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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 18, 1927.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

Increases in railway goods rates came into operation on Feb. 1

Estate of the value of £169,164 was left by Mr. George Lloyd Wigg, Merstham, Surrey.

A woman and six children have host their lives as the result of being cut off by a fire in the lower part of a house at Biminghair?'

A gift of £104,000 has been made to St. Thomas's Hospital by Mr: W. R. Morris, the motor manufacturer, of Cowley and Oxford

An appeal by Mr. Earl Carro against the sentence of one year in a penitentiary for perjury in connection with the bath tub!" case was dismissed by the Court of Appeals.

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The 42nd Heavy Battery, Royal Artillery, has been absorbed by the 32nd Heavy Battery, and off cers and "men rendered surplus will be posted, to other units.

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A now mine which is being sunk it Seaham Harbour at a cost of nearly $1,000,000 is expected, when fully developed, to produce 1,000,000 tons of coal a year and to give work to 3,000 men.

Lord Blyth, who is 58 was married at St. George's Register Office, Princesrow, Westminster, to Mrs Sylvia Mary Cole, the only daughter of Mrs. Dennie and d the late Mr. Edwin Dennis.

"Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education, pro- tested in his presidential ad- dress to the North of England Education Conference against, political propaganda being con- Bear-Admiral Cyril S. Townducted, directly or indirectly, send, who was head of the late among children. To honest men Naval Mission to Greece, has been appointed Rear Admiral in Charge Gibraltar, and Admiral Superintendent of Gibraltar, Dockyard. He will take over the command in April.

can see trouble ahead in the coal Mr.A. J. Cook states that he

fields, where, he says, a very ser. ious situation has been caused American commercial aircraft, by victimisation. On the other which have hitherto been, freehand, a representative of the from State control, have now to colliery owners; who points out comply with regulations very that it is Mr. Cook's unfortunate similar to those in. practice in habit to "see trouble ahead!" de Great Britain.

clares that, generally speaking, the industry is steadily returning to normal conditions.

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and women of every party he appealed not to exploit the children, even in the interest of basses in which they passionately believed.

It is fully anticipated that ou the Working of the Unemploy- Lord. Blinesburgh's Committee

ment Insurance Scheme will re- commend a change in the terms for youths. Representations were made that the full rate should not be payable until the age of 21 in- stead of 18 as at present. Re- commendations will be made for the prevention of some of the abuses of which complaint has been made.

Since the announcement of the reduction of the building subsidy.. the price of houses without e Sir Felix Pole, general man- parlour has dropped by £31. Forager of the Great Western Rail Committee on the National Debt A majority of the Colwyn ahouse with a parlour there has way, informed the members of recommends the adoption of a been a fall of £20.

the Birmingham Chamber of more vigorous scheme of debt Commerce that an increase of conversion. Labour representa- Captain Gee, VIC, M.P. for railway rates was coming, al tives; who form the mihority, the Bosworth Division, has decid- though it would be made with the suggest that the death duties. ed to settle in Australia,

utmost regret by the companies. should be remodelled, and that Brigadier-General E. L Spears ist was unfortunately, too clear for a number of years a special expected to be selected as Union that the optimism which brought tax for debt reduction should be about the last reduction, from 60 levied on large incomes. A more ist candidate in the by-election.

per" cent. to 50 per cent. in or less direct acknowledgment August, 1923, was not justified.

that the Capital Levy is no long- er a practicable proposition is ex-. pected to be a feature of the minority report.

Sole Agents: W. R. LOXLEY & CO., Hong Kong. Surpluses amounting to 242,-

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Claims on behalf of 140,000 Post Office workers for increases of wages amounting to £6,000,000 a year, were brought before the Civil Service Industrial Court. Mr. J. W. Bowen (general secre- tary, Union of Post Office Work- "Prebendary Carlile, founderker) declared that not only the and "chief of the Church Army, bulk of the lowest-paid classes, who celebrated his 80th birthday but also a substantial proportion inmail week, observed in an in- of the higher-paid grades, were terview that in, his opinion the below the Rowntree (Human morals of London were infinitely Needs) Standard of Living better than they were fifty years which, he said, would barely keep

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ago,

At least 15,000 out of the $30,000 American Legionaires who are to attend the annual convention in Paris in September are expected to spend a few days in Britain, Mr. H. Brownlee, commander of the American Legion in the British Isles, states..

Futal cases of influenza were four times as numerous in Lon- don if mail week as in the pre- vious week. In other towns and cities of England and Wales the. rate was doubled.. Persons whose ages range from 25 to 45 have proved to be comparatively ex- empt from the outbreak.

A resolution advocating a re- solute opposition to the scheme of union with the Methodists, which was considered "unsatisfactory and anworkable," was carried un- animously at a meeting of dele- gates from Wesleyan Methodist circuits in London and the pro- vinees.

Commending Police-constable. Leslie George Lyddon, who dived into the. Thames near Waterloo Bridge to rescue a man who was found to be dead, Mr. Ingleby Oddie, the Wesminster coroner, said that he would recommend Lyddon to the Carnegie Hero Trust Fund.

Strike pay and unemployment pay have cost the National Union of Railwaymen £1,750,000 during the yast year. Accident, disable- ment, and other funds, the "Rail- way Review," the organ of the National Upion of Railwayman, atates, have been mortgaged to the amount of £1,090,000.

With the enforcement of three army bills which the French Government is introducing, there is no reason, M. Painlevé states, why one year's service should [not be instituted. In May, 1928, it will be possible, he hopes, to liberate after a year's service two-thirds of the 1928 class.

From different parts of Mexico, it is reported, news concerning risings, shootings, and hangings continues to be received. Accord- ing to a Government statement the rebela are acting under spec)- fc instructions from the Episcop

ate Orders have been issued

that priests found guilty of in- citing to rebellion are to be' punished energetically.

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