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THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

An additional telephone exchange, called Tudor, is to be opened for the East Finchley area.

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The Portuguese Government in- tends to impose an import duty on' tobacco, both manufactured and in leaf.

It is reported that Messrs. Har land and Wolff. Belfast, have re- coived orders for two more oll tankers,

The Jersey States rejceted a bill doubling the existing tax on motor. vehicles, but a tax n petrol will be adopted.

A Queen Anns walnut wine- cooler, the border curved with foliage and scrolls, realised £110 5s. at Mesars. Christie's.

By a new air line, to be opened

in May, it will be possible to travel from Petrograd to London, vla Riga and Berlin, in two days.

Messrs. W. Dobson and Company, of Walker-on-Tyne, have secured an order from Mesara. Hall Brothers, Newcastle, for a cargo vessel of 8,400 tons.

Idle since the miners' strike of 1921 with the exception of four months, two of the five blast fur- naces of Palmers Shipbuilding and Iroh Company, Jarrow, were re- started in mall week.

A verdict of Suicide while of Unsound Mind was returned at an Inquest at St. Pancras on Charles | Berges, 30, engineer, of Church

fields, Salisbury, who shot himself in a Bloomsbury hotel while seeking

work in London.

"General" Bramwell Booth, of the Salvation Army, was received by the King.

Mesars, Waller, a British Arm well known in Tangier, have pur-1 chased the French property known as the Villa de France Hotel.

Miss Mary Borden, the novelist, explored the underground workings of Whitwick Colliery, Coalville.

Mr. P. C. P. Lupton, former Bri- tish Consul at Sao Paulo, Brazil, died suddenly at Southminster, |- | 'Essex, aged 71.

Speaker Nicholas Longworth, of the American House of Repre sentatives, anys his gavel is all the protection he needs during the present epidemic of fisticuffa among members of the Lower House. Longworth was unani- mously selected by the G.O.P. equcus for Speaker in the next House. This is equivalent to election.

£163 was raised at the stall lent by the Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia, Kensington, W., for collec tions in aid of the West London Hospital.

George Coleman Turnley, whom you see here in his mother's arms. figured that if he were going to enter this world, the best way to do it. would be ander the highest possible ausplees, so he chose the moment vi won the Canadian Pacific train was on its way to Vancouver, while the location he decided on war between Moose Jaw and Mortlach, Saskat chewan the time being 1.50, in the morning of Sunday, February 13

George, is also a pretty good little picker and his choice was justified by the fact that the train was carrying Dr. McKeown, of Medicine flat, and Mra Endersby, who 1 a trained nursé D C. Coleman. vire. president of western lines. C.PR with Mrs. Coleman, was also on the train, again testifying to George's good judgment, and Mrs Colemun helped in looking after the mother

So pleased was Mrs. Turnley with the attention and the and he received on all hands that, she decided to call: Géorgé after the verge presiden: no his name is now George Coleman Turaley (Just to pund things off. the baptismal ceremony was performed by Rev. ME WAL. of Sorrento, B.C.. while the train was passing through the Frase Gan- yan. B.C., next day. George's godmother was Mrs Coleman,

And if. after at that. George doesn't grow up into's railwayman. and end up ar president of some big rond, there can't be anything in

signs and portents.

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By removing the plate from the 1 The death bas taken place of the back of a cell lock at the police Very Rev. Edward Clarence Paget, station, a boy of 14, who

Dean of Calgary, a grandson of charged at Newport, Monmouth- Vice Admiral Sir Charles Paget, at shire with his seventh offence, es- the age of 76... caped but was recaptured:

Messrs. Walsh and Johannsen, the leaders of the Australian aeg: men's strike in 1925, who were or- Idored to beldeparted but were sub- sequently released by the High

Durham County Education Au- thority declined proposals from Blaydon that May 2 should be 'a general holiday for schools, and that no demonstrations should take Court, have been awarded £25 and place in schools on Empire Day.

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£20respectively as compensation Against the Commonwealth Govern-

The wedding took place at Swan-ment. sea of Professor Emrys Evans,' Principal-Elect of the University. College of North Wales, Bangor, and Miss Gwenllan Nesta Jones, Lecturer in History at University College; Swangen,

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that to enjoy life to the fullest one A wise physician, once observed should trust in Providence and avoid constipation. Pinkettes are amild..yet effective laxative, a simple aid to the achievement of

A wreath of primroses, tulips, and roses was placed at the Ceno- taph in Whitehall by the French Army football team.

