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LOCAL

The Naval aquatic sporta, which were postponed on account of the strike, will take place, next Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

AND

GENERAL

Sydney now claims to be the Afth port of the Empire on the basis of the amount of shipping entering the harbour,

If Britain loses its foreign trade, the county will be over- populated by at least 50 per cent, says. Dear Inge.

The locut organisation of St.

The Union-Castle Line has

Count Callimachi, D.Sc. lec- John Ambalance Brigade are ordered a 12,000-ten passenger

tured on "Trichlorophenylmethy holding their annual swimming and, cargo liner from Messrs.liodosalicyl in Dentistry." at the events at the Victoria Recreation Workman, Clark and Co.

International Dental Exhibition Club's Bath on Sunday morning.

last month.

The latest "bucket shop" pro- On and after Monday, Novem ber 15, 1926, the hours of attend-pasal is the formation of a com- ance at the Garrison Children's Pany in New Zealand for the Schools, will be from 9 a.m. to 12. "Creation of exotic trees. on noon and from 2 p.me to 4 p.m. co-operative principles."

A combined meeting of the China Cost Officers' Guild and Marine Engineers' Guild of China is to be held in the Sailors' Home. West Point, on Sunday next.at 10.30a.m.

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No fewer than 3,500,000 working weeks are lost every year by insured men and women suffer- ing from rheumatic diseases. This startling fact emerges from the discussions at the National Con- Big Ben, which has been ference of Friendly Societies re- undergoing one of its periodicalcently held at Brighton." cleansings, was erected in West- minster Tower so long ago as 1859, and is still regarded as the beated which intends to do for films of A society has just been form- public time-keeper in the world. It may also fairly clajin to be the Phonix and Stage Societies are a certain aesthetic standard what biggest, for although there are at doing for plays. Among its mem- least three clocks in America withers are Mr. Roger Fry, Mr. dials slightly larger each of these Maynard Keynes. Mr. Bernard has only che face, whereas Big which the clock, owes its popular, be given at the Tivoli of pictures Ben has four. The hour bell, to Shaw, and Mr. H. G. Wells. Sun- day afternoon performances will name, weighs 18 tons 11 cwts. with pretensions to sincerity and The pendulum weighs nearly of experimental and historic films. First Church of Christ, 7001b., and is just over 28 feet Scientists arranged for a Dong. Each of the four minute Free Lecture on Christian Science Hands is 14 feet long and weighs to be held in the City Hall on 22416. Friday, November 20. at 5.30 p.m.

The return of the number of cases of notifiable diseases which have occurred in the Colony of ended November gives two Hongkong during the 24 hours

Chinese cases of enteric fever.

A dog has caused the death of William Stoker, aged 77, ` at Cleethorpes. Stoker was crossing

A further announcement will apThe life of a Press photo-the road with a dog on a lead when peir later.

grapher in America appears to be the animal became obstinate, and rather more varied than that or refusing to move caused Stoker to Derby Corporation are

his professional brother in Eng-step into the path of an on coming build 250 iron houses, which have land. For instance, it recently motor yan driven by Vivian Wells, been devised by the Thorncliffe fell to the lot of one enterprising aged 17. Though the van was Ironworks and Collieries, Sheffield. photographer to take pictures of travelling slowly Stoker It is claimed that these iron houses the lynching of

nocked down. His head struck' can be erected up to the roof in Missouri. The lynching mob was negro in

the kerb and he sustained fatal 30 hours..

frenzied and destroyed the injuries.

36A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. KaQQONDDOQhkö[email protected] | Har, threatened to strangle the the covered vans he took, as in

was

cameras of three other photo- On entering the dock at Read graphers, but the successful ad- A budding authoress who ing Police Court an accused man venturer was acute enough to wrote a story of considerable in, greeted a constable, with "Hello, board a goods train, which pulledterest sent it to one of our popular me cook." and during the hearing up beside the tree on which the magazines. Receiving no acknow- the called the Chief Constable a negro was hanged. From one of ledgment, she wrote to the editor, informing him that she wished the story published, or would hế

she, had other Irons in the fire. kindly return the manuscript, as

Imagine her surprise when the story was returned with the editorial note: "I have read your story, and advise you to put it Iwith the other irons."

AN INTENDEDOREM for two months' imprisonment he

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Superintendent, and insulted the duty bound, his pictures of the

out of the opposite side of the Press representative. When sent gruesome scene and then jumped

threatened the magistrates and train with his plates concealed tried to climb out of the dock. inside his shirt. In that way he After a five minutes' fight with 'reached a motor-cár which whirk four constables, he was removed, ed him away from a zone of con- to the cells shouting.

SOCIAL

Dr. and Mrs. Koch returned to the Colony yesterday by the "Empress of Russia."

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Isiderable danger.

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PERSONAL.

