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LOCAL AND GENERAL

The return of notinable dis

for the 24 hours ended Thursday show one Indian case off enterio fovoy, and one Chinese case of cerebra spinal fever.

A District Court-Martial, will (assemble' si Minray Burracks' on Tuesday next at 11a.m. for the trial of Gor. G. F. Bettioy. H. Q. and D.E., R.A. Major F. G. Hyland, M.C., R.E., will preside.

Certificates of Naturalisation were issued during' 1924 to 935 aliens, recently.

Devon Insurance Committee has refused to give a general ruling admitting brandy as a medicine chargeable to the @drug fund, as such a decision "might cause a tremendous rush,”

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· S36, the ninth German destroyer, has been raised at Scapa Flow.

A bridegroom of Higham Ferrers, Northants, gave to his bride a present of a box containing. a thousand threepenny piecos.

Having been unable to wilk for eighteen years, May Caroline A tale of thrift as practised by Henwood, aged 36, of - South * German was told by Captain Ealing, has now made an do!

·A theatre devoted to the "pro-CT. Foxcroft, M.P., to à Bath expected and complete recovery duction of intelligent drama" is to audience. He met the German in and is known to her neighbours as be run in Leeds and no charges of Switzerland and the stranger said:"the miracle." admission will be made. It is to You will be interested to hear be called the Leeds Civic Theatre, I am on my honeymoon." Captalo A roaring subterranean river and many leading citizens have Foxcroft congratulated him and, and gorgeous stalactite caves have promised their support The ex-added, "May I be presented to

been found by Mr. John Churchill, ponses will be met, it is hoped, by your bride?" "I am sorry," said of Cambridge, beneath the bleak. collections to be taken at each the Gorman, "but it is impossible. slopes of Ingleborough, Yorkshire. performance. Five productions There was not enough money for In one cave there is a crystal will be given at the Civic Theatre us both to go on the honeymoon" cascade amid mlactites of orange

and grey. during the winter months and it is hoped to get 5,000 people to attend each of them.

The Department of Commerce announces that traffic accidents Stoke Newington claims to be last year throughout the United "The Model Borough "of London, British people will have to States caused 25.000 deaths, in- and if the conditions offered to a rely on for ign imports of meat to cluding those of 10,000 children. domestic servant by, one of its * Areater extent than ever be. Seven hundred thousand people residents are general, then it is so. This resident advertises for an cause of the serious decline of were injured, while damage to cattle raising in G eat Britain.. At property is estimated at £too,"experienced general," and the the annual meetings of the 1000,000. Traffic disasters include conditions are:- National Federation of Meat railways, motor cars, and all other Traders' Associations it was stated forms of transit. Mr. Hoover is that since 1916 stock had declined now directing a national safety in England from 18,000,000 to campaign, and a conference of a year. The thusand delegates from all parts 14,800,000 head last decreas ia Scotland was about of the country will be called this 200,000 head and in Ireland the summer to discuss plans for over numbers had allen from 3,700,000 | coming the evil: 10 509,000

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But no doubt some, applicant will complain of the omission of a motor.car.

Mr. Sol. H. Goldberg, presi-

Saint Francis of Assisi, the An open competitive examinationdent of a big hairpin manufactur- for Eastern Cadetships in the ing company in Chicago, has apostle of poverty, is to be honour Colonial Service, will be held in arrived in London to start a branched all over Italy on: October 4 this London in July and August, next. factory. Ho predicts that bobbed year, in commemoration of his The number of candidates to be hair will be unpopular in England seven hundredth anniversary. Mr. selected will not be less than eleven, within 15 months. It is already Mussolini, the Italian Premier, has viz. nine for service in Malayu becoming disifked in the United sent this information to the Mayor and two for service in Ceylon. In 'States, he says. Mr Goldberg also of Assisi, according to a German addition it is expected that two told a Dally Mail reporter: Bobbed wireless message. It is curious to enandidates may probably be re or shingled hair is going out of note that mankind continues to quired for service at, Hongkong fashion because it makes women pay homage to a man who even | Candidates for Ceylon cadetships look gawky; it makes them look threw away his clothes, in bis must be matral born British sub-all alike and tends to make them ardour of self-renunciation. And jects, either of pure European or bald. Women wash their hair too Mussolini of the Iron hand will Ceylonese descent on both sides or often, but they do not give it the lead in the praise of one whose amount of brushing and tenderness was such that the birds of mixed Earapeuti and Ceylonese same

general attention.

(according to legend) flocked to descent.

him for refuge."

SOCIAL

Professor C. A Middleton Smith, is a passenger on the Majwa which left for the north yesterday.

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A Chim Press Radio says that Mr. G. Bernard Shaw is ill from the effects of a cold and hit his | condition is serious.

AND PERSONAL.

Bishop J. Taylor-Smith, Chap- lain-General of the Forces, who visited Hongkong some years ago, has retired.

Pola Negri, the Alm actress, wears an engagement ring, but refuses to announce her engage- heat or disclose her fiancé's name. Professor Brown of the UniversityThree months of refection, to be left yesterday by the Empress of spent away from the loved one, Russia un Home leave. He hopes to retirin Febrowy.