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The Prince of Wales visited the | Royal Arsenal, Co-operative So- ciety's exhibition at Commonwealth Building, Woolwich, S.E.

During the golden wedding cele brations of Mr. and Mrs. McAdam. of Maybole, Ayrshire, Mrs. McAdam collapsed and died.

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A first edition of Fielding's "Joseph Andrews," two volumes, 1742. realised £140 at Messrs. Hodg- sons' Auction Rooma in Chancery- lane, WV.C.

Mr. Baldwin stated in Parliament that in the present state of the country's finances proposals for a National Opera House could not be entertained..

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William Poppleton, chief en- gineer of a Grimsby trawler, was examining the detonator of a mine, when it exploded and injured his face and arm.

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Captain J. P. Olley, an Imperial Airways pilet, who began to fly in 1915, carried his 10,000th passen- ger in mail week in a flight from London to Paris

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A middle-aged woman who aban- doned an eight months' old baby girl in Baker-street Station, is being sought by Crawford-place, Edgware. Road, W. detectives.

Of 1,500 settlers who left Livér- pool for Canada 200 wero Welsh, and Welsh-speaking stewards were. engaged for the voyage to render assistance to the party.

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While on the way to the town hall at Midsomer Norton, Somerset, { where he was clerk to the urban council, Mr. L. M. Bottomley was fatally injured by motor-cycle.

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The third day's sale of the final portion of the Britwell. Court library realised £4627 at Mesars. Sotheby's, a collection of 1,000 Civil War Tracts (1641-19) fatching £510.

Miss Mary Hallowes, 69, of North Wingfeld. near Claycross, Derbyshire, died suddenly in a motor-car which was taking her home after her discharge from hos- pital.

Shortly after making a cheerful speech at the annual meeting of Ancoats Hospital, Manchester, Mr. Hamlet Rothwell, aged 80, of Ash- ley-lane, Moston, Manchester, col- lapsed and died.

Accidental Death was the ver- dict at a Sutton Coldfeld, Warwick- shire, fnquest on Frank Thomas Devilele, 34, who fell through the glass window of a door, his jugular vein being severed.

While walking with his wife, Edward Hornby, 45, of Preesall, Fleetwood, jumped into a pond and was drowned, and at the inquest a verdiet of Suicide while of Unsound Mind was returned.

Ecclesiastical and civil registrars of marriages estimate that fewer applications for marriage licences have been made during the present Lent than in the corresponding

periods of the past three years.

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Three months ago Mrs. Kenward, of Headley Down, near Petersfield, Hampshire, presented friends living near Guildford with a cat, which has now returned to its former

home, a distance of about 20 miles.

Walking over a level crossing. on the railway. Albert Bence, 65, of Bath, who was deaf, was killed.by an express the impact breaking the vacuum pipe of the engine, which came automatically to 4. standstill.

For the Scottish National War Memorial being erected at Edin

ket, to contain the rolls of honour. burgh Castle the King and Queen are to present a wrought steel. cas- of all Scots who gave their lives in the war.

Messrs. Samuel Montagu and Company bankers, of 114, Old Broad Street, E.C. announce that this aftaple philosophy Keep. An Italian countess whose name Mr. Gerald Samuel Montaguy who them: A hand. They quickly was given as di Gamosta, who was

has been unable for reason of, health to take an active part in the business of the firm for many years,: has decided to retire.

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arrested at Mulhouse, Alsace-Lor raine, on an embezzlement charge, was seen to swallow a white pow- der at the police station and died banian billous attacks and sick shortly afterwards. headacher gently stimulate the

Suicide, while of Unsound. Mind was the Verdict at the inquest on liver, purify the breath, clear thai M. Berge, a former Prime Minis indre James Patterson, 66, a chauffeur, skin relleve Piles. Of chemistster of Norway, and six members of of Clarence-mews, Regent's Parkerywhere, or post free, 50 cents his Cabinet have been acquitted on

H. RUTTONJEE&SON.W. who should have appeared at the Gil, from The Dr. Williams the charge brought against them of

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the Old Bailey oo charge of Medicine Co 80 Klang, Road, having given secret financial assis- | bigamy, bu, phone body, was Hound t

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