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Killed by Wasps in Ceylan..

A big wasps nest en the branch of a tree, a few feat from the ground at tracted the attention of three boys playing by the routside at Verogalle, Ceylon, aged respectively seven, six and five years. The three children armed themselves with long sticks and proceeded to attack the nest.; When the bottom half of the nest bad broken away, a large swain attacked the children. Presently their screams attracted the attention of the boy a fathers who were ploughing in a home, and two native vederalns were called in but all three children died some ten hours later.

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CAREER OF CRIME.

CONVICT WHOM WOMEN WORSHIPPED.

THE CHINA MAIL.

DARING VOYAGE.

COWES TO NEW YORK IN 21-TON YACHT.

MICHAEL COLLINS,

IRISH LEADER'S ROMANTIC. LEAP TO FAME.

Sun of an ox-Sheriff of the City of Two daring Sea Scouts of Cowes- Mr. Michael Collins, "the big fella," Londen, Walter Kirby, aged forty Scoutmeter Fox and Assistaut Scout as the Irish soflists loved to call him,' nine, en augiseer, bos been sent to master Basil Waight-have just had had a meteoric site to fame. Two prison for twenty months, with hard a thrilling voyage from Cowen to New years ago he was ooknown to the

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1922

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

labour, for a systematic course of York, in which they recompanied Mr.-great-majority-of-th: Irish-poo Just landed ex "EMPRESS OF ASIA

frauds on solicitors. He bad as on and Mrs. John B. Keltay in thier writes a correspondent.

| accomplice a wealthy woman named twenty-one" too auxiliary sobooner. Unlike other Irish leaders, be never

Ina Dorothy Hopkins, who'reived yacht "Diablese" on their return graduated in the school of politics. a sentence of four months in the journey.

secand division. Kirby's life story is Tax, who is now on the verge of an amazing one, and is hers told exmanbrod, is a boatbuilder by trade clusively it full:

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Parnell, Redmood 'O'Brien, even De Valera, served a long apprenticeship became a leader overnight. in their trade, hat Michael Collins,

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Only a few years ago- for le je not The couple who faced. the judge and gave up his job and." jumped- at had embarked on a systematic course the chance of crossing the Atlantle in much over thirty--he was a clerk in of defrauding solicitors. Their method the little "Diablesse." Ile had had city bant. He was employed for a time in London, in the Post Office, GENERAL TEMS.

was to call on a firm of lawyers to previous experience, for two years! aud first como iuto promined whom Kirby told a tale that kia Although 81, Mrs. Mary Hughes, of woman accomplice had inherited a ago he volunteered to form ware of the ec during the Easter Week Rebellion. Lunbeds, Merioneth, climbed the house at Lyme Begie worth £3,000 crew of Mr. Washburn Nutting's 15 Frongocl followe), hut after six Rhinog Vawr mountain, 2,4631t. high.and containing furniture valued at ton ketch "Typhoon," which success months Mr. Collins was released, and £1,500. Birby added that Mr.fully made the voyage across the went to live in London, where he

Fund. Hopkins had money in trust to the Atlantic on the return trip from helped to organies a Republican extent of £21,395, and that she drew Cowes to America,

He seems to have had a flair for the house had been sold so long ago perience, in company with anotlar formed after the 1918 elections, the interest. The cold fact was that

Fox immensely enjoyed that ex finance, for, when Dail Eireann was Cowes Bea Scoot named Hookey.e was put in charge of its Treasury. The solicitors advanced money for and he worked his passage

Up to this time his name was 10-

steam. T. He is

mesints colleaguea, and it was not until the height of the trouble" that one began to hear whispers of a mystericua Collins on whoso head was laid a pretty price.

On the war memorial at Camberley, Burrey, unveiled by the Duke of Connaught, are the names of a father and his two sons,

The-Ellermap-liner Andalusian"

us 1017 for £700...

came into celli-ion with nu Amorican Experter"--the couple-soid-they--home from America -on-a-tramp heard outsi'e the circle of his im

steamer on entering Naples Harbour and was damaged.

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were financially embarrassed.

Now that Kirby has been convicted (writers "Reynolda's Special Com miesionir) it is permissible to tell the -Mr.—R-B.—Angus,--the Canadianiuer-story-of-his-life.- fluabeier of Scottish origin, has died. an illness of four month.

In the gilded circles of London's

never content unless bo is on the water, and since his last trip to Aaiorica le has been ung aged building a canoe, of his own design,-in-which-he-proposes at tempting to paddle and eail tight starting on that hazardous adventur when the offer came to join the Was taking to with the British Diablesse in company, with his Cabinet in Downing Street, and with

in a few months he was the Chairman isllow Scous, Weight.

of the Irish. Provisional Government

Suddenly the Truce was declared.

neighbouring field. They were carried pear Montreal at the age of 91 after West End, there were few wore round the British Isles. He intended The next thing we knew was that lie

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Food from the Sea.

sea in The possibilities of the supplying bumaa lood is a problem that is coming to the front as the earth's population rapidly increase, and land cultivatior approaches the limit of capacity. The journal of the Washington Academy of sciences notes that topographic, mineral, for st and other spacial surveys have been necessary in utilizing lands economically, and now it has become important to make a scientific survey to determine the natural resources of the oceans. Sir John Biurray held the belief that the sex is capable of production equal to that of the land. A common estimate is that 1-83 than five per cent of our food is now derived from the era, and if Murray was right, vast possibilities of supplies for the future remain undeveloped and unknown. But we ninet.firat learn what is in the seo, and then how to apply it.

