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The Exchange Banks will be closed to the transaction of public business on Monday, October 12.

For cheap living Timor is to be recommended since a man is passing rich on 250 a year there, according to a recently returned traveller.

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The news that one of the: new eruisors is to be built at Devonport has been received with great joy, for although the work is unlikely to involve the taking on of any additional men, it guarantees the constant ployment for several years of the existing staff, now numbering about 12,000. It is expected that Admission prices for the 9.15 perthe new cruiser will be up to the formance of Harold Lloyd's great Washington limit of 10,000 tops. comedy "Hot Water"

at the and that she will be laid down Queen's Theatre to-night are $1, upon the slip at present occupied $1.50 and $2 (hot $2.50 as errone by the cruiser "Cornwall." The ously stated in one annoncement) latter vessel in all probability will be ready to leave the slip in February next, in which evant the keel of the new one will be laid down in the following month.

The Chinese Government is about to publish a de luxe edition of the Chinese classics. There will be a few copies for sale at $6,000 (Chinese currency) each, and the rest will be donated to libraries in China and abroad.

"We offer a cordial welcome to the claw of the British Eastern squadron," so reads the legend

on

a packet in which picture postcards are being sold at Amanchashidate. It is rather doubtful whether the honoured crew would recognise itself as the "claw-presumably of the Bri- lion, sys the "Japan Chronicle:"

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The question, What is the queerest address in London? has brought forward an interesting the, subject in the article on "Post Annual," the organ of the postalworkers of London. Prob- ably the queerest one given is

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The Australian-Oriental Line. Gambrill and Ltd., Captain owners of the Es. "Changte" sent out invitations for a reception on- board that ship from five to sever p.m. on Friday last at Manila.

Apparently the fame of our popular songs is reaching to as far as the West Coast of Africa. An "educated" native writes to a Midland firm: "I want be happy, make me happy so too. Popola song say well. Do it now. Me, big black bess man, plenty size gold ring for beloved. Send so long an valuable presont you go."

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If Ken Wood had been in China, the King would not have had to make his moving appeal to the public to avoid littering our parks with paper and other rub- bish. The Chinese regard paper as one of the "four precious things." the other three being pens, ink, and ink-slabs. They pick up every loose scrap of paper: They see if it bears printing or writing upon it, and the remnants are solemnly burned-Candide, in "The Sunday Pictorial."

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Land of Promise. Shoulder-of-mutton alley. Frying-pan alley. Farthing fields. Pickle-herring Stairs,

A good story about that man Crooked Billet-yard.

of astonishing memory, "Datis." A thirsty tourist drank copi The complexity of the post- Some ten years ago a friend ask ously from a roadside spring in man's problem may be understooded him if he liked eggs to which Oregon. A sign that read, "The when we learn that there are 105 The other who frankly disbeliev "Dutas" readily responded "Yes." water is contaminated." had been Park-roads, 77 Grove-roads, 56 ed in his powers, thinking his placed beside the spring. An Victoria-roads, 13 Tennyson- official of the Oregon Highway roads, and 12 Shakespeare-roads, trick, made a careful note of the marvellous answers were a mere Department, driving by, saw the in the London district. There are drinker and stopped to warn him, also 112 Church-roads, streets, question. Then, some time ago, only to be met by the question, and crescents.

he met "Datas" again, and, before "What sort of mineral water is

anything else was said, hurled at him "How?" Without the least this? I never heard of it

"Datas" answered. The average American film hesitation before." The authorities have now replaced the sign with one is by no

accurate "Fried." reading: "This water is not fit to portrayal of the American people. For that matter, it is not an

