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wedding. aslingden, I^In Slough, Buckinghamshire, Mrs. Mary Ann Bulleh; aged 105 Lancashire, the bride was aged 74, house a turkey being prepared for died in the North Middlesex Hospi and the bridegroom 26.

dinner naught Ara, and the Eirotal of the Edmonton Union.", Brigade had to be called,

Nine couples were married to wether at St. George the Mary Church, Southwark, on Christimas Day.

During Christmas there was considerable holiday" axodus “from the London termini many people leaving for the Continent.

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Mr W. H Eyre. age. 18, a solici or was among the winning drew In the Richmond "Eights" at the annual Richmond Boxing Day Charity Regatta,

Mr. Leonard Wilfred James. Costello has been appointed a Pulane Judge of the High Court of Judiesturs at Calcutta,

Miss Maud Tuck, aged 81. of Portland-road, N.W., on a visit to Dover, became

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A man wai aren walking about in a house in Cole Park, Twicken ham, Middlesex, the owners of which were on holiday, and police Some workshops and garages at surrounded the house and captur Brooklands motor-racing track, fed the man. Weybridge Surrey, were broken into during the Christmas holidays r After her marriage at Hamproad, N.W., with a fractured hip, and goods stolen...

stead to Mr. James Bartram. Miss received in a fall, Juliette Comptan, an American ao- tress, returned

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Sir Richard Throckmorton, who la, aged 87 is in St. John and St.. Elizabeth's Hospital Grove End-

to the nursing Philip James MacDonell (Judge of the High Court of North home which she had left to attend, The Pope is giving a gold medal each to Mr. Francis Blundell,' M.P... ern Rhodesia) has been appointed the ceremony.

and Mr Dennis Harbert, M.P. in Chief Justice of the Colony of: Trinidad and Tobago... '

recognition of their efforts for the passing of the Catholic Relief Act

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Both main lines of the L and N.E. Rallway at Bolghton Junction, noar Shefteld, were blocked for eight hours owing to a collision in a snowstorm between two local traina, but no one was injured'.

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In a Blackburn shop a cat was revived after gas poisoning when it tampered with the gas tap, and a 'stronger tap was fixed, but, the next day the rat again interfered: with the tap, with a fatal result for

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five hundred of the poor chil 'dren of Bloomsbury, many of them eripples, participated in a Christ- mas party arranged by the Hos" pital for Sick Children, Great Ormond-street, W.C... for its out. patients.

At Bow-street: Police Court Sir Chartres Biron presented 'Police Constable Wallace Wood, T DİVİ- slon, with £12 in recognition of his courage and presence of mind in fescuing two men who had been overcome by gas fumes in a water" main at Feltham.

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The Northumberland Education Committee, which frequently pro vides pupils with bicycles where the schock is a long distance from home,, resolved to give a shepherd 188. a week to maintain a pony and trap for the use of his six children, his home being four miles from school.

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Three small boys, their ages be- ing two, four and seven years ros- pertively, sailed on the Red Star liner "Pennland" from Southamp

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Many fres occurred during the holiday seraoh, the London Fire Brigade receiving forty-one calls on Christmas Day and thirty-two on a Sunday. One London outbreak was marked by the hareit conduct of s 17-year-old girl, who dragged three- children from a blazing house. 'Al- together there were three fatalities. due to frein the London district. and at Coalville, one of the monks at Mount St. Bernard's Monastery was fatally burned.

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The survey for 1925. of the. Secretary of the Mines Department and of his Majesty's Chief Inspec- tor of Mines shows how many lives. Lare. lost in coal mines because suf- 'ficient care, în not 'observed in work- ing, and because insufficient use is made of safety-first devices. With a decrease in the number of persons. employed, however, the toll of the pits has fallen from 1,198 killed and 194,717 injured, in 1924, to 1,128 killed and 177,847 in- Jured in 1925.

Evils of too much cramming, with consequent mental indigestion, were discussed by Dr. Lyttelton, late headmaster of Elon," at the Headmasters' Conference. In ap pealing for reform, he said that for nearly forty years he taught classics to boys of varying ability, and he had a deep consciousness all the time that there was something. seriously wrong. If they provided analytical work without giving a good deal of pabulum in the way of knowledge they would stimulate the power of thought without riv- ing the young mind enough to think about.

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President Kruger's travelling. wagan which, It was announced in November, the City of Loddon Gor- [poration had decided to offer to

the Dominion of South Africa, has: now been shipped to South Africa.

The Rev. Walter: Legerton, aged 82, for 54 years pastor of the Brentwood Essex, Congregational") Churah, who has resigned, is more than Bft. in height, and for 60 years has never worn any hat but a ziik:

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At a Leeds Inquest on Elsie. Bingley," aged 8, who was knocked down and fatally injured by a motor-car, her father said he no-i ticed a crowd, and on joining it) found the injured child was his daughteri

Five shiple firemen who made a raid on a Hu licensed house, car- ried off 19 bottles of whisky and other spirits, but they were chase ed, and later ve men, who were arrested, were remanded by the

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Despite a big attendance bidding was disappointing at the sale of racing pigeons from the loft of Mr.. Fred Shaw, of Hyde, Cheshire, £794! being realised for 128 birds, the langest sums paid for single Birds. being £26 and £24.

"We don't, subscribe to the die- tum that becaued a man's breath smells of drink he is unfit to drive a car," said Si George, Lunn mat Newcastle Police Court in a case in which a man was charged with, be- ing drunk in charge of a motor- CAT.

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