England's Sunless Weather.

The report of the Ministry of Agriculture shows that wet and ean- Jess weather in August retarded the ripening of cord and hindered the harvesting of grain which is likely to be under the average.

In-urance

familiar figures than Waiter Kirby, Always immaculately diesed, always A explosion at a boot and choe with oney in his pockets, be created warehouse in Faringdon-road, E. Csensation wherever he went, blow a large plate glass window and boxes of boots into the road.

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The coal output in British mines for the week ended August 19 was with 5,158,100 tons, compared 3,623,200 tons in the previous week:

Six houses are to be built by the Sur- biton District Council at a cost of 1380 each. Fifty similar honses built eighteen months ago cost £1,100 each.

"There ought to be a method of marking him, so that he is not allowed to givo evidence again," said Judge Cluer at Shoreditch County Court of a witores.

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Six men removing smouldering coul from a broker in the Leylani liner "Nessian" 6,276 tans, at Liver pool, were affected by fumes and löken to hospital.

Negollatione e in progress for the purchase of the Peuple from fir William Madge by a syndicate beaded by a prominent Conservative member

of Parliament.

Mrs. Jessy Brown, of Wroughton terrace, Church-road, Hendon, NW,, hus celebrated ber 101st birthday For her birthday dinner che chose pork, favourite dish.

companies isening lavius Policie have during the present year been compelled to disgorge some of the profits with which last year's drought prescuted them. It is estimated that

For robbing a blind man of the demands exceeded the normal by fifty per cent. ia connection with gramophone and records which he sporting events alone. Heavy insur played in the street, Reginald Gold, arces were placed in respect of Ascol 22, was sentenced to six months' hard- Henley Regatta, and Lords, while labour at Old-street Police Court. county cricket clubs have lodged claims totalling 15,000. It is stated that the most ambitious county was Glamorgan, who possibly with some premonition of its senson's fate, sought to insure gates heavily, but the company declined to quote rate: until they saw the teatus. Foreṛnner of the Cinem.

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He first came under the notice of the police in 1890. This was for a mi or offence. The matter was kept quiet because of his reationship with A well-kuowa magnate of the City of

London.

SENT TO SOUTH AFRICA.

It was dermed advisable to pack' this scopegrace sou off to Suth Africa, He was made what is com monly called a "remittance man." Far from Old England's shores he led a wild life and gambled heavily. Luck favoured him and be returned in his possession. to England with more than £10,000

Another young mariner to acconvirtually the first Irish Premier any Mr. and Mrs. Keilez was Mr. since Gratia, Robert Fitzgerald Somers Somerset For such a record one searches (con of Captain II. C. Somers the tomes of history in vain. Botha Somereet a yacht owner and member was in a different category altogether; of the Royal Yacht Squadron) who so was Smuts. wass Guards officer in the war and gained distinction, and has had sen experience in a fishing trawler in the North Sea.⠀ .

Anxiety for the safety of the Diablessg's" gallant crew was set at rest by the news of the arrival of the yacht at New York just sixty. five days after ber departure from Jowed.

Where this money went cannot! She made the journey across last be stated with certainty, but a year from New London, U.S.A., to natural assumption is that he spent Cowes in thirty-three days without & it on living a wild life in the West stop. End.

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This debonair adventurer, whose bewitching smile and soft grey uyes had captivated many wonted, grew tired of London's glitter and went again to his old love-South Africa.

He was one of the few criminals enigma to the who proved an Transvaal Criminal Investigation Department in the early years of this century."

TEN YEARS SENTENCE.

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There was plentiful reason to be lieve him to be the master mind of clever gang of criminale, but the one emall link of evidence ncccesary to'; prove his guilt was always missing until he and his coufelerates held up

à back,

sentence.

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SIX HOURS ADRIEL.

NORTH SEA SUFFERINGS

IN A TINY BOAT.

The crew of the Banff motor boat "Rambler," returning to Scarborough from a night's herring fi-biog, found at 5 am, a small bont in which were crowded 8 men and a boy of 14. Thes wero part of the crew of a French hop- ring boat, the "Felix Faure," 167 toas, ol Fécamp, France.

They were utterly exhausted, and said they had been drifting for six hours when they abandoned their chip de she had spraug e krak and was tiuking.

