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New boys, boarders and day boya, will be admitted on Monday and Tuesday to the Diocesan Boys School.

AND GENERAL NEWS.

Annoyed because his winning try had been disallowed, a player named Wisser, In the Rugby Gup de France competition, at Montpe or near Mareoflles, diegustedly blow out his brains. retired to the dressing-room and

The Old Balley murder trial in mall week which lasted for just six minutes, must be a record in that entegary, though there are other caacs in which the law has combin-notifies that, three months hence The "Government Gazette" jed efficiency with dispatch. The

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An undertaker's raceipt för £10) showing that he had paid his own funeral expenses in advance, was found in the room of John Mercer, 78, at Saftesbury-street, Shoreditch, who committed suicide by taking ammonia. With the receipt was a note stating that he was tired of living alone.

Secrets of glass-making,

[woman who stashed a portrait in the Tai Yuen Hotel Co., Ltd. will, known to the Egyptians, lost for

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the Academy during the Suffrage unless cause is shown to the bgitation was sentenced by judge contrary, be struck off the Com- and jury within twenty-four hours. panies' Register and the company The murderer of Perceval in the House of Commons in 1812 was not allowed a week in which to repent.. The Prime Minister was shot on a Tuesday, and Bellingham was tried on the Friday and hanged, on the following Monday morning.

"Once you gre a Govern- mont servant you know no holidays," said Mr. R. E. Lindsell (senior magistrate). at the Police Court yesterday. Two of three defendants before him were Chinese firemen and he suggested that they should be reported to the Chief Officer. Mr. Horace Lo, defending, submitted that his clients were not in uniform and on holiday, whereupon His Wor- ship made the remark quoted. All three men were charged with demanding money with menaces, at a club. The charge was dis- missed as His Worship held that complainant had not given proper information to the Police.

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DOG NERY MUILLEA, MAGISTE

Striking photoglud clyffe Hail, of London, whose novel, "Adam's Breed. won the famous "Fomina Vie Heureuée" prize given cach year by the leading French women's magazino, Miss Hall at ́fects sovorely masculine attire.

"Puppy love-affairs and money troubles" are described by the Anti-Suicide Club of New York University as the prime causes of the epidemic of suicides

"Her knees that ao gallantly, which is afflicting the student bodies of the United States. The brave the wind, her shorn locks, Anti-Suicide Club has just been her figure ah! her figure! I am formed. Its members, ufter

amazed and delighted. She la so spectacular debate,

different from what I expected," issued

said Richard Sanneck, the Austrian solemn invitation to the chief nuthor, to a pre representative in universities of America to form London, discussing the English similar clubs "for the purpose of girl. "I am impressed," ho con- combating the present-day ten-tinued, "by the bubbling vitality deney toward self-destruction and Independence of the girls among students." The debate re- Englishmen, too, with their helpful sulted in a unanimous expression courtesy to the stranger, have of opinion "that over-education revised my Continental ideas about resulting in mental disorder is their silence and reserve. There not a cause of student suicide." are many other things that I like The prime cause, the club de

in England... I love the red London clared, must be sought rather in to the streets. I am enchanted by omnibuses that add colour and life extravagance and immoderation the unparalleled Zoological Gar- in the material things of life, dena."

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The name of Mr. Frederick Munford has been added to the tist of authorised

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centuries, then used in China, lost again, and not discovered in England til recent years, were among the revelations made by Sir Herbert Jackson, F.R.S., at the Royal Institution in a lecture on "Some colouring agents in glass and glazes." Sir Herbert has reproduced a brilliant scarlet non-transparent glass used by the Egyptians, the composition of which had puzzled generations of scientists. He admitted, his debt to Professor Norman, Collie, of University College, London, for his success in this. Professor Collie showed to a reporter al fragment of this Egyptian glass, which is known as "Bang-de- boeuf," and said: "In about 1,420 a similar glaze was used in China, probably discovered in- pendently, but the secret was lost again. Now we have it for good, and the secret of centuries is known once more."

