THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1927.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.
A lockout was proclaimed in J Balham Station or the new all the diamond-cutting work-Morden tube extension has been shops in Antwerp.
opened for traffic."
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"The banana crop in Jamaica
A small plain silver Queen is the highest ever recorded,” Anne tea kettle realised £463 28 says a cable received by the Em-6d. at Messrs. Christie's!' pire Marketing Board.
A further reduction of 5 per cent, in the price of motor car tyres will be announced shortly by the leading British makers.
Mr. J. P. C. Phillipps began his fight as the first flying commer- cial traveller at Croydon. His Arst order WAS GWO vacuum. cleaners for the Imperial Air ways.
To celebrate his 76th birthday, Mr. Bernhard Baron, of Hove. the millionaire head of Carreras, Ltd., tobacco manufacturers, gave £28.000 to hospitals and other charities.
Following a landslide on a mountain near Glen Farne. County Leitrim, after heavy rains, a valuable seam of coat has been discovered, and is now be- ing profitably worked.
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"Keep cheerful, ent plenty of pork and potatoes, and drink plenty of good milk." was the recipe of longevity of Mrs. Ellen Parkin, who has died Falmouth, aged 101.
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The Australian Commonwealth Government proposes to arrange a complete geological examination of all areas in Papua and the mandated territories of New Guinea that are likely to prove jeft-bearing.
David Davies, the "Dartmoor Shepherd," who has been many times convicted of thefts from church offertory boxes, has been certified by doctors for detention in Llanfylin (Montgomeryshire) Workhouse:
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Lady Louis Mountbatten has undergone a minor operation at
her
residence, Brook House, Park Lane, W.
For pictures and drawings, in cluding early Italian school, English portraits, and water- colours. £8,198 was realised at Messrs. Sotheby's
Mr. Lloyd George, accompanied by Dame Margaret and Miss Megan Lloyd George, left for Valescure near St. Raphael, for three or four weeks.'
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Four elephants were taken by A gang of "Reds" smashed the special train from Stratford, E., two windows of the Conserva- to Harwich, where they embark tive committee rooms in Uppered in the Harwich-Zeebrugge Street, Illington, N.
train ferry en route for Parla..
The Mayor of West Hartlepool, Councillor Arthur Hyde, presid king at a church bazaar, sang a song na prelude to his remarks.
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A total of £225 2s. 6d. has been received to date in response to Sir Chartres Biron's appeal for the Bow Street Police Court poor box funda.
A starling shot at Boxley, near Maidstone, on October 29 had a marked aluminium ring on its leg showing that it was ringed on May 26 at Israelsdorf, near Lubeck, Holstein, West Germany.
Lady Aubrey-Fletcher has for. mally re-opened the St. Hilda's Home, Beckenham, one of the 109 homes of the Waifs and Strays At Sandringham the Queen Society, which has been closed. liberated eight champion homing for several months for alterations pigeons which took part in aand improvements. race to London for the Queen's championship cup.
Mr. Harry Armour, one of the best known hunting mon in The 19 survivors of. H.M.S.Scotland, who fell dead from his "Valerian," which went down in horse while at the meet of the and Stirlingshire a gale off Bermuda on October 22 Linlithgow with the loss of 86 lives, reached Hunt, was buried in fall hunting Liverpool in the Pacific Hner dress. and equipment. At his "Orità."
wish also the organist at the funeral service played "The Flowers. of the Forest" instead of the "Dead March."
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Somerset County Agricultural Asscalation is to amalgamato with the Bath and West ahd Southern Counties Society on condition that the Bath, and West Show is held in. Somerset.once in every seven years.
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There are so many points of in. and metallic fabrics are not neg- terest in the autumn and winter lected. Lames in particular are evening wrap that it is hard to find seen.. Silver lame bang featured a single outstanding feature. To in many of the newest wraps. Some begin with there is a great variety of the most striking wraps exhibit- in the silhouettes which are, pre- cd are made of patterned lame orchid sented for the approval of those who in ailver and blue, green,
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There is much to be said for the fringe. This is a season which fen- tures ostrich trimming. A boa ef various silhouettes which are seen. fect in ostrich is seen with charm- The long, wrap-around dolman is ing results, while glisterined ostrich perhaps the newest. It is decided- Velveta, In all the beautiful plays an important part in the usual y chfe and new in velvet, bordered in furi The dolman wrap which shades which have appeared in past trimming in unusual places on
possesses all its fulness above the season and in new tones and colour many of the formal wrapa. combinations are seen perhaps, to Fur, of course, is used lavishly. hips in & bloused model is also a best advantage. The suppleness There are many places on the wrap smart addition to the season's gor and appeal of this fabric makes it which find fur a luxurious and be- geous wraps, particularly effective in the evening wrap.
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coming addition. There are many. The all-around blouse, line is the types of collars seen. The very treatment shown in many of the high and draped collar in the flat handsome wraps while the cape pelted turis extremely smart. is particularly gorgeous in the slab- Some cuffs also find a deep band-crate metallle fabrics.
The colours seen in the newest wraps resemble A jewel casket There are seen the deep sapphires, brilliant ruby, turquoise blue, aqua ing of the fur attracitve while in Norma Talmadge, who is at work marine, jade, opal, garnet, tourma some wraps a 'stole down the entire on her new First National Alm,] line amber, topaz and coral shades wrap is most affective particular-"Camille, delights in a wardrobe along with the ever fascinating silly in the long haired. furs such as which includes several models of the season's favoured wraps and vers, golds, blacke and whites, fox. Opalescent tinte appear in the The entire bottom of some wraps wears with distinction the dolman crystal and pailletted motifs of are banded in tur, while others in valvet trimmed with ostrich, the embroidery,
Imit themselves to a narrow trim cut velvet heavily trimmed with ming of a rich für Home wraps fox and featuring a bloused ne divide themselves in half with fur and a cape in itme, lined in vaivat trimming while others use a tiny and heavily bordered in fur
While velvets In either the plain or cut patterns are used with such charming results, the lames, satins,
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