 Denmark and Miss Tuk Kat only "khaddar in future. Only Sun, Japan. Miss Michi Kawoij 1911 and 10,800 in 1920.
THEIR INVESTIGATIONS.
Fisheries Act, 105,
of Japan, and Froken Sigrid Setzel of Sweden arte Vice Presidents,
one man respondied.
Whon at Christie was per- Of the total of 7447 of investiga-The Countess of Portsmouth is tions and prosecutions in the Treasurer and Miss Charlotte Niven formed lust your oven those who provincos under the various the General Sperotary. Miss Shin did not like it were compelled to federal statutes in the year ended Tak ling, former Secretary of the admit that it was certainly a great Soptember 30 last the following Hongkong Y. W. C. A., and who play, and the same romark ap- are the principal items: Inland for the past eighteen months hus plios also to the film version now Revenue Act, 2591: Opium and been studying at the London School being show at the Palace Theatre Narcotic Drug Act, 2183; Indian of iconomies, will also atteml. Miss London. It is not a pleasant film, Act, 662; Explosives Act, 444: Shin is to crass Canada on her but the excellence of the produc Customs Act, 428; Railway Act, reture next month and will visit ation and the bounty of some of tho 1385; Immigration' Act, 174 number of the Chundian Assccia-fagting combine with the thrilling. tions to whom she is alrendy known if rather alarming, story to make On her return she will one of the most artistic produc- by mume. Of the two main items there be connected with the National tions we have liad from America wore in Ontario 206 casos un fer | Staffan Shanghai.
for some time It is inevitable the Opium and Narcotic Drug
This is the first time tint the that the film should be compared Act. and 165 under the Inland tradition of holding the World's with the play, and it boars such Rovonue Act; in Quebec 658 un-Catuittuting to Europe has comparison very well. At times dor-the Drug Act and 43 under her boken in favour of a gathering the Inland Revenue Act and 148
in the New World. Forme, under the Customs Act; in Mantings bave been held in France itoba 526 under the Inland Re-cerny, Sweden. Just and venue Act, 243 hinder the Drug Switzerlan 1. Act and 186 under the Explosives Agt in Saskatchewan, 1302-un- der the Inland Rovere Act and 34 under the Drug Act; in Albertu; 175 under, the Inland Revenue Act and 99 under the Drug Act;:{ in British Columbia, 834 under the Drug Act, 55 under the In- land Revenue Act, 280 undor, thu Immigration Act and 162 under) the Indian Act in the maritime] provinces, 48 under the Costons Act, 36 ander. the Inland Revenu Act, 52 under the Drug Act' and 140 undor the Fishéries Act.
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it is not so good, and at the end specially there are weaknesses that were not so obvious in the play: but there are also moments when it is actually better. In the play we had to imagine the wreck And the saving of Matt Burke. In the film we are onabled to watch; every incident, and seldom has a shipwreck boon done on the films John Paycocke built the house land, North and South America, with greater economy of effort or
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certainty of effect. The scenes for his son Thomas
Des Voeux Road C.
and the and New Zealand. Various larvas
on the barge, too, are admirably bride of Thomas, Margaret Hor-and oven earthworms have been presented, and, in spite of the rold. Thomas Puyoocke was a observed, and those frozen into handicap of the absence of the clothier who thorvo, exceedingly the ice prosumably retain dorm spoken word the atmosphere" of the times when. Essox became ant until thawed out, like the the tragely is admirably pain-rich and famous for the making
and selling of cloth. tained.
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A reporter's experiences in in
fishes and amphibians that some- times survive a period in the ico. terviewing a man who had "soon
Snow worms seen on a mountain visions" were described in the
in Washington some years ago, King's Bonch Division in the
Steps are being taken which however, were active in their action in which Mr. W. S.
Captain John W. Cooko, a re- Harnett, of Newington, Kent, tired yacht master, who has died may have the result of doing away frigid homo. They wore soon as with the ban undor which dust-like patchos on the snow, successfully sued two doctors for at Cowes at the age of 70, had music-hall artists from Germany but seemed vor y sensitive to heat, wrongful imprisonment in two had a remarkable career. After montal homes. Mr. Harnett some time as a seaman, he took and Austria have been prevented and burrowed out of sight as the from ontering England since sun arose, reappearing in the late escaped in 1921 after eight years up farming in South Africa, where the war. Delegates of the afternoon. They were black in No Crime Pictures Allowed, in asylums,, and contended, that he served with distinction with the variety Artistes Federation, the colour, about five-eighths of an
The was sano.
