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BY-ELECTION TEST IN SOUTH AFRICA
Johannesburg.
The Government is focing a stern lest in Lie Parliamentary by elections at Bethal and Pretoria where vacancies have just occurred.
Although the United Party won both seats at Uis year's general elec- tlon, the Nationalists polled well. Their strength has been consolidated
the wave Alnce then by
emotionalism created
Voortrekker Centenary.
af by the
Bethal and Pretoria, City should show to what extent the Voortrekker celebrations have affected
the
Afrikaans-speaking people in their political allegiance. The elections are also important in view of the widespread growth of anti-Semitism in recent months.
Zulu King's Graves-The Historical Monuments Commission has agreed well- to mark the graves of seven known Zulu kings, including Dini- zulu.
and
Mixed Marriages-A petition urging the prohibition of mixed inarriages
the residence of Europeans and non-Europeans in the same tra will be elreulated througİ) – out the Union as soon as the Decem- ber political truce is over. The preparation of the petition was de- cided on at the recent congress of the Nationalist party.
Durban Improvement
Scheme..
The suggestion has been made that the Bluff at Durban should be coٓ nected by a brkige aeross the hor- bour mouth or by a tunnel under the harbour.
AUSTRALIA
JAPANESE AIR EXPANSION
Sydney.
The new Japanese air service from Tokyo to the Pelew Lands, cast of the Philipp.nes, will bring a Japanese air base within 1,500 miles of Darwin and Port Moresby, Papua. This will mean that the Australian mainland will be within and New Gulnen bombing range of il Japanese r terminal.
Experts are pointing out that this expansion emphasises the necessity for Australia to begin the defence of New Guinea, and to station air
js ar build naval bases in the
Gold Production-The value of old produced in Australia for 1931
These LOCAL ARTISTES. photographs, taken by Jaffer, are of local artistes who assisted in the Grand Services Concert re- rently which was held in aid of the dependants of the late Lance
Sergeant Thompson, R.A.
UPPER LEFT. B.Q.M.S. Dicks was popular as a singing comed- Jan.
UPPER RIGHT. A lizzy mo- ment in a comedy sketch present- ed by Dodger Green and Co.
RIGHT. G. Mainy photo- graphed giving an impersonation of Jimmy Durante.
Gas
EXTREME RIGHT. D'Aquino who sang at the con- cert.
Horse Racing Commission.-—Mr. W. the Interior, Parry, Minister of announces the appointment of
will be approximately £1,500,000 Royal Commission shortly to investi- greater than last year. Production gate horse racing, with particulae re- was buoyant, in all State: except ference to a revision of the Gaming Victoria, where there was a decrease Act to meet changing conditions. in yield of 5,000ozs. Queensland had now taken second place of Western Australia in gold production, NEW ZEALAND
HOSPITAL BENEFITS
UNDER NEW ACT
Auckland. Jur
INDIA
AFGHAN MISSION AT NEW DELHI
Calcutta. Afghanistan's Trade Mission to India has created a favourable im- pression in New Delhi. The mission Mr. P. Fraser, Minister
Ullaba, accompanied by Sardur dustry, says he cannot indicate at Director-General of Political Affairs present the date when hospital bene- in the Afghanistan Foreign Ofee. ilts under the new Social Security In an interview with the "States- the Sardar declared that the Act allows the Minister to de-Afghanistan is anxious to maintain termine the date when the arranged foster her friendly relations and ments are to be complete.
to strengthen the existing commer- Mr. Fraser states that further dis-cial ties with her neighbours,
and Great Cussions will take place with the doc-particularly with India torn during January,
Britain.
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SECRET BRIDE, 22, Shipping Chief Fell To Death IS A WIDOW
AINSWORTH, near Bolton, Lancashire.
S the body of Mr. Alexander McKinlay Smyth, A$
nephew of a wealthy Scottish racehorse owner, was being cremated, with that of his mother, at Glasgow to-day, his 22-years-old widow, Mrs. Joan Isobel Smyth, told of their secret Gretna Green wed- ding nearly three years ago.
MR
R. Churles Booth, chairman of the Booth Steamship Co., crashed from his 8011. to death recently cousin's house in Chester-street, Helgravia,
to his A cup of tea was taken
11 is room in the morning, and believed that he slipped and over- balanced while opening the window. Clad only in pyjama trousers and singlet, he was found lying half in the gutter and half on the kerb by Mr. H. B. Hamstend, a labourer, on his way to start work at the new Iron Trales House, at the corner of Chester-street and Grosvenor-place. "He must have fallen just before I arrived," Mr. Hamstead said.
A man and a woman ran out of we went the house cuggestion,
and naked, "What has Her mother-in-law, Mrs. Nel-¡mother's
known as the happened?" I replied, 'Someone's lie McKinlay
died, through a ceremony Smyth,
benediction of a civil marriage at St. come out of the window. Then she broken-hearted, three days af-Bride's Church, Glasgow. Then we said, 'He was depressed last night." ter her son1.
lived in the Glasgow flat."
