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THE HONGKONG «TELEGRAPH.
SATURD
APRIL
1928.
FAMILY'S UNCANNY MR. MACDONALD ON
EXPERIENCE.
Repeated FALL OF 19
PICTURES.
· THE ELECTIONS,
"STRUCK RATHER A BAD PATCH."
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A POORER PARTY.
Considerable attention has been given of late to weird happenings attributed to paychic causes in more than one part of the country, i› and now from Ross-on-Wye, Here
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, speak- fordshire, comes information of ocing at the annual dinner of the currences which have caused a well- London Area Council of the known and recently bereaved National Union of Clerks at Baltic family to leave their home and to House, E.C., suld the Labour move- take refuge with friends,
ment was, perhaps, the greatest At the end of February two Rossmarvel of our generation. youths lost their lives in a motor. "It is perfectly true," he went FULL OF VIGOUR AND FUN cycle collision. One was Ronald on, that at the moment we have is the child whose bodily functions Dazeley, of Candor-villas, Ross-on-struck rather a bad patch. We are working in perfect order. All Wye. Since the accident his
cannot help that. I was lookingday long he plays around, happy mother has been prostrate with at a list of the by-elections which and tireless until bed-time comes, grief, and the services of a nurse I keep at home and I find that and then ho quickly settles down from the Ross Cottage Hospital during the last twelve months in to a long night's dreamless rest. were obtained.
If your little one mopea, lacks In the early part of March the all the by-elections we have only family were disturbed by no fewer had one good one from the point spirit, is fretful, has a fitful ap- than 19 pictures falling from thef view of the constituency. petite, does not sleep soundly at wall at midnight. This continued There was only one constituency alght, the fault most likely lies in night after night for three or four concerned we would have chosen his stomach and bowels, and all he few days' treatment nights, when, before the family had for a fight if we had had freedom needs is to choose.
with Baby's Own Tablets. So retired to rest, Mr. Dazeley and
"There was a second one where, marked is the improvement quickly one of his sons took down all the
perhaps, we had a sporting chance,wrought by but in all the others we went into battle not only foredoomed to
pictures in the house in order to
gain some sleep..
On the following morning, to put the matter further to the test, they failure, but almost foredoomed to re-hung the whole of the pictures, a very bad failure.
"Do not think that the result of thus ascertaining that the cords were in good condition, and each the recent by-elections is an in- cord was wound round the hookdication of how the great tide, several times. They then went to from John O'Groats to Land's church. On returning they dis-End, is flowing in regard to the covered that the pictures had again Labour Party. Our party has { fallen' down in their absence,
more power in the country than ever it had.
Bed-Sheets Tied..
"It is quite true wa are poorer
Baby's Own
Tablets
that mother, who have once tried them are never again content to be without a vial, weady for future needs, in the house.
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6 Flying mammal.
8 Egg-shaped. 13 Wicked. 14 Well grounded. 15 Gem.
16 Stone worker.
17 Female.
18 Loso blood. 10 Jar"
20 Inactive.
52 Became enlarged in bulk. 54 Furious,
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Especially devised for Zu use of 22 Walking stick.
23 Musical composition. Among other peculiar happenings now than ever we were before. infants, and little children B. va 25 Honzse noise in the throat. curtains have been torn from the The Trades Union Act has settled Own Tablets are guaranteed 28 Measures of length. windows; candles have jumped that for us. It is more difficult absolutely safe and harmless re-Work for.
rections of motions. from the candlesticks and broken for the Labour Party now to get medy for infantile indigestion, 31
and fern in two pieces; and a glass dish has £1 to enable it to fight its election constipation, colic, wind. They 38 Pla intermediate between mosses
Effect wit jumped on to the floor."
battles than it was two years ago allay teething pains almost as
by magic, check diarrhoea, cool 37 Unit.
'pain. One Sunday evening Mr. Dazeley to get £10.
The feverishness, relieve croup and "We all like fair play. and others attended a service, leav-i
38 Licenses. ing his wife in the house with other political party which has done this colds, expel worms. Of chemists, 42 Makere bhl. friends. Theas friends dad placed to embarrass us financially can go or post free, 60 cents the vial, 45 Gaelle. their hats on a bed in an upstairs into the market to-morrow and sell from The Dr. Williams' Medicine 40 Shave,
Jewish calender Th
onth, room. When they went up later an earldóm, and from that get Co., 60, Kinagse Road, Shanghai.