Natal Volunteers in the Zulu War,
organization representing the inch long, and perhaps a sixty- Samples of posters which arb
The reporter, Mr. C. M. Moir, being promoted captain. Captain music-ball profession in the Un-fourth of an inch through. They hanted by the Censorship Com-
were noticed near patches of red mittee of the London Billposters" said Mr. Mario t had such a wild Cooke. afterwards for five yoited Kingdom by whom the ban
was imposed are now in Berlia snow, and it is suggested that Association are kept in a Black expression that he did not relish commanded the Turkish coast-
the idea of being with him alone, guard servico, and had many studying the situation, and it is they are regular dwellers in the Book
Mr. Harnett took him to a bed-thrilling.experiences in suppres- The coinmittee, who scrutinise all bills offered for posting on rooni and started to dictate de-sing slave traffic, gun running, understood that they are so im-snowfield feeding on the micros- their hoardings and eliminato tails of a vision. To illustrate and snuggling in the Red Soa, posed by what they have seen and copic fungi forming the red snow. thong which aro co sidored likely that it came to him while he was for which he was decorated by hard there that they are likely
of the ban. to raise objections, have refused asleep he throw himself on the the Sultan. He rotirad from this to report in favour of the removal
Government in 1899, and after- poster advertising the film bed, closed his oyos to simulate appointmont under the Ottoman
sleep, and dictated all the time:
wards took command of.yachts "Sodom and Gomurrab."
Another
illustration of the efficacy of the police finger print
identification of one of two In the dining-room he described owned by Sir Ronnell Rodd and When Clydeside M.P.s arrived system has been provided by the The methods used in censoring
and
in the House of Commons, there Chinese shot while playing mah throw others., posters wore described to a Press Another vision,
was a disturbing rumour that all jongg in an alleyway off North
Road, representative by Mr.. (inorge F. himself on his knows and bowed
the English reporters in the Pross Chokiang another
Shanghai, the floor. In Smith, secretary of the associato
Paydocko's House in Cogge Gallery would lose their jobs barocently. A verdict of murder bedroom ho lay down on the tion.
by persons unknown" was return- During the past 30 years.our bed, quoted Scripture, and said he shall, Essex, which has been cause only Scotsmen could under- calling has done more than an had been thinking about prisoners handed over to tlio National stand the Clydosido dialect. One od at the inquest, but only one of Trust by Mr. Noel Buxton M. P., is inclined to think that some, the deceased was identified. He about to die. other to keep the streets clean of
Mr. Moir added that he was in is perhaps the chief treasure of a thing akin to this has really approved to be a Chinese who was The paned, for in the 'Hansard report sentenced to three years' im- pictorial offence," said Mr. Smith.
the housujaout an hour and felt district, rich in its kind. We will have nothing exhibit rolloved to go. He formed the very nathe takes us back to the of the debate on unemployinpont prisonment ad, expulsion for ed upon the hoardings which opinion that Mr. Harnett was distant past, since Taycooke is the other night Mr. Kirkwood is armed robbery. His Huger printe
nothing but Poaoook written in officially reported to have inter-were taken, and led to his iden depicts murder, acts of violence' insane.,
Mr. Matthews (for the doctors: accordance with the old, pronun rapted Dr. MacNamara by saying tification from the police records, or which, in the opinion of the committeo. is calculated to Having now oxperiences is onociation; and though the house is "Yes, of course, we ken yo," and <iomoraliso.
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of the ideals of a reporter's pro- to-day' remoto from "We ban posters which might fasalon, is it not?-Admitted.
bo beld-to oxcuse or oxionuate
crime or incite to its commission.
Obscenity or nudity we an ANCIENT CHANTRY FOUND absolutely.
GRAVESEND,
"Wo frown on cortajn roligious! subjects which may give offence,
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traffic then to havo interjected a little and bustor affairs of men, it is later on in the samo spuech "do not, and nover
has boun, a ya. no', mind that you were in Earlier in the
PENNY 900 YEARS OLD, 'country soat." Built about 1500 office yoursol'?" by a prosperous- butcher-grazior proceedings something the Scots
A silver penny struck during named John Paycocke or Minister of Health did is badly Peacock, it was occupied by three reported as "Mr. Wheatley in the reign of thaired 11., the Un
Whothor:ho ready, 979-1015 at Sudbury, whore generations of his desce: dants, dicated assant."
At Now Tavern Fori, Grave and subjects calculated to wound send, the 14th century Chantry of and afterwards passed into the nodded or unid something in at that time there was a Royal the susceptibilition of foreign Milton has been discovered after possession of the Buxton family, broad Gaolle that no one under are having been lost sight of for more who were allied by marriage with stood is not stated. Perhaps he pooplos. Pictures which likely to foment soolal unrest are than 200 years, A Chapel and the Paycockos. A. Buxton old It void "Ooh-ayer
Chantry at Milton was founded in the middle of the 18th century.. also objected to."
about 1321-22, the site being pur but in 1804 another Buxton chased by the Crown In 1779-80 bought it back, had it put into
Living worms in snow and ico The Censorship Committee constate of reprosentatives of the
for the construction of a battery, proper condition, and how in have boon, reported in the last-75 billposters, postor publishers, and the New Tavom Fort, at the 1924, bostows it on the nation. yoare-front Asia, Europe, Gres
The surmise of antiquaries is that theatrical and touring managers eastern end of Gravesend.
Mint, has boon presented to the borough by the town'olerk, Mr. T. Miles Braithwalto. It passed into his possession sovural years ago, and ho has ascertained on-biza Authority that it is gonuino The oon has been deposited in the borough technical Institute,