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A wireless installation is being

of Massachusetts recently disfitted at the Casquets Lighthouse, cavored. a' enche of 195 quarta" of west of Alderney............. Scotch Whisky. Scallop-fishing has become the rage.

An employee of an insurance company who reached 08 before ontering upon his pension was re- ferred to by Mr. C. F. Warren, at the Institute of Actuaries; Staple Inn Hall, Holborn.

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"I am a tectozallery I had some port. That's a teclolak drink,,| isn't it?"-Man accused at Lambeth of drunkenness

The way some girls drake. nowadays, le shameful, but they are not all alike," said Mrs. Phoebe Taylor, of Manchester, aged 102.

On. February 25 the Japanese, would not hurt a hair of destroyer Asashio and several other her. She is a little sister to mo but smaller craft wore to be put said a man accused at Highgate of up for auction. Originally it was working a lame mane.

intended that the destroyer should be used for target practices but other plans have been made

At the Central Magistracy" yesterday, a charge of "being" The Nobe Municipal Office is accessories to the fact of a murder shortly issuing Y.10,005,000 worth conumitted at Wanchat recently or bond to finance projected

withdrawn

two public utilities. The bonds, which Against

Chinamen all over the world: Chinese. They pleaded guilty to will sell for 192 per 100 face have subscribed to a fund to enable a second charge and were remand value, will bear interest at 6 per

Ah Tam, of Birkenhead, a Chinks ed on bail of $100 each.

cent, and yield 7.12 per cent man charged with the murder of his maturing in 23 years. "The issue lewife and two daughters, to be. being handled by the Fujimoto Bildefended by Sir Edward Marshall Broker Bank.

Hall and Mr. J. Grace, M.P.

The Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits has been negotiat

A conspiracy to steal crude oil from the Asiatic Petroleum Company's installation at North Point was detected on Tuesday Dispatches from Korea state night when by means of a pipe that a movement has been started line connected with a tank a large by American missionaries there fo quantity of oil was discharged establishment of a new university into a boat. A Chinese stoker at Seoul. Considerable funds haveing with the Moscow Government. was charged at the Central been raised and it is hoped con Magistracy yesterday with the struction can be begun this year theft of the oil and remanded for The new university would be one week.

devoted to higher education for

Koreans.

The new glass Invented, by Austrian chemists, which bends, The British War Office has dis- Bounces and breaks without splin-tributed medals for services: tering, is soon to be manufactared rendered during the World War to in England. Experts declare it approximately 6,000.000 people In can be made at the same coat as Great Britain, the dominions and the ordinary brittle

gings the colonies.. Nevertheless, there Describing the new substance, the are magazine Motor says it retains ita clarity under all atmospheric con- ditions,, and that in resillienty beats i bobances. Bke a rubber baik,

20,000

for the last year for the revival of a direct de luxe service from Moscow to Vladivostok. It is now reported that the negotiations are: kely to come to a head in the near future, following the failure of the International Trate Conference at Moscow. If things go fight,, it will soon be possible to make direct connections without changing care at Manchul. This will be a big boost to travelling via Siberia.

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persons scattered throughout the world who are en- titled to medals, Eut whom the The contention of Sir Herbert authorities. at the War Ones have Stephens, a noted member of been unable to trace.. Many of Britain's legal world, that London these are persons who have left has outgrown the Thames and his The world's gaveat capital is England for various parts of the proposals for changing the course getting ayer, if increases in the world, including the United States of the historic river Have evoked a number of public places for amuse-but who have left no forwarding heated controversy. Sentimentallats ment be I trus indieation. addresses by which communication, are" replying that the Thames iet

During the London, just as the Pathenon is Theatres, musie halls, movies and could be established: circuses are growing more past year a very large number have Athens, and that it might as well numerous in Paris and the Seine been found through the co-opera-be said that Rome has outgrown its Department, there being. 567, at the tion of the press in Great Britain Seven Hills as to contend that Lon- end of 1925, as against 645 at the and the British Broadcasting Com- don has outgrown its river. Many close of the preceding year. Many pans... but the milliary authorities schemes have been mooted for bars and wine shops also provide have now exhausted their facilities diverting the course of the Thames amusement other than alcoholic, for further search. It is requested where it runs through the metro and in these there were 3011 con- that any one entitled to a medal polis, these proposals including Juring shows, 450 balls. 336. fnatru- who has not yet received it, com-underground channels and a dani mental concerts and 1070 grame- municate with the medals branch, above the city to maks. the river

provide. water-power. phone or other mechanical concerts. War Office. London.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Lord Dunaany; the author of "1" uses a quil when writing.

