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January 16, 1939.
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GAVE UP WEALTH
TO WED DOORMAN
EMPIRE NEWS
DAR-ES-SALAAM.
But She Loses
Her Baby
NEW YORK.
MRS. JEAN VOSE CORBIN,
who left her child and her The proposal for the settlement of wealthy husband to marry the Jews in Tanganyika, referred to by British-born doorman who used the Governor, Sir Mark Young to help her to move her was carried u stage further recently. | perambulator in and out of her The Legislative Council appointed a apartment house, was recently Select Committee to investigate the denied the custody whole question and advise on the seven-months-old daughter after of her conditions to be attached to any offer of such land to refugee organ the judge had described her as a woman "wholly devold of motherly Instinct."
sallons.
The perzonnel includes two senior oficials and five unofficial members} of the Council.
The Supreme Court of New York awarded the custody of the During the debate on the Budget, child to the father, Alden Vose, Sir William Lead, leader of the un- wealthy cotton broker, and un- official inembers, intervened with a ravelled the divorce tangle that request to the Governor to make a statement on the general question of resulted
from
Mra, Corbin's
the future development of the terri-Reno divorce, which is not re- tory, in view of the statement by cognised in New York.
Mr. MucDonald, Colonial Secretary, I was ruled that Vose should be in the House of Commons, that the given the divorce Government was not considering the that his wife was guilty of mis- on the ground
transfer of mandates.
conduct with the doorman Corbin by marrying him without a proper divorce,
Sir Mark Young immediately an- nounced the Government's intention
to embark on measures for increased The court ruled that Mr. Corbin development of the country by both could visit her child.
native and non-native enterprise.
A Select Committee
was
being India
formed to examine and report on
the methods by which this could VICEROY ARRIVES AT
best he achieved and the extent
members,
AT CALCUTTA
CALCUTTA.
to which development could be facilitated by works of public utility undertaken by Government. The Committee would include unofficial The Viceroy and the Marchioness of Linlithgow, accompanied by Lady This announcement is heartily wel-Anne and Lady Joan Hope, arrived comed na calculated considerably to at Calcutta recently from Nepal. restore confidence in regard to the after their successful shout. They future destiny of the territory. It is breite the journey Darbongha, a valuable amplification of the prae- Where they were entertained by the tical nature of Mr. MacDonald's-Maharaja. surance.
South Africa
RECORD RAILWAY
EARNINGS
JOHANNESBURG.
New Zealand
MR. NASH EXPLAINS EXCHANGE CONTROL
WELLINGTON.
Mr. W. Nash, the Finance Minister, The South Afrienn Railways curn-explained recently that the steps ings recently reached an all-time taken to conserve the exchange were record of £714,508. General revenue to ensure funda to meet commitments has also taken a sharp upward trend at the latter end of next year.
In recent weeks. Latest Agures The normal building up of sterling show a big advance on those of 1937. by the sale of exports, plus the
These signs, coupled with
avaliable sterling, would be more 11 record gold yield for 1930, are interpreted than suflelent to meet the require-! AR evidence that
ments of traders and other impor- the Union ૧ emerging from the mild recession offers for the next few months.
Over- recent months, and that both railway Importation, however, particularly and general budgets will show nur-last year, had made some regulation pluses at the end of the financial necessary to ensure that it does not year.
extend through 1030.
Mr. Fourie, Minister of Railways, anticipates a renewal of favourable economic conditions in 1930.
Gland Discovery Restores Youth In 24 Hours
Sufterern from logs of shgour, ner- YOUNGER, weak body, Inptire blood, falling remory, and who ire oli nawi wornegut before their time will be
by at Aanvrienu Doctor.
Proposals for the establishment of 17 posible new industries in New Zealand are to receive the consider- tion of Mr. D. G. Sullivan, Minister of Commerce and Industries,
FACES IN
THE NEWS
Nursed Her Theory Regarding
To Life
Sun And Stars
London.
Oldest Organist Retires
of St.
