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LOCAL AND

GENERAL.

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Mont's new City Halk re- Now it is the turn for the The National Association for placing the one destroyed By drefathers of Italy to revolt, and they the Advancement of Coloured bien peiurs ago, was oftleially opened are doing, so in good earnest. People; of New Yoric announces a last month 1 cost £ROULDQUE. Their rebellion is no ingerprize of $1,000, to be paid out,

against bobbed and shingled hair, right, in addition to royalties for. in protesting against controls which met with no success, but novel of negro life, to be written When "the "bead was clear. against those public, dancing by a person of negro descent. Londen "motorist, Aned 40%, at fulaces which have cropped up all Croydon for driving a motor-car over Italy. ut more than 10 miles an hourgla London-roud. Mitcham, suggested that the Automobile Assortation should get 10,000 ears and a them about London for three weeks, info mites an hour.

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The Swedish Government has ratified the protocol prohibiting There is considerable local the use of gas and bacteria in wár interest in the following from it was attached as a rider to the recent London paper, says the Traffic and Arms convention last. Kobe "Herak" A settlement me by the American celegation." han been arrived at in the litign-headed by Representative Porter. tion which threatened between. The protocol is virtually the same Lever Brothers and the negotiated at the Wash- Members of the Lancashiressrs. Branner, Mond" and Co. ington Naval Armaments confer- County Cricket Club, explained that, Counsel were briefed but at the the action of that body in deelding last moment i compromise was not to reserve rents as Old Trafford affected. A million pounds. is

The demand for tonnage to- during the Test Match with Ans- ralls in July was dictatork by the stated to have been the price of replace the destruction of mer- chant ships curing the World War conditions of the ground! » Oki

anve impetus to modern ship- Trafford lacked the stand accommo-

cancludedouilding in China. agreement

Hongkong. tion that was available

between the Manor Company. Shangha Canton, Dairen in some other grounds, and it was widely-known European hot. fact, all the principal ports," are estimated that on the two spends which might have been reserved and the German firm of Siemensdeyeloping an important ship- more than afteen hundred Schuckert is expected to result in bulding industry. In 19:24 there the evention of a new city in were 50, major companies, mostly - spectators could have been necom-Palestine, to be the textile centre foreign controlled, engaged in the madused, The Committee felt it was not fair for persons who had

business. with Shanghai as the reserved seats in the risk of

leading centre. These firms re- cently have been turning out finding their view obscured

large ocean-going vessels, not only erowds who, udging. from previous experience, would gather in front

for use at home but also in for eign countries. ut these stands, "Members' pri- vileges will in no way be inzemerest with

10%

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the country. According to the reement. factories and dwelling quarters for a large number of werkers are to be built near Halfa, which it is planned to make the leading port of Palesting.

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The practice of double entry

The invaluable yearly stock- book-keeping is now 80.

in well taking

the "Publishers established that it is difficult to Circular" show us that, in the Tennessee is not the only realise that there could be a year 1925. 14202 books were phire where propounders of the simpler and easier. method of published in England. This shows theory that man has evolved from keeping account. Yet such a fan increase of 196 over the total the monkey ace anathemrised method is the claim of M. Bu for 1924. The increases were Serbia is now slated for its Boringe Matthews. "In a recent chiefly in the classes of Juvenile, "Scopes Trink" Bainsky Petrone-Benre at the London School of Literature. Law, Military and vitch, tenaher Seer, and famous Economics he explained the Naval, and Selence generally. throughout the Balkans for his underlying principle of a system There were decreases, compared advanced opinions. is to be tried of auto-countancy or first-final with 1921, in Fiction, Fine Arts, before the local judge of a little entry book-keeping, of which he and other general works. The village hamed Vranja" for declar- is the originator and which, he crease in the number of novels ine it to be a scientific fact that aid, had been thoroughly tested published is probably the most in- mam descended from a lower for over a number of years." In the teresting feature of the year, but of life. The trial is at the in-new system the usual array of day with a total of 2,769 Fiction can- stigation of the clergy and ity books, joumals. cash-books, and bat be said to have done badly.. of Vranju Petronevileh is to the like is done away with all Otherwise, it is very satisfactory appen to the Minister of Public that the auto-countancy book-to say that, in spite of economic books were Instruction of Serbia if the ver- keeper needs being two specially- depression. more. diet goes against him in the lower headed ledgers and a quantity of pubitshed in 1925 than in any pre- court. It is a pity if he said it ordinary blank invoices in tripli-vious year of British book pro-

cate.

duction. was a scientific "fact."

SOCIAL

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PERSONAL.

The late Woodrow WHson held A cnbc from home announces the learned in Paris that there death of Mrs. Reid, wife of Mr.is no ground for giving the slightest more aniversity degrees than any

Reid, formerly of Alexander

the London report othersindividual of modern tintes. eredence to Mealster and Company, Singapore. published there that Lord Reading according to V." Lan ing Collins, may succeed Lord Crewe as Am-Seeretary of Princeton Univerzity.. American and ning bassador at Paris and that the Eighteen latter is retiring owing to reasons

European universities had canter- of health. Lord Crewe's health is ved degrees upon hip, excellent.

