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Summer time will begin, 1. New York on April 25.
"No no Nanette" has been running in London for a year.
"She called me a teetotaller,
1,064,000 gallons of Austra
Han wine were imported in 1925.
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A twenty-five ft. frontage in Sydney was sold at auction for fand look upon that as an insult." Charity "Bag" at Nottingham £85.600.
Mamat Tottenham Police Court. E realised £1,400-w récord..
During the absence of My. EP. H. Holyoak. Mr Ft. L. Lewis will be in charge of the Hongkong Office of Mustárs, Holyoak and Massey.
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Lack, notify that normal working with Shang hat and beyond has been "re-established.
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Nh youths
Mensham, Leicestershire, are "applying for |apprenticeships to tradesmen. although they muy under a charity te thig village.
Building trade rates to apply fotke erection of all houses was the gist of a resolution passed by a Scottish Labour conference at Glasgow.
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The "Comptesse de Flandres' steamer, which went ashore near Beachy, Hend on December 80; has been cofloated and safely berthed.
Nearly half the prisons in the country have been closed down in the last 12 years in consequence of the enormous decrease in the prison population.
A The average salary of market-
Tuesday's" return er notifašle
Post Office savings deposits servants in Tokyo is Y15 a month diseases in the Colony comprised on December 31, were £285,400,- with board and sleeping accom- only one case of smallpox. The 1000, Government stock sold £314-modation charged to the employer, patient, a Chinese." is, ur arrival 038.473. and holders crudit according to statistics. The do- in Hongkong and not a resident £188,775,460,
mand is exceeding the supply, it is announced People aided with Asthmi In an attempt to lift South should "hum" through their noses, Wales from iniquity." magis- A Berlin cable to "The Daily It would help them overcome strates Who consitter ordinary Chronicle" says the Soviets have and eventually will cure the dis-dancing as "dangerous excite-decided to permit women to be ense entirely, according to Pre- ment," barbaric" and "sensuous."officers on ships of their mer fessor Harbaser. well known have forbidden this. "indiscreet" cantile marine. One woman is.to Vienna juryngologist.
pastime late at night.
„be a navet architect in State ship- buliding yards; another is 9- "Vienna coffat houses are in
It is reported from Mysore pointed to be captain of a steam- danger of becoming American-that at a village, a few miles from She will be the first woman ized is the ery in the Tumeus that city some unknown person Sea fleet.
to command a ship of the Black fold capital of the Hapsburgs, has poisoned 25 wild monkeys. whose coffee houses are tradition Orthodox Hindus who venerate the world over. The issue at the monkey, dressed the bodies in stake is whether waiters shall disfuneral garments and took them card their dress suits and sustedes in religious procession through the streets of the city to the remation ground and disposed of which them with Shastric ceremonial One of several pigs mident the garden of MajorThe outraged Hinds are looking | George-Blutchinson'ut Camelferdi for the poisoner,
or hom white coats.
Cornwall..
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Smashed ornanenial ower-of a country, if I may control the Let who will make the laws pets in the ha
Overturned tablese and
Years old.
cinemas.. Mr Snowden, ex-
can railway bonds found by a The £20,000 worth of Amer-
Cheltenham picture house have girl cinema attendant in #1 been claimed. A clerk in a locat business house visited Cheltenham Police Station and said, although he was not the actual owner, he had them in his possession and dropped them while visiting the pictures.
A proposal that all cate Smashed a Chinese vase 250 Chancellor of the Exchequer, thus should be registered by the police, imodernised the old adage at the for a shilling fee, and wear an annual dinner of the fiffent-dentity disc was rejected by a ...tograph Exhibitors Association Glasgow Corporation committee. A Blackburn groter. sam- at the Hotel Victoria Tax on The project was put forward by jmened for såling goods on early entertainmente was bad and the local branch of the Royal Jelosing day, said: "I have con- violated all sound financial policy. Society for the Prevention of #mitted um öffercy in the eyes of the slid It discouraged a Cruelty to Animals. 'The medical jmun, but not in the ofes of my legitimate and very useful form officer reported that the spread of Heavenly Father, who such Six of enjoyment. Thirty million discuse had not been traced to Įdays shalt thou Lobogg and do all people went to the cinema, and he eats to any serious extent, and [By work, but rest on the seventh (believeth that it did more than any that complusory registration day try to do that." He was other agency to promote temper- might lend to increasing rats and fined five shillings.
mice..
ance and sobriety.
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Dr. (AN, balam, setond son and the late Rev. 8. Abridian," kası theen appeintel Assistant Health
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Mr. G. J. Dickson has been Cappointed hon, segretary of the Malacen brauch or the Malayan | Agri-Horticultural Association,
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WILT the provisional bible Queen Mary as Working Woman," a remarkable and unconventional- book by a new authoress will be
ublished this spring.
