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THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1927.

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Mr. George Offer, of Peak Hill," Sydenham, S.E., an electrical trade ploneer, will soon be 100.

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Mra. Sears, of Collingtree, near Northampton, has presented the Bishop of Peterborough with 'a motor-car.

Committee

Poplar Finance recommend a rate of 12s. 6d. in the £, the same as for the current half-year.

Mr. William Ingley; of Quarry Bank, South Staffordshire, who is retiring, hos taught in for 51 years.

one school

When a goods train crashed into the gates of a level crossing at Kilwinning, Ayrshire, five children were injured.

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The Machine Tool Trades Association decided that the striction on German machine tools should remain for the 1928 exhibition.

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result of promises to improve the train services South- end Corporation' will withdraw their opposition to the L.M.S. Railway Company's Bill,

A petition signed by 15,286 Londoners and others praying that vivisection might "be pro- hibited by law was presented to: the House of Commons.

Found, lying on his bed, which was in flames, with his throat eut, Mr. Walter Fisher, occupier of a house in Halifax Road, Enfield, Middlesex, was removed to hospital.

Mr. C. Delisle Burns, Lecturer in Logic and Philosophy, Univer- sity of London, has been appoint- ed Lecturer in Citizenship at Glasgow University, at a salary of £1,000 a year.

Near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, à motor-lorry Inden with lard, caught fire and the lard melted, ran in burning streams on the road, and set hedges and a tele- graph pole on fire.

Mr. Frank 0.„Lowden, former Governor of lools and a leader

in the farm relief movement, who is being hoomed as Republican candidate for President of the United States,

Out of 1,321 Russian authors 1,061, had an income last year of only £20.

The charge for à foreigner's identity card in France is to be reduced from 375 to 100 francs (about 17s.).

Two new sets of picture post- cards popularised by the Natural History Museum, South Kensing. ton, have been issued illustrating butterflies found in tropical South America and in Central and tropical America,

Sir Laming Worthington- When some patients from Evans, the War Secretary, receiv- Glamorgan County Mental Hosed at the War Office a deputation pital, at Bridgend, were exercis ing, one of them, Bertram Johnson, of Abercynon, broke away and was fatally injured by a motor-ambulance, - -

of the Council of County Terri- trial Associations and the County of London Association regarding the abolition of the Territorial Army bounty.

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The Queen inspected Bradfield Boys' Club, Commercial Road, E.

The Beethoven Centenary Com- mittee provided material for a Beethoven concert at Wakefield Prison.

A consignment of English Sunday newspapers, valued at £20, was burned in Dublín by six young men.

John Mason, aged. 5, and Albert Mason, aged 15 months, were suffocated in a fire in the barge "Rose" in the Brentford Canal.

The matter in dispute having been referred to the Industrial Court, 5,000 building trade work- ers on strike in Glasgow and dis- trict have resumed work.

The annual pigeon race organ-

A man killed on the railway A Bill to establish a North ised by the M.P.s for Smethwick, near Stourbridge, Worcestershire, America Relations Foundation, Wednesbury, West Bromwich, has been identified as Mr. the object. of which is to foster King-Swinford, and Stourbridge Thomas George Buchanan, of friendship between Canada and for fanciers and charities in those Ashstead, Surrey, of the Probate the United States, is to be intro- constituencies will take place Department of the Bank of duced in the Canadian Parlia- from Palace Yard. Westminster, England who had been staying ment by Mr. S. W. Jacobs, a on July 16.

with a relative near Stourbridge. | Liberal.

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