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TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1927.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

The Canterbury Cavalry Depot is to close down in June,

Three cases of small-pox have been notified at Blaenavon, Mon-

mouthshire,

Making the twelfth victim, the death took place of Maurice Perry, 16, of Withernsea, who

was injured in the railway smash at Hull.

For the transport of motor- cars between Portsmouth and the | Isle of Wight the Southern Rail- way has placed an order for a new self-propelled ferry vessel.

Jewellery valued at £700 was stolen by burglars who broke into the house of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Williams, of De Vere Gardens, Kensington, W., during their ab- Bence.

Mr. W. C. Bridegman, First Lord of the Admiralty, told a deputation from Plymouth and Portsmouth that he could give no indication that it would be possible to avert threatened dis- missals from the dockyards.

.A severe earthquake shock was felt in Northern Sweden.

Greece's public debt, excluding war debts, is reported by experts to amount to £80,000,000. -

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An order from the Admiralty for a Fleet-repair ship has been received by Messrs. Vickers, Ltd.

Princess Mary visited Paisley, Renfrewshire, on Saturday: March 19. to open the Russell clinic.

Mrs. Martha Tyler, a patient in St. John's Hospital, Wands worth, S.W., was 106 years of age in mail week.

At Manchester Town Hall a man who informed an attendant that he and his wife had taken out licences for the same dog was advised to get another dog.

Because the expenditure ex- ceeds the income, a petition from the trustees of the British Museum asking for further aup- port from Parliament was pre- sented in the House of Commons.

Mr. William G. McAdoo, one of the leaders in the De- mocratic Party and a staunch dry. He was democratic can didate for the prosidential nomination in 1920 and, 1924,

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Miss Jane Moss, who died at| The death took place of Mrs. Appleby, Westmorland, aged 101, Annie Higgins, aged 102, gave as the reason for her widow, born in Newnham, Dean longevity the fact that she had Forest, Gloucestershire, who had always minded her own business. lived there all her life."

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Osborne Cottage, once the residence of Princess Beatrice, at Osborne, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, is to be run as an hotel under the title of Osborne Cot- tage Mansion Hotel.

Mr. F. G. Penny, M.P. for Kingston-on-Thames, who has been appointed a Conservative Whip (unpaid), is one of the few M.P.S who hold & master mariner's certificate.

Inn Signs,

A first edition, first issue, of Gray's "Elegy," printed in 1751, together with a first edition (1749) of Samuel Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes," real- ised £950 at Mesars. Sotheby's,

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Lewisham Hippodrome is to be opened as a cinema in September.

Merthyr, with a rate of 278. 2d. in the 2, was the highest- rated South Wales town last year.

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The Prime Minister refused parliamentary time for a discus- sion on the possibility of broad- casting selected speeches.

Elma Booth, 16, of Hull, who has. suffered from sleepy sickness and disappeared from home, has been found wandering in London.

the Strand Division granted a The licensing magistrates for licence to sell intoxicating liquors

at the London Coliseum between 7.45 pm. and. 11 p.m.

Few of the audience knew that) Olympia Cinema, Liverpool, the a film had caught fire at the

automatic shutter closing and the operators extinguishing the flames.

Mr. J. L. Wilkinson, Assistant Official Receiver for the London Suburban (Northern) District has been appointed Official Re ceiver in Bankruptcy for North- ampton,

The Society of Dorset Men in London formally presented to the}] Dorset County Hospital at Dor- chester a new ophthalmic ward as a memorial to the late Mr. William Watkins, their first secretary.

The New South Wales Legisla- tive Assembly has passed the Socialist Government's Bill pro- viding for the payment by em- ployers of 5s. a week for each child of all employees. earning up to £750 a year.

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To encourage the use of Bri- tish films in every possible way was the decision of a conference of members of the Variety Artistes' Federation, the Actors' Association, and the National | Association of Theatrical Em- ployees.

The schooner "General Pau" (377 tons), which left St. Johns, Newfoundland, for Babia, Brazil, on December 4, and on which 80 guineas per cent. was being quoted at Lloyd's as "overdue, has put into Barbados, West Indies, leaky.

Replying to a debate in the House of Commons on agriculture, Liaut.-Colonel Guinness said that, in spite of adverse conditions, the agricultural output had been main- tained. For the first time for many; years there had been an increase of 15,000 in the number of men and women regularly employed on the land,

Speaking at the University of London Graduates' Association dinner, Dr. E. Graham Little, M.P., declared that in prestige, as well as in size, the University was making the most astonishing Its collegiate and ex- progress. ternal students together number- ed something like 15,000.

