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Pasted it Margate on July 1904, a portcard has been delivered ut Ashburton, Devon.

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Entering the asylum. in 7809, and sai there, a pauper lunae has cost the Whitchurch ratepayers £1638

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Mr. Alan Cobham has bear Unemployment registers on awarded the Royal Aero Chabla gold March 1 showed a total medal for hia work for British avia-1070,800 men and women-28,282' tion.

Sewer than the previous week. This is w drop of 148.406 on the Man at Tottenham, address corresponding figure for last your.. ing magistrate: "My lord" Of the total 702,800 ure described! Magistrate: You are a Httle pre-as wholly unemployed, the others being either "temporarily stopped" mature

(201,900) or normally in casual employment.

Two pulpeas in September 1888 and still es wolk sald Cost of free railway tickets for Judge Civer at Shoreditch, taking members. of Parliament WALN This watch out of his pocket when £22,457 at the beginning of the ser

a man said be paid £* 15. for one,vice, and for 1928-20 up

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The St. Andrew's Church' Sunday School celebrated its seventh annual festival yesterday, and at both the morning and avening services the Church was filled to overflowing, in spite of the extra senting Accommodation provided... Both services were conducted by the Vicar: (the Rev. G. R. Lindsny).

January 31 £30,537.

President Coolidge has accept- ted as a gift a young wild cat which until recently roamed the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, but he specified that shipment was to be made direct to the National Zoo. The car was caught in Sevier County, Tenn, which the Grout Smoky Mountain Conservation, As- sociation advised the White House MAA the strongest Republicum county in the country is '1924.

Within two months one of the Wembley Exhibition buildings has been completely stripped of lead by marauders. Two men caught were fined £10 each. nt. Wouldstone Sessions.

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The world's biggest raincoat is being made at a rabber factory in Fuirfeld America. It will cost Two Chinese were charged at 10,000 and will be used to unver she Kowloon Magistracy on Satur-the University of Illinois Football day with conspiring to defraud fght. In size it will be 300 feet an additional charge against one onk.78 feet wide, of rubber-coated of them being an attempt to de-

duck and gray in colour. fraud by offering a pair of gil. bangles, under the pretence that they were gold!. Both admitted the charizes and were sentenced to four months" and three months" hard labour respectively.

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A key that will enable the Occidental to decipher and 'under- stand the hieroglyphics of the Chinese language is claimed as the 4-year achievement of J. Endicott Gardner, interpreter and transla- tor for the Customs and Immigra The Sydney City Council is intion Department. The key is In it are the position to engage in great book of 100 pages:

Mocasined the 8,227 root words from temperance demonstration," if disposed It owna 18. licensed which the Chinese language of in hotels, These have come into its 44,444 words and characters possession from time to time, owing formed to resumptions for street widening and other improvements. These hotels have so far been retained in the ownership of the ratepayers. and there is considerable dissatis- Buetion therent..

A heavy mail was landed from the P.&O... "Khyber" on Saturday.. Out of a total of 406 bags, 105. bags of letters and papers were from the United Kingdom (dated London. April 1). There were 136 bugs of (London: parcels from Home March 25). The total number of parcels was 715. The remainder of the mail comprised matters from Europe and the Straits,

Mr. Gardner classified! the words both by the sound of their ending, phonetically, and by the number of marks in the char

cter.

The French "Ministry of Agriculture announces that about One of the few English songs 4,000,000 out of the 5,000,000 that has ever captivated America landowners 4y France:pusness less Show me the way to go home, than twenty-fire "acres of ground! erording to the cumposers, Mr.. each Only 30,000 have more than Jumes Campbell und "Mr. Reg. Con- 360 acres and fewer than 5,000 The A rock of about 60 tons ny. One and a quarter million have more than 750 acres. weight fell from the hillside of copies of the song have been sold figures are of importance because Tai Bang (Causeway Bay dis- in the States, and 800,000 copies they appear to refute "the general trict) early yesterday morning, have been put on the market,belief that, the French farmer and in doing so knocked down and the composers hope for equally evades his proper share of taxa. French is true thad twethouses in course of construc-striking success for their newer:tlan. tion, the property of Mr. Chan items. "Chick, chick, chick, chic-armers pay very. Httle in taxES). Ka The rock and debris it keng and "Two or us." A year ago but this is owing to the fact that land is eut up inse small brought with-it also carried away the composera were working in four the

their premises parcels Owners of antal busi- part of the matshed belonging to reoms. To-day the Tak Cheong Company, and have grown to a five-storey build-nesses in the towns are exempted,- the landslide blocked up the ing. and their bank balance to and it is held to be right that should be allah with rocks and stones. £50000. On the voyage neruss, the smal, Rundowners. None was injuredi The damage Atlantje they composed another exempted in precisely the same caused is not known.

