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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1929.

RADIO

SETS & ACCESSORIES

OF

LATEST PRODUCTIONS

Inspection Cordially Invited.

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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but nur saders are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

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7-Listens to

9-More unusua!

11-Uppermoat room 12-Fireplaces (Scot.)

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23 Places in difficulty 25-Point of compass

(abbr.)

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$1-Title of respect

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OTHE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.

HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 49-Bakery product 51-Unite with needle

and thread 52-Horn

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52-Affirmative 59-Support

VERTICAL

1-Pronoun 2-Organs of hearing 3-Small bird (pl.) 4-Courageous 5-Incite 6-Middle Atlantic

State (abbr)

7-Hangman's ropa

B-Lose fresh

9-Pillaged

10-Rewarded

VERTICAL (Cont) 20-Becoman mature 22-Encourage 24-Pertaining to

Switzerland

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"Chanen"

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Ing penol marks 38-Fastened with thick

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mechanical

movement 41-Portion of a cirolo.

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holding liquida 45-Newspaper and 13-Seasons with

perlodical literature chloride of sodium'4t-Make even 14-Drunkard

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of a flah 18-Plaything

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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in

to-morrow'a issue along with a now cross-word puzzle.)

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

from

TO-DAY'S RADIO

BROADCAST HY Z.B.W.

ON 350 METRES

THE

The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Gov ernment Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on 250 metres:

5.30-6.30 p.m.-Programme

Chinese Music,

of

7.49 p.m.-Evening Weather Re- port..

8 p.m. Evening Programme. (Regál Records supplied through the courtesy of Anderson Music Co., Ltd.).

CHINA MAIL,

DIVORCE PROBLEM:

MARRIAGE OBLIGATIONS

DISREGARDED

JUDGE'S COMMENTS

MAMMOTH FISH

LARGE SHOAL OF GRAMPUS DIE ON LAND

BURIAL FOR TWO DAYS

Lord Merrivale, the President of the

Kayts, August 9 Divorce Division, made strong com- Considerable excitement was ments recently upon a marcied couple caused by the appearance of a shoal who, he said, "disregarded all obliga-

tions in regard to marriage." He sent of live fish, about one hundred and the papers in the case tu the King's sixty in number, on the Kanamban sea-shores last Tuesday evening. whether to Proctor before deciding grant a decree.

The fish, said to be grampus, Petitioner was Mr. Frank Bolton measured about 12 feet in length Apted, of Cigarette Lodge, East and about 4 feet in breadth. The Molesey, and he alleged adultery on fishes have, died on the shore. The the part of his wife, frs. Maud Con- Sanitary Inspector of Kayts, Mr. V. stance Mary Apted, with a man named Sithambalam, received information, Roy Bliss,

from the fishermen of the locality, The husband asked that the dis- and visited the spot. Mr. Sitham- cretion of the Court be exercised in balam made representations to the his favour, admitting that since 1919 Medical Officer of Health, Dr. D. he had lived with a young woman

D. N. Selvadurai, who took steps to whom he had hoped to marry.

Lord Merrivale said that the husband secure the burial of the dead fishes, went on service with the Territorials after interviewing the Government in 1914, and was wounded. In 1917,, Agent. The Office-Assistant, Mr. after his wife had told him that she H. S. Hoare, also visited the spot. "That's What Puts the "Sweet" in would not live with him again, he A gang of coolies were engaged in

"H.M.S. Pinafore" (Sullivan),

Selection......B.B.C. Wireless

Symphony Orchestra. "Mother Mackree", "Hear You Calling Me", Tonor,

Richard Neller, "Waltz in A minor" (Chopin), "Chant Polonais, No. 16" (Chopin

Liszt), Pianoforte 'Solo,

Eward Isaacs.

Home Sweet Home",

"Ever So Goosey

(Butler and Wallace).

Comedians: The Two Gilberts. The Bronze Horse" (Auber),

Overture The Silver Stars Band "Virginia",

"The Magic Violin", Baritone,

committed an isolated act of adultery. the work, which took two days. In November, 1919, the wife obtained Mr. Fernando, of the Colombo a decree for the restitution of conjugal Museum, arrived two days ago, and rights, which at that time was neces-secured two skeletons and about a sary.

"As part of the common understand dozen skulls for the Museum.

Two fishes of the saine kind were ing between the petitioner and his Tom Barratt. wife," went on Lord Merrivale, he found at Karainagar shore.

took up his abode with a young woman who is named in the petition, bat whom I do not propose to name, and hls wife took up abode with a man named Bliss.

