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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1927.

The Ever Ready

First-Aid

ZAMBUK

CHILDARINE

MISHAPE.

1.2.773

20 delightfully soothing on a ent or sore. So rapidly cleansing and healing. And, how much safer and more efficient than common ointments with their animal fats and mineral polsona,

Zam-Buk, compounded from rare. herbal extracts, is a wonderful cure for *kin disease. It grows new healthy

tissue in a surprising way, and is known as a surgery in a two-inch box."

In handy boxes of all dispensaries.

For Quick Clean Healing

NATURAL MINERAL WATER FRENCH GOVERNMENT'S Springs

VICHY CELESTINS

In bottles, half anf" "plite

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and BillonSTIONS,

Refuse substituton. ---Mention name of Spring required.

CHI WAH.

TAILORING.

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TANG YUK, DENTIST

Successor to

the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street.

TERMS VERY MODERATE.

Consultation Free.

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

Veteran Oficial to Retire."

Mr. T. W. W. Weeding, Clerk to the Surrey County Council, has decided to retire at the end of December. He is over eighty years of age,

Capt. Victor Barker, aged 35, of the National Fascists Head- quarters, Earls Court, S.W., was found not guilty at the Old Bailey of uttering a forged fierarms cer- tificate and was discharged.

LCC Musical Adviser.

Dr. P. C. Buck, M.A., director of music at Harrow School, has been recommended for the post of musical adviser and inspector in the L.C.C. education officer's department.

Label on a Crab.

Attached to the shell, of a crab caught at Portincaple, Loch Long, off the Firth of Clyde, was a label stating that 18 months previously it had been liberated at Aberdeen.

At Glamorgan Assizes, at Fifteen hundred men employed Swansea, Arthur. Townshend, an at Beynon Colliery, Blaine, ex-postman, was sentenced to Monmouthshire, have received three years penal servitude for notice owing to trade depression. stealing a mail bag containing £7,500 from Cardiff Post Office. It WAS recommended to Com- Birmingham Education mittee that 120 acres of land, be acquired and prepared as playing| fields at a cost £40,000. |

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An order for two giant twin- engined super-marine Napier dy-.

The annual parade of the ing boats has been placed with L.C.C. Old Comrades' Association the Super Marine Aviation Com took place on July 10. Wreatha pany, whose works are at South-were laid on the Cenotaph, and ampton, by the Australian Gov- a special service held at St. ernment..

Mark's Church, Kennington.

It is estimated that Capt. R. C. Warr, 78, formerly commodore of the Cunard fleet, who died at Freshfield, near Liverpool, cross- ed the Atlantic 550 times and aalled nearly 2,000,000 miles.

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Westminster business men have handed over £12,500 to West minster Hospital as a result of the "Week," held from May 30 to June 6, the Flag Day yielding £1,837 124. 2d. at a cost of £51 58. 10d.

Poles in London.

Eight hundred Poles, on their way from the United States to their native land to pay homage to the Prime Minister of Poland, arrived at Southampton in the White Star liner "Olympic.".

Papers in the possession of the man found shot in a train from Dartford, Kent, at Eltham Sta- tion and who died in hospital, bore the name and address of Sidney Albert Graves, Meteor Road, Southend-on-Sea.

A decree nisi was granted at Birmingham Assizes, to Alfred James Wargent, labourer, of Newtown, Yarkhill, near Here ford, who was awarded £300 damages against the co-respon dent, Owen Tudor, timber mer chant, Green Street, Hereford.

Members of the Kent School, Connecticut, U.S.A., rowing team, who competed recently at Henley Regatta, inspected the great hall of Winchester Castle, being es- pecially interested in the round table traditionally associated with King Arthur,

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In a collision between a pedal cycle and a charabane at Enfield Wash the cyclist Mr. J. W. Llewellyn, of Hawthorn Grove, Enfield, received a fractured skull, and is in a serious con- dition,

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New Air Service.

quality production

made of selected golden Virginia leaf manufactured & packed with the utmost care -dependable in any climate.

