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who Lord Knaresborough, registered six trunks at Bordeaux Station to Cannes, on his arrival at Cannes found that jewels to the value of 40,000f (about £320), which had been placed in one of the trunks had disappeared.

Intense opposition to the bold schenle for removing the Covent Garden Market to the alte or the fold Foundling Hospital at Blooms-

bury was mentioned ut the general:

Estates: meeting of Beecham Limited, at which the Chairman"èn- nounced that the scheme had been definitely abandoned.

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Mr. E. J. Garland (Alberta) proposes to introduce a motion. In the Canadian House of Commons to change the title of Canada from Dominion to the Kingdom of Cannula. The proposed resolution also states that in His Majesty's title it is inexpedient that Canada Crown should be tasked with Calonies, large or small, under the British Dominions.

The Prince of Wales has under consideration the publication in book form of selections from his In: publishing his speeches. speeches the Prince will be follow- ing the example of King George.. who in 1911 consented to the pub- lication in book form of his It was "apeeches and messages.' entitled "The King fo his People" and it, too, covered n' wide range of subjects, most of the speeches bay- ing been made.before his accession to the throne.

The peal Chin Woo Athletic Association celebrated its 6th anni

A nine-years-old Chinese girl Among those summoned at was removed to the Kowloon HospitWolding, Surrey, for motoring. al yeaterday suffering from injuries offences was Lord North, of received through being knocked Waldershare Farka, Dover. Lord down by a motor car owned by Mr. North did not appear and the Tragillus, No. 10 Peace Avenue,

Bench ordered that a warrant Homuntin.

should be issued.

UNDANWORD & VYREENDOR ME YA

Gilbert K. Chesterton, the noted English essayist and critic.

A bulletin, signed by Dr.. versary at the Taiping Theatre Gudenus, published at Vienna sesterday when an interesting pro-states that the ex-Empress Zita gramme of music, boxing, fencing and her eight children and dancing, was gone through for

are all

The South African Auditor- General reports that the expenses of the Union Government in con- nection with the visit of the Prince of Wales in 1925 were $25,000. The Government, how- over, saved £41,000 by the release of 15,000 prisoners in honour of the occasion..

Mr. M. C. Harman, the new owner of Lundy, the island kingdom In the Bristol Channel and a former

recently pirate stronghold,

pur. chased

herd of young deer and hopes to transport them from the mainland when: the weather moderates.

Mr. Harman, City man, bought the island in 1925 for £18,000. The. 40 or 60-Islanders pay neither rates nog taxes,

An extension of a liquor: licence for a function of a lodge of Froth Blowers was applied for at Eastbourne by Mr. H, Ford, of the Royal Hotel: Mr. Reynolds, a magistrate, said that to ask for an extension for a new society like the Froth Blowers was almost criminal. "Blowing froth off their wretched pots," he added contemptuously. Mr. Ford; You have to blow the froth off ginger peers, and I think you have a wrong idea about the Froth

Blowers. There are over 200,000

extension.

the benefit of a large number of suffering from influenza in their roth Blowers in England and guests, and the prizes and certi house at Lequeitio, a fishing vil they disbursed £20,000 among cates awarded by the educational lage on the north coast of Spam.waits and strays in London. The department of the Association and The eldest, the Archduke Otto,magistrates refused to grant the interested members of the Chinese who is 14 and expects one day to community were presented by Sir be crowned King of Hungary, and

"I myself make a regular prac- Shou-son Chow. Among the young Rudolf have developed inflamma- athletes who contributed to the tion of the lungs, but their bro-tice of getting out of a hot bath gymkhana" were several young thers and sisters, the youngest of and then going out just as I am on to the balcony and doing physical whom is five, are recovering.

jerks," said Professor Leonard

lady members of the Association.

It was revealed at the an nual meeting of the Charity Or- ganisation Society at Kendal that a woman member of the Penny Savings Bank managed by the society recently went into the officials, told them proudly that she was going to buy with the imoney a new costume, which would be the first she had had

. It is authoritatively stated Hill, director of the department that Princess. Charlotte, ex-of Applied Physiology in the Empress of Mexico and aunt of National Institute of Medical Re- King Albert, who died, aged 88, search, in a lecture. "Of course," left £400,000. The State takes 60 he added, "I need hardly say that per cent. while a certain amount my home stands in a very seclud will go to the Princess's servants. ed spot." (Laughter). Hot or The remainder will be divided cold baths were very stimulating. among the six legal heirs, of A bath of medium temperature whom King Albert is, one, and it had a wonderfully quietening for twenty years. The president is thought that they will each re-effect. The tepid bath was now a of the society (Mr. Jacob Wake-ceive from £20,000 to £24,000. field) said this must be a record. He had never heard of a woman going without a dressmaker's bill for such a long time..

