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Tyne coal shipments for the rat quarter of this year were 3,895,946 tons-nearly 800,000 tons less than in the corresponding period last

year.

Mr.

Addison. the recently appointed British Minister to Latvia, has presented his letters of credence to the President of the Republic.

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Two sisters, Dorothy Hall, 18, and Elsic Hall, 11, who have been missing from their home In Minster-road, Fulham, S.W., for a week were found in a hostel at Brighton

M. Ambrosiny, the Maitre de Ballet of the Brussels Opera House, wiß direct the bullet in “Armida” and the Bacchanate in "Tap- hauser" at the Covent Garden Opera House.

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The mountainous part of the Grimean Peninsula has been swept by a violent storm which has destroyed houses in many vinger. Crops have been ruined and or- charda damaged.

A telegram from Strema on the Serbo-Albanian frontier states that travellers are not being allowed to enler Albania on the ground that epidemic of typhus is raging there. Similarly no one is being allowed to leave. Albania.

H.E. the Officer Administering the Government has received in- structions from Home to recognise Mr. L. de Dionigi as Vice-Consul for Italy: and he has provisionally recognised Mr. J. G. Ch. Gonzalez de Bernedo as honorary Consul for Guatemala.

The Nationalist Government Council has appropriated $10,000 for the immediate purchase of a set of a high power wireless telephone machinery, for the pur- pose of spreading government and military news throughout the country..

Bombay, May 10-The Bombay Corporation have rejected, by 26 vates

to 22, the resolution pro- posing that a sum not exceeding Rs. 100,000 be spent on the rellof of the mill strikers by employing them for cleansing the city and fing in low-lying parts..

A telegram received in Brussels by the Ministry for the Colonies from the Governor-General of the Congo statea that the suspected case of yellow fever on board a British ateamer at Matadi has not been confirmed. Drastic precau- tlons, however, continue to be taken In the Lower Congo.

As a religious procession was PRasing the Church of St. Isidore, Salamanca, a huge bell of the carillon, - which was in full peal, trashed to the ground, falling in the midst of a number of girls accompanying the procession. Three of the girls were killed and a num- ber of others injured.

According to official returns from Mozambique the movement of na- tives from that colony to the Transvaal during the last quarter of last year was as follows: Fresh natives contracted for, 18,419; re- patriated, 10,683; died from sick- ness, 63; died from accidents, 65; number remaining working In the mines on Dec. 31 last, 114,248.

Simla, May The Punjab Legislativa Council to-day talked out the adjournment motion of Mr. Chadhri Afzal Haq questioning the sudden release "of K. C. Banerjee, the alleged C.I.D. Informer who was sentenced to five years' imprison- ment in July, 1927, for possessing a pistol without a licence and for fostering criminal conspiracies in the Punjab. Sir Geoffrey

de Montmorency, on behalf of the Government, said that enquiries made in the United Provinces show- ed that Banerjee had given useful information, to the Meet Police and had assisted in the prevention and detection of crime. Govern-

ment therefore had remitted his remaining term of imprisonment, of which a few months had been served.

A commission in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps has been given to Lee/Sgt. R. K. Valentine who now becomes 2nd Lieut.

The King and Queen walked from Windsor Castle to St. George Chapel, where they inspected tho work of restoration in the nave.

A, safe found in Market-stroet, Bermondsey, S.E., has been identi fled as one stolen from the Rialto Cinema, Maidenhead, on Saster Monday.

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The body of a baby boy, aged was found in a about 2 weeks, brown paper parcel at the foot of the Holborn Viaduct steps in London, May 7-It is learnt that [ Farringdon-road, E.Ç.. Mr. J. J. Wall, well-known Colombo business man, was taken ill while playing golf at Bushey, England, on Saturday, and died soon after without recovering consciousness.

Misa, Lilian Davies is to have' the leading woman's part in "Mar- jolaine," a new musical play which goes into rehearsal for provincial production before presentation in London.

A Shanghai hawker who was found in possession of four Mauser pistols in Seward Road WAS aentenced by Judge Tseng. In the Provisional Court, to one year and two months' imprisonment.

Thirteen Chinese girls were charged by Inapr. Mills at the Shanghai Provisional Court last Saturday with loitering In the vicinity of Nanking Road and Cheklang Road until early morning. Accused were fined $1 each and cautioned

London, "The Times" (London) in a leading article on the future of the Indian States, concludes:-"The prospect of change is likely to stimulate a demand for some more effective method of representation and the problem of the constitu- tional position of the States in a changed India is not one which can be played with or continually post- poned for future consideration, even if the, Princee are not un- animquo."

A Chinese woman who escaped from custody while in hospital

Master Jay Ward, the six-year-old | after being sentenced to two mascot of the American Legion years' imprisonment appeared at their convention trin to Paris, France, leaving the White House after being greeted by President Coolidge Young Ward was elected as "the typical American boy" and while in Europa won the enthusias- tic admiration and was cordially greeted as a fitting representative of America's future "manhood by the rulora and noted persons of the countries he visited.”