They stated that l members of their crew, including the captain Ernest Ledu, got into another boat. Men in nearly every walk of life The Rambler" searched the area, but are opplying at the Guildhall, J.C.' no trace of the other boat could be

for the job of Inspector of Pavements found. to the Corporation of London. The

Skipper William Lyall, of the old inspector has retired on pension. "Rambler," stated that it уда The salary is 1200), rising to 1300.! wonderful that the little boat hud kept The inspector will wear an unposing afloat. It was completely packed torm of superline 'ue ceth, with, with men," be said. The boy was a shich of the City of London on one covered by his father, who in an effort lapel-of-the-coat-and-a-nent notificato keep him warm was practically tion in gold of "Favement Inspector" lying on him. It was a bitterly cold en the other.

night and three was a heavy swl."

Kirby received a ten years

Many women went to great lengths Pen, who has retir.d from the try to send costly bouquets to his The post is not a simple one, but it i League of Nations on it point of cell; plactographs of tin were add at carries with it the privilege of being dignity, oxes the current year's contribution, £10,700, plus $10,000 premium; and a woman who could ad Freeman of the City, of

boast of having been stikd at by London. This costs ? 17%, GJ.." i wing from the second and third fiscal Kirby counted herself exceptionally Some of the inspector's 44 dutica

fortunate and was greatly to be envied are: years,

Notify street pig faults; by her fellows.

In memory of all those of the Allied armies who fell on the Somme battle

fielda, a church is being built at Bau- court Bettchavesnes. The inaugural ceremony took place on Sunday, October 22.

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It was slater of a man summoned

for neglect of his four children at Stratford, E., that he owned a motor cycle, was in strrars with his rent, and had not had a bath ince Armistice Play.

SENSATIONAL DANK RAID.

Sea that no street is closed, or in terfered with without the sunction of A group of wax figures, used in

Following his release be for a while the Corporation; and that the carriage Chinese shadow shows a thousand

gave no trouble to the police. ways and (cotways are properly years before Christ, is to be seen at

for his unites und undoubtedly he bad Numerous women admirers butthd. maintained. the exhibition of film relics" opened

. Keep a watchful eye on the herbe, to the public at the Science Museum

from them all the money he required. area gratings, cellar ; a, and the South Kensington recently. Another

Then come a recurrence of serious like; notify the police, when necessary notable exbibit ii au original of the

crime, and the police suspected Kirby. to stop up say street and to divert book written in Latin in 1010 in

Ta ons bank raid, which he is suppos traffic; ace that street number tablets whieh Anastasius Kirchner describes

o3 to have organised,

are maintained in proper condition. his first magic lantern. Nearly

the raiders stood on the couster had

The inspector must enter daily in Centuary ago. Dr. Koget, the famous

liced point black at detectives who memorandum took un account of the scientist, put forward his theory of the|

had been summoned to the scene, hoarding and scaffolds, and he must persistence of vision, which is the

Investigations are being made by

while bank clerke from the back of zote the hour snow begins to fall and faudamental principle underlying all the King's Proctor into many rates of the building fusilladed the raidere. censea, and measure the erowfall at moving pictures. Following ou alleged collusion to obtain divorces. A completa haul by the detectives various parts of his district, Roget's work, Sir Herschell construct says The Weekly Dispatch. Many of all the participants in this raid ed his scientific toy, the Thaumatropa attempts to hoodwink the Divorce practically put an end to the Kirby

diso which, on being twirled with Court have already been revealed. gang and soon afterwards Kirby be! "The fingers, showed a bird apparently

stowed the greatest benefit he could within a cage. There are many exa

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With a speed of 83.49 miles an on South Africa by leaving the

ples of machines, u ually in the form hour H. La Vack, on a New Imperial, country.

of discs which, on rapid turning, give broke the five railea speed record for Retursing once tuore to England” an illusion of motion. Friese Green's solo motor cycles at the annual meet-Kirby pursued his career of crime. inventions occupy a prominent pealing of the South-Eastera Centro of At Winchester he met his woman tion, for he was the Father of the the Auto Cycle Union at Brocklands, accomplice, who told bim that she ha Film Trade, and showed the first Surrey.

an income of £700.6 year. The twain: moving pictures on a screen in 1889,

joined forces.

Edison's invention the kinetoscope, The principal newspaper of Hesr did not come along until 1893, when Hugo Stinnes, the German financier,. his first film, the celebrated "Cook the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, bas Fight, was shown Documentary-been suspended for attacking the evidence exhibited that Frieso Green German Government in connection also held the prior patents of the with the decision of the Reparation world in colour and stereoscopic Commission. kinematography. The collection,

which is unique, illustrates the his. The King, who was accompanied tory of the moving plowres fram ing by the Queen, the Dake of York, the earliest Alme down to the present Princess Royal and Princess Maud, day. It belongs to Mr. Will Day, unveiled a war incurial in the himself a film trade ploneer, and has grounds of Balmoral Castle to the taken him 20 years to bring together, men from the Balmoral estate who It has cost nesly £10,000.

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