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Press and public were exclud- ed, despite protests, from meeting of the Lower House of When it, was suggested at the Convocation of Canterbury which L.C.C. meeting that the roof of discussed the revision of the the County Hall, originally a Prayer Book, and Bishop Frod- bright red but now nearly black, sham, vicar of Halifax, made a should be cleaned it was stated | similar protest to the Lower that the cost would be too great. | House of Convocation at York.

ODDS AND ENDS

in Italy must pay a tax. They will market. In fact it may have the be granted freedom until they reach opposite effect; for whereas form- the age of 25, whereafter they will erly the eligible young man

"felt

At list of inn signa shows little that is new in names, and that the new names have not quite the same be malcted in increasing sums until that he owed a duty to society, he poetic quality as the old or they reach 65; at which age, pre-Bow will be able to absolve himself same historical allusivenosa. Many sumably, they will be abandoned to from all further responsibility by old signs are heraldic and repre- fruitless senility. In addition to the payment of his monthly tak..

the

EX

Tho Flower, Train

sent royal bearings or the blazon- this tax a levy will be made on ba Inge of great families. The "White chelors' Incomes; and, if they have Heart" was peculiar to Richard II., no incomes of their own, their Where do the flowers that women the "White Swan" to Henry IV., and parents will be required to pay for love come from? asks a writer in Edward III., and the "Blue Boer" them. Residence abroad will be of the "Weekly Dispatch." Every day to Richard III. The "Red Dragon" no help; for the atx will accumu an empty train. leaves Ventimiglia, came in with Tudors, and all Roses, late during their absence, and all at the Italian frontier, and crawls white or red, were signs of political attempts at evasion will be punish along the glorious Riviera const as faith. The

"Pilgrim," "Crossed by heavy penalties. We have far as Toulon, stopping at all the Keys,"

"Salutation," "Angel,”. not much sympathy with the bache stations. This lethargie progress "Seven Stars," "St. Francis" were lors. As a class they are selfish arouses no anger in the passengers, mediaval signs. Many were cor folk, and it is only fair that they because the passengers are flowers. rupted through time as, for in- should be expected to pay for their They are cultivated by the Proven- stance, the "Coeur d'Or" (Golden freedom from marital respon caux, Nicols, and Englishmen who Heart) to "Queer Door" "Bac-sibilities. Life will have Atill heir gardens under the brilliant chanala" to "Bag o' Nalle" "Fogo new anxiety, however, for Mediterranean sunshine, and they Wassall Bowl" to Pig and Whistle." Italian parents particularly for are destined for the London market. The Puritans altered many of the match-making mothers who hf. At Toulon, the tempo of their monastic signs,, as the "Angel and therto have been able to concen-journey changes; their train he- Lady," to "Boldjer and Citizen." Intrate all their energies on the comes an express, and they are those old signs may be read every very anxious task of finding sult- hurried through, the night towards phase of Ministerial popularity, and able husbands for their daughters. the land of cold and mist which all the ebbs and flows of war, as in Now, they must face the necessity they are going to chear with their Rodney, Shovel, Duke of York of providing wives for their sons fragrance and bright colours.

The Wellington's Head, etc. the "Cocoa into the bargain. Certainly Signor true paradise of fowers is that Tree" and "Thatched House" teli Mussolini must be admired for his broad valley behind Cannes to their own tale, and the "Coach and thoroughness. He never does any, which all the world's artista Horses" is a reminder of the times thing by halves, and his ingenuity and writers would immediate4 when the better-class inns were the in finding fresh sources of revenue, ly, retiro ff only they had the only posting houses,

for the Itailan Exchequer fare means. This valley, which stretchen! markable. Human beings, how

Trom the bay between the capes of ever, are curious creatures, Even Antibes and Esterel to the moun In Fascist Italy the Iden of compul- tainous region of Grasse, Is.cover- slon in repugnant to the average bd with a rich red soll on which al- mind, and we doubt that the "fax; moat, nothing is grown except|: on bachelors will result in a largely flowers. There are many seres of increased activity in the merringe | Jasmine bushes in orderly ranks..

Compulsory Marriage

Italy's spinsters have good ren- oan to be fond of Signor Mussolini, for he has declared war on buches lora. Henceforward all single men

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