"Brollies" are the newest vegue among Oxford undergraduates, and are ousting "bags" from popularity. To be seen in the street without an umbrella is almost to appear uni dressed, so universal has the fad become p

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A verdict of death from progres- sive exhaustion dating from an accident 40 years ago was-return- ed at a Walsall inquest on James Thornhill, aged 5. When 18 years old Thornhill was injured in the chest by a piece of iron blown from the fire by the explosion of a fre work. He never fully recovered, and gradually became weaker.

During his stay in Sandakan Mr. Somerest Maughan, while motoring along the Batu Lapan Road with the Resident and Capt. Rice-Oxley, was afforded an encounter with a handryad. This snake was just making off into the jungle, having XXXcrossed the road.. when it was

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Mr. V. S. Maxwell, elder son of Sir George and Lady Maxwell, hasf been given his half-Blue for gol at Oxford "and will therefore be playing against Cambridze

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March 23 and 24 Playing Southfield on February 17 he won the gold medal, scratch) given annually by the President of the Oxford University Golfing Society."

Senor Fulgencio Borromeo, who has been connected with the Bank of the Philippine Islands for 13: years, has been elected President and General Manager of the bank to succeed Mr. Nolting, who is now in the United States. romeo is the first Filipino to be elected chief executive of the in- stitution.

Mr. Bor-

Sir Montague Barlow has return- ed to London after a prolonged tour Ceylon, Malaya, India, and Egypt. While in Malaya he, was able to carry through successfully the negotiations between the Sultan of Perak, the Federated, Malay States Government, and Mesars. Armstrong. Whitworth, and Co.. for the erection of, an important hydro-electric installation on the Perak River.

The foolish and mischievous- cock-tail habit has spread, espe cially among girls and women," anid the Bishop of Peterborough at

Recently in Northampton..

hotel lounge he saw a young fellow and twe young giris drink two cock- tails each before they went into dinner. There was much excessive. who drinking among people" possessed too much money and too much leisure.

Charles Chaplin is coming to England again and it is safe to

In 1924 a girl of 17 was prophesy that, despite a "crush of engagements, he will find tine knocked down by a taxi-cab in to visit Marie Tempest, for she Brussels, and suffered injuries has long been a particular idol of to the face, neck, chest, and left Some of the facinl the great film star. When Marie Tempest was over in America blemishes remain, and the girl Chaplin entertained her to dinner has just been awarded by the and confessed that, she was "the" Court 20,000 francs damages. one person he had always de "on the ground that her beauty clared he would entertain when has suffered to the extent of 20

Thus cenit."

w beautiful he had made good. Chaplin told per E. H. Adams acted as best, man. her that in his early days, when face in Brussels is valued A wedding tiffin was given at 16 he used to make and sell paper 100,000 francs. Seymour Road, which was especial-

Mr. Hugh F. C. Colman, of the Works Department of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, and Miss Doris Mary Hirst, of Water Orton Birmingham, were married Monday last in Holy Trinity Cathedral The bride was given away by Mr. J. A. Offor and Mr.

boats at the foot of Ludgate.

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ly decorated for the ecessity and hill, he used to save his pence bishop and a famous surgeon is

A swimming race between following that Mr. and Mrs. Colman and go in the gallery wherever promised when a new swimming left for Hungchow on their heney Maris Tempest was singing. moon trip...

| bath is opened at Leeds High School for Girls in September?

Mr. A. White Muconochie, hend Sir Frederick Lugard, who The bishop is the Rev. Bernard of the provision Arm that became has just celebrated his 68th birth-O. F. Heywood, formerly Vicar known to millions of Service men day, first saw service as a of Leeds and now Bishop of during the war through the famous soldier under Lord Roberts in Southwell, and the surgeon Sir Maconachie ratión, died after an the Afghan War, and served in Berkeley Moyniham. Sic Berkeley operation in a London nursing home. Burmah and the Sudan before is famous for his cancer work. at the age of 71. The business entering the Colonial Service. His recreations are golf and began in a small way, the Macono He was a Colonial Administra-swimming, and though he is 66 chie brothers originally being fah tor and Governor successively of he pursues, both vigorously. He dealers at Lowestoft, and fish was Uganda, Hongkong, and Nigeria, is the son of a V.C. Bishop the first thing they preserved. In 1902 he married Miss Flora Heywood is nearly 55. The race. Now their canned goods in hun Shaw, whose journalistic cone the sequel to statements made dreds of varieties are familiar all 'nection with the Colonies was the some months ago at a bazaar in over the world. For many years subject of much interest, and dis- aid of a fund for the construction the firm have been Army contraccussion at the time of the of the baths Sir Berkeley then tors, and during the South African Jameson Raid. These days Lady Ladd he had received a challenge War, when the commissariat Lugard lives at a charming house from the vicar as he then was. department was not so efficient as in Surrey where she makes a Both of the competitors have now it is to-day, many of the troops hobby of a market-garden bued expressed their intention of keep ware fed on canned rationa,Se

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