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Messrs. Mustard & Co. sand Sir Leicester Harmsworth, Most of the scaffolding has the China Mail" No. 5 of bother of Lord Rothermere, has been taken down from Exchange Remington Notes. a chatty Jour-purchased the library of the late building and it is now possible to nal of more than passing interest. Six Wilfrid Laurier, and has pre-obtain an idea of what the lower- sented it to the Canadian Govern part of the frontage will be tike ment.

when the building is completed,

The Medical Officer of Health's return for Tuesday.con- tained two cases of enteric fever, one Indian and one. Norwegian (imported).

Another breakdown or cident this morning seriously affected the Tramway Co.'s time- table and intonvenienced those due at offices,

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Booking is proceeding, at Moutrie's for the concert in the Theatre Royal on Saturday next to be given by the distinguished pianist, Mischa Levitski.

Eight students of the Canadian nationals, travell George Washington University ing, third class and returning to are participating in an official their homes front trips abroad by sleepless test af endurance. Two way of New York, no longer wil have completed spells of 85 con- be taken to Ellis Island for secutive hours without sleep, and examination under a ruling made both are still mentally alert and public by the immigration ser- physically active. Six dic 60vices. They will be examined

aboard ship hours' spell."

Although full Information is. Acting on the theory that any product which is popular and not yet available, it is probable hence enjoys extensive sales, that the Australian Government should therefore be taxed, the expenditure and charges against American Congress last year in departments in connection with serted a clause in the Revenue bill the Imperial Press Congress Be With the iden of introducing placing a tax on high priced Mah will approximata £20,000. the family atmosphere into Jongg sets. But then the cross-tween 60 and 60.delegates ace public-houses, and thus reducing word puzzle and other diversions expected from all parts of the. came along and spoiled, the sale of

the consumption of alcohol, the

London County Council have Mah Jongg sets. As a result of granted a music licence to the falling off in sales in the public-house at: Clerkenwell.

popular Chineze dominò game, where visitors seated at tables the tax receipts received there enjoy alfresco. concerts. It is from by the Treasury Department hoped auch working-class cabarets became so low, that there is a pro- will become popular.

posal now to do away with the tux.

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was

Convictions for drunkenness Dr. E. E. Dudding, reformed

in England and Wales in 1924. griminal and head of the Prison- There has lately been some work out at 13 per 10.000-only Cr Relief Society, has been told discussion in the Press as to whe 42 per cent. of the aggregate in by physiclana that he will die ther porridge is losing favour in 1923, according to the official within a year of heart trouble, Scotland as "one of the nacional annual report. In 1928, however, and is offering his body for dishes of that country, for Scot- the number of convictions £4,000 for scientific investigation. land and porridge, in the past, even lower-77.094 as against Dr. Dudding was convicted of a have almost been synonymous 79,082 for 1924. Altogether, major crime and sent to prison in terms. Apparently, however, the England and Wales have 89,087 1901. His theory is that Scottish Labour members of Par establishments possessing "on" criminals, even degenerates, can liament have no doubts on that licences. (that is, where liquor is be made over by a careful use of score, for the Kitchen Committee consumable on the premises)- strychnine. This is Dr. Dudding's of the House of Commons have

one for every 535 inhabitants, own story: While serving my acceded. to the request of those compared with one for every 367. term in the West Virginia Peni- members to serve porridge in the in 1908. In this connection, the tentiary I became ill and tearoom after 9 o'clock in the report says: "In the 10 years, was ordered to

а take evening. Moreover, Dávid Kirk- 1895 to 1904) the dose of calomel. The at- wood, a member of the same com-annual decrease was $86. The fendant made a mistake, and mittee, is to secure the best decrease in the year 1923 was: instead gave me a large quantity recipe obtainable in Scotland for 493.. During 1924; the decrease. of strychnine. Instantly I was that famous dish, and also to will probably prove to have been. convulsed for three days, and im- make arrangements for supplying about 576." The report adde all mythe correct cooking utensils. So that the population has consider eriminal instincts disappeared. I that "the halesome parritch, chief ably increased in this period, was cured, and am convinced it of Scotia's food," would seem still thereby enhancing the import- was the strychnine.

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Dr. R. A. Belilios, who has been on £ tour of America and Canada, has arrived back in Shanghai. Dr. Belilios will again practise in Shanghai.

The Rev. W. H. Foster Pegg, who won the Club championship

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"Mr. Pin Passes By" is being

Mr. Douglas H. Morrison, of Gopeng Road, Ipoh, discovered given by amateurs at Singapore. one morning that a beautifully chased pair of silver rose bowla had disappeared from his draw- ing room. On looking round, it was also discovered that attempts had been made to tamper with

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The Prince of Wales visited a.. new school in Buenos Aires, erected by the Scottish com- munity as a memorial to Scots who answered the call in the Great War. The chief object of his visit was to unveil a memorial: tablet of Aberdeen granite. The Prince was entertained by memi berg of the American colony at the American Club

The sad plight of the old time Sir Henry Gollan and Justice music-hall artist was emphasised E. Finley Johnson left yesterday when the Judge, in giving easy in London County Court recently by the President Madison" for terms to one of them in the pave Amateur Dramatic Club gave its On September 5 the Sandakan Shanghai where they will take ment of a debt, spoke of the "bad second production in a farce in part in the enquiry into the time" they are having. One of Shanghai shooting of June last. the old past favourites, Mr. Leo three Acts, entitled "The Arabian Mr. J. H. Brister is also a passen Dryden, whose Miner's Dream Nights, by Sydney Grandy. The ger on this steamer."

of Home delighted our fathers, dress rehearsal on September 3. Passengers who left yesterday atreets to try to draw attention to Arafura" much to their grati- was not long ago singing in the Was, thrown open to the passen

gers and Officers from the 8.8e- by the "Hakone Marn for the misfortunes of his profession, AC Townsend, Mr. and Mrs to be taken up as a vagrant and the excellence of the show, pro- Europe included. Mr. and Mrs, but, as he points out, he is liable cation and, one might say, with no small measure of surprise at R. F. G. Livingstone, Mrs. M. F

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Hardy has found a young actress After a long search, Thomas who fits the exacting require

Viscount Haldane seldom "Dr. A. G. M. Severn, Assistant who is to play the part of Tess worth reading for their style ments, he laid down for the one when he does his articles are well writes for the newspapers?” but Medical Officer of Health for In Mr. Hardy's own dramatiza quite apart from their Informs Hongkong is leaving by the tion of his great novel, She is "Hokusan Maru" on Monday for Miss Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, review tan to 168 lines in Sun- tion, One of his articles book Japan as part of a general who already has quite a list of scheme evolved by the Health successes to her credit The res

day K. Observer. There were- Organisation of the League of quirements laid down by 65 full stops, this giving a Nations whereby international co Hardy-were- operation between public health officers is being secured

Archbishop O'Donnell of Armagh, the head of the Irish Roman – Cathélie - Church: FRE banned dancing, and in a message to the clergy of his diocese states that he will excommunicate people fangenting all-night dai halls. This

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