The fortune is at present seques- trated because the Empress, who became th Austrian by marriage, was legally an enemy subject.

regular form of treatment for nervously irritable inmates of mental hospitals.. Some patients were practically made to live in! the bath.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.

According to the "Daily Chroni- cle" Sir Austen Chamberlain threatened to resign on the Rus- sian issue if the anti-Reds pre- vailed in the Cabinet,

The King and Queen aant a mes- sage of congratulation to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Halsey, of St. Albans, who celebrated the 70th anniver sary of their wedding day. They were both born at Hitchin 93 years in London. ago and were married They have bad ten children, while there are 10 grandchildren and 10. great-grandchildren.

Home

Home papers Announes the death of Viscount Valentia, which occur- tred at Bletchington Fark in his

eighty-fourth year, after months. of illness. Arthur AnDEB- ley was eleventh Viscount in a cred- tion originating from 1621, and was the premier baronet of Ireland. His eldest son Arthur, a captain in the 10th Hussars, was killed in ac tion. in November, 1914, and his heir and successor in Major the Hon. Cary! Arthur James Annesley, who was formerly private secretary and comptroller to Prince Arthur of Connaught..

Canon Richard Godfrey, Par- sons, of Birch Rectory, Rush- holme, was consecrated first Suf- fragan Bishop of Middleton, in the diocese of Manchester, on January 25. The Archbishop of York was assisted in the cere mony by the Bishops of Withby, Hull, Knaresborough, Pretoria, Southwell, Ripon, Manchester, Bradford, Newcastle, Wakefield, annd Durham, and the Bishops of Manchester and Pretoria: pre- sented the Bishop-eler to the Archbishop.

The King and Queen of Den- a visit to mark recently, paid Cannes.

Mr. Stanley Jackson, the ex- Yorkshire and England cricketer, was knighted by King George recently on taking up the appoint- Lady Bailey, wife of Sir Aboment of Governor of Bengal Bailey, Bart, Lord Ossuleton, and the Hon. Geoffrey Cunliffe are tak-. ing delivery of 1927-type "Moth aeroplanes. These machines at tain a speed of 98 miles an hour and carry two people, with a petrol con- sumption of 20 miles to the gallon.

Mr. Russell Wood, of the White House Hoeret Service" who has been appointed guard for John Coolidge, the President's son, while at school.

The resignation of Major- General Macbrion, Chief of Staff, Department of National Defence, Canada, has now been explained. He has offered his services to the War Office for the Chinese Ex- peditionary Force. His resigna tion will probably take effect from May 1.

Now anxious personally to ex- ecute the will of her husband, Sir Robert Houston, the shipping magnate, who left 27,000,000, Lady Houston is seeking to secure the abandonment of the special power of attorney granted to Mr. Vivian Jolm Bailhache, the Crown solicitor for Jersey, whereby she The appointed him executor..." ecclesiastical authorities before whom the executor takes oath declare that they are not in a position to accede to Lady Hous- ton's request and that, unless the Royal Court agrees to the aban-! donment of the power in question, she cannot be sworn in. The view is held in Jersey that the court will decline to grant this.

The engagement of Mr. Ales Paterson to Miss. F. M. Baker will Interest: a very wide public, Mr. Paterson being his Majesty's Com missioner of Prisons and Director bf Convict Prisons aince 1922, re-t marka a gossip writer in a Home paper. Although he takes no trouble to make his name known to the general public, it would be no Lady Maud Hoare, interview- The following deaths were an exaggeration to call him one of the ed at Cairo on February 10, was counced at Home in mail week: great prison-reformers of the cen enthusiastic as regards the fight Admiral Sir Laurence Eliot, tury, since he is largely responsible to India and back to Cairo. She Power, Director of Dockyards for the reform and humanisation said that during the return flight 1917-1923, at the DiVicarage of the Borstal Institutione, and not from Delhi she read, wrote and House, Corsham, Wiltshire. The ably to the introduction into their Paterson is also the author of slept generally. She said she Countess of Kimberley, wife of service of public school men. Mr. enjoyed the thrill of flying and the Earl of Kimberley (who in "Across the Bridges, s book which grew lyrical over beauty scenes 1922 associated himself with the caused a sensation before the war they passed over, especially the Labour Party), and mothat of by its vivid presentment of South colouring or the hill-bops in the Lord Wodehouse, the noted polo London shum life. During the war Persian Gulf Stimulated by player and ex-MP at the Prince's Mr Paterson served as a private in Lady Maud's example, Mrs. Louis Hotel, Brighton, and the Rev. the Bermondsey Battalion, later take rlys mig in a commission, and winning the Bennett, the donor of the Boval

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Westminster Abbes flew Baghdad on February 10:01

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