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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1927.

KAIPING HOUSEHOLD COAL NOTE REDUCTION IN PRICE.

Lots of not

·lass than

1/2-ton:-

Delivered

to

Peak District" (above Bowen Boad)

$24.00

per ton.

Delivered to

Bowen Road'

and Low BT

Levels, $22.00:

"par"ton. Delivered to Kowloon,

$20.00

per ton.

Ordars: shapIK 'be sent in wrts- ing at least 24 hours before the Coal. required."

All orders must. be accompanied by Qaah, Chagas, or Compradore Order" payable to "The Kal Mining Ad- ministration.'

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*** Hastbourne's fourth annual musical festival resulted in a loss of $218.

Mr. Arthur Abbias, a well- known horticulturist, of Hitchin, Herts, was found drowned in B water butt at his house.

Mr. G. C. Lawrence, director of publicity to the Land and Na tion, League, of which Mr. Lloyd George is president, has resigned.

Mr. Arthur Elliott a Bethnal Green school master, fell from a motor car in Newcastle and died from his injuries.

During October last, the Min istry of Transport reports, the total freight traffic carried on the British railwayd was 15,022,019 tona, a decrease of 46.1 per cent. compared with October, 1925.

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By sawing through iron bars The mild epidemic of influenza, burglars gained an entry by a in the Atlantic Fleet has been back window to the premises of a checked, and the destroyer Strand firm of jewellers, from "Vidette" is now out of" quaran-which they carried off Jewellery valued at between $2,000 and £2,500

tive.

Mrs. Lily Esteridge (87), who fell in front of a train at High- Mr. Douglas Percival Fielou, bury (North London) Railway M.P., for the Stourbridge Divi- Station, died in the Royal North-sion of Worcestershire, Registrar ern Hospital.

of Tipton, and vice chairman of the British Legion, has died at Dudley, aged 39.

"After more than a quarter of a century na master of West- moreland Road Wornhouse, Wal- worth, Mr. W. J. Swinnock is re- tiring in March.

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Never late and never absent during fifty-five years' service with one firm is the record of M. Harry Kentish (73),, of Rokeby Road, Brockley.

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A fire 'at Walpole Road, Twickenham, burnt through a gas pipe. Sub-officer Woods, a fireman," was badly affected by escaping gas, but managed to get outside, where he collapsed.

Over 30,000 people witnessed the funeral procession at Stock- port of Superintendent Howard Beckwith, chief of the local fire brigade, who was killed when a fire-engine crashed through a bridge.

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Reused by the barking of his dog, Mr. W. J. Coombs, of Frog more Road Portsmouth, went downstairs and found his wife unconscious in a chair. A bottle of lysol was lying near. She died shortly afterwards.

Mrs. Finn, of Streatham, who has just celebrated her 100th birthday, retains aft her faculties. The Rev. William Hudson, of Streatham Hill, is 90. His grandfather, who at the age of 83 held him at his christening. was born in 1754.

Apart from increases fore. shadowed by the judgment of the Railway Rates Tribunal, the rates for goods train traffic are to he increased at an early date by about 81% per cent. Contending that in the circumstances the “in- creases are entirely reasonable, the companies state that the re- ductions which they made volun- tarily have not been justified by results,

By four votes the Scottish I.L.P.. Conference rejected a re- solution expressing disapproval of Mr. MacDonald's recent utter- ances on the political and indus- trial situation, and suggesting that the time was opportune for a change in the leadership of the Parliamentary Labour party. Mr. A. Livingstone, who opposed the resolution, declared that there was never more need to defend the Constitution than now, when Labour was on the eve of power, and wanted to use the Constitu tion to its utmost limits.

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A large part of Leiston Hall, Suffolk, an Elizabethan structure, was gutted by fire.

Dr. F. W. Alexander, Foplar's medical officer, has retired. Ha has been succeeded by Dr. W. Allan Young, of Manchester."

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and Putney Bridges at a total The widening of Wandsworth

estimated cost of £1,500,000 is to be considered by the Wandsworth Borough Council,

An anonymous gift of £1,000, been received by the has parishioners of St. Luke's, Kew Gardens, towards the endowment fund" of the church,

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Work has commenced on Wool- wich Borough Council's new swimming pool, baths, and wash- houses in Trafalgar Road, which are to cost over £116,000.

The girls' open chess cham- pionship, which concluded at the Imperial Chess Club, Brook;} Captain Viscount Curzon, M.P. Street, was won by Miss Vera for South Battersea, has been ap-Menchik, the young Russian pointed London Whip at the chess' genius. Conservative and Unionist Cen- tral Office, in succession to Lord Jessel, who has retired for rea- sons of health.

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Miners in the Ashington feder- ated group of collieries have ro- fused to admit to Union membership for six months those workmen who returned to the plts before the general stoppage ended.

An elderly woman was burned to death by an outbreak of fre. in her room on the ground floor

Wandsworth is supporting the of a three-storey house in Parker Street, off Drury Lane. From Westminster Council in their con- about a dozen rooms on the sectention that the disqualification ond and third floors people were from local government voting of rescued by means of a fire escafe.any person who has been in Freceipt of poor law relief shouldi

be restored.

A resolution was unanimously adopted by the National Union of Women Teachers that the school age should be raised to 15 years as "an immediate step to wards continued education for all children, and the solution of the problem of unemployment among adulta.

