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Last months rainfall: In Hong Kong WEN 4.88 Inches. The heaviest fall was on the 18th, when 1.98 inches were recorded. There wore 16 days when no rain fell at Ball.

It is really beginning to look as if the old dances are coming back again, states a message from Paris. A Paris orchestra after having played innumerable Blues, Charlestona, and Black Bottoms, delighted the dancers by breaking into the strains of the "Blue Danube."

At the opening of the trial in. the Federal Assize Court.. Geneva, of Ivan de Justh, the Hungarian journalist who in June last smack- ed the face of Count Bethlen, the Hungaran Prime Minister, in the lobby of the League of Nationa building, the Public Prosecutor an- nounced that he would not ask for fur sentence, to a long term of impri- sonment but one of banishment for Br

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Lance Sergeant Nolloth,,offi cer in charge of hawkers been commended in. Police Orders. dated February 28 for his work in that department from March, 1924, to February, 1927. Special of Mr. mention

made жаз Nolloth's work in connection with the Street Boys' Club, the incep- tion of its organisation being en- tirely due to this officer.

Say's the military correspondent of a Home spaper:The order for the 1st Battalion Bedfs. and Herts. Regiment, at Malta, to stand by for service in Chine did not come as a surprise to those who know the battalion, which has a very fine re putation for efficiency. It has been commanded by Lieu.-Col J. P. Tredennick C.B.5, since October, 1925, and went out to Malta a year It is at Colonial strength,

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about 900 of all ranks.

For the last 5 years purį chases of granite setts by the London County Counci! have been made solely from British firms. l

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A Musicale will be held at the Helena May Institute on Thursday, 10th March, at 5.30 pm. Tickets Including Tea Ob ets. each; must be booked at the Secretary's Dineo

Ben Marshall's portrait of Can-before noon on the 9th inst.-Advt. non Ball the famous racehorse

Since the war between Amer- winner in the early yours of the last century, realised 4262 108.. atica and Spain in 1900, by which Messrs. Christie's,

Princs Limone, son of the Duke of Aosta, who la reported: angajed to Prizes irane of Greece. The Prince is a cousin to King Victor Emanuel of Italy. ^

Experts at the Natural His tory Museum, South Kensington shortly begin the ten-years task of reconstructing for ultimate exhibition at the Museum the 30,000,000-years-old skeleton of the world's largest dinosaur, a Who was the originator of 10-ton reptila which laid eggs. the Shingle? (aaks a "Daily The Tornieria, as the dinosaur is News' writer) The distinction is called, lived in the waters of river often conceded to Antoine, other-estuaries and fed on floating wise M. Antoine Cierplikowsk the elegant young sculptor who came from Warsaw some years ago to capture artistic Paris. It was because of his training in aculpture, an art which he still practises, that Antoine decreed

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women's hair must be cut so to reveal the shape of his head, It was one of his strongest theories that the chief beauty of many women lay in the head con- tours; but that most of them were culpably ignorant of the real charm.

Spain lost the Philippine Islands, and the Spanish Navy was de- stroyed by Admiral Dewey at the Battle of Cavite, writes a corres- pondent of the "Strait Times," there has not been a Spanish man-of-war in these waters, and the expected arrival of the cruiser "Don Blas de Lezo" will be the first instance of a Spanish ship of war coming to Singapore in the space of nearly 30 years.

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As the result of her skirt. catching in the metal-work of an escalator at Tottenham Court Road, Tube Station, a visitor to London was "held up." Mrs. James, who belongs to the North of England, was about to step off the stairs when she appears to have stooped, and, her skirt be- coming entangled in the metal strips, she was held fast. The machinery was promptly stopped, and in order to release Mrs. James it was found necessary to cut away a small portion of her skirt. She then went on her way, stating that she was unhurt.

Grave disquiet had been caused to the whole of the Civil Service by the recent compulsory retire ment of high officials from the vegetation. It was a reptile of Board of Education, the Associa gargantuan proportions, being tion of First Division urged in a 50ft. long 30ft high, and weigh memorial to the Prime Minister. ing 10 tons. Three hundred cases in which they contended that no of fossilised bones of about 25 glittering prizes" were offered dinosaurs have arrived at the for service under the Crown and museum from East Africa, and that security of tenure was its experts are now unpacking and main attraction. No Hope of sorting the ones in the basemending, legislation which the ment. There are remains association sought was held out of the armoured dinosaur among by Mr. Chuchill, who, in replying. the specimens, but the largest said that the Government would are of the Tornieria. Further make as sparing use as possible consignments of bones have yet of their legal power to retire

Civil Servants compulsorily.

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Officers in the Irish Guarde will receive with mingled feelings the news that after all they are not the Arst regiment in the brigade to go: abroad again, says a London paper. Perhaps the wish was father to the thought. They have a specially large number of junior officers whu have never seen active service. As for the 2nd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards their officers include Captain Lord Bingham, D.S.O., Major Lord Marsham, Lord Stratheden, Sir Walter Barttelot, and Sir Terence Falkiner. The primary cause for their departure is! to take over the Devonshires' spell! of duty at Malta, this battalion be- ing sent on direct to China.

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Deaths announced in mall week! include: Lady Davidson, widow of Sir James Mackenzie Davidson, an X-rays specialist, and mother of Mr. J. C. Davidson, chairman of the Conservative Party organisation.

Lady 73. London, aged Powell, widow of Sir Francis Sharp Powell, M.P., at 1, Cam- bridge-square, Hyde Park, aged; 94: Dr. Thomas Claye Shaw, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, a former medical director of the! London County Asylum at Ban stead, Surrey, at Claremont Lodge, Cheltenhamn, aged 86 Aldarman Broughton Dugdale, chairman of the Warwickshire Education Com- mittee and a former High Sheriff, at.

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He is about 80 years of age. Mr. claimed, is the oldest working actor.

Burton was the late" Sir, Squire Bancroft's first call-boy, and he acted with Mr. Osmund Tearle and Dame Madge Kendal, among others.

A pretty and interesting wedding was solemnised at the Chased El Synagogue, Singapore, when Mies Vera Emanuel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. Emanuel, was married to

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