The Right Hon. John Burns, M.P. for Battersea for a continu-

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term of twenty-six years, must now be reckoned as one of our distinguished bibliophiles. He is known to be the possessor of a number of valuable first editions, and as a booklover he is a frequent visitor, in pursuit of his hobby of collecting rare volumes, to the second-hand should make a girl sure as to bookshops. John Burns, the old whether or not she really wishes Labour leader, is also to his to announce her engagement to credit it is recorded a generous Among the passengers who left fim" she said to an interviewer in donor; he has just enriched explanation of her silence. This Battersea library by a gift of one on the Empress of Russia yester should do much to prevent divorce hundred and twenty-five books. day were Mr. Eldon Potter, Mr. after the marriage step has been Findlay Smith, Mr. J. H. Back-taken." She hinted that her film house, und Mrs. M. Bremman .'

Princess

"I cannot belleve that it is right to say when a human being dies of a physical disorder that it was God's will to take him.' IfI said that I should feel that I had blasphemed." declared the Bishop

stationery.

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The charge made

career would come to an end with John Redmond, among other her marriage. "No woman," sheepisodes in his chequered, life, As Mr. E. J. Oakshott, of the said, "should attempt two interests, was sentenced to mooth's There was no Sungei Patani branch of the Hong-a husband and a career as an imprisonment.

book in his cell except perhaps kong und Shanghai Bank, has gone actress, at the same time."

the Bible. Wearied of enforced on leave, Mr. W. H. Bredon has

idleness, he took down the placard gone from Hongkong" to take his

which contained the rules of prison, place.

and worked out some sums on the back in trigonometry. The atten News has been received in the

tion of the governor of the jail was Colony that it is not likely that

called to this fact; the governor Dr. L. E. Mitchell will return to

ruled that it was a breach of order, his duties at the Alice Memorial and of St. Albans, speaking on and Redmond had to undergo Affiliated Hospitals in connection spiritual healing at St. Albans punishment of three days on bread with tho London Missionary Diocesan Conference, "If physical and water, Society,

disease is God's will and desire, against him was that he had why. asked the Bishop, "did damaged Her Majesty's property Mr. A. E. Holmes-Brown, Christ, who came to do His will, by defacing Her Majesty's Captain of the Malaya Interport fight against it and heal the sick?" cricket team, which visited Höng. No medical practitioner would kong init senson, who has been claim to have healed or cured seriously, ill in the Kuala Lumpur anybody of disease. All he could

Major Beith, brother of Mr. B. D. General Hospital is leaving for claim was that he had helped Honie immediately.

Nature to do her own work of Beith of Messrs. Jardine Matheson bealing. As a Christian, the & Co, Ltd., relates how, daring Bishop believed what the phy, his lecturing tour in the United siologist called Nature's laws were States, he spoke 421 times and God's Jaws; that disease; and seldom twice in the same pince. disorder in the physical sphere He found that the only way to were as much against God's will manage things was to have five set ber nume, My dear little as disease or disorder in the speeches, A to E, and to deliver Diamond Jubilee baby," Queen moral or spiritual sphere.

them as required. On landing to Victoria called her, because of her

Texas he was met by a resplendent arrival just before that famous

side-de-carap, who addressed him celebration, and King Edward, for Women with bobbed hair and with such fervour that Major Beith the same reason, desired to have wearing talls are to be found felt compelled to give him "E." her numed" Diamond." After due among the Nandia tribe in Uganda. At military headquarters the band consideration, however, this was according to Mr. A. M. Creighton, burst loto "God save the King" as considered too great a departure an American business man who he approached. The General said: from tradition in Royal nomencla has just returned to Paris after a "This is Major Belth, of the ture, and the Princess was christen-hunting trip in the jungle accom-British General Staff. He will be ed Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary.panied by his wife, another woman entertained at luncheon and will: and two friends from Boston review the 81st Division as they A rehearsed incident took "The women are as savage as they march past, Major Belth will now place on the return of the King were a thousand years ago, be address the company.” He realiz and Queen from their health cruise said. They wear no clothes, entesa ed that there was a miitake outside the station when an old the talls worn by the women can somewhere, but he gave them ";B: Bower-seller threw a magnifio at be placed in that category Their At the public luncheon be deliver Afterwards he took the bunch of red roses into the open hair is bobbed and bullf up into ; ed "C.? carriage in which the King pad fantastic shapes on the top of the salute of the Bist Division; prz Queen were driving back to the head. The tails look real. Ap. that nobody at home Palace Chestowel thesides the "parently the stalls are supposed to about it King who smiled and passed them have some mystical effe

Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, who celebrated her 28th birthday, on April 25 narrowly escaped laving her age denoted in

to the Queen The Queen, not never touched, and

having seen where they came from, half, stood up in the curringe to discover their origin, then bowed smilingly at the delighted flower- girl ainid denfeming cheers from

ning both

era at her troops

in the opposite: night ho gay

lectures intone

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