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The use of two tennis courts on the Shanghai Recreation Ground at the Race Course has been granted to the Y.M.C.A. The arrangements for membership in the club will be as last year: Y.W.C.A. members $9 for the season, and non-members $11. Play will begin as soon as the courts can be pat in order, Registrations are now being received at the Club Rooms, 4 Museum Road,

Bert Hinkler, whose record-break- ing 12,000 mile flight from England to Australia, has been called the greatest aviation achievement since Lindbergh's." He broke five air re- coris in his tiny folding plane, which can be fitted into an ordinary garage. First, hip England to Aus- tralia hop is the greatest distance ever flown in a light plane; second, it is the longest solo fight; third, the fastest trip, bettering the old re rocord by 13 days; fourth, he made the fastest fight between England and India; and fifth, the first ron- stop fight between London and Rome. The 15-day flight cost only a little over $250.

the Shanghai Provisional Court, re-arrested by a having been female detective. It was stated that she was sentenced for aiding and abetting in case of misap- propriation. She forniorly had a year. and a quarter of her sentence to serve, and as a result of her break the Court sentenced. her to an ad- ditional six months.

Aerial conveyance of fresh sea- breams caught in the sea of Ima- haru, Shikoku, to the fishmongers and restaurants of Osaka and other neighbouring cities and towns is planned by the authorities of the Nihon Koku Yuso Kaisha, Ohama, Sakai, who have succeeded in con- veying. men between Sakai and Oita. After a trial flight, the au- ' thoritica of the company declare that the citizens will taste the fresh fish about two hours after they aro cekt in the nets of the Ima- haru fishermen.

Big rainfall, and possibly a flood, may be in store for Tientsin this year, said Mr. S. Eliassen, of the Commission for the Improvement of the River System of Chibli, in a talk on climate and weather at the tiffin meeting of the Rotary Club at the Astor House on May 10.. Sun- sopts have a lot to do with rain- falt, said Mr. Eliassen, and big sun- Bopts bring big rainfall. Mr. Ellas- sen cited as examples the rainfall of 1927 and 1924 in Tientsin, when the sunspots were unusually big. again This year, the sports are large, and it is possible that there will be enough rain to cause the river to overflow.

-The seafaring community, especially in Hong Kong, will regret to hear of the impending. retirement of Mr. John Andrews, the atr chief engineer of

the recently. ac- "Lyeemoon,"

of the Wo Fat quired vessel Co. Mr. Andrews has besz on the China Coast for the past 38 years and was.. the last manager of Messrs. Geo. Fenwick' & Co. As a former Lieutenant in the Volunteers he will be remember- ed by a large number of the old- timers in Hong Kong. The re tiring officer will take up residenca In Aberdeen, Scotland, where his wife and faintly now reside. His appointment in the str. "Lyesmoon" has been taken up by Mr. J. Hayes, formerly second, engineer. of the vessel.-N. C. Dally Newa."

"Orford," a vessel of 20,000 tons, just added to the Orient Line feet, was recently crossing the Bay of Biscay conveying 450 passengers on the first of a series of Mediter The Japan Times" says that a Constantinople. Another strik-ranean cruises. Crete, Egypt, and naked man covered with blood fell. Ing reform is foreshadowed by the. Greece, the cradles of early civilian- into the police office recently at decision of the Commission on the tion, are to be visited, and it is Futamata, near the Tenryu River. General Registry to submit a bill fitting that all that is luxurious and He turned out to be Suzuki Miklo, to the assembly compelling all comfortable in modern ship con- 28 years old, employed at a whole Turks to adopt family names. Anatruction should thus be faked sale merchant's store in Osaka. exclusive message, dated London, with the past. In October the He determined to die, and tried to April 26, read as follow:-Con vessel will be placed In the mailcommit "hari-kiri" with a foreign stantinople-A group of deputies and papechger service between razor, but was not very successful will shortly submit to the Turkish England und Australia, and so the so he clashed his throat. Still he National Assembly a motion for third-class fan will be na bw did not die, so he then set fire to his the adoption of Arab namernis, an £38, it is this true to say that clothes, but was found by sopse- as used in Western Europe, Instead luxury is used at the disposal passers by ned the flames were put of the ciphers at present used in of the traveller for 1d. a mile out. At Inat in desperation he Turkey. Both the Turkish and Moreover, this ficludes mals jumped into the waters of the European ciphers are of Arab for the six weeks, Journcy. This Tenryu River from a bank some origin, but while the latter have addition to the Orient Lina has 20 feet high.. Jill he did not evolved into the present-day coat a million pounds, has engines drown, and the cold waters tended numerals, the Turkish have, retained of 20,000 has a speed of to being him to his senses........ Ho their original shape, causing much 20 kpote, and, with a crew of, 960, crawled out and went to the pollos confusion and error, The proposed has accommodation for 525 st station backing help. He zarded as the class and 1,100 third-class pan reason for his wishing to

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