Established successioni they found that the sheets had been more money than we shall be able turned in, corner 'to' corner, and to raise from the whole trade tied, and there were impressions union movement in two years, on the bed as if someone had been "It is not fair. It is not just,sands of tons of earth into the sleeping there.
It raises the enmity of every de There was a culminating shock rent nian and woman in the coun- that night, when the nurse went in-try. In spite of this handicap and to the kitchen to make some ten, unfairness," Mr. MacDonald add- Upon entering the 190mm she was erl, "we will fight when the hard to seream and to drop the General Election comes, and we teipot, and when she came round will show them what we can do.
he told the family that she hind (Cheers): secu Ronald, the dead boy, stand- ing in front of her. The nurse was so upset by the incident that the matron of the hospital has sent her away on a holiday, and she is now staving with her parents.
"Considering that
the firat
Labour Government was a ploneer Government, and that its Minis- tera had had no experience in office, It did remarkably well, The second Labour Government Mr. Dazeley has decided that for can never be like the first.". His wife to remain longer in the house might have serious Cun- sequences, and the family are now questa of friends in the town.
ROBBERY IN WATFORD,
HISTORICAL VALUE DISPUTE.
PROPOSED PURCHASE OF A CLUNIAC PRIORY.
Barnsley Corporation propose to PUBLIC-HOUSE TILL CARRIED purchase Monk Bretton Priory as
AWAY.
a housing site and intend to pre- servé its remains. The owner is asking £20,000. An expert as-
A daring robbery by men in a sesses the historical value at £11,- motor-car was perpetrated at The | 000,
Horns public-house, Hampstead. The Corporation offered £6,000 rond, Watford.
for the farm buildings and land, The ear, in which were three and Mr. Charles Fox, architect, of men, drew up in the road and was Halifax, giving evidence before scen standing there for some time, the Official Arbitrator, said the the occupants pretending to be remains of the Priory had no out- engaged with the engine. One of standing architectural features. them went round the stle of the He placed the sentimental and his- public-house, jumped over a fence, torical value at no more than £500, got in through a partly-opened Mr. Stewart said, the Corpora- window, went behind the counter, tion were willing to pay a fair and took away the till, which con-price for the property, but ob tained over £52,
jected to being asked a fantastic
The men had evidently watched enc.
the Inndlord go out he went to The remains are those of B watch a football match-and the Cluniac Priory, established in Handlady was upstairs. She heard 1157, so called from Cluny or a noise, hurried below, and saw a Clugny, in Burgundy, where was man rushing out of the front door Lounded, in 916, by the Duke of with the till in his hands. He Aquitaine, the famous Benedic had evidently unlocked the door tine Abbey. In time it covered before going behind the counter. Europe with its affiliated founda- She called out "Stop thief!" buttons. In England the extension the man joined the others and all of the Order dates' from drove rapidly away.
Conquest, the priory of Lewes
The
the
car is described as of a (1077) becoming the chief of the dirty maroon colour.
numerous foundations established.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
Engineers have dumped thou-
Santiago volcano in the hope of permanently extinguishing the burning sulphur bed.
of Conflagration. 53 Lightning.
50 Indian sesame.
60 Sit again (Parliamentary). B1 Delightful region.
StrobiluscA,
Small square islands with elec- really heated metal foot-plates,63 Vascular network of vessels. for traffe policemen to stand on in cold weather, have been install- ed in Riga,
Black sand containing gold is found after every westerly wind
on some of the beaches on the west coast of the South Island,
Zealand.
The malarial parasite is 80 small as easily to inhabit the in- terior of human red blood cor- puscle, of which five million are nonpally contained in about one- sixth of an overäge drop.
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LETTER GOLF.
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2-You can change only one letter at a time.
3-You must have a com- plete word, of common usage, for each jump. Slang words and, abbreviations don't count. The order of letters cad- 'not be changed.
One solution is printed on another page.
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42 Ruineri.
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47 Side glances.
48 Not over.
50 Elevates.
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66 Stender atomi.
57 Religious ceremony.
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