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More Women drive Buicks than any other car because of the striking appearance of this famous motor car." Then comes Buick dependability. A woman knows when she starts out with her Buick that she will "get there and back." Other reasons nre-the comfort in driving & Buick-the velvet clutch action, easy steering; then the power and quietness of Buick's Valve-in Head engine and the safety of Buick mechanical four-wheel brakes.

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The Army official rate of the dollar for all payments fixed in sterling, which have to be made in Hongkong, and on the China Station during the month of October, 1925, will be 2/4.4.

The total output of the Railun Mining Administration's mines for the week ended September 12, amounted to 88,271 tone, and the sales during the period to 69,874

tons.

"At. 1.35 p.m. yesterday, the local American Consulate-General | received the following storm warning from the Manila Obser- vatory-Typhoon in about Lat. 14 N. Long. 137 E., moving West-North-West.

Near the prison at Malang, in Desa Paudeau, a holy well has been discovered, which haa, been dry for years, but it is suddenly giving water, states the Sumatra Bode. The water, which is crystal clear during daytime, changes to red at night. Thousands of natives visit the well for the so- called holy water. A native is supposed to have dreamed that this well will again be dry within a few days and that a native boy of about 14 years of age will emerge from the source from which the water now flows.

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People with tears streaming down their cheeks rushed across the street at Aberyswyth. Once across the street their tears gave place to laughter as they watched the weeping people on the other side. The cause of this enïotional scene was a leakage of ammonia from a refrigerator, in a shop..

"The immediate cause of the present difficulties in China is national pride," according to Archibald Bullock, head of the department of education in the Centra China Teachers' College for the last 20 years, who has just returned to the United States on furlough, The Shanghai riot he declared to be comparable to the battle of Lexington and Concord."

On the authority of the Lon don Chamber of Commerce it la learned that during the holiday. months more especially, the de- mand for young male shorthand writers is greater than the sup ply. The reason is not that there are no unemployed in that calling, but that there is a surplus of in- efficients.

A lady render confesses that she is anxious for the time to come round when she can get to work with her almond-scented whitewash, Is there not, quite seriously, a future for the firm that can perfume its painta? Size: and turpentine in particular cry | aloud for the sachet treatment. There seems no more reason for nasty smelling paints than for nasty tasting physic. :

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Two English and two Ameri- can motor omnibuses, the latter from New York and Chicago, can now be seen in the streets of Berlin, where they make a very favourable impression. were imported by the General Omnibus Company of Berlin, which wants to try them out in the city. So far, the public ap. pears to prefer then to the omnibuses of German make, but it is difficult to say whether this is due to any advantages they may offer or whether this liking is merely an outcome of curiosity on- the part of the public. At any Notwithstanding that next rate, the London omnibuses ap- yeur will mark the 50th anniver-pear to make less ncise than the sary of the Bayreuth Opera German ones, and the American Hours, there will be no Bayreuth ommibuses are generally noted for festival to celebrate the event. their brilliant lumination in the Even the significance of such an evening. anniversary cannot induce the powers that be to relax the cus-

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tom of having the festival on two consecutive years with an inter- mission the year following: 1927, however, there will be a compensating festival with "The Ring" and "Parsifal," while "Rienzi" will be produced for the first time.

So realistic are the "plastic" filmin which the figures stand out as in actual life-being shown at the London Coliseum that one actually heard members of the audience express disbelief that it was a film that was being shown. The fact that at first they were not convinced is not surprising, for the figures that appeared upon the screen in natural flesh tints, amid naturally coloured

sur roundings, might have been those

Philatelists have paid sub- scriptions to everything from a public park to a consumptives' home. Mexico is now overrun with grasshoppers, but is with- out money to combat the plague. So they have issued a special set of stamps which have to be fixed to every letter and parcel, thus! producing some revenue, but the plague will really be "stamped" out in order that philatelists' collections may be complete.

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The German Foreign Office has instructed its representatives | throughout Europe and North America to grant visas free of charge to all foreign sportsmen coming to Germany for sporting compétitions of any description 100 The measure is the result of a re- quest by the German Sporting } 000DONOC The return of the Citroen Union, which also had asked that Mission, which traversed Africa, the Foreign Office take up with has been greeted with enthusiasm other governments the question! in the French Press. For nine of reciprocal passports for Ger- months MM. Haardt and Audin-man sportsmen taking part in Dubreuil have, with their col- foreign competitions.. laborators, penetrated into the most difficult regions of central Africa and have shown that the automobile has a special value as a vehicle of exploration. Their journey has been followed with the utmost interest. There were many sceptics, but it has been proved that the roads traced by René Caille, Stanley, Livingstone and others car now be taken with comparative security and ease, thanks to the motor car. The Sahara is no longer an obstacle. As the result of this mission, many interesting specimens and wealth of documentation. have