Evidence of a steady decrease in the crime of London, which has been noticeable for some months past, is provided by the calendar for the January Sessions of the Central Criminal Court, the number of cases committed for trial being considerably below the average.

Horse-riding is good for the liver If you do not ride try Pinkettes in stead. As gently as nature these dainty little laxatives remedy liver Ishness, dispel constipation, banish sick headaches and billous attacks, clear the skin, purify the breath, relieve Piles. "Chemists everywhere sell Pinkettes, or post free, 60 cents the vial, from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co,, 60, Klangse Road, Shanghai.

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England's oldest steeplekeeper, Mr. Joseph Rayner, of Goswell Road, London, is ninety-one. All his life he has been connected with St. Andrew's, Holborn, having been baptised there, in 1886, For fifty-two years he was the belt-ringer,

Returning at a late hour to business premises in Great Marl borough Street, London, a woman two burglars busily packing £2,000 worth of partner found dresses into a trunk. She ran for help, but the men made their eзcape.

In trying to make a forced landing, a de Havilland aero- plane, piloted by Mr: Roland Ernest Watson, struck a post,and overturned on the South Metro- politan Gas Works Sports Ground at Horn Lane, East Greenwich. The pilot was hot injured.

Whatever the faults of the Government might be, Mr. Bald- win said in a speech at Bewdley, it had done more in its time to redeem its election pledges than any Government which was in his recollection. At the next election there would be a strenuous op- position in Bewdley from Labour, and, indeed, wero it otherwise it would hardly be fair, because, there would be very few Labour men returned to Parliament..who would not have to fight a Tory before getting there. Dealing with the results of last year's leadership of Industrial labour. the Prime Minister stated that many people had said that La- bour did not have a AquaTe deal from him, but it was, he thought, a far more serious thing that Labour did not get a square deal from its own leaders..

VALUABLE THREEPENNY BIT;

That despised, member of the coinage a three-penny bit-had ila apotheosis at auction recently, when a 1652 representative fetched

brand; this emblem being described; as "confused with large leaves." Experts held it to be of a hitherto unknown denomination of this series, and it would be struck at a time when the Synod at Cambridge (Mass., of course) had recommend-

MILKMAN TO MILLIONAIRE.

Paris. It is now possible to in- The death is reported from Nice dicate clearly the position in regard of Mr. Loton Horton, the milionaire to the identity card for foreignere, president of the National Dairy This was the subject of disagree- Products of America Incorporated. ment between the Senate and "the He began his career. as # milk 2305 at Sotheby's. True, it was of Chamber.. A compromise was roundsman in New York.. Mr. the Massachusetts Willow Tree reached at the last moment on the Horton, who was 72 years of age, article in dispute. The modifica- started in business on his own ac- tion finally accepted extends the count fifty-four years ago with one period of residence before an iden- milk round, and Anally founded and tity has to be applied for to sixty became president of the largest daye, and the card, which, costs milk combine in the world, with 375 france, will have to be renewed branches in most of the important every year. Aa is known, certain cities in the United States.tod ed the state control of religion, categories of workers, savants, He will be remembered as the which resulted in the persecution literary men, journalists, &c., will pioneer of pasteuriaation and Bot of the Baptists and Quakers. This be given cards on payment of forty tled milk delivery. In the ad- threepenny bit now enjoys, there franca, and to these will be addedvocacy this system he had to face fore, the auction appreciation bes- foreigners established in France ridicule and criticism of the moat towed on such rare literary aur as farmers or dairy farmers," who bitter nature, but succeeded in pre-vivors of New England printing as will be treated", the -Bame as vailing against the anti-pasteurisn- the "Bay Psalm Book" and Payne's | "salaried workers.""

tion prejudice of twenty years ago.

LONDON'S TELEPHONES.

It is anounced officially by the AMERICAN WAR CASUALTIES. Controller's Office of the London Telephone Service that there are now 516,840 telephones In the Zon- 'don, area..

New York. The cost of the Great War to the United States in casual- tiès is computed to-day in figures

Inland trunk telephone calls/dur. revised by the War Department as

Pious Meditations."

MURDER FOR A HALFPENNY.

Madrid. A murder committed a village, near Vigo, followed on a dispute, over the tiny sum - of 5

ing August" (the latest month for follows: Killed in action, 27,568; † contimos, hem less than a hair which Ügures are available), _num- Juclading 1,658 officers; died of penny. A man went into an dan

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trered 74195,096, an Increase of wounds, 12,942, including 859 of and order a glass of wing, the HONGKONG'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER

701,578) or 10.8 per cent, over

For the cars; total of non-maria wounday charge for which was 85 centimon Agurs for the coresponding month -198 668: total chaualties of Amart (3d). After drinking it be found last year, be Calls made during the can Expeditionary Force in Europe har had only 80 centimo (30) In No. 5, Wyndham Street. month to the Cóntinent, numbered | lacluding Northern Russia, 244,085. The packet,l and attauled to leave 21,024, and those from the Contiy The British casualties in the 7thout promising 103 make up the ent 28,564, representing & incresam werd Killed, 908,3211e/Includius pamount

of 4,505 and 8,004 respectively over the 1925 figures

46,708 officers total of wounds zur waived: 2,090,21240

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