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OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.

This week's news from China will be eagerly awaited by people at Home whose interest has now been roused to the highest pitch by the announcement of the Home Government with regard to Concessions, Treaties and Tariff.

Also there is this last chapter of Bias Bay piracy, so close

to Hong Kong, of the British steamer "Seang Bee."

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THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS

There were good supplies of fruit and nuts at Home for the Christmas season..

It is reported that a new ship ping service will be opened by the Drogheda Meat Packet Co. be. tween Drogheda and Holyhead..

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Two small Watteau pictures from a Woking parsonage, which: were bought, for 20gs, aplece in 1848, fetched 1,450gs, by auction at Christie's.

According to a. Mahon (Minorca) message a small steamer carrying some fifty peo

in the Cranborne Steeplechase.ple sank following an explosion at Newbury, M. Beary made his on board. Three persons were Arst appearance as a steeplechase Jockey and rode Gerald L. into second place."

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In a Rugby match, at Coventry, the Cambridge University team were successful by 21 points to 6. Playing on their own ground, Newport beat Guy's Hospital.

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Messrs. Vickers, Ltd., confirm- ed at Barrow the report that.. they have received an order from the British Admiralty for the construction of three submarines.

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By means of bogus telephone calls burglars have succeeded in inducing servants and other per- (sons in charge of premises to leave them. Usually it has been represented by telephone that an accident has occurred

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Savings certificates totalling $595,200 were bought in Alberta during the first ten months of last year-an increase of £166,-

·000 over the total for 1925, and

easily a record. Sales since the system commenced ten years ago have amounted to £2,180,866.

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killed and some twenty badly, in jured..

Officials from Trinity House, examined and tested the new electric fog bell, which has been erected on the Liverpool Landing Stage, between the Birkenhead and Seacombe luggage boat

berths.

As a result of a collision in the Thames of Northfleet between the cargo ateamer "Islington," 1,494 tons gross, and the steamer "Shahristan," 4,552 tons gross, the "Islington" sank, but her crew escaped.

CaptainAR. H. Sassoon's Melrush won the Annual Handi- cap. Hurdle Race at Sandown."

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By a majority of 18,000 votes the Bwiss referandum has resulted, in the defeat of the Socialist proposal to continue the State monopoly of the importation of corn.

A mahogany show-cabinet, of Chippendale design, the cornice carved with Chinese Pagoda ornament, realised £1,155 at Messrs. Christie's.

The 1927 Exhibition of Arts, open to all members (past and be held at the Victoria and Albert. present) of the Civil Sorvice, will

Museum, South Kensington, from March 19 to April 2.

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A motor-car which mounted, the grass on the side of the Brighton Road at Merstham overturned and caught fire, with the result that a man and a woman were fatally burned and other three

were injured.

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As an experimental measure Forty domestic servants, twelve the Commissioners of Customs public school boys, and twelve and Excise have decided not to New Zealand Sheepowners' Fund insist upon payment of the bet- girls, all going out under variousting duty on future bets until the schemes of emigration, left event takes place. Southampton by the White Star liner "Corinthic" for New Zen- land..

The Government of Nigeria has decided to reduce.. railway freights on cotton lint from all stations to shipping ports to 18. per ton from. February 1 to Aug- uat 81 next year. The normal rates from the more distant. up country stations are about £4 per

The number of passengers car. ried by the Birkenhead ferries during Christmas was 59,415, against 54,367 last year, an in-ton. crease of '5,058. By Rock Ferry the number was 7,381, as comm- pared with 6,046, an increase of 1,285. The total increase for the three days was 6,843.

Canadian railwaymen who threatened to strike have accept ted terms offered by the com- panies for a settlement of the dis. pute. By a decision of a Board of Arbitration, the wages of 90,- 000 railwaymen; employed by fifty companies, in the United States, have been advanced by. 7% per cent.

Prohibitionists have been de feated in Ontario, where the Con- servatives, who have secured a clear majority of 48 in the new Legislative Assembly, intend to introduce a system of Governs ment sale and control of liquor. Numerous colonies along the United States border for the benefit of Americans are reported to have been planned...

From a summary of the evidence upon which the Holy Roman Rota annulled the marriage of the former Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough, it appears that Mr. Belmont, Miss Vander- bilt's mother, stated that she exert ed the utmoet pressure to compel her daughter to marry. In addi- tion to declaring that she might die from heart trouble if her daughter did not marry the duke, Mrs. Belmont said that she had threaten- ed, if Consuelo dared to elope with a man to whom she was secretly engaged, she would kill him. »

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The Faroe motor schooner "Rosenhjen," on her passage from Faroe to Aberdeen, with a cargo of salt fish, foundered 50 miles south-west of Noup Head,. Weat- ray, Orkney. The crew took to the boat, and after 24 hours on the open sea made a safe landing on the west side of Westray...

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The Honourable Artillery Com- pany has again elected as its honorary auditor Mr., Oscar Beny, who has been a member for the company for. 45 years,

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Farmers, with a total of 268, head the list in a comparative table of the principal trades contained in. the report of the Inspector-General in Bankruptcy for 1925, Grocers, with 362; take second place. Dur- in the year under review there were 4,708 receiving orders made, 1924 a decrease of 86 as compared with

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Mr. Charles Sims, R.A., has resigned his position as Keeper of the Royal Academy. There can be little doubt, a correspondent writes, that Mr. Sima's decision: is a result of a protracted contro- versy which originated with the exhibition in 1924 of his portrait of the King, which he afterwards withdrew.

A decree nisi. was granted to Mr.) William Frederick Marie Graham! Humphery, & Royal Air Force oficer, now stationed in Irak, who alleged that his wife had miscon ducted herself with Lord Terrington (co-respondent). On the instruc tion of the judge, the jury, who awarded damages suficient to cover the costs of the case," gave a stated sum of £5.

According to the report of a sub- committee of the Standing Joint. Committee of the. Industrial It is a physiological fact that Women's Organisations and the dark persons are more subject to constipation than those who are tee on Public Health, the nursing Labour party's Advisory Commit- fair, Still, everybody needa laza-profession is relatively worse off in tive assistance sometimes,

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any similar group of workers, A uniform designed more in accor dance with the comfortable dress now worn by women in other am- ployments is recommended by the aub-committee, which is of opinion that in this respect the authorities. have not kept pace with nigdern ideas of comfort and hygiene.

Pjesty of nature, bow they are-castled and upheld with arch and bridge, and flying buttress! This is the aisle of the Great Cathedral or the Goda; this is the pave of Aeolus, the home of the hurricane; this is the lofty spot most beloved by the sur light, for here come the first of the day beams and here they linger test. on TOBY show covering the rock. whose momy bane, lies in the under shadow."

I would require much space to enumemta even the more outstand- [ing, books that have, the Rocky Mountains Pas, a background, bus mong them the books of Ralph Con. dor are notable, particularly "The Patrol of the Sändance Trail,” which in a story set. In the vicinity of Banff.

The latest addition to Rorty Mountain térature is a new cowl from the pen of 'John Murray Giò. (bon, and no one: better, knows- tân, Canadian Rockter and loves them more wholeheartedly "Eyes of a "C | Gypap": la Ita title, and its best soenen are, lald in the clouds "where [[everlasting glaciers give place on the

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