The Druses, with whom the French are now involved in Syria, are one of the most mysterious races of the world. They are believed to have sprung from a mixture of Eastern tribes with a' strong Arab infusion, though Druse tradition asserts a Chinese connection. When, in 1016, Hakim Biamrillah declared him- self in Cairo to be an incarnation of the Deity there was a violent reaction, he was killed, and his follower, Duruzi, fed into Syria: hence the Druses. Their faith has been described as a mixture Christianity, Greek philosophy, Persian raysticism, and certain Chinese beliefs.

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"A Syncopated Cocktail" is Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow Church celebrated its fifth birth- the title of a musical revue staged of the late President, was among day yesterday. The evening's by the men of the U.S.S. "Black the visitors, at a recent meeting programme was divided into two Hawk" at Garrison Hall, Taing-of the League of Nations parts, a "Tour of Fleasureland," tao.

Assembly at Geneva.. and a musical and miscellaneous programme.

Paavo Nurmi, the champion dis- tance runner, is now a Finnish knight and the possessor of the White Rose. These honours were conferred upon the athlete by Pre- sident Relander upon Nurmi's 'ro. turn from America and were in recognition of his advancement of Finfish interests through his athletic prowess,

Mr. Eric Rice, Special Commis Lord Oxford's motté for his sioner for the Overseas League, coat of arms, "Sine macula and formerly of Hongkong, macla," represents an Jeraldic organised two delightful concerts term originated in Brittany by in June, at Vernon House, Lon- the Lords of Rohun. A free ren- don,-at which a large number of dering of it is "armour in the Visiters from overseas were pre-modern word from the same root, sent, and a sum of nearly £40 without a blemish"--or Immacul was placed to the War Memorial ate. The "macla” was a lozenge- Fund as a result.

shaped piece of metal used on medieval armour, and this is part of the coat of the Yorkshire Asquiths, which Lord Oxford has adopted. "Macula" meant a spot.

Word has come from Africa

It was due chiefly to the strenuous that Stewart Edward White, the efforts of Mr. H. Ellis, local man-American novelist and sportsman, nger of Linotype and Machinery, was recently badly mauled by á Ltd., who, it is stated in Editor and leopard at which he was aiming. Publisher (New York), acted as Mr. White, accompanied by Dr. linotype operator and pressman, that Arthur H. Young, and Dr. T. two British and one American news. Saxton Pope, leff last March on a papers in Shanghai were able to ap six months expedition to hunt pear when the Chinese employés wild game with bow and arrows suddenly walked out. White mem only. bern of the editorial and reporting an staffs assisted as linotype operators.

The Queen follows with great Interest the fortunes of the island folk of the North of Scotland, and she is, perturbed that there is so much alstress among the women up there owing to the demand for Shetland shawls having fallen M. Briand, a leading figure in The Queen intends to bring about away during the last few yearsz Dr. O'Hara, Shanghai inter: Irish ancestry. According to one during the next few months. Of

the news, has been credited with

a revival of the Shetland shawl port cricketer, was complainant. French genealogist, the ex course, if her Majesty, and the at the Mixed Court against Premier is descended from one Duchess of York once started to Chinese who had stolen the radia Conell Briand, who migrated wear them, such shawls would tor top off his car while it was from Ireland to Nantes, where he soon become the rage again, and standing in front of the American became overseer in a blenching make the lot of the Shetland Club. The watchman at the Club factory. According to Conell women a happier one. had seen the accused take the top Briand's story, he was a descend- from the radiator and when he

was searched it was found in his ant of the great King Brian Bord, pocket. The Court recorda show-

ed a previous conviction against Mias Marcella Duggan, being this man. A sentence of one still a schoolgirl, finds no use for "month's imprisonment was im- Naldera, the house bequeathed to

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Princess Mary is the first mem ber- of the Royal family to be enrolled as an Oddfellow. She has has been initiated as an honorary member of the, Harmony Knaresborough, of the

cliffs of ber of the Lov a great Wood

·· A "picturesque, wedding took market, Containing about. 10 ter Unity of Oddfellows, place-rate StarJoseph's Church, | rooms and fitted with all méces | Society, Lo Shanghai, when Miss Ru Ru Bary modern conveniences it or some Kathleen Carter, daughter of Mr. pleasantly situated on and Mrs. Frederick Carter, of the North Foreland, Dunedin, New Zealand, became view out to sea Lo the bride of Mr. Charles Fred like the late Lott Trick Tay

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