The Liberal Party, which is drink,"

accurate portrayal of any nationwidely regarded as almost extinct, or race of people. Most of the wor a striking success in a debate sculptures on the building of the characters presented in our photo- at the Union Society of Cam-Lighterage of any description undertaken, British Medical Association,

plays are not human beings at bridge University recently." The which opened his career

the house was as the all, as they are known, and found motion before

It is not the "that this house, rejecting Con- stormy petrel of contemporary upon this earth. British art, will not be trans American film producer who is servatism, wishes to express its of the ferred to the association's new responsible. It is the American unqualified approval

Liberal Party and its aims." The building, now nearing completion public. There is only about one

film in every hundred released motion, of course, was one upon These figures nearly a generation ago caused a furore in staid Eng-which dares to transgress the which both Conservatives and land and were the reproach of all walls of artificiality and absurdity Labourites could unite against the academicians and were even im- which the American motion pic- Liberals. In spite of this, the ture public has erected. The Liberala through by 146 portant enough to bring down the condemnation of the churches. American public does not wish to votes. to 152. Lord Hugh Cecil, The doctors, apparently, do not see the truth on the screen. It brother of the more famous Lord wish to mix up with controversies does not want realism. It wants Robert-now Viscount Chelwood over art. They will not lose on unadulterated hofum. The Ameri--championed the cause of Con their investment,

the as they paid can producers being caterers, not servatism, while

Liberal $10,000 for the sculptures and artists, are giving it to them, stalwart was Ramsay Muir, the already have received offers of From The Film Mercury," a historian, who edits the "Weekly

Westminster." $30,000 for them.

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Jacob Epstein's eighteen

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Hewitt are due to leave England for Hong-, kong on November 8.

The forthcoming weeding is announced of Mr. John Walter: Harris, of the Kowloon Docks, to Mrs. Adola Camino, widow, of Jordan Road, Kowloon.

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A Consulate-General for the Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Argentine Republic was opened in British Home Secretary, in an Köbe on October 1, at 100, Yedo- interview with the London machi. Mr. Francisco Ortis has "Morning Post" last month, char- been appointed Consul-General.

acterised as "premature" the report that a special constabulary was to be recruited to safeguard the public against unrest foster- ed by the Communists.

Head- mitted, however, that such a plan was under consideration, together with other "safety measures."

Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister has now withdrawn his resignation as President of the Board of Trade

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Dr. William Peek, the Manag- Premier. Sir Philip tendered, ing Director of the London his resignation over the Govern Congress of 700 American doc-ment's subvention to the coal in-¡ tors, says: "The whole tragedy dustry, thinking it the proper of modern life is that all the best thing to do, because of his wife's During his stay in Chile, the citizens, the greatest men, are large interests as a coálowner. Prince of Wales received many ▬▬▬killing themselves before their Mr. Baldwin and his Ministers, reminders of his grandfather's flme." He denounces the mania | felt strongly that there was no association with the Republic.

indulgence, in night life. The stances why he should resign, arbitrator between Chile and the modern hustle is just suicide, and and "Sir Philip has cOW come Argentine, and his name is great- a return to the simple life would | round to their point of view. ly honoured throughout, the 38 do away with the necessity for

degrees of latitude over which the many doctors.

Irene Castle's baby is "worth State extends; Conventional all the thrill there is in success; boundaries only exist in the Bulletin No. 200 of the Canadian | all the excitement there is in south, where by the award of Purilio contains the following :- Paris and London and Rome; all | King Edward. in 1902, ne a result Candiary Pucific-As Others Sec the dancing in the world," she of the examination of the dis- Us.

told a reporter who interviewed puted territories by the Commis- her in her new role of Wife of sion, led by Sir Thomas Holdien, Major Frederick McLaughlin, limits were established to lands coffee merchant, and mother of a where the ownership was not blue-eyed daughter now four and otherwise definable, one-half months old. "Sixteen. pounds and only four and half months old,"

The annual dinner of the Lon- I never used to know anything ables to be turned for once and the mother said, don Critics' Circle allows the about babies, but now I'm like an the critics themselves to be criti encyclopedia on them. She makes cised by those whom they are in me humble

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