Seventy thousand, children were entertained by the Salvation Army fat banquets in various parts of the country in celebration of General
· Booth's seventieth birthday,,
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Church, Glasgow, on the 4th instant, the marriage took place of Mr. James Whyte, of Singapore, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Whyte, Filarscroft, Renfrew, Lo. Miss Mona Hardie Macnie, M.P... Ch. E., only duurh.... ter of the Rev. R. L. Maents and Mrs. Macnie.. Loth. Sutherland,
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Dr. S. W. Eveson is appointed to officiate as "Health
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25.
Colonel Russell Brown leaves the Calony to-morrow for Peking This will mean his withdrawal from the tennis tournament.
TELEPHONE course of medical studies. lished shortly.
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Mrs. Henry Allhusen is the donor of 14,000 for a National Home of Health "as headquarters of the New Health Sopiety, as a memorial to her husband and children.
Sight has been given to three sisters and their brother, all born blind and a grown up, by Di C. M. Hayes, of the Huwes-Marple Hospital at Huntington, West Virginia,
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Dr. Koch's. Motions.
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Fatal Accident
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Link With Fast
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Rice Thefts
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Only A Joke!
Rents Ordinance
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Junk Piracy
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Lawn Bowls
Cricket
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The Beverly HMI's estate of Opium Charge
The Harbour of Hongkong Douglas Fairbanks and Pickford is to be sold. They plan Mary
Rent Restriction to build a Spanish hacienda further
New Holt Ships back in the hills. The couple will
Funeral M.S.H. Princesa Phorn.
Robbers in Court daughter of HRH. Prince
leave soon on a tour of Europe.
Three Escapes. Damrong, who has received: A Lady Gregory, who, was one of Siamese Red Cross scholarship, the founders of the Abbey Theatre:Church, which has celebrated its Coast Officers Danish Flight Ewell (Surrey) Congregational Pitched Battles left for Manila on the 5th instant is writing her reminiscences. Two diamond jubilee, was originally Staying Here: with Dr. and Mrs. Lowell to take new plays by her are to be pub started in 1826 by an Ewell servant Harbour Offences Lady Gregory's This will be the first occasion on
"Hyacinth Halvey was one of the girl. Mary Wallis, who built a Tropic Flying which a princess has left Siam toplays performed at the recent cele shall chapel cut of her savings.
Opium Finde prosecute her studies.
bration of the coming of age of
Pickets' Doinga the Abbey Theatre.
Mr. Francis Eden "Lacey, who Dog Bites has been secretary of the MC.C Wines Business. Baroness Clifton is not the only since 1808, tendered His résigna- Volunteer Orders society girl to take up the law,tion to the committee some time Arme Deal The Hon. Sylvia Moulton, the 23 ago, but at their, request he is Court Work, years-old daughter of the inte carrying on" until the end of the Loper Work Lord. Moulton, the famous judge, stapon.
Budding Orators Amazing Trip Among other has taken her law degree at Cambridge, and has even eaten
Modern fashions were roundly Not True. her dinners at the Templo, though condemned by Mr. William Street Crowds faw of her associates realised whe Haworth in his presidential ad- On the Council
drees to the Bolton Muster Cotton President Boats Spinners Association. It used to Unclaimed. There is to be another attempt Still another Hamlet, this timebo. said, he observed, that the Company Report to abow that Shakespeare derived an Italian version of the great adding of two inches to a China Quiet Stir from factors other than rustic and English classic, will be seen this man's shirt would do a great deal Nominal Sum common. The Cambridge Univer-season in London where John of good to the Lancashire cotton Local Wills eity Press will publish A Chapter Barrymore's interpretation and the trade. So extreme had fashion be YMCA.
Stolen Rifles in the Early Life of Shakespeare," plus four rendition already have come in this country that some- by Arthur Gray, in which the au- been applauded. Ruggero Rur times the womenfolk almost a re-
Three Missing thor will endeavour to show that ger one of the beat actors in sembled -EveAs time went on Mr. Sun Fo Shakespeare did not spend all his Italy, will give Aminto" at the St. they would probably get back to a Mr. C. C. Wu youth at Stratford, but passed part James Theatre and later at Oxford, aner style of dress, which would In Canton of it at Polesworth, Warwickshire, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Glas be more advantageous to Lanen- Hotel Theft a litarary resort of the period. gow
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Doubleday, Page & Company, are Estrongly opposed to Mrs. Conrads" book about her distinguished husband, which is regarded as too intimate and too trivial and not calcuated to do Mr. Conrad'a re- putation any good. things, Mrs. Conrad told how her husband would monopolise the bathroom, splashing in the tub, "to the exclusion of their guests.'
she was.
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