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THE CHINA MAIL.

THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

Six hundred houses have been,de- stroyed by a fire which broke out in Kobayashi, Japan.

Less than 5 per cent, of children leaving school in Birmingham seok "black-coated" occupations,

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For professional' misconduct Mr.. De la More Mignon, of 160, Victori street, Westminster, has been struck off the roll of solicitors.

The purchase price" for the For tuno Theatre, Russell-street, Drury- fans, which has been acquired by Mr. Tom Walls, is 290,000.

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The two-years-old daughter "of Mr. J. G. Hicks, & Curdiff business man, and a servant were found dead In bed at Mr. Hicks's home, the room being full of gas.

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A consignment from London of gold for the Soviet arrived recently at Reval, where, It was transferred to a special steel-lined railway van and dispatched to Moscow.

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As a result of the accidental dis- charge of his gun while getting through a hedge Mr. Edward Mac- kie. 60. retired farmer. of Kidmore End, Reading, was fatally st.

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After 16 years as matron "Miss McIntosh is ratiring from St. Bartholomew's Hospital

The Underground Company's public garage at Morden tube tion-the first of its kind in Britain -was opened in mail woek..

There are notes the Law Journal 1,420 women magistrates for: England and 237 for Scotland:

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Found guilty at Aldershot of sta-misappropriation of army moneys

Private E. Beavis R.A.S.C.. will undergo 12 months' hard labour and be discharged with ignominy...

A wild dog fox nightly roams the: streets of Greenford, a Middlesex village nine miles from London, and barks outside the police station. -

At Hanley, Staffordshire, three men were each sentenced to six months' hard inbour for theft at the Arsonal v. Port Vale' Cup-tle:

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The death is reported of the Rev. H, W. Bush, the vicar of Eathford, Bath, aged 65, formerly a chapluin in India, who accompanied the Chitral Relief Force. He founded the Indian Kennel Club.

In rescuing his wife, from a Turkish Bath cabinet heated by oll which had sat fire to the room, the An omnibus containing 22 pas Rev: J. M. Latham, Rector of Offord sengers overturned on the slippery Cluney, Huntingdonshire, was burn- road at Broughton, Northampton-ed and died from shock. shire, but only one passenger was injured.

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Mr. J. Hugh Jones, Editorial Director of the "Daily News," died at his residence in London from pneumonia after a short illness. He was 43:

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The death is announced of Str Arthur Osmond Williams, Bt., of Major-General Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth, V.C., and Lady Smyth, his son-in-law and daughter, at Bal moral. Victoria, Australia.

Mericnethahire, while on a vki: to

owner of an Alsatian dog which wassenger couches at a dead end be-

At Dronfield. Derbyshire, the

Two hundred empty railway pas stated to have bitten an insurance tween Sowerby Bridge and Rippon- agent in the leg was ordered to den, Yorkshire, started accidentally keep the animal under control.

and crashed into an embankment at (high speed, with the result that a dozen coaches were derailed and

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The "London Gazette" announces

The Rev. H. F. L. Sheppard, who the appointment of Sir Philip Mac-resigned the living of St. Martin-in-smashed. donnell, Judge of the High Court | the-Pields, Trafalgar-square, ow- of Northern Rhodesia, to be Chief †ing to illness, states that His health Justice of Trinidad and Tobago.

shows signs of rent improvement and he hopes to regain strength for a fül and active iffe.

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After falling from a three-storey building into a paved yard at Black- burn Thomas Nuttall, a labourer, Sa up and asked for, a'eigarette. His only injury was a broken leg..

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Walsall magistrates granted the application of Edward" Cyril Prit! chard, a Wednesbury councillor, for the removal of a year's driving dis-

A public garage adjoining Mor-qualification which followed his den station, (London Underground conviction in October for being For the convenience of passengers

drunk in charge of a car who wish to drive to the station andi "park" their cars, has been opened

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For stabbing girls in the legs with penknives two schoolboy bro- thers of Castleford, Yorkshire, were ordered to be birched at the police court-one to have six strokes and the other three.

Middlesex County Council have. resolved to submit to the Home Secretary draft by-laws to prevent the disfigurement by advertisements of public parks, pleasure grounds, tural scenery and villages.

During one of the gallops with the Revoir Hounds the horse ridden. by the huntsman trod on the fox which was being hunted. The fox turned, bit the horse on the leg, and then escaped from the pack..

Influenza stopped a defendant and the constable who was to have given evidence against him from appear ing in a motor case at Bristol. The magistrate said the 'fu was pretty well enough punishment, so the fine would be s. only.

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Instead of cocktails, cinnamon and quinine was served to the mem- bers of, the, committee of the Stage Guild Ball, who met at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. It was provided by Mr. Nicholas Hannen, the actor who said it would) do them more good than cocktails.

The Pacife Cable Board,. Queen Annos-chambers, S. W., announce that on February substantial re- ductions were made in the cable. the British Isles and Australia and gram rates by their route between

New Zealnad. a8 abse between Canada and Australia and New

for all the good it is. I can't under "You can have my wireless set

stand half of what is broadcast, it is such highbrow, classical stuff." Mr. Registrar Friend at Clerken-Zealand. well County Court to a man who said his set would not work pro- perly.

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The Pacific Cable Board announce that rates for cablegrams between |Britain and Australia will be

duced from 28. 6d. to 28. per word' and between Britain and New Zea-

and from 28. 3d. to 1s.. d. per. word. The Eastern Telegraph. Co. have already announeed a similar réduction.

The Calcutta Corporation, which recently refused to vote an address of welcome to the Viceroy on the occasion of his first visit to the city, has decided to give a civic welcome und address to Mr. Såklatvala, the Communist M.P., who is at présent | touring India. The decision was reached after protests by the Euro- pean and non-Swarajist councilfore.)

DROWSINESS AFTER MEALS. is a symptom of sluggish liver. To who took charge of an expedition M. Zhivago, a Rusejan engineer correct liverishness there is nothing to South America for the Soviet so good as Pinkettes, the dainty little laxative regulators. gently as nature Pinkettas dispel

Government two years ago, has ar- Asrived back in Moscow. The officiu! object of the expedition, which spent most of its time in Columbia, was study flora, with a view to cultivating some of the "industrial plants and trees, particularly the Fulbor trea, in parts of the U.S.S.R. where climatic conditions may seem

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