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blown open and £200 stolen from a Leicester office.

The twenty-first annual gen "Old peoples bones are A safe weighing a ton was eral meeting of the Union Water-extraordinarily brittle. In many boat Co., Ltd, is to be held on cases a fall is due to the fracture Thursday, March 4, at 11 am. of a limb, and not the fracture to the fall Doctor at Wandsworth, inquest on a woman of 78.

In a motor licence case at Towcester the defendant sen: 155; to pay the tine, the balance to go. to the Police Orphanage box." He was fined £1,

The police having no evidence to proceed with the case, a charge of theft of her mistress's fewellery valued at $4,591, from No... 93, Queen's Road Central, against a Chinese woman, was withdrawn at the Magistracy yesterday.

Selangor, owing to its larger, Chinese population, heads the States In respect of the extent of Results of the Local Veto pollett liquor traffic. Stills, seized in the parish areas in Scotland in 1926 in the FMS numbered during November and December 224, and prosecutione 1,041. The ast again show a falling off in the total amount obtained in fines was teetotal vote. The "Drys" have||$22,000. succeeded in cancelling six

When Alexander West, hail licences. On the other hand, "Wet" wins make it possible for keeper for Macduff (Banffshire) the re-establishment of 39 Heences Town Council for 14 years at taken away by the 1920 vote. The 8/7d a week, applied for an net result, therefore, is a gain of increase, he said that out of that 03 licences to the Anti-sum he had to provide assistance Prohibitionista

and execute repairs to the hall property. It was decided to in- crease the salary by ten guineas a year or 4/01d a week.

A nicely illustrated handbook of views appropriately named

A Klang correspondent des "Canada, from Sea to Sea," bas been issued by the Canadian cribes a meteor which he saw. These Beautiful phenomena are: National Railways, from the local net uncommon just how and their A new method of raising office of which the "China Maibrilliance is accounted for a money to help the rates has been has received a copy, as well as number of amurt, vory parket follows: The earth in its orbitccssfully pus into operation by is often encountering meteoroids, the local authorities at Wells calendars for the year.

Rnd their velocity is so great that (Somerset) Faced with the the resistance of even the rarer question of accommodating a large portion of the atmosphere quickly number of motor vehicles bringing raises their burfaces to white visitors to the town, they decided heat, this converting them into to provide a place for "parking meteors. The majority are prob- and to charge for the service. The ably entirely dissipated, but some following charges are levied on all pass out of the atmosphere again, motor vehicles parking in the and the remnants of some fall to Market-place: Charabanes and motor-cars, 18.; motor-cycles, 6d. the ground as meteorites."

The charge for a night is 28, -62 Most of the 200 professors,Last summer 15,000 cars paid tolls listening to Professor Spearman accordingly.. lecturing on the measurement. of Lack of discipline among

At à mass meeting of mem children is the cause of poor intelligence in London were "floor- physique, and leads to tubereaksied when he put a simple test tobora of the Government clerical them. He was explaining tests service held at Penang on January aud Dr Di M. Connan, tuberculosis officer of Bermondsex. addressing called "opposites the tester 25. under the auspices of the the women sanitary inspectora says "good" and the tested Subordinate Civil Service Associa winter school at Bedford College:nswers "bad" or the tester says tion it was decided to petition the Children nowadays, he said, were "black" and the tested answere-Government for immediate relief

A film showing pictures of the Ex-Kainer in exile, at Doorn, with drawn" recently after a protest

Sheffield thema, again came in for a hostile reception at North- ampton. A section of the audience took exception to the im, and there were loud cries of "Take it loff" and "It's a disgrace, and

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Bishop Scott is passing through, Passengers arriving per the Hongkong on his return to Peking."Tango Maru" from Australia in

'cluded Mr. Colin C. Black and Whilst in Ceylon Mr. Eric Rice Mr. F. S. Brockman. obtained 108 ordinary and 15 fe members for the Overseas League, At Madras 70 joined

Russian girls are wearing akirta that look like. Scotch kilties in length. The high cost of dress material is given as one reason.

}| While exercising hunters with

President Hindenburg is des- the Duke of York in a field near cribed as a deep disappointment to Melton Mowbray, the Prince of Nationalist hopes in comments of Mr. Robert Whitcomb, formerly Wales noticed an Army remount the ultra-Nationalist newspaper of the Shanghai Office of the groom in difficulty The groomDeutsche Zeitung" on events of International Banking Corpora was riding one horse and leading the past year. "The Field Mar tion, and recently stationed in another, when the led horse beshat in his term of office, says Singapore and Manila, is to take eume restive and got away. With charge of the Bank's interests in out hesitation the Prince dismount this paper, "has not lived up to Osaka.

ed, handed the reins of his horse expectations and our darkest fears to the Dake, got through the fence have been realized" Mr. R. C. Burdin, special repre-on to the road, and recaptured the

The Frenchwomen's gastrono- sentative of the Victor Talking runaway, which he returned to the

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age! At twenty she revels in has arrived in Shanghai for the purpose of demonstrating the new Should either of the daughters shrimps, champagne, sweets and and improved Victor machine. Mr (Jacqueline and Diane) of the late ices. At thirty the same woman Burdin was formerly connected Mr. John Ernest Jewell, of Grove prefers oysters, Burgundy wines with Connell Brothers and has End-road, St. John's Wood, marry such as Pommard and Corton, spent considerable time in South a person other than a natural pate-de-foto gras, peaches, melon China, including Hongkongbarn British subject she will for. and almost every good dish. At felt her interest under his will forty madame displays a prefer Members are requested to send Mr. Jawell, who was it one time once for vichy water chicken, names and addresses of guests, as proprietor of Heppells, the Weat grouse, Bordeaux wines (white) soon as possible, to the hon secre-end chemiats, left 297,468, the and strawberries.

estate being be tary of Cymdeithas Dewi Sant for residue of the the annual dinner at the Hongqueathed on trust to the daughters. Supposed hidden treasures of kong Hotel on March 1. A fil In the event of the daughters the late Queen Mother attendance is requested at the dying without heirs the ultimate Swaziland, Nabe Talbendi, arð Cenotaph at 11 am. when a residuo gods to Dr. Barnardo's the subject of much native specu- wreath will be paced there Volun- Homes, teers for the musical programme should communicate with Mr! By appearing in one of the latest D. E. Evans, c/o Mustard & Co. dinner coats for ladies Princess Mary has set the seat of royal ap- The British The British Association of proval on another of society's fade. Japan Kobe Branch, gave a dinner Thedinner coat was designed at the Kobe Club in honour of Sir and worn during the recent cold Charles Eliot Forty-eight per-spell, and has proved so popular she and her daughter (who pra sons were present. Bishop Basil that it is being used now that the deceased her) were the only per and Mr. G. B. Sansom were also weather is milder. There are, arons who knew where her wealth guests of the evening. Sir variety of styles, mostly shor ke was hidden Charles health was proposed by man'a "tuxedo and made of Mr. H. G. Macnaughton, President taffeta lined with velvet

lation. She was reputed to be possessed of great wealth. When her husband died in 1889 she took over £8,000. From 1894 to 2900 the was paid an annuity of $12,000 Elways in sovereigns. There was no evidence of any expenditure on her purt, and the story goes that

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