Mr. Saklatvala, whose "reddish tendencies have recently forced him to the fore, belongs to a wealthy Parsee family of Bombay He came to England in 1906, at the age of 31, and was a Liberal before he joined the Labour movement. He married about 16 years ago into મ British working-class Mr. A. Hyde Lay, Mr. S. Long-family, and is the father of five field, Capt. F. Baylis, and Mrs.children.

Sir Claud Severn, the former Chairman of the V.R.C., is to be

members on Tuesday next.

COL PODE ADU ANE PAE ANI DOLD BUT DAL VON OBEDNIKA KREMERALD STELLE BEREDNINGSORRENTON presented with an address from

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and Miss F. C. Jenkin arrived in the Colony by the "Empress of Russia" yesterday.

Captain: Ronald Amundsen, the great Norwegian explorer, has not wasted time over the prepara- tion of the story of his recent Expedition by air towards the North Pole. Measra. Hutchinson announce "My Polar Flight" for publication almost immediately.

A forecast has been made by the large body of officials of the American Passenger Traffic Asso- "Sometimes a man comes along fish Tales and the Continent of ciation at present visiting the Bri- who has the unique ability to en Europe. namely, that 1925 will be large himself. We cannot see the Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Blair agend of him. When we make his The fact is undoubted that the record year for Atlantic travel. nounce that they have severed acquaintance we go on a journey steamshompanies have been their connection with the East- which may be long, but is not badly hurt by the immigration bury House Hotel Northwood, exhausting, and has great laws of the United States, and | Middlesex,as.from November 4. variety of views. Such men are they are having to look around for ¡rare. Mr. Chaplin geems to be other methods to "drum up" busi- one of them. He has made theness. The idea underlying the whole world laugh."

H.E. the Governor has kindly given his patronage to the two pupils' dancing displays which Miss Violet Capell is arranging to take place in the Theatre Royal shortly.

MR. ST. JOHN ERVINE, in the "Observer."

visit is openly given out to be the development of the tourist and excursion traffic between America and the European countries, and these travellers, the largest body Dr. J. A. Hutten, who has been of American traffic men that has

Dr. W. L. Uglow of Vancouver invited to become editor of "The lever visited foreign shores, will arrived in the Colony yesterday British Weekly," has certain ex-doubtless do their best to achieve by the "Empress of Russia" to cellent qualifications-he is a their purpose when they return carry out

a geological, and Scot, a Presbyterian, a man of to the United States.. mineralogical survey on behalf of letters (his first fame was won by the Government.

a. book on Browning), an admir Mr. A. Robinson, an Inspector able and popular writer, and not under the Food and Drugs Act, Mr. T. L. Parkhurst, Mr.. D.least, a man of a merry wit. It is appears to be a really cheerful in- Giobson, Mr. R. Bataon and Mr. true. that hitherto he has not spector. He sometimes sings to R. Gonsalez were among the shown Robertson Nicoll's fair for his victims. When he gave evid- passengers who left for the North political affairs, but that may bence at Cromer in a case in which on the "President Jefferson" latent, yesterday afternoon.

a farmer, Robert Page, was sum- moned for selling watered milk, it was stated that the milk was

Oh, Dorothy, Dorothy Deane, Oh, Dorothy, where have, you

been?

Mr. A. C. Bossoin, who has re- actually sold by his daughter, Sir Paul Chater, who is return- turned to New York is the distin-Dorothy, whose name appeared in ing from a six months' holiday in guished American architect who the summons as Deane, The England, was a passenger on last year presented a tablet to the solicitor for the defence then board the "Empress of Russla" as memory of Sir Christopher Wren asked: "Did you entertain the far as Shanghai. He left the boat to St. Paul's Cathedral. Years ago young lady by singing. at Shanghai, however, in order to he was an official in the Architects attend the last days' of the races Department of the London County and will continue. his journey, to Council at a wage of less than £1 Hongkong early next week.a week. He has now become one of America's foremost architects. Men are notoriously conserva-far as Texas.

with a practice that extends as tive above their clothes, yet they, top, bow the knee before the stern decrees of fashion, even in such A wealthy woman's strange seemingly unimportant details as desire to have a reminder of death round cord shoe ces as opposed in her bedroom has just come to to the flat variety, of three buttons Ught. In the workshop of Mr.

Up in the sky, Ever so high,

Along with a man in a flying

machine.

Smiling, the Inspector replied: "I think I said the first two lines." Then I think you will agree that the recital or singing of those two lines was no part of your statutory duties.”-

Deane to Page, and the farmer was fined £8.3-2

on a tuft versus four. Until Robert Thompson, of Kilbud The name was altered from recently it was chisidered the near Thirsk, is a massive coffin of height of bad form to wear a fine workmanship. It has been white-waistcoat with dinner ordered by rich woman in the jacket, but now it has becomñá,ah. Narthadlerum ferler, t accepted rule for all self-respect- and well, who intends that shall ing, young men's Tate of stand propped against the ward

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