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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1927.

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THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

A Chrlsbad newspaper reports. that the Czecho-Slovakia Ministry of Railways intends to propose that Messrs. Cook should open a branch tourist office in Prague.

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University dons: 28 low comedians were responsible for the most diverting moment in a revue performed at Cambridge by the Amateur. Dramatic Club.

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At Dumbarton, hear Glasgow. two deaths from typhus fever occurred, and three cases have been removed to hospital.

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Trouble between two youths undergoing Borstal treatment at Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow, Ter sulted in a fight, to the course of which one of them was stabbed.

In the Duke of Northumberland's Over the whole of England and foboat essay competition.. the sub Wales the yield of potatoes perject of which was, "What qualities: acral this year, la only fiye and a half tans-one ton less than in 1925 the Ministry of Agriculture reports.

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make a good lifeboatman," the chal Tenge shield in the London district was won by Edward Weiler, of Droop-street Boys' School, Padding

Nottingham County magis-ton. trates. fped the Anglo-Scottish Sugar Beet Corporation $25 and £15 costs for polluting the river Trent by an effluent from their works at Colwick.

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Sandy, one of the monkey jazz band players which escaped from a yard at Latimer Road, W... re- cently, was seen in a wood yard neay his temporary home, but an attempt to capture him failed.

An Armstrong Whitworth Argosy air liner, carrying 12 passengers en

route from Paris

to London, was forced to land in a disused aerodrome at Fluckley, near Ashford, Kent, owing to engine failure.

A horse's head containing several wounds was exhibited in London at a protest meeting held in connection with the export of worn out horses to continental ports. A speaker told how the terror-stricken animal had been dealt a number of blows with a hammer and a poleaxe before it was killed at Antwerp, and de- scribed the traffic as a disgrace to Civilisation.

Refusing an ex-Service small holder leave to appeal against a decision which was stated to be manifestly right, Mr. Justice Roche warned the applicant that many people became crazy when they took to litigation. Upon bei The National Union of Railing told by the applicant that he waymen's Executive has decided had read "Bleak House," the jointly with the two other rail-judge advised him to read it way unions to ask the railway again. That, the judge added, companies for the early restora- would be a more profitable way tion of the guaranteed week for of spending his time than coming all grades involved..

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Owing to a misunderstanding as to the hour, the Bishop of Ox-. ford (Dr. Strong) did not arrive in time to conduct a confirmation service at Eton College chapel, and the Bishop of Buckingham officiated in his place

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Among latest purchases. by thes Natural History Museum, South Kensington, are a series of six skulls of the Pacific walrus from the Behring Straits, 102 speci- mens of mammals from Bolivia, fand 450 Japanese shells.

Fined at Grimsby for having an inefficient silencer on his motör-cycle, à, youth was stated Ito have told a constable: "I'm trying to attract the attention of my young lady. She knows the sourids and will come out."

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Why use an elephant gun to shoot rabbits? Why take large disagreeable purgative pills, or nasty oll or salts, to remedy liver und bowel irregularities, when Pinkettes, tiny but thorough; do The death has occurred at his just as well. Pinkettes are· laxa- home at Rochford, Eszex. of Mfr.tive perfection. They gently dis- George Conquest, "Junior," the pel constipation, liverishness, sick tomedian and animat impersonator, headaches, billous attacks, clear and member of the well-known the skin, purify the breath, relieve family for so long associated with Piles. Your chemist sells Pinket the Survey Theatre, once the re- tes, or post free. 60 cents the vial; cognised, home of melodrama for from Dr. Williamá Medicine Co.. South Londoners...

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Two men were injured when a crane toppled over the side of a what into a barge at the works of the Standard: Telephones and Cables, Ltd., at North Woolwich, E.

A South African Labour MP says that the Nationalist- Labour coalition has been split from top to bottom over the Flag Bill, and any Labour men urge the withdrawal of the measure.

"The first batch of tanks for the Polish Army to be manufactured from start to finish in Poland was solemnly dedicated by the Roman Catholic Bishop to the Forces at the Central Army Workshop in Warsaw

The Court of Griminal Appeal reduced the sentence passed on Trevor Williams, aged 81, at Monmouthshire Sessions, for false pretences, from five years penal servitude to 15 months' hard labour.

The Communists in the Danzig Parliament have seceded from the Chamber, stating that they will agitate for the rescue of Danzig from the League of Na tions and for its union with Soviet Russia,

A telegram from Nice states. that the policeman shot by Ballastro, who is suspected of the murder of a young Fasciat, has succumbed. The police aboard a special pursuing engine failed to catch the murderer..

The cause of death of à Mah. chester Ship Canal.diver, Holmes Walton, aged 51, while carrying: out repairs to the lock gates at Irlam was stated to be inexple. able, and the tnquest was ad- journed for a post-mortem.

A Berlin message states that' with the object of proving that actresses are superfluous, the | managers of a prominent theatre circuit have decided to ban thèm from the stage, beginning at the New Year Their places will be. taken by a male company

The gallantry of the Rev. John Penrose, aged 72, who lost his life in attempting to save women from drowning at Ballycastle, Co. Antrim, on October 2; has been recognised by the Royal Humane Society, who have granted him a Posthumous Vellum Award.

Stating that he was recommend ing Parliament to reduce the aub-. sidy on housing, Mr. N. Chamber- lain said, la a speech at Palmer's- green, that his purpose was not to check housing, but to bring down the cost. In his opinion, the sub- sidy was one of the factors that had kept an the cost of building.

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