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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1927.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

Six persons are now known; "to have lost their lives in the bush Ares in New South Wales.

Captain H. D. Kaiser, of the Canadian Government vessel "Canadian Rancher died at sea

Mr. Albert Amor for several years antiquary to the Queen, has retired.

Mr. Herbert Smith, president of the Miners Federation of Great Britain, is suffering from Influenza...

When fire broke out on the ground floor of a three-storey Among recent manuscript ac house in Claremont Road, Alexquisitions at the British Museum is an indenture signed by Dr. Dodd, the clergyman and one- time fashionable preacher, who was hanged for forgery in 1777Z,

on the way from Halifax, N.Sandra Park, Manchester, several to Antwerp.

occupants of apartments were rescued by the fire brigade..

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At Liverpool Richard Brown, R bookmaker, of Sefton Park, was fined £10 for taking bets at whippet meeting without issuing

revenue tickets.

Lady Wallace states that the proceeds of her matinée at the New Scala Theatre in aid of St. Thomas's Cornwall Babies' Hostel amounted to £550.

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By the will of the late Mr. James North, tramway Inspector, the League of Welldoers of Liverpool, has received £50 "to give. poor children a day across the river."

At Gloucester Prison, Charles Houghton, 45, a butler, was hanged for the murder of his employers, the Misses Elinor and Martha Woodhouse, at Burghill Court, Herefordshire.

Dr. George Britton Gill a member of the Leicester City Council was fined £25 at Leices ter for being drunk in charge of a motor-car and his licence sus pended for 12 months.

Five men were slightly injured when a gas explosion pecurred in the composing room of the Walthamstow, Leyton, and

Guardian," Chingford

High Street, Walthamstow, E.

A verdict of Suicide while of Unsound Mind was returned at a Westminster inquest on August Kneller, 49, until recently head waiter at the Manhattan Hotel, New York, who threw himself. from a balcony at the Savoy Hotel,

The sudden failure of the elec- tric light current during the fog in Paris caused the greatest eon- fusion in the banks. Each time the light went out the doors were hastily closed and the cash

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Two men. Brinley William and James Morris, both of Forest Thirty-four reproductions in Fach, Swanses, who had been colour of Egyptian tomb paint repairing an omnibus, were foundings, made by Mrs. N. de Garis gassed in a local garage and were Davies from the originals in the taken unconscious to hospital. tombs at Thebes, dating from

B.C. 2000-1100, have been de Harold Bates, aged 26, a Camposited on permanent loan at the. bridge undergraduate, son of Mr. British Museum by Drça. H.. Edward Bates of Rainham, Kent, Gardiner, for whom they were was found seriously injured on made. the railway outside Herne Hill station, S. and died before ad-" mission to hospital.

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curious mediæval formula for the production of salts of copper, which for 600 years lay The rules of the Co-operative hidden in a ciphered manuscript Employees' Union, which have of the Franciscan monk, Roger just been framed, provide that it Bacon, has proved effective in shall not affiliate with nor contests made by chemists at the tribute to the funds of any poll-University of Pennsylvania, says" tical party, and that a strike car Reuter. The formula is said not not take place without a ballot to have any commercial value of the members.

awing to the cost of productions:

Sir Leslie Wilson, the Gov-

Driven by the Atherstone. ernor of Bombay, opened the Hounds into Market Bosworth, Bhandardara Dam, which will Leicestershire, a fox ran through henceforward be known as the the ancient streets of the town, Wilson Dam, in the Western and finally climbed over a high Ghats: The new dam which is wall surrounding a resident's 270 feet high, the second highest garden. The hounds were let in the world, is designed to irri- into the garden, but,, after u gate 220,000 acres of a district chasing, the fox again jumpeti in the Deccan which has hitherto over the wall and, on reaching been particularly liable to famine.the main road, eluded its

drawers locked, while the cus- Golfers know how impossible it tomers had to wait in total dark-is to "drive" with energy or "put" ness until there was a resump-with accuracy if the vision is tion of lighting

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pursuers.

The Colonisation Branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway are inviting 50 applications from public and secondary school boys who wish free training in agricul ture before taking up land of their own, and the accepted ap- plicants will undergo a short course at Macdonald College (the Faculty of Agriculture of McGil University. Montreal) before proceeding to selected farms,

Flying accidents in 1926, Sir S. Hoare stated in the House of Commons, had caused the death of

officers and men of the Royal Air Force, compared with 51 in 1925 and 72 in 1924. From in- blurred or the brain bazy as the reformation in his possession, it gulta of blousness, disordered was apparent that figures which Five thousand pounds worth of liver, or a congested intestinal had recently been cited purport- jewellery was stolen in ten tract. You must keep fit to feel fit, ing to suggest that the accident minutes by a cat burglar, who, in

and Pinkettes, the gentle little rate in France had during the his anxiety to get away, crashed laxatives and liver regulators, help past two or three years been more from the stack pipe into the gar-keep the eye clear, the system favourable than in Britain clean and healthy, the brain active, en of a New Malden house on the in every duty and pleasure of life. Were totally inaccurate. There night of November 9. The bur- Your chemist sells Pinkettes, Is reasonable ground for con- glar escaped, leaving behind him post free, 60 cents per vial, fromfidence, Major C.-C. Turner holds; his torch, a jemmy, and an over- Dr Williams Medicine Co., 60, that the casualty rate will soon coat, but taking all the jewellery Klangse Road, Shanghai.

show a welcome decline.

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