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THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

Samuel Thomas Hopkins, Aged Mr. Alfred Woodward, taxicab 14, a pupil died suddenly in Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen.

There were again no prisoners for trial at the Rutlandshire Assizes, which has had clean crime sheet for the last two years,

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Three men were killed and four: Injured through a boiler bursting at the Dowlais ironworks of Messrs Guest, Keen & Nettlefold at Cardiff

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driver, of Ravenscroft Road Beckenham, died suddenly while standing in Waterloo Station

Mr. Richard Somerset, aged 80.. the oldest exhibiting member of the. Manchester, Academy of Fine Arts, has six pictures in the ex hibition.

Mr. Justice Russell resumed his duties in the Chancery Division. after a long absence through ness and was welcomed by a large gathering of barristers,

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Notica have been posted in Wolverton Railway Works an nouncing that full time will be resumed. About 4,000 are affect- ed by the order.

Frederick Smith (30), of Lamb Lame; Greenwich, was knocked! down by a motor car in London Street, East Greenwich, and seriously injured.

While motor-cycling at Hatfeld Peverel, Essex, Walter Edward A Chinese Famille-verta vase, en-

Borrer, aged 17, a student, of Woodland House, Snaresbrook, amalled with kylina and flowering trees in panela, 17 inches high,

As the tide receded at South,collided with a motor car and was Kang-He period, realisad £262 108.ampton, Harry Lyne, an unem-

killed.. at Mesars Christie's..

ployed shop assistant (single), was discovered dead lying on the Mr. Alfred William Ewartmud near the Town Quay Wort has been appointed a pulsane judge of the high court of judica- ture at Patna in place of the late Sir John A. S. Bucknill

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Harold Waters, aged 20, an engine tester, who lodged in Hartley Road, Luton, was found A Lloyd's Algiers message says shot dead in an L.M.S. Railway that a lifeboat and ship's gear of train at St. Albans, Hertford- the Greek atcamer "Odysseus,shire, City Station, loverdue, are reported to have been

washed ashore near Philippeville.. Algeria.

A pupil at the L.C.C. school in Benthal Road, Stoke Newington, N., John Gay Whajte, is, it is claimed a direct descendant of John Gay, the 18th century author of "The Beggar's Opera."

Mr. Walter Russell Rea, son of the Right Hon. Russell Rea, Liberal member for Scanborough from 1996 to 1918, has been adopted as prospective Liberal candidate for the Taunton Divi Bion

Mrs. Santhier, wife of Mr. "As a memento the United States F. A. Santhier, attached to the has just received part of the light-British Embassy in Paris, gave ning conductor, known as Frank-birth to a boy on the cross- lin's Rod St. Paul's Cathedral Channel ateamer "Biarritz" whilst which will be placed in the Museum the steamer was held up in of Peaceful Arts in New York.

Boulogne Harbour owing, to dense Tog.

Miss Alice Gertrudo Hutchinson, of Beeston Nottinghamshire, who has been staying

East- nt. bourne for some months, was seen early to wade into the sea and dis- appear, had later her body was re- leovored.

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The steamer "Fox," 189 tons gross, built in. 1869, which is re- ported to have foundered in Havre Roads during a gale, was one of the pioneer vessels of the screw era..

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The Metropolitan Board has approved an extra payment of 2s. 6d. per week to the porter at Grove Park Hos- pital to shave and cut the hair. of patients.

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Detectives entering an house at Blackrock, near Cork, found over a ton of legally-taken salmon packed in ice, and appar-best of fond and Servic ently ready for shipment to England when the season on the River Lee opens. The salmon is valued at several hundred pounds.

An increase of 1s.. per week in the wages of carters and motor drivers in Scotland was made from the first pay-day in Feb- may be due to interrupted intestinalruary. This agreement function. Pinkettes, the mild, sure reached at a meeting of the Joint laxative, used when required, spell Industrial Council for the road Mr. Frank Rose, Socialist M.P. the way to cheerfulness and health.transport industry in Scotland, for North Aberdeen, who has beenKeep them at hand. They are ever held in Glasgow.

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superseded as a candidate for that constituency. Has been informed:

that his membership of the Socialist Farty in Parliament la not in the meantime afected..

An order was made for two dogs to be kept under proper control when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was summoned in respect of an Airedale and an Irish terrier worrying sheep in a field at Rotherfield, near Tun- bridge Wells a

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A painting hanging in the hall of Peterborough Palace was con- sidered for many years to be that of Bishop Chambers, firat Bishop of Peterborough, but it has now been found to be that of William of Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester; 1447.

A record flight was made by a freight-carrying aeroplane on the service from Paris to Brussela says the Brussels correspondent of the "Morning Post" and "The Scotsman." The aeroplane cover- ed the 275 kilometres between the two capitals. in 1'hour 3 minutes.

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"Looks like an Irishman, talka like a Welshmah and his. mother is a Spaniard," was the description given by the police to. the Bath magistrates regarding A man, charged with begging." who WAS stated to have had 12 expulsion orders made against him as An

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At Dublin, the State intimated that it had abandoned the prosecu tion in the case of Messrs. Ford and Downing lessee and operator, in con- nection with the Drumcollogher Co. Limerick, cinema fire, as it wai stated that the object of the pro- secution had been attained by the warning publicly given.

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The prohibition law in the United States was stated by the Official Re- ceiver at the London Bankruptcy Court to be the immediate cause of the failure of the Frank Jones Brewing Company, Ltd., of Broad Street Avenue, E.C., and America, whose total deficiency with regard to shareholders, was £1,061,108.

Professor Charles Moureu, a well-known scientist, explained at a public meeting, saya a Central. News (Paris) correspondent, that he has invented a composi- tion which he calls anti-oxygen, with which he claims he can treat rubber so as to preserve its elasticity.

About thirty defendants whose names were taken in the police raid, on the Kit-Kat Club were dealt with at Marlborough Street Police Court, London, on January 29, as frequenters and con- Buners. In the majority of in- stances a fine of $10 was imposed, and in a number of others 25,

On Sunday in mail week the Rev., J. Trying Brown, minister of the Scottish Church at Rotterdam, celebrated the 40th anniversary of his coming to Holland, says en Exchange (Amsterdam) messa He was the recipient of cr congratulations - from › mémi of the British colony," clergy,

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The Camberwell Public. Health Committee have recommended that Dr. Eleanor Gorrie, assistant tuberculosis officer, should act in the tuberculosis officer's place. during his absence on sick leave, and that Dr. Margaret Darroch, of Sydenham, be appointed locum assistant.

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