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Will the activity of the League of Nations in regard to the white slave traffic result in the rivival of those sensational stories which used to pass from lip to lip not so many years ago? These tales told, for example, how two young girls in a good position in society were shopping with their mother at-'s, the name of any well-known shop was mentioned, and ware left by her for a short time while she went to another department. supposed hospital nurae with a tale of the mother's sudden illness. She takes the girls away with her and they are, never seen again. The credence that such ridiculous stories, false on the face of them, obtained was amazing. No, one stopped to ask how it was known what the "nurse" said to her vic- time, or how it was that the town was ringing to the hug and cry that must inevitably follow such a disappearance. The white slave carried on, at any rate in Great traffic is a real evil, but it is not Britain, on the melodramatic lines which credulous people believe.

NEWS.

his 71st birthday in a quiet re- General Bramwell Booth spent

treat in the country where he is engaged on literary work.

The title and privileges

Dr. William Leslie Thomas bas Bishop Assistant to the Pontificalcen appointed a member of the The denth has occurred, accord- Throne have been bestowed by the Advisory Committee of the Peaking to a message from Edmonton, Pope on the Right Rev. Dr. Keily, Hospital during the absence on of Mr. William McLellan, a pion- Roman Catholic Bishop of Ply. leave of Dr. Stuart S. Strahan, eer farmer of the Alberta district,

M.B., B.Ch.

at the age of 106.

mouth.

It is officially announced that Sir Basil Blackett's term of office as Finance Member of the Govern- ment of India has been extended until April 7, 1928. The extension has been received with general satisfaction in Indian banking and commercial circles in Calcutta.

There are no bequests...bo charitable societies or institutions in the will of the late Sir Robert William Buchanan Jardine, which has been lodged at the Register House, Edinburgh. The pro- visions are of a family nature, with the exception of a number of bequests to employees, etc. The testator had subscribed to many charities during his lifetime.

A message .cable-from Nelson, British Columbia, announces the death there, at the age of 76, of Mrs. Charlotte Edith Henderson, Cleland, one of the last survivors of the Siege of Lucknow, which she went through as a child. She was the daughter of Captain Fletcher Hayes, who died in the siege, and the widow of Major- General J. W. Henderson Cleland.

By the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Fellows, at the age of 103, at Khartoum Road, Highfield, Southampton, has lost its oldest inhabitant. She was born there,

Mr. Vincent Massey," wife of Ganada's "Bral♣ Minister, to the United States.

Professor Lenganer had. the honour of appearing before the King and Queen of Siam and mom- bers of the Royal Family in Bang- kok on April 12 Their Majesties, were highly pleased at the two and e half hours entertainment of oc- cult science and congratulated the Professor.

Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith, who

(8 62, retired on March 31 from the post of Chief Economic Ad-. viser to the Government. On one occasion Sir Hubert received a Jetter addressed simply, "Slew Smith, Whitehall." → Although posted at a port on the Caspian Sea, it arrived safely at the Board of Trade offices in Great George Street, S.W.The envelope con- tained information asked for while Sir Hubert was negotiating, a Cus- toms agreement and tariff with Persia on behalf of the British Government in 1920. Str. Hubert is chairman of the British Institute of Industrial Art, which seeks for more intimate co-operation between art and industry, and is a sketeber of no mean order. As vice-prest dent of the Board of Trade Council he was Permanent Secretary to the Board from 1907 to 1919-be is reputed to have a knowledge of trade and industry unrivalled in the Civil Service.

Following a slight heart attack Sir Michael Bruce collapsed in Whitehall just after leaving the

While ex-King Manoel's luck but for some years she resided in has not been conspicuous in the Croydon. Her father lived to be baccarat room at Cannes, his 34, and other members of the Majesty drew the winning num- Foreign Office, and was taken to family were octogenarians. She ber in a charity tombola at the Charing Cross Hospital. He was had been a widow for fifty-seven Casino, which brought him a able to leave for home an hour or years, and a daughter is now the 6-h.p. motor car. Having little two later, after treatment and a use for it, since he has one or two rest. Sir Michael collapsed in of his own of slightly larger Oxford Circus last year and was dimensions, ex-King Manoel hand- taken to Middlesex Hospital In ed it back for raffling - 1925 he was kn

only survivor:

Hong Kong estate to the value of $249,200 was left by the Inte Mr. J.T. Hemingway, of Heath cote, Ilkley, Yorkshire, re-dealing of probate in respect of whose will has been grant W.EL. Shenton.

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