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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1927.

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THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

Spanish Cruiser Coming,

The Spanish cruiser "Blas de Lezo" will visit Manila and Japan,

According to the Astronomer Royal, the next eclipse takes place in the North of Slam in 1929 and he will certainly send an ex- pedition.

A Norwegian historical and archæological expedition is to be undertaken to the Shetlands, Orkney Islands, and Hebrides in the summer of 1928 and will last two months.

A forty-shilling silver piece of James VI. of Scotland (1552) was sold at Glendinnings, Lon- don, for $70. Nine years ago the apecimen in the Roth collection realised £60.

A marriage has been arranged and will take place very quietly at an early date between J. G. Lindsay, M.A., B.Sc., F.R.S.E., Rector of Dunfermline High and Margaret Burt, Broomfield Drive, Dunfermline,

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Transvaal Pioneer.

With the death of Mr. J. Spranger Harrison there has passed another of the Transvaal pioneers. He died at his farm at Bank, between Johannesburg and Potchefstroom. Mr. Harrison leaves behind him in Johannes- burg an everlasting memorial. Harrison Street was named after

him. He was one of the early diggers on the Rand, and could recount many an exciting tale of those adventurous days. --

The engagement is announced between John Mitchell Harvey Wilson, eldest surviving son of Sir David Wilson, Bart., and Lady Wilson, Carbeth, Killearn, and Mary Elizabeth, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richards, 39. Cleveland Square, London,

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Latin Press Congress.

The Latin Press Congress in Madrid ended on July 5, when a message of friendship was tele- graphed to the Spanish Press in the Philippine: Islands, the far- thest eastern outpost of the nation.

Sir Langdon Bonython has pro- sented the Anglican Cathedral in Adelaide with stalls for choir, canons, and dean, and bishop's chair. They are of Manchurian oak and are very beautiful.

45 Years' Service.

Mr. James, Stuart Jones, 0.B.E., whose mother lives in Helen Street, Forfar, has been appointed to the post of Control- ler of the Central Telegraph Office, London, in succession to Mr. John Lee, who has retired after nearly 45 years service. Prior to entering the Civil Ser- vice, Mr. Jones was a pupil- teacher in the North Burgh School, Forfar.

An aeroplane piloted by Lieut. R. J. G. Salmond, R.N., attached It is reported from Moscow to the R.A.F. at Leuchars, crash- that Lieutenant Malfin, a former officer of Admiral Koltchak's ed in a garden at the rear of a house in Perth Road, Dundee, forces, who was accused of hav-occupied by Mr. P. H. Thoms, ing ordered the shooting of over architect. Lieut. Salmond was so 80 people, has been sentenced to severely injured that he died, in death by the Viatka Provincial the Royal Infirmary shortly after Court.

admission..

Award to Painter.

Mr. W. Hill Thomson, R.M.S, the Edinburgh miniature painter; has had conferred on, him the diploma of membership of the Royal Society of Miniature Paint ers, Sculptors, and Gravers, Lon- don, for distinguished work in the miniature arts. Mr. Hill Thomson, who is a regular con tributor to the exhibitions of the leading galleries of Great Britain, Canada, and the United States, has the distinction of being the only member of this Society resi- dent in Scotland.

the recommendation of the Secre The King has been pleased, on tary of State for Scotland, to up- prove the appointment of Mr. Daniel Spence Sweeney as one of His Majesty's Trumpeters in Scotland, in the room of Mr. Thomas Black Mackintosh, ap- Justiciary and of the Court of pointed Macer of the Court of

Session.

Antiquities,

"A number of antiquities, says a Moscow message, are being ex- hibited in the Mongoliät museună The Makdougall-Brisbane Prize at Ulan-Bator. They were dia for the period 1924-1926 has been covered in March By Simukoff, a awarded by the Council of the collaborator of the Mongolian Royal Society of Edinburgh to learned cabinet," on the scene of Dr. Charles Morley Wenyon, the researches carried" out by C.M.G., C.B.E., F.R.S., for his Kozloff's expedition. Among the distinguished work in protozoo- exhibits are stone trinkets, & gilt logy. The James Scott Prize for model of a Scythian horse and a the period 1922-1926, "for a small Chinese laquer cup bearing lecture or essay on the funda- an inscription establishing the mental concepts of natural philo-date to be in the early years of sophy" has been awarded by the the European era. Council to Sir Joseph Larmor, M.A., D.Sc., LL.D., F.E.S.

Rev. Dr. van der Merwe, M.LA., speaking at Stellenbosch, expressed the view that South Africa's status as laid down by. sult of evolution and was not an the Imperial Conference was a re

elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. much less time when promptly treat end but a stage in a development]

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The ferry service over the Forth at Queensferry was aug. mented recently, the improvemen being made possible by the exten- sion of Hawes Pier, South Queensferry, which has been ex- tended 240 feet, and to the exist- ing width. The work is partly carried out in reinforced concrete open work and partly in rock fil- ing enclosed by reinforced con- crete sheet piling.

Under the heading "Ancient Java City" we (Chim Express & Telegraph") mentioned last week that a commission has started to make further investigations into! the remains of the chief city of the ancient Buddhist kingdom of Shriwidjaja. A reader points out that our heading is wrong in that the city in question is located in Sumatra.

War Relics..

Busting war relics belonging to Edinburgh, comprising guns pra- sented to the city after the Beer War and the Great War, are to go. A Labour motion was sub- mitted at a Lord Provost's Sub- Committee on June 15 by Coun- cillor Hardie, proposing the removal of all guns, tanks, and similar souvenirs which were pre- sented to the city following the two wars. After discussion, the Sub-Committee agreed to recom- mend that the trophies should be disposed of immediately.

At an ordinary session of the Imperial Education Conference on July 4 the following resolution was carried unanimously— "That this Conference, recognis ing the far-reaching educational influence of the cinema beth in- alde and outside the school, on the one hand earnestly hopes that the competent authorities will take overy possible step to pre- vent the

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