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

A bullet which wounded is grandfather at Waterloo is left by Mr. Prior, of Colchester, to his.

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It is understood that Sir S. King Farlow, Nettleton... Chief Justice of Cyprus since December, 1924, has been appointed Chief Justice of Ceylon in succession to Sir St. John Brunch.

His Exellency the Governor has appointed Private Edward Figott Minett, V., as Medical Officer in the Hongkong. Volunteer Defpace Corps, with the rank of Lieutenant, with effect from April 16.

Abdel-Krim. Riffian war ford is preparing to marry a daughter of Raisul, Moroccan bandit, who re- portedly, died in captivity at. Ajdir last year. The marriage was due to place during the Ramadas fast period. Representatives from the principal tributes under Riffian rule, will attend the ceremonies.

Mrs. Bowes-Smith, who has delighted many Hongkong audiences with her fine soprano voice, was ene of the principal singers at the last of the winter's Sunday, after- noon concerts at the Town Hall, Shanghai, her solos being "When we were very young" (A. A. Milne's verses), "Allan Water", and "Cherry Ripe." The programme waś arranged specially for young people.

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The Prince of Wales' nurse has become Queen, Mary's housekeeper at Buckingham Palace, a position. of high importanee in the royal household. Her name is Mrs. Bill but she is affectionately called "Lata" by all the royal "children," for she nursed them all. It was Lala who, according to report, im- posed the much-admired discipline upon David: us the heir to the British throne was known before he grew up.

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Mrs, George B. Post, Jr. u daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles "Dany Gibson, han bued for divorce in Paris. Mrs. Pust is the niece of Lady Astor, and her marriage in 1910 was one of the social events of the Now York season:

A young London weman whon", desires to settle in Plymouth has asked the mayai to find her a husband

The Rev and Mrs.. James Chappel issued invitations for the marriage of their daughter, Miss Dora M. Isobel Chappel, to Mr. James Coster Lloyd Edwards, on Wednesday, April 21, at St. Andrew's Church. Shiba. Á re- ception took place after, the cere-- mony at the home of Mr. and Mrs,, R. M. Andrews, No. 5 Shiba Park,

By strange irony of fate. while no effort has been spared to mark the last resting place of even the humblest private who died during the war, the grave of one of the country's greatest sol- diers is still unmarked by stene or cruss. In the quiet Httle vil lage churchyard of Ripple, Kent, there is an insignificant grass- covered mound; surmounted by a few withered and leafless twigs. Yet this sadly-neglected spot is the grave of the late Field- Marshal, Earl of Ypres, comman- der of the "Contemptible Little Army:"

The suggestion that Suzanne Lenglen should be decorated with the red ribbon of the Legion of Honour bas atirred up the humor- iste, a class in France which ap- parently has no interest in or understanding of sports. "Let

the red ribbon be long enough for the champion to tie ber hair with on gala days," wrote one, and a cartoonist showed tennis racquet being delivered to the Premier, having been sent by the Mile. Curabet refereed a foot-champion to be placed in the ball match in Paris to the satin- Museum of the Army, alongside faction of thousands of critical the bugle which "Cease spectators. It was the first time firing!" was sounded at the a woman had been entrusted with armistice, this delicate duty in France.

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"Lady Astor recently threw open Major H. b. D. Segrave driv-her town house in St. James's ing a 12-cylinder Sunbeam car, at Square for a brilliant dinner and Southport, broke the world's re- dance in honour of nearly 100 Hongkong's new Colonial Secrecord for the flying Kilometre. American Rhodes scholars and tary, the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, His mean speed for the double two score American girls who are arrived in the Colony on Saturday journey was 152.3081 miles per also attending the University of morning, by the P. and O. liner hour.

Oxford. To meet these young "Khyber." On arrival, he was

Americans, Lady Astor drew 500 met by the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, Mr. Do Valera has tɩädered his representative guests from all acting Colonial Secretary; the resignation: as president of the ranks of London's official, social, Harbour. Master (Commander Sinn Fein organisation, and it has and diplomatic life. Among the G. F. Hole), the Director of Public been accepted. This in the guests at the dinner preceding, the Works (Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy), natural result of the rejection of danco were Mrs. Stahley Baldwin, and His Excellency the Governor's his new policye., the recogni wife of the Prime Minister, Mr. Private Secretary (Mr. L. Forster). tion of the institutions of the Lloyd George and Dame Margaret His Excellency's children were Free State as existing de facto, Lloyd George; Ramsay Mac also with the par. After land-if not de jure. He has now found Donald and Miss MacDonald; Sir ing, Mr. Southern proceeded to that half of the Republican party James Barrie: the Duke and Mountain Lodge, where he is stay is too, impracticable even for his Duchess of Atholl and Earl and ing for the time being.

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