CAPSTAN.

CIGARETTES

A new service of Handley Page air liners, which will enable London business men to fly to the French coast, spend the evening at Le Touquet and return to London the following morning. was opened by Imperial Airways in mail week.

accident on the Watling Street, As the result of a motor-cycle south of Dunstable, George Wilcox, of Thrums Road, Hare- breaks, Watford, died in hospital at Luton.

teer fire brigades assembled in Fifty-four Hampshire, volun? camps at King's Park, Bourne- meuth, to compete in the National Fire Brigades Association con- petitions,

A farmer, Mr. Henwood, of Appledore Farm, Callington, Cornwall, plunged into the River Lynher to save his two daughters, aged 10 and 11, who got into difficulties while bathing, but was only able to rescue the younger.

FRIGHTENING IN THE NIGHT.

the vitals, cramps, weakening diar A cry in the night, griping pains in rhoek; whether child or adult, there is immediate comfort and case from pain in Chamberlain's Colle and Diar Thorn Remedy.

It pays to keep it always on hand. For sale everywhere.

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What is claimed to be the first! full cargo of Canadian wood senti to Britain for 15 years was un- loaded from the 8.8. "Atos" at the Surrey Commercial Docks.

Whisky and cigarettes worth £400 was stolen by thieves who broke into the head office and atores of "Ye Mecca" Café Com-! pany in Southwark Street, Lon- don, S.E.

ment has decided on the Centen- The Commonwealth Govern- nial Park, Sydney, as the site of the Australian exhibition in 1991, if the organisation scale is found practicable.

The police are satisfied that the death of Mr. Alan Macbeth, who Thing After Another" at the has been appearing in "One Dam

London Pavilion, and whose body was found on the stairs of his fat in Orange Street, London, W.C., was due to heart failure.

What X-rays Revealed.

Four X-ray examinations of throats at West London Hospital revealed: In a girl of 18, an open safety pin; girl of 4, large button; woman of 60, big mutton bone; man of 26, large piece of beefsteak.

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The Port of London Authority announces a reduction of 10 per cent., instead of 7 per cent. as at present, in certain dock and other dues.

derground Railway station gar- First prizes in the London Un-

Inspector Stevenson, Ealing Com den competition were awarded to mon, and Collector Bishop, Ealing Broadway.

Confirmation of reports of the Admiralty's intention to use Rosyth as a base for reserve destroyers is provided by orders fasued for the transfer of destroyers from Portsmouth to Rosyth and Chatham.

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A carting contractor was fined 108. at Rotherham (Yorkshire) for having left on a road at Kiveton Park heaps of gravel which it was stated caused a motorist to be thrown through] the hood of a car.

A settlement was announced at Birmingham Assizes in a slander action brought by Miss Gwen- doline May Hughes, of 27, Upper Villiers Street, Blakenhall, Wolverhampton, against John| Bennett, of 44, Ranelagh Road, -Blakenhall.

Suicide Averted.

It was stated at Rotherham (Yorkshire) when Harry Pres- cott, furnace-man, of Clough Road, was bound over for at- tempted suicide, that on finding the supply of gas from a slot meter to be insufficient to causa death he went to bed and slept.

When a widow applied to Judge Herbert-Smith at Thetford (Norfolk) County Court for £95 from compensation money for a gravestone the judge said this was simply throwing money away, adding that gravestones were no earthly good.

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The The four-masted. Finnish schooner "Mozart” of 1,987 tons gross, ・ arrived at Queenstown after a 152-days voyage from Port Lincoln, South Australia.

Search is being made around Coventry for a valuable Alsation dog which broke loose and rushed madly through the streets knock- ing down a woman and colliding with iron railings,

A pigeon belonging to Mr. Wakeham, of Jersey, returned to its loft with others in a race from Bordeaur after being missing from a similar race two years 'ago.

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