"Dick Whittington-A Potted Pan-

tomime",

Begal Pantomime Company, "March of the Plumed Helmets", "Military Manoeuvres", March,

Orchestra Militaire Francais. "Les Millions D'Arlequin" (Greig),

Serenade, "Valse Tristo" (Jean Sibellus),

The Silver Stars Band. "By the Waters of Minnetonka", "La Rosita" (Dupont), Organ Solo,

"La Bentique Fantasque”, Selection,

B.B.C. Wireless Symphony Orchest The Whistling Farmer "The Whistler and His

Fact Not Disclosed

"To carry out the understanding between them, the wife filed a petition

FLOOD DAMAGE

2,000 HOUSES COLLAPSE IN HYDERABAD, CITY

Karachi, August 9.

for the dissolution of the marriage- According to official estimates part of the common design-and ob-the damage caused by the floods in Emile Luther.tained a decree nisi. She did not set Sind, as at present ascertained,

out the facts which they both knew. amounts to over £307,000. Very properly and very promptly, by In Hyderabad City alone 2,000 the action of the King's Proctor, the houses collapsed. Standing cropa, decree was set aside. That took place and stores of grain were also a great many years ago.

destroyed in many places. "The petitioner sought a-marriage The outbreak of cholera in upper licence in order that he might regular-Sind has been aggravated. ise his relations with the young woman in question. He found that the decree which had been made had, without notice to him, been rescinded. Years passed and the parties pro- ceeded as they had done.

The Silver Stars Band. "Under the Double Eagle", March, "Entry of the Gladiators", March,

The Band of the Royal Air Force. "Evening in the Desert", "One" (Saunders), Violin Solo,

Manuello. The Prophct", Coronation March, "Aida" (Verdi), Grand March,

Classic Symphony Orchestra. "Entry of the Boyards", "Bridal Procession",

Classic Symphony Orchestra. "Misery Farm" (Wallis), Comedian,

Harry Hemsley. "Gill Bridge", Quick March, "The Flying Squad", Quick March,

St. Hilda Colliery Prize Band. "An Old Time Music Hall",

The Variety 10.30 p.m.-Close down,

"Now, in 1929, this suit comes on for hearing, in which the petitioner, ving as he says in adultery with the woman with whom he chose to live ten years ago, asks that the marriage shall be dissolved because of his wife's adultery.

"There have been cases where people in the poorest circumstances found that they would not maintain

FEELING "UNDER THE

WEATHER? THIS MORNING?

JUST A LITTLE DOSE OF

PINKETTES

have

TONIGHT VILL

Singers-themselves unless they went on living

in that way, and have been granted

a decree of dissolution of marriage,

"But a precedent of that kind cannot be supposed to apply to a case where

DRAWING RESULTS well-to-do people choose to live to-

PEAK SCHOOL STUDENTS' SUCCESSES

At an examination in drawing held under the auspices of the Royal Drawing Society (London),) the following pupils attending the Peak School were successful:-

Preparatory Division Honours Certificate: Margaret 1, Young.

Pass Certificate:-Kenneth Colin Morrisch, Dorothy Margery Simpson, Charles Donald Wallace, Howard G. Scott, Laurie Charlotte Sanger.

Division I. Honours Certificate:-Phyllis Evelyn Morrison, Elsie Audrey Newhouse, Marshall D. Draper.

Division II. Pass Certificate:-Marguerite E. Draper.

A WEEK'S DISEASES

The official weekly return of notifiable diseases shows the fol- lowing:-

Cases Deaths

gether in entire disregard of the marriage law for years and come to the Court at the suit of one of them to ask that the Court shall totally disregard all the obligations of the law of marriage.

Great Difficulty.

"I have great difficulty in taking the

view that people who wilfully dis- regard all obligations in regard to marriage are people whom the Court should encourage by decree of dissolution."

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Lord Merrivale said that he found the adultery alleged in the petition against the wife had been proved. As to the other part of the case he did not at present see his way to proceed any furthor and he proposed to send. the papers to the King's Proctor, 50 that he might have some assistance, on consideration of the public interest involved in the law of marriage, in deciding whether that was a case in which it was possible to grant relief to the petitioner.

Bulgaria was visited towards the end of last month by a series of hailstorms, which caused much damage and many deaths. In some districts the crops were entirely destroyed. Over 20 persons were drowned. In the districts of Kazanlik and Stara-Zagora some of the hailstones weighed as much the

Small-pox

1

1

Diphtheria

1

Enteric Fever

2

1

Influenza

+

2

23

Flague

I

1

(Three infected rats found).

two pounds, and

ground was covered with hailstones

to a depth of three feet.

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