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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1927,

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THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

Major General F. H. G. Hut chinson, Indian Medical Service, has been appointed an honorary surgeon to the King.

A registered envelope carried by aeroplane by Sir Alan Cob-| ham from Darwin to Melbourne was sold at Messrs. Harmara, Old Bond Street, W., for £10.

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From money subscribed by New Zealand farmers and school children, 1,150 London children were given a Christmas dinner and entertainment at the Guild- hall.

The total number of arrests for drunkenness in: Manchester dur

ng 1926 was 4,185, as against 5,065 in the previous year.

The death is announced of Sir John Ross, of Dunedin, New Zea land. He was born at Halkirk, Caithness, in 1834, and arived in New Zealand in 1861..

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The South African Government will introduce a Bill this Session to control alluvial output in order to stabilize the diamond trade,

Joe Daniels, known to many generations of Rugbetans as the Midnight Milkman," na he sup plied milk to the school for many years, had died at Rugby, aged

81.

A double wedding of gipsies dwelling in tents in the New A movement has been started Forest, Hampshire, took place in in Portugal by the Press and by Colbury Parish Church when two representatives of the Army to sisters were married to two open a national subscription to brothers.

pay the war debt to Great Bri tain.

London standard grade, flour There was a slight improve- has been reduced by 6d. to 458.ment in the condition of Mr. 6d. per sack delivered in the Ambrose McEvoy, the artist, who home counties, with 6d. to 1s, less is seriously with pneumonia per sack for delivery in the Lon- and complications in a London, dor district..

pursing home.

The Rev. A. L. Fleming, says a Toronto message, has been ap pointed Archdeacon of the Arctic, a new Anglican appointment in connection with work among the Eskimog in the Far North.

Mr. Harold Arrowsmith Brown, Indian Civil Service,' has been appointed one of the Jadges of the High Court of Judicature at Rangoon, vice Mr. Edward Dyce Duckworth, Indian Civil Service, retired.

An Oslo message reports that the Institute for Comparative Research into Human Culture is planning an expedition to the Kols Peninsula. The enterprise

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At South Shields a man, after a quarrel with his wife, either fell or jumped head first from a Window, and was impaled on the railings below. He died soon. afterwards in, the infirmary. ...

William Edward "Dix. 53, a labourer, who broke a window at A Jerusalem correspondent Northampton Labour Exchange says that the drought in Southern for the twelfth time, was sen-Palestine is 30 severe that at tenced to two months' imprison-Hebron water-tickets. are being ment with hard labour.

issued to the inhabitants and the local hospital may have to close.

News has reached "Geneva that the Swiss, airman, Mittelholzer, The Touring Club de France and the Swiss expedition to Cen-gave a banquet to celebrate the tral Africa has arrived at Jinja, election of its 200,000th member. on the Victoria Nyanza, where The President of the Republic the Switzerland seaplane pregided, and several members of alighted.

the Government were present Founded in 1890, the Touring Club de France, has added 100,000 members since July, 1906.

The young German who mas queraded as the eldest son of the former Crown Prince and under other titles and is alleged to have swindled monarchists on a large Dr.scale in many parts of Germany has been arrested on the railway station at Euskirchen, a Rhine- Describing the reception of Sir land town in French occupied ter- Harcourt Butler by chiefs atritory about 23 miles to the west Kachin (Burma), the correspon-of Boun... dent of the "Pioneer" declares that the chiefs show every sign

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When Walter Evans, a one- legged pedlar of Bath, was taken to hospital, haying fractured his leg, his, crutches were placed in the porter's office, Evans's dog traced him to the hospital, and kept guard over the crutches, refusing to allow anyone to touch them.

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A Vienna correspondent re- ports that the Ducal Palace of

One of the prizes in a Christ- A message from. Warsaw the Saxa-Gotha family, was mas lottery held at Funchal saya:-Lynch law was carried broken into by "way of (Maderia) was a bracelet belong. out in the neighbourhood of this the sewers and a large amounting to the Empress Zita. It was city on two horse thieves who of cash and a number of securi-won by a Madeira resident, who were caught red-handed. The ties, and family jewels stolen, gave two escudos (16 cents) for thieves were thrown into a huge The burglars had to saw through his ticket. The bracelet will be fire and burnt to death. The a double iron gate, to burst a handed over to him accompanied police have arrested 28 suspected number of intricate locks, and to by a paper bearing the Em

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ODDS AND ENDS.

A. FORBIDDEN WORD.

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HELPING THE DIVER.

THE STORY OF A ""SCOOP."

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Helium, the rare, non-flam- Mr. Edgar Wallace, the pro- terdicted the word "match"*

asmable gas so essential in the safeminent journalist, who was a war applied to athletics. Such en-operation of dirigible airships, correspondent during the South gagement may be described

as has also found important uses in African War, in his book of contests, tourneys, jousts, chal undersea exploration. As the re-reminiscences, "People," which lenges, conflicts, but the Academy, Bult of experimental work by the has just been published by as the custodian of the French Navy Department, the United Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton, language, forbids such events to States Public Health Service, and describes how he was able to send be, known as "matches" Yet as the Bureau of Mines of the Com-home the first. news of the sign- matches they are known by merce Department, the use of the ing of peace. The Press censor- everybody in France, and there gas in synthetic helium-oxygen ship was very strict, but Wallace are competent authorities who atmospheres for decompression of was able to make a code arrange- stoutly defend the word. Thus divers or other, performing lament with a soldier inside the M. Jacques May writes: "We bour under increased atmos camp. A red handkerchief was have no equivalent for 'match.'pheric pressure, by preventing the signal for "nothing doing," a Besides it is useless to discuss it, caisson disease, promises to ex-blue one "making progress," and The people are our sovereign tand greatly the time and depth a white handkerchief was to masters in sporting terminology, of underwater operation by signify that the peace treaty had The people say 'match' and we divers and thus, to enlarge the been signed. Wallace journeyed chall say 'match.'

whole range of submarine en down to the Vaal River by train gineering, The employment of every morning, and took the next such artificial atmospheres is train back, keeping" his eye on given much credit for the salvag. the camp for the signal. "I don't Record numbers of Americaning of the hull of the United know how many journeys I made tourists are expected to arrive in States submarine S.51,accion that infernal railway,” he Great Britain in the spring.dentally sunk near Newport, R.I., Special liners have been charter by the coastwise steamer "City ed and all sorts of preparations of Rome."

AMERICAN TOURISTS,,

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It is just as well that the good news should be learnt thus far in advance, for a new form of joke will have to be thought out.

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