Mrs. Smyth, daughter of Mr. J. W. Smith, clerk to Bury County magistrates, talked of the happiness that ended when ha 22-years-old husband, a medical student at Glasgow University, was found accidentally shot dead in his uncle's office in Glasgow.
Mrs. Smyth, sitting in the 17th- century dining-room of Ainsworth Hall, her parents' home, bere, inked of her runaway wedding at Gretna
Green.
LEFT LUXURY FLAT Beenuse of her delicate state of health-she is expecting a baby in June-she came to stay with her mother here, leaving her husbandi at their luxury flat in Dundonald-road, Glasgow.
Mr. Booth lived at Mossley Hill- Mr. Smith said: "The day my drive, Liverpool, and he arrived in daughter went to Gretna to be mor-London only on the Thursday to slay ried I was under the Impression she with his cousin. He leaves a widow and Mr. Smyth had gone racing to and Ave children. Haydock Park."
Explosion Wrecks London House
London.
Mr. Tom Booth, his youngest son, said: "My father suffered with his tyes for some years and was blind
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in
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on this eye some months ago was not successful. He did not seem to worry about it and appeared to manago well.
"I do not know whether there was any danger of his losing the sight
Mrs. Smyth, prominent hunting woman and racecourse fashion lender Mr. J. G. Peters, a Poplar Council in the north, recalled her first meet-woroman, smell gas whilst doing ing with her husband at Ayr race-road repairs in Perry's Close, East know he had no other worries." course when they were 16.
"He visitedl
my parenta when we were 18," she said.
of the other eye, but so far us I Chairman of Alfred Booth and India Dock Rond, Poplar East, and home notified the authorities. About half-Co., Ltd., of Liverpool, a member of an-hour after, there was an explo- the Cheshire Lines Committee, and "While he was staying hero in the alon, causing the roof of a house to of the Mersey Docks and Harbour New Year of 1935 we decided to get shoot up in the air, and windows in Board, he also served on the boards married secretly. We went to adjoining houses to be smashed. of Booth and Co. (London), Martins Gretna
3 and Three people have been detained in Bank Ltd., and the L.MS. Railway. Green on January
hospital: Arthur Hill, Mrs. Emily were married over the anvil by Mr.
Marshall and hor grandson Brian. Rennison.
allowed to go "We returned to my home the Three others wore
Dre: same night. Alee went home to home aflar treatment,-they Scotland and told his people that we Joseph and Thomas Hindmarsh, aged were married. It was not until 7 and 8 respectively,
White, aged 19., several weeks afterwards that my
parents knew.
"The marriage was regularised before the sheriff at Dumfries two months later. My mother and Alec's mother were witnesses.
to live apart for a "Wo deelded time, so that Alec could continue his studies at the university.
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Joke. On Purse- Snatcher
Cleveland O. "Our parents decided to keep the Mrs. J. I. Wilson lost her purse marriage a secret, but Alec and I saw to a young man in fashionable subur- each other at intervals and spent our ban. Cleveland Heights, but, the joke -dog to go skupton was on him. The purse: happened tomber 17 this year, at Alec's to contain only 11 cents.
Fish Out Of Water
London. Andromeda, a goldfish, is apparent- out of ly little affected by being water. The fish was found on n bitterly cold day by a builder of St. Leonard's on Sea, Mr. G. Dubois, on the dry bottom of a lank which had heen split by the fenst, in an empty house. A week later Mr. Dubois found the goldfish had turned silver and was stiff. He picked it up to throw it away, thinking it was dead. but it wagged Ita tall. Mr. Dubois look it home, and now it is flourish- Ing and has turned gold again.
POWELL'S WINTER
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50%
NOW PROCEEDING
Discount off Overcoats, Travelling Rugs, Sweaters, Dressing Gowns, Gloves, Scarves, Ready-to-Wear Suits, Sult' and Attache Cases.
Discount off Underwear, Hats and Caps,
· Tles, etc.
Special Bargains in Shoes, Socks, Hose, Grey Flannel Trousers.
SEE WINDOWS
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10, Ice House Street
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Joseph, Joseph
D140 Georgia's Gotta Moon. F.T.
BILLY COTTON & HIS ORCH.
1 Hadn't Anyone Till You. F.T. 0444--Thero's a Moon on the Mountain. F.T.
Any Broken Hearts To Mend. F.T. 00047--Palais Gilde.
Lambeth Walk
F1274-Dicky Bird Hop.
Narcissus
JAY WILBUR'S ORCH.
.CHARLIE KUNZ. PIANO.
VICTOR SILVESTER'S HARMONY MUSIC.
F1260-Music, Maestro Picase. FT.
F.T. Georgia's Gotta Moon.
F1279-Trek Song. F.T.
I Got Love. Q.9.
.HARRY HOY'S ORCH,
.THE BAND WAGGONERS.
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