London. Professor Flan Beth, late of The oldest organist in the country E scene is the boat train depar- Munich University and now on the-his first appointment was at the fure platform at Waterloo Station, faculty of Cornell University, U.S.A.age of 11-Wam Stone, London. Time, 4.20 p.m.
has announced his new theories John's Church, Weymouth, inade his A quiet, unobtrusive, little brown-from researchies. regarding heat in last offlchit appearance on boxing: enighted to fosen of a new chand die-eyed woman says good-bye to a friend opinion that just as carbon is burned his retirement he has been presented the sun and stare. ife is of the Day-his 90th birthday. To mark form, having a last look at London.
and then stands alone on the plat-
by human beings on earth for heat flad sho not saved another and power, so it is responsible for the organ so that he may play when-
a key of
church and woman's life in the African bush heat in the sun and stars. In the lever he feels inclined. His two she might never have seen London constant collisions going in the sun brothers, Albert and Alex, are st at all.
between carbon and hydrogen, they organists at Bridport churches. The The woman was Milas Bessie Plant, annihilate each other, and nitrogen three brothers' combined ages total a Canadian missionary, whose home is formed. When this
comes into 224 years.
Cox now discovery makes it possible
to quickly and exully restore vingar to your glanda and body, to build rich, pure blood, to mfrugthen your m and memory and feel the à now mais, En only 8 days in fact, this discovery. which is a home meillele in pleasant.; easy-tutako tallet form, dọa, rwny ¦ with gland operations and begins to build hew vigour, and energy in Roure, Fat la abalutely harmless and, is in Alberta. By her doctoring skill contact with hydrogen, helium Is The ceas of this amazing discov. she saved Mrs. Frances Carter, wife produced and the original erbon gry, enlied Dr. Nixm's Vi-Tabs bag of a Nigerian Government official. regenerated,
natural in action.
teen sa rent in America that it is now being distributed by all chemists hero, under a Euarantee of complete mattri
faction or manas bucks. In other wond,|
more than 100 miles from the nearest town I was suddenly taken ill with
INVITATION
Mrs. Carter is now home In Eng-malaria.
Dr. Niton's Vi-Tubs must make you land, staying with her sister at Chisle- feet full of vigour and energy and frothurst, Kent. She invited Miss Plant 10 to TN 3 BUKET, you merely return the empty mekngo out get your to drop in on her way home from money back. A aperiai, double-strength Nigertu. battle of B Dr. Nixona, Vi-Tabs contaz
Httle, and the guarantos protects you..
"I was on tour with my husband in
if your chemist can't supply you, write the Northern Provinces of Nigerlu,"
with
the
Here is Jor Craston, cloum of Mills' Circus, He is 74 and first appeared on the sluge at three. Some years ago he retired but has come back to take the place of the late Whimsical Walker. He knows the ring business inside out and can even ride the trained horses.
SPLIT ON ETIQUETTE
ONDON socicly is split on a problem of etiquette. Should [women curtsy to the Duchess of Windsor? Since the designa- tion H.R.H. has been withheld from her there is clearly no necessity for anyone to go through this formality.
NAME TROUBLE AT SCHOOL
CANTON, O. "Miss Bessie Plant was sent for Among the 23 members of the and stayed with me day and night recond
Many people have, however, felt grade at Daniel Worley
that since soothing me as the fever made me school are
this gesture of respeel Ave Richards, five rave and storm."
Willams, three Donalds and
gives pleasure to the Duke of Wind-
was anything marvellous in what she among 15
Miss Plant does not agree that there Roberts four first names divided or, and certainty does no harm to boys. The remaining anyone else, it is both amiable and
Individualista polite to bend the knee. their names are not duplicated.
to Muller & Phipps. (China), Lid, Mrs. Carter sold. "When our lorry did. She said: "It was just an ordi- recond-graders. 20 Queen's Rond C., Hongkong. I arrived at Suru, a small native village nary cuse of bad malaria."
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Among the prominent women who have recently curtsled to the Duchess are Lady Diana Cooper and Mrs. Euan Wallace, wife of the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade.
EXPERT
Mr. Duft Cooper was severely taken
to Lask for Úla wife's Inction by 80 authoritative En expert on Court etiquette as the Countess of Pembroke and Mont- Comery, The argument, became quite heated; although Lady Pem- Broke has a queenly imperturbability which
nothing can shake. She was Leven able to keep a straight face when she went to the village institute In Wilton recently and was greeted with this ditty:
One, two, three, four,
Who Is it that we adore?-Lady
Pembrolte.
Five, six, seven, eight,
Who do We appreciate?-Lady
Pembroke.
Co-op Hospital Voted
The
Farmers
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