Miss Sibley, the 17-years-old victim of an necident, last words were, "Take my pay out of my pocket and send it to father; he will need it."

For the first time in the his- tory of ladies Hockey, a team of English players will visit Gar- many at Easter, and will meet a representative German team at Hamburg. They will also play Capt. G. Day, M.C.. has re-matches with several clubs in alingulehed his commission in the Belgium.

S.V.C. It is understood that Ko is not returning to Malaya but re- mains with the A.P.C. at home,

Mr. Charles Sawyer of Grafton St, London; is asking £500 for the real musket or firelock be- longing to the real Robinson Crusoe. accompanied by pedigree authenticating it to be the very piece used on his island by Alexander Selkirk.

The committee of the Y.W.CA Mr. Kingdom Ward the na- turalist was to leave England on at Kuala Lumpur has received the February 18, for Rangoon where offer of a donation, of $250 towards he will journey up the Irrawady Lady Maxwellfs Appen Fund, on

be

England's unusually cold win- ter is making dress designers un- easy about the length of skirt

have women of fashion hereafter will accept. Frosted knees given the extremely short skirt

to the frontiers of Burma and the condition that three persons setback in England and there same is less disposition to talk un- Tibet en behalf of the Natural will each subscribe the

The object of the fund favourably about the skirt which History Museum and Kawamount.. Gardens. He hopes to return to is to provide for the services of a falls well down toward the England with specimens in about trained organising secretary to ankles, especially for street wear take charge of the Hostel, and the Lop-sided gowns have been ruled a year.

work of the YWCA generally, in out by London women. The ehop windows are filled with Kuala Lumpur pi

gowns, at greatly reduced prices, heavily trimmed in such a man- ner: Women regard them as up- setting to the natural beauty of the figure...

According to present arrange- ments Prince Henry will visit

The following officers, who took Australia in the summer in order

last examination.in the to represent King George at the the opening of the first session of Malayan languages, are now quali the Federal Parliament in the fed to be second class interpreters new capital. This is the first in that language Capt.. B. B. occasion on which Prince Henry Edwards, M.C., R.E., and Lieut. has visited any of the Dominions. He will be away for about Borderers (Malaya), Capt. CR eighty-six years, whose family Spear, Indian Army, qualified as income tax payments show that months:

first-class interpreter in Chinese, he is still the richest man in the and Capt. H. Bell, R.A.0.0 world, has sent to the Early his own composition, summi ig up passed the examination in Col- Settlers Association a poem of toquia) Pekinese.

his life philosophy The a880- ciation invited him to attend its reunion, but he was unable, and instead, sent the poem ns follows

D. M. Noyes-Lewis, South Wales, Mr. J. D. Rockefeller, aged

The Hector which left yester day for London had a large passenger list which included Capt. J. 5. Thomson, Mrs. Pau! Lauder and children, Mr. B. D, McCallum, Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Russell Mrs. W. A. Hannibal, Miss V. Owen Hughes, Mr PAAW, F. Milis, and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McHutcheon,

Those leaving by the P. and 0. 8.9. Mantua on Saturday for Home, Include Mr. C. W. Jeffries, Chief Assistant Royal Observa tory, Kowloon, who, with Mrs. Jeffries, Isping on leaves Mrs. and Mrs. E. Ram and Miss Ram Lieut. Col. GFS. Tuko, D.S.O., R.A. and Mrs. Tuke: Mr.A÷H, Penn, of the Bank Line; META Arthur; and Mr. and Mrs. D. Davi

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