SATURDAY, JANUARY
Borsalino
22, 1927.
ANTICA CASA FORGATA NUS 18'87,
THE CHINA MAILA
THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.
With few exceptions, the new executive of the Labour-Secialist Parliamentary party consists of | Right wing members.
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The members of the National: Union of Distributive and Allfed Workers have voted against amalgamation with kindred
unions,
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A motor-lorry, swerving to avoid an ambulance, skidded and crashed into the Crown Hotel at the corner of Lancaster Gate Terrace and Stanhope Terrace, W., wrecking two bars, but the driver escaped with a slight cut.
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PIC. Joe Howlett, door-keeper The LC.C. Theatres Committee at Old Street Police-Court, has suggest that all licensed premises retired on completion of twenty should have two independent six years service with the Metro-systems of lighting. politan Police Force.
Two brothers, Peter Cowie, 451 and Alexander Cowie, 47, of the crew of an Aberdeen trawler were swept overboard and drowned off the Shetland Isles.
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A site of 125 acres has been secured for a beet sugar factory in which members of the group operating the Cantley, Kelham, Ely.. and Ipswich factories are interested."
Sir A. Chamberlain, speaking at a dinner of the Anglo-Batavian Society, said that at the Geneva meeting all he hoped to attain: when he left. London had been achieved.
By 18,986 votes to 2,882 the members of the National Union of Seamen have decided in a ballet not to continue their pre- sent association or affliation with political organisations.
The Glasgow Presbytery has With one leg amputated and An old drag coach balenging agreed to a pastoral letter: stat- the other rendered useless, Mar to Royal Artillery officers station-ing: "It is not out of keeping garet Ann Findlay aged 65, an ed at Shorncliffe was used at the with the true spirit of Sunday Aston widow; Was awarded wedding of Sergeant. J. C. Sea-observance that opportunity for 23,000 damages and £149 special ford and Miss Burrell at Folke-recreation, should be taken addamages at Birmingham Assizes stone Pariah Church, the six vantage of so long as the nature for Injuries caused by a Post. horses being driven by three and obligations. of the day receive Office motor-van running her fellow sergeantя.
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The Enjoyment of Chinese Drama.
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Notes on the Minted Coins of China. Formosa.
With Rifle, Gup and Rod in Manchuria.
Fresh-Water Fish as a Source of Human
.Parasitic Infection.
Notes on the Unification of the Units of Measurements
in the United Status, Great Britain and China.
Reylews: Natural History, Shooting & Fishing Notes: Kennel: Garden: Societies: Educational Notes.
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The Prince of Wales, danced with these three girls at a British Legion dance in: London. They are' Mrs. James McEnroy, Miss Ads Prole, and M.sa Ida Huckle. Miss. Huckle, a cashier, said the prince, "Charlestoned wonderfully."
During the year ending Oetc. ber, 1926, confirmations. In the Church of England numbered 219,091, compared with 226.766 in 1925, and 232,427 in 1924,
Seven stacks of 1926 corn, and seeds and hay, an engine, and set of threshing machinery were destroyed in a fire at Mr. Leslie Glew's farm at Easton Lodge, near Stamford, Lincolnshire.
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At a meeting held in Melbourne | Lord Southborough's Com sanction was obtained to increase mittes on the Licensing Laws, the capital of the Commercial which has been sitting for a year Bank of Australia to £5,000,000 and a half, has now finished tak by the creation of 2,000,000 adding evidence and will proceed to tional Ordinary shares of 10s. consider a report cách..
FEELING SEEDY?
Ten to one you have been neglect- ing Nature's chief means of ridding Over 8,000 fish have beer netthe system of toxic matter the in- ted from two small ponds intestinal tract. A laxative will put Gunnersbury Park, and have been you right. transferred to a larger pond. The Pinkettes exactly fill the require fish, consisting mainly of golden ment. They gently dispel con carp, tench, and roach, averaged stipation, ald the liver, clear away about Sim in length.
PINKETTES
Sixteen hundred Bristol miners: who have been holding out. Fagainst terms offered them by East Bristol Collieries, Ltd., de- cided to resume work forthwith on the owners' conditions.
Mr. W. M. R. Pringle has re- algned from the position of pros. pective Liberal candidate for the Luton division owing to the attitude he felt bound to adopt in regard to Mr. Lloyd George.
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Aided by their full-dress uni- forms which in many cases they are to be permitted to wear
It is expected that Brighton's electricity undertaking will show £20,000 loss this year, as com-restore cheerfulness and a general-British soldiers going on leave
pared with £25,000 profit last year, and the "engineer, blaming the high price of coal, suggests a 25 per cent, increase in the price of electricity.
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aick headaches and bilibus attacks
sense of well-being..
Of chemists, or post free, 60 cents the vial, from Dr. Williams Medi eine Co., 60. Klangse Road, Shang- hal
will try to secure 10,000 recruits, work for which they will gain rewards ranging from 28. 6d. to 79.
Golfing Around the World
3. Mensburn of the Round-The-Wexcid Golf Club aboard the Rcherms at, deochinid, an
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Come people are unable to understand the fascination Taj Mahal hold not the lure for them that do the golf ➜ of that Royal and "Andund that they gelar to AL,COGIN of China and India and Egyptal Colla "chasing a little ball round and round a field?;;; but it "Commander Jöck Lafta of the Canadian Padife Cruise- must be admitted that there must be a good deal |ship Empress at Bootland, now on her way round, then it when playera setumly start chasing the little ball sii world, is one of the macht enthusiastle of the